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Ah, the turkey. One of nature’s biggest and most delicious weirdos.

Though you may not realize it, besides gifting us with their savory, sleep-inducing meat, turkeys have also provided us with tons of hilarious content. They’ve been caught on camera gobbling to the tune of honking cars, chasing down mailmen, and performing vaguely disturbing dance rituals. 

So this year, be thankful for all of the wild footage we have of these peculiar creatures. And, while you’re at it, why not check out some of the greatest viral videos featuring turkeys being their absolute strangest selves.

1. Reporter surrounded by turkeys has a melt down

This video featured on an old episode of World’s Funniest! from many years ago shows a reporter surrounded by turkeys becoming increasingly scared by the number of birds around her. 

As they begin to peck at her, she pleads with her producer to rescue her from their enclosure, resulting in some of the best news bloopers out there. 

2. Man gobbles at turkeys and they gobble back

A big group of caged turkeys can’t help but gobble back when a man stationed in a car outside of their enclosure begins gobbling at them. The more he gobbles, the more they gobble, resulting in contagious laughter. 

3. A turkey chases a jogger down the road

A turkey takes an interest in a man jogging down the road and insists on following him, much to his dismay.

4. These turkeys gobble to the tune of a beeping car horn

Immediately after a driver honks their horn, a small group of turkeys can’t help but attempt to mimic the cars beeping horn, no matter how the driver mixes up the length and frequency of their beeps.

5. A turkey gleefully attacks children

Like matadors, a couple of small children wave bandanas in front of a turkey’s face to get a reaction. And in the last 10 seconds of the video the turkey gladly accepts their challenge, as it chases them around the yard resulting in both screams and laughter.

6. This mailman gets attacked by turkeys “everyday”

A mailman sick of turkeys attacking him while he works each day is caught on camera fending them off with a pole he procured to keep them at a distance. 

His poise and composure when dealing with the pesky turkeys is something to emulate.

7. Little girl gets chased by turkeys after taunting them

In clip from AFV, a young girl mocks a turkey, reminding it that it will soon become “Thanksgiving dinner.” 

Sure, the turkey probably has no clue what the girl is saying, but decides to chase her, giving her quite the fright.

8. Turkeys vs. cat face off

A brave tabby cat has a very dramatic — thanks in large part to the wild video editing — face off with a group of rogue turkeys. But don’t worry! Both the cat and the turkeys are fine.

9. The turkey “death ritual”

No other turkey video will ever quite compare to that of the bizarre turkey “death ritual” caught on camera last year, when turkeys were spotted circling a dead cat in Massachusetts. 

In actuality, the turkeys were most likely just curious about the dead cat and trying to get a better look at it, according to National Geographic. 

By Florence de Talhouet

France’s “grands ensembles” – high-rise housing estates built between the 1950s and 1970s – were inspired by the functionalist architecture of the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier.

The Athens Charter, a 1933 document about urban planning adopted by the Congres International d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM), under the aegis of Le Corbusier, defined the main ideals upon which the “functional city” ought to be based.

These were:

• The separation of functions – life, work, recreation and transportation
• The separation, for the purpose of health and hygiene, of housing and transportation routes, such as roads
• That a certain quality of well-being be accessible to everyone, regardless of their financial status.

These were the principles upon which France’s – and, indeed, much of Europe’s – post-World War II housing estates were supposedly built.

And there was a great need for such housing in post-war France.

Of the 14.5 million houses in France at the end of the war, half had no running water, three quarters had no indoor toilets and 90 percent were without bathrooms.

A significant portion of the population lived in unhealthy conditions in former military barracks, war-damaged buildings and overcrowded slums.

‘An example of technical and social progress’

The government faced a housing crisis and, in response, it prioritised collective housing and housing estates, which appeared innovative for two reasons.

Reason 1: They offered modern comforts such as running water, central heating and a separation between the kitchen and other rooms.

Reason 2: They integrated postwar technical innovations such as the easy utilisation of concrete and quick methods of large-scale construction.

It was an example of technical and social progress working hand-in-hand.

For their new residents, these housing estates offered a dramatic improvement in the quality of their lives.

The state and local municipalities, which considered these neighbourhoods to be a step towards a new society, promoted them through photographs and films.

This was particularly the case for communist municipal authorities, like the one in Monteuil, in the eastern suburbs of Paris, which celebrated the more equal access to sanitary facilities, libraries, swimming pools and other amenities.

For France, they were a symbol of the “Trente Glorieuse” – the 30 years, from 1945 to 1975, following the end of the second world war – and an icon of the country’s triumphant modernity.

‘Synonymous with poverty and social exclusion’

But soon, their first critics began to emerge and, in 1973, the government announced that it would no longer be building such estates.

By the end of the 1970s, working and middle-class families were increasingly leaving the estates for detached houses elsewhere, as the government encouraged home ownership and selective social mobility.

These families were gradually replaced by poorer ones from the French countryside and by immigrants.

These new residents were among the most deeply affected by the economic hardships of the 1970s – when an oil crisis led to a steep rise in energy prices, the economy contracted significantly and a wave of mass layoffs followed.

Unemployment among their residents, a lack of public investment and the degradation of buildings that had been built in haste became the new reality of the estates.

The result was a dramatic shift in how they were perceived.

While, in the 1960s, they had represented an improvement in living and economic conditions, by the 1980s, they had become synonymous with poverty and social exclusion.

Having been built, for financial reasons, on the outskirts of cities, their residents became victims of a form of spatial segregation. And, as many of their inhabitants were now immigrants, that also meant racial segregation.

The urban society of the 19th century, built upon a melting pot, was now gone.

In public consciousness, the issues facing the residents of these neighbourhoods – high unemployment rates and segregation from the cities beyond the estates’ boundaries – were buried beneath concerns about integration and assimilation.

In public discourse, it was not that the residents of France’s grands ensembles faced problems, it was that they were the problem.

These once “functional cities” were suddenly at the heart of France’s immigration debate – the concrete onto which its fears and prejudices were projected – and that is where they have remained, misrepresented and neglected with their original ideals long since forgotten.

This is Europe: Can residents of one French housing estate change the negative stereotypes of their community?

Source: Al Jazeera

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Jeff Sessions tenure as Donald Trump’s attorney general has come to an end, and the latest Saturday Night Live fittingly devoted its cold open to showing Kate McKinnon’s ever-creepy Sessions impression the door. 

Alec Baldwin’s Trump is a no-show, but the sketch does welcome a line-up of Trump orbit impersonators: Aidy Bryant’s Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Beck Bennett’s Mike Pence, Alex Moffat and Mikey Day’s Eric and Donald Trump Jr. — the gang’s all here. We even get a special appearance from one Robert Mueller, played again by Robert De Niro (McKinnon has also taken on the Mueller part before).

The sketch is… fine. Just fine. The only joke that really lands is the “family tree” wisecrack.

It’s been nearly three weeks since Abdulaziz, a 28-year-old Somali, doused himself in petrol before burning himself to death in Triq al Sikka migrant detention centre in Libyan capital, Tripoli.

Other detainees, who witnessed what happened, said he killed himself shortly after a visit from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), claiming officials had told him he had no chance of being evacuated from Libya.

Abdulaziz had been in the detention centre for nine months, and felt completely hopeless, they said. 

“First, he started in secret, then he was shouting, people were running, then, it was already over,” said one detainee about the suicide, adding that others tried to save him, but it was too late.

The UNHCR says the Somali’s death had nothing to do with their visit, and Abdulaziz was scheduled for evacuation to Niger next month, though it is not clear why he had not been told about it.

In the following days, refugees collected small amounts of money, sent from their families, to buy coffee, biscuits, and candles, and celebrate his life.

However, their thoughts quickly turned to who might die next.

Thousands of refugees and migrants are currently being held in indefinite detention by Libya’s Department for Combatting Illegal Migration (DCIM). Many were deported back to Libya after the boats they were on, en route to Italy, were intercepted by the EU-funded Libyan coastguard. 

Among them are people from Somalia, Eritrea, or Sudan; countries at war or dictatorships where gross human rights abuses are taking place.

They say they cannot go home, and should be evacuated to a safe country. 

Of the centres in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, Triq al Sikka, which holds more than 400 people, is regularly described by refugees and migrants as one of the worst, because of the levels of neglect and abuse.

“It’s just like hell,” one former detainee said. “An abomination.”

‘Day and night is the same for us’

Al Jazeera has spoken to six current and former detainees in Triq al Sikka. Some say they’ve stayed as long as a year, while others escaped during recent clashes in the city. Calls to DCIM went unanswered.

Detainees described spending every day in the dark, with guards who will not go near them, for fear of contracting disease. “Day and night is the same for us,” one man said.

In the past few months, the situation has reached a crisis point. For three weeks, detainees say those infected with tuberculosis have been given no medication, after staff from the International Rescue Committee (IRC), which has provided medical care there since early September, became worried they were contracting the disease.

Now, they fear every male has it. One detainee described a man coughing blood beside him. “May God help him. Yesterday, they took him to the front door but the guards said there is no doctor. So the number [of sick people] could increase, unless there is a solution. We are living by the power of God.”

Thomas Garofalo, IRC Libya country director, said staff were “overwhelmed.” 

“We had been working with the National Centre for Disease Control to document and diagnose cases of TB, and we are trying to do that but the conditions in the centre are just not adequate, that’s the problem.”

He said IRC has diagnosed 25 cases of TB in Sikka, and those who were deemed contagious were removed and isolated, but this process was suspended last week after staff tested positive for TB. They are aware the disease may now be spreading.

“The problem is not unmanageable, but Libya can’t or won’t handle it, and we need other countries, on a humanitarian basis, to provide help and provide asylum if needed, or at least to work with the Libyan authorities so that we can have more humane treatment of these people.”

The layout of the centre means more than 200 men and older teenage boys are all crammed into one dark hall, with almost 230 women and children in another, more open, area. Sick people are kept with everyone else.

Detainees are mainly Eritreans and Somalis, though there are also Ethiopians, Sudanese, Yemenis, Syrians and South Sudanese, they say.

Among them are roughly 30 married couples. Husbands and wives can meet and speak for about 10 minutes a week, according to detainees. “At that moment, the guards [stand] about one metre from you,” one commented. “You get afraid to touch each other because they don’t love. The police don’t like it.”

Abdulaziz, the Somali man who killed himself, was married, and his wife remains in the centre. There are also children there, including newborn babies.

Others locked up are pining lost loves; one man told Al Jazeera of his girlfriend who died in the Sahara desert on the way to Libya.

Detainees said that, as well as TB, people regularly suffer from fevers, kidney problems, and various other diseases.

Some are disabled from injuries received earlier on the migration route.

“If I spend time more here it means I am waiting to die, because the situation is very bad,” one man said.

Current and former detainees say there have been anywhere between seven to 20 deaths in Triq al Sikka this year. Al Jazeera was unable to confirm these deaths with any organisation working there. 

“When they die, [the guards] just take the body and that’s it,” said one man, adding if migrants didn’t hold their own remembrances or try to inform families, “no one would do anything”.

As evidence of the tight hold on information coming from the centre, phones are strictly forbidden. Three former detainees said they would never ask guards to contact the family of someone who died, for fear of being brought to a small room and beaten with metals or sticks, or deprived of food. 

When foreign visitors come to Sikka, detainees said injured or tortured people are hidden at the back of the hall, put sitting between buses, or locked in the guards’ toilets. Three former detainees said that UN staff always call before they arrive, and guards warn detainees “if you say something negative about us we will torture you”.

A foreign journalist who visited Triq al Sikka last year confirmed he witnessed beatings there, and that it “seemed to be a punishment”. 

“Libyan guards do not care about these people at all. That was clear to me across every place I visited. They really did seem to consider these people like animals,” he said. 

In late August, heavy fighting broke out in Tripoli, as rival militias vied for control of the capital. During the clashes, a missile fell close to Sikka, and in the chaos, some detainees escaped. But others, including those with wives and children, thought it was better to stay where they were rather than risk being on the streets, where they could be killed or kidnapped.

Though a ceasefire was reached, detainees say they still hear occasional fighting. “Everyone has guns and, all the time, we’re hearing the sounds of guns,” one man said.

During the fighting, medical teams tracking TB cases lost track of some of those infected, according to IRC’s Garofalo. The sounds of warfare also added to the trauma suffered by people who have already been through torture by smugglers, extortion and abuse along the route to Libya and the disappointment of being returned from the Mediterranean after they tried to escape. 

Trauma means some detainees have begun to talk to themselves, sleep in the toilet, get angry, or “play with dirty things,” one detainee told Al Jazeera.

“You know prison is very sensitive for the mind. When you stay a long time without anything in prison you have to become crazy or die. This prison is very, very hard for human beings.” 

When asked what was the worst thing they saw in Sikka, former detainees were unanimous. They said it was when guards sell detainees to smugglers.

“These Libyans only think of you as an industry,” one said. 

Accused of working with smugglers

Human rights groups, including Amnesty International, have previously accused the Libyan authorities of working with smugglers.

Other detainees say they feel their only hope is to return to illegal routes, though figures from September show only one in 10 migrants who attempt to cross the Mediterranean from Libya are making it to Europe.

“I don’t have hope to evacuate by UNHCR,” an Eritrean said. “I only know that I will pay money and try again to the sea.”

All detainees Al Jazeera spoke to said they realise that spending all day in cramped quarters, with little nutrition and poor sanitation, may have health implications that could stay with them for life.

One man said he feels his face and body now look 10 years older than his actual age, because of all he’s been through.

“This prison gets very dirty inside, there’s no place to walk, so for 24 hours we are sitting,” he said.

“Because of the shortage of food, clean water, no medication and not enough sleeping space, it’s very dirty with a bad smell. We stayed a long time without fresh air, sunlight and no communication with our families and others,” he added.

“I miss outside so much.” 

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Warsaw – Representatives from the Polish government of President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki are holding joint march with far-right groups on Sunday to celebrate the centenary of the restoration of Poland’s independence.

The procession, which started at 2pm local time, marks the first time Polish officials will attend the “Independence March” – an event that has in the past featured racist, anti-immigrant, homophobic and white supremacist slogans.

Attendees kicked off the event by raising the Polish flag and chanting patriotic slogans.

Organised annually since 2010 by the far-right National Radical Camp, All-Polish Youth and the National Movement, chants at previous events have included: “The whole Poland sings with us: F*** off with the refugees”, “Not red, not rainbow but national Poland”, “One nation across the borders”, and “F*** Antifa”.

Sunday’s march, which was announced late on Friday had followed days of legal-wrangling and triggered widespread unrest in the Eastern European nation.

On Wednesday, Warsaw’s mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, had banned the Independence March due to security concerns, stating “Warsaw has already suffered enough due to aggressive nationalism.”

In response, Poland’s President Andrzej Duda said an official state march would take place and follow the same route as the planned Independence March.

The Independence March association later appealed the mayor’s decision and on Thursday, the district court revoked the ban.

This meant that the Independence day commemoration would see two concurring marches organised along the same route and time, which pushed the government to the negotiating table with the far right.

And on Saturday, two conferences which were set to feature speeches by nationalists from across Europe were cancelled after Poland’s domestic counterintelligence agency, the Internal Security Agency, arrested more than 100 people, according to the nationalists. Al Jazeera was unable to independently verify the number detained.

A closed concert of far-right bands, including Legion Twierdzy Wroclaw and the Swedish Code 291, both known for hateful lyrics and fascination with fascism, was also cancelled.

‘Crisis of democracy’

Damian Kita, spokesman for the march, told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that around 250,000 people were expected to attend, and claimed that this year’s event would be peaceful.

“Because of this special anniversary, the 100th anniversary of regaining independence by Poland, we wanted to close this passing century under the slogan ‘God, honour, homeland’,” he said.

“We decided that no other slogan would better summarise the Polish fight for freedom.”

Kita also said that radical nationalist groups which formed the Black Block at last year’s Independence March, and held banners including: “Europe will be white or uninhabited”, would not be accepted during the march.

These groups, including Szturmowcy (Stormtroopers), a neo-pagan Niklot movement and Autonomous Nationalists, announced that they are planning to attend the march despite the conflict with the organisers.

Rafal Pankowski, a sociologist from Collegium Civitas and a cofounder of the anti-racist Never Again association, said the cooperation between the government and far-right groups was concerning.

He added that arrests did not guarantee that the march would pass without racist slogans.

“The cooperation between state institutions and extremists from the National Radical Camp is a legitimisation of a dangerous, extreme nationalist ideology and a reflection of a crisis of democracy,” he said.

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French President Emmanuel Macron urged dozens of world leaders marking a century since the end of the World War One to come together for a joint “fight for peace”.

“Let us build our hopes rather than playing our fears against each other,” he told leaders including the US and Russian presidents on Sunday. 

France, the epicentre of the first global conflict, is hosting the main international commemoration with about 70 world leaders gathering at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris at precisely 10:00 GMT to mark the milestone moment. 

“The traces of this war will never be wiped away. Neither in France, nor in Europe the Middle East, nor all over the world,” Macron said.

“Let us remember, let us not forget. Because the memory of these sacrifices makes us worthy of those who fought and died so that we can be free. So let us remember,” he also said.

“Let us not give up the ideals, the principles and the patriotism of those who fought.”

Soldier testimonies

Testimonies written by soldiers on November 11, 1918, as the ceasefire took hold, were to be read at the event, which will also feature warnings about the modern-day danger of nationalism.

Far-right nationalist politicians from Brazil to Italy to Austria were also present at the event.

World War One erupted in 1914 after a teenage Bosnian Serb assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, igniting a conflict that was contemporaneously described as “the war to end all wars”.

In the four years of fighting, remembered for brutal trench warfare and the first use of gas as a weapon, France, the British empire, Russia and the US had the main armies opposing a German-led coalition that also included the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires.

More than 70 million military personnel were mobilised and an estimated 10 million lost their lives.