Nothing is true, everything is permitted Part2

  Jan 14, 2020: I mentioned this here.   https://vaporvents.blogspot.com/2013/05/nothing-is-true-everything-is-permitted.html Watch out folks! A Swiss judge, Judge Philippe #Colelough, said due to the imminent danger of the climate crisis the students ,who played tennis inside a Credit Suisse branch in 2018 in protest of fossil fuel investments, were not guilty of resisting arrest and refusing to pay fines. Yep, everything is permitted.

 Today September 24,2020 Swiss Judge, Christophe Maillard, reversed  that ruling. 

 Sept 25

You can bet this is headed for a court challenge. Anyone who violates the Boulder County, Colorado Health Dept order: whether indoor or outdoors, anyone aged 18 to 22 years old will not be allowed to gather for two weeks and can be fined up to $5,000 and sentenced up to 18 months in jail.

Nov 5

 #robertfisk , a highly praised journalist who interviewed Bin Laden three times, died yesterday. He received a great deal of criticism for denying that Assad used chemical warfare on his own people in Syria.  I continue to wonder about a guy who said there's a misconception that journalists can be objective. I guess trying to be objective wasn't worth the effort. 

And later said a foreign correspondent needs to be neutral and unbiased on the side of those who suffer, whoever they may be. That's a curious way to define neutral. It appears he liked to pick and choose which powerful people or groups to monitor and which to befriend. 

Nov 6

#OliviaPierson 's , a New Zealand author, book was pulled from Moby Ape, an online store, after she tweeted criticism of Mahuta's, the FM, traditional facial Maori tattoo. She didn't back down and added,  facial tattoos were ugly on "anybody, white, brown or black". Censorship rolls on!

Nov 30

At least eight prisoners were killed and more than 50 injured in clashes with guards over the rise in Covid-19 infections at #Mahara prison in Sri Lanka. I guess some the inmates wanted to die faster???

Dec 21

If you're still not convinced that  mainland China  intends to put the clamps on #hongkong . Hong Kong's top court  ruled that  it was legal for the city government to invoke a colonial-era law to ban face masks at demonstrations and public meetings during the height of the 2019 pro-democracy protests. This mean they can ban masks now during Covid-19 ,even though they have mandated mask wearing in public in 2020. Wrap your brain around that!!!!!!

jan 5, 2021

Singapore has admitted data from its Covid contact tracing programs can be accessed by police which reverses earlier privacy assurances. So much for maintaining public trust during a pandemic. The app name #tracetogether is laughable. How about jailed together?

Jan 26, 2021

I'm enjoying this while it lasts:  The UK is treating the EU delegation only as representatives of an international organization and not granting it the same status as diplomats representing sovereign nations.

Feb 6, 2021

A tiny bit of sanity crept into SCOTUS,  who gave some relief to California church attendees. Justice Gorsuch “If Hollywood may host a studio audience or film a singing competition while not a single soul may enter California’s churches, synagogues, and mosques, something has gone seriously awry.”

Then you have Justice Kagan in dissent : "the court had no expertise in public health and shouldn’t displace the judgment of elected officials and public-health specialists battling the pandemic."  Wow, she thinks elected officials and Fauci-like flakes are smart about medicine.

Feb 20, 2021

 Kouchner wrote that many in  #Duhamel’s (her step father) circle knew of his abuse of her twin brother, who was 14 at the time but said nothing. The brother didn't file a complaint in 2011 , but this case has shown a light on France  because  there is no presumption of coercion if a minor is involved.

“This silence wasn’t just cowardice. Some among them were delighted to keep quiet,” Kouchner wrote. “On the Left, like in the bourgeoisie, ‘we wash our dirty laundry in the family.’

March 14, 2021

Dear Nanny Pelosi: While you keep the National Guard  in DC to protect your gavel, environmentalists and Antifa members get violent and shout F the USA outside a federal courthouse in Portland , Oregon. Hey, but I get it Nancy, the folks in Oregon have more "legitimate" causes so  you're silent on their crimes and the work of the DHS police in containing those hoodlums. #pelosi

May 24, 2021

"This was a case of state-sponsored hijacking... state-sponsored piracy," Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary. 

Belarus (Air Traffic Control)  claimed a potential security threat on board Flight FR4978 and diverted it east to Minsk shortly before it reached the Lithuanian border. Police came and took a Belarussian journalist, #RomanProtasevich, away when passengers disembarked.

May 26, 2021

More on the sky-jacking: Belarus claims it acted according to international protocols after receiving correspondence from Hamas  that a bomb aboard was set to detonate over Vilnius, but Hamas hasn’t responded to requests for comment.

Meanwhile most of Europe is looking  to re-route all air travel to not fly in Belarus air space.

Feb 18, 2022

"It's a 2,500-year-old structure of violence. It's way older than white supremacy," #ShaistaPatel, a professor of Critical Muslim Studies at Cal responding to California State University system's recognition of caste within its nondiscrimination policy. However, some faculty fear that it could prompt discrimination against South Asian students, particularly Hindus. Another reminder that you can't solve complex cultural issues with a stroke of a pen. In the history of the world a lot of things have been tacitly permitted regardless of any existing codes of conduct.

Feb 21, 2022

And the hits keep coming:  Jean-Luc Brunel, a former modeling agent and associate of Jeffrey Epstein accused of supplying the financier with victims, was found hanging in his cell at the La Santé prison in Paris . Thirty months ago Epstein was found dead in his cell in a federal jail in New York.

July 16, 2022

Thus, in February 1911 the Bulgarians received the controversial church, which made it a historical symbol and proof of the Bulgarian ethnic character of Dojran and the entire region.

July 16, 2022

St. Elijah is a Renaissance Orthodox church in Dojran, North Macedonia that was destroyed during WW1 and recently renovated by the Institute for the Protection of Monuments of Culture and Museum in Strumica. It has not been consecrated and recently consented to onsite poetry readings and concerts of chamber bands performing classical music. What it got last month was a nude techno party that appeared on social media.

Sept, 26, 2022

Cardinal Joseph Zen and five other defendants are being prosecuted for the offense of failing to properly register the now-defunct 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund that helped pay medical and legal bills for arrested protesters during the 2019 anti-government demonstrations in Hong Kong. The Vatican's response was to express concern, and one could say it's hanging Zen out to dry.

July 8, 2023

Leslie Van Houten, a Charles Manson cohort who was convicted in the LaBianca murders in 1971, will likely be paroled in weeks. She was originally given a death sentence, and now she's just a nice, old lady.💢