Would it surprise anyone to learn that the book I am reading has nothing whatsoever to do with Mao or that period of time, and the author just sort of slipped this into the middle of an introduction describing what is in each chapter?
This isn't related to your question, but you wrote "apparently the 'muezzin' is the person who conducts the Muslim call to prayers" and I have to wonder: how have you lived in Qatar for over a decade and you're just now learning what a muezzin is?
There's actually a fairly sizeable Druze community where I am. They were a large part of the most active and dedicated protesters in the Palestinian movement here, but then when Assad was being ousted they started throwing "freedom" celebrations that alienated them from the Palestinian community, which was understandably upset about the collapse of Syria as a force for resisting the entity.
Now they're protesting for our government to intervene against the Syrian state to protect the Druze, which of course our government would never do.
Shooting at the No Kings protest in Salt Lake City being reported
If the police ask you nicely to cancel your anti-police protest it's only polite to stay home
I'm not saying this man did it, but "CEO of Praetorian Guard Security Services" is compelling.
This cartoon villain photo is from a very serious presentation at the UN> As you can see, the red line is almost at the top of the bomb, which is clearly not good, because bombs are bad. This explains why a lot of bombs should be used to stop the bomb. Make sense?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israels-path-to-a-new-middle-east-1.7560393 (to be clear this photo is from over a decade ago, because they have been fear-mongering about Iran "getting the bomb" since the revolution)
LAPD police chief on CBSLA talking about how they're overwhelmed by getting shot at with fireworks, rocks, and bottles of piss. Admitting on TV that they got peed on by protesters, amazing.
They got a bunch of cops pinned under a bridge (by lobbing shit at them from above and firing fireworks at their cars). Cops had to abandon their cars and now they are dropping flaming cardboard down onto the cop cars, and when the cops come out to put out the fire they shoot fireworks at them.
Edit: they got the car, it's going up like a torch
Scottish independence and environmentalism? Believe it or not: Russian subversion plots.
"Investigations revealed that Sato had kept the man’s bank book and smartphone locked in her safe, and she had once even cut off part of his left nipple."
I think this man was a prisoner
"The man said he had previously endured the abuse without reporting it to authorities simply because his girlfriend was so beautiful that he could not bring himself to leave her."
Edit: apparently she cut off part of his nipple because she believed it would grow back??? and just decided to try it on him???
"He really quantified what it was to be a real artist for me"
Well Matt, you did a shit job internalizing that lesson.