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Razor wire put up at new Chinese super embassy site after youths scale gate in security incident

Razor wire put up at new Chinese super embassy site after youths scale gate in security incident

Razor wire has been put up at the site of the planned new Chinese super embassy in London after a security incident. A small group of youths are understood to have clambered over a gate, around ten feet high, to access a slip road to the site of the new diplomatic complex. They are believed to have been confronted by a security guard as objects were hurled over the gate by other youngsters. Around 20 youths in total were involved in the incident. In response razor wire has been put up around the area. Razor wire around the site of the planned new Chinese super embassy in Tower Hamlets (Unknown) But the wire has fuelled concerns of local residents over the scale of security measures that will be built for the new embassy. “That’s an excessive reaction. They have got CCTV and security guards,” said Mark Nygate, treasurer for the Royal Mint Court Residents’ Association. “It adds into our fears about what it will be like once the embassy is alive and active and being …

Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire goes woke with Rosa Parks revisionism

Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire goes woke with Rosa Parks revisionism

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court further hollowed out the Voting Rights Act, continuing a decades-long project of dismantling the legal infrastructure that protected Black suffrage. Observing the responses to the decision, The Nation’s Elie Mystal noted the distinct tenor of celebration from conservatives delighted at the possibility of vanquishing Black political power through gerrymandering.  Now the right-wing media ecosystem appears ready for the next phase of the project. If Black political gains are to be rolled back, then the historical basis for those gains must also be discredited. The Civil Rights Movement cannot remain a sacred democratic triumph if modern conservatives hope to argue that anti-discrimination laws represented a constitutional mistake.  In the trailer for a new Daily Wire series titled “The Real History of the Civil Rights Movement,” the voice of right-wing podcaster Matt Walsh drips with the practiced solemnity of a whistleblower exposed a grand conspiracy. “Since the 1990s, America’s classrooms have turned Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks into sacred Civil Rights icons,” he says. “But what if almost everything …

‘Euphoria’ Star on That Surprise Death and His First Job on ‘The Wire’

‘Euphoria’ Star on That Surprise Death and His First Job on ‘The Wire’

[This story contains spoilers from the third episode of Euphoria season three.] The first time Darrell Britt-Gibson appeared on our screens, he killed a beloved character on one of the greatest TV shows ever: The Maryland native had joined The Wire in its fourth season as Darius “O-Dog” Hill, a member of the crew backing rising gang leader Marlo Stanfield (Jamie Hector) — and who promptly killed Preston “Bodie” Broadus (J.D. Williams), whom viewers had been following since the pilot.  “People still haven’t forgiven me for that — my own mom has a problem with me for that one,” Britt-Gibson says with a laugh. “Going out in the world in Baltimore, and just in general, people did not like me. It was a very visceral reaction, people not liking me. I was unaware of the magnitude of the show.” Now 20 years later, Britt-Gibson is back on an HBO hit, again circling various crime underworlds and again spending a lot of time with some OG fan favorites — in this case, no less than the series protagonist. …

Why Is China’s Embassy In D.C. Hardening Security Perimeter With Barbed Wire

Why Is China’s Embassy In D.C. Hardening Security Perimeter With Barbed Wire

Washington, D.C.-focused local outlet Popville, short for Prince of Petworth, posted several images showing barbed wire being installed around the security perimeter of the Chinese Embassy. The photos appear to show at least four workers installing the barbed wire atop an already hardened perimeter wall of block and iron fencing.  Embassies in Washington face security risks, but the sudden decision to further harden the Chinese compound raises obvious questions: whether Beijing is responding to a specific threat, anticipating protests or unrest nearby, or preparing for the arrival of a senior official or foreign delegation. We should also note that activist networks aligned with pro-China and Marxist groups have called for May 1 general strike actions aimed at disrupting the U.S. economy. It remains unclear whether the embassy’s sudden security hardening is connected to those planned demonstrations or to some other threat stream. Source link

Jonathan Majors suffers fall on set of Daily Wire movie as crew strikes over safety concerns

Jonathan Majors suffers fall on set of Daily Wire movie as crew strikes over safety concerns

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Footage has emerged of Jonathan Majors and another actor unintentionally falling through a window on the set of his comeback movie amid reports that some members of the film crew’s have since walked out citing safety concerns. It was reported earlier this year that Majors is starring in an as-yet-untitled action movie produced by right-wing media company The Daily Wire, co-created by conservative commentator Ben Shapiro. The film will mark the 36-year-old former Marvel actor’s first on-screen role since being convicted in 2023 of assaulting his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari. In footage obtained by Deadline, Majors and fellow actor JC Kilcoyne can be seen jumping backwards into an unsupported window, which gives way. According to reports, the two men fell about six feet to the ground, and Kilcoyne required stitches in his hands. In the clip, a voice that sounds like Majors …

Jonathan Majors Falls Through Window of Daily Wire Movie Set

Jonathan Majors Falls Through Window of Daily Wire Movie Set

A video has surfaced of Jonathan Majors falling through a window on set of the Daily Wire and Bonfire Legend’s untitled action movie. The video, published by Deadline, came to light after reports that crew were organizing a strike and claiming unsafe conditions. In the clip, Majors and his co-star, JC Kilcoyne, fall out of shot and out of the window, with the outlet noting that sources said Kilcoyne required stitches “all over his hands” after the fall, which was about six feet to the ground. When asked for comment about the video of Majors and Kilcoyne allegedly falling through a window on set, Dallas Sonnier of Bonfire Legend told The Hollywood Reporter, “The actors’ fall was shorter than the failed movie careers of the now-union reps.” Kyle Rankin serves as writer-director of the film; Ben Shapiro is producing for Daily Wire and Sonnier for Bonfire Legend. Travis Mills, Lillian Campbell and Sydney Aucreman are also producing. THR has reached out to Daily Wire for comment, but did not hear back by the time of publication. The …

Dead Man’s Wire review: Bill Skarsgård is deeply unsettling in retro hostage drama

Dead Man’s Wire review: Bill Skarsgård is deeply unsettling in retro hostage drama

Bill Skarsgård plays Tony Kiritsis, a down-on-his-luck Indianapolis man convinced his mortgage brokers had screwed him over. In 1977, he snuck a sawed-off shotgun into their downtown offices and took Richard Hall (Dacre Montgomery, shaking off his Stranger Things heart throb status) hostage, looping a homemade contraption around his neck that ensured if police shot Kiritsis, Hall would die with him. He demanded $5 million and a full apology from Hall’s father. Source link

Dead Man’s Wire review – an outrageous true crime story told blandly by Gus Van Sant

Dead Man’s Wire review – an outrageous true crime story told blandly by Gus Van Sant

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Gus Van Sant’s latest holds you hostage. You’re stuck right by Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård), who on February 8, 1977 strolled up to the offices of his mortgage broker, the Meridian Mortgage company, and wrapped a thin wire around the neck of the owner’s son, Richard Hall (Dacre Montgomery). One jerk, one stumble, one dash for freedom – the wire would pull, the shotgun attached to the other end would fire, and Richard’s head would be blown to smithereens. It’s a contraption called the “dead man’s wire”, which also lends the film its title. Yet, what feels claustrophobic about Dead Man’s Wire is less its imminent threat (if you don’t know how the real-life tale ended), but the audience’s proximity to Tony, who possesses Skarsgard’s globe-sized eyeballs, to which the actor’s added a twitchy intensity, a moustache, and a fringe that …