[Redstate] New York City previously tore down a historic Thomas Jefferson statue only to now erect a 12-foot bronze statue of an "overweight black woman," which many blasted as "tasteless" and more.
The statue is called "Grounded in the Stars" and was unveiled on Wednesday in Times Square, created by artist Thomas J. Price. The artist's "Man Series," a stop motion animation, will also appear nightly throughout May on the district’s billboards, providing a "two-part takeover" in the district that "amplifies traditionally marginalized bodies on a monumental scale," per the Times Square website.
Price said, per the Times Square site.
Lord Garth gives us a tweet about it, commenting:
New Ugly Statue in NYC Times Square
it is 12 feet tall, made of bronze
thank God the woman depicted is clothed
this in a city that removed statues of Jefferson and Washington
This massive 12-foot tall statue was just erected in Times Square which “confronts preconceived notions of identity and representation” pic.twitter.com/jVLKUBSXUQ
#2
Grounded in the Burgers more like it. And the scolding pose, why it's just like 'Laocoon and his Sons'.
Why are they being so insulting to the Black Community? The Met Gala 'Black Dandy' was wild. Other than it being extra gay, the message 'occasionally Black People in history did dress up' is an odd message, while simultaneously flooding the media with obvious AI generated 'well dressed Blacks throughout history' makes it all taste like crappy water bottled in cheap plastic and left in the sun.
Seriously, one I saw had so many straps and dangly bit to get caught up in hooves and horns, the 'Well dressed Black Woman cattle handlers' looked more like a Dallas Strip Club outfit with Beyonce being played over-bassed on worn out speakers.
#3
There are lots of very attractive Black women. I'm friends with several. They would make very nice - even impressive - statues. So I'm calling this a troll. Yes, this is an accurate representation of a social services admin. worker on a bad day. No, this isn't a celebration of a marginalized physical type. This is a lady we all know.
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The statue is part of series. They built and placed ugly statutes in a bunch of cities. All equally gross and ugly. They act much like a Motivational Poster, but the opposite, like a Demotivational Poster.
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[Regnum] On May 7, an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.4 was registered in the area of Mandalay, the second largest city in Myanmar. This was reported by the press service of the Meteorological Department of Thailand.
The hypocenter of the seismic event was located at a depth of 10 km. Underground vibrations spread over a considerable distance, reaching the south of Thailand. Tremors of magnitude 3.0 were recorded in Nakhon Si Thammarat province.
There is no information about damage or casualties. There is no tsunami threat reported.
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[Regnum] Against the backdrop of general climate change, tornadoes and strong winds will occur more often in Moscow in the summer. This was reported by climatologist Alexey Kokorin.
"Tornadoes have been recorded in the Moscow region before, because heat waves can penetrate quite far. Most likely, this will not be a typical phenomenon for Moscow and the region, but we will definitely have more strong winds, gusts of about 30 meters per second, and we need to adapt to this," he noted in a conversation with the Moscow agency.
Kokorin also added that such unusual weather phenomena as tornadoes and whirlwinds, against the backdrop of global warming, will be encountered more often not only in the capital, but also in other regions of Russia.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the leading specialist of the Phobos weather center, Yevgeny Tishkovets, noted earlier that on May 2, in Moscow and the Moscow region, covered in snow, a 116-year-old record for the volume of precipitation was broken. As a result of the snowfall, about 26 thousand people in more than 90 settlements in the Moscow region were left without electricity.
[Breitbart] The Chinese Foreign Ministry condemned the CIA on Tuesday for publishing videos urging Communist Party officials to defect and work with America, threatening to “take all necessary steps” to stop American intelligence operations against Beijing.
The Foreign Ministry was responding to a the CIA publishing a video on the social media site Twitter last week encouraging Chinese government officials, in Mandarin, to consider working with American intelligence. The video suggests to Chinese officials that loyalty to the Communist Party does not keep them safe from genocidal dictator Xi Jinping’s many purges of potential rivals or dissenting voices and that working with the CIA could help them protect their families.
The video invited Chinese officials to work with the CIA in “creating a better future” for the world and their families, highlighting the fictional story of a Communist Party officials who finds that securing a high rank was “insufficient to protect his family in these turbulent and unsettling times.”
“My purpose remains the same. Only my path has changed. No matter what my fate may bring, my family will know a good life,” one fictionalized defector says.
Another adds: “The party raised us to believe that our dedication to the path they lead us on would bring prosperity to us all. But the gains of our collective efforts are indulged by a select few. So, I must forge my own path.”
The CIA published the video on May 1, a communist holiday known as “International Workers’ Day.”
The success of these recruitment efforts remains to be seen, though one anonymous CIA official told Reuters last week, “if it weren’t working, we wouldn’t be making more videos.”
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian expressed great offense at the video when asked to common on Tuesday, the first day following the end of China’s week-long May Day communist celebrations.
“The U.S. has long been using all kinds of despicable methods to steal other countries’ secrets, interfere in their internal affairs and commit subversion,” Lin declared. “Such behavior severely violates international law and basic norms governing international relations, and seriously endangers international security and stability.”
“The U.S. not only maliciously smears and attacks China, but also blatantly attempts to lure Chinese personnel, even government officials, to be their informants,” he continued. “This is a serious infringement on China’s national interest and pure political provocation. China strongly condemns it.”
Lin concluded that China would “take all measures necessary to resolutely push back infiltration and sabotage activities from overseas and defend national sovereignty, security and development interest.”
The Chinese Foreign Ministry, naturally, did not address the extensive recent evidence of covert Chinese espionage globally, and in America in particular, when condemning overt efforts by the CIA. From establishing illegal secret police stations in a large number of foreign capitals to infiltrating sensitive American sites, Beijing is one of the world’s most active and aggressive intelligence-gathering states.
In 2023, American officials revealed that they had uncovered over 100 attempts by Chinese nationals to enter sensitive American sites, including missiles ranges and the Kennedy Space Center. Chinese nationals were also identified suspiciously scuba diving near military sites in Florida, reports at the time indicated.
That say year, the Department of Justice arrested two Chinese nationals, and accused dozens of others, of establishing a secret police branch in New York City.
“This prosecution reveals the Chinese government’s flagrant violation of our nation’s sovereignty by establishing a secret police station in the middle of New York City,” U.S. Attorney Breon Peace denounced at the time. Human rights researchers found evidence of similar illegal police operations by the Chinese Communist Party throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
More recently, in April, Chinese national Ming Xi Zhang was convicted after being arrested by ICE agents in Newark, New Jersey, of illegally acting as a Chinese foreign agent.
Beijing’s complaints about the CIA video follow a turbulent beginning of the year for U.S.-Chinese relations, as President Donald Trump has initiated a process to rethink America’s trade relationship with the world. As part of that initiative, Trump imposed tariffs on nearly every trade partner, requesting talks to agree to deals more favorable to the American people. According to the White House, China is the lone holdout refusing to negotiate, resulting in China facing a 145-percent tariff on exports to America.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian insisted on Monday that China would continue to “fight” America’s attempts to defend its industries.
“There are no winners in tariff and trade wars, and if the US side really wants to solve the problem through dialogue and negotiation, it should stop threatening and pressuring,” Lin asserted, “and engage in dialogue with China on the basis of equality, respect and mutual benefit.”
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping is expected to travel to Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday to attend ceremonies celebrating the end of World War II and for private discussions with strongman Vladimir Putin, one of China’s closest allies. While Chinese state media has not named the U.S. tariffs as a topic of discussion, the two are expected to discuss their joint response to the Trump administration’s attempts to create a fairer trade environment and to end Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, which China has supported despite its previously friendly relations with Kyiv.
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Priests have gone to jail and even died rather than break the seal of confession.
I have been told that a priest that breaks the seal is not permitted to hear confessions again. Excommunication is more severe.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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