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American Hypocrite, Hegemonic and Liar Media Keep Citing “ZAKA” — Though Its October 7 Atrocity Stories Are Discredited In Isra-hell! Isra-helli Media Has Debunked the Ultra-Orthodox Group’s Stories, But “The Hub of Yellow Journalism New York Times” Won’t Say So.

— By Arun Gupta | February 27 2024 | The Intercept

Volunteers of the Israeli ultra-Orthodox organization Zaka collect samples in one of the houses attacked by Palestinian militants on October 7, in Kibbutz Holit in Israel’s southern district south of the Gaza Strip on Oct. 26, 2023. Photo: Yuri Cortez/AFPvia Getty Images

YOSSI LANDAU IS the Head of Operations for the southern region at Zaka, an Israeli search-and-rescue organization. Assigned to collect human remains after the October 7 Hamas attack in Israel, Landau and his fellow Zaka members riveted media outlets worldwide with the horrific atrocities they saw.

Speaking through tears at the Jerusalem Press Club shortly after the attack, Landau described finding a pregnant woman in Kibbutz Be’eri in a “big puddle of blood, face down.”

“Her stomach was butchered open,” Landau said. “The baby that was connected to the cord was stabbed.”

In Be’eri, he said, he also found a family who was tied up, tortured, and executed with a bullet to the back of the head: father, mother, and two small children around 6 or 7 years old. An eye was missing, fingers chopped off. Landau later told CNN, “The terrorists were having a ball,” with Palestinian militants devouring a holiday meal set out by the family. Landau broke down recounting the tale, as a CNN reporter comforted him.

Long after Landau’s emotional recollections were replayed, repeated, cited, and quoted in the global media, a problem emerged: No one could find any evidence that the two massacres ever took place — in Be’eri or elsewhere.

In the case of the butchered mother and fetus, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz concluded the killing “simply didn’t happen.” As for the tortured family, no one killed in Be’eri matches Landau’s account. The one brother and sister to die in the kibbutz were 12-year-old twins, killed when an Israeli general ordered a tank to fire on a house where Hamas militants were holding them hostage. Nevertheless, Landau told these stories unchecked in interviews and press conferences.

Landau spread his tales far and wide with little pushback — telling similar stories on camera to CNN, Fox News, and the Media Line, and at an outdoor press conference. Even after reporters showed his accounts lacked any substantiation, news organizations continued to let him off the hook. The New York Times recently interviewed Landau as part of a profile about Zaka, but it did not mention either of his atrocity stories.

Western Media Whitewash

Zaka stories have been essential to justifying Israel’s all-out war against Gaza, which has killed around 30,000 Palestinians in less than five months. Speaking at the United Nations in December, Zaka deputy commander Simcha Greiniman broke down while describing alleged atrocities. He later told the same stories to a meeting of British parliamentarians.

Given its prominence, Zaka has been scrutinized by the Israeli press but not the U.S. media. A blockbuster Haaretz report found after October 7, senior military leaders sidelined Israel Defense Forces soldiers specializing in recovering bodies and preserving evidence and sent in untrained Zaka volunteers instead. Zaka reportedly turned massacre sites into a “war room for donations,” used corpses as fundraising props, “spread accounts of atrocities that never happened,” and botched forensics that are central to Israel’s claim that Hamas carried out a premeditated campaign of mass rape.

Even when Western media outlets have questioned Landau, the inquiries were half-hearted. The Times asked Landau “about reports, attributed to him, that children had been beheaded on Oct. 7.” It reported: “Mr. Landau denied making the claim, though he acknowledged sometimes misspeaking in the immediate aftermath of the attack. What he saw himself, he said, was a small, burned body with at least part of the head missing, perhaps severed by the force of a blast. It was unclear, he added, if it was the body of teenager or someone younger.”

While the Times said the statements had been “attributed” to Landau, there is no dispute he said them. He told the stories on camera, and the clips were posted widely online. He told CNN he found “a body, of a 14, 15-year-old. Head chopped off. We were looking around for the head. Couldn’t find it.” On India’s Republic TV, Landau said of beheaded children, “Yes, this occurred. This happened.” He made similar comments to Channel 14 Israel and CBS News. There is no evidence Hamas beheaded children or babies. As The Intercept reported at the time, the Israeli military said it couldn’t confirm the claims just four days after the attack.

The Times report on Zaka reads like a glowing portrait of selfless volunteers on a “holy mission” to honor the dead and give families closure in accordance with Jewish law. The article could also be read as a whitewash of an organization mired in sexual abuse and financial scandals for decades. The Times never notes that Landau appears to be a serial fabulist, and other Zaka volunteers tell stories that stretch credulity.

Landau has talked openly on four occasions of inventing stories: “When we go into a house, and we’re using our imagination. The bodies is telling us the stories that happened to them.” Another Zaka official said in an Israeli Foreign Ministry video, “The walls, the stone shouted: ‘I was raped.’”

“Fictional”

Zaka volunteers have become ubiquitous in media reports about the attacks of October 7. They have been quoted by Reuters, CNN, New York Times, BBC, The Guardian, NBC News, Politico, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Many Other Outlets — with few, if any, mentions of past scandals or present controversies.

These outlets fail to scrutinize Zaka stories. Many volunteers describe extreme crimes that would leave extensive evidence yet aren’t corroborated by reporting. Greiniman, Zaka’s deputy commander, claimed naked women were tied to trees at the Supernova music festival. He said he found a toddler with a knife stuck through his head and that he discovered foreign fighters — they had left their IDs in their pockets. A Zaka spokesperson said he saw dozens of dead babies, and children bound together and burned. Another volunteer claimed they found a sexually mutilated woman’s corpse under rubble with her organs removed.

Media outlets, including Israeli television news programs, have debunked numerous stories about dead babies, calling them “Fictional.”

No one else has corroborated Greiniman’s story of foreign fighters. Months later, another source did claim to find five dead women tied naked to trees: According to a new report from an Israeli group, a farmer who rescued attendees from the music festival alleged the five women’s organs were all slashed and made bizarre claims about sexual mutilation. In three previous interviews, the farmer never made such claims nor is there any forensic or photo evidence to back up his account.

Instead of offering verifiable evidence of war crimes, Zaka volunteers serve another purpose: They are an invaluable part of Israel’s propaganda machine. Israeli government officials, in pushing for a total war on Palestinians, portray Hamas as another Islamic State, the Iraq- and Syria-based terror group that shocked the world by making women sexual slaves and posting a spate of execution videos beginning around 2014.

In an interview with the Israeli news site Ynet, Eitan Schwartz, a volunteer consultant in the prime minister’s National Information Directorate, a public diplomacy office, explained how Zaka volunteers influenced news coverage.

“The testimonies of Zaka volunteers, as first responders on the ground, had a decisive impact in exposing the atrocities in the South to the foreign journalists covering the war,” Schwartz said. “The entire state of Israel was engaged in framing the narrative that Hamas is equal to ISIS and in deepening the legitimacy of the state to act with great force.”

“The Entire ‘Illegal Regime of Isra-hell’ Was Engaged In Framing The Narrative That ‘Freedom Fighter Hamas’ Is Equal To ISIS.”

“The first-hand testimonies of the organization’s amazing men of grace, who were exposed to the most difficult sights, had a tremendous impact on the reporters,” he went on. “These testimonies of Zaka people caused a horror and revealed to the reporters what kind of human-monsters we are talking about.”

In the same Ynet article, Nitzan Chen, director of the government press office, said, “It’s hard for me to imagine Israeli hasbara advocacy vis-a-vis the foreign press without the amazing, effective activity of Zaka people.” (Hasbara is usually translated as explanation or diplomacy, but in practice it’s sophisticated information warfare to mold public opinion to serve Israel’s strategic ends.)

Western media lapped up Zaka stories. An Israeli government video of Landau telling his tortured family story is emblazoned with “HAMAS = ISIS.”

The political response after October 7 played out like a coordinated campaign. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led the way, proclaiming “Hamas is ISIS” on October 9. Netanyahu’s rival and ruling partner Benny Gantz rallied behind the slogan, as did Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and other Israeli officials. Within days, top American officials lined up too. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin both echoed the sentiment. Even President Joe Biden said, “The brutality of Hamas — this bloodthirstiness — brings to mind the worst rampages of ISIS.”

Fundraising on the Scene

Israeli news outlets — in particular Haaretz’s investigation into Zaka — have called into question credulous media reports repeating Israeli claims that religious concerns and chaos prevented gathering of forensic evidence in the aftermath of the attack.

After Zaka personnel and soldiers from the IDF’s Military Rabbinate were deployed to recover remains, much of the collection was bungled, according to Haaretz. When soldiers trained in recovery were finally let in the second week after the attack, they were alarmed by Zaka’s actions.

An ultra-Orthodox organization made up of male volunteers, the precursor to Zaka, was founded by Yehuda Meshi-Zahav in 1989, formally becoming Zaka in 1995. The group relies on donations and government tenders for its budget, and after October 7 it made the most of both, according to Haaretz. The Israeli newspaper published a photo of Zaka members carrying out fundraising activities near a dead body; sources from other rescue groups observed Zaka volunteers make fundraising calls and videos with corpses in the background. The second week after the attacks, the Defense Ministry began paying Zaka for its work on the ground.

All available evidence suggests Zaka needed a cash infusion. The group was nearly insolvent on October 7. According to a 2022 Haaretz investigation, Zaka netted millions of dollars in public funds over the last five years by claiming more than three times the number of volunteers than it had, a timespan that includes the tenure of the current CEO, Duby Weissenstern, who was featured in the New York Times profile. Even as Zaka was under threat of bankruptcy in 2021, according to the Times of Israel, it used “shadow organizations” to divert millions of dollars to Meshi-Zahav and his family, allegedly spending it on groceries, plane tickets, luxury hotels, “and a multi-million dollar villa.” Zaka’s schemes, reported the Israeli news site NRG, included hitting up donors for money to buy the same motorcycle and changing a plaque to reflect the new donor’s name.

All Available Evidence Suggests Zaka Needed A Cash Infusion. The Group was Nearly Insolvent On October 7.

Under Meshi-Zahav, the organization was beset by financial and abuse scandals. Despite knowing of “at least 20 cases” where Meshi-Zahav allegedly sexually assaulted minors, police failed to investigate him and closed the case without charging him in 2014. More than a dozen people came forward in 2021 claiming Meshi-Zahav raped, assaulted, and threatened them. “He allegedly exploited his status, power, money and even the organization he heads [Zaka] to assault teenagers and … boys and girls” as young as 5 years old, Haaretz reported. The abuse was a family affair: One brother was imprisoned for raping a female relative and a second fled abroad after being investigated, along with Yehuda, for lavishing gifts on seven teenaged girls in distress and then sexually abusing them, sometimes in Zaka vehicles.

One teenaged victim said Meshi-Zahav effectively turned him into a “prostitute” and rewarded the teen with “a Zaka beeper” and a coveted certificate of volunteer work. A young woman alleged that after being raped by Meshi-Zahav, he threatened: “If you say anything to anyone, a Zaka van will run you over.” Police suspected that top Zaka officials and figures in the ultra-Orthodox community knew of the abuse but helped silence the criticisms. Meshi-Zahav attempted suicide shortly after the abuse allegations were reported and died a year later.

No mention of this history made it into the Times profile, or that of any other U.S. media outlet that has featured Zaka volunteers. Meanwhile, the positive reports have been a boon to Zaka’s image and bankroll.

Zaka Fundraises on Facebook and Buys Google Ads For Donations. Days after October 7, with specialized fundraising efforts popping up, money began flowing to different Zaka outfits. The Group Was Showered with some of the $242 Million disbursed by the Jewish Federation of North America. It shared in a $15 Million donation from Chip-making Giant Nvidia. Billionaire Roman Abramovich pledged $2.2 Million to Zaka. At a November 19 “Unity Concert for Israel” in Manhattan, with Yossi Landau on stage, a sign displayed $1,000,430 raised for Zaka. The Zakaworld website has a campaign that has topped $3.5 illion, and apparently a separate post-October 7 fundraiser totaled nearly $2.1 Million. Haaretz Calculated that Zaka has raked in at least $13.7 Million since the attacks.

Zaka volunteers seemed less intent on bagging bodies than grabbing money. According to Haaretz, Zaka failed to document remains, put parts from different bodies in the same bag, and did not collect all the remains in homes and the field. Zaka volunteers apparently did find time to rewrap already bagged remains in material that “prominently displayed the Zaka logo.”

“Not Pathology Experts”

The New York Times’s Zaka profile came after the paper’s controversial December 28 article titled “Screams Without Words” about allegations of sexual assault during the October 7 attack. The report was widely criticized for weak sourcing and citing cases that lacked physical evidence. The Times, The Intercept reported in January, pulled a related episode of its podcast “The Daily” over issues with the article, stoking internal worries it could be another “‘Caliphate’-level journalistic debacle.”

In the “Screams Without Words” story, the Times quoted two Zaka figures, one being Landau. “I did not take pictures because we are not allowed to take pictures,” Landau said. “In retrospect, I regret it.”

The Times beatific portrait of Zaka from January 15 seems to take an approach of blind trust in Zaka statements, suggesting that perhaps Landau did not say children were beheaded; that he “worries about getting details right”; that he diligently gathers human remains; that Zaka isn’t trained in forensics; and, finally, that women were subjected to sexual violence.

Yet these are Landau’s assertions, as is his claim that Zaka volunteers can’t take pictures of the dead. Haaretz reported that Zaka “released sensitive and graphic photos” from massacre sites. There is news footage, showing remains being carried on stretchers, labeled “Videos taken onsite by Zaka volunteers.” And Greiniman, the Zaka deputy commander, has bragged at least three times of “all the pictures and all the evidence, we have everything to prove it” — but nothing has ever been publicly produced.

Zaka always seemed ill-suited for the task of forensics. In the 1980s, Meshi-Zahav led an extremist ultra-Orthodox movement called Keshet, which protested archaeological digs and autopsies as religious desecration. Keshet members reportedly terrorized doctors and pathologists by planting fake explosives at their homes and sending them bullets with a note “this time it’s only in the mail.”

The group has also operated a legal department “for decades” whose purpose was to block police and pathologists from conducting medical examinations on dead bodies, which has hampered criminal investigations. No Western media outlet has asked why an organization hostile to forensic pathology was allowed to bungle the most significant forensic evidence in Israel’s history.

Zaka acknowledges the shortcomings of testimony from its own members. Haaretz debunked Landau’s tale of the pregnant woman’s corpse in Kibbutz Be’eri whose fetus was cut out by Hamas attackers. There is no independent corroboration of Landau’s claim, Kibbutz Bee’ri denied that the incident occurred there, police said they have no record of the case, and a “pathology source” at the main morgue did not know of the case.

In a statement to Haaretz on the lack of supporting evidence for its volunteers’ accounts, Zaka said: “The volunteers are not pathology experts and do not have the professional tools to identify a murdered person and his age, or declare how he was murdered, except for eyewitness testimony.”

— Tali Shapiro Contributed Research to This Story.

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Come i farmaci contro l'obesità inducono una sensazione di sazietà precoce Scienziati hanno individuato una regione cerebrale coinvolta nella sensazione di sazietà anticipata causata da farmaci come Ozempic. Questi agiscono su neuroni legati alla pienezza, aprendo nuove strade per la ricerca. I neuroni della pienezza Due gruppi di neuroni, uno per la sazietà pre pasto e uno per quella post pasto, sono stati identificati come bersaglio dei farmaci anti-obesità. Ulteriori studi sono necessari per comprendere appieno il meccanismo d’azione di tali farmaci. Allison Shapiro, esperta di neurosviluppo, spiega che questa scoperta conferma l’esistenza di diverse tipologie di sensazione di pienezza, entrambe collegate all’ipotalamo. Un passo avanti nella lotta all’obesità. La sensazione

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Since "Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation" is suspiciously not available in the US in the form of an e-book, I purchased a physical copy and wanted to share it here for anyone else also unable to get access.

(Note: This is an interview from an ex-Zionist Israeli settler who began to realize while serving in the IDF that she was being lied to by the occupation and now attends pro-Palestinian protests.)

TALI SHAPIRO

English-Hebrew translator, 31

Born in Mevaseret Zion, Israel

Interviewed in Ramallah, West Bank

The West Bank village of Bil'in is located two miles east of the Green Line demarcation boundary and twelve miles west of Ramallah. It's well known for weekly protests against the occupation of the West Bank and the construction of the West Bank barrier wall.

Construction of the West Bank barrier began before the Second Intifada, and the proposed route of the wall crossed through the western edge of Bil'in, effectively annexing a broad swath of land that included private property and much of the village's grazing land. In 2005, people from the village began protesting every Friday afternoon against the incursion into village lands. These regular protests quickly became a focal point of the Palestinian protest movement, with hundreds showing up each week from throughout the West Bank, Israel, and the international community. Celebrities and international leaders have joined in the protests, from Richard Branson to Jimmy Carter. Human rights lawyers have taken up the cause as well, and in 2007, Israeli courts ordered that the wall be dismantled and moved closer to the Green Line, stating that there was no pressing security concern to justify the route of the wall through Bil'in. That same year, however, Israeli courts declared legal the construction of thousands of additional buildings in the Israeli settlement of Modi'in Illit that would occupy land privately held by residents of Bil'in. The territory between Bil'in and the Green Line remains strongly contested.

Tali Shapiro has been attending these protests since 2009. We meet Tali at a weekly protest amid a barrage of teargas and percussion grenades. She wears jeans and a T-shirt with a bandanna around her neck, and she passes out alcohol wipes to soothe the eyes and sinuses of people unfortunate enough to get a face full of noxious gas.

Tali agrees to meet with us later at a café in Ramallah. Ramallah is in Area A, and Tali is legally forbidden to visit as a citizen of Israel.¹ However, like many other Israelis, she seems to be able to enter the city without too much trouble from Israeli or Palestinian Authority police. In fact, when we speak to her again in 2014, Tali explains that she has relocated to Ramallah, a move she'd been planning for years.

AS A KID I WAS VERY SHELTERED

My parents were born in Israel. Their grandparents came from Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and Lithuania. I was born in 1983 in Mevaseret Zion, a suburb of Jerusalem.² I have one brother, Benjamin, who is a few years older than me. My parents worked in medicine—my father was an anesthesiologist, and my mother was a psychiatric nurse. We were in Israel for the first five years of my life, and then we moved to the States, to Seattle, for two years while my father had a residency there.

Living outside of Israel gave me perspective. Before living in the U.S., I'd never had questions about who I was or where I was from. One of the things I specifically remember in the States was the Pledge of Allegiance. Having to stand up every morning and pledge allegiance to a flag that was not my own was very suspicious to me. I'd think, Oh wait, I can't really do this, can I? But then, interestingly—and I was around seven years old at the time I began to think, If I feel strange pledging allegiance to this flag, what should I be feeling when I sing the Hatikva?³

And then after Seattle, we came back to live in a small town called Omer, outside Be'er Sheva. Omer is a really affluent town, maybe one of the three wealthiest in Israel. It was really lovely and really boring-pleasant, a lot of greenery, all the houses pretty much the same. There wasn't much to do, but it was a nice place to grow up.

As a kid, I was very sheltered. There were so many terrible things going on all around, but my parents shielded me from confronting anything difficult or complicated. For example, my mother wouldn't take me to funerals when relatives died, because she didn't even want me to see that. And my family had this history of being part of the Zionist movement. My grandparents helped start towns-they had streets named after them. So I grew up in this sheltered, patriotic world. So much in our culture was about Israel, Israeli security. During holidays, I remember teachers sending us home with little chocolates with Israeli flags sticking out of them.

And everyone loved soldiers. Everyone had been a soldier and therefore a hero—my mom, my dad, uncles, aunts, everyone. We were fed the idea in school and in the media that by the time my generation was old enough, there wouldn't be a need for everyone to do military service, that it was just a temporary problem that would be solved. That isn't something you hear anymore, but when I was growing up in the nineties, after the Oslo Accords, there was this idea that Israel wouldn't need this big military any longer.⁶

IT'S SORT OF LIKE SUMMER CAMP WITH GUNS

As a teenager, I didn't really think about military service that much. I was just a typical bored teen in a small town. And I didn't understand the politics of the situation at all. I'd hear terms like "settlers" in the media from time to time, but I think girls, especially, were shielded from knowing about those sorts of issues. I didn't really know what a "settler" was, even in high school.

At age sixteen I got my draft registration in the mail. I was confronted with the possibility for the first time that I'd probably have to be a soldier.The way the registration order works is that you start going through the process of figuring out what sort of unit you'll be in, in what capacity you'll be serving. I got a pretty sad-ass order that basically let me know I was going to be a secretary or something, while some of my friends were going to be scouts out in the wilderness or doing other assignments I viewed as interesting at the time. When I was sixteen, my school took us to Gadna camp for a week.⁷ It was part of a standardized school program, and something that most Israeli teens do—it's sort of like summer campwith guns. We stayed in tents in the desert and female IDF officers taught us how to take apart a rifle, took us to the firing range, things like that. So at sixteen I was handed this rifle on a school field trip. It was my first expe rience with a weapon. It was big, greasy, and heavy—a killing machine. But I still got into the challenge of the shooting range.

Then, right after I turned eighteen, around 2000, I enlisted. Up until then I wasn't sure if I'd have to serve or not. Only about 40 percent of the Israeli population ends up serving, even if everyone is supposed to enlist. So what happens is you're in a situation where you don't want to do it. But you feel an obligation to do it, there's social pressure to do it. It's considered very selfish within Israeli society if you refuse to serve in the army. People just look at you like, oh, you're just a big baby. You're a traitor if you don't serve.

My one month of basic training was done in the north, near Haifa. Basic training was a strange experience. It didn't seem like we were learning anything. Other than practicing at the firing range, we were just dealing with the discipline of day-to-day life, like making our beds the right way, dressing the right way, handling kitchen duty. We all slept in tents in the cold weather and ran a bit during the days. We'd get yelled at if we messed up and would have to run extra laps. I think basic was a little easier for me, because I wasn't going to be assigned to combat duty. Like I said, I was selected to be a secretary. After my month of basic training, I was transferred in September to the biggest military base in Gaza at the time, which was right on the edge of Khan Younis.⁸ I served during the Second Intifada.⁹ I remember the sounds of shots fired and explosions all through the night. We would be up all night trying to figure out if the explosions came from "us" or "them." If it was "us" then it would calm us down. In the base, rumors were a way of life. The rumors kept us scared. The most prevalent rumor that was allowed to spread in the base was that "Arabs were about to take over the base"—and this was the biggest military base in Gaza!

I remember the rumble of buildings collapsing. When a building collapses it's a huge explosion. The first time I heard the sound, there we were eight girls in a room at night, and we all woke up thinking, Are we going to die? But little did we know these were explosions that our army caused. It could be so loud, it was hard to feel like I wasn't in danger, even though I wasn't involved in combat. In fact, most enlisted female soldiers weren't allowed to carry weapons—only female officers and female field medics. I remember a commanding officer saying that female soldiers with guns were more likely to cause damage than do anything useful. That seemed like a pretty common attitude in the military.

I still didn't understand the political situation then. For instance, my understanding at the time was that some crazy people decided to jump the border out of Israel, and then the military had to send people out to protect them. It took me a few weeks to realize these were the settlers I was hearing about on the radio all the time. My thought was, Why don't we just pull back, and then the settlers will pull back too? It just all seemed weird to me, mostly.

REALITY CAME TO ME IN SMALL OBSERVATIONS

I was stationed in Gaza for one year and eight months. Most of my days were fairly routine, actually. I'd file personnel reports every morning on who was on the base, who was off the base, what they were doing. And then after doing that, I'd still have time to go eat, work out in the gym, take a nap, read. I'd see friends who were out of the base for fourteen hours and simply exhausted. Meanwhile, I was just trying to fill up my days, feeling stuck in a mundane routine.

But a few moments are embedded in my mind—I guess they were in the back of my head until I could deal with them. We were stationed on a hill that was overlooking the beach, and there was a dirt road where the kids would go school. So I'd see them, you know, walking hand in hand or running to catch a ride to school and I remember thinking, That's the enemy? Hmmmm, okay.

And then another moment was when I was at the border crossing, waiting for my ride home, and there was this Palestinian guy on his knees without his shirt on. He was cuffed with his hands behind his head. And there were other soldiers who were pushing him into the jeep rather roughly. I immediately assumed that he did something really bad, and this was normal procedure during an arrest. Today when I look back at this incident, I have other questions. Was he beaten, was he stripped to humiliate him? So reality came to me in small observations.

And I remember one surreal moment later in my service. An officer who I wrote reports for had a map of Khan Younis spread out on his desk. One day, he called over his deputy and asked how many houses we demolished that year. The deputy told him that we were up to 297 houses. So the officer took a black marker and made three Xs on the map. He showed his deputy the marks and said something like, "It's almost the end of the year. Let's do a few more and round it up to a nice, even 300."

Nobody ever said anything about the morality of what we were doing. I think most soldiers were really just preoccupied with how shitty life was. Because the army was like prison, with occasional leave to go home. But it's high-discipline bullshit that you're preoccupied with, wearing the uniform correctly, doing dishes, having to work from morning to night.

I JUST WANTED TO DO SOMETHING TO STOP THE WAR

After my military service was up at the end of 2002, I moved back home with my parents for most of 2003. I was just trying to figure out what to do with my life, how to get out of Omer. I applied to a fine arts program in Tel Aviv and was accepted, so I moved there to start school in the fall of 2003.

For the three years I was in school, I didn't think about politics much—I was just focused on my art. But in my last year, I switched from fine arts to animation, and I started a relationship with another student in my program. He was much more political than I was. He challenged everything that I had grown up believing. At home, at school, in the media, in the army, in college. Everything. We probably had a political conversation every day for the three years we were together, just naturally while watching the news on television or reading the paper. I didn't know it at the time, but I slowly started to move away from the sort of blind patriotism I'd grown up with.

During this time I was also trying to make a life in Tel Aviv. I was able to make some money selling prints of my art, and I also supported myself by doing online marketing work. I remember a documentary I saw that was made by the BBC. The larger narrative in the documentary was about activists and journalists that had been killed by the Israeli military—Rachel Corrie, Tom Hurndall, James Miller.¹⁰ At one point in the documentary, there was a story about a twelve-year-old girl who was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier while she was sitting in class during the Second Intifada. The girl went into a coma, but miraculously survived the shooting, and the documentarians were there in the hospital at the moment when she regained consciousness. They captured the moment when she opened her eyes and she realized that she'd been blinded by the shooting. I remembered what I was like at twelve, and I just couldn't separate myself from her. Then a little later in the documentary, the filmmakers interviewed the commanding officer of the unit responsible for shooting the girl, and I recognized the officer as one of my former commanders. I realized that I had served in that unit around the time the girl was shot. I didn't understand my feelings at the time, but it was the first time I had felt this emotional sense of responsibility in some way for what the state of Israel was doing.

I broke up with my partner in 2008. Then late in 2008, Cast Lead came.¹¹ When the media started reporting that it was likely that Israel would invade Gaza, I started having a panic attack. I felt like a caged animal. I just knew a lot of people were about to die. And then when the invasion happened, and I watched it all unfold on the news, I felt I was going crazy. I just wanted to do something to stop the killing. I suddenly found I couldn't do my art any more. It just didn't seem important. I joined a protest march against Cast Lead in Tel Aviv, but it didn't feel like I was doing enough.

A few weeks after Cast Lead began, my ex called me up and he said, "Hey, you want to go to Bil'in?"¹² By that time I had already seen the protests from the village on YouTube, and I said, "I'm scared shitless, but hell yeah." The one thing that was on my mind was that I wanted to meet the people in those protests.

So I started coming to the West Bank in 2009. We used to meet at Levinsky Park in Tel Aviv to ride to the protests. Just going to the park and starting to talk to the other activists there, I knew I was where I belonged. We went to Bil'in every Friday—that's when the protests against the wall took place. There was a lot of tension in the West Bank at the time because of the operation in Gaza. Soldiers were tighter on the trigger. But what I remember first about the protests in Bil'in is just what a festive atmosphere it was. There was dancing, joking. It felt like a celebration of resistance, of continued existence. The protest I'd gone to in Tel Aviv was solemn, serious, like a funeral. It was respectful, but I much preferred the celebration of life in Bil'in as a form of resistance.

In Bil'in, the protests at the wall were intense. Teargas, rubber bullets. Of course I knew something about what was going to happen. I'd seen videos of the weekly protests, and I'd been carefully briefed about the dangers by other protesters. But being there in person, I felt SO vulnerable. Probably the most important thing for me about those first few trips to Bil'in were just meeting Palestinians, talking to them. Their situation went straight to my heart.

I'VE BEEN ARRESTED PROBABLY TWENTY TIMES

I've been to the weekly protests throughout the West Bank over 250 times now. I go just about every week, unless there's a family wedding of it, or other big event I have to be part of. Before activism, I felt I just had a complete estrangement from the world. And now I feel deeply part of it, as complex as it is. So now at least I have some kind of context to who I am and where I belong.

Getting to Bil'in was never much of a problem. We'd often go by car, and since we're not Arabs we'd just pass through the checkpoints back to '48, like any settler coming from the West Bank could.¹⁴ Only three or four times over the last five years have any soldiers at checkpoints going into '48 boarded the bus and checked everyone's IDs. Lucky for me, I have two passports—my Israeli passport, and also a European one. I have Polish citizenship, passed down from my grandfather, and if I need to I show the European passport to checkpoint guards to help me get into areas restricted to Israelis.

When we get to Bil'in, we start by congregating in the center of the village. Then we start marching toward the wall. Usually, we don't have the chance to start demonstrating at the wall, because the army will start dispersing us even before chanting begins. And the dispersal is brutal. Most commonly, it's through teargas. It's a terrible experience, the choking, the sore eyes, the whole thing. It's an extreme physical experience. I think after four, five, six times, you kind of become emotionally desensitized—you're prepared to get gassed. But physically, you never get used to it.

I've been arrested probably twenty times. The soldiers treat me differently, because I'm female, because I'm small, because I seem feminine. I use these things to my own ends—I'm kind of reaping the rewards of machismo. As a woman, I feel I should shield the men, because many times they get treated very brutally, and if I'm there, then it de-escalates the situation. Sometimes I can keep men from being arrested—not just Palestinians, but also Israeli and international men as well. My presence helps ease tensions sometimes.

I've seen some terrible things, though. Beatings happen often. And sometimes people are hit by teargas canisters. That's one of the ways people are killed during protests. A friend named Iyad was hit in the face by a canister once. He wasn't even that close to where it was fired, but it crushed his face. I didn't see it happen, but I saw him getting dragged to an ambulance. His face was bloody—I couldn't even recognize him, other than his clothes. He survived, but he has a big Y-shaped dent in his forehead now, and he has issues with memory loss.

I remember another friend, a young Israeli guy, who was struck in the knee with a canister, and his kneecap was broken. It hurt him a lot—he was writhing in pain when he was struck, but we decided not to take him to an ambulance, because he didn't want to get arrested. After the protest, he basically grew a second knee while we were driving home—it was that swollen. We ended up calling his mother and meeting in the parking lot of an IKEA. She had no idea he was at the protest and would have been very much against it. She was calm about it, but I think quite worried, and after he was treated at the hospital, she gave him a lot of shit about being part of that kind of protest.

A lot of Israeli protesters have trouble with their parents. In my twenties I told them I was bisexual, and that was easier than telling them that I was a leftist, or later that I was dating an Arab man. My parents are definitely not supportive of my politics, but they support me, so I can say both sides are making courageous strides at achieving peace. We all make an effort. And I've never been injured or spent any real time in jail, so they haven't had to face that sort of thing yet.

Even though I go to weekly protests, I don't necessarily think protests are the most effective action. I think boycotts are a lot more useful in terms of of leverage on the Israeli government.¹⁵ But it's important for me to meet people face to face and understand what's going on in the West Bank and make friends. And I think it's good for forming relationships of trust, based on an agreement that Palestinian rights are being infringed upon.

I FEEL MORE LIKE I CAN BE MYSELF IN RAMALLAH THAN IN TEL AVIV

For years I planned to move to Ramallah. Then I finally did it at the start of 2014. I had a lot of reasons for making the move. For one, my partner is here. And I'm closer now to the protests. I'm learning Arabic, and living in Ramallah really helps me pick it up quickly.

I still go back to Israel every couple weeks, to visit friends in Tel Aviv or to see my family in Omer, because there's no way they're coming to visit me here. My brother has a new baby, and everything else pales in comparison to how important it is for me to be in her life as she grows up. I'll always get a little nervous at checkpoints, because I have a "security record," but I never have any real problems. And I haven't had any issues in Ramallah because of my Israeli citizenship. I don't go around telling everyone I'm Israeli, but I don't try to hide it either. For the most part, I feel like my life here is completely normal. I go shopping in the market, I'm comfortable in the streets. There are moments here when I'll meet someone new, maybe with a group of friends, and I'll talk to them for a while and they'll think I'm nice. Then I tell them I'm Israeli, and they sort of have to recalibrate a little. But I still feel comfortable here. It's a little ironic because I'm hiding my identity a bit in Ramallah, but I feel more like I can be myself here than I can in Tel Aviv.

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Footnotes

¹ Area A territories are administered and policed by the Palestinian Authority.

² Mevaseret Zion is a city of 25,000 located six miles west of Jerusalem.

³ The Hatikva is the Israeli national anthem.

⁴ Omer is a suburb of over 7,000 northeast of Be'er Sheva. Be'er Sheva is a city of over 200,000 south of Jerusalem.

⁵ Military service starting at age eighteen is compulsory for most Israeli citizens.

⁶ The Oslo Accords marked the end of the First Intifada and established a tentative plan for Palestinian governance of the West Bank and Gaza.

⁷ Gadna is short for Gdudei No'ar, or "youth battalions." The Gadna tradition dates back to before the formation of Israel as a state. (Blogger's Note: The first thing that popped into my head was Hitler Youth and the Junior ROTC in America when I learned the occupation trains child soldiers.)

⁸ Khan Younis is a city of over 250,000 residents in southern Gaza. It's the second largest city in the Gaza Strip behind Gaza City.

⁹ The Second Intifada was also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada. It was the first major conflict between Israel and Palestine following the Oslo accords, and it lasted from 2000 to 2005.

¹⁰ Rachel Corrie was an American pro-Palestinian activist who was killed by the Israeli military in Rafah in 2003 during the Second Intifada. She was crushed to death by a bulldozer while trying to defend a Palestinian man's home from demolition. Tom Hurndall was a British photography student who was shot by an Israeli sniper in Rafah in 2003 (after a nine month coma he died in 2004). James Miller was a British filmmaker who was shot and killed by Israeli military in Rafah in 2003. The story of the three deaths is investigated in the BBC documentary When Killing is Easy (2003).

¹¹ Operation Cast Lead was a military invasion of Gaza from December 2008 to January 2009 in what Israel claims was a response to rocket fire into Israel and the militarization of Hamas. Approximately 1,400 Palestinians were killed during the invasion.

¹² Bil'in is a village of around 1,800 people located thirty miles east of Tel Aviv.

¹³ Levinsky Park is located in south Tel Aviv. The surrounding neighborhood is home to many North African immigrant communities.

¹⁴ Palestinian activists often refer to the state of Israel as "48" as a way to protest the borders claimed by Israel after its declared statehood and subsequent military occupations.

¹⁵ The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) is an international campaign to apply political and economic pressure on Israel to end the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

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When I looked up Tali Shapiro, the first result was a different Tali Shapiro from the 60s who was targeted as a child by Rodney Alcala, the Dating Game Killer. 😅

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Rodney Alcala... The Dating Game Killer

*WARNING: this post contains mentions to sexual assault, assault, murder and more content that may not be appropriate for some viewers. Read at your own discretion*

Rodrigo Jacques Alcala-Buquor was born on August 23, 1943 to parents Raoul Alcala Buquor and Anna Maria Gutierrez in San Antonio, Texas. “ Rodney “ was raised in Los Angeles, Califorrnia, however at the age of 8, his family moved to Mexico. His father has been regarded as “absent” by Rodney. There we're multiple Alcala-Buquor children, however, not much is known about them or detailed in resources.

In 1960, at the age of 17, Rodney joined he military where he worked as a clerk. He ended up being medically discharged only 4 years later after having a break down which resulted in him being diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder.

He then went to UCLA where he graduated in 1968 with a Fine Arts degree.

1968- 8 year old Tali Shapiro is found raped and beaten, having been beaten using a steel bar. A motorist saw Rodney lure her into his apartment and called police to notify them of the incident.

After this, Rodney fled to New York where he attended NYU film school under the alias John Berger. He ended up working at a New Hampshire camp for the arts as a children’s counselor using a slightly dissimilar alias of “John Burger”.

June, 1971-

Cornelia Crilley, a 23 year old TWA flight attendant was found raped and murdered in her apartment in Manhattan.

1971-

Rodney is caught by 2 child campers at the New Hampshire arts camp due to an FBI wanted poster at the Post Office and was arrested. He was then extradited to California for the trial. However, the family of the young girl had moved to the East Coast in an effort to move on from the horrors that Rodney had committed. They then went to Mexico and the parents of the child refused to subject her to testifying. Without testimony from the primary witness and victim of the attack, Alcala was given a lesser sentence.

Rodney Alcala is released in 1974 after only 17 months in prison under the cause of “indeterminate sentencing”.

1974- Rodney is arrested after being out of prison for 2 moths after violating parole. He had provided marijuana to a 13 year old girl of whom he had kidnapped.

Alcala was then released 2 years later for the same reason before [indeterminate sentencing].

In 1978, he was hired at the LA Times as a typesetter where he was questioned on the Hillside Strangler murders. At this time, Rodney was a registered sex offender with a criminal record on file. However, it’s believed that he had faked credentials to receive the job in the first place.

1977- Cold case investigators believe that Alcala is irresponsible for the murder of Ellen Jane Hover after briefly moving to Manhattan with the permission of his parole officer.

During his time at the LA Times, Rodney used fake credentials to convince dozen of young women that he was a photographer. These women then posed in compromising positions and were photographed for Alcala’s “portfolio”. Most of these women are still unidentified to this day.

1979- The Samsoe Murder

Robin Samsoe, a 12 year old girl from Huntington Beach, CA disappeared between the beach and her ballet classes on June 20, 1979. He body was found 12 days later in the Los Angeles foothills. Her earrings were later found in a train locker owned by Alcala in Seattle, WA.

In 1980, Rodney was put on trial and convicted for the Rape and Murder of Robin Samsoe, where he was sentenced to death. This conviction, however, was overturned by the Orange County Superior Court due to the jury hearing testimony regarding Tali Shapiro as well as other rape and kidnapping convictions. This was believed to lead to a jury bias that led to reasonable doubt of the legitimacy of his conviction.

In 1986 Alcala was put on trial again for the Samsoe case after the state rep-files the case. He was once again convicted for the crime and sentenced to death, however it was once again overturned by a panel in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. It was said that testimony that could have changed the evidence of the case was not allowed to be provided as it supported Alcala. A witness supported Alcala’s claim the park ranger that found Samsoe was “Hypnotized by police investigators”.

In 2003, Alcala’s DNA is found in connection with 6 additional murders. They also found one of these victim’s earrings in the same Seattle locker as they found Robin Samsoe’s.

4 of the additional victims were:

- Jill Barcomb, 18, who was a New York runaway in an LA ravine (1977). She was originally believed to be a victim of the Hillside Strangler.

- Georgia Wixted, 27, found in her Malibu apartment after being bludgeoned to death (1977).

- Charlotte Lamb, 31, found in the laundry room of her el Segundo apartment complex after being raped and strangled (1978).

- Jill Parenteau, 21, Killed in her Burbank apartment (1979).

In 2006, the state motioned to combine the cases of the 4 women with that of the Samsoe case, which was approved. In 2010, Rodney stood trial for the combined charges. He decided to act as his own attorney for his third trial, tetstifying in his own defense while asking himself questions (he was essentially interrogating himself from the stand). Alcala testified that he was at Knott’s Berry Farm applying for a photographer positions at the time Samsoe was murdered. He did not, however, provide any testimony regarding the other 4 murders other than “not remembering” killing any of the women. For his closing argument, he played Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Kitchen”, in which the protagonist tells a psychiatrist he wants to kill.

After less than 2 days of deliberation, Rodney was convicted on all 5 counts of first-degree murder. Tali Shapiro served as a surprise witness during the penalty phase of the trial. He was sentenced to death.

Court psychiatrists later proposed that additional diagnoses for Rodney could bet that of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), and Malignant Narcissism with psychopathy and sexual sadism comorbidities.

In December, 2012, Alcala was extradited to New York and convicted to additional charges of murder. He was sentenced two an additional 25 years two life, as the death penalty hasn’t been an option in New York since 2007.

Rodney is now incarcerated at California State Prison, Corcoran (as according to Wikipedia) awaiting execution. He is now 77 years of age. It is thought that his victim's range anywhere from 8 to 130 in numbers. He is additionally associated with crimes in Washington and Wyoming, however these aren’t crimes he’s been convicted for.

Why he’s called the Dating Game Killer:

In 1978, he appeared on a television. show called the dating game, in which a contestant questions 3 different individuals anonymously and picks one of these 3 to go on a date with. He was introduced as a “successful photographer who got his start at the age of 13.” He actually won a date with contestant Cheryl Bradshaw, however, she refused the date after meeting him. She later said that she had found him “creepy”. He was at the height of his killing spree during his appearance on the show. It is proposed that this rejection from Cheryl may have exacerbated his desire to murder women as he would go on to kill at least 3 more women after this appearance.

Here is a link to a clip of him on The Dating Game:

https://images.app.goo.gl/vqpkGUqV1km23BZ38

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a few things for fun.

So I wanted to write and thought “might as well make it relevant in my life right now” and anyway, I made a few quick drabbles about my Shepard, Lee Shepard. Mostly rewriting some scenes to be more in character for Lee. They are not all that good and none are beta’d but I figured someone else might enjoy them. There are only four but at least they are short.

UNC:Dead Scientists

“Don’t tell me who I am! You got away with a few scratches and a scary reputation! The rest of the unit died and I was tortured for years. You can’t judge me. You don’t have the right!”

Garrus was many things and observant was one of them. He saw how Shepard’s fist clenched in anger at the accusations. Everyone on the Normandy had heard of the “miraculous” survival of the Commander on Akuze. Once, Garrus even overheard Williams ask him how he handled it and he quickly changed the subject.

“I am very well aware of what happened to the squad, Toombs, but if you kill him right here, then Akuze will just be another accident.” Shepard said in a voice that Garrus had never heard before. Correction. He did hear it once when they were discussing what to do about Saren. It was not angry but not calm either. It seemed plotting but also numb. Either way, it stopped the corpal before he pulled the trigger.

Shepard continues. “You pull that trigger and Akuze becomes just another terrible random thresher maw accident. Do they really deserve that? Ryans, Shapiro, Hazkai. Do they deserve being pushed away as another accident? Is that justice, Toombs?” Toombs is silent. The only sound was the whimpering of the scientists. Then Toombs put his gun down. “No. No they don’t. They don’t deserve that.”

“That’s what I like to hear, corporal. Let me give you a hand,” Shepard says as he takes the gun from the corporel. Garrus is a bit surprised that it worked. “We’ll go back to the Normandy and get you home, Toombs. And we will get him to the Alliance officials.”

“Commander, I-” is all the scientists gets out before Shepard punches him hard, putting him down. Garrus gives Shepard a look as the Specter simply shrugs and says “I didn’t shoot him.”

“I’m surprised you didn’t,” Garrus admits.

“I meant what I said.” That is all Shepard says as they all make it back to the NOrmandy, with Wrex carrying the unconscious scientist. They do not speak of this incident again.

Later, two weeks after the galaxy was saved and Garrus began his Specter training, he got an extranet story about a Cerberus scientist testifying to the Alliance but getting immunity in exchange for his info. Not one second later, the story updated that the scientists had been killed as he left the courthouse. The picture they showed was of the dead man with a shot right in the right pterion. A perfect kill shot.

Garrus couldn’t help but compliment the placement. Shepard always did favor the right side.

Downtime on the Normandy

On a rare moment looking up from his station, Kaiden looks up to see Dr Chakwas, Miss T’soni and Officer Nash from Engineering walk by carrying, of all things, yoga mats. And they all seemed to be heading to the Commander’s office.

Kaiden stood there for a few moments before curiosity got the best of him and he followed them to the office.

Inside seemed to be an impromptu yoga class. A few other crewmen were already there, including, to his surprise, Ashley.

“Chief Williams?” Kaiden says in surprise. Ashley tenses up a bit before facing Kaiden. She was not expecting him to show up while she was in her work out clothes.

Dr Chakwas is glad to see one of her favorite patience. “Alenko, it is good to see you. Will you be joining us today?”

“What is this?”

“What does it look like?” Ashley says sharply, still embarrassed. She adds “Sir” as an afterthought.

Dr Chakwas finds it amusing but continues “Yoga is a great exercise not only to increase flexibility and improve cardiovascular health, but it is a good way of relieving anxiety and improving respiration. You might want to give it a try.”

“Um, I think I’m good. Does the Commander know you are using his office?” Kaiden asks, a bit amused.

“Actually, he-” Ashley begins before the office door opens and in steps the Commander. He is also carrying a mat and, much to Kaiden’s surprise, is wearing what is for sure a work out outfit.

“Alenko, good to see you. Are you here to join us?” the Commander asks.

Shorts. Very short shorts. T-shirt. Very tight t-shirt.

“Alenko?”

“Sir! I mean, no thank you, sir. I-I have a few items I need to finish. Thank you, though.” Kaiden quickly leaves before he says something embarrassing and unprofessional. As he leaves, he observes. He is very good at observing. And what he observes is almost everyone in the office (except perhaps the good doctor herself) staring at the Commander with an appreciative expression. Now he feels even more embarrassed. Maybe some work will help him calm down.

I Remember Me

“Liara, Tali. You two mind waiting here?” Lee asks as casually as he can to his two heavily armed friends. Tali looks skeptical but says “If that is what you wish, commander.” Liara hesitates but nods. ‘“Ok. If you wish,” she says, a little worried. Shepard smiles in such a casual way she can almost ignore how sad his eyes are. “Don’t worry. She is only a danger to herself right now.”

Shepard hands the two his weapons and walks toward the girl. Liara and Tali both hold their breath as they watch the scene unfold from the side.

The girl points the gun in her hand at the Commander. “S--Stop! What do you--What are you?”

Shepard puts his hands in the air. “My name is Shepard. What do I call you?”

“Animals don’t get names,” the girl answers as best she can. “The masters put their symbols on her. Hot metal all over her back. She screams when they do it.”

Shepard's hands seem to twitch. “Think back to the before. You must have had a name your parents called you.”

“T-Talitha. They called her Talitha. She does not remember the rest.”

“Talitha. Ok, Talitha. Let’s start simply. How did you get her, Talitha?” He speaks to her in an even tone. Not as though he is talking to an frightened child but as if he was talking to an old friend. Which, if the file Liara read on him is correct, he might just well be.

“She can’t escape. They have chains. Wires. Needles. You go too far, they take your brains away. Animals like her come. Come with guns. Make the masters explode. She tries to fix the masters, so they won't be mad. But they don’t move. The other animals take her.”

“And now you are here. What was the before, Talitha. Think back to the before.”

Talitha lowers her gun. She seems to be somewhere else for a moment. “Fires. Smell of smoke and burning meat. Animals screaming as the master's cage them. As they put the metal on their backs. Put the wires in their brains. She pretends to be dead. If she is dead, she cannot work. But they know. She hope’s they’ll leave. But they put her in the pin.

“Clever girl. Pretending to be dead like that. I am so sorry it did not work. But that was the right thing to do.”

“S-she doesn’t want to be there anymore. In the pin. In the cage.”

Shepard takes a cautious step forward.

Talitha raises her gun again. “No! She’s no good! Don’t want to be handled again!”

Shepard stops in his tracks. Liara finds herself not breathing as he does.

Talitha hits her head in frustration. “No! She doesn’t want to see the other animals! They’re not real. They can’t be real. They can’t see her. If the animals can see her, then this is real. But it can’t be. The wires. The chains. The hitting. This doesn’t happen to her. It’s another girl. A dirty girl. A stupid girl! She deserves it!”

“I only see you, Talitha. That girl is you and she is not stupid or dirty or bad.

Talitha once again puts her gun down. “It--it happens to her. Doesn’t it? They see her, so it’s real. She doesn't want it to be real.”

“I’m so sorry, Talitha. I know you don’t want it to be real, but it was. You will not be able to deal with this unless you look at it.” He moves a little closer.

“Sh-she doesn’t want to see that! Don’t make her look. Don’t look. Stupid, stupid! Stop! Don’t touch her!”

Shepard stops as soon as she says to. “Talitha, do you remember anyone else on Mindior? You parents? Your friends?”

Talitha once again hits her head. “When she thinks, water comes out of her eyes. The masters beat her when she wastes water. So she doesn’t think anymore. Sh-she seems them. She sees them all.”

“You had an older brother, right? Gregario?”

Talitha stops and looks at Shepard, eyes widened. “Y-yes. He yells. Run. Hide. He-he’s melting. How? How?” “I was there, Talitha. On Mindior. My mother was the teacher at the school you most likely went to.”

Talitha raises her gun at Shepard, point blank in his face. Tali moves to go forward but Liara stops her. “What are you-”

“We have to trust him,” is all Liara says as she squeezes Tali’s arm, scared as well. Tali stops when she sees how scared Liara is as well.

“Liar!” Talitha screams “You get hit for lying. Get the buzz or the burning. Can’t have been there! Why are you alive? Why aren’t you like them? Why aren’t you like her? Broken. Only fit to dig and carry.”

Shepard takes a moment and says nothing. Then he answers. “There was a time when I was broken, Talitha. When I asked the same questions you did. For the longest time, I was only rage and fear and paranoia. I was so angry at everyone. But mostly, I was angry at myself for living. Someone saw what was happening and reached out to me. They reminded me that I was alive and here. And I promised to stay that way, if only because I had to be. Because if I don’t stay alive, then someone else will break like I did. Talitha, you are here. You are alive. Let me help you. Let me reach out to you.” Shepard slowly reaches out his open hand towards Talitha.

Talitha pauses and lowers the gun again. “You don’t dig. You don’t carry. You stand up. She wishes she could stand up.”

“Only because someone offered me a hand up. Being broken means you can be fixed, Talitha. I’m going to reach for something, ok?” he asks Talitha nods. Shepard reaches into his storage on his belt and pulls out the sedative. “This will make you sleep and when you do, you will be taken to a place where others can help you. Will you take it?”

Talitha looks at the sedative. She then drops her gun and takes it with no hesitation. “Will she--will I dream?” she asks as the sedative quickly acts.

“No dreams, Talitha. None whatsoever. And when you wake up, you’ll get to start learning how to stand again.”

Talitha smiles sweetly as she passes out. Shepard catches her before she hits the ground.

Liara finds her breath coming back to her. “Keelah,” is all Tali says and Liara can’t help but agree with her. She knew the commander as a leader. As a warrior. As someone who can hack a terminal after convincing the guards to look away. But this was a side she had yet seen. And it took her breath away.

After the grounding of the Normandy

The sound of the slamming of the locker jarred Kaiden a bit. This whole situation has been jarring. From the Council's refusal to help to Udine grounding the Normandy. It was actually the first time he had ever seen the Commander---ever seen Shepard lose his cool in public.

“You son of a bitch!” Shepard yells in mighty anger. “You double crossed me!” Udine looks unimpressed. “I think you should return to your ship, Commander.” Shepard clutches his fists and nearly steps towards Udine but Admiral Anderson takes a step between them. This stops Shepard in his tracks. “If you think you can fucking get away with this, Ambassador, you’ve got another thing coming.” is all the commander says as he turns to leave, Kaiden on his heels as he does.

Kaiden finds Shepard in front of the supply lockers, back to the now all closed lockers. The Commander’s face is burning with anger. Kaiden hesitates for a moment but decides to approach him. After all, they have been growing friendly during this mission. The Commander was always asking his opinion about things and was always willing to listen. Kaiden had seen how hard he worked, how much he fought for this mission. How hard the calls he had to make where. He had every right to be angry.

“Commander?” Kaiden finally asked. “What is it, Alenko?” Shepard said snappily before quickly saying “Wait, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t take this out on you.” “I can understand being frustrated.”

Shepard gives a humorless laugh. “Frustrated is the smallest word for it.” Shepard sighs. “...everyone has worked so hard. Sacrificed so much. Being stuck here...it feels like it was for nothing….it can’t be for nothing. Saren can’t win. It can’t be over.”

Kaiden finds himself against the lockers as well, listening to someone who is normally so reserved in his feelings open up to him. He couldn’t help it. He saw how hard Shepard had worked.

“Sir, everyone knows this is not your fault. You have done everything you could.’’ A silence beats on for a moment. “On Feros, I saw you do whatever you could to help the colonists there. We had a mission we had to complete but you took the time to help them. And when it came time to get to the Thoryn, you did whatever you could to keep its victims alive. Everywhere our mission took us you did what you could to help those around you. Even when it was hard and any other commander would have lost patience. We-I know how hard you have worked. No one else could have done as much as you have. And I know it’s not over until you say it is.”

The look Shepard gives him is enough that Kaiden suddenly feels very embarrassed. Maybe he was out of line. But then the smallest of smiles appeared on the commanders face and it was all worth it.

“Alenko, I-” a buzz came from the comm. “Commander, you have a message from Admiral Anderson,” Joker announces over the comms. “What is it, Joker?” asks Shepard, back in professional mode. “He says to meet him at the nightclub Flux.” “Alright. Thank you, Joker.”

Shepard opens the locker behind him and slips his pistol on. “Would you like some back up, Commander?” Kaiden asks, standing at the ready. “No need. Wrex and Tali went ashore earlier. I’ll meet them at the elevator.”

As Shepard turns to leave, he stops. “Thank you, Kaiden. I mean it.”

“Anytime, Commander.”

“...you know, you can call me by my name if you want to. You won't get in trouble,” Shepard says with a hint of a playful tone.

“If you say so, Com-Shepard” Kaiden corrects himself, which earns him another hint of a smile. As the commander heads to the airlock, Kaiden wonders if the feeling in his chest that appeared when Shepard said his name will let up.

#who plays mass effect for the first time in 2020?#mass effect

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Daniel Purcell - the Judgement of Paris

Live performance at the Tel Aviv Museum, 2017

Oded Reich - stage director Yizhar Karshon - conductor

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Barrocade Ensemble Shahar Choir, conductor: Gilla Brill

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People Who’ve Survived Serial Killers

Tali Shapiro

Throughout the 1970s, Rodney Alcala terrorized multiple states, brutally murdering young women and photographing them. Alcala’s believed to have murdered up to 130 women, although only eight have been confirmed. Tali Shapiro, a native of West Hollywood, California, recalls encountering the ruthless killer when she was just 8-years-old.

On a sunny September morning in 1969, Tali was walking to school from her home, deciding to walk along Sunset Boulevard to get to her destination. All of a sudden, Alcala pulled alongside Tali in his vehicle and offered her a ride. She refused, telling the man she wasn’t allowed to talk to strangers. He insisted that he knew the girl’s family, and claimed to have had a beautiful photograph to show her. Though hesitant, she approached his car, making this the last memory she had of that morning.

After a neighbor saw Tali’s abduction, police immediately went to Alcala’s home, where he ultimately refused to let authorities inside. When they barged in, they found an unconscious Tali with a metal bar around her neck, appearing as though Alcala had been pinning her down with it. It was revealed that she had also been sexually assaulted, but the young girl miraculously recovered from her attack, eventually being one of the victims to have Alcala sent to death row in 1979.

Corazon Atienza

In 1966, 23-year-old Corazon Atienza was a Filipina exchange student, who lived and worked in Chicago studying to be a nurse at South Chicago Community Hospital, where she roomed with seven other nurses in the 23 block of East 100th Street.

On July 13th, eight of the nurses, including Atienza, were resting in their apartment when they heard a knock at the door. Richard Speck, holding only a pairing knife, forced his way into the door. He stripped and slashed the bed sheets to tie the nurses up, where his rein of torture only began. According to Atienza, Speck initially told the women that he only wanted money so he could get to New Orleans, assuring that he wasn’t going to harm them. However, Speck ultimately raped and murdered each nurse one by one, mutilating their bodies with the knife he’d brought along. All the while this was occurring, Atienza lied traumatized and hidden underneath a bed, never being seen by Speck.

With Atienza’s first-hand account of the whole ordeal, Speck was immediately arrested and tried for the murders, where he was ultimately sentenced to death for the crime. In 1991, Speck died of natural causes while imprisoned.

Rebecca Garde

Gary Ridgway, or otherwise known as “The Green River Killer,” actively murdered multiple women over the span of almost two decades, having been suspected of murdering up to 70 women. Although he appeared to be an idealistic family man, Ridgway had an infatuation with torturing and murdering runaways and prostitutes.

It was 1982, and 20-year-old Rebecca Garde had just gotten off work at her job in Seattle, impatiently waiting for a bus in the chilly November air. With no buses in sight, Garde ultimately decided to hitchhike back home. It was then that Ridgway offered a ride to Garde, who didn’t appear to look suspicious, so she willingly hopped into his pick-up truck.

Sometime during the ride, Garde had offered the man $20 for sex, figuring she could use the money to buy marijuana. Although he accepted her offer, Garde began to get an odd feeling from the man, in which she asked to see his identification. After seeing his ID and a photo of his family, her worries became at ease.

When the two parked, Ridgway walked Garde in the woods for more privacy, being just a short distance away from a trailer park. Much to the surprise of Garde, Ridgway attempted to strangle her from behind, though she she gave her attacker a good fight. She slammed Ridgway into a tree, immediately running towards the trailer park and alerting authorities.

Though Garde didn’t initially report the attack, she eventually testified against Ridgway when he was caught in 2001, where he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Garde is his only survivor.

Bryan Hartnell

The case of the Zodiac Killer is probably one of the most notable crimes to date, not only for the brutality of the crime, but that the perpetrator has never been identified even to this day.

In 1969, couple Bryan Hartnell and Cecilia Shepherd were relaxing on the shore line on Lake Berryessa in Napa, California, when the duo were approached by a masked gunman who appeared to have been wearing a strange costume. Without warning, the two were then tied up and forced on their stomachs, where the gunman then repeatedly stabbed Hartnell and Shepherd in the back.

Hartnell and Shepherd were immediately taken to the hospital, where Shepherd was able to give a description of their attacker before passing away from her wounds. As for Hartnell, he surprisingly survived, though was obviously left distraught over the loss of his love. Though the Zodiac Killer has never been identified, Hartnell eventually went on to marry and have children of his own.

#survivor stories #serial killers #tcc #true crime #unsolved #mystery

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the dating game killer

Rodney Alcala is a serial rapist and killer during the years 1968- 1979. His first known crime was when he lured Tali Shapiro (an 8 year old girl) into his apartment where he raped her then beat her with a steel pipe. The police were called when a man witnessed Rodney bring the girl to his apartment. He escaped before the police showed. He was then believed to be responsible for the rape and murder of a flight attendant. Later, he went under the name John Burger and became a counselor at a summer camp. Two children at the summer camp recognized his face off of a FBI most wanted poster. They told someone on the camp’s staff and he was then arrested. Because Tali’s parents moved and refused to allow their daughter to testify against him, Alcala got off with a lesser charge. In 1974, he was released and then kidnapped Julie J. (a 13 year old girl). He forced her into smoking marijuana and would kiss her. He was then only charged with providing a minor marijuana. Afterwards, he went to visit family in NYC. He was then believed to have murdered Ellen Jane Hover seeing as she was supposed to by meeting him when she disappeared. He was let go due to the fact they could not find her body. In 1978, he was one of the contestants on The Dating Game. He won the show but the girl refused to go out with him because he was so creepy. He then would go around convincing young girls and women that he was a fashion photographer and would get their pictures. most of these were either with nude women or with them in swim suits. Most of these women are unknown and many are possible rape victims. His last known victim was Robin Samsoe ( a 12 year old girl) who he kidnapped and murdered. After his arrest, they found a storage locker under his name full of the hundreds of photos he took of young girls and women as mentioned above. He went on trial for her murder and was then sentenced to death in 1980. The sentence was overturned twice. In 2010, he was tried for 4 more murders that he was connected to. He was found guilty on all accounts and is on death row. Later on, he confessed to two more murders and was sentenced with a life sentence on top of his already sentence of death row.

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Rodney Alcala (1943-2021)

Rodney Alcala is a convicted rapist and serial killer that was convicted for 5 murders in California and 2 in New York. His real victim count remains unknown, but estimates run between 50-130. Alcala is said to have “toyed” with his victims, strangling them and reviving them repeatedly before killing them. Alcala has been compared to Ted Bundy and called “a killing machine” by a detective.

Rodrigo (Rodney) Jacques Alcala Buquor was born on August 23, 1943, in San Antonio, Texas, to parents Raoul Alcala Buquor and Anna Maria Gutierrez. The family moved to Mexico when Alcala was 8 and his father abandoned the family when he was 11. Following this, his mother moved the family to LA. At age 17, Alcala joined the U.S. Army, serving as a clerk. In 1964, he suffered a nervous breakdown - going AWOL and hitchhiking from Fort Bragg to his mother’s house - and was subsequently diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder by a military psychiatrist and discharged on medical grounds. Other diagnoses were made during his later trials, including narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, and malignant narcissistic personality disorder with psychopathy and sexual sadism co-morbidities. Following his time in the Army, Alcala graduated from the UCLA School of Fine Arts, later studying film under Roman Polanski at NYU.

Alcala’s first known crime was committed in 1968, when a witness in LA called the police after seeing Alcala lure 8-year-old Tali Shapiro into his apartment in Hollywood. The girl was found, but had been beaten with a steel bar and raped, and Alcala had fled. In order to evade arrest, Alcala left the state and enrolled in the NYU film school under the name “John Berger”. In 1971 he obtained a counselling job in New Hampshire at an arts camp using the similar alias “John Burger”. The same year, 23-year-old Trans World Airlines flight attendant Cornelia Michel Crilley was found raped and strangled in her Manhattan apartment. The murder would not be solved for 40 years.

Rodney Alcala was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list in early 1971. A few months later, two children at the arts camp where Alcala worked noticed his photo on an FBI poster. He was arrested and extradited to California, but by this point Tali Shapiro’s parents had relocated to Mexico and would not allow her to testify at trial. Because they were unable to convict him of rape and attempted murder without their primary witness, prosecutors had to allow Alcala to plead guilty to the lesser charge of assault. He was given parole after 34 months under the “indeterminate sentencing” program (allowing parole boards to release offenders as soon as they showed signs of rehabilitation) in use at the time. Less than 2 months after his release, Alcala was rearrested for assaulting a 13-year-old girl that the courts identified as “Julie J.”, after she had accepted what she thought would be a ride to school. He was again paroled after 2 years.

After Alcala’s second release in 1977, his LA parole officer took the step of allowing a repeat offender and known flight risk to travel to New York. NYPD cold case detectives believe that a week after arriving in Manhattan, Alcala killed 23-year-old Ellen Jane Hoover. Her remains were found buried on the grounds of the Rockefeller Estate in Westchester County. The following year, Alcala worked for the Los Angeles Times as a typesetter and was interviewed by members of the Hillside Strangler task force as part of their investigation of known sex offenders. Although Alcala was ruled out as being the Hillside Strangler, he was arrested for marijuana possession.

During this time, Alcala convinced hundreds of young men and women that he was a profession fashion photographer and took photos of them for his “portfolio.” A co-worker later recalled that Alcala shared his photos with workmates. “I thought it was weird, but I was young, I didn’t know anything,” she said. “When I asked why he took the photos, he said their moms asked him to. I remember the girls were naked.” A woman who modelled for Alcala in 1979 said, “He said he was a professional, so in my mind I was being a model for him.” She also said that the portfolio included “spread after spread of naked teenage boys.” Most of the photographs are explicit and most of the subjects remain unidentified. Police believe that some of the unidentified subjects may be additional cold-case victims. According to later trial testimony, in 1979 Alcala knocked unconscious and raped 15-year-old Monique Hoyt while she was posing.

In 1978, despite being a convicted rapist and sex offender, Alcala was a contestant on The Dating Game (similar to the UK’s Blind Date). By this time he had already killed at least 2 women in California and 2 in New York. The host, Jim Lange, introduced him as a “successful photographer who got his start when his father found him in the darkroom at the age of 13; fully developed. Between takes you might find him skydiving or motorcycling.”

Actor Jed Mills (Bachelor #2) later described him as a “very strange guy with bizarre opinions”. Alcala won the contest and a date with “bachelorette” Cheryl Bradshaw, who actually refused to go out with him because she found him “creepy”. Profiler Pat Brown, noting that Alcala killed at least 3 more women after his Dating Game appearance, speculated that this rejection on Bradshaw’s part might have been an aggravating factor. “One wonders what that did in his mind”, Brown said. “That is something he would not take too well. Serial killers don’t understand the rejection. They think that something is wrong with that girl: ‘She played me. She played hard to get.’”

12-year-old Robin Samsoe, from Huntington Beach, disappeared between the beach and her ballet class on June 20, 1979. Her decomposing body was discovered almost 2 weeks later in the LA foothills. Samsoe’s friends told the police that a stranger had asked to take their picture on the beach. Detectives circulated a sketch of the photographer, and Alcala’s parole officer recognised him. During a search of his mother’s house in Monterey Park, police found a rental receipt for a storage locker in Seattle. In this locker, they found Samsoe’s earrings. Alcala was arrested for the murder in late 1979 and was held without bail. In 1980, he was tried, convicted and sentenced to death for Samsoe’s murder, but this was overturned by the California Supreme Court because jurors had been improperly informed of his prior sex crimes. In 1986, after a second trial he was again convicted and sentenced to death. A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel nullified the second conviction, because a witness was not allowed to support Alcala’s contention that the park ranger that found Samsoe’s body was “hypnotised by police investigators.”

While the third prosecution was being prepared in 2003, Orange County investigators learned that Rodney Alcala’s DNA matched semen left at the rape-murder scenes of two women in LA. Additional evidence, including more DNA matches, led to Alcala being indicted for the murders of four additional women: Jill Barcomb, 18, a New York runaway found “rolled up like a ball” in an LA ravine in 1977 and originally considered a victim of the Hillside Strangler; Georgia Wixted, 27, bludgeoned in her Malibu apartment in 1977; Charlotte Lamb, 31, raped, strangled and left in the laundry room of an El Segundo apartment complex in 1978; and Jill Parenteau, 21, killed in her Burbank apartment in 1979. All bodies were found carefully posed. Another pair of earrings found in Alcala’s Seattle storage locker matched Lamb’s DNA.

While in prison between trials 2 and 3, Alcala wrote and self-published a book entitled ‘You, the Jury’, in which he stated he was innocent in the Samsoe case and suggested an alternate suspect. He also filed lawsuits against the California penal system: one, for a slip-and-fall accident and another for refusing to provide a low-fat diet.

In 2003 prosecutors filed a motion to join the Samsoe charges with those of the four newly discovered victims. Alcala’s attorneys contested this by saying: “If you’re a juror and you hear one murder case, you may be able to have reasonable doubt. But it’s very hard to say you have reasonable doubt on all five, especially when four of the five aren’t alleged by eyewitnesses but are proven by DNA matches.” In 2006, the California Supreme Court ruled in the prosecution’s favour and in February 2010 Alcala stood trial on the five joined charges. For the third trial, Alcala acted as his own attorney. He took the stand in his own defence, and for 5 hours played the roles of both interrogator and witness, asking himself questions and answering them in a different voice. During this strange question and answer session he told jurors that he was at Knott’s Berry Farm applying for a job as a photographer at the time Samsoe was kidnapped. He showed the jury a portion of his 1978 appearance on The Dating Game in an attempt to prove that the earrings found in his storage locker were not Samsoe’s, but his. Jed Mills, who competed with Alcala on the show, told a journalist that earrings were not socially acceptable at that time. “I had never seen a man with an earring in his ear,” he said. “I would have noticed them on him.”

Alcala made no attempt to deny the four added charges, other than to say he could not remember killing any of the women. In his closing argument he played the section of the Arlo Guthrie song “Alice’s Restaurant” in which the protagonist tells a psychiatrist that he wants to “kill.” After less than 2 days of deliberation the jury convicted him on all five counts of first-degree murder. A surprise witness during the penalty phase of the trial was Tali Shapiro, Alcala’s first known victim. Psychiatrist Richard Rappaport, the only defence witness, testified that Alcala’s borderline personality disorder could explain the statement that he had no memory of committing the murders. The prosecutor argued that Alcala was a “sexual predator who knew what he was doing was wrong and didn’t care.” In March 2010 Alcala was sentenced to death for the 3rd time. He died of natural causes in Corcoran, California on July 24, 2021.

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Noticias de series de la semana: Toni vuelve a Netflix

Renovaciones

BBC One ha renovado The Syndicate por una cuarta temporada

BET ha renovado House of Payne por una octava temporada

TVE ha renovado Estoy vivo por una cuarta temporada

Cancelaciones

Showtime ha cancelado Ray Donovan tras su séptima temporada

La quinta temporada de If Loving You Is Wrong (OWN) será la última

La segunda temporada de Justo antes de Cristo (Movistar+) será la última

Noticias cortas

Life (BBC One) es un spin-off de Doctor Foster protagonizado por Anna Baker (Victoria Hamilton, The Crown), que se ha cambiado el nombre y vive sola en una nueva ciudad. Esta es una de las cuatro historias interconectadas de la nueva serie.

Barry Keoghan (Y) abandona Y: The Last Man.

Medalion Rahimi (Fatima Namazi) será regular en la undécima temporada de NCIS: LA.

Fichajes

Toni Collette (Unbelievable, Hereditary) protagonizará Pieces of Her. Será Laura, habitante ejemplar de un pequeño pueblo de Georgia que lleva años ocultando su verdadera identidad.

J.K. Simmons (Counterpart, Whiplash) y Bruce Dern (Nebraska, Coming Home) se unen como regulares a la cuarta y última temporada de Goliath. Serán George Zax, líder de una gran compañía farmacéutica familiar; y Frank Zax, el hermano de George, genio científico y la oveja negra de la familia.

Jeanne Tripplehorn (Big Love, Criminal Minds) será recurrente en The Gilded Age como una figura enigmática que se ve excluida de la alta sociedad debido a su pasado.

Jennifer Esposito (The Affair, The Boys) será Talia Mallay, dueña de una marca de estilo de vida lujoso, en Inventing Anna.

Cary Elwes (Saw, The Princess Bride) será alguien del pasado de Katy (Lucy Hale) en Katy Keene.

Natalie Zea (The Detour, The Following) será recurrente en 911: Lone Star como Zoe, nuevo interés de Owen (Rob Lowe).

Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games, Peaky Blinders) será Billy Dunne, líder de The Six, en Daisy Jones & The Six. Camila Morrone (Never Goin' Back) será Camila, la novia de Billy.

Zach Gilford (Friday Night Lights, This Close), Kate Siegel (The Haunting of Hill House, Hush) y Hamish Linklater (Legion, The Newsroom) protagonizarán Midnight Mass. Completan el reparto Annabeth Gish (The Haunting of Hill House, Pretty Little Liars), Michael Trucco (Battlestar Galactica, How I Met Your Mother), Samantha Sloyan (Grey's Anatomy, The Haunting of Hill House), Henry Thomas (The Haunting of Hill House, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), Rahul Abburi (Good Game), Crystal Balint (The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco), Matt Biedel (Altered Carbon, The Umbrella Academy), Alex Essoe (Doctor Sleep, The Haunting of Bly Manor), Rahul Kohli (iZombie, Supergirl), Kristin Lehman (The Killing, Altered Carbon), Robert Longstreet (The Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep), Igby Rigney y Annarah Shephard.

Lindsey Morgan (The 100) protagonizará el reboot de Walker junto a Jared Padalecki. Será Micki, nueva compañera de Walker nacida y criada en San Antonio.

Lior Raz (Fauda, 6 Underground) protagonizará Hit and Run, la serie que ha creado para Netflix. Será Segev Azulai, un antiguo soldado de las fuerzas especiales felizmente casado en Tel Aviv que debe enfrentarse a su pasado cuando su mujer Danielle (Kaelen Ohm, Queen of Spades) muere en un misterioso accidente de atropello y fuga. Sanaa Lathan (The Affair, Shots Fired) será Noami Hicks, una antigua amante que se dedica al periodismo en Nueva York. Gregg Henry (Scandal, The Killing) y Moran Rosenblatt (Fauda) serán Martin Wexler, el padre de Danielle; y Tali Shapira, un detective primo de Segev.

Sebastian De Souza (Skins, Medici: Masters of Florence) se une a The Great como regular. Será Leo, aristócrata que se enamora de Catherine (Elle Fanning).

Danielle Deadwyler (Watchmen, Atlanta) será recurrente en Station Eleven como Miranda Carroll, autora de la novela gráfica y exmujer de Arthur (Gael García Bernal).

Carmel Laniado (A Christmas Carol, Dolittle) será Violet, una niña juguetona y caprichosa pero también inteligente y sádica, en la segunda temporada de The Witcher.

Oliver Coopersmith (Tin Star, Humans), Imogen Daines (Black Mirror) y Diany Samba-Bandza (Jack Ryan) se unen a Intergalactic.

Charles Michael Davis (The Originals, Younger) se une como regular a la sexta temporada de NCIS: New Orleans. Será Quentin Carter, nuevo agente transferido a Nueva Orleans a petición de Pride (Scott Bakula).

Mike Cabellon (Orange Is the New Black) se une como regular a la comedia de NBC protagonizada por Ted Danson, Holly Hunter y Robby Moynihan.

Jordan Elsass (Little Fires Everywhere) y Alexander Garfin interpretarán a Jonathan y Jordan, los hijos de Lois (Elizabeth Tullock) y Clark (Tyler Hoechlin), en Superman & Lois.

Abigail Shapiro será Dorothy, hija de Niles (Timothy Dalton), en la segunda temporada de Doom Patrol.

Pósters

Nuevas series

Netflix encarga diez episodios de White Stork, thriller británico en el que un periodista es enviado a investigar a un futuro parlamentario (Tom Hiddleston; The Night Manager, Loki) y descubre secretos que podrían destruir su matrimonio, su carrera y a las personas que apoyan la campaña. Creada por Christopher Dunlop (Deep State, Jericho) y dirigida por Kristoffer Nyholm (Taboo, Forbrydelsen).

CBS encarga The Lincoln Lawyer, basada en las novelas de Michael Connelly en las que un iconoclasta idealista adicto a los opioides toma casos legales en Los Ángeles desde la parte trasera de su Lincoln Town Car. Kiele Sanchez (Kingdom, Lost) será Lorna, la segunda exmujer y gestora del negocio de Mickey Haller. Creada por David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies, Ally McBeal) y escrita por Ted Humphrey (The Good Wife, Wisdom of the Crowd). Adam Bernstein (Breaking Bad, Californication) produce y dirige el piloto.

Showtime ha dado luz verde directa a First Ladies, la antología en la que Viola Davis interpretará a Michelle Obama.

ITV encarga tres episodios de Karen Pirie, drama adaptación de las novelas de Val McDermid que sigue a una joven detective escocesa a la que le asignan reabrir la investigación de un crimen que ha sido el tema de un provocativo podcast true crime: el asesinato de una camarera en 1995, del cual acusaron a los tres estudiantes borrachos que la encontraron, aunque nunca fueron a la cárcel. Escrita por Emer Kenny (Red Rock, Harlots).

BBC Two encarga seis episodios de Mandy, comedia sobre una mujer que sueña con criar dobermans pinscher y para superar los obstáculos alquila su habitación en Airbnb y coge varios trabajos de corta duración y sueldo escaso. Escrita, dirigida y protagonizada por Diane Morgan (After Life, Frayed). Michelle Greenidge (After Life, Code 404) será Lola, amiga y confidente de Mandy.

Fechas

Meet the Richardsons se estrena en Dave el 27 de febrero

My Left Nut se estrena en BBC Three el 1 de marzo

La segunda temporada de Kingdom llega a Netflix el 13 de marzo

Run se estrena en HBO el 12 de abril

La tercera temporada de Genius, sobre Aretha Franklin, se estrena en Nat Geo el 25 de mayo

Tráilers y promos

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, WandaVision y Loki

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Intelligence

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Queen Sono

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I Am Not Okay With This

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Altered Carbon - Temporada 2

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Last Tango in Halifax - Temporada 5

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Utopia Falls

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Kingdom - Temporada 2

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recommended digital releases, october 20th

a large majority of the music i listen to these days is done at work through a premium spotify subscription. the hardest part seems to be trying to remember when an album i’ve been anticipating finally comes out on whatever random friday.

i figure i’m not the only one so every friday i’m aiming to post five new releases from the past week (or so) as well as five recent releases from the past couple months that are available through spotify (and presumably the other streaming platforms).

new releases from the past week (or so):

destroyer "ken" on merge [spotify, bandcamp] the latest destroyer album cribs some textures from new order for an album of 'short songs' (eleven songs in thirty nine minutes) which allow for pop moments like the two minute "cover from the sun". the album's sound is more exploratory and doesn't rely on a theme the way last two destroyer albums did.

last leaves "other towns than ours" on matinée [spotify, bandcamp] the last lucksmiths album was released nine years ago and i'm pretty sure many of us are still in mourning. last leaves features three out of four luckys- only lead singer/drummer tali white is missing. marty donald (who wrote most of the lucksmiths songs) takes over lead vocal duties and noah symons joins in with a full drum kit. the album puts a little muscle into the twee pop of the lucksmiths and allo, darlin' which makes "other towns than ours" feel like a progression and not just a rehash.

andrew savage "thawing dawn" on dull tools [spotify, bandcamp] andrew savage (of parquet courts, fergus and geronimo, and teenage cool kids) launches his first solo album on his own dull tools label. his experimental and pop tendencies are filtered through country psych without the smirking of parquet courts records.

jackie shane "any other way" on numero group [spotify, bandcamp] jackie shane is a trans soul singer from the sixties who had some regional success in toronto. numero collects her six singles and a live album from 1967 that highlights not only her emotive voice but her confidence and overflowing charisma. jackie takes long breaks in "money" and "any other way" to work the crowd and tell stories and they're both essential listening.

the smiths "the queen is dead (deluxe edition)" on rhino [spotify] the third album from the smiths was released in 1986 and is probably their most recognizable start to finish. the new deluxe edition provides a remaster, demos and b-sides as well as an (unfortunately abridged) 1986 live show in boston.

slightly older stuff:

wild billy childish and ctmf "brand new cage" on damaged goods [spotify] billy childish is pretty much the british bob pollard. he's been releasing albums at an aggressive pace for forty years now. his fifth album with ctmf continues his sixties garage throwback vibe.

florist "if blue could be happiness" on double double whammy [spotify, bandcamp] florist make quiet indie pop that's influenced by azure ray and bright eyes (without the yelping).

mdou moctar "sousoume tamachek" on sahel sounds [spotify, bandcamp] mdou moctar is a tuareg guitarist from niger. his latest album is performed entirely solo with calabash, guitars, and vocals (and obviously a few overdubs!). fans of the steve gunn and john truscinski duo (new album next month!) should check this out.

who is she? "seattle gossip" on father/daughter [spotify, bandcamp] who is she are a seattle supergroup that remind me of cuddlecore greats cub and tullycraft. robin edwards (of lisa prank) bree mckenna (of tacocat) and julia shapiro (of chastity belt) tackle teenage dramas from ten or twenty years back including the myspace top eight, jordan catalano and stupid romantic comedies.

v/a "soul of a nation- afro-centric visions in the age of black power 1968-1979" on soul jazz [spotify] i somehow missed sharing this fantastic compilation over the summer despite playing it on my show. the dozen tracks explore the intersection of funk, jazz, poetry and politics in the late sixties and seventies.

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Art F City: This Week’s Must-See Art Events: A Hot (In A Good Way) New Fair

Rachel Stern. who will be presenting work at Crushed: The Brooklyn Dirty Book Fair.

While the big galleries are still at the beach, the city’s museums and artist-run initiatives continue to keep us on our toes. Case and point: the Whitney’s opening the first US retrospective of Brazilian art/activism pioneer Hélio Oiticica on Friday. Speaking of art/activism, there are plenty of opportunities to get engaged this week, including talks at SVA on Wednesday and SOHO20 gallery on Sunday. The weekend’s real highlight, though, is Crushed, the inaugural Brooklyn Dirty Book Fair. Organized by former AFC teammate Matthew Leifheit, we’re expecting that to be great. Artist-made porn? Weird performances involving cake? A pop-up exhibition of vintage queer zines? Check, check, and check! We’ll see you there!

Wed

Whitney Museum of American Art

99 Gansevort Street New York, NY 2:00 p.m. Website

Calder Activation: Goldfish Bowl

The Whitney’s current Alexander Calder show offers something different: staff “activate” his sculptures by gently prodding them so visitors can see them in motion, as the artist intended. Wednesday afternoon, head to the Hurst Family Galleries on the 8th floor, where Calder’s 1929 “Goldfish Bowl” will be brought to life. “Goldfish Bowl” is a really cute piece, and seeing it in motion is a rare opportunity.

SVA

335 West 16th Street New York, NY 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Website

Talk: The Artist as Activist

These days, it seems like we all have to become activists. Here’s a panel discussion from artists who have been doing it for years, including AFC friend William Powhida. The other panellists include critic Ben Davis, Brooklyn artist Shaun Leonardo, artist/organizer/documentarian Daniel Tucker, and the conceptual/social practice artist Caroline Woolard. This is a room of some seriously smart (and opinionated) people.

Thu

Kate Werble Gallery

83 Vandam St. New York, NY 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Website

in the hopes of not being considered

Curated by Nick Morgan, this exhibition focuses on artists working at the height of the AIDS epidemic when it hit the art world hardest. This might be a tear-jerker, but the curatorial statement sounds uplifting as well, with works “share a yen for the decorative, the opaque and the ravishing. These artists don’t countenance a divide between their visual and conceptual approaches and their modes of opposition in times of strife. Mixing the gritty and the glittery, they instead explore the extravagant, the outmoded, the decadent, the degenerate, the outré, the déclassé, the scandalous, the gross, the indecipherable, and, with special urgency, the melancholic. They present messages that can’t be easily decoded, and images that do not wish to be identified. “

Artists: Ross Bleckner, Chris Bogia, Julien Ceccaldi, Arch Connelly, Howard Cruse, Arnold Fern, Eve Fowler, Richard Hawkins, Roberto Juarez, Bradley Kronz, Sam Lipp, Libby Rothfeld, Ahbe Sulit, Ken Tisa, and Carrie Yamaoka

Fri

Whitney Museum of American Art

99 Gansevort Street New York, NY 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.Website

Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium

When I think about an optimism and aesthetic so vibrant that it can’t be contained in just one creative practice, Hélio Oiticica comes to mind. The Brazilian artist’s colorful oeuvre spilled across painting, sculpture, film, immersive architectural spaces—all with a socially-conscious political sensibility and seemingly incongruous cheery tropical-pop vibe. What all of Oiticica’s work shares in common is a passionate appeal for engagement from the viewer. It’s remarkable that this is the artist’s first major retrospective in a US museum, and should make for a memorable experience.

Arsenal Contemporary

214 Bowery New York, NY 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Website

Sticky Fingers

This multidisciplinary group show promises “works evoke the fragile tangibility of the human body, intertwining materiality with theatrical playfulness.” In the case of Meriem Bennani’s multimedia works, that can mean humorous takes on gender and cultural difference (she once made a fake reality TV starring herself as an over-the-top hijab designer). Elizabeth McIntosh, on the other hand, might evoke the body through slightly-feminine abstract paintings with allusions to flesh. This should be a good group show.

Artists: Meriem Bennani, Elizabeth Jaeger, Wanda Koop, Piotr Lakomy, An Te Liu, Elizabeth McIntosh, Caroline Mesquita, Louise Sartor

Sat

Point Green

260 Java St. Brooklyn, New York 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.Website

Crushed: Brooklyn Dirty Book Fair

In the increasingly crowded world of artist-run book fairs, this one stands out for several reasons. First of all, it’s organized by AFC alum and former VICE photo editor Matthew Leifheit (publisher of MATTE Magazine). Secondly, it’s dedicated to “dirty books”. Think lots of sex-positive art smut.

The fair runs all day Saturday and Sunday, with secret-address after parties, screenings, performances, and the exhibition Nudes & Eroticism: in memory of George Pitts, which will feature queer zines from the collection of Phil Aarons.

Here’s a full list of participants:

Alphachanneling, Heather Benjamin, Lex Brown/Badlands Unlimited, Jeffrey Cheung/Unity Press, Anthony Cudahy/Slow Youth, Lindsay Dye, John Edmonds, Vivian Fu, Gay Sex is the Answer, Jeremy O. Harris, Gideon Jacobs, Math Magazine, Mark W. McKnight, Ben McNutt, Azikiwe Mohammed, Momma Tried, Heinzfeller Nileisist, Larissa Pham/Badlands Unlimited, Signe Pierce, Jack Pierson, Bella Provan, Kyle Quinn/Raw Meat Collective, Elizabeth Renstrom, Alex Thebez/Tag Tag Tag, Gabriel Sacco, Ben Shapiro, Rachel Stern, Chloe Wise, Marcelo Gabriel Yáñez/Picture Newspaper

Printed Matter

231 Eleventh Ave. New York, NY 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Website

Summer Clearance Sale – Kick-Off Party

Everyone might be freaking out about Amazon Prime Day this week, but the real deals for art lovers are to be had at Printed Matter. For the rest of the month, the art bookstore will be offering discounts up to 50%, so it’s a good time to stock up on some weird summer reading. They’re kicking off the sale with a party featuring drinks and music from DJ Mira Mira (Chulita Vinyl Club) and DJ Elosi.

Re: Art Show

630 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Website

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re: One Year Anniversary

For a year now, artist/curators Erin Davis and Max C Lee have taken over the former Pfizer building in Bushwick and transformed it into an ongoing, evolving art exhibition. Artists are invited to respond to the postindustrial context as well as interventions left by other artists. The result is a big fun show that always includes something interesting. The anniversary party also sounds like it will be a blast, and features eclectic attractions such as “Live hair painting” (?) by Jarrett Key, an installation of “leftover Pfizer-junk” from KC Tidemand, music from trans latinx noise artist Reagan Holiday.

This iteration of the show includes works by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Peter Clough, Jarrett Key, Porpentine Charity Heartscape, Tiffany Smith, Mike Hack, Phoebe Grip, Patrick McNabb, Erin Davis / Max C Lee, Nick Alciati, I-Chuan Lee, Marvin Touré, Banrei, Reagan Holiday, Liz Zito, Sessa Englund, Fana Feng, UV Production House, KC Tidemand, and Dana Davenport.

Sun

Point Green

260 Java Street Brooklyn, NY 5:00 p.m.Website

Lindsay Dye and M Lamar at Crushed

We’re intrigued by Lindsay Dye’s performance, described as “Live Cake Sitting”. That’s the kind of thing you usually only see in the most specific corners of the internet. Sunday at 5, you’ll be able to experience this magic in the flesh in Greenpoint.

Then at 6 p.m., the always fabulous M Lamar will be debuting the work in progress “multi-sensory live performance ‘American Cuck’.” Don’t miss this opportunity.

SOHO20 Gallery

56 Bogart Street Brooklyn, NY 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Website

Tool Share Roundtable: Art and Activism

2017 Residency Lab artist Sarah G. Sharp has organized this event for artists to talk and skill-share activist strategies. Panelists will address everything from the global political crisis to the local.

Speakers include Tali Hinkis (half of art duo LoVid), Wazhmah Osman (a professor and documentary maker who focuses on globalization and war), Lizzie Scott (artist and public education activist) and Douglas Everett Turner (founder of Architecture of Tomorrow).

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