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The Last: Faithful Auxiliary Bishop Laun Dismissed on 75th Birthday
Auxiliary Bishop Andreas Laun at the "Demo for All". On October
he became 75 and was retired by Pope Francis on the same day.
(Vienna) Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Auxiliary Bishop Andreas Laun of Salzburg yesterday, the 100th anniversary of the last Marian Apparition in Fatima. Thus, in the German-speaking world, an outstanding figure holding the bishop's office has lost his office, who dared to raise his voice against the prevailing Zeitgeist. Above all, he is the last of a remarkable attempt at a course correction in the Church of Austria.
The Moral Theologian belongs to the Order of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales (OSFS). In 1995, Pope John Paul II appointed the son of an atheist who had converted to the Catholic faith as titular bishop of Libertina and auxiliary bishop of Salzburg. Libertina is a vanished bishopric of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis, which belonged to the church province of Carthage and was located in present-day Tunisia. By the Islamic conquest of North Africa it vanished and is what could be seen as a reminder with regard to today's Islamization of Western Europe. Recently the City Council of the Austrian capital Vienna published figures showing that the Muslims in the age group 0 - 10 years already account for almost 30 percent.
On the very day of his 75th birthday, Monsignor Laun was dismissed from office. You could say someone was in a hurry. In fact, Laun was the last remaining representative of a series of episcopal appointments with which Pope John Paul II wanted to achieve a renewal of the Catholic Church in Austria through a change of course. The fact that he would never be anything more in the Austrian Church was established in the second half of the 1990s.
The attempted course correction by John Paul II
When John Paul II became pope, the revival of Modernism in the German-speaking world was already in front of everyone's eyes. Parallel to the Second Vatican Council, an unprecedented decline of the Catholic Church took place. John Paul II wanted to counter this erosion process. It is known from the history of the Church that real renewal, owing to the hierarchical composition of the Church, takes place only through a traditionally coherent action from below and above.
For this reason, John Paul II wanted to give a new episcopate to Austria. Bishop's appointments are the only, really substantial possibility for the Pope to intervene in a local church. Since appointments are rare, however, this path takes a lot of time, which is not always sufficient.
In the Apostolic Nunciature in Vienna, especially Titular Archbishop Michele Checchini it was rumored that the main driving force in the background was the Austrian Curial Cardinal Alfons Maria Stickler.
In the middle of the eighties, Monsignor Egon Kapellari, Bishop of Gurk-Klagenfurt, was appointed a "conservative" or "best" Bishop of Austria in 1982 by John Paul II. His appointment had still prepared Cecchini's predecessors.
The Cecchini era ...
With Nuntius Cecchini then it happened in one fell swoop from 1985 on. The most important personnel decision in the Church of Austria, the appointment of the Archbishop of Vienna, was the prelude to the day, when Cardinal Franz König, who was still omnipresent at that time, was sitting. He was followed by the Benedictine Hans Hermann Groër from Göttweig Abbey. The consequence was an outcry of the "modern". The Church is threatening a "reactionary turnaround," a "return to the past." From the first day onwards irreconcilable barriers were set up against the new Archbishop whom John Paul II had raised to the rank of Cardinal.
In 1987, he was assigned an auxiliary bishop, the professor of systematic theology, Msgr. Kurz Krenn.
In 1988, with an official appointment at the beginning of 1989, Msgr George Eder was appointed Archbishop of Salzburg and with that two of Archbishop seats of Austria were held by newly appointed men. As Primas Germaniae, Eder was allowed the purple.
In the same year, the appointment of Monsignor Klaus Küng, the first Opus Dei representative on a bishop's chair in the German-speaking world, followed the Bishop of Feldkirch. Each appointment triggered violent counter-campaigns by the left-wing Church circles, which found reflexive support for Church-hostile media.
In the same year the already over 79 year old Cecchini was replaced as nuncio. He was followed by Donato Squicciarini and a first toning down of the original line. Auxiliary Bishop Kurt Krenn was removed from Vienna in 1991, where he hoped to be one of the future Archbishops, and was appointed Bishop of St. Pölten. On the same day, the Dominican scholar, Christoph Schönborn, was appointed an auxiliary bishop for Vienna. The other appointments were listed under the keyword "moderate conservatives" and remained rather colorless. Only in Salzburg, at the request of Archbishop Eder, with the appointment of Andreas Laun, was there an appointment in the Cecchini line.
... and their end
In the same year, however, the attempt of John Paul II experienced a severe setback, which was soon to turn out to be an end. In March, one person made vague accusations of sexual abuse against Cardinal Groër. The background is still highly opaque. The media fell with pleasure on the matter, and the progressive Church circles sniffed out a unique opportunity. From this an efficient, albeit rather unholy alliance was formed, which successfully blew death on the prince of the Church.
On the 13th of April of that year, Auxiliary Bishop Schönborn was appointed Archbishop-Coadjutor. It was clear at the latest that he and not Bishop Krenn would be next Archbishop of Vienna. With the effect that Cardinal Groër was made archbishop emeritus on 14 September, the Feast of the Crucifixion. In 2004 Bishop Krenn was struck down with a few other ingredients under the pressure of a staged campaign. The two main phrases of the course correction, which John Paul II had tried, had been chased out of office with shame and disgrace. Groër because of his rank and Krenn due to his outstanding intellect and his pugnacity, were feared by their opponents.
The Church referendum and the 500,000 signatures had caused fear. Squicciarini was not Cecchini. From then on, Vienna's new Archbishop, Schönborn, had a weighty word to say, also in the case of episcopal appointments.
When Alois Kothgasser was appointed Bishop of Innsbruck in 1997, Laun's career as the Auxiliary Bishop in Salzburg had already reached its final destination. The wind had turned. With the appointment of Kothgasser in November 2002 as the successor of Archbishop Eder, it was firmly established.
Voice against the Zeitgeist
Particularly active in matrimonial and family pastoral care, Auxiliary Bishop Laun, for more than 20 years as a bishop, defended the Catholic morality and natural law in an area which is receiving an ever more dangerous bombardment of a de-Christianizing the world and under the pontificate of Pope Francis within the Church, is sometimes called into question by the highest authority. That even brought Laun in 2017 a criminal complaint by homophilic SPD deputies. The Catholic doctrine has become so intolerable to many.
Laun has referred to the affliction of many faithful priest as an "inner-Christian persecution by Christians."
He also courageously raised his voice for unborn children as an auxiliary bishop. This is a theme that the dominant Zeitgeist has forced under a bell of silence. In the German-speaking world, the Catholic Church has also largely adhered to this taboo since the 1980s. Laun always consciously broke this wall of silence. Whoever has heard him speak about the unborn and the natural order knows what a weighty voice the Church has in him and yet instead of helping him gave him a muzzle.
This last happened in October 2016 when he had to cancel his participation, including a speech to the Congress Defender of Europe in Linz, "at the insistence" of the new Archbishop of Salzburg, Franz Lackner OFM. As a new initiative, the Congress attempted to articulate a counter-position to the impending loss of identity through mass immigration, multiculturalism, Islamization and genderization. The political left saw this as a threat to their cultural hegemony, which had to be immediately stifled. Laun's recall is symptomatic of the new timidity of the Church towards the temporal spirit, which some already see as a complete capitulation, clearly like Goethe's fisherman: "Half he drew them, half he put them back."
Guardians for marriage, family and life
Laun himself formulated it a few days ago against the Salzburg Church newspaper Rupertusblatt as follows:
"He regards the guardianship as an order to the bishops to pay attention to what Catholics, theologians, religious instructors represent as the doctrine of the Church," as Laun says; 'And if necessary, they should also intervene to correct: lovingly, argumentatively, but also with courage and firmness'. Some people would have 'scolded' him if he had defended "delicate positions of the church", for example, in the area of Pro-life. 'I am truly sad about those defeats which people have added to my own Church.' Even with his criticism of the provisions allowing abortion in the first three months, he had encountered contradictions in Church circles - even among people who at that time had signed the popular move against this law. In short, when I was a bishop as guardian, I was not infrequently defamed and attacked."
The church has to talk "about God and not primarily about the climate and other fashionable themes", says Laun. It is always about "God or nothing," said the auxiliary bishop, referring to the title of a book by Cardinal Robert Sarah.
"Jesus has not brought eternal peace, not the healing of all the sick, not the overcoming of all famines or the prevention of natural catastrophes, but He has brought God."
As the publisher of the monthly Kirche Heute and his lectures, Laun goes beyond the borders of Austria and will certainly do so in the future as far as his health permits.
The last of a remarkable experiment
22 years ago, his appointment was part of a remarkable attempt to stop the decline of catholicity in Austria by changing the course of bishop's appointments. That his appointment was the last shows how long it has already been, that this attempt has failed. When Pope Benedict XVI In 2009, attempted to appoint the dogmatic theologian and country pastor, Gerhard Maria Wagner as auxiliary bishop of Linz, the alarm was sounded from the relevant side that the attempt to recover what had happened from 1985-1995 was imminent. It was immediately stifled in the bud. In Rome, cold feet were given to the published reaction. Even before Pastor Wagner could be ordained as a bishop and his office could be established, the appointment was again dropped. Five years later, Wagner described the state of the church in Austria with the words, "a pig stye which stinks".
As an auxiliary bishop, Laun could not change much, and he was not allowed to be more.
Image: Demo for all
Labels: Archbishop Checchini, Auxiliary Bishop Laun, Bishop Kapellari, Bishop Kurt Krenn, Cardinal Alfons Stickler, Cardinal Groer, Cardinal Schönborn, Fr. Gerhard Wagner
After 34 Years The Retirement of Egon Kapellari
Bishop Egon Kapellari
(Vienna / Rome) Bishop Egon Kapellari of Graz-Seckau had announced his retirement four days ago. He had just completed his 79th year of life and is expecting release from his position as supreme pastor of a diocese. Today Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the long-serving and retired the Bishop of Austria.
Egon Kapellari was born on 12 January 1936 at Leoben in Upper Styria. In 1957 he received his doctorate of law at the University of Graz. Then he began at the University of Salzburg with the study of theology. 1964-1981 he was also university chaplain in Graz. In1981 Pope John Paul II. appointed him Bishop of Gurk. The mid-80s Kapellari was consideredin the progressive climate distant from Rome, the most "Romtreuest" [Most loyal to Rome] among Austrian bishops. When John Paul II. sought to achieve a new direction in the episcopal appointments in the Austrian Church with the retirement of Cardinal Franz König from 1986, it was a quiet time for Bishop Kapellari.
"Quiet" Priest, "no Tribune"
In 2001 he was appointed by John Paul II. from Carinthia back to Styria and appointed Bishop of Graz-Seckau. At the same time Kapellari was Vice President of the Austrian Bishops' Conference. He is responsible for the areas of liturgy, culture and media.
2011 Kapillari heard a bizarre proposal: priests who do not adhere to celibacy, a fine should be imposed. Toward the "priest" initiative, disobedient priests, Kapellari showed himself to be as indecisive as his brother bishops.
In March 2013, Kapellari spoke to Pastor Karl Tropper of St. Veit am Vogau of a ban on preaching, because he had expressed criticism of Islam and homosexuality. Pastor Tropper was come to the attention of the media and was dropped by the bishop and sent to early retirement.
October 2013 Bishop Kapellari had just been appointed the tradition-priest Konrad Sterninnger of parish ministry. Even before the well-known priest entered his new responsibility for three parishes, progressive circles organized a smear campaign against Father Sterninger. The Parish Councils informed the bishop to reject the priest. The Diocese talked about finding a task that "better" corresponded to "his talents." Since the beginning of 2014 he is the same again provisor the Pilgrimage Church of Frauenberg-Rehkogel in Upper Styria.
In September 2014 Bishop Kapellari forbade a "service for remarried divorcees, gays, lesbians and single mothers" with "Communion for all". The service was organized by a priest, Bernhard Preiss, a disobedient priest of the "priest" initiative and the suspended Deacon Gottfried Url. Kapellari spoke of a rash "go it alone".
However, 34 Years Diocesan Bishop
Both in the cause of Cardinal Gröer (Archdiocese of Vienna) as well as in that of almost Bishop Wagner (Diocese of Linz) showed Kapellari a flexible attitude. From progressive he was decried as "conservative", however the conservative was limited, less on the public defense of Catholic doctrine, but rather to sitting out progressive demands. To them he replicated especially with the neutral warning of a "division" of the Church, without too much content in responding to the questions. In progressive criticism, Kapellari was a "brakeman before the Lord" (The Lady), therefore, is not entirely wrong. The profile of a strong preacher of the faith and a spiritual leader who must take responsibility for his diocese, looks different. However, Kapellari never saw himself in a leadership position. "I'm not a tribune of the people," said the quiet, rather shy, episcopal priest in the early years. Nevertheless, he just stood at the head of a diocese for nearly 34 years. Maybe they in Rome and Vienna are convinced that this is the maximum possible in a time critical of the church.
The Chapter chose the former Vicar General Heinrich Schnuderl as Administrator. It is expected that Kapellari's successor will not come as diocesan bishop of Styria.
Text: Martha Weinzl
image: Wikicommons (Dnalor 01)
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Labels: Austria, Bishop Kapellari, Pastor Charles Tropper, Steyria
Bishop Bars "Mass for Remarried and Homosexuals"
Graz-Seckauer diocesan priests have provoked with controversial Masses. Bishop Kapellari puts on the emergency brake. Priest: "We will not completely ignore the ban of the bishop, but also not entirely obey."
Graz (kath.net) The Graz diocesan Bishop, Egon Kapellari, has banned a controversial "Mass for remarried and homosexuals" in the parish of St. Margaret, as reported by the "Kleine Zeitung". The one responsible for the provocation was the pastor of the local parish community, Bernhard Preiss. A few months earlier, Preiss had carried out a similar event, then, there were protests by Catholics. Now Kapellari is pulling the emergency brake. Kapellari said to the newspaper: "It was simply an isolated event against the ecclesiastical order which will not take place." The Graz bishop stressed that a priest could not arbitrarily grant simply that divorced and remarried may go to Communion: "That neither the Pope, even I as a bishop, can not do this either. We even take care of remarried and homosexuals in personal conversations in counseling," said the Bishop of Graz.
But Preiss would like to further provoke and shared in his parish bulletin with that he especially respects the will of the bishop. There will however be considered "a continuation in another form." To the "Kleine Zeitung" Preiss explains then: "I do not want to simply delete the Mass, we will not totally ignore the ban of the bishop, but we will also not entirely follow it either. Now creativity is called for."
Labels: Austria, Bergolio Effect, Bishop Kapellari, Divorce and Remarried, Graz
Old Liberal Bishop Fires Pastor for Being Actually Catholic: He Refused Calvinist Hand Communion
Old Liberal Bishop and Father Sterninger Foto © wranafoto
Edit: gasp, he put too much emphasis on the Blessed Virgin Mary!
[Neudau] Conservative minister was recalled after crash with parts of his parish at his own request. In a letter to the people, Kapellari hopes for a new beginning, Sterninger will not return to the Eastern Styria after a break.
Six weeks after taking over as pastor, Conrad Sternfeininger of Neudau, Burgau and Woerth's term is already over. Between the prevailing stresses as a conservative clergyman and much of the parish there had been a lot of tension. Now Bishop Egon Kapellari has responded and the priest - on its own request, as it is being described - is dismissed. In a letter to the parish Kapellari hopes for a new beginning, Sterninger will not return to the Eastern Styria after his break. The recent Neudauer Sunday Mass was held Auxiliary Bishop Franz Lackner.
As a "demagogue and self-promoter" is how Franz Glaser, Mayor of Burgau-Neudauberg, described the priest. He got upset with absurd images, refused people Communion in the hand. "He wanted an exaggeration of Mary," says Neudaus local Chief Wolfgang Dolesch. The resistance was massive. [Was it really?]
In a letter to the parish councils to Kapellari had turned, it was followed by a crisis summit on site. The church then declared reason was a top priority, Dean Josef Reichshoffer speaks of a "diocesan intervention".
Sterninger himself wanted to give an opinion. The search for a successor, writes Kapellari, will not be known for a month.
Link to original Neudau Paper...
Labels: Agitprop, Bishop Kapellari, Hetz-Campaign, Neudaus, Styeria
Graz Bishop Wages Total War on Behalf of Homosexuality
In the Diocese of Graz-Seckau every erroneous teaching is welcome. Actually, if a priest criticizes the moral and anti-Church homosexual ideology, the current hireling Bishop will become brutal and abusive.
(kreuz.net, Sankt Veit am Vogau) The Old Liberal Bishop Egon Kapellari (76) of Graz-Seckau ridicules the Catholic Faith.
At the same time he defends the immoral homosexual ideology as if it were a Dogma of the Church.
Recently, he threatened the pastor of Sankt Veit am Vogau, Fr. Karl Tropper (75) with "ecclesiastical consequences".
This happened according to reports from Ex-Reichsender [Nazi Radio in Vienna] Vienna (ORF) to Austrian journalistoids.
Diocese of Graz: Homosexuals up From Hell
Fr. Tropper had maintained in an article in the parish newspaper that the homosexual disorder is an "error in drive".
He referred those stricken to the healing of their sexual neuroses.
Last week [16 April] , the Diocese of Graz struck very officially in a press release against the clergyman.
On April 18th, Msgr Kaleppari addressed the situation personally.
Brittle Bishop: "Pastor suffers from the rigidity of old age"
The brittle Bishop was right abusive.
So he portrayed the Bishop publicly as having "rigidity of old age".
If Fr. Tropper cites the moral teachings of the Church once more or cites the Bible, he will be dealt with according to "Church law".
At the same time Msgr Kapellari explained that it is the purpose of the Bishops' Conference, to conduct a dialog with the anti-Church media and the one man show "Pfarrer Initiative".
In the Conciliar Church There is no Place for the Bible
Fr. Tropper told the newspaper 'Kurier', that no one was discriminated against. He only stated a basic truth:
"The teaching of the Church has always been against homosexuality. Homosexuality is a perversion according to the Bible."
The clergyman declares the right "to be able to say what is in the Bible."
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Labels: auto-destruction, auto-leisionism, Bishop Kapellari, Graz, Homosexual Agenda
A Pastor Celebrates Aesthetic Destruction
The first thing the faithful will see in the magnificent baroque church is not the altar painting, rather the doormat with two gaping holes.
(kreuz.net, Vienna) Since December 1999, Pastor Hermann Glettler has been destroying the parish church of St. Andre in Graz in southwest Austria.
The diocese of Graz-Sekau is currently being led to the wall by Bishop Egon Kapellari.
Fr. Glettlers church originates from the 17th century. It was built by the Dominicans and consecrated in 1635.
Wolves in Human Skin
The interior of the church looks as though kindergarten had run wild within it.
In front of the baroque high altar there is an example of a supper tale, which is made from mirror shards.
Next to it there is a wire stand with a glass plate. The thing is used as a podium.
On the church windows there are bright areas, which have distorted letters or -- more pointedly -- wolves in human clothes.
The white wall of the side chapel is smeared above with orange scribbling.
Aesthetically destroyed
Fr. Glettler was emboldened on his website with the idea, that he would consider to challenge "new artworks" .
They put the old state of the church in "a new light".
In any event the clergyman says that there's been an "aesthetic breakdown" with his art.
Profound Facade
In 2010 the facade was newly renovated.
In the course of its new formation, a Graz painter wrote various slogans on the exterior wall.
In various scripts, colors and sizes one can read profound things like "It greens so green", "tobacco", "nasty surprise", "Mozart", "sun flower", "sheep herd", "scale" , "park", "locksmith" or "lady slipper".
Altar Carpet with Two Holes
During this Lent, Pastor Glettler hung a self-cut lenten cloth over the high altar.
It is an old carpet in which Pastor Glettler has cut two holes.
It gives a clear view of the round window behind the high altar.
The chopped carpet should " challenge the expectation that an altar painting will be ordered" -- it says in an explanation.
Labels: Austria, Bishop Kapellari, Graz, Wreckovation
What Distinguishes You From Helmut Schüller, Lord Bishop?
Humbug: "There is no right to any kind of "disobedience", but if one believes that the Church doesn't want blind obedience, there is but an act with solidarity in the midst of wide fields of pastoral possibilities."
(kreuz.net) "I refuse to use the polemical word "disobedience" when it comes to discussing the Pastors' Initiative."
Bishop Egon Kapellari of Graz said this on the 7th of September for the Austrian anti-Church news 'Standard'.
Msgr Kapellari appealed that the whole Church should be viewed thus: "The global Church is anything but at rest."
He bent the ear of the anti-Church magazine: "We would be pleased-- especially when it comes to the media -- 'if the successes received more attention."
Because: "A Church, that is presented as weaker than She is, can not help society any better."
Church schools, kindergartens and hospitals are more sought after than ever before.
But: "The Song of Songs of displeasure is sung in the Church and society."
There is enough cause for tears, but not so much reason to complain.
Only no clarity
"We accept the indissolubility of a sacramental marriage without a doubt" -- explained the Bishop.
Yet at the same time he let loose the following antithesis: "One must proceed with sympathy and sensitivity with the various biographies of remarried divorced."
One may not simply reject someone at the "communion rail", but rather should talk to them individually, in order to heal their wounds.
The 'Standard' did not let themselves be impressed by the Bishop's pastoral drivel:
"But if you know that there are remarried divorced in your diocese receiving Communion, as Bishop, you have to intervene, no?"
Msgr. Kapellari coiled himself up: He has had many discussions with those affected by separation and always seeks them out, to help them, "with boundaries for life and otherwise to learn that they are not strangers in their Church."
Weighty Norms that Aren't Valid
Here the Episcopal chat hit a wall: "What do you make of Helmet Schüller. Are you also "disobedient", if you don't undertake this?" -- asked the newspaper.
Again, Msgr Kapellari turned a pirouette: "There is no right to any kind of "disobedience", but if one believes that the Church doesn't want blind obedience, there is an act with solidarity in the midst of wide fields of pastoral possibilities."
The 'Standard' offered in return that the Faith then gets undermined by "substantial leeway".
Msgr Kapellari flew into humbug:
"In every society there are weighty norms, which one may not allow to be undermined. There are, however, also tensions which are very humanly understandable when it comes to translating this to those affected by the horizon of praxis."
"I won't let myself be locked down"
At the intimation that the media sponsored "Pastors' Intiative" will have foreseeable and longstanding structural consequences, he let the cat out of the sack:
"I won't generally say for sure, if anyone has been led to be counterproductive, that one should, as it is said, be thrown out of the community.
He repeated himself: "I won't let myself be locked down, as to how far Pastor Schüller may go."
He would like "to keep everyone in the boat".
He would like to invite, "that no one should be boring into the hull of the ship, but pay more attention to the wind in the sails."
No Tricks?
The 'Standard" tried to play up the Mini-Pastors' Initiative: "Umpteen priests have signed the Call already."
Msgr Kapellari countered: "The Call only consists of a Board of Directors."
And took it back in the same moment: "But I wouldn't say it was not small."
For still: "But I would like to put it all in perspective, but not with Tricks."
Labels: Bishop Kapellari, Graz, Pastors' Initiative
Graz Priest, "By 2050 Austria Will be Muslim"
Karl Tropper directed a sharp criticism against Islam: "The Koran is the purest inflammatory pamphlet. By 2050 all of Austria will be Muslim. Graz Bishop Kapellari is not amused: Uncultivated style.
Karl Tropper, the Pastor of St. Veit am Vorgau in the Diocese of Graz-Seckau has made severe criticisms of Islam according to Media Reports. In his most recent pastoral letter as per a "Kleine" news, he said that a Swiss Author had omitted that Muslims can not be buried with non-believers. The pastoral letter reads: "it's not only pure racism, this is also a backward step to Hitler and Stalin -- they have resolved to extinguish and extinguished, easily, millions of 'lives unworthy of life'." In another article he is asked by an author if Islam makes you sick and if "Islam" twists "the psyche of people into the completely absurd." His answer to the author: "You have to suspect it".
Pastor Tropper stated his critical positions against Islam and spoke per "KLeine" word for word, of "pure racism" or "the Koran is the purest inflammatory pamphlet.. Muslims can't be integrated... Islam is intrinsically aggressive.. In 2050 Austria will be completely Islamic..." And: "Islam is the most repugnant." Tropper says Mosques can never be a house of God, because they produce nothing but war.
There is irritation at the Graz Chancery over the words of Pastor Tropper. Bishop Kapellari said to the "Kleinen" - Times: "Those who are in positions of responsibility in the Church do not bring a solution to these problems when they make horrible oversimplifications and offer such an uncultivated style. This touches also on the theme of Islam, which the Church will meet neither with naivete and certainly not with raw aggression either." Pastor Tropper himself shows himself unmoved by the Bishop's displeasure: "At first the Bishop grouched at me again, but from the evidence I can see he remains guilty. I have to follow my conscience."
Pastor Tropper also caused a stire last year. While preaching at a first Communion
according to the "Kleine" newspaper that those who leaves the Church, will count themselves in the company of Hitler, Stalin and other criminals. He received a reprimand then in 2010.
Original, at kath.net...
Labels: Austria, Bishop Kapellari, Graz, Islam
Kapellari: Liturgy is, "Not Modelling Wax for the Individual"
Graz Bishop: 'Newly intensive efforts for the spirit and the form of Liturgy' necessary - Liturgy is not to be given over to the creative desire of individuals.
Brixen (kath.net/KAP) Does the Mass have a future? "Naturally", explained the Graz Diocesan Bishop Egon Kapellari on his Sunday Sermon in the Cathedral of Brixen on the close of the "International Brixen Symposium 2010", "because the Church has a future and because the Church and the Mass belong inseparably together.
In any case there will be starting today "newly intensive efforts about the spirit and the form of the Liturgy." Thusly, the religion may not be given over to the creative desire of individuals as a matter of fact: "Liturgy is not modeling wax at the disposal of individuals", said Kapellari.
Actually, however, the joys and sorrows of as many Catholics as possible should be explained and considered, said the Bishop, in view of the lowering numbers of the participants in Sunday Services.
He firmly believes in the promise of Jesus, that the powers of evil in the Church "while, powerful and damaging can never destroy it completely", said the Bishop. This of course does not say if the Church tomorrow will exist as a great majority or a small minority.
For centuries cut off from the outside world, the persecuted Christians of Japan, who had absolutely no priests any more to celebrate the Eucharist, had "lived on as a holy remnant".
"In general, however, it is valid that overall, wherever Catholics were a lasting presence, the Eucharist is always celebrated and will be celebrated in the future, even if in the course of history there are ever new challenges", said Kapellari.
Religious Services in the Courtyard of the Mass
In view of the sinking numbers of Sunday participants and that the young people stay away from the liturgy, warned the Bishop: this is the burning question, "if the threshold of the liturgy is not too high, its language too incomprehensible and if its music has too little heart". [Young people want a challenge....]
Above all Kapellari warned against a rash accommodation of the expectations and criticisms, which lead quickly to discouragement and a "Liturgy" which might be "presumed too rigid, flat Liturgy, even banal". [Graz, are you ready to Rock?]
For young people, who know little of the nature of Liturgy, the threshold of the Mass must not be too flat: "But it can and should become for them and for other people, for whom Mass has become strange, church services that is to say are in the courtyard of the Mass", said Kapellari. There is place for a freer form of Liturgy, "which are not even Eucharists"
A New 'ars celebrandi"
In "waiting", til the Liturgy is discovered again by many, the Church must be present in the secular community through social engagement and "intelligent" discourse in "concert of public opinion"; equipped for the "long haul", "through the prayer of those, who participate for all in the heart of the Church in celebrating the Eucharist.
Using this means there must be a new Catechesis of Liturgy, which builds Christians "slowly but sustainably". From these means "a new ars celebrandi must be developed --even in conversation with culture and even with art of all kinds, after which so many year for," said the Bishop. The Brixner Symposium made an exemplary contribution to just such a conversation.
"Smaller, but purer and nobler"
At the closing Kappelari continued in his preaching "on the life of the Church as a whole": "Our Catholic Church is at the present moment, must go through fire and water, which at this time in Europe is in the grip of some crises, so to say - so may we hope - will proceed even if indeed smaller, but purer and nobler," said the Bishop.
"Christ will not leave his Church." This promise is never the less "no charter for sadness and a lack of imagination" or for "superficially permanent state of activity", rather a "seeking for a weatherproof, joyful and missionary Faith, which even under the current conditions is possible and in many cases a reality."
The "International Brixner Symposium 2010" has taken place from the 8th to 10th of October under the title "The Mass - Source of Life, Highpoint of Faith?" The lecture at the Cusanus Academy combines Science, Culture and Spirituality.
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Labels: Bishop Kapellari, Graz


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7 of the best fashion names to watch
The fashion industry has become a game of musical chairs of late, as many designers swap roles. As Lanvin, Saint Laurent, Dior and Balenciaga appoint new creative directors, we offer our guide to who's who. Meet seven of the biggest fashion names to look out for in 2016
Emily Scrivener , 15 April, 2016
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After five years at the helm of Lanvin, Alber Elbaz departed in October 2015. Following months of speculation, it was revealed last month that Bouchra Jarrar will be the new artistic director of the brand. Jarrar, who previously worked at French fashion house Balenciaga and designs couture collections under her own name, will launch her first collection at the next Paris Fashion Week. She is known for her timeless style and mastery of cuts and fabrics so it will be interesting to see how she infuses her own style into the Lanvin brand.
Johnny Coca
Johnny Coca, formerly design director at Céline, was appointed to Mulberry in 2015. The Spanish designer has been credited with some of Céline's most successful bags over the past few years and it is anticipated that he will be equally successful with Mulberry's accessories and ready-to-wear lines. For his debut autumn/winter 2016 collection the designer reworked some of the brand's best-loved designs, including the Bayswater. Clothes were equally as sleek, with striking tailored coats, sleek gilets and leather skirts coming to the fore.
Saint Laurent recently confirmed Anthony Vaccarello as its new creative director. The Belgian-Italian designer replaced Hedi Slimane, who is largely credited with reinventing the French fashion house, famously dropping 'Yves' from its name and implementing a more rock 'n' roll aesthetic. Vaccarelli, who has enjoyed success working alongside Donatella Versace, is known for his sensual designs, which are arguably more refined than Slimane's grunge aesthetic – and may add more polish to the Saint Laurent brand.
Designers were definitely thinking big at Paris for autumn/winter 2016, with nearly all brands showcasing oversized garments. Collections featuring large coats, baggy trousers and oversized knitwear showed us what the discerning gentleman will be wearing this autumn. Those wishing to try something bold should adopt the Raf Simons approach, with supersized worn-in jumpers. Lanvin opted for a subtle yet just as effective approach, teaming baggy trousers with ankle-length coats.
Since Raf Simons left Dior, industry rumours have been rife about to which designer might succeed him. Sarah Burton, at the helm of Alexander McQueen since 2010, is a name that is drawing much attention. If she does take the reins at the French brand, she will be Dior's first ever female creative director.
Demna Gvasalia
Demna Gvasalia, formerly of Vetements, was revealed as the new creative director at Balenciaga at the end of last year, succeeding Alexander Wang. It was feared that Gvasalia's design aesthetic would be too radical to fit with Balenciaga's more classic aesthetic, but his debut collection for autumn/winter 2016 was applauded when he inflected his signature streetwear touches with couture sensibility. All eyes will be on him for the spring/summer 2017 collection to see which direction he takes for the brand.
Lucky Blue Smith
Lucky Blue Smith is one of this year's rising male models. The six-foot-three-inch 17-year-old made waves on this season's catwalks, causing a storm at the Versace, Etro and Bottega Veneta shows even before the collections launched. The model of the moment has just landed his first Vogue cover alongside Lottie Moss, and it will be only a matter of time before he becomes the face of major fashion houses.
The past year or so has been a time of transition within the fashion industry, with many creative directors leaving or changing their jobs and taking up new challenges. Some of the most notable news to break in recent months included the departures of Alber Elbaz from Lanvin and Alexander Wang from Balenciaga, while industry rumours speculate that Sarah Burton may replace Raf Simons at Dior. With so many shifts afoot, we offer our guide to the top fashion names to watch for 2016 – including rising male model Lucky Blue Smith.
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Q: Calculation of Cohen's f2 in mixed-effects regression (specifying random variance in reduced model) I am attempting to calculate Cohen's f2 as a measure of "local" effect size in a mixed-effects regression model (Selya et al., 2012, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00111 ).
The procedure involves comparing 3 models in order to calculate the reduction in residual variance that can be attributed to the fixed effect of interest (the 3 models are a "full" model with all predictors, a reduced model without the fixed effect of interest, and a "null" model with no fixed effects; for specifics, see Eqs. 2 and 3 in Selya et al., 2012).
Importantly, it is necessary to obtain the variance of random effects from the "full" model and hold this constant (the random effect variance) when fitting the reduced models.
As I am doing this in lmer() in R and I suspect it is not possible to constrain the random effect variance to a known value, I've assumed that the increased random effect estimates in the reduced models could be added to the residual variance.
Specifically, the variances in the "full" model are Subject (Intercept)=0.264;Residual=0.532. Taking one predictor out, for which I want to calculate Cohen's f2, I get Subject (Intercept)=0.320; Residual=0.534. I  have taken the residual variance of the reduced model to be 0.534+0.056 (the latter number is the difference in the Subject random effect when said predictor is left out).
Does this hold and can be assumed in mixed-effects regression?

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Along similar lines, Steven Pinker has just published a similar work. Pinker makes the same observation – "we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence" – but approaches the subject from the perspective of psychology, his field of study, rather than international affairs. Both of these perspectives are worth keeping in mind the next time you hear a pundit on cable news or a sensationalistic author prophesying apocalypse for Western civilization just to get your attention.
Amazon.com's Best Book of September 2011 is Karl Marlantes's What It Is Like to Go to War. Marlantes is the author of the popular novel recently published about the Vietnam War titled Matterhorn, but his more recent book is candid non-fiction. There, he uses his own experiences in Vietnam to describe the psychological pressures soldiers endure, such as killing strangers in foreign nations, watching your friends being killed by them, and returning home to a country of civilians who can not understand what that feels like.
What is now called post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was once called shell shock and sometimes mistaken for cowardice. But there are many soldiers who escaped a war without any destruction of their body but whose mental functioning became as gnarled as amputated limbs. I internalized this fact after having seen a short YouTube clip of footage from World War I of soldiers overcome by "shell shock" after the Battle of Verdun (you can see it here, but be warned: it's very graphic). I think it's useful for civilians to read honest accounts of war such as Marlantes's because soldiers of all wars that are not fought on home soil often feel isolated from their own countrymen for lack of being understood.
I don't think Ken Ballen's new book, Terrorists in Love: Real Lives of Islamic Radicals, would have been published ten years ago. A former federal prosecutor of terrorists, Ballen founded a non-profit organization called Terror Free Tomorrow devoted to understanding the minds and hearts of extremists and suicide bombers. Our current two wars are slowly nearing resolution, but it is essential that we understand the circumstances that drive people to extremism.
President Obama suggested last Thursday that the military focus of the United States has moved away from fighting the war on terror to asserting U.S. influence in East Asia. If Jeremi Suri, who was a history professor at my alma mater when I was an undergraduate, is correct in claiming in his new book that nation-building is an American specialty, then we should consider the realities of the common people in all of the places where we intervene.
In the past several years, economics has come to the forefront of national concern. When the stock market crashed in September and October of 2008, it practically sidelined John McCain's hopes of being elected president (his bungling of the issue during the campaign didn't help either) as the American public looked toward Barack Obama and a new Democratic administration to restore fiscal order. The complexities of the recent crash have been analyzed and retold, compared to the Great Depression, and set off the current Occupy movement against socioeconomic inequality. The following are some interesting new narratives related to economics.
Menzie Chinn was my favorite economics professor in college. He would begin each class by reviewing the latest economic indicators that were posted on Bloomberg.com and explain to us what they said about the state of the economy. Over a year before the market crashed, he laid out for us the dangerous state of the housing market. Professor Chinn's economics blog, which he frequently updates, is one of the best on the internet.
Given this praise, is it a wonder that I would feature here his latest book about the current recession? In Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and Long Recovery, Chinn compares the current financial crisis to previous ones here and abroad and highlights the crippling effect of America's debt on the economy. The title is a reference to Argentina during the 1980s, which became known as the "lost decade" for that country because of the problems caused by unrestrained borrowing from foreigners in the 1970s. Browsing through the book, I can tell it's written in the engaging and approachable style that I enjoyed as a student in Professor Chinn's class.
Markets take occasional dives in the natural course of financial life, but what frequently turns economic downturns into complete disasters is public fear. Widespread loss of confidence in the financial system is detrimental to banks, governments, and citizens because, among other things, it can increase inflation and diminish investments in new enterprises. A new work by Ron Suskind examines the recent crash from the perspective of confidence in government: how it was lost under the presidency of George W. Bush and regained during the election of Barack Obama.
What didn't help to ease public worries over the economy during 2008-09 were the repeated comparisons of those years' market crash to the Great Depression. How accurate and insightful is such a comparison? To answer this, we have to understand what the economy of the 1930s was like. A new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Hiltzik, titled The New Deal: A Modern History, reevaluates the momentous government programs launched by Franklin D. Roosevelt to address the economic impact of the Great Depression. It's worth a read to put current events in perspective.
Economics can be an obtuse subject for the uninitiated (myself included; I took the non-math intensive option in my major). Luckily, there are people out there who are both versed in econometrics and in prose writing. They help in the essential task of revealing economic issues to the public. A classic in this field is Robert L. Heilbroner's The Worldly Philosophers, which recounts the lives and ideas of important economic thinkers. Another work, written by Sylvia Nasar and published in September, focuses on the 19th and 20th Century economists who helped to improve the material circumstances of the poor worldwide.
Such histories vivify the very personal lives of now-dead economists. With this goal in mind, Mary Gabriel has just published a book called Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution. Looking at photographs of the long-bearded men and hoop-skirted women of the 19th Century, it's hard to imagine them as real. Their death and disappearance from the world suggests their fragility and insignificance. But knowing that we are all fated to this vanishing act, we can empathize with the stories of their lives. Karl Marx lived an interesting and influential one. What sights, circumstances, and experiences caused him to create his ideas? There are always human-interest stories behind the histories.
Memorial. Alice Oswald. I love it when old stories or events from the past are given a new breath of life by casting them with vivid modern language. Oswald retells Homer's epic, The Iliad, with contemporary forms and similies.
Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War. John Stubbs. This seems like an interesting book to introduce oneself to the English Civil War written by an author who has a sense of reality and humor about people of the past.
Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East. Stephen G. Fritz. Despite its significance, books about the Eastern Front in WWII are rare. This one is unique in examining both German military and terror operations.
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris. David King. A grim spin on (what seems to me) the recent popularity of French history in America, this book recounts a disturbing but fascinating true crime story.
Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year. General and President Grant died penniless but finished his brilliant memoirs just days before his death, saving his family from financial ruin. A really cool idea for a book.
This was a very helpful, well-written overview of quite a few books I'm interested in. Thank you!
While it may be true that no nation-states are currently at war with each other, how does Goldstein treat transnational terrorism? And we can't really count what's going on in Israel/Palestine as a civil war, nor is it a traditional war. I'm sure Goldstein took all of this into account, but I'm wondering if nation-states-at-war is a good index of peace in the first place. Do last year's numbers for armed conflict include civil wars, political murders, and terrorism?
Then, of course, we consider the foundational "war of each against all." I'm ready for that one to be over.
Thanks for your comment, Christopher. I'm not sure about the specifics of Goldstein's statistics (I haven't actually read the above books – I forgot to mention in this post as I have in the previous ones that these are book previews rather than book reviews). I should read Goldstein, but you make a good point in questioning how we measure "peace".
Civil wars in African nations today (and in Southeast Asian countries in previous decades, as well as in Europe in the 17th Century) result in millions of lives lost. And I guess, as you suggest, any war can be looked upon as a civil war from the perspective of our common humanity.


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Life Without Parole For Juveniles Essay
In today's society, juveniles can and do commit violent crimes. As a result, many are tried as adults and, if convicted, are sent to adult prison and sentenced to juvenile life without parole. Life without parole means that a young person is locked up for life without a second chance. Although some may argue that juveniles, who have committed violent crimes, deserve juvenile life without parole sentence, in reality, juvenile offenders should not be sentenced to life without parole because juveniles are mentally and emotionally immature, the victims of their own environment, and can be rehabilitated. Juveniles are not ready for life sentence without parole because of their mental and emotional immaturity. According to Paul Thompson's research on the teenage brain, the frontal lobes "are vastly immature throughout the teenage years" (7). The immaturity of the brain makes it extremely difficult for juveniles to control their impulses. As a result, juveniles often act out their impulses without weighing the consequences…show more content…
Back to Paul Thompson's research on the teenage brain, he claims that "the parts of the frontal lobes that inhibit reckless actions restructure themselves with startling speed in the teen years" (10). As their brains develop, juveniles are capable of changing their previously immature behavior. Rehabilitation is an opportunity for juveniles to demonstrate that they can change and become productive people for society. In addition, the former juvenile judge Gail Garinger show her support for rehabilitation by stating that "the same malleability that makes them vulnerable to peer pressure also makes them promising candidates for rehabilitation" (9). In other words, if juveniles are taught to become criminals, then they can also be rehabilitated to become good people. In order to allow such transformation to occur, juveniles should not be given life sentence without
Argumentative Essay On Juveniles
The way the justice system in America is run, we tend to give people a little slap on the wrist. We allow them to go on living their life in the world even if they are caught for speeding, killing, or even fraudulent scandals in business. However, even those little punishments are a bit harsh on teens who commit felons and are sentenced to 20+ years to life in jail. Their whole life is essentially thrown in the dirt at that point. To me, juveniles can always outgrow old habits and change their way of life and thinking unlike adults who may have grown up doing illicit activity and have a mindset for it.
Life Sentences For Juveniles
In the end people might have different opinions on the situation, whether a juvenile should be sentence to life or not. The situation of the juvenile should be taken into consideration and take action with that, but if they are guilty they should receive the fair sentence even if they are young. They can later be acknowledge for their rehab and change, and only then should their sentenced should be reduced. Juveniles deserve the same treatment as adult and should receive life sentences.
Abolish Mandatory Life Sentences To Juveniles
Every year in the United States, children as young as 13 are sentenced to spend the rest of their lives in prison without any chance for release. Approximately 2,500 children have been sentenced to juvenile life without parole (JLWOP) in the United States. Although the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June 2012 that juveniles convicted of murder cannot be subject to a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. I also completely disagree with the majority of U.S Supreme Court ruling that argued to abolish mandatory life sentences to juveniles who commit murder, because if an immature teenager is able to carry out a murder and complete it, that teenager under the age of 18 or not they should suffer the consequence for the crime committed. Also no matter the age of the murderer, the law was still broken when the crime was committed.
Lolita Barthel's Sentence Of Life In Prisons
There are more than 2,000 child offenders serving life without parole sentences in United States prisons for crimes committed before the age of 18 and Lolita Barthel is one of them. The United States is one of only a few countries in the world that permits children who commit crimes to be sentenced to prison forever, without any possibility of release. Only eight states in this country Alaska, Colorado, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, New Mexico, New York, and West Virginia and the District of Columbia prohibit life without parole for youthful offenders. Unfortunately, adolescents, like adults, commit horrible crimes and make terrible mistakes. And, like adults, they should be held accountable but in accordance with their age, stage of development, and greater capacity for rehabilitation.
Juvenile Rehabilitation In Adult Prisons
Imagine being a child imprisoned for committing a crime for which you did not understand the consequences. Alone and afraid, with only hardened criminals and psychopaths as adult role models, you live in fear. Through a vicious combination of physical, sexual, emotional, and mental abuse, there is no option but to turn back to crime as an adult, and continue the cycle. This is a daily reality for thousands of American juveniles. Yet, we continue to call it the juvenile justice system.
Cause Of Juvenile Crimes
In our country The United States, there are many juvenile center packed with juveniles that have done some type of crime to end up in these centers. The minors in these detention centers have done a crime rather it was minor or major. Some judges want some of these young people to serve life in prison as adults and some believe they shouldn't. Some courts want to see juveniles facing life in prison for crimes they've committed , these juveniles need to be heard and given a second chance they are still growing and do not yet have the same mentality as adults and have examples being set in their surroundings. Courts want to send juveniles to face a life sentence in prison for the crimes they've done without the chance to speak up for
Juveniles Live Without Parole
There are approximately 1,200 people that are in jail for life for crimes they committed as children ("Sentenced Young"). More than 25% of those people "were convicted of felony murder or accomplice liability", that is they were not the person who killed the individual and may have not even been there when the killing took place ("Facts and Inforgraphics"). The majority of the juveniles sentenced to live-without-parole come from states that's the mandatory sentence regardless of their age or circumstances ("Facts and Inforgraphics"). California, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania have the greater part of the juveniles sentenced to live-without-parole("Facts and Inforgraphics"). 14 states have banned live-without-parole sentences
Juvenile Justice System: Article Analysis
The current state of the juvenile justice system is one which has created an immense debate between a variety of people in the United States. The main question in this debate boils down to the issue of whether children should be able to be tried as an adult with no regard to their age. The juvenile court system is a separate entity from adult court which is used to handle the criminal cases of the youth in America. In the present, some children have their ability to fall under the jurisdiction of the adult courts revoked due to the gravity of their crimes. This should not be the case as the juvenile court should be given the ability to treat juveniles the way they should be.
Are Juveniles Cruel
Many people believe that it is cruel to charge juveniles with life sentences but, many like myself believe that if they committed the crime they should actually go to prison and serve life. People say that it's not right to do that because we may not know what their situation may be or they probably didn't know what they were doing but, they obviously had a plan they just didn't out of nowhere just go and kill that person. The supreme court ruled in 2012 that juveniles could not be sentenced to life in prison because it violated the eighth amendment. In my opinion, this isn't cruel something that would be cruel, would be giving juveniles the death penalty that is called being cruel. I agree with the four justices, that strongly disagreed, I think it's right because why should a juvenile that was actually proven to committing be given a second chance to go out into the real world sure they could have changed but, what if they are just saying that to get out.
Teenage Juvenile Crimes
Adults push young people towards responsibility and fairness; trust in put upon adolescents to raise the economy and continue living with society's morals for the sake of past and future generations. But then why does America lean towards harsh punishment without question when a minor commits a mistake? In the 1980s the U.S. experienced an increasing rate of adolescent committed crimes which led the justices on the Supreme Court to formulate difficult decisions on how to charge juvenile felons. The results was an increase in punishment, which led figures to see minors as adults in court and be sentenced with life without parole for heinous crimes like the taking of a human life-a crime that was punished with life without parole. However,
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Аморі (Амалріх) I (; д/н — 973) — перший маркграф Валансьєну у 958—973 роках.

Ймовірно син Реньє II, графа Ено. 958 року імператор Оттон I позбавив володінь графа Ено Реньє III за підняте проти нього повстання. Ено імператор розділив між Готфрідом I, герцогом Нижньої Лотарингії, і Аморі. Першому надав графством Монс, а другому — маркграфство Валансьєн.

Після смерті Готфріда I не зміг зайняти графство Монс, яке отримав наступний герцог Нижньої Лотарингії Ріхар. Зберіг маркграфство до самої смерті у 973 році. Після цього його було передано Гарньє.

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 Gesta episcoporum Cameracensium, hrsg. von Ludwig Conrad Bethmann in MGH SS 7 (1846), S. 427
 L. Vanderkindere, « Régnier IV », Académie royale de Belgique, Biographie nationale, vol. 19, Bruxelles, 1907
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, <small>GCL</small> is a former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having been General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. Wikipedia*
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Category Archives: 3-D
January 1, 2021 · 6:22 pm
2021 Ain't Lookin' Too Bad, So Far.
From our friends at The 3-D Film Archive.
Filed under 3-D, Abbott & Costello, Budd Boetticher, DVD/Blu-ray News, Julie Adams, The 3-D Film Archive
Blu-Ray News #301: Dynasty (1977, AKA Super Dragon) in 3-D.
The fine folks at The 3-D Film Archive have announced a followup to the Kickstarter campaign that fueled their incredible Blu-Ray of Africa Screams (1949) — I'll have a review of that one up soon, as soon as I find a few more superlatives!
This time, they're taking on Dynasty (AKA Qian dao wan li zhu AKA Super Dragon), a 3-D martial arts picture released in the States in 1977.
Once their work is through, you'll be able to watch its incredible martial arts action three ways —
• BD3D polarized 3-D
• Anaglyphic (red/cyan) 3-D
• Standard flat 2-D
The audio will present the English dub in its original 4-channel magnetic Quadrophonic sound.
They hope to have this in our hot little hands by December. There's plenty of work to be done, so click on the one-sheet above and help get this thing going!
Filed under 1977, 3-D, Film Preservation, The 3-D Film Archive
December 20, 2018 · 11:24 am
2018 In Review – Part 2.
When I started doing DVD and Blu-Ray commentaries, it no longer felt appropriate to survey the best DVD and Blu-Ray releases of the year. So, as a substitute (maybe a poor one), here's a reminder of a few things we were treated to this year. We'll let all the praise, complaints or ranking come from you in the comments. Part 1 can be found over at 50 Westerns From The 50s.
This was a banner year for old sci-fi and horror movies making their way to Blu-Ray. From what we're hearing so far, next year might be the same for noir and crime pictures. Anyway, here's some of 2018's bounty — a few of which I'm still working on proper reviews of.
The Thing (From Another World) (1951)
This is one of the all-time favorite movies. I find something new in it every time I see it — a line, a look, a particular setup, the music, a new appreciation for the guy who did the fire stunt. It's always something — and that, to me, is one of the requirements for a Great Movie. Warner Archive worked long and hard on this one, and I'm in their debt for sure.
The Hammer Draculas
It's like there was some sorta Monster Movie Summit, and it was decreed that the Hammer Dracula series would be given its due on Blu-Ray. Warner Archive did a lot of the heavy lifting with Horror Of Dracula (1958), Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) and The Satanic Rites Of Dracula (1974). In the meantime, Scream Factory came through with Dracula – Prince Of Darkness (1966). Taste The Blood Of Dracula (1970) hit Blu-Ray a few years ago. That leaves Scars Of Dracula (197) as the only Hammer Dracula picture not available on Blu-Ray. Who's gonna step up to the plate for that one?
The Hammer goodness wasn't limited to the Dracula pictures. Mill Creek included some Hammer pictures in their twin-bill sets, some of the best values in all of home video. Hammer Films, William Castle, Ray Harryhausen — there's some good stuff in those sets.
The Creature From The Black Lagoon Complete Legacy Collection
That's quite a name for a set that only includes three movies. But what movies they are — the first two, anyway. And they're in both widescreen 2-D and 3-D.
Gun Crazy (1949)
Joseph H. Lewis hit it out of the park with Gun Crazy (1949). So did his cast — and this year, with a stunning Blu-Ray, so did Warner Archive.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956)
Don Siegel making it to Blu-Ray is always a reason to celebrate, and this is one of his many milestones. Over the years, we've all put up with some pretty shoddy-looking stuff when it comes to this incredible movie. Olive Films' Blu-Ray is a huge improvement.
The Tingler (1959)
It's hard to pick between this one and House On Haunted Hill (1958) for my favorite William Castle movie. Scream Factory did a wonderful job with this one, and they've given us other Castle pictures as well.
Dark Of The Sun (1968)
Warner Archive has been hinting around about this one on Blu-Ray for a while. It's beautiful — and still one of the damnedest movies I've ever seen.
There's a few that stood out for me. What DVD and Blu-Ray releases knocked you out this year?
Filed under 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1970, 1972, 1973, 3-D, Barbara Shelley, Caroline Munro, Christopher Lee, Don Siegel, DVD/Blu-ray News, DVD/Blu-ray Reviews, Hammer Films, Howard Hawks, Jack Arnold, James Arness, John Agar, Joseph H. Lewis, Julie Adams, Kenneth Tobey, Kevin McCarthy, Mill Creek, Nestor Paiva, Olive Films, Peggy Cummins, Peter Cushing, Richard Carlson, Richard Denning, Richarld Carlson, RKO, Rod Taylor, Shout/Scream Factory, Terence Fisher, Vincent Price, Warner Archive, William Castle
Blu-Ray News #188: Universal Classic Monsters – Complete 30-Film Collection (1931-1956).
If in its glory days, Universal made a movie about Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy, The Wolf Man, The Invisible Man or The Creature From The Black Lagoon, it's in this box — in high definition. What more do I have to tell you?
Here's what you get: Dracula / Drácula (Spanish version) / Frankenstein / The Mummy / The Invisible Man / Werewolf Of London / Bride Of Frankenstein / Dracula's Daughter / Son Of Frankenstein / The Invisible Man Returns / The Mummy's Hand / The Invisible Woman / The Wolf Man / The Mummy's Tomb / Ghost Of Frankenstein / Invisible Agent / Son Of Dracula / Phantom Of The Opera / Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man / The Mummy's Ghost / House Of Frankenstein / The Mummy's Curse / The Invisible Man's Revenge / House Of Dracula / She-Wolf Of London / Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein / Abbott & Costello Meet The Invisible Man / Creature From The Black Lagoon / Abbott & Costello Meet The Mummy / Revenge Of The Creature / The Creature Walks Among Us
Thirty movies in all, and only one in color (Phantom Of The Opera). The Creature movies and Abbott & Costello Meet The Mummy are 1.85.
Just wondering: where's Abbott & Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1953)? Guess Jekyll/Hyde's outside their normal monster cycle.
This is a great thing, and it's coming next week.
Filed under 3-D, 30s Horror, Abbott & Costello, Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Curt Siodmak, DVD/Blu-ray News, Jack Arnold, Jack Pierce, James Whale, John Carradine, Julie Adams, Lon Chaney Jr., Marie Windsor, Nestor Paiva, Richard Carlson, Richard Denning, Tod Browning, Universal (-International), Vincent Price, Whit Bissell
July 10, 2018 · 10:14 am
Blu-Ray News #177: Sangaree (1953) In 3-D.
Directed by Edward Ludwig
Starring Fernando Lamas, Arlene Dahl, Patricia Medina, Francis L. Sullivan, Charles Korvin
Kino Lorber Studio Classics and the 3-D Film Archive have announced the upcoming 3-D Blu-Ray release of Sangaree (1953).
Sangaree was to be another Pine-Thomas picture, but Paramount picked it to be their first 3-D production. Shooting was underway when the 3-D decision was made, so some scenes had to be re-shot. Be sure to read all about it here and watch for the Blu-Ray in September.
Filed under 1953, 3-D, DVD/Blu-ray News, Edward Ludwig, Kino Lorber, Paramount, Pine-Thomas
Blu-Ray News #172: Creature From the Black Lagoon: Complete Legacy Collection (1954-1956).
Universal has announced that their Creature From The Black Lagoon – Complete Legacy Collection set is coming to Blu-Ray. It includes Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954), Revenge Of The Creature (1955) and The Creature Walks Among Us (1956). The first two were in 3-D and directed by the great Jack Arnold (and feature Nestor Paiva).
Revenge is finally making its way to Blu-Ray in 3-D. For me, the great benefit of this set will be having all three pictures in their original 1.85 aspect ratio. While the first two are among my all-time favorite films — and I've got a pile of Creature toys to prove it, Walks Among Us is a mess. But I'm looking forward to revisiting it in high definition. This stuff is essential, folks.
Filed under 1954, 1955, 1956, 3-D, DVD/Blu-ray News, Jack Arnold, John Agar, Julie Adams, Nestor Paiva, Richard Carlson, Universal (-International)
Blu-Ray News #157: The Maze (1953).
Directed by William Cameron Menzies
Starring Richard Carlson, Veronica Hurst, Hillary Brooke, Michael Pate
Kino Lorber has announced the upcoming release of The Maze (1953) on Blu-Ray in 3-D, "restored… in 4K from original stereoscopic left/right 35mm archival elements by Kino Lorber Studio Classics and the 3D Film Archive."
The Maze is an atmospheric Gothic horror movie with a great cast: Richard Carlson (fresh from It Came From Outer Space and about to meet up with The Creature From The Black Lagoon), Hillary Brooke (so great in The Abbott & Costello Show on TV) and Michael Pate (who would soon appear with a 3-D John Wayne in Hondo). William Cameron Menzies' visual style — he layered things to accentuate the depth — made him an ideal director for 3-D.
This is gonna be a great one, folks!
Filed under 1953, 3-D, DVD/Blu-ray News, Kino Lorber, Monogram/Allied Artists, Richard Carlson
DVD/Blu-Ray Rumor #145: I, The Jury (1953).
Directed by Harry Essex
Starring Biff Elliot, Preston Foster, Peggie Castle, Margaret Sheridan, John Qualen, Elisha Cook, Jr.
It's the first film based on a Mickey Spillane/Mike Hammer book. It was in 3-D, shot by the great John Alton. And it's got a terrific cast: Peggie Castle, Margaret Sheridan (so great in The Thing), Elisha Cook, Jr.
The word on the street is that it's being prepped for a Blu-Ray release. That's great news. Wonder if they've found the stereo tracks?
Filed under 1953, 3-D, DVD/Blu-ray News, Elisha Cook, Jr., Peggie Castle
Blu-Ray Review: Money From Home (1953).
Directed by George Marshall
Produced by Hal B. Wallis
Screenplay by Hal Kanter
Adapted by James Allardice and Hal Kanter
From a story by Damon Runyon
Director Of Photography: Daniel L. Fapp
Cast: Dean Martin (Honey Talk Nelson), Jerry Lewis (Virgil Yokum), Marjie Millar (Phyllis Leigh), Pat Crowley (Autumn Claypool), Richard Haydn (Bertie Searles), Robert Strauss (Seldom Seen Kid), Gerald Mohr (Marshall Preston), Sheldon Leonard (Jumbo Schneider), Jack Kruschen (Short Boy)
From a technical standpoint, Money From Home (1953) was a real landmark for Martin and Lewis. It was their first picture in color — and in some theaters it played in 3-D (and stereo), too. It was one of only two (if memory servces) films shot in both three-strip Technicolor and 3-D, which meant six (!) strips of negative were going through the camera at once.
This was the first Martin and Lewis picture I ever saw, catching it on TV as a kid. I loved it. So while I think the pair made better films (Artists And Models gets my vote for their best), I have a real soft spot for this one.
It's the 20s. Dean's a gambler named Honey Talk Nelson who owes a small fortune to bookmaker Jumbo Schneider (Sheldon Leonard). Jumbo will forgive Honey Talk's stack of IOUs if Dean can keep a certain horse from winning a certain race — with the alternative being a pair of cement boots. So Honey Talk drafts his animal-loving, vet tech cousin Virgil (Lewis) and off they go. This paves the way for the typical crooning and romancing from Martin — of course, he falls for the owner of the horse he's trying to fix (Marjie Millar), along with the prerequisite stupidity from Lewis — doing the dance of the seven veils, impersonating an English jockey, letting his ant farm loose at a cocktail party, etc. There's a lot of funny stuff in here, most of it dependent on your personal preference and/or tolerance for Jerry Lewis.
Paramount surrounded Martin and Lewis with some great character actors in this one. Richard Haydn is funny as the drunk jockey Bertie Searles), and Robert Strauss, Sheldon Leonard and Jack Kruschen are great as the mobsters. Oh, and be sure to look for Mara Corday as a waitress.
Dean in front of the Dynoptic camera rig, Jerry with his (16mm?) home movie camera.
Olive Films has gives us a nice, if bare-bones, Blu-Ray of Money From Home. There's been a lot of squawking about why they didn't go all out with 3-D, which overlooks just how nice this Blu-Ray really is. (And besides, this isn't the kinda movie that needs 3-D to work.) It's sharp as a tack, with near-perfect contrast and color — allowing for some of the inconsistencies you see in a lot of old Technicolor material. That isn't a complaint at all — it looks every bit like what it is, a polished Paramount studio picture from the early 50s. The audio is nice and clean — it's a shame the stereo tracks have been lost.
Money From Home is a funny picture, and Olive Films has it looking seriously splendid. It's easy to recommend this.
Filed under 1953, 3-D, Dean Martin, DVD/Blu-ray Reviews, George Marshall, Jerry Lewis, Mara Corday, Olive Films, Paramount
Blu-Ray News #120: Cease Fire (1953).
Directed by Owen Crump
Starring Roy Thompson Jr., Henry Goszkowski, Richard Karl Elliott
Here's one I've always wanted to see. Cease Fire (1953) was shot on location in Korea, during the war, using real GIs, in 3-D. That's quite a thing.
Kino Lorber and The 3-D Film Archive are bringing it to Blu-Ray this summer.
Filed under 1953, 3-D, DVD/Blu-ray News, Kino Lorber, Paramount


Barcelona striker Luis Suarez says there is "no way" Neymar could play for Real Madrid in the future due to the "admiration" he has for his former teammates at the Camp Nou.
Neymar joined Paris Saint-Germain from Barcelona in a world-record €222 million deal in the summer, but there has been speculation that he and his camp have a long-term plan to use the Ligue 1 club as a temporary stop-off point before joining Madrid -- as moving directly between the two La Liga giants was not possible.
Such a plan has been welcomed by Madrid captain Sergio Ramos and Neymar's Brazil teammate Casemiro, and was not ruled out by his father last week, who said it was "too early" to start talking about whether the forward would play at the Santiago Bernabeu at some point in his career.
Speaking to Marca, Suarez was asked whether he could see Neymar playing on the other side of the Clasico divide.
"No way," he said. "Sincerely, I don't see it. I know how Neymar is and the admiration he had for Barcelona and his teammates. I don't see him now going to play for Real Madrid."
The last player to move directly between the two clubs was Luis Figo back in 2000, with the controversy around his shock switch from Barca to Madrid having heightened tensions between fans on either side.
Representing both clubs over the course of a career was more common in the 1990s, however. Recent Barca coach Luis Enrique, Michael Laudrup, Gheorghe Hagi, Robert Prosinecki, Luis Milla, Albert Celades and current Spain boss Julen Lopetegui all had spells at both Barca and Madrid.


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Home Weather Extreme FEMA's help for Alaska Natives after rare typhoon was littered with mistranslations,...
FEMA's help for Alaska Natives after rare typhoon was littered with mistranslations, nonsense
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — After tidal surges and high winds from the remnants of a rare typhoon caused extensive damage to homes along Alaska's western coast in September, the U.S. government stepped in to help residents — largely Alaska Natives — repair property damage.
Residents who opened Federal Emergency Management Agency paperwork expecting to find instructions on how to file for aid in Alaska Native languages like Yup'ik or Inupiaq instead were reading bizarre phrases.
"Tomorrow he will go hunting very early, and will (bring) nothing," read one passage. The translator randomly added the word "Alaska" in the middle of the sentence.
"Your husband is a polar bear, skinny," another said.
Yet another was written entirely in Inuktitut, an Indigenous language spoken in northern Canada, far from Alaska.
FEMA fired the California company hired to translate the documents once the errors became known, but the incident was an ugly reminder for Alaska Natives of the suppression of their culture and languages from decades past.
FEMA immediately took responsibility for the translation errors and corrected them, and the agency is working to make sure it doesn't happen again, spokesperson Jaclyn Rothenberg said. No one was denied aid because of the errors.
That's not good enough for one Alaska Native leader.
For Tara Sweeney, an Inupiaq who served as an assistant secretary of Indian Affairs in the U.S. Interior Department during the Trump administration, this was another painful reminder of steps taken to prevent Alaska Native children from speaking Indigenous languages.
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Modi's manoeuvres with ASEAN are part of India's transformation into a frontline state in Washington's strategic offensive against China.
India's army chief has said that if the deteriorating situation along the border warrants it, his forces stand ready to call Islamabad's nuclear "bluff" and strike inside Pakistan.
India's burgeoning military-strategic partnership with Israel dovetails with its ever-more pronounced alignment with Washington and its principal Asian allies, Japan and Australia.
The WEF deliberations will be bookended by speeches from Modi, a slavish servant of big business and Hindu supremacist, and the fascist-minded billionaire, US President Donald Trump.
The Volkswagen Employees Union (VEU) is attempting to suppress growing opposition among VW workers against the German transnational's productivity-based wage scheme.
The meeting explained the significance of the Bolsheviks' internationalist perspective in leading the October 1917 Revolution.
The unions ordered workers back to work without any of their demands being met and despite the fact that they had defied a court order to end the strike for a week.
The willingness of workers to defend the WSWS team is a reflection of growing sympathy for a socialist and internationalist perspective and hostility towards the unions.
While the trade unions offer to compromise, the strikers have defied court orders, media propaganda and government threats to hire outside drivers and conductors.
WSWS reporters spoke with several striking bus workers in Chennai who are engaged in the bitter struggle with the Tamil Nadu state government for higher wages.
The restaurant fire underscores the impact of India's pro-market reforms, in which all safety concerns are subordinated to profit.
The Kolkata meeting will discuss the political and theoretical struggles led by Lenin and Trotsky and their significance for today.
The Sriperumbudur public meeting was held despite the illegal attempt by Indian police to disrupt it.
While the Congress Party is benefiting from popular anger over mass joblessness, it has mounted a foul campaign, competing with the BJP to prove its Hindu bonafides and making reactionary casteist appeals.
The police operation is a desperate attempt by the ruling elite to cover up the stark reality of mass poverty in India.
The meeting will discuss the internationalist foundations of the struggle to release the framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers. The speeches will be given in Tamil and English and streamed live via Facebook on December 10 at 10am.
The rival CPM factions have no fundamental or principled differences, but merely disagree over which rightwing course the party should pursue.
Governments at central and city levels have failed to take adequate measures to protect Delhi's population from highly toxic smog.
The blast was a product of sub-standard safety conditions that are endemic in Indian factories and power plants.
The poorest 50 percent of Indians must make do with an income share of just 15 percent, eking out their existence on an average annual income of just US $705.
The US secretary of state made clear that New Delhi is central to Washington's aggressive strategy against China.
An enhanced Indo-US alliance, Tillerson told the Center for Strategic and International Studies, is vital to counter a rising China that refuses to heel to the US-led world order.
ICFI/WSWS supporters spoke to students about Google censorship, the Indian government's attacks on democratic rights and the US war drive against China.
The Indian economy, touted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a high-growth haven, is increasingly mired in crisis.
The suicide of a Tamil Nadu student over the NEET entrance test has triggered demonstrations throughout the southern Indian state.
"Blocking information is a dictatorial measure; governments and big companies are trying to prevent us from finding critical information," said one worker.
Modi's backing for the Burmese repression of the Rohingya is driven by anti-Muslim communalism and his strategic aim of undermining China throughout the region.
The walkout indicates workers' determination to push back the escalating social assaults by India's Modi government and the state governments.
Despite countless warnings, India's government and state administrations were totally unprepared for the floods.
India and China sought to use last week's BRICS heads of government summit to "reset" their relations after almost coming to blows during a 73-day border standoff.
Gauri Lankesh is the fourth prominent critic of Hindu supremacism and fundamentalism to be assassinated in as many years.
The geo-strategic conference gave another indication of US and Indian preparations for war against China.
While India's capitalist elite has amassed unprecedented wealth, successive Congress and BJP governments have gutted the public health system.
Despite police efforts to block the meeting, participants discussed how Washington's war plans and India's partnership with the US are intensifying geopolitical tensions in the region.
The US has been pursuing a military and strategic buildup against China and wants Sri Lanka kept in its orbit.
The principal factor in the deterioration of Indo-Chinese relations is India's integration into Washington's military-strategic offensive against China.
Indian supporters of the ICFI discussed the escalating danger of nuclear war with workers in the Sriperambudur Special Economic Zone and students from Madras University.
India's "big bang" tax reform is aimed at shifting a still greater share of the tax burden onto working people, and away from big business, the rich and super-rich.
In a desperate attempt to save the lives of their dying children, parents used pumps to force air into their lungs.
The Partition was one of the great crimes of the 20th century—a crime that has shaped, or more precisely deformed, the entire subsequent history of South Asia.
India and China have increased military deployments along their disputed border, increasing the danger that their eight-week-long standoff on the Doklam Plateau could cascade into war.
The standoff between Indian and Chinese troops on the Doklam Plateau is continuing, amid growing warnings of an impending military clash.
Workers responded enthusiastically to the international defense campaign and related their own experiences of sweatshop conditions and fighting state repression.
The workers are being subjected to a joint company-government vendetta for fighting slave labor conditions in an attack similar to that faced by Maruti Suzuki workers.
The Stalinists parties have responded to the Indian ruling elite's embrace of social reaction by redoubling their efforts to subordinate workers to the political establishment.
Beijing has sent strong signals to India that it must unilaterally withdraw its troops from a Himalayan ridge claimed by both China and Bhutan or face a sharp deterioration in bilateral relations, even war.
Tuesday marked five years since a management-provoked incident that authorities used as a pretext to railroad 13 Indian autoworkers to life in prison.
Amazon has become the second largest global investor in India's digital economy.
For "strategic" reasons, a state-owned Indian energy company has renewed a South China Sea oil-exploration lease in defiance of Beijing.
For the past month, Indian and Chinese troops have been arrayed against each other on a Himalayan ridge that is claimed by both China and Bhutan.
Modi's visit, the first by an Indian prime minister to Israel, was capped by an agreement to expand military-security cooperation.
New Delhi and Beijing are trading bellicose threats, with both insisting the other must stand down.
India and China have rushed troops to a remote border region, in what is widely being described as the worst stand-off between the two countries since they fought a war in 1962.
India is increasingly serving as a frontline state in US imperialism's strategic confrontation with China.
Recent deaths at a major government hospital underline the dangerous conditions in India's under-funded public health sector.
It would take an Indian worker 1,001,430 years to earn what Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made on a single day, when Amazon announced the purchase of Whole Foods.
Rebecca John, who represented the Maruti Suzuki workers in the final stages of their four-and-a-half-year-long court case, spoke with the WSWS last month as she completed work on an appeal.
Jitendra Kumar, a provisional committee member of the Maruti Suzuki Workers Union, spoke to the WSWS about the frame-up convictions and life sentences imposed on 13 Indian autoworkers.
Despite India and Pakistan becoming full SCO members, there has been no de-escalation of war tensions between the two nuclear-armed South Asian rivals.
The Haryana state government is appealing the acquittal of 117 Maruti Suzuki workers on bogus charges and demanding harsher sentences for 18 other workers.
Mass demonstrations by farmers are intensifying the crisis of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.
According to industry reports, India's IT sector could eliminate 600,000 jobs over the next three years.
The WSWS has covered the struggle of the Maruti Suzuki workers over many years, explaining its international significance and providing a political perspective to fight the workers' persecution by Indian authorities.
New Delhi, acting in concert with the US, is aggressively seeking to block Beijing's activities.
Predictably the military's announcement that it would convene a court of inquiry to investigate the incident has proven to be a cruel joke.
Modi arrived after India and the US expressed concerns about the Colombo government's economic ties with Beijing.
Far from constituting a blow for justice, the court's exoneration of 117 of the accused workers was a maneuver aimed at sustaining the legal vendetta against the principal accused—the leaders of the Maruti Suzuki Workers Union.
India's former National Security Advisor has warned that the ruling elite has lost control of the situation in Kashmir, with unarmed youth repeatedly risking their lives to impede security operations.
The event was part of the Trotskyist movement's commemoration of the centenary of the October 1917 Revolution.
The tour was aimed at reassuring Japanese investors that India is committed to enforcing a low-wage regime.
Students and workers responded to the plight of the jailed autoworkers with indignation at their treatment at the hands of the Indian police and government.
Over the past week campaigners have won support from workers near the Colombo Port and students at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura and Colombo University.
Brooklyn College Professor Immanuel Ness, who has written extensively on the class struggle in India, was part of a team that investigated the persecution of the Maruti Suzuki workers.
Relations between India and Pakistan are again on the boil, just months after South Asia's rival nuclear-armed powers came to the brink of war.
The region is caught up in the whirlpool of geo-political tensions produced by the drive towards another imperialist war, amid rising class struggle.
Residents in the small town of Chavakachcheri, near Jaffna, said social conditions for Tamil workers were like those confronting the persecuted autoworkers in India.
Police colluded with Maruti Suzuki, fabricated evidence, and systematically failed to carry out basic forensic tests as part of a bogus investigation aimed at framing up militant workers who challenged sweatshop conditions.
In arguing for the hanging of the framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers, the prosecution denounced the workers for imperiling the Modi government's efforts to woo profit-hungry investors.
Speakers will explain that the only way to prevent another world war is the mobilisation of Indian workers as a part of an international anti-war movement.
Leaders of the ruling Bharatiya Janatha Party and the opposition Congress Party support the US military attacks.


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It's important that we understand the time spent in Parse/Compile can often be 2–5x as long on phones as on desktop.
Hence why you should slow down your CPU by 10x when benchmarking your site, in case you also want to make the fastest website in the world.