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[Nicholas Lissack @NicholasLissack]

Never forget: in 1979, after the revolution, the mullahs publicly executed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s favourite horse, Azar.

They hauled him from the Royal Stables into the streets, broke his legs, ripped out his tongue, then shot him.

Pure evil. RIP Azar. Free Iran!

[Howling West🇮🇱🇺🇦 @carlitosfeder]

@MAR_icon_ela Basado Jordi, el derecho a burlase de algo o alguien es igual de importante que el de expresión

[Howling West🇮🇱🇺🇦 @carlitosfeder]

@2Bobbkatt76901 @peachtard My guy, i sympathise with you but it isn’t really my problem. There’s a thousand worse things than a semi Jewish, microcosm of defeatism (as in, someone who goes around effectively preaching to end it all).
It is absolutely bleak but compared to other things it’s just bad

[Howling West🇮🇱🇺🇦 @carlitosfeder]

@peachtard Just read it. Awful, unjustified nastiness to mothers. I hope she isn’t actually Jewish

[Howling West🇮🇱🇺🇦 @carlitosfeder]

@nayibbukele Took him less than 2 minutes to ratio a 1 day old post

[Howling West🇮🇱🇺🇦 @carlitosfeder]

@slxthkween Sadly it is, although i don’t know to what scale it is used

https://t.co/k9fD5FYBLP

[Æthelstan @TheHauskarl]

They destroyed the bones of Santa Clause. Obviously reported virtually nowhere in English language media.

[Howling West🇮🇱🇺🇦 @carlitosfeder]

@supertolerant Unbelievably bleak, the UK is coming to an end

[Kinao @xbtkinao]

Chloe was drugged with ketamine, zipped into a suitcase, and driven to a farmhouse where two men listed her body for sale on the dark web. The auction price was €300,000. The buyer was supposed to be somewhere in the Middle East. She was 20 years old. She had a baby waiting for her in London. Nobody knew where she was. No one was coming. She spent six days in that farmhouse - handcuffed, drugged, told she'd be sold like cargo. She survived by doing the only thing she could: she made her kidnapper fall in love with her. Slept in his bed. Told him she could be his girlfriend. Played the role until he believed it enough to drive her to freedom. And when she finally got out - the entire world called her a liar.

She's a model from London. At 20 she was already working internationally - agencies, photoshoots, the usual. A new booking came in: a photographer in Milan. Seemed normal.

She flew to Italy on July 11, 2017. The location was an old warehouse on the outskirts of the city. No crew. No lights. No photographer. Just two men in balaclavas waiting for her.

They grabbed her. Injected her with ketamine. Stuffed her unconscious body into a large travel bag. Zipped it shut. Drove her to a remote farmhouse in the countryside.

When she woke up - handcuffed, drugged, alone - they told her who they were. "Black Death." A criminal organization that kidnaps women and sells them on the dark web. She was listed for auction. Starting price: €300,000. Buyer: somewhere in the Middle East.

Her agent received an email from someone called "MD." It said: pay the ransom or she gets sold. No negotiation.

The kidnapper was Lukasz Herba. A Polish man living in England. He and his brother Michal had planned it for months. The fake photographer. The fake agency emails. Everything.

For six days Chloe was trapped. She couldn't run. She couldn't call anyone. Her baby was in London. Nobody knew where she was.

So she did something desperate. She noticed Lukasz was becoming attached to her. She played into it. She agreed to share a bed with him. She told him maybe one day she could be his girlfriend. She made him believe she had feelings for him.

It worked. He drove her to the British consulate in Milan and let her go.

When the story broke - the world didn't believe her. "She went shopping with him." "She was holding his hand." "She smiled in interviews." "She wore revealing clothes at press conferences." People called it a publicity stunt. Piers Morgan tore into her on live TV. The kidnappers' lawyers said she faked the whole thing for fame.

She was never praised for getting out alive. She was interrogated for how she acted while being held captive.

Lukasz Herba was convicted. Sentenced to 16 years. Reduced to 11 on appeal. His brother got 16 years too.

The convictions didn't stop the hate. People still called her a liar. Years later she was diagnosed with autism - which explained why her reactions didn't look "normal" to people watching from the outside.

She said: "I was never praised for my bravery. I always had to defend myself."

She was 20. She had a baby. She was drugged, stuffed in a bag, and listed for sale like cargo. She manipulated her kidnapper into letting her live. And the punishment for surviving was being called a liar by millions of strangers.

When a woman escapes a kidnapping by outsmarting her captor - and the world punishes her for not crying the right way on camera - who exactly failed her?

[Remix News & Views @RMXnews]

🇩🇪🔴 “They tried to penetrate every opening of our bodies.”

German woman Claudia Vosen and her daughter suffered a mass sexual assault at the hands of Arabs during the Cologne New Year’s Eve attacks of 2015/16.

After the harrowing sexual assaults, Vosen faced a new hell from co-workers who called her racist.

She is speaking out now, a decade later, to EMMA magazine.

She said when migrants finished sexually assaulting them over the course of a half-hour, the women were “spat out.” Vosen filed a complaint that night; she was one of 627 women who did so just in one city, Cologne.

What followed, she said, was almost as damaging as the attack.

“When I arrived at work in January and told everyone what had happened to me, they said: ‘You’re crazy. They really messed me up. What are you saying… that’s not true. Otherwise we would have heard or read something. You have something against foreigners,’” said Vosen. “Everything was swept under the rug. That was the worst part. It was denied, covered up.”

Vosen’s daughter also suffered. On the schoolyard, her daughter heard, “Just be glad you weren’t raped.”

Vosen’s daughter began avoiding groups of young men who appeared Arab.

“Young women don’t defend themselves the way we used to,” says the mother. “They no longer dare to laugh in the face of a group of boys who cause them problems. They answer cautiously. They are afraid.”

“New Year’s Eve opened my eyes,” said Claudia Vosen. “For me, there is a before and an after.”

She also stated that afterwards, the demonstrations were not against the mass sexual assaults and rapes but instead focused on “racism.”

She said these protesters did not act out of solidarity with the victims but with the migrants.

“Instead of simply saying who the perpetrators are, whether right or left. We weren’t allowed to say back then: ‘Those were Arabs.’ All that remained was: people with a foreign appearance,” she said.

Nationwide, 1,200 women filed reports of sexual violence that fateful night. Estimates indicated the number of men involved at more than 2,000.

Cologne Police President Wolfgang Albers initially called the night “largely peaceful.”

Days later, he admitted, as reported by the BBC, that a “very large number of sexual assaults” had been committed by groups of young men “largely of North African or Arab appearance.”

An internal federal police report revealed that women ran a “gauntlet” through masses of heavily intoxicated foreign men “that words cannot describe.” The report labeled the scene as “chaotic and shameful.”

North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Ralf Jäger later told a state parliamentary committee that the perpetrators were “almost exclusively” people with a migration background.

“All signs point to these being North Africans and people from the Arab world,” he said, adding that asylum seekers who had arrived just months earlier were among the suspects.

Of 153 suspects identified in Cologne for offenses that night, about two-thirds were from Morocco or Algeria; roughly 44% were asylum seekers and another 12% were believed to be in Germany illegally.

However, actual convictions were almost non-existent due to the chaos and the lack of footage, which means hundreds of women went without justice.

Follow: @RMXnews

[Howling West🇮🇱🇺🇦 @carlitosfeder]

@softer_ice @EylonALevy What work? Bibi has been both profoundly ineffective and corrupt.
If he wanted to the ayatollahs influence, he would have started with his own cabinet

[Canderous Ordoliberal 🪏🤠 @butleriano]

Israelite king: I love bowing before idols, the stranger the better. I love shedding innocent blood. I love persecuting the Lord’s prophets.

Greek king: Sure the oracle of Delphi made an extremely specific prophecy of my downfall, but I’m pretty sure I can find a loophole.

[Jesse Singal @jessesingal]

I had ChatGPT add English subtitles to this cute bit from "A Wonderful Country," which is an SNL-ish show in Israel

[John Michael Greer @JMGreerWriter]

When I read late Roman authors I’m constantly left wondering why they couldn’t see their civilization dying around them.

[Christina Buttons @buttonslives]

I have been waiting 24 years for my neighbor David Westerfield to be executed for the kidnapping and murder of my 7-year-old neighbor, Danielle van Dam. And now thanks to @GavinNewsom, it looks like it will never happen.

I was 13 when he abducted her from her bedroom in the middle of the night in 2002. I would never equate what I experienced with what her family suffered, but Danielle's murder devastated our whole neighborhood, and me personally. I was a sensitive kid and it was a major contributor to my mental health decline in adolescence.

In the 20 days between her disappearance and his arrest, I developed insomnia and spent those nights walking around the house checking the locks on the doors and windows. I followed the trial closely. As we learned the horrific details, I couldn't stop thinking about what she endured during the 3 days he had her.

Her body was found dumped off the side of a road 25 days after she went missing. It was too decomposed to test for sexual assault, but we all knew that's why he took her. He was also convicted of possessing child sexual abuse material found on his computer.

There was never any doubt about Westerfield's guilt. There was an abundance of forensic evidence, including her blood on his clothing and in his motorhome. In 2019, the California Supreme Court unanimously upheld his conviction and death sentence. Shortly afterward, Newsom imposed his moratorium. And now he does THIS.

California voters rejected abolishing the death penalty in both 2012 and 2016, and even voted to expedite executions. All these years, I've held on to the hope that someone would eventually take office who respected the will of California voters and would allow these sentences to be carried out.

It's especially insulting to hear Newsom go on about morality, as if he is morally superior to those of us whose lives were affected by these heinous crimes and who want to see the perpetrators brought to justice. I'm hoping the California Supreme Court can stop Westerfield's commutation.

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

21-year-old Iranian twins Taraneh and Romina Rahimi - one sentenced to death, the other to 25 years in prison for protesting their govt - have had their suit alleging torture and threats of rape dismissed and their lawyer jailed. The cousin who helped raise them tells me they now “look to the world to hear their voice.”

[Lupen @0xLupenn]

At 17 Banaz Mahmod was forced to marry a man ten years older. She said he rped her and beat her until her ears bled. She escaped and fell in love. Her father and uncle had her rped, strangled and buried in a garden for kissing another man. She warned police five times. An officer called her melodramatic. Her body was found stuffed in a suitcase. Her sister Bekhal testified against their family despite death threats.

In the video below the full story of Banaz Mahmod plays out - from her own police recordings to the secret tapes of her killers laughing about how long it took her to die.

She was Kurdish. Born in Iraq. Came to Britain as a child. The marriage was arranged when she was 17. The man her family chose was ten years older and treated her like property from the start.

She left him. Met Rahmat. They were seen kissing outside a Tube station. Someone called her uncle within minutes.

Her father made his first attempt before the family council even met. He got her drunk, put on rubber gloves and came up behind her. She smashed a neighbor's window to escape. The officer who responded considered charging her for the broken glass.

Three men entered her home on January 24th 2006 while she was alone. They r*ped her, tortured her and strangled her for over 30 minutes. She was 20. The body wasn't found for three months.

Bekhal took the stand knowing the family would never forgive it. She has lived under a new name ever since. Two killers fled to Iraq. Detective Caroline Goode spent three years getting them extradited. It had never been done before. They were sentenced to life.

Banaz recorded herself on a police camera saying: if anything happens to me, these are the people responsible. She gave names. She gave dates. She was ignored.

Was Banaz Mahmod failed by the men who killed her, or by every person in authority who heard her say she was going to die and did nothing?

[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @SanaELedene]

Two leftist Marxist students celebrating the Islamic Revolution in Tehran, 1979.
Sahar Mohammadi (left) and Maryam Rafiei (right).

Maryam Rafiei was later executed by the same regime in the 1988 prison massacres, along with thousands of other leftist political activists.
The revolution ate its own.

They hated the Shah of Iran so much that they cheered Khomeini’s arrival, convinced the revolution would bring freedom and modernity.
Reminds you of anything today?