#East-West

[rastronomicals]

7:25 PM EST November 6, 2024:

Paul Butterfield Blues Band - "East-West" From the album East-West (1966)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Seminal Blues Rock

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[nezreblogz]

[la7ma-mafrooma]

"B-but Palestinians can get their freedom with peace not violence 🥺🥺" no. Screw your feelings. The armed resistance against colonizers and murderers is what will give Palestinians their freedom and what will eventually achieve real peace.

An enemy that bombs and uses white phosphorus against civilians doesn't know nor practice what your broken moral compass describes as "peace". Freedom was proven throughout history not to be achieved through kneeling and asking the oppressor to kindly stop. Freedom needs to be taken by force. Your little Utopian way of thinking doesn't work in the real world. Your feelings don't matter because you're not the one living under occupation. Your feelings don't matter because you're not one of the thousands of children who lost their limbs. You're not one of the children who became orphans due to this genocide. You're not the mother who lost her child to the carpet bombing. You're not the father carrying the remains of your child in plastic bags. You're not the newlywed woman who lost her husband. You're not the one at risk of either getting killed any second or losing your loved ones in the blink of an eye!

"Peace" is not really a thing you see during a live ethnic cleansing!

[troythecatfish]

Using "Legalize" as a term to cover up the theft of people's homes and livelihoods is expected at this point from the NYT. The "free" press is complicit in the manufacturing of consent to not only destroy Gaza, but to also annex the West Bank. Free Palestine.

X: Assalrad

[kaapstadgirly]

"We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians."

~ Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.

[cervenakoviny]

Similarly eastern Europe. Having much more sparse population and low standards of living combined with actually somewhat easilly available neccesities for starting a household meant, you didn't need to save until you were 25 so that you could afford your own roof above your head. It would be very ordinary for a woman to marry in her 16 to 19 (and for her spouse to be older). There was high natality together with high child mortality, so you start relatively soon, your older daughter is also free to go early since there are her younger siblings to work around the house and fields and her dowry might be meager, but so is everyone's. The land's there, it just needs to be cultivated. It overlaps also with prices of grain. In early modern period western Europe covered their shortages of wheat by buying from Poland, Hungary and what is now Ukraine, Belarus, Baltics, western part of Russia. There is even a term for it since 1960s - Hajnal line. Running diagonally from St Petersburg to Trieste it divides Europe according to marriage patterns. The divide is not as hard as assumed earlier, much more fuzzy, what with southern Europe and some smaller peripheral bits in north and west etc. The concept is criticized a lot by some in the field. But it is a thing. When it comes to demographics, the right side is basically a century give or take behind the left side in marriage trends. For more detailed info - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_marriage_pattern# (It talks abou christian marriage laws changing family patterns, average ages across time and space, wages, changes in population brought by plagues and immigration and stuff... These paterns fluctuated somewhat all the time.)

TL;DR: Women tended to marry between 20 and 32.  Read why below!

aufanficfanatic said: Isn’t it like, 14 or something?  I dunno man, educate me. 

I’m so glad you asked @aufanficfanatic because I have so much to say!

In upper classes the children were considered the property of the family, so they married whenever the parents wanted them too.  There were children of the nobility who where married as infants and then never saw their spouse until said spouse’s funeral due to the ague or whatever.  Even the daughter of a simple gentleman might start feeling a bit alarmed if she hit 24 without any offers of marriage, but then her duty was to secure a suitable match.

The merchant, crafts, and agricultural classes were a bit different.  And by a bit different I mean they were entirely different.  A lot of this marry at first blink of puberty thing is part of the mythology that because the average age of death pre-1700 was about 35-40 that meant everyone died at forty.  What really happened was that most people lived to 70 and half of all children died.  Application of math tells us that if you add 70+0 and then divide by two the average death date is a bit misleading as a statistic.

The two most important things to people in a primarily agricultural culture is population numbers and food.  You need more population to grow more food and you need more food for your population.  There are other, more complicated factors such as the local nobility using the peasantry as cannon fodder, taxation, self-defense of the village, trying to avoid depopulation, but we’re going to skip that discussion.

Population is the big issue when it comes to marriage age, and let’s be honest.  When we pick a teenage marriage age the picture people have in their minds is a forty year old man and a sixteen year old girl.  This large age gap marriage mythology is a largely colonist era idea that means to depict sexual exploitation of children is natural and traditional for the purpose of corrupting men’s natural healthy instincts and discrediting cries of alarm from women.

But we’re not here to talk about politics, we’re here to talk about population.  For Western Europe marriage was for the purpose of creating a home, a social, emotional, and physical support system - children were an expected part of that.  However!  Even among women who chose not to get married, and there was at least one bastard born every year, they chose to have their children at an older age.

There are several issues about a woman’s body that could get in the way of a young marriage age.  First being that historically the first child a woman had usually died within a month, if the child was born alive at all due to a variety of issues like nutrition and stress on the woman’s body.  You know how everybody tells women not to carry things?  Well, European women didn’t always have that luxury.  The older a woman was, the more like she would be to be strong enough to lose less babies.

Second, poor nutrition can push back puberty, or at the very least menstruation.  This meant that many young ladies would only have superficial signs of puberty until they hit about sixteen, meaning that even if someone was going by some patriarchal conception of when a woman was marriageable, she’d only appear ‘on the market’ at sixteen, not be married by it.

Third, the woman’s body was insufficiently developed as a teenager, IE if she was sixteen or younger, her vagina would be smaller and her vaginal lining would be too thin  as the thickness therein is determined by the amount of estrogen in the system.  Usually the vaginal lining is not childbirth safe until the end of puberty, which depending on the female, is between 18-20.  People are good at picking up patterns.  They figured out pretty quick that women under eighteen tended to die during childbirth.  I won’t be graphic, suffice to say they bled to death.

Fourth, due to apprenticeships and occupations, many women were too busy to get married as teenagers.  Women had occupations other than some variation of mother or healer?!?  Yes, rhetorical question, they did!  If your last name was Baxter or Webster, not only do you descend from a woman who was a Master of her craft (baking or weaving respectively) but that one of your male ancestors took on her surname instead of the opposite.  Other female heavy professions were black smithing, silver smithing, accounting, leather working, agricultural labor (except wagonering and plowing - no innuendo intended - that was more of a man’s job since they would often have to travel), administratrix (more legal than a steward, more useful than a lawyer), ale wifing and brewing, knitting and lace working, and notary-ing.  Since having one or both of a couple having a craft occupation meant that their children would have a shoe in to a network of guilds it was of great benefit.  Additionally since many men traditionally worked the land or went to war, it meant that their family would be taken care of if something happened to his health.

So there you go!  Women generally started getting married after they finished their apprenticeships or when they reached about 20 and started having their own property and kept getting married until they were tired of it.

[c-40]

A-T-4 139 East-West Can't Face The Night

One off project from Indipop boss Steve Coe and Martin Smith, the pair also recorded as The Ganges Orchestra and Ganga, they also wrote Mysteries Of The East with Jhalib. Steve Coe who produces Can't Face The Night had also been a former member of Blackpool group Complex and Monsoon with his wife Sheila Chandra... but I've been over this before

East-West features the vocal talents of Usha

Can't Face The Night was reissued by Emotional Rescue in 2022

and the dub for good measure

[chaithetics]

EDIT: I've now made a post that you can read here with more information about the ICJ rulings, their powers and what we can do with this ruling here. I had to this morning and will continue to delete, report, and block all comments/asks that are anti-Arab, zionist, Islamophobic, racist, and/or antisemitic.

We already knew this but the ICJ has now ruled that Israel's continued occupation of Palestine is illegal and needs to end ASAP.

They found that Israel's occupation does not give it the right of sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza and that it is not a temporary occupation but is an illegal, permanent and discriminatory annexation. The ICJ also found violence against Palestinians, Israeli exploitation of Palestinian natural resources, transfer of civilian population (settlers and companies/organisations), extension of Israeli laws to replace local Palestinian laws, forced displacement of Palestinians, confiscation of Palestinian land, annexation. That Israel's 'security concerns' are not valid justifications for any of these measures.

The ICJ has ordered Israel to end its presence in the West Bank and Gaza immediately and to cease all new settlement activity, return all lands and assets to Palestinians that they've ceased since 1967 and that includes archives and items of cultural significance, evacuate all of their settlers from the settlements, pay compensation, and repeal all laws that maintain this occupation and discrimination. The ICJ is not legally-binding but does carry significant political weight and this ruling is important for continuing to advocate for Palestine and to put pressure on our government's to do the right thing and for them to put pressure on Israel. Keep contacting your representatives!

[remindertoclick]

Your reminder to Click for Palestine today!

And/or donate directly to the UNRWA if you have the means!

[rastronomicals]

4:45 AM EDT October 1, 2024:

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - "East-West" From the album   Mojo Presents: Us And Them - A Pink Floyd Companion (December 2022)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Giveaway with the February 2023 issue

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[happyroadkillart]

trash birds being quite silly

[nezreblogz]

[mournfulroses]

Margaret Atwood, from Paper Boat: Selected Poems; "He Shifts from East to West,"

[troythecatfish]

[kaapstadgirly]

1998, Edward Said.

"Israel was constructed on the ruins of another society."

via conflictechoes on insta

[katelynntheauthor]

Pacific Rim Barbeque Sauce Recipe

This fast-and-easy to prepare fusion barbecue sauce will impress your guests with its East-West flavors from the Pacific Rim.