Anonymous ID: 31e250 Feb. 14, 2021, 7:27 a.m. No.12923828   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3908 >>4039 >>4155 >>4519

"India activist Disha Ravi arrested over 'toolkit'"

 

"A 22-year-old Indian climate activist has been arrested after sharing a document intended to help farmers protest against new agricultural laws.

Disha Ravi is accused of sedition and criminal conspiracy.

 

The document she shared - a "toolkit" which suggests ways of helping the farmers - was first posted by the prominent campaigner Greta Thunberg.

 

The protests, now in their third month, mark the biggest challenge India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has faced.

New laws loosen rules around the sale, pricing and storage of farm produce which have protected India's farmers from the free market for decades.

Farmers fear that the new laws will threaten decades-old concessions - such as assured prices - and weaken their bargaining power, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation by private companies.

The Modi government has offered to suspend the laws but the farmers want them replaced altogether.

Ms Ravi, a student and one of the founders of the Indian branch of the Fridays for Future climate strike, was arrested by Delhi police.

Police said the toolkit suggested a conspiracy in the run up to a huge rally on 26 January, which saw protesting farmers clash with police.

"The call was to wage economic, social, cultural and regional war against India," Delhi Police Special Commissioner Praveer Ranjan said.

"We have registered a case for spreading disaffection against the government of India - it's regarding sedition - and disharmony between groups on religious, social and cultural grounds, and criminal conspiracy to give shape to such a plan," he added.

Activists say the arrest of Ms Ravi is a clear warning to those who want to express support to anti-government protests."

 

https://news.yahoo.com/india-activist-disha-ravi-arrested-104141201.html

Anonymous ID: 31e250 Feb. 14, 2021, 7:30 a.m. No.12923837   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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>Two years previous, President Putin prohibited Jacob Rothschild and his New World Order banking cabal from operating in Russian territory “under any circumstances.”

 

Hasn't this been debunked?

Anonymous ID: 31e250 Feb. 14, 2021, 7:36 a.m. No.12923851   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3861 >>3908 >>4039 >>4155 >>4519

"'Beautiful Girls' at 25: Recent Natalie Portman comments shine light on film's sexualization of underage 'Lolita' character"

 

"The film starred Timothy Hutton, Matt Dillon, Uma Thurman, Michael Rapaport, Mira Sorvino, Martha Plimpton, Rosie O’Donnell, Lauren Holly and Noah Emmerich. But its breakout was clear: teenager Natalie Portman, who played the 13-year-old Marty, self-described “old soul” next door neighbor to returning New York musician Willie Conway (Hutton). It was Portman’s third film following a stunning debut in 1994’s The Professional and a supporting appearance among heavyweights Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in 1995’s Heat. Her engaging performance in Beautiful Girls would solidify her as a rising star.

"Portman, a budding knockout, is scene-stealingly good even in an overly showy role," the New York Times’s Janet Maslin wrote at the time.

Still, even fans of the film had to admit there was always something at least a little creepy about the flirtatious nature of the relationship between Willie and Marty. During their “meet cute,” Marty charms Willie by complimenting his sideburns and telling him he’s cool; later, while they’re ice skating, Marty announces that Willie’s her new boyfriend before falling into his arms. Her charms are met by looks of increasingly lovestruck longing from Willie, even if he points out their age difference (yet nothing about the illegality) when she refers to them as “star-crossed lovers.” It’s Marty who finally says, “You’ll go to the penitentiary” before telling him to “wait five years.” (Willie wisely declines, but not without using an inane Winnie the Pooh analogy to explain why.)

Even once the adult draws the line, the cringe factor persists. When Marty tells Willie that his girlfriend Tracy (Annabeth Gish), who’s just arrived from New York, is “really pretty,” Willie replies to her, “She’s not as pretty as you.” The point here was ostensibly to portray Willie as a good guy (outside of entertaining thoughts of a romance with a child) trying to make a heartbroken kid feel better, but that doesn’t make it any less inappropriate.

 

Portman herself took a stand against the film — and how she was portrayed through many of the movies at the beginning of her career — in a recent interview with actor Dax Shepard on his Armchair Expert podcast.

“I was definitely aware of the fact that I was being portrayed … as this ‘Lolita’ figure,” Portman told Shepard. “Being sexualized as a child, I think took away from my own sexuality because it made me afraid, and it made me [feel] like the way I could be safe was to be like, ‘I’m conservative,’ and ‘I’m serious and you should respect me,’ and ‘I’m smart,’ and ‘don’t look at me that way.'”

 

Portman, now 39, continued: “Whereas at that age, you do have your own sexuality and you do have your own desire, and you do want to explore things and you do want to be open. But you don’t feel safe, necessarily, when there’s older men that are interested, and you’re like, ‘No, no, no, no.'”

The Oscar-winning actress has become increasingly outspoken in recent years, particularly when it comes to gender roles and identity in the industry. In Mark Harris’s new book Mike Nichols: A Life, Portman refers to her Closer director, who also directed her on Broadway in The Seagull in 2001, as "the only older man who mentored me without there ever being a creepy element in it.”

 

By many accounts, Beautiful Girls was a well-intended story about love and friendship. But if Portman felt back then that she was being sexualized as a child (and still does today), then she was being sexualized as a child."

 

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/beautiful-girls-natalie-portman-lolita-character-sexualization-underage-character-013033893.html