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During the Christmas season in 1974, the radical Danish Solvognen theatre group held several days of events dressed as Santas, culminating in a near riot in a Copenhagen department store.
Against a background of an unemployment crisis, groups of Santas went around on roller skates, others attacked state buildings with pitchforks, others visited the elderly in nursing homes and visited children in schools and passed out people’s history books.
The events climaxed when the Santa Claus Army entered the Magasin department store and began passing out gifts from the store’s shelves for free to shoppers, saying “Merry Christmas! Today, no one has to pay”. They justified their actions saying they were returning gifts to the workers who had made them. When police arrived and began arresting the Santas, the children who had been watching started crying.
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The Armies of the Right: Inside Ukraine's extremist militias -
By Arias Roussinos
As the march began, I approached a few Karpatska Sich members, some wearing ski masks, others with shaved heads, long beards, and black hoodies emblazoned with the Black Sun. It became clear that they had known I would be attending and, somehow, that I was of Greek descent. They ordered to me to fuck off, immediately, for my own good. The police shrugged, and I took the first train back to Kyiv.
More than seven years after Maidan began, Harper’s Magazine finally notices the rise of fascist armies in Ukraine. No mention of how Obama-Biden Democrats together with John McCain & Republicans made it possible, though.
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Canopic Jar of Duamutef
The four sons of Horus were a group of four gods in ancient Egyptian religion, who were essentially the personifications of the four canopic jars, which accompanied mummified bodies.
Here is the Duamutef canopic jar decorated with a lid in the shape of a jackal head, sacred animal of Anubis. Duamutef, the jackal-headed son of Horus, protected the stomach of the deceased and was in turn protected by the goddess Neith.
From the Royal Cachette DB320, Deir el-Bahari, West Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 26254
Photo: Sandro Vannini
Top Dominion Employee Sues Trump Campaign, Lawyers and Conservative Media For Defamation -
A senior employee of Dominion Voting Systems has filed a lawsuit against the Trump campaign and far-right media for defamation, saying that baseless conspiracy theories about the election have led to death threats against him and his family.
Eric Coomer, director of product strategy and security for the Denver-based company, filed the 52-page lawsuit on Tuesday in the Denver district court. The threats led Coomer to leave his home one week after the election and move to an undisclosed location.
The 14 defendants named in the lawsuit include Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., lawyers Rudolph Giuliani and Sidney Powell, blogger Michelle Malkin, One America News Network and its White House correspondent Chanel Rion, and Newsmax Media, Inc.
News about the lawsuit was first reported by Colorado Public Radio. …
(Source: dailykos.com)
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