Sunday, November 06, 2022
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Weston Smith | From Gay Mormon Missionary to Survivor
Oct 11, 2022 | Weston Smith came out as gay while his dad was serving as a bishop in the Mormon church. His parents were understanding, but navigating life a gay Mormon teen, trying to better understand your sexuality, and remain the “best” Mormon possible is often a recipe for disaster.
Weston was no stranger to the turmoil that often comes from being gay and Mormon—a situation, for Wes, that led to serious suicidal ideation.
Wes ultimately decided to serve a mission as an “out” gay Mormon, but even in the mission field the suicidal thoughts persisted. It was there, on his mission, that he resolved to leave the church and live an authentic, happy life.
After leaving his mission early and finding complete familial support, Weston has thrived. He recently published a memoir titled, ”This Body of Water”, detailing his journey and what the future looks like for him.
A copy of Weston’s book is available here.
Related episode here.
Weston was no stranger to the turmoil that often comes from being gay and Mormon—a situation, for Wes, that led to serious suicidal ideation.
Wes ultimately decided to serve a mission as an “out” gay Mormon, but even in the mission field the suicidal thoughts persisted. It was there, on his mission, that he resolved to leave the church and live an authentic, happy life.
After leaving his mission early and finding complete familial support, Weston has thrived. He recently published a memoir titled, ”This Body of Water”, detailing his journey and what the future looks like for him.
A copy of Weston’s book is available here.
Related episode here.
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The Observer View on a Dangerous Moment for American Democracy
THE OBSERVER – EDITORIAL: A Republican midterm landslide is the last thing a divided, angry America needs
‘Lowering over the electoral landscape like a thundercloud’: Donald Trump at a Republican rally in Iowa on 3 November 2022. Photograph: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images
From one perspective, the historical significance of this Tuesday’s US midterm elections should not be overstated. Anticipated Republican gains, and a consequent loss of Democratic control of Congress, would, if they materialise, be nothing out of the ordinary. The party in power usually performs poorly at the midpoint of the election cycle, especially if the sitting president is unpopular – and Joe Biden, with a disapproval rating of 55%, certainly is.
Viewed another way, however, the immediate significance of the vote for an angry, divided America that split roughly 51%-47% between Biden and Donald Trump in 2020 cannot be overestimated. The backdrop is looming economic recession, pessimism about the future, deep schisms over race, abortion rights, crime, guns and climate – and rising political violence fuelled by disinformation, far-right pundits, conspiracy theorists and paramilitary militias.
So febrile is the state of the union in 2022 that some ask: can democracy endure? … » | Editorial | Sunday, October 6, 2022
From one perspective, the historical significance of this Tuesday’s US midterm elections should not be overstated. Anticipated Republican gains, and a consequent loss of Democratic control of Congress, would, if they materialise, be nothing out of the ordinary. The party in power usually performs poorly at the midpoint of the election cycle, especially if the sitting president is unpopular – and Joe Biden, with a disapproval rating of 55%, certainly is.
Viewed another way, however, the immediate significance of the vote for an angry, divided America that split roughly 51%-47% between Biden and Donald Trump in 2020 cannot be overestimated. The backdrop is looming economic recession, pessimism about the future, deep schisms over race, abortion rights, crime, guns and climate – and rising political violence fuelled by disinformation, far-right pundits, conspiracy theorists and paramilitary militias.
So febrile is the state of the union in 2022 that some ask: can democracy endure? … » | Editorial | Sunday, October 6, 2022
The Rise of the Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else | ENDEVR Documentary
Nov 6, 2022 | This documentary travels through a world of joblessness, debt, and economic uncertainty to the sovereign nation of the plutocrats, where each crisis seems to offer a new business opportunity. In America, where the 2008 financial meltdown cost $4 trillion in economic output, fortunes were made by the very people who precipitated the disaster while millions lost their homes and their savings.
Austerity in Europe, economic stagnation in Asia, a "lost generation" of the young and unemployed - signs we are living through a fundamental global reorganization, the result of which no-one can predict. The world of the 1% has arrived, and the wealth gap is now greater in many countries than during the Gilded Age, the era of the Rockefellers, Carnegies and Vanderbilts. Can our stressed democracies deal with the fallout? Or have governments simply become instruments of the new elite?
Austerity in Europe, economic stagnation in Asia, a "lost generation" of the young and unemployed - signs we are living through a fundamental global reorganization, the result of which no-one can predict. The world of the 1% has arrived, and the wealth gap is now greater in many countries than during the Gilded Age, the era of the Rockefellers, Carnegies and Vanderbilts. Can our stressed democracies deal with the fallout? Or have governments simply become instruments of the new elite?
Italy's Hard Line on Migration Leaves Hundreds Stranded in Mediterranean | DW News
ZDF History: Die dunklen Geheimnisse des Vatikans
Ina Garten's Fan-favorite Lemon Capellini | Barefoot Contessa | Food Network
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Extra Bank Holiday for Coronation of King Charles III Set for 8 May 2023
THE GUARDIAN: Extra bank holiday will follow king’s coronation two days earlier on Saturday 6 May
King Charles III will be crowned in Westminster Abbey on 6 May 2023. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/PA
The government has announced an additional bank holiday to mark the coronation of King Charles III next year.
Downing Street said the UK-wide holiday will fall on Monday 8 May after the coronation at Westminster Abbey two days earlier.
Rishi Sunak said the day would be an opportunity for families and communities across the country to come together to celebrate. » | Sophie Zeldin-O'Neill | Sunday, November 6, 2022
The government has announced an additional bank holiday to mark the coronation of King Charles III next year.
Downing Street said the UK-wide holiday will fall on Monday 8 May after the coronation at Westminster Abbey two days earlier.
Rishi Sunak said the day would be an opportunity for families and communities across the country to come together to celebrate. » | Sophie Zeldin-O'Neill | Sunday, November 6, 2022
Rees-Mogg’s Plans to Axe All EU Laws Will Cripple Whitehall, Says Leading Brexiter
THE OBSERVER: MP Theresa Villiers says proposal to axe thousands of laws is unworkable and unnecessary
One of the Tory party’s leading Brexit supporters has raised concerns about plans to scrap 2,400 EU laws by the end of next year – as fears grow that the policy will overwhelm the civil service and bring government to a virtual standstill.
Former environment secretary Theresa Villiers, who backed Brexit in 2016, told the Observer that the proposals would take up vast amounts of civil service time and would involve undoing legislation that, in many cases, was broadly popular and good for the country.
Other senior Tories are growing concerned that the EU retained law bill, championed by Jacob Rees-Mogg before Rishi Sunak sacked him on becoming prime minister, is in danger of becoming an ideological millstone. » | Helena Horton and Toby Helm | Sunday, November 6, 2022
One of the Tory party’s leading Brexit supporters has raised concerns about plans to scrap 2,400 EU laws by the end of next year – as fears grow that the policy will overwhelm the civil service and bring government to a virtual standstill.
Former environment secretary Theresa Villiers, who backed Brexit in 2016, told the Observer that the proposals would take up vast amounts of civil service time and would involve undoing legislation that, in many cases, was broadly popular and good for the country.
Other senior Tories are growing concerned that the EU retained law bill, championed by Jacob Rees-Mogg before Rishi Sunak sacked him on becoming prime minister, is in danger of becoming an ideological millstone. » | Helena Horton and Toby Helm | Sunday, November 6, 2022
Boris Johnson ‘Quit PM Race over Risk to £10m Earnings’, Sources Say
THE OBSERVER: If the ex-PM had lost the leadership contest, his value stood to drop by half, according to the entertainment industry
Boris Johnson is known to have been in talks with entertainment and talent agencies.Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters
Boris Johnson would have forfeited earnings of at least £10m a year from speeches and sales of his memoirs if he had fought a leadership battle against Rishi Sunak and lost, according to informed sources in the entertainment industry, who believe financial considerations played a part in his decision to pull out.
Since he resigned in July, Johnson is known to have been in talks with entertainment and talent agencies including Endeavour, run by US businessman Ari Emanuel, and the Harry Walker Agency (HWA), one of its subsidiaries.
HWA’s clients include Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Serena Williams.
Johnson’s earning potential is said by some of those he had been in talks with before Liz Truss’s resignation to have been put at about £20m a year. » | Toby Helm, Political editor | Sunday, November 6, 2022
Boris Johnson would have forfeited earnings of at least £10m a year from speeches and sales of his memoirs if he had fought a leadership battle against Rishi Sunak and lost, according to informed sources in the entertainment industry, who believe financial considerations played a part in his decision to pull out.
Since he resigned in July, Johnson is known to have been in talks with entertainment and talent agencies including Endeavour, run by US businessman Ari Emanuel, and the Harry Walker Agency (HWA), one of its subsidiaries.
HWA’s clients include Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Serena Williams.
Johnson’s earning potential is said by some of those he had been in talks with before Liz Truss’s resignation to have been put at about £20m a year. » | Toby Helm, Political editor | Sunday, November 6, 2022
Saturday, November 05, 2022
Evan Smith | From Stake Presidency to LGBTQ+ Ally and Beyond
Oct 4, 2022 | Evan Smith met the intersection of sexuality and religion while serving as an LDS Bishop and eventually in a Stake Presidency. It didn’t take long before Evan began to better understand the difficult and impossible restraints the Church’s policies and doctrines place on LGBTQ Mormons.
In the midst of these dichotomies, Evan, and his wife Cheryl, learned that their own son, Weston, was gay.
The Smiths learned that understanding and advocating for LGBTQ people takes a sharp turn when someone close to you is directly impacted by this topic. As a result, Evan and Cheryl became allies and advocates for queer Mormons, and Evan used his position in his Stake Presidency to directly discuss this topic with General Authorities and Latter-day Saint congregations.
In this episode, Evan candidly shares his discussions with Church leadership, what his family has learned having a gay son, his current membership status in the Mormon church, and what we can all do to better understand the LGBTQ experience.
Evan Smith is also the author of Gay Latter-day Saint Crossroads, a book he acknowledges was written to explain, and hopefully do something productive with the pain that comes from the church’s teachings about sexual orientation and gender identity. The book also explores whether the church’s current position on gay sexual behavior is more reflective of human prejudice than it is of divine truth. Evan also uses the book to try to make amends for any harm he caused in the past as a leader in the church.
Download the book for FREE by clicking here.
In the midst of these dichotomies, Evan, and his wife Cheryl, learned that their own son, Weston, was gay.
The Smiths learned that understanding and advocating for LGBTQ people takes a sharp turn when someone close to you is directly impacted by this topic. As a result, Evan and Cheryl became allies and advocates for queer Mormons, and Evan used his position in his Stake Presidency to directly discuss this topic with General Authorities and Latter-day Saint congregations.
In this episode, Evan candidly shares his discussions with Church leadership, what his family has learned having a gay son, his current membership status in the Mormon church, and what we can all do to better understand the LGBTQ experience.
Evan Smith is also the author of Gay Latter-day Saint Crossroads, a book he acknowledges was written to explain, and hopefully do something productive with the pain that comes from the church’s teachings about sexual orientation and gender identity. The book also explores whether the church’s current position on gay sexual behavior is more reflective of human prejudice than it is of divine truth. Evan also uses the book to try to make amends for any harm he caused in the past as a leader in the church.
Download the book for FREE by clicking here.
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 | Daniil Trifonov, Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra & Masaaki Suzuki
France’s Far-right National Rally Elects New President to Replace Le Pen
THE GUARDIAN: ordan Bardella, 27, who joined the party as a teenager and is a protege of Marine Le Pen, replaces her as leader
Jordan Bardella, newly-elected president of the RN party, holds the hand of Marine Le Pen after the results during the National Rally party's Congress in Paris, France. Photograph: Christian Hartmann/Reuters
France’s far-right National Rally (RN) has elected a 27-year-old from the Paris banlieue who joined the party as a teenager as its new president to replace Marine Le Pen.
The result means that for the first time since the party – originally the National Front – was created in 1972, it will not be run by a Le Pen.
Jordan Bardella, Le Pen’s protege, who has been caretaker president for a year, beat Louis Aliot, 53, the mayor of Perpignan, a party heavyweight as well as Le Pen’s former partner, by 85% to 15% of party members who voted.
There were cheers and a standing ovation as Le Pen announced the result. The handover comes at a tense time for the RN after one of its MPs was suspended from parliament for a racist outburst last week. » | Kim Willsher in Paris | Saturday, November 5, 2022
Marine Le Pen passe la main à Jordan Bardella pour diriger le Rassemblement national : L’eurodéputé, qui assure l’intérim de la présidence du RN depuis un an, a obtenu 84,84 % des suffrages lors du vote qui s’est déroulé dans la matinée. »
Politischer Ziehsohn von Le Pen wird neuer Parteichef : Er ist jung, stramm rechtsnational und binnen kürzester Zeit aufgestiegen: Jordan Bardella übernimmt den Vorsitz des Rassemblement National. Die größte Herausforderung erwartet ihn in der Provinz. »
France’s far-right National Rally (RN) has elected a 27-year-old from the Paris banlieue who joined the party as a teenager as its new president to replace Marine Le Pen.
The result means that for the first time since the party – originally the National Front – was created in 1972, it will not be run by a Le Pen.
Jordan Bardella, Le Pen’s protege, who has been caretaker president for a year, beat Louis Aliot, 53, the mayor of Perpignan, a party heavyweight as well as Le Pen’s former partner, by 85% to 15% of party members who voted.
There were cheers and a standing ovation as Le Pen announced the result. The handover comes at a tense time for the RN after one of its MPs was suspended from parliament for a racist outburst last week. » | Kim Willsher in Paris | Saturday, November 5, 2022
Marine Le Pen passe la main à Jordan Bardella pour diriger le Rassemblement national : L’eurodéputé, qui assure l’intérim de la présidence du RN depuis un an, a obtenu 84,84 % des suffrages lors du vote qui s’est déroulé dans la matinée. »
Politischer Ziehsohn von Le Pen wird neuer Parteichef : Er ist jung, stramm rechtsnational und binnen kürzester Zeit aufgestiegen: Jordan Bardella übernimmt den Vorsitz des Rassemblement National. Die größte Herausforderung erwartet ihn in der Provinz. »
Daniil Trifonov – Chopin: Fantaisie-Impromptu In C-Sharp Minor, Op. 66 | Reupload
Michael Lambert: Brexit Is Destroying the UK Economy and Reputation
Nov 5, 2022 | Brexit was a stupid and reckless self-inflicted blow to the UK economy. The decision to leave the EU in order to search for bigger and better trade deals all over the world was always bound to fail.
The 'control' which the UK government sought to take back was illusory. Brexit has resulted in huge shortages of workers in many vital sectors of the UK economy.
Until a decision is made to try to move closer to the EU by negotiating, at the very least, easier flows of goods the British economy is destined to decline. My short satirical history of Brexit is available from my website here.
The 'control' which the UK government sought to take back was illusory. Brexit has resulted in huge shortages of workers in many vital sectors of the UK economy.
Until a decision is made to try to move closer to the EU by negotiating, at the very least, easier flows of goods the British economy is destined to decline. My short satirical history of Brexit is available from my website here.
Pelosis Ehemann aus Krankenhaus entlassen
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG: Nach der brutalen Hammerattacke darf Paul Pelosi das Krankenhaus wieder verlassen. Dem Ehemann von Nancy Pelosi steht wohl ein langer Genesungsprozess bevor.
Sechs Tage nach dem Angriff auf den Ehemann der US-Spitzenpolitikerin Nancy Pelosi ist der 82-Jährige aus dem Krankenhaus entlassen worden, wie das Büro der Vorsitzenden des US-Repräsentantenhauses mitteilt. Paul Pelosi befinde sich weiterhin in ärztlicher Obhut und durchlaufe einen „langen Genesungsprozess“. » | Quelle: dpa, AFP | Freitag, 4. November 2022
A. Todd Jones | Navigating My Marriage, Coming Out, and Helping Others Thrive!
Jul 25, 2019 | In this interview we sit down with A. Todd Jones as he shares his story of living in a mixed-orientation marriage, dating, coming out, finding authenticity and what he’s doing in his life now to help the LGBTQ community.
A. Todd Jones dives deep into his coming out story—a story very relatable to the many who struggle to understand who and what they are.
A. Todd Jones dives deep into his coming out story—a story very relatable to the many who struggle to understand who and what they are.
Revolution in Iran Gaining Momentum, Says Activist and Journalist Masih Alinejad
PROTESTE IM IRAN: "Für mich ist das längst schon eine Revolution" – Bijan Djir-Sarai | WELT Talk
Nov 5, 2022 | Alle deutschen Staatsbürger sollen den Iran verlassen, fordert die Bundesregierung. Hintergrund ist das harte, gewaltsame Vorgehen gegen die systemkritischen Proteste. "Sie wollen nicht temporäre Veränderungen des Systems, sie wollen die Abschaffung des Systems", so Bijan Djir-Sarai, FDP-Generalsekretär.
Im Südosten Irans sind Proteste erneut in Gewalt umgeschlagen. In der Stadt Chasch sollen Demonstranten einen Polizeiposten in Brand gesteckt haben, berichtete die iranische Nachrichtenagentur Fars. Die Hintergründe waren zunächst völlig unklar. Nach Angaben von Staatsmedien gab es Verletzte. Erste Berichte in sozialen Medien meldeten auch Todesopfer. Die Angaben ließen sich zunächst nicht unabhängig überprüfen.
In der Hauptstadt der Provinz Sistan-Belutschistan hatten Sicherheitskräfte vor fünf Wochen Proteste brutal niedergeschlagen. Dutzende Demonstranten wurden dabei am 30. September, der fortan als "blutiger Freitag" bezeichnet wurde, in Sahedan getötet. Auch ein einflussreicher sunnitischer Geistlicher der Provinz, Maulawi Abdulhamid, kritisierte jüngst den Kurs der politischen Führung in dem mehrheitlich schiitischen Land. Weitere örtliche Geistliche sollen sich seiner Kritik angeschlossen haben.
Auslöser der systemkritischen Massenproteste im Iran war der Tod der 22 Jahre alten iranischen Kurdin Mahsa Amini Mitte September. Die Sittenpolizei hatte sie festgenommen, weil sie gegen die islamischen Kleidungsvorschriften verstoßen haben soll. Die Frau starb am 16. September in Polizeigewahrsam. Seit ihrem Tod demonstrieren landesweit Zehntausende gegen den repressiven Kurs der Regierung sowie das islamische Herrschaftssystem.
Im Südosten Irans sind Proteste erneut in Gewalt umgeschlagen. In der Stadt Chasch sollen Demonstranten einen Polizeiposten in Brand gesteckt haben, berichtete die iranische Nachrichtenagentur Fars. Die Hintergründe waren zunächst völlig unklar. Nach Angaben von Staatsmedien gab es Verletzte. Erste Berichte in sozialen Medien meldeten auch Todesopfer. Die Angaben ließen sich zunächst nicht unabhängig überprüfen.
In der Hauptstadt der Provinz Sistan-Belutschistan hatten Sicherheitskräfte vor fünf Wochen Proteste brutal niedergeschlagen. Dutzende Demonstranten wurden dabei am 30. September, der fortan als "blutiger Freitag" bezeichnet wurde, in Sahedan getötet. Auch ein einflussreicher sunnitischer Geistlicher der Provinz, Maulawi Abdulhamid, kritisierte jüngst den Kurs der politischen Führung in dem mehrheitlich schiitischen Land. Weitere örtliche Geistliche sollen sich seiner Kritik angeschlossen haben.
Auslöser der systemkritischen Massenproteste im Iran war der Tod der 22 Jahre alten iranischen Kurdin Mahsa Amini Mitte September. Die Sittenpolizei hatte sie festgenommen, weil sie gegen die islamischen Kleidungsvorschriften verstoßen haben soll. Die Frau starb am 16. September in Polizeigewahrsam. Seit ihrem Tod demonstrieren landesweit Zehntausende gegen den repressiven Kurs der Regierung sowie das islamische Herrschaftssystem.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung: So brutal hält sich Irans islamisches Hardliner-Regime an der Macht
Elon Musk Defends Twitter Layoffs - BBC News
Nov 5, 2022 | Elon Musk said he had ‘no choice’ but to slash staff numbers at Twitter, because the company is losing more than $4m (£3.5m) a day.
Half of the social media site’s staff are being let go, a week after the Tesla boss bought the company. An internal email sent on Friday said the mass job cuts were "unfortunately necessary to ensure the company's success moving forward".
Mr Musk has been looking for ways to cut costs and make more money on the platform, such as proposing verified users pay $8 (£7) per month to keep their blue tick.
Half of the social media site’s staff are being let go, a week after the Tesla boss bought the company. An internal email sent on Friday said the mass job cuts were "unfortunately necessary to ensure the company's success moving forward".
Mr Musk has been looking for ways to cut costs and make more money on the platform, such as proposing verified users pay $8 (£7) per month to keep their blue tick.
The Federal Trust: More Brexit Pain for Northern Ireland
Nov 4, 2022 | In this new Federal Trust video the former head of the European Commission office in Belfast, Geoff Martin, discusses recent developments in Northern Ireland with the Chair of the Federal Trust, John Stevens. Geoff Martin predicts that new elections for Stormont will make very little difference to the political stalemate in Northern Ireland, for which he principally blames the DUP. He argues however that the whole political elite in Belfast is failing to reflect new thinking throughout the island of Ireland.
GUEST:
Geoff Martin OBE, Inaugural head of the European Commission Office in Northern Ireland 1979–1984, and later Head of the European Commission Representation in the UK, 1993–2002.
John Stevens is the Chairman of the Federal Trust and a former Conservative MEP.
ABOUT THE FEDERAL TRUST
The Federal Trust is a research institute studying regional, national, European and global levels of government. It has always had a particular interest in the European Union and Britain’s place in it. The Federal Trust has no allegiance to any political party. It is registered as a charity for the purposes of education and research.
The Federal Trust.
GUEST:
Geoff Martin OBE, Inaugural head of the European Commission Office in Northern Ireland 1979–1984, and later Head of the European Commission Representation in the UK, 1993–2002.
John Stevens is the Chairman of the Federal Trust and a former Conservative MEP.
ABOUT THE FEDERAL TRUST
The Federal Trust is a research institute studying regional, national, European and global levels of government. It has always had a particular interest in the European Union and Britain’s place in it. The Federal Trust has no allegiance to any political party. It is registered as a charity for the purposes of education and research.
The Federal Trust.
Truth To Power: How Brexit Ensured Britain's Descent into Chaos
The Guardian View on Brexit and the Economy: Time to Face Facts
THE GUARDIAN – EDITORIAL: Denying the cost of leaving the EU keeps Britain locked in a cycle of falling living standards and rising anger
‘Britain’s severance from EU markets is a wound that needs healing.’ Photograph: Getty
There must come a time when the cost of Brexit is recognised by a British government, but that day is not imminent. Even when the economy and migration are two of the most prominent topics of debate, a realistic account of the European dimension to those issues is taboo for Conservatives who still wear their epic policy folly as a badge of honour.
Independent observers raise the consequences of Britain’s departure from the EU, as Mark Carney, former Bank of England governor, did on Friday when he observed that it was a factor driving pressure for higher interest rates. Mr Carney went further, pointing out that the UK economy has shrunk relative to similar European states. There is much debate among economists about the best statistical measure to describe that effect, but not much dispute on the underlying fact that Brexit has made Britain poorer, as the remain campaign said it would and the leave campaign denied. » | Editorial | Friday, November 4, 2022
There must come a time when the cost of Brexit is recognised by a British government, but that day is not imminent. Even when the economy and migration are two of the most prominent topics of debate, a realistic account of the European dimension to those issues is taboo for Conservatives who still wear their epic policy folly as a badge of honour.
Independent observers raise the consequences of Britain’s departure from the EU, as Mark Carney, former Bank of England governor, did on Friday when he observed that it was a factor driving pressure for higher interest rates. Mr Carney went further, pointing out that the UK economy has shrunk relative to similar European states. There is much debate among economists about the best statistical measure to describe that effect, but not much dispute on the underlying fact that Brexit has made Britain poorer, as the remain campaign said it would and the leave campaign denied. » | Editorial | Friday, November 4, 2022
Friday, November 04, 2022
George Michael : Father Figure | Official Video | Reupload
Five More Anglican Bishops Back Same-sex Marriages in Church
THE GUARDIAN: Church of England bishops say clergy should be able to act according to conscience on issue that has divided Christianity
A blessing ceremony for a couple in a Catholic church in Cologne, Germany, in 2021.Photograph: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images
Five more Anglican bishops have publicly backed a call for the Church of England to lift its ban on same-sex marriage, in a sign that momentum may be building for a historic change.
The bishops of Worcester and Dudley have written to all clergy in their area saying “the time has come for the church to celebrate and honour same sex relations”. John Inge, a senior bishop, and Martin Gorick, a junior bishop in the diocese, said they favoured same-sex couples being able to marry in church, although clergy should be permitted to act according to their conscience on the issue.
Inge added in a tweet: “I stand convicted of being silent for too long in what, I persuaded myself, was the imperative of unity. I offer my apologies to all those who have been hurt.” » | Harriet Sherwood | Friday, November 4, 2022
Related article here.
Five more Anglican bishops have publicly backed a call for the Church of England to lift its ban on same-sex marriage, in a sign that momentum may be building for a historic change.
The bishops of Worcester and Dudley have written to all clergy in their area saying “the time has come for the church to celebrate and honour same sex relations”. John Inge, a senior bishop, and Martin Gorick, a junior bishop in the diocese, said they favoured same-sex couples being able to marry in church, although clergy should be permitted to act according to their conscience on the issue.
Inge added in a tweet: “I stand convicted of being silent for too long in what, I persuaded myself, was the imperative of unity. I offer my apologies to all those who have been hurt.” » | Harriet Sherwood | Friday, November 4, 2022
Related article here.
Sobranie Cocktails: Fine Cigarettes Fit for the Queer Smoker (and Ladies). Russian Cigarettes to Boot!
Les vols de nourriture dans les supermarchés en hausse au Portugal : « Des retraités, des étudiants ou des parents en sont réduits à cela »
LE MONDE : Les ménages les moins aisés, mais aussi la classe moyenne, sont particulièrement affectés par l’inflation, alors que la pauvreté a nettement augmenté depuis la pandémie de Covid-19.
Des boîtes de thon sont équipées d’antivols pour faire face à la recrudescence des vols, dans une grande surface portugaise. DOCUMENT EXPRESSO
Ces images ont quelque chose de terrifiant. Elles en disent long sur la crise sociale engendrée par l’inflation au Portugal : dans certains supermarchés de Lisbonne ou de Porto, des boîtes de thon à 1,79 euro sont désormais vendues enserrées dans des coffrets plastiques antivol.
Et pour cause : depuis septembre, les vols de nourriture de base – thon, mais aussi pain, café, riz – décollent dans les supermarchés, en particulier dans les villes, se désole Gonçalo Lobo Xavier, le président l’Association portugaise des entreprises de distribution (APED), dans l’hebdomadaire Expresso du 21 octobre, citant également les témoignages d’agents de sécurité. » | Par Marie Charrel | jeudi 3 novembre 2022
Ces images ont quelque chose de terrifiant. Elles en disent long sur la crise sociale engendrée par l’inflation au Portugal : dans certains supermarchés de Lisbonne ou de Porto, des boîtes de thon à 1,79 euro sont désormais vendues enserrées dans des coffrets plastiques antivol.
Et pour cause : depuis septembre, les vols de nourriture de base – thon, mais aussi pain, café, riz – décollent dans les supermarchés, en particulier dans les villes, se désole Gonçalo Lobo Xavier, le président l’Association portugaise des entreprises de distribution (APED), dans l’hebdomadaire Expresso du 21 octobre, citant également les témoignages d’agents de sécurité. » | Par Marie Charrel | jeudi 3 novembre 2022
‘I’m Afraid for My Future’: Proposed Laws Threaten Gay Life in Russia
THE NEW YORK TIMES: The laws, all but assured of enactment, would intensify a crackdown on L.G.B.T.Q. freedom in Russia, which Vladimir V. Putin has cast as a corrosive Western influence.
MOSCOW — In an industrial block in northeastern Moscow on a recent Friday night, organizers of an L.G.B.T.Q.-friendly art festival were assiduously checking IDs. No one under 18 allowed. They were trying to comply with a 2013 Russian law that bans exposing minors to anything that could be considered “gay propaganda.”
The organizers had good reason to be wary: Life has been challenging for gay Russians since the law passed, as the government has treated gay life as a Western import that is harmful to traditional Russian values and society.
Now Russia’s Parliament is set to pass a legislative package that would ban all “gay propaganda,” signaling an even more difficult period ahead for a stigmatized segment of society.
The laws would prohibit representation of L.G.B.T.Q. relationships in any media — streaming services, social platforms, books, music, posters, billboards and films — and, activists fear, in any public space as well. That’s a daunting prospect for queer people searching for community, validation or an audience. » | Valerie Hopkins and Valeriya Safronova | Photographs by Nanna Heitmann | Friday, November 4, 2022
Vlad and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow are cool with killing innocent people—fathers, mothers, the elderly and innocent children in the Ukraine, and sending off to war innocent Russians only to be used as cannon fodder, but two consenting adult males or females who have found love and who wish to spend the rest of their lives together in peace and love is a problem for them – a BIG PROBLEM, it seems. What a sick society Russia has become under Putin! It is a bastion of backwardness and benightedness. How sad! – © Mark Alexander
Verwandt auf Deutsch. Related in English.
MOSCOW — In an industrial block in northeastern Moscow on a recent Friday night, organizers of an L.G.B.T.Q.-friendly art festival were assiduously checking IDs. No one under 18 allowed. They were trying to comply with a 2013 Russian law that bans exposing minors to anything that could be considered “gay propaganda.”
The organizers had good reason to be wary: Life has been challenging for gay Russians since the law passed, as the government has treated gay life as a Western import that is harmful to traditional Russian values and society.
Now Russia’s Parliament is set to pass a legislative package that would ban all “gay propaganda,” signaling an even more difficult period ahead for a stigmatized segment of society.
The laws would prohibit representation of L.G.B.T.Q. relationships in any media — streaming services, social platforms, books, music, posters, billboards and films — and, activists fear, in any public space as well. That’s a daunting prospect for queer people searching for community, validation or an audience. » | Valerie Hopkins and Valeriya Safronova | Photographs by Nanna Heitmann | Friday, November 4, 2022
Vlad and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow are cool with killing innocent people—fathers, mothers, the elderly and innocent children in the Ukraine, and sending off to war innocent Russians only to be used as cannon fodder, but two consenting adult males or females who have found love and who wish to spend the rest of their lives together in peace and love is a problem for them – a BIG PROBLEM, it seems. What a sick society Russia has become under Putin! It is a bastion of backwardness and benightedness. How sad! – © Mark Alexander
Verwandt auf Deutsch. Related in English.
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Aufstand gegen die Mullahs: Kampf gegen das Regime in Iran | auslandsjournal
Nov 4, 2022 | Das Auswärtige Amt forderte alle deutschen Staatsbürger auf, Iran zu verlassen. Die Situation im Land sei aufgrund der Brutalität und Eskalationsbereitschaft des iranischen Regimes zu gefährlich. Im Umfeld von Demonstrationen komme es zudem häufig zu willkürlichen Verhaftungen.
Mehr als sechs Wochen dauern die Proteste im Land nun schon an. Auslöser war die Verhaftung von Mahsa Amini am 13. September 2022. Sie wurde von der Sittenpolizei in Gewahrsam genommen und drei Tage später für tot erklärt. Ihr Tod versetzte das Land in Aufruhr. Besonders Frauen gehen seitdem auf die Straße und protestieren. Die Demonstrant*innen fordern den Sturz des islamischen Regimes. Doch dieses reagiert mit Lügen, Unterdrückung und Gewalt.
Auch Journalist*innen werden von der iranischen Führung bedroht. Freie Berichterstattung ist schwer möglich. Ausländische Pressevertreter*innen werden überwacht. Sie dürfen Teheran nicht verlassen. Straßenaufnahmen sowie Interviews mit der Protestbewegung sind untersagt.
Derweil ist die Solidarität im Ausland groß. In vielen Ländern gehen Menschen auf die Straße und protestieren für die Freiheit der Frauen. Doch im Iran lassen die gewaltsamen Eskalationen des Regimes nicht nach. Trotz der wachsenden Brutalität gehen die Proteste weiter. Die Demonstrant*innen erinnern stets an Mahsa Amini und fordern: „Frauen, Leben, Freiheit“.
ZDF-Korrespondent Jörg Brase blickt auf die Wochen des Protests zurück und berichtet über die Lage im Land.
Mehr als sechs Wochen dauern die Proteste im Land nun schon an. Auslöser war die Verhaftung von Mahsa Amini am 13. September 2022. Sie wurde von der Sittenpolizei in Gewahrsam genommen und drei Tage später für tot erklärt. Ihr Tod versetzte das Land in Aufruhr. Besonders Frauen gehen seitdem auf die Straße und protestieren. Die Demonstrant*innen fordern den Sturz des islamischen Regimes. Doch dieses reagiert mit Lügen, Unterdrückung und Gewalt.
Auch Journalist*innen werden von der iranischen Führung bedroht. Freie Berichterstattung ist schwer möglich. Ausländische Pressevertreter*innen werden überwacht. Sie dürfen Teheran nicht verlassen. Straßenaufnahmen sowie Interviews mit der Protestbewegung sind untersagt.
Derweil ist die Solidarität im Ausland groß. In vielen Ländern gehen Menschen auf die Straße und protestieren für die Freiheit der Frauen. Doch im Iran lassen die gewaltsamen Eskalationen des Regimes nicht nach. Trotz der wachsenden Brutalität gehen die Proteste weiter. Die Demonstrant*innen erinnern stets an Mahsa Amini und fordern: „Frauen, Leben, Freiheit“.
ZDF-Korrespondent Jörg Brase blickt auf die Wochen des Protests zurück und berichtet über die Lage im Land.
The Lavish Eating Habits of The Ancient Romans | Timeline
Jul 19, 2017 | The Roman empire was a time of power and brutality, fuelled by violent games and bloodbaths. However, it was also abundant in refinement and extreme sensuality. Food and cooking was an key indicator of success, with quality and abundance of dishes the primary measure. As the first and largest European civilisation, Rome was at the epicentre of culinary innovation, with an acute emphasis on vegetables, meat and spices.
From eating lying down, to watering down fine wines, Rome had unique practices when it came to dining. Techniques are examined, and strange staples, such as a fish intestine sauce that was the Roman equivalent of ketchup, are revealed. We explore the taste laboratories of Epicius, the master behind Rome’s cooking prowess, and source of inspiration for the best chefs today.
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From eating lying down, to watering down fine wines, Rome had unique practices when it came to dining. Techniques are examined, and strange staples, such as a fish intestine sauce that was the Roman equivalent of ketchup, are revealed. We explore the taste laboratories of Epicius, the master behind Rome’s cooking prowess, and source of inspiration for the best chefs today.
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Uncovering LGBTQ Londinium
MUSEUM OF LONDON: London’s queer history starts much earlier than you might guess. Curator Francis Grew explores how recent scholarship reveals the presence of same-sex love in Roman London, and how different those relationships were from modern LGBTQ+ lifestyles.
2022 will mark the 1900th anniversary of the Roman Emperor Hadrian’s visit to Londinium. When Hadrian visited the city in the year 122 CE, his entourage included young men with whom he was clearly intimate.
He would have been entirely open about it, and many bystanders will have thought his behaviour quite normal, if only because they themselves had same-sex relationships. But it is only recently that scholars have come to accept that such attitudes prevailed in Roman London.
Forty years ago I was a university student, reading Greek and Latin literature. Since then not only have our attitudes to LGBTQ+ issues changed, but so has our understanding of Roman London. In those days many archaeologists believed that metropolitan Roman culture had little impact upon so distant a province as Britain. This may be true for many regions of Britain, but writing tablets discovered during recent digs in London show that society here was organised in much the same way as in Rome itself, for at least the first century of the city’s existence. » | Francis Grew, Senior Curatorof Archaeology | Friday, February 14, 2020
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Israel Elections | Netanyahu in Coalition Talks with anti-LGBTQ Party, Could Walk Back Conversion Therapy Ban
HAARETZ: After securing a majority in the Israeli elections, Netanyahu’s Likud looking to expedite coalition talks and bring the anti-LGBTQ Noam party into the governing coalition
Officials in Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party’s plan to negotiate a coalition agreement with the anti-LGBTQ Noam faction of Religious Zionism with the aim of bringing Noam into the new government coalition – potentially walking back recent civil rights gains such as a ban on conversion therapy.
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A number of policy changes instituted by the outgoing government of Prime Minister Yair Lapid are expected to be reversed by the new Netanyahu-led government, including policies benefitting the queer community, a senior Likud official told Haaretz. They mainly came from the Health Ministry, where Nitzan Horowitz, who is openly gay, is currently the minister. » | Michael Hauser Tov and Bar Peleg | Thursday, November 3, 2022
The Israel We Knew Is Gone »
Officials in Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party’s plan to negotiate a coalition agreement with the anti-LGBTQ Noam faction of Religious Zionism with the aim of bringing Noam into the new government coalition – potentially walking back recent civil rights gains such as a ban on conversion therapy.
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A number of policy changes instituted by the outgoing government of Prime Minister Yair Lapid are expected to be reversed by the new Netanyahu-led government, including policies benefitting the queer community, a senior Likud official told Haaretz. They mainly came from the Health Ministry, where Nitzan Horowitz, who is openly gay, is currently the minister. » | Michael Hauser Tov and Bar Peleg | Thursday, November 3, 2022
The Israel We Knew Is Gone »
Thursday, November 03, 2022
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Bishop of Oxford Says Church Should Marry Gay Couples
BBC: The Bishop of Oxford has said Church of England clergy should be able to bless and marry gay couples.
The Right Reverend Dr Steven Croft said he was sorry his views on same-sex marriage were "slow to change" and had "caused genuine hurt, disagreement and pain".
In an essay, he said clergy should also be allowed to marry a same-sex partner if they wished.
By law no Church of England minister can bless or marry gay couples.
He is the most senior cleric in the Church of England to so far speak out in favour of same-sex marriage.
The essay, Together in Love and Faith, sets out the ways Bishop Croft's own views on same-sex relationships have changed over the last decade.
"I need to acknowledge the acute pain and distress of LGBTQ+ people in the life of the Church," he wrote.
"I am sorry that, corporately, we have been so slow as a Church to reach better decisions and practice on these matters.
"I am sorry that my own views were slow to change and that my actions, and lack of action, have caused genuine hurt, disagreement and pain." » | BBC | Thursday, November 3, 2022
Senior bishops join chorus of calls for Church of England to allow same-sex marriage: Bishops across the country have called for the Church of England to allow same-sex marriage, after the Bishop of Oxford became the highest ranking church official to do so. »
Israel’s Yair Lapid Congratulates Benjamin Netanyahu on Election Victory
THE GUARDIAN: Longest serving prime minister, who is still facing corruption charges, is expected to lead far-right coalition
Israel’s prime minister, Yair Lapid, has called Benjamin Netanyahu to offer his congratulations on the opposition leader’s election win following the conclusion of vote counting in this week’s election.
Netanyahu, the chair of the conservative Likud party and Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, is expected to begin an unprecedented third term as PM after holding coalition negotiations with his religious and far-right allies on forming a government.
The bloc, which includes the extremist Religious Zionist party and two ultra-Orthodox parties, won a comfortable majority in Tuesday’s election, the country’s fifth in four years. » | Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem | Thursday, October 3, 2022
Législatives en Israël : Benyamin Nétanyahou et ses alliés de droite remportent une nette majorité des sièges : Selon le décompte final de la commission électorale, le bloc de droite de l’ancien premier ministre l’emporte sur celui du sortant, le centriste Yaïr Lapid. »
Lapid gratuliert Netanjahu zum Wahlsieg: Zwei Tage nach der Wahl in Israel steht das Ergebnis fest: Der frühere Ministerpräsident Benjamin Netanjahu hat wieder eine sichere Mehrheit erlangt. Seiner Rückkehr an die Macht steht nun nichts mehr im Weg. »
Israel’s prime minister, Yair Lapid, has called Benjamin Netanyahu to offer his congratulations on the opposition leader’s election win following the conclusion of vote counting in this week’s election.
Netanyahu, the chair of the conservative Likud party and Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, is expected to begin an unprecedented third term as PM after holding coalition negotiations with his religious and far-right allies on forming a government.
The bloc, which includes the extremist Religious Zionist party and two ultra-Orthodox parties, won a comfortable majority in Tuesday’s election, the country’s fifth in four years. » | Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem | Thursday, October 3, 2022
Législatives en Israël : Benyamin Nétanyahou et ses alliés de droite remportent une nette majorité des sièges : Selon le décompte final de la commission électorale, le bloc de droite de l’ancien premier ministre l’emporte sur celui du sortant, le centriste Yaïr Lapid. »
Lapid gratuliert Netanjahu zum Wahlsieg: Zwei Tage nach der Wahl in Israel steht das Ergebnis fest: Der frühere Ministerpräsident Benjamin Netanjahu hat wieder eine sichere Mehrheit erlangt. Seiner Rückkehr an die Macht steht nun nichts mehr im Weg. »
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Bank of England Hikes Interest Rates to 3% in Biggest Rise since 1989
THE GUARDIAN: Bank fears 0.75 percentage point rise may push UK economy into longer and deeper recession than the 1930s
The Bank of England has increased the cost of borrowing by 0.75 percentage points to 3%, despite predicting that higher interest rates would push the economy into the longest recession since the 1930s.
In a split vote, the central bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC) voted by a 7-2 majority for the biggest increase in rates since 1989 to combat an inflation rate that hit 10.1% in September.
The Bank blamed higher energy prices and a tight labour market for the decision to increase interest rates, matching rises in the last week by the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank. » | Phillip Inman | Thursday, November 3, 2022
Bank of England warns of longest recession since the 1930s: Interest rate rise to 3% is biggest since 1989 and fears UK economy may go into longer, deeper recession »
The Bank of England has increased the cost of borrowing by 0.75 percentage points to 3%, despite predicting that higher interest rates would push the economy into the longest recession since the 1930s.
In a split vote, the central bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC) voted by a 7-2 majority for the biggest increase in rates since 1989 to combat an inflation rate that hit 10.1% in September.
The Bank blamed higher energy prices and a tight labour market for the decision to increase interest rates, matching rises in the last week by the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank. » | Phillip Inman | Thursday, November 3, 2022
Bank of England warns of longest recession since the 1930s: Interest rate rise to 3% is biggest since 1989 and fears UK economy may go into longer, deeper recession »
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A New Crusade: Poland's Embrace of Catholicism and Anti-LGBT Ideology | Foreign Correspondent | 2020 | Reupload
Apr 28, 2020 • When Poland’s Archbishop of Krakow talks about fighting a plague, he’s not talking about the new coronavirus. He’s talking about gay rights.
“A certain ideology is a threat to our hearts and minds…so we need to defend ourselves just like against any other plague”, says Archbishop Jedraszewski.
In the 1980s Poland played a central part in liberating the world from communism. Now there’s a push to wind back many of those hard-won freedoms.
The Catholic church and the Polish government are forming a holy alliance, joining forces to denounce Western-style liberalism as the new enemy.
“From the very beginning the history of the Polish state and Polish nation were connected with the history of Christianity”, says Archbishop Jedraszewski. “Christianity, nation and state were so tightly connected, they were almost inseparable.”
In today’s Poland, the church is supporting government moves to discriminate against gay people, wind back sex education and outlaw abortion.
But feminists, gays and liberals are fighting back.
Foreign Correspondent’s Eric Campbell reports on a deeply divided nation in the throes of a culture war.
He meets the Archbishop of Krakow who likens gay activists to the much-reviled Soviets who occupied Poland after the Second World War.
“This time it is not a red but a rainbow plague”, says Archbishop Jedraszewski. Regional governments across Poland have declared about a third of the country ‘an LGBT free zone’.
Eric interviews critics of the current government, including Lech Walesa, the father of Polish democracy, who warns “our Constitution is being broken, the separation of powers has been violated and we have to do something about it.”
He meets a gay mayor in a small town who says the rhetoric from church and state is leading to an “increase in hatred spreading against homosexual people.” And he films at a far-right rally in Warsaw where Catholic extremists are co-opting the church in their bid to push their nationalist agenda and vision of Poland as a new theocracy.
While many Poles believe a religious revival will lead their country to the light, others fear it is opening the gates to something darker.
“A certain ideology is a threat to our hearts and minds…so we need to defend ourselves just like against any other plague”, says Archbishop Jedraszewski.
In the 1980s Poland played a central part in liberating the world from communism. Now there’s a push to wind back many of those hard-won freedoms.
The Catholic church and the Polish government are forming a holy alliance, joining forces to denounce Western-style liberalism as the new enemy.
“From the very beginning the history of the Polish state and Polish nation were connected with the history of Christianity”, says Archbishop Jedraszewski. “Christianity, nation and state were so tightly connected, they were almost inseparable.”
In today’s Poland, the church is supporting government moves to discriminate against gay people, wind back sex education and outlaw abortion.
But feminists, gays and liberals are fighting back.
Foreign Correspondent’s Eric Campbell reports on a deeply divided nation in the throes of a culture war.
He meets the Archbishop of Krakow who likens gay activists to the much-reviled Soviets who occupied Poland after the Second World War.
“This time it is not a red but a rainbow plague”, says Archbishop Jedraszewski. Regional governments across Poland have declared about a third of the country ‘an LGBT free zone’.
Eric interviews critics of the current government, including Lech Walesa, the father of Polish democracy, who warns “our Constitution is being broken, the separation of powers has been violated and we have to do something about it.”
He meets a gay mayor in a small town who says the rhetoric from church and state is leading to an “increase in hatred spreading against homosexual people.” And he films at a far-right rally in Warsaw where Catholic extremists are co-opting the church in their bid to push their nationalist agenda and vision of Poland as a new theocracy.
While many Poles believe a religious revival will lead their country to the light, others fear it is opening the gates to something darker.
La démocratie américaine menacée de délitement
LE MONDE – ÉDITORIAL : Nourrie par la lâcheté des responsables républicains, la fièvre antidémocratique portée par Donald Trump depuis sa défaite en 2020 n’est jamais retombée. Elle fait aujourd’hui peser de réelles menaces sur les élections de mi-mandat du 8 novembre.
Après le discours solennel prononcé par Joe Biden le 2 novembre, dans lequel il a décrit une démocratie en péril aux Etats-Unis, ses adversaires républicains ont immédiatement dénoncé un alarmisme de circonstance. A la veille d’élections de mi-mandat, le 8 novembre, traditionnellement défavorables au parti qui occupe la Maison Blanche, cet argument d’opportunisme électoral peut s’entendre. Il ne saurait cependant occulter les menaces, réelles, qui pèsent désormais sur les institutions américaines. » | Éditorial « du Monde » | jeudi 3 novembre 2022
Après le discours solennel prononcé par Joe Biden le 2 novembre, dans lequel il a décrit une démocratie en péril aux Etats-Unis, ses adversaires républicains ont immédiatement dénoncé un alarmisme de circonstance. A la veille d’élections de mi-mandat, le 8 novembre, traditionnellement défavorables au parti qui occupe la Maison Blanche, cet argument d’opportunisme électoral peut s’entendre. Il ne saurait cependant occulter les menaces, réelles, qui pèsent désormais sur les institutions américaines. » | Éditorial « du Monde » | jeudi 3 novembre 2022
Wednesday, November 02, 2022
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Auch diese Geschicte über die Wehrmacht.
I Finally Quit Monogamy – and Found a Romance I Never Expected
THE GUARDIAN: I used to think open relationships were not for me because I would have to give up my romantic side. That just wasn’t true
When you have rules you agree on openly and honestly, as we do, no party feels hurt as long as they are followed.’ Photograph: Lev Dolgachov/Alamy
If you asked me a few years ago whether I’d ever quit monogamy, I would have laughed in your face. I identified as a classic romantic before I even knew I was gay. The idea that someone was out there somewhere, waiting for me to find them and become their everything, got me through my (often unbearable) adolescence.
In conservative Poland, where I’m from, many bigots see being queer as a purely sexual thing. Even the more liberal ones view it as something that should remain “in the privacy of their own homes”. As if being gay was a fetish that doesn’t make any sense outside a sexual context. Deep inside, I knew that wasn’t true. I had my first crushes in primary school, and the purely sexual portrayal of queerness made me want a truly romantic relationship even more. And what’s more romantic than only having eyes forone person only, right?
Despite this desire for a fairytale love story, gay men in my circles never quite shared the excitement. One of my first ever hookups, an established orchestra conductor, told me that the older a gay man gets, the less realistic monogamy seems to be. Before moving to the UK in 2016, when I was 20, I had my heart broken by several young gentlemen who all promised me a happily ever after, only to then hook up with someone in a club or invite a guy over to stay when I was away. » | Tomasz Lesniara | Wednesday, November 2, 2022
If you asked me a few years ago whether I’d ever quit monogamy, I would have laughed in your face. I identified as a classic romantic before I even knew I was gay. The idea that someone was out there somewhere, waiting for me to find them and become their everything, got me through my (often unbearable) adolescence.
In conservative Poland, where I’m from, many bigots see being queer as a purely sexual thing. Even the more liberal ones view it as something that should remain “in the privacy of their own homes”. As if being gay was a fetish that doesn’t make any sense outside a sexual context. Deep inside, I knew that wasn’t true. I had my first crushes in primary school, and the purely sexual portrayal of queerness made me want a truly romantic relationship even more. And what’s more romantic than only having eyes forone person only, right?
Despite this desire for a fairytale love story, gay men in my circles never quite shared the excitement. One of my first ever hookups, an established orchestra conductor, told me that the older a gay man gets, the less realistic monogamy seems to be. Before moving to the UK in 2016, when I was 20, I had my heart broken by several young gentlemen who all promised me a happily ever after, only to then hook up with someone in a club or invite a guy over to stay when I was away. » | Tomasz Lesniara | Wednesday, November 2, 2022
UN Poverty Envoy Tells Britain This Is ‘Worst Time’ for More Austerity
THE GUARDIAN: Exclusive: Olivier de Schutter says cuts could violate human rights laws, calling instead for higher taxes on rich
Demonstrators take part in a protest against the government's austerity measures last month.Photograph: Warrick Page/Getty Images
The United Nations’ poverty envoy has warned Rishi Sunak that unleashing a new wave of austerity in this month’s budget could violate the UK’s international human rights obligations and increase hunger and malnutrition.
Olivier de Schutter, the UN rapporteur on extreme poverty, said he was “extremely troubled” by likely multibillion-pound spending cuts – including possible real-terms reductions in welfare payments to millions of the nation’s poorest families.
The government is due to unveil a crunch budget on 17 November to fill an estimated £40bn black hole in the public finances using tax rises as well as spending cuts.
Speaking to the Guardian, the UN-appointed official, who has recently been investigating extreme poverty in Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon and Nepal, said: “This is the worst time to impose such cuts. You do not impose austerity measures when the whole population is facing a cost of living crisis. What you do is you raise taxes on the rich, you raise taxes on corporations.” » | Robert Booth, Social affairs correspondent | Wednesday, November 2, 2022
We’ve had years and years of Tory austerity already. Cameron and Osborne introduced the “age of austerity” in 2009. (Of course, we were all in it together!) And a fat lot of good it has done us! A worse outcome would be hard to imagine!
Even though I disliked the man at the time, he has been proven right. I speak of Denis Healey, the one-time Labour chancellor of the exchequer. He once said, “I want to squeeze the rich until the pips squeak.”. That is exactly what we need to do right now! Forget about inflicting even more pain on the poor! Tax the rich instead – until their pips squeak, as he said! (Source of quotation: The Guardian).
Moreover, if you don’t wish to tax the superrich, then we might need to talk about whether we can afford the luxury of royalty.
I am not anti-royal; I am no republican. But it seems ludicrous to me that we lavish limitless amounts of money on royalty to keep them in the lap of luxury, when so many ordinary people cannot put food on the table for their children. That is not only wrong, it is also unconscionable. – © Mark Alexander
More austerity, more division, more decline: Sunak is merely a sequel in a tired Tory franchise: The new prime minister’s main redeeming quality is that he is not his predecessors. What a sorry waste of 12 years in power »
The United Nations’ poverty envoy has warned Rishi Sunak that unleashing a new wave of austerity in this month’s budget could violate the UK’s international human rights obligations and increase hunger and malnutrition.
Olivier de Schutter, the UN rapporteur on extreme poverty, said he was “extremely troubled” by likely multibillion-pound spending cuts – including possible real-terms reductions in welfare payments to millions of the nation’s poorest families.
The government is due to unveil a crunch budget on 17 November to fill an estimated £40bn black hole in the public finances using tax rises as well as spending cuts.
Speaking to the Guardian, the UN-appointed official, who has recently been investigating extreme poverty in Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon and Nepal, said: “This is the worst time to impose such cuts. You do not impose austerity measures when the whole population is facing a cost of living crisis. What you do is you raise taxes on the rich, you raise taxes on corporations.” » | Robert Booth, Social affairs correspondent | Wednesday, November 2, 2022
We’ve had years and years of Tory austerity already. Cameron and Osborne introduced the “age of austerity” in 2009. (Of course, we were all in it together!) And a fat lot of good it has done us! A worse outcome would be hard to imagine!
Even though I disliked the man at the time, he has been proven right. I speak of Denis Healey, the one-time Labour chancellor of the exchequer. He once said, “I want to squeeze the rich until the pips squeak.”. That is exactly what we need to do right now! Forget about inflicting even more pain on the poor! Tax the rich instead – until their pips squeak, as he said! (Source of quotation: The Guardian).
Moreover, if you don’t wish to tax the superrich, then we might need to talk about whether we can afford the luxury of royalty.
I am not anti-royal; I am no republican. But it seems ludicrous to me that we lavish limitless amounts of money on royalty to keep them in the lap of luxury, when so many ordinary people cannot put food on the table for their children. That is not only wrong, it is also unconscionable. – © Mark Alexander
More austerity, more division, more decline: Sunak is merely a sequel in a tired Tory franchise: The new prime minister’s main redeeming quality is that he is not his predecessors. What a sorry waste of 12 years in power »
Offensichtlich ist Freude ein schwuler Kuss
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Wie wir alle wissen, hat die Nazi-Ideologie zu keinem guten Ende geführt und wird dies auch nie tun. Putin sollte dies ebenso gut wissen wie jeder andere. – © Mark Alexander
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Tuesday, November 01, 2022
Wunderschöne Blumen für Ihren schwulen, herbstlichen Hochzeitsstrauß
Iran Vows Tough Stance on Dissent in Public Trials | DW News
Nov 1, 2022 | Protests have gripped Iran since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody on September 16. She was arrested in Tehran for allegedly wearing her hijab incorrectly. What began as outrage over her death soon evolved into a popular uprising against Iran's leaders.
Students and women have been particularly active in the protests, burning their veils and cutting their hair in a show of defiance against the repressive regime.
Dozens of people have been killed over the past several weeks amid a brutal crackdown by ecurity forces. Hundreds more have been arrested.
Death to the mullocracy that is Iran! Freedom for the people! Theocracy? What a sick joke! Iran is no more a theocracy than it is a Disneyland! How can it possibly be called a theocracy when it is so cruel, so brutal? Is this what God, Allah, wants? If it is, then He is not worthy of worship! Down with this sham theocracy! Restore the Peacock Throne! Bring back the Shah! – © Mark Alexander
Students and women have been particularly active in the protests, burning their veils and cutting their hair in a show of defiance against the repressive regime.
Dozens of people have been killed over the past several weeks amid a brutal crackdown by ecurity forces. Hundreds more have been arrested.
Death to the mullocracy that is Iran! Freedom for the people! Theocracy? What a sick joke! Iran is no more a theocracy than it is a Disneyland! How can it possibly be called a theocracy when it is so cruel, so brutal? Is this what God, Allah, wants? If it is, then He is not worthy of worship! Down with this sham theocracy! Restore the Peacock Throne! Bring back the Shah! – © Mark Alexander
Une touche de sensualité
Chris Brown : Forever | Official HD Video | Reupload
The Oldest Pub in Britain | Journeyman Pictures
The do-gooders in politics spoilt the British pub by banning smoking in them. So many went out of business as a result of that stupid law; and the ones that didn't were turned into glorified kindergartens. Personally, I think it has led to a lot of loneliness in the UK, too. BTW, I write this as an ex-smoker; so I have no skin in the game. – © Mark Alexander
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