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Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods is a surgically precise, raw and devastating documentary about a seven-week mission undertaken in November 2023 by the Ukrainian Berlingo Battalion. The stakes of the Berlingo’s mission are extremely high. The 99 soldiers must defend a section of a railway line that runs through the forest that lies north-west of Kupyansk. If the Russians were to take it, they would be able to resupply and potentially push on to Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine.

This film does not so much explain the mission as show it in visceral detail. You will see death and dead bodies; these images are unlikely to leave your mind. I have never seen war portrayed in this way, so close up, grotesque and frantic.

While the soldiers discuss their experiences in interviews, we also see battles from two other positions. The first is through drone footage. Viktor and Denys are drone pilots who fly explosives, or what they call “gifts”, over the Russian troops and their “foxholes”. With FPV (first-person view) drones, the pilots wear goggles, giving them a direct view of the explosives reaching their targets. When they blow up, the screen cuts to fuzz.

In one attack, from the sky, we see a Russian soldier enter a house. The drone follows him in through the front door. A second drone captures the explosion that follows. The Ukrainian soldiers speak frankly of the thrill of it and how they feel about the men who die: “Why should we feel sorry for them?”

In their own foxholes, the Ukrainian soldiers eat, talk, joke and pray. They hold up rudimentary explosives, made from soap and petrol. They extract mice from their food supplies. They talk about the Russians and ask, again and again – sometimes asking captured Russian soldiers directly – why they have come to this country.

The Ukrainians know they are outnumbered. Maksym, who is 19, says more Russians come every day: “They just die, but they keep coming and coming and coming.” Watching a livestreamed battle on a laptop, Dmytro, a company commander, says: “We kill a thousand, they send another thousand.”

Bodycam footage brings horror from another side. We see decisions made on the fly, hectic and desperate. The Ukrainians shoot at Russian soldiers and the Russians fire back. Foxholes are destroyed by Russian drones. We watch the men discovering the bodies of their comrades, then carrying wounded comrades, groaning in agony, through the forest. In the snow and ice, there are so many bodies. To hear the rapid, panicked breathing of these men – to hear the adrenaline and the fear – is so utterly intimate, direct and powerful. It is deeply disturbing. And it should be.

Over the course of just one hour, we get to know these soldiers, who are deep into a rotation they should have left weeks ago, but there was no one to replace them. Natalia, a combat medic, is the only woman in the battalion. She has a veterinary degree, but now she treats people. She has become “emotionless to certain moments of life”, she says, unconvincingly. Vlad, a unit commander whose family fled Kherson during the Russian occupation, has been rapidly promoted through the ranks. He is “fully 19 years old”.

This film is full of haunting landscapes. In one moment, a soldier examines by torchlight a heap of bags piled on the floor. These are the possessions of the soldiers who have left the battalion. Many are injured; some are dead. A battle takes place at night, in the black of the forest. It is lit only by the flashes of gunfire and explosions. The sky turns red. It is a vision of hell.

But the soldiers of the Berlingo often talk about the after times: what they will do and what they dream of in a free Ukraine. Sometimes, these dreams are as simple as football and festivals, life as it was before. They would like houses, dogs, to spend time with children. In war, in all the loss of humanity, there is a sliver of hope.

Many of us find ourselves scrolling through social media feeds that casually drop in images and footage of conflict and war, among holiday snaps and selfies, flattening these nightmares into a swipeable passing moment. Documentaries such as this insist on the opposite. It is distressing in its frankness – of course it is. But it makes the conflict real and asks you to look, understand and remember what is happening, not so far away.

Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods aired on BBC Two and is available on BBC iPlayer

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By: Michael Shermer

Published: Mar 8, 2024

Leaked documents from World Professional Association for Transgender Health practitioners reveal a medical profession in the grips of an ideology-driven social contagion

In an early study of crowd psychology, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (originally published in 1841 and still in print), the Scottish journalist Charles Mackay documented such delusions as alchemy, fortune-telling, haunted houses, magnetizers, religious relics, and prophecies, and the mad crowds that fell for economic bubbles like the Dutch tulip mania, the Railway Mania, witch crazes, and the South Sea Bubble. “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds,” Mackay observed, “while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”

The redux of my title includes such such popular delusions of the past half century as the Subliminal Messages scare, the Satanic Panic, the Recovered Memory mania, the Self-Esteem movement, the Multiple Personality craze, the Left-Brain/Right-Brain fad, the Mozart Effect mania, the Vaccine-Autism furor, the Super-predators fear, the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program that increased teen drug use, the Scared Straight program that made adolescents more likely to offend, the Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) programmed that worsened anxiety and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and many more that have plagued psychology and psychiatry.

The latest of what is likely to be added to this pantheon of popular delusions embraced by mad crowds is the trans movement as a whole and Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria in particular, as revealed on Tuesday March 5, 2024 by Michael Shellenberger, Mia Hughes, and their colleagues at Environmental Progress in a 242-page document titled The WPATH Files: Pseudoscientific Surgical and Hormonal Experiments on Children, Adolescents, and Vulnerable Adults. “The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) enjoys the reputation of being the leading scientific and medical organization devoted to transgender healthcare,” the authors note. However, after reviewing hundreds of leaked internal documents revealing shocking levels of uncertainty, ignorance, and devotion to outdated and debunked pseudoscientific theories, therapies, and practices, the report’s authors conclude that the opposite is true:

Newly released files from WPATH’s internal messaging forum, as well as a leaked internal panel discussion, demonstrate that the world-leading transgender healthcare group is neither scientific nor advocating for ethical medical care. These internal communications reveal that WPATH advocates for many arbitrary medical practices, including hormonal and surgical experimentation on minors and vulnerable adults. Its approach to medicine is consumer-driven and pseudoscientific, and its members appear to be engaged in political activism, not science.

We devoted an issue of Skeptic to “Trans Matters” (Vol. 27, No. 1) that included an especially thoughtful, sensitive, and deeply-researched cover story by Lisa Selin Davis, “An Overview of the Debate, Research, and Policies”, documenting the massive spike in patients reporting gender dysphoria over the past decade (this data is from a gender clinic in British Columbia but rates are comparable elsewhere). Before 2015, most trans were young boys who identified as female; after 2015 most trans were adolescent girls identifying as males.

As I read the research, the Before Time (pre-2015) was very likely recording real instances of gender dysphoria (GD) in very young children and at a vanishingly rare rate well below 1%; the After Time (post-2015 to today) is very likely a phenomenon called rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD), a label coined by the physician and public health researcher Lisa Littman, after she discovered in her exploratory study based on parental reports that entire peer groups of adolescents and teens were declaring themselves to be transgender, after immersion in social media or exposure in classrooms in which sizable proportions of students identified as anything but cisgender and straight. With watchful waiting and compassionate support for these adolescents, and dealing with their underlying issues of body dysphoria from puberty, autism, anorexia, and normal teen anxiety, sadness, and stress, the vast majority grow out of their self-identity of “being in the wrong body” and/or realize that, in fact, they are gay or lesbian.

Unfortunately, watchful waiting and compassionate support is not a practice that WPATH appears to recommend to medical and psychological practitioners; instead, “gender affirming care” calls for them to go along with whatever their (almost always) underage patients tell them that they want, which is often invasive, irreversible, and life-changing Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and/or surgery, including the amputation of healthy breasts in females (a double mastectomy, or “top surgery”) and the surgical removal of otherwise healthy genitals and reproductive systems that will never again function normally (“bottom surgery”). Detransitioners—those who transitioned then changed their minds and sought to return to their “assigned at birth” sex (a number that is growing by the month)—are discovering that they can never have biological children (they’re told “don’t worry, you can always adopt”), can never breast feed (they’re told they can “strap on” milk-delivering faux-breasts and become “chest feeders”), and can never experience the full range of normal sexual functioning, including orgasms, not to mention numerous drug side-effects, surgical complications, infections, mounting medical bills not covered by insurance, and the like. As the authors of the WPATH Files note:

This report will show that this is a violation of medical ethics and, as is revealed by its own internal communications, WPATH does not meet the standards of evidence-based medicine. It will further show that the ethical requirement to obtain informed consent is being violated, with members admitting that children and adolescents cannot comprehend the lifelong consequences of sex-trait modification interventions, and in some cases, due to poor health literacy, neither can their parents.

Before I review some of these documents, let me note that I have covered this topic before in this column, for example, answering the question “What is a Woman, Anyway?”, on the trans swimmer Lia Thomas in particular, and on trans athletes in female sports in general. I personally know two (MTF) trans adults who transitioned well into adulthood and are happy they did so, I recognize that there are people who genuinely experience GD (which is different from ROGD), and I stand by my statement in the last column that:

Of course we should support trans rights for the same reason we support the rights of people of color, women, and gays: it is immoral (and in many cases illegal) to discriminate against someone based on such immutable characteristics as skin color, gender, and sexual preference, so gender identity should be included in our ever-expanding moral circle and our ever-bending moral arc. The problem arises when there are conflicting rights claims.

In the WPATH Files what we see is the rights of underage adolescents and vulnerable adults being violated by the very people tasked with protecting them, so I agree with the authors’ call for “the U.S. government to oversee a bipartisan national inquiry to investigate how activists with little respect for the Hippocratic Oath could have risen to such prominence as to set the Standards of Care for an entire field of medicine, leading to the medical abuse of minors and vulnerable adults.”

What follows are some of the more revealing—and in many cases egregious—examples of uncertainty, ignorance, and embrace of pseudoscientific ideas revealed in the “semi-private conversations inside WPATH’s internal online forum for discussing specific medical cases,” along with my comments (below each screen shot)

Note that this post is from Marci Bowers, often tagged as “the world’s preeminent ‘gender-reassignment’ surgeon” and who self-identifies as “a woman with a trans history” (i.e., a Male-to-Female [MTF] trans), revealing that medical professionals had no idea of the consequences of transitioning youth. The correspondent inquires about the consequences for fertility and orgasmic response post transition. “The fertility question has no research that I’m aware of,” Bowers admits, but suggesting that puberty blockers will “preclude those opportunities.” Oh is that all? What about orgasms? Again, Bowers is “unaware of an individual claiming ability to orgasm” after puberty blockers. Say again?

Here is a man (AMAB = Assigned Male at Birth) who self-identifies as a non-binary female who is taking Cialis/Viagra (presumably to enhance his—sorry, her—erections) who wonders if they breast feed their 7-month old will the meds get into the infant’s system. Apparently the amounts would be so small that the infant would not experience “any adverse effects” such as, what, erections?

Here's a therapist who practices EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), the long discredited treatment for PTSD/trauma. These people are years behind the science. A 2022 literature review, for example, concluded: “Taken as a whole, this small body of work suggests that eye movements do not reliably affect susceptibility to misinformation, nor do they appear to enhance memory, but they do seem to increase spontaneous false memories.” False Memory Syndrome is the correct interpretation of what was happening in the 1990’s Recovered Memory Movement in which adult patients in psychotherapy were convinced by quack therapists that they had been sexually molested as children, even though the patients had no memory whatsoever of such abuse, nor was there any corroborating evidence such crimes ever occurred. Astonishingly, there were cases of aging parents who were tried, convicted, and imprisoned for sexual molestation based on nothing more than bogus “recovered memories,” a mass hysteria that came to an abrupt end when lawyers sued therapists for malpractice. See Carol Tavris’s account of this madness here.

Here is a discussion of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), previously known as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), explaining that consent for transitioning must be obtained from each "alter" (alternative personality). DID and MPD is a bogus diagnosis. There is no such thing as multiple personalities, so there can be no "alternate" personalities to give consent. The entire diagnosis was founded on two famous cases that turned out to be fraudulent: Sybil and Eve (as in The Three Faces of Eve). The real Sybil—Shirley Mason (played by Sally Field in the film version)—admitted she made it all up: "I do not really have any multiple personalities. I do not even have a 'double.' ... I am all of them. I have been lying in my pretense of them." As for Eve, the real woman was Chris Costner Sizemore (played by Joanne Woodward in the film rendition), and her three faces eventually transmogrified into over 20, until a book revealed that the psychiatrist who diagnosed her was sexually and financially abusing her. Nevertheless, such quack diagnoses didn’t stop this surgeon from cutting off the healthy breasts of a DID woman, or carving out fake vaginas in two DID men:

For a complete debunking of these and additional bogus psychological theories, therapies, and treatments, see 50 Great Myths About Popular Psychology by the late Scott Lilienfeld and colleagues, and his more scholarly debunking in Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology. Skeptic’s own columnist Carol Tavris has debunked these and more quack psychology in our pages (for example, see her article on trans issues here).

This post-op trans woman (a man) later "discovered that I was not suffering from any actual pathology related to being trans.” Yet, she claims to still experience cPTSD, ADHD, anxiety, and depression. O-kay.

This exchange shows a practitioner reasonably conflicted about starting a patient on HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) with so many problems, but is nevertheless told it’s “the right thing to do”!

Here a WPATH member complains that their client was denied insurance coverage for surgery until completing a year of HRT, stating that they think the patient needs surgery “for her physical and mental health, along with her safety.” Safety?

This surgeon isn’t sure how to handle patients requesting “non-standard” procedures, such as top surgery without nipples (“non-binary” means “non-nipples”?) and “phallus-preserving vaginoplasty.” The latter is non-standard indeed, inasmuch as normal vaginoplasty involves removing the penis, testicles and scrotum. This patient apparently wants both. In a follow-up missive Dr. Satterwhite explains: “With every patient I operate on, I always take a patient-centric approach and I let my patient lead the journey (not me).” Therein lies the problem when you’re dealing with underage patients who are otherwise not allowed to drive, drink, smoke, vote, serve in the military, get tattoos, and more. Why would anyone—much less medical professionals—think that adolescents could make adult decisions about such life-altering treatments?

Note not only the age of onset of this condition (non-binary), 13, or that the testosterone request comes from the child and not a parent, guardian or medical professional, but that on top of all that this kid is purposefully starving themselves to look “more non-binary”. Presumably this means anorexia. Whatever this youngster is experiencing it is not going to be ameliorated by transgender medical treatments. This is medical malpractice, pure and simple, and it has to stop.

I could go on and on with dozens more such revelatory correspondence from the WPATH Files, so let me close with this observation from John Mackay, who presciently put his finger on the problem we are experiencing today: “We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.”

I have little doubt that when the ROGD trans social contagion runs its course it will be replaced by something else, but without politicians or attorneys intervening in the meantime I am not at all confident that the WPATH community is capable of self-regulation and course-correction away from the flagitious path they’ve been on. Still, in the long run, optimist that I am, I hope lessons will be learned from this episode, as they were with the aforementioned previous popular delusions; and with that hope I will give the last word to Mackay:

Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. As the man looks back to the days of his childhood and his youth, and recalls to his mind the strange notions and false opinions that swayed his actions at the time, that he may wonder at them; so should society, for its edification, look back to the opinions which governed ages that fled.

Amen, brother.

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Sunday 9th July 2023

Two of my most favourite announcements came close together around 8am this morning: 'All aboard' and 'Breakfast will be served shortly'. As the Rocky Mountaineer pulled slowly out of Jasper Station, there was an announcement that there was a bear on the tracks. We we all pushed our noses against the glass, but saw nothing. I can't believe the railway company is part of this bear conspiracy.

Breakfast served and Coldplay playing softly in the background Martine told me not to do the old man head nod to Chris Martin and then realising all the old men in the carriage were simultaneously doing it anyway.

Everyone craned through the window as we passed Moose Lake, so named because of the 100,000 moose supposed to be in the area. My finger was paused on the camera button just in case but clearly all 100,000 were on a coffee break somewhere. The mighty Fraser River uniquely filters through this lake on its 1500km journey to Vancouver. Next hotspot was a stunning view to Mount Robson, the highest peak clocking in at 3954m. Following soon after is Valemount, famous for having the longest chum salmon run anywhere in the world. The old salmon swim 830 miles from the ocean for spawning. Logging was the main industry here until 2006 when the sawmill closed. Now tourism is their main source of income.

Single track railroads the world over can be the cause of accidents without adequate control. One such incident took place on November 21 1950 on Canoe River just south of Valemount. Due to a mistaken directive, a westbound troop train carrying soldiers bound for Korea collided with a Canadian National Railway train head-on. Poor old signalman Jack Ashton was initially charged with manslaughter, but was later let off the charge of not sending vital information required to move one train out of the way to a siding. Instead procedures were reviewed preventing any repetition. Sadly twenty one people were killed.

It is a skill not yet learnt how to drink SB with the movement of the train without spilling any. I'm sure it is one that could be mastered with enough practice.

The Rocky Mountaineer runs throughout the summer until October, leaving Vancouver on Friday to Jasper returning on Sunday back to Vancouver every week. Coaches are light and airy with fantastic visabilty of the surrounding countryside. Wide aisles and comfortable seating with plenty of leg room. Guests relax in their seats or stroll down to the viewing platform at the end of the coach, providing an opportunity for a bit of a natter. We left Jasper with 12 coaches and 220 guests but at Kamloops overnight the similar service run from Banff will be attached to us taking us to 22 coaches with 550 guests in all.

Breakfast and lunch were superb; a tender chunk of rib of beef for the latter washed down in the appropriate manner.

The scenery gradually changed from the high Rocky Mountains to pine clad hillsides, fast flowing rivers and waterfalls then woods of thick deciduous trees and rain. One such tree fell in front of the train holding up events whilst an engineer was sent out to clear it. It was like Murder on the Orient Express. Tree cut and moved to the trackside we were once again on the move again and heading towards Kamloops.

The organisation had thought of everything and issued our hotel room keys to us whilst still on the train, then fed onto a waiting bus by the track to take us to our room for the night. We were told when you get to your room, your luggage will already be there. If it isn't, don't worry, it'll probably be somewhere else!

Great day. Great way to see the Rockies. More tomorrow to complete our journey to Vancouver.

ps. Bear spotted in the water. No chance of a photo.

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The World's End Murders: A night that haunts Scotland

On the night of 15 October 1977, Christine Eadie and Helen Scott, both seventeen, were seen leaving The World's End pub, located at High Street on the Royal Mile, at closing time. The following day, Eadie's naked body was discovered in Gosford Bay, East Lothian, by hill walkers. Scott's body was found unclothed six miles away from Eadie's, in a corn-stubble field. Both girls had been beaten, gagged, tied up, raped and strangled. No attempt had been made to conceal their bodies.

In late 1977, Lothian and Borders Police conducted a high-profile criminal investigation, collating a list of over 500 suspects and taking over 13,000 statements from members of the public. Despite their efforts, they were unable to identify a culprit. The case commanded widespread attention in the Scottish media at the time, and a photo-booth picture of the two girls was used by police in their appeals for information.

At the time, the media reported that several witnesses had told police they had seen Helen Scott and Christine Eadie sitting near the public telephone in the bar, talking with two men. Neither of these men were traced or have presented themselves to police. Speculation that the killings had been the work of two men was heightened when it was revealed that the knots used to tie the girls' hands behind their backs were of different types.

On 25 November 2004, Angus Robertson Sinclair (7 June 1945 – 11 March 2019), a man who lived in Edinburgh at the time of the murders, was detained under section 14 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 in connection with the murders.

Angus Sinclair's first conviction occurred in 1961, at age 16, when he pleaded guilty and was convicted of the culpable homicide of eight-year-old Catherine Reehill and served six years in prison. Sinclair sexually assaulted and strangled her in his family home. In 1982, five years after the World's End Murders, he pleaded guilty to 11 of 13 charges libelling various rapes and indecent assaults committed against young girls, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. In June 2001, still in prison, he went to trial and was given another life sentence for the murder of 17-year-old Mary Gallacher on a footpath near the Barnhill railway station in Glasgow in November 1978, thirteen months after the World's End Murders. The teenager had been dragged into bushes, sexually assaulted, had her throat cut and a ligature tied around her neck. Again Sinclair failed to accept any responsibility for the crime and denied all knowledge, despite being found guilty by a majority verdict and faced with the reality that the chances of a DNA sample matching anyone other than Sinclair, were "a billion to one." Sinclair was only caught, for the 1978 murder, after a cold case review by Strathclyde Police revealed the presence of new DNA evidence not uncovered during the initial investigation.

On 14 November 2014, Sinclair was found guilty of the murders of Helen Scott and Christine Eadie on 15 October 1977. Following the conviction, Lord Matthews sentenced Sinclair to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 37 years. This means he would have been 106 years old before being considered for parole but he died in 2019.

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'All of Us Strangers [+], in its essence, is about a man who can commune with the dead. Adam (Andrew Scott) has this capacity through two means: his creative imagination, through his profession as a film and TV screenwriter, can furnish speculative scenarios derived from real life and those he once knew; and also his faltering mental health, making his reality testing go awry. He’s recently moved to a newly built tower block in rapidly gentrifying East London, where he seems overly reliant on leftover Chinese takeaway and the lure of junk TV. Yet, being a single gay man, he seems to have a strange hesitancy about obvious ways to allay his solitude, such as apps, and the small matter of his downstairs neighbour Harry, played by Paul Mescal.

Premiering at Telluride, before moving onto the New York Film Festival and now the BFI London Film Festival, All of Us Strangers snaps Andrew Haigh’s film career back into focus, after the less successful and widely seen Lean on Pete and The North Water. In a week where we lost his great British predecessor Terence Davies, we can commend Haigh as a true poet of British gay life, and perhaps a melancholic commentator on it, too. For All of Us Strangers, to twist the fashionable idea of “heteropessimism” (google it!), is quite despairing on what has and continues to afflict gay men, and is sympathetic and sensitive, but never uplifting, affirmative or even empowering, as is the contemporary fashion in queer cinema.

It’s also good to see a film about an unhappy, blocked writer that doesn’t make you cringe (although we’ll always love you, Nicolas Cage in Adaptation). Early in the first act, Adam clicks open Final Draft and writes “EXT. SUBURBAN DRIVEWAY”, and with Haigh’s oneiric method of telling this story, most of what transpires afterwards could be the tale of an unreliable narrator. Yet the hurtful details and well-observed characterisations of his parents (played well by Jamie Bell and especially Claire Foy), convince us that he’s harvesting something very personal: namely their early deaths in a car accident, and their uncomprehending homophobia. We see Adam literally “going home”, taking the railway back to the suburbs, as a physicalisation of his writing process; what he sees feels like a triggering embodiment of the “straight” world of the late '80s, heavily discriminatory as opposed to openly abusive.

With its method of narrative suspension and uncertainty, All of Us Strangers is far more plot-driven than the director’s breakthrough works Weekend and 45 Years, sometimes to its detriment. The final 40 mins or so provide a panoply of new story revelations that wear away at his script’s prior subtlety. Perhaps being made for an American mini-major in Searchlight (of course, now owned by Disney), rather than A24 or UK public money required a slightly more ticking narrative movement, which pays off as few viewers will be unengaged. Yet an undeniable overwrought quality sets in, especially in the culmination of the Mescal character’s strand, that ironically risks distancing us from it all and making us less inclined to buy Haigh’s grand directorial and structural choices. Yet otherwise, this is a beautiful film that sadly concludes that there’s no love apart from the tough kind.

All of Us Strangers is a production of the UK and US, staged by Searchlight Pictures, Blueprint Pictures and Film4.'

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bllsbailey · 4 months

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Record Border Surge Shuts Down 2 Trade Routes in Texas

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Railroad companies and business groups are pressing the U.S. government to reopen trade routes on the Texas-Mexico border, after authorities closed two crossings in response to a rise in migrant crossings in recent days.

U.S. Border Patrol apprehended about 10,800 migrants at the southwest border Monday, according to an internal agency report reviewed by Reuters. About 40% were families or unaccompanied children.

Several current and former U.S. officials said the number of migrants encountered Monday was near or at a single-day record high.

"The encounter levels we are currently seeing across the southwest border are presenting a serious challenge to the men and women of CBP," acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Troy Miller said in a statement.

He added the agency was using "all available resources" to ensure the safety of agents and migrants.

Business groups and railroad operators are urging authorities to reopen rail bridges in Eagle Pass and El Paso, which U.S. border authorities closed on Dec. 18 in order to "redirect personnel" to process migrants crossing the border.

"Shutting down rail traffic through Eagle Pass and El Paso will inflict significant economic harm," Neil Bradley, chief policy officer of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said in a statement to Reuters, while saying, "Halting the legal movement of commerce will do nothing to secure the border."

In October, total rail freight between the El Paso and Eagle Pass ports topped $3 billion in both directions, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. That accounted for some 4% of total trade across the U.S.-Mexico border that month.

Total rail freight between the U.S. and Mexico, in both directions, in October accounted for $8.4 billion, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. That compared with $51.2 billion carried by trucks.

"The urgency of reopening these crossings and restoring rail service between the two nations cannot be overstated," the president and CEO of the Association of American Railroads, Ian Jefferies, said in a statement on the trade group's website.

"Every day the border remains closed unleashes a cascade of delay across operations on both sides of the border, impacting customers and ultimately consumers," Jefferies said.

The increase in migrant crossings comes as Democrat President Joe Biden, who is running for reelection in 2024, has sought to strike a deal with Republican lawmakers that would pair increased U.S. border security with military aid for Ukraine and Israel.

But a bipartisan group of senators negotiating a compromise have so far failed to reach a deal as a Christmas break approaches.

The Texas cities of Eagle Pass and El Paso have received thousands of newcomers in recent days, as migrants - including many families with young children - make their way to the border by bus, atop cargo trains, on foot and even by bicycle.

In Eagle Pass, hundreds of migrants waited outdoors near the river, some wrapped in blankets, to be processed by U.S. border officials on Tuesday.

Union Pacific and Berkshire Hathaway's BNSF Railway, two of the nation's largest freight railroad companies, warned of supply chain disruptions ahead of the Christmas holiday due to the railway bridge closures.

"Every day of closure increases the impact to the supply chain for critical commodities, including automobiles, industrial products and grain," Lena Kent, spokeswoman for BNSF Railway, said in a statement to Reuters.

BNSF declined to comment on the value of goods affected by the closings.

Union Pacific said in a statement on its website that a range of products – including grain, beer, metals, cement and automotive parts – have been halted due to the closures. The closed bridges account for about 45% of its cross-border shipments and that the overall economic impact of the closure will be more than $200 million per day.

Union Pacific did not respond to an email seeking comment.

Mexico's top farm lobby CNA also expressed concerns Tuesday over "huge losses" expected for agricultural trade due to the closure.

In addition to the railroad crossing closures, U.S. border authorities this month have closed a busy pedestrian crossing near San Diego, California, and another crossing in remote Lukeville, Arizona, to free up workers to process arriving migrants.

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The Railway Men, Untold Story of Bhopal 1984 - #Netflix Series Review

The Railway Men, Untold Story of Bhopal 1984 – #Netflix Series Review Released on November 18, 2023 on @Netflix, “The Railway Men: Untold Story of Bhopal 1984” is inspired by real life events of lethal gas leak disaster at Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India in 1984 where nearly 15,000 people are estimated to have died, about 50% of the deaths occurred within days following the tragedy and…

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The Railway Men review: Real life tragedy of the Bhopal gas leak feels too manufactured

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theultimateflix · 6 months

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The Untouchables is a 1987 American crime filmdirected by Brian De Palma, produced by Art Linson, and written by David Mamet. The film is loosely based on the book of the same name (1957) and the real-life events it was based on, but most of its plot is fictionalized. The film stars Kevin Costner, Charles Martin Smith, Andy García, Robert De Niro (in the third collaboration between De Palma and De Niro, following 1968's Greetings and 1970's Hi, Mom!), and Sean Connery, and follows Eliot Ness (Costner) as he forms the Untouchables team to bring Al Capone (De Niro) to justice during Prohibition. The Grammy Award–nominated score was composed by Ennio Morricone and features period music by Duke Ellington.

The Untouchables premiered on June 2, 1987, in New York City, and went into general release on June 3, 1987, in the United States. The film grossed $106.2 million worldwide and received generally positive reviews from critics. It was nominated for four Academy Awards; Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

While the film is based on historic events, most of the film is inaccurate or fictional, the raid at the Canada–United States border never happened,and neither did the courthouse or railway station shootouts, Ness did not kill Nitti, (he died by suicide in 1943, 12 years after the trial) and Ness's unit had very little to do with Capone's final tax evasion conviction. Perhaps the most significant creative liberty of the film is that in real life Capone had the Chicago Outfit actively avoid killing or even physically harming Ness and other Treasury agents sent to Chicago. Although Capone frequently tried to bribe them, he decided that violence against them would lead to greater retaliation from the federal government.

The Untouchables opened on June 3, 1987 in 1,012 theatres where it grossed $10,023,094 on its opening weekend and ranked the sixth-highest opening weekend of 1987. It went on to make $76.2 million in North America. According to producer Art Linson, the polls conducted for the film showed that approximately 50% of the audience were women. "Ordinarily, a violent film attracts predominantly men, but this is also touching, about redemption and relationships and because of that the audience tends to forgive the excesses when it comes to violence".

Despite receiving the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance, Connery was voted first place in a 2003 Empire poll for worst film accent because his Scottish accent was still very noticeable.

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dispatchdcu · 7 months

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Astonishing Iceman #3 Preview

Astonishing Iceman #3 Preview #AstonishingIceman #Iceman #MARVEL #marvelcomics #comics #comicbooks #news #mcu #art #info #NCBD #comicbooknews #previews #reviews #xmen #hoxpox #houseofx #powersofx #reignofx #trialsofx

Astonishing Iceman #3 Preview: CHILLING WITH THE CAPTAIN! ORCHIS’ attacks on ICEMAN are heating up! Will crossing paths with the ALL-NEW Y-MEN give BOBBY DRAKE the chance to put them down once and for all or open a new path to his own destruction? Guest-starring AARON FISCHER, the CAPTAIN AMERICA of the Railways (and showcasing his awesome new power set)! STEVE ORLANDO • VINCENZO CARRATÙ…

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alightinthelantern · 11 months

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film reviews: Day of the Full Moon (1998, Karen Shakhnazarov)

Virtually plotless, the film tells the story of life in Russia in a single day as it jumps from person to person, showing snapshots of many different people’s various lives, each in a single minute in time. A man fantasizes about a young woman on a train, who in turn disembarks and heads to her workplace to inform her superior of a phone call, and he departs for a sauna and overhears two men talk about an upscale alcohol store, which is overheard by another man who travels to this store and buys two imported whiskeys. A different young woman boards a bus and is glimpsed by a young man in a car which parks by a railway station, and everyone inside the car are killed in a drive-by shooting, and the car is glimpsed by an old man on a passing train who reminisces about watching a woman drop a glass as a boy in a restaurant. And so on.

The film has no real plot, and jumps from person to person for an hour and a half with little rhyme or reason. I liked it at first but after an hour I was thoroughly bored of it, and didn’t finish the film. I would recommend the film for those who like avant-garde cinema, but would not recommend the film for those who, like me, want films with actual plots. For those interested, the film is on YouTube here.

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rabbits-of-negative-euphoria · 1 year

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I posted 3,409 times in 2022

That's 1,502 more posts than 2021!

1,152 posts created (34%)

2,257 posts reblogged (66%)

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I tagged 3,409 of my posts in 2022

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#respublica - 444 posts

#christianity - 318 posts

#snk - 262 posts

#stoker - 153 posts

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#pardon the french - 117 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#because matthias just came on the scene and i was like ‘ah! finally! an adult is here—‘ and he said ‘i’m 18’ and i said ‘—on a technicality’

My Top Posts in 2022:

I don’t think it’s anti-intellectualism to seriously question the value of a college education when people with philosophy and law degrees are testifying before congress that a man can get pregnant.

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more gender thoughts: perhaps some things are simply feminine when women embody them and masculine when men embody them

for example: protectiveness

a father who protects his children is fulfilling his role as a father, an inherently masculine thing to do

a mother who protects her children is fulfilling her role as a mother, an inherently feminine thing to do

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people be sitting in lines for 20 hours over the course of 3 days to get a Covid test. you don’t have to do this. it’s unnecessary. everyone is going to get omicron. you don’t have to do this. stop letting other people make you do this. stop doing this.

643 notes - Posted January 13, 2022

stop letting other people tell you what ideologies you ascribe to. you know whether you’re racist or not. you know whether you’re a fascist or not. you know whether you want the elderly to die from Covid or not. you haven’t been keeping some sinister worldview secret from yourself.

learn about racism, learn about fascism, learn about sickness philosophy, but don’t learn about it from total strangers who diagnose you with Malice. they don’t know your heart.

645 notes - Posted February 7, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

“In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. ‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.’

In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors—anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.

This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”

- C.S. Lewis, On Living In An Atomic Age, 1948

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