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demonicintegrity · 8 months ago

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I know these aren't the prettiest pictures or best handwriting I've had, so forgive me for just trying to get these uploaded. Each page will be transcribed under the read more.

I went to a protest yesterday, and I've drawn at one of these protests before, but because this one was longer and bigger I went through the effort of making a booklet to take notes and draw more scenes.

The biggest thing for me is that there's so much pain at the loss of life. At the horrific events currently unfolding now and in the past that has caused this. Nothing will get better if we don't have a ceasefire first. Most importantly, for us across the world not actively in this, it's important we divest our money away from bombs and war and into our own communities and peaceful resolutions. We have responsibilities here too.

IMPORTANT NOTE: There are certain signs and quotes here that I have way more thoughts on that aren't elaborated here. Please do not take anything I'm writing down that isn't my own words as the be-all-end-all of my thoughts and opinions. There is nuance here and be civil. Also, quotes are likely missing some context in the whole speech.

Transcription under cut, it's a lot but I would at least like y'all to skim it and read my next day thoughts:

Image 1/Cover: A sticker with crayon lines echoing it in red, green, and black. The text on the sticker reads "FREE PALESTINE. SAT MAY 11th 2024 JOHNSON SQUARE Savannah, GA. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! Ceasefire now!"

Image 2/Page one: Start of bullet point notes marked with an X, with additional notes around it. Top right has two circles within it being "I'm not apart of the official organizers" and "@sav4palestine on Insta" Notes are as follows,

My arrival around ~ 11:30am -Set up still happening, just gathering -Missing kid poster on benches, not protest related & not to be messed with

11:50am -Art is unloaded w/ water jugs (drums?) -More people gathered -Speaker set up -WJCL 22 ABC arrived -Haven't noticed any police, ->They were here early last protest w/ the chalk art

Baby post is from an Israeli supporter. It's of a baby kidnapped on Oct 17th by Hamas. He has an Israel flag -Sympathies of course, Oct 7 was tragic for many, but that's not an excuse for the ongoing genocide -Carpet bombing won't bring hostages. Nor will mass graves or concentration camps -A ceasefire will benefit all innocents and hostages (written on side of page) It had a QR code I didn't scan. I'm not trusting any QR codes @ protests -> He's sticking around w/ an Israel flag he's the only one I think

12:04pm -Cops allegedly around the square -I see them now (have been here since the beginning)

12:09pm -Music starts -More news arrives

Image 3/Page two: More bullet points with a rough sketch. Written is as follows,

12:16pm Someone in a royal bike taxi shirt is harrassing protesters bc "Palestine shouldn't have put Hamas in power." -Hamas doesn't define Palestinians just like the Israeli gov doesn't define them. There are Israeli against [Netanyahu] [was misspelled in picture]

Very loose sketch of the protest in Johnson Square from the side. There are multiple people set up and speaking on a stone to the right and a large crowd surrounds them from the left

12:20pm Counter protest truck pulls up -Keeping an eye on it -Crowd is huge -Has an American flag w/him ([new] counter protestor does) -Truck parked behind the news, partially in Traffic -playing their own music?

12:26pm 2 (3?) counter protesters to a huge crowd for Palestine -Speeches starting

Image 4/Page three: Transcriptions of signs read, quotes from speakers, and notes. As follows,

Sign: You will not antisemite me into compliciting with genocide

Sign: It is a priviledge to be able to ignore something that others are dying from

Sign: Your silence will be studied by your children

12:32pm counter protesters trying to cover up speech w/ music

(Quote) "This is not a single university left in Gaza."

USA chants from counter protesters drowned out by free Palestine chat -lol, lmao even

Calvary on standby -I see two police on horses

USA chants @ free speech on other campuses being repressed -shame

Sign: when you need to have hundred of protests just to tell the world that bombing children is not okay, you know humanity (we) failed

Image 5/Page four: More transcriptions as follows

(quote) "The students have never been on the wrong side of history."

Sign: Queers for Palestine

Sign: Hands off Rafah!

Sign: Remembrance is resistance

12:50pm new speaker up -counter protesters packing up?

(quote) "The media put it out, and America ate it up."

12:52pm counter protesters gone

Sign: Man fuck western news follow (insta @'s) [I could not make them out very well]

12:56pm starting march, -No stopping until Reynolds Sqaure -Prob gonna have more counter protesters -will recap after walk

Wrap up: March went well, short, only motorcycles tried to rev and cover up. No other counter protesting -New chanting -1:09pm

Sign: We did it, Joe we funded Genocide! Ceasefire now

Image 6/Page five: More transcriptions as follows,

1:13pm taking this march to city hall

1:18pm reaching new meet up -some revving & flipping off, but peaceful & went well

Sign: Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere

1:23pm new speaker up -Member of the Jewish trans community -Addressing antisemitism claims

Sign: Gulfstream $$$ is blood $$$

United states of Israhell, cut this shit out. You were killing Palestine long before Hamas was created. 75 years under your occupation created Hamas

1:30pm Demanding ceasefire from mayor -He denied early into this -Heard "Fuck You" from hecklers

Sign: Queer Arabs for Free Palestine

Sign: 40,000 people dead is not self-defense

Sign: Congratulations 2024 Palestine graduates

(quote) "This greed has dominated this land for 500 years."

Image 7/Page six: More transcriptions as follows

(quote) "I will not appeal to the morals of the greedy ruling class, they have none."

1:42pm cops hanging out around

Sign: It's not war, it's genocide

1:47pm Closing remarks & chants Organized by @ sav4palestine

Very loose sketch of the protest in front of the city hall. Protesters are on a bench holding a banner as the crowd surrounds in front and behind them.

Image 8/Page seven: Next day thoughts as follows Gone through and corrected any legibility/spelling stuff, but didn't touch the drawings at all. Highlighted quotes from the speeches that stuck out to me. I don't know why I started doing this. I just wanted to be involved. I know the importance of primary sources, I know the importance of being present and aware. Being there was inspiring, even when certain moments and events would strike a chord of wrong within me. Nothing is perfect, but progress and peace is worth the missteps and accidents. We mean well, and that is important. I am not free from my missteps and ignorance either, and as I take notes and continue to dig and learn, I will continue to do better. We all are important in this battle. The conflict is older than us, created by systems intending to divide and self serve. We all have a part to play, from the Palestinian journalists and red cross martyred in their line work, to the protests in Israel criticizing their far-right government and calling for Netanyahu's (resignation) to us worldwide demanding divestment and acknowledgement to our self-serving histories that created this mess. True progress starts with a ceasefire, so no more lives are lost. From there we can work on peaceful resolutions. This conflict has upset me from the beginning. I can only hope a happy resolution is soon and try to work towards that.

-End of transcript-

#Protest Notes #<- my new tag for this here and on insta #Current events #free palestine #protest #us politics #world politics

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kick-a-long · 6 months ago

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So what is the solution then? Because I feel like a military escort going in and forcibly rebuilding things would arguably be an occupation

Although admittedly I’m not certain what the standard procedure is for helping a formerly hostile country rebuild is.

(this is going to be a long long long one because it's a problem people ignore and gloss over all the time. it drives me mad. post war humanitarian management saves lives in the short term and long term but it's been so demonized that people perfer doing nothing to attempting the right thing. long rant incoming. I apologize profusely for how long this fucker is.

skip to the red paragraphs if you want to know how many successful post war countries are rebuilt with a good source to learn more about it.

it's not just your feeling, "military escort going in and forcibly rebuilding things" is 100% an occupation. An occupation that ends (an ethical occupation of sorts) is one where the army wants to leave and wants the place to be better than when they entered it. if the IDF is in Gaza, even for the express and real purpose of rebuilding and maintaining order, they will still be there as occupation forces. ANY army that goes in to rebuild Gaza will be an occupying force. Israel can't do that and end the war at the same time. there are tons of groups and gangs in Gaza besides hamas, including civilians, who will attack them day and night to leave. There is no way anyone in the world would support the IDF occupying gaza even if they do a 100% perfect job of rebuilding it as a paradise. Not even most israeli's.

it gets even more thorny when you look at what happened to the "floating aid pier" that America tried to set up outside of Gaza that lasted all of like one day before it was shelled and destroyed. Same thing with the humanitarian crossings where Gaza militants have shelled and attacked non-stop to prevent civilians and deserters from escaping Gaza and the war. you can see how other muslim/Arab countries like Iraq, now a terrible place to live under the Taliban, faired when America tried to reestablish their gov during the 20 years of fighting. the minute they left: brain drain, huge loss of rights, and a dysfunctional government. One of the huge tragedies about both Iraq and Iran is that they have long and storied cultures and legacies of scholarship, engineering, science, literature and art. both countries have been hobbled by theocratic authoritarians and violent extremists.

there are basically no countries who know how to operate safely in that area, and even fewer who want to. Egypt is the closest to being able but they wouldn't want to touch gaza with a 10 mile long pole. Egypt has pragmatic reasons for this. it is in a balancing act between normalizing relations with the western govs (EU, USA, etc) while not pissing off the rest of the middle east, which will respond by funding terrorism in Egypt like the muslim brotherhood to destabilize their gov and turn the country into another Iraq.

worse still, any aid that goes in without an occupying force overseeing it's use (food, construction material, water pipes, anything you can think of to make Gaza livable to a 21st century standard) will get stolen by one of those gangs I mentioned and either smuggled out and sold in foreign countries or used to build weapons and war infrastructure.

1. it's the best way to get money in gaza/ fund your group's fight for control of the strip since there are very limited/tightly controled opportunities to make a living and

2. countries outside of Gaza (iran, russia, aka the countries that hate the western hegemony) will pay these groups hansomely to attack israel. they need to keep Gaza dependent and poor for this to work and to maintain it as a military position (not just against israel but also as a disruption to the EU and America.)

basically any aid group that doesn't allow post-Hamas militants near total control over their operations would be killed and attacked nonstop.

there's a lot of antisemitism and racism in continuing to fund UNRWA (you don't see nearly the same level of support given to african countries's refugees or non arab refugees from the middle east for example) but it's also a situation where if any aid is given at all it will be under the near total control and disposal of Iranian (or whoever) backed terrorist cells.

it seems increasingly clear that while Gaza civilians still HATE Israel and the population are near total antisemites they also don't want their kids becoming militants. they don't want to be in a war against a military that outmatches them 100 times over either. they don't want them and their families to live in misery for the rest of their lives to prove a point. unfortunately due to their location and history, Gazan civilians don't have much choice in the matter anymore. they have no export or import of goods with the middle east because no one wants the terrorism they bring, and israel (the only country willing to give men and woman work visas so they can earn money outside of hamas controlled avenues) isn't going to let them enter for the foreseeable decades.

Oct 7th wasn't your average terror attack. it was a slaughter. those work visa's were used to case the communist die hard peace activist kibitzes in the south so Hamas basically had a census as well as house layouts when they attacked.

another fuck up is that Gazan's aren't going to be getting refugee status anywhere that has a well set up system to deal with them any time soon. Spain recognized Gaza as a country and walked it back within a day or two because they would be required to take in gazan refugees under international laws and agreements.

So......

No one invested in ending the nearly 100 years of hostilities can go into gaza. No one invested in ending the forever war can get out. Israel (which has enough incentive to rebuild Gaza for pragmatic reasons alone let alone international reputation reasons, you know... so terrorists will stop trying to kill them every day and countries will stop boycotting them) can't be anywhere near them after the war even if they wanted to, which they certainly don't.

at this point i would assume not even Iran wants control or rebuilding in Gaza. their presumed new leader, after ol' Eli Kopter killed the last asshole, says he's more moderate. He has to deal with all the domestic unrest in Iran aka women getting kidnapped, raped, and murdered by the morality police and internal assassination threats. He has a tough job ahead. Either changing the morality police or ramping their activity up secretly, and keeping the people who already have power in Iran happy. Either way he isn't going to be making any friends by throwing cash at Gaza. lots of Iranian civilians support Israel (kinda sorta, it's complicated) and a lot of economic forces are pushing towards strenghening export and import (which is hard if you are under sanctions and if everyone thinks you are just transporting weapons. Aka storing weapons for hezbolla at the Lebanon airport. you know, Lebanon? the country where a Russian container ship filled with AMFO fertilizer was left docked for several years because of gov incompetence? the tanker that blew up most of Beirut in the most destructive explosion ever durring peace time.)

when I say I believe the situation is FUCKED, this is what I'm talking about. there is no exit strategy. there is no avoiding the famine and disease that will decimate Gaza a year from now with no soft end date. and the people it will fuck over the most? Gazans and Israelis. the whole world is at fault in my opinion for letting it get this bad through inaction and malicious intent. Israelis were the only ones trying to deescalate this and now they have absolutely no reason to think it helped in the first place. in fact all their work towards peace just made it worse.

anyway... it's just totally fucked. The news won't report on israel and gaza in three years, but it's only going to get worse.

famine and broken infrastructure kill far more civilians in the aftermath of war. occupying forces are stationed in defeated countries in part to prevent the worst of it. because if you don't you get rearming and piles of dead. positive examples are in japan and germany after WW2, south korea after the Korean war. negative examples are Germany after WW1, Cambodia killing fields, Ukraine's capture by Stalin.

if you want to know how countries in the past were successfully rebuilt start here:

the standard way to rebuild a country (read or watch interveiws with Sara Paine. She's a military historian with a focus on the humanitarian and pragmatic reasons for going to war, conducting wars, and rebuilding countries after a war has been fought. why both sides have a pragmatic reason to "play fair" and help the loser rebuild.) is very hit or miss. it basically starts when the war starts.

during the war you can't be so brutal to the population (combatants or civilians) that they really hate your guts. kind of a "fight fair" approach. you can't be too nice/condescending either or they won't respect that you won. basically they will think they have a shot to rearm and that's not good. you can't put them on "death ground" meaning you can't make losing the war equivalent to their total destruction/ slavery. you have to win totally but not rub their noses in it. no rape. no looting. no targeting women and children. no kidnapping children. no torture. no humiliation for fun or psychological warfare. no human experimentation (looking at you japan and germany.) you can try to create good relationships with the population but you have to back that up by defending the people who will work with you from reprisals.

After the war is over You first help the population establish a national identity and national pride outside of warfare. Pride and national cohesion are usually destroyed by losing a war and seeing your countrymen exploit and turn on each other as resources get thin. you never want to fight a war where you are unusually cruel during or after the war to the loser because that resentment will never go away. Germany was penalized so harshly for WW1 that it fucked their economy and national pride so bad they started WW2. Then you either rebuild institutions from the top down or the bottom up. top down is like post war japan which already had a national identity and institutions, so those just needed support. bottom up is like where you have a firmly established police force keeping the average person safe from gangs and organized crime and work from there to build the rest of the gov.

(this paragraph is mostly my own opinion. read sara paine for a more accurate take with better nuance. Bottom up is more china's thing because they like to enforce Chinese culture as well as exclusive ownership of trade/resources. China does what it does for the benefit of china, whatever and whoever is "china" is usually in flux. America likes top down (which hasn't worked since south korea) because they like keeping the original cultures and institutions intact (it's cheap and looks better to their allies) as well as semi complete trade/resource control. if they aren't in control they usually require veto power or systems in place to control who works with who. Russia does neither. they want land and any economic benefit from it is incidental. they are perfectly happy to kill a population and use the occupied area as a garbage dump. they take over places for national pride and to swing their dicks at the EU and the US. this wasn't the case for the entirety of the USSR but Putin got them right back on the historical norm of tzarist Russian dick swinging.)

The key term to rebuilding a nation is "institution building." you want to keep the institutions that work, working. you want to establish institutions that aren't there already. the order changes depending on the occupation force but the things the occupiers want (if they ever want to leave which is usually the cheaper and sustainable way) are

1. a written constitution/list of citizen's rights upheld by the new gov that is more generous to the population than the prev war time government.

2. a competent and uncorrupt police force that follows the lead of

3. an unbiased judiciary that treats citizens (even minorities) relatively equally and fairly, which follows the laws of

4. a functional law making apparatus that serves the interests of the people without fucking over any fringe group or the occupying force too bad.

5. a leader that the people support but also doesn't want to rearm and restart war efforts. this is a tricky one because they can't be a puppet of the occupiers or such an asshole that they piss off fringe groups and get assassinated when the occupiers leave.

6. favorable economic relationships to the occupying force and its' allies (favorable for the occupied country so they can generate jobs, and reliable income to pay for rebuilding the place themselves.)

A lot of rebuilding a country comes down to the population's mentality. To rebuild a country it's people need to trust that the new government has their best interests at heart. They have to believe in a future. They need to trust the currency. They need to believe that there is a road to improving their economic situation. They need to see themselves as a united people. They need to believe they can maintain their independence and culture. They need to have a desire to rebuild and actively participate if not primarily direct it. there needs to be incentives for the vital professional classes (lawyers, doctors, teachers, engineers, detectives, reporters, politicians) to stay and help shape and maintain the country.

young men need jobs that are definitely going to pay (whether that's in bonds or foreign currency so inflation/deflation of local currency doesn't screw them over.) There needs to be education and support systems for kids, orphans, widows, disabled vets, old folks. the actual market needs to be sufficient so a black market doesn't become the defacto source of goods. free food is good, creating a system where people can work to buy what they need is better. there need to be taxes collected from people who can and should pay so big money doesn't corrupt the system in it's infancy. there need to be workers, managers and bureaucrats. it's a lot of enforcement and it's a balancing act to prevent making too many enemies or the whole thing spirals into civil war and other bullshit. Some governments do this by cracking down HARD on a populace but with enough carrots to make the avoidable and predictable sticks worth putting up with. some governments foster self determination and are mainly enforcers at the direction of the new gov they support (america... which has mixed results producing some of the best and worst post war outcomes.)

but Gaza has no chance. No country wants to rebuild it. A majority of Gazan's don't want it changed and don't have the power to rebuild it into something else if they did. Palestinians have no allies that want them to change. Their national identity and economy IS war. Since the 1960s, thats for 60 years, the Palestinian identity is that of a homeless refugee population that believes the world is promised to the violent fighters who follow islamist rule. they have no non-millitary institutions to rebuild. their schools are for war, their civilian housing is for war, their hospitals are for war, their social security is for war, child birth, at least for hama's leaders, is to birth fighters or birth more wombs to produce fighters. a huge percent of, if not all, professional educated gazan workers in gaza are a part of/working with the gazan military aka hamas.

if Gaza ever did "win" and take over Israel, they would immediately go to war with themselves... or Lebanon or Egypt or Jorden because the stated goal of Hamas is effectively islamist world domination. They currently have nothing else to produce as a country. If left to it's own devices, which it will be unless some government has the moral clarity and brass balls to do it, the civilians in gaza are trapped in that national identity. The groups with the education, knowledge, guns, supplies, outside funding, and power are keeping it that way.

#gaza #rebuilding gaza #institution building #sara paine #if anyone knows better please contribute #im not a historian im just a nerd

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m39 · 2 years ago

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Doom WADs�� Roulette (2004): Action Doom

Ladies, Gentlemen, and Others. Welcome to the Golden League. Where I’ll finally be taking a look at ten WADs that earned Cacoward in 2004. And the first one on the list is something that might be considered a combination of Doom and Bullet Hell platformers ala Contra or Metal Slug.

G1: Action Doom

Main author(s): Stephen Browning (Scuba Steve)

Release date: July 3rd, 2004 (original version)

Version played: Original version

Required port compatibility: ZDoom

Levels: 4.5 (the last one differentiates due to the chosen difficulty level)

Action Doom is something that, at first glance, feels like the opposite of Daedalus that I reviewed week ago. No bullshit item hunting. No plot that derails itself at the end. No time wasting. No punishment for not knowing where to go. And no stealth enemies just to mention a few things. Just pure, unaltered action with barely any stops. And honestly, after the last WAD, I’m gonna need something like this for some catharsis.

Action Doom has an interesting background. It all started in 2001, with a project called Metal Slug Doom. It was supposed to be a small mod that turned hitscanning attacks into projectiles. Around a year later, Scuba Steve and his brother, Mike, came out with the idea that would later become the WAD that I’m reviewing. Although the development properly started in September 2003.

This WAD had a massive advertisement from October 2003 to its release. From silly ads being parodies of the 90s ads for games (with one of these being a pastiche of the Daikatana ad (you know which one)), to contests where you could win a T-shirt with a WAD’s logo on it, and/or a box that had a disc with a WAD and an actual manual for this thing.

I suggest you take a look at the Doomwiki page dedicated to Action Doom for more information if you are interested.

The story: The year is 2174. Our favorite Corpo: UAC, does its typical shtick to ruin everyone’s lives. This time on some island in the Gulf of Mexico. While being funded by the USA Government itself!

It’s not enough for these brainlets that they are tampering with whatever alien shit that crashed on Earth. Nooo! They need their Hell teleporters while also shoving alien DNA up to demons themselves!

And then there is no contact with UAC Site 4 Labs for around a week.

Surprised Pikachu face

The Gov, realizing that they fucked up, send out one of the elite soldiers of I.M.P.S.E (take a look at the stuff related to this word with a full bottle of brain bleach as a warning) to clean up the mess that happened there.

Action Doom looks rather good. It might not look as good as some of the WADs from the 2004 roster that I played but on its own, it does a really good job. I feel like I was playing an FPS version of Contra, with diversive environments, explosions everywhere, and hundreds of enemies attacking you from every corner.

The soundtrack was enjoyable to listen to. I notice one of the tracks being used in the past, either by Cinemassacre or Screwattack, I can’t remember which one was it. As for my favorite track, I guess I will go with the one that appears in the Hell section of the third map.

The sound effects were also good. There is nothing wrong or annoying about them.

So Action Doom is pretty good when it comes to its visuals. But is it as good when it comes to playing it?

Yes. It feels good playing this WAD.

Action Doom is very easy to understand despite most of it having big maps. Just go forward and mow down the cannon fodder with the occasional mini-boss or two on your way.

What’s interesting about this WAD is that its main part, Mission Imp.ossible, has branching paths, particularly in MAP02. I’m going to talk now about the first branching path since this is the one I have the most knowledge of. For instance:

After crossing the bridge, you can go further into the forest, right into the UAC facility, where you have to go through labs, ending up surrounded by cryo-sleeping Imps and fighting Zombies while riding down the elevator.

Or, you can go through the vent, where you end up jumping from car to car, being chased on a road by enemies.

There is also the third path. By climbing down the rocks, you can take a boat, where you must avoid rocks and kill the enemies that are catching your tail.

Besides that, there are also destructible crates. I recommend breaking them up ‘cause they might have a weapon that will help you later.

Per each map (asides from the ending), there is also a note that you can read. They basically describe what you might already know from the text file.

In MAP03, you can even play two arcade games. One is a rather simple car game, where you have to get to the end of a track in the fastest time. The second (which for some reason is marked as a secret) is a homage to the Atari game called Venture.

Action Doom has two endings depending on if you finished it on Contra difficulty level or not. But honestly, you won’t miss much since I checked on YouTube and you basically get another boss to send to outer space.

Oh, wait. I almost forgot. There are piles of money spread around the WAD to collect (alongside other items that can increase your highscore).

The WAD can be rather challenging. Like the games it was inspired by, in Action Doom, you die to one hit, forcing you to be more careful with the environment and remembering what enemies are coming out next and from where. Thankfully, most of the cannon fodder either also dies from one hit, or at least they are modified enough to be somewhat easier to kill.

Speaking of enemies and the new stuff related to them:

The Hitscanners now shoot projectiles to make this WAD fair. Zombiemen look different (and apparently they are called Ninjas now), and Chaingunners are now much tankier to make them more like a mid-tier enemy.

The alien blood wasn’t a good idea to insert into Imps, since now they act like Kamikaze drones, charging at you to explode with... acid I guess? Also, their heads can attack now on their own like something from The Thing.

Asides from the old blood, there are also Turrets, both in a mechanical and alien variation.

And Tanks, that might as well be mini-bosses, due to how much health they have.

As for the bosses, we have the first-level boss that might as well be ripped straight out of the Contra game.

Gigantic Slug that hides in a box and spits its corrosive sludge at you. When you kill it, it bursts into smaller slugs.

We have Giant Squid that shoots its ink at you and you need to shoot its tentacles to defeat it.

And finally, the final boss of this WAD, Mother of All Imps. Just focus on the turrets during the first phase to make slaughtering the Imps easier, then blow her arms off when she hijacks the helicopter.

As for your weapons, you have a Knife that I think is almost as powerful as the vanilla Fist on Berserk.

The pistol is now much more reliable since it has a bottomless magazine. Perfect for saving ammo for more powerful weapons.

Spread Cannon is basically an S power-up straight out of Contra, shooting a volley of projectiles.

The rifle shoots in a series of three.

Rocket Launcher doesn’t have blast damage anymore but it’s rather powerful for a single target. Unfortunately for me, I couldn’t find it on my regular playthroughs. Maybe it’s reserved for the easier difficulties.

Flamethrower doesn’t really need much explanation if you played other WADs with this kind of weapon: Big damage on a rather short range.

You can even find a beta BFG called BFG 7500. It’s more likely a joke weapon since trying to fire from it will overload it and blow you out.

As for the bugs, when I took the dossier up, somehow I couldn’t switch back to any of my weapons. I guess it happened because the animation of pulling up the Pistol was still going on when I took the dossier.

Also, while avoiding rocks while driving a boat, I could only see the ones that were right in front of me. I feel like this bug depends on what version of (G)ZDoom you are playing since I saw review footage of this WAD from 2015, and it looked fine.

As for the stuff mentioned in a text file, you can’t take another at the notes after grabbing them the first time (I managed to show them again by accident, by just depleting ammo to one of my guns) and the final boss’ projectiles might sometimes not disappear after hitting something.

In conclusion, Action Doom is a very good total conversion. A proof that Contra’s soul can greatly cooperate with the Doom Engine. Worth checking out to blow out your steam.

But if you somehow feel scared away due to how somewhat archaic this WAD feels, don’t worry. At the very beginning of November of 2022, Scuba Steve released a remaster under the subtitle Rampage Edition (<== mark it with link). When the time will come, I will check that version of the WAD too.

Also, check out the review from IcarusLIVES if you want more:

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The Golden League is off to a good start, people. Tune in next time, as we will be taking a look at another map created by the great Russell Pearson.

Bye!

#doom #Doom WAD #review #doom mod #Doom 2 #doom 2004 #2004 #action doom #Doom WADs’ Roulette #cacowards

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h1ghtechl0wlife · 3 years ago

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something something ableism, classism, infrastructure, capitalism and amount of car crash deaths related to those. like, i have a cold rn, just a cold, and im physically disabled. i also have sleep apnea. havent been able to use my cpap machine w/o feeling like im choking since i cant breathe thru my nose rn and all the air pressure pushing against my throat and palate, and making my ears pop a lot.

so 1, getting sick is harder on you when you're disabled. it lasts longer and the symptoms hit harder, and it's easier to catch stuff in the first place. 2, cpap is to keep my o2 high enough when im sleeping, so i keep breathing. going without gave me an intense low-o2/high-co2 migraine since im also breathing worse than usual from being sick. medication helped but didnt get rid of it, because i cant just take something to undo all the times i wasnt breathing last night. sleeping without it can also cause brain fog and more fatigue, body pain, concentration issues, etc. sleep apnea is a very common sleep issue, and ~22 million ppl in usa have moderate to severe sleep apnea, and many of those people are untreated due to cost of diagnosis, cost of necessary medical devices, or lack of follow through of treatment due to the discomfort involved.

3, lack of infrastructure supporting it in the us means there are few bus lines and trains people can use, and the ones ppl can require they be in a large city and have a flexible schedule for delays, which is at odds with expectations of workers and where a large chunk of the population resides.

4, bc of the work culture here and the criminal lack of respect employers and the gov grant workers, the amount of sick days available to most ppl is very small AND frequently require a drs note. this makes ill ppl choose to work through something they should be resting through either for fear of retribution for taking "too many" sick days, lack of days left, cant financially take a cut to their paycheck, or cant afford the cost of going to urgent care or their dr for a note.

finally, this culminates in people who are feverish, unfocused, exhausted, hazy, with slower responses out on their (potentially long) commute to/from work, possibly driving on the highway at over 70 mph, when they should be able to rest at home and focus on getting better. driving safely requires a lot of focus to begin with and you can only control what you do and your personal actions, while a small mistake or moment of inattention could end with drastic consequences.

so my theory is all of these factors likely have a very large impact in more traffic accidents that could be easily prevented and mitigated in a variety of ways, to say nothing of on the job accidents

#these things obv affect more disabled ppl in general due to their conditions in the first place #besides colds etc #i just have one and feel like ass and was thinking about how fucked id be rn if i was working out of the house #and just affect ppl in general thru lack of sleep stress fatigue etc from living in a capitalist hellscape

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How lawmakers block progress and maintain oppressive policies

Many lawmakers, especially in the South, fought to maintain the nation’s founding principles of white supremacy.

In Alabama’s Dallas County, more than half the population was Black in 1961 but fewer than one in 100 Black citizens were registered to vote due to daunting poll taxes and other measures meant to disenfranchise Black voters.

Across the South, registrars could selectively ask Black voters to read part of the Constitution, then decide whether the text had been read to their liking, said Carol Anderson, an African American studies professor at Emory University in Atlanta.

As such, they had enormous power to block people from voting, Anderson said.

A modest civil rights act passed in 1957 had enabled the Justice Department to sue states for voting rights violations but put the onus on people whose rights had been violated, requiring them to challenge systems designed to keep them down, Anderson said. By 1963, a federal report examining 100 counties in eight Southern states found that Blacks remained substantially underrepresented at the polls.

Selma, the seat of Dallas County, became an important battleground as tensions escalated. A local judge stifled demonstrations by declaring public gatherings of more than two people illegal, drawing a visit from Martin Luther King Jr. and thrusting Selma into the national spotlight.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Southern legislators repeatedly derailed civil rights-related proposals while chairing key committees, said David Bateman, an associate professor of government at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

“Their control over these committees allowed them to gate-keep the agenda,” Bateman said.

Images of officers attacking voting rights activists – including then 25-year-old activist John Lewis – on a Selma bridge with clubs and tear gas in March 1965 helped sway public support. Days after the so-called “Bloody Sunday” incident, President Lyndon Johnson pressed lawmakers to pass broad voting rights legislation. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned literacy tests and other discriminatory practices while requiring federal approval of proposed voting-eligibility standards before states could implement them.

Today, Bateman said, as increasing voting restrictions continue to disproportionately affect people of color, “there’s every reason to believe voter disenfranchisement campaigns will persist.”

The U.S. Supreme Court in 2013 reversed a key part of the landmark Voting Rights Act, allowing states to alter voting rules before obtaining federal consent. This summer, the court issued a ruling that disqualifies votes cast in the wrong precinct and only allows family members or caregivers to turn in another person’s ballot.

At least 18 states have enacted laws making voting harder this year, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. In Montana, legislators abolished Election Day registration. Florida curtailed after-hours drop boxes.

Georgia shortened absentee ballot request periods, criminalized providing food and water to queued-up voters and made opening polls optional on Sundays, traditionally a day when the Black vote spikes as congregants vote after church.

“We still have not dealt with anti-Blackness in this society,” said Anderson, of Emory University. “We’re really looking at the same pattern, the same rhymes.”

In September, Democrats introduced an elections and voting rights bill that would expand early voting options, identification requirements and access to mail-in ballots while allowing Election Day registration.

Police have long upheld racist laws, often with violence

As Blacks demanded equality during the civil rights movement, they faced hostility not just from fellow civilians but from those entrusted to protect and to serve.

In 1961, Freedom Rides occurred throughout the South as activists challenged Southern non-compliance with a Supreme Court decision ruling that declared segregated bus travel unconstitutional. The campaign met with often ugly resistance: In Birmingham, riders were attacked by a Ku Klux Klan mob, reportedly with baseball bats, iron pipes and bicycle chains.

Within the mob was an FBI informant who told the agency of the impending attack, but the agency did nothing, reluctant to expose its mole. Two decades later, a U.S. District Court judge excoriated the FBI for its inaction.

“The FBI was passively complicit,” said Diane McWhorter, author of “Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution.”

The attack occurred with the blessing of Alabama public safety commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor, who told Klan leaders that police would wait 15 minutes before stepping in.

Paul Butler, a law professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., said he sees the links between the police violence of Birmingham and “Bloody Sunday” and the tanks, tear gas and rubber bullets employed at today’s Black Lives Matter demonstrations.

“We have John Lewis and others marching on that bridge protesting police brutality, and they get attacked and beat up by police,” said Butler, author of the book “Chokehold; Policing Black Men.” “And last summer, throughout the country there were marches on police brutality – and at these marches, police attacked the people protesting police brutality. The parallels are clear.”

People of color continue to be disproportionately affected by fatal police shootings, with significantly higher death rates than whites over the previous five years, researchers at Yale University in Connecticut and the University of Pennsylvania reported last year. “So it’s unclear whether change is actually occurring,” Butler said.

Critics note the police presence and brutality faced by Black Lives Matter protesters during the unrest following Floyd’s murder – the open-source database Bellingcat found more than 1,000 incidents of police violence – in contrast with the relatively unprepared force that was unable to stop hordes of mostly white Donald Trump supporters from breaching perimeter fencing and entering the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection.

“There has never been a time when policing of public speech hasn’t been racially biased,” said Justin Hansford, executive director of Howard University’s Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center in Washington, D.C. “With the civil rights-era protests, most people understood that they were standing up for core American principles as opposed to Jan. 6, where they were trying to stop people’s votes from being counted.”

A USA TODAY analysis of arrests linked to the insurrection found that 43 of 324 people arrested were either first responders or military veterans; at least four current and three former police officers now face federal charges.

Education leaders have maneuvered to keep segregation, hide racist history

Education leaders have also at times sought to stall progress.

Two years after the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 decision ruling segregated schools unconstitutional, Virginia Rep. Howard Smith took the floor to address his colleagues.

There, he introduced a document signed by 82 representatives and 19 senators, all from former Confederate states. The so-called Southern Manifesto called for resisting desegregation and blasted the Brown decision as an abuse of judicial power violating states’ rights.

The gesture demonstrated how deep resistance to desegregation ran in the South. The next year, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus summoned the National Guard to prevent nine Black students from entering Little Rock’s Central High, in defiance of a federal order.

“After the ruling comes down, you have massive resistance in the South,” said Sonya Ramsey, an associate history professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. “You have school boards saying they’re not going to do it. You have government officials saying they’re not going to do it. That’s a system.”

Resistance came in many forms, she said, from committees formed to study the matter in perpetuity to policies that allowed whites, but not Blacks, to transfer schools.

Some institutional leaders did make positive strides, Ramsey noted, even if for economic reasons. While many Southern cities resisted desegregation efforts, officials in Charlotte, North Carolina, eager to promote the area as a progressive business climate, constructed a districtwide busing plan designed to have schools reflect the community with the help of Black and white families and local leaders.

But institutional ills continue, Ramsey and others say – in charter schools now struggling with diversity, in faulty school funding formulas and in ongoing debates about what students should be taught about slavery and racism. Bills limiting how educators can teach about racism have been introduced this year in at least 28 states.

A 2018 Southern Poverty Law Center study of educational standards in 15 states found none addressed slavery’s justification in white-supremacist ideology nor its integral part in the economy; furthermore, the report noted, a separate survey found just 8% of high school seniors identified slavery as the Civil War’s cause.

“It’s fear of the unknown and of disruption,” said Donnor, of William & Mary. “And seeing that the status quo is no longer acceptable. One of the major parallels is in the hostility of the pushback. If you peel back the layers, you can see the similarities.”

News media shapes how Americans view race

The news media has throughout the nation’s history helped Americans understand racial issues – for better or worse.

In 1962, after James Meredith tested federal law to become the first Black student admitted to the formerly all-white University of Mississippi, the station manager of Jackson’s WLBT decried the decision on-air, saying states should make their own admission decisions.

Station officials strongly supported segregation, rebuffing calls for opposing views, avoiding civil rights coverage and notoriously blaming technical problems for interruption of a 1955 “Today Show” interview of attorney Thurgood Marshall. Ultimately, after repeated complaints to the Federal Communications Commission and a crucial federal court decision affirming public input in FCC hearings, the station lost its license.

“These are the stories we weren’t taught in journalism school,” said Joseph Torres, co-author of “News For All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media.” “They (civil rights groups) were saying, it’s a public airwave, and it’s not being fair to the Black community.”

Black media stepped up to offer different perspectives of mainstream narratives or provide coverage that wasn’t otherwise there. When 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in 1955 by two men who would ultimately be acquitted by an all-white jury, Jet magazine published a photo of Till’s mutilated body that helped kickstart the civil rights movement.

While some white-owned media such as Mississippi’s Delta Democrat Times and Lexington Advertiser condemned segregation and violence, others such as Jackson’s Clarion-Ledger held to the status quo. Gannett, the parent company of USA TODAY, purchased the newspaper in 1982.

“Had the Clarion-Ledger taken a leadership position denouncing atrocities going on in front of their faces, the state would be farther along in terms of getting past some of the pain,” said Mississippi Public Broadcasting executive editor Ronnie Agnew, who served as the newspaper’s executive editor until 2011.

In 1968, the landmark Kerner Commission, appointed to investigate the unrest that had exploded in national riots, faulted the media in addition to longstanding racism and economic inequalities. “The press has too long basked in a white world looking out of it, if at all, with white men's eyes and white perspective," the commission’s final report read.

“They made it absolutely clear that the white press had done a terrible job of covering civil rights,” said Craig Flournoy, a journalism professor at the University of Minnesota who has critiqued the Los Angeles Times’ “incendiary” coverage of the 1965 Watts riots, for which the newspaper won a Pulitzer.

Flournoy said the Times relied heavily on white police and white elected officials for material. In one particularly egregious example, he said the newspaper, having no Black reporters on staff, sent a young Black advertising staffer into Watts to dictate dispatches by payphone, but his notes were repurposed into sensational stories that exaggerated the supposed Black threat.

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30 Year all Bullshit !?

7 Billion People

And Many more Underground ! Million's in Government, and that Go's as well for the Army's thay have Built up . . . Have you ever see the Globe ! HAVE U ! Have you see all of the Million's n Million's of Home's, the Million's n Million's of Street's and all of the people in the City ! and JUST THE USA ! Now Imagen the world and all of the people in it ! Imagen it ! . . . I Kno it's Hard ! .... i Kno it's Hard to Imagen ! the world has alot'a People in it and many of them in the Gov, Weather Human or not, is not the Point ! Many of them ! Are fully Aware of the Grey's and there agenda and the Intent to Wipe out the world ! and i'm on the Cusp of Proving either it's all Bullshit or it's all real ! but i Honestly think nothing will happen, .... no Great War ! no Mass Ending of Life on the world NO !

. . . Shit take's too Long for real News and all of the doom n Gloom talk, really where's off want the danger don't Match the Deception ! 😡 . .. So, I'm Trying to See What the fuck is Going on ! and if i Need ot Just Stop Posting ! Becuz, there is Honestly Next to Nothing, on the Internet i Care about ! I'm Only Here to get data, post, Any Content Based on the Data i Gave or Anything related ! and if the Gray's are gone and the agenda is done .... i think i Can rest in Peace, Then !

i Wonder if i Can find My People in the Place Beyond This World . . . i Found the fae in the Spirit world and i'll Might find'em again ! but what is the real Concern is, if i'll Actually get to rest in Peace ! . . . i Don't Want to Get dragged Back into Life ! . . . it Has No Value . . . No Purpose . . . Life is and Has Become Holy-Less ! Omni Alien and Omni Sinful and all of the Cult's in the world Run by a Big Cult Called the Mason's or Call them the Illuminati ! Either Way ! . . . Will Never Let you Have the truth ! Becuz Reptile's Like to Keep thee Slave's dumb and weak ! and Confused so thay can Control you !

Reptile's are the Shittyest Life form's !

Once thay Have Made a Den. All Life on the Planet it Has Basically Come to An End !

There Hella Hard to Get rid of and the more power thay get the More omnipotent thay become, making them Impossible to Omni Exterminate ! .... You Lost your Planet !

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tyguhnijok viva procrastination! gbhnjmk,lp.ñ- l’DDD

Heeeeey guyz~! It’s been a while since I roamed around on my blog, although I have a lingering feeling like I was here just yesterday. I kind’of find it hard to believe that weeks had flied in a blur since ever and that I totally lost track of the time! Of course, it was not my intention to leave all of a sudden. and I do really hope that my temporary absence hadn’t alerted anyone, but if it did, then I apologize for that. .3.”

To sum everything up, I merely got caught up in watching a series called “Murdoch’s Mysteries” a month ago. It’s not an anime, but a Canadian mystery drama television series. I immediately got hooked on as soon as I saw some randomish episodes on TV then hoped on laptop to watch the rest of all available seasons online :’> It even has some brief scenes featuring the inspector and his wife that resemble Salphys here and there, and I really loved it a lot X’D Geez, those 13 seasons sure felt so long and draining to watch! So proud of completing it and already awaiting for another season! <333

Anyway, I finally took my time to answer a mountain of quizzes that had been in the corner for months under the cut~ Again, thank you a skele-ton for bearing with me! Also, where you are, quarantined or not, please stay safe and take care of your health! Don’t forget to wash hands too! Because your life matters the most! To every centimeter of bone! <3

Thank you so much! Your kind words mean a lot to me!

I never imagined that, since the beginning, the creation of this humerus ship would bring so much joy and fun which it did for multiple times~

Even if I’m not as very motivated as I was before, I still sell my soul filled with love to these so-nerdy characters. This nostalgic thing made me realize how much I wanna draw so many things with them again all over the place. Especially playing tricks on each other ;w; -

It’s alright, nonnie you aren’t the only one :’D

Admittedly I hardly update these days, so I assure you it’s pretty okay if you fail to remember it at all, plus the story itself. Heck, if it were me, then I’d not be able to remember every comic nor movie unless I check them out properly. XD -

Heh :3 Assuming it was related to the latest Timetale update, then thanks :3 -

Those cheesy beans~~ Q 3 Q -

Gotta Cheeto Fatsts! -

Aww! ygurtyuyuiopi I’m flattered :D I’m glad you love my style~

Surprisingly, I never thought I would end up loving Alphys more and more, after I started designing her for the first time. Initially I really thought she’d be nothing but a boring and ugly traitor, too much for my taste, or that she’d not be that important for the story plots but my interest had shifted and changed quickly after some time and persistence, ironic eh? :’3

Yah, sounds like Alphys literally had sort of cosmetic surgery LOL x3 -

Nothing better than being stuck in my own faboo-paradise-like isolation where I have almost everything I love~ <3 Actually, thanks to my introvert powers, it never kills me nor stress me emotionally at all -amen-. Aside from working home, I don’t have any problem coping with that during the pandemic :’3

I wish you the same too!

#StayHome -

Oh, don’t worry too much about that. Your sincerity is very appreciated! :D Truth be told, I agree it isn’t always easy to see the other side of ours and flaws.

We all overstep our boundaries sometimes too. I myself still have troubles in being supportive as well, but I do what I can just to make everyone ‘happy panda’. We’re humans after all. The more we learn from our mistakes, the better we become. At least, you did the right thing and I admire you for that. Don’t think I’d ever have that courage loool. :> -

I’m still leaning into believing that our gov did a good job and that they managed to implement a lot of strict restrictions and ordinances, such social distancing, suspending transportation and closing any activities to prevent the crowd gatherings, except supermarkets and pharmacies that are only open.

Frankly, I think they executed that action a little bit too late. If only they listened the warning back in January-February, then we’d be much safer and well prepared. We probably won’t reach the peak until after Easter, but we will have to wait and see what happens next.

Given the fact that the healthcare system is poor compared to other countries, we do still hope that it gets somewhat worked out so the situation here won’t take a turn for the worse like one from Italy or USA. We already have over 4.400, a great number of people in self-isolation and quarantine, some still getting arrested for fleeing and disobeying, and, from the look of it, the toll of death isn’t definitively a good sign either if you ever ask me. Not to mention, there’s still quite a lot of them not being aware of it... -

.... Maybe :P Better not become “Chara-virus” then infect all monsters l’D -

Nice personal shipping preference^^

I wouldn’t be surprised if some fans actually do that, and that, regardless of sexual orientation, Alphys would be strait shipped with other females or males, beside Undyne. -

Thanks for the kind comment^^

Yeah lol Sansy loves everything about her~ :>

What a lucky hus-bean, isn’t he~? uwu -

Oh gosh, don’t you ever dare break m’soul! Or else I’mma criiii :’<<< -

#replies #took me several hours to complete asks #dies #sleepy times x.x #yay brainfarttttt

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THE AMERICAS NEED GIGANTIC CULTURAL CHANGE: AN END TO DRUG PROHIBITION

by James E. Gierach

I love the work you do, InsightCrime.org

As a former Cook County, Illinois, homicide prosecutor — violence, and public policy decisions that unwittingly cause it, is my principal interest.

I am a former board member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), the organization formed in 2002, beginning my anti-drug prohibition service for LEAP in 2004 (my personal efforts in that line begun in 1989). I soon became a LEAP leap board member, its secretary, and later its executive board vice chair and its acting chair.

I helped draft its statement of principles, and solo-drafted and conceptualized its “Proposed Amendment of UN Drug Treaties — 2014,” helped LEAP attain UN special consultative status through ECOSOC regarding drugs, conceptualized and ghost-drafted LEAP’s annual letters to “world leaders” (distributed through UN Mail in NYC), 2013-2016, advocating the need to amend UN drug treaties, the world foundation and fountainhead for global drug prohibition law and policy), conceptualized, organized and presented LEAP’s side event co-sponsored with the Czech Republic (with help of my friend, its drug czar, Jindrich Voboril) at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (“Treaty Amendment: a choice for Drug Policy reform”) in 2015 in Vienna.

I called for drug legalization and amendment of UN drug conventions as a LEAP speaker at the 2012 MUCD-sponsored event in Mexico City, befriended the drug czar of Ecuador (Rodrigo Velez) in Vienna in 2015 and was invited to present my proposed amendment of UN drug treaties at Ecuadorean expense in Quito and Guayaquil, in 2015, Rodrigo assigning a team of Ecuadorean attorneys the task of transforming the LEAP proposed treaty amendment into the “Ecuadorean Proposed UN Drug Treaty Amendment.” Unfortunately, eventually, he could not get approval from his nation to file it with the UN Secretary-General, the first step necessary for a nation to engage the treaty amendment mechanism contained in each of all three UN drug conventions.

My presentation in Ecuador was to members of the press from Gautama, Peru, Cuba, Ecuador and Canada.

I was the chair of the LEAP’s UNGASS2016 Committee but was ousted from the LEAP Board of Directors in September 2015, before the do-nothing UNGASS2016 happened, just after my trip to Ecuador, and publication of my HuffPost piece (“To Improve Police Community Relations: End the War on Drugs.”) LEAP has since had HuffPost republish my article, removing my name and byline, and replacing it with a photo of Neill Franklin and an insinuated LEAP attribution).

Incidentally, the theme of that article is the gigantic cultural change necessary to transform and reform American policing and take a big bite out of operation racism in the United States today. The short HuffPost was a thumbnail synopsis of my full statement filed with Pres. Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing, not big news or motivational, because its theme was deemed beyond the scope of the task force. (Just as drug policy was deemed beyond the scope of Illinois’ Gov. Jim Edgar’s Task Force on Crime and Corrections in 1993.)

I was removed from the LEAP Board for pushing too hard (support don’t push, some say), ruffling feathers and unsettling allies in the drug policy, harm reduction and human rights field. I intended to ruffle some feathers in an effort to get drug policy moving by leaps and bounds rather than at its customary, UN snail’s pace. And I did ruffle some feathers. INCB executive director (International Narcotic Control Board), Dr. Naidoo, and William Brownfield, former Assistant Secretary of State of Law Enforcement and Drugs, and Peter Bensinger, the first Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) were three of my favorites.

I ran for Cook County State’s Attorneys (1992) and for Illinois Governor (1994) on the idea of drug policy reform (ending substance prohibition policy and moving to regulated markets).

In September 2015 with my removal, LEAP soon changed its name and central focus, and was rewarded with greater funding. “Against Prohibition” was dropped from its name as part of its transformation. The new LEAP organization (Law Enforcement Action Partnership) has cleansed itself of my name, writings, PowerPoint and proposed UN drug treaty amendment. It has also removed the link to my draft of its unanimously adopted “Proposed Amendment of UN Drug Treaties — 2014” from Wikipedia.

I take the time to recite this history, because I believe, InsightCrime.org has the same objectives as I: to stop violence, corruption, and the unending and diverse harms that inevitably follow the probition of substances (whether alcohol, opiates, cocaine, cannabis or countless synthetics).

Finally, with the U.S. being torn apart under the leadership of an unable president, sick with policing infections of racism and unrestrained, drug-war-spread police violence, precipitating demonstrations, protests, riots and looting to all of America — I urge your organization, InsightCrime.org, to synthesize all the gang, drug, health and human rights data you report and point your organizational finger toward the exit door out of this societal doom.

Point your finger, InsightCrime.org, toward imperative need for UN drug treaty amendment, toward an end of all substance prohibition, toward the legalization and control of drug markets.

Palos Park, Illinois USA

June 14, 2020

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If season 3 had had more Will being a fleshed out, invovled character then I could get past the cheesy ass plot. But since they sidelined him, a bitch is mad! Can u reveal what your theory for season 4 was that you didn't want to reveal? Pls, your theories are the only way I'm gonna make it through until season 4

Ha-ha, Well all my season 4 theories would take forever to explain in depth (and they solely hinged on the assumption that Brenner/the Usa gov were going to kidnap them) because of El’s powers, and Will’s powers that were foreshadowed/hinted at.

In 1st episode, Will wins Dustin’s xmen comic in a bet- and Dustin later asks the gang “Do you think Eleven was born with powers like the xmen?” And also before he was sent to the upside down his password for Castle Byers was ‘Rhadagast’ a wizard character from Lord of the Rings. And in the ST prequel novel “Suspicious Minds” the adult psychics were referenced to both the xmen and lord of the Rings characters. And in the comic, he keeps on saying ‘what would Will- the Wise do’ (his d&d wizard character). Also Dustin straight up called El a “wizard” in the last ep of s1. Not to mention Mike in s2 called Will a “cleric” - and clerics get their powers from a god (cough the mindflayer), and in d&d the wiser the cleric the more powerful they are. And Will’s nickname is ‘Will the wise’? The fact that Will in s1 drew his character with lightning and fire powers- and the fact he barbecued 2 phones in s1 (just like El did to the radio at the school). In s1 was said he could “shadow walking” a wizard d&d power. The fact he could control lights and manipulate electronics to communicate to his mom from another dimension (and in s1 only El could do that). The fact he literally created a portal through the wall of his house (just like El did at the school in s2). And just the many other hints in s1! The fact that he drew himself in s2 with a crystal ball (which is associated with the powers of scrying and clairvoyance) before being posessed, but just so happen to have those abilities in s2. And I’m just supposed to ignore all the other hints he had powers since the beginning- since they randomly decided to retcon it. Dustin literally said the only way to defeat the MF is an undead army and Will’s nickname is “zombie boy”. And s3 just makes Will not special to the Mf, and just be able to “sense it”. Like, ok F-U… XD

And all the foreshadowing of their kidnappings ( talked about the kidnapping here (has multiple links in it) and Will’s possible powers here ) . They also foreshadowed Will became part MF because of the slug in s1 (talked about it here and here). In s1 they even mentioned all this bear imagery relating to Will, bears even symbolize ‘wisdom’, like “will the wise”. And Nancy and Max both compared demorgorgans to bears- they even used a bear trap to capture one in s1! But Shawn Levy said “we’re always ready for shifts and surprises if the Duffers stumble into a different or surprising inspiration as they rewrite scripts ”, so all the foreshadowing and symbolism in the world could amount to nothing. Even if I was right, they could change stuff on a whim. And after, s3, this bitch is tired -_-

Lets just say , if there’s a s5 and s4 ends with Will/El getting kidnapped- then I’ll talk in depth about it. Deal? XD

#will byers #stranger things #stranger things theory

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Pelosi Slams Trump in CNN Interview

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), Dec. 17, 2022.--Speaking during lunch with CNN Jamie Gangel and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), 82-year-old House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) asked that they not discuss 76-year-old former President Donald Trump while they’re eating, speculating about his run for president in 2024. Anytime CNN or House and Senate Democrats get a chance, the slam Trump for just about everything. Schumer and Pelosi announced their wholehearted support of 80-year-old Joe Biden, claiming he’s done a wonderful job as president. Democrats hope that by the time Joe runs again, the runaway inflation and foreign wars will be over, though 2023 looks for the worst of it. Pelosi and Schumer praise Biden for his pandemic relieve and infrastructure bills, costing the U.S. Treasury trillions and fueling the worst inflation in 40 years. Yet to Pelosi and Schumer, it’s all Trump’s fault.

Biden won’t face Trump in 2024 though Trump will give it his best shot running against a bevy of GOP candidates, all seeking the big prize. Whether admitted to or not by Trump or his backers, a recent USA TODAY/Suffolk Univ. poll showed that at least 50% pf GOP voters have moved on from Trump. So if Biden does choose to run in 2024, he’s going to run against a much younger candidate, possibly 44-year-old Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Matching up an 82-year-old against a 46-year-old would give many voters reason to crossover and attract independents to DeSantis. Asked about a second Trump term, Pelosi said Trump is in need of intervention by his family of someone else. Yucking it up with CNN is a favorite pastime for Democrats, most recently watching Trump’s Non-Fungible-Token [NFT] playing cards making him millions with so much public interest.

CNN and Democrats don’t get that the GOP has largely moved on from Trump, knowing that he won’t represent the party in 2014. CNN and Democrats would like nothing more that to run against Trump in 2024 because he’s an easily beatable in 2024. Republicans, independents and crossover Democrats look in 2024 for a fresh face, not necessarily 82-year-old Joe Biden. No one knows how the economy will resolve itself or the war in Ukraine but voters aren’t happy with the way things have gone. “I don’t think he’s on the level, not,” Pelosi told CNN’s Gangel regarding Trump’s mental health. Democrats tried but failed to get Trump removed from office under the 25th Amendment, saying he wasn’t fit for office. Democrats and press had nothing good to say about Trump’s presidency, only accusing him of colluding with Russia and other dictators around the planet

Schumer told Gangel that Pelosi knew how to deal with Trump, having raised a big family, knowing how to deal with an obstreperous child. “I tell people, Nancy instinctively knew how to handle Trump, because for her first your, 25 or 40 years of life, she raised five children, and she knew hoe to deal with children. An that’s what helped her deal with Trump, because he ultimately was child,” Schumer said. Despised by Democrats and the press, Trump got zero credit for keeping the nation out of foreign wars and the economy strong. No one talked about runaway inflation under Trump’s four years. Trump preserved decades of diplomacy with U.S. adversaries like Russia and China, something Biden trashed when taking office. Things are so bad with U.S.-Russian relations, the Kremlin is close to breaking off diplomatic relations, the same thing can be said for Communist China.

Democrats and press sling disinformation around like a football, saying Biden has done such a fantastic job as president. U.S. national security is worse since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis with Biden engaged in a proxy war using Ukrainian troops to fight the Kremlin. When it comes to China, Biden infuriated Beijing saying Sept. 23 that the U.S. would defend Taiwan with U.S. troops. Biden’s foreign policy has been a disaster for U.S. national security, pushing the U.S. and Communist China into a military confrontation. When it comes to the U.S. or global economy, nothing has been more damaging than Biden’s Russian oil embargo, causing global shortages and spiraling prices. Did Pelosi and Schumer really like watching Biden fist-bump Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman? Biden said he would never recognize Bin Salman because of the Oct. 2, 2018 death of Jamal Khashoggi.

Pelosi, Schumer and CNN don’t get that Republicans have moved on from Trump, no longer a frontrunner for the 2024 GOP nomination. Contrasting 82-year-old Biden with DeSantis, a relative unknown, the recent USA TODAY/Suffolk Univ. poll showed DeSantis beating Biden 47% to 40%. So, Nancy and Chuck can yuck it up with CNN making fun of Trump, knowing that he won’t represent the GOP. If Biden can’t figure out how to end the Ukraine War, it’s not likely the U.S. and global economy will get much better over the next two years. When it comes to foreign policy, Biden has been a slow moving train wreck. U.S. officials can’t afford to be at war with the Kremlin much longer before Biden sets the European Continent ablaze. EU leaders are waking up to Biden’s disastrous proxy war against the Kremlin. Zelensky wants Patriot Missiles, but the EU and NATO don’t want war with Russia.

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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.

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