Monday, August 30, 2021
Ein guter Kuß, um den Tag zu beginnen.
Spate of Attacks across UK Sparks Fear among LGBTQ+ Community
THE GUARDIAN: Hate crimes related to sexual orientation and gender identity have increased year on year since 2015
Birmingham’s gay village, scene of an attack on a couple earlier this month. Photograph: Jacob King/PA
Two weeks ago, Ranjith “Roy” Kankanamalage, 50, was discovered with a fatal head injury in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, east London. The brutal attack was, police believe, motivated by homophobia and a man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
A day earlier, a couple called Rob and Patrick were attacked with broken bottles in Birmingham’s gay village, leaving one unconscious and the other with extensive cuts. Three men have been arrested on suspicion of robbery and wounding.
On 30 July, in Edinburgh, a married gay couple were punched, kicked and spat at as they walked down a busy city centre street. Three men have been charged in connection with alleged assaults and homophobic crimes.
And in Liverpool, during Pride month, hundreds of people joined a protest on 22 June after at least three street attacks on young men within the space of a few weeks.
Local activists and national campaigners have told the Guardian that this spate of attacks across the UK, while unconnected, underscores a climate of fear endured by the LGBTQ+ community on the streets. » | Libby Brooks and Jessica Murray | Sunday, August 29, 2021
The Anti-Gay Agenda : Why can’t straight men stop obsessing about gay people? Why is it that a thing that has nothing to do with them occupies so much of their time and energy? Maybe they should interrogate their own prurient interests in other people’s love, get at the root and figure out why the idea of male intimacy riles them. »
Two weeks ago, Ranjith “Roy” Kankanamalage, 50, was discovered with a fatal head injury in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, east London. The brutal attack was, police believe, motivated by homophobia and a man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
A day earlier, a couple called Rob and Patrick were attacked with broken bottles in Birmingham’s gay village, leaving one unconscious and the other with extensive cuts. Three men have been arrested on suspicion of robbery and wounding.
On 30 July, in Edinburgh, a married gay couple were punched, kicked and spat at as they walked down a busy city centre street. Three men have been charged in connection with alleged assaults and homophobic crimes.
And in Liverpool, during Pride month, hundreds of people joined a protest on 22 June after at least three street attacks on young men within the space of a few weeks.
Local activists and national campaigners have told the Guardian that this spate of attacks across the UK, while unconnected, underscores a climate of fear endured by the LGBTQ+ community on the streets. » | Libby Brooks and Jessica Murray | Sunday, August 29, 2021
The Anti-Gay Agenda : Why can’t straight men stop obsessing about gay people? Why is it that a thing that has nothing to do with them occupies so much of their time and energy? Maybe they should interrogate their own prurient interests in other people’s love, get at the root and figure out why the idea of male intimacy riles them. »
Chinese University Appears to Ask for Lists of LGBTQ+ Students for ‘Investigation’
THE GUARDIAN: Survey by Shanghai University that asked colleges to research the political stance and ‘state of mind’ of members of LGBTQ+ communities has sparked alarm
Chin’a authorities have a worsening intolerance for gender and sexual minority groups, particularly those engaged in activism. Photograph: How Hwee Young/EPA
A well-known Chinese university appears to have asked its colleges to make lists of their LGBTQ+ students and report on their “state of mind”, according to a purported internal directive published online on both Chinese and foreign social media platforms.
Shanghai University has not confirmed the request or responded to queries about its intention, but it has sparked alarm among young Chinese people, coming after a crackdown on campus groups and organisations supporting LGBTQ+ and feminist communities.
The “Campus Survey”, citing “relevant requirements”, asked colleges to “investigate [and] research” students identified as LGBTQ+. It also requested information on the students’ state of mind and psychological condition, including political stance, social contacts, and mental health status. The questionnaire did not explain what “relevant requirements” it was referring to.
Students and activists have expressed concern that the information-gathering exercise could signal further targeting of students. Some legal experts on Weibo are questioning whether such a practice would violate China’s new data privacy law.
Shanghai University’s communications department could not be reached for comment. Other departments referred the Guardian to the communications department. » | Vincent Ni, China affairs correspondent, and Helen Davidson | Sunday, August 29, 2021
Cina shock, università chiede di stilare lista studenti gay »
A well-known Chinese university appears to have asked its colleges to make lists of their LGBTQ+ students and report on their “state of mind”, according to a purported internal directive published online on both Chinese and foreign social media platforms.
Shanghai University has not confirmed the request or responded to queries about its intention, but it has sparked alarm among young Chinese people, coming after a crackdown on campus groups and organisations supporting LGBTQ+ and feminist communities.
The “Campus Survey”, citing “relevant requirements”, asked colleges to “investigate [and] research” students identified as LGBTQ+. It also requested information on the students’ state of mind and psychological condition, including political stance, social contacts, and mental health status. The questionnaire did not explain what “relevant requirements” it was referring to.
Students and activists have expressed concern that the information-gathering exercise could signal further targeting of students. Some legal experts on Weibo are questioning whether such a practice would violate China’s new data privacy law.
Shanghai University’s communications department could not be reached for comment. Other departments referred the Guardian to the communications department. » | Vincent Ni, China affairs correspondent, and Helen Davidson | Sunday, August 29, 2021
Cina shock, università chiede di stilare lista studenti gay »
Sunday, August 29, 2021
Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro Says He Will Be Killed, Arrested or Re-elected
BBC: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said he sees three alternatives for his future: prison, death or victory in next year's presidential election.
The right-wing populist leader is trailing left-wing former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the polls.
"I have three alternatives for my future: being arrested, killed or victory," he told evangelical leaders.
But the former military officer said there was no chance of prison because "no man on Earth will threaten me".
Mr Bolsonaro was nearly stabbed to death on the campaign trail in 2018. His remarks come amid fierce tensions between him and the country's judiciary and election authorities. » | BBC | Sunday, August 29, 2021
L'art de brasser le saké
LE FIGARO : Le saké Japonais, ou « Nihonshu», est une boisson traditionnelle japonaise réalisée à base de riz fermenté. Depuis le IIIe siècle, les Tôjis (maîtres de chai) nippons n’ont eu de cesse d’affiner sa production. Focus sur l’art de la « sakéification».
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Contrairement à ce que l'on pense souvent, le saké est un terme générique qui désigne l’ensemble des alcools en japonais. C’est sans doute pourquoi il est également utilisé pour désigner ces digestifs grossiers et sans saveur servis depuis des décennies dans les restaurants asiatiques de France et de Navarre, associant au breuvage une image des plus déplorables. Mais le véritable saké Japonais, dit «Nihonshu», est beaucoup plus fin et raffiné que le tord-boyaux homonyme qu’est l’alcool de riz chinois.
Historiquement, des prêtresses, vestales locales, mâchaient le riz pour initier le processus de fermentation à l’aide des enzymes salivaires. Aujourd’hui, ce protocole est réservé exclusivement à des cuvées qui serviront d’offrandes divines. Petit tour d’horizon du processus moderne de fabrication du saké Japonais. Les secrets d'un bon saké » | Par Le Figaro Vin | dimanche 2 mai 2021
Contrairement à ce que l'on pense souvent, le saké est un terme générique qui désigne l’ensemble des alcools en japonais. C’est sans doute pourquoi il est également utilisé pour désigner ces digestifs grossiers et sans saveur servis depuis des décennies dans les restaurants asiatiques de France et de Navarre, associant au breuvage une image des plus déplorables. Mais le véritable saké Japonais, dit «Nihonshu», est beaucoup plus fin et raffiné que le tord-boyaux homonyme qu’est l’alcool de riz chinois.
Historiquement, des prêtresses, vestales locales, mâchaient le riz pour initier le processus de fermentation à l’aide des enzymes salivaires. Aujourd’hui, ce protocole est réservé exclusivement à des cuvées qui serviront d’offrandes divines. Petit tour d’horizon du processus moderne de fabrication du saké Japonais. Les secrets d'un bon saké » | Par Le Figaro Vin | dimanche 2 mai 2021
Harry Nilsson: Everybody's Talking (1969)
Céline Dion - Pour que tu m'aimes encore | 'Taking Chances’ World Tour: The Concert
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op.35 - 2. Lento
’Hunter’s Chicken’ Recipe – ‘Chicken Chasseur’ – By the French Cooking Academy
A chicken chasseur recipe. Chicken chasseur is a classic French stew made with sauteed pieces of chicken, served with a sauce made using a combination of brown chicken stock, tomato sauce, mushrooms, shallots and fresh herbs (tarragon and parsley). It is best made using a cast-iron ‘Dutch oven’(US), or cast-iron casserole (UK). It goes well with a side dish of potatoes or quality tagliatelle. It is best eaten with a dry white wine such as Muscadet.
Get the printable recipe here.
Repression Without Borders
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Authoritarian leaders have taken their repressive tactics global.
Smiting foes wherever they may be has a firm place in mythology, literature and history. The meddling Greek gods. James Bond’s license to kill. Joseph Stalin’s hit man who finally caught up with Leon Trotsky in Mexico City. Given this legacy, it is fair to ask why human rights organizations are now raising an alarm about authoritarian leaders who hunt down dissidents far from their borders.
The reason is that the scope, scale and impunity of transnational repression by a new breed of strongmen to intimidate, detain, assault, kidnap, deport or assassinate exiled critics have grown exponentially with globalization, digital connectedness and new methods of surveillance.
Some of the more flagrant examples are well known: the murder and dismemberment of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents in the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul and Russia’s use of lethal toxins to murder one former spy, Alexander Litvinenko, and attempt to murder another, Sergei Skripal. Neither Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia nor President Vladimir Putin of Russia made any effort to justify or rationalize the hits; they simply denied personal responsibility.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, by contrast, has openly cast a broad global net for his foes since a coup attempt in July 2016, using both legal and illegal means. According to a major report this year by the human rights organization Freedom House, the dragnet has included at least 58 abductions in 17 countries. » | The Editorial Board* | Saturday, August 28, 2021
* The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom.
Food, Beer, Toys, Medical Kit. Why Is Britain Running Out of Everything?
THE OBSERVER: Poor pay and conditions for HGV drivers and the loss of many thousands of EU workers are plunging the UKs supply chain into crisis
Gaps on supermarket shelves. Fast food outlets pulling milkshakes and bottled drinks from their menus. Restaurants running out of chicken and closing. Empty vending machines. Online grocery orders full of substitutions. Fruit and vegetables rotting in the fields.
These are just some of the most visible signs of Britain’s deepening supply chain crisis, which has seen stocks in shops and warehouses slump to their lowest levels since the Confederation of British Industry began surveying in 1983.
It has led to dire warnings that the UK’s food system, which has been hit hardest by delivery delays and labour shortages, is in danger of reaching breaking point and may not be able to meet Christmas demand.
Customers may have only started noticing this crisis in recent weeks but it has been building for months, with businesses, road hauliers and transport unions telling ministers at the start of the summer that a shortage of lorry drivers could lead to empty shelves.
The logistics industry estimates around 100,000 more HGV drivers are needed to get goods and materials moving again. The shortfall has emerged, in part, because 14,000 EU drivers have left the country and only 600 have returned since Brexit. The pandemic has also disrupted training and tests for new drivers: around 40,000 HGV driving tests were cancelled last year. » | Tom Wall & Phillip Inman | Sunday, August 28, 2021
“My dear! Don’t you know? Haven’t you heard? These shortages are caused by Brexit. You know, that silly referendum Cameron called to shut up the right-wing loons, the whingers, in the Tory Party. He thought it would shut ‘em up, but he had the shock of life when the results were returned in favour of leaving! He had wanted to heal the longstanding rift in his Party, but instead projected the rift onto our nation. It was cause for his resignation. But now the people are suffering.”
“Well, I do declare!”
“This is what really happened: The ‘squillionaire class’, smelling lots of dough from leaving the EU, conned the 'little people' into believing that if we left, Britain could get its greatness back again. After all, Britannia did indeed rule the waves once upon a time!
The idea of leaving caught the people’s imagination. They say it was common to hear such refrains as this in the streets: ”I’m definitely voting to leave, Ethel. We don’t want ‘them forriners’ telling us what to do! In any case, they say we’ll get our blue passports back if we leave! Oh yes, I votin’ to leave! Definitely!”
“But the shortages in the shops and poor quality of fruit and vegetables are the result of this madness, my dear! It’s a high price to pay for this illusory thing called sovereignty, don’t you think?”
‘Sovrinty’! What’s that then? – Mark
Elizabeth Holmes: From Silicon Valley’s Female Icon to Disgraced CEO On Trial
THE OBSERVER: Once the world’s youngest female self-made billionaire, the former head of Theranos is facing fraud charges and possible jail time
The rise and fall of the blood testing startup Theranos turned the tech world upside down and captured the attention of millions beyond Silicon Valley, inspiring multiple books, documentaries and a television series.
Theranos set out to revolutionize the medical testing space, reaching a valuation of $10bn before the capabilities of its core technology were revealed to be largely fabricated. Now, its founder and former leader, Elizabeth Holmes, is about to face the music.
Holmes, 37, is facing trial in a California courtroom, charged with defrauding Theranos’s patients and investors. She could spend up to 20 years in prison, and has pleaded not guilty.
“This is a bellwether case,” said Jason Mehta, a Florida attorney with expertise in federal fraud cases in the health industry. “It has emerging technology and the typical marketing bravado of a startup, all in the crosshairs of the federal criminal justice system.” » | Kari Paul | Sunday, August 29, 2021
‘People wanted to believe’: reporter who exposed Theranos on Elizabeth Holmes’ trial »
Wie Kabul fiel - erzählt von den Menschen, die geblieben sind, denen, die flohen und solchen, die sich in Afghanistan verstecken
NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG: Als die Taliban am 15. August Kabul einnahmen, endete mehr als nur ein langer Krieg.
Der letzte Auftritt von Meraj Wafa mit seiner Band endet früher als geplant. Es ist fast Mitternacht in Kabul, der Heiratsschwur ist bereits gesprochen, die Gäste haben gegessen und sogar noch etwas getanzt, aber die Stimmung ist nicht so, wie es sich für eine Hochzeit gehört. Wie an jedem Fest, das eine Zäsur im Leben markiert, redet man zwar auch hier von dem, was noch kommt. Aber die Gespräche handeln nicht von Hochzeitsreisen, Flitterwochen und Wünschen für eine neue Familie. Sondern von bärtigen Männern mit Turbanen, die angeblich vor der Stadt stehen.
Wenige Wochen zuvor war Meraj Wafa noch im grössten Fernsehsender Afghanistans aufgetreten. Meraj sass am Boden zwischen seinen Musikern und spielte auf einem Handklavier. Das Video auf Youtube wird mehr als eine Million Mal angeschaut. In jenem Afghanistan war die Musik noch am Leben.
Meraj Wafa, das dichte Haar wie ein Helm flach über den Kopf gelegt, stammt aus einer Musikerfamilie, die das alles, was nun folgt, schon einmal erlebt hat. Sein Vater hat ihm erzählt, wie sie flohen, als die Taliban 1996 zum ersten Mal Afghanistan eroberten. Meraj ist 25, zu jung, um sich daran zu erinnern. Für Meraj waren das Geschichten aus einer anderen Zeit und einem anderen Land. Er hatte nicht damit gerechnet, dass er die Taliban jemals selber erleben würde. Nun, an diesem 14. August, einem Samstagabend, sind sie plötzlich ganz nahe.
Um Mitternacht wird die Hochzeit abgebrochen. Meraj packt die Instrumente ein und fährt nach Hause. Am nächsten Morgen schickt er Mitglieder seiner Band in ihr Büro. Sie sollen dort Plakate abhängen, alles vernichten, was ihre Identität verraten könnte. Dann zieht er eine Burka an und fährt zu seinem ersten Versteck, einem kahlen Kellerraum mit einer Matratze. Von dort ruft er Freunde in Europa an. Sie warnen ihn: Du musst untertauchen, wir suchen einen Weg, dich da herauszuholen. » | Michael Schilliger, Flurin Clalüna, Andrea Spalinger, Andreas Babst | Samstag, 28. August 2021
Mike Pence: «Dieser Rückzug entehrt eine Generation von Soldaten» : Der frühere US-Vizepräsident Mike Pence macht die Regierung von Joe Biden für den chaotischen Abzug aus Afghanistan verantwortlich. »
Afghanistan : Macron veut une «safe zone» au cœur de Kaboul
LE FIGARO : Le président français veut une résolution de l'ONU pour continuer les opérations humanitaires sur place, grâce à un espace sous contrôle des Nations-unies dans la capitale afghane.
La France et le Royaume-Uni vont plaider ce lundi à l'ONU pour la création à Kaboul d'une «safe zone», c’est-à-dire une zone protégée qui permettra la poursuite des opérations humanitaires sur place, a déclaré Emmanuel Macron au Journal du Dimanche .
Alors que les cinq membres permanents du Conseil de sécurité doivent se réunir ce lundi au sujet de la crise afghane, Londres et Paris élaborent un «projet de résolution» qui «vise à définir, sous contrôle onusien, une 'safe zone' à Kaboul qui permette de continuer les opérations humanitaires», a indiqué Emmanuel Macron. «C'est très important. Cela donnerait un cadre des Nations unies pour agir dans l'urgence, et cela permettra surtout de mettre chacun devant ses responsabilités et à la communauté internationale de maintenir une pression sur les talibans», a-t-il ajouté. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | Publié : samedi 28 août 2021 ; mis à jour : dimanche 29 août 2021
Afghanistan: «Le vieil homme et les terroristes» »
Guido Reni : Saint Cecilia
“Guido Reni (November 4, 1575 – August 18, 1642) was a prominent Italian painter of high-Baroque style. Born in Bologna into a family of musicians, Guido Reni was the son of Daniele Reni and Ginevra de’ Pozzi. As a child of nine, he was apprenticed under the Bolognese studio of Denis Calvaert. Soon after, he was joined in that studio by Albani and Domenichino. Reni died in Bologna in 1642. He is buried with Elisabetta Sirani in the Rosary Chapel of the Basilica of San Domenico in Bologna.”
A Jewish Gay Wedding
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