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Swedish music stars who deceased at age 67
Here are 12 famous musicians from Sweden died at 67:
Ingrid Bergman (August 29, 1915 Stockholm-August 29, 1982 Chelsea) was a Swedish actor. She had four children, Pia Lindström, Isabella Rossellini, Ingrid Rossellini and Renato Roberto Giusto Giuseppe Rossellini.
She died in breast cancer.
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Erik Abrahamsson
Erik Abrahamsson (January 28, 1898 Södertälje-May 19, 1965) was a Swedish personality.
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Monica Zetterlund
Monica Zetterlund (September 20, 1937 Hagfors-May 12, 2005 Stockholm) a.k.a. Monika Zetterlund, Monica Z, Eva Monica Nilsson or Zetterlund, Monica was a Swedish singer and actor. Her child is called Eva-Lena Zetterlund.
Related albums: Monicas bästa, Det bästa med Monica Zetterlund, Den sista jäntan, Gyllene blad ur Monicas dagbok, It Only Happens Every Time, Make Mine Swedish Style, Monica Z, Sakta vi gå genom stan, Volym ett - More Than You Know (1957-1959) and Diamanter (disc 2: It Only Happens Every Time) (feat. The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra). Genres she performed include Vocal jazz.
She died caused by smoke inhalation.
Read more about Monica Zetterlund on Wikipedia »
Gustaf de Laval
Gustaf de Laval (May 9, 1845 Orsa Municipality-February 2, 1913 Stockholm) also known as Karl Gustaf Patrik de Laval was a Swedish engineer, inventor and businessperson.
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Einar Thulin
Einar Thulin (April 21, 1896-October 20, 1963) was a Swedish personality.
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Axel Persson
Axel Persson (January 23, 1888-September 2, 1955) a.k.a. Axel Wilhelm Persson was a Swedish personality.
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Tor Johnson (October 19, 1903 Kalmar-May 12, 1971 San Fernando) a.k.a. Tor Johansson, The Super Swedish Angel, Thor Johnson or Karl Oscar Tore Johansson was a Swedish actor and wrestler. He had one child, Karl Johnson.
He died in heart failure.
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Artur Hazelius
Artur Hazelius (November 30, 1833 Stockholm-May 27, 1901 Stockholm) was a Swedish teacher.
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Bo Holmberg
Bo Holmberg (November 17, 1942 Härnösand-February 11, 2010) was a Swedish politician.
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Carl Gustaf von Rosen
Carl Gustaf von Rosen (August 19, 1909 Södermanland-July 13, 1977 Ethiopia) was a Swedish pilot.
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Victoria of Baden
Victoria of Baden (August 7, 1862 Karlsruhe-April 4, 1930 Rome) was a Swedish personality. She had three children, Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland.
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Henric Schartau
Henric Schartau (September 27, 1757 Malmö Municipality-February 3, 1825 Lund) was a Swedish personality.
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KHARTOUM, PALESTINOW.COM — After 30 years, Omar al-Bashir's reign ended almost the same way it started.
Sudan's long-time president seized power in a military coup on June 30, 1989, and stayed in office until April 11, 2019, when he was overthrown and arrested by the armed forces.
Al-Bashir had been taken to "a safe place," General Awad Ibn Auf said in an address to the nation on Thursday afternoon after declaring the "toppling of the regime".
But al-Bashir's downfall was brought about by thousands of ordinary Sudanese from all walks of life who took to the streets for four months to demand an end to the 75-year-old's rule.
The demonstrations – organised by doctors, teachers and lawyers, among others – erupted over rising food prices before morphing into broader demands for political change, the culmination of years of anger over long-standing corruption and repression.
Dozens of people have been killed in protest-related violence since the start of the pro-democracy demonstrations.
Over the course of his time in office, al-Bashir led Sudan through several conflicts and became wanted by an international war crimes tribunal for alleged atrocities in Darfur. He was also the last man to lead a united Sudan, prior to South Sudan's independence in 2011.
Al-Bashir was born into a peasant family in 1944, in Hosh Wad Banaqa, northern Sudan, which until independence in 1955 was part of the Kingdom of Egypt and Sudan. After finishing high school in the capital, Khartoum, he enrolled in a military academy in Egypt in 1960. In 1973, he was part of the Sudanese units that were sent to Egypt to fight in the Arab-Israeli war.
In 1975, he was appointed as the military attache in the United Arab Emirates. Upon returning to Sudan, he was appointed garrison commander and in 1981 he became the head of an armoured parachute brigade. In the mid-1980s, he had a central role in the armed forces' campaign in the south of Sudan in the civil war against the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army.
As a colonel in the Sudanese military, al-Bashir was well positioned to lead a bloodless military coup in 1989 against Sadiq al-Mahdi, the prime minister of a democratically elected government.
Al-Bashir was subsequently appointed chairman of the Revolutionary Command Centre for National Salvation (RCC), which was established as a "transitional" government.
Having allied with Hassan al-Turabi, the speaker of the Sudanese parliament and head of the National Islamic Front, al-Bashir dissolved parliament, banned political parties and went on to introduce Islamic law.
The mainly animist and Christian southern Sudan rejected the introduction of the new legal system, and the decades-long north-south civil war intensified.
In 1993, al-Bashir abolished the RCC and appointed himself president of Sudan, but retained military rule.
Three years later, Sudan held presidential and parliamentary elections, and al-Bashir, running completely unopposed for president, won with 75 percent of the vote. He would eventually legalise the registration of political parties in 1999.
Later that year, al-Bashir removed Turabi, who had grown increasingly close to Muslim political groups unpopular in the West, from his post as parliament speaker and had him imprisoned.
In 2000, al-Bashir was re-elected after winning 90 percent of a popular vote in an election described as a sham by the opposition.
Al-Bashir was the only serving head of state to be indicted for war crimes.
The leader and several senior ministers in his cabinet have been criticised for what the United Nations has called "ethnic cleansing" in the western province of Darfur, home to a number of non-Arab tribes who rebelled against the government in 2003.
The tribes of Darfur accused al-Bashir's administration of siding with Arab tribes in a decades-old fight over scarce resources among the province's communities.
The UN estimates that between 200,000 and 400,000 people have died in the conflict, with a further 2.7 million displaced. But al-Bashir's government claimed that the UN, influenced by Western powers, had exaggerated the numbers.
In June 2008, the International Criminal Court (ICC) charged Bashir with war crimes and crimes against humanity in connection with the ongoing attacks against Darfur's non-Arab ethnic groups. The ICC has since issued two arrest warrants against him.
Despite the arrest warrants, al-Bashir has visited several countries including Syria, Ethiopia, Libya, Qatar, Egypt and South Africa.
In 2010, al-Bashir was re-elected with roughly 68 percent of the vote. The opposition, however, alleged fraud and election observers said the polls did not meet international standards.
The following year, southern Sudanese citizens overwhelmingly backed splitting from the north in a referendum, which led to the creation of the world's youngest country.
The 2011 secession of South Sudan deprived Sudan of the majority of its oil revenues and stoked spiralling inflation and widespread shortages.
As a result, opposition groups and ordinary citizens increasingly began expressing their anger with the inability of al-Bashir's government to address their grievances, improve economic conditions and introduce political reforms.


I'm very hard working I always like doing big projects in minecraft. I usually make a slime farm or something that requires a lot of time because I just like to unwind and play. I just use minecraft to relax and have a good time. In my book school comes first so I will always put aside games if I have a test or something due. I've been playing for a while and I've joined a lot of communities that have fallen apart within 2 weeks so I'm looking for something more stable. I tried to start my own server to see if I could fix it but I couldn't. I just want a fun community to play minecraft, nothing complicated no drama or anything that gets people yelling at each other. I like donating stuff to builds and such because I like to be more in the background.
What do you wish to bring to the server?
Do you have any goals?: I wish to bring a fun personality that makes too many bad dad jokes even though I'm not a dad. I like building so I want to try to make a city. I like trying to combine function and beauty so I want to make some farms that also look nice. I'm not too good at redstone I just follow tutorials but I have the basics down. My goal is just to have fun and to get to know more people and be able to play minecraft with them. I'm more motivated when I'm playing with others because I can see their progress so it pushes me to make more progress and more builds.
My favorite thing to do is build because I'm always trying to get better. I have some on and off days where either the builds come easily to me and I can get a whole idea within an hour or so and there are other days when I just can't build and I just focus on mining or making farms. I like to try to push myself out of my comfort zone while building with experimenting with new blocks or staying away from using wood. I started off building by terraforming so I want to try to terraform my base and make it look nice. My trees need more work though.
Thanks for reading my application!
Tell us a bit about yourself: I'm very blunt and straight to the point. I can sometimes be extremely talkative, or other times I can be mostly silent. I've been wanting to find a decent SMP server, quite hard with 99% of servers nowadays being giant network servers with illegal donation rewards. The only good option left is small, community driven servers, like this one.
What do you wish to bring to the server? Do you have any goals?: I'm a techie. You want farms/fast traveling/other weird things? I got you covered. That's my specialty. As for goals, there is no goal in Minecraft. Esoteric answer, I know. Though, if I had to name something, I'm that kind of person that loves to automate everything, or add a bunch of luxurious features to basic concepts. In fact, I spent the last 40 minutes making a TNT cannon with a bunch of barely useful features, like an "anti self-destruction mechanism".
What is your favorite thing to do in-game?: Once more, I like to tinker with things. I have been away from a decent multiplayer experience for so long, that I honestly don't remember. Building mob farms is probably my #1 thing to do in the game, though. Watching old YTers like Kiershar make their farms is one of the main reasons I got into Minecraft, I think. If you're familiar with Kiershar's designs, you'll likely see some influence in my own.
I know this may be a really bare bones application, but I'd rather give it to you straight and simple, instead of bloating it.
Tell us a bit about yourself: I've been playing Minecraft since I was 10 and am still heaps into the game. I'm looking to join a multiplayer server and join a community of people who enjoy the game as much as me.
What do you wish to bring to the server? Do you have any goals?: I don't have any personal goals, but I'm good with farming and mining, as well as many other aspects of the game. So, whatever the community needs, I'll be onto it.
What is your favorite thing to do in-game?: I like to build unique bases or buildings. Creating structures that haven't been seen or that are outside the box.
My name is Ken. I'm a 25 year old guy living in Tennessee of USA. I work as an IT Supervisor at a school system and absolutely love my job. You'll find me mountain biking or playing hockey during my free time, but my favorite hobby is definitely working with PCs and playing games. I started Minecraft back in October of 2010 right before the nether was released and I've been playing it since. It's been about a year or so since I've last played, so I'm very eager to get back into it!
My vibe is pretty relaxed and humorous. I'll probably be sticking to myself when it comes to building, but I'll be decently active in chat. My only real 'goal' is to get back into detailed building and put together a decent little town. I'm not much for massive grandiose buildings; instead I prefer to build lots of individual detailed standard size buildings.
Mining and Building. I love having huge, never ending strip mines. And I love coming back to the surface with a beautiful town all around me.
Tell us a bit about yourself: I have been playing Minecraft since 2012. SMP is by far my favorite gamemode and I thoroughly enjoy playing with small communities. I currently run my own servers but rarely take the time to actually play the game. I would love to get the opportunity to play on a whitelisted server.
What do you wish to bring to the server? Do you have any goals?: I just want to enjoy my time here and make the server a better place for other players, however that may be. I'd love to make my mark and build something people can remember.
What is your favorite thing to do in-game?: Explore!
Tell us a bit about yourself: I've been playing this game for almost a decade and still love it to this day, so i'm looking for a cool comunity to just have fun in.
What do you wish to bring to the server? Do you have any goals?: a good vibe and fun.
What is your favorite thing to do in-game?: Build secret homes.


The letter D is similar to the Semitic letter daleth and the Greek letter delta. People think the letter derives from an early pictogram possibly of Egyptian origin which resembles the folding door of a tent.
So next time you're in a debacle about how to spell a word beginning with the letter "D", and you don't have a dictionary nearby, be sure to consult this list.


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Comedian Adam Carolla With 'Not Taco Bell Material' at The Newton Theatre
Posted on November 4, 2015 by The Newton Theatre in Entertainment/Arts, Press Releases, The Newton Theatre // 0 Comments
Adam Carolla. Image courtesy of The Newton Theatre.
Newton, NJ – Comedian Adam Carolla will perform at The Newton Theatre on Sunday, January 17th at 8:00 pm. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, November 6th at 11:00 am.
Not Taco Bell Material is a New York Times Best Seller and now a one man show written and performed by Adam Carolla about growing up poor in Southern California's San Fernando Valley. Told as a succession of hilarious stories, Adam recounts his awkward childhood and teenage years through the many absurd family episodes that shaped his extraordinarily dysfunctional upbringing. Pulling no punches, Adam exposes with pictures and video the ridiculousness of his 60's era Hippy parents raising their kids on good vibes, top ramen and government cheese.
Adam Carolla is best known as a comedian, actor, radio personality, television host and NY Times best-selling author. He currently hosts The Adam Carolla Show, which holds the Guinness Book of World Records for "most downloaded podcast", and stars on Spike TV's Catch a Contractor. His latest book, Daddy Stop Talking, was released in May 2015 from Harper Collins Publishing.
Adam started The Adam Carolla Show podcast with only a computer and a microphone from his home office in February 2009, going on to receive more than 20 million downloads a month. His immediate success prompted Adam to launch an online network known as Carolla Digital in February 2010 which produces many of iTunes' top podcast programming.
Adam became a New York Times best-selling author when his book In 50 Years We'll All Be Chicks topped the charts for ten weeks. The audio version went straight to the #1 on iTunes. He has since released two other New York Times Best Selling Books, Not Taco Bell Material and President Me.
Adam began his career on the nationally syndicated radio program Loveline with Dr. Drew Pinsky. MTV developed a television version of the show, which was co-hosted by Adam and Dr. Drew for five seasons (1996-2000). Adam co-created (with his partner Daniel Kellison, and Jimmy Kimmel) and starred in two hit Comedy Central shows, The Man Show (1999-2003) and Crank Yankers (2002-2005).
A native of Southern California, Adam currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Lynette and their twins.
Tickets for Adam Carolla range from $39.00 to $64.00. Purchase tickets by visiting www.thenewtontheatre.com or contact the Box Office at 973-383-3700.
The historic Newton Theatre, located at 234 Spring Street in Newton, NJ, was founded in 1924. Revitalized and fully renovated, Sussex County's premier entertainment venue reopened in 2011 as a 605 seat capacity live performing arts center. With it's rich history and diverse programming The Newton Theatre is essential to the buoyancy of New Jersey's Skylands region. More information about The Newton Theatre may be found by calling 973-383-3700 or by visiting its website at www.TheNewtonTheatre.com.
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> Stocks plunge following Moderna CEO's gloomy predictions
Stocks plunge following Moderna CEO's gloomy predictions
Stéphane Bancel stressed risks involved in switching production to Omicron-focused vaccine, even as Pfizer CEO gave a more upbeat assessment, promising that a new vaccine could be ready within 100 days.
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Markets fell again on Tuesday following comments from the CEO of vaccine producer Moderna, suggesting that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus was likely to prove at least somewhat resilient to existing vaccines.
Markets had been picking up following dramatic plunges last Friday, after news broke of Omicron's discovery – which caused the Dow to fall over 900 points and the FTSE 100 266 points. On Tuesday, futures tied to the Dow fell as much as 500 points at one stage before recovering a little; the FTSE fell another 75 points, and the Hong Kong stock index closed at its lowest level in over a year.
The stock jitters were occasioned by the publication of an interview in the Financial Times, in which Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said that the company needed another two weeks to assess its vaccine's efficacy against the Omicron strain, and cautioned that, "There is no world, I think, where [efficacy] is the same level … we had with Delta."
Noting the large number of mutations the new variant has on the spike protein, on which the vaccine is based, Bancel predicted a "material drop" in efficacy.
He added that if the vaccine was found to be far less effective, it would take several months to tweak it as necessary, and stressed that the decision to switch production to an Omicron-focused vaccine was not an easy one to take. He explained that there was significant risk involved in focusing solely on Omicron and moving away from other, highly prevalent variants (primarily Delta), and suggested that a better strategy might be to give more potent boosters to the elderly or those with compromised immune systems.
Albert Bourla, Pfizer's CEO, was more upbeat when interviewed by CNBC. "Look, I'm concerned," he said, "But we have been preparing for this … If the vaccines protect less, we need to create a new vaccine. On Friday we already started; we made our first DNA template which is the first part of the manufacturing process of a new vaccine, and we have made it clear multiple times that we will be able to have a vaccine in less than 100 days.
"In fact," he continued, "we have already built two vaccines in less than 100 days. We built one for Delta that we didn't end up using, because the current vaccine is very effective against Delta. We also built one for Beta which we also didn't have to use; and now, we're going to build one for Omicron that will only be used if we need it, if we see that the current vaccine doesn't work."
Bourla stressed, however, that he believed that, "Three doses of the current vaccine will keep us well protected … I don't know if it will be equally effective at 95-plus percent against the Omicron. But I will be very surprised if we are very, very, very low."
With regard to the future, the Pfizer CEO predicted that annual vaccinations would be the most likely scenario, "for multiple reasons: because of immunity that will be waning; because of the virus that I'm sure will be maintained around the world for years to come; and also because of variants that will emerge. I'm more confident right now that this will be the case than I was when I originally made the projection. I think we are going to have an annual revaccination, and that should be able to keep us really safe."
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US to distribute N95 masks for free
WHO: No need to give booster shots to the under-18s


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package armdatabricks_test

import (
	"context"
	"log"

	"github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azidentity"
	"github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/resourcemanager/databricks/armdatabricks"
)

// Generated from example definition: https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/tree/main/specification/databricks/resource-manager/Microsoft.Databricks/preview/2021-04-01-preview/examples/OutboundNetworkDependenciesEndpointsList.json
func ExampleOutboundNetworkDependenciesEndpointsClient_List() {
	cred, err := azidentity.NewDefaultAzureCredential(nil)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("failed to obtain a credential: %v", err)
	}
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := armdatabricks.NewOutboundNetworkDependenciesEndpointsClient("11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111", cred, nil)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("failed to create client: %v", err)
	}
	res, err := client.List(ctx,
		"myResourceGroup",
		"myWorkspace",
		nil)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("failed to finish the request: %v", err)
	}
	// TODO: use response item
	_ = res
}

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It Runs in the Family: Vancouver Premiere
July 16, 2016 July 16, 2016 davidwaynengLeave a comment
We recently spoke with Vancouver based filmmaker Joella Cabalu about her film It Runs in the Family – a film about her own family's story about being Filipino immigrants in Canada, and their relationships to the queer people in their lives.
It Runs in the Family is premiering at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival:
Tuesday, August 16 at 9 pm, International Village
Tickets available starting July 14:
http://queerfilmfestival.ca/films/it-runs-in-the-family/
1) "It Runs in the Family" – why the title, and what inspired you to go on this journey with your brother?
Coming up with an intriguing title that captures the story and spirit of the film and catches people's attentions is such a challenge! I had a placeholder title during the development and production of the film, but the current title came during an editing session. I had previously talked to a friend about the film and she suggested IRITF. It was in the back of my mind and I relayed it to my editor Alexandra Marriott. When I met with Alex the following day for an edit session, she had cut the title into the opening sequence and we (myself, producer Cari Green, Alex) all had the same "aha" moment! It's a bit tongue-in-cheek but also intrigues audiences into thinking what "it" could be!
The idea for the film sparked in my mind when I watched the documentary "For the Bible Tells Me So". Jay had recently come out to me and this film portrayed five American Christian families and how they each dealt with the coming out of their child. But I noticed that out of the five families only one was a family of colour, so it made me wonder what would that story look like for my own family – a Filipino immigrant family.
2) I love the premise of the film – a personal story of an immigrant family and their journey with the queer members of their own family. What surprised you about making a film about this topic, and what do you hope the film shares?
The film is cut in a way such that the audience is discovering things about our relatives just as Jay and I were learning about them. So one thing that I didn't expect going into filming was how constructs like "coming out" are perceived very differently in North America than in the Philippines. It challenged our ideas around the politics of "coming out" and I hope that sparks dialogue amongst the audiences as well.
3) The film has had an incredibly successful film festival run, and is now premiering home in Vancouver! What have been audience responses? What reactions have stood out in the festival run?
We had our US premiere at the Seattle Asian American Film Festival and that was the first time that the cast and crew watched the film together with an audience. And the response was absolutely incredible! We were actually awarded the Audience Choice Award! A common reaction to the film is that it's refreshing to see a positive representation of an Asian / Filipino family as accepting and loving of their LGBTQ family members. One audience member remarked that it's inspiring to know that these families exist!
Posted in ., asian, culture, queerTagged anti-oppression, gender, intersectionality, LGBT, LGBTQ, love, love intersections, queer, race, racism, Vancouver
The Politics of Sexy: Race, Trans, Love
July 13, 2016 davidwayneng1 Comment
We spoke with Kai Cheng Thom – Artist, Activist, Therapist, Performer – about her journey being queer, trans, Asian, her relationship with feminism, amongst many other things! Here is a sneak preview of the clip:
"[…] When we can talk about being loved, and when we can talk about loving our bodies, and loving other people's bodies outside of how much they are valued sexually – then we can talk about equality."
Posted in asian, queer, raceTagged anti-oppression, feminism, gay, gender, intersectionality, LGBT, LGBTQ, love intersections, queer, race, race and gender, trans, transgender, transphobia
June 12, 2016 June 12, 2016 davidwaynengLeave a comment
A few months ago, we spoke with Kira about her journey coming out, and she generously shared with us her life and her dreams. As a Trans* woman who came out and transitioned in adulthood, Kira explores some of the things she went through, and what it meant to come out later in life.
Posted in ., asian, culture, queer, raceTagged anti-oppression, asian, gender, intersectionality, LGBT, LGBTQ, love, queer, race, race and gender, trans, transgender, transphobia
Travelling Safety and Etiquette for POC's: The Fat Black Girl & Gay Chinese Boy Edition
The ability to access spaces – and the ability to then exist in those spaces in an entirely natural and joyful way, to fully participate in those spaces – has often been a privilege I have had to do battle for.
August 25, 2015 davidwayneng8 Comments
David and Nomonde recently travelled to Bali, and reflected together on some experiences travelling as racialized bodies
David: Nomonde is one of my dearest friends in the world – since we met in 2010 w hile we were both studying at the University of Cape Town, we have become very close friends. Mondes is now living in Pretoria, and I'm back home in Vancouver, but every year or so, we make an effort to meet somewhere "half way" in the world to hang out, and travel together.
We recently visited Bali, Indonesia together, and something that we've had to talk about seriously – though we do (nervously) joke about – is that when we pick places to travel, we literally have to consider the likelihood of one of us getting lynched or gay bashed.
The reality is, that when me and Nomonde are together – whether it be in New York, Johannesburg, or Bali – we stand out, and often makes many situations unsafe. The negative attention that we receive ranges from awkward, judgmental stares, to literal public mockery (pointing and laughing).
I've also recognized that in many cases, especially when I'm with Nomonde, I have the ability to pass more than she does. My body, my skin, my accent, breeds a reaction sometimes, and while we have shared difficult traveling situations, I also recognize the differences in the challenges that both of us face.
When we are together, for example, people usually speak directly to me only – not to her. Servers will always hand me the bill, and not to Nomonde.
Luckily for us, we always manage to navigate these situations with humour…especially when people ask us if we are on our honeymoon! 🙂
Nomonde: The ability to access spaces – and the ability to then exist in those spaces in an entirely natural and joyful way, to fully participate in those spaces – has often been a privilege I have had to do battle for. Because of racial history, my class, education, the kind of work I do – many of the spaces I move in are very white spaces and I have often had to navigate those spaces with extreme caution. My fat black body is perceived as threatening by many white people. When I laugh, or talk, I'm told I'm fighting. When I express myself passionately with gestures, wide eyes and sincerity I am perceived to be angry. Perpetually angry. Eternally threatening. A big, fat, black freak in delicate white, light spaces.
Travelling with David, who I adore, and not just because he always makes me feel so safe, has only confirmed and re-emphasised how difficult it can be for non-white bodies to access spaces of leisure. From sitting in a restaurant in New York and being ignored for a solid 45 minutes until David sat down and a waiter arrived at our side seconds later, to wandering a night market in Bali (which shall henceforth be known as the Night-market of Horror) and being laughed, harassed and jeered at while just desperately clinging to some form of dignity, to the reminder that yes I am a person and I do not deserve to be treated this way. To having those spaces turn threatening and dangerous, which I have never experienced with David, not yet anyway. At home in South Africa while at concerts, restaurants and clubs with other black women I have often been physically threatened and attacked by white men 'defending' their girlfriends from the existence of fat black womanhood in spaces they perceive as just their own. I have been spat at, stoned, shoved and punched right in my own back yard because I am a black body 'trespassing' where I do not belong and so when it comes to venturing to new shores, particularly knowing and acknowledging that David and I are both highly visible as individuals and even more so as a pair, I do intense research about black and poc experiences of the places we are visiting.
We had a very interesting, and amusing, conversation in Bali after our surreal and ugly experience at the Night-market of Horror, about how white travellers often boast about 'getting to know the locals' and 'avoiding the touristy areas.' While for black and other poc moving in those 'authentic' spaces can very often spell extreme humiliation, if not actual physical danger, and those are simply not conversations that I hear when black women particularly speak of travelling and exploration.
I desperately want to end this on a positive note because travelling has been overwhelmingly positive for me. I am beyond privileged to have the money to see the world, to have had the education and access I have had when the majority of women who look like me and come from where I come from struggle daily for the bare minimum of life and I acknowledge that fact with immense gratitude and humility. I suppose I just want us all to remember that there are many ways to kill a person. Always remember the power and the joy that can come from genuinely seeing each other.
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Salute to the Sun: Illuminating Pain
May 19, 2015 July 25, 2015 Love IntersectionsLeave a comment
Yoga was a killer this morning.
I was a trembling, sweating wreck – you know that feeling when you're pushed to the limit and everything is straining but you're also all weirdly open and raw like you get with yoga.
And there was this moment with the sun on my back, just getting to that point of too hot and sweat dripping off of my nose and onto the mat and I realised, to my horror, that the knot of pain in my chest wasn't physical – it was cos I was ashamed of having to breathe heavily, of having to sweat and pant. I was ashamed of the exertion of my body and how very obviously difficult the poses and the moves were for my fat body. And that was just like some kind of cold shock to my insides cos I am body confident and I love my fat round self.
There are hard days and hurting days when people are shit to me and the world just feels like granite, but like 90% of the time when it comes to my physical being and how I move through the world – I'm awesome. So realising that – and waking to the fact that I avoid working out with others because I am not ok with sweating and trembling and appearing unable in non-private spaces – that wasn't fun.
The ugly, ouchie shit that still crawls out of my psyche sometimes is always a revelation. What I did, when I'd worked through that, was I deliberately unclenched. I gave up that knot of pain and shame. I unraveled it and by the end of that session I ached but only in my muscles – not in my soul.
Small victories y'all – even in battles I had no idea I was fighting.
Nomonde Mxhalisa
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Solidarity Building with Laverne Cox: A Meta Response to Jen Sung, David Ng, and Meghan Murphy
How do we form solidarity with fellow feminist perspectives that share similar oppression in this heap of stress? Do we completely locate oppression and critique it, or are there subtle differences? Is there perhaps a different lens of feminism that can be taken where contradictions, but ultimately, compassion and solidarity take place? Is there even a place where femininity is reclaimed and shown as self-empowering? Do we find understanding and compassion for the anger that some feminists share?
May 6, 2015 May 6, 2015 Andy Holmes1 Comment
Just because I am part of a collective of bodies doesn't mean I get to speak for, reason, argue – on behalf of that collective. Complexities make interesting narratives that shape our world. We are enriched by the stories of others whose differences teach us to be more open. I will always have limitations to what I know because I trust in the fundamental truth that I only know what I know, and don't know what I don't know. Until then, I learn to listen – and listen to learn.
-Jen Sung
I can't help but recall a moment I saw on The Tyra Banks show. She did a show on how racial perceptions effected attraction. There was one moment when she asked all the men on stage to stand beside the woman they fantasized about sexually. There were women of multiple races onstage. No one stood beside the black woman. She then asked who would you want to marry and take home to your family. Only another black man chose the black woman. Though I've experienced a lot of men who fantasize about me sexually there was something about this moment that felt real to me that I somehow identified with. I was kind of shocked that no one chose the black woman on one level but on another I wasn't. Even as men have sexually objectified me they have simultaneously devalued me. We know these two things can co-exist.
-Laverne Cox
The Beautiful thing I find about building solidarity is that I can become one without becoming the other. That is to say, I can embody the experiences that Laverne Cox faces, but I will never be Laverne Cox. I will never know what it feels like to face oppression for being trans*, for being black in midst of contemporary racism rooted in slavery, lynching, and dehumanization, and I will never know what it feels like to experience misogyny. For these reasons, I acknowledge the privilege I have in commenting about the issues of oppression Cox faces in Meghan Murphy's article without having to face the repercussions transgender black women face.
Yet how, do we facilitate dialogue and change about patriarchy and the objectification of women that Murphy talks about in her article? (http://feministcurrent.com/11632/laverne-coxs-objectified-body-empowers-no-one/)
Reiterating Jen Sung's eloquent writing, we can only observe and listen in some instances. Because when I see Laverne Cox posing naked, I see her in a liberated space, I see not just a woman, I hear a black woman who has fought her way to have autonomy of her body in a time and place that has literally killed trans women of colour. She embodies femininity, and that is what she is rejoicing, not patriarchal structures or the male gaze.
Paradoxically, I must remember that I cannot speak for others; I can only represent myself, and my inadvertent opinion regarding Laverne Cox's nude photo-shoot.
Because being a biracial gay man and my difficulties experienced through homophobia build bridges to the same fundamental gender-based discrimination women and trans* people face, of course, in nuanced ways, and that is why I listen in solidarity.
I want to continue to disprove myself, and continue to raise questions. Questions, with good intention I believe are essential. For as we transition in our evolving social settings, I think there is potential for misunderstanding regarding feminism. I can indeed call out social injustices, but when I read Meghan Murphy's article, "Laverne Cox's Objectified Body 'Empowers' No One", I felt this erasure of the experiences of trans women of colour. Who is to say that it empowers "no one"?
I question because of intersectionality, I question, because when a transgender woman of colour can pose naked in front of a camera and "subvert" oppression, I believe Cox is doing so.
As I respond to Jen's article, in response to David's articulation of Meghan Murphy's initial critique of Laverne Cox's nude photo-shoot, voices are shown, and voices are heard. I see a place where discussion is happening, and although disagreement can take place, I think it is beautiful how narratives can transcend our beliefs. When ultimately, we start dialogue to keep the fire fuelling the ever-evolving need for feminism, tolerance, respect, and love that Jen Sung, David Ng, and Meghan Murphy each approach in nuanced ways.
-Andy Holmes
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Reconstructing Gay Biracialism
I feel being mixed-race is an opportunity to interrogate how identities can be reconstructed, and envisioned into social change that mirrors the queer rights movement. When being mixed-race and gay challenges how I navigate my own sense of privilege within the queer community that has lacked acceptance, I can only think of where race and queerness intersect.
April 23, 2015 April 23, 2015 Love Intersections3 Comments
Being biracial and gay is an interesting mix. By being mixed-race, I challenge categorical thinking and normativity that is too often encountered in our lives:
"What's your race?" I'm asked.
"I'm half Chinese, English and a bit Scottish," I reply.
When my biracial identity is neither accepted culturally as White nor Asian, when I am indeed literally Asian and White by blood, I feel this sense of non-belonging:
"Oh, you don't speak Chinese?" I'm asked.
"No, but I wish I could," I reply.
And perhaps this sense of non-belonging is perpetuated by my failure to pick up Chinese as a kid, or maybe because non-belonging feels synonymous with being gay, sometimes. When our identity becomes our sense of security, when race is so often embodied as our sense of community, when being gay severs our relationships with others and ourselves:
"So, do you have a girlfriend?" I'm asked.
"Umhh…no…" I reply.
I remember being told that being gay was a choice that would put me on "the bottom of society," where I would find no success.
I can only think of how culture transforms our identities beyond race. I've noticed this insidious trend to normalize "gay culture" into something fathomable by the mainstream: the idealized body of an attractive, middle-upper class, cisgender white man who resonates images of power, authority, and acceptance (see this article). These images and identities that command respect contrast with the insecurity that "gay culture" has had to latch itself to. And in turn, much of what I feel I've had to embody as a gay individual has leaned towards this normalized, white, classed, "attractive" stereotyped fantasy.
I will never forget a quote by Fred Wah, a Canadian poet, who wrote about being mixed-race and his fear that his White privilege would make him become "not the target, but the gun." I'm writing this piece so that as a mixed-race subject, I can tackle the pervasive racism and normalization within the queer community.
Of course, I think it helps that my last name, Holmes, can create this immediate sense of whiteness on paper, but how would that be different if my last name was Wong, my mother's patriarchal name? Would people have an immediate change in expectation? Would something as trivial as a name convey different ideas about personality and culture? I think to an extent, I have autonomy over culture, but I don't over race. How people perceive "Hawaiian, Filipino, "White", "Asian", "mixed", Spanish, or however far or close people have been in guessing my "what are you?" will always portray immediate ideas from race that govern how people perceive me.
Yet, how, as individuals can we facilitate dialogue and movement surrounding this phenomenon? How do we start talking about race, gender, class, and the continuum of privilege and disprivilege when we are expected as a social justice movement to be focused solely on a singular issue? Is it tolerance, patience, respect, and understanding that are needed to understand each other from a privileged and marginalized vantage?
I think the answer lies within our lived experiences. I think back in history when interracial marriage was banned, when fears of miscegenation in post-colonial North America became a social threat. When homosexuality was greeted by the death penalty.
If anything, I feel being mixed-race is an opportunity to interrogate how identities can be reconstructed, and envisioned into social change that mirrors the queer rights movement. When being mixed-race and gay challenges how I navigate my own sense of privilege within the queer community that has lacked acceptance, I can only think of where race and queerness intersect. I think of how we can construct this façade to normalize "gay culture" within ourselves, and how we can connect historical racism to contemporary challenges faced within and beyond the gay community. Being mixed-race is a product of social change away from racism, and in turn, I see challenges within the queer community as an opportunity to connect in solidarity.
– Andy Holmes
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Love Intersections: The Philosophy, The Love!
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Why I'm an Activist
January 9, 2015 Love Intersections2 Comments
In the pain, difficulty, and trauma of living a life governed by the daily awareness of oppression for being queer, for being a person of colour on the outskirts of normativity comes this beautiful opportunity to taste the bittersweet potential of liberation.
In this poisonous state of oppression, I'm trying to find out what keeps me navigating my interest in queer rights activism despite the immense continuous negativity that fills within me for advocating such a contentious cause.
It's our annual family holiday dinner and I'm trying to explain what I'm studying in university; I say, "I'm taking a variety of courses, but I'm focusing on social justice". Usually the conversation ends there. Really, I mean to tell them I'm interested in queer theory, feminism, racial discrimination and the collective spheres of social inequality. But really, who wants to talk about taboo topics without entering a heated argument? I don't blame them though; these are complex issues and, after all, my mostly privileged family grants an innocent desensitization to what discrimination feels like.
Unlike some friends who pursue degrees in business, medicine, engineering – "respectable careers", I feel miniscule. I cannot count how many times I've heard from people, let alone myself, claim, "What can you even do with studying social justice?" It's a difficult question that I still have yet to find. But I will say this; there is no better feeling than finding someone who just understands what you're going through, someone who can feel and comfort you in a world deprived of accepting our identities.
I want to be someone who sees you in the darkness of oppression. There is something indescribable about the paradoxical pleasure of feeling pain for being marginalized. Those eyes that light up when you accept and acknowledge their pain, breathe with them, cry with them, hug them through the ravenous obstacles of life for being queer, for being victims of racial discrimination, for being victims of rape or whatever one may experience that leaves them on the lonely, desolate edges of society.
I want to finish the conversation by saying in the midst of negativity that activism deals with, there is positivity and hope. There is positivity in reassuring someone to break free from the constraints of their internalized fear. There is triumph to be found in places unimaginable. The limitations become endless, and in turn, the way we govern ourselves, treat each other, also becomes a more welcoming space.
My blood is rooted in my veins, reaching to form tributaries to find a confluence of equally important social causes that can be loved, acknowledged and manifested to form the bodies we live and govern ourselves in.
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29 Jun, 2015 in Uncategorized by craig
This Greville Janner interview has simply disappeared from the website of the Holocaust Educational Trust, "founding patron" Greville Janner, and from other such websites which used to host it. I can only now find it on my own blog and on a few places which copied it from my blog. It is an important interview for reasons which are very obvious if you read it.
I was taken up to the Kinderheim, to the Children's Home, where there were some sixty orphan children, most of whose lives had been saved by monasteries, by being out in the woods or by miracles in each case and they all spoke Yiddish and I didn't speak Yiddish and it was very difficult to talk to them but we knew some of the same songs so we sang together in Hebrew they knew and I knew the songs and then one of them said to me the first Yiddish words I've ever learnt , he said "Gavreal", which is Greville in Hebrew and (he) called me "Gavreal spishtie ping pong, ping pong" and he pushed back and forwards as though he was holding a ping pong bat so my first words in Yiddish were "ping pong" and I played Ping Pong with them and they taught me a few words of Yiddish and I found it such a moving experience that for the next eighteen months I went back to them every weekend…
The deletion is not acknowledged – the evidence has simply been quietly expunged. The irony of the Holocaust Educational Trust, which exists to keep alive the evidence of a dreadful crime, expunging evidence of crime which it finds inconvenient, does not need to be emphasised by me.
Janner's being Jewish was irrelevant to his being a paedophile. So was his being a Zionist. But he was not just any old Zionist. He was the acknowledged leader of Zionism in the UK. He was President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Vice President of the World Jewish Congress, he was Vice President of the Association for Jewish Youth, Vice President of the Jewish Leadership Council, President of the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women, on the Advisory Board of the Community Security Trust, Chairman of the Holocaust Educational Trust and Director of the United Jewish Israel Appeal.
These organisations were led by a man who was a predatory paedophile, yet they apparently feel no necessity to condemn his activities or to acknowledge what has happened, merely secretly deleting any particularly embarrassing references. It is like the attitude of the Catholic Church on paedophilia thirty years ago.
David Cameron, echoed by the corporate media, calls upon the millions of law-abiding Muslims in the UK to denounce and distance themselves from a few terrorist nutters with whom 99.99% of British Muslims have no connection anyway. That apparently is acceptable. But to ask that the Zionist and Jewish organisations denounce the long term criminal activities of the man who actually led those organisations, is portrayed as unacceptable racism.
This is a stinking double standard.
217 thoughts on "Destruction of Evidence"
Habbabkuk (la vita è bella) June 29, 2015 at 13:28
"But to ask that the Zionist and Jewish organisations denounce the long term criminal activities of the man who actually led those organisations, is portrayed as unacceptable racism."
Who has portrayed this as unacceptable racism?
Names of individuals and/or organisations, please, together with sources and, if possible, quotes.
Are you recording events or predicting them?
BTW and just to clarify : I have no problem with the idea that the organisations concerned should denounce Janner.
To think otherwise would be in contradiction with what I myslef sometimes request on this blog, namely that posters should condemn "x" or "y" or "z" and that their failure to do so is – to say the least – puzzling.
Ba'al Zevul June 29, 2015 at 13:46
"I don't care what bloody age they are," says Lord Janner. "These criminals should have been dealt with years ago."
http://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-features/82477/britain-full-people-%EF%AC%81ghting-hatred-we-are-lucky-live-here
Perhaps Lord Mendelsohn would know why the interview was removed?
http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-mendelsohn/4286
In addition to his impressive list of directorships, he was very close to Janner (in a nonsexual way, m'Lud) and is a trustee-director of the HET.
Miss Castello June 29, 2015 at 13:47
What can anyone add to that which is stated above, other than "silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer": (Muhammed Ali)
Kempe June 29, 2015 at 13:49
" These organisations were led by a man who was a predatory paedophile "
Sorry I must've missed something. Has he actually been found guilty of anything?
Daniel June 29, 2015 at 14:13
The point is though, they haven't. On the contrary, as Craig's commentary would seem to suggest, they appear to be rallying around him.
glenn_uk June 29, 2015 at 14:19
Kemp – nice to know Janner still has some champions. Mate of his, are you?
" Kemp – nice to know Janner still has some champions. Mate of his, are you? "
Never met him, probably never will. I just thought Craig would be keen to support the central tenet of British justice that a man is innocent until proven guilty.
Tim Hoddy June 29, 2015 at 14:31
The big difference here is, of course, that neither Janner, nor other Zionists and Jews, have tried to use either Judaism or Zionism to justify his alleged crimes.
And, as you say, "Janner's being Jewish was irrelevant to his being a paedophile."
Has he actually been found guilty of anything?
That's a valid point. No matter whether you like Janner, or not. The court of public opinion may have found him guilty, but the court of law is the one that matters. Or at least, it does if we are to make any claim to a regard for justice. There's no claim as far as I can see that he abused anyone at the Auschwitz Kinderheim, either. It may be that the HET know differently. Time will possibly tell.
Macky June 29, 2015 at 14:44
Habbabkuk; "Who has portrayed this as unacceptable racism?"
If memories serves right, on previous Threads here, both Anon1 & Becky Cohen have, if not yourself also.
OldMark June 29, 2015 at 14:59
That's a valid point. No matter whether you like Janner, or not. The court of public opinion may have found him guilty, but the court of law is the one that matters.
Excellent point Komodo. As for the court of law which may in due course rule on his guilt of innocence, I hope that the question of Janner's fitness to plead is rigorously examined, and that solid evidence, in the form of relevant CT scans, should determine whether he faces a full criminal trial or a lesser 'trial of the facts'.
lysias June 29, 2015 at 15:00
Just to put the context of this thread in context, I think this news has only been reported here at the end of the thread two threads back: The Guardian: Lord Janner to be prosecuted over child sex abuse claims:
The future of Alison Saunders, the director of public prosecutions, will come under intense scrutiny after she confirmed that her previous decision not to charge Lord Janner in connection with child abuse allegations had been overturned.
The ruling means Janner will face a trial of the facts, where a jury hears the evidence against an individual considered too ill for a full trial. This is expected to be held into the 22 offences allegedly committed in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
The decision follows a review of the case under the CPS victims' right to review scheme, which allows people to have their case looked at again no matter who in the CPS took the decision not to prosecute. The review, by David Perry QC, concluded that it was in the public interest to bring proceedings before a criminal court.
Apparently, one of the charges that will be investigated is the sexual assault that Janner allegedly committed against a nine-year-old boy in the Chapel of St. Mary Undercroft underneath the Houses of Parliament:
The charges relate to alleged offences of buggery and indecent assault committed against children between 1963 and 1988 by the former Labour MP. The youngest alleged victim was an eight-year-old boy at the time of the alleged offence. Janner is charged with indecently assaulting him between 1969 and 1970, and of buggery against him between 1963 and 1969. Another alleged victim was nine at the time. The others were aged between 12 and 16.
However, the article contains towards its end this cautionary note:
If a judge rules that Janner is unfit to be tried, a hearing in his absence could be conducted in which both the alleged victims and other witnesses could testify. It is still possible that a judge could throw out the case against Janner if his lawyers successfully argue against a trial of the facts, halting any need for evidence or testimony from his alleged victims.
Mary June 29, 2015 at 15:03
Previous DPP defended current DPP on Radio 4 Today.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0607w1d
2hrs 36mins in
Liz Dux at the start. Solicitor for the claimants.
'Law is not always an exact science, as Lord Macdonald, a previous DPP, said on BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "These positions are not always binary, and highly respected lawyers have come to opposing conclusions on this.
"I do think that Alison Saunders's position was a perfectly respectable, perfectly defensible position. I think it is a very good thing that decisions can be open to review in this way.
"It was courageous of the DPP to have this case put through that system and I think the system has proved that in this case it worked well … she is a woman of complete integrity, and I don't think she should resign."'
DPP's U-turn on Lord Janner shows review system works
Victims' right to review scheme specifically envisages such reversals because 'refusing to admit mistakes can seriously undermine public trust'
Monday 29 June 2015 14.00 BST http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/jun/29/dpp-lord-janner-is-a-sign-that-review-system-is-working
All very well but action could have been taken against Janner in 2007 if the Leics police has passed the evidence up the line.
And what did McDonald and Starmer do? Zilch.
The Radio 4 piece above was not listed in the running order so I had to plough through to get the timing. Why the omission BBC? I heard the original broadcast so knew the approx. time of the interview.
The whole thing is an establishment cover up.
Reminder McDonald co founder of Matrix Chambers with Ma Blair. Janner a Liebour peer.
It should be obvious even to the Bluntest Knife that Craig was not referring to posters on this blog when he wrote "But to ask that the Zionist and Jewish organisations denounce the long term criminal activities of the man who actually led those organisations, is portrayed as unacceptable racism."
What's a "Liebour peer" when it's at home?
A very good point from Tim Hoddy, which I note has gone unanswered because thgeree is no answer to it:
Glenn_UK
Did you suddenly fancy a roll in the gutter with some of the weirder denizens of the blog?
Very beneath you, I feel.
It's been so nice for the last few days not to have had every comment picked to pieces for no reason other than to divert and distract.
"contents of this thread in context", that should have been.
Janner is/was a Vice-President of the Jewish Leaders' Council. (Other VP's and trustees contain a high proportion of major party donors, which is perhaps what leadership means)
VP's page:
http://www.thejlc.org/about-us/the-jlcs-structure/vice-presidents/
http://www.thejlc.org/about-us/the-jlcs-structure/trustees/
No Janner.
Yet,
http://www.thejlc.org/author/gjanner/
Janner. No longer linked from the people pages, since no longer on them.
JLC must be feeling a bit diffident about the connection with its probable co-founder.
Habbabkuk; "It should be obvious even to the Bluntest Knife that Craig was not referring to posters on this blog"
Really ? The only obvious deduction to be made so far, it that perhaps you are the dullest of dullards !
Republicofscotland June 29, 2015 at 15:18
"But he was not just any old Zionist. He was the acknowledged leader of Zionism in the UK. He was President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Vice President of the World Jewish Congress, he was Vice President of the Association for Jewish Youth, Vice President of the Jewish Leadership Council, President of the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women, on the Advisory Board of the Community Security Trust, Chairman of the Holocaust Educational Trust and Director of the United Jewish Israel Appeal."
By not acknowleding Janner's,shameful activities, surely it must somehow undermine the credibility of the above bodies that you've mentioned.
Infact not addressing the issue, will have done more harm than good, one can only suggest that it's in their interests to keep the vile pastimes of such a prominent member, and former leader under wraps.
The Jewish/Zionist community should come out and condemn their former leaders actions, if some have already so then I openly acknowledge their stance.
No, Daniel, the point of my post was to get Craig to give chapter and verse to back up his claim that "asking the Zionist and Jewish organisations to denounce the long term criminal activities of the man who actually led those organisations is portrayed as unacceptable racism.".
I note that he has not yer done so.
Speaking of Liebour, people should bear in mind that Janner was suspended from the Labour Party immediately after the DPP said he should have been prosecuted years ago. That was a couple of months ago. For them to do that, the evidence against him must be pretty strong.
I think this news has only been reported here at the end of the thread two threads back
The top of the thread titled 'The Janner Standard', one thread back, must have escaped your attention then.
Ishmael June 29, 2015 at 15:20
It's amazing how long these structures go on in complicity, myself i'd like to think i'd have to leave and if I could not seek 'justice' though legal means, at least try and notify those I could in the pubic, or grassroots maintainers of that organization. Amazing capacity for ones that all focus on few or one authority figure though. People seem to really get off on these structures, turn blind eye's ect…
Actually, Think i'd be more happy to create an insurrection or alert public as this is often what results in legal or other action being taken. Public pressure. Plus no dealing with the state, but that's me…
When I looked at that thread, perhaps half an hour ago, the top lacked any contents. It only had a title. The early commenters remarked on that fact.
Alcyone June 29, 2015 at 15:22
Habbabkuk (La Vita È Bella)
29 June, [email protected]:28
Habbabkuk, this is classified. (As polemical). Hence, don't expect an answer to this one. Politico-poetic licence?
…solid evidence, in the form of relevant CT scans, should determine whether he faces a full criminal trial or a lesser 'trial of the facts'.
Absolutely. I hope the alleged victims' lawyers will be able to insist on it. As I think they are trying to do.
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Front Matter and Editors' Note
Moreno Bonda Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
editorial, multilingualism
The privilege to introduce the latest issue of Sustainable Multilingualism requires an effort to reflect on the nature of the studies published during the past decade. It is a retrospective endeavor aimed at identifying valuable perspectives for future integrative discussions within the frame provided by this platform.
Since the publication of the first volume of this scientific journal in 2012, the semiotic need to investigate the shared meaning of "sustainability of multilingualism" has been opportunely marginalized to facilitate multidisciplinary approaches (Mačianskienė, 2017). Despite the impossibility to univocally classify perspectives of investigation, the survey of previous volumes confirms the variety of methodologies adopted to study topics as disparate as teaching and learning in multilingual and multicultural settings (48 articles); issues for language policy (28), with particular focus on national policies; plurilingual competence development in higher education (20); how identities react to, influence or confront multilingualism (32); how society creates and perceives multilingualism (18), often touching upon dynamic phenomena such as social interaction and mobility; linguistics of pop-culture and the influence of new technologies (14); the cultural clash between monolingualism and plurilingualism (12). Even though multilingual education, together with its social and political ramifications, lies at the core of this journal, anthropological (lato sensu) and sociolinguistic studies point at new possibilities for the investigation of plurilingualism and multilingualism in certain physical environments.
While the theoretical discussion usually refuses such obsolete oppositions as 'native vs. foreign, ours vs. theirs […], the prestigious vs. the marginalized' (Bijeikienė, 2021), the phenomenal reality (Erscheinungswelt) of border communities, schools receiving immigrants, national language policies or those of citizens required to choose and proclaim their belonging to a distinct identity, etc. prove these clashes – or conflicts – are still relevant to the empirical studies. With reference to multilingualism, this interest means the expansion of the investigation beyond the merely anthropological frame of the cultural construction of the Self in opposition to what is perceived as the Otherness (see Francesco Remotti, Contro l'identità [Against Identity]). Rather, it means the necessity to investigate the faded boundaries of Identity and Alterity, for multilingualism is one of the most manifest forms of intercultural and transnational relation. It is the result of the interaction between spaces, not of the juxtaposition of spaces. It is an ever-changing flow, that is a form of communication benefitting from any new influence, as opposed to the rigid structure of "national languages". The potential of an anthropological interest for the process of imagining identities through language, as well as for the spaces where these identities form and interact, has been consistently emerging in many studies circulated in this journal since 2012.
In semiotic terms, ten years of publications focused mainly on expression-based communication in which active, intentional subjects respond to affordances of objects appearing in the physical space through Bedetungen – "expressive exchanges of signified meanings". While in this entire process language and speeches lay at the center – for they carry meaning and convey information capable of identifying the speaker – the process itself assumes the traits of a kinaesthesia – "a movement producing an exchange of information" between agents acting in a social space. Specifically, the concept of agency refers to a subject's ability to perceive, conceive and represent distinct objects, including the subject itself. It presupposes the existence of an object and that of a space in which to collocate the object and the subject, but it also involves some sort of movement in that space. As an example, this is the typical situation of a foreigner crossing a border into another community where he or she studies, lives, and tries to integrate while reflecting on his or her new and past identities in that environment. It is a paradigmatic condition that emerges at the micro-level of the family and in the macro-processes of national policies. However, a quite relevant number of articles published in Sustainable Multilingualism touching upon contemporary pop culture and the influence of innovative technologies hinted at the possibility to explore unexpected and still poorly investigated phenomena involving the perception of the Self, the space around it, and movement.
The last decade marked the triumph of the ethereal "collective Self" known as the World Wide Web. In turn, the Internet allowed for the creation of identities which are "transversal" to traditional political, national, or cultural partitions. Furthermore, the Web made possible the existence and sharing of virtual objects stored on immaterial clouds. More recently, the pandemic inhibited most forms of movement and physical interaction. Nonetheless, during the last three years people continued acting together resorting to "hegemonic" languages, using means and forms of communication often unseen before. In contrast with abstract theorizations, the practice of daily life proved agency can occur outside a physical space too, and even without physical objects, for the language can conceive things it created itself.
These cogitations lead me to conclude that the reflection on multilingualism and its sustainability could greatly benefit from an even higher degree of interdisciplinarity and, occasionally, from a shift of focus from purely linguistic phenomena to the frame in which they manifest themselves. Explicitly, potentially valuable could be the study of the spaces in which multilingualism occurs, rather than of multilingualism itself. Particularly, occurrences of multilingualism in absence of physical space could lead to radical reforms of existing semiotic models. Likewise, greater attention could be paid to the mechanics of interaction without movement since interaction is among the most relevant factors in creating the conditions for a multilingual environment. Furthermore, considering the variety of innovative virtual means of interpersonal contact, in the source-message-channel-receiver model of communication, a shift of focus from the message to the properties of the channel would possibly reveal the relevance of the channel itself in determining the nature of certain forms of multilingualism.
Lastly, reviewing ten years of publications, I noticed (in several studies about language policy and the cultural clash between monolingualism and plurilingualism) a certain interest for the conflictual relation between personal ideology or values on the one hand, and collective/governmental practices on the other. Not rarely plurilingualism has been described in terms of English 'language hegemony' (Lūžys 19/2021) or 'neglected identity'. Accordingly, psychological aspects and value theory seem to deserve more structured investigations focused precisely on the subject experiencing instances of multilingualism rather than on the language spoken or influencing the subject.
While I hope some of these personal reflections could be of any utility to past and future contributors, I noted with pleasure several studies published in this number of Sustainable Multilingualism already address some of the issues discussed above. 'The Age of Artificial Intelligence' is the meaningful timeframe in which D. S. Low, I. Mcneill, and M. J. Day investigate the subjective perception of 'Endangered Languages, Language Death, Identity Loss and Preservation'. Similarly, the above-mentioned mechanics of interaction are studied in a sociolinguistic perspective and in terms of 'Dynamics of Power and Solidarity in German-Lithuanian Business Negotiations' by G. Gelūnaitė-Malinauskienė. The psychological interest in the acting subject emerges as attitude in D. Laiveniece and L. Lauze's sociolinguistic survey conducted (just before the pandemic) with the intent to characterize students' perception of errors in learning and using a foreign language.
Moreover, the present issue introduces some important questions related to the field of Education in Multilingual and Multicultural Settings, for instance, the role and influence of digital technologies which are perceived both as precious didactical tools with immense potential for career perspectives (O. Ural & K. Dikilitas), and as serious challenges to higher education institutions (V. Inci-Kavak & Y. Kirkgoz). These problems are integrated by reflections on good practice in the section Issues in Language Didactics in which language-specific and cultural-specific challenges are investigated not only with reference to 'the hegemonic' English language but also Spanish and Latvian. The practical implementation of teaching techniques and a variety of writing exercises (A. Babina) discussed in this issue of the journal could be of great interest to language teachers and educators in general.
Bonda, M. (2022). EDITORIAL. Sustainable Multilingualism, 21. https://doi.org/10.2478/sm-2022-0021


for this upcoming King of the Hill contest!
1 player PER Country, and no use of the treasury as a result.
play) players while still allowing unlimited attacks for everyone.
then choose another, because you were too slow in signing up.