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She's hiding her new explosion magic from the others! 😭🤯🥴 Credits: Model by: Aequdsama Sound: OpenNSFW Moans: MOO🩷COW (Voice Pack) #nsfw #3dporn #3DCG #animation #meguminkonosuba

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David Perell

137,573 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

[ THE EARLIEST VIDEO CIRCULATING ONLINE ABOUT YU MENGLONG CAME FROM PEOPLE LIVING NEAR HIS APARTMENT COMPLEX.]⭐️‼️ P1➕ Some claimed that the victim was indeed Yu Menglong. According to witnesses, at around 5:10 a.m., someone walking their dog near the complex discovered a man lying on the ground with blood in his mouth and a pool of blood beside him. The witness initially thought the man was just drunk and didn't pay attention, but after the dog sniffed out the smell of blood, he went closer, then called the security guards and emergency services (120). ( This is what the police reported to the cousin and the victim's family, the press - not sure is truth.) Residents recounted that the window of the apartment had a mosquito screen, which had been torn or forced open and it was not easy to open from the inside. Some suspected that this was not a suicide but that he might have been pushed. When people arrived, the victim was still neatly dressed, and one man even took off his own jacket to cover him. Rumors quickly spread: some said he died on the spot, while others insisted no official conclusion had been reached. One people note that the incident happened to be the victim of the movie Eternal Love (Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms). One witness's friend claimed to have personally seen the scene and confirmed the time as around 5:30 a.m. In short: early that morning, a man allegedly Yu Menglong was found deadon the ground with signs of bleeding after falling from above, the mosquito screen was broken, the true cause remains unclear, whether from drunkenness or being pushed. The rumors are now spreading widely online. The lie about Yu Menglong drinking alcohol unintentionally fell down was finally torn apart. 1. ❗️The first is the older female cousin who cried until she fainted and appeared to spread the news Said that Long's at 3 a.m still called her to report peace 10 minutes before his death, he also sent a creepy message about someone blocking the door, then the neighbor opposite the floor released the original recording, inside clearly transmitted the sound of "don't touch me" Summary of key points in Vu Menglong's case, revealed by his cousin: - Evidence from his cousin: - At 3:12 a.m. on September 11, Vu Menglong called her. He was completely sober, said he would call a driver to take him home, and mentioned that someone kept pressuring him to drink Western liquor. - At 5:50 a.m., he sent her a text: "Sister, someone is blocking the door" with three terrified emojis. - By around 6:00 a.m., he was found deadfrom a fall.( Notice from the police.) - His phone disappeared, police claimed they couldn't find it at the scene, though he had told his mother earlier that it was charging at home. 2. ❗️Neighbors & new evidence: - A neighbor across the street released a 1 minute 23 second audio recording around 5 a.m - Sounds of a struggle and furniture being knocked over. - A voice resembling Vu Menglong’s saying: "Don't touch me", "I want to go home." - Another male voice: "Finish this drink and then go. Don't disrespect me." - A loud "bang", then silence except for heavy breathing. - Some listeners heard a third voice: "Stop the noise, quickly take him away." - The same neighbor also recalled seeing lights on and two figures struggling near the window. Main suspicions: - He was sober and could not have simply "fallen drunk." - Messages, calls, recordings, and eyewitness accounts point to him being blocked, forced to drink, and involved in a struggle before hisdeath. - There are suspicions that crucial evidence (his missing phone) was deliberately concealed. - Public opinion exploded, rejecting the "accident" theory and believing he was forced into circumstances leading to his fall. 🙏 #于朦朧墜樓事件 #YuMenglongFallingEvent #justiceforyumenglong #于朦胧坠楼 #YuMenglong #于朦胧 #AlanYu #YuMenglong #JusticeforYuMenglong #YuMenglong于朦胧 #于朦胧

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The Letter Scene in Persuasion (1995): When Constancy Is Recognized The moment when Captain Frederick Wentworth leaves a letter for Anne Elliot is widely cherished as one of the most beautiful passages in the 1995 film adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion. On the surface, it is a very short scene. There is no direct declaration of love. No embrace. No tearful reunion. Wentworth sits absorbed in writing what appears to be another matter, while Anne speaks quietly with Captain Harville nearby. When he chances to hear her calm words on the constancy of a woman’s heart, he accidentally drops the small pot of blotting sand. The film offers no explanation of what stirs within him. Yet that single, almost imperceptible gesture is enough for the viewer to sense that a long-held perception has been gently shaken. Shortly afterward, Wentworth writes a letter to Anne. After leaving the room, he returns on the pretext of retrieving a forgotten umbrella. With a quiet gesture he draws Anne’s attention to the letter resting on the table, then withdraws in silence. Anne opens it. At first only Wentworth’s voice is heard reading the words. Gradually Anne’s voice begins to blend with his. The entire scene lasts only a few minutes, yet it has become one of the most deeply moving moments in any screen adaptation of Jane Austen’s novels. What gives it such quiet power? The answer lies in the way the film chooses to tell its story. Rather than shaping the moment as a grand romantic climax, director Roger Michell allows everything to unfold remarkable restraint. The camera does not seek heightened expressions of feeling. The music offers no emotional guidance. Even the letter is not placed directly into Anne’s hands. Wentworth deliberately steps out of the frame, leaving her alone to meet the words. The film invites us to focus not on the meeting of two people, but on the truth that is slowly being revealed. What truly changes, however, is not love itself. For eight years Anne remained faithful to her love. Wentworth, too, has never found another attachment capable of taking her place, though he has more than once tried to persuade himself to move on. What has separated them is not an absence of feeling, but Wentworth’s mistaken view of Anne. He had believed she abandoned their love through inconstancy. Yet when he hears her speak with such quiet conviction of a woman’s steadfast heart, he suddenly sees that this virtue had never left her. What time has shown is not merely that Anne still loves him, but that she remains the woman he once loved. For this reason the letter carries a meaning beyond any simple renewal of affection. Many remember its most passionate lines: “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.” Yet the true heart of the letter lies in another affirmation: “I may have been unjust, weak and resentful, but never inconstant.” It is no coincidence that Wentworth places such weight on this word. The conversation he has just overheard between Anne and Captain Harville turns precisely on the question of constancy—the central theme of Persuasion. With these words Wentworth does more than confess his love; he acknowledges that he had misjudged Anne and affirms that he, like her, has never lost his own constancy. The letter does not create a new love. It bears witness to a truth that has always existed, though long hidden by misunderstanding. The film conveys this deeper meaning with remarkable subtlety through its use of sound. When Anne first opens the letter, only Wentworth’s voice is heard. The audience listens as he reads the opening lines: “I can listen no longer in silence…” and then, “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope…” It remains the voice of one person giving expression to his private pain, hope, and love. But when the letter reaches the words “I have loved none but you,” Anne’s voice begins, almost imperceptibly, to join his. The two voices continue together to the crucial affirmation: “I may have been unjust, weak and resentful, but never inconstant.” This is no mere technical device for emotional effect. The film chooses the precise moment when the two voices unite. The blending of voices does not occur when Wentworth speaks of his suffering, but at the instant he declares his own constancy. From that point the words of the letter cease to belong to Wentworth alone. Anne may now speak them with equal truth, for they describe the reality of her life as well. After eight years of separation, what both recognize first is not simply that they still love one another, but that neither has ever ceased to be constant. It is upon this shared foundation that their love is able to return to its original harmony. We often judge others not by the enduring qualities of their character, but by what we observe in a single passing moment. A misunderstanding, one decision, or an old wound may cast a shadow over an entire person. Only with the passage of sufficient time do we come to see that true virtues are not so easily altered as we once imagined. What changes is frequently not the person before us, but the manner in which we have learned to see them. From the perspective of traditional culture, the scene reveals a still deeper truth about the nature of virtue itself. Constancy does not become precious because it is at last recognized by another. Its worth has always resided within it. Steadfastness is valuable not because it receives reward or recognition, but because it is an essential quality of a noble and upright character. Genuine maturity of soul lies not only in nurturing what is good, but also in refining our own vision until we are able to perceive and honor those virtues that have been present all along. Perhaps this is why, more than two centuries after Jane Austen completed Persuasion, this brief letter scene continues to move viewers across generations. Beneath the words of a short letter lies something far greater than the reunion of two people who once loved. It is the moment in which a soul comes to understand that time may try our affections, yet it is also time that can bring to light the constancy that lies at their root. And when constancy is at last seen in its true light, love does not need to be created anew. It returns, quite simply, to what has always been true.

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This broadcast of the Moriah & Berko talk show on Channel 13, from July 27, is a perfect example of the grotesque, genocidal gaslighting circus that is the Israeli media today. I broke it down for you. In the video, you can find some of the most outrageous sound bites, but I've decided to write a summary of absurdities from the entire first hour of the show, which dealt with issues concerning Gaza. ******************************* Moriah "no uninvolved" Asraf leads a discussion about the "fake starvation campaign", as the panel calls it, which has become a major "Hasbara problem". The panel's general consensus is that there is no famine in Gaza - but if there is, it's Hamas's fault. While denying that Israel is engaged in intentional starvation, the panelists appear to agree that the genocidal practice poses no ethical problem, only a public relations one. The one voice that hesitantly raises the issue of morality is being repeatedly shut down by the others. Co-host Eyal Berkovic, who has repeatedly said that Gaza should be wiped out, responds by saying that if it was up to him, he wouldn't let a drop of water into Gaza, and when Asraf says that "none of us likes to see starving children", Berkovic starts telling her repeatedly that he feels nothing towards the children in Gaza. Israeli-French journalist Emmanuelle Elbaz-Phelps is supposed to be the "leftist" of the panel, and was brought to the show to counter Berkovic. She's the only one on the panel who thinks that there's a moral problem with what Israel is doing in Gaza, and not just a "Hasbara problem". She tries to respond to Berkovic by saying that for the sake of "our children" Israel needs to prevent hunger in Gaza. Berkovic, talking to her in a blatantly disrespectful and dismissive manner, tells her that if she has mercy for the children in Gaza, she "already forgot October 7". Shay Golden, who earlier in the genocide made numerous deranged monologues ("We are coming to annihilate you") and even specified once that "we are ready to go into international isolation", now sings a different tune. He talks about how Israel's current situation on the international stage is an "existential threat", and complains that Israel is being unfairly shunned, framed for a famine it has nothing to do with. On the contrary, Golden claims, the amount of aid supplied to Gaza is "unprecedented in the entire history of human wars". Golden says that there's no question that "Israel is not starving Gazans intentionally", and that "only an idiot" would consider such a possibility. When Elbaz-Phelps tries to tell him that Berkovic literally just now said he wants to do just that, Golden hushes her. Interrupting Golden, Berkovic himself says he disagrees with him, and asks him whether he would support a hypothetical decision by Netanyahu, to prevent life essentials from entering the Strip, "until my hostages are returned". Elbaz-Phelps later tries to reflect to Berkovic the full meaning of his genocidal words, and asks him if he wouldn't react in case he was shown some foreign TV show with someone stating that "all Jews should be killed". In response, Berkovic suddenly plays dumb, asking, "Did I say something like this? I want the war to end." Asaf Cohen, a former deputy commander of Unit 8200, attempts to explain Israel's "Hasbara problem" and in the process says that "there's no starvation campaign in Gaza". Nevo Cohen, another panelist, is a former advisor to Itamar Ben Gvir and Naftali Bennett, who thinks Israel's been too soft on Gaza, and views the Strip as WWII Japan & Germany. Cohen cuts the other Cohen by loudly protesting - "What? What? What do you mean there's no starvation campaign in Gaza?" But all is well in the end - the two Cohens realize it was all a misunderstanding: Asaf Cohen was trying to say that there's no Israeli policy to starve Gaza, while Nevo Cohen thought he's denying a media campaign of staged starvation by Hamas. They both agree that, as the former Cohen puts it: "There is a marketing and publicity campaign claiming that we are starving Gaza." Asraf concludes that if Israel had decided on a policy of starvation, it would've been OK to deal with international pressure, and that the "biggest tragedy" is that Israel is being blamed for causing starvation despite putting, supposedly, large efforts in preventing a humanitarian disaster. ******************************* At a certain point, a clip is played, featuring a genocidal statement by Minister Amichay Eliyahu, said on the radio a few days earlier - "All of Gaza will be Jewish, it won't be fenced-up settlement... The government is racing to erase Gaza. Thank god, we're erasing this evil, and erasing the population that was raised on Mein Kampf". Similar genocidal statements had been made by members of the same panel - including during this very broadcast. Yet the caption on the screen reads "Amichay Eliyahu's horrible statement". Berkovic ridicules Minister Eliyahu's words, calling the minister "a joke" and saying that his plan to settle Gaza is unrealistic - it would be too expensive. ******************************* Avida Bachar then joins the panel. Bachar is a resident of the Gaza Envelope who was injured on October 7 and lost his wife and son. Since then he's often been invited to be interviewed by Israeli media, where he repeatedly spreads his insane genocidal fantasies, about Gaza (and the West Bank) being completely wiped out. So once again Bachar starts ranting, saying Israel needs to exterminate "every last one of them". When Asraf asks him: "Who do you want to exterminate?" he immediately responds "The Palestinians, all of them", but then stops and says "Wait... Hamas." This momentary realization doesn't prevent him from later saying that the "enemy" needs to "disappear" and that everyone in Gaza, including a baby born today ("In Rafah" - I guess he doesn't know Rafah has been completely erased) is an enemy. With complete lack of self-awareness, Asraf complains about the language Bachar uses - she says that words like "annihilation" and "erasure" are terms the enemy uses, and "we're not them". When Bachar is asked about the option of settlement in the Gaza Strip, he first raises opposition, and says that, "Daniella Weiss is not good.", but later it turns out that he's totally cool with settling the Gaza Strip, but only after every single Palestinian there has been expelled or murdered. No one in the panel speaks up against Bachar's murderous ravings, but Elbaz-Phelps comes closest - she can be heard gasping while Bachar describes how he proposes to "push" Gazans into Egypt, by bringing up his memories from the kibbutz cattle farm, where he used to poke the cows with an electric cable to make them move. Panelist Ilan Lotan, ex-Shin Bet, responds to that by saying "I know the Egyptians, it's not going to happen". As if the problem with this unhinged sadism is merely a practical one.

B.M.

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Shabana Mahmood wants you to think it's stopped. It hasn't. They didn't LOSE control of your housing. They didn't run OUT of homes for you. They GAVE them away. She banned the bit you could SEE, and kept the engine running. 21 brand new houses in a quiet Shropshire village. Worth £250,000 each. Built for local families. Handed to the asylum system instead, for up to 83 migrants, rent free. Rural. Back gardens. Next to where local children play. On a street where a British family had already bought and moved in. Residents weren't even told who was coming. They had to FOI their own council for the basics. How many. Who. Whether they're even families. Made to force it out in writing. Asked on live radio why our own homeless get nothing while this happens, Yvette Cooper didn’t deny it. She admitted it, said they should be in more appropriate accommodation. So she knows it’s wrong. Then she swerved. Reduce the system. Family reunion. Student visas. The system we inherited. We're saving a billion. Everything except the answer. So here's the answer she wouldn't give. Who decides it. Not your council. Not your MP. Not one person in that village. The Home Office decides, and tells a private firm, Serco, to place people. We know because Serco said it. The Home Office decides where people go, and instructs us accordingly. The people you vote for have no say. The people with the say, you never voted for. Why they pack them in. They're paid by the head. Twelve hundred pounds a year per person, a hundred a month per extra bed. Six in a house beats a family of four. That's how you get 83 people into 21 homes. Not compassion. Arithmetic. Who even chooses who comes. Under the new scheme, charities, universities and employers pick. Not you. Not your MP. Private groups hold the keys. Who gets rich. The man who owns one of these firms went from a caravan park to a billionaire. Porsches. Mayfair. Monaco. All from housing migrants on our money. His firm paid out twenty eight million in dividends in one year, almost all to him. One man, drawing more from our foreign aid budget than the whole of Ghana. He made so much his firm agreed to hand thirty two million back for breaching the profit cap. Money the Home Office still hasn't confirmed it's even collected. Here’s why they'll NEVER really stop it. The money we spend housing migrants here is counted as foreign aid. On paper, Britain feeding the world's poor. Really, filling a landlord's pockets in Monaco. Because it counts as aid, the more come, the better their books look. Count the ways they win. The contractor gets rich. The Treasury books four point three billion as aid that never leaves the country. Real aid to Africa is cut, the money stays here in Clearsprings and the consultancies, and you pay twice, in tax and in a home your kids will never get. The boats aren't a crisis to them. They're the business model. Forty thousand to leave, called a saving. Ten thousand to stay, called fairness, though their own figures say most will never earn enough to pay a penny. Now, ban the new-builds, and call it fixed. A different headline every month. The same engine underneath. Here’s the smoke, right on cue. They've said Stoke Heath won't go ahead. Sounds like a win. It isn't. They didn't stop it because it was wrong. They stopped it because it was SEEN. It went viral. It got too hot. So they killed the one estate the camera found, and kept every one it didn't. Its not just Shropshire. Over in Suffolk, migrants have already moved into four brand new townhouses worth £300,000, with en-suites, underfloor heating and electric car points, handed over rent free Flat blocks taken in Huddersfield, Chelmsford, Bournemouth. Same Home Office. Same contractor. Town after town, the ones no camera found. They won't even confirm the family already in Stoke Heath will be moved out. The ban only touches new-builds. The flat blocks stay. The HMOs stay. The contracts stay. Who really runs it. The Home Office behind all this was headed by Antonia Romeo, now Cabinet Secretary, the most powerful official in the country. She began her own career at a global consultancy, Oliver Wyman, a firm with a documented history of work in the refugee sector. Nobody voted for her. She was there before this government, and she'll be there after it. Ministers are the face. She's the engine. Three firms. Fifteen billion pounds of contracts. Break clauses that could end it tomorrow. Not one pulled. Yvette Cooper ran this and dodged it on air. Shabana Mahmood bans the one part that got caught and keeps the rest. Same engine. Two faces. The next face is already here. Whoever walks into Number 10 next can't break it either. Romeo stays. The contracts stay. They inherit it intact. Our own keep waiting. 1.3 million on the longest social housing queue in over a decade. The family that saved ten years. The homeless man born here. Passed over, in their own country, so the engine keeps running. You can respray a car. New paint, new bodywork, new badge. It still drives, because you never touched the engine. Same here. Change the government, the face, the party. The engine never moves. The Home Office. The contractor. The billionaire. The consultancy. The money. The one they never let you vote out. That's the engine and every few months they hand you a new face to be angry at, so you keep swinging at the paint. They didn't ban the machine. They banned the photo of it. Then stood at a podium and told us they'd fixed it. That's not a mistake. That's a decision. Stop aiming at the paint. Go for the engine.

BanksyCat

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