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Mireille Mathieu singing La Marseillaise (with lyrics)
Mireille Mathieu‘s legendary performance of La Marseillaise with the Eiffel Tower in the background.
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die krone wird zum auserwählten kommen
Definition of sabotage verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner‘s Dictionary
sabotage something: to prevent something from being successful or being achieved, especially deliberately
Die zapatistische „Reise für das Leben“ in Europa hat begonnen
Die Delegation ist am 2. Mai von Isla Mujeres, Mexiko, an Bord des Segelschiffes „Die Strahlratte“ nach Europa losgefahren. Es ist die erste Etappe der zapatistischen „Reise für das Leben“.
Daniel in the lions‘ den
At daybreak the king hurries to the place and cries out anxiously, asking if God had saved his friend. Daniel replies that his God had sent an angel to close the jaws of the lions, „because I was found blameless before him“. The king commands that those who had conspired against Daniel should be thrown to the lions in his place with their wives and children, and that the whole world should tremble and fear before the God of Daniel.
Opera at the window: Itinerant troupe takes the stage in Paris courtyards
After a year off the stage, a group of young artists have decided to keep the music of Beethoven, Ravel and Saint-Saëns alive by offering performances in Parisian courtyards, in full compliance with health regulations.
Reichster Mann Tschechiens tödlich verunglückt
Auch Kellners Konzern, die PPF Group, bestätigte den tödlichen Unfall.
«Den Jungen ist gar nicht bewusst, wie schlecht es ihnen geht»
“ Ich habe «Individuum» immer für eine sehr ermächtigende Vokabel gehalten, dachte, damit gehen immer ein Privilegium und Freiheiten einher. Das kann aber auch zerschlagen, dass ich mich mit anderen zusammengehörig fühle. Ein sozialer Aufstand, den ich mir als konservativer Mensch natürlich über Partizipationsmodelle in der Wirtschaft wünsche, ist sehr unwahrscheinlich geworden. Weil die Leute gar nicht erkennen, dass sie in der gleichen Lage sind.“
Why we need Free Speech Champions
Free speech is the central principle of a healthy democracy. It is a vital tool for giving a voice to the voiceless, and for ensuring that everyone gets a say without being shut down. We are lucky to live in a country where we are free to criticise those in power, and where the government can be held to account by a young footballer. We must make the most of this.
Scrooged! The Movie – Put a Little Love in your Heart – End Scene
The brilliant, Bill Murray giving us an insight into how we should live life everyday not just at Christmas!
NATO Huddles With Asia-Pacific Democracies to Talk China
The incoming Biden administration has pledged to do even more to partner with allies on the China challenge.
In another step in that direction, on December 2, the foreign ministers of the NATO members, along with delegations from Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea, gathered virtually to discuss the rise of China and the implications for the global balance of power.
Imagine time traveling back to 2010 to explain this headline
Gang of transgender women drop-kicked then stamped on 19-year-old man in Tube attack after he told them they needed to have female genitalia to be women
A gang of drunken transgender women who stamped on a teenager outside a Tube station have walked free from court.
Tamsin Lush, 29, Tylah Jo Bryan and Amarnih Lewis-Daniel, both 24, set upon the 19-year-old after he told them they needed female genitalia to be women.
“It always seems impossible until it‘s done.”
Nelson Mandela
Everything’s Impossible Until Someone Does It
“ Bruce Waine ”
Science reveals secrets behind the success of Game of Thrones
In other words, Martin keeps his characters’ networks within the limits that his readers’ human minds were designed by evolution to cope with.
Der Untertan
Der Untertan ist ein Roman von Heinrich Mann. Heinrich Mann erzählt mit ironischer Distanz Heßlings Lebensgeschichte von dessen Kindheit bis hin zur Sicherung seiner Stellung in der wilhelminischen Gesellschaft.
Der Roman erzählt von Diederich Heßling als Beispiel für einen bestimmten Typ Mensch in der Gesellschaft des deutschen Kaiserreichs. Heßling ist obrigkeitshörig, feige und ohne Zivilcourage. Er ist ein Mitläufer und Konformist.
So It Turns Out ‘Overpopulation’ Was Always A Stupid Patriarchal Myth
The mass media have been discussing these findings with shock and alarm, because such information is likely to be new and surprising to anyone who has never gone through the all-consuming herculean effort of motherhood. To anyone who has, the idea that most women would choose to have two or fewer children if given the resources, information and freedom to do so is just self-evident common sense.
What It’s Like to Eat Inside Seattle’s Much-Discussed Protest Space
With so much national attention on the politics, it may seem a small thing to focus on food, which is only one part of the ecosystem at the CHOP/CHAZ. But the way people eat there offers a glimpse into the energy of the protest space, whether it’s through pop-up community kitchens, street vendors selling items right in the middle of everything, or local restaurants trying to figure out their place as a support pipeline.
Eben gerade in der Tagesschau gehört dass die Bundeswehr schon seit 19 Jahren in Afghanistan ist. Gebracht hat es ja nicht so viel.
Why did Dorothy want to get back to Kansas when she could have been having fun in Oz?
It fits in the story because when hard choices have to be made, we should always live with the regret of having not done the other.
Auld Lang Syne
Im Anschluss an die Abstimmung des Europäischen Parlaments über das Austrittsabkommen mit Großbritannien sang am 29. Januar 2020 ein Großteil der Mitglieder des Europäischen Parlaments gemeinsam das Lied im Plenum.
How To Be A Mentally Sovereign Human
Being a mentally sovereign human means constructing your own understanding of this weird reality based on your own investigations and your own reasoning, which means constructing it from the ground up. Even your most basic assumptions about reality itself must be rigorously cross-examined with complete skepticism. Nothing must be taken on faith.
Proposed Book Banning Bill in Missouri Could Imprison Librarians
A bill proposed in Missouri this month represents a transparent, shameful attempt to legalize book banning in public libraries within the state, PEN America said today.
Die Weltzeituhr
Unabhängig von Ihrem Standort wird Ihnen die aktuelle Uhrzeit inklusive Zeitunterschied zur Mitteleuropäischen Zeit bzw. Sommerzeit angezeigt!
Young couple dies in collision leaving their wedding ceremony
The newlyweds were leaving an Orange County Justice of the Peace precinct after their marriage ceremony, Lt. Gary Keaton, a spokesman for the department said. Behind them were the groom‘s mother and sister, who witnessed the deadly collision.
Papst Franziskus: „Näher mein Europa zu Dir“
In einem Interview mit „La Stampa“ setzt das Oberhaupt der Katholischen Kirche Souveränismus mit Faschismus gleich und predigt neben „Zuerst Europa, dann jeder von uns“ auch „Globalisierung und Einheit“ in seiner Interpretation.
If you don’t believe in free speech for people who you hate, fear and disagree with, then you don’t believe in free speech.
Anna Sorokin: Schreib‘ dich selbst!
Die Stadt sei von ihrer Unverfrorenheit wie „besessen“, hieß es im Time Magazine, und Netflix plant eine Serie.
Sorokins Kapital war es, Kapital vorspiegeln zu können, wovon sich Künstler und Galeristen berauschen ließen, Fotografen, Sterneköche, Hoteliers, Bankiers, Investoren, Mäzene, Freundinnen, Freunde.
A Personal Message From Justin Raimondo
I have been gravely ill with fourth stage lung cancer for two years, fighting to not only survive physically but as a voice for Antiwar.com. A good way to bring myself down to earth is with an old Italian recipe and chat with the neighbors. They don‘t make make ’em like that any more. And I have brought plenty of that principled nonintervention stuff to you, our readers.
My neighbors are so kind and open hearted. That‘s how I think of my readers – like neighbors, old friends, many of whom I haven‘t seen or talked to in a while. Well, I‘m still, folks, still writing and hanging in there. Life goes on: I must write this fundraising pitch as the site continues to grow and reach more people. I may not be the best fundraiser, but I think you understand the spirit in which I write this note.
With Venezuela, Russia, the conflation of multiple „crises“ breaking out, this letter is not a panic but a way to reconnect in a personal way with my readers, steadfast and loyal supporters.
You are the reason I must continue my personal and ideological fight.
Please help me win this fight.
Today is International Workers‘ Memorial Day. Remember the dead. But fight for the living. #IWMD19
Live: Funeral takes place for murdered journalist Lyra McKee | ITV News
In keeping with Ms McKee‘s values, her funeral is intended to be a cross-community, cross-border and multi-cultural service, and will take place in a Protestant cathedral despite Ms McKee being born a Catholic.
Soylent Green Is People!!!
Charlton Heston in the 1973 sci-fi classic.
A bill in Washington state would allow the composting of human remains
The average burial, KIRO said, can cost between $8,000 and $25,000. Cremation can top $6,000. Spade said she hopes to charge about $5,500 for human composting.
One supporter for human composting, Leslie Christian, told KIRO it‘s an attractive from an environmental perspective. She said she told her brother, who reportedly said, „Oh great, you can plant tomatoes in me.“
How to fight the new fascism
Moreover, identitarians on both the left and the right see human beings only through the prism of race, gender or sexuality, and fail to account for the primacy of the individual. As such, they are in direct opposition to the principles of Martin Luther King, who valued the content of one’s character over the colour of one’s skin. While collectivist rhetoric from the racist far right is easy enough to dismiss, it is far more difficult when it comes from those who claim to be advancing a progressive agenda.
World Heritage List
1092 Properties
37 Transboundary
2 Delisted
54 In Danger
845 Cultural
209 Natural
38 Mixed
#NotreDameCathedral please please can we have a SPRINKLER systems in the roof of Westminster abbey and Salisbury cathedral and more!
The Palace of Westminster is a world heritage site and water literally poured through the roof of the Commons the other week. Buildings like this & Notre Dame are part of our human story – we have a duty to save them.
Notre-Dame de Paris, avant et après l’incendie en images
La comparaison entre les images précédant l’incendie et celles prises au lendemain de celui-ci permet de mesurer l’étendue des dégâts causés sur la charpente de la cathédrale.
Notre Dame’s loss is too much to bear
One winter morning heavy snow was falling and as I headed to the station I stopped dead, alone in the street with the cathedral and just drinking in the sight of a building I had seen a hundred times before. When I got into London a friend could see I was just beaming still, radiating far too much joy for such a time of the week. He asked how I was and I remember simply saying, ‘This morning I saw Notre Dame in the snow’. It was like that.
Notre Dame cathedral spire collapses
Fire has engulfed the Notre Dame cathedral in the heart of Paris, and the cathedral‘s iconic spire has collapsed.
Live: Fire rages at iconic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
Firefighters are battling a massive blaze at the French capital‘s iconic Notre Dame Cathedral, where flames and black smoke were seen shooting from the base of the medieval church‘s spire on Monday.
Feuer in Notre-Dame ausgebrochen
Der Brand könnte nach Informationen der französischen Nachrichtenagentur AFP mit Renovierungsarbeiten zusammenhängen. Er sei auf dem Dachboden der Kathedrale ausgebrochen und gegen 18.50 Uhr entdeckt worden.
Ein deutscher Auswanderer berichtet – Morde in Christchurch: Schock im Paradies Neuseeland
TE:
Würden Sie heute sagen, so etwas Schreckliches hätte sich bereits angedeutet? Man hätte es erkennen und z.B. geheimdienstlich vorher mehr machen müssen?
JB:
Neuseeland ist im Rahmen von Nato-Missionen stark in Afghanistan und Co. beteiligt. Ich hatte eher mit einem Anschlag aus der anderen Richtung gerechnet.
Aldous Huxley: Schöne neue Welt
Und auf einmal begann aus dem Synthetofon eine Stimme zu sprechen. Die Stimme der Vernunft und der Eintracht. Auf dem Tonband lief die synthetische Aufruhrbeschwichtigung Nummer 2 (mittlere Stärke) ab. Unmittelbar aus der Tiefe eines nicht vorhandenen Herzens sagte die Stimme pathetisch: »Meine Freunde, meine Freunde«, sagte das mit so unendlich zartem Vorwurf, daß selbst den Polizisten hinter ihren Gasmasken für eine Sekunde die Tränen in die Augen traten. »Was soll das alles? Warum seid ihr nicht allesamt glücklich und gut miteinander?
Glücklich und gut«, wiederholte die Stimme. »In Frieden, in Frieden.« Sie bebte, sank zu einem Flüstern herab und erstarb für einen Augenblick. »Oh, wie möchte ich euch so gerne glücklich sehen«, begann sie von neuem mit sehnsüchtig eindringlichem Ernst. »Wie gerne sähe ich euch gut! Ich bitte euch, ich bitte euch, seid gut und -«
Nach zwei Minuten hatten die Stimme und die Somadämpfe ihre Wirkung getan. Unter Tränen küßten und umarmten die Deltas einander, immer ein halbes Dutzend Simultangeschwister auf einmal in einer großen Umarmung.
Sogar Helmholtz und der Wilde waren den Tränen nahe.
Ein neuer Vorrat Pillenschachteln wurde aus der Somakammer gebracht, in aller Eile verteilt, und unter den überströmenden Segenswünschen der Stimme zerstreuten sich die herzzerbrechend schluchzenden Dutzendlinge. …
BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
Suddenly ,from out of the Synthetic Music Box a Voice began to speak. The Voice of Reason, the Voice of Good Feeling. The sound-track roll was un winding itself in Synthetic Anti-Riot Speech Number Two (Medium Strength). Straight from the depths of a non-existent heart, „My friends, my friends!“ said the Voice so pathetically, with a note of such infinitely tender reproach that, behind their gas masks, even the policemen‘s eyes were momentarily dimmed with tears, „what is the meaning of this? Why aren‘t you all being happy and good together? Happy and good,“ the Voice repeated. „At peace, at peace.“ It trembled, sank into a whisper and momentarily expired. „Oh, I do want you to be happy,“ it began, with a yearning earnestness. „I do so want you to be good! Please, please be good and …“
Two minutes later the V oice and the soma vapour had produced their effect. In tears, the Deltas were kissing and hugging one another –half a dozen twins at a time in a comprehensive embrace. Even Helmholtz and the Savage were almost crying. A fresh supply of pill-boxes was brought in from the Bursary; a new distribution was hastily made and, to the sound of the Voice‘s richly affectionate, baritone valedictions, the twins dispersed, blubbering as though their hearts would break.
Labour Party Anthem – The Red Flag
With heads uncovered swear we all
To bear it onward till we fall;
Come dungeons dark or gallows grim,
This song shall be our parting hymn.
Obduktion
Eine Obduktion (lateinisch obductio, von obducere: ‚bedecken‘, nachträglich ‚hinzuziehen‘ bzw. ‚vorführen‘)[1] ist eine innere Leichenschau (Leichenöffnung) zur Feststellung der Todesursache und zur Rekonstruktion des Sterbevorgangs.