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and then they came for Tropic Thunder
'I make no apologies': Ben Stiller staunchly defends Tropic Thunder and insists he's 'proud' of hit film after it was slammed by woke mob for Robert Downey, Jr's 'blackface'
February 23, 2023
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11784627/Ben-Stiller-staunchly-defends-Tropic-Thunder.html
Russian oil magnate and Cold War-era spy dies in mysterious circumstances after he was 'found unconscious' in his elite gated village
Local reports said doctors could not save ex-spy Viatcheslav Rovneiko, 59
He would become latest Kremlin figure to die under unexplained circumstances
February 23, 2023
A Russian oil magnate who was a former spy and close to Vladimir Putin's foreign intelligence chief has died in mysterious circumstances near Moscow, say reports.
Well-connected Viatcheslav Rovneiko, 59, was 'found unconscious' late at night at his home in an elite gated village. Doctors could not save him, according to a report by Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper.
The circumstances of his reported death were unclear although an investigation is underway. The report said 'no signs of a violent death were found on his body'.
Rovneiko's reported death means he would join a long list of high-profile Kremlin figures to die under mysterious circumstances in recent years.
He is believed to have been a Cold War era KGB spy working in Belgium with Sergei Naryshkin, now head of the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency.
The article contains a fairly comprehensive list of all the Russian notables falling out of windows etc
sauce/more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11784965/Russian-oil-magnate-Cold-War-era-spy-dies-mysterious-circumstances.html
addl: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/spy-close-vladimir-putins-foreign-29295590
His family is the Boss Hogg dynasty going back as far as his Grandfather circa 1910. The guy is a class study in narcissism, never dreamed he'd take the stand but should have.
They have his voice on camera phone video shortly before he offed his wife and kid, he shows up to the kennel and they talk about one of the dogs. Two witnesses positively ID the voices as Murdaugh and wife Maggie + the son he killed, Paul, says "hi Dad"
He can't seriously think… the only out is he had Buster (surviving son) pay off a juror, they kept Buster stashed.
U.S. to QUADRUPLE military force on Taiwan: Pentagon will send troops to island to bolster defenses as tensions sour between D.C. and Beijing - and American general warns of war by 2025
February 23, 2023
The U.S. is expected to quadruple the number of U.S. forces deployed to Taiwan in the coming months as tensions with Beijing continue to simmer.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that the Pentagon plans to deploy between 100 and 200 troops to the self-ruled island, up from around 30 a year ago.
Servicemembers from the Marines and the special forces have been sent to Taiwan in the past and the number has fluctuated over the years.
However, this uptick would mark the biggest increase of American troops on the ground in Taiwan in decades.
U.S. forces are used to train Taiwanese military members, so they can defend themselves against China, which claims ownership of Taiwan.
Sauce/more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11785265/U-S-QUADRUPLE-troops-deployed-Taiwan.html
Well that'll make China think twice about talking to Russia… smh..
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Notorious Black Panther communist Angela Davis faces calls to pay reparations after genealogy show reveals her ancestor was one of the 101 white puritans who arrived in US on the Mayflower
Angela Davis, 79, learned that her ancestor came to the US on the Mayflower
The former Black Panther also discovered she had two white grandparents
She appeared on PBS's Finding Your Roots in an episode that aired on Tuesday
February 23, 2023
Famous Black Panther and political activist Angela Davis has discovered that one of her ancestors was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620.
She appeared on an episode of PBS's Finding Your Roots on Tuesday, during which she also learned that both her mother's father and her father's father were white men and descendants of slave owners.
Davis, 79, became nationally known in 1970 when guns she owned were used in the holding up of a Marin County courtroom in California which left four dead, including the judge.
After the FBI issued a warrant for her arrest she went on the run and became listed as one of the department's 10 Most Wanted. After her eventual arrest she spent 16 months in jail before being found not guilty.
'You are descended from the 101 people who sailed on the Mayflower,' reiterated Gates Jr., who is the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
The one-hour show, in which public figures learn about their ancestry, outlined how William Brewster, who traveled aboard the boat with his wife Mary Wentworth Brewster, was Davis's 10th great-grandfather.
Mary was one of only five adult women from the Mayflower to have survived the first winter after arriving in the US and one of only four such to survive until the 'first Thanksgiving' in 1621, which she was said to have helped cook.
The revelation caused many to point out the complexity of ancestry and on social media some suggested that by certain logic Davis should pay black reparations.
The concept of reparations - an idea she has endorsed in the past - is that people with ancestors who were enslaved should be financially reimbursed by those whose ancestors enslaved them.
'This vividly illustrates the absurdity of reparations as a concept, among other things,' said one person on Twitter, in response to a clip of the revelation.
'Before any talk about reparations everybody needs to take the ancestry DNA test. I think a lot of people would be shocked to to discover who they were descended from,' said another.
Sauce/more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11784945/Black-Panther-Angela-Davis-discovers-ancestor-came-Mayflower.html