All over again: killings in Paris tonight 11/13
 

Bombings by the Stade de France while France was facing Germany in a soccergame. 4 dead.
Meanwhile, fuckers kill in the center of Paris. Reporters can't say much regarding casualties...
Meanwhile, fuckers burst into the Bataclan, where Eagles of Death Metal were playing, and shoot, kill. 15 dead.
Confusion everywhere. Hostages in the Bataclan? When people were attending a gig? How many more?

Nope; I work there; I have friends in the area though...

I've been reading / catching up on this story over the past hour......for those in the area, STAY SAFE!

Sky News Live

Shootings At Eagles Of Death Metal Concert - Multiple People Dead

BREAKING: French President Francois Hollande announces he is closing France's borders


Devastatingly real......CNN reporting people are live tweeting from inside the theater beggin police to raid as hostages are being slaughtered 1 by 1

0030 Paris time, police assault underway at Bataclan.

Reports multiple shooters from the concert hall balcony.

awful, awful, awful

Whoa... this is insane news. Over 45 dead and counting :(

@deepquest: #Bataclan hostage situation secured. 2 terrorists killed. Few SWAT injured during the assault. #FusilladeParis

Before today, I only knew Bataclan as the venue for some of my favorite live concert albums......reports that the French President has just visited Bataclan.

The Omni Hotel is Dallas is lit up like the French flag tonight.






For those who may need info / help:

I've been to the Bataclan five years ago, Low was playing there as support act for Mercury Rev. Here's my recording of Low's set. To be honest I don't recall much anymore about how the venue was like. But it had very good sound. I've more fond memories about the Thurston Moore night a couple days later at La Villette who was headlining for Half Japanese and Glenn Branca.

I'm really shocked about what has happened, and seeing the video of people running out of the back exit of the building. A Dutch guy who was at the concert had been hiding under a pile of dead bodies for some time.

I went at the Bataclan 3 years ago for Shellac. I arrived early to be as close to the stage as possible. It wasn't sold out. I've had time to see the place.

I've been crying sporadically for a while now, knowing what the place looked like doesn't help.

This is just awful

Concert poster for the Bataclan show last night:


Don't believe this is from last night, just an example of what the full venue looked like:


Map of all six locations that were attacked:

maybe they just really liked the eagles?

Absolutely horrific. And I dread the consequences this is most likely going to have. There will be more fear-mongering, more baseless accusations and xenophobic slogans by the far right, that's a given. And governments may feel the pressure to lean towards a far more reactionary position. In the wake of 9/11, fear and incertainty reached a point that enabled the Patriot Act, two wars and a slew of measures that radically changed the face of individual freedom. This has the potential to usher in some more absurd and completely irrational actions. And it's already getting abused to rally against the refugees who only seek to flee situations like this one. It's sickening.

In other, or let's say very similar news: Bombings in Bourj el-Barajneh, a suburb of Beirut leave between 37-43 dead.

Bataclan Video: The Moment The Shooting Starts

RIP Nick

Here is the problem, when the serpent tempted Adam and Eve it wasn't necessarily like what they did wasn't really themselves. "The devil made me do it" is never really the whole truth. We are tempted by our own worst selves. So in actuality both are right. The totalitarian police state will always have a natural justification to crack heads and there will always be assholes who provoke such. And then such will always provoke retaliation by those victimized by power, but its a circle.. we are always back in the Garden facing the same bad decisions

"The subverts became politicians and finally got the underhand.. meanwhile back in Subvert City someone is writing on the wall FUCK your government spray paint hero in Subvert City its subvert rule..."

they were just mad queens of the stone age werent playing

relax yall

My dumb ass made the mistake of listening to some conservative talk radio. Brutal stuff.

I'm pretty sure America is going to start rounding up every Muslim in the land and putting them in camps, just until we can get this whole thing sorted out.

If you can't imagine Obama issuing such an order, how hard is it to imagine Ben Carson doing so?

The earliest Ben Carson or any other candidate that may end up President can issue such an order would be January 2017......if anything is going to be done, it will need to be way before then!

You're right. What was I thinking? Immediate vigilante attacks on Syrian refugees is the way to go.

Just stop it. This pathetic even by your standards

but i changed my facebook picture to a croissant im helping right?

Nick, you're too old to be a troll now.

This is low even by your standards

There obviously is going to be neither an executive order rounding up Muslims nor widespread "vigilante" attacks on Syrians in this country. This sort of discussion is such a red herring. The emphasis should be on the victims of the attacks in France and their families and friends , as well as retribution, which France is already doing with their attacks on the ISIS scum in Syria. I have absolutely no sympathy for the pieces of shit that carried out or facilitated the murders in France. No set of circumstances justifies committing murders in the name of your "religion".

Going to work today was really strange. The subway's never seemed so silent and odd.
A minute of silence was programmed in every government-ruled institution, including mine. Viewing those minutes on tv during football games, you usually have somebody too eager to speak up to have that whole minute kept for grieving. Today, it was the opposite: noone dared break the minute of silence which seemed to last wayyy longer.

The attack took place while people were not at work.
I believe meeting everyone's colleagues, more and more people, will help in the end.

We had planned to go out wednesday night in a restaurant.
We've cancelled (we can't force people to go there if they're scared); the restaurant didn't judge us; 90% of their clients do cancel (there was a 300 people meeting programmed that night).

yeah Paris was super weird yesterday... I live in Oberkampf (Bataclan neighbourhood) and noticed tons more people using bicycles, as if nobody wanted to use the subway. People were riding erratically as well, as if everyone was out of their mind. going back to uni was also strange - even the teachers seemed not to be able to speak at all. I felt the same during our minute of silence.
good luck for today Bertrand - I guess it's gonna be another strange day..

It's awful. The world is becoming a shit place.

there are still sunsets, beautiful music, sticky lambsbread, etc.

It is all cycles. Religion will always feed a certain level of obsessive personality that seeks to shove their beliefs down everyone's throats.

It wasnt that long ago that Catholic "terrorists" were blowing up Protestants in merry ol England....

True and while very similar that was different. The "Troubles" was more overtly a political conflict than a religious one. While these IS attacks are also very much politically motivated they are also more overtly veiled in religious imagery

it is ALWAYS similar but different, and it will never end until people stop seeing their own personal beliefs as mandates for the rest of the world to follow.

but no one really cares until people "like themselves" get hurt. Tens of thousands of brown, "heathen" Syrians have been murdered by IS and such assholes but no one gave a flying fuck until "white" Europeans are hurt and killed. Hundreds die each month in Beirut, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. The powers that be really do not give a fuck as long as our petroleum keeps flowing....

and heroin

Are people angry in Paris? Has there been an increased interest in anti-immigrant, neo-nazi movements? Or is it just sadness and quiet reflection?

From what I can tell, a loud segment of the US population can't process events very well. Now and then a political opinion comes along that is so heartless, so unbelievably "How do you manage to feed yourself?" stupid, that I just want to puke and cry. Republican governors trying to prevent Syrian refugees is a good example.

when your mind is full of only commercials and brain-numbing local news, it cannot process the big picture.

I'm curious about this and hope one of the locals from SYG will share their thoughts. From a few things I've read, it doesn't sound like many are angry.

Video: Turkey fans boo moment of silence for Paris attacks, then chant "Allahu Akbar"

Football fans have a high affinity to be idiots.