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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****
Fuertes imágenes del empresario Saymon Díaz junto a la cantante Belinda salen al Internet (mira esto) TVNotas:
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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.
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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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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/
Only in the USA. Well, not. Better: also in the USA.
Trump wears his favorite color, yellow. Imagination may run wild as to this choice; ask the Russians, perhaps. Whatever. Headless folk tend to offer no insights, only fodder for blind, angry rhetoric. Trump embraces banana republic ideals. His supporters are culpable for undermining democracy and basic reasoning. But they are too angry to understand this, so they lash out and drool. So it goes. Another authoritarian dares to insult common people.
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"Witch World"[1963] by Andre Norton [1912-2005] is an alternate worlds/fantasy adventure novel that I found to be an unexpectedly delightful reading experience. I had this book on my shelf for many years but was put off by the title and general concept of "witchcraft". I must ruefully admit this books was not only hard to put down but it also reconfirmed that Ms. Norton was a masterful writer of both science-fiction and fantasy. This is one of the key books in the Norton canon and a classic of fantasy literature.
Hunted soldier Simon Tregarth is grudgingly teleported to an alternate earth-like planet. In the country of Estcarp Simon is recognized as an "outsider' but nonetheless is accepted for his martial arts proficiencies and becomes a leader in the local Home Guard. Some of the women in Estcarp have magical skills and become leaders. They are highly respected and referred too as witches. These women retain their skills so long as they remain chaste. Simon Tregarth, much to the consternation of his new companions, exhibits magical skills - a talent men in Estcarp do not possess.
Simon soon discovers Estcarp is a warring feudal society with some unaccounted for mechanical devices. Other strongholds in the area are in a low simmering state of conflict with Escarp - Alizon to the north and Karstan to the south. Allies with Escarp are the maritime traders the Sulcarp and the Hawk keepers. The island keep Gorm having been overrun by the unknown Kolder and is now an impenetrable mystery even to the witches of Estcap. Koris a member of the Gorm nobility, escaped and is now Capitan of the Escarp Home Guard.
Reading this book recently I was jolted that after all the recent glut of related fantasy title flooding the bookstore shelves this 56 year old title was redolent of captivating situations, engaging characters and unparalleled action sequences.
Norton's well drawn characters, imaginative action sequences and hints of unrevealed lore and mystery makes this a highly recommended to all readers who enjoy fantasy.
TITLE: Witch World
AUTHOR: Andre Norton 1912-2005
TYPE: paperback novel
PUBLISHER: Ace F197
COVER PRICE: $.40
ISBN:
PAGES: 222
COPYRIGHT: 1963 by author
PUB DATE: 1963
EDITION: 1st edition 1st paperback
COVER ARTIST: Jack Gaughan
ISFDB: Yes not verified
RATING: Not read
NOTATION: Stated "First Book Publication" on cover. Title page art by Jack Gaughan
INDEX: 0335a - Witch World - AN - 05 - IFB
CULPABILITY: All images posted are from publications owned by RC/\Weazel. RC/\Weazel performed image scanning, editing and the compiling of bibliographic data.
ISFDB: Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base.
RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
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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NO entry indicates specific information not available from book.
"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.
Captain Scott's ill-fated South Pole 'Terra Nova' Expedition 1910 - 1913.
The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. It was led by Robert Falcon Scott and had various scientific and geographical objectives. Scott wished to continue the scientific work that he had begun when leading the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic in 1901–04. He also wanted to be the first to reach the geographic South Pole. He and four companions attained the pole on 17 January 1912, where they found that the Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen had preceded them by 34 days. Scott's entire party died on the return journey from the pole; some of their bodies, journals, and photographs were found by a search party eight months later.
The expedition, named after its supply ship, was a private venture, financed by public contributions augmented by a government grant. It had further backing from the Admiralty, which released experienced seamen to the expedition, and from the Royal Geographical Society. The expedition's team of scientists carried out a comprehensive scientific programme, while other parties explored Victoria Land and the Western Mountains. An attempted landing and exploration of King Edward VII Land was unsuccessful. A journey to Cape Crozier in June and July 1911 was the first extended sledging journey in the depths of the Antarctic winter.
For many years after his death, Scott's status as tragic hero was unchallenged, and few questions were asked about the causes of the disaster which overcame his polar party. In the final quarter of the 20th century the expedition came under closer scrutiny, and more critical views were expressed about its organization and management. The degree of Scott's personal culpability, and more recently, the culpability of certain expedition members, remains controversial.
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
CULPABILITY: All images posted are from publications owned by RC/\Weazel. RC/\Weazel performed image scanning, editing and the compiling of bibliographic data.
ISFDB: Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base.
RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
NO ENTRY: indicates specific information not available from book.
The original idea of shooting dogs asleep came to from my dear Dam Madar Malang brother Marc De Clercq.. he told me there was so much to shoot and I am astounded by guys who incessantly complain that there is nothing to shoot..I shoot garbage , an integral part of Mans show of wealth on the flip side...he loves to throw filth garbage on the streets , and his partner in crime his wife is culpably guilty of throwing fish leftovers , prawn shells outside the neighbors door..
I dont talk of people who are rich Pali Hill Band Stand Carter Road but of people who live in gaothans , and slums shanties .. these are the people whose surroundings I showcase document update on regular basis.
Shooting garbage is Fine Art , absolutely unconfined , its your house sufferings you share with the rest of the people, and the Municipality that houses the laziest , denizens to add to the misery of Amchi Mumbai..we are nation in political moral and garbage chaos.. if we improve our garbage disaster management on the streets and in the Parliament I see hope for the country...
Politics is garbage and what a stink.. they shit on the soul of the nation and we feel the stench all over .. we are basically born hypocrite we ban people from doing certain things , because if affects the morality of our children, and our internet savvy children could salvage the languishing sex like of parents with the appropriate dose of creative sexuality that is so available in the privacy of the toilet on the mobile phone.. our kids are a million times more smarter than us.. at the very early ripe age of pre pubescence they know all that is to know what we will never know..
In short when you shoot sleeping dogs you reawaken the soul of humanity with a new thought and the same parameter applies to shooting fucked garbage on the streets..
There is another place that one could shoot to show how cultured we are and it is public lavatories my next picture subject and could I hold an exhibition of the same in Mumbai the curator would fuckin lose his only job of survival... so my gallery is Flickr.com that interlinks its lassitude on Facebook and lashes it all as an extended thought on Twitter and the newly born baby of Vic Gundotra.. Google+ as a tribute to him I catapulted by my one day old grand daughter as Google+kid or Google+Pluskin..
Nerjis Asif Shakir now 5 days old holds all the mysteries of my restless soul through her pictures I try ..to tell the story of Mans birth.. a documentary too... and if I could I would have documented a beggar child's life from Day 1 but that would be a real tough assignment..
And strangely seems apt for a Beggar Poet of Mumbai..
Good Morning.. ..wife is playing hard to make me one cup of black tea.. and I am too sleepy lazy to make it myself..
I am adding this comment of Jean Marc very dear friend at Google+ and my reply
Jean-Marc Gargantiel - If you want my advice, my friend, you shoot put them in a context, when shooting them, because only shooting dogs sleeping is not very interesting if you close the frame too much on them. But if you add the overall context for us to see, it will be more powerful I think.
My reply
Actually there is much to sleeping dogs but than if I explain further I would sound a bombast sleeping dogs is about the soul of our political lethargy , sleeping on the day of elections than cursing the man who gets elected , sleeping while bombs explode in the city , what can I tell you Jean Marc I live in a surroundings of pain and sorrow I was in Mauritius and was pained I could not see Reunion an Island of Dreams and Humanity.. Take Care My Friend..
Ambassador Donald Booth, Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan at the Foreign Press Center in New York
Ambassador Donald Booth met international correspondents at the Foreign Press Center in New York on Thursday, September 25. Colleagues and media joined in at the Washington Foreign Press Center. The event was viewed live via web stream as well. Below is a summary of the meeting.
AMBASSADOR BOOTH: Okay, well, good afternoon. I’ve just come from the Secretary-General’s special event on South Sudan over at the UN, which focused on the twin issues of the ongoing crisis in the country, both the political crisis – the conflict – and the humanitarian crisis. And I think there was a general agreement among the participants that the humanitarian crisis, while donors are stepping forward and providing assistance, that the crisis itself is – stems from the ongoing conflict. And the conflict is manmade; therefore this humanitarian crisis is manmade, and it needs to be addressed.
I think one of the panelists put it very well is we need to focus on protecting the people and achieving peace in the country, that the two are inextricably linked. But the humanitarian situation in South Sudan is indeed dire. There are about 3.9 million people in the country that need food assistance. There are close to 1.7 million people that have been displaced by the conflict; 500,000 of them are living in neighboring countries as refugees. Of the ones that are in the country, almost 100,000 are actually in various UN camps, the UNMISS bases that have been turned into protection-of-civilian sites. These people have been there for the most part since the conflict began in December.
The conflict had its origins in political competition within the ruling party, but then ended up splitting the country along ethnic lines, and the conflict has been addressed by a mediation process by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, which is the East African, Horn of Africa regional organization. They were given that mandate by the African Union back in December and they have been leading a mediation process ever since. That process has achieved a cessation of hostilities agreement by the parties. That was accomplished in January, but it was not respected; the fighting continued. In May, they managed to bring together President Kiir and the opposition leader Riek Machar in Addis Ababa, and we got a commitment from both of them to negotiate a transitional government that would bring about an end to the hostilities and usher in the reforms that would be needed, including the writing of a new permanent constitution.
Again, the negotiations since May have not been conclusive. The talks resumed again in Ethiopia formally this past Monday and are continuing now in the city of Bahir Dar in Ethiopia under the mediation of IGAD supported by many of the international partners, supported definitely by the African Union, by the Troika of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Norway; supported by the European Union and by China as well.
So – and many other donors that are contributing to the efforts supporting the mediation effort and supporting one of the elements that came out of the cessation of hostilities agreement which was the establishment of a monitoring and verification mechanism. This is a civilian mechanism, an unarmed mechanism, that was designed to go in and investigate violations of the cessation of hostilities report on who had done what. And it has been established now in seven different sites in South Sudan and has been providing reporting, though it has been hampered by the fact that it is operating in a non-permissive environment; i.e., an environment where fighting continues.
And so one of the missions that the Security Council gave to UNMISS when it changed the mandate of UNMISS back in April was to give the primary mandate of the mission to be protection of civilians, and included in that was a protection of the monitors mandate.
So the region has given a 45-day deadline for negotiations. That deadline is approaching. The negotiations, as I said, are currently underway, and they have become multi-stakeholder negotiations, where it’s not just the two armed groups that are at the table but IGAD has brought in as well representatives of other members of the party, of the SPLN – the ruling party – who had been detained after the conflict broke out and who have chosen not to take sides with either the government or the opposition, with other political parties, with the civil society representation, and also representation of the religious community – the idea being to bring more voices from South Sudan into the peace process so that any eventual peace process arrangement for a transitional government would have a broader basis and a broader buy-in. What IGAD is striving for, we’re all striving for, is peace but also a sustainable peace and putting South Sudan on a trajectory where it can come up with a political arrangement that the different ethnic groups can live together peacefully and harmoniously.
The independence of South Sudan has been described by some as the creation of two multiethnic countries, and that’s quite true. Both Sudan and South Sudan are multiethnic countries, and both are grappling with the issues of how to govern multiethnic countries.
So let me stop there with those remarks on South Sudan and the peace process, and we can turn to any questions you have.
QUESTION: I’m Kevin Kelley. I write for The Nation in Kenya and for the East African. I spoke with you briefly at the Africa summit in Washington in August and I asked you then whether you thought that IGAD was in danger of losing some credibility because it keeps threatening to impose sanctions, and it doesn’t. And now we have another deadline that – we’ll see what happens. But the Enough Project put out a report today saying that IGAD’s losing credibility by not imposing sanctions. Has the United States played a role in discussing this with IGAD, saying that you need to do what you say you’re going to do? The U.S. imposed sanctions this week on two military – two more military leaders.
AMBASSADOR BOOTH: We have discussed the issue of sanctions with IGAD. Back in May when Secretary Kerry traveled to the region and met with a number of IGAD foreign ministers, they were talking about punitive measures to be taken if the parties did not negotiate seriously, and they, indeed, have let that threat go unfulfilled. But the – they remain focused on trying to use both the threat and actual measures to try to leverage the negotiations forward.
There’s always a concern that if you just go ahead and impose a sanction that you can foreclose options. And this is one of the reasons that the U.S. and the European Union have been very careful to be – move in a deliberate fashion in terms of sanctioning people and sending the message that the pressures will increase. And I think that’s what IGAD is trying to figure out, is what is credible that they can do as a region,– that they can agree on and they can work together on, because the effectiveness will require them to work together. And so I think they’re looking for ways to bring pressure to bear on the parties, and we continue to engage with them on how best to do that.
QUESTION: I can do a follow-up if nobody else has – I forget the source of this, but it was one of the think tanks suggested in a report recently that maybe one reason why IGAD’s reluctant to impose sanctions is because Kenya, for example, serves a conduit for weapons going to South Sudan, and some of these leaders on both sides of the battling are keeping funding money in surrounding countries. Do you think that there are disincentives of that kind to move forward with sanctions?
AMBASSADOR BOOTH: Well, I think the – as I say, I think the countries of the region are looking at how best to leverage the negotiations and to do so in a way that is credible. And so I think one of the things that the region has talked about itself is an arms embargo. I think there’s a recognition that they would have to be the ones that would implement that, and I think they’ve been looking seriously at how they might do something like that. So, again, what they’re trying to do is they’re trying to use both the posturing and at the same time working out how they might be able to actually implement something in order to maximize the pressure and influence the negotiations.
QUESTION: Just one more, if I could just follow – following up on that. Would the United States not move through the Security Council to seek an arms embargo on all parties in South Sudan until IGAD acts? Is that the U.S.’s position?
AMBASSADOR BOOTH: The Security Council has to reach agreement on any sanctions. We’re one vote in it, and we have to make sure that those who could block it with one vote don’t do so, which was going to require a level of African support. And when we feel we have that level of African support, I think the Security Council action is quite possible.
QUESTION: Vasco De Jesus, VascoPress, Brazil. Thanks for being here with us, Mr. Ambassador. On the issue of civilian casualties and thousands of refugees, and apart from the African efforts and the United Nations and the Security Council, what has been the role on the ground of the United States on these issues?
AMBASSADOR BOOTH: Well, the United States, working as part of the Troika, has been supportive of the IGAD mediation process. We have been consulting with the mediators, giving them support – political support where needed, and trying to help build the pressure on the parties to negotiate seriously. It’s one of the reasons the U.S. issued the executive order for targeted individual sanctions back in April. We have followed through with two rounds of designations under those sanctions, and we’re prepared to continue to utilize that executive order, if need be.
We have been the major funder of the Monitoring and Verification Mechanism and helped in the establishment of that through assistance that we provided, technical expertise, people who had worked previous monitoring missions. We have also been – we were very supportive of the effort to bring – to strengthen the UN mission in South Sudan, both to change its mandate to one of protection of civilians but also to bring in troops from the region so that there would be a credible regional force there that could help protect not only civilians, but also the monitors.
So we continue to work on a political level with the parties in South Sudan. We engage with all of the actors. We’ve helped to – the civil society groups to organize, to have a voice in these negotiations. We did so at the request of IGAD. So we basically are – as IGAD likes to say, we’re sort of a force multiplier for them. We are supportive of their effort. We help to move that – the process forward as best we can.
Secretary Kerry, as I mentioned, traveled to the region in early May, and I think his visit to Juba as well as to Addis and his engagement with President Kiir and with opposition leader Riek Machar helped to facilitate them agreeing to come together in Addis, where IGAD, under the leadership of Prime Minister Hailemariam of Ethiopia, managed to wring this commitment from the two sides to move forward toward a transitional government.
So that’s the kind of engagement that we’ve had. At the same time, we’re of course addressing the humanitarian situation on the ground. We’ve contributed $636 million so far since this crisis began for the humanitarian situation alone, and have been a major leader in helping – working with the UN to organize that relief effort.
QUESTION: What has been the effect of the crisis in South Sudan to Sudan, (inaudible) issue of Darfur and other issues of crisis in Sudan?
AMBASSADOR BOOTH: Well, I think probably the most immediate has been the fact that due to the fighting, oil production has declined, and so therefore, transit revenues have declined. The Sudanese have expressed great concern at the presence of some elements of the JEM and other opposition movements from Sudan who have gone to South Sudan to fight on the government side down there. The Government of South Sudan has expressed concerns that the Government of Sudan is supporting opposition forces.
But I would say that Sudan has generally engaged as a member of IGAD. They have contributed a member of the mediation team. They have contributed members to the Monitoring and Verification Mechanism, and generally have gone along with the direction that IGAD as an organization has wanted to take in trying to bring about an end to the conflict.
QUESTION: I’m Vasco De Jesus, VascoPress, Brazil. And given all these variables, do you have a timeframe that you expect these parties will get together in the road of peace? It’s a two-year, one-year – how do you foresee?
AMBASSADOR BOOTH: Well, the – as I say, IGAD – I mean, they are together. They’ve been together since January with a few breaks in between under this IGAD mediation. They’re under a 45-day deadline now. I think, obviously, if there’s progress being made, if there’s a seriousness of negotiation, no one is going to stop them from talking in the middle of a constructive process. But the process of some sort of reconciliation, accountability, some of the critical reform areas that will need to be addressed by a transitional government – again, IGAD has talked about a 30-month transition period. But that’s after you get a peace agreement and after you get agreement on what will constitute a transitional government.
The – everybody has been pushing the process as quickly as possible. The parties have resisted coming to grips witha lot of the serious issues until recently, when there were some very constructive discussions on specific issues such as security sector reform, accountability and reconciliation, reform of the public finances. And so there is – once they get down to discussing the – kind of the more substantive issues, they – the talks tend to be a bit more productive. It’s when they’re talking about who should be in charge that it’s a bit less productive.
Though IGAD – in an attempt to push the process forward, the last IGAD summit basically laid out an outline and a protocol for a transitional government that would have President Salva Kiir, as the duly elected president of the country, continue as president through the transition, but that there would be a prime minister that would be nominated by the opposition,would have to be agreed to by the president, but the powers of that prime minister are a subject of negotiation. And so that’s, again, a task ahead of the negotiators here.
QUESTION: On Sudan, the issue about Darfur has been on for more than 10 years. So what do you think should be the solution to this, because since the UN is (inaudible) from resolving the issue in Sudan?
AMBASSADOR BOOTH: Well, there have been many peace agreements for Darfur, the most recent one having been the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur, which really only one major group signed on to. Other armed groups, the Darfuri groups, refused to sign on to it. As they’ve explained it to me, they don’t believe it’s a basis for addressing the underlying issues of the conflict in Darfur, and therefore they didn’t want to be part of it. They saw it as more an effort at co-opting them. That’s their view.
The bottom line is that there hadn’t been really a serious discussion between the government and the Darfuri armed opposition. This is something that President Mbeki, in his role as chair of the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel, has taken up recently, and as I understand will be having actually a meeting with Darfuri groups, and is working with the government in Khartoum to try to find a way to get a process for negotiating a cessation of hostilities in Darfur and a humanitarian access agreement as part of something in parallel that he’s doing with the Two Areas of Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile. And both of those cessation of hostilities agreement negotiations would tie – could become permanent peace agreements but via addressing the political issues which are common to both areas of conflict via this national dialogue that President Bashir has put on the table in the speech he made in January. And so I think there is – if President Mbeki is allowed to continue and have a parallel negotiation process for Darfur with what he’s doing in the Two Areas, and if there is a genuine national dialogue to link those two cessation of hostilities negotiations to, I think there is a possibility of them evolving into a permanent ceasefire and a peace agreement.
But this is still early, very early. And the fighting, unfortunately, continues very, very vicious – fighting that basically affects civilians, aerial bombardment and the new version of the Janjaweed, the Rapid Support Forces which operate in Darfur as well as the two areas.
In Darfur I think there were 500,000 people displaced last year --
QUESTION: This year?
AMBASSADOR BOOTH: -- by fighting. And in the two areas this year another 100,000 displaced. So the impact really is on civilians.
QUESTION: Just one follow-up on South Sudan. Do you personally or the United States believe that the two parties are equally culpable for the violations of the ceasefire, or do you think that the rebels or the governments are primarily to blame for the breakdown?
AMBASSADOR BOOTH: Both sides have committed violations of the ceasefire. The monitoring and verification mechanism has documented that. The important thing is that you can get into this tit-for-tat that has to stop. They’ve recommitted in May twice. The May 9th agreement between Riek Machar and President Kiir also recommitted them. And they were recommitted again in this last IGAD summit to implementing the cessation of hostilities agreement. They just need to get on with doing it.
And one of the problems is the forces in many areas are in very close proximity to each other, so it doesn’t take much to start a firefight. I would say since May a lot of the violations, if you will, have been more sort of indirect fire, but there have been several that have been blatant attacks. We have condemned those, such as the attack recently in the areas around Renk in Upper Nile and also the attack against Nasir by opposition forces.
AMBASSADOR BOOTH: Thank you.
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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.
Rosa María Payá: "This is not about hope"
The young activist seeks a review of the case about the
death of her father
HAVANA, Cuba.- "This is not about hope," says Rosa María Paya to CubaNet when we asked her about the review of the cause of culpable homicide for which Spanish politician Angel Carromero was tried. The process took place after the accident, which occurred in dubious circumstances, in which Oswaldo Payá and activist Harold Cepero were killed.
In Cuba there are three powers through which criminal investigations can be reopened: the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Court and the General Prosecutor's Office, and Rosa María Payá has all gone to them.
"We appeal to the Minister of Justice with a copy to the President of the Supreme Court and the Attorney General. The only thing, last, maximum, that we can do, is to present to this instance the review of sentence and that was what I did in the morning of today (Monday) in the Ministry of Justice, in the General Prosecutor's Office and now in the Court Provincial. It is a revision because supposedly in Cuba that is a case tried and closed, "says Rosa María.
According to the activist, this Monday was "just delivery", and explains: "Do not interview with another official who is not the one who receives the documents because they must be analyzed by a prosecutor or the minister, according to each institution."
Rosa María Paya is a victim and in Cuba the victims are not part of the criminal process, and if you are not part of the process there is no way to access the evidence.
Remember how it all happened four years ago: "To begin with, it was a trial that took place in the province of Granma (...) They did not let us in."
"The family today does not even have the autopsy report of my father or Harold Cepero. That is, there are many violations of international law, of law, and even, as in the case we are requesting, violations of Cuban law because they did not investigate the order, did not investigate a fundamental test, which was requested by the accused. "
Another characteristic of Cuban criminal investigations is that the only authorized body to carry them out is the Ministry of the Interior. The lawyer has two unique possibilities to request that evidence be carried out to prove the innocence of his client: the case manager and the prosecutor at first, and the court when the file is presented. In both cases, the Ministry of the Interior still has the right to accept or not the lawyer's proposal. If the request is accepted, the authorized ones only have access to a report made by the official experts.
However, Rosa María does not have the right to access the evidence she asks for, but she has the right to request a review of the case in which her father was one of the direct victims. She is convinced that "that trial did not comply with the requirements of due process."
"One of the causes for requesting the review of a sentence is that not all the possible tests have been carried out or that a request has been made for a test and has not been carried out. And this is one of the requirements that did not meet in the case of Angel Carromero, who said very clearly that another car had rammed them from behind and the expert test was never carried out. In fact in the trial never spoke of that, the trial never spoke of the allegation that had made Angel saying that another car had hit them from behind and therefore that test was not practiced on the car, "he argues his reasons.
Faced with the assumption that the Ministry of Justice decided to review the case of Carromero, Rosa Maria said, although the legal action is not "hopes": "It should be done, because the cause is more than documented. Legally, what they should do is reopen the case and do the expert test. It's as simple as that. The car that was hit needs to be analyzed. And that is what we are waiting for. That they review the car and that they make the examination of the defense of the rear bumper of the car that was the rammed by the car of the Security of the State. We also want to have access to that expert information that was denied to Angel Carromero's lawyers as much as to us. "
To conclude, he adds: "This is about there being enough causes to review the case as there were plenty of them 4 years ago and 7 months ago and they did not do them. It is a requirement that must be met in international courts, that all the mechanisms of the law in the Cuban nation be exhausted, although in this case, as law and practice violate the law, there are other considerations. Anyway, the justice minister has to respond within 60 days. "
They place tarja in honor to Oswaldo Payá in Havana
Rosa María Payá next to the tarja in honor of her father this Tuesday, February 28 (Twitter)
The CubaDecide initiative has announced that this February 28, when it is 65 years since the birth of Oswaldo Payá, at 9:00 am a commemorative plaque was unveiled to the opposition Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas.
"The marble plaque will remain placed on the facade of what was his house, where he lived with his family, at the time of his death," said the note sent to the media.
Oswaldo Payá, leader of the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL), died in strange circumstances in an alleged car accident that occurred on July 22, 2012; a fact that his family and the MCL have denounced as a murder at the hands of the State Security of the Government of the island.
Payá, creator of the Varela Project, was the Andrei Sakharov Prize for Human Rights of the European Parliament in 2002 and candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, 2010, 2008, 2003 and 2002. He was honorary vice-president of the Central Democratic International.
Payá was raised in a Catholic family. He studied Physics and later Telecommunications Engineering. Until the moment of his death, he worked in the provincial electromedicine workshop. He is survived by his wife and three children.
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Chris Hedges: To Kill A People (publ. 23 November 2024)
TRANSCRIPT
Extermination works. At first. This is the terrible lesson of history. If Israel is not stopped — and no outside power appears willing to halt the genocide in Gaza or the destruction of Lebanon — it will achieve its goals of depopulating and annexing northern Gaza. It will turn southern Gaza into a charnel house where Palestinians are burned alive, decimated by bombs and die from starvation and infectious diseases, until they are driven out. It will achieve its goal of destroying Lebanon — 2,400 people have been killed and over 1.2 million Lebanese have been displaced — in an attempt to turn it into a failed state. It is already turning its genocidal fury on the West Bank. And, it may soon realize its long cherished dream of forcing the United States into war with Iran. Israeli leaders are publicly salivating over proposals to assassinate Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei (b. 1939) and carry out airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear installations and oil facilities.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (b. 1949) and his cabinet, like those driving Middle East policy in the White House — Antony Blinken (b. 1962), raised in a staunch Zionist family, Brett McGurk (b. 1973), Amos Hochstein (b. 1973), who was born in Israel and served in the Israeli military, and Jake Sullivan (b. 1976) — are true believers in the doctrine that violence can mold the world to fit their demented vision. That this doctrine has been a spectacular failure in Israel’s occupied territories, and did not work in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya, and a generation earlier in Vietnam, does not deter them. This time, they assure us, it will succeed.
In the short term they are right. This is not good news for Palestinians or the Lebanese. The U.S. and Israel will continue to use their arsenal of industrial weapons to kill huge numbers of people and turn cities into rubble. But in the long term, this indiscriminate violence sows dragon’s teeth. It creates adversaries that, sometimes a generation later, outdo in savagery — we call it terrorism — what was done to those slain in the previous generation.
Hate and a lust of vengeance, as I learned covering the war in the former Yugoslavia, are passed down like a poisonous elixir from one generation to the next. Our disastrous interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen, along with Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982, which created Hezbollah, should have taught us this.
But this is a lesson that is never learned.
How could the Bush administration imagine it would be greeted as liberators in Iraq when the U.S. had spent over a decade imposing sanctions that resulted in severe shortages of food and medicine, causing the deaths of at least one million Iraqis, including 500,000 children.
Israel’s occupation of Palestine and its saturation bombing of Lebanon in 1982, were the catalyst for Osama bin Laden’s (1957-2011) attack on the Twin Towers in New York City in 2001, along with U.S. support for attacks on Muslims in Somalia, Chechnya, Kashmir and the South of the Philippines, U.S. military assistance to Israel and the sanctions on Iraq.
I see nothing to alt Israel, especially since the Israel lobby has bought and paid for Congress and the two ruling parties and cowed the media and universities. There is money to be made in war. A lot of it. And the influence of the war industry, buttressed by hundreds of millions of dollars spent on political campaigns by the Zionists, will be a formidable barrier to peace, not to mention sanity.
Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it uses to justify an occupation that is even more savage than that of apartheid South Africa. Its ‘democracy’ — which was always exclusively for Jews — has been hijacked by extremists who are pushing the country towards fascism. Human rights campaigners, intellectuals and journalists — Israeli and Palestinian — are subject to constant state surveillance, arbitrary arrests and government-run smear campaigns. Its educational system, starting in primary school, is an indoctrination machine for the military. And the greed and corruption of its venal political and economic elite have created vast income disparities, a mirror of the decay within America’s democracy, along with a culture of anti-Arab and anti-Black racism.
By the time Israel achieves its decimation of Gaza — Israel is talking about months more of warfare — its facade of civility, its supposed vaunted respect for the rule of law and democracy, its mythical story of the courageous Israeli military and miraculous birth of the Jewish nation – which it successfully sold to its western audiences – will lie in ash heaps. Israel’s social capital will be spent. It will be revealed as the ugly, repressive, hate-filled apartheid regime it always has been, alienating younger generations of American Jews. Its patron, the United States, as new generations come into power, will distance itself from Israel. Its popular support will come from reactionary Zionists and America’s Christianized fascists who see Israel’s domination of ancient Biblical land as a harbinger of the Second Coming and in its subjugation of Arabs a kindred racism and celebration of white supremacy.
Israel will become synonymous with its victims the way Turks are synonymous with the Armenians, Germans are with the Namibians and later the Jews, and Serbs are with the Bosniaks. Israel’s cultural, artistic, journalistic and intellectual life will atrophy. Israel will be a stagnant nation where the religious fanatics, bigots and Jewish extremists who have seized power will dominate public discourse. It will join the club of the globe’s most despotic regimes.
Despotisms can exist long after their past due date. But they are terminal.
Nations need more than force to survive. They need a mystique. This mystique provides purpose, civility and even nobility to inspire citizens to sacrifice for the nation. The mystique offers hope for the future. It provides meaning. It provides national identity. When mystiques implode, when they are exposed as lies, a central foundation of state power collapses.
All Israel has left is escalating savagery, including torture and lethal violence against unarmed civilians, which accelerates the decline. The Israeli military has carred out 93 massacres in Gaza in the last year. This wholesale violence works in the short term, as it did in the war waged by the French in Algeria, the Dirty War waged by Argentina’s military dictatorship, the British occupation of India, Egypt, Kenya and Northern Ireland and the American occupations of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. But in the long term, it is suicidal.
The genocide in Gaza has turned Hamas’ resistance fighters into heroes in the Global South. Israel has killed hundreds of Palestinian leaders, including Yahya Sinwar (1962-2024). It assassinated Dr. Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi (1947-2004), one of the founders of Hamas, who I knew, and Khalil al-Wazir (1935-1988), known as Abu Jihad, and who founded the PLO with Yasser Arafat (1929-2004), who I also knew. But the daily humiliation, forced impoverishment, indiscriminate violence, long prison terms and torture is fertile training ground for resistance leaders. There is no shortage of radicalized Palestinians who can take Sinwar's place. The long struggle for freedom by Palestinians has made this point over and over and over.
Run, the Israelis demand of the Palestinians in Gaza, run for your lives. Run from Rafah the way you ran from Gaza City, the way you ran from Jabalia, the way you ran from Deir al-Balah, the way you ran from Beit Hanoun, the way you ran from Bani Suheila, the way you ran from Khan Yunis. Run or we will kill you. We will drop GBU-39 bombs on your tent encampments and set them ablaze. We will spray you with bullets from our machine-gun-equipped drones. We will pound you with artillery and tank shells. We will shoot you down with snipers. We will decimate your tents, your refugee camps, your cities and towns, your homes, your schools, your hospitals and your water purification plants. We will rain death from the sky.
Run for your lives. Again and again and again. Pack up the few belongings you have left. Blankets. A couple of pots. Some clothes. We don’t care how exhausted you are, how hungry you are, how terrified you are, how sick you are, how old, or how young you are. Run. Run. Run. And when you run in terror to one part of Gaza, we will make you turn around and run to another. Trapped in a labyrinth of death. Back and forth. Up and down. Side to side. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten times. We toy with you like mice in a trap. Then we deport you so you can never return. Or we kill you.
Let the world denounce our genocide. What do we care? The billions in military aid flows unchecked from our American ally. The fighter jets. The artillery shells. The tanks. The bombs. An endless supply. We kill children by the thousands. We kill women and the elderly by the thousands. The sick and injured, without medicine and hospitals die. We poison the water. We cut off the food. We make you starve. We created this hell. We are the masters. Law. Duty. A code of conduct. They do not exist for us.
But first we toy with you. We humiliate you. We terrorize you. We revel in your fear. We are amused by your pathetic attempts to survive. You are not human. You are creatures. Untermensch. We feed our lust for domination. Look at our posts on social media. They have gone viral. One shows soldiers grinning in a Palestinian home with the owners tied up and blindfolded in the background. We loot. Rugs. Cosmetics. Motorbikes. Jewelry. Watches. Cash. Gold. Antiquities. We mock your misery. We cheer your death. We celebrate our religion, our nation, our identity, our superiority, by negating and erasing yours.
Depravity is moral. Atrocity is heroism. Genocide is redemption.
This is the game of terror played by Israel in Gaza. It was the game played during the Dirty War in Argentina, which I covered as a reporter, when the military junta “disappeared” 30,000 of its own citizens. The “disappeared” were subjected to torture — who cannot call what is happening to Palestinians in Gaza torture? — and humiliated before they were murdered. It was the game played in the clandestine torture centers and prisons I reported on in El Salvador and Iraq. It is what I saw in the Serbian concentration camps in Bosnia.
Israeli journalist Yinon Magal (b. 1969) on the show “Hapatriotim” on Israel’s Channel 14, joked that Joe Biden’s red line was the killing of 30,000 Palestinians. The singer Kobi Peretz (b. 1975) asked if that was the number of dead for a day. The audience erupted in applause and laughter.
We know Israel’s intent. Annihilate the Palestinians the same way the United States annihilated Native Americans, the Australians annihilated the First Nations peoples, the Germans annihilated the Herero in Namibia, the Turks annihilated Armenians and the Nazis annihilated the Jews. The specifics are different. The goal is the same. Erasure.
We cannot plead ignorance.
But it is easier to pretend. Pretend Israel will allow humanitarian aid. Pretend there will be a permanent ceasefire. Pretend Palestinians will return to their destroyed homes in Gaza. Pretend Gaza will be rebuilt — the hospitals, the universities, the mosques, the housing. Pretend the Palestinian Authority will administer Gaza. Pretend there will be a two-state solution. Pretend there is no genocide.
The vaunted democratic values, morality and respect for human rights, claimed by Israel and the United States, has always been a lie. The real credo is this – we have everything and if you try and take it away from us we will kill you. People of color, especially when they are poor and vulnerable, do not count. The hopes, dreams, dignity and aspirations for freedom of those outside the empire are worthless. Global domination will be sustained through racialized violence.
This lie — that the American empire is predicated on democracy and liberty — is one the Palestinians, and those in the Global South, as well as Native Americans and Black and Brown Americans, not to mention those who live in the Middle East, have known for decades. But it is a lie that still has currency in the United States and Israel, a lie used to justify the unjustifiable.
We do not halt Israel’s genocide because we, as Americans, are Israel, infected with the same white supremacy, and intoxicated by our domination of the globe’s wealth and the power to obliterate others with our advanced weaponry.
The U.S. occupation forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, replicating what they did in Vietnam, deliberately maimed, abused, beat, tortured, raped, wounded and killed hundreds of thousands of unarmed civilians, including children.
“After the war,” Nick Turse (b. 1975) writes, “most scholars wrote off the accounts of widespread war crimes that recur throughout Vietnamese revolutionary publications and American antiwar literature as merely so much propaganda. Few academic historians even thought to cite such sources, and almost none did so extensively. Meanwhile, My Lai came to stand for — and thus blot out — all other American atrocities. Vietnam War bookshelves are now filled with big-picture histories, sober studies of diplomacy and military tactics, and combat memoirs told from the soldiers’ perspective. Buried in forgotten U.S. government archives, locked away in the memories of atrocity survivors, the real American war in Vietnam has all but vanished from public consciousness.”
Historical amnesia is a vital part of extermination campaigns once they end, at least for the victors. But for the victims, the memory of genocide, along with a yearning for retribution, is a sacred calling. The vanquished reappear in ways the genocidal killers cannot predict, fueling new conflicts and new animosities. The physical eradication of all Palestinians, the only way genocide works, is an impossibility given that six million Palestinians alone live in the diaspora. Over five million live in Gaza and the West Bank.
Israel’s genocide has enraged the 1.9 billion Muslims worldwide, as well as most of the Global South. It has discredited and weakened the corrupt and fragile regimes of the dictatorships and monarchies in the Arab world, home to 456 million Muslims, who collaborate with the U.S. and Israel. It has fueled the ranks of the Palestinian resistance.
What is happening in Gaza is not unprecedented. Indonesia’s military, backed by the U.S., carried out a year-long campaign in 1965 to exterminate those accused of being communist leaders, functionaries, party members and sympathizers. The bloodbath — much of it carried out by rogue death squads and paramilitary gangs — decimated the labor union movement along with the intellectual and artistic class, opposition parties, university student leaders, journalists and ethnic Chinese. A million people were slaughtered. Many of the bodies were dumped into rivers, hastily buried or left to rot on roadsides.
This campaign of mass murder is today mythologized in Indonesia, as it will be in Israel. It is portrayed as an epic battle against the forces of evil, just as Israel equates the Palestinians with Nazis.
The killers in the Indonesian war against “communism” are cheered at political rallies. They are lionized for saving the country. They are interviewed on television about their “heroic” battles. The three-million-strong Pancasila Youth — Indonesia’s equivalent of the “Brownshirts” or the Hitler Youth — in 1965, joined in the genocidal mayhem and are held up as the pillars of the nation.
We mythologize our genocide of Native Americans, romanticizing our killers, gunmen, outlaws, militias and cavalry units. We, like Israel, fetishize the military.
Industrial slaughter – what the sociologist James William Gibson calls “technowar”— defines Israel’s assault on Gaza and Lebanon. Technowar is centered on the concept of “overkill.” Overkill, with its intentionally large numbers of civilian casualties, is justified as an effective form of deternece. It is what Israel, cynically, calls “mowing the lawn.”
The incursion on Oct. 7 into Israel by Hamas and other resistance groups, which left 1,154 Israelis, tourists and migrant workers dead and saw about 240 people taken hostage, gave Israel the pretext for what it has long craved — the total erasure of Palestinians.
Israel has damaged or destroyed Gaza’s universities, all of which are now closed, and 60 percent of other educational facilities, including 13 libraries. It has also destroyed at least 195 heritage sites, including 208 mosques, churches, and Gaza’s Central Archives that held 150 years of historical records and documents. Israel’s warplanes, missiles, drones, tanks, artillery shells and naval guns daily pulverize Gaza — which is only 20 miles long and five miles wide — in a scorched earth campaign unlike anything seen since the war in Vietnam. It has dropped 25,000 tons of explosives — equivalent to two nuclear bombs — on Gaza, many targets selected by Artificial Intelligence. It drops unguided munitions (“dumb bombs”) and 2000-pound “bunker buster” bombs on refugee camps and densely packed urban centers as well as the so-called “safe zones” — 42 percent of Palestinians killed have been in these “safe zones” where they were instructed by Israel to flee. Over 1.9 million Palestinians have been displaced from their homes, forced to find refuge in overcrowded UNRWA shelters, hospital corridors and courtyards, schools, tents or the open air in south Gaza, often living next to fetid pools of raw sewage.
The Israeli blockade of northern Gaza has left over 400,000 Palestinians are enduring a starvation siege and constant airstrikes in an attempt to depopulate the north. Israeli forces have killed 1,250 Palestinians in the assault, launched on October 5, a medical source told Al Jazeera. Reports from northern Gaza are difficult to obtain as internet and phone services have been cut and the few journalists on the ground continue to be killed. Civil defense units say they have been barred by Israeli forces from reaching the sites of strikes and their crews have been attacked.
Israel has ordered Palestinians to flee to designated “safe zones,” but once in these “safe zones” they have been attacked and ordered to move to new “safe zones.”
Israel has killed at least 42,600 Palestinians in Gaza, including 13,000 children and 9,000 women. It has wounded 99,800 others, many with life crippling injuries. It has killed at least 136 journalists, many, if not most of them deliberately targeted. It has killed 340 doctors, nurses and other health workers — four percent of Gaza’s healthcare personnel. Two-hundred and thirty-three UNRWA workers have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, the highest death toll in U.N. history. These numbers do not begin to reflect the actual death toll since only those dead registered in morgues and hospitals, most of which no longer function, are counted. The death toll, when those who are missing are counted, is well over 40,000.
At the same time, Israel has turned Gaza inrto a toxic wasteland.
“Nearly 40 million tons of debris, including unexploded ordnance and human remains, contaminate the ecosystem,” the U.N. reports. “More than 140 temporary waste sites and 340,000 tons of waste, untreated wastewater and sewage overflow contribute to the spread of diseases such as hepatitis A, respiratory infections, diarrhea and skin diseases.”
In a further blow, the Israeli parliament approved a bill to ban UNRWA, a lifeline for Palestinians in Gaza, from operating on Israeli territory and areas under Israel’s control. The ban almost certainly ensures the collapse of aid distribution, already crippled, in Gaza.
Israel has expanded its “buffer zone” along the Gaza perimeter to 16 percent of the territory, in the process leveling homes, apartment blocks and farms. It has pushed over 84 percent of the 2.3 million people in Gaza into “a shrinking, unsafe ‘humanitarian zone’ covering 12.6 percent of a territory now reconfigured in preparation for annexation.” Satellite imagery indicates that the Israeli military has built roads and military bases in over 26 percent of Gaza, “suggesting the aim of a permanent presence.”
Doctors are forced to amputate limbs without anesthetic. Those with severe medical conditions — cancer, diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease — have died from lack of treatment or will die soon. Over a hundred women give birth every day, with little to no medical care. Miscarriages are up by 300 percent. Over 90 percent of the Palestinians in Gaza suffer from severe food insecurity with people eating animal feed and grass. Children are dying of starvation. Palestinian writers, academics, scientists and their family members have been tracked and assassinated.
Seventy percent of recorded deaths have consistently been women and children.
Israel plays linguistic tricks to deny anyone in Gaza the status of civilians and any building - including mosques, hospitals and schools - protected status. Palestinians are all branded as responsible for the attack on Oct. 7 or written off as human shields for Hamas. All structures are considered legitimate targets by Israel because they are allegedly Hamas command centers or said to harbor Hamas fighters.
These accusations, Francesca Albanese (b. 1977), the U.N. Rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, writes, are a “pretext” used to justify “the killing of civilians under a cloak of purported legality, whose all-enveloping pervasiveness admits only of genocidal intent.”
“In August,” Albanese writes in her most recent report, “entry permits for humanitarian organizations nearly halved. Access to water has been restricted to a quarter of pre-7 October levels. Approximately 93 per cent of the agricultural, forestry and fishing economies has been destroyed; 95 per cent of Palestinians face high levels of acute food insecurity, and deprivation for decades to come.”
“In recent months, 83 percent of food aid was prevented from entering Gaza, and the civilian police in Rafah were repeatedly targeted, impairing distribution,” the report notes. “At least 34 deaths from malnutrition were recorded by 14 September 2024.”
These measures, she notes, “indicate an intent to destroy its population through starvation.”
The occupation and genocide would not be sustained without the U.S. which gives Israel $3.8 billion in annual military assistance. The U.S. has spent $ 17.9 billion on military aid to Israel in the last 12 months, including providing 1,800 MK84 2,000-pound bombs, 500 Thomas Friedman (b. 1953) telling Charlie Rose (b. 1942) on the eve of the war in Iraq that American soldiers should go house to house from Basra to Baghdad and say to Iraqis “suck on this” ? That is the real credo of the U.S. empire.
As climate change imperils survival, as resources become scarce, as migration becomes an imperative for millions, as agricultural yields decline, as costal areas are flooded, as droughts and wilfires proliferate, as states fail, as armed resistance movements rise to battle their oppressors along with their proxies, genocide will not be an anomaly. It will be the norm. The earth’s vulnerable and poor, those Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) called “the wretched of the earth,” will be the next Palestinians.
The scorched earth tactics in Gaza and Lebanon are becoming common in the West Bank.
Thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank towns of Jenin, Nablus, Qalqilya, Tubas and Tulkarem live for days under curfew, making it difficult to access food and water. As in Gaza, the Israeli army targets ambulances, blocks entrances to hospitals and bulldozes streets, electricity and public health infrastructure.
Drones and war planes carry out airstrikes. Israeli roadblocks, checkpoints and blockades make travel difficult or impossible. Israel has suspended financial transfers to the Palestinian Authority, which nominally governs the West Bank in collaboration with Israel. It has revoked 148,000 work permits for those who had jobs in Israel.
“The gross domestic product (GDP) of the West Bank contracted by 22.7 percent, nearly 30 percent of businesses have closed, and 292,000 jobs have been lost,” the report reads. Over 692 Palestinians — “10 times the previous 14 years’ annual average of 69 fatalities,” have been killed and more than 5,000 have been injured. Of the 169 Palestinian children who have been killed, “nearly 80 percent were shot in the head or the torso.”
Albanese’s report dismisses the claim that Israel is carrying out the assault in Gaza and the West Bank to “defend itself,” “eradicate Hamas” or “bring the hostages home,” charging that these claims are “camouflage,” a way of “invisibilizing the crime.” Genocidal intent, as Judge Dalveer Bhandari (b. 1947) from the ICJ points out, “may exist simultaneously with other, ulterior motives.”
Rather, the incursion into Israel by Hamas and other resistance fighters on Oct. 7 “provided the impetus to advance towards the goal of a ‘Greater Israel.’”
Egypt and the other Arab states have refused to consider accepting Palestinian refugees. But Israel is banking on creating a humanitarian disaster of such catastrophic proportions that these countries, or other countries, will relent so they can depopulate Gaza and turn their attention to ethnically cleansing the West Bank. That is the plan, although no one, including Israel, knows if it will work.
There is only one way to end the ongoing genocide in Gaza. It is not through bilateral negotiations. Israel has amply demonstrated, including with the assassination of the lead Hamas negotiator, Ismail Haniyeh (1962-2024), that it has no interest in a permanent ceasefire. The only way for Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians to be halted is for the U.S. to end all weapons shipments to Israel. And the only way this will take place is if enough Americans make clear they have no intention of supporting any presidential ticket or any political party that fuels this genocide.
The arguments against a boycott of the two ruling parties are familiar: It will ensure the election of Donald Trump (b. 1946). Kamala Harris (b. 1964) has rhetorically shown more compassion than Joe Biden (b. 1942). There are not enough of us to have an impact. We can work within the Democratic Party. The Israel lobby, especially the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which owns most members of Congress, is too powerful. Negotiations will eventually achieve a cessation of the slaughter.
In short, we are impotent and must surrender our agency to sustain a project of mass killing. We must accept as normal governance the shipment of billions of dollars in military aid to an apartheid state, the use of vetoes at the U.N. Security Council to protect Israel and the active obstruction of international efforts to end mass murder. We have no choice.
Genocide, the internationally recognized crime of crimes, is not a policy issue. It cannot be equated with trade deals, infrastructure bills, charter schools or immigration. It is a moral issue. It is about the eradication of a people. Any surrender to genocide condemns us as a nation and as a species. It plunges the global society one step closer to barbarity. It eviscerates the rule of law and mocks every fundamental value we claim to honor. It is in a category by itself. And to not, with every fiber of our being, combat genocide is to be complicit in what Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) defines as “radical evil,” the evil where human beings, as human beings, are rendered superfluous.
The fundamental lesson of the Holocaust, which writers such as Primo Levi (1919-1987) stress, is that we can all become willing executioners. It takes very little. We can all become complicit, if only through indifference and apathy, in evil.
“Monsters exist,” Levi, who survived Auschwitz, writes, “but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
To confront evil — even if there is no chance of success — keeps alive our humanity and dignity. It allows us, as Václav Havel (1936-2011) writes in “The Power of the Powerless,” to live in truth, a truth the powerful do not want spoken and seek to suppress. It provides a guiding light to those who come after us. It tells the victims they are not alone. It is “humanity’s revolt against an enforced position” and an “attempt to regain control over one’s sense of responsibility.”
What does it say about us if we accept a world where we arm and fund a nation that kills and wounds hundreds of innocents a day?
What does it say about us if we support an orchestrated famine and the poisoning of the water supply where the polio virus has been detected, meaning tens of thousands will get sick and many will die?
What does it say about us if we permit for over 12 months the bombing of refugee camps, hospitals, villages and cities to wipe out families and force survivors to camp out in the open or find shelter in crude tents?
What does it say about us when we accept the murder of 11,000 children, although this is surely an undercount?
What does it say about us when we watch Israel escalate attacks on United Nations facilities, schools — including the Al-Tabaeen school in Gaza City, where over 100 Palestinians were killed while performing the Fajr, or dawn prayers — and other emergency shelters?
What does it say about us when we permit Israel to use Palestinians as human shields by forcing handcuffed civilians, including children and the elderly, to enter potentially booby-trapped tunnels and buildings in advance of Israeli troops, at times dressed in Israeli military uniforms?
What does it say about us when we support politicians and soldiers who defend the rape and torture of prisoners?
Are these the kinds of allies we want to empower? Is this behavior we want to embrace? What message does this send to the rest of the world?
If we do not hold fast to moral imperatives, we are doomed. Evil will triumph. It means there is no right and wrong. It means anything, including mass murder, is permissible. Hope lies in the university encampments, in the occupation of buildings, in the hunger strikes, in the streets, and of course, in third parties that defy the empire. These people, who march to the beat of a different drummer, are the nation’s conscience.
A moral stance always has a cost. If there is no cost, it is not moral. It is merely conventional belief.
“But what of the price of peace?” the radical Catholic priest Daniel Berrigan (1921-2016), who was sent to federal prison for burning draft records during the war in Vietnam, asks in his book “No Bars to Manhood:”
I think of the good, decent, peace-loving people I have known by the thousands, and I wonder. How many of them are so afflicted with the wasting disease of normalcy that, even as they declare for the peace, their hands reach out with an instinctive spasm in the direction of their comforts, their home, their security, their income, their future, their plans — that five-year plan of studies, that ten-year plan of professional status, that twenty-year plan of family growth and unity, that fifty-year plan of decent life and honorable natural demise. “Of course, let us have the peace,” we cry, “but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know neither prison nor ill repute nor disruption of ties.” And because we must encompass this and protect that, and because at all costs — at all costs — our hopes must march on schedule, and because it is unheard of that in the name of peace a sword should fall, disjoining that fine and cunning web that our lives have woven, because it is unheard of that good men should suffer injustice or families be sundered or good repute be lost — because of this we cry peace and cry peace, and there is no peace. There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war — at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
The question is not whether resistance is practical. It is whether resistance is right. We are enjoined to love our neighbor, not our tribe. We must have faith that the good draws to it the good, even if the empirical evidence around us is bleak. The good is always embodied in action. It must be seen. It does not matter if the wider society is censorious. We are called to defy — through acts of civil disobedience and noncompliance — the laws of the state, when these laws, as they often do, conflict with moral law. We must stand, no matter the cost, with the crucified of the earth. If we fail to take this stand, whether against the abuses of militarized police, the inhumanity of our vast prison system or the genocide in Gaza, we become the crucifiers.
“Mockery of every sort was added to their deaths,” the Roman historian Tacitus (c. AD 56 - c. 120) wrote of those the emperor Nero (AD 37 - AD 68) singled out for torture and death. “Covered with the skins of beasts, they were torn by dogs and perished, or were nailed to crosses, or were doomed to the flames and burnt, to serve as a nightly illumination, when daylight had expired.”
Sadism by the powerful is the curse of the human condition. It was as prevalent in ancient Rome as it is in Israel.
We know the modern face of Nero, who illuminated his opulent garden parties by burning to death captives tied to stakes. That is not in dispute.
But who were Nero’s guests? Who wandered through the emperor’s grounds as human beings, as in Rafah, were burned alive? How could these guests see, and no doubt hear, such horrendous suffering and witness such appalling torture and be indifferent, even content?
Who were Nero’s guests?
We are Nero’s guests.
History will judge Israel for this genocide. But it will also judge us. It will ask why we did not do more, why we did not sever all agreements, all trade deals, all accords, all cooperation with the apartheid state, why we did not halt weapons shipments to Israel, why we did not recall our ambassadors, why when the maritime trade in the Red Sea was disrupted by Yemen an alternative overland route into Israel was set up by Saudi Arabia and Jordan, why we did not do everything in our power to end the slaughter. It will condemn us for not heeding the fundamental lesson of the Holocaust, which is not that Jews are eternal victims, but that when you have the capacity to stop genocide and you do not, you are culpable.
“The opposite of good is not evil,” Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) wrote. “The opposite of good is indifference.”
The Palestinian resistance is our resistance. The Palestinian struggle for dignity, freedom and independence is our struggle. The Palestinian cause is our cause. For, as history has also shown, those who were once Nero’s guests soon became Nero’s victims.
Source: The Chris Hedges Report: Chris Hedges at UCSB: To Kill a People (publ. 23 November 2024) [substack]
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.
Several Americans prisoners of war who refused to return to the United States hang a “Down with McCarthyism” sign on a truck January 28, 1954 as they prepare to leave the demilitarized zone in Korea and head into North Korea.
From left to right: Albert C. Delhome, Ashland, Pa.; Clarence C. Adams, Memphis, Tn.; Andrew Condron, the lone Briton; and John R. Dunn, Baltimore, Md.
As the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s continued in the United States, the prisoners who refused repatriation were labeled as “brainwashed” and fear of communists’ ability to shape people’s minds was spread across the country.
However some were African Americans who did not wish to return to face racial discrimination. Others agreed with their hosts that communism represented a better hope for mankind than the capitalism of the United States.
Most, though ultimately had difficulty adapting to the culture and language of the host country and eventually returned to the United States.
Prisoner repatriation was one of the greatest stumbling blocks in the long cease-fire negotiations between the forces of the United Nations and those of China and North Korea.
In June 1953, the two sides agreed that no prisoner who did not wish to be repatriated would be forced to do so (this had long been a sticking point in negotiations, with the Chinese and North Koreans wanting all prisoners returned to their home countries).
Prisoners who did not wish to go back to their home countries would be given 90 days in a neutral compound near Panmunjom to reconsider before being allowed to stay in enemy territory. Following the armistice that was signed on 27 July 1953, effectively ending the Korean War (South Korea never signed), the main prisoner exchange was free to proceed.
One British and 23 American soldiers (along with 327 South Koreans) refused to be returned to their homelands. Two, Corporal Claude Batchelor and Corporal Edward Dickenson, changed their minds before the 90-day window expired. Both were court-martialed and sentenced to prison terms, with Batchelor serving 4½ years and Dickenson 3½.
This left 22 U.N. soldiers who voluntarily stayed with the Communists after the final exchange of prisoners. The 21 Americans were given dishonorable discharges.
This had the unintended consequence of rendering them immune to court-martial when they finally returned to the United States (which the majority eventually did), because they were no longer active-duty military. However, they were still criminally culpable for any acts of collaboration or offenses against fellow prisoners committed while they were POWs.
About 4 a.m. on February 24, 1954, a train carrying the 21 American defectors rumbled across the Yalu River into China. The Chinese soon shipped some of the men off to study language and politics. Others went to mills, factories, and farms across Eastern China.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/p/2e8Xy6t
The photographer is unknown. The image is an Associated Press photograph housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star collection.
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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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Los Culpables: El Cura, El Gamonal, El Macuto o El Militar, El Presidente. 1965.
Fundacion Guayasamín houses many of the pieces of Oswaldo Guayasamín (1919-99). It is located in the Bellavista area of Quito, Ecuador.
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As you were excited to speak w/ me?🔘https://flic.kr/p/2nE3Sns
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First of all; the #FBI does not have the clearance, to be in possession, of my nuclear codesz.
Load, Load, Load; you're too slow, #YouTube. And do you know what that means? It means that you are #Guilty of #HighTreason. &, do you know what that means? It means that you are #Executed by #FiringSquad.
Nope; your apology means nothing to me. It means, that you are still #Executed by #FiringSquad.
That's one☝️. Two✌️; I👆, told you💭💬📣🔊📢; I did not suggest to you – I told you, #YouTube; that I need 14-15,000 characters🔤🔡🔠🔢; &, you refused to comply. Therefore; you are shot🔫 to death – #Executed for #HighTreason, twice✌️👋😽💀😵.👀
Three3️⃣☘️; #JohnPaulMacIssac: I simply, or merely, tell💭💬📣🔊📢 the #FBI, to go & fuck themselves; & to eat shit💩🚽, & die💀😵⚰️⚱️. 👀
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#OliviaCampbellPatton #OliviaWildeNeeCockburne
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3️⃣; @/ #GregGutfeld‼️⚠️ : The #Saxophone🎷 is lame, gey, & any-person, who may believe it to be kool, or trendy, or even good; they may eat shit💩🚽, & die💀😵.
4️⃣ By the way; #SullyErna; you're a bitch.👋💀
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As you were excited to speak w/ me?🔘https://flic.kr/p/2nE3Sns
It's #Culpability, @/ #ChriselleTidrick; you either knew, or you did not know. They; the Government, do not believe in culpability, how-ever, culpability, does, indeed, & in-deed, exist. However; they have prosecuted many people, whilst ignoring #Culpability: so, therein, or there-upon; "#CasePrecedent." That said; if any-person, or agency of the Government, or government, harries you, menaces you, or threatens you in any way – ℹ️1️⃣1️⃣x the size of the #OklahomaCityBombing; &☝️ #SiolAlpin💍💝👑👸♾ will send the #LoveLetter💀☠️🌵⚰️⚱️😵 to #JoeBiden. Period.👀
You will hear the screams; much as #We heard the screams of #BattlestarColumbia, above (#StarOfCoruscant #Hoth) the "ice planet."
❄️🌐💍🔘https://youtu.be/-l2-HSSw-us
❄️🌐💍🔘https://youtu.be/Vt74HoJtbuw
❄️🌐💍🔘https://youtu.be/IfyNUhomMoU
#Owlephant
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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
CULPABILITY: All images posted are from publications owned by RC/\Weazel. RC/\Weazel performed image scanning, editing and the compiling of bibliographic data.
ISFDB: Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base.
RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
NO entry indicates specific information not available from book.
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Load, Load, Load; you're too slow, #YouTube. And do you know what that means? It means that you are #Guilty of #HighTreason. &, do you know what that means? It means that you are #Executed by #FiringSquad.
Nope; your apology means nothing to me. It means, that you are still #Executed by #FiringSquad.
That's one☝️. Two✌️; I👆, told you💭💬📣🔊📢; I did not suggest to you – I told you, #YouTube; that I need 14-15,000 characters🔤🔡🔠🔢; &, you refused to comply. Therefore; you are shot🔫 to death – #Executed for #HighTreason, twice✌️👋😽💀😵.👀
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She asked me to cum⛲️💦💧🌊🎣🐟🔫 over, to #Steinway🎹🏭, in #Astoria👸; & then, after driving from #Pennsylvania #Pistolvania, she was on the #AOL_IM #AIM, w/ #JesseHenry. I told her that she was being rude; & she told me to go & fuck myself. So; I left, drove home🏡, & ate the cost💸 of travel. &, I went & fuckt myself. &; she was unhappy that I left; & she didn't get none. &; I don't really give a fuck. She can eat shit💩🚽, & die💀.👀❄️ @/#GregGutfeld #CarleyShimkus
#OliviaCampbellPatton #OliviaWildeNeeCockburne
🏰🏯🔘https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigiriya
By the way; it is #Ceylon; do not offend me again. This is your first(ly)☝️, & only⏳⌛️ warning⚠️⛔️☣️☢️
#SAP_q / #SAR_Q, how-ever, not #SAP-q / #SAR-Q; #RobertCharles #THE_COMMODORES_CIRCLE.👀😾😠😤😡
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☝️; there is no quick select, of 20,000+ images, on #iPhone, #Apple #TimCook. ✌️; there is no #conspicuous way to remove the #Slideslow option, on #iPhone, w/ your shitty, shitty musick selection. Therefore, I cannot turn it off. Oh, by the way; I cannot trash individual #AppCaches, neither, all of them, in a single tap. Take a wild guess what that means for you; all of you. #HighTreason = #Execution🔫 @ the #Gallows💀😵, or #Gibbet💀😵.👋👋👋
3️⃣; @/ #GregGutfeld‼️⚠️ : The #Saxophone🎷 is lame, gey, & any-person, who may believe it to be kool, or trendy, or even good; they may eat shit💩🚽, & die💀😵.
4️⃣ By the way; #SullyErna; you're a bitch.👋💀
🔘https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=R8pj2y39_jc&feature=share
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It is nice to see #TulsiGabbard; @/#FoxNewsCorp.
@/ #JennaLeeUSA I 👀 see ❄️🍧🍨🍦⛸ (also, #Björk) two✌️👩⚖️😌 #RingsOfPower ♀️🆗🙆♀️☎️🔥♨️💍🔏✍️👩💃👩💍👨👌🙆♂️🆗☑️🔲🔳▫️ℹ️🔘https://youtu.be/Pqijx0pnn3c
As you were excited to speak w/ me?🔘https://flic.kr/p/2nE3Sns
It's #Culpability, @/ #ChriselleTidrick; you either knew, or you did not know. They; the Government, do not believe in culpability, how-ever, culpability, does, indeed, & in-deed, exist. However; they have prosecuted many people, whilst ignoring #Culpability: so, therein, or there-upon; "#CasePrecedent." That said; if any-person, or agency of the Government, or government, harries you, menaces you, or threatens you in any way – ℹ️1️⃣1️⃣x the size of the #OklahomaCityBombing; &☝️ #SiolAlpin💍💝👑👸♾ will send the #LoveLetter💀☠️🌵⚰️⚱️😵 to #JoeBiden. Period.👀
You will hear the screams; much as #We heard the screams of #BattlestarColumbia, above (#StarOfCoruscant #Hoth) the "ice planet."
❄️🌐💍🔘https://youtu.be/-l2-HSSw-us
❄️🌐💍🔘https://youtu.be/Vt74HoJtbuw
#Owlephant
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001-04 #BattlestarColumbia👾♾💍👸👑💝
ℹ️▶️⏯⏭↕️🔘https://youtu.be/bS5JnGBmghM
First of all; the #FBI does not have the clearance, to be in possession, of my nuclear codesz.
Load, Load, Load; you're too slow, #YouTube. And do you know what that means? It means that you are #Guilty of #HighTreason. &, do you know what that means? It means that you are #Executed by #FiringSquad.
Nope; your apology means nothing to me. It means, that you are still #Executed by #FiringSquad.
That's one☝️. Two✌️; I👆, told you💭💬📣🔊📢; I did not suggest to you – I told you, #YouTube; that I need 14-15,000 characters🔤🔡🔠🔢; &, you refused to comply. Therefore; you are shot🔫 to death – #Executed for #HighTreason, twice✌️👋😽💀😵.👀
Three3️⃣☘️; #JohnPaulMacIssac: I simply, or merely, tell💭💬📣🔊📢 the #FBI, to go & fuck themselves; & to eat shit💩🚽, & die💀😵⚰️⚱️. 👀
☎️▶️⏯⏩⏭➡️🔀↕️🔘https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=qKVkhQQXEGE&feature=share
She asked me to cum⛲️💦💧🌊🎣🐟🔫 over, to #Steinway🎹🏭, in #Astoria👸; & then, after driving from #Pennsylvania #Pistolvania, she was on the #AOL_IM #AIM, w/ #JesseHenry. I told her that she was being rude; & she told me to go & fuck myself. So; I left, drove home🏡, & ate the cost💸 of travel. &, I went & fuckt myself. &; she was unhappy that I left; & she didn't get none. &; I don't really give a fuck. She can eat shit💩🚽, & die💀.👀❄️ @/#GregGutfeld #CarleyShimkus
#OliviaCampbellPatton #OliviaWildeNeeCockburne
🏰🏯🔘https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigiriya
By the way; it is #Ceylon; do not offend me again. This is your first(ly)☝️, & only⏳⌛️ warning⚠️⛔️☣️☢️
#SAP_q / #SAR_Q, how-ever, not #SAP-q / #SAR-Q; #RobertCharles #THE_COMMODORES_CIRCLE.👀😾😠😤😡
👀😎⚠️⛔️☣️☢️🔘https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_access_program#:~:text=Special%20access%20programs%20%28SAPs%29%20in%20the%20U.S.%20Federal,that%20exceed%20those%20for%20regular%20%28collateral%29%20classified%20information.
☝️; there is no quick select, of 20,000+ images, on #iPhone, #Apple #TimCook. ✌️; there is no #conspicuous way to remove the #Slideslow option, on #iPhone, w/ your shitty, shitty musick selection. Therefore, I cannot turn it off. Oh, by the way; I cannot trash individual #AppCaches, neither, all of them, in a single tap. Take a wild guess what that means for you; all of you. #HighTreason = #Execution🔫 @ the #Gallows💀😵, or #Gibbet💀😵.👋👋👋
3️⃣; @/ #GregGutfeld‼️⚠️ : The #Saxophone🎷 is lame, gey, & any-person, who may believe it to be kool, or trendy, or even good; they may eat shit💩🚽, & die💀😵.
4️⃣ By the way; #SullyErna; you're a bitch.👋💀
🔘https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=R8pj2y39_jc&feature=share
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It is nice to see #TulsiGabbard; @/#FoxNewsCorp.
@/ #JennaLeeUSA I 👀 see ❄️🍧🍨🍦⛸ (also, #Björk) two✌️👩⚖️😌 #RingsOfPower ♀️🆗🙆♀️☎️🔥♨️💍🔏✍️👩💃👩💍👨👌🙆♂️🆗☑️🔲🔳▫️ℹ️🔘https://youtu.be/Pqijx0pnn3c
As you were excited to speak w/ me?🔘https://flic.kr/p/2nE3Sns
It's #Culpability, @/ #ChriselleTidrick; you either knew, or you did not know. They; the Government, do not believe in culpability, how-ever, culpability, does, indeed, & in-deed, exist. However; they have prosecuted many people, whilst ignoring #Culpability: so, therein, or there-upon; "#CasePrecedent." That said; if any-person, or agency of the Government, or government, harries you, menaces you, or threatens you in any way – ℹ️1️⃣1️⃣x the size of the #OklahomaCityBombing; &☝️ #SiolAlpin💍💝👑👸♾ will send the #LoveLetter💀☠️🌵⚰️⚱️😵 to #JoeBiden. Period.👀
You will hear the screams; much as #We heard the screams of #BattlestarColumbia, above (#StarOfCoruscant #Hoth) the "ice planet."
❄️🌐💍🔘https://youtu.be/-l2-HSSw-us
❄️🌐💍🔘https://youtu.be/Vt74HoJtbuw
❄️🌐💍🔘https://youtu.be/IfyNUhomMoU
#Owlephant
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Henry Thomas Cockburn of Bonaly, Lord Cockburn, was a Scottish lawyer, judge, literary figure and committed conservationist for the City he loved.
A well-respected figure of the time, his legacy lives on today in many forms, from streets names after him to the Cockburn Association, founded in his memory to protect the amenity of this city and campaign for its improvement.
In this portrait he is seen with Bonaly Tower on the right of the image and the distinctive external stair and tower doorway used by Robert Adamson and David Octavius Hill to pose the family photograph in the early 1840s.
Cockburn as born on 26 October 1779 with the Old Parish Register giving his place of birth as Hope Park in Edinburgh, where his parents had a house. He died at the age of 75 at his estate in Bonaly in the Pentland Hills on 26 April 1854.
His father was Archibald Cockburn – a keen Tory, lawyer, Judge – and Sheriff of Midlothian before taking on the mantle of Baron of the Court of Exchequer. His mother Janet Rannie was connected by marriage with the influential Lord Melville (her sister was Henry Dundas’s first wife), making Cockburn the nephew of one of the most powerful individuals in Scotland at the time. ( My family tree contains an important marriage of a MacBean daughter to the Dundas dynasty).
One of 9 siblings, with three sisters and 5 brothers. His brother was John Cockburn FRSE (d.1862) was a wine merchant and founder of Cockburn’s of Leith. Henry married Elizabeth Macdowall and went on to have five daughters and six sons.
In the popular magazine of the day, the Edinburgh Review, he was described as: “rather below the middle height, firm, wiry and muscular, inured to active exercise of all kinds, a good swimmer, an accomplished skater, an intense lover of the fresh breezes of heaven.” He was immensely popular with his peers and respected by most who met him.
Cockburn was educated at the Royal High School (1787) in Infirmary Street at the High School Yards to the south of the Old Town under the harsh guidance of the Rector, Dr Alexander Adam. He later described his time there as “spending nine years learning two dead languages”.
From 1793, he attended the University of Edinburgh and was particularly influenced by the Professor of Moral Philosophy, Dugald Stewart. A keen member of the Debating Club with Francis Jeffrey (a life-long friend), Henry Broughman and Horner. He met Walter Scott at this time, and the two grew to be close friends and political opponents.
Cockburn lived in a time when the spirit of the Age of the Enlightenment had permeated through all sectors of Edinburgh life. There were wide-sweeping proposals for new development in the town he loved so much, not least of which was the building of the New Town, north of the Nor’ Loch and the Old Town. Development here had started 10 years before his birth but his entry into University coincided with the completion of Charlotte Square, Robert Adam’s masterpiece of civic design regarded as the finest neo-classical square in Europe. He was, of course, later to move to the Square taking up residence at no.14.
In 1800, Cockburn entered the Faculty of Advocates which signalled the start of a distinguished legal career, becoming Lord Advocate Depute in 1806. He served as Solicitor General for Scotland between 1830 and 1834 before taking a seat on the Scottish bench as Lord Cockburn. He excelled at criminal cases and played a part if some celebrated cases. He was the defence lawyer for Helen McDougal, Burke’s wife, in the trial for the Burke and Hare murders, and won her acquittal.
Cockburn held strong Whig principles which was not the party of his relatives and at time when it held out few inducements to men ambitious of success.
Although Cockburn contributed regularly to the Edinburgh Review, the extent of his literary career was not fully appreciated until his 70th birthday on the publication of his biography of his lifelong friend, Lord Jeffrey.
His chief literary work, the Memorials of his Time appeared posthumously in 1856. His published work continued with his Journal 1831-44, published in 1874. These constitute an autobiography of the writer interspersed with notices of manners, public events, and sketches of his contemporaries, of great interest and value. In 1888, his paper Trials for Sedition in Scotland was published.
His book, Circuit Journeys was also published in 1888 and is a fascinating and insightful account of his times as a Circuit Judge, travelling the length and breadth of Scotland dispensing the Queen’s justice.
The preface, written in March 1838, Cockburn notes that it will be his “fate to perform these journeys being a Criminal Judge as long as I am fit for anything.” Such journeys were not without their hazards. He wrote of an incident in 1849 when a mail coach on the Edinburgh-Inverness route with the Clerk of the Court together with two Counsel overturned in the swollen River Moy – “The clerk’s papers all went downstream, but were recovered, though well steeped.”
September 1839, he visited the Abbey of Dundrennan, a “beautiful and interesting mass. But every other feeling is superseded by one’s horror and indignation at the state in which it is kept.” He goes on – “No excretion can do justice to the careless or selfish insensibility that can obstinately persevere in the daily perpetration of such atrocity. My excellent and esteemed host, in whose house I now am, and on whose ground this abbey stands, is the chief delinquent. And the value of the case is that he is a most liberal and right-minded gentleman, because this shows that the mischief proceeds from no positively improper object but from that absence of right feeling which, on such subjects seems to be nearly universal among Scotch proprietors. They gaze on the glorious ruins of noble buildings, over which time and history delights to linger and which give their estates all the dignity that they possess, with exactly the same emotion that the cattle do, to which these impressive edifices are generally consigned. It is a humiliating national scandal.”
Hidden within the pages of the Circuit Journeys are reminders of the horrible cases to which Cockburn had to preside. In 1840, in Glasgow, he wrote of the case of a poor child, scarcely 8 years old – a climbing boy as they were described then – who was forced by threats to go up 38 new chimneys successively without any food or rest. He died in the 38th. The charge of culpable homicide; the sentence was imprisonment although Cockburn felt that transportation was a more suitable punishment.
We can see part of Cockburn’s character and reflection following the Spring North Circuit of 1844. He writes from his home in Bonaly on a comfortable Sunday evening reflecting on dispensing the Queen’s justice in Perth. Putting aside the cases of a female fire raiser and a mad murderer noting that these were the only interesting cases out of 44, we writes, “of the mob of thieves, about a dozen had been already convicted in the Judiciary, and purified by long incarceration. I fear that it may now be deemed certain that thieves, especially the young, cannot be reformed by being shut up in a box.”
In September 1849, some 34 years before the celebrated Napier Commission into the Highland Clearances, Cockburn described one notable case heard in Knockomie of rioting, etc by four respectable men from North Uist, who were resisting a Highland clearing. His description shows the clear dilemma for Justices in exercising their duties. In accepting that the warrants of eviction had been legally and properly served, the Court established that no means of shelter or transport was provided leaving some 300 people with “nothing but the bare ground to take shelter in, or rather the hard, wet beach, to lie down upon.” The jury solved the difficulty by finding the men guilty but pleaded for the utmost leniency and mercy for the Court. In accepting this “well-considered recommendation”, Cockburn noted “the popular feeling is so strong against these (as I think necessary, but) odious operations, that I was afraid of an acquittal, which would have been unjust and mischievous. On the other hand, even the law has no sympathy with the exercises of legal rights in a cruel way.”
Cockburn’s conservation leanings again to the fore when writing in April 1845, he exclaims – “The country is an asylum of railway lunatics ……… And anyone who puts in a word for the preservation of scenery, or relics, or sacred haunts, is set down as a beast, hostile to the “poor man’s rights”, “modern improvement” and the “march of intellect”.”
Cockburn’s interest in the City of his birth found numerous channels but it is one publication that it can be best seen. In 1849, he wrote A Letter to the Lord Provost on the Best Ways of Spoiling the Beauty of Edinburgh in which he outlined his concerns and his passions for Edinburgh. It is more of a campaigning pamphlet than book, within which he said, “Edinburgh is not exempt from the doom that makes everything spoilable.” - - - - And how right he was.
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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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Manifestació contra la guerra d'Iraq a la Plaça Sant Jaume de Barcelona, Districte de Ciutat Vella, a l'any 2003.
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.
Watching Trump in his debate with Kamala Harris reminded me of this poem I wrote in August of 2020. Trump's performance in the debate was embarrassing. Hopefully it set the stage for another defeat like the one he tasted in 2020.
A very poor loser
Come November
He will be
Of course
A very poor loser
A very bad sport
A big baby
Claiming foul
Voter fraud
And theft
Throwing tantrum
After tantrum
Whining
“They cheated!”
Whinging
“It’s rigged!”
And tossing his small hands in the air
He will look for sympathy
Play the victim
And make excuses
“It isn’t fair!”
He will protest
Filing lawsuits
Calling out the Marines
The Navy
The Air Force
And the Coast Guard
To save him from drowning
He will drag his heels
Cling to the Oval Office
Crying out hysterically
“They stole the election!”
Asking for recounts
A second chance
And a reprieve
Flailing about
Impotently
Alone in the big White House
With Melania long gone
Until finally
Wednesday
January 20th
2021
Comes
And he goes
Out the door
Fired
Exiled
Shamed
You will find more of my poems and songs here
and in The Storm in Its Passing and Flights of Fancy.
My songs are at
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And culpable
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".
TITLE: Legends From the End of Time
AUTHOR: Michael Moorcock 1939-
TYPE: author’s collection paperback
EDITION: 1st paperback; previous editions in the UK
PUBLISHER: DAW No 229 UY1281
COVER PRICE: $1.25
ISBN: 0-87997-281-5
PAGES: 175
PUB DATE: February 1977
COPYRIGHT: 1976 by author
COVER ARTIST: Bob Pepper
ISFDB: No
RATING: INDEX: 0289 - Legends From the End of Time - 08 - RS - IFB
Legends from the End of Time • interior artwork by Jill Riches
7 • Ancient Shadows • [Tales from the End of Time] • (1975) • novella by Michael Moorcock
49 • Pale Roses • [Tales from the End of Time] • (1974) • novelette by Michael Moorcock
99 • White Stars • [Tales from the End of Time] • (1975) • novelette by Michael Moorcock
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QUOTE….“ It is the color of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair, which flows below his shoulders, is milk-white. From the tapering, beautiful head stare two slanting eyes, crimson and moody, and from the loose sleeves of his yellow gown emerge two slender hands, also the color of bone”. Thus described by author Michael Moorcock in the first book, Elric of Melniboné
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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 ♪
BRIGHTON - ON : 105654
Built 1903, by William Denny and Bros, Dumbarton (Yard # 683) as BRIGHTON
GRT : 1129 / DWT : ??
Overall Length : 83.4 metres x Beam 10.4 metres.
Machinery : 3 shafts each driven by a Parsons Steam Turbine manufactured by Parsons Marine Turbine Co. Ltd., Newcastle
Speed : 21.0 knots
History POR = Port of Registry
1903: BRIGHTON : London, Brighton & South Coast Railway Co : POR Newhaven
1910: Brighton collided with the German five-masted ship Preussen. The Preussen was badly damaged in the initial collision and, when being brought back to port by a tug, was caught in a November storm that broke both anchor chains and led to the ship sinking. The Master of the SS Brighton was found culpable for the collision and eventually committed suicide in a London pub.
1914: Converted into a troopship.
1915: Converted into a hospital Ship with capacity for 140 casualties. During her period as a hospital ship, she made 973 voyages and carried 122,636 sick and wounded men.
1920: Returned to owners and returned to service on the Newhaven – Dieppe route.
1923: BRIGHTON : Southern Railway: POR Newhaven
1930: ROUSSALKA : Walter E. Guinness, Lord Moyne : POR Newhaven
1930: Converted into a private yacht. Steam turbines were replaced by 2 x 8 Cylinder Atlas diesels on 2 shafts. One of her two funnels was removed. Speed reduced to 15 knots (max).
1933: 25 August : Wrecked after hitting Blood Slate Rock, Freaklin Island after leaving Killary Harbour in fog. The vessel slipped off the rock and sank in deep water. Lord Moyne, guests and crew escaped the sinking vessel safely.
BRIGHTON taken from a postcard as the vessel leaves Dieppe.
Ship Details : Miramar / www.clydeships.co.uk / Book : Hospital Ships by Plumridge.
Captain Scott's ill-fated South Pole 'Terra Nova' Expedition 1910 - 1913.
The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. It was led by Robert Falcon Scott and had various scientific and geographical objectives. Scott wished to continue the scientific work that he had begun when leading the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic in 1901–04. He also wanted to be the first to reach the geographic South Pole. He and four companions attained the pole on 17 January 1912, where they found that the Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen had preceded them by 34 days. Scott's entire party died on the return journey from the pole; some of their bodies, journals, and photographs were found by a search party eight months later.
The expedition, named after its supply ship, was a private venture, financed by public contributions augmented by a government grant. It had further backing from the Admiralty, which released experienced seamen to the expedition, and from the Royal Geographical Society. The expedition's team of scientists carried out a comprehensive scientific programme, while other parties explored Victoria Land and the Western Mountains. An attempted landing and exploration of King Edward VII Land was unsuccessful. A journey to Cape Crozier in June and July 1911 was the first extended sledging journey in the depths of the Antarctic winter.
For many years after his death, Scott's status as tragic hero was unchallenged, and few questions were asked about the causes of the disaster which overcame his polar party. In the final quarter of the 20th century the expedition came under closer scrutiny, and more critical views were expressed about its organization and management. The degree of Scott's personal culpability, and more recently, the culpability of certain expedition members, remains controversial.
The Calcutta Test was originally planned as the final match of the India-Pakistan series. But once the idea of the Asian Championship was accepted, it became the new tournament's inaugural game. It drew immense crowds, but ended in near silence, watched by a few officials, VIPs, journalists and police, after the crowd was forcibly expelled because of a riot.
In fact, there were two riots. The first, the previous afternoon, began when Tendulkar was run out. Then, on the last morning, with India on the brink of defeat at 231 for nine, spectators started burning newspapers in the stands and hurled stones, fruit and plastic bottles on to the field. The match was held up for over three hours as about 65,000 people were removed by police and security men. The trouble was unpleasantly reminiscent of the riot which ended India's World Cup semi-final at Calcutta in March 1996. Then Sri Lanka were awarded the game by default. This time, play eventually resumed; Pakistan swiftly claimed the last wicket to complete victory. But the incident deeply embarrassed the Calcutta authorities.
Miraculously, no one was reported killed, and the only person injured appeared to be a member of the ground staff, hit on the ankle by a stone. The crowd's anger was still concentrated on Tendulkar's run-out, but there was little viciousness in the riot; it was born of disappointment rather than anti-Pakistan feeling. There was no sign of violence outside the ground.
This had been the best-attended Test in history. For the first four days, the ground was full. Though there are no official attendance figures at Calcutta, that is now believed to mean about 100,000 people. On the last day, the ground was about two-thirds full even though only four wickets were left to fall, suggesting a total attendance of around 465,000.
Yet when the game resumed after the trouble - only ten balls were needed for Pakistan to wrap up victory - the paying spectators had gone, leaving perhaps just 200 people and creating an atmosphere even deader than the average county game. One well-dressed couple resisted the original attempts to expel them from the ground. They stayed in their seats, asserting their right to remain, and were still there just as play was about to restart. Then around 50 police descended on them and manhandled them out of the stadium.
Pakistan's win was an extraordinary achievement. On the opening day, they elected to bat on a seaming pitch, and collapsed to 26 for six in nine overs from Srinath and Prasad. Moin Khan resisted stubbornly for three and a half hours to repair the damage, partnered by Salim Malik and Wasim Akram. They pushed the score up to 185 - enough for one batting point, under the bonus point system being employed; India must have expected far more at 147 for two in reply. But they wilted so swiftly that they managed only 223, just 38 runs ahead, and two short of a second batting point. Their downfall began when the fiery Shoaib Akhtar bowled Dravid and Tendulkar with successive balls. Ramesh, fast becoming a pillar of the Indian batting, finally succumbed to Wasim for 79; his subsequent dissent earning him a suspended one-match ban.
The third day belonged to two men who recorded career-best Test performances - Saeed Anwar and Srinath. Later, referee Cammie Smith gave them the match award jointly. Anwar became the third Pakistani to carry his bat through a Test innnings, following father and son Nazar Mohammed and Mudassar Nazar. He batted for seven and a half hours, hit 23 fours and a six, and scored 188 - single-handedly beating his team's previous innings, when he mad a duck, and contributing 60 per cent of a total of 316. It was also the highest Test score by a Pakistani on Indian soil. His only significant ally was Yousuf Youhana, who helped him add 115 in 139 minutes. But after Srinath dismissed Youhana and Shahid Afridi with successive deliveries, Pakistan declined. Srinath took six in nine overs with the new ball, finishing with eight for 86, and 13 for 132 in the match.
That left India to chase 279. They had a good start when Ramesh and Laxman opened with 108. But after these two had departed, there occurred the incident which wrecked India's chances - and Eden Gardens' reputation. Tendulkar had just taken two runs - incidentally completing 5,000 in Tests - and was returning for a third when substitute Nadeem Khan hit the stumps from deep mid-wicket. Tendulkar had collided with Akhtar, who was waiting for the throw, and failed to ground his bat; third umpire K. T. Francis ruled him out. Angry spectators decided Akhtar was culpable, and threw bottles and rubbish at the Pakistanis. Play was halted for more than an hour, while Tendulkar and ICC president Jagmohan Dalmiya appealed for calm. On resuming, Dravid, his concentration broken, gloved a catch, and Azharrudin also fell soon after passing 6,000 Test runs. By the close, India required 65 for victory, with four wickets in hand. Wasim and Akhtar ended any hopes with three quick strikes, before the riot forced them to wait more than three hours for the last ten balls.
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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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TITLE: Total Eclipse
AUTHOR: John Brunner 1934-94
TYPE: paperback novel
PUBLISHER: DAW UY1193 No. 162
COVER PRICE: $1.25
ISBN:
PAGES:206
COPYRIGHT: 1974 by author
PUB DATE:September 1979
EDITION: 1st paperback; prior HB & SFBC editions
COVER ARTIST: Christopher Foss
ISFDB: Yes verified
COMMENTS:
"First Printing, September 1975"
Full number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
DAW Books No. 162; UY1193 on the cover; 451-UY1193-125 on the spine.
The interior art piece is not credited but has Gaughan's "JG" on it.
INDEX: 0214 - Total Eclipse - 27 - JB - IFB
QUOTE “Yew want to know what the reel horror is, hey? Wal, it”s this- it ain’t what thern fish devils haz done, but it’s what they’re a-goin’ to do! They’re a-bringin’ things up aout o’ whar they come from into the taown….ever hear tell of a shoggoth?” p73….. From The Shadow Out of Time by Howard P. Lovecraft
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RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
NO entry: indicates specific information not available from book.
He decidido subir ésta foto porque cuando la hice me impactó la escena, me impactó el personaje.
El va desaliñado y como si no hubiera visto una ducha en meses, sin embargo limpia cuidadosamente la lechuga con la que se preparará una ensalada........que paradoja no?
Pues no....no lo es, que limpie su comida de esa forma es un claro signo de que ha recibido la suficiente educación como para que sepa que si no lo hace puede enfermar gravemente.
Su aspecto exterior es una mera circunstancia de la vida , quizas del destino,quizas de una mala jugada o una enfermedad mental.
El vagabundo de mi pueblo se llama Pepe, si........obviamente no es el único, pero allí los conocemos a todos por su nombre......a lo que iba: este hombre era acomodador de la sala de cine y vivía bien .
Nuestros mayores siempre cuentan que Pepe era el galán de la ciudad y que todas las chicas le presumían , cosa que no dudo porque hoy en día se adivina una cara bonita debajo de toda esa piel curtida por la intemperie.
Hoy Pepe no es el hombre que algún día fué por culpa de una enfermedad, la culpable de que la familia desistiera de convivir con él ó viceversa, da igual:
Síndrome de Diógenes
Pero más allá de todo es un excelente tipo, y el día que se muera se paralizará la ciudad para ir a su velatorio.
A veces cuesta un poco no dejarse dominar por la primera impresión, pero nunca es tarde para aprender a hacerlo.
El Facebook de Pepe: www.facebook.com/search/?q=pepe+alta+gracia&init=quic...
I have decided to upload this photo because when I did it , the scene shocked me, the personage too
He looks as if he had not seen a shower in months, nevertheless clean carefully the lettuce with which he will prepare a salad to eat ........ is a paradox isn't it?
Well, is not .... it is not because cleans his meal of this form it is a clear sign that it has received the sufficient education as so that it is known that if it does not do it it can fall ill seriously.
His exterior aspect is a mere circumstance of the life, perhaps of the destination, perhaps of a bad move or a mental illness.
The name of the vagabond of my town is Pepe, ........ obviously it is not the only one, but there we meet all of them for his name ...... to what I was going: this man was an usher of the room of cinema and he was living well.
Our major they always tell that Pepe was the lady's man of the city and that all the girls were presuming him, thing that I do not doubt because nowadays clairvoyant a nice face under all this skin tanned by the outdoors.
Today Pepe is not the man that any day was through the fault of an illness, the culprit of that the family was desisting from coexisting with ó vice versa, it does not matter:
Syndrome of Diógenes
But beyond everything it is an excellent guy, and the day that dies will paralyze the city to go to his wake.
Sometimes it is difficult not to allow to dominate a little for firstly impression, but it is never late to learn how to do it.
Pepe´s facebook : www.facebook.com/search/?q=pepe+alta+gracia&init=quic...
The Lotto ticket, The Breaking Bad Finale at Cadillac Lounge, Toronto © Linda Dawn Hammond / IndyFoto.com 2013
SPOILER ALERT
Like many others, I've been in the grip of a particular TV series for years now, which arrived at its climax this past Sunday. Not wanting to face the finale of "Breaking Bad" alone, I headed to the Cadillac Lounge. As it happened, I ended up watching it on a small TV screen above the bar, as their "big screen" was peppered with dead pixels, much as if someone had sneezed cocaine over it.. The place was dead quiet but we nevertheless strained to catch the dialogue. Anticipating the problem, I had asked the barman to put on my TV's subtitles.
It went down largely as I'd anticipated and hoped. I wanted Jesse to survive. Skyler and family as well. Walter was destined to die one way or another, and I was fine with it. I predict my son won't share this view as he was routing for Walter White, despised Jesse's "weakness' and like many viewers out there, wished all kinds of ill on Skyler the "bitch" wife, who inevitably saw through Walt's deceptions and demanded accountability. See "I Have a Character Issue"
By ANNA GUNN for her insights into a certain segment of the public's hatred of strong female characters. www.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/opinion/i-have-a-character-iss...;
In the scene in this image, Marie's phoned Skyler to warn her that Walt's been sighted in the vicinity. From this, we can anticipate that the 2 sisters will eventually reconcile. As she hangs up and the camera pans, we realize he is already present in the room. Skyler greets the visit with skepticism and mixed emotions. Her family's safety has been threatened by drug dealers and DEA alike. She's endured so many lies and deception from Walt in the past, and been drawn in far too deeply. If Walt's skill and passion was chemistry, hers was accounting, which she took to with growing enthusiasm when he required her specific talent to "launder" the drug money. Walt had tried to deflect all culpability towards himself in a previous phone call (and episode) to Skyler. Made in full expectation that the DEA were listening in, he had established her as an unwitting, unwilling victim of his alter ego, the monstrous, murderous tyrant and drug lord, Heisenberg. Shady lawyer Saul had advised Walt to hand himself in rather than going on the lam, as he knew the DEA would continue to look towards Skyler if they couldn't get their hands on either him, the missing DEA members or the drug money. Walt however still has an agenda, and it doesn't include jail. Uncle Jack and the Aryan brotherhood had ignored Walt's pleas to spare Hank's life, even after Walt had revealed that the GPA coordinates to the site in the desert also led to his money, all of which he offered up in exchange. The neo-nazis nevertheless executed his brother in law and DEA partner, AND stole the bulk of his stashed drug money, leaving Walt one remaining barrel of cash and an uncomfortable handshake, in return for sparing his life and to establish complicity in the murders. He intended to get it back, "for the family" of course, as “Then and only then am I through.”
In that scene, Walt had then spotted Jesse cowering under the car following the DEA shoot-out and betrayed him to the Brotherhood, saying he was owed his death. Did he anticipate they would spare it and rather enslave him to produce blue meth? It seems unlikely. I wonder why he chose that moment to reveal to Jesse that he had been instrumental in the overdose death of his girlfriend, Jane. It was a blow intended to demoralize Jesse further, but for what purpose? Revenge for ratting to the DEA, or did he also personally blame him for the death of Hank, as Jesse (with the DEA) had lured Walt to his desert stash by suggesting he had found it and was in the process of burning his money. In a frantic fury, Walt had been tricked into leading the DEA to the location, and thinking it only Jesse, had in turn sent for the Nazis to come rescue him. By the time he realized it included Hank, he had lost the power to change the course.
Now, in pursuit of his ultimate agenda, Walt has come to make his final good-byes, offer more excuses and provide his wife with yet another "Get out of Jail" card. He gives her a lotto ticket with numbers that now reveal the GPS coordinates to the desert grave of Hank and Gomez rather than the site of his drug money stash, for her to use as an additional bargaining chip with the DEA. He tells her who was responsible for their deaths, not including himself.
She stops Walt before he can offer up one last excuse for his transgressions.
“If I have to hear one more time that you did this for the family...” but on this occasion he surprises her, and likely himself, with the truth. “I did it for ME... I liked it. I was GOOD at it. I was alive.”
And that moment of revelation and honesty breathes new life into Skylar's character. Actress Anna Gunn, describing the scene during a discussion following the finale, said, “She was waiting so long... and became such a shell of a person." This released her, like a long awaited sigh. She allowed him to say farewell to baby Holly, and he watches his now estranged son enter the house, but from a distance. He has lost the love of his family, and they no longer need him.
For Walt too, the admission allows him to free himself for the final scene, where all obsessions, aspirations, hatreds and perhaps the only love he has remaining, culminate as temperature and ingredients fuse in a final cook.
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You will hear the screams; much as #We heard the screams of #BattlestarColumbia, above (#StarOfCoruscant #Hoth) the "ice planet."
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❄️🌐💍🔘https://youtu.be/Vt74HoJtbuw
#Owlephant
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--WRW
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