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Acclaimed pianist loses Gaza speech case against Melbourne orchestra
Jayson Gillham sued the MSO after it cancelled one of his performances in 2024, days after he said during another show that Israel had killed more than 100 Palestinian journalists in Gaza.
But Justice Graeme Hill ruled that Mr Gillham’s concert was not scrapped because of his political beliefs.
Rather, it was to “address the anticipated adverse impacts” of the pianist’s comments on the orchestra’s business and reputation, he ruled.
... full articleCommon sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Men who witnessed deadly Houston shooting say ICE statement is false, attorney says
Federal officials’ version of what led to the fatal shooting of a man in Houston during an immigration operation this week doesn’t match that of three men detained during the incident, an attorney who spoke with them says.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have said an agent opened fire Tuesday after Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican national, rammed a law enforcement vehicle and refused to follow verbal commands during a traffic stop that was part of a “targeted operation.”
... full articleCreative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.
Mexico Filing Criminal Complaints Over Deaths of Its Nationals in ICE Custody
On Thursday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced plans for her government to file criminal complaints against the United States, seeking to hold the country accountable for the deaths of Mexican citizens who died while in custody of immigration agencies or while being pursued in anti-immigration raids.
... full articleNothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
El origen
El Mundial, que es un fenómeno global y polisémico, levantó a tope las emociones, las batió. Por acá estamos tan agobiados por una sola paleta emocional -la angustia, el desconcierto, la amenaza-, que nos sacudió el deja vu de la alegría colectiva. Una observación sobre el primo Macri: se le nota mucho el afán de dar Alfa en la foto, y le sale mal: la policía de la Ciudad reprimiendo a gente bailando no transmite orden, transmite estupidez.
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