THE GUARDIAN: ‘Spectacular’ discovery at site of about 30 graves includes pearls, coins, ceramics and a box containing gold thread
A 10th-century burial site believed to have belonged to a Viking noble family has been discovered in northern Denmark, packed with a “spectacular” trove of ancient objects, a museum has said.
The discovery came almost by chance when pearls, coins, ceramics and a box containing a gold thread were unearthed during construction work near Lisbjerg, a village located 4 miles (7km) north of Aarhus, Denmark’s second-largest city.
Archaeologists found that the site also contained around 30 graves dating from the second half of the 10th century, when the famous King Harald Bluetooth reigned, said the Moesgaard Museum in Aarhus. » | Agence France-Presse in Aarhus | Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
A Patriotic American Speaks His Mind - PARADE OF SHAME
Jun 14, 2025 | When Dwight Eisenhower was asked if the United States should have a military parade, he responded this way: "Absolutely not. we are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.” Our power doesn’t lie in our ability to destroy anyone or anything.
Our power lies in our ability to help people live better lives. And that’s why what’s happening these days is so deeply disempowering. We’re seeing a perversion of the values that indeed did make America great.
Ah, what we could have done over the last fifty years to expand people’s opportunities, while instead we worked so steadily to diminish them. Deflecting attention onto a military parade that will cost taxpayers $25M to $45 is obscene, when the government literally took food from the mouths of hungry children because they say we waste too much money. This parade will not be a celebration of our military; it will be a celebration of our war machine. The arms manufacturers. What in DC is called “The Blob.” Those children, and our veterans, be damned.
Does it have to be this way? No. And on the other side of this twisted era, I pray that it will not be.
Our power lies in our ability to help people live better lives. And that’s why what’s happening these days is so deeply disempowering. We’re seeing a perversion of the values that indeed did make America great.
Ah, what we could have done over the last fifty years to expand people’s opportunities, while instead we worked so steadily to diminish them. Deflecting attention onto a military parade that will cost taxpayers $25M to $45 is obscene, when the government literally took food from the mouths of hungry children because they say we waste too much money. This parade will not be a celebration of our military; it will be a celebration of our war machine. The arms manufacturers. What in DC is called “The Blob.” Those children, and our veterans, be damned.
Does it have to be this way? No. And on the other side of this twisted era, I pray that it will not be.
Penelope Gate : François Fillon condamné à quatre ans de prison avec sursis
LE FIGARO : L’ancien premier ministre a été condamné ce mardi 17 juin à une peine de quatre ans de prison avec sursis ainsi que de 375.000 euros d’amende et cinq années d’inéligibilité.
Dans l’affaire des emplois fictifs de son épouse Penelope, François Fillon a vu mardi 17 juin 2025 sa peine réduite à quatre ans de prison avec sursis, 375.000 euros d’amende et cinq ans d’inéligibilité, à l’issue d’un troisième procès ordonné par la Cour de cassation. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | mardi 17 juin 2025
Dans l’affaire des emplois fictifs de son épouse Penelope, François Fillon a vu mardi 17 juin 2025 sa peine réduite à quatre ans de prison avec sursis, 375.000 euros d’amende et cinq ans d’inéligibilité, à l’issue d’un troisième procès ordonné par la Cour de cassation. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | mardi 17 juin 2025
Monday, June 16, 2025
The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age: Trump’s MAGA Mindset: The US’s Biggest Export
Jun 4, 2025 | Most of us have, for so long, lived under the shadow of American exports, that we’d be hard-pressed to choose which was the most influential. Hollywood rom-coms? Coupons? Halloween?
That list might have been relevant a couple of weeks ago. Now America’s biggest export is Donald Trump’s MAGA mindset, according to international and political editor, Peter Hartcher.
Today, he joins me to discuss Trump’s hidden announcement last week about a new level of imminent American interference, globally; one not seen since the end of the Cold War. And how it will change other countries for years to come.
Europe should be standing up to Trump and Putin – instead it is mirroring them: Public opinion is clamouring for closer EU cooperation. The last thing we need is Ursula von der Leyen pandering to the far right Donald Trump’s “America First” policies are undermining decades of transatlantic cooperation just as Putin’s Russia destabilises Europe with direct military aggression. But these twin shocks have unintentionally accomplished something the EU institutions never could. They have made European integration feel not just important, but existential – a matter of democratic survival – for ordinary citizens. »
That list might have been relevant a couple of weeks ago. Now America’s biggest export is Donald Trump’s MAGA mindset, according to international and political editor, Peter Hartcher.
Today, he joins me to discuss Trump’s hidden announcement last week about a new level of imminent American interference, globally; one not seen since the end of the Cold War. And how it will change other countries for years to come.
Europe should be standing up to Trump and Putin – instead it is mirroring them: Public opinion is clamouring for closer EU cooperation. The last thing we need is Ursula von der Leyen pandering to the far right Donald Trump’s “America First” policies are undermining decades of transatlantic cooperation just as Putin’s Russia destabilises Europe with direct military aggression. But these twin shocks have unintentionally accomplished something the EU institutions never could. They have made European integration feel not just important, but existential – a matter of democratic survival – for ordinary citizens. »
The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age: Is This the Beginning of the End of the American Empire?
Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’: Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada. She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises society »
Gov. Walz says ICE is 'Trump's Modern-day Gestapo'
Pride Month: Queere Menschen zwischen CSD-Partys und zunehmender Bedrohung – Shortcut | DER SPIEGEL
Democracy Now! No Kings: Millions Across US Protest Trump's Power Grab, Overshadowing His Military Parade
Jan 16, 2025 | More than 5 million people joined No Kings Day protests Saturday in the largest day of action against President Trump since his return to office. Protests were held in over 2,100 cities and towns across the country. The protests coincided with a poorly attended, multimillion-dollar military parade on President Trump's birthday, June 14. Democracy Now! spoke with anti-Trump protesters at the Washington, D.C., military parade and at New York City's No Kings protest.
Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.
You can donate to Democracy Now! here.
Trump coveted a military spectacle but his parade proved underwhelming: ‘Just kind of lame’: Trump’s army parade was neither the totalitarian North Korean spectacle that critics had grimly predicted, nor the triumph of Maga nationalism fans craved »
Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.
You can donate to Democracy Now! here.
Trump coveted a military spectacle but his parade proved underwhelming: ‘Just kind of lame’: Trump’s army parade was neither the totalitarian North Korean spectacle that critics had grimly predicted, nor the triumph of Maga nationalism fans craved »
Katherine Stewart on Trump's Destruction of Democracy and How the People Fight Back
Colonia Tovar: Venezuela's "Little Germany" Looks Like a Village in the Black Forest
Dec 7, 2022 | Where can you find half-timbered houses, German beer, and Black Forest cake in South America? Colonia Tovar. DW's Joel Dullroy visited the Venezuelan tourist attraction, where he felt transported back to the heart of the Black Forest. The town has a population of roughly 20,000 people and was founded by German immigrants around 150 years ago. Not much has changed there since then.
CREDITS:
Report, camera & editing: Joel Dullroy
WIKIPEDIA: Venezuelan Arepas
CREDITS:
Report, camera & editing: Joel Dullroy
WIKIPEDIA: Venezuelan Arepas
Sunday, June 15, 2025
Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op. 17 - I. Durchaus fantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen | Maurizio Pollini
Jul 29, 2018 | Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op. 17 - I. Durchaus fantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen - Im Legendenton - Erstes Tempo · Maurizio Pollini
Schumann: Sonata for Piano Op.11; Fantasia Op.17
℗ 1973 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Released on 1973-01-01
Schumann: Sonata for Piano Op.11; Fantasia Op.17
℗ 1973 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Released on 1973-01-01
From Mudlarking to the German Occupation of Guernsey during WW2 as Told by the People Who Were There
Feb 13, 2022 | What was it like working for the Guernsey Secret Underground Press during the German occupation of WW2? What was it like as a child to steal potatoes from the Germans? What about the slave labourers building the fortifications?
In 2021 I had the opportunity to speak to 5 people who told me their stories. One of these people was Magda Royall, the daughter of Jerzy Mroch - a slave labourer, who fell in love with a Guernsey woman. Molly Bihet was 9 years old when the war started and she told me how life became increasingly difficult as time went on, with severe food shortages. Mary has gone on to write four books and you can find these at her website: The Channel Islands Occupation Society »
Mary Sim's parents worked for GASP - the Guernsey Secret Underground Press. Mary belongs to the Occupation Society and would love to hear from anyone if they have any stories relating to the Occupation or GASP.
In 2021 I had the opportunity to speak to 5 people who told me their stories. One of these people was Magda Royall, the daughter of Jerzy Mroch - a slave labourer, who fell in love with a Guernsey woman. Molly Bihet was 9 years old when the war started and she told me how life became increasingly difficult as time went on, with severe food shortages. Mary has gone on to write four books and you can find these at her website: The Channel Islands Occupation Society »
Mary Sim's parents worked for GASP - the Guernsey Secret Underground Press. Mary belongs to the Occupation Society and would love to hear from anyone if they have any stories relating to the Occupation or GASP.
Will Trump den Bürgerkrieg? | Does Trump Want Civil War? | Der Trump Effekt | auslandsjournal - the podcast
Jun 11, 2025 | A president against his own people? Following protests against immigration enforcement measures, US President Donald Trump is sending troops into the streets of Los Angeles. The troops are to take action against the demonstrators there – against the express wishes of LA Mayor Karen Bass and California Governor Gavin Newsom.
In this episode of "The Trump Effect," Katrin Eigendorf, Elmar Theveßen, and Ulf Röller ask how far Trump is really going – and whether this threatens the end of democracy in the US and civil war.
In this episode of "The Trump Effect," Katrin Eigendorf, Elmar Theveßen, and Ulf Röller ask how far Trump is really going – and whether this threatens the end of democracy in the US and civil war.
La parade rêvée par Donald Trump prend place à Washington le jour de son anniversaire
La grande et coûteuse fête d'anniversaire de Trump ! Les Américains vont maintenant devoir en payer le prix. – Mark Alexander
Mark Carney Takes Direct a Shot at the USA, Makes Canadians Proud
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Whitney Houston with Enrique Iglesias : Could I Have This Kiss Forever | Official HD Video
The Ratline That Saved Nazi Killers | Nazi Hunters
Argentina's Milei to Declassify Documents on Nazi War Criminals Who Fled to Argentina | DW News
March 27, 2025 | Argentina's President Javier Milei says he is declassifying government documents on how Nazi war criminals escaped Europe and resettled in South America following World War Two. Historians believe as many as 5,000 Nazis evaded arrest in Argentina – sometimes with the help of the authorities.
The most prominent of them was Adolf Eichmann. Eichmann was one of the architects of the Holocaust and escaped to Argentina using false papers. Israeli agents captured him in Buenos Aires and took him to Jerusalem to stand trial. He found guilty and sentenced to death.
The most prominent of them was Adolf Eichmann. Eichmann was one of the architects of the Holocaust and escaped to Argentina using false papers. Israeli agents captured him in Buenos Aires and took him to Jerusalem to stand trial. He found guilty and sentenced to death.
Beautiful Salzburg City Centre Day & Night | Ein Spaziergang durch die Getreidegasse
June 14, 2025 | Salzburg in Austria is famous for being the birthplace of Mozart . It is a beautifully preserved baroque city with many important buildings.
This video is a brief walk along the main street, the Getreidegasse, to show the contrast between the night and the day when Salzburg is overrun with tourists.
Salzburg is the fourth largest city in Austria.
The video is intended to give an impression of the atmosphere in the town centre. It is not a travel guide.
This video is a brief walk along the main street, the Getreidegasse, to show the contrast between the night and the day when Salzburg is overrun with tourists.
Salzburg is the fourth largest city in Austria.
The video is intended to give an impression of the atmosphere in the town centre. It is not a travel guide.
Michael Lambert: What Is Trump Planning?
June 14, 2025 | Under the leadership of Donald Trump, the United States is in chaos. His tariffs have badly damaged the economy and countries are not queueing up to do trade deals with the United States.
The random and ruthless deportation of 'undocumented' immigrants, many of whom have been working in the USA and paying taxes for many years, has been cruel.
Last week, a US congressman from California, Alex Padilla, was thrown to the ground and handcuffed for asking a question of Kirsti Noem, the head of Homeland Security.
Cuts to welfare, Medicare, and Medicaid in order to give tax breaks to already very rich Americans is unfair.
On June 14th, nationwide demonstrations against the Trump government are to be held in 1800 locations throughout the US.
Trumps only option may be to impose Martial Law as public anger increases. It is important that all demonstrations must remain peaceful, no matter if there is provocation. Senators and members of Congress may well be persuaded to reconsider their allegiance to Trump
The random and ruthless deportation of 'undocumented' immigrants, many of whom have been working in the USA and paying taxes for many years, has been cruel.
Last week, a US congressman from California, Alex Padilla, was thrown to the ground and handcuffed for asking a question of Kirsti Noem, the head of Homeland Security.
Cuts to welfare, Medicare, and Medicaid in order to give tax breaks to already very rich Americans is unfair.
On June 14th, nationwide demonstrations against the Trump government are to be held in 1800 locations throughout the US.
Trumps only option may be to impose Martial Law as public anger increases. It is important that all demonstrations must remain peaceful, no matter if there is provocation. Senators and members of Congress may well be persuaded to reconsider their allegiance to Trump
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Friday, June 13, 2025
Southern Baptists Endorse Repealing the Legalization of Same-sex Marriage in the US
My Absence / Meine Abwesenheit / Mon absence
MARK ALEXANDER: Unfortunately, I've been away because I've been sick. Thank God, I'm starting to feel better; I'm recovering. Please excuse the long silence. In short, I've been too sick to blog. But I would like to thank you for your loyalty during my illness.
Leider, bin ich abwesend gewesen, weil ich krank war. Gott sei Dank, fängt es an, mir besser zu gehen; ich bin am Genesen. Bitte, mich entschuldigen für das lange Schweigen. Kurz gesagt, ich war zu krank zu bloggen. Doch für Eure Treue, möchte ich mich bei Euch bedanken während meiner Krankheit.
Malheureusement, j'étais absent car j'étais malade. Dieu merci, je commence à me sentir mieux; je me rétablis. Veuillez excuser ce long silence. Bref, j'étais trop malade pour bloguer. Mais je voudrais vous remercier pour votre fidélité pendant ms maladie.
Mark Alexander
Leider, bin ich abwesend gewesen, weil ich krank war. Gott sei Dank, fängt es an, mir besser zu gehen; ich bin am Genesen. Bitte, mich entschuldigen für das lange Schweigen. Kurz gesagt, ich war zu krank zu bloggen. Doch für Eure Treue, möchte ich mich bei Euch bedanken während meiner Krankheit.
Malheureusement, j'étais absent car j'étais malade. Dieu merci, je commence à me sentir mieux; je me rétablis. Veuillez excuser ce long silence. Bref, j'étais trop malade pour bloguer. Mais je voudrais vous remercier pour votre fidélité pendant ms maladie.
Mark Alexander
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