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robynsassenmyview · 1 month

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How to wish upon a star

COME hustle with us: Honest John (Lesedi Mphse) and Gideon the Cat (Raymond Skinner) convince little Pinocchio (Kiran Moodley) that life on the streets is far more fun that being in school. Photograph by Adam Lobo. AS THE TRADITIONAL heavy velvet curtains part and the sheer magic of Grant Knottenbelt’s set, with all its bells and whistles, cobbled pathways and Italian provincial signs appear, a…

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onenakedfarmer · 5 months

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I think we call all agree 2024 is going to be a year like no other.

My New Year's resolution is whenever things get to be too much I promise stop for 30 seconds to replay Patrick Stewart dancing in front of a 1970s Marlboro commercial singing:

Cut 'em out, ride 'em in Ride 'em in, cut 'em out Cut 'em out, ride 'em in Rawhide

#Patrick Stewart #New Year 2024 #New Year's resolution #Rawhide #Dimitri Tiomkin #Ned Washington #International Rescue Committee #Cowboy Classics

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trapezequeen · 5 months

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Every Shot of Michelle Jones (Part 11/♾️)

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turnwashingtonsbaddies · 2 years

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i was beaten to the consensual workplace relationship joke but this one works too

#turn amc #turn washington's spies #abe woodhull #anna strong #cant believe ned became an abe #smh #try guys #turn: washington's spies

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lasangnana · 2 years

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"Family should have always been my priority, but I lost focus and had a consensual workplace relationship"

#not ned entering his abraham era #mxtallmadge beat me to the punch so credits to them lol #turnamc #turn amc #turn washington's spies #turn: washington's spies #amrev

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now-watching · 2 years

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Recommendations 26-30:

26. CONFIRMATION (2016), dir. Rick Famuyiwa

“IT ONLY TAKES ONE CHOICE TO CHANGE HISTORY.

Judge Clarence Thomas’ nomination to the United States’ Supreme Court is called into question when former colleague, Anita Hill, testifies that he had sexually harassed her.”

Availability: Available on HBO Max with a subscription and can be rented via YouTube, GooglePlay, Amazon, AppleTV, and VUDU

27. ¡ALAMBRISTA! (1977), dir. Robert M. Young

“After the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man slips across the border into the United States. Seeking work to support his family back home, he finds that working hard is not enough.”

Availability: Can be viewed on The Criterion Channel with a subscription

28. KEEPER OF THE FLAME (1942), dir. George Cukor

“THE SCREEN’S MOST EXCITING LOVERS IN THEIR NEWEST ROMANTIC TRIUMPH!

Famed reporter Stephen O’Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero,”

Availability: Available for rental on YouTube, GooglePlay, AppleTV, Amazon, and VUDU

29. FIELDWORK FOOTAGE (1928), dir. Zora Neale Hurston

“Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem Renaissance arts patron Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale Hurston spent nearly two years, from 1927 to 1929, studying the folkloric customs, work songs, spirituals, and vernacular language of African American communities along the River Road and from New Orleans to Florida.”

Availability: Available for free at The Black Film Archive and available on The Criterion Channel with a subscription

30. A TRIBUTE TO MALCOLM X (1967), dir. Madeline Anderson

“A short film made for William Greaves’ “Black Journal” that discusses the influence of Malcolm X, and includes an interview with his widow, Betty Shabbazz.”

Availability: Can be rented on Amazon and available for free on the NMAAHC site

[The American Experience Film Recs]

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ballumville · 1 year

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'When you wish upon a star Makes no difference who you are Anything your heart desires Will come to you…' 💘

#ballum #ben mitchell #callum highway #quotes #lgbtq #loveislove #Leigh Harline and Ned Washington

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terrencemalice · 7 months

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He Got Game (1998) Dir. Spike Lee Cinematography by Ellen Kuras & Malik Hassan Sayeed

THE FATHER, THE SON AND THE HOLY GAME.

#spike lee #denzel washington #ray allen #rosario dawson #basketball #coney island #big state #nba #Hill Harper #Ned Beatty #Jim Brown #John Turturro

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doyoulikethissong-poll · 5 months

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Cliff Edwards - When You Wish Upon a Star 1940

"When You Wish Upon a Star" is a song written by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington for the 1940 Disney animated film Pinocchio. It was sung by Cliff Edwards in the character of Jiminy Cricket, and is heard over the opening credits and in the final scene of the film. It won the 1940 Academy Award for Best Original Song, and was therefore the first Disney song to win an Oscar. "When You Wish Upon a Star" is widely considered as the signature song of The Walt Disney Company and is often used as such in the production logos at the beginning of many Disney films since the 1980s.

Harline and Washington delivered "When You Wish Upon a Star" to the Pinocchio story crew in early autumn 1938, and they recognized it right away as a spotlight song that should be given prominence in the film. Disney decided that the song should play over the opening credits, and used as a musical theme throughout the film. The Library of Congress deemed Edwards's recording of the song "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and inducted it into the National Recording Registry in 2009. The American Film Institute ranked "When You Wish Upon a Star" seventh in their 100 Greatest Songs in Film History, the highest ranked of only four Disney animated film songs to appear on the list.

In Japan, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark, the song has become a Christmas song. The song features in Disney's one-hour Christmas special From All of Us to All of You, originally broadcast in 1958 in the US, but now considered a Christmas tradition in the Nordic countries, where it is broadcast on Christmas Eve every year since 1959. 🎄⭐

"When You Wish Upon a Star" recieved a total of 65,8% yes votes!

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#finished #high votes #high yes #disney #cliff edwards #soundtracks #40s

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yourtongzhihazel · 2 months

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The source that you yourself provided for the Uyghur post says "mass imprisonment and forced labor of ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang amounts to crimes against humanity" AND there have been multiple allegations of rape/SA from the inmates themselves. Even if it's not a genocide, it's weird that you're bootlicking for the Chinese government. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/5/14/the-faux-anti-imperialism-of-denying-anti-uighur?traffic_source=KeepReading

Which source? The foreign policy one? Of course they would say that they're a bourgeois news source. Your article, written by journalists from two western DOTBs and two strongly bourgeois institutions must have a real well rounded view when it comes to foreign countries. Just because they throw in some lines about "disavowing the american imperialist machine" while consistently citing western backed NGOS like human rights watch, who takes sponsorships from military contractors, doesn't mean they aren't engaging in blatant propaganda manufacturing. And then they go on to try and discredit sources and positions which go against them. Is this not taking the american side by default? The article tries to take a third position on the issue but what does it materially accomplish? The separatists are backed by the united states and serves usa interests in the region. The people in Xinjiang and vocational schools are backed by the PRC. You will fall into either camp one way or another.

99% of all the claims about XInjiang come from or are in some way involved with the usa state department, the NED, ETIM, or the world uyghur congress, all institutions or NGOs deeply involved with washington. The unites states and its running dogs have accused and lied about countries across the world in order to maintain their geopolitical positions. They will lie about babies being left in incubators. About WMDs. About rogue attacks. And they will lie about genocide. Take a look at the west's track history on genocide. Every single time they have done nothing to ever actually stop one and not only do they not stop genocide, they are the ones actively participating or supplies them. Look at the blatant lying about Palestine and tell me with a straight face what they actually care about genocide and Muslims. The real question is not why im "bootlicking for the Chinese government" but why you are doing the propaganda legwork for the imperialists.

As I have already said, multiple times, many international organizations, especially Islamic and Muslim ones have come to Xinjiang, investigated, and found no wrongdoing. Here's a look inside the vocational centers. Locals and attendees disavow the claims of forced labor. And there are serious issues with mass detainment claims. And people do actually graduate from the vocational schools. Contrary to popular belief, just like the province of Yunnan, Xinjiang is a province of many minorities; 19 out of the 52 nationally recognized groups. The largest are the Uyghurs, but mongols, Tajiks, and many more also live there. This is what Xinjiang is actually like. The PRC's primary de-radicalizing policy is the anti-poverty campaign. The past few years have seen tremendous material and money investment in China's poorest provinces, most notably, Xinjiang. Numerous programs like from animal husbandry, e-commerce, healthcare, clean water initiatives, childhood education, and more. The reason you don't see more new claims coming out from Xinjiang these days is that these policies have worked to reduce radicalization and poverty! The vocational schools are slowly emptying!

The american propagandists and you lot continue to come with more and more allegations and it is always the job of the communists to find evidence of the non-existence of a genocide? To prove a negative? ridiculous. You are letting the united states and its running dogs manufacture a false narrative on every country under the sun. Stop letting them take advantage of your humanity. They won't lift a finger to help the Palestinians, why would they be so fervently supportive of the Uyghurs? Where's the mass fleeing of people from Xinjiang into neighboring regions? What do you want me to show, live footage of the millions of kilometers of border? Where's the distinct targeting of intellectuals, journalists, professionals, and leaders like you see in Palestine? In occupied territories like Palestine and Kashmir, you will see consistent news about attacks and resistance movements. There are none in Xinjiang; since 2017 and the start of the de-radicalization and anti-poverty campaign. Is China so competent that they have eliminated all the resistance groups and weapons and etc. but simultaneously incompetent enough to not dismantle ETIM and other groups? You have examples of SEVERAL genocides live streamed in front of your fucking face and you still want to believe the lie about a fake one being generated entirely by foreign forces.

#Im fucking sick of this shit #mmp

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gatheringbones · 1 year

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[“When house hunting a few days earlier, two landlords had turned her away on account of her kids. One had said, “We’re pretty strict here. We don’t allow no loud nothing.” The other had told Pam it was against the law for him to put so many children in a two-bedroom apartment, which was the most Pam and Ned could afford. When talking to landlords, Pam had begun subtracting children from her family. She was beginning to wonder what was most responsible for keeping them homeless: her drug conviction from several years back, the fact that Ned was on the run and had no proof of income, their eviction record, their poverty, or their children.

Children caused landlords headache. Fearing street violence, many parents in crime-ridden neighborhoods kept their children locked inside. Children cooped up in small apartments used the curtains for superhero capes; flushed toys down the toilet; and drove up the water bill. They could test positive for lead poisoning, which could bring a pricey abatement order. They could come under the supervision of Child Protective Services, whose caseworkers inspected families’ apartments for unsanitary or dangerous code violations. Teenagers could attract the attention of the police.

It was an old tradition: landlords barring children from their properties. In the competitive postwar housing market of the late 1940s, landlords regularly turned away families with children and evicted tenants who got pregnant. This was evident in letters mothers wrote when applying for public housing. “At present,” one wrote, “I am living in an unheated attic room with a one-year-old baby….Everywhere I go the landlords don’t want children. I also have a ten-year-old boy….I can’t keep him with me because the landlady objects to children. Is there any way that you can help me to get an unfurnished room, apartment, or even an old barn?…I can’t go on living like this because I am on the verge of doing something desperate.” Another mother wrote, “My children are now sick and losing weight….I have tried, begged, and pleaded for a place but [it’s] always ‘too late’ or ‘sorry, no children.’ ” Another wrote, “The lady where I am rooming put two of my children out about three weeks ago and don’t want me to let them come back….If I could get a garage I would take it.”

When Congress passed the Fair Housing Act in 1968, it did not consider families with children a protected class, allowing landlords to continue openly turning them away or evicting them. Some placed costly restrictions on large families, charging “children-damage deposits” in addition to standard rental fees. One Washington, DC, development required tenants with no children to put down a $150 security deposit but charged families with children a $450 deposit plus a monthly surcharge of $50 per child.5 In 1980, HUD commissioned a nationwide study to assess the magnitude of the problem and found that only 1 in 4 rental units was available to families without restrictions. Eight years later, Congress finally outlawed housing discrimination against children and families, but as Pam found out, the practice remained widespread. Families with children were turned away in as many as 7 in 10 housing searches.”]

matthew desmond, from evicted: poverty and profit in the american city, 2016

#matthew desmond #history stuff #currently reading

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yr-obedt-cicero · 9 months

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Hi! If you don’t mind me asking what is up with the nicknames in the 1700s/1800s? Bc literally like Martha Washington JR was nicknamed “Patsy” and I don’t see how that works anyways love ya! <333

Hello. The simple answer is, colonists were weird with nicknames.

“Patsy” was a nickname for names like Martha and Matilda, like how “Polly” was a nickname for Mary. Oftentimes, M's were changed to P's, and a feminine suffix was added at the end. Additionally, the nicknames were usually an altered version of a nickname. So, it would roughly follow down the pipelines of nicknames like “Peggy” for “Margaret”; Margaret → Meg/Meggy → Peg/Peggy. Or Mary → Molly → Polly. Elizabeth → Beth → Betsey.

As you can see this with many figures like Margaret “Peggy” Schuyler, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson, Mary “Polly” Eleanor Laurens, Elizabeth “Betsey” Schuyler, etc, etc. It is similar with the nickname “Neddy”; Edward → Ed/Eddy → Ned/Neddy.

#amrev #american history #colonial days #history #queries #chloerie

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helaelaemond · 5 months

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ship and let ship

Tagged by @arcielee and encouraged by @sylasthegrim!

Top 10 ships of 2023! I literally have only written for a handful of ships this year - I have had a very one-track mind.

Helaemond - my brainrot started in 2022 (ofc) and has only gotten worse since then. It peaked in June-July, at which point I began to dip my toes into writing reader!fics. - this is my top ship of the decade I fear

Billy Washington x reader (especially @arcielee's little verse, I THINK SHE SHOULD WRITE MORE)

Aegmond / Aegon x Aemond - if I ship one set of siblings, why not another? Heleagon will NEVER be a thing but Aegmond? It's more likely than you think

Ned/Cat - I wrote one chapter for them which counts as making it a top ship this year

Tom Bennett x reader (it was the first reader fic I ever wrote, so he has a special place in my heart! Shoutout to @myfandomprompts' series that has my heart)

Tagging anyone that so wishes to do it!

#personal

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justforbooks · 5 months

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The career of the actor Andre Braugher, who has died of lung cancer aged 61, was benchmarked by two performances in police dramas a generation apart. In the groundbreaking drama Homicide: Life on the Street, from 1993 until 1999, he played Detective Frank Pembleton, whose drive immediately made him the anchor of an impressive ensemble cast led by Yaphet Kotto and Ned Beatty. He drew a younger audience with the comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013-21) as Captain Ray Holt, who takes over a chaotic homicide squad and whose intensity again makes him the heart of the show.

Braugher’s deep, resonant voice and seemingly effortless control drew the respect of all he worked with. David Simon, creator of Homicide and The Wire, said: “I’ve worked with a lot of wonderful actors. I’ll never work with one better.” His classical training, at the Juilliard School in New York, made him a regular at the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park, and indeed his portrayal of Henry V in 1996 won him an Obie (the off-Broadway equivalent of the Tony awards).

He brought the projection of the stage to the small screen. Pembleton was the master of “the Box”, or the interrogation room. He explained to his rookie partner in Homicide (played by Kyle Secor), it was “salesmanship … as silver tongued and thieving as ever moved used cars, Florida swamp land or Bibles. But what I am selling is a long prison sentence.” He dominated those small scenes, but the episode Subway, with Vincent D’Onofrio as a character pushed between subway trains, who will die once the trains are separated, was a two-hander whose intensity might have come from the stage of Beckett, Pinter or Mamet.

In Brooklyn Nine-Nine, as Holt, he played it straight in two senses. The adage of comedy being funniest when played straight gained resonance from Braugher’s ability to show the audience with a gesture or line-reading that he, like you, got the joke. But Holt is also gay. His gayness is never an issue, except as motivation for his progress within the police. It was as if Pembleton were stepping into Kotto’s “Gee” Giardello, a black man with an Italian father who was determined to rise in a white-dominated department.

This drive reflected Braugher’s own background. In the tough neighbourhood of Austin, on Chicago’s West Side, both his parents worked for the government; his father, Floyd, was a heavy equipment operator for the state of Illinois, and his mother, Sally, worked for the US Postal Service. He recalled he might have “pretended I was hard and tough and not square”, but he won scholarships to the Jesuit St Ignatius College prep and then to study mathematics at Stanford University, California. After walking into a student production of Hamlet, and playing Claudius, he decided he wanted to act.

Another scholarship took him to Juilliard. He graduated in 1988 and almost immediately was cast in a TV revival of Kojak, as his assistant. His first film role came in Glory (1989); he was so impressive as the educated Thomas Searles, forced to serve as a private soldier in the all-black regiment commanded by his white friend, that Hollywood came calling, but the parts were standard stereotyical roles. His father had questioned how a black actor would make a living, and Braugher later explained: “I’d rather not work than do a part I’m ashamed of.”

He played the lead in a TV movie, The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990), playing Robinson, the first African-American player in major league baseball, who earlier in the 1940s, as a US army lieutenant, had refused to ride in the back of a segregated bus; and appeared in another TV film, The Tuskegee Airmen (1995). He was an egotistical actor in Spike Lee’s Get On the Bus (1996), about the Million Man March on Washington DC the year before. In 1998 he won his first Emmy award for playing Pembleton; he was nominated 11 times, and won his second in 2006 for his role in the miniseries Thief.

After Homicide, he starred as a doctor in Gideon’s Crossing (2000-01), as a cop in Hack (2002-04), as a car dealer in the comedy-drama Men of a Certain Age (2009-11) and as the captain of a submarine which goes on the run after he refuses to obey orders to fire nuclear missiles in Last Resort (2012-13). He had another series of remarkable two-handers in a recurring role as Hugh Laurie’s psychiatrist in House, was a defense attorney in episodes of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, and voiced Governor Woodchuck Coodchuck-Berkowitz in the animated comedy BoJack Horseman.

He made the most of supporting roles in films such as Primal Fear (as Richard Gere’s investigator), Poseidon (captain of the sinking liner), Salt (as the US secretary of defense) and most notably as a New York Times editor in She Said (2022), covering the Harvey Weinstein scandal. He also starred in 10,000 Black Men Named George (2002), the story of the unionisation of Pullman railway porters, who were always called “George” by passengers.

Braugher admitted that his career “could have been larger, but it would have been at the expense of my own life”. He lived in suburban New Jersey with his wife, the actor Ami Brabson (who played Pembleton’s wife in Homicide). He said he wanted his three sons, Michael, Isaiah and John Wesley, raised in a “true context”, away from being a movie star’s offspring in Hollywood.

He is survived by his wife and sons, his brother, Charles, and his mother.

🔔 Andre Keith Braugher, actor, born 1 July 1962; died 11 December 2023

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

#just for books #Andre Braugher #in memoriam

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diane-the-phoenix-awen · 3 months

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I am currently working on pt 2 of Passion: The Life and Loves of Alexander Hamilton, The Collegian. This part covers Alexander Hamilton's arrival in the mainland US, his friendships with people such as Hercules Mulligan, Robert Troup, Nicholas Fish, Ned Stevens, the Livingstons and Boudinots. His first meetings with many people including Aaron Burr, Gouverneur Morris, Myles Cooper, John Jay, and the Schuylers. His education in Elizabethtown, NJ and at Kings College. His "exploration" of "The Holy Ground." His pamphlet war with Samuel Seabury. His first military trainings and actions leading up to his fighting his first battles in the American Revolutionary War.

If you are interested in being a BETA READER for future parts, send me a message. Much appreciated!

Part 3 will cover his involvement in the war, his relationship with George Washington and the "family" of aides-de-camp, esp. John Laurens and Lafayette, his wooing of ladies, especially Elizabeth Schuyler, and their early marriage, ending with the victory at Yorktown and the birth of his first child Philip.

There will be more parts subsequently following these parts and covering the rest of his life, leading up to his duel with Aaron Burr and his death.

Release dates are fluid as I work full time and have had many health challenges in the past couple of years, but I will post updates on this blog so follow and stay tuned!

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curiositasmundi · 3 months

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A beneficiare della morte di Navalny, infatti, non è certo il Cremlino, sebbene, a essere obiettivi, il tema è a dir poco spinoso e la responsabilità della sorte di Navalny, in attesa di prove, può essere comunque riconducibile al regime russo e alle condizioni di prigionia in cui versava il dissidente nel carcere siberiano di Kharp, nella Siberia del Nord. A complicare le cose ci si mette Bild che rivela che sarebbe morto «forse poco prima di una sua possibile liberazione», nell’ambito di uno scambio di detenuti tra USA, Russia e Germania.

Mentre la stampa allineata acclama Navalny come un martire, descrivendolo erroneamente come “il leader dell’opposizione” e il nemico numero uno di Putin (che non era), gli stessi media mainstream evitano accuratamente di riportarne le origini e la formazione, ignorando in maniera selettiva le sue storiche inclinazioni nazionaliste, i legami con gruppi neonazisti, i ripetuti commenti xenofobi e le estreme opinioni anti-immigrazione. Finendo per dipingere la sua biografia come quella di un liberale di centrodestra.

Che Navalny sia stato, almeno per una parte cospicua della propria storia politica, un razzista e un suprematista è noto e lo scriveva, del resto, proprio La Stampa in un articolo dal titolo inequivocabile, pubblicato nel 2012: «Il blogger xenofobo che unisce la piazza contro lo zar Putin». Dodici anni fa, il quotidiano torinese si poteva permettere di svelare il «lato oscuro dell’Assange russo», definendo senza mezzi termini Navalny un «blogger-star», xenofoba e di estrema destra. Nell’articolo si descrivevano le sue simpatie nazionaliste e le sue «tendenze giustizialiste», sottolineando che a novembre 2006 Navalny era in prima fila alla Marcia Russa dei “rivoluzionari bianchi”, tra neonazisti e slogan anti-Caucaso.

Nato nel 1976 in una cittadina della provincia di Mosca, fin da giovanissimo Alexei Navalny è attivo nell’opposizione russa, finché nel 2008 viene cacciato dal partito Narod (Popolo), che aveva contribuito a fondare, per affermazioni xenofobe, dopo che in un comizio aveva paragonato i caucasici a degli «scarafaggi scuri di pelle» suggerendo di adoperare «le pistole» contro di loro, visto che non sarebbe bastata la paletta per schiacciarli. Non ritrattò mai queste frasi: nel 2017, in un’intervista al The Guardian, aveva ammesso di non avere rimpianti per le sue dichiarazioni passate e giustificò il suo paragone tra migranti e scarafaggi come una «licenza artistica». Nel febbraio 2021 Amnesty International ritirò a Navalny la designazione di “prigioniero di coscienza”, per via delle sue dichiarazioni nazionaliste, ripristinandola a maggio dello stesso anno.

Riconosciuti il carisma e le innegabili qualità di leader, Washington decide di puntare su di lui, “formandolo”, in modo da renderlo più presentabile. È così che Navalny finisce nell’incubatore a stelle e a strisce e diventa un prodotto mediatico. Parte per gli USA, per un periodo di formazione all’Università di Yale, come invitato nell’esclusivo Greenberg World Fellows Program, un programma creato nel 2002 per il quale vengono selezionati ogni anno su scala mondiale appena 16 persone con caratteristiche tali da farne dei “leader globali”.

Dopo la formazione, Navalny torna in Russia profondamente cambiato: niente più comizi nazionalistici e xenofobi, inizia la lotta contro la corruzione, per i diritti umani e contro il potere di Putin. Fonda il movimento Alternativa Democratica, uno dei beneficiari, come confermato da Wikileaks, della National Endowment for Democracy (NED), un’agenzia statunitense fondata nel 1983 con l’obiettivo dichiarato di promuovere la “democrazia” all’estero. In particolare, la NED è stata fortemente attiva in Ucraina, dove ha sostenuto il colpo di Stato di piazza Maidan. La tecnica, ormai consolidata, è quella delle “rivoluzioni colorate” per fomentare una ribellione anti-governativa, in modo da indebolire lo Stato dall’interno, mentre dall’esterno cresce su di esso la pressione militare, politica ed economica. Il progetto degli aiuti internazionali in questa forma risale, infatti, all’ex presidente americano Ronald Reagan: grazie alla costituzione di una rete di associazioni non governative, il governo americano controlla attivamente dal 1981 la politica estera, senza dovere più ricorrere ai fondi neri della CIA.

Non sono nemmeno un mistero i rapporti di Navalny con i servizi segreti occidentali: in un video del 2012, ripreso dagli agenti russi del controspionaggio, Vladimir Ashurkov, il braccio destro dell’attivista, incontra in un ristorante di Mosca William Thomas Ford, agente dell’MI6 inglese, chiedendo apertamente finanziamenti per la sua campagna politica, impegnandosi a stabilire contatti con gli oligarchi al fine di rassicurarli sulla preservazione dei loro privilegi.

Da evidenziare, anche, come i media mainstream abbiano accuratamente evitato di ricordare le condanne di Navalny per frode e appropriazione indebita, facendo passare l’idea che sia stato arrestato esclusivamente per motivi “politici”. L’attivista era stato giudicato colpevole di appropriazione indebita nel 2014 su denuncia della casa di cosmetici francese, la Yves Rocher, di cui era il referente russo. Già allora La Repubblica evocava l’esistenza di una «trama oscura», una «trappola del regime per neutralizzare un oppositore politico». All’arresto per frode seguì un lungo tira e molla di arresti domiciliari, un sospetto avvelenamento, violazioni degli arresti e di nuovo la prigione per queste violazioni. Sebbene non sia da escludere che le accuse siano state amplificate o strumentalizzate, è curioso notare come i media occidentali abbraccino, in maniera ipocrita, la pista dei complotti a corrente alternata, proponendo, nel caso di Navalny una rappresentazione unilaterale e tutt’altro che realist

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#Navalny #russia

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