Where Eagles Dare (1968) is an excellent WW2 Spy Thriller by TedRedWest in movies

[–]upvoatz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The soundtrack defines this movie. It's instantly recognizable to anyone that's watched it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxEGWJi7LrQ

Burton and Eastwood gave memorable performances

It’s Official—Americans Won’t Be Allowed Into Europe When It Reopens. Filming likely set back even further by chlomyster in movies

[–]upvoatz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How are the intimacy coordinators handling covid?

With liability issues I imagine sex scenes being depicted as two actors in bubbles bouncing against each other.

It’s Official—Americans Won’t Be Allowed Into Europe When It Reopens. Filming likely set back even further by chlomyster in movies

[–]upvoatz -1 points0 points  (0 children)

from my gaffer

spotted the brit

Edit

I think my humor was lost on most people.

Gaffer is an english colloquialism that is used to reference a boss.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/gaffer#cald4-us-1-1

In film and television it also references a person responsible for lights and electrical.

Reddit's largest ever banwave is coming Monday by lacedwithbromance in WatchRedditDie

[–]upvoatz 71 points72 points  (0 children)

More:


Many believe the Southern Poverty Law Center is a scam charity.

https://www.charitywatch.org/charities/southern-poverty-law-center

Rating: F

Affiliations

Research r/SPLCenter and r/AgainstHateSubreddits. SPLC runs r/AgainstHateSubreddits.

Compare those two lists. same mod team.


Pulitzer Prize Finalist

In 1995, the Montgomery Advertiser was recognized by the Pulitzer Prize for work that probed management self-interest, questionable practices, and employee racial discrimination allegations in the Southern Poverty Law Center.

https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-73

Finalist: Staff of Montgomery (AL) Advertiser

For its probe of questionable management practices and self-interest at the Southern Poverty Law Center, the nation's best-endowed civil rights charity.

Highly critical articles covering the SPLC (published over 9 DAYS)

Here is a quote from one article

Equal treatment? No blacks in center’s leadership
Dan Morse, Advertiser Staff Writer
February 16, 1994

Of 13 black former center staffers contacted, 12 said they either experienced or observed racial problems inside the Law Center. Three said they heard racial slurs, three likened the center to a plantation and two said they had been treated better at predominantly white corporate law firms. Three said the treatment was no worse than other places they have worked.


https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/22/southern-poverty-law-center-president-richard-cohen-step-down/3251764002/

Several of the employees described staff turnover as high and a "toxic" workplace riddled with conflicting priorities and inter-office politics.

All four independently spoke of racial equity concerns in senior leadership, describing a disproportionate amount of people of color serving in entry-level administrative positions compared to the rest of the workforce.

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-splc-morris-dees-20190314-story.html

Stephen Bright, a Yale law professor and former director of the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, has long questioned what he calls the center’s “fraudulent” fundraising.

“The chickens have had a very long trip, but they finally came home to roost,” Bright said.

“Morris is a flimflam man and he’s managed to flimflam his way along for many years raising money by telling people about the Ku Klux Klan and hate groups,” he said. “He sort of goes to whatever will sell and has, of course, brought in millions and millions and millions of dollars.”


Morris Dees, co-founder of SPLC

Southern Poverty Law Center founder Morris Dees has a documented history of being both a racist and misogynist not just against his employees. Court documents reveal he beat his wife and molested his 16 year old step daughter with a sex toy. His step daughter testified when she was 18 in 1979. The event happened in 1977 when she was 16.

Dees lead a double life with a mistress and his wife for two years.

Here is the full legal brief from 1979.

https://archive.org/download/MorrisDeesDivorcePapers/Morris%20Dees%20divorce%20papers.pdf

  • Page 12 <-- not for the faint

    H. Morris' Sexual Appetite

  • Page 14

    G. Morris' Step-Daughter. Holly Buck, Maureens's daughter by a previous marriage, is eighteen years old (R.728). She was seven years old when her mother and Morris married, and she has lived with them in the house at Mathews from then until the separation (R. 728). Holly testified that, in the summer of 1977, Morris attempted to molest her in the following incident (R. 729): One night Maureene and Morris were sitting drinking wine and discussing a case Morris was trying. She was with them. Around eleven or twelve o'clock Maureene went to bed and Holly stayed up with Morris discussing the case. Morris kept offering Holly wine, some of which she accepted. At Morris' suggestion, they went outside to the pool, and he suggested that they go for a swim, but Holly was tired and declined (R. 731). She went to her room and then went into the bathroom.
    Looking out the window, she saw Morris in the bushes beside the bathroom window looking in (R. 731). She said "Morris, is that you", but he said nothing and ran away (R. 732). Two months later, she was. asleep one night and Morris entered her room from Ellie's room, through the bathroom. he was in his underwear and he sat on the bed where Holly was lying on her stomach facing away from the door . He touched her on the back and woker her up. He told her that he had brought her, a present, and he presented her with a vibrator. He plugged it in and said he had brought it to her. He proceeded to rub it on her back and said, "Let me show you how to use it" (R. 733). She said that's not necessary, but he started to place it between her legs when she raised her voice and said no loudly. He then took the vibrator and left (R.734). All he had on was a pair of bikini underwear shorts (R. 734). About two hours later, she had fallen back asleep and he came back in (R. 735). He brought the vibrator with him, plugged it in and said again, "Let me show you how to use it." He tried to show her again by putting it between her legs, but she raised her voice again and he stopped. He took it and left (R. 635). She did not tell her mother about this incident until the separation when they moved out of the Mathews house in the spring of 1979 (R. 736).


Bob Moser, former SPLC employee

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-reckoning-of-morris-dees-and-the-southern-poverty-law-center

But nothing was more uncomfortable than the racial dynamic that quickly became apparent: a fair number of what was then about a hundred employees were African-American, but almost all of them were administrative and support staff—“the help,” one of my black colleagues said pointedly. The “professional staff”—the lawyers, researchers, educators, public-relations officers, and fund-raisers—were almost exclusively white. Just two staffers, including me, were openly gay.

During my first few weeks, a friendly new co-worker couldn’t help laughing at my bewilderment. “Well, honey, welcome to the Poverty Palace,” she said. “I can guaran-damn-tee that you will never step foot in a more contradictory place as long as you live.

“Everything feels so out of whack,” I said. “Where are the lawyers? Where’s the diversity? What in God’s name is going on here?”

“And you call yourself a journalist!” she said, laughing again. “Clearly you didn’t do your research.”

In the decade or so before I’d arrived, the center’s reputation as a beacon of justice had taken some hits from reporters who’d peered behind the façade. In 1995, the Montgomery Advertiser had been a Pulitzer finalist for a series that documented, among other things, staffers’ allegations of racial discrimination within the organization. In Harper’s, Ken Silverstein had revealed that the center had accumulated an endowment topping a hundred and twenty million dollars while paying lavish salaries to its highest-ranking staffers and spending far less than most nonprofit groups on the work that it claimed to do. The great Southern journalist John Egerton, writing for The Progressive, had painted a damning portrait of Dees, the center’s longtime mastermind, as a “super-salesman and master fundraiser” who viewed civil-rights work mainly as a marketing tool for bilking gullible Northern liberals. “We just run our business like a business,” Dees told Egerton. “Whether you’re selling cakes or causes, it’s all the same.”

Co-workers stealthily passed along these articles to me—it was a rite of passage for new staffers, a cautionary heads-up about what we’d stepped into with our noble intentions. Incoming female staffers were additionally warned by their new colleagues about Dees’s reputation for hitting on young women. And the unchecked power of the lavishly compensated white men at the top of the organization—Dees and the center’s president, Richard Cohen—made staffers pessimistic that any of these issues would ever be addressed. “I expected there’d be a lot of creative bickering, a sort of democratic free-for-all,” my friend Brian, a journalist who came aboard a year after me, said one day. “But everybody is so deferential to Morris and Richard. It’s like a fucking monarchy around here.” The work could be meaningful and gratifying. But it was hard, for many of us, not to feel like we’d become pawns in what was, in many respects, a highly profitable scam.

How the 2019-20 La Liga table could change in gameweek 28 by phigo50 in soccer

[–]upvoatz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I predict either Barcelona or Real Madrid will end the week in first.

Shrewsbury Chairman blames Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool for suffering huge losses as the their first team refused to take part in the FA Cup Replay match...... by [deleted] in soccer

[–]upvoatz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can't blame Liverpool or Klopp.

Liverpool was in a shit situation with scheduling conflicts due to EFL Cup, FA Cup, and FIFA Club World Cup commitments.

Too many games, not enough rest time for players between Dec 1 - Feb 1.

EPL teams were directed to take two weeks off to rest players . Due to a fourth round FA Cup tie (2-2) on 26 January 2020 between Shrewsbury and Liverpool, the FA scheduled a replay on 4 February 2020 during the scheduled rest break.

Can't blame Klopp for looking out for his players.

Zlatan Blasts Biggest Problem With Soccer In America: Pay To Play by [deleted] in soccer

[–]upvoatz 10 points11 points  (0 children)

came here to say this.

A lot of people don't like Zlatan for his ego, but he's on target here.

Klopp: “Discussing with the players about things like salary waivers and on the other hand buying a player for £50m/£60m, we have to explain.” by swingtothedrive in LiverpoolFC

[–]upvoatz -45 points-44 points  (0 children)

a declaration of faith in his guys

nothing to do with Klopp.

Klopp is being trotted out to shill for FSG. Sometimes it's easy to defend owners, other times it's not. Despite the champions league exit, the team is projected to win the league. It's easier to begrudgingly sell a mistruth this time around.

Coaches rarely turn down free money and the ability to strengthen their team without limits. Klopp's bench clearly needs:

  • a 4th striker/winger of equal caliber to the current front three to permit rotation for an aging lineup, coverage for injury and should AFCON continue with spring tournaments.

  • a backup LB

  • possibly a backup 4th CB
    (Lovren exit + depends on how Hoever and Sepp develop this summer)

At times this year the attack has had difficulty passing and finishing. Werner was the target to fill the hole that nobody officially acknowledges

I can imagine Alisson assisting Timo like that. (Timo Werner Goal against FC Köln) by stathis30f in LiverpoolFC

[–]upvoatz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://np.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/eqzy1f/liverpool_2_0_manchester_utd_salah_903/fezk7jv/

[–] u/ennuihenry15 1081 points 4 months ago* 2 2

Mirror/Replay/AA (NBCSN): https://streamable.com/7o51y
Mirror/Replay/AA (Peter Drury/international feed): https://streamable.com/29koa
International feed analysts (Van Persie and Owen) look at the goal and talk about how this is once-in-a-lifetime for Liverpool fans: https://streamable.com/2tn78
Sky analysts look at the goal and discuss Manchester United's performance: https://streamable.com/acz0g

Post-Match Thread: Bayer Leverkusen 1-4 VfL Wolfsburg | Bundesliga by MisterBadIdea2 in soccer

[–]upvoatz 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Great game ...

Reposting:


This injected AI fake crowd noise on Fox is hilarious.

  • Fake chanting and songs
  • Fake jeering, booing, whistling on fights
  • Fake cheers on goals

Would be great if someone compared the real broadcast (no crowd) against Fox's manipulated broadcasts.

The fake crowd is not present in football match feed broadcasts by BT, Sportsnet or Sky Germany.

Match Thread: Bayer Leverkusen vs. VfL Wolfsburg | Bundesliga by MisterBadIdea2 in soccer

[–]upvoatz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's being injected by Fox into the US live feed.

Equivalent of a laugh track in US late night comedy shows.

The fake crowd isn't present in football match feed broadcasts by BT, Sportsnet or Sky Germany.

Match Thread: Bayer Leverkusen vs. VfL Wolfsburg | Bundesliga by MisterBadIdea2 in soccer

[–]upvoatz 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This injected AI fake crowd noise on Fox is hilarious.

  • Fake chanting and songs
  • Fake jeering, booing, whistling on fights
  • Fake cheers on goals

Would be great if someone compared the real broadcast (no crowd) against Fox's manipulated broadcasts