The song is a dyingprotagonist's farewell to relatives and friends. The protagonist mentions how hard it will be to die now that the spring season has arrived (historically, spring is portrayed as the season of new life).
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The original French-language song is asardonicballad, in which the speaker givesbackhanded farewellsto hisadulterouswife and her lover and the priest he disagreed with while sarcastically expressing his wish that there should be singing and dancing when he is buried. Before Jacks popularized the song, earlier recordings had been released byThe Kingston Triowith the first cover version of McKuen's translation in 1963 and the British bandThe Fortunesin 1968.
Published on May 31, 2013
Prodigy hyper-polyglot Tim Doner has been teaching himself languages since he was 13. He now speaks nearly 20 languages! Join Tim on a cultural tour of New York unlike any you've ever heard!
The Israel lobby (at times called the Zionist lobby or sometimes the Jewish lobby) is the diverse coalition of those who, as individuals and as groups, seek to influence the foreign policy of the United States in support of Zionism, Israel or the specific policies of its government.[1] The lobby consists of Jewish-American secular and religious groups. The most famous and visible group within the Israel lobby is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). AIPAC and other groups within the Israel lobby influence American public policy in a variety of ways such as through education, responding to criticism of Israel, and putting forth arguments in support of Israel. The Israel lobby is known for its success in encouraging U.S. lawmakers to support the policies that it supports, such as vetoing the recognition of Palestine and the right for Israel to exist.
... Mais le narrateur est plutôt tenté de croire qu’en donnant trop d’importance aux belles actions, on rend finalement un hommage indirect et puissant au mal. Car on laisse supposer alors que ces belles actions n’ont tant de prix que parce qu’elles sont rares et que la méchanceté et l’indifférence sont des moteurs bien plus fréquents dans les actions des hommes...
Helping is influenced by economic environmentwithin the culture. In general, frequency of helping behavior is inversely related to the country economic status. It is true that appearances count as people make assumptions about the situation, but the deciding factor is the reaction of the people that first see the person in distress. The major explanation for people failing to stop and help a victim is how obsessed with haste they are. People who were in a hurry did not even notice the victim, although, once they arrived at their destination and had time to think about the consequences, they felt some guilt and anxiousness.
Yue Yue, the little girl victim, was finally moved to the roadside by a 57-year-old scrap collector, Chen Xianmei, who then called for the girl's parents. What Chen Xianmei did was to lift the brain-dead limp body of the child from the road and put it on the sidewalk before calling the mother. This trivial natural act that took her 12 seconds was deemedan heroic deed done for the sake of notoriety. The driver who first hit the toddler said in a telephone interview with a Guangdong television station that he had been talking on his phone when the girl walked in front of his vehicle. He said he kept driving because if she were dead, it would only cost him 10,000 to 20,000 renminbi ($1,500 to $3,000), but if she were alive, he would have to pay hundreds of thousands of renminbi in medical bills. As callous as this person might be, it is hard to believe that he would be so blunt on a public interview. Referring to the driver’s comments, one Internet user wrote, “If the compensation for a death were higher than the cost of medical care, these cases might not happen.” The writer added, it was “unrealistic” to expect a change soon, because for Chinese today, “all they can think about is food and clothes.”
The behavior of other people in similar situations suggest that it is indeed less of a trouble for the responsible party in a traffic accident to kill than to injure, and that, in any case, is not much of a deal if one has the right connections. Thus, the Chinese government has figure out yet another way to save a few renminbi by not requiring driver’s insurance and sending victims of traffic accidents to the trashcan if they happen to be poor.
China's population is split in two groups that the Chinese themselves call euphemistically city-dwellers (bureaucrats, technocrats, businessmen) and migrant workers (slave labor) . Chen Xianmei, the illiterate scrap peddler who picked up Foshan toddler Yueyue off the street, and who finally called for the little girl’s mother, illustrates of the moral and mental differences between the two groups. She left Guangzhou after being overwhelmed by media requests and offerings of cash. Chen's landlady even threatened eviction, due to the distraction of having media members lined up outside her apartment. Her neighbors claimed that she helped Yueyue to become famous. Dongguan, a home products company, gave her 100,000 RMB in cash, along with another 20,000RMB from the Foshan municipal government. Chen visited the hospital to see Yueyue's parents and give them all the cash she had received: "I don't even know how much this is. I've thinking only of the child, so I haven't even counted the money given to me these past few days. I've brought it all for the child." Chen left for her hometown of Qingyuan (清远) in Guangdong, to reunite with her husband. Chen had been working in Foshan since 2009 to be with her children.
The Telegraphposts that pedestrians may have been afraid to help Yue Yue because of China's "compensation culture." The paper refers to a 2006 judgment in which a person who helped a woman get to a hospital was "wrongly ordered to pay her compensation." Bystanders who did intervene to help others have found themselves accused of wrongdoing. In China, one is not expected to help a victim of an accident and the government actively discourages such acts. The Health Ministry in September issued new “Good Samaritan” guidelines that essentially warn passersby not to rush to help elderly people on the ground, but to first ascertain whether they are conscious and then wait for trained medical personnel to arrive.
In the eastern province of Jiangsu, a bus driver named Yin Hongbing stopped to help an elderly woman who had been struck by a hit-and-run driver. But until he was vindicated by surveillance videos, Yin was the one accused of hitting the woman. There have also been several cases of passersby stopping to help elderly people who had fallen, or were pushed, and who then were sued by the victims or were arrested. The thinking here is: They must have been responsible or they would not have stopped to help.
Is there an absolute objective moral value? This is one of the first unsolvable questions of Philosophy. There are claims made by some that without God there would be no absolute morality. I do not follow the argument. The gist seems to be that since there is no objective basis for an absolute morality, and since an absolute morality seems to be a good thing, and since the existence of God would be an absolute reference, then God exists.
Published on Aug 7, 2014
Dr. Mads Gilbert from Tromsø, Norway (Twin City with Gaza City), was working at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza during the last Israeli onslaugt on Gaza. When he returned from Gaza to his home-town Tromsø on July 31 2014, he went straight from the airport to give this spontaneous speech at a large solidarity demonstration for Gaza held at the same time. The regional newspaper "Nordlys" ("Northern Light") streamed the demonstration and featured Dr. Mads' speech on their web-site. They have donated the video. It was transcribed and subtitled in English through a solidarity effort by Norwegian film and video professionals. The video can be shared and used for non-commercial purposes.
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Discurso de Vladimir Putin del 24 de febrero de 2012 frente a los representantes de la Defensa, donde aborda la situación militar actual de Rusia en respuesta a las constantes amenazas provenientes de la OTAN.
The much-anticipated film Snowpiercer has
been acclaimed by critics and audiences alike. Renowned Korean director
Bong Joon-ho helms a stunningly crafted film with a solid, recognizable
cast including Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, Ed Harris, John Hurt, Jamie
Bell and Octavia Spencer, not to mention award-winning Korean actors
Song Kang-ho and Go Ah-sung.
This film is a major breakthrough for both Bong Joon-ho and Korea as
it would be the first Korean film to get a major American release with
the potential to do very well with American audiences. Snowpiercer,
almost entirely in English, has already been released in Korea and
France (with upcoming releases in Japan, Germany, Sweden and other
non-English-speaking countries ) to both great financial and critical
success.
So why has no release been scheduled in the U.S?
The Weinstein Company secured the rights to distribute Snowpiercer
in the U.S (in addition to the UK, Australia and New Zealand, which are
also being deprived of the director's cut). However the company, and
namely Harvey Weinstein, has demanded 25 minutes of the
director’s final cut be removed in addition to placing voice-overs
within the film to make it more marketable to a general American
audience. Director Bong Joon-ho stands by his original cut, as
does much of the cast and crew, believing the film will suffer a loss of
message, character development and depth should this happen.
Additionally many believe American audiences are more than capable of
understanding and appreciating this film without the aid of further cuts
and voice-overs. Many consider the Weinstein cut will turn a
powerfully-themed film with a distinct message into an action/thriller
movie with no more depth than many of the mediocre action movies
plaguing US theaters currently.
It comes down to a question of ethics and the dictation of what American audiences are capable of understanding.
"The goal, said TWC [The Weinstein Company] when explaining the
request to Bong, is to make sure his film ‘will be understood by
audiences in Iowa… and Oklahoma.’ Weinstein also asked for introductory
and closing voice-overs to be added in” [http://screenrant.com/snowpiercer-deleted-scenes-us-theatrical-cut-version/]. If artistic imports such as Snowpiercer are
continuously reconditioned to cater to a perceived American inability to
think outside our own borders and comfort zone then that inability will
only continue indefinitely, and the international perception of our own
self-serving narrowmindedness will remain deserved.
Kaori Shoji of The Japan Times said this of the film: “As far as I’m
concerned, this is required viewing for every human being on the planet”
[http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/01/02/films/our-movie-highlights-of-the-coming-year/#.Us-cePRDvng].
Let us show Mr. Weinstein that holding this film hostage until the
director concedes to his unreasonable demands are not acceptable. The
vision of the artist, in this case the director, should be given
priority in cooperation with marketing strategies. Altering a
work of art to the point where its meaning is lost and no longer
discernable to simply make it more palatable is not acceptable. This film, which many have been anticipating for so long, has
the potential to make a very stunning point about social classes and
the dangers of elitism, an issue that has become prominent in the United
States recently. We must show Mr. Weinstein that we, as Americans, will not
stand to be insulted by the insinuation that the general American
populace is incapable or unwilling to appreciate a ground-breaking
dramatic film from an Asian director, focusing on relevant
anthropological issues. Support Free Snowpiercer! Media Reps: Please direct all inquiries to founder, Denise Heard-Bashur (freesnowpiercer@gmail.com)
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Adventurer and journalist Simon Reeve heads to Cuba to find a communist country in the middle of a capitalist revolution. Two years ago Cuba announced the most sweeping and radical economic reforms the country has seen in decades. From ending state rationing to cutting one million public-sector jobs, one of the last communist bastions in the world has begun rolling back the state on an unprecedented scale. Simon Reeve meets ordinary Cubans whose lives are being transformed, from the owners of fledgling businesses to the newly rich estate agents selling properties worth up to 750,000 pounds.
La circulación de armas en R.D. Congo y en los Grandes Lagos siguen siendo una plaga. Existe una red de tráfico que viola el embargo ; tráfico que constituye una de las causas principales de los conflictos en RDC y en la región. Este comercio macabro alimenta perfectamente a mucha gente. El Grupo de investigación e información sobre la paz y la seguridad, GRIP, instalado en Bruselas, acaba de publicar un informe abrumador, firmado por Georges Berghezan, que afirma que esta situación persiste a pesar de todas las resoluciones de la ONU. Apunta directamente a Rwanda, Libia y a países del este de Europa, sin olvidar a los antiguos beligerantes de la guerra de agresión de 1998-2003 en RDC. De pasada, se detiene en las rivalidades y bazas regionales e internacionales entre Francia y EE.UU, para explicar justamente las razones de la ineficacia del embargo, tantas veces violado. En el momento en que en Goma se reflexiona sobre la paz, seguridad y desarrollo en los dos Kivu, este informe, publicado el 3 de diciembre de 2007 sobre la red de tráfico de armas, es oportuno.
Dará motivos para que los participantes reflexionen y no se paren en un examen superficial de la situación. El informe constituye una verdadera invitación para que vayan al fondo de los asuntos, ya que, una vez más, la RDC está en el centro de intereses regionales e internacionales. El informe del GRIP afirma que el trafico de armas hacia el este de la RDC no ha cesado, al menos hasta agosto de 2007, tanto por vía naval como aérea, con la bendición de numerosos Estados, tanto africanos como europeos y americanos. A pesar de las resoluciones de la ONU, el tráfico hacia Ituri y los Kivu ha gozado de buena salud. GRIP cita los informes de expertos de la ONU que denunciaron en varias ocasiones la violación del embargo, indicando nombres y apellidos, movimientos armados, países concernidos. Desdichadamente no se ha adoptado sanción alguna. La plaga persiste y cuasa víctimas, desestabiliza la región, sin que diversas iniciativas de paz aporten una solución duradera.
