- It’s both astonishing and disturbing that there are people
anywhere in the world who still espouse Nazi theology of any kind. That sort of
thinking should be dead and buried like Adolf Hitler’s bunker ‘neath the
streets of Berlin and yet, here we are in 2014 with authorities in the German state of
Bavaria announcing that they have banned a neo-Nazi group that operated in the
region. According to the state’s interior ministry, it t banned the Free Network South group on Wednesday and
accused it of pursuing the "anti-constitutional endeavors" of an
organization that was banned a decade ago, the Franconian Action Front. Those
words don’t make the group’s actions sound as despicable as they are, but at
least these scumbags have been shot down after officials searched a property in
the small town of Regnitzlosau in northern Bavaria where, the ministry said, an
outfit called Final Resistance Mail Order supported the group's activities.
Sadly, Bavarian authorities didn't immediately give details on the size of the
group and its activities, but at a minimum, this raid and its fallout should
bolster the case as Bavaria seeks a ban on Germany's biggest far-right party,
the National Democratic Party. The case is a long way from being finished, but Germany's
highest court is considering the case. Hearing about a bunch of neo-Nazi
ass-hats who are plying their hideous and inhumane beliefs on humanity can’t do
anything but help make the case that it’s time to put an end to the Nazi way of
life and all of its seedy components once and for all………
- This is rare. Soccer games having their location changed
on account of issues off the field is not new. However, it’s usually a league
forcing teams to play in an empty stadium because the home side’s fans have
exhibited a pattern of unruly and hooligan-ish behavior so severe that it’s
just not safe to play a game with them in attendance. Seeing games change
locations due to violent, ongoing civil wars within a country is decidedly less
common, but such is the fate of Shakhtar Donetsk, a team based in the Ukrainian
city of Donetsk. The region is directly in the middle of the country’s ongoing
conflict and that’s a problem for some of Shakhtar Donetsk’s players. Six
foreign members of the squad have refused to return to
Donetsk, the main pro-Russia rebel-held city in Ukraine's east, following an
international friendly in France. Alex Teixeira, Fred, Dentinho, Douglas Costa,
Facundo Ferreyra and Ismaily did not fly back after the game in Lyon and made
it clear their actions were based on a strong fear for their personal safety.
With fighting reigniting in the Donetsk
region in recent days and government forces advancing near the
pro-Russian rebel-controlled regional capital, team officials have heeded the
wishes of the players and temporarily changed their base of operations. For
now, Shakhtar
Donetsk will play home games more than 600 miles to the west in Lviv. It will reside and train
in Kiev and travel to the Arena Lviv for Champions League and domestic games.
Five of the six missing players are from Brazil with Ferreyra hailing from
Argentina and club president Rinat Akhmetov suggested that they were using the
conflict as an excuse to demand a move to a new team. Akhmetov threatened
sanctions for all six if they didn’t return, insisting there was “nothing to
fear” in Donetsk……….
- Strippers are in a tough place – and not just when their
cocaine supply runs out, someone forgets to wipe down the filthy brass pole on
stage before their performance or some lecherous businessman gets too handsy
during the last show of the night. For the lovely ladies of Cheetahs
Gentlemen's Club in San Diego, the tough spot in question was a locker room in
the back of their establishment where they claim a squad of vice cops went over
the line in an inspection of the facilities. The strippers are suing the city
and claiming they were wrongly held in the locker room for hours while police
snapped "nearly nude" pictures of them. According to the strippers, around
a dozen body-armor clad officers stormed their club for an unannounced
inspection and things went south from there. Strippers are required to carry
city-issued licenses and police do have the authority to check those licenses
at any time and don't have to let the club know beforehand, but this situation
(allegedly) went well beyond those parameters. Dancer Brittany Murphy said the
license check was less law enforcement doing its job and more of a free show
for the officers, with the police snapping R-rated pictures they claimed were
intended to document the girls' tattoos. "I was wearing a sheer one-piece
type thing and the flashes were going and they could definitely see stuff, so
that's kind of uncomfortable," Murphy said. She went on to say that many
of the other girls "felt very violated” by what happened to them and
considering how they make their money, that’s especially disconcerting. The
strippers filed the lawsuit in San Diego Superior Court, complete with claims
that they were made to "expose body" parts that were otherwise
covered up so cops could photograph them while the officers made demeaning
remarks. Worse still, some of the strippers were waiting to go on stage at the
time. So not only did the officers allegedly break the law, but they also held
up the show. Ain't nobody got time for that………..
- “Westworld” is making a comeback….and virtually no one
reading those words has any ides what that means. That’s fine, because if JJ
Abrams is involved, then a project automatically has some credence in the
sci-fi world. Abrams has signed on to produce HBO's small screen reworking of the 70s
sci-fi classic “Westworld,” with Anthony Hopkins and Evan Rachel Wood set to
star in the project. The original “Westworld” was a 1973 film from then-unknown
writer/director Michael Crichton (Jurassic
Park), who created a truly f*cked-up world where holiday travelers could
visit a themed world and interact with artificially intelligent cowboys in bar
room brawls and shoot outs while satisfying their sexual desires with seductive
robots. Yes, you read that last sentence correctly. At the time, the movie was
hailed for its groundbreaking special effects even though it seems horrifically
dated 41 years after the fact. It starred Yul Brynner as a lethal mechanized
gunslinger who turns on the guests when a robot malfunction spreads like a
virus through the resort leaving the holiday visitors as their prey. According
to HBO, its show will be a "dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial
consciousness and the future of sin" featuring Hopkins as the theme park's
"complicated creative director" and Wood as the android farm girl who
discovers "her entire idyllic existence is an elaborately constructed
lie." James Marsden is reportedly in talks for a role in the pilot and
would add more star power to a series the network is counting on to replace
outgoing shows like “Boardwalk Empire” and “True Blood” in its heavy-hitting
lineup……….
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