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The silence. It's nice. Madelaine Petsch as Maya in The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024) | written by Alan R. Cohen & Alan Freedland & directed by Renny Harlin

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Page of exfor characters!

Ik Nagatha looks wonky and I said I didn’t care on Reddit but I do care I want to strangle myself but also I can’t do anything about it so Womp Womp to me ig loll

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New York used to have elegant light poles rather than the plain, humdrum ones in use today. Joseph H. Freedlander designed bronze towers in 1922 that were placed along Fifth Avenue, but taken down by 1929. He then designed a 4-way signal like the one above, which stood at Fifth and 47th St., with the statue of Mercury atop. They were placed along Fifth Ave from 8th to 57th Streets from 1931 to 1964. This photo is from April 1959.

Photo: The Old NY Page/Facebook

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Fear Is The Mind Killer

Artist: Adam Freedland Year: 2003 Album: Now & Them

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The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024)

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By: Jacob Freedland

Published: Jun 8, 2024

Non-white applicants to the BBC’s flagship journalism training scheme were almost two and a half times more likely to get in than their white counterparts.

Since 2022, an average of 22.5 per cent of applicants were classed as coming from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds (BAME).

However over that same two-year period, BAME individuals made up 41 per cent of participants on the scheme.

In contrast, whites made up an average of 77.5 per cent of applicants but only 59 per cent of participants, since 2022.

This means that non-white applicants were 2.4 times more likely to be given a place on the highly coveted scheme than their white counterparts.

The two-year scheme, referred to as the Journalism Advanced Apprenticeship, provides participants with training and a potentially permanent role at the Corporation.

Females also had stronger chance

The findings were released via the Freedom of Information Act. Female applicants also had a stronger chance of getting in than men, but by a lesser degree.

Since 2022, an average of 60.25 per cent of applicants were women. But in that same period, women made up 71 per cent of participants.

In contrast, men made up an average of 39.75 per cent of applicants but 29 per cent of participants, meaning that womens’ chances of getting onto the scheme were 1.6 times higher than their male counterparts.

Neil O’Brien, who until the election was the Conservative MP for Harborough, said: “Unlike previous BBC schemes which have stated they are BAME-only, this scheme markets itself as open to anyone. But in practice there is discrimination.

“These practices will go into overdrive if Sir Keir Starmer becomes prime minister.

“People are not being treated fairly. We need to get back to hiring the best person for the job rather than basing it on the colour of your skin.”

‘Offer places based on merit’

In April, the Telegraph revealed that one in three participants on the scheme identified as white British.

A BBC spokesman said: “Similarly to The Telegraph’s Newsroom apprenticeship scheme, our apprenticeship courses enable people from a range of backgrounds to enter the media industry. We always offer places based on merit.

“We’re committed to our recruitment processes being fair to everyone, and attracting applicants that represent all parts of the UK, and like the Telegraph Media Group we’re committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture at the BBC.

“The BBC runs many apprenticeship schemes, so it’s unclear what analysis can be determined from applications made to one course.”

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DEI is systemic racism and systemic sexism, by definition.

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“The 4th of July is a day of reckoning for the chaos and calamity the Conservatives have brought and for the harm they have done. On election day, the Tories don’t deserve merely to lose. They deserve to be punished.”

Couldn’t agree more.

Austerity, Brexit lies, Covid incompetence, corruption and mismanagement. Inflicting, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak on the public.

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The Strangers: Chapter 1 (15): Has It's Tense Moments But Is Ultimately Plain Unpleasant.

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of "The Strangers: Chapter 1". #TheStrangers. Renny Harlin can't revive this hackneyed horror. 2/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Strangers : Chapter 1” (2024). With this reboot of the 2008 horror film “The Strangers” (which has a bit of a following among horror fans), I’m left with a sinking feeling when a film like this adds a “Chapter 1” to the title. By researching on IMDB I see that there is actually a “Chapter 2” and a “Chapter 3” already in the can (through back-to-back shooting).…

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Movie Review ~ The Strangers: Chapter 1

While initially promising, The Strangers: Chapter 1 quickly loses its grip, leaving the audience disinterested.

The Strangers: Chapter 1 Synopsis: After their car breaks down in an eerie small town, a young couple is forced to spend the night in a remote cabin. Panic ensues as they are terrorized by three masked strangers who strike with no mercy and seemingly no motive. Stars: Madelaine Petsch, Froy Gutierrez, Ryan Brown, Ema Horvath, Ben Cartwright, Richad Brake, Janis Ahern, Stevee Davies, Rafaella…

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"When some people want to express their apparent anger at Israel's actions, they direct it at Jewish targets. They are holding a British minority responsible for the acts of a foreign government several thousand miles away, a response that does not seem to happen with other distant conflicts: after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian Orthodox churches did not brace themselves for attack...When British Jews are attacked, their attackers are not striking a blow for the Palestinians. They are placing themselves alongside the anti-Semites and racists who have always treated Jews this way, reminding Jews why they needed a refuge in the first place - and why they need it still.

- Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian-UK, Febrary 16

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The Strangers: Chapter 1 Trailer

When Maya and Ryan's car breaks down in a small town, they decides to spend the night in a remote cabin. While there , the couple are terrorized by three masked strangers.

The Strangers: Chapter 1 stars Madelaine Petsch and Froy Gutierrez. Renny Harlin directs from a screenplay by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland. Chapter 1 is the first in the Strangers reboot trilogy, with the first film being more a remake and the second two then going into new territory.

The Strangers: Chapter 1 hits theaters on May 17, 2024.

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Comment: In the fog of war and conflict, no facts reported in the media can be taken for granted, even in prestige journalism. But Freedland's point that 'maximalists', 'absolutists', on each side of the underlying conflict between the Israeli government and Palestinian peoples, beget more violence so as to disrupt compromise solutions, is a commonplace but still useful point. This in no way lets those seeking to disrupt, violently, (especially re: atrocities), off the hook, whether entailing direct or structural violence.

Extract 1: Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad told Lebanese TV that his organisation was determined to repeat the massacre of 7 October, when the men of Hamas murdered some 1,400 Israelis, most of them civilians, torturing and maiming their victims in ways too cruel to recount. Hamad promised that 7 October was “just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth”. He was asked if Hamas was bent on Israel’s annihilation. “Yes, of course,” he replied.

It was as clear an answer as Israel could have hoped for as it seeks to explain why it cannot lay down its arms until Hamas is rendered incapable of doing again what it did four weeks ago, arguing that Israel should be granted as much leeway as the US (and UK) granted themselves when they set about the destruction of Isis.

The result has been an Israeli onslaught that has already taken some 9,000 Gazan lives, destroying entire families at a stroke. Though in explaining that appallingly high figure, here too Hamas offered some assistance. One Hamas official was asked by a TV interviewer if the organisation’s more than 300-mile network of underground tunnels could not perhaps shelter civilians. No, no, the Hamas man explained: “The tunnels are for us [Hamas]. The citizens in the Gaza Strip are under the responsibility of the United Nations.”

Extract 2: Perhaps the Hamas men felt they had a favour to return to Netanyahu. After all, he had done them more than one good turn, notoriously telling a 2019 meeting of his own Likud party – in words reported and never denied – “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas … This is part of our strategy.”

Extract 3: [T]he contest that matters most is the battle of hardliners v moderates, or, to be more specific, maximalists v partitionists: those who insist on having the whole land for themselves v those who are ready to share it.

Extract 4: For Israel to pursue the two-state solution, which Netanyahu has spent nearly three decades working to render impossible, will require an end to the settlement project in the West Bank and the concession of territory. It will be an argument between those who believe the land has to be divided between the two peoples, and those who want all of it.

In a way, it will come down to a referendum over the meaning of 7 October and, indeed, of the last decade and a half. The partitionists will say that 7 October proves that the approach of recent years – leaving Hamas in place and allowing it to build up a fearsome arsenal; weakening the moderates of the authority by closing off a return to negotiations; expanding settlements and entrenching the occupation of the West Bank – has clearly failed to protect Israelis. The maximalists will say that it was Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 – pulling out every soldier and settler – that allowed Hamas to flourish and led to mass slaughter.

Extract 5: The only long-term solution is two states side by side. The only short-term solution for Gaza is a plan that promises Palestinian statehood. Every step of the way, the men on both sides who want the whole land for themselves will be on hand to derail progress – and, though sworn enemies, they will aid each other in that shared mission. It is a gruesome waltz they do together, this dance of death. Those on both sides who believe in compromise will not be able to fight them alone. They will need allies – including those taking to the streets who call themselves progressives – and the help of a world that finally decides it has seen too much bloodshed and cannot bear to see any more.

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An excellent and timely read. One of my enduring frustrations with the liberal left is its inconsistency in respect of the causes it takes up. Unless a clear “goodies/baddies” narrative can be set (cf Palestine/Israel) then it tends to be ignored by the anti-imperialists, campus protestors and others. The lack of interest in the Sudan conflict in terms of political outrage and public policy, shames all of us who claim to be on the left. I have always taken the view that when it comes to international conflict and ethnic cleansing, the international community tends to take the implicit view that Muslim lives don’t matter very much; the Sudan genocide proves that black Muslim lives matter least of all.

Freedland makes this point superbly.

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Atonement and the long, painful ascent of Dovestone Tor

Up and down the hills I go, the spirit on my heels.

For the most, I don’t like to start blogs with recollections of dreams. I’ll make an exception. I was in Glasgow. Walking back from the City Centre. I won’t go into the reason for my walking ‘home’ although the first scene I remember was a man lying on the road, rapidly approached by police cars. He looked young, had red hair and beard and was unconscious. He was wearing a workman’s…

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Read of The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland (2022) (313pgs)