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Ice age Europeans as young as 10 years old rocked cheek piercings 30,000 years ago

A study of Paleolithic skeletons from Central Europe suggests people's teeth were worn down and crowded together because of cheek piercings.

It's always amazed me at how humans have mutilated their bodies, in the deep past, even now. Why?

#iceage #piercings #mutilation #teeth

livescience.com/archaeology/ic

Live Science · Ice age Europeans as young as 10 years old rocked cheek piercings 30,000 years agoBy Kristina Killgrove

When 'fishing' is mutilation

"Dead eagle ray carcasses left on Adelaide beaches over the past few years, sometimes in a state of "mutilation". Beachgoers were also upset after an eagle ray was left at Brighton in 2021 with two fillets cut from its body and its tail cut off."
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abc.net.au/news/2024-12-10/sha
#sharks #rays #mutilation #wildlife #fishing #Adelaide #crime #Take #culture

ABC News · Sharks, rays better protected in South Australia as fishing rules changeBy Malcolm Sutton

Man known as ‘eunuch maker’ who streamed mutilations is jailed for life

Marius Gustavson, 46, was involved in procedures that were ‘little short of human butchery’, UK court heard. The leader of a “grisly and gruesome” extreme body modification network who streamed mutilations on his “eunuch maker” website has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years.... #uk #europe #nullo #mutilation #crime #cannibal #mariusgustavson #worldnews

theguardian.com/uk-news/articl

The Guardian · Man known as ‘eunuch maker’ who streamed mutilations is jailed for life By Emine Sinmaz

Ukraine Daily Summary - Sunday, April 14

Ethnic tensions on the rise in Russia, as government attempts to divert attention from war -- Russian drone attack drops bomb on ambulance injures 1 in Kharkiv Oblast -- Russian proxy claims missile strike on machinery factory in occupied Luhansk -- Trump reportedly thought Ukraine 'must be part of Russia' as president -- and more

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writeworks.ukUkraine Daily Summary - Sunday, April 14Ethnic tensions on the rise in Russia, as government attempts to divert attention from war -- Russian drone attack drops bomb on ambulance injures 1 in Kharkiv Oblast -- Russian proxy claims missile strike on machinery factory in occupied Luhansk -- Trump reportedly thought Ukraine 'must be part of Russia' as president -- and more

This is what happened when MAGA people at CPAC thought I was one of them.

Exiled from the press pen, I was just part of the audience, a space previously off-limits to reporters.
To say the least, it was enlightening.
On Friday, for instance, I listened to a main-stage speech from Chris #Miller, a Republican running for governor of West Virginia.
Because of its tax-exempt status, CPAC bans speakers from openly campaigning there, so he was listed on the program simply as “businessman.”

Like virtually every other speaker at the event, Miller devoted several of his allotted five minutes to railing against #transgender #healthcare.
“Woke doctors are literally making boys into girls,” he declared.
“They’re practicing #mutilation, not medicine. They should be in prison.”
At that point, a burly man in a giant black cowboy hat sitting next to me leaned over conspiratorially and proclaimed,
“I think we should #hang them all! I really do.”
And he laughed like we were in on the same joke.
I confess that I was too cowardly to tell him I was with the left-wing fake news

Later, during a speech by South Dakota Governor Kristi #Noem, I was sitting next to a woman in full-on MAGA gear.
When Noem declared, “There are some people who love America, and there are some people who #hate America,” my neighbor gave me a small heart attack.
“Get the FUCK OUT!” she yelled furiously, ready to rumble. “Get the FUCK OUT!”
Meanwhile, the old man in the camo Trump hat next to her had somehow fallen asleep.

In the hotel lobby outside the CPAC main stage, the right-wing cable network Real America’s Voice had set up a studio.
#Bannon spent most of the conference holding court there and interviewing various MAGA celebs like Kash #Patel, who President Donald Trump had once put in charge of counterterrorism at the National Security Administration, or Rep. Byron #Donalds (R-FL), the rare Black conservative in the mix.
The studio often drew a crowd that rivaled that of some of the speakers on the main stage. It certainly rivaled the convention in volume.

While I was taking in the spectacle, a middle-aged man in a gray suit came up to me and pointed to a nearby 7-foot-high poster of Tucker #Carlson’s face.
“Do you know why that’s here?” he asked.
I explained that it was an ad for Tucker: The Biography, a book written by Chadwick Moore, a gay journalist and former liberal.
“Oh, I see,” he replied. The man clearly wanted to keep talking, asking me what I was here for, which was unusual since in the past my press badge said it all.
My inquisitor had come to #CPAC to see what people were saying about school choice and was disappointed to discover that the answer to that question was nothing.
Education policy, he lamented, was nowhere to be found at this event. Indeed, what passed for policy discussions at CPAC this year was largely limited to mass #deportations and attacks on #trans athletes.
The sober panels about the national debt, balancing the budget, or Social Security reform that once commanded top billing were a relic of another era before CPAC became an extension of Trump Inc., devoted to all the MAGA grievances like racial #equity, the evils of #windmills, or bans on gas #stoves.
When I finally was able to explain that I was a reporter who’d been denied a press pass, the man launched into an earnest yet incomprehensible spiel about how the government is #censoring people. Politely, I fled into the crowd watching Bannon. 
motherjones.com/politics/2024/

Mother JonesBeing denied a press pass at CPAC was the best way to cover the conferenceThis is what happened when MAGA people thought I was one of them.

The deadly system of automobile dependency

"Speed is still the major reason why people either get killed or seriously injured in crashes. We can't ignore the facts, and we are seeing a significant increase in death rates around the country. The cumulative effect of 100 dead every month, and 100 hospitalised every day — it's an epidemic. A tragic epidemic...Much of the safety focus is on fatalities, more than 60,000 Australians a year survive crashes on the roads. For many, recovery is a lifelong struggle."
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abc.net.au/news/2023-12-19/aft

"Data released by the nation’s peak motoring body showed 2023 was the deadliest year on Australia’s roads in five and a half years, with the road death toll reaching 1,253 – the highest since 1,270 people were killed in the 12 months to March 2018....The most common killers on the road were all avoidable: speeding, drug use, drink-driving and inattention."
theguardian.com/australia-news

"Road transportation is the most complex and deadly system that people must face on a daily basis.">
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/
#cars #motorists #roads #transportation #speed #crashes #risks #mutilation #denial #RoadToll #sacrifice #IntegralAccident #MobilityDesign

ABC News · A significant increase in death rates on roads around the country has experts worriedBy Norman Hermant

#néavantlahonte #nioublinipardon #FdpEnRoueLibre

Via Desarmons les

LETTRE D'UN MUTILÉ A SON MUTILATEUR : "RETOUR A L'ENVOYEUR"

Le 15 septembre 2016, le CRS Alexandre Mathieu lance une grenade dans la foule. Au bout de son lancer criminel, Laurent Théron, syndiqué à Sud Santé, a l’oeil crevé par un projectile de la grenade. Il perd définitivement l’usage de la vue d’un oeil.

Deux mois avant le procès du CRS, Desarmons-les publie le courrier de Laurent en réponse à une lettre que le flic lui avait envoyé. Un retour à l’envoyeur, à l’envoyeur de courrier, à l’envoyeur de grenades, qui se fait passer pour une victime, puis se justifie au lieu de présenter ses excuses, et se déresponsabilise de son propre geste.

Qu’espérait le bourreau en écrivant un courrier dicté par son avocat Laurent-Franck Lienard à sa victime ? Montrer son humanité ? Sympathiser ?

C’est raté !

LA LETTRE A LIRE SUR NOTRE SITE : desarmons.net !

desarmons.net/2022/10/13/lettr

Désarmons-les !Lettre d’un mutilé à son mutilateur : “Retour à l’envoyeur!” - Désarmons-les !
#CRS#police#grenade

📹 ‘It’s Mutilation’: The Police in Chile Are Blinding Protesters

By BRENT McDONALD, MIGUEL TOVAR and ARMANDO DE LA CRUZ | Nov. 10, 2019 | 6:26

Our correspondent goes inside an eye trauma unit in Chile that’s responding to “an epidemic” of protesters who have been shot in the eye by police pellet guns.

🔗 nytimes.com/video/world/americ

www.nytimes.com‘It’s Mutilation’: The Police in Chile Are Blinding ProtestersOur correspondent goes inside an eye trauma unit in Chile that’s responding to “an epidemic” of protesters who have been shot in the eye by police pellet guns.