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The word “hate,” for example, has been redefined to mean disagreement with the political objectives of the Sexual Revolution. Christians are accused of “hating” gay people for disagreeing with gay marriage. But if Christians truly believe that the gay lifestyle puts people further from God, then would it not actually be hate to endorse gay marriage? Because the opponents of Christianity do not take it seriously, they expect Christians to ignore its teachings, as well. Gay activists are demanding that Christians ignore, abandon, or repudiate fundamental Christian teachings—and on top of it all, they are demanding that Christians stop caring about the souls of the gay people they know and love. This silence would in actuality function like hatred.
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And just as “hate” has been redefined, “love” has been redefined as well. Love once meant wanting what was best for the other. Thus, loving someone would mean telling that person if you thought their lifestyle was harmful, no matter how difficult or painful that conversation might be. Now, our culture seems to think that love means agreeing with someone and supporting their lifestyle regardless of what you believe. Love is now only a feeling, not an action rooted in belief.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/hate-i-do-not-think-that-word-means-what-you-think-it-means

Stage 1: The first and foremost reason that Greece got into trouble was the “Great Financial Crisis” of 2008 that was the brainchild of Wall Street and international bankers. If you remember, banks came up with an awesome idea of giving subprime mortgages to anyone who can fog a mirror. They then packaged up all these ticking financial bombs and sold them as “mortgage-backed securities” for a huge profit to various financial entities in countries around the world.

A big enabler of this criminal activity was another branch of the banking system, the group of rating agencies – S&P, Fitch and Moody’s – who gave stellar ratings to these destined-to-fail financial products. Unscrupulous politicians such as Tony Blair joined Goldman Sachs and peddled these dangerous securities to pension funds and municipalities and countries around Europe. Banks and Wall Street gurus made hundreds of billions of dollars in this scheme.

But this was just Stage 1 of their enormous scam. There was much more profit to be made in the next three stages!

Stage 2 is when the financial time bombs exploded. Commercial and investment banks around the world started collapsing in a matter of weeks. Governments at local and regional level saw their investments and assets evaporate. Chaos everywhere!

Vultures like Goldman Sachs and other big banks profited enormously in three ways: one, they could buy other banks such as Lehman brothers and Washington Mutual for pennies on the dollar. Second, more heinously, Goldman Sachs and insiders such as John Paulson (who recently donated $400 million to Harvard) had made bets that these securities would blow up. Paulson made billions, and the media celebrated his acumen. (For an analogy, imagine the terrorists betting on 9/11 and profiting from it.) Third, to scrub salt in the wound, the big banks demanded a bailout from the very citizens whose lives the bankers had ruined! Bankers have chutzpah. In the U.S., they got hundreds of billions of dollars from the taxpayers and trillions from the Federal Reserve Bank which is nothing but a front group for the bankers.

In Greece, the domestic banks got more than $30 billion of bailout from the Greek people. Let that sink in for a moment – the supposedly irresponsible Greek government had to bail out the hardcore capitalist bankers.

Stage 3 is when the banks force the government to accept massive debts. For a biology metaphor, consider a virus or a bacteria. All of them have unique strategies to weaken the immune system of the host. One of the proven techniques used by the parasitic international bankers is to downgrade the bonds of a country. And that’s exactly what the bankers did, starting at the end of 2009. This immediately makes the interest rates (“yields”) on the bonds go up, making it more and more expensive for the country to borrow money or even just roll over the existing bonds.

From 2009 to mid 2010, the yields on 10-year Greek bonds almost tripled! This cruel financial assault brought the Greek government to its knees, and the banksters won their first debt deal of a whopping 110 billion Euros.

The banks also control the politics of nations. In 2011, when the Greek prime minister refused to accept a second massive bailout, the banks forced him out of the office and immediately replaced him with the Vice President of ECB (European Central Bank)! No elections needed. Screw democracy. And what would this new guy do? Sign on the dotted line of every paperwork that the bankers bring in.

(By the way, the very next day, the exact same thing happened in Italy where the Prime Minister resigned, only to be replaced by a banker/economist puppet. Ten days later, Spain had a premature election where a “technocrat” banker puppet won the election).

The puppet masters had the best month ever in November 2011.

Few months later, in 2012, the exact bond market manipulation was used when the banksters turned up the Greek bonds’ yields to 50%!!! This financial terrorism immediately had the desired effect: The Greek parliament agreed to a second massive bailout, even larger than the first one.

Now, here is another fact that most people don’t understand. The loans are not just simple loans like you would get from a credit card or a bank. These loans come with very special strings attached that demand privatization of a country’s assets. If you have seen Godfather III, you would remember Hyman Roth, the investor who was carving up Cuba among his friends. Replace Hyman Roth with Goldman Sachs or IMF (International Monetary Fund) or ECB, and you get the picture.

Stage 4: Now, the rape and humiliation of a nation begin. For the debt that was forced upon them, Greece had to sell many of its profitable assets to oligarchs and international corporations. And privatizations are ruthless, involving everything and anything that is profitable. In Greece, privatization included water, electricity, post offices, airport services, national banks, telecommunication, port authorities (which is huge in a country that is a world leader in shipping) etc.

In addition to that, the banker tyrants also get to dictate every single line item in the government’s budget. Want to cut military spending? NO! Want to raise tax on the oligarchs or big corporations? NO! Such micro-management is non-existent in any other creditor-debtor relationship.

So what happens after privatization and despotism under bankers? Of course, the government’s revenue goes down and the debt increases further. How do you “fix” that? Of course, cut spending! Lay off public workers, cut minimum wage, cut pensions (same as our social security), cut public services, and raise taxes on things that would affect the 99% but not the 1%. For example, pension has been cut in half and sales tax increase to more than 20%. All these measures have resulted in Greece going through a financial calamity that is worse than the Great Depression of the U.S. in the 1930s.

http://www.hangthebankers.com/how-greece-was-robbed-by-the-bankers/

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Dismay - Oh! Fuck it!
Aggression - Fuck you.
Passive - Fuck me.
Command - Go fuck yourself.
Incompetence - He's a fuck-up.
Laziness - He's a fuck off.
Ignorance - He's a fucking jerk.
Trouble - I guess I'm fucked now.
Confusion - What the fuck.
Despair - Fucked again.
Philosophical - Who gives a fuck?
Denial - You ain't fucking me.
Rebellion - Fuck the world.
Annoyance - Don't fuck with me.
Encouragement - Keep on fucking.
Etiquette - Pass the fucking salt.
Fraud - I got fucked by my insurance agent.
Difficulty - I can't understand this fucking business.
Identification - Who the fuck are you?
Agreement - You're fucking right.
Benevolence - Don't do me any fucking favors.

Westeros, unified by Aegon the Conqueror 300 years before the events of Ice and Fire, was in much the same situation as fifteenth-century England. The various claimants to the throne in the War of the Five Kings had much the same goals in mind as did the participants in the Wars of the Roses. Accordingly, their battles were fought to annihilate one another. Controlling territory was secondary to establishing legitimacy and neutralizing the opposition.

Medieval warfare was Vegetian in nature because the state was weak and power was tied to controlling land. Thus, Edward the Black Prince used chevauchée as an effective tactic when invading France in the fourteenth century. When a war becomes about control of a unified state—particularly in a civil war between rival factions—we instead find a strategy of seeking battle. A hundred years after the Black Prince, the combatants in the Wars of the Roses eagerly sought out and fought pitched battles for supreme dominance over a state. This is the sort of conflict we find in A Song of Ice and Fire.
http://deremilitari.org/2013/01/strategies-of-war-in-westeros/

Negativity Bias

People tend to pay more attention to bad news — and it's not just because we're morbid. Social scientists theorize that it's on account of our selective attention and that, given the choice, we perceive negative news as being more important or profound. We also tend to give more credibility to bad news, perhaps because we're suspicious (or bored) of proclamations to the contrary. More evolutionarily, heeding bad news may be more adaptive than ignoring good news (e.g. "saber tooth tigers suck" vs. "this berry tastes good"). Today, we run the risk of dwelling on negativity at the expense of genuinely good news. Steven Pinker, in his book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, argues that crime, violence, war, and other injustices are steadily declining, yet most people would argue that things are getting worse — what is a perfect example of the negativity bias at work.

И ещё 11 штук: The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational

Ukraine: The Price of Internal Division | JackMatlock.com

I believe that nobody can understand the likely outcomes of what is happening unless they bear in mind the historical, geographic, political and psychological factors at play in these dramatic events. The view of most of the media, whether Russian or Western, seems to be that one side or the other is going to “win” or “lose” Ukraine.

I believe that is fundamentally mistaken. If I were Ukrainian I would echo the immortal words of the late Walt Kelly’s Pogo: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
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a. It has been a mistake for all the parties, those in Ukraine and those outside, to treat this crisis as a contest for control of Ukraine.
b. Obama’s “warning” to Putin was ill-advised. Whatever slim hope that Moscow might avoid overt military intervention in Ukraine disappeared when Obama in effect threw down a gauntlet and challenged him. This was not just a mistake of political judgment—it was a failure to understand human psychology—unless, of course, he actually wanted a Russian intervention, which is hard for me to believe.
c. At this moment it is not clear, at least to me, what the ultimate Russian intent is. I do not believe it is in Russia’s interest to split Ukraine, though they may want to detach the Crimea from it—and if they did, they would probably have the support of the majority of Crimean residents. But they may simply wish to bolster the hand of their friends in Eastern Ukraine in negotiations over the new power structure. At the very least, they are signaling that they will not be deterred by the United States from doing what they consider necessary to secure their interests in the neighborhood.
d. Ukraine is already shattered de facto, with different groups in command of the various provinces. If there is any hope of putting it together again, there must be cooperation of all parties in forming a coalition at least minimally acceptable to Russia and the Russian-speaking Ukrainian citizens in the East and South. A federation with governors elected locally and not appointed by a winner-take-all president or prime minister would be essential. Real autonomy for Crimea will also be required.
e. Many important questions remain. One relates to the principle of “territorial integrity.” Yes, that is important, but it is not the only principle to consider. Russians would argue, with some substance in the argument, that the U.S. is interested in territorial integrity only when its interests are served. American governments have a record of ignoring it when convenient, as when it and its NATO allies violated Serbian territorial integrity by creating and then recognizing an independent Kosovo. Also, by supporting the separation of South Sudan from Sudan, Eritrea from Ethiopia, and East Timor from Indonesia.

То есть здесь есть три вещи. Первая: предположительно в английском массовом сознании уже отсутствует ритмика строчного барьера. То есть строчное деление не понимается как деление метровое. Разбил поэт по строкам как-то, у него были соображения, они, по всей видимости, ни с чем не связанные, выделяются только заглавной буквой, там можно сделать паузу, но можно и не сделать. То, что можно назвать экстраполяцией нашего, как мне кажется, развития поэзии сейчас. Не потому, что мы научились читать безбарьерными строками, это мы давно научились делать, но потому, что строка уже становится менее важным определителем метра. Для Маяковского это еще верно, например.
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— Это странное дело, потому что другие актеры пишут только за процент от проданного, то есть аудиокнига должна продаваться и процент должен доставаться актеру, это называется роялти. Нам было очевидно, что книга должна быть бесплатной и нужно обойтись без роялти, то есть один раз заплатить Фраю и один заплатить издательству, после чего распространять книгу абсолютно бесплатно.
— «Нам было понятно, что она должна распространяться бесплатно» — с какого момента это стало понятно? И каким вообще представлялось бытование результата?
— Оно в результате и произошло. Я считаю, что правовая идея public domain, не юридическая, а правовая, то есть не внутри закона, а внутри понятия справедливости, — она очень глубоко обоснована. Я считаю, что есть объективная причина делать вещи public domain. И если произведение, с которым я работаю, — это public domain, а я работаю с «Онегиным», то все дериваты тоже должны быть public domain. Это произведение, принадлежащее некоторому полю знаний, не дающее никакого коммерческого преимущества, это произведение, которое в общем не очень развлекает, но может дать людям довольно много в смысле любознательности, поэтому почему бы нам не издать его бесплатно.
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— В Лондоне. Студия Silk Sound, режиссер Иан Гилеспи, как Диззи Гиллеспи, только Иан Гилеспи. Степень подготовки этого человека невероятная. Я пришел к нему, сказал: «Здравствуйте», он сказал: «Здравствуйте, меня зовут Иан», я ему сказал: «Здравствуйте, мы будем записывать “Евгения Онегина”». Он сказал: «Да-да-да, three hundred eighty-nine stanzas of the iambic pentameter» — 389 строф ямбом.
Аудиокниги у нас не очень режиссируются. Вообще чтение у нас не режиссируется. Если мы посмотрим на проекты, где кто-то читает чьи-то стихи, может быть, свои, может быть, другого человека, — это довольно просто. Выходит человек, его сажают на кресло и говорят: «Читай как знаешь».
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Или вот: «Но вреден север для меня». Как это прочесть? Я привожу самые яркие примеры, эта работа проводится построфно почти над всем романом. Он это злобно говорит, с серьезной агрессией к системе, которая его выпихивает из столицы, или он это говорит смешливо, или он это говорит как-то еще. И здесь, в случае Фрая, он это говорит довольно по-британски: «но... кхм... вреден север для меня». Здесь будет нейтральная интонация, но я так немножко паузирую, немножко кашляну, чтобы дать вам понять, что здесь что-то не так, хотя можно было бы и прямую иронию прочесть.
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— Применительно к роману — слово «мама». «Вы также, маменьки, построже». Переводчик ставит «A word of warning should suffice. You too, you mamas, I commend you». Маргинальное сокращение от «mother», в реальности заимствованное в английский язык из французского, читается «mamá». «Мáма» не ложится в метр. По всей видимости, это ошибка переводчика.
Фрай на это обратил внимание и сказал: «Это даже по-американски не рифмуется».
То есть существуют диалектные особенности, в частности, методы расстановки ударений.
— Как преодолевались эти трудности?
— Никак.
— То есть он просто читал так, как это положено читать при его произношении?
— Да, он говорил: «Ай кант сэй “комменд”». Переводчик в связи с этим в письме написал: да, я понимаю, некоторые строки, конечно, могли быть прочтены по-другому, но я понимаю диалектологию, я понимаю, с чем вы столкнулись.
http://www.colta.ru/articles/literature/901

Дочитал давеча.
ОЧень хорошая.
По нашей клссификации скорее новелла, чем ~~устарелла~~ рассказ.

Тщательная такая, детско-взрослая.
Про странных соседей и вечное возвращение.
Рек.

Когда будет перевод не в курсе.

http://vmdaily.ru/news/2013/09/20/tantsuj-so-mnoj-poka-ne-konchitsya-lyubov-15-legendarnih-pesen-leonarda-koena-214780.html

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died

Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long stem rose
Everybody knows

Книжное похмелье (Book hangover)
Чувство, когда окружающий мир кажется несовершенным и сюрреалистичным из-за того, что человек только что закончил читать книгу, в которую был полностью погружен.

Именная засада (Name ambush)
Неловкая ситуация, когда вы сталкиваетесь с вроде бы знакомым человеком, но не успеваете вспомнить, как его зовут.

Снорафон (Dreamathon)
Состояние, в котором человек снова и снова выключает будильник, успевая до следующего его сигнала увидеть новый сон.

Бордюрный стыд (Curb shame)
Чувство, которое испытывает человек, оставшийся ждать зеленого света, когда все остальные пешеходы, благодаря отсутствию машин, перешли дорогу на красный.

Паралич перфекциониста (Perfectionist paralysis)
Состояние, при котором человек не может приступить к работе из-за страха, что все равно не сумеет сделать ее идеально.

Рефрижераторное право (Refrigerator rights)
Синоним очень близких отношений; в буквальном смысле право залезть в холодильник без спроса.

Синдром водителя автобуса (Driving the bus)
Человек, который решил в выходные поехать за покупками и обнаружил себя на полпути к работе.

Плейлистизм (Playlistism)
Дискриминация по признаку музыкальных пристрастий в iTunes и других проигрывателях звуковых файлов.

Усталость от паролей (Password fatigue)
Психическая усталость, вызванная необходимостью помнить слишком много паролей.

Кухонный пропуск (Kitchen pass)
Разрешение, которое дает один супруг другому, отпуская его из дома на вечеринку или еще куда-то.

отсюда:

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Once, when a GI was visiting Pablo Picasso during the liberation of France, he said that he could not understand the artistâs paintings: âWhy do you paint a person looking from the side and from the front at the same time?â Picasso asked, âDo you have a girlfriend?â âYes,â replied the soldier. âDo you have a picture of her?â The soldier pulled from his wallet a photograph of the girl. Picasso looked at it in mock astonishment and asked, âIs she so small?â

It's no good leaving it in the freezer
for your mum to discover.

Then I hear the best thing
to do is feed them to pigs.

You gotta starve the pigs
for a few days...

...then the chopped-up body
will look like curry to a pisshead.

You gotta shave the heads of your
victims and pull the teeth out
for the piggies' digestion.

You could do this afterwards,
of course but you don't want
to sieve through pigshit, do you?

They will go through bone like butter.
You need at least 16 pigs
to finish the job in one sitting
so be wary of any man
who keeps a pig farm.

They will go through a body
that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes.

That means that a single pig can consume two pounds
of uncooked flesh every minute.

Hence the expression "as greedy as a pig."

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http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3141/britain-political-correctness

A three-month trial that recently ended in Liverpool, where nine Muslim men were found guilty of raping dozens of British children, revealed that police and social workers in northern England repeatedly refuse to investigate Muslim paedophile gangs: they said they are afraid of being called racist.

The disturbing details that emerged during the trial have opened yet another chapter in a long-running debate about multiculturalism in Britain, where many say that political correctness has gone too far.
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In Wiltshire, police pulled over an 18-year-old driver for a routine spot check. The driver was stunned when a police officer ordered him to remove the Flag of England from his car; apparently they said the flag could be deemed racist and offensive to Muslim immigrants. The driver thought the officer was joking until he was threatened with a £30 fine if he refused to remove it from view. Tory MP Philip Davies, who campaigns against political correctness, said: "How on earth can it be racist to fly your own flag in your own country?"
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The British Navy, which has been forced to downsize its fleet due to military budget cuts, was obliged by diktats of political correctness to install a special Satanist chapel onboard one of its warships to accommodate the religious requirements of a Satanist crewman.
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Жёлтая пресса - желтая.
Мораль придумайте сами.

The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury

I was talking to a friend. And I said, "Are these stories familiar to you?" I told him all the words I knew, the ones about the monsters coming home to the house with the human child in it, the ones about the lightning salesman and the wicked carnival that followed him, and the Martians and their fallen glass cities and their perfect canals. I told him all the words, and he said he hadn't heard of them. That they didn't exist.

And I worry.

I worry I was keeping them alive. Like the people in the snow at the end of the story, walking backwards and forwards, remembering, repeating the words of the stories, making them real.

I think it's God's fault.

I mean, he can't be expected to remember everything, God can't. Busy chap. So perhaps he delegates things, sometimes, just goes, "You! I want you to remember the dates of the Hundred Years' War. And you, you remember okapi. You, remember Jack Benny who was Benjamin Kubelsky from Waukegan, Illinois." And then, when you forget the things that God has charged you with remembering, bam. No more okapi. Just an okapi-shaped hole in the world, which is halfway between an antelope and a giraffe. No more Jack Benny. No more Waukegan. Just a hole in your mind where a person or a concept used to be.

I don't know.

Полностью: http://io9.com/5918839/must-read-neil-gaimans-tribute-to-ray-bradbury

Чудный рассказ Геймана.

J'Accuse

Visit with the Pope, Pope civil servant. Tells how they in the Ministry of works written about the love of Putin as person with each Division have made that whole days in social networks are struggling with the Liberals, and a lot of interesting things. So, even with persistent "system", which is my father, already zadolbalo. Worried, said the Zyuganov would vote. (Translated by Bing)

Это он с русского мне предложил пособить в понимании.

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(мы не заметили)

(следите за руками)

а вы говорите - русский мат

Войны Вестероса с точки зреняи военной науки позднего Средневековья

(когнитивные ошибки)

(мнение американского дипломата времен Холодной войны и после)

Про запись "Евгения Онегина"

Нил Гейман "The Ocean at the End of the Lane"

(старик Коган)

(это и про меня)

Про оригинальное произношение Шекспира

(как-то так да)

(no subject)

“Well, either a tail is there or it isn't there. You can't make a mistake about it.”

мульти-культи

Dear God, hear my prayer. A . . . B . . . C . . . D . . . E . . . F . . . G . . .

The Enemy of Excellence is "Good Enough"

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