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Press Briefs described a rally organized on October 17 as massive, but marked by violence. The report stated that the Ministry of the Interior counted 550,000 demonstrators, compared to up to 800,000 according to the organizers, and that intelligence services had underestimated the size of the gathering by five to eight times. It compared the official figure to the 282,710 participants recorded during the record of the Yellow Vests on November 17, 2018. The report mentioned looting and damage in Paris, Lyon, and Marseille, as well as clashes near the Élysée. It also reported that a 17-year-old girl lost an eye in Mulhouse, where an investigation by the IGPN was opened, and that a 17-year-old boy had his hand severed in Saint-Étienne. In Paris, according to Press Briefs, a video showed a person on the ground being beaten by more than twenty police officers, while a protester died on Boulevard Magenta; the prefecture mentioned a cardiac arrest. Press Briefs criticized the media coverage of the rally and relayed several political statements. The report noted that Marion Maréchal Le Pen refused to distinguish between the vandals and peaceful demonstrators, that Éric Ciotti called the unrest an "intifada," and that François-Xavier Bellamy called for the imprisonment of Philippe Poutou. It also highlighted comments from Prisca Thévenot about Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his remarks about Sébastien Lecornu, who called on the French to choose their side between the law enforcement and the Republic. The report further indicated that the mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan, denied the figure of 30,000 looters, and that an AI-generated image, presented as showing an elderly couple being robbed in Paris, had garnered nearly six million views on X. Finally, it reported that Laurent Nuñez had submitted his resignation to Emmanuel Macron, who had refused it. #France #Mobilisation #Violences (translated)

There is a shift in the United States towards a fascist regime, even a fascist one, which is found in many dystopias, such as 1984 by George Orwell. After the announcement of the public execution of Nidal Hasan, the theatricalization of state violence marked a new breaking point, believes anticipation expert Natacha Vas-Deyres. #Dystopie #ViolenceÉtatique #Trump (translated)

OfficialZero shared a statement from Professor Ryszard Piotrowski, who assessed that interpreting the word "wobec" as meaning "in the absence of," rather than "in the presence of," was, in his opinion, a specific type of Orwellization of language. https://t.co/CcGKUMQm6s #język #wiedza #komunikacja (translated)

Nawrocki described child protection as justified, but accused Tusk's government of "censorship" and an "Orwellian threat" to freedom of expression, because regulatory authorities could be allowed to block content without a court order if there were suspicions of criminal threats, child abuse, or copyright violations. #Schulgewalt #Polen #Messerangriffe (translated)

Ana Paula Henkel questioned whether Christians and what was said in worship services and masses had been monitored with public funds. She also asked if mosques, synagogues, spiritual centers, university classrooms, and teachers had been monitored. She compared the situation to Nicaragua and Orwell and requested that deputies, including Nikolas Ferreira, examine the case. #LiberdadeReligiosa #DireitosHumanos #Censura (translated)

Filip Zator wrote that the KO MP Kierzek-Koperska described a verbal attack on another person as fascism. He added that, in his opinion, the authorities want to combat this understood fascism through the DSA law, which — he claimed — the MP herself admitted. He called on the president to veto the law and warned that otherwise reality would resemble "Orwell IRL." #faszyzm #wolnośćsłowa #DSA (translated)

Bojan Požar stated in an interview with Nova24TV that he joined the Institute for the Protection of Victims of the Parliamentary Inquiry 2022-26 as a co-founder because he wanted to more effectively highlight alleged abuses. He mentioned Tamara Vonta, Vesna Vuković, and Tomaž Modic as responsible individuals and said that Robert Golob gave the green light for their actions. He rejected the accusation that the institute is politically or right-leaning. He cited their diversity as evidence that the founders come from different political backgrounds. Požar mentioned that he appeared before the commission as a witness, while the company he leads was being investigated. He claimed that more than 90 percent of the questions during the several-hour hearing did not pertain to the topic of the commission and that he was accused of having published too many articles about Golob as a journalist. According to him, the articles were printed and placed before Vonta. He alleged that Vonta, despite reviewing the bank accounts of him and his company, which the commission allegedly accessed illegally, requested his hearing. Požar described this as a planned attempt at personal, journalistic, and business discreditation. He also mentioned that the institute filed a complaint against Vonta and that he expects sanctions against her and the leadership of the parliamentary inquiry. #žurnalizem #politika #parlament (translated)

Carl Eos wrote that Fredrik Lindström had referred to Swedish emigrants to the USA as refugees on På spåret the day before and asserted that the designation was incorrect. Eos referred to a definition of refugees as persons outside their country of citizenship due to well-founded fear of persecution, who cannot or will not seek the protection of that country. According to Eos, one did not become a refugee merely by leaving one's country. He described Swedish emigrants, such as those in Vilhelm Moberg's books, as emigrants and wrote that they primarily left Sweden for economic reasons. He added that it might be possible to argue that certain Christians in other European countries had fled religious persecution. Eos believed that it was politically motivated to call Moberg's emigrants refugees and described it as an attempt to rewrite history for political reasons. He called the reasoning "purely Orwellian." #flyktingar #utvandrare #historie (translated)

Max Otte described the awarding of the Westphalian Peace Prize to NATO in Münster as "Orwell Day." Upset citizens had booed Mark Rutte, Friedrich Merz, and Hendrik Wüst; according to his assessment, it would be hardly seen on television. Otte also wrote that only a war could still save Merz and referred to Orwell's inversion of war and peace. #Münster #NATO #Frieden (translated)

Hardware 360º criticized a man whom it attributed eight years in government without progress in housing and said he entered Congress presenting himself as its savior. It added that the situation in Spain seemed taken from a work of George Orwell. #Vivienda #PolíticaEspañola #JusticiaSocial (translated)

The post’s author said it was “Orwell Day” in Münster, where NATO was being awarded the Peace Prize. They described NATO as the world’s largest military pact and called the award a farce, arguing that people were being asked to accept contradictions such as NATO representing peace. The author also shared a link they said outlined basic truths about NATO. https://t.co/JnM1alhVst #NATO #Frieden #Politik #DE #US

Überraschung 🎉 Stunden, nachdem sich Klingbeils bevorzugter Koalitionspartner offen als antisemitischer Hort von Terrorpaten geoutet hat, forciert er ein Verbotsverfahren gegen die AfD. Orwell käme aus dem Lachen und Weinen nicht mehr heraus. https://t.co/ro1Ai8v3LZ #Politik #Antisemitismus #Deutschland

Wenn ich das jetzt richtig verstanden habe, wird man beim „freiwilligen Wehrdienst“ zur Zwangsmusterung im „Karrierecenter“ vorgeladen, selbst wenn man „kein Interesse“ angekreuzt hat. Und wenn man den „freiwilligen Fragebogen“ nicht ausfüllt, kommen Bußgeldbescheide. Wir leben in einem Orwell-Roman. #FreiwilligerWehrdienst #Zwangsmusterung #Orwell