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TITLE: Traveller in Black
SERIES: Traveller in Black
AUTHOR: John Brunner 1934-94
TYPE: paperback novel hardbound Collection Anthology OMNIBUS trade
PUBLISHER: Ace 82210
COVER PRICE: $ .75
ISBN:
PAGES: 222
COPYRIGHT: 1971 by author
PUB DATE: 1971
EDITION: 1st edition, only other edition published by Ace in 1977
COVER ARTIST:
ISFDB: Yes
INDEX: 0192 - Traveller in Black - 005 - JB - IFB
CONTENTS:
·9 • Imprint of Chaos • [Traveller in Black] • (1960) • novelette by John Brunner
·71 • Break the Door of Hell • [Traveller in Black] • (1966) • novelette by John Brunner
·121 • The Wager Lost By Winning • [Traveller in Black] • (1970) • novelette by John Brunner
·173 • Dread Empire • [Traveller in Black] • (1971) • novelette by John Brunner
QUOTE: “In 1932 in April a small boy and his mother and father waited on an Oakland, California pier for the San Francisco ferry. The boy, who was almost four years old, noticed a blind beggar, huge and old with white hair and beard, standing with a tin cup. The boy asked his father for a nickel, which the boy took over to the beggar and gave him. The beggar, in a surprisingly hearty voice, thanked him and gave him back a piece of paper, which the boy took to his father to see what it was. “It tells about God,” his father said. from Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K. Dick
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NO entry: indicates specific information not available from book.
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TITLE: Dr Bloodmoney
AUTHOR: Philip Kindred Dick 1928-82
TYPE: paperback novel PUBLISHER: Ace F337
COVER PRICE: $.40
ISBN:
PAGES:222
COPYRIGHT: 1965 by ACE books
Dr. Bloodmoney Or, How We Got Along After the Bomb by Philip K. Dick
"Listen McConchie," Fergesson said, "You know that kid with no arms and legs that comes around on that cart. The one with just those dinky flippers whose mother took that drug back in the early 60s? The one that always hangs around because he wants to be a TV repairmen - I hired him - his name is Hoppy"
Philip Dick's 1965 published science-fiction novel (written in 1963) "Dr. Bloodmoney" is one of a number written by various authors during the Cold War period that speculated what live would by like after an atomic bomb exchange. Dick's strange yet fascinating nightmarish future is well seasoned with confounding concepts and mystifying characters. Phil's Marin County California included talking dogs, rats that play musical instruments and do bookkeeping, cars pulled by horses and even some trucks propelled by burning wood to produce steam power. Entertainment and information is sporadic provided by an orbiting Water Dangerfield sole survivor of a failed Mars mission. Dangerfield reads the classics of literature - chapter by chapter and sometimes plays requested music like a celestial disk jockey.
Dr. Bruno Bluthgeld, a Berkley atomic scientist, through a "trivial miscalculation" started a chain reaction that left the world in ruin we are informed. Bluthgeld is on the run but as we find out the hellhounds of retribution are snapping as his heels mainly in the form of Hoppy the man born without arms and legs. Hoppy has developed some very peculiar talents and had acquired a lust for power that eventually becomes his undoing when he crosses the young girl with a brother living inside her.
There are several interwoven subplots and characters that propel this fascinating novel to a satisfying conclusion, satisfying for a Phil Dick novel that is!
This book is a peculiar and confounding mixture of science fiction and autobiography. I can state this as a fact since in later editions of this novel Dick included a very informative essay concerning this title. In fact he write himself as a character in the book: "I am, so to speak, Stuart McConchie and at one time I was a TV salesmen at a store on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley."
A note about the title: Lawrence Sutin in his excellent biography of Dick "Divine Invasion" states "Phil proposed two titles: In Earth's Diurnal Course and A Terran Odyssey. The garish title was Ace books editor Donald A. Wollheim's attempt to cash in on Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove".
PUB DATE:1965
EDITION: 1st edition, 1st publication
COVER ARTIST: Jack Gaughan
ISFDB: Yes
NOTATION:
The cover states "First Book Publication".
• The artist is not credited; JG is just visible on the cover (bottom right).
• The interior art piece is also not credited.
INDEX: 0273 - Dr Bloodmoney - 026 - PKD - IFB
QUOTE “What about my dead cat?’ Kevin would ask. Several years ago, Kevin had been out walking his cat in the early morning. Kevin, the fool, had not put the cat on a leach, and the cat had dashed into the street right into the wheel of a passing car…. Kevin liked to say “On judgment day when I’m brought up before the great judge I’m going to say, “hold on a second” and then I’m going to whip out my dead cat from inside my coat. “How do you explain this’ I’m going to ask”. By then Kevin use to say, the cat would be as stiff as a frying pan; and he would hold out the cat by it’s handle, it’s tail, and wait for a satisfactory answer. from Valis by Philip K. Dick
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JO TAMBÉ ESTAVA AL PARLAMENT... I HO TORNARIA A FER
El dia 31 de març comença el judici contra les 20 persones imputades per l’intent de bloqueig del Parlament del 15 de Juny del 2011. Aquell dia s'anaven a iniciar el tràmits per aprovar els pressupostos amb el primer paquet de retallades a Catalunya, que va propiciar el tancament d'empreses públiques, la privatització de la sanitat, les retallades al sector de la cultura, educació, etc.
La mobilització “Aturem el Parlament” va succeir dues setmanes després del brutal desallotjament de la Plaça Catalunya a mans dels antidisturbis dels Mossos d'Esquadra a les ordres del que era conseller d'Interior i ara ho és d'Empresa i Ocupació, Felip Puig. També responsable del dispositiu policial que va disparar contra l'ull d'Esther Quintana.
La criminalització per part de la premsa subvencionada pel Govern i l'escalada repressiva que va venir després (judicis contra persones que volien impedir un desnonament al Clot, nombroses detencions a les vagues generals, multes absurdes per les persones que es manifestaven o per enganxar cartells, etc), va ser i és encara, una resposta planejada per procurar frenar l'augment de la indignació i de la força de les protestes populars contra el poder polític, econòmic i altres injustícies quotidianes, com el patriarcat i el racisme.
Durant aquells dies, la gent es va organitzar arreu per construir política des del carrer, com moltes seguim fent. La política que volem és assembleària, horitzontal, autogestionada, sense representants, és del poble i per al poble, i xoca amb la política institucional que ens governa. La qual ha estat protagonista d'un espiral de corrupció i de tenir llaços, sovint familiars o personals, amb grans empreses privades que reben encàrrecs d'obres públiques i amb els peixos grossos del poder financer.
Aquell dia érem milers de persones les que vam anar a intentar aturar el Parlament, per combatre el drama de tantes vides immerses en la misèria, els acomiadaments per les retallades, els suïcidis pels desnonaments, etc. Perquè moltes d'aquestes barbàries s'aproven dins dels murs d'aquest edifici. Per aquest motiu estàvem assenyalant els culpables el 15 de Juny de 2011 i per això mateix, ho tornaríem a fer sense por, perquè legitimem la nostra actuació, i perquè si la gent del carrer, a qui ens afecta tot això, no lluitem, ningú altre ho farà per nosaltres.
Sabem i tenim clar que aquest és un judici polític, una farsa per atemorir a aquelles que decideixen plantar cara i actuar contra els responsables de tanta precarietat. De fet, ens reafirmem al comprovar que l'acció directa contra els poderosos i generar alternatives de vida els molesta, i molt. Per això, i perquè som conscients del poder que podem tenir quan ens organitzem, no ens volem doblegar davant les seves intimidacions i fem una crida a estendre la solidaritat a aquells i aquelles que pateixen la repressió i la violència quotidiana d'aquest sistema econòmic, en les seves infinitats de formes.
Convoquem manifestació el dia 29 de març a Barcelona a les 18:30 a Plaça Catalunya.
SOLIDARITAT AMB TOTES LES REPRESALIADES I AMB AQUELLES QUE LLUITEN!!
La propera vegada que agafin un helicòpter, que sigui per marxar ben lluny i no tornar a molestar!
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I was at the Catalan Parliament too…
and I would do it again
On March 31st the court case against the 20 people who are charged with an attempt to block the Catalan Paliament on June 15th 2012 will begin. That day in June, the process of implementing the first round of budget cuts in Catalonia began. Cuts that involved closing public companies, the privatization of health care,as well as cuts in the area of culture, education, etc.
The mobilization “Aturem el Parlament” (“Paralize the Parliament”), took place two weeks after the brutal eviction of Plaza Catalunya (Barcelona), by the riot police Mossos d´Esquadra under the command of Felip Puig. He was the minister of the Interior at that time and is currently the minister of companies and labour. He was also responsible for the police operation that shot Esther Quintana in the eye.
The criminalization by the media (that is funded by the state) and the increase of repression which followed (court cases against people trying to prevent an eviction in the neighbourhood of el Clot, many detentions during the general strikes, absurd fees for people protesting or hanging banners with tape etc), was, and still is, a planned response to try to stop the rise of outrage and the strength of popular demostrations against economic and political power, and other daily injustices (such as patriarchy and racism).
During those days, people organized themselves all over to build and create politics from the streets, as many of us continue to do. The politics we want are based in assemblies, horizontal, self-organized, without leaders; they belong to the people and they are for the people, and clash with the institutional politics which govern us. The same institutional politics and their protagonists are creating a corruption spiral and have relationships, mostly family-based, with private companies (that receive contracts for public constructions) and with high-up people with economic power.
That day we were thousands of people trying to paralyze the Catalan Parliament in order to fight the drama of so many lives embedded in misery, the layoffs due to the cuts, the suicides due to evictions, etc. Because many of these atrocities are approved behind the walls of that building. This is the reason that we were pointing out the guilty ones that 25 of June 2012, and because of this, we would to it again without fear. Because we legitimize our action, and because if we, the people from the street -whom are the most affected-, don´t fight, nobody will do it for us.
We know that this is a political court case, a farce to scare those who decide to stand up and take action against thoseresponsibleforall this precariousness. In fact, we reaffirm our ideals and actions after proving that direct action and the creation of alternatives of life bothers them, a lot. Because of this, and because we are aware of the power we can have when we are organized, we don´t want to bow down to their intimidation. We call for a spread of solidarity for all the ones who suffer daily repression and violence within this economic system, in its infinite shapes.
SOLIDARITY WITH ALL THE REPRESSED AND THOSE WHO FIGHT!!
The next time that they take an helicopter, it should be to go far away, and not come back to bother us.
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Repression in Spain. A call for international solidarity
During the last three years Spanish society has witnessed a period of intense social protests against austerity, corruption, unemployment and so on. As in other times in history, the greater and more radicalised the protest the bigger the repression that the state organises against it. Since the general strike in September 2010, a common trend of this repression strategy is been a kind of ‘laissez faire’ in the streets but followed by ´selective´ detentions months later. Police have been literally knocking doors down of those who continuously take part in different actions and demonstrations, and consequently dozens of people have been arrested.
On June the 15th 2011, ten thousand people surrounded the Catalan parliament in Barcelona. That day the government wanted to approve a vast austerity cut in health and education, and the idea was to block politicians from getting into the building. “Inexplicably” the police did not protect some politicians, which caused direct confrontation with protesters, and of course that fact was used by the media as an example of violence against democracy. After that, people were violently dispersed, and the MPs could do their job.
On October the 4th 2011, 22 people were arrested in their homes. They have been accused of a crime against the state, using a law designed for coup leaders and that had never been used before in Spain. They now face a penalty of up to 8 years in jail, whereas some of them have been also accused of different crimes related to other demonstrations. The trial will start in March the 31st 2014 and it is expected to last four days.
There will be a national day of solidarity in Spain on March the 29th with demonstrations in several cities. So we also call for international solidarity.
You can call, email or block different Spanish embassies or institutions. Or you can do whatever you consider appropriate…
“That day we tried to block the Catalan parliament to combat the drama of many lives immersed in poverty, layoffs by cuts, suicides by evictions, etc. Because many of these atrocities are approved behind the walls of that building. We were pointing at the guilty, and because of that we would do it again without fear. We know this is a political trial, a farce to scare those who choose to stand up and take action against those responsible for such precarious living conditions. In fact, we reaffirm it to find that both direct action against the powerful and generate alternative lives bothers them a lot. For this reason, and because we understand the power that we can have as we organise ourselves, we do not want to bow to their intimidation and we make a call to extend solidarity to those suffering the daily repression and violence of this economic system, in its myriad forms”.
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in Lieu Of Treason
I remember once reading that sentence. "In Lieu of Treason", like that in english. I thought it meant "guilty of treason"
I remembered it because I was reading the other day an article, an the words "In lieu of" appeared again. So I looked upon their meaning. Turns out it means "instead of".
So now I am wondering, what consecuences did it had on the reading of the rest of whatever I was readin, when I thoug it said "guilty of treason", when it actually was "instead of treason"
Kisseas
Treachery Jessica
in Lieu Of Treason
Hace tiempo alguna vez estaba leyendo un libro en ingles y salio la frase "In Lieu of Treason", yo pense que significaba algo como "culpable de Traicion"
Lo recorde, perque hace poco lei un articulo con las palabra "In lieu of", asi que ahora si decidi buscar que significaba. Resulta que es "en lugaar de"
Asi que ahora me pregunto, que consecuencias en mi entendimiento del libro habra tenido en el resto el ue yo pensara que decia "culpable de traicion" cuando en realidad era "en lugar de traicion"
Kisseas
Jessica la Tramposilla
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital.
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.
Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
~ Abraham Lincoln
"We had a mining accident that was very tragic. ... Then we come in and it's always someone's fault. Maybe sometimes accidents happen."
~ Rand Paul, May 21, 2010, in reference to deaths of coal miners in Dotiki Mine, Kentucky
“What I don’t like from the president’s administration is this sort of, ‘I’ll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.’ I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business[.] I’ve heard nothing from BP about not paying for the spill. And I think it’s part of this sort of blame game society in the sense that it’s always got to be someone’s fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen.”
~ Rand Paul, May 21, 2010, in reference to deaths and oil spill caused by BP in the Gulf of Mexico
Accept the culpability for the worst tragedy since 9/11, and I really mean that. Had I been President at the time, and I found that you did not read the cables from Benghazi, you did not read the cables from Ambassador Stevens, I would have relieved you of your post. I think it is inexcusable. . . . Their lives could have been saved had someone been more available, had someone been aware of these things, more on top of the job. . . It was a failure of leadership not to be involved. It was a failure of leadership not to know these things, and so I think it is good that you are accepting responsibility, because no one else is. There is a certain amount of culpability to the worst tragedy since 9/11, and I’m glad you are accepting this.
~ Rand Paul to Hilary Clinton, January 2013, in reference to death in Benghazi
According to USA Today, "Dotiki received 840 citations since January 2009, with 323 for 'significant and substantial' violations. Dotiki Mine operator Webster Coal has paid just more than half the citations, or about $140,000, and is contesting 250 of the fines, which are worth $400,000."
Furthermore, according to USA Today, "MSHA cited the Dotiki Mine 17 times since January 2009 for failing to adequately secure roofs and walls against falling rock and coal, agency records show. The fines total $15,700, and $4,500 has been paid."
When mine operators follow the law and mine workers are allowed to unionize, mine deaths are preventable. Workers who can exercise their right to organize are able to voice concerns about a mine's hazards through their safety committee - without fearing for their jobs.
For Rand Paul to be apparently ignorant of a Kentucky mine operator's violations while calling miners' preventable deaths "accidental" is shameful.
BP's Guilty Plea For 2010 Gulf Spill Approved By Federal Judge
BP PLC closed the book on the Justice Department's criminal probe of its role in the Deepwater Horizon disaster and Gulf oil spill Tuesday, when a federal judge agreed to let the London-based oil giant plead guilty to manslaughter charges for the deaths of 11 rig workers and pay a record $4 billion in penalties.
What the plea deal approved by U.S. District Judge Sarah Vance doesn't resolve, though, is the federal government's civil claims against BP. The company could pay billions more for environmental damage from its 2010 spill.
The judge said the $4 billion criminal settlement is "just punishment" for BP, even though the company could have paid far more without going broke. In accepting the deal, Vance also cited the risk that a trial could result in a much lower fine for BP, one potentially capped by law at $8.2 million.
The criminal settlement calls for BP to pay nearly $1.3 billion in fines. The largest previous corporate criminal penalty assessed by the Justice Department was a $1.2 billion fine against drug maker Pfizer in 2009.
Before she ruled, the judge heard an apology from a BP executive and emotional testimony from relatives of the 11 workers who died when BP's blown-out Macondo well triggered an explosion on the rig and started the spill.
Keith Jones, whose 28-year-old son, Gordon, died in the rig explosion, said $4 billion isn't adequate punishment.
"It is petty cash to BP," he told Vance. "Their stock went up after this plea deal was announced."
Billy Anderson, whose 35-year-old son, Jason, of Midfield, Texas, died in the blast, recalled the trauma of watching the disaster play out on television.
"These men suffered a horrendous death," he said. "They were basically cremated alive and not at their choice."
BP agreed in November to plead guilty to charges involving the workers' deaths and for lying to Congress about the size of the spill from its broken well, which spewed more than 200 million gallons of oil. Much of it ended up in the Gulf and soiled the shorelines of several states.
Courtney Kemp-Robertson, whose 27-year-old husband, Roy Wyatt Kemp, of Jonesville, La., died on the rig, said workers had referred to it as the "well from hell" before the explosion.
"By cutting corners, they gambled with the lives of 126 crew members to save a few dollars," she told the judge before turning to address Keller. "They gambled and you lost."
A series of government investigations have blamed the April 20, 2010, blowout on time-saving, cost-cutting decisions by BP and its partners on the drilling project.
In other criminal cases, four current or former BP employees have been indicted. BP rig supervisors Robert Kaluza and Donald Vidrine are charged with manslaughter, accused of repeatedly disregarding abnormal high-pressure readings that should have been glaring indications of trouble just before the blowout.
David Rainey, BP's former vice president of exploration for the Gulf of Mexico, was charged with withholding information from Congress about the amount of oil that was gushing from the well.
Former BP engineer Kurt Mix was charged with deleting text messages about the company's spill response.
Inside the Union Carbide pesticide factory scene of the world's worst industrial disaster.
Interior shot of the factory before it was stripped of some of its most valuable components and subsequently abandoned to the elements.
The factory remains ruined and abandoned to this day and there are approximately 350 Metric tonnes of highly toxic waste stored above ground.
Of greater concern are the many thousands of tonnes of toxic waste that were buried, in an untreated state, on the site.
Rain water runs through his waste, along with the remains of the abandoned solar evaporation ponds, and leaches toxic chemicals in to the local ground water aquifer.
The toxic plume has now spread for miles from the factory and many thousands of impoverished people have been using it, for decades, as their primary water supply.
(Hidalgo, México. Enero de 2019)
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Un día te das cuenta de tu pequeñez cuando todas las cosas te quedan lejos: el apagador de la luz, el lavabo, el shampú.
Un día recuerdas dicha pequeñez cuando le regalas un banquito a tu sobrino venezolano 🇻🇪 y te abraza diciéndote "Ahora soy poderoso porque alcanzo todo".
Un día te das cuenta de la dependencia hacia tus mayores.
Un día cabes parado en el coche, acostado en el asiento de atrás, y metido en el rincón de los zapatos.
Un día le preguntas a tu padre por qué escriben sobre las paredes y te responde que por una protesta estudiantil contra el gobierno.
Un día te das cuenta de que tu padre habla palabras que no son "el idioma de este país", sino del país de su padre.
Un día te das cuenta de que tu nombre proviene de uno de los muchos idiomas de este país, que no pudo borrar el español.
Un día te das cuenta de que tu padre participó en las manifestaciones estudiantiles de 1968 y que lo golpearon e hirieron por defender a un colega.
Un día te das cuenta de que tu padre es un trabajador íntegro e incorruptible de la empresa petrolera mexicana.
Un día quieres ser como tu padre.
Un día se te cae un diente y tu padre te regala un libro como compensación.
Un día te das cuenta de que tu padre y tu madre no merecían la saña del destino contra aquel bebé que un accidente se llevó.
Un día te das cuenta de que ya no cabes de pie dentro del coche, pero sí doblándote un poco en el asiento posterior.
Un día te dicen que serás alto como tu padre, pero con el alma y la tez morena de tu madre. ¿Será?
Un día se burlan de ti en la escuela porque escuchan a Iron Maiden y tú a Pavarotti por influencia de tu padre.
Un día le gustas a una niña porque te dice que eres diferente por escuchar a Pavarotti como su padre (además de Iron Maiden).
Un día tu padre y tu madre te llevan al aeropuerto a recibir a las parientas italianas, iniciando un intercambio epistolar de años de duración.
Un día te sientes feliz de que tu padre no sea de la capital para así poder conocer más pueblos del interior de México, su gente, su comida, su habla.
Un día recuerdas quién te enseñó a usar la pala cuando la gente te pregunta en qué momento aprendiste a plantar árboles con destreza.
Un día tu padre te regala un libro de ajedrez y su tablero para expandirte la mente con jugadas de alfiles, torres y caballos.
Un día te sientes Albert Einstein porque tu padre te motiva con un libro de dinosaurios y otro de ciencia al final del curso por tus buenas notas.
Un día de 1978 ves a tu padre leer un libro mientras bebe una taza de café.
Un día te ves a ti mismo regalando libros a colegues y sus hijes.
Un día ves a tu padre arreglando el coche, mientras tú te vas con tus tíos y tu abuelo al Estadio Olímpico Universitario México 68.
Un día eres feliz porque escuchas risas provenientes del cuarto de tu padre y de tu madre.
Un día recuerdas a tu padre cuando negocias con clientes del mundo tu tarifa de traducción y recuerdas sus palabras: "Vienen tiempos duros. Entre más te prepares, más probabilidades tendrás de sobrevivir".
Un día te das cuenta de que el mejor amigo de tu padre era y es su hermano.
Un día acabas con la frecuencia cardíaca como a 150 pulsaciones por minuto cuando acabas de ver el episodio "Metalhead" de la serie inglesa "Black Mirror" porque recuerdas las palabras de tu padre 35 años antes: "viene un futuro atroz". (Se quedó corto).
Un día te das cuenta de que tu padre vivió una fuerte violencia intrafamiliar derivada de los traumas de su padre, pero que él a ti jamás te golpeó de fea manera. Acaso 2 cachetazos.
Un día te das cuenta de que probablemente tu padre se moleste porque tiene que ir a hablar con el sacerdote italiano del colegio salesiano para arreglar una suspensión por haberte metido por la ventana del salón ya que la puerta estaba cerrada, que no pasa nada porque el padre de tu padre también era del Friuli-Venezia-Giulia al igual que el cura, y que ahora intercambias diálogos en italiano con él ante la admiración de algunas chicas del colegio.
Un día te sientes feliz porque sabes que tu padre venció la cisticercosis y múltiples operaciones en la cabeza.
Un día te desagrada tanto la opinión de tu padre sobre la Revolución Cubana, la RDA y la URSS que le espetas "ni pasaporte tienes".
Un día se muere la abuela materna y tu padre te dice: "sé fuerte porque esta es la primera vez que te enfrentas a la muerte con un ser tan amado".
Un día te das cuenta de que las horas se hacen largas, porque tú te ves a ti mismo en la ultra izquierda y a tu padre lo ves en la extrema derecha.
Un día le rebates a tu padre.
Un día ya no quieres ser como tu padre.
Un día sales a correr y recuerdas la molestia de tu padre en 1981 cuando le dijiste "ya no quiero ir a correr porque me regaña mucho el entrenador".
Un día te enteras de que tu padre tiene valores y no es corrupto cuando te advierte "no ocasiones problemas a nadie para no verme en la penosa necesidad de reprenderte públicamente en aras de tu aprendizaje".
Un día platicas de gramática con tu padre.
Un día un sobrino venezolano te pregunta si tienes padre.
Un día no recurres a lugares comunes como esparcir las cenizas de tu padre en el mar porque ni quiso ser cremado ni le gustaba el mar.
Un día lo entierras en presencia de amigues y familiares en su pueblo natal.
Un día recuerdas a tu sobrino venezolano preguntar "¿Tú quisieras ser mi papá?".
Un día escuchas "Mi viejo" de Piero y recuerdas a tu padre y al suegro de tu padre.
Un día recuerdas las palabras de la tarotera en 2009: "tus padres tendrán larga vida". ¿72 años es larga vida? No sé.
Un día te das cuenta de que no eres culpable de sentir ni de dejar de sentir por preferir a las mujeres de la familia.
Un día te das cuenta de que, aunque te consideras sólo un 2% católico, no se te han olvidado el Padre Nuestro ni el Dios te salve María llena eres de gracia el Señor es contigo bendita eres entre todas las mujeres y bendito es el fruto de tu vientre Jesús Santa María madre de Dios ruega Señora por nosotrEs les pecadorxs ahora y en la hora de nuestra muerte amén. ¡Uff!
Un día te preguntas por qué si tu padre no se sentía católico le hicieron una ceremonia católica :)
Un día te das cuenta de que el balance de tu padre es positivo.
Un día te das cuenta de que sólo el amor del pueblo salva al pueblo.
Un día te das cuenta de que ves rota a la persona que te parió porque su compañero de vida por más de medio siglo ha dejado esta dimensión.
Un día te das cuenta de que la lucha que dejamos de hacer por el amor propio nadie la viene a hacer por nosotres.
Un día te das cuenta de que cuando muere el padre y la madre es como si muriese un pedazo de nosotres.
Un día te das cuenta de que cada día es una oportunidad de hacer la revolución personal para intentar amar más y mejor.
Un día se calla el universo para escuchar la voz de mi madre: "Nos conocíamos a la perfección. Le agradezco a Dios por haber tenido un esposo que supo ser un buen compañero porque siempre me respetó y me trató bien".
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Suéñame esta noche, abuela.
A short historical presentation
1. The Pre-Croatian Period
If we were to judge by the caves existing in the area of Brotnjo as well as in the parish of Medjugorje, we can't completely exclude the possibility of habitation as far back as the older Stone Age period. From the later Stone Age period, there is material proof of the existence of a pre-Illyrian culture and civilisation in the area. In the older Bronze Age, there is evidence of Illyrian tribes. Copper objects found in the area are proof of an intensive lifestyle. Some walled settlements on the higher points, so-called "gradine" (castle ruins), which were either circular or square in shape, date from this period. A double wall surrounded some of them. In the parish of Medjugorje, there are still existing examples of the double-walled "gradine": in Surmanci and above Medjugorje itself in Zuzelj. Apart from the "gradine", the most eloquent evidence of the Illyrian civilisation (which is abundant in Brotnjo and indeed in the area of Medjugorje itself) are the graves of the Illyrian dignitaries.
In the second century before Christ, the Daors allied themselves with the Romans and waged war with the Illyrian tribes of Dalmatia. Brotnjo first belonged to the Illyrian province of Dalmatia, which has its administrational seat in Solin near Split, and from the third century to the setting of Narona. The writings on the gravestones testify that Roman legions and cohorts were situated in the area, and that Roman veteran soldiers lived there. There remain some parts of a road from the time of the Romans, constructed in the 3rd century. Apart from that, many Roman memorial tombstones and objects of everyday use have been found. The most significant archaeological site from the Roman time is to be found in the Catholic cemetery in Miletina, where some vestiges of buildings made of Roman bricks have been discovered, but it hasn't been sufficiently examined.
2. The Beginnings of Croatian History
At the end of the 6th century, Croatians began to establish themselves in these regions. The region of Brotnjo represented a tribal political-territorial unit, a district, with a tribal regional chief, a district prefect.
Brotnjo always belonged to the land of Hum, which in 1322 fell under Bosnian administration. From 1357, this area then belonged to the Hungarian Croatian King, Ljudevit I.
From the mediaeval period, the most famous memorials of the civilisation in this region are the "stecak" - truly indigenous autochthones grave memorials. In many ways the "stecak" from Herzegovina are superior to those from the rest of Bosnia, Herzegovina and Croatia; in the number and in the dimension of burial grounds, in the beauty of their ornamentation, and in their worth regarding artful elaboration. In Brotnjo itself there are many burial grounds and "stecak", likewise in the area of Medjugorje. Man-formed crosses with arms raised in prayer are sculpted into some of them.
Up to the 12th century, this area was Glagolitic. The famous “Plaque of Humac” testifies to this. In the second half of the 12th century a form of the Cyrillic alphabet called “Bosancica” prevailed. In the area of Brotnjo, not one mediaeval Latin inscription is to be found, only Croatian inscriptions written in “Bosancica”.
3. The Period of Turkish Occupation
Christianity arrived to the area surrounding Medjugorje in the time of the Romans. Judging by the amount of early Christian church ruins it was extensively widespread. In large part they were destroyed, and churches were levelled to the ground during the time of the migration in the 6th and 7th centuries after Christ. The Croatian settlers accepted Christianity very early: They started to be baptised as early as the 7th century. However, the Catholic Church never became really solidly established in the mediaeval Croatian Bosnian state, which facilitated the expansion of the "Bosnian Church." In the 13th century, the Croatian Bosnian state, which included the land of Hum (Herzegovina), was firstly visited by the Dominican missionaries and, after their lack of results, the Franciscan missionaries who accomplished great success in bringing the Bogumils or “Bosnian Christians” back to the Catholic Church and the Catholic faith.
Bosnia and Herzegovina fell under Turkish power in the year 1463. The Turkish invaders wished to occupy the whole of Croatia too, to reach Vienna and Rome, and likewise further west. On their way, the Croatians stopped them; for this reason, the Pope proclaimed them to be the "bulwark of Christianity". Croatia had nevertheless to pay a high price. Not only were many Croatian lives lost in continuous warfare, but the central part of Croatia - its heart - was also snatched away: Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The life of the Catholics under Turkish rule was constantly exposed to the forced passage into Islam, to oppression and to persecution. Under the Turkish feudal system, no Croatian could possess anything immovable. Catholics were permanently considered as “enemies of the state,” because their head was in “enemy” territory: Rome. Croatians subsisted from stock bearing and work on the properties of Turkish invaders and of local landlords who embraced Islam; they were paying large taxes in stock, corn, grain and even children. The Turks forcefully snatched their children, made them embrace Islam and used them as Janissaries, special-force units for the purpose of conquering the still unconquered Christian lands, among others their own Croatian country. For this reason, many Croatians were driven to flee westwards. This is how the Moslem element entered into Bosnia and Herzegovina. Up until the time of Turkish occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the area was almost completely inhabited by Croatians. As the Turkish broke in from the east, the Serbs migrated westwards fleeing from them, but later on they helped them in their conquests, and arrived in these areas where heretofore they had never been.
4. The Role of the Franciscans
The activities of the Franciscans in these areas from the very time of their arrival had a major influence on the survival of Croatians under cultural, religious and every other aspect. The Franciscans emerged in Croatian regions in the first decades of the 13th century. During the whole time of the Turkish occupation (1463 to 1878), the Franciscans were the only ones who tended to the spiritual needs of the Croatian Catholics in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and their only representatives and defenders in front of the Turkish administration. In every way, the Franciscans shared the plight of their people. After the Turks had destroyed all of the Franciscan monasteries in Herzegovina, in the first half of the 16th century, the spiritual care for the Croatian Catholics was taken over by Franciscans from the Christian Dalmatia, i.e. Croatia. During the Turkish administration, the Franciscans were persecuted, tortured and killed, many thrown alive into the river Neretva... After the Turkish rule, only the ruins of the Franciscan monasteries were left.
The first Franciscan Province to be set up in the region of Bosnia and Herzegovina was the Bosnian Franciscan Province. In 1852, the Herzegovinian Custody was established, and in 1892 the Herzegovinian Franciscan province was founded, members of which serve today in the parish of Medjugorje.
The Franciscans have left indelible tracks in the region of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Many have enriched the Croatian Church with their personal holiness and heroic witnessing of the Gospel; they educated the population, and contributed to the alphabetisation and the development of art and science.
In the great wars of the 17th century the majority of parishes in Herzegovina were destroyed, among them the parish of Medjugorje. When relative peace returned to Herzegovina in the 18th century, the Franciscans gathered the remaining believers together and established parishes. The parish of Medjugorje was founded in the year 1892.
5. The Austro-Hungarian Administration of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the Creation of Early Yugoslavia
After liberation from Ottoman rule in 1878, the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy took power in these areas. For political reasons, it didn't want to include the newly liberated areas in the Croatian state to which they historically belonged. And so, once again in history, the Croatian people of Bosnia and Herzegovina remained separated from the motherland.
In the year 1914, the First World War began, the reason being the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, carried out by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian. In 1918, at the end of the First World War, Yugoslavia was fraudulently brought into existence as the kingdom of Serbians, Croatians and Slovenians. This fraud was brought about by the big powers of the time. In this state, the Croatian people were oppressed, and the parliamentarian who fought for the freedom of Croatians was perfidiously killed in the Parliament, in Belgrade, in 1928. In 1929, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was established, which was to crumble at the beginning of the Second World War.
6. Life in the Second Yugoslavia
During the Second World War, the losses of the Croatian people were immense. At the end of the war itself, when the cease-fire had already been officially declared, about 300,000 civilians and soldiers lost their lives at Bleiburg and at what is called the "Way of the Cross" of the Croatian people. According to attained agreements, the Allies were supposed to offer refuge to Croats after their surrender, and to others who were seeking to evade communism. But the Allies, according to the order of the field-martial general Harold Alexander, handed the soldiers and the civilians over to the communists – the partisans. In Bleiburg alone a multitude lost their lives, while the rest of them had to form a 60km long line taking them to the communist Yugoslavia and it's concentration camps. This was the beginning of the Croatian Golgotha, the so-called "Way of the Cross,” which extended from the most northern to the most southern point of the new multi-ethnic state of Yugoslavia. The Partisans killed the Croatians while walking, without trial, without establishing their eventual culpability, at their own discretion. Especially persecuted were the Croatians from Herzegovina.
The communists killed 630 priests and nuns from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Alone in the Herzegovinian Franciscan province, 70 Franciscans were killed. The Second World War took 344 lives from the parish of Medjugorje.
In the parish of Medjugorje, life under communist rule was hard. People were beaten and sentenced to years in prison just because they were Catholics and Croatians. In schools, just as elsewhere in Croatia, the communists tried to separate children from their national identity and their faith. Thanks to the strong faith of the people, they didn't succeed in this.
At the same time, the area was systematically economically neglected, with the aim of having as many people as possible leave the area… The pilgrims, who came here at the very beginning of the apparitions, saw all this in action. They found here a very poor region and very rude policemen. The administration didn't permit the slightest help in accommodating the pilgrims; instead, many of them - together with the locals - were persecuted and imprisoned, just because they said that Our Lady was appearing. However, the local people were hospitable and had their standards.
7. Liberation
The communist tyranny fell in 1990, when the Croatian people unanimously decided for the independence and breakaway from the artificially created Yugoslavia. This, certainly, didn't tie in with the idea of Great Serbian, so the Yugoslavian army, made up primarily of Serbs, militarily attacked Slovenia on the 25th of June 1991 (the tenth anniversary of Our Lady's apparitions), then Croatia and afterwards Bosnia and Herzegovina, desiring to suffocate independence. Several hundred thousands lost their lives during this bloody war. The world could have stopped this bloodshed. It didn't do this because of their respective interests. The E.E.C. kept on condemning the warring sides, hoping to wash its hands and save Yugoslavia as a multinational state, which could be used to further their own aims. James Baker, the Prime Minister of the Bush administration, even permitted the Yugoslav army to attack Slovenia.
European and world powers sought out and still seek their own interests in these areas. Because of that, they tried and continue to try to fog-up this war presenting it as a civil war in which all were equal. The truth is, however, completely different and very simple: The Serbs, wanting to create the Great Serbia, attacked other peoples which up until then had lived with them in the same state. They were able to do this because, in ex-Yugoslavia, all the power was in their hands. The major world powers had chosen them as the "policemen" of the Balkans, and because of this, they looked benignly on their actions. Even when they had committed the first genocide, as in Vukovar, the major world powers didn't want to stop them. They only began to stop them when they exceeded every measure, and began to injure the reputation of their protectors.
The warfare between Croatians and the Moslem community in Bosnia and Herzegovina (in 1993) began as a series of misunderstandings, but also out of a desire of some foreign intelligence services to occupy as much as possible of the territories in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to consolidate there. The Croatians simply desired that no one other than themselves govern them anymore. They wanted to have their own schools, to be allowed to call their own language Croatian, while remaining in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Moslem community, the largest in Bosnia and Herzegovina, led by a fundamentalist leadership, wanted to administrate the new state according to the Islamic law and to impose its rule upon the others. For this reason, they brought into the country the Islamic soldiers - mudjahedins - from all over the world, who committed terrible crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This war, however, was stopped very rapidly because it was really not needed.
Today, Medjugorje is a part of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Because of the communist administration and the terrible war, the infrastructure of Medjugorje is still underdeveloped. This however, didn't stop pilgrims from coming here, even during the cruelest clashes of the war. Many of them brought aid, thus helping the Croatian people to remain where they were. The Croatian people will never forget this. Today, pilgrims are coming more and more. They want to experience this time of grace with their whole hearts, and not let it pass them by.
Exterior view of the Union Carbide pesticide factory scene of the world's worst industrial disaster.
Interior shot of the factory before it was stripped of some of its most valuable components and subsequently abandoned to the elements.
The factory remains ruined and abandoned to this day and there are approximately 350 Metric tonnes of highly toxic waste stored above ground.
Of greater concern are the many thousands of tonnes of toxic waste that were buried, in an untreated state, on the site.
Rain water runs through his waste, along with the remains of the abandoned solar evaporation ponds, and leaches toxic chemicals in to the local ground water aquifer.
The toxic plume has now spread for miles from the factory and many thousands of impoverished people have been using it, for decades, as their primary water supply.
Fuertes imágenes del empresario Saymon Díaz junto a la cantante Belinda salen al Internet (mira esto) TVNotas:
Luego de que se ha visto envuelta en un video erótico, demandas y fraudes, ahora está en un nuevo escándalo, al aparecer unas fotografías tan sensuales que se tomó con un representante artístico de República Dominicana, de nombre Saymon Díaz.
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Respuesta de Belinda ante el escándalo de las fotos con Symon Díaz
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Inside the Union Carbide pesticide factory scene of the world's worst industrial disaster.
Interior shot of the factory before it was stripped of some of its most valuable components and subsequently abandoned to the elements.
The factory remains ruined and abandoned to this day and there are approximately 350 Metric tonnes of highly toxic waste stored above ground.
Of greater concern are the many thousands of tonnes of toxic waste that were buried, in an untreated state, on the site.
Rain water runs through his waste, along with the remains of the abandoned solar evaporation ponds, and leaches toxic chemicals in to the local ground water aquifer.
The toxic plume has now spread for miles from the factory and many thousands of impoverished people have been using it, for decades, as their primary water supply.
Fuertes imágenes del empresario Saymon Díaz junto a la cantante Belinda salen al Internet (mira esto) TVNotas:
Luego de que se ha visto envuelta en un video erótico, demandas y fraudes, ahora está en un nuevo escándalo, al aparecer unas fotografías tan sensuales que se tomó con un representante artístico de República Dominicana, de nombre Saymon Díaz.
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Saymon Diaz Belinda fotos calientes tv-notas novia escandalo
nuevo capítulo de Belinda en mujeres asesinas se dice q ella está por lanzar nueva linea de lenceria jczr tv notas tvnotas hoy televisa
Respuesta de Belinda ante el escándalo de las fotos con Symon Díaz
belinda y saymon díaz segun tv notas tvnotas.com
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www.flickr.com/photos/55999340@N06/
01- Letra Religión. 02- Letra Culpable. 03- Letra Duele. 04- Letra Wacko. 05- Letra Planeta. 06- Letra Bossa. 07- Letra Mueve. 08- Letra Lolita. 09- Letra Egoísta. 10- Letra Cuida De Mi. 11- Letra Amor Transgénico. 12- Letra Eventos Desafortunados. 13- Letra Sal De Mi Piel. 14- Letra Dopamina.
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Exterior view of the Union Carbide pesticide factory scene of the world's worst industrial disaster.
Interior shot of the factory before it was stripped of some of its most valuable components and subsequently abandoned to the elements.
The factory remains ruined and abandoned to this day and there are approximately 350 Metric tonnes of highly toxic waste stored above ground.
Of greater concern are the many thousands of tonnes of toxic waste that were buried, in an untreated state, on the site.
Rain water runs through his waste, along with the remains of the abandoned solar evaporation ponds, and leaches toxic chemicals in to the local ground water aquifer.
The toxic plume has now spread for miles from the factory and many thousands of impoverished people have been using it, for decades, as their primary water supply.
Among the many incoherencies of Obama’s foreign policy, none is more glaring and appalling than his stance toward one of the worst mass murderers of our time, Omar Al Bashir, the dictator of Sudan. Al Bashir and his totalitarian political Islamic regime have conducted two eliminationist campaigns—of mass murder, mass expulsion, and mass rapes—over 20 years, first in Southern Sudan and then in Darfur. This has earned him not one but two distinctive places in the annals of our time, the most murderous in human history: He has committed genocide for longer than any political leader aside from Stalin and Mao, and he has slaughtered more people than anyone except Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and the Japanese leadership before and during World War II, all of whom had continental-sized populations under their control.
By any standard, Al Bashir and his political Islamic cohort are the one leader and regime in the world that must absolutely and urgently go: because of the number of people murdered, on the order of 2.5 million; the millions more expelled from their homes and regions; the untold number of women systematically raped as part of a larger campaign of terror; the devastation government forces have wrought by razing and burning towns and villages, a scorched-earth policy implemented in the South and then in Darfur. Al Bashir and his regime have been at it for two decades, and predictably, taking no one who pays attention to Sudan by surprise, he has started up another deadly eliminationist campaign, this time against the Nuba people of central Sudan (after already seizing the Abyei region and expelling Ngok Dinka people from it), perhaps to preempt the south from forming its new country with its territory and oil reserves intact now that its independence day of July 9 is approaching. (An agreement was signed on Monday between the north and the south for the withdrawal of the northern Sudanese troops from Abyei, but we will have to wait to see if Khartoum abides by it.)
Obama has with words or deeds made it clear: Hosni Mubarak must go. Muammar Qaddafi must go. Osama Bin Laden, of course, had to go. But must Al Bashir go? Not according to Obama.
Mubarak, dictator and brute, was tame compared to Al Bashir. Yet Obama abandoned him, a longtime American ally and stabilizing force in the Middle East, in a blink of an eye after protestors, composing a small percentage of Egypt’s populace, occupied Cairo’s Tahrir Square and insisted on his ouster. Qaddafi, said by Obama to be readying mass murder because of the threatening phrase “rivers of blood” that Qaddafi’s son uttered, though the Libyan strongman had not actually committed mass murder against those recently protesting his dictatorship—certainly on nothing approaching a genocidal, Al Bashirian scale—was declared by Obama to have “lost legitimacy to rule.” Quickly, the U.S. and NATO began waging a now three-month-old war against Qaddafi and in support of inchoate rebels, representing no one knows exactly whom, seeking no one knows exactly what, except to get rid of Qaddafi.
Obama, self-styled champion of protecting the innocent, has passively stood by since he took office while Al Bashir continued his eliminationist and murderous assault on the people of Darfur, in what has been aptly called an ongoing genocide by attrition. To the Sudanese of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, of Southern Sudan, and of Darfur, Al Bashir is Hitler; and, like Hitler, he uses mass elimination and murder as a reflexive instrument of policy. But Obama has not unequivocally denounced the Hitlerian mass murderer Al Bashir. Obama, a generally outspoken devotee of international legality, has in effect not supported the International Criminal Court’s indictment, arrest warrant, or attempt to try Al Bashir for mass murder. Obama, the orator, has not resoundingly declared that Al Bashir has no legitimacy to rule, or publicly warned, let alone threatened, Al Bashir of any serious consequences for further renewing his mass elimination and murdering.
Instead, Obama and his administration have repeatedly soft-pedaled, negotiated with, even effectively lent support to Al Bashir and his totalitarian regime. By their actions and (mostly) inaction, Obama and his administration have helped set the stage for Al Bashir to commit this new assault on the largely defenseless people of the Nuba Mountains and of the South, including the Abyei region.
This, even though Southern Sudan, under a negotiated deal that Al Bashir agreed to, democratically, lawfully voted in January to secede with a 99 percent majority. Southern Sudan’s secession, and the likely desire of the people of Abyei to join it (the Ngok Dinka’s own self-determination referendum has yet to take place), constitutes a far bigger and more legitimate democratic movement than the ones in Egypt or Libya that so easily mobilized Obama to action on their behalf. Yet Obama now fails to draw a line in the Sudanese sand saying that the democratic movement’s and its country’s integrity must be defended, and, above all, that the hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of innocent and defenseless civilians—children, women, and men—many of whom have already lost relatives and themselves been subjected to the eliminationist violence of Al Bashir, must be defended.
Instead, for the Sudanese, Obama expresses meaningless “deep concern.” The Obama administration tepidly whispers that Al Bashir’s eliminationist assault might undermine further normalization of Sudan’s relations with the US. How likely is that to stay the hand of a decades-long genocidal killer, seeking territory and oil and to rid a sizable area of Sudan of people he and his political Islamic regime deem threatening? Forget about threats of American or NATO airstrikes: Obama’s special envoy to Sudan, Princeton Lyman, just explained to Time—and therefore to Al Bashir—that the United States is not contemplating any serious intervention in Sudan even if the eliminationist assault intensifies.
All this (together with Obama’s self-delusional attempt of the last few years, including sending envoys to Khartoum, principally the feckless Scott Gration, to cajole the Sudanese Hitler to defang himself), has emboldened Al Bashir to attack and then intensify his attacks on the Nuba people, to try to conquer territory that he does not want to go to the South, and to restart his eliminationist campaign, which is now underway with selected killings, mass expulsions, and the destruction of homes and villages.
We should be clear, as it will help pressure Obama: If the administration continues standing by and doing nothing, Obama will have given a tacit new green light to a genocidal killer and will be morally, politically, and materially complicit in the unfolding devastation. This complicity will be a prominent stain in Obama’s future historical ledger. It is fair to say this because he and many in his administration have explicitly invoked U.S. inaction during the Rwandan genocide as something that must never again be repeated, and because, right next door to Al Bashir, against a far less monstrous Qaddafi (however monstrous he is), and next door to him, Mubarak, a comparative featherweight in human destruction, Obama has brazenly and with the ringing tones of democracy, of freedom, of protecting the innocent, done otherwise. In the case of Libya, Obama was shamed by the Europeans to intervene, so he and his administration invoked the US inaction in Rwanda as a reason to attack Qaddafi. But now, when something like the Rwandan genocide may actually happen in a country ruled by a totalitarian regime that has already perpetrated large-scale eliminationist assaults and genocides twice, and partly on Obama’s watch, the president has returned the U.S. to its cynical, decades-long, do-nothing stance. All the while, eliminationist killers assault their victims.
Obama must make it clear to Al Bashir and the northern Sudanese political and military leadership that, if they do not stop their eliminationist assault against the Nuba, respect an internationally recognized dividing line between north and south Sudan, and desist entirely, then their military forces will be targeted, and their personal homes will be hit by bombing sorties and drones. He must make it clear that, as in Iraq with Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi Baathist leadership, the extremely effective U.S. Rewards for Justice program will offer millions of dollars to those giving information or themselves taking measures that lead to the death or capture of Al Bashir and his lieutenants. He must make it clear that the U.S. will seek to execute the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant against Al Bashir, and that all manner of sanction will be placed on northern Sudan, its leaders, and their foreign accounts. He must make it clear to Al Bashir’s Chinese patrons—a principal reason the weak-kneed Obama plays nice with the Sudanese dictator—that, if Al Bashir doesn’t stop, the Sudanese oil they so prize will cease to flow.
Obama’s limited war against Libya, already unpopular among Congress and the public, in addition to the entanglements and fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan that he inherited, make acting forcefully in Sudan politically difficult. But no one should accept such difficulties as excuses or justifications for Obama’s current inaction. He chose to attack Qaddafi over far less, while treating the overtly genocidal Al Bashir with kid gloves. So Obama may not now plead that his hands are tied.
Going after Qaddafi and not Al Bashir is like going after Mussolini but not Hitler. Going after Mubarak and not Al Bashir is like going after António de Oliveira Salazar for his autocratic rule in Portugal (from 1932 to 1968) but not Hitler. Political leaders have shown again and again that, once they embark upon eliminationist politics, once they begin mass murdering, they tend to do it again, targeting new groups in new campaigns of destruction. Al Bashir has already done this twice. Now, he is starting up for a third time: According to United Nations estimates, he has already expelled 100,000 people from Abyei, and the former governor of South Kordofan put the number of Nuba expelled at half a million. And Al Bashir is massing his troops for much more.
Isn’t it time that Obama stops fooling around, stops pretending all the pretend things he and his predecessors have done, not done, or believed that have allowed Al Bashir to eliminate and exterminate people for two decades? Isn’t it time Obama does something to stop the Hitler of Sudan, the worst mass murderer in the Middle East, from eliminating and slaughtering perhaps hundreds of thousands more children, women, and men?
Inside the Union Carbide pesticide factory scene of the world's worst industrial disaster.
Interior shot of the factory before it was stripped of some of its most valuable components and subsequently abandoned to the elements.
The factory remains ruined and abandoned to this day and there are approximately 350 Metric tonnes of highly toxic waste stored above ground.
Of greater concern are the many thousands of tonnes of toxic waste that were buried, in an untreated state, on the site.
Rain water runs through his waste, along with the remains of the abandoned solar evaporation ponds, and leaches toxic chemicals in to the local ground water aquifer.
The toxic plume has now spread for miles from the factory and many thousands of impoverished people have been using it, for decades, as their primary water supply.
TITLE: Forerunner Foray
AUTHOR: Andre Norton 1912-2005
TYPE: paperback Novel
PUBLISHER: Ace 24620
COPYRIGHT: 1973 by author
EDITION: 1st paperback- not 1st edition
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PAGES: 286
COVER PRICE: $1.50
COVER ARTIST: Charles Mikolaycak
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German postcard by Ross-Verlag, no. A 2691/1, 1939-1940. Photo: Tobis / Quick.
German actor Paul Henckels (1885-1967) appeared in over 230 films, often as a supporting actor. He played in films by directors like Fritz Lang, Jacques Feyder, and G.W. Pabst. He also worked as a stage actor, a stage director, and as a theatre manager.
Paul Henckels was born in 1885 in Hürth, near Köln (Cologne), Germany. His father was the industrialist and painter Paul Abraham Henckels and his mother was the actress Cäcilia Warszawska. Paul studied from 1905 till 1907 at the Hochschule für Bühnenkunst at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. He made his first stage appearance in Kotzebue’s Die deutschen Kleinstädter; and was a great success in the title role of Schneider Wibbel (1913), written by his school buddy Hans Müller-Schlösser. The great Max Reinhardt invited him in 1920 to come to Berlin. In 1921, Henckels was a co-founder and the artistic director of the Schlosspark-Theater in Berlin. Here he appeared in 1922 as Molière’s Der Geizige/The Miser. He later would work for the Volksbühne, Deutschen Theater and many other Berlin stages. From 1936 till 1945 he was engaged at the prestigious Preußischen Staatstheater in Berlin under intendant Gustaf Gründgens. In 1921 film star Henny Porten discovered him for the cinema. After a minor part as "O. Henckels" in Das Geheimnis der sechs Spielkarten, 5. Teil – Herz König (1921), Porten gave him the male lead as the evil antagonist Jasper in Das Geheimnis von Brinkenhof (Svend Gade, 1923).
Among his other silent films are INRI (Robert Wiene, 1923) with Porten, Staatsanwalt Jordan (Karl Gerhardt, 1926) with Hans Mierendorff, Thérèse Raquin (Jacques Feyder, 1928) starring Gina Manès, Der Biberpelz/The Beaver Fur (Erich Schönfelder, 1928) opposite La Jana, Die große Liebe (Revolutionshochzeit) (A.W. Sandberg, 1928) with Diomira Jacobini and Karina Bell, Ariadne in Hoppegarten (Robert Dinesen, 1928) with Maria Jacobini, Der Unüberwindliche (Max Obal, 1928) with Luciano Albertini, Geschlecht in Fesseln (Wilhelm Dieterle, 1928), § 173 St.G.B. Blutschande/Culpable Marriages (James Bauer, 1929), and the Henny Porten films Liebfraumlich (Carl Froehlich, 1928-29) and Mutterliebe (Georg Jacoby, 1929). When the sound film was near at hand he was enthusiastic about the idea of a talking picture. He worked at the ‘practice of the sound film actor’, and directed a short film, Paul Graets als Berliner Zeitungsjunge (1929). The early sound film offered him leading parts in such films as Skandal um Eva/Scandal Around Eva (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1930) starring Henny Porten, Er und sein Diener/He and His Servant (Steve Sekely, 1931), and Flachsmann als Erzieher/Flachsmann as Educator (Carl Heinz Wolff, 1930) opposite Charlotte Ander. He directed himself in Schneider Wibbel/Tailor Wibbel (Paul Henckels, 1931).
Typical for Paul Henckels film characters is their accent and humour from the Rhineland region. He often played cranky and stubborn fellows. Among his films were Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse/ The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang, 1933), Ein idealer Gatte/An Ideal Husband (Herbert Selpin, 1935) starring Brigitte Helm; Napoleon ist an allem Schuld/Napoleon is to Blame for Everything (Curt Goetz, 1938), Der Maulkorb/The Muzzle (Erich Engel, 1938) and Zwei in einer großen Stadt/Two in a Big City (Volker von Collande, 1942). Unforgettable was his character Professor Bommel in Die Feuerzangenbowle (Helmut Weiss, 1944). This is the second film version of Heinrich Spoerl's novel about pupils playing various tricks and jokes on their teachers. The twist in the story is the leader of the pack, the major cause of the teachers' headaches: Johannes Pfeiffer (Heinz Rühmann) is not a real pupil at all. He is a successful playwright with a PhD. One evening at the pub his friends discover that he never went to a school but was educated privately. Their stories of their boyhood years persuade him to see for himself and 'be a boy again'. The film was made in 1944, so it is a bit astonishing that the Nazi censors were prepared to pass a film with such an anti-authoritarian message. Die Feuerzangenbowle is very well made and today enjoys a cult status in Germany.
Paul Henckels’ first post-war film was Wozzeck (Georg C. Klaren, 1947), based on the famous play by Georg Büchner. In this early DEFA production he played a cold and cynically experimenting doctor. His later roles were more stereotypical characters. To his last films belong Pension Schöller (Georg Jacoby, 1952) starring Camilla Spira, Hollandmädel (J. A. Hübler-Kahla, 1953), Staatsanwältin Corda/Prosecutor Corda (Karl Ritter, 1954), Kirschen in Nachbars Garten/Cherries in the Neighbour’s Garden (Erich Engels, 1956), and Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull/Confessions of Felix Krull (Kurt Hoffmann, 1957) featuring Horst Buchholz. He focussed on his stage work and did recital tours, performing Wilhelm Busch and German classics. During the 1950s and 1960s he also appeared often on TV, like in Die fröhliche Weinrunde/The Cheerful Wine Bout with singer Margit Schramm, and in Nachsitzen für Erwachsene/Detention for Adults as a professor, who explained interesting phenomenons for a class with four adults (among them was film actor Hans Richter). In 1962 he was awarded the Filmband in Gold for his longtime and important contributions to the German cinema. Paul Henckels died in 1967 in Kettwig, now Essen. He was married with actress Thea Grodtzinsky. His first wife was Cecilia Brie, a former actress, with whom he had three children.
Sources: Thomas Staedeli (Cyranos), Stephanie D'heil (Steffi-line.de), Wikipedia, Filmportal.de, and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
When Daisy arrived in New York, she was unsettled to see that everything looked the same: the buildings stared at her as if to say, "Of course, we are still here as we were before. No matter if you come or go, this city will not change just for you."
Then Daisy realized: the sad part was that though so many things were different in her life, everything she truly dreaded was tied to this place--and her life with Tom.
Memories of Jay Gatsby's disastrous end; twinges of guilt over her and Tom's culpability in
it; her horrible experience with Tom's insane cousin Binx; and the disappearance of her
daughter Pammy: these events stood as solidly as the buildings.
"But I must rebuild; I must recreate": This idea gave Daisy not only hope but drive and
determination.
Daisy's friend Maude, with whom she was staying, had told her that she could have a
golden opportunity to rebuild her public image, which was imperitive.
All it would take, said Maude, was talking to Vespa Salvaggio.
"I'm ready...to recreate myself, my image...to become royal; to be David's future Queen. Yes, I AM the Queen."
'Queen for a day, fool for a lifetime': Avoiding that trap was what Daisy needed to do most.
***See swaggyWiggums' flickr page for Jan. and Feb. stories on Vespa Salvaggio and on Grace Garamond****
Piden asignatura de “autoestima y género” para erradicar violencia machista y feminicidios
Luego de que se diera a conocer la noticia de que una mujer fue asesinada de 6 cuchillazos por su ex pareja sentimental en
un arranque de ira y celos. (www.oem.com.mx/diariodequeretaro/notas/n3003297.htm)
Manuel Edmundo Ramos Gutiérrez, Presidente de SOS Discriminación
Internacional Querétaro y Maestro en estudios de Género, Identidad y
Ciudadanía por la Universidad de Huelva, España pidió a las autoridades investigar a profundidad el caso para que no quede impune y se haga justicia. Así
mismo, solicitó a los legisladores y autoridades educativas sumar
esfuerzos para incluir en
Querétaro la asignatura “autoestima y género” desde el nivel preescolar
hasta la preparatoria, para prevenir y erradicar la violencia machista
que sigue cobrando vidas.
Ramos Gutiérrez, recordó que a nivel mundial se señala que una de cada tres
mujeres es, fue o será víctima de agresiones machistas
en algún momento de su vida. Insultos, violaciones, golpes y ataques son algunas de las expresiones más comunes de ese problema pero la
consecuencia última es el feminicidio, un crimen de odio que de acuerdo
con reportes periodísticos y de organizaciones civiles
en seis años se triplicaron “destacaron a mediados de 2012 que en seis
años el índice de asesinatos de mujeres se había triplicado. En 2006
ocurrían en promedio 1.6 homicidios de mujeres cada mes, mientras que en 2012 se registraban 5.1 mensualmente. En suma,
durante el sexenio, hasta ese entonces, sumaban 254 asesinatos de
mujeres”. ( www.sinembargo.mx/22-04-2013/594745)
De ahí la importancia de prevenir este cáncer cultural con educación y políticas
públicas efectivas con perspectiva de género, que contribuyan a la construcción
de una cultura de la igualdad basada en el fortalecimiento del
autoestima de las personas y en la rehabilitación de quienes ejercen
violencia y maltrato.
La cultura machista que aún persiste en la sociedad es la culpable de la
violencia que sufren los grupos en situación de vulnerabilidad,
como es el caso de las mujeres.
La falta de autoestima, amor y atención en la infancia genera
codependencia al llegar a la edad adulta. La persona codependiente
no puede dar lo que no recibió, por lo tanto, la codependencia se
convierte en un círculo vicioso que continúa de generación en generación si no se busca ayuda psicológica.
Como nadie nos enseña como querernos y valorarnos a nosotros/as mismos/as,
por eso no aprendemos a respetar y valorar a los
demás. Los infantes que crecieron en familias donde no se les inculcó el amor así mismos o donde nunca escucharon mensajes positivos de su madre y su padre, tales como: "eres muy inteligente", "estás haciendo un buen trabajo" o "gracias mi amor, agradezco mucho
tu ayuda." Se convierten en adultos con baja autoestima, se sienten
abandonados y buscan la aprobación de otras personas para sentirse mejor consigo mismos.
Muchos hombres machistas o feminicidas sufrieron maltratos en su infancia y
han interiorizado la violencia como un comportamiento
“normal”. Los golpes y los gritos son su único recurso. La única forma de enfrentarse a una vida que no transcurre como a ellos les gustaría.Por eso es necesario, educar desde la escuela, con autoestima e igualdad,
porque si me sé querer y respetar a mí mismo/a, también lo haré con las y los demás.
Finalmente, el activista queretano coincidió con organizaciones civiles en defensa
de las mujeres, como el Comité Latinoamericano
para la Defensa de las Mujeres (Cladem), al señalar que la violencia
contra las mujeres y su expresión extrema, el feminicidio, representan
"un grave problema" para las mujeres, porque implica la violación
sistemática de sus derechos humanos fundamentales y
devela las condiciones de discriminación social y jurídica en la que
viven.
Síntesis Curricular del Mtro. Manuel Edmundo Ramos Gutiérrez:
Nació
el 27 de marzo de 1978, en Querétaro – México., es Licenciado en
Periodismo y Comunicación por la Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro.
Realizó un Máster en Género, Identidad y Ciudadanía en la Universidad de Huelva, España (ciclo escolar 2007/2008). Desde 1998,
trabaja en la promoción y defensa de los Derechos Humanos, así como la
perspectiva de género y la educación sexual a través de diversas
organizaciones de sociales nacionales e internacionales en México.
Busca contribuir en la construcción de políticas públicas que permitan la
eliminación de la desigualdad social, la discriminación,
que beneficien a la juventud y la sociedad en su conjunto.
Participo en el área de puntos de información y programa del Festival Mundial de la Juventud , que tuvo su sede en
el Forum de Barcelona 2004.
Director de Gestión de Becas Internacionales UNESCO de Vive México, A..C. (en
Querétaro), una organización internacional que
da la oportunidad a jóvenes mexicanos de conocer más de 85 países del
mundo, su cultura y su gente a través de fomentar su participación en
proyectos internacionales y gestionar becas culturales con las cuales
los jóvenes viajan con los gastos pagados en el
extranjero.
Presidente de SOS Discriminación Internacional – Delegación Querétaro.
Colaborador en el Área
de Igualdad del Ayuntamiento de Huelva, España.
Entrevistador y Miembro del Grupo de Investigación del Proyecto: Análisis de la Violencia hacia las Niñas en la Escuela Primaria
, en el Departamento de Educación de la Universidad de Huelva, España.
Encuestador del Proyecto Encuesta Social 2008. Hogares y Medio Ambiente. En el Instituto de Estadística de Andalucía y Grupo
de Investigación de Estudios Sociales de la Universidad de Huelva, España.
Facilitador del Taller de Masculinidad para las y los trabajadores del Centro de Inserción Sociolaboral
VALDOCCO en Huelva, España.
The Postcard
A postally unused briefkaart that was published in 1908 by Dr. Trenkler Co. of Leipzig. The card has a divided back.
There are many postcards showing Dutch women and girls on this photostream, and they are almost invariably shown knitting.
Where boys are also present, they are usually shown wearing very baggy trousers and smoking a pipe, which would certainly not be allowed today.
Volendam
Volendam is a small town in North Holland in the Netherlands, in the municipality of Edam-Volendam. The town has about 22,000 inhabitants (November 2007), and is twinned with Coventry in the UK.
Originally, Volendam was the location of the harbour of the nearby Edam. However in 1357, the inhabitants of Edam dug a shorter canal to the Zuiderzee with its own separate harbour.
This removed the need for Volendam's original harbour, which was then dammed and used for land reclamation. Farmers and local fishermen settled there, forming the new community of Volendam, which literally meant 'Filled dam'.
In the early part of the 20th. century Volendam became an artists' retreat, with both Picasso and Renoir spending time there.
The majority of the population belongs to the Roman Catholic Church, which is deeply connected to the village culture. Historically, many missionaries and bishops grew up in Volendam. Today there is the chapel of Our Lady of the Water, which is located in a village park.
The Volendam Café Fire
The Volendam New Year's café fire occurred during the 2000–2001 New Year's night. The fire began early on New Year's Day 2001 and caused the death of 14 young people. 241 people were admitted to hospital, 200 of whom suffered serious burns.
The fire took place in a building that housed three bars. On New Year's Eve it was packed with more than 350 young people between 13 and 22 years of age when a short blaze happened in the café De Hemel ("Heaven") which was located on the top floor after a sparkler hit Christmas decorations that hung from the ceiling. The temperature in the room reached 400 °C (752 °F). Many of the partygoers were wearing highly flammable synthetic fabrics which clung to their flesh as they melted and burned.
There was great panic and the heat, lack of oxygen and people falling over each other made escaping extremely difficult. There also were bars in front of the windows and there were too few emergency exits, all of which contributed to the high number of injuries.
Survivors stated that shortly after the fire began, all the lights went out, contributing to the panic.
The first report reached the Amsterdam ambulance service at 00:38 local time on the 1st. January. The first fire engine arrived at 00:46.
Mayor Frank IJsselmuiden claimed that the crowd had panicked because all but one of the emergency exits were blocked.
Many of those injured were hurt when they smashed windows and leapt from third and second floor windows in an attempt to escape the fire. Others including 53 injured individuals were admitted due to burns, with some being flown to special burns units in Belgium and Germany.
Investigation Into the Fire
The fire was initially investigated intensively by media and politicians. New rules were introduced for decorations in cafés, nightclubs and other venues. The owner and managers of the building were indicted for culpability.
An inquiry showed that the owner Jan Veerman had been negligent in providing escape routes, as well as failing to soak the Christmas decorations with a fire-resistant substance. Also there were too many people in the building at the time of the incident.
The owner was given a conditional prison sentence and community service. As a result of the inquiry Mayor of Edam-Volendam Frank IJsselmuiden and alderman Wim Visscher resigned their positions.
Tourism in Volendam
Volendam is a popular tourist destination. It is well-known for its old fishing boats and the traditional clothing still worn by some residents.
The women's costume of Volendam, with its high, pointed bonnet, is one of the most recognizable of the Dutch traditional costumes, and is often featured on tourist postcards and posters (although there are believed to be fewer than 50 women now wearing the costume as part of their daily lives, most of them elderly).
There is a regular ferry connection to Marken, a peninsula close by.
Volendam also features a small museum about its history and clothing style, and visitors can have their pictures taken in traditional Dutch costumes.
Volendam on Film
Volendam was a shooting location in Vikas Bahl's 2014 Bollywood film, Queen. The actors established an Indian food shop called Rani's Gol Gappa.
The owner was an Italian, Marco Canadea, as Marcello. The role of Queen was played by Indian actress Kangana Ranaut.
The film follows the story of Rani Mehra, a diffident Punjabi girl from New Delhi who embarks on her honeymoon to Paris and Amsterdam by herself after her fiancé calls off their wedding.
Queen is cited as a ground-breaking and an influential feminist film by many scholars. Over the years, the film has built a strong cult following. It was named as one of the best films of the decade (2010's) by multiple publications such as Paste and Film Companion.
Several publications such as O, The Oprah Magazine, and Cosmopolitan have named it as one of the best films of Indian Cinema. Shubhra Gupta from The Indian Express named Queen as one of the 75 finest and most iconic films made in India in the last 70 years.
Music in Volendam
Volendam is well known for its distinctive music, which is called Palingsound (literally "Eel Sound") in reference to Volendam's status as fishing village.
During the 1960's, the local group The Cats was a very popular group in the Netherlands and abroad.
Another band from Volendam was BZN, which became popular in the late 1960's and early 1970's. In 1995 BZN performed a duet with the ten-year-old Jan Smit, who quickly became a celebrity in his own right.
The popular music groups 3JS and Nick & Simon are famously from Volendam; their members have all participated in local musical performances through the years.
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JO TAMBÉ ESTAVA AL PARLAMENT... I HO TORNARIA A FER
El dia 31 de març comença el judici contra les 20 persones imputades per l’intent de bloqueig del Parlament del 15 de Juny del 2011. Aquell dia s'anaven a iniciar el tràmits per aprovar els pressupostos amb el primer paquet de retallades a Catalunya, que va propiciar el tancament d'empreses públiques, la privatització de la sanitat, les retallades al sector de la cultura, educació, etc.
La mobilització “Aturem el Parlament” va succeir dues setmanes després del brutal desallotjament de la Plaça Catalunya a mans dels antidisturbis dels Mossos d'Esquadra a les ordres del que era conseller d'Interior i ara ho és d'Empresa i Ocupació, Felip Puig. També responsable del dispositiu policial que va disparar contra l'ull d'Esther Quintana.
La criminalització per part de la premsa subvencionada pel Govern i l'escalada repressiva que va venir després (judicis contra persones que volien impedir un desnonament al Clot, nombroses detencions a les vagues generals, multes absurdes per les persones que es manifestaven o per enganxar cartells, etc), va ser i és encara, una resposta planejada per procurar frenar l'augment de la indignació i de la força de les protestes populars contra el poder polític, econòmic i altres injustícies quotidianes, com el patriarcat i el racisme.
Durant aquells dies, la gent es va organitzar arreu per construir política des del carrer, com moltes seguim fent. La política que volem és assembleària, horitzontal, autogestionada, sense representants, és del poble i per al poble, i xoca amb la política institucional que ens governa. La qual ha estat protagonista d'un espiral de corrupció i de tenir llaços, sovint familiars o personals, amb grans empreses privades que reben encàrrecs d'obres públiques i amb els peixos grossos del poder financer.
Aquell dia érem milers de persones les que vam anar a intentar aturar el Parlament, per combatre el drama de tantes vides immerses en la misèria, els acomiadaments per les retallades, els suïcidis pels desnonaments, etc. Perquè moltes d'aquestes barbàries s'aproven dins dels murs d'aquest edifici. Per aquest motiu estàvem assenyalant els culpables el 15 de Juny de 2011 i per això mateix, ho tornaríem a fer sense por, perquè legitimem la nostra actuació, i perquè si la gent del carrer, a qui ens afecta tot això, no lluitem, ningú altre ho farà per nosaltres.
Sabem i tenim clar que aquest és un judici polític, una farsa per atemorir a aquelles que decideixen plantar cara i actuar contra els responsables de tanta precarietat. De fet, ens reafirmem al comprovar que l'acció directa contra els poderosos i generar alternatives de vida els molesta, i molt. Per això, i perquè som conscients del poder que podem tenir quan ens organitzem, no ens volem doblegar davant les seves intimidacions i fem una crida a estendre la solidaritat a aquells i aquelles que pateixen la repressió i la violència quotidiana d'aquest sistema econòmic, en les seves infinitats de formes.
Convoquem manifestació el dia 29 de març a Barcelona a les 18:30 a Plaça Catalunya.
SOLIDARITAT AMB TOTES LES REPRESALIADES I AMB AQUELLES QUE LLUITEN!!
La propera vegada que agafin un helicòpter, que sigui per marxar ben lluny i no tornar a molestar!
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I was at the Catalan Parliament too…
and I would do it again
On March 31st the court case against the 20 people who are charged with an attempt to block the Catalan Paliament on June 15th 2012 will begin. That day in June, the process of implementing the first round of budget cuts in Catalonia began. Cuts that involved closing public companies, the privatization of health care,as well as cuts in the area of culture, education, etc.
The mobilization “Aturem el Parlament” (“Paralize the Parliament”), took place two weeks after the brutal eviction of Plaza Catalunya (Barcelona), by the riot police Mossos d´Esquadra under the command of Felip Puig. He was the minister of the Interior at that time and is currently the minister of companies and labour. He was also responsible for the police operation that shot Esther Quintana in the eye.
The criminalization by the media (that is funded by the state) and the increase of repression which followed (court cases against people trying to prevent an eviction in the neighbourhood of el Clot, many detentions during the general strikes, absurd fees for people protesting or hanging banners with tape etc), was, and still is, a planned response to try to stop the rise of outrage and the strength of popular demostrations against economic and political power, and other daily injustices (such as patriarchy and racism).
During those days, people organized themselves all over to build and create politics from the streets, as many of us continue to do. The politics we want are based in assemblies, horizontal, self-organized, without leaders; they belong to the people and they are for the people, and clash with the institutional politics which govern us. The same institutional politics and their protagonists are creating a corruption spiral and have relationships, mostly family-based, with private companies (that receive contracts for public constructions) and with high-up people with economic power.
That day we were thousands of people trying to paralyze the Catalan Parliament in order to fight the drama of so many lives embedded in misery, the layoffs due to the cuts, the suicides due to evictions, etc. Because many of these atrocities are approved behind the walls of that building. This is the reason that we were pointing out the guilty ones that 25 of June 2012, and because of this, we would to it again without fear. Because we legitimize our action, and because if we, the people from the street -whom are the most affected-, don´t fight, nobody will do it for us.
We know that this is a political court case, a farce to scare those who decide to stand up and take action against thoseresponsibleforall this precariousness. In fact, we reaffirm our ideals and actions after proving that direct action and the creation of alternatives of life bothers them, a lot. Because of this, and because we are aware of the power we can have when we are organized, we don´t want to bow down to their intimidation. We call for a spread of solidarity for all the ones who suffer daily repression and violence within this economic system, in its infinite shapes.
SOLIDARITY WITH ALL THE REPRESSED AND THOSE WHO FIGHT!!
The next time that they take an helicopter, it should be to go far away, and not come back to bother us.
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Repression in Spain. A call for international solidarity
During the last three years Spanish society has witnessed a period of intense social protests against austerity, corruption, unemployment and so on. As in other times in history, the greater and more radicalised the protest the bigger the repression that the state organises against it. Since the general strike in September 2010, a common trend of this repression strategy is been a kind of ‘laissez faire’ in the streets but followed by ´selective´ detentions months later. Police have been literally knocking doors down of those who continuously take part in different actions and demonstrations, and consequently dozens of people have been arrested.
On June the 15th 2011, ten thousand people surrounded the Catalan parliament in Barcelona. That day the government wanted to approve a vast austerity cut in health and education, and the idea was to block politicians from getting into the building. “Inexplicably” the police did not protect some politicians, which caused direct confrontation with protesters, and of course that fact was used by the media as an example of violence against democracy. After that, people were violently dispersed, and the MPs could do their job.
On October the 4th 2011, 22 people were arrested in their homes. They have been accused of a crime against the state, using a law designed for coup leaders and that had never been used before in Spain. They now face a penalty of up to 8 years in jail, whereas some of them have been also accused of different crimes related to other demonstrations. The trial will start in March the 31st 2014 and it is expected to last four days.
There will be a national day of solidarity in Spain on March the 29th with demonstrations in several cities. So we also call for international solidarity.
You can call, email or block different Spanish embassies or institutions. Or you can do whatever you consider appropriate…
“That day we tried to block the Catalan parliament to combat the drama of many lives immersed in poverty, layoffs by cuts, suicides by evictions, etc. Because many of these atrocities are approved behind the walls of that building. We were pointing at the guilty, and because of that we would do it again without fear. We know this is a political trial, a farce to scare those who choose to stand up and take action against those responsible for such precarious living conditions. In fact, we reaffirm it to find that both direct action against the powerful and generate alternative lives bothers them a lot. For this reason, and because we understand the power that we can have as we organise ourselves, we do not want to bow to their intimidation and we make a call to extend solidarity to those suffering the daily repression and violence of this economic system, in its myriad forms”.
encausadesparlament.wordpress.com/manifest-suport/manifes...
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Sketches from the courtroom of the first trial of the Baltimore police officers accused of being culpable in the death of Freddie Gray. www.washingtonpost.com/news/drawing-dc-together/
...I aixo seria veritat en una democracia real,i es faria veritat a traves del vot.No tots els politics son corruptes,ni el poder corrompeix a tots i es ben cert que al ser ocupant la plaça publica estem fent tambe politica,un esboçde politica assamblearia.
La gent intenta organitzar-se,fer reunions sota aquella palmera, al principi d´aquelles escales,.darrera aquella font,es un proces llarg com deien pels microfons...i l´important es poguer expressar el descontent i buscar sortida...
I aixó seria veritat si els politics fossin mes de trinxera i menys de carrera,si realment fossin conscients que son alli perque la gent vol que els representin i no a l´inreves,si obeissin les propostes del carrer,del barri ,de la ciutat i no les consignes dels grups de poder que dominen el mon sense bandera,sense pais,nomes moguts per el interes economic.( que hi fan en Felipe Gonzalez,L´esperanza Aguirre i en Juan Luis Cebrian per exemple,a les reunions secretes del Grup Bilderberg i perque alimenten tantes sospites ,tantes teories conspiratives? Que s´hi decideix ? en qualitat de que son comvidats i perque no s´informa si ens vincula a tots ? )
Aixo seria veritat si al ser escollits caminessin amb tots nosaltres per fer un mon millor pèr els nostres fills,per ensenyar-nos a reciclar enlloc d´empenyer a consumir,si escoltessin el que el mon ens demana,el mes optim per la supervivencia de les persones i l´entorn,enlloc de la mort i la destrucció per alimentar uns pocs escollits.La crisis no la van inventar els politics,pero si la van permetre,no van aturar el moviment fictici del diner i van posar en marxa una maquinaria basada en l´amibicio i la codicia on tots varem sortir retratats com una colla de cretins.
Ara les retallades son el pa de cada dia,i el problema no es retallar,sino que es retalla.Un pais amb les arques buides no pot viure com si no passes res,o del contrari tornariem a fer economia de ficció,la mateixa que ens va dur a la crisi.Nosaltres tambe en som culpables,no teniem que haver aceptat aquests credits de fantasia , ni volguer viure com el Sr Botin amb un sou de 1200€, no teniem que haver aceptat el consum salvatge ,ni l´alça de preus ,ni el comvertir-nos en inmobiliaries particulars mentres treballavem tambe a l´oficina..Molta gent va volguer fer l´agost i ara s´estan pelant de fred.....No es pot anar de "listillu" i despres assenyalar els politics com unics culpables....
Era hora de despertar,encara que sigui desordenadament,anarquicament,i ho estem fent be,amb pau i un somriure,el que ha passat aquets dies es un fenomen dificil d´explicar,pero l´estem fent realitat cada dia que passa.El vas s´ha vessat.....hem de trobar noves fonts....i aixo es feina de tots com a tribu,com a societat i tambe de cada un de nosaltres individualment, ens toca com sempre trobar el millor cami, aquest es un joc d´apendre i no un cap de setmana a Port Aventura ,ni un videojoc amb emocions de disseny,li haurem de possar imaginació i creativitat.
... Y eso sería verdad en una democracia real, y se haría verdad a través del voto.
No todos los políticos son corruptos, ni el poder corrompe a todos y es bien cierto que al estar ocupando la plaza pública estamos haciendo también política, un apunte de política asamblearia.
La gente intenta organizarse, hacer reuniones bajo aquella palmera, al principio de aquellas escaleras,. detras de aquella fuente, es un proceso largo como se oia por los micrófonos ... lo importante es poder expresar el descontento y buscar soluciones...
Y eso seria verdad si los políticos fueran más de trinchera y menos de carrera, si realmente fueran conscientes de que estan allí porque la gente quiere que los representen y no al revés, si obedecieran las propuestas de la calle, del barrio, de la ciudad y no las consignas de los grupos de poder que dominan el mundo sin bandera, sin país, sólo movidos por el interés economico..( que hacen Felipe Gonzalez, Esperanza Aguirre y Juan Luis Cebrian por ejemplo ,en las reuniones secretas del Grupo Bidelberg ? porque alimentan tantas sospechas, tantas teorias conspirativas? Que se decide? en calidad de que son invitados y porque nadie informa si nos vincula a todos ? )
Eso sería verdad si al ser elegidos caminaran con todos nosotros para hacer un mundo mejor para nuestros hijos, para enseñarnos a reciclar en lugar de empujar a consumir, si escucharan lo que el mundo nos pide, lo mas óptimo para la supervivencia de las personas y el entorno, en lugar de la muerte y la destrucción para alimentar unos pocos escojidos.La crisis no la inventaron los políticos, pero si la permitieron, no pararon el movimiento ficticio del dinero y pusieron en marcha una maquinaria basada en la amibicion y la codicia donde todos salimos retratados como un monton de cretinos.
Ahora los recortes son el pan de cada día, y el problema no es recortar, sino que se recorta.
Un país con las arcas vacías no puede vivir como si no pasara nada, o de lo contrario volveríamos a hacer economía de ficción, la misma que nos llevó a la crisis.
Nosotros también somos culpables, no teníamos que haber aceptado estos créditos de fantasía, ni querer vivir como el Sr. Botin con un sueldo de 1200 €, no teníamos que haber aceptado el consumo salvaje, ni al alza de precios, ni el convertirnos en inmobiliarias particulares mientras trabajábamos también en la oficina ..
Mucha gente quiso hacer el agosto y ahora se están pelando de frío ..... No se puede ir de "listillo" y después señalar los políticos como unicos culpables ....
Era hora de despertar, aunque sea desordenadamente, anárquicamente, y lo estamos haciendo bien, con paz y una sonrisa, lo que ha sucedido estos días es un fenómeno difícil de explicar, pero lo estamos haciendo realidad cada día que pasa.El vaso se ha derramado ..... debemos encontrar nuevas fuentes .... y eso es trabajo de todos como tribu, como sociedad y también de cada uno de nosotros individualmente, nos toca como siempre encontrar el mejor camino, y eso es un juego de aprender y no un fin de semana en un parque tematico,ni un videojuego con emociones de diseño , habra que ponerle imaginacion y creatividad..
TITLE: Book of Fritz Leiber
AUTHOR: Fritz Leiber 1910-92
TYPE: paperback Collection
PUBLISHER: DAW UY1269 No. 87 [DAW number not stated on or within book]
COVER PRICE: $1.25
ISBN:
PAGES: 173
COPYRIGHT: 1974 by author
PUB DATE:
EDITION: 3rd printing
COVER ARTIST: George Barr
ISFDB: Verified
RATING:
NOTATION:
DAW Book #87. Stated 3rd printing as per the number line. ''Those Wild Alien Words: I'' is listed as ''Those Wild Alien Words'' in the table of contents. ''"The Whisperer" Re-examined'' is listed as ''The Whisperer Re-examined'' in the table of contents.
INDEX: 0314 - Book of Fritz Leiber - 07 - FL - DAWUY1269 - IFB
CONTENTS:
7 • Foreword (The Book of Fritz Leiber) • (1974) • essay by Fritz Leiber
11 • The Spider • (1963) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
24 • Monsters and Monster Lovers • (1965) • essay by Fritz Leiber
37 • A Hitch in Space • (1963) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
48 • Hottest and Coldest Molecules • (1952) • essay by Fritz Leiber
52 • Kindergarten • (1963) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
55 • Those Wild Alien Words: I • (1974) • essay by Fritz Leiber
64 • Crazy Annaoj • (1968) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
70 • Debunking the I Machine • (1949) • essay by Fritz Leiber
72 • When the Last Gods Die • (1951) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
79 • King Lear • (1934) • essay by Fritz Leiber
85 • Yesterday House • (1952) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
115 • After Such Knowledge • (1974) • essay by Fritz Leiber
118 • Knight to Move • (1965) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
128 • Weird World of the Knight • (1960) • essay by Fritz Leiber
131 • To Arkham and the Stars • (1966) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
143 • "The Whisperer" Re-examined • (1964) • essay by Fritz Leiber
148 • Beauty and the Beasts • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • (1974) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
151 • Masters of Mace and Magic • (1974) • essay by Fritz Leiber
157 • Cat's Cradle • (1974) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
QUOTE: The seven eyes of Ningauble the Wizard floated back to his hood as he reported to Fafhrd: "I have seen much, yet cannot explain all. The Gray Mouser is exactly twenty-five feet below the deepest cellar in the palace of Gilpkerio Kistomerces. Even though twenty-four parts in twenty-five of him are dead, he is alive. "Now about Lankhmar. She's been invaded, her walls breached everywhere and desperate fighting is going on in the streets, by a fierce host which out-numbers Lankhmar's inhabitants by fifty to one and equipped with all modern weapons. Yet you can save the city." "How?" demanded Fafhrd. Ningauble shrugged. "You're a hero. You should know." Fritz Leiber, from "The Swords of Lankhmar"
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NO entry indicates specific information not available from book.
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JO TAMBÉ ESTAVA AL PARLAMENT... I HO TORNARIA A FER
El dia 31 de març comença el judici contra les 20 persones imputades per l’intent de bloqueig del Parlament del 15 de Juny del 2011. Aquell dia s'anaven a iniciar el tràmits per aprovar els pressupostos amb el primer paquet de retallades a Catalunya, que va propiciar el tancament d'empreses públiques, la privatització de la sanitat, les retallades al sector de la cultura, educació, etc.
La mobilització “Aturem el Parlament” va succeir dues setmanes després del brutal desallotjament de la Plaça Catalunya a mans dels antidisturbis dels Mossos d'Esquadra a les ordres del que era conseller d'Interior i ara ho és d'Empresa i Ocupació, Felip Puig. També responsable del dispositiu policial que va disparar contra l'ull d'Esther Quintana.
La criminalització per part de la premsa subvencionada pel Govern i l'escalada repressiva que va venir després (judicis contra persones que volien impedir un desnonament al Clot, nombroses detencions a les vagues generals, multes absurdes per les persones que es manifestaven o per enganxar cartells, etc), va ser i és encara, una resposta planejada per procurar frenar l'augment de la indignació i de la força de les protestes populars contra el poder polític, econòmic i altres injustícies quotidianes, com el patriarcat i el racisme.
Durant aquells dies, la gent es va organitzar arreu per construir política des del carrer, com moltes seguim fent. La política que volem és assembleària, horitzontal, autogestionada, sense representants, és del poble i per al poble, i xoca amb la política institucional que ens governa. La qual ha estat protagonista d'un espiral de corrupció i de tenir llaços, sovint familiars o personals, amb grans empreses privades que reben encàrrecs d'obres públiques i amb els peixos grossos del poder financer.
Aquell dia érem milers de persones les que vam anar a intentar aturar el Parlament, per combatre el drama de tantes vides immerses en la misèria, els acomiadaments per les retallades, els suïcidis pels desnonaments, etc. Perquè moltes d'aquestes barbàries s'aproven dins dels murs d'aquest edifici. Per aquest motiu estàvem assenyalant els culpables el 15 de Juny de 2011 i per això mateix, ho tornaríem a fer sense por, perquè legitimem la nostra actuació, i perquè si la gent del carrer, a qui ens afecta tot això, no lluitem, ningú altre ho farà per nosaltres.
Sabem i tenim clar que aquest és un judici polític, una farsa per atemorir a aquelles que decideixen plantar cara i actuar contra els responsables de tanta precarietat. De fet, ens reafirmem al comprovar que l'acció directa contra els poderosos i generar alternatives de vida els molesta, i molt. Per això, i perquè som conscients del poder que podem tenir quan ens organitzem, no ens volem doblegar davant les seves intimidacions i fem una crida a estendre la solidaritat a aquells i aquelles que pateixen la repressió i la violència quotidiana d'aquest sistema econòmic, en les seves infinitats de formes.
Convoquem manifestació el dia 29 de març a Barcelona a les 18:30 a Plaça Catalunya.
SOLIDARITAT AMB TOTES LES REPRESALIADES I AMB AQUELLES QUE LLUITEN!!
La propera vegada que agafin un helicòpter, que sigui per marxar ben lluny i no tornar a molestar!
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I was at the Catalan Parliament too…
and I would do it again
On March 31st the court case against the 20 people who are charged with an attempt to block the Catalan Paliament on June 15th 2012 will begin. That day in June, the process of implementing the first round of budget cuts in Catalonia began. Cuts that involved closing public companies, the privatization of health care,as well as cuts in the area of culture, education, etc.
The mobilization “Aturem el Parlament” (“Paralize the Parliament”), took place two weeks after the brutal eviction of Plaza Catalunya (Barcelona), by the riot police Mossos d´Esquadra under the command of Felip Puig. He was the minister of the Interior at that time and is currently the minister of companies and labour. He was also responsible for the police operation that shot Esther Quintana in the eye.
The criminalization by the media (that is funded by the state) and the increase of repression which followed (court cases against people trying to prevent an eviction in the neighbourhood of el Clot, many detentions during the general strikes, absurd fees for people protesting or hanging banners with tape etc), was, and still is, a planned response to try to stop the rise of outrage and the strength of popular demostrations against economic and political power, and other daily injustices (such as patriarchy and racism).
During those days, people organized themselves all over to build and create politics from the streets, as many of us continue to do. The politics we want are based in assemblies, horizontal, self-organized, without leaders; they belong to the people and they are for the people, and clash with the institutional politics which govern us. The same institutional politics and their protagonists are creating a corruption spiral and have relationships, mostly family-based, with private companies (that receive contracts for public constructions) and with high-up people with economic power.
That day we were thousands of people trying to paralyze the Catalan Parliament in order to fight the drama of so many lives embedded in misery, the layoffs due to the cuts, the suicides due to evictions, etc. Because many of these atrocities are approved behind the walls of that building. This is the reason that we were pointing out the guilty ones that 25 of June 2012, and because of this, we would to it again without fear. Because we legitimize our action, and because if we, the people from the street -whom are the most affected-, don´t fight, nobody will do it for us.
We know that this is a political court case, a farce to scare those who decide to stand up and take action against thoseresponsibleforall this precariousness. In fact, we reaffirm our ideals and actions after proving that direct action and the creation of alternatives of life bothers them, a lot. Because of this, and because we are aware of the power we can have when we are organized, we don´t want to bow down to their intimidation. We call for a spread of solidarity for all the ones who suffer daily repression and violence within this economic system, in its infinite shapes.
SOLIDARITY WITH ALL THE REPRESSED AND THOSE WHO FIGHT!!
The next time that they take an helicopter, it should be to go far away, and not come back to bother us.
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Repression in Spain. A call for international solidarity
During the last three years Spanish society has witnessed a period of intense social protests against austerity, corruption, unemployment and so on. As in other times in history, the greater and more radicalised the protest the bigger the repression that the state organises against it. Since the general strike in September 2010, a common trend of this repression strategy is been a kind of ‘laissez faire’ in the streets but followed by ´selective´ detentions months later. Police have been literally knocking doors down of those who continuously take part in different actions and demonstrations, and consequently dozens of people have been arrested.
On June the 15th 2011, ten thousand people surrounded the Catalan parliament in Barcelona. That day the government wanted to approve a vast austerity cut in health and education, and the idea was to block politicians from getting into the building. “Inexplicably” the police did not protect some politicians, which caused direct confrontation with protesters, and of course that fact was used by the media as an example of violence against democracy. After that, people were violently dispersed, and the MPs could do their job.
On October the 4th 2011, 22 people were arrested in their homes. They have been accused of a crime against the state, using a law designed for coup leaders and that had never been used before in Spain. They now face a penalty of up to 8 years in jail, whereas some of them have been also accused of different crimes related to other demonstrations. The trial will start in March the 31st 2014 and it is expected to last four days.
There will be a national day of solidarity in Spain on March the 29th with demonstrations in several cities. So we also call for international solidarity.
You can call, email or block different Spanish embassies or institutions. Or you can do whatever you consider appropriate…
“That day we tried to block the Catalan parliament to combat the drama of many lives immersed in poverty, layoffs by cuts, suicides by evictions, etc. Because many of these atrocities are approved behind the walls of that building. We were pointing at the guilty, and because of that we would do it again without fear. We know this is a political trial, a farce to scare those who choose to stand up and take action against those responsible for such precarious living conditions. In fact, we reaffirm it to find that both direct action against the powerful and generate alternative lives bothers them a lot. For this reason, and because we understand the power that we can have as we organise ourselves, we do not want to bow to their intimidation and we make a call to extend solidarity to those suffering the daily repression and violence of this economic system, in its myriad forms”.
encausadesparlament.wordpress.com/manifest-suport/manifes...
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"We are all Palestinians"
Some excerpts from the speech by Dr. Peter Slezak, an academic philosopher and member of Independent Australian Jewish Voices, outside the State Library in Melbourne:
"We are here to express our solidarity with the people of Gaza. Their desperate plight today comes on top of a catastrophic humanitarian crisis already caused by 2 years of Israeli blockade. And this is on top of sixty years of Palestinian suffering, their dispossession that An Israeli historian [name unclear - ed] has called ethnic cleansing and a brutal military occupation for forty years."
"We have an obligation to turn our moral concern into meaningful action because it is here in the west that the fate of Palestine is decided. We must find ways to counter the barrage of deceit that prevents people from understanding what is going on and reacting to it as human beings. History is being rewritten even as it happens."
"It is a lie that Israel is defending itself. There are no Palestinian F16 jets bombing Israel."
"The assault on Gaza is not a war but a Cowardly act of terrorism. It is perpetrated by the most sophisticated military force against a defenseless population. The casualty figures are sufficient evidence of this crime against humanity. But this is not how it is presented in our media or by our own politicians who endlessly uncritically repeat the official lies of Israeli propaganda. Under the guise of balance the victims are blamed for their suffering and they have no voice and the world stands by doing nothing. "
"It is also a lie, endlessly repeated by our media and politicians, that Hamas does not want to negotiate. The record is clear. Israel has rebuffed serious proposals because it would have to make just concessions to the Palestinians."
"It is also a lie, endlessly repeated by our media and politicians, that Israel had no choice but to launch this assault. Israel had a clear choice. They could have preserved the effective ceasefire that they, the Israelis, violated."
"It is also a lie, perhaps the main lie that is being repeated, that Israel is attacking Gaza to stop rockets. You could learn this from the official website of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On November 4 Israel violated the ceasefire that had held for six months according to the Israeli Defence Force website and the ceasefire was protecting Israeli citizens from rockets, and there are emails from the citizens of Sherdot clearly understand. The official Israeli website shows that Hamas launched missiles in retaliation for Israeli attacks, but on December 27, the very day that Israel launched its savage bombardment the Foreign Ministry changed its website, removing the charts giving the numbers of rockets and mortars fired from Gaza. Off course these charts revealed the near total cessation of rocket fire during the truce and they provide striking evidence of Hamas's good faith and considerable restraint in the face of a blockade."
"The former High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, described the blockade as the destruction of a civilization, and this was before the bombing. That one Israeli military Officer reported in the press yesterday said that it makes Gaza look like it was bombed for years not for weeks....."
"We must ask ourselves how its possible for our own respectable media and our politicians to reverse the truth and portray Israel as the victim....."
"What we are up against is not just the bias but a kind of ignorance, a culpable blameworthy ignorance. Its a kind of psychological aberration or deviance. Its a moral blindness that fails to notice the gross imbalance in suffering. Israeli violence is not disproportionate, it is barbaric."
"I am here today because I share a motivation with many Jews around the world. My 83 year old mother is a survivor of the Nazi concentration camp - Auschwitz. I grew up with her question 'Why didn't anyone help the Jews?', 'Why didn't anyone else care? and why did the world allow it to happen?'. These are the same questions we must ask today about the crimes against Palestinians."
"I am here because the state of Israel does not represent all Jews. If we have learnt the real meaning of the slogan 'Never again' from the Second World War, we can't remain silent when crimes are being committed in our name. We must universalize the tragedy to include others in our moral universe and recognize our shared humanity with the Palestinian. This a lesson from a wonderful and famous Palestinian, Edward Said, who was a great moral hero and a leader."
"Let me wind up with one final remark. The Nazis made Jews wear a yellow Star of David to stigmatize them and persecute them, and I grew up with an immensely moving image of other people, not Jews, like the King of Denmark and other people who showed their humanity by wearing the yellow star to symbolize their solidarity with the Jewish victims of persecution. This is the spirit in which I am wearing a Palestinian badge today and the spirit in which many Jews and others around the world send to the Palestinians."
"....right now we are all Palestinians".
Third Melbourne protest for the Palestinians of Gaza against the brutal attack by Israel - 18 Jan 2009
Organisers estimated 12,000 people marched in the Melbourne Protest against Israel's attack on the Palestinian Gaza territory.
View the slideshow or see the photo set. View 2 videos: We are all Palestinians and Micheal Leunig on Gaza and the morality of the heart on Takver's Youtube channel.
TITLE: Almuric
AUTHOR: Robert E. Howard
TYPE: paperback novel
PUBLISHER: Ace
COVER PRICE: $.40
ISBN:
PAGES: 157
COPYRIGHT: 1939, 1964
PUB DATE: 1964
EDITION: 1st paperback, 1st book appearance
COVER ARTIST: Jack Gaughan
ISFDB: Yes not as primary
RATING: Not read
NOTATION:
The printing date and number are not stated but the front cover has “First Book Publication” and the copyrights are “Copyright ©, 1964, by Ace Books, Inc. / Original magazine serialization copyright, 1939, by “Weird Tales.” The cover artist is not credited nor is a signature visible.
There is a small uncredited drawing on page 5 signed with Jack Gaughan's initials.
Many web sites agree the cover artist is Jack Gaughan.
INDEX: 0341a - Almuric - REH - 01 - IFB
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RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
The Postcard
A postally unused Photochromie Series postcard that was published by D & N. The card, which was printed in Germany, has a divided back.
There are many postcards showing Dutch women and girls on this photostream, and they are almost invariably shown knitting.
Where boys are also present, they are usually shown wearing very baggy trousers and smoking a pipe, which would certainly not be allowed today.
Volendam
Volendam is a small town in North Holland in the Netherlands, in the municipality of Edam-Volendam. The town has about 22,000 inhabitants (November 2007), and is twinned with Coventry in the UK.
Originally, Volendam was the location of the harbour of the nearby Edam. However in 1357, the inhabitants of Edam dug a shorter canal to the Zuiderzee with its own separate harbour.
This removed the need for Volendam's original harbour, which was then dammed and used for land reclamation. Farmers and local fishermen settled there, forming the new community of Volendam, which literally meant 'Filled dam'.
In the early part of the 20th. century Volendam became an artists' retreat, with both Picasso and Renoir spending time there.
The majority of the population belongs to the Roman Catholic Church, which is deeply connected to the village culture. Historically, many missionaries and bishops grew up in Volendam. Today there is the chapel of Our Lady of the Water, which is located in a village park.
The Volendam Café Fire
The Volendam New Year's café fire occurred during the 2000–2001 New Year's night. The fire began early on New Year's Day 2001 and caused the death of 14 young people. 241 people were admitted to hospital, 200 of whom suffered serious burns.
The fire took place in a building that housed three bars. On New Year's Eve it was packed with more than 350 young people between 13 and 22 years of age when a short blaze happened in the café De Hemel ("Heaven") which was located on the top floor after a sparkler hit Christmas decorations that hung from the ceiling. The temperature in the room reached 400 °C (752 °F). Many of the partygoers were wearing highly flammable synthetic fabrics which clung to their flesh as they melted and burned.
There was great panic and the heat, lack of oxygen and people falling over each other made escaping extremely difficult. There also were bars in front of the windows and there were too few emergency exits, all of which contributed to the high number of injuries.
Survivors stated that shortly after the fire began, all the lights went out, contributing to the panic.
The first report reached the Amsterdam ambulance service at 00:38 local time on the 1st. January. The first fire engine arrived at 00:46.
Mayor Frank IJsselmuiden claimed that the crowd had panicked because all but one of the emergency exits were blocked.
Many of those injured were hurt when they smashed windows and leapt from third and second floor windows in an attempt to escape the fire. Others including 53 injured individuals were admitted due to burns, with some being flown to special burns units in Belgium and Germany.
Investigation Into the Fire
The fire was initially investigated intensively by media and politicians. New rules were introduced for decorations in cafés, nightclubs and other venues. The owner and managers of the building were indicted for culpability.
An inquiry showed that the owner Jan Veerman had been negligent in providing escape routes, as well as failing to soak the Christmas decorations with a fire-resistant substance. Also there were too many people in the building at the time of the incident.
The owner was given a conditional prison sentence and community service. As a result of the inquiry Mayor of Edam-Volendam Frank IJsselmuiden and alderman Wim Visscher resigned their positions.
Tourism in Volendam
Volendam is a popular tourist destination. It is well-known for its old fishing boats and the traditional clothing still worn by some residents.
The women's costume of Volendam, with its high, pointed bonnet, is one of the most recognizable of the Dutch traditional costumes, and is often featured on tourist postcards and posters (although there are believed to be fewer than 50 women now wearing the costume as part of their daily lives, most of them elderly).
There is a regular ferry connection to Marken, a peninsula close by.
Volendam also features a small museum about its history and clothing style, and visitors can have their pictures taken in traditional Dutch costumes.
Volendam on Film
Volendam was a shooting location in Vikas Bahl's 2014 Bollywood film, Queen. The actors established an Indian food shop called Rani's Gol Gappa.
The owner was an Italian, Marco Canadea, as Marcello. The role of Queen was played by Indian actress Kangana Ranaut.
The film follows the story of Rani Mehra, a diffident Punjabi girl from New Delhi who embarks on her honeymoon to Paris and Amsterdam by herself after her fiancé calls off their wedding.
Queen is cited as a ground-breaking and an influential feminist film by many scholars. Over the years, the film has built a strong cult following. It was named as one of the best films of the decade (2010's) by multiple publications such as Paste and Film Companion.
Several publications such as O, The Oprah Magazine, and Cosmopolitan have named it as one of the best films of Indian Cinema. Shubhra Gupta from The Indian Express named Queen as one of the 75 finest and most iconic films made in India in the last 70 years.
Music in Volendam
Volendam is well known for its distinctive music, which is called Palingsound (literally "Eel Sound") in reference to Volendam's status as fishing village.
During the 1960's, the local group The Cats was a very popular group in the Netherlands and abroad.
Another band from Volendam was BZN, which became popular in the late 1960's and early 1970's. In 1995 BZN performed a duet with the ten-year-old Jan Smit, who quickly became a celebrity in his own right.
The popular music groups 3JS and Nick & Simon are famously from Volendam; their members have all participated in local musical performances through the years.
El lunes 25 de noviembre es el Día Internacional contra la violencia machista y a lo largo y ancho del mundo se celebrarán masivas manifestaciones en respuesta a esta lacra. Como ya hemos hecho en multitud de ocasiones -desde el 8 de marzo, pasando por las movilizaciones masivas contra la justicia patriarcal que amparó a “la Manada” y, ahora a la “Manada de Manresa”- en el Estado español volveremos a exigir el fin de la violencia machista que año tras año nos explota, oprime, humilla y asesina.
No tenemos miedo, sí tenemos rabia
La fuerza arrolladora que ha demostrado el movimiento por los derechos de las mujeres trabajadoras y jóvenes es imparable y sigue siendo un ejemplo muy poderoso. Por eso no es ninguna casualidad que la derecha franquista -PP, Ciudadanos y Vox- ataque e intente desprestigiar la lucha que millones de mujeres, junto con nuestros compañeros, estamos protagonizando.
En el Estado español estas manifestaciones del 25 de noviembre se celebrarán tras las elecciones generales del pasado 10-N, cuyos resultados vuelven a poner encima de la mesa una cuestión fundamental: que la lucha de la clase trabajadora y la juventud en defensa de nuestros derechos y contra los y las culpables de nuestra opresión es nuestra mayor fuerza. Desde Libres y Combativas no minimizamos ni restamos importancia al avance electoral de la extrema derecha de Vox, pero sí queremos resaltar que el bloque reaccionario ha vuelto a fracasar en su objetivo de hacerse con el Gobierno y que la derecha tiene enormes dificultades para seguir ganando apoyos: pierden casi 900.000 votos respecto a las elecciones del 28A.
La derecha y la extrema derecha son una amenaza muy real para todos los derechos que hemos conquistado en base a la movilización y a la lucha en las calles. Por eso sabemos, que la única forma de derrotar la ofensiva que representan es precisamente levantando una izquierda combativa en las calles, que defienda un feminismo revolucionario y de combate, un ecologismo anticapitalista, el fin de los recortes en la educación y la sanidad, el fin de la precariedad y la explotación, que garantice un sistema de pensiones público y digno… todas las reivindicaciones que durante años hemos exigido en las calles.
Conseguir todas estas reivindicaciones no es ninguna utopía. El próximo gobierno de coalición entre el PSOE y Unidas Podemos ha sido recibido por amplios sectores de la juventud y la clase trabajadora como una oportunidad para ello. Eso supone confrontar con los grandes poderes económicos, con los bancos, con la Iglesia Católica y los planes de austeridad de la Unión Europea. No queremos palabras, queremos hechos. Ya tenemos la experiencia de los últimos meses de gobierno del PSOE, que a pesar de considerarse el "gobierno más feminista de la historia", seguía respetando, entre muchas otras cosas, la justicia franquista y patriarcal que deja en libertad a violadores y culpa a las víctimas. No echamos a Rajoy de la Moncloa ni hemos derrotado a la derecha en las urnas dos veces para que todo siga igual. ¡La lucha debe continuar!
Somos feministas y anticapitalistas
La batalla contra la violencia machista es la lucha contra el sistema capitalista que la genera. Es la lucha contra la cosificación y la mercantilización de nuestros cuerpos, contra la trata, los vientres de alquiler, la prostitución y la pornografía. Es la lucha por unos salarios justos y unos puestos de trabajo dignos. Por una educación sexual inclusiva en los centros educativos para educar en el respeto, la igualdad y la inclusión. Contra la LGTBIfobia y la moral podrida de la Iglesia Católica.
El próximo 25 de noviembre tomaremos las calles de nuevo por todo ello. Porque es en las calles donde venceremos a este sistema y construiremos una sociedad nueva donde nadie conozca la explotación, la injusticia ni la miseria.
¡Únete a Libres y Combativas!
¡El 25N todas y todos a las calles contra la violencia machista!
..................................................Monday, November 25 is International Day against sexist violence and massive demonstrations will be held throughout the world in response to this scourge. As we have done on many occasions - from March 8, through the massive mobilizations against patriarchal justice that protected “La Manada” and, now to “Manada de Manresa” - in the Spanish State we will demand the end of the macho violence that year after year exploits us, oppresses, humiliates and murders.
We are not afraid, we are angry
The overwhelming force demonstrated by the movement for the rights of working women and youth is unstoppable and remains a very powerful example. That is why it is no accident that the Francoist right -PP, Citizens and Vox- attack and try to discredit the struggle that millions of women, along with our partners, are leading.
In the Spanish State, these demonstrations on November 25 will be held after the general elections of the past 10-N, whose results once again put a fundamental issue on the table: that the struggle of the working class and youth in defense of our rights and against those guilty of our oppression is our greatest strength. From Free and Combative we do not minimize or downplay the electoral progress of the extreme right of Vox, but we do want to highlight that the reactionary bloc has failed again in its objective of seizing the Government and that the right has enormous difficulties to continue gaining support : they lose almost 900,000 votes regarding the 28A elections.
The right and the extreme right are a very real threat to all the rights we have won based on mobilization and street fighting. That is why we know that the only way to defeat the offensive they represent is precisely by raising a combative left in the streets, defending a revolutionary and combat feminism, an anti-capitalist ecology, the end of cuts in education and health, the end of precariousness and exploitation, which guarantees a public and dignified pension system ... all the demands we have demanded for years on the streets.
Getting all these claims is no utopia. The next coalition government between the PSOE and United We have been received by broad sectors of youth and the working class as an opportunity for this. That means confronting the great economic powers, the banks, the Catholic Church and the austerity plans of the European Union. We don't want words, we want facts. We already have the experience of the last months of the PSOE government, which despite being considered the "most feminist government in history", continued to respect, among many other things, the Franco and patriarchal justice that frees rapists and blames the victims. We do not throw Rajoy de la Moncloa nor have we defeated right at the polls twice so that everything remains the same. The fight must continue!
We are feminists and anti-capitalists
The battle against sexist violence is the fight against the capitalist system that generates it. It is the fight against the reification and commodification of our bodies, against trafficking, rent bellies, prostitution and pornography. It is the fight for fair wages and decent jobs. For an inclusive sexual education in educational centers to educate in respect, equality and inclusion. Against LGBTIphobia and the rotten morals of the Catholic Church.
On November 25 we will take the streets again for all this. Because it is in the streets where we will overcome this system and build a new society where no one knows exploitation, injustice or misery.
Join Free and Combative!
The 25N all and everyone on the streets against sexist violence!
TITLE: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
AUTHOR: Philip Kindred Dick 1928-82
TYPE: paperback novel
PUBLISHER: Signet
COVER PRICE: $.75
ISBN:
PAGES: 159
COPYRIGHT: 1968 by author
PUB DATE:
EDITION: 3rd printing
COVER ARTIST:
ISFDB: Not verified
RATING: 3
INDEX: 0134 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Signet - 001a - PKD - FB
QUOTE “This is Managing Director Dill,” the teacher said, “The Coordinating Director of the Unity System.” Managing Director Dill is responsible only to Vulcan 3. No human being except Director Dill is permitted to approach the computer banks. “Mr. Dill,” a girl’s voice came. “Can I ask you something?” “Certainly,” Dill said halting briefly at the classroom door. “Director Dill, don’t you feel ashamed of yourself when you let a machine tell you what to do?”…from Vulcan’s Hammer by Philip K. Dick
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TITLE: Dangerous Visions
EDITOR: Harlan Ellison 1934-
TYPE: paperback novel Collection
PUBLISHER: Berkley Medallion
COVER PRICE: $1.50
ISBN: D2274
PAGES: 576
COPYRIGHT: 1967
PUB DATE: December 1972
EDITION:
COVER ARTIST: Vincent Di Fate
ISFDB: Yes verified
RATING: Not read
NOTATION: First paperback edition of the entire hardcover. Berkley had previously released three separate partial editions.
INDEX: 0149 - Dangerous Visions - 001 - HE -
CONTENTS:
·9 • Foreword 1-The Second Revolution • (1967) • essay by Isaac Asimov
·15 • Foreword 2-Harlan and I • (1967) • essay by Isaac Asimov
·19 • Thirty-Two Soothsayers • (1967) • essay by Harlan Ellison
·31 • Evensong • (1967) • shortstory by Lester del Rey
·40 • Flies • (1967) • shortstory by Robert Silverberg
·53 • The Day After the Day the Martians Came • (1967) • shortstory by Frederik Pohl
·62 • Riders of the Purple Wage • (1967) • novella by Philip José Farmer
·135 • The Malley System • (1967) • shortstory by Miriam Allen deFord
·146 • A Toy for Juliette • (1967) • shortstory by Robert Bloch
·160 • The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World • (1967) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
·187 • The Night That All Time Broke Out • (1967) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
·201 • The Man Who Went to the Moon - Twice • (1967) • shortstory by Howard Rodman
·213 • Faith of Our Fathers • (1967) • novelette by Philip K. Dick
·247 • The Jigsaw Man • [Known Space] • (1967) • shortstory by Larry Niven
·262 • Gonna Roll the Bones • (1967) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
·286 • Lord Randy, My Son • (1967) • shortstory by Joe L. Hensley
·302 • Eutopia • (1967) • novelette by Poul Anderson
·323 • Incident in Moderan • (1967) • shortstory by David R. Bunch
·329 • The Escaping • (1967) • shortstory by David R. Bunch
·335 • The Doll-House • (1967) • shortstory by James Cross
·357 • Sex and/or Mr. Morrison • (1967) • shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
·369 • Shall the Dust Praise Thee? • (1967) • shortstory by Damon Knight
·375 • If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? • (1967) • novella by Theodore Sturgeon
·420 • What Happened to Auguste Clarot? • (1967) • shortstory by Larry Eisenberg
·427 • Ersatz • (1967) • shortstory by Henry Slesar
·435 • Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird • (1967) • shortstory by Sonya Dorman
·443 • The Happy Breed • (1967) • shortstory by John Sladek
·464 • Encounter with a Hick • (1967) • shortstory by Jonathan Brand
·471 • From the Government Printing Office • (1967) • shortstory by Kris Neville
·479 • Land of the Great Horses • (1967) • shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
·491 • The Recognition • (1967) • shortstory by J. G. Ballard
·504 • Judas • (1967) • shortstory by John Brunner
·515 • Test to Destruction • (1967) • novelette by Keith Laumer
·541 • Carcinoma Angels • (1967) • shortstory by Norman Spinrad
·555 • Auto-Da-Fé • (1967) • shortstory by Roger Zelazny
·564 • Aye, and Gomorrah. . . • (1967) • shortstory by Samuel R. Delany
“I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated"
- Poul Anderson
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Inside the Union Carbide pesticide factory scene of the world's worst industrial disaster.
Interior shot of the factory before it was stripped of some of its most valuable components and subsequently abandoned to the elements.
The factory remains ruined and abandoned to this day and there are approximately 350 Metric tonnes of highly toxic waste stored above ground.
Of greater concern are the many thousands of tonnes of toxic waste that were buried, in an untreated state, on the site.
Rain water runs through his waste, along with the remains of the abandoned solar evaporation ponds, and leaches toxic chemicals in to the local ground water aquifer.
The toxic plume has now spread for miles from the factory and many thousands of impoverished people have been using it, for decades, as their primary water supply.
Un poco de humor ante tantas tragedias.
A little humor before so many tragedies
Hay un dicho local:
fiveprime.org/hivemind/User/hmlaplata
la culpa no es del chancho sino del que le da de comer
Probablemente haya muchos "humanos" culpables.
TITLE: Instrumentality of Mankind
AUTHOR: Cordwainer Smith (Paul Linebarger) 1913-1966
TYPE: paperback Collection
PUBLISHER: Ballantine/Del Rey 27716
COVER PRICE: $1.95
ISBN:
PAGES: 238
PUB DATE: May 1979
EDITION: 1st edition; 1st publication
COPYRIGHT: 1979 by author’s wife
COVER ARTIST: Michael Herring
ISFDB: Yes
RATING:
INDEX: 0230 - Instrumentality of Mankind - 10 - CS - IFB
CONTENTS:
·viii • Timeline from The Instrumentality of Mankind • (1975) • essay by John J. Pierce [as by J. J. Pierce ]
·xi • Introduction (The Instrumentality of Mankind) • essay by Frederik Pohl
·1 • No, No, Not Rogov! • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1959) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
·21 • War No. 81-Q • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
·25 • Mark Elf • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1957) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
·40 • The Queen of the Afternoon • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1978) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
·71 • When the People Fell • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1959) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
·85 • Think Blue, Count Two • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1963) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
·119 • The Colonel Came Back from Nothing-at-All • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1979) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
·129 • From Gustible's Planet • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1962) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
·136 • Drunkboat • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1963) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
·171 • Western Science Is So Wonderful • (1958) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
·186 • Nancy • (1959) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
·200 • The Fife of Bodidharma • (1959) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
·210 • Angerhelm • (1959) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
·233 • The Good Friends • (1963) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
QUOTE….“ We were drunk with happiness in those early years. Everybody was, especially the young people. These were the first years of the Rediscovery of Man, when the Instrumentality dug deep in the treasury, reconstructing the old cultures, the old languages, and even the old troubles. The nightmare of perfection had taken our forefathers to the edge of suicide. Now under the leadership of the Lord Jestocost and the Lady Alice More, the ancient civilizations were rising like great land masses out of the sea of the past”….from Alpha Ralpha Boulevard by Cordwainer Smith
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Vitraux, Cathedralis SS Michaelis et Gudulae
In 1370, according to the legend, holy communion wafers began to bleed after being stabbed with daggers by the Jews of Brabant at the synagogue in Brussels. The remains of the hosts were venerated for centuries as the Miraculous Sacrament (Sacrement du Miracle/Sacrament van Mirakel).
It is a fact that in May 1370 some six Jews living in Brussels and Leuven were burnt at the stake after being accused of the theft and desecration of the Blessed Sacrament (the so called ‘Blood Libel’). We know that Jewish property was confiscated, and that from the very beginning it was believed that the holy hosts had actually bled. Later on, in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries, it was asserted that in 1370 all Jews had been expelled forever from the Duchy of Brabant.
The guilt of the Jews was never established. On the contrary, it has never even been proven that the hosts had in fact been desecrated. Belief in the alleged miracle was the only justification for executing the Jews. Accusing the Jews lent credibility to the miracle. Moreover, the alleged miracle offered a sought-after opportunity to dispose of the Jews. For the faithful the ‘miracle’ served as a material sign and proof of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Similar ‘Eucharistic Miracles’ connected with the presumed culpability of the Jews occurred elsewhere as well during the Middle Ages. Traces of red mildew on holy wafers were taken for traces of blood, the blood of Christ.
The legend of the Miraculous Sacrament is presented in many works of art in the cathedral. Especially to be mentioned are the XVIth century stained glass windows in the Sacrament chapel, which today holds the Cathedral treasury, where the reliquaries for the Miraculous Sacrament from different periods are on display. There are also the XVIIIth century tapestries in the choir, but these are not normally on display. Further, note the impressive series of fifteen XIXth century stained glass windows in the cathedral aisles. The last five windows of the northern aisle, near the chapel of the Miraculous Sacrament, portray the devotion to the Miraculous Sacrament from about 1436 till 1870. The first ten windows, eight in the southern aisle, starting at the front, and two in the rear of the northern aisle, represent the legend as it was handed down in Brussels since the middle of the XVth century. The legend runs as follows.
In autumn 1369 a prominent Jew from Enghien took the initiative of bribing a Jewish convert to Christianity to steal communion wafers, in order to desecrate them. Shortly afterwards he was murdered (windows 1-3). His widow passed the hosts to the Jews in Brussels, who stabbed them with daggers in their synagogue on Good Friday 1370. The sacred hosts began to bleed (windows 4 and 5). A Jewess who had converted to Christianity was bribed to conceal the hosts among the Jews of Cologne. But she repented and confessed the whole story to the rector of the “St. Mary’s Chapel” church in Brussels, giving him the miraculous hosts (windows 6-7). Based on the testimony of the Jewess (window 8) and after being judged by the Duke of Brabant the Jews were publicly burnt at the stake. The remaining Jews were expelled by the Duke from the Duchy of Brabant and their property confiscated (window 9). The miraculous sacrament was subsequently transferred in procession to the chapter church of St. Gudula (window 10).
The relic of the Miraculous Sacrament played a significant rôle as a national symbol for the Catholic identity of the country. The veneration of the relic served in public as a support for the struggle against Jews, Protestants and liberals. Charles V and the Habsburg family gave the XVIth century stained glass windows of the chapel of the Miraculous Sacrament. In the XVIIth century, Archdukes Albert and Isabella enriched the chapel with numerous gifts. Albert and Isabella are buried in front of the altar of the Miraculous Sacrament. Leopold I and Leopold II, the first Belgian kings, offered the first two XIXth century stained glass windows in the southern aisle. The other windows were given by the Belgian nobility.
After 1870 the relic was no longer of national significance. The local devotion to the Miraculous Sacrament however survived up to the Second World War. Moreover, the stained glass windows, paintings and tapestries kept the alleged history of the ‘blood libel’ alive. Only after the tragedy of the Holocaust, and under the influence of a more enlightened mentality, was a critical attitude with regard to this anti-Jewish medieval legend adopted in Catholic circles.
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JO TAMBÉ ESTAVA AL PARLAMENT... I HO TORNARIA A FER
El dia 31 de març comença el judici contra les 20 persones imputades per l’intent de bloqueig del Parlament del 15 de Juny del 2011. Aquell dia s'anaven a iniciar el tràmits per aprovar els pressupostos amb el primer paquet de retallades a Catalunya, que va propiciar el tancament d'empreses públiques, la privatització de la sanitat, les retallades al sector de la cultura, educació, etc.
La mobilització “Aturem el Parlament” va succeir dues setmanes després del brutal desallotjament de la Plaça Catalunya a mans dels antidisturbis dels Mossos d'Esquadra a les ordres del que era conseller d'Interior i ara ho és d'Empresa i Ocupació, Felip Puig. També responsable del dispositiu policial que va disparar contra l'ull d'Esther Quintana.
La criminalització per part de la premsa subvencionada pel Govern i l'escalada repressiva que va venir després (judicis contra persones que volien impedir un desnonament al Clot, nombroses detencions a les vagues generals, multes absurdes per les persones que es manifestaven o per enganxar cartells, etc), va ser i és encara, una resposta planejada per procurar frenar l'augment de la indignació i de la força de les protestes populars contra el poder polític, econòmic i altres injustícies quotidianes, com el patriarcat i el racisme.
Durant aquells dies, la gent es va organitzar arreu per construir política des del carrer, com moltes seguim fent. La política que volem és assembleària, horitzontal, autogestionada, sense representants, és del poble i per al poble, i xoca amb la política institucional que ens governa. La qual ha estat protagonista d'un espiral de corrupció i de tenir llaços, sovint familiars o personals, amb grans empreses privades que reben encàrrecs d'obres públiques i amb els peixos grossos del poder financer.
Aquell dia érem milers de persones les que vam anar a intentar aturar el Parlament, per combatre el drama de tantes vides immerses en la misèria, els acomiadaments per les retallades, els suïcidis pels desnonaments, etc. Perquè moltes d'aquestes barbàries s'aproven dins dels murs d'aquest edifici. Per aquest motiu estàvem assenyalant els culpables el 15 de Juny de 2011 i per això mateix, ho tornaríem a fer sense por, perquè legitimem la nostra actuació, i perquè si la gent del carrer, a qui ens afecta tot això, no lluitem, ningú altre ho farà per nosaltres.
Sabem i tenim clar que aquest és un judici polític, una farsa per atemorir a aquelles que decideixen plantar cara i actuar contra els responsables de tanta precarietat. De fet, ens reafirmem al comprovar que l'acció directa contra els poderosos i generar alternatives de vida els molesta, i molt. Per això, i perquè som conscients del poder que podem tenir quan ens organitzem, no ens volem doblegar davant les seves intimidacions i fem una crida a estendre la solidaritat a aquells i aquelles que pateixen la repressió i la violència quotidiana d'aquest sistema econòmic, en les seves infinitats de formes.
Convoquem manifestació el dia 29 de març a Barcelona a les 18:30 a Plaça Catalunya.
SOLIDARITAT AMB TOTES LES REPRESALIADES I AMB AQUELLES QUE LLUITEN!!
La propera vegada que agafin un helicòpter, que sigui per marxar ben lluny i no tornar a molestar!
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I was at the Catalan Parliament too…
and I would do it again
On March 31st the court case against the 20 people who are charged with an attempt to block the Catalan Paliament on June 15th 2012 will begin. That day in June, the process of implementing the first round of budget cuts in Catalonia began. Cuts that involved closing public companies, the privatization of health care,as well as cuts in the area of culture, education, etc.
The mobilization “Aturem el Parlament” (“Paralize the Parliament”), took place two weeks after the brutal eviction of Plaza Catalunya (Barcelona), by the riot police Mossos d´Esquadra under the command of Felip Puig. He was the minister of the Interior at that time and is currently the minister of companies and labour. He was also responsible for the police operation that shot Esther Quintana in the eye.
The criminalization by the media (that is funded by the state) and the increase of repression which followed (court cases against people trying to prevent an eviction in the neighbourhood of el Clot, many detentions during the general strikes, absurd fees for people protesting or hanging banners with tape etc), was, and still is, a planned response to try to stop the rise of outrage and the strength of popular demostrations against economic and political power, and other daily injustices (such as patriarchy and racism).
During those days, people organized themselves all over to build and create politics from the streets, as many of us continue to do. The politics we want are based in assemblies, horizontal, self-organized, without leaders; they belong to the people and they are for the people, and clash with the institutional politics which govern us. The same institutional politics and their protagonists are creating a corruption spiral and have relationships, mostly family-based, with private companies (that receive contracts for public constructions) and with high-up people with economic power.
That day we were thousands of people trying to paralyze the Catalan Parliament in order to fight the drama of so many lives embedded in misery, the layoffs due to the cuts, the suicides due to evictions, etc. Because many of these atrocities are approved behind the walls of that building. This is the reason that we were pointing out the guilty ones that 25 of June 2012, and because of this, we would to it again without fear. Because we legitimize our action, and because if we, the people from the street -whom are the most affected-, don´t fight, nobody will do it for us.
We know that this is a political court case, a farce to scare those who decide to stand up and take action against thoseresponsibleforall this precariousness. In fact, we reaffirm our ideals and actions after proving that direct action and the creation of alternatives of life bothers them, a lot. Because of this, and because we are aware of the power we can have when we are organized, we don´t want to bow down to their intimidation. We call for a spread of solidarity for all the ones who suffer daily repression and violence within this economic system, in its infinite shapes.
SOLIDARITY WITH ALL THE REPRESSED AND THOSE WHO FIGHT!!
The next time that they take an helicopter, it should be to go far away, and not come back to bother us.
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Repression in Spain. A call for international solidarity
During the last three years Spanish society has witnessed a period of intense social protests against austerity, corruption, unemployment and so on. As in other times in history, the greater and more radicalised the protest the bigger the repression that the state organises against it. Since the general strike in September 2010, a common trend of this repression strategy is been a kind of ‘laissez faire’ in the streets but followed by ´selective´ detentions months later. Police have been literally knocking doors down of those who continuously take part in different actions and demonstrations, and consequently dozens of people have been arrested.
On June the 15th 2011, ten thousand people surrounded the Catalan parliament in Barcelona. That day the government wanted to approve a vast austerity cut in health and education, and the idea was to block politicians from getting into the building. “Inexplicably” the police did not protect some politicians, which caused direct confrontation with protesters, and of course that fact was used by the media as an example of violence against democracy. After that, people were violently dispersed, and the MPs could do their job.
On October the 4th 2011, 22 people were arrested in their homes. They have been accused of a crime against the state, using a law designed for coup leaders and that had never been used before in Spain. They now face a penalty of up to 8 years in jail, whereas some of them have been also accused of different crimes related to other demonstrations. The trial will start in March the 31st 2014 and it is expected to last four days.
There will be a national day of solidarity in Spain on March the 29th with demonstrations in several cities. So we also call for international solidarity.
You can call, email or block different Spanish embassies or institutions. Or you can do whatever you consider appropriate…
“That day we tried to block the Catalan parliament to combat the drama of many lives immersed in poverty, layoffs by cuts, suicides by evictions, etc. Because many of these atrocities are approved behind the walls of that building. We were pointing at the guilty, and because of that we would do it again without fear. We know this is a political trial, a farce to scare those who choose to stand up and take action against those responsible for such precarious living conditions. In fact, we reaffirm it to find that both direct action against the powerful and generate alternative lives bothers them a lot. For this reason, and because we understand the power that we can have as we organise ourselves, we do not want to bow to their intimidation and we make a call to extend solidarity to those suffering the daily repression and violence of this economic system, in its myriad forms”.
encausadesparlament.wordpress.com/manifest-suport/manifes...
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Inside the Union Carbide pesticide factory scene of the world's worst industrial disaster.
Interior shot of the factory before it was stripped of some of its most valuable components and subsequently abandoned to the elements.
The factory remains ruined and abandoned to this day and there are approximately 350 Metric tonnes of highly toxic waste stored above ground.
Of greater concern are the many thousands of tonnes of toxic waste that were buried, in an untreated state, on the site.
Rain water runs through his waste, along with the remains of the abandoned solar evaporation ponds, and leaches toxic chemicals in to the local ground water aquifer.
The toxic plume has now spread for miles from the factory and many thousands of impoverished people have been using it, for decades, as their primary water supply.
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JO TAMBÉ ESTAVA AL PARLAMENT... I HO TORNARIA A FER
El dia 31 de març comença el judici contra les 20 persones imputades per l’intent de bloqueig del Parlament del 15 de Juny del 2011. Aquell dia s'anaven a iniciar el tràmits per aprovar els pressupostos amb el primer paquet de retallades a Catalunya, que va propiciar el tancament d'empreses públiques, la privatització de la sanitat, les retallades al sector de la cultura, educació, etc.
La mobilització “Aturem el Parlament” va succeir dues setmanes després del brutal desallotjament de la Plaça Catalunya a mans dels antidisturbis dels Mossos d'Esquadra a les ordres del que era conseller d'Interior i ara ho és d'Empresa i Ocupació, Felip Puig. També responsable del dispositiu policial que va disparar contra l'ull d'Esther Quintana.
La criminalització per part de la premsa subvencionada pel Govern i l'escalada repressiva que va venir després (judicis contra persones que volien impedir un desnonament al Clot, nombroses detencions a les vagues generals, multes absurdes per les persones que es manifestaven o per enganxar cartells, etc), va ser i és encara, una resposta planejada per procurar frenar l'augment de la indignació i de la força de les protestes populars contra el poder polític, econòmic i altres injustícies quotidianes, com el patriarcat i el racisme.
Durant aquells dies, la gent es va organitzar arreu per construir política des del carrer, com moltes seguim fent. La política que volem és assembleària, horitzontal, autogestionada, sense representants, és del poble i per al poble, i xoca amb la política institucional que ens governa. La qual ha estat protagonista d'un espiral de corrupció i de tenir llaços, sovint familiars o personals, amb grans empreses privades que reben encàrrecs d'obres públiques i amb els peixos grossos del poder financer.
Aquell dia érem milers de persones les que vam anar a intentar aturar el Parlament, per combatre el drama de tantes vides immerses en la misèria, els acomiadaments per les retallades, els suïcidis pels desnonaments, etc. Perquè moltes d'aquestes barbàries s'aproven dins dels murs d'aquest edifici. Per aquest motiu estàvem assenyalant els culpables el 15 de Juny de 2011 i per això mateix, ho tornaríem a fer sense por, perquè legitimem la nostra actuació, i perquè si la gent del carrer, a qui ens afecta tot això, no lluitem, ningú altre ho farà per nosaltres.
Sabem i tenim clar que aquest és un judici polític, una farsa per atemorir a aquelles que decideixen plantar cara i actuar contra els responsables de tanta precarietat. De fet, ens reafirmem al comprovar que l'acció directa contra els poderosos i generar alternatives de vida els molesta, i molt. Per això, i perquè som conscients del poder que podem tenir quan ens organitzem, no ens volem doblegar davant les seves intimidacions i fem una crida a estendre la solidaritat a aquells i aquelles que pateixen la repressió i la violència quotidiana d'aquest sistema econòmic, en les seves infinitats de formes.
Convoquem manifestació el dia 29 de març a Barcelona a les 18:30 a Plaça Catalunya.
SOLIDARITAT AMB TOTES LES REPRESALIADES I AMB AQUELLES QUE LLUITEN!!
La propera vegada que agafin un helicòpter, que sigui per marxar ben lluny i no tornar a molestar!
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I was at the Catalan Parliament too…
and I would do it again
On March 31st the court case against the 20 people who are charged with an attempt to block the Catalan Paliament on June 15th 2012 will begin. That day in June, the process of implementing the first round of budget cuts in Catalonia began. Cuts that involved closing public companies, the privatization of health care,as well as cuts in the area of culture, education, etc.
The mobilization “Aturem el Parlament” (“Paralize the Parliament”), took place two weeks after the brutal eviction of Plaza Catalunya (Barcelona), by the riot police Mossos d´Esquadra under the command of Felip Puig. He was the minister of the Interior at that time and is currently the minister of companies and labour. He was also responsible for the police operation that shot Esther Quintana in the eye.
The criminalization by the media (that is funded by the state) and the increase of repression which followed (court cases against people trying to prevent an eviction in the neighbourhood of el Clot, many detentions during the general strikes, absurd fees for people protesting or hanging banners with tape etc), was, and still is, a planned response to try to stop the rise of outrage and the strength of popular demostrations against economic and political power, and other daily injustices (such as patriarchy and racism).
During those days, people organized themselves all over to build and create politics from the streets, as many of us continue to do. The politics we want are based in assemblies, horizontal, self-organized, without leaders; they belong to the people and they are for the people, and clash with the institutional politics which govern us. The same institutional politics and their protagonists are creating a corruption spiral and have relationships, mostly family-based, with private companies (that receive contracts for public constructions) and with high-up people with economic power.
That day we were thousands of people trying to paralyze the Catalan Parliament in order to fight the drama of so many lives embedded in misery, the layoffs due to the cuts, the suicides due to evictions, etc. Because many of these atrocities are approved behind the walls of that building. This is the reason that we were pointing out the guilty ones that 25 of June 2012, and because of this, we would to it again without fear. Because we legitimize our action, and because if we, the people from the street -whom are the most affected-, don´t fight, nobody will do it for us.
We know that this is a political court case, a farce to scare those who decide to stand up and take action against thoseresponsibleforall this precariousness. In fact, we reaffirm our ideals and actions after proving that direct action and the creation of alternatives of life bothers them, a lot. Because of this, and because we are aware of the power we can have when we are organized, we don´t want to bow down to their intimidation. We call for a spread of solidarity for all the ones who suffer daily repression and violence within this economic system, in its infinite shapes.
SOLIDARITY WITH ALL THE REPRESSED AND THOSE WHO FIGHT!!
The next time that they take an helicopter, it should be to go far away, and not come back to bother us.
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Repression in Spain. A call for international solidarity
During the last three years Spanish society has witnessed a period of intense social protests against austerity, corruption, unemployment and so on. As in other times in history, the greater and more radicalised the protest the bigger the repression that the state organises against it. Since the general strike in September 2010, a common trend of this repression strategy is been a kind of ‘laissez faire’ in the streets but followed by ´selective´ detentions months later. Police have been literally knocking doors down of those who continuously take part in different actions and demonstrations, and consequently dozens of people have been arrested.
On June the 15th 2011, ten thousand people surrounded the Catalan parliament in Barcelona. That day the government wanted to approve a vast austerity cut in health and education, and the idea was to block politicians from getting into the building. “Inexplicably” the police did not protect some politicians, which caused direct confrontation with protesters, and of course that fact was used by the media as an example of violence against democracy. After that, people were violently dispersed, and the MPs could do their job.
On October the 4th 2011, 22 people were arrested in their homes. They have been accused of a crime against the state, using a law designed for coup leaders and that had never been used before in Spain. They now face a penalty of up to 8 years in jail, whereas some of them have been also accused of different crimes related to other demonstrations. The trial will start in March the 31st 2014 and it is expected to last four days.
There will be a national day of solidarity in Spain on March the 29th with demonstrations in several cities. So we also call for international solidarity.
You can call, email or block different Spanish embassies or institutions. Or you can do whatever you consider appropriate…
“That day we tried to block the Catalan parliament to combat the drama of many lives immersed in poverty, layoffs by cuts, suicides by evictions, etc. Because many of these atrocities are approved behind the walls of that building. We were pointing at the guilty, and because of that we would do it again without fear. We know this is a political trial, a farce to scare those who choose to stand up and take action against those responsible for such precarious living conditions. In fact, we reaffirm it to find that both direct action against the powerful and generate alternative lives bothers them a lot. For this reason, and because we understand the power that we can have as we organise ourselves, we do not want to bow to their intimidation and we make a call to extend solidarity to those suffering the daily repression and violence of this economic system, in its myriad forms”.
encausadesparlament.wordpress.com/manifest-suport/manifes...
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Todavia yo siento tus caricias y tu respiración sobre mi piel, no hay quien me haga olvidar tu sonrisa, y sigo amándote hoy más que ayer. soñando con volverte a ver. cada día que pasa , mas me mata tu ausencia y pierdo la fe, Quisiera poder olvidarme de ti, con otra sacarte por siempre de mí, decirte a la cara que no me haces falta para poder vivir. quisiera borrarte de mi corazón, quitar de mi boca tu dulce sabor no echarte de menos al llegar la noche, y sin reproches resignarme a tu adiós, mas cuando creo que ya te he olvidado descubro que aun te amo., Se que soy culpable de mi suerte, y que mi sufrimiento no te hará volver en mi otra vez creer, te hice llorar y me arrepiento, amor cuanto lo siento, si no te vuelvo a ver, no sobreviviré. Cada día que pasa, más me mata tu ausencia y pierdo la fe, Quisiera poder olvidarme de ti, con otra sacarte por siempre de mí, decirte a la cara que no me haces falta para poder vivir., quisiera borrarte de mi corazón, quitar de mi boca tu dulce sabor, no echarte de menos al llegar la noche, y sin reproche, resignarme a tu adiós. pero es que aun te amo. Quisiera poder olvidarme de ti, con otra sacarte por siempre de mí, decirte a la cara que no me haces falta para poder vivir. quisiera borrarte de mi corazón, quitar de mi boca tu dulce sabor, no echarte de menos al llegar la noche, y sin reproche, resignarme a tu adiós. ♫♫
► Quisiera poder olvidarme de ti - Luis Fonsi ♪
Standing in the narrow, long bathroom made me feel claustrophobic. The room was odd shaped, more like a hallway than a bathroom. There had been a remodel done recently, and all of the hardware shone like scattered sequins. Tasteful mirrors hung across the walls, attempting to make the hallway bathroom feel more spacious by reflectively expanding the awkward room. This is a trick you get from reading interior design books and watching decorating shows, but in reality there is only so much you can do to a make a four foot wide space feel cavernous.
Not only was the room tiny, it was also full of people. My closest friends wearing a color they would never choose for themselves. But I had let them choose the silhouettes, so I assured myself that they would wear the clothes again. A little white lie we tell ourselves to help ease our culpability. All of them accepted the lie with good grace, and they smilingly agreed with me while secretly plotting the fastest route to the Goodwill where they could fling the magenta garments out the car window, only slowing fractionally.
I pictured them flipping off the clothing, their hands waving gleefully out of their car windows as they sped away, their transmissions straining and motors roaring under the sudden and dramatic acceleration. They would speed away like they would after a drunken one night stand with the neighborhood hobo - shame filled and mortified to be seen in such a state. But they wore the dresses because I chose magenta, and that is just what friends do in this sort of situation.
The men at the donation station would smile knowingly at each other as they flung the dress into a bin. A week later the dress would be priced, labeled, hung, and some unfortunate teenager would get it to wear to prom. Her mother would assure her that no one would know that it was used. Another white lie passed on.
In the bathroom, my mother turned to me suddenly, her face earnest and loving. "You don't have to do this," she said. "We can leave right now, and I will never hold it against you. I just want you to know that you don't have to do this, and I love you."
Her father had told her the same thing minutes before her wedding. Even though she was pregnant, he assured her that she didn't have to get married, and that he would love and support her regardless. This had meant a great deal to my mother, and it was a gift that she wanted to pass on to me. We both new I wouldn't leave, but perhaps she had felt a moment of trepidation and considered taking her father up on his offer. I had been there with her in that moment, growing bones and nerves as she stood jittering before her vows. Here we were again, together right before our marriages.
Her father was dead now, so she was the one to give me the chance to run. I must admit that I briefly considered it. Knowing I could leave still loved made it easier to leave that tiny, awkward bathroom and walk down the aisle. Maybe she had felt a lessening of the tightness in her belly, and I would have felt it, too, a trembling message sent through the umbilical cord. Maybe the offer helped her put one foot in front of the other and continue down the path that built our family.
When my daughter gets married, I will pass on the same gift. Maybe she will not follow the previous generations and instead run like hell. Regardless, she will be loved. I know that just having the choice changes the world and makes the path easier and more sure.
I left the bathroom with my pink clad guard and approached the man my mother had chosen not to flee. My father smiled at me mildly and said "Let's do this."
White lies will be told, choices will be made, and families will be built.
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original watercolor, ink, gouache, and graphite painting "Portrait of a Bride" 8.5"x10.5".
16 (boring) things about me. O sea, lee unas pocas frases aburridas.
Four of my contacts tagged me, so I'm supposed to tell you sixteen "topical" thing about me, what a difficult task :-)
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1. I do not like telling everybody everything about me :-)
2. I really like reading, even though I've been not reading very much lately. Put the blame on flickr
3. My sense of humor is very "Gallego" (North-west part of Spain).
4. I live with three women. I do love them all.
5. Teaching makes me happy. Teaching university professors how to teach is one of the most pleasant activities I do.
6. I was born in Venezuela, from a portuguese and a "Gallego", and have live in Barcelona, Madrid, Boulder (CO), Menlo Park (CA), Hamburg, Geneva, ...
7. There are more than fifty articles in scientific publications, a couple of books, with my name on them, BUT what i'd really like was to write stories.
I really admire those who write them.
8. I always forget almost everything, titles of book, movies, person's names, ... you name it.
9. I've got caught in photography a couple of years ago.
10. I love gadgets, PCs, etc. ever since I was a kid
11. I tend to like all kind of food, wine, and goodies.
12. I'm a smoker but do not like it.
13. Photoshoping my photos relax me
14. Learning is a must for me, I've been doing so my whole life and hope to do it many more years.
15. I need going back to practicing sport :-)
16. Bothering people is not my sweetest dream in life, so I better stop here.
1. No me gusta explicar a todos todo sobre mi :-)
2. Me gusta mucho leer, pero últimamente leo poco. El culpable es Flickr
3. Tengo un sentido del humor bastante "agallegado"
4. Vivo con tres mujeres a las que quiero mucho
5. Me encanta enseñar, hacerlo a profes de universidad me produce mucha satisfacción.
6. Nací en Venezuela de una portuguesa y un gallego, y he vivido en Barcelona, Madrid, USA, Alemania, Suiza, ...
7. Figuro como autor en más de cincueta artículos científicos, y un par de libros, pero lo que de verdad me gustaría es saber escribir historias. Admiro a los que lo saben hacer.
8. Siempre se me olvidan los títulos de los libros, las películas, los nombres de las personas, ... todo lo que te puedas imaginar.
9. Me he enganchado en la fotografía hace un par de años.
10 Desde pequeño me gustan los aparatejos y aparatillos.
11. Me gusta casi todo tipo de comida, vino y "gourmanderies".
12. Fumo pero no estoy orgulloso de ello.
13. "Photoshopear" mis fotos me relaja
14. Me gusta aprender, me he pasado la vida haciéndolo y espero seguir así siempre
15. Tengo que volver a hacer deporte :-)
16. Aburrir a la gente es lo que menos me gusta, así que mejor paro aquí.
Permite reirme qe Gracioso te qeda el Show ,No pretendas someterme a tu Chantaje Donde tu phisicologia me hace la culpable ♪
Tratando de usar luz natural, Este es uno de mis primeros experimentos con luz natural.
También estoy tratando de entender photoshop y creo que vamos conociendonos mejor, ya no me siento tan culpable de usarlo :)
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Trying to use natural light, this is one of my first experiments with natural light.
I am trying also to understand photoshop and I think we know better each other, I'm not feel guilty of using it : ).. No more.. but is not easy!