#Policeman martyred

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

On this day, November 11 in 1887, four convicted anarchists, German-American businessman George Engel (b. 1836), German-American printer Adolph Fischer (b. 1858), and American journalists and activists Albert Parsons (b. 1848) and August Spies (b. 1855), were executed as a result of the Haymarket Affair, the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. A fifth conspirator, Louis Lingg (b. 1864) committed suicide in his cell the day before his execution.

The bombing had left one person dead and several workers injured, and ensuing retaliatory gunfire by the police caused the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civilians, with dozens of others wounded. The incident was the climax of the social unrest among the working class in America known as the Great Upheaval.

Among supporters of the labor movement, the trial was widely believed to have been unfair, and even a serious miscarriage of justice. The progressive governor of Illinois John Peter Altgeld noted that the state "never discovered who it was that threw the bomb which killed the policeman, and the evidence does not show any connection whatsoever between the defendants and the man who threw it." Albert Parsons and Adolph Fischer were not even present during the bombing. They along with Parson's wife and fellow activist Lucy Parsons (c. 1851–1942) and their two children were at Zepf's Hall nearby and heard the blast. Lucy urged Parsons to flee the city, which he did, eventually laying low in Waukesha, Wisconsin where he worked as a laborer and stayed with the family of Daniel Hoan, the future Socialist mayor of Milwaukee. There he remained until June 21, but afterward turned himself in to stand in solidarity with his comrades who had been arrested.

Lingg, Spies, Fischer, Engel, and Parsons were buried at the German Waldheim Cemetery by what is now the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument. In 1889, a commemorative nine-foot bronze statue of a Chicago policeman by sculptor Johannes Gelert was erected in the middle of Haymarket Square.

The images shown here are from:

The Rise and Fall of Anarchy in America by George N. McLean, published in Chicago & Philadelphia by R. G. Badoux & Co. in 1888.

Anarchy and Anarchists by Michael J. Schaack, published in Chicago by F. J. Schulte & Company in 1889.

Twenty-fifth Anniversary, Eleventh of November, Memorial Edition: Souvenir Edition of the Famous Speeches of Our Martyrs published in Chicago by Lucy Parsons in 1912.

View more Milestone Monday posts.

[cottagehorror-lesbians-stuff]

lee yu-yeon is the laura palmer of manyang. meaning that everything revolves around her murder. everyone's life has been impacted by her murder in some capacity, and she made the town what it is when she died.

she made han gihwan's career, and provoked his downfall. she made lee dong-sik a policeman, a martyr, a scapegoat, a wanderer. she made han joowon come to the substation, and she made him meet lee dong-sik. she made kang jinmuk the perfect serial killer of the town, but she also led to his arrest. she made park jeong-je the enemy of his mother.

everything started and ended with her. she permeates the plot, the characters, the stories, the town... even though she is not the only tragedy, she is the original tragedy that gave birth to the very storyline of the show.

[eretzyisrael]

by Bassam Tawil

According to the textbooks used in UNRWA schools, Jews have no rights whatsoever or any legitimate status in Israel. A Jewish presence in the country is denied historically, geographically and religiously. No reference is made in the books to the history of the Jews throughout the region, either in Biblical or Roman times. Any connection is also denied of the Jews to their ancient capital, Jerusalem, which is presented as an Arab city since its establishment thousands of years ago. The Jews' presence in Jerusalem today is bewilderingly presented in the books as an aggression against the city's Arab character.

Beyond the textbooks, both UNRWA administrators and teachers have proudly displayed their approval of terrorism and hatred on countless occasions, including Hamas's recent October 7 massacre, according to a report published by UN Watch, an independent non-governmental human rights organization, as well as IMPACT-se.

UNRWA math teacher Adnan Shteiwi, for instance, glorified Diaa Hamarsheh, the perpetrator of the March 2022 Bnei Brak shooting attack -- in which he murdered four Israeli civilians and one policeman -- as a "martyr" whose name should "forever remain in letters of fire, might, and magnificence."

UNRWA's Asma Middle School for Girls B encouraged schoolgirls to " liberate the homeland by sacrificing 'their Blood' and pursuing jihad."

Roni Krivoi, one of the Israeli hostages recently freed from Hamas captivity, reported that he had been kept prisoner in an attic for more than a month and a half, mostly starved and medically untreated. His jailer was an UNRWA teacher.

In Gaza -- as with Ahmad Kahalot, Director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, who admitted that he was the equivalent of a brigadier general for Hamas and that 16 of the hospital's staff were also "terror operatives for Hamas" -- the mesh of Hamas and UNRWA is also illustrated in the high-profile case of Dr. Suhail al-Hindi.

Al-Hindi served as both the principal of an UNRWA elementary school and as the chairman of the UNRWA employee's union in Gaza. In 2017, UNRWA suspended al-Hindi after it received information that he had just been elected to the Hamas political bureau. UNRWA announced that al-Hindi no longer worked for the agency, but did not say whether he had resigned or been fired. Al-Hindi first said he "resigned" from UNRWA, but later clarified that he was taking early retirement.

The case of al-Hindi and other UNRWA employees suspected of supporting terrorism makes the point that UNRWA is "the money," while thug terror-groups such as Hamas are "the muscle."

UNRWA tries to keep up public pretense that its hands are clean, and has taken a belligerently defensive stance against these and other accusations, as it publicly claims that it has a "zero-tolerance policy for hatred."

The Israeli news site Ynet , however, wrote recently about a UN Watch report:

"In it, some 47 documented cases of school staff promoting antisemitic material are recorded, as school staff openly violates the official UNRWA policy... "It was only two years ago that UNRWA apologized for similar instances, claiming they were done erroneously and will not occur in the future, but with this latest report, that promise rings hollow."

One UNRWA employee portrayed Adolf Hitler in a favorable light: "Wake up Hitler, there are people left to burn."

[myemuisemo]

Suddenly we're three Letters from Watson into The Valley of Fear. I'm fairly sure I didn't read it during my late-childhood discovery of Sherlock Holmes, so my tabula is more than usually rasa.

In chapter 1, Watson refers to the date as being in the late 1880s. Since the serial started publication in September 1914, and was presumably written not too long before that, this would be like you or I writing a novel set circa 1999. Some of the readers who eagerly awaited their updates, back in the early weeks of World War I, would not have had adult memories of 1889-ish.

The events of chapter 1 appear to hang on Whitaker's Alamanack, which it turns out was in continuous publication until... wait for it... 2021. Here's the site with some information on the final edition. Whitaker's was a compendium of useful facts, updated annually. For Americans like me, the near equivalent would be the World Almanac, which may still be published. Both Whitaker's and the World Almanac started up in 1868, so apparently that year was a cultural moment of feeling that a person needed some handy way to understand an increasingly connected world.

The idea that "everyone" owns the same book, in the same edition, feels absolutely wild now, in 2024. This was true in my childhood for the World Almanac, though, and probably for a couple other books.

For Holmes' era, "Bradshaw" was, of course, the big railway guide. What ended its importance was not the internet, but railroad consolidation, with its influence waning as early as the mid-1920s.

As we get into chapter two, I am quite liking Inspector MacDonald, who is in on the stereotype of the practical, energetic Scotsman.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze was a real French painter in the 18th century, working in a soft, but very nearly photorealistic style (catalog). Per Wikipedia, La jeune fille a l'agneau also exists and sold in 1865 for more than a million pounds. I'm not surprised that Holmes is most interested in one of the "genre" paintings (scenes of everyday life) rather than the portraits of the famous, but it seems like an odd like insight that Professor Moriarty is, too.

I'm having a heck of a time identifying an online pic that is actually, definitely La jeune fille a l'agneau, rather than one of the many copies, reproductions, and pastiches. This raises a question that Holmes and MacDonald do not: could Moriarty's painting be a copy or reproduction? Greuze had multiple legit pupils who at some point copied his style: not only was copying a master's works a standard part of art education, but it would have been a normal practice for pupils to have painted portions of Greuze's works. Heck, if Moriarty is a master criminal, surely he knows a good art forger or two. I do not entirely buy that Holmes could distinguish a forged version from the original -- that's such a specific skillset. I do think Holmes would prefer his art to be originals, and he believes the same of Moriarty.

Master criminal Jonathan Wild is also a real person who was the real head of a crime ring, back in the last days of the reign of Queen Anne. Wild was also a professional thief-taker, recruited by London's Under Marshall (essentially chief policeman), Charles Hitchens. Hitchens was wildly corrupt, and his pals were known as the "Mathematicians"... at which point, honestly, is Moriarty a projection of Holmes' psyche? (I know that's the premise of The Seven Percent Solution, a movie I adore for its train chase. I just... never quite appreciated the fit before.)

Birlstone is the beneficiary (or victim, depending) of the phenomenon that reliable and extensive railroad travel made it possible to live in a quaint rural exurb while still conveniently doing business in London as needed. I feel like Birlstone wants very badly to be East Grinstead, which is about 15 miles from Tunbridge Wells, at the edge of the forest, and possessed of convenient manor houses.

As an aside, East Grinstead is known for the East Grinstead Martyrs, who were burned at stake for heresy in 1556, when (Catholic) Queen Mary I was slaughtering Protestants. I've been dabbling at 16th- and 17th century history a bit lately, mostly to appreciate how much Reign (which I adore for its batshit OTT drama) deliberately got wrong about actual history. I was surprised that although it was Henry VIII who split with Catholicism, it was not until Elizabeth I that English Protestantism was codified with distinct rituals and the Book of Common Prayer. Just not a thing I'd thought about!

We have a manor house with working drawbridge! Also, a suspicious couple, an even more suspicious brand on the mysterious (and dead) American husband, a suspicious friend, a butler, a note in code, and a missing wedding ring.

I started this one not sure how into it I'd be, since I'm not a great fan of the entire idea of Moriarty, but now I'm on tenterhooks to see what we find out about the dead American's past.

[shroobles]

Happy mayday, comrades.

Mayday is the celebration of workers' struggles for rights and dignity. The worker unionists of the past were martyred after the police had falsely put blame on the death of one of their policeman squarely onto the most die-hard of unionists.

Our fight against capitalism and the greed of the wealthy has never stopped. It may get hard, but even with revolutionary fervor, you also need revolutionary hope and revolutionary optimism. They can imprison, hang, shoot, exile, and beat our comrades of the past and present but they have only made us angrier and our schemes much more calculated.

Just like how capitalism eats its own tail, capitalism and the state will only make our ideas and people stronger.

Workers of world, unite!

[anhed-nia]

So I'm in the middle of this research project centered on Dario Argento's OPERA, for which I have required myself to watch as many screen adaptations of the Gaston Leroux novel The Phantom of the Opera as I can take. What I have determined so far is that the Phantom of the Opera is a story everyone wants to tell, but not very many people are sure of how to tell it. In fact, it's not that easy to say what it is about archetypally. You know, Wolfman stories are typically about "the beast in man" (with femininity positioned as some sort of cure for this personality split), Frankenstein stories are usually about human nature (i.e. an uncanny creature can have more humanity than vain and bigoted humans), Dracula-type vampire stories are most generally about the problems of being an outsider (queer, foreign, etc). But Phantom of the Opera is like...well, everyone likes the love story part of it, which is more or less modeled on Dracula, with a woman torn between seductive darkness and the safety of square society. But then there are all these other parts that seem to flummox people in the retelling.

I haven't read the Leroux novel YET but the first round of movies have been interesting, and also sort of perplexing. The iteration from 1925 holds up, largely due to Chaney's creation of the Phantom which remains a top tier monster. People don't often talk about the mask though! Which looks like a cross between Peter Lorre and the Devo Boogie Boy, it's disturbing and I like it.

This Phantom was born in the dungeons during a revolutionary bloodbath and is disfigured from birth, drawing on the antique idea that a mother's trauma is translated in the deformity of her children; also, compellingly, these dungeons lie fathoms beneath the opera house where the bourgeoisie are witlessly dancing on the graves of martyrs and criminals embodied in the Phantom. The ingenue Christine is an interesting figure who breaks up with her boyfriend at the beginning because she wants to give her whole self to her career; when the Phantom starts murmuring to her through the walls it's as if the spirit of opera itself has chosen her to be its avatar, which she seems to find totally rational. It's sort of cool, what other movie of this era has a likeable heroine choosing her potential for greatness over love? This is the element of the story that is the most interesting, but I'll expand on that in a minute.

The Chaney edition benefits a lot from keeping things simple. The 1943 version with Claude Raines has a little bit too much going on and the story doesn't get a lot of time to congeal between so many long opera sequences; this movie really takes the opera part of the title seriously! Actually they're the best thing about it, mostly because of Nelson Eddy who is extremely beautiful and a real opera singer, and who projects this blazing desire for Susanna Foster that is incredibly convincing. Like I'd normally say they have great chemistry, but I think it's just a lot of power radiating from him specifically.

Ahem.

Uh anyway. This movie picks up the reoccurring (but not universal) idea that the Phantom is a genteel and sophisticated composer who has just fallen on hard times, who goes mad when his latest concerto is stolen. He is disfigured while struggling with the plagiarist and installs himself under the opera house where he can haunt his former protege Christine, who is already torn between dreamy Nelson Eddy and her stuffy cop boyfriend. One of my favorite things here is that even though this film is extremely quaint and old fashioned, everybody hates cops; this Christine is less a self-determined careerist than someone who is under pressure from her artist friends who find it profoundly repulsive that she is dating a policeman. Meanwhile the Phantom is just way too gentle and sappy, which is extra disappointing because Claude Rains's Invisible Man is so fabulously chaotic and sadistic, it made me really aware of the Phantom that could have been. This one doesn't properly represent the high society vs. underworld dichotomy that Christine should be torn between. So what is this movie about? There's so many guys in it and a few different themes flapping in the breeze. Is it about love? Is it about self-actualizing through art? Is it about the cutthroat world of showbusiness? It doesn't have that much to say, ultimately, and it just seems really unmotivated. Also I don't like this mask, sue me.

The Hammer edition is even more disappointing, considering the studio's previous successes with Universal Monster remakes. Here Christine is torn between a suave opera producer, the lecherous composer who has plagiarized the Phantom, and yeah the Phantom. Too many guys, it confuses whatever the dynamic and themes are supposed to be. Michael Gough as the plagiarist is so much more evil and threatening than poor Herbert Lom's Phantom that it's hard to stay focused on the main point here. Curiously the Hammer version is rather unromantic, with the Phantom just slapping Christine around until she sings his tunes right; that is kind of refreshing in a way, although it also means that the film lacks tension, which contributes to its being surprisingly anticlimactic. The best guy in the movie is actually Thorley Walters whose character serves almost no narrative purpose at all, he just hulks around with this WTF? look on his face and it is kind of adorable. I guess I like the gross mask in this one, too.

But the Hammer version has one interesting strength, which is that Christine is singing the lead in a new opera about Joan of Arc. Just like Joan, Christine hears a disembodied voice prophesizing her ascent to power. The best thing about the Phantom lore is the idea that the woman has this latent power that can either be activated by the Phantom, or suppressed by her square boyfriend (the relationship being mutually exclusive with opera stardom in many iterations). She isn't just a love object to be possessed, she herself possesses of some kind of devastating energy that needs to be awakened and channeled--or contained and forgotten, if she decides to get married and stay home or something. This is pretty cool, and it is interestingly realized in Dario Argento's OPERA, in which (spoiler alert I guess) a killer stalks an opera singer with the aim of catalyzing her own latent psychopathy. This idea is at the center of my thesis and I'm looking forward to fleshing it out, although I'm kind of dreading all the other PHANTOMs that I have committed myself to watching. I really don't want to deal with Andrew LLoyd Webber at all, but after I get through at least the Joel Schumacher one of the those I'm going to reward myself with a rewatch of PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE which I'm going to guess right now is the best retelling of this story after the Chaney one. I'm counting on Paul Williams' music to be catchier than Webber's.

I'm whining about my own decisions, I know, but really the main hardship of this project is that now I keep getting the Vandals' punk theme song from PHANTOM OF THE MALL: ERIC'S REVENGE stuck in my head, and let me tell you that is very unwelcome. Here it is, if you've decided you're done being happy and sane:

[blacknwhitemood]

Yeah, but not. CDs - I don't really like them. Except if it's DM <3 And if its vinyl version doesn't exists or horribly expensive or reissue. I just want to have my favourite songs but some of them released only as singles CD, or they were put on a deluxe DVD plus booklet and whatever box in an expensive reissue together all the tracks of the album that I already had. So I was looking for 3 more songs...

Martyr / 2006 - I love it, but between Playing The Angel and SOTU it remained single. Surrender / 1997 - B side song of Only When I Lose Myself, which I bought it in May but the "wrong" version, no Surrender on it, only Headstar. Surrender is a magical song, one of Martin's best, I had to have it. He considers that this is his most underrated song.

I love Free, it released on Precious's "B side", or on a CD-DVD box only. I bought for less than 3€ from a policeman :) The other Precious is a gift from a good friend who is 56 years old and he was at the 1st DM concert in Hungary in 1985. I'm sure I wrote about him earlier, he has ALL the CDs of Depeche Mode. Albums, Remixes, Best Of, Singles, Boxes, a whole shelf. He sold his vinyls when he bought his first CD player decades ago. This maxi (white one) has only Precious remixes, but I'll keep a gift of course <3

Newbies:

Only When I Lose Myself / Headstar / Surrender (1998, UK, CD) Precious / Free (2005, EU, CD) Precious (remixes) (2005, EU, CD, ajándék) Martyr (remixes) (2006, EU, CD)

I got 5 copied DVDs as a gift from my première vinyl dealer (I guess he has found the originals LOL), I haven't got time to watch them yet, but on this Sunday I won't work at last.

At the end of the line here is Fitness Dave <3 I bought the CD (and lots of other CDs) two months ago but if I found some stuff like this on the online market, I don't think, I just pay.

Dave Gahan: Live Monsters DVD / 2003

[miraruinada]

Ever since he had come of age, he always had a strange premonition in dreams.

It started around the time his father's health began to decline. Apart from the abstract notion that the world is amiss, his dreams were always ordinary. What he dreamt were the meals he ate that day, or what stranger had impressed him enough that his mind melded the face into the backdrop of the unconscious. The clothes he wore, the book he read, the show he watched. Simple subject matters. But the unnerving quality that kept him anxious in dreams was not at what he saw in his dreams; it was the presence behind him. Not as if he were being watched, or that he was succumbing to something hidden from view. Something fatally monstrous lurked in the background. Behind him, lurching closer and closer, shambling onward. A manifestation kept hidden from the world in his dreams, yet one that without which the world in his dreams could not exist. Maybe even the waking world.

Tonight, that feeling encroached at its strongest. He could no longer ignore it, keep facing forward, keep pretending like it wasn't there. He knew he could either turn and face it or let it devour him as it enveloped his being. Stamping down any fear, he turned around and saw.

Nothing.

A darkness that stayed on the corners of his sight began to spread and overtake the world. His dream of the detective serial he watched that day vanished and dissipated wherever the shadow touched, like a photo sinking into muddy water. Nothing but darkness. Until he realized the line at the exact center of his vision was the focal point of the darkness. This line flickered and moved like the flame of a candle. It then moved in a way that implied a body. It moved in a way that implied a head turning over its shoulder. Suddenly, he saw. Millions of faces. Decayed, rotting, mummified, drained of all life. Cold hands reaching up to grab him, not to drag him away but keep him rooted in place. Grasping the corners of his sight to stop him from turning away.

What terrified him more was that he truly felt that they were not a malignant presence. These bodies, millions of them, they were...sad. In the deepest depths of despair. The face before him appeared like it was crying. It still loved the world that tossed its body in the pit. It appeared to be begging with a voiceless sorrow. Marcos could not help but feel that despair.

"What do you want from me?"

"Freedom."

The wretched of the world crawling on its stomach to him. The children of misery. The afflicted. The damned. They cried out in pain.

“My name will remain as just a curse upon the world.”

“All the ghosts, the living dead of the past revolutions, which are roaming around unsatisfied, will finally find their home in the new freedom.”

"There is no question about it. You are the Coming Dawn. It is in your make that you will bring forth the coming of the end."

He realized then. This was his father in the afterlife. Ignacio and the martyrs. This weight had always been upon his shoulders. And he awakens.

WOES OF THE TRUE POLICEMAN; VAGARIES OF THE LITERATURE OF DOOM.

[beardedmrbean]

Dozens of people demonstrated outside a prison in Iran overnight amid reports authorities were preparing to execute another two anti-government protesters.

Opposition activists posted videos showing people chanting slogans in front of Rajai Shahr jail in the city of Karaj.

The mother of Mohammad Ghobadlou, one of the two men at risk of execution, appealed for clemency at the gathering.

Two protesters were hanged on Saturday, prompting international condemnation.

The UN human rights office deplored the "shocking" executions of Mohammad Mahdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, which it said followed "unfair trials based on forced confessions".

A Revolutionary Court found the men guilty of "corruption on Earth" over their alleged involvement in the killing of a member of the paramilitary Basij force in Karaj in November. Both denied the charge and said they were tortured.

Two men hanged over killing during Iran protests

Iran death row reporter arrested

They were the third and fourth people to be executed in connection with the protests that erupted in September following the death in custody of a woman detained by morality police for allegedly wearing her hijab "improperly".

Authorities have portrayed them as "riots" and responded with lethal force.

So far, at least 519 protesters and 68 security personnel have been killed in the unrest, according to the Human Rights Activists' News Agency (HRANA).

It says that another 19,290 protesters have been arrested and that 111 of them are believed to "under the impending threat of a death sentence", having been convicted of, or charged with, capital offences.

People gathered outside Rajai Shahr prison on Sunday night after activists warned that Mohammad Ghobadlou and Mohammad Boroughani had been transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for execution.

Opposition activist collective 1500 Tasvir published videos showing a crowd chanting slogans warning authorities against proceeding with the executions. Shouts included "I will kill who has killed my brother" and "This is the last warning. If you execute [them] there will be an uprising/revolt."

Ghobadlou's mother, who has previously said her son has bipolar disorder, was filmed telling the crowd that 50 doctors had signed a petition calling on the judiciary chief to establish a committee to review her son's mental health.

"If he believed in God, he would have responded to these 50 doctors," she said, asserting that her son is "ill".

She also claimed that the policeman who he is accused of killing was "martyred somewhere else".

1500 Tasvir also posted videos purportedly from the area around the prison in which gunshots could be heard.

The activist collective declared later on Monday that the protest had stopped the executions "at least up to this moment".

Ghobadlou, 22, had his death sentence upheld by the Supreme Court on 24 December. He was convicted of "enmity against God" after being accused of driving into a group of policemen during a protest in Tehran in September, killing one of them and injuring others.

He stood trial without his chosen lawyer, who said the prosecution had relied other flawed evidence. Amnesty International also said it was concerned that he was subjected to torture or ill-treatment in custody, citing a forensic report that pointed to bruising and injuries on his arm, elbow and shoulder blade.

Mohammad Boroughani, 19, was tried alongside Ghobadlou and was also convicted of "enmity against God".

He was accused of allegedly wielding a machete, setting fire to a provincial government building and injuring a security officer. He was also accused of "encouraging" others to participate in protests via social media.

Amnesty International said he was found guilty after proceedings that "bore no resemblance to a meaningful judicial trial".

In a separate development on Monday, the judiciary announced that a court in Isfahan had sentenced to death three people over an attack during protests in the city on 16 November in which three security personnel were shot dead.

Saleh Mirbasheri Boltaqi, Majid Kazemi Sheikh-Shabani, and Saeed Yaqoubi Kordsofla were convicted of "enmity against God".

Two other defendants were sentenced to prison over their alleged involvement in the attack, including professional footballer Amir Nasr-Azadani. Nasr-Azadani, 26, was jailed for 16 years after being found guilty of three charges including "assisting in enmity against God".

[wellthatwasaletdown]

Like an ex-zarry I can confirm that zarries think that Harry is not straight, that Lights out was his coming out song, that naked bearded man behind Harry was to represent Zayn. ANd Zayn having a daughter somehow destroyed Harry, and he wore pink shoelaces for year to represent that. Also that if not for that he would've came out, and that now he won't because he sang "Golden, hope that someday I will be open" or something like that. And now they are pretty anti-Zayn and Harry is a saint martyr closeted man with a broken heart, and his cringe-worthy performance in "My Policeman" was a message to Zayn. Yeah sure Zarries mock Larries and Ziams, and vice versa. Comparing "evidence"... It's like a cult, you get wrapped up in these narratives and see everything through this lens. I'm glad I've escaped

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[biographyit]

Policeman, polio worker killed in KP as nationwide immunisation drive begins

Govt has launched polio vaccination campaign aiming to inoculate around 44 million children Policemen stand guard as a health worker administers polio drops to a child during a vaccination campaign against the crippling disease in Karachi. — AFP/File Unknown gunmen open fire at polio team in Karak. Shooting martyrs policeman, injures one polio worker. Suspects gundown another polio worker in…

[abcexpresspk]

The situation is tense in the protest against inflation in Azad Kashmir, a policeman was martyred an - ...

[manwalksintobar]

Mary TallMountain  // A Dream of Rodney King

All we have in this country are police and women. You can't complain to the police because they might arrest you. Your boyfriend is a police, your college professor, your reverend minister, boss, fireman... but they won't tell you. This is the planet we live on. The police are like an explosion behind you always racing your heart.

Setting: Los Angeles Characters: Christ as a blackman whom we don't know and a Korean woman who doesn't blame the blackman for the riots. She blames the officials. She doesn't blame the looters. She takes that power away from them. They had their power taken away from them by the officials. She gives that power to the officials. They own that power like the Korean woman who owned a little shop.

Christ is not a looter but led a demonstration. I have no desire. I am Christ, Christ as a woman. But just because Christ has no desire doesn't mean He's a woman.

Christ on the cross looks like a martyr. That is why he looks like a woman. I see his flesh flowing across the wooden branches. It is sickly pale- black man or white.

That so many people believe in a martyr instead of a strongman. Look at the slave in American history- martyrs all- and the American black today- a history of martyrdom. Is their strength worshipped- the strength by which they rose up from martyrdom- or is their strength in their martyrdom, their victimization? You know Christians value the strengths of a martyr. But the Christian nation values a strongman.

When a blackman achieves the status of a policeman he achieves real power. He becomes an official. He is no longer a woman. But what if the blackperson- woman- child- abused child- Jew- Indian- immigrant- mental patient- prisoner- What if the blackperson aspires to be neither police nor woman? It's not possible. A blackman with police for an overseer can still be the police to his woman and she can be the police to his/her child. The child can oversee the family pet, and so on. There's always somebody to look up to or fear.

The legacy that slavery has given this country has cast its shadow to the present day. Thus, all the programs designed to help the unemployed survive like medical care, food stamps, rent assistance, public housing, GA and AFDC were designed mostly for the offspring of former slaves.

Christ as a slave. We know the Roman police would like to march all over you. The slave is a rabble-rouser who deserves to die. We know the story.

So when Christ is risen He flees to Egypt or Libya where He meets a sexy keeper of the temple of some heathen god and they make love over and over again. Perhaps she is black, too, really black in her African origins.

Or He finds her on an arid modern American poverty- driven Indian reservation, where the woman has the face of Mother Earth and He rests in her arms till the police, soldiers, FBI come to dig Him out and His martyrdom starts all over again at Oglala.

[eretzyisrael]

Jewish businessman murdered in Alexandria

A group calling itself ‘Vanguards of the Liberation – the Martyrs of Mohamed Salah, has claimed responsibility  for the terrorist killing of Ziv Kiefer, a Canadian-Israeli who has been doing business in Egypt for nine years, i24 News reports. However, the Egyptian authorities say the murder was ‘criminal (with thanks: Edna) :

Ziv Kiefer

The victim was CEO of an Egyptian frozen fruits and vegetables export business, which has offices in Ukraine and Israel, according to his LinkedIn profile. Al-Arabiya claimed that the businessman had been working in Egypt for more than nine years. The company did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Two Israeli tourists and their Egyptian guide were murdered in Alexandria the day after the October 7 Massacre. A Policeman allegedly had conducted the attack, and according to Reuters he claimed he had lost control after being provoked.

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Holidays 3.12

Holidays

Alfred Hitchcock Day

Amalthoea Asteroid Day

Arbor Day (China, Taiwan)

Ashley Johnson-Barr Day

Coca Cola Bottle Day

Day of the Seven Billion

Detransition Awareness Day

Employee Day

Fireside Chat Day

Flag Day (Saudi Arabia; Sweden)

Girl Scout's Day

Grækarismessa (Traditionally, the Oystercatcher, the Faroe Islands' national bird returns this day)

Gregoru Diena (Ancient Latvian Groundhog Day)

Hound Matsuri Komaki (Celebration of the Penis; Japan)

International Day of Tweeters

International Yes Day

IUGR (Intrauterine Growth Restriction) Awareness Day

Mammal Big Day

Martyrdom of Hypatia of Alexandria

Mourning for Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare Day (Papua New Guinea)

National Alfred Hitchcock Day

National Arts Advocacy Day

National Christian Day

National Map Day

National Ruth Day

National Shield Day (Argentina)

National Working Moms Day

Parsley Day (French Republic)

Plant a Flower Day

Sun-Earth Day

30 MPH Speed Limit Introduction Day (UK; 1935)

312 Day

Tree Day (Republic of Macedonia)

Truman Doctrine Day

Wallet Day (Japan)

Workers of the Penal System of the Ministry of Justice (Russia)

World Agnihotra Day

World Day Against Cyber Censorship (UN)

World Glaucoma Day

Youth Day (Zambia)

Z Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Eskimo Pie Day

National Baked Scallops Day

National Milky Way Day

2nd Tuesday in March

Gambling Disorder Screening Day [2nd Tuesday]

Organize Your Home Office Day [2nd Tuesday]

Independence & Related Days

Basutoland Annexation Day (by UK; 1868)

Renovation Day (Founding of Democratic Party; Gabon; 1968)

Mauritius (from UK, 1968)

Woodlandia (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

New Year’s Days

Aztec New Year

Festivals Beginning March 12, 2024

AgriTek/FarmTek Astana (Astana, Kazakhstan) [thru 3.14]

Eastern Winery Expo (Syracuse, New York) [thru 3.14]

Expo West (Anaheim, California) [thru 3.16]

London Book Fair (London, England) [thru 3.14]

Feast Days

Alphege of Winchester (Christian; Saint)

Aristippus (Positivist; Saint)

Aztec New Year (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Bernard of Carinola (or of Capua; Christian; Saint)

Blot to Odhinn All-Father (Pagan)

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (Artology)

Cuddle an Accountant Day (Pastafarian)

Cuddle a Policeman Day (Pastafarian)

Edward Albee (Writerism)

Elaine Fried de Kooning (Artology)

End of the World by Sekhmet (Egyptian Warrior Goddess)

Feast of Marduk (Babylonia; Mesopotamian)

Fiesta de las Fallas begins (Spain)

Fina (Christian; Saint)

The Genie (Muppetism)

Gorgonius, Peter Cubicularius and Dorotheus of Nicomedia (Christian; Martyrs)

Gregor the Great (Christian; Saint)

Houdini Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Huddling for Fairies of the Third Flight (Shamanism)

Jack Kerouac (Writerism)

Maha Shivaratri (Festival of Shiva; Hindu)

Maximilian of Tebessa (a.k.a. of Numidia; Christian; Martyr)

Mura (a.k.a. McFeredach; Christian; Saint)

Parchment Protection Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Paul Aurelian (a.k.a. Paul of Cornwall; Christian; Saint)

Pope Gregory I (Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Catholic Church, and Anglican Communion)

Seraphina (a.k.a. Fina; Christian; Saint)

Theophanes the Confessor (or Chronicler; Christian; Saint)

Wenchang Wang Day (God of Literature; China)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Prime Number Day: 71 [20 of 72]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [19 of 57]

Premieres

Bad Hair Day, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 1996)

A Bell for Adano, by John Hersey (Novel; 1944)

Bend It Like Beckham (Film; 2003)

The Book of Three, by Lloyd Alexander [Chronicles of Prydain #1]

The Cat in the Hat, by Dr. Seuss (Children’s Book; 1955)

Clippety Clobbered (WB LT Cartoon; 1966)

Couples, by John Updike (Novel; 1968)

East of Eden, by John Steinbeck (Novel; 1953)

Fanfare for the Common Man, by Aaron Copland (Fanfare; 1943)

The Flying Jalopy (Disney Cartoon; 1943)

Glass Houses, by Billy Joel (Album; 1980)

Go, Dog. Go!, by P.D. Eastman (Children’s Book; 1961)

Hachi: A Dog’s Tale (Film; 2010)

It’s Like That, by Run-DMC (Song; 1983)

King’s Up (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1934)

La Sylphide, by Jean-Madeleine Schneitzhoeffer and Adolphe Nourrit (Ballet; 1832)

Lighthouse Mouse (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

Light in August, by William Faulkner (Novel; 1932)

The Little Bantamweight (Happy Harmonies MGM Cartoon; 1938)

Live at the Sunset Strip, by Richard Pryor (Stand-Up Comedy Show; 1982)

Longitude, by Dava Sobel (Book; 1996)

Nancy Steele is Missing (Film; 1937)

Nothing Like It In the World, by Stephen E. Ambrose (Book; 2001)

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, by Dr. Seuss (Children’s Book; 1960)

Out of Time, by R.E.M. (Album; 1991)

Resident Evil (Film; 2002)

Rosemary's Baby, by Ira Levin (Novel; 1967)

Seven Thieves (Film; 1960)

She’s Out of My League (Film; 2010)

The Shield (TV Series; 2002)

The Sneezing Weasels (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)

Southbound Duckling (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1955)

Ten Apples Up On Top!, by Dr. Seuss (Children’s Book; 1961)

22, by Taylor Swift (Song; 2013)

The Velvet Underground and Nico, by The Velvet Underground (Album; 1967)

Where Eagles Dare (Film; 1969)

Wonderfalls (TV Series; 2004)

Today’s Name Days

Almut, Beatrix, Serafina (Austria)

Bernard, Budislav, Fina (Croatia)

Řehoř (Czech Republic)

Gregorius (Denmark)

Rego, Reio (Estonia)

Reijo, Reko (Finland)

Justine, Pol (France)

Almut, Beatrix, Serafina (Germany)

Theofania, Theofanis (Greece)

Gergely (Hungary)

Massimiliano, Simplicio, Zeno, Zenona (Italy)

Aija, Aiva, Aivis, Ausmins, Gregors (Latvia)

Darmantė, Galvirdas, Grigalius (Lithuania)

Gregor, Gro (Norway)

Bernard, Blizbor, Grzegorz, Józefina, Wasyl (Poland)

Simeon, Teofan (Romania)

Kira, Marina (Russia)

Gregor (Slovakia)

Inocencio (Spain)

Victoria, Viktoria (Sweden)

Maryna (Ukrainę)

Graig, Grayson, Greg, Gregoria, Gregorio, Gregory, Orion (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 72 of 2024; 294 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 11 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 24 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Ding-Mao), Day 3 (Yi-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)

Hebrew: 2 Adair II 5784

Islamic: 2 Ramadan 1445

J Cal: 12 Green; Fryday [12 of 30]

Julian: 28 February 2024

Moon: 7%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 16 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Antisthenes]

Runic Half Month: Beore (Birch Tree) [Day 3 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 83 of 89)

Week: 2nd Week of March

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 23 of 30)

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Holidays 3.12

Holidays

Alfred Hitchcock Day

Amalthoea Asteroid Day

Arbor Day (China, Taiwan)

Ashley Johnson-Barr Day

Coca Cola Bottle Day

Day of the Seven Billion

Detransition Awareness Day

Employee Day

Fireside Chat Day

Flag Day (Saudi Arabia; Sweden)

Girl Scout's Day

Grækarismessa (Traditionally, the Oystercatcher, the Faroe Islands' national bird returns this day)

Gregoru Diena (Ancient Latvian Groundhog Day)

Hound Matsuri Komaki (Celebration of the Penis; Japan)

International Day of Tweeters

International Yes Day

IUGR (Intrauterine Growth Restriction) Awareness Day

Mammal Big Day

Martyrdom of Hypatia of Alexandria

Mourning for Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare Day (Papua New Guinea)

National Alfred Hitchcock Day

National Arts Advocacy Day

National Christian Day

National Map Day

National Ruth Day

National Shield Day (Argentina)

National Working Moms Day

Parsley Day (French Republic)

Plant a Flower Day

Sun-Earth Day

30 MPH Speed Limit Introduction Day (UK; 1935)

312 Day

Tree Day (Republic of Macedonia)

Truman Doctrine Day

Wallet Day (Japan)

Workers of the Penal System of the Ministry of Justice (Russia)

World Agnihotra Day

World Day Against Cyber Censorship (UN)

World Glaucoma Day

Youth Day (Zambia)

Z Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Eskimo Pie Day

National Baked Scallops Day

National Milky Way Day

2nd Tuesday in March

Gambling Disorder Screening Day [2nd Tuesday]

Organize Your Home Office Day [2nd Tuesday]

Independence & Related Days

Basutoland Annexation Day (by UK; 1868)

Renovation Day (Founding of Democratic Party; Gabon; 1968)

Mauritius (from UK, 1968)

Woodlandia (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

New Year’s Days

Aztec New Year

Festivals Beginning March 12, 2024

AgriTek/FarmTek Astana (Astana, Kazakhstan) [thru 3.14]

Eastern Winery Expo (Syracuse, New York) [thru 3.14]

Expo West (Anaheim, California) [thru 3.16]

London Book Fair (London, England) [thru 3.14]

Feast Days

Alphege of Winchester (Christian; Saint)

Aristippus (Positivist; Saint)

Aztec New Year (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Bernard of Carinola (or of Capua; Christian; Saint)

Blot to Odhinn All-Father (Pagan)

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (Artology)

Cuddle an Accountant Day (Pastafarian)

Cuddle a Policeman Day (Pastafarian)

Edward Albee (Writerism)

Elaine Fried de Kooning (Artology)

End of the World by Sekhmet (Egyptian Warrior Goddess)

Feast of Marduk (Babylonia; Mesopotamian)

Fiesta de las Fallas begins (Spain)

Fina (Christian; Saint)

The Genie (Muppetism)

Gorgonius, Peter Cubicularius and Dorotheus of Nicomedia (Christian; Martyrs)

Gregor the Great (Christian; Saint)

Houdini Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Huddling for Fairies of the Third Flight (Shamanism)

Jack Kerouac (Writerism)

Maha Shivaratri (Festival of Shiva; Hindu)

Maximilian of Tebessa (a.k.a. of Numidia; Christian; Martyr)

Mura (a.k.a. McFeredach; Christian; Saint)

Parchment Protection Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Paul Aurelian (a.k.a. Paul of Cornwall; Christian; Saint)

Pope Gregory I (Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Catholic Church, and Anglican Communion)

Seraphina (a.k.a. Fina; Christian; Saint)

Theophanes the Confessor (or Chronicler; Christian; Saint)

Wenchang Wang Day (God of Literature; China)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Prime Number Day: 71 [20 of 72]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [19 of 57]

Premieres

Bad Hair Day, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 1996)

A Bell for Adano, by John Hersey (Novel; 1944)

Bend It Like Beckham (Film; 2003)

The Book of Three, by Lloyd Alexander [Chronicles of Prydain #1]

The Cat in the Hat, by Dr. Seuss (Children’s Book; 1955)

Clippety Clobbered (WB LT Cartoon; 1966)

Couples, by John Updike (Novel; 1968)

East of Eden, by John Steinbeck (Novel; 1953)

Fanfare for the Common Man, by Aaron Copland (Fanfare; 1943)

The Flying Jalopy (Disney Cartoon; 1943)

Glass Houses, by Billy Joel (Album; 1980)

Go, Dog. Go!, by P.D. Eastman (Children’s Book; 1961)

Hachi: A Dog’s Tale (Film; 2010)

It’s Like That, by Run-DMC (Song; 1983)

King’s Up (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1934)

La Sylphide, by Jean-Madeleine Schneitzhoeffer and Adolphe Nourrit (Ballet; 1832)

Lighthouse Mouse (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

Light in August, by William Faulkner (Novel; 1932)

The Little Bantamweight (Happy Harmonies MGM Cartoon; 1938)

Live at the Sunset Strip, by Richard Pryor (Stand-Up Comedy Show; 1982)

Longitude, by Dava Sobel (Book; 1996)

Nancy Steele is Missing (Film; 1937)

Nothing Like It In the World, by Stephen E. Ambrose (Book; 2001)

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, by Dr. Seuss (Children’s Book; 1960)

Out of Time, by R.E.M. (Album; 1991)

Resident Evil (Film; 2002)

Rosemary's Baby, by Ira Levin (Novel; 1967)

Seven Thieves (Film; 1960)

She’s Out of My League (Film; 2010)

The Shield (TV Series; 2002)

The Sneezing Weasels (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)

Southbound Duckling (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1955)

Ten Apples Up On Top!, by Dr. Seuss (Children’s Book; 1961)

22, by Taylor Swift (Song; 2013)

The Velvet Underground and Nico, by The Velvet Underground (Album; 1967)

Where Eagles Dare (Film; 1969)

Wonderfalls (TV Series; 2004)

Today’s Name Days

Almut, Beatrix, Serafina (Austria)

Bernard, Budislav, Fina (Croatia)

Řehoř (Czech Republic)

Gregorius (Denmark)

Rego, Reio (Estonia)

Reijo, Reko (Finland)

Justine, Pol (France)

Almut, Beatrix, Serafina (Germany)

Theofania, Theofanis (Greece)

Gergely (Hungary)

Massimiliano, Simplicio, Zeno, Zenona (Italy)

Aija, Aiva, Aivis, Ausmins, Gregors (Latvia)

Darmantė, Galvirdas, Grigalius (Lithuania)

Gregor, Gro (Norway)

Bernard, Blizbor, Grzegorz, Józefina, Wasyl (Poland)

Simeon, Teofan (Romania)

Kira, Marina (Russia)

Gregor (Slovakia)

Inocencio (Spain)

Victoria, Viktoria (Sweden)

Maryna (Ukrainę)

Graig, Grayson, Greg, Gregoria, Gregorio, Gregory, Orion (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 72 of 2024; 294 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 11 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 24 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Ding-Mao), Day 3 (Yi-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)

Hebrew: 2 Adair II 5784

Islamic: 2 Ramadan 1445

J Cal: 12 Green; Fryday [12 of 30]

Julian: 28 February 2024

Moon: 7%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 16 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Antisthenes]

Runic Half Month: Beore (Birch Tree) [Day 3 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 83 of 89)

Week: 2nd Week of March

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 23 of 30)