A Jewish puppet maker who’s discovered the secret to creating living puppets commits suicide to avoid capture by the Nazis and hides his beloved and harmless puppet children in a California hotel. Years later, a cult of magicians arrive at the hotel under the invitation of an ex-member who betrayed them all, only to find that he’s dead - and that the living puppets, under the influence of a new Puppet Master, have turned murderous!
Presumed dead after a shoot-out with the Haddonfield police, Michael Myers is secretly nursed back to health – and returns a year later to kill again and once more targets his young niece, Jamie. Jamie is now recovering in the local children’s hospital after attacking her stepmother and losing her voice. Her mental link with her evil uncle may be the key to uprooting her family tree.
so was anyone going to tell me Amazon hands over your surveillance footage to cops no questions asked or did i have to read that shit in a Twitter thread myself
wow it’s almost like the state partners with mega corporations to harvest data it can use to throw everyone in prison whenever we get too inconvenient or something
they don’t even notify footage owners to get permission. no warrant. just “here ya go”
Trade unions have announced a sector-wide strike next week, following days of turmoil in refineries fuelled by French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne’s statement that striking workers be ordered to go back to work.
Unions have been demanding “real wage increases” of at least 10% and have criticised the government for its “ultraliberal strategy”. They also reject reforms currently being reviewed by parliament, including unemployment insurance, pensions, and the budget.
The general strike would expand to all sectors on 18 October, the radical-left CGT trade union, alongside several others, announced on Thursday (13 October).
The decision comes from Borne’s announcement earlier this week that employees essential to the operation of Esso-Exxon-Mobil depots must go back to work, as week-long strikes strain the country’s fuel supply.[…]
The French left has lent its support to the movement.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s radical-Left La France Insoumise party, for example, announced it would organise a march against increasing living costs on Sunday as “the time for a showdown [with the government] has come”.
Strikers also point to the mismatch between the lack of significant salary increases and the so-called “super profits” made by energy providers. Anger is rooted in the unfairness of super profits and rising inflation, Communist Senator Céline Brulin told EURACTIV.
On this day, 15 October 1966, in Oakland, California, Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton met and set up the Black Panther Party for Self Defence. The Party would exist, despite heavy repression, until 1982 and ran a variety of programmes from free breakfasts for school children and community health clinics to armed citizen patrols and monitoring of the police.
The group advocated for revolutionary socialism, and for the liberation of Black and all other oppressed peoples. Another little-mention fact about the group is that in the 1970s a majority of its membership were women and girls.
It was eventually broken by violent state repression, including being targeted by the FBI’s COINTELPRO operation, with many of its members killed or imprisoned.
Learn more about the Panthers in these books by former members: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/black-panthershttps://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.1819457841572691/2110176269167512/?type=3
