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Monday, August 20, 2012
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Sunday, August 19, 2012
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Saturday, August 18, 2012
RUSSIA and THE WEST - РОССИЯ и ЗАПАД: President Pu-Pu: PUSSY PUTIN
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A Moscow court on Friday (Aug. 17) found three members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot guilty of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" after a guerrilla performance in Moscow's main cathedral in February. They were sentenced to two years in a penal colony.
via Crime on HuffingtonPost.com by Religion News Service on 8/17/12
(RNS/ENInews) A Moscow court on Friday (Aug. 17) found three members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot guilty of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" after a guerrilla performance in Moscow's main cathedral in February. They were sentenced to two years in a penal colony.
The band performed a "punk prayer" against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill I.
The case has divided Russia and the Orthodox Church and drawn worldwide protests on behalf of the band and free speech. Outside the courtroom, protesters clashed with police and well-known chess champion Garry Kasparov was arrested during the protests.
The charges against Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich had carried up to seven years in prison, and the prosecutor had demanded at least three years for the women, who range in age from 22 to 30.
Judge Maria Syrova said that she did not accept the defendants' explanation that Christ the Savior Cathedral is not a church but a commercial enterprise because of businesses that operate there.
During the trial, which began last month, the defendants explained that they were opposed to Kirill's support of Putin, who returned to the Kremlin after winning the March 4 presidential elections in the face of protests claiming voting irregularities.
Kirill has been silent on the case for several months after leading a prayer service in April to pray for deliverance from persecution of the church.
Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, spokesman for the Moscow Patriarchate, has said the church is ready to forgive members of Pussy Riot if they repent.
"If someone insults me personally, then of course I will forgive them," Chaplin told the RIA Novosti news agency last month. "But if someone insults my faith or my God, I wait until they change their position and admit that they acted wrongly."
In the performance, the musicians walked into the cathedral, donned brightly colored hoods and began to gesticulate and dance in front of the altar. Their actions were filmed as a video and set to music with the lyrics "O Birthgiver of God, Get Rid of Putin" and an expletive as a refrain.
The video went viral, shocking many Russians and infuriating the Kremlin and the Orthodox hierarchy, but also setting off a debate in the church about the role of forgiveness and mercy in Orthodoxy.
The band performed a "punk prayer" against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill I.
The case has divided Russia and the Orthodox Church and drawn worldwide protests on behalf of the band and free speech. Outside the courtroom, protesters clashed with police and well-known chess champion Garry Kasparov was arrested during the protests.
The charges against Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich had carried up to seven years in prison, and the prosecutor had demanded at least three years for the women, who range in age from 22 to 30.
Judge Maria Syrova said that she did not accept the defendants' explanation that Christ the Savior Cathedral is not a church but a commercial enterprise because of businesses that operate there.
During the trial, which began last month, the defendants explained that they were opposed to Kirill's support of Putin, who returned to the Kremlin after winning the March 4 presidential elections in the face of protests claiming voting irregularities.
Kirill has been silent on the case for several months after leading a prayer service in April to pray for deliverance from persecution of the church.
Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, spokesman for the Moscow Patriarchate, has said the church is ready to forgive members of Pussy Riot if they repent.
"If someone insults me personally, then of course I will forgive them," Chaplin told the RIA Novosti news agency last month. "But if someone insults my faith or my God, I wait until they change their position and admit that they acted wrongly."
In the performance, the musicians walked into the cathedral, donned brightly colored hoods and began to gesticulate and dance in front of the altar. Their actions were filmed as a video and set to music with the lyrics "O Birthgiver of God, Get Rid of Putin" and an expletive as a refrain.
The video went viral, shocking many Russians and infuriating the Kremlin and the Orthodox hierarchy, but also setting off a debate in the church about the role of forgiveness and mercy in Orthodoxy.
via Crime on HuffingtonPost.com by Inae Oh on 8/17/12
Following the anger that quickly ensued after a Russian judge found punk band Pussy Riot guilty on hooliganism charges on Friday, New York City activists staged their support for the three female members of the band.
Six protestors were reportedly arrested for blocking traffic and wearing maks during the show of support.
Among protestors were Occupy Wall Street members and other free speech activists who organized a "punk prayer" session outside St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral on the Upper East Side.
The Pussy Riot trial has provoked outrage from members of the international community who have condemned the harsh two-year sentencing handed down by Judge Marina Syrova on Friday.
The three women of Pussy Riot were arrested in March after staging an anti-Putin performance at Moscow's main cathedral, where they sang lyrics begging the Orthodox Church to save Russia from President Vladimir Putin.
Since the arrest, a global campaign, which included many high-profile names like Paul McCartney and Bjork, voiced their condemnation of the charges.
On the eve of Friday's verdict, a group of musicians, supporters and feminists organized a reading at the Ace Hotel in New York to also show their support for the young women. Karen Finley and Chloë Sevigny were also in attendance.
Six protestors were reportedly arrested for blocking traffic and wearing maks during the show of support.
Among protestors were Occupy Wall Street members and other free speech activists who organized a "punk prayer" session outside St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral on the Upper East Side.
The Pussy Riot trial has provoked outrage from members of the international community who have condemned the harsh two-year sentencing handed down by Judge Marina Syrova on Friday.
The three women of Pussy Riot were arrested in March after staging an anti-Putin performance at Moscow's main cathedral, where they sang lyrics begging the Orthodox Church to save Russia from President Vladimir Putin.
Since the arrest, a global campaign, which included many high-profile names like Paul McCartney and Bjork, voiced their condemnation of the charges.
On the eve of Friday's verdict, a group of musicians, supporters and feminists organized a reading at the Ace Hotel in New York to also show their support for the young women. Karen Finley and Chloë Sevigny were also in attendance.
Friday, August 17, 2012
Верховный суд России отклонил жалобу на запрет "пропаганды гомосексуализма" | Pussy Riot: всем - по два года колонии
Верховный суд России отклонил жалобу на запрет "пропаганды гомосексуализма"
Фактически Верховный суд России одобрил ограничение конституционных прав граждан. Законы о так называемой "пропаганде гомосексуализма" среди несовершеннолетних используются для ограничения свободного распространения информации о положении и проблемах геев, лесбиянок, бисексуалов и трансгендеров, они создают почву для систематического нарушения прав человека в России.
Валерий Созаев ("Российская ЛГБТ-сеть") считает, что "Верховный суд России в своем правовом нигилизме ушел недалеко от Архангельского областного суда...". "В этой связи интересно, какие решения им будут приняты по аналогичным жалобам из других регионов", - добавил Созаев.
"Пропаганда гомосексуализма имеет право на существование так же, как и "старушка зонтика", "черепаха метлы", "реализм бедра" или "калькулятор треугольника", - цитирует "...ЛГБТ-сеть" Татьяну Винниченко. - Депутаты областного собрания почему-то сочли информацию о гомосексуальности "наносящей вред здоровью, нравственному и духовному развитию ребенка", однако аргументов, подтверждающих обоснованность такого вывода, суду предоставлено не было".
Напомним, законы о запрете так называемой "гомопропаганды" действуют в 7 регионах России. Готовятся к принятию, по меньшей мере, в 5 регионах, а также на федеральном уровне. По мнению правозащитников, они используются для ограничения целого ряда конституционных прав граждан - в том числе свободу собраний, слова и так далее.
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Pussy Riot: всем - по два года колонии Хамовнический суд Москвы 17 августа огласил приговор участницам группы Pussy Riot. Люди у здания суда так встретили эту новость.From: SvobodaRadio Views: 78 12 ratingsTime: 04:02 More in News & Politics
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Панк-молебен "Богородица, Путина прогони" - Pussy Riot в Храме
Панк-молебен "Богородица, Путина прогони" Pussy Riot в Храме
Uploaded by PussRiot on Feb 21, 2012
ПОЛНЫЙ ПОСТ о панк-молебне "Богородица, Путина прогони", что солистки Pussy Riot отслужили в Храме Христа Спасителя 21ого февраля, во вторник масленичной недели -
Твиттер группы: http://twitter.com/#!/pussy_riot
ТЕКСТ ПАНК-МОЛЕБНА:
(Хор)
Богородица, Дево, Путина прогони
Путина прогони, Путина прогони
(конец хора)
Черная ряса, золотые погоны
Все прихожане ползут на поклоны
Призрак свободы на небесах
Гей-прайд отправлен в Сибирь в кандалах
Глава КГБ, их главный святой
Ведет протестующих в СИЗО под конвой
Чтобы Святейшего не оскорбить
Женщинам нужно рожать и любить
Срань, срань, срань Господня
Срань, срань, срань Господня
(Хор)
Богородица, Дево, стань феминисткой
Стань феминисткой, феминисткой стань
(конец хора)
Церковная хвала прогнивших воджей
Крестный ход из черных лимузинов
В школу к тебе собирается проповедник
Иди на урок - принеси ему денег!
Патриарх Гундяй верит в Путина
Лучше бы в Бога, сука, верил
Пояс девы не заменит митингов -
На протестах с нами Приснодева Мария!
(Хор)
Богородица, Дево, Путина прогони
Путина прогони, Путина прогони
(конец хора)
Твиттер группы: http://twitter.com/#!/pussy_riot
ТЕКСТ ПАНК-МОЛЕБНА:
(Хор)
Богородица, Дево, Путина прогони
Путина прогони, Путина прогони
(конец хора)
Черная ряса, золотые погоны
Все прихожане ползут на поклоны
Призрак свободы на небесах
Гей-прайд отправлен в Сибирь в кандалах
Глава КГБ, их главный святой
Ведет протестующих в СИЗО под конвой
Чтобы Святейшего не оскорбить
Женщинам нужно рожать и любить
Срань, срань, срань Господня
Срань, срань, срань Господня
(Хор)
Богородица, Дево, стань феминисткой
Стань феминисткой, феминисткой стань
(конец хора)
Церковная хвала прогнивших воджей
Крестный ход из черных лимузинов
В школу к тебе собирается проповедник
Иди на урок - принеси ему денег!
Патриарх Гундяй верит в Путина
Лучше бы в Бога, сука, верил
Пояс девы не заменит митингов -
На протестах с нами Приснодева Мария!
(Хор)
Богородица, Дево, Путина прогони
Путина прогони, Путина прогони
(конец хора)
- 11,171 likes, 11,989 dislikes
Суд над Pussy Riot. День приговора - 8/17/2012
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Facebook Makes Big Move On Marijuana Reform
Facebook Makes Big Move On Marijuana Reform:
Facebook turned over a new leaf Monday, unblocking advertisements promoting a marijuana legalization campaign involving a set of November ballot initiatives across the country.
The social media giant conceded to Internet freedom advocates over the past week that it had erred in yanking a pro-legalization group's ads from its network because of pot leaf images. Parties involved in the controversy confirmed the Facebook decision to The Huffington Post on Monday.
Just Say Now organizer Brian Sonenstein told The Huffington Post that the leafy ads were no longer listed as disapproved on Facebook.
When the online campaign's ads were submitted for review earlier this year, Facebook outright rejected them, as it did the group's ads two years ago. In 2010, Facebook took down Just Say Now's ads after about a week on the social network.
More than 15,000 supporters signed an online petition calling for Facebook to bring back the latest batch of Just Say Now ads, catching the eye of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California.
The two free speech groups approached Just Say Now and Students for Sensible Drug Policy — which had found itself in a similar situation — about appealing to Facebook. Electronic Frontier Foundation activism director Rainey Reitman and ACLU staff attorney Linda Lye said they held several discussions with Facebook executives from Wednesday to Friday. Lye said the Facebook representatives were "quick to admit" they had either misinterpreted or failed to follow Facebook advertising guidelines.
"Their position was very clear -- and we certainly applaud it -- which is that Facebook is a neutral platform," Lye said. "It does not weigh in on political advocacy, and it was a mistake to reject the ads."
In a statement last week, Facebook spokeswoman Gwendolyn Belomy said the company's advertising policy had not changed.
"We do allow images of marijuana in ads under circumstances, such as a political debate," Belomy said. "However, we do not allow ads for illegal activity, such as the sale of marijuana."
Belomy did not respond to a follow-up question on whether Facebook acknowledged a "mistake" in blocking the marijuana leaf ads.
For some legalization advocates, including Sonenstein, the ads' restoration shows a broader shift in public attitudes toward pot laws.
"Marijuana's knocking on the door at this point," Sonenstein said. "The initiatives and the campaigns are much stronger this year. Support is where it's never been, at least in the last 30 to 40 years. … It's just one of those things where people are starting to say, 'Well, I guess we better get on one side of this issue or the other,' because public perception is changing."
Just Say Now, an online campaign started by progressive blog Firedoglake.com, was launched in 2010 to push for ballot initiatives to legalize marijuana in Arizona, Oregon, California, Colorado and South Dakota. This election cycle, Sonenstein said Just Say Now is supporting major pot law reforms in six states.
When Facebook first pulled the pro-legalization ads in 2010, Firedoglake.com organizer Michael Whitney likened hiding the marijuana leaf to "running a campaign and saying you can't show the candidate's face."
In a blog post on the ACLU's website Monday morning, Lye praised Facebook's reversal as a "victory for free speech on the Internet." She warned that Facebook's ambition to become the "virtual town square" will be stymied if its advertising policies have built-in censorship.
"They did the right thing here," Electronic Frontier Foundation's Reitman told The Huffington Post. "But this is just going to keep coming up again and again both on Facebook and other sites as more of our political discussions and our societal discussions kind of move in to these online spaces."
Facebook turned over a new leaf Monday, unblocking advertisements promoting a marijuana legalization campaign involving a set of November ballot initiatives across the country.
The social media giant conceded to Internet freedom advocates over the past week that it had erred in yanking a pro-legalization group's ads from its network because of pot leaf images. Parties involved in the controversy confirmed the Facebook decision to The Huffington Post on Monday.
Just Say Now organizer Brian Sonenstein told The Huffington Post that the leafy ads were no longer listed as disapproved on Facebook.
When the online campaign's ads were submitted for review earlier this year, Facebook outright rejected them, as it did the group's ads two years ago. In 2010, Facebook took down Just Say Now's ads after about a week on the social network.
More than 15,000 supporters signed an online petition calling for Facebook to bring back the latest batch of Just Say Now ads, catching the eye of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California.
The two free speech groups approached Just Say Now and Students for Sensible Drug Policy — which had found itself in a similar situation — about appealing to Facebook. Electronic Frontier Foundation activism director Rainey Reitman and ACLU staff attorney Linda Lye said they held several discussions with Facebook executives from Wednesday to Friday. Lye said the Facebook representatives were "quick to admit" they had either misinterpreted or failed to follow Facebook advertising guidelines.
"Their position was very clear -- and we certainly applaud it -- which is that Facebook is a neutral platform," Lye said. "It does not weigh in on political advocacy, and it was a mistake to reject the ads."
In a statement last week, Facebook spokeswoman Gwendolyn Belomy said the company's advertising policy had not changed.
"We do allow images of marijuana in ads under circumstances, such as a political debate," Belomy said. "However, we do not allow ads for illegal activity, such as the sale of marijuana."
Belomy did not respond to a follow-up question on whether Facebook acknowledged a "mistake" in blocking the marijuana leaf ads.
For some legalization advocates, including Sonenstein, the ads' restoration shows a broader shift in public attitudes toward pot laws.
"Marijuana's knocking on the door at this point," Sonenstein said. "The initiatives and the campaigns are much stronger this year. Support is where it's never been, at least in the last 30 to 40 years. … It's just one of those things where people are starting to say, 'Well, I guess we better get on one side of this issue or the other,' because public perception is changing."
Just Say Now, an online campaign started by progressive blog Firedoglake.com, was launched in 2010 to push for ballot initiatives to legalize marijuana in Arizona, Oregon, California, Colorado and South Dakota. This election cycle, Sonenstein said Just Say Now is supporting major pot law reforms in six states.
When Facebook first pulled the pro-legalization ads in 2010, Firedoglake.com organizer Michael Whitney likened hiding the marijuana leaf to "running a campaign and saying you can't show the candidate's face."
In a blog post on the ACLU's website Monday morning, Lye praised Facebook's reversal as a "victory for free speech on the Internet." She warned that Facebook's ambition to become the "virtual town square" will be stymied if its advertising policies have built-in censorship.
"They did the right thing here," Electronic Frontier Foundation's Reitman told The Huffington Post. "But this is just going to keep coming up again and again both on Facebook and other sites as more of our political discussions and our societal discussions kind of move in to these online spaces."
Monday, August 13, 2012
Facebook becomes shitty and irrelevant. Do your own blogs - it is much better.
Facebook becomes shitty and irrelevant. Do your own blogs - it is much better.
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Friday, August 10, 2012
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Sweet Manhattan, a very short story
Sweet Manhattan
47, still sexy and gorgeous, thin, long legged,
bouncy (gym - five times a week); three teenage boys and unconditional
worshiper – husband – chiropractor, big house in Queens and
psychotherapy practice (“relationships problems, mostly”), and...
- And, you know, Esther, it's like I
don't care any more.
Esther is a good old friend; one of the
very few who still is there.
- Nothing makes sense; it's just a
game. I am a mechanical toy. Someone tightened my spring up and it
unwinds itself gradually, through the years; that's all there is in
it. The same emptiness, and nothing fills it up. - I dig you. Well, I will fill up my glass, - chuckled Esther, waiving to a waiter. - Manhattan; sweet.
Esther loves her, managing to maintain
their closeness with her elegant dry wit, framing her affection with
it, as if to hold it firmly in place.
- So tell me, what happened. Tell me. I know all your mental
choreography. I like to watch you dancing. You did not call me for
nothing. Who is it this time: Arabian sheik, mobster from Chicago
or some local hoodlum?
-Nothing happened. He went back to school to California. And this time it's different. He is just 26.
- And how different is it? Oh, there is something serious going on. She kissed the rim of her full sweet Manhattan glass very carefully.
- A bit too sweet for my taste.
They met at the Upper East Side bar. She brought him into her spare Manhattan apartment (inherited from her German Jewish grandma – she was her favorite). He pulled out a knife on her after half an hour: “Give me the money!”
“Sure”, she said, and knocked him
out with a karate kick on a head. Sex was great afterward.
- Well, to make a long story short
and sweet, our poor little booby finally found himself a
dominatrix; a mommy who can stand up to him, and that what he
probably needs. Lucky boy, ah? And who of us is a psychologist,
darling, you or me?
Esther's wild smirk was ennobled by a
display of incredibly white and natural looking teeth; a jewelry
job, by the best dentist in town.
- And you are telling me about all
this just now, a month after it all ended? You really know how to
keep your little secrets, sweety, don't you?She laughed again, and this time some overtones of anger and envy popped up in her voice.
- These waiters here have such horny asses; they all are gays.
She glanced at them critically.
They sat at a cafe at MOMA; their usual spot, on a balcony above kouroses, Egyptian mummies and their sarcophagi.
- And now you miss him. Oh, how sweet of you, darling.
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A classic 2:1 Manhattan, made with Canadian whisky, sweet vermouth, bitters, and a cherry
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Monday, August 6, 2012
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