That Time Star Wars Almost Created a War Between Tunisia and Libya

Freedomist Editor August 24, 2021

Mark Clouse- In 1976, Star Wars was being shot in the desert of Tunisia at a time when tensions were high between Tunisia and its neighbor Libya. The Libyans, seeing the filming from a distance, mistook the vehicles of Star Wars for military vehicles and almost attacked Tunisia over it.

How Star Wars nearly sparked a real-life war between Tunisia and Libya

From winteriscoming.net
2021-08-23 12:30:00

Excerpt:

With its blazing sun and unspoiled sand dunes, the Tunisian desert was perfect, and principal photography began on March 22, 1976….

Libya was ruled by dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

Relations between Gaddafi’s Libya and almost everyone else in the world were tense. The colonel was undoubtedly nervous following a failed coup against him just the year before. Libyan relations with Tunisia were particularly poor, with Libya expelling thousands of Tunisian workers the same month that principal photography on Star Wars began in the desert. The situation only worsened when Tunisia claimed to have uncovered a plot targeting high-ranking officials, and that Libya was involved. They even alleged that Gaddafi was plotting to assassinate then-Prime Minister Hadi Nouira.

And now we go back to Star Wars. You see, from a distance, Sandcrawlers can look quite like military vehicles…

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Substack Moves to Insulate Itself from Corpowoketarianz Hate by Accepting Bitcoin as Payment

Freedomist Editor August 24, 2021

PGC – As the talentless boundary invaders that are the corpowoketarianz mainstream comic books industry see their profits disappear, their sales plummet, the talented ones are leaving the perverse sinking ship to head to substack to create what they want, how they want. This is causing apoplectic seizures on the part of the corpowoketarianz who are looking for a way to destroy substack and any platform that dares allow human beings to escape their tyrannical control. That effort got a lot harder when Substack moved to accept Bitcoin as payment on its platform.

Publishing platform Substack now accepts Bitcoin payments

From cointelegraph.com
2021-08-23 16:30:00
Cointelegraph By Turner Wright
Excerpt:

An integration with payment processor OpenNode will allow content platform Substack to accept Bitcoin payments on-chain and using the Lightning Network.

In a Monday announcement, OpenNode said it had partnered with Substack “to make it easy for writers and publications to get paid in Bitcoin.” According to OpenNode and Substack, the integration will only be available to “a select group of crypto-focused publications” on the platform.

The publishing platform, which allows writers to send their work directly to readers, has more than 500,000 paid subscribers, with the most popular writers reportedly earning more than six figures annually. The select Substack readers will be able to pay for their subscriptions in Bitcoin (BTC), with certain publications allowed to keep their earnings in crypto as well.

Substack product designer Nick Inzucch hinted that the platform could later expand its crypto payment offering to other writers in an effort to give them “more flexibility and…

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Rainbow Cops Will Make UK’s LGBTQ Feel Safe

Freedomist Editor August 24, 2021

PGC – The disarmed UK is light years ahead of America in developing and carrying out the anti-liberty agenda of corpowoketarianizm. They’re so far down the path of anti-liberty that they have now determined the police are apparently primarily here to make sure the LGBTQ feel safe, while everyone else is arrested for daring to even look at them in a midly non-friendly way. The bobbies of Britan have decided that rainbow police cars are worth a spike in budget expense to assure the LGBTQ feel safe, not concerned that that rainbow has become a militant political flag of hate aimed at those who stand outside the new normative of this perverse cult, that heterosexuality is a disease that must be cured.

Police plan to boost LGBT ‘confidence’ with rainbows cars slammed

From www.pinknews.co.uk
2021-08-23 17:26:15

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The new ‘hate crime’ cars coming soon to UK police forces (Instagram/@yourpolice.uk)

UK police are facing heavy criticism for a new fleet of rainbow-coloured squad cars they claim will boost “confidence” among the LGBT+ community.

The “hate crime cars” will be introduced in forces across the country in a bid to encourage more victims of anti-LGBT+ crimes to come forward to police.

Currently as many as 80 per cent of LGBT+ people don’t report hate crimes to the authorities, according to Stonewall, but police believe their colourful cars will change that.

“They get all the police insignia put on them as normal, but there will be normally something added on that is to do with the rainbow side of things,” said Julie Cooke, deputy chief constable of Cheshire Police.

Explaining the initiative on social media, she said that the “cost is quite minimal”, but is assured that the impact is “huge”.

“Actually the cost is quite minimal but the confidence that it can…

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China’s Use of Corporate Social Media to Control Dissent Mirrors American DNC Tactics

Freedomist Editor August 24, 2021

PGC – China is using American corpowoketarianz tactics to assure that any thoughts, ideas, beliefs that are not aligned with the party,the CCP (the Father of the American DNC), is destroyed using corporate monopolies to do its anti-liberty bidding. A Canadian-Chinese pop star was detained by the CCP for being non-CCP in his views, and some Chinese citizens dared defend him. For their trouble, they found themselves removed from Weibo, one of China’s major social media platforms. It goes without saying these offenders of the orthodoxy will also see social credit damage as a result of this action, something I’m sure the DNC wishes they could do to Americans that deviate from their perverse orthodoxty.

China’s Weibo shuts accounts defending Kris Wu allegations

From abcnews.go.com
2021-08-23 13:31:00

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BEIJING — China’s microblogging platform Sina Weibo on Monday closed 145 accounts, some of which had defended pop star Kris Wu over his rape allegations, for publishing what it called “information harmful for maintaining social order.”

Wu, a Chinese-Canadian pop star, was detained on July 31 for “deceiving young women multiple times into having sexual relations” with him, according to Beijing police. His arrest came after several women said they were plied with alcohol and then either pressured to have sex with him or sexually assaulted.

Some of the Weibo accounts which were shut down had previously defended such allegations against Wu, according to state-run media outlet Global Times.

It was not immediately clear how many of the…

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Afghan Refugees Welcome Say 81 Percent of Americans

Freedomist Editor August 24, 2021

Over 80 percent of Americans polled have expressed support for bringing in refugees from the collapsed Afghanistan. It seems Americans have a sense of responsibility for the problems that have befallen these Afghanis thanks to American action in their lands.

New poll shows 81% support for welcoming Afghan allies who aided U.S.

From www.dailykos.com
2021-08-23 21:00:17
Gabe Ortiz
Excerpt:

“The broad bipartisan support for resettling Afghan allies is part of a broader public opinion trend in favor of immigrants and immigration, which grew stronger during the past four years,” immigrant rights advocacy group America’s Voice said on Monday in response to the polling.

The organization noted Gallup polling from last July that showed near-record high support among Americans who believe more immigration is good. Recent Data for Progress polling also shows overwhelming support for a pathway to citizenship for young undocumented immigrants, temporary status holders, and essential workers. “A deep and broad majority of Americans support resettling our Afghan allies, see immigration as a good thing, and want Congress to formally recognize undocumented immigrants as the Americans they already are,” said America’s Voice Executive Director Frank Sharry.

“Meanwhile, the ultranationalist right in America is working overtime to scare the American people into…

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Giuliani Aid to Change Plea to Guilty in Ukraine Probe

Freedomist Editor August 24, 2021

Former Giuliani Ukraine Crony Set To Change Plea In Manhattan Federal Prosecution

From feedproxy.google.com
2021-08-23 20:23:50
Josh Kovensky
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Igor Fruman, a former Rudy Giuliani associate who aided the campaign to squeeze Ukraine into providing dirt on Joe Biden, is set to change his plea this week from his current plea of not guilty.

A change-of-plea hearing is scheduled for Wednesday in Fruman’s criminal case, where Manhattan federal prosecutors accuse Fruman and his associate Lev Parnas of campaign finance violations related to a scheme to remove the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.

Since their October 2019 indictment, Fruman and Parnas have proclaimed their innocence, albeit in different ways and for different reasons.

Fruman has been mostly tight-lipped since charges were brought. Parnas, with his attorney Joseph Bondy, embarked in November 2019 on a strategy to expel as much discovery material from the case into the then-ongoing impeachment saga as possible. The House Intelligence Committee obtained and released reams of texts and emails from Parnas, showing his role in the scheme to pressure the…

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Black GOP California Frontrunner Accused by LA Times of Being White Supremacist

Freedomist Editor August 24, 2021

Larry Elder brushes off LA Times column that called him ‘the Black face of white supremacy’

From www.foxnews.com
2021-08-23 18:56:25
Brian Flood
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Media top headlines August 23

In media news today, a CBS reporter instructs the White House staff to show Biden the poll about his job approval falling, Bill Maher and Andrew Sullivan pan newsrooms for caving to the ‘woke mobs,’ and a CNN panel blasts Biden’s ‘bizarre’ messaging on Afghanistan

Republican California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder dismissed a column that called him “the Black face of white supremacy” as par for the course because liberals are “scared to death” that he could actually take control of the state.

The Los Angeles Times published a column on Friday titled “Column: Larry Elder is the Black face of white supremacy. You’ve been warned,” which accused the Republican of using “overly simplistic arguments that whitewash the complex problems that come along with being Black in America.” L.A. Times columnist Erika D. Smith said Elder uses “taunting and toddler-like name-calling of his ideological enemies” before belittling the gubernatorial candidate…

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Capsized Immigrant Boat Off Coast of Libya Kills 17

Freedomist Editor August 24, 2021

17 presumed dead after migrant boat capsizes off Libya

From kwwl.com
2021-08-23 21:03:25

Excerpt:

CAIRO (AP) — A U.N. official says a boat crowded with dozens of migrants capsized off Libya and at least 17 people are presumed dead. The accident happened Sunday night off the western town of Zuwara. The U.N. official says there were around 70 migrants on board the rubber boat and the Libyan coast guard managed to rescue 51 Egyptians. One body was recovered and at least 16 other migrants were missing and assumed to have drowned. It was the latest disaster in the Mediterranean Sea involving migrants seeking a better life in Europe. Libya has emerged as the dominant transit point for migrants fleeing war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East.

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Gaza Hit with Air Strike After Incendiary Bomb Attack

Freedomist Editor August 24, 2021

IDF strikes Gaza in response to incendiary balloons – report

From www.jpost.com
2021-08-23 20:49:00

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The IDF struck targets in the Gaza Strip on Monday night after 10 fires were sparked by incendiary balloons launched from Gaza, according to Palestinian reports.

The balloon launches came as Palestinian factions threatened to continue “popular activities,” including border protests, until the blockade on the Gaza Strip is lifted and Qatari funds are transferred into the coastal enclave.

Shortly before the strikes began, a Palestinian merchant was reportedly arrested by Israeli forces at the Erez crossing into the Gaza Strip. The reason for his arrest is as of yet unclear.

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Turks to Get S-400 Missiles from Russia

Freedomist Editor August 24, 2021

Russia, Turkey close to signing new S-400 missile contract – Ifax – Arab News

From www.arabnews.com
2021-08-23 07:43:30

Excerpt:

Russia and Turkey are close to signing a new contract to supply Ankara with additional S-400 air defense units in the near future, the Interfax news agency cited the head of Russia’s Rosoboronexport arms exporter as saying on Monday.
Turkey’s initial purchase of S-400s from Russia strained ties with the United States and its NATO allies. Washington sanctioned Ankara and has threatened to impose new sanctions if it buys more major arms systems from Moscow.

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