Authorities have seized an allegedly looted headless statue, believed to depict Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, from a museum in Cleveland, Ohio.
According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper, the museum’s website had until recently described the statue as “The Emperor as Philosopher, probably Marcus Aurelius (reigned AD 161-180)”.
But a few weeks ago the website changed to say it is a “Draped Male Figure, c 150 BCE-200 CE” of possibly Greek or Roman origin.
The statement added that the museum “believes that public discussion before a resolution is reached detracts from the free and open dialogue between the relevant parties that leads to the best result for all concerned”.
On Thursday, they said it was related to an “ongoing criminal investigation into a smuggling network involving antiquities looted from Turkey and trafficked through Manhattan.”
Zeynep Boz, the head of the Department for Combating Illicit Trafficking at Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, said in a statement that “the enduring dispute surrounding this matter has kept Marcus Aurelius separated from his hometown for far too long”.
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It was a sunny spring day in Indian-administered Kashmir, and after more than three and a half years of visits to courts and police stations, they had received good news - Asif Sultan, a journalist, husband, father and son, had been granted bail.
The BBC has spent more than a year investigating accusations against the Indian government that it is running a sinister and systematic campaign to intimidate and silence the press in the region.
Journalists say the Indian government is trying to shut down reporting related to separatist movements and militant groups, but also any coverage critical of the security forces or the administration, even on day-to-day civic issues.
That’s when India revoked the region’s special status and divided the country’s only Muslim majority state into two territories which are now controlled by the national government led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
In a region ridden by conflict, one space where journalists could meet freely, discuss stories and share their anxieties was the Kashmir Press Club in central Srinagar.
Over the past decade, all of India has witnessed a serious decline in press freedom, which is reflected in global rankings, cases against journalists and raids against media houses.
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There’s plenty stuff to criticise her for without having to bring up that completely unfounded sex trafficking story.
How about the fact that she helped popularize and legitimise Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop grift? Or that she gave doctor Phil a head start to his media persona and subsequent popularity? And then did it again with Dr Oz? And what about her help in legitimising Jenny McCarthy’s “vaccines cause autism” claims by lending her a global stage and audience for her wackjob pseudoscience? Or the time she legitimised cultist weirdo John of God? Or helped Tom Cruise deflect some serious allegations related to Scientology by allowing him to go bananas on her couch?
Like I said, there’s enough stuff she legitimately did to criticise her for without some fake news conspiracy bs.
Schools in England must immediately shut buildings made with a type of concrete that is prone to collapse unless safety measures are in place, the government has said.
Safety measures include propping up ceilings in buildings made with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC).
The Department for Education (DfE) has not given a timeline for replacing the RAAC, but school leaders have called for an “urgent plan” to fix buildings.
A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) in June assessed the risk of injury or death from a school building collapse as “very likely and critical”.
It highlighted concerns for school buildings that still contained RAAC - a lightweight form of concrete prone to collapse, used widely between the 1950s and mid-1990s.
“The plan we have set out will minimise the impact on pupil learning and provide schools with the right funding and support they need to put mitigations in place to deal with RAAC”.
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Must be nice living amongst celebrities that would literally rebuild an entire town to its original glory.
Meamwhile in Seattle, the home of billionairemakers the place could burn down over night and we’d see sleeping bags for sale from Amazon and Microsoft would offer you a month of free bing then Boeing would giveaway free flights on a faulty jet to Spokane.
Summary: construction next door to middle school dumped perlite on the roof of the middle school. The perlite absorbed water, got heavier, and broke the roof.
“The cost for breaking the law is too low in this country, people don’t have any respect for the law, that’s the key reason,”
Sounds familiar.
Future generations have it figured out. The cost for breaking a law must always exceed any gains made from doing so. Otherwise it’s just the cost of doing business.
“This is a lightweight “bubbly” form of concrete used widely between the 1950s and mid-1990s - usually in the form of panels on flat roofs, as well as occasionally in pitched roofs, floors and walls. It has a lifespan of around 30 years.”
A concrete panel expected to last 30 years was installed in 1995, in what year should you replace it?
What year math is that you suppose? Third grade? Fourth grade? Just asking…
Who cares? I just need to get the construction in under budget so that I can get my end of year bonus, this will all be some other idiots problem soon enough.
Another pile of shit that we’ve inherited from fucking boomers who’ve failed to invest adequately in their children’s futures because they were more interested in a quick buck for themselves. The most entitled generation in human history and the first to leave the planet in a worse stat than which they found it in.
Donald Trump’s trial in Georgia over charges of election fraud will be livestreamed and televised, a judge has ruled.
All the hearings will be available live on Fulton County Court’s YouTube channel, said Judge Scott McAfee.
Mr Trump and 18 people are charged with a conspiracy to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election results.
Mr Trump briefly travelled to Atlanta last week to turn himself in at Fulton County Jail and have his mugshot taken.
Prosecutors allege that he pressured Georgia officials to reverse the results of the election in the state, which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
The former New York real estate tycoon is the current frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination and his mounting legal problems have done nothing to dent his popularity among his supporters.
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Oh great. I’ll get live updates from the Heritage Foundation and the Daily Signal about how Biden’s anarchistic will is being carried out through Fani Willis in an egregious abuse of the law to prosecute the greatest political force for good the world has ever seen since Chile’s Pinochet.
I really don’t think this is a good idea. Fascist media will be selectively editing the footage to tell lies about what’s really going on, and we all know the people that watch/listen to that garbage are not concerned with actual facts.
The media already does that, so it’s really no different. Without live streaming, the media would just straight up lie about what happened in court and live streaming provides vital protection against that. Trump WILL lie about what happens in court, this is why they are live streaming it.
Disinformation will be spread regardless. Yes, if there’s footage it does mean it can be edited and spliced. But then it’s even easier to clearly show that it’s disinformation if people can just watch the footage.
Precisely this. Whether they have public video of the trial or not, Republicans are going to make up a fantasy version of it anyway. Might as well have this major piece of history on public record as it happens.
So far they have all had the luxury of having their cases behind closed doors. There’s so many times where a judge has laid into them for trying to push ridiculous shit. If that happens (which we know it will because they are clowns) it would be great for the public to see the look on their faces.
Short memory; there were protests and violence when he was acquitted. I can’t blame you for not remembering it after almost 30 years; chances are you probably weren’t born. But OJ had a lot of rabid, brain dead supporters, and he had a lot of rabid, brain dead opponents. And that was for a single guy (allegedly? He was found not guilty) murdering his wife, not a rich dude trying to subvert democracy.
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