JoBo

Rudy Guede did not confess. He admits he was there, on an impromptu date with Meredith Kurcher, heard a commotion while he was taking a dump, disturbed the killers, who ran for it. ~~He pled guilty for a shorter sentence.~~ He chose a fast-tracked trial and was originally sentenced to 30 years, reduced on appeal to 16. Knox and Sollecito were also convicted ~~and got longer sentences than Guede because they went to trial. They were~~ but were later freed on appeal.

I've no idea what the truth is but your summary is inaccurate.

Edited for accuracy/poor memory.

These two examples are quite different, I think.

Gay was not originally a slur, AFAIK. It was adopted as a less clinical descriptor by gay people, especially gay men (again, AFAIK). There have been concerted efforts to make it into a slur and it is often used in a derogatory fashion, but it does not have a pre-history of being used as a slur.

Queer is the opposite. It was used as a slur and it is a rare example of successful reclamation of a word. A slogan in the 1980s on Gay Pride protests was "We're here, we're queer, we're fabulous, get used to it". At the time, queer was very much a slur so the chant had a bite that you wouldn't hear in it today.

...the only ones who can provide an identity to the nation are its enemies. Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia. But the plot must also come from the inside: Jews are usually the best target because they have the advantage of being at the same time inside and outside. In the U.S., a prominent instance of the plot obsession is to be found in Pat Robertson’s The New World Order, but, as we have recently seen, there are many others.

Ur-fascism

Just to pre-empt the usual misunderstanding when these badly reported stories get posted: this is the equivalent of an appeal, initiated by Knox. Not the Italian courts persecuting her.

Amazing scientist and all round decent man. I'm glad he lived to see his particle found, or probably found, or whatever the current state of the debate is.

I especially appreciate him for saying these sorts of things, to colleagues, journalists and anyone else who might listen:

Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system

A long life, lived well. RIP

There's a link, to an article. You can read it if you want to.

Hope that the antifa prisoners get a successful appeal against their excessive sentences out of this.

And that the fash judge is forced to retire immediately, with a review into all their sentencing decisions.

Sad to say, that's not an effective way to find new readers.

They don't get much traffic from facebook. But being libelled by facebook has worried a lot of their readership and consumed a lot of their time.

It's a long article but worth reading in full.

That's sort of correct. But she would have devoted her entire life to getting Corbyn out of office if 2017 had turned out differently. She's a Tory through and through, and so is fucking Starmer.

No but Kuenssberg was interviewing him. Any decent journalist would point out that allies of these authoritarian powers are gaining power in the US and UK and elsewhere, and ask how worried should be we about Russian money funding the Tories or the Republican love-in with Putin.

But she won't because she is not a journalist, she's a political gossip and Tory suckup.

Exactly this.

AFAIK it's good coffee because (wild) civets select perfectly ripe berries to eat. Captive civets just get fed berries.

I'm all for blaming Dems for being ineffectual cowards but this is one topic they have been very happy to shout about. As the artice points out, the media does not have to report it:

There’s also the fact that we have a very divided media and the media a lot of people get — and, more importantly, trust — does not tell them about things like this.