A ceasefire in Yemen’s civil war will start on Dec. 14, the eve of planned peace talks in Switzerland next week, the head of the Houthi delegation to the peace talks said on Saturday.
Monthly Archives: December 2015
New York Disco in 1979 – Stunning Photographs of the Last Days of Disco Captured by Bill Bernstein
Stunning photography by Bill Bernstein. Containing many previously unpublished photographs, Disco takes the viewer on an access-all-areas tour of late 70s New York nightlife. Bernstein’s eye was drawn to the characters that lived for the night, rather than the celebrities, the unknown men and women who were transformed by the nightlife haze. The pictures in his new book “Disco: The Bill Bernstein Photographs” are a document of an incredibly exciting and creative time, not only in music, but in social, political and fashion history as well.
| DJ Larry Levan, Paradise Garage, 1979 |
| Studio 54, 1979 |
| Xenon Dance Floor, 1979 |
| L’Amour, 1979 |
| GG’s Barnum Room Disco Bats, 1979 |
Recommended: Why Fascism is Rising Again (And What You Can Learn From It)
I recommended Why Fascism is Rising Again (And What You Can Learn From It) on Medium.
A moment of humanity
I have just finished a translated article from Ma’ariv, an Israeli newspaper, under the title of: Jewish young men strangers in their land. The article tries to wear the shoe of the radical settlers who commit crimes against Palestinians in the settlement. How abandoned these young people feel from their state that left them alone unprotected with the uncontrollable Palestinians.
It is extremely hard to sympathize with such a reading, humanizing such people, I thought. But somehow I had to retreat and think loud repeating to my memory what happened this morning.
I had a flat tire on the way to the university, and I found myself obliged to pull behind a boarder police vehicle. So many ideas and images roamed my mind in the moments before, thinking of how critical it could turn out. I could turn in a moment into a suspect and the next moment I could…
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Daimon Eaytos | PANTELIS SPYROU
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Why Fascism is Rising Again (And What You Can Learn From It) — Bad Words — Medium
My story is nuanced. I have tried to distinguish between proximate cause, and ultimate cause. The ultimate cause of fascism is the right — but the proximate cause is the left. More simply, the origins of fascism are in the right’s extremism — but it is the left’s self-imposed irrelevance that allowed it to rise, and perhaps propelled it. You may disagree with my story, and you are welcome. It is just one synthesis among many. And yet, I caution you against the oppositional extremism that so defines our age. To fully account for fascism’s rise, because it is the most poisonous alloy of both, we must speak openly and honestly about the failures of both the left and right.For in the story of the rise of New Fascism, we see precisely the same elements at work as in Eternal Fascism. The pie shrinks. Leaders and institutions squabble — while the pie keeps shrinking. And then, the critical moment. The center breaks. The demagogue is free to sing his song of darkness. Night falls. And the golden age of the volk, the long march to the promised land, through the valleys of blood and despair, begins.I have written too much. I am tired now, as are you. So let us stop here to pause and reflect. Fascism, the poisonous admixture of the worst of both left and right, is a cancer that may infect the body politic at anytime that body is dulled and slowed, rendered infirm and frail, by stagnation. And the obligation of all reasonable people is to fight it. Not just because it destroys, and calls destruction glorious destiny, nor because it kills, and calls murder noble justice. But because in its glorification of destruction is the end of all that civilization can be said to stand for. Not just the fabric of our societies, but the possibility of our humanity.
Source: Why Fascism is Rising Again (And What You Can Learn From It) — Bad Words — Medium
Expert: New England police union that endorsed Trump doesn’t represent most officers’ views – Nation – Boston.com
“They’re trying to give the impression that they represent Boston police officers, but they’re not a labor union that actually negotiates contracts,” he said. “This organization is largely constituted by small departments in New Hampshire that are attempting to get a big splash.”The association first garnered attention in September when it announced a boycott of President Barack Obama’s Labor Day speech in Boston because it felt his administration was silent on violence against police officers.
FBI investigating fire at Coachella Valley mosque – LA Times {Trump this!}
Vandals scrawled the word “ISIS” on a truck outside an Orange County Sikh temple just days after the shootings. The Sikh community is often mistakenly targeted in anti-Islamic attacks because their dress and grooming is similar to that of people of Muslim faith.Buena Park police are investigating the incident at the temple, but they have not labeled it a hate crime.“Obviously it’s really upsetting and it’s very unfortunate. In this case, in Coachella, we don’t know the motive behind it yet,” Ahmad said. “It just comes to show how real ‘Islamophobia’ is, how scary and how threatening it can become and how dangerous Islamophobia is to our nation and fellow Americans.”
Source: FBI investigating fire at Coachella Valley mosque – LA Times
South Carolina military college suspends cadets over ‘KKK uniforms’
A prestigious military college in the United States suspends eight students for posing in all-white outfits reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan.
Tsunami survivor is world No. 4 cyclist
On Friday, Deborah, 20, scaled a unique peak when she became the first Indian female cyclist to be ranked fourth in the world, according to the World Elite Women Ranking issued by cycling world body UCI for the 500m time trial event.Prior to the recent Track Asia Cup, an event in which Deborah put in a commanding performance, she was ranked 10th.



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