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@lemm.eehttps://collider.com/quentin-tarantino-star-trek-movie-hard-r/
"It would be the greatest Star Trek film...just for what Tarantino was gonna do with it. It was just a balls-out kind of thing," said Mark L. Smith.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-war-most-dangerous-ever-journalists-says-rights-group-2023-12-21/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/21/meta-facebook-instagram-pro-palestine-censorship-human-rights-watch-report
Rights group says Facebook and Instagram routinely engage in ‘six key patterns of undue censorship’ of content supporting Palestine
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/12/20/sanctions-on-russian-oil-have-failed-were-they-ever-meant-to-succeed
Western sanctions imposed a year ago have hardly dented Russia’s ability to wage war.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/20/threats-intimidation-creating-climate-of-fear-un-cop-events
Indigenous campaigners, human rights defenders and climate activists say they are being silenced by fear of reprisals
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/15/new-zealand-leaning-to-controversial-aukus-alliance/
As the new government of nuclear-free New Zealand leans towards joining the anti-China bloc, critics warn of weakened sovereignty in a sea of expanding militarization, Mick Hall reports. By Mick Hall in Whangarei, New Zealand Special to Consortium News Concerns are rising for peace and
https://www.stereogum.com/2245790/cher-says-the-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-can-go-fuck-itself/news/
Cher has done a lot of things. She scored her first Hot 100 chart-topper in 1965 and her last in 1999. (At 52, Cher was the oldest woman to land a #1 hit until last week, when Brenda Lee broke the record.) Cher sang backup on “Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)” and “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling.” She helped modernize the variety show in the ’70s and defied expectations in the ’80s. She won an Oscar for Best Actress. The ubiquitous robotic Auto-Tune effect? Cher did that first. But Cher is not in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, and she thinks that’s some bullshit.
https://theintercept.com/2023/12/18/fbi-nypd-catfishing-terrorism-sting-hamas/
The NYPD and the FBI accused an autistic ex-Marine of backing Islamist militants. Maybe his real crime was being extremely online.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/federal-judge-orders-documents-naming-jeffrey-epsteins-associates/story?id=105779882
A federal judge in New York has ordered a vast unsealing of court documents in early 2024 that will make public the names of scores of Jeffrey Epstein's associates.
https://www.reuters.com/world/denmark-us-reach-defence-agreement-2023-12-19/