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It’s been a brutal tactic deployed by local and federal law enforcement officials time and time again over the past year:
using teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray to control protests outside ICE detention centers or during enforcement operations.
Now, a new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd-control weapons during
anti-immigration demonstrations across the US,
including hundreds of incidents that resulted in lasting and traumatic injuries.

ICE ‘Crowd Control’ Led to Blindings and Traumatic Brain Injuries
It’s been a brutal tactic deployed by local and federal law enforcement officials time and time again over the past year: using teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray to control protests outside ICE detention centers or during enforcement operations. Now, a new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd-control weapons during anti-immigration demonstrations across the US, including hundreds of incidents that resulted in lasting and traumatic injuries.

periodic reminder that Dunning-Kruger effect is mostly statistical error and if you're using it as a part of your worldview, that's maybe a problem.
Doubly so since a naive reflection of it is a belief in a fascist ubermensch who's just smarter than everyone else. You can justify deeply anti-democratic ideals with it. So consider this carefully.

Women counter demonstrate against the fascist mob in Portsmouth. One placard reads
"I don't need racists to protect me".

Most wealthy Americans, and particularly Californians, are interested in residency in a European nation, which affords someone the ability to live or work in more than two dozen countriesin the European Union.
In Europe, the most popular residency programs, firms said, tend to be in Portugal and Malta.
A much less costly way to get European citizenship is by descent. Ireland and Italy, for example, offer citizenship to foreigners if their parents or grandparents were born in or w…

Ittoqqortoormiit, ein kleines abgelegenes grönländisches Dorf, gegen über-optimistische US-Konzerne.
https://polarkreisportal.de/ittoqqortoormiit-demonstriert-gegen-oelprojekt-auf-jameson-land
Eigendlich ist die Ölsuche und erst Rec…

Ittoqqortoormiit demonstriert gegen Ölprojekt auf Jameson Land
Einwohnerer von Ittoqqortoormiit gingen auf die Straße, um gegen die geplante Ölsuche in Nunap Qeqqa (Jameson Land) zu protestieren.

Das sollte #Deutschland unbedingt tun, wenn die Regierung noch ein moralisches Gewissen hat:
Deutschland könnte gegen 87 mutmaßliche Verantwortliche wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit ermitteln - Amnestie International legt Beweise gegen Iraner vor, die 2022 #Schießbefehle gegen Dem…

Tausende Fälle von Folter und Vergewaltigung: Wer gab in Iran die Schießbefehle gegen die Demonstranten?
Das iranische Regime schlug 2022 die »Frau, Leben, Freiheit«-Proteste brutal nieder. Nun benennt Amnesty International 87 mutmaßliche Verantwortliche. Deutschland könnte gegen sie wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit ermitteln.

In a rushed process exempted from normal rules,
the Army hired General Dynamics, which brought on a Turkish subcontractor with little vetting, to make artillery shells.
Money for Nothing: Despite being paid $533 million, General Dynamics did not produce a single usable shell at its new factory
— and has not been held publicly accountable.

Wages of Failure: Since the Army halted two production lines at the factory, the General Dynamics unit responsible for the …

Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a real-life dumpster fire.

The first phase of Donald Trump’s war on Iran ended in defeat and humiliation.
Iran emerged battered but stronger, with two new weapons:
control of the Strait of Hormuz
and a demonstrated drone and missile force that can cripple the economies of its Persian Gulf neighbors and wreak havoc on U.S. bases.
Both are new instruments of power more usable than nuclear weapons.
The two New Jersey property managers Trump sent to negotiate his surrender produced a poorly …

Can We Lose the Same War Twice? With Trump, Anything’s Possible
Phase One of the Iran war ended in defeat and humiliation. Phase Two could be just as bad—or worse.

Far-right British activists gathered in two disruptive demonstrations in Dover and Portsmouth over the weekend,
attempting to obstruct asylum seekers arriving on small boats from France.
Many wore all black and balaclavas.
The action was seemingly organised by Daniel Thomas, an agitator better known as Danny Tommo,
who has close ties with the far-right extremist Tommy Robinson.
Thomas was recorded on the ground saying Portsmouth was now ‘ground zero’ for sma…

Who is behind ‘thuggish’ far-right protests in Dover and Portsmouth? - The Latest
Far-right activists gathered in two disruptive demonstrations in Dover and Portsmouth over the weekend, with many clad in all black and balaclavas. Lucy Hough speaks to political correspondent Ben Quinn

China test-fires ballistic missile in South Pacific, prompting concern
China’s navy test-launched a long-range ballistic missile Monday
from one of its nuclear-powered submarines in the South Pacific,
a rare act that drew protests and concern from countries in the region and the United States.
The missile carried a dummy warhead, according to the official news agency Xinhua.
China last conducted a missile test in the Pacific two years ago, firing an interconti…