paris — A 22-year-old Afghan was indicted and imprisoned in France on Saturday, accused of supporting the ideology of the Islamic State (IS) and of having "fomented" a "plan for violent action" in a football stadium or a shopping center. His arrest, which took place Tuesday in Haute-Garonne, has "links" with the arrest of an Afghan living in the United States and charged Wednesday with planning an attack on the day of the U.S. elections, the national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office (PNAT) said, confirming a source close to the case questioned by AFP. This 27-year-old Afghan, living in the southern U.S. state of Oklahoma, was in contact on the Telegram messaging service with a person identified by the FBI as an IS recruiter, according to American judicial authorities. According to the source close to the case, during their investigations, the American authorities transmitted information to the French authorities, triggering the opening of an investigation in Paris and leading to three arrests. On Tuesday morning in the southwest of France, three men, aged 20 to 31, two of whom are brothers, were arrested in Toulouse and Fronton by investigators from the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI), supported by the RAID, the police intervention unit, as part of a preliminary investigation opened on September 27 for "terrorist criminal association with a view to preparing one or more crimes against persons." "The investigations carried out have highlighted the existence of a plan for violent action targeting people in a football stadium or a shopping center fomented by one of them, aged 22, of Afghan nationality and holder of a resident card, several elements of which also establish radicalization and adherence to the ideology of the Islamic State," the PNAT told AFP on Saturday. His lawyer, Emanuel de Dinechin, did not wish to comment at this stage. In accordance with the PNAT requisitions, he was charged with terrorist criminal association by an investigating judge, then placed in provisional detention. According to a source close to the case, this young man comes from the Tajik community in Afghanistan and his project, which he reportedly spoke about on Telegram, remained rather vague and unfinished. According to another source close to the investigation, he has been living in France for around three years. The other two men were released after their police custody. Reconfiguration The last arrests for a plan for violent action in France date back to the end of July. Two young men, aged 18 and originally from Gironde in the southwest, were indicted on July 27, suspected of having created a group on social networks "intended to recruit" people "motivated (to) perpetrate a violent action" during the Paris Olympic Games. Three attacks were foiled during the Olympic period, according to the authorities. In addition to the two young people from Gironde, one of the plans targeted establishments, including bars, around the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium in Saint-Etienne (southeast), and the other came from a group that had planned attacks against institutions and representatives of Israel in Paris. Five people have been charged, including a minor teenager, in these cases. The "jihadist threat represents 80% of the procedures" initiated by the PNAT, anti-terrorism prosecutor Olivier Christen recalled in mid-September. "In the first half of 2024, there were approximately three times more procedures" of this type than in the same period in 2023, he added. According to him, this increase is explained by the "geopolitical context," but also by "the reconfiguration, particularly in Afghanistan" of the Islamic State group. In September, two attacks by the Islamic State in Khorasan (IS-K) group, the regional branch of IS in Afghanistan, killed around 20 people in that country. The deadliest attack by ISIS left 145 dead in March at a concert hall in Moscow.

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Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon are reliving their Fever Pitch days. Drew released a clip of her new upcoming episode of The Drew Barrymore Show in which she and Fallon spent some time reminiscing. The dynamic duo shared secrets about some behind-the-scenes moments from this epic film. Drew Barrymore Shares Some Behind-The-Scenes Moments From “Fever Pitch” In an Instagram clip, Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon discussed the end of the movie. Apparently, the ending we all saw, where the two share a romantic kiss on the field after the Red Sox win, was not the original ending. View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Drew Barrymore Show (@thedrewbarrymoreshow) PEOPLE Magazine shared the original ending of the film. “The Red Sox were supposed to lose since they hadn’t won in real life…The film was initially meant to conclude with the stars’ characters dressing as old people in the future when the Sox finally win.” However, while they were filming the strangest thing happened. Jimmy Fallon recalled that while they were at the Red Sox game, they witnessed baseball history. Although the Red Sox hadn’t won in 86 years, their luck was about to change. He said, “This is baseball history; as we’re filming this film, they make it into the wild card. Then they make it into the playoffs.” Jimmy Fallon described it as “the most magical year.” Even More Hilarious Moments Along with revealing that the ending was different, Drew Barrymore also shared some secret information about how Fever Pitch affected her personal life. When chatting with Jimmy Fallon, she recalled all the cameras at the game. She said, “And we happen to have cameras at every single one of these games.” She continued explaining how Fox Sports allowed them to use their cameras to film because they didn’t want movie cameras on the field. Although Jimmy Fallon asked them not to air any footage because no one knew of the movie yet, someone dropped the ball. Barrymore explained, “My boyfriend at the time, Fabrizio Moretti, is watching the series finale of the Red Sox, and there we are on the field kissing.” What a sight to see that must have been! Don’t worry, Drew! We’re sure it all made sense once Fever Pitch premiered. This story’s featured image is by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Variety. The post Drew Barrymore Reveals The Original Ending Of “Fever Pitch” While Chatting With Co-Star Jimmy Fallon appeared first on InspireMore.

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In my last piece, I reflected on the state of the NFL’s relationship with the rise of data analytics and how it’s been contributing to the progress of the transhumanist agenda. It made me ponder more deeply the questions we as human beings are confronted with as we hurtle headfirst into a more and more technology-dependent society. The things that gave men meaning in their lives have all but disappeared. And how do the masculinity gurus of conservatism address this? They cope. As we become more dependent on technology to complete the tasks that human beings have always performed, we’ve come to the point where we must ask ourselves … what exactly are we? Division of labor My mind naturally began to think about the division of labor within traditional family households. A wife and mother would traditionally be a homemaker and nurturer of the children. A husband and father would traditionally be the one who would labor out in the world and bring home the income and provisions. This gender-oriented division of labor came into being almost entirely out of necessity. Sure, maybe social ideologies sprang up over time about gender roles that may or may not have been healthy. But fundamentally, a husband and wife performed the roles they did because a man can do things only a man can do and a woman can do things only a woman can do. But now, we live in a different world, a very affluent, technology-dependent world. Everything is taken care of for us. Machines do almost all the essential work for us, and it’s only a matter of time until they do the entirety of it. The American economy isn’t a manufacturing one any more. When most Americans go to “work,” it is not to labor but to provide some kind of service, which both men and women can do. And compared to the rest of the world, we make a lot of money performing these services. Idle hands It’s given us Americans security and time. And with security and time, we’ve gotten bored. So bored that we make up new problems for ourselves just to give us an artificial sense of insecurity. People are so free from their traditional gender roles (and therefore actual problems) that they now identify as new genders. That conservative commentator Matt Walsh was able to produce an entire documentary dedicated to answering the question “What Is a Woman?” is a clear sign of how out of hand the situation has gotten. Everyone had a big, hearty laugh as they watched some blue-haired child psychologists squirm and struggle to define what an adult female human being is in exact terms. But the problem is real, and it’s much deeper than a predatory pharmaceutical industry pushing kids and adults into gender-affirming surgery. The necessary question To fully appreciate the scope of the question “What is a woman?” we must ask the necessary (and more urgent) follow-up question: What is a man? Seriously, what is a man in the 21st century … and beyond? It’s the most important question that absolutely no one is thinking about. Think about what I’ve already said within this one article. We live in a time when all traditional roles have been stripped from both genders due to affluence, which is due to the development of automated technology. And because we don’t make anything any more, what do we offer as an economy instead? Health care, education, retail, and entertainment. Or in other words – nurturing, child-rearing, homemaking, and sex. Monetizing the feminine Any role that’s ever been traditionally feminine has been taken out of the households and plugged straight into the economy. In his book "The New Politics of Sex," political theorist Dr. Stephen Baskerville cites G.K. Chesterton on the matter: If people cannot mind their own business, it cannot possibly be made economical to pay them to mind each other’s business; and still less to mind each other’s babies. ... The whole really rests on a plutocratic illusion of an infinite supply of servants. When we offer any other system as a "career for women," we are really proposing that an infinite number of them should become servants, of a plutocratic or bureaucratic sort. Ultimately, we are arguing that a woman should not be a mother to her own baby, but a nursemaid to somebody else’s baby. But it will not work, even on paper. We cannot all live by taking in each other’s washing, especially in the form of pinafores. Motherly instincts have merely been bureaucratized, resulting in every woman either being cooped up in an office doing meaningless paperwork or cooped up in a shoebox apartment making OnlyFans content. Or both. No market for manhood Meanwhile, masculine roles got absolutely and systematically shafted by modernity. Wanna get married to the woman of your dreams and raise a family? Sorry, the no-fault divorce and state welfare machineries have all but made real, long-lasting marriage an unappealing artifact of history. Wanna take masculine pride in your occupation or the money you make? Good luck. America hasn't been a manufacturing economy in decades. All productive jobs involving real labor have been outsourced to China, automation, or H-1B immigrants. Any man who currently has a “masculine” job such as farmer, truck driver, construction worker, or oil rigger will be replaced by a robot running the latest ChatGPT woke programming within the next 25 years. That’s where we're at as men, and that's where we're going. We've been systematically disenfranchised. We've lost the means to exhibit patriarchal authority over the family unit due to the failure of marriage policy, and all opportunities to pursue productive labor and upward mobility are quickly dwindling due to automation. The things that gave men meaning in their lives have all but disappeared. Plato's man cave And how do the masculinity gurus of conservatism address this? They cope. They preach “primitivism” as the escape hatch from modernity. Go hunt. Go chop wood. Drink whiskey. Eat beef. Even Matt Walsh gives his diagnosis on how to be a man: Don’t take any sick days from work. Yeah, Stacey is girlbossing as she runs up racks with her nursing job and OnlyFans side hustle with $500K saved up in the bank while you're busy telling young, impressionable boys to man up and stay committed to an office job that will have him replaced within a decade, all from the comfort of your man-cave studio. There is no “manning up” in 2024 and beyond. Wake up. The system has all but wiped out everything that once allowed men to find meaning in their lives. So we need to tackle the question seriously and sincerely. What is a man?

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