Friday, October 14, 2022

Iran's Protests and Activism Four Weeks on from Mahsa Amini's Death - BBC News


Topple the reactionary bastards! Throw the concept of a ‘mullocracy’ into the dustbin of history, where it belongs; and put the mullahs out to graze! – © Mark Alexander

Former Empress of Iran Voices Support for Women-led Protests Rocking the Country | Reupload

aying she is heartbroken by the death of 22 year-old Mahsa Amini, the former empress of Iran Farah Diba Pahlavi calls the women protesting the Iranian regime "courageous".

Authorities in Iran Forced to Remove Poster of Women in Hijabs after PR Fiasco

THE GUARDIAN: Montage in Tehran taken down within 24 hours after prominent women and relatives denounce use of their photos

At least three of the women pictured in the Tehran billboard objected to their image being misused, including the actor Fatemeh Motamed-Arya. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

The Iranian authorities suffered a PR fiasco after being forced to take down a giant billboard in a central square in Tehran when women in the poster, or their relatives, objected to being depicted as supporters of the government and the compulsory-wearing of the hijab.

The billboard controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps was a montage of about 50 Iranian women wearing the hijab under the slogan “Women of my Land”. It was taken down within 24 hours after at least three of the women pictured said they objected to their image being misused.

Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, a multiaward-winning actor was the first to protest, releasing a video. Not wearing the hijab, she said: “I am not considered a woman in a land where young children, little girls and freedom-loving youths are killed in its fields.” » | Patrick Wintour, Diplomatic editor | Friday, October 14, 2022

Ladies: Have courage! Take those hijabs, those unsightly, mediaeval rags, to the public square and set fire to them. The damn lot of them! Liberate yourselves from the oppression of those reactionary old fogies. Choose vitamin D over darkness and shade! Your health will thank you for it. And, whilst you're at it, restore the Peacosk Throne and bring back the Shah. Reject mediaeval thinking! Choose modernity! – © Mark Alexander

Daniel Lacalle: Rate Hikes Will Continue as Inflation Remains

Oct 14, 2022

Italia Squisita: Roasted Chicken in a 2-Michelin-star French Restaurant with Giuliano Sperandio - Le Clarence

Widespread in all cultures of the world, roasted chicken is a true cult dish for French families. To discover its secrets, we wen to Paris inside the kitchen of the two Michelin star restaurant "Le Clarence", hosted by Giuliano Sperandio. This great chef with Ligurian origins, already protagonist n couple with Mauro Ricciardi of our original pesto recipe, will guide us with his professionalism and great irony through the search of the perfect roasted chicken, without forgetting the side dish: French fries with Bernese sauce!


Neither the list of ingredients nor the method of preparation is available for this. One must simply listen to the chef’s instructions (if one speaks Italian) or read the subtitles in English at the bottom of the video. Buon appetito!

Angela Lansbury | 60 Minutes Archive | 1996

Oct 11, 2022 | Actress Angela Lansbury, the star of Murder, She Wrote, has passed away. She was 96.

In 1996, Lesley Stahl profiled Lansbury for 60 Minutes.



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Democracy Now! Top US News & World Headlines — October 14, 2022

Jeremy Hunt Replaces Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor of the Exchequer

"The Prime Minister is now the prisoner of the markets."

Jeremy Hunt will be the fourth chancellor of the exchequer in four months, and will have 'total authority over the Prime Minister.'

Former Treasury minister, David Gauke tells Ruth Davidson what the market reaction has been to an expected u-turn on last month's mini-budget.



Liz Truss appoints Jeremy Hunt as chancellor after sacking Kwarteng: Former leadership contender is back in cabinet as PM tries to reach out to other sections of Tory party »

Was that it? Eight-minute Liz Truss press conference will not steady ship: Prime minister took only four questions but showed lack of contrition in lightning fast appearance that will not have secured goodwill »

Four bruising questions but even fewer answers from Liz Truss: She picked favoured reporters and offered repetitious platitudes to pointed inquiries. How long can PM last? »

Three weeks of chaos that cost more than Kwarteng’s job – in numbers: On 30 September, the then chancellor’s mini-budget triggered a chain of events that led to a dramatic downfall »

Liz Truss Sacks Kwasi Kwarteng ahead of Corporation Tax U-turn

THE GUARDIAN: Chancellor shares letter saying he has accepted prime minister’s request for him ‘to stand aside’

In the letter, Kwarteng argues that the plan to rapidly cut taxes was the correct one despite the turbulent market reaction. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

Kwasi Kwarteng has announced that he has been sacked as chancellor by Liz Truss as the prime minister tries to restore her political authority ahead of a U-turn on parts of her disastrous mini-budget later on Friday.

In a tweeted letter to Truss, Kwarteng began: “You have asked me to stand aside as chancellor. I have accepted.”

Earlier, Downing Street sources had told the Guardian the prime minister wanted Kwarteng to “carry the can” over her climbdown as she sought to calm the markets and the nerves of jittery Tory MPs.

Truss met Kwarteng, previously her closest political ally and co-architect of her plan for growth, for crisis talks in Downing Street after he dashed back overnight from an International Monetary Fund (IMF) meeting in Washington DC. » | Pippa Crerar and Rowena Mason | Friday, October 14, 2022

Good riddance! Now we need to get the bean counter to resign. I suggest she return to her kitchen and bake some cookies. That will give her plenty of time to think about her future.

When you employ people to do jobs they are not up to doing, to do jobs they are ill-qualified for, this is what you get: chaos and turmoil! The Tory Party is suffering from burn-out. Keir Starmer wants to “make Brexit work”. The problem is that nobody will ever be able to make Brexit work. Brexit is unworkable: it is impoverishing, divisive, and stupid, especially in a geopolitical world of giants.

The only pro-Europe party we have now is the Liberal Democrats, but its leader, Ed Davey, is strangely silent. He should be writing a manifesto for the upcoming general election, offering the electorate a chance to vote to re-enter the EU. The voters need to be given the option of reversing course. They can see now that Brexit is making Britain weaker, poorer and largely ungovernable. If the powers-that-be really want to keep the UK united, then the only way forward, as I see it, is for the country to ask our friends in Europe if they will accept us truculent enfants terribles back into the European family. Next time, I’m sure that the Europeans will be able to get a promise out of us that we will behave ourselves. – © Mark Alexander

Scottish Tory Leader Gets Laughed At in Awful Question Time Appearance

Douglas Ross had a rough time on Question Time, getting slated by the panel and audience for trying to defend Liz Truss' government.


I have stated on this blog many times before that I think that the Conservative Party needs to go the way of the Whigs: into extinction! What they have done to this country, especially with and since Brexit is totally and utterly unforgiveable. We should never have been brought out of the European Union. Nobody in his right mind would walk away from the biggest single market in the world: The Single Market. One has to have sawdust for brains to believe that such an act of self-harm could lead to economic success.

As a result of Brexit, this country’s economy is forecast to shrink year on year for the next ten years. So what is this poppycock Liz Truss is talking about wanting “growth, growth, growth”? If she truly had wanted growth, she would never have changed her politics from being a Remainer to being a Brexiteer. Clearly, she did that for one reason only: for self-advancement.

She spouts extreme-right dogma about economic growth, the neoliberal idea that by making the already mega-rich richer still, economic growth will be stimulated. And then, by some miracle, some wonder, it will trickle down to the ‘little people’. That is balderdash: economic make-believe! Voodoo economics if you will.

So here we have it: an ex-bean-counter, an accountant, as a prime minister and a practitioner of voodoo economics as her chancellor. The results are plain to see; and will go down in the history books under the title, Tory Folly.

Let us hope that one day soon, this country will have a forward-looking, business-friendly, Europe-friendly party that will be capable of making this country prosperous and equitable. A party that understands that the economy must work for the many, not just the super-privileged few. © Mark Alexander

Professor Tim Wilson: Kwasi Is Hurrying Back and Liz Is Trying to Save Her Sinking Ship

Oh dear oh dear


Brilliant, Prof! This cloud does have a silver lining though: This catastrophe has exposed the erroneous notion that only the Conservatives know how to handle the economy, only the Conservatives can be trusted with the running of the economy for the BIG lie that it is. – © Mark Alexander

Thursday, October 13, 2022

One Month and Counting: Can Iran's Regime Quell Youth-driven Movement? • FRANCE 24 English

Gunfire and tanks, teenage girls detained in psychiatric wards, Internet blocked, yet from the outside, Iran's nationwide protests seem to be gaining momentum one month after the death of 22-year old Mahsa Amini at the hands of the morality police. What next? In a nation with no independent opposition or trade unions, we measure the resilience of a leaderless movement and of a theocracy whose values are law of the land. The restrictions imposed by the government mirror restrictions from abroad.

Time to Boogie!

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Remembering Angela Lansbury

The New York Times sat down with Angela Lansbury in 2010 to discuss her life and accomplishments on the stage and screen. She spoke with us with the understanding the interview would be published only after her death.


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Eine Familie unterm Hakenkreuz | Doku HD Reupload | ARTE

Es ist Liebe auf den ersten Blick, als sich der Doktorand Helmut und die Medizinstudentin Erna 1929 kennenlernen. Beide schauen zuversichtlich in die Zukunft. Dann erfährt Erna in der heraufziehenden Nazizeit von einem Familiengeheimnis: Ihre Mutter sei Jüdin. Erna ist sich sicher, dass sich Helmut von ihr trennen wird. Doch ihr Verlobter steht zu ihr. Die beiden heiraten und bekommen drei Söhne. Nach und nach wird das Leben im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland für die Familie immer schwerer. Erna gilt als Mensch zweiter Klasse, nach den sogenannten Rassegesetzen ist sie Halbjüdin und darf nicht mehr studieren. Helmut bekommt als Arzt keine Zulassung für Kassenpatienten.

Das Ehepaar sieht nur noch eine Chance: Durch seine Bewährung als tapferer Soldat will Helmut die sogenannte Sippenschande tilgen. Der Führer und Reichskanzler kann durch seine Unterschrift Helmuts Familie angesichts seines tapferen Einsatzes im Krieg für „deutschblütig“ erklären. Helmut nimmt als Feldarzt am Krieg teil. Erna bleibt mit den drei Söhnen im Münsterland und muss dort den rassistischen Alltag und die Bedrohung von Gesundheit und Leben durch die Nationalsozialisten und ihre autoritätshörigen Helfer allein bestehen. Von der Wehrmacht wird Helmut für seine Tapferkeit ausgezeichnet. Er fällt an der Front. Doch das scheinbar Unmögliche, die Rettung seiner Familie, gelingt ihm posthum.

Erna wird nach seinem Tod tatsächlich für „deutschblütig“ erklärt und entkommt den Deportationen. Sie überlebt mit ihren drei Kindern den Nationalsozialismus. Helmut und Erna waren beide sehr begabt, beide konnten gut schreiben; er war ein leidenschaftlicher Fotograf und Filmemacher. Er hielt die ersten Schritte seiner Kinder und das anfangs glückliche Leben als Arzt genauso in Filmen, Fotos und Briefen fest wie später das Grauen an der Front. Die Geschichte von Erna und Helmut zeigt eine sehr nahe, neue Perspektive auf das Leben im NS-Staat, sie bewegt, sie reißt mit und konfrontiert die Zuschauerinnen und Zuschauer mit der Gewissensfrage: Wie hätte ich mich verhalten?

Dokumentation von Jutta Pinzler (D 2021, 60 Min)
Video auf YouTube verfügbar bis zum 11/01/2023


Da diese Dokumentation alters-begrenzt ist, bette ich sie nicht ein, sondern frage ich Sie gefälligst auf diesen Link zu klicken, um die Dokumentation direkt auf YouTube anzusehen. – Mark Alexander

Franz Schubert Serenade [Ständchen] (arr. Franz Liszt) – Beka Lagadze

Can Liz Truss Survive as PM - Expert Explains


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‘Pig’s Ear’: Tory Press Raises Doubts about Liz Truss’s Future

THE GUARDIAN: Once-loyal papers such as the Sun and Daily Mail start to turn on PM amid financial turmoil

‘In her abject powerlessness she is like a leader who has been in office for years and has run out of options and support,’ says the Daily Mail. Photograph: Jessica Taylor/UK parliament/AFP/Getty

Conservative commentators are beginning to turn against Liz Truss, with rightwing newspapers such as the Sun and Daily Mail rounding on her for making a “pig’s ear” of the mini-budget, while other observers suggest her premiership could be extremely short-lived.

Though she was initially heralded by some as a prime minister to drive through true-blue policies with the most radical reforms in decades, unease is growing in Tory circles about her leadership.

Recent market turmoil, a series of screeching U-turns and the expectation more will follow are compounding jitters about Truss’s future.

The Daily Mail, in its editorial on Thursday, reserved the top slot in its three-pronged editorial column to savage the Bank of England governor, Andrew Bailey, but used the second to raise concerns about Truss. It said her “dash for growth is already limping badly after she made a pig’s ear of presenting her ambitious mini-budget and was forced into humiliating U-turns”. » | Aubrey Allegretti, Political correspondent | Thursday, October 13, 2022

يا حبيبي! يا أخي! أنا أحبك كثيراً

Mein Schatz! Mein Bruder! Ich liebe dich sehr / Mon chéri ! Mon frère ! Je t'aime beaucoup / My darling! My brother*! I love you so much

Many thanks to ANGELTURKIYE on Pinterest for this great photo.

Nb: ‘My brother’ (اخي) can sound rather stilted when speaking directly to another in English. Not so in Arabic. One hears it frequently when an Arab speaks to another Arab. Of course, it does not normally have a gay connotation; rather, it usually refers to one’s brother in Islam. – Mark Alexander

Devenir Marilyn | Documentaire | ARTE Cinema

Marilyn n’est pas née Marilyn, elle l’est devenue. Elle se dévoile dans ce portrait inédit, avec ses mots à elle : une femme lucide et déterminée, reflet mouvant des diktats qui continuent à définir la féminité.

D'abord il y a la naissance d'un corps. À 12 ans, Norma Jeane Mortensen, qui a grandi dans les foyers d'accueil des quartiers pauvres de Los Angeles, prend conscience qu'elle en paraît 17. C’est l'éclosion en elle d'une autre personne, qui attire le regard des hommes et ne semble pas lui appartenir. Cette métamorphose, accompagnée de l'intuition fulgurante d'un destin, va déterminer sa vie. Dès lors, il s'agira pour elle de devenir celle dont elle ignore encore le nom : Marilyn Monroe. Une quête d'accomplissement à la fois lucide et douloureuse, inextricablement mêlée aux diktats d'une époque et du désir masculin.

De la pin-up à l’icône

La célèbre scène de Sept ans de réflexion, où Marilyn voit sa robe soulevée au-dessus d’une grille de métro, marque l'achèvement de la métamorphose. La pin-up promue actrice à force d’acharnement était déjà un sex-symbol. Elle est désormais une icône pour le monde entier. La suite est une autre histoire. Prenant le parti de mettre de côté certains aspects de la vie de l'actrice, Michèle Dominici (L'histoire oubliée des femmes au foyer) choisit de se concentrer sur les mécanismes de la construction d'une identité. Choisie ? Subie ? Le miroir tendu par Marilyn a de multiples reflets. Ce portrait s’attache à les saisir, et, par un savant montage d'archives traversant les époques, montre à quel point le mythe continue de nourrir nos imaginaires. Les mots de Marilyn accompagnent les images, fragments d'autobiographie, de poèmes et d'interviews, qui dévoilent une femme surprenante de lucidité, à la fois reine et victime d'un monde régi par la toute-puissance des hommes.

Documentaire de Michèle Dominici (France, 2021, 53mn)
Disponible jusqu'au 07/04/2023



Die gleiche Dokumentation ist hier auf Deutsch verfügbar.

Italia Squisita: Omelette in a 3 Michelin Star French Restaurant with Donato Russo - Mirazur***

Omelette is the best known and most widely reproduced French comfort food. Two ingredients for a recipe as simple as full of pitfalls. To learn its secrets, we have been to Menton, inside Mauro Colagreco's 3 Michelin star restaurant Mirazur. The young (and very excited) chef de cuisine Donato Russo started with the classic recipe of the French omelette, and then presented a soft and delicious variant created with the soufflé technique. To combine the two recipes a touch of Italian style given by the original use of a great Italian cheese.

In collaboration with the Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium, which for the occasion created a discount code valid in all European countries where the shop is present (Italy, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg and Holland). The code is PRITALIASQUISITA. Visit the shop here.



For the ingredients used in this recipe in both Italian and English, click here. The method of preparation is as shown in the video above.

Thomas Piketty on Capitalism, Corbyn and Why Zuckerberg Is Getting It Wrong - BBC Newsnight | 2015

Renowned economist Thomas Piketty sits down for a tête a tête on the world economy with Evan Davis

"This Time Feels Different": Iran's Women & Youth-led Protests Grow amid Brutal Crackdown

Anti-government protests in Iran, first sparked last month by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, have moved into their fourth week. The youth- and women-led protests cross class and ethnic divides, and the demands have grown in scale and scope, with many, even in the clerical community, now calling for the complete abolition of the Islamic Republic. Many sectors of society, including businesses and unions, have also joined in protest, with oil workers from one of the country's major refineries going on strike Monday. Iranian authorities have launched a violent assault on protesters in response, explains Amnesty International's Raha Bahreini, with security forces shooting live ammunition into crowds to disperse the protests, leaving thousands injured and at least 144 victims dead, 24 of them children. The government violence is "indicative of just what a threat the regime believes these protests are," argues Iranian American scholar Reza Aslan, who says that despite numerous revolutions in Iran's history, "this time feels different."


The mullahs should be toppled. Death to the Islamic Republic of Iran! The mere concept of a theocracy is a nonsense anyway. The theocracy in Iran is especially nonsensical, since no god worthy of being worshipped would ever condone such brutality towards his creation. This mullocracy is nothiing but a cruel and corrupt regime. The good and proud people of Iran deserve better, they deserve their liberty. – © Mark Alexander

This is Mojtaba Khamenei on Wikipedia.

Mali - Dubai: Die Wege des schmutzigen Goldes | ARTE Reportage

Der Goldbergbau in der Sahelzone entzieht sich zunehmend der staatlichen Kontrolle, immer mehr Goldgräber schürfen in kleinen Minen auf eigene Rechnung. Bewaffnete Gruppen finanzieren sich durch den illegalen Bergbau und den Schmuggel, darunter auch islamistische Terrorgruppen.

Mali etablierte sich so allmählich als Zentrum des Goldhandels der Sahelländer, und das Emirat Dubai wurde in den letzten fünf Jahren zum wichtigsten Aufkäufer der Goldproduktion auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent. Experten werfen den Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate vor, sie förderten indirekt den illegalen Handel mit dem Gold, weil sie nicht darauf achteten, woher die Goldbarren kämen. Institutionen wie die OECD fordern deshalb weitaus strengere Regulierungen. Unsere Reportage berichtet über die neuen globalen Wege des schmutzigen Goldes.


Democracy Now! Top US News & World Headlines — October 13, 2022

Adam Silvera Is Writing the Books He Wished He Had as a Queer Teen

Adam Silvera gets as close to his characters as his readers do. The first—and only—time he cried while writing was at the death of the main character in his third young adult novel, 2017’s ‘They Both Die at the End’. He’d spent so much time outlining the story, he says, that “I knew that kid.”

Both books follow queer love stories with Latinx protagonists. “I am dead set on writing queer characters for the rest of my life,” he explains. “I’m a queer man. I don't need to contribute to the canon of heterosexual literature."

Author Adam Silvera is one of TIME Magazine's 2022 Next Generation Leaders.


Margaret Thatcher—'The Iron Lady' or 'The Benighted Lady'?—Warns of 'Extremist' Anti-racist, Pro-gay Teachers

Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Party Conference 1987

Gay rights: Life under Section 28 - BBC Newsnight

30 years ago Section 28 was introduced. It was - the now repealed - clause of a local government act, to stop a council promoting the teaching of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship. That's a quote.

The prominent gay writer and journalist Matthew Todd - he was editor at Attitude magazine for many years - was in school in those days, and looks back now, at the effect it had.


Iranian Professor Defends Regime's Response to Protests

University of Tehran professor Mohammad Marandi talks to Christiane Amanpour about the protests on the streets of Iran following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.

Saudi Arabia Official Responds to Biden's Threats over Oil Cuts

Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir talks to CNN's Becky Anderson about OPEC+ production cuts and responds to criticism of the move from US leaders.

Russlands Soldaten | ARTE Re:

Burjatien liegt 6.000 Kilometer östlich von der Ukraine, trotzdem sterben sehr viele Burjaten in Russlands Angriffskrieg. Die Region ist wirtschaftlich schwach und die Karriere in der Armee stellt eine der wenigen Möglichkeiten des sozialen Aufstiegs dar. Die Unzufriedenheit über die vielen Toten unterdrückt die russische Regierung mit totaler Kontrolle.

Nach wie vor rekrutiert Russland eine unverhältnismäßig hohe Zahl der in der Ukraine eingesetzten Soldaten unter den nichtrussischen Ethnien des Landes. Doch die Unzufriedenheit über die vielen Toten und Verletzten in der sogenannten „Spezialoperation“ wächst in den betroffenen Regionen wie Burjatien oder Jakutien.

Die russische Regierung unterdrückt jeglichen Widerstand mit besonders starker Propaganda und totaler Kontrolle. Mit jedem Tag nimmt der Druck auf Andersdenkende und Journalisten zu. Menschenrechtlerin Nadjeschda saß bereits viermal in Haft. Auch Journalistin Anna kann ihre Arbeit für unabhängige und ausländische Medien nur noch mit großer Vorsicht ausüben Kriegsverweigerer und Familien von gefallenen Soldaten werden durch öffentlichen Druck mundtot gemacht, und so kann sich der ehemalige Soldat „Dschingis“, der vom 24. Februar bis Anfang April in der Ukraine kämpfte, nur anonym vor der Kamera äußern. Er erzählt von schlechter Vorbereitung, mangelhafter Ausrüstung und fragwürdigen Anschuldigungen, die Russlands Angriff auf seinen westlichen Nachbarn rechtfertigen sollen.

Nachdem der Druck auf das ARTE-Team zu groß geworden ist, verlassen die Reporter Burjatien. In Samara erzählt die 19-jährige Oxana vom Verlust ihres Verlobten, der ohne ausreichende Ausbildung in die Ukraine geschickt wurde und im April im Alter von 22 Jahren an der Front gestorben ist.

Reportage (D 2020, 33 Min)
Video auf YouTube verfügbar bis zum 12/01/2023


Kerala's TJ Joseph: The Indian Teacher Whose Hand Was Cut Off for an Exam Paper

BBC: In 2010, the hand of a professor in India was cut off by extremists after he was accused of insulting Islam in an exam paper. Last month, the government banned the controversial Muslim group Popular Front of India (PFI), whose members had carried out the attack. The BBC travelled to Kerala to piece together the grisly incident and its aftermath.

Warning: This article contains details some readers may find distressing.


TJ Joseph remembers the attack from 12 years ago vividly.

It was a rainy July morning. Prof Joseph, then a 52-year-old teacher of Malayalam language at a local college, was driving home with his mother and sister after Sunday Mass in Muvattupuzha, an idyllic town in the southern state of Kerala set on the banks of a river by the same name.

Barely 100m from his house in a leafy, undulating lane, a Suzuki minivan barrelled down, took a sharp turn and blocked his hatchback.

The door of the minivan opened, and six men burst out. One of them ran up to Prof Joseph's car. He was carrying an axe.

As the man approached the driver's door and tried to yank it open, another man, brandishing a dagger, brought up the rear. Three others reached the passenger's side where his sister was sitting.

Cowering at the wheel of his four-year-old Wagon R, his engine switched off and the driver's side window smashed into pieces by a blow of the axe, Prof Joseph realised he was trapped. » | Soutik Biswas, India correspondent | Thursday, October 13, 2022

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Aufstand im Iran: Eine Chance für die Freiheit? | Weltspiegel extra

Im Iran gehen seit mehr als drei Wochen Menschen auf die Straße, um gegen die Islamische Führung zu protestieren – ausgelöst durch den Tod einer 22-Jährigen. Ihre Forderung ist nicht weniger als das Ende der Islamischen Republik.

Professor Tim Wilson: Rees-Mogg Would Be Better in Silence

Indeed I suspect that silent films were invented for Mogg! He is already sepia-toned and would be so much better with title cards and health warning.

How Long Can Liz Truss Stay in Power?

US Democrats Threaten Saudi Arabia with Arms Freeze over Oil Output

THE GUARDIAN: Congress members raise prospect of one-year sales ban unless kingdom reverses Opec+ decision to cut production

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman greets Joe Biden in Jeddah in July. The US president has reiterated his pledge to take action over Riyadh’s decision to cut output. Photograph: Bandar Al-Jaloud/Saudi Royal Palace/AFP/Getty Images

Democrats in the US Congress have issued a fresh ultimatum to Saudi Arabia, giving the kingdom weeks to reverse an Opec+ decision to roll back oil production or face a potential one-year freeze on all arms sales.

The threat came as Joe Biden reiterated his pledge to take action over Riyadh’s decision last week to cut oil output by 2m barrels a day, which Democrats have said would help “fuel Vladimir Putin’s war machine” and hurt American consumers at the petrol pump.

The White House national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, told reporters the US president was also looking at a possible halt in arms sales as part of a broader re-evaluation of the US relationship with Saudi Arabia, but that no move was imminent. » | Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Julian Borger in Washington | Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Saudi Arabia is choosing friends on its own terms and Biden is not one of them: Reactions in Washington to slashing oil supply have not concerned Mohammed bin Salman; nor have the optics of indirectly boosting Putin’s war »

What the Latest Footage from Iran Tells Us about the Regime

Protests in Iran over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died in police custody, continue to unfold across the country.


Cracks appear among Iran elite as senior figure calls for hijab policing rethink: Prominent conservative politician Ali Larijani warns against ‘rigid response’ after month of unrest »

« Le problème pour les Etats-Unis maintenant est que l’Arabie saoudite les méprise ouvertement »

LE MONDE – CHRONIQUE : Les changements de pied de Joe Biden envers Mohammed Ben Salman lui reviennent en boomerang. Mais le raidissement saoudien, qui vient de s’aligner sur les intérêts pétroliers de la Russie, relève du pari.

On ne dispose pas, malheureusement, d’instruments de mesure un peu précis pour les crises de relations bilatérales. S’il en existait un, il permettrait de jauger les tensions entre l’Arabie saoudite et les Etats-Unis. Et de dire s’il s’agit d’un accès de fièvre de plus, semblable à d’autres plus anciens et surmontés, ou de la cassure qui redéfinira les rapports entre les deux pays, pour longtemps, au terme d’un long compagnonnage engagé en 1945 entre Abdelaziz Al Saoud et Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

En quelques mois, un fist-bump s’est transformé en gifle. Le premier renvoie au salut, poing contre poing, échangé en juillet à Djedda par le prince héritier et véritable maître de Riyad, Mohammed Ben Salman, et le président des Etats-Unis, Joe Biden. Un Canossa sur la mer Rouge pour le second, qui avait promis au premier un sort de paria pour son implication présumée dans l’assassinat et le démembrement du dissident saoudien et résident américain Jamal Khashoggi en 2018. Venu mendier une hausse de la production pétrolière saoudienne pour faire baisser les prix, Joe Biden était manifestement reparti les mains vides. » | Gilles Paris, Editorialiste | mercredi 12 octobre 2022

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Marilyn - Made in Hollywood | Doku HD | ARTE

Aus Norma Jean Baker wird Marilyn Monroe. Im Amerika der 40er Jahre ist das Pin-up-Girl das Vorbild für Frauen – eine Mischung aus Sexbombe und Mädchen von nebenan. Sie wird von Regisseuren in die Rolle des Sexsymbols gedrängt. Dabei verwandelt sich Marilyn immer mehr in eine Kunstfigur, die sie selbst als Kreatur bezeichnet. Marilyn Monroe mit eigenen Worten über ihr Leben.

Wasserstoffblondes Haar, kurvige Figur, roter Lippenstift: Marilyn Monroe. Mit Filmen wie „Blondinen bevorzugt“ (1953), „Wie angelt man sich einen Millionär?“ (1953) und „Das verflixte 7. Jahr“ (1955) wurde sie weltberühmt. Mit „Manche mögen's heiß“ (1959) erreichte sie den Höhepunkt ihres Ruhms. Vom Waisenmädchen über ihre Karriere als Model, Pin-up-Girl und ersten Filmrollen bis hin zum Weltstar. Marilyn Monroes kurze Lebensgeschichte scheint wie ein Cinderella-Märchen ohne Happy End. Es ranken sich viele Mythen und Verschwörungstheorien um die Schauspielerin und ihr Leben. Wie wurde Norma Jean Baker zur weltbekannten Figur der Marilyn Monroe? War sie damit glücklich?

Die Schauspielerin berichtet, wie aus der Eingebung eines jungen Mädchens, das früh erkannte, dass ihr Körper ihr Kapital war, ihrem Ehrgeiz, den Zwängen einer Epoche und aus den Wünschen der Filmproduzenten ein Sexsymbol geboren wurde. Marilyn fügt sich den Erwartungen der Regisseure und verkörpert anmutig die stereotype Blondine. Wie heutige Superstars aus der Retorte war Marilyn Monroe bereits eine von den Studiobossen erfundene Kunstfigur samt Schönheitsoperationen an Nase und Kinn. Die private Marilyn Monroe hatte mit dem Image des blonden Vamps und Dummchens wenig gemein.

Die neue Biografie ist chronologisch erzählt und zeigt auch Bilder aus unserer Gegenwart, die verdeutlichen, welche Bedeutung der Mythos Monroe in unserer Vorstellungswelt bis heute besitzt. Dabei zeichnet die Dokumentation Marilyn Monroes Lebensweg nach und erzählt hintergründig vom Schönheitsdiktat und der Brutalität des Systems Hollywood, das bis ins 21. Jahrhundert fortbesteht. Allen Mordtheorien zum Trotz ist es am wahrscheinlichsten, dass Marilyn Monroe am Ende von ihrem eigenen Image erdrückt wurde und Selbstmord beging. Sie starb in der Nacht vom 4. auf den 5. August 1962 in Los Angeles.

Dokumentation von Michèle Dominici (F 2021, 53 Min)
Video auf Youtube verfügbar bis zum 07/04/2023


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Gay Afghan Man Brutally Murdered by the Taliban in Bid to ‘Eradicate’ LGBTQ+ People

Hamed Sabouri wanted to be a doctor before the Taliban seized power in August 2021. (Supplied)

PINK NEWS: A young gay man has been shot dead by the Taliban in Afghanistan because of his sexuality.

Hamed Sabouri, from Kabul, was killed in August, local activists have told PinkNews. He was just 22.

He was reportedly kidnapped by the Taliban and a video showing his murder sent to his family days later.

Bahar, another gay Afghan who knew the victim personally, told PinkNews Sabouri had dreams of becoming a doctor, but his hopes were stolen from him when the Taliban seized power in August 2021.

He described Hamed as a “shy” gay man with an infectious laugh.

“Life is hell for every LGBT Afghan,” Bahar said.

“Taliban terrorists are worse than wild animals.”

Bahar, who is a member of Afghanistan’s growing LGBTQ+ organisation the Behesht Collective, deleted all the pictures and videos he had of Sabouri on his phone after he learned of his murder.

Bahar lives in fear of being stopped and searched by the Taliban – he’s afraid that he would also be killed if they found out about his sexuality.

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Bread for the People I ARTE.tv Documentary

For months Turkey has been in the grip of a monetary crisis coupled with rampant inflation. The price of bread, by far the most important staple food in the country, has doubled in a year. Even the middle class is now finding it increasingly difficult to get by.

Bread for the People | ARTE.tv Documentary
Available until the 05/09/2023



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Angela Lansbury: Actor's Most Notable Roles from Jessica Fletcher to Mrs Potts

The actor Angela Lansbury, best known as Jessica Fletcher in the TV series Murder, She Wrote and for numerous film and theatre roles, has died aged 96.


Seven times Angela Lansbury proved herself a fierce gay ally and icon: Angela Lansbury, star of Murder, She Wrote and the “first lady of musical theatre” has died aged 96. »

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