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Today, one of the leading cable news hosts just asked the French justice minister about reopening penal colonies in French Guyane and New Caledonia. Today, as the USA announced a deal that would see El Salvador become a penal colony. Later that day, Trump, next to genocidaire Netanyahu, announced his plan to turn Gaza into a U.S. protectorate. Italy is sending its unwanted migrants to Albania. Russia is using shock troops from Siberia and North Korea and causing government crises all across the Caucasus. The U.K. had plans to send its migrants to Rwanda and paid good money to do so. Rwanda's Kagame is using Western money and arms to wage a genocidal war on Congo. The EAU are the ones fueling death in Sudan. The BJP is doing mass ethnic cleansings and massacres based on religious and ethnic criteria. To say nothing of the blight that is Israel.

This is fascism, yes, but it's also the resurgence of Victorian Era politics. Colonialism, "spheres of influence" geopolitics, protectionism and trade wars. This tells us this about our enemy: their politics were defeated at every single turn. This is not about the arc of the moral universe bending towards us, this is about the enemy being spectacularly weak and exposing itself to ruin. The past century is a record of those defeats. Yes, the enemy is resurgent, but it has learned nothing, and we have 150 years of learning accessible to us.

These are grim times. Yet the past victories of the oppressed peoples of the earth tell us it is not only possible to defeat our enemy, it is the safest bet you're ever going to make in this lifetime.

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EXPRESSION | Tomber de Charybde en Scylla ➽ https://bit.ly/Expression-Charybde-Scylla Se heurter contre un écueil après en avoir évité un autre, c’est-à-dire aller de mal en pis

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Three weeks later. On the way to Combes. Somewhere in Chalkaos.

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Bloody Ax: How do I know it’s not a trap? An’ soldiaz ‘n ambush won’t gonna massacre us?

Néfaria: It’s a little late to worry, don't you think?

Bloody Ax: Wot… Wot are yer do'n?

Néfaria: I take off my armor and weapons to prove you that your horde have nothing to fear…

Guard: Governor, I beg of you, don’t do that!

Néfaria: Soldier, pick up my weapons and armor, and haul them to the village of Combes! That's an order!

Bloody Ax: ?!?

Orc 1: 'Dat's 'er!

Orc 2: Néfaria of Enispée!

Orc 3: 'Da Kaptain 'Arlot!

Orc 4: 'Dat's 'er!

Orc 5: 'Dat's 'da Kaptain 'Arlot!

Bloody Ax: Why are yer do'n dis?

Néfaria: To prove to you my good faith as I told you.

Bloody Ax: No, not ‘dat. I mean, why are yer giv'n us dis land?

Néfaria: Solidarity among mothers…

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Bon Soir 🩷🎸🆕️🥁🩵

Mary L*Asterisk 🎶 Asterisk & Périls

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Iconic Mont Saint-Michel Abbey celebrates 1,000 years

By Solène Tadié

13 June 2023

It was exactly a millennium ago that the first stone of the abbey church of Mont Saint-Michel in French Normandy was laid.

The monument that the poet Victor Hugo called the “Khéops of the West” has since become one of the highest symbols of French Catholic identity and one of the most important pilgrimage sites in the world, with more than 3 million visitors a year.

This important anniversary will give rise to a number of celebrations that will continue through the fall of 2023.

Standing on relatively inhospitable terrain, enthroned on a rocky islet less than a kilometer in diameter, surrounded by a vast sandy plain subject to the vagaries of the tides, the UNESCO World Heritage Site has stood the test of time, offering itself as a spectacle for dozens of generations to see.

Indeed, the history of this place of prayer and pilgrimage was as precarious and tumultuous as its surroundings.

While the construction of the present abbey church dates back to 1023, a first church dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel is said to have been built as early as 708 on the mount, then known as Mont-Tombe.

According to “Revelation,” the oldest text reporting the context of the abbey’s construction (written around the beginning of the 11th century), St. Aubert, then-bishop of Avranches, was visited three times in a dream by the archangel, who instructed him to erect a sanctuary in his honor on the summit of the site “so that he whose venerable commemoration was celebrated at Mont Gargan [the first great shrine dedicated to the Leader of the Celest Army, in the Puglia region of Italy] might be celebrated with no less fervor in the middle of the sea.”

St. Aubert undertook the building of a first church with the capacity of about a hundred people, consecrated in October 709 and given the name Mont-Saint-Michel-au-péril-de-la-Mer.

The prelate installed 12 canons there, responsible for praying the Divine Office and welcoming local pilgrims.

The canons were replaced in the 10th century by Benedictine monks at the behest of Richard I, Duke of Normandy, who had little taste for the canons’ opulent lifestyle.

In 1023, the order undertook the construction of the abbey church we know today, based on three rock-cut crypts and the former chapel.

This ambitious project marked a decisive step in the international outreach of the site, where miracles abounded as the flow of pilgrims from all over Christendom expanded.

“This edifice is like Noah’s ark laid over the crypts,” said François Saint-James, a guide and lecturer at Mont Saint-Michel, in an interview with Le Devoir newspaper, underlining the architectural prowess required for this medieval project.

“It was a time when France was covered with a white cloak of churches, as a monk from Cluny once wrote. You have to imagine the gigantic scale of the work.

The granite blocks were cut on the Chausey islands, 34 kilometers from here.

Caen stone, a soft, light stone that’s easy to carve, was used. ... When, in the midst of the Hundred Years’ War, the Romanesque choir collapsed, it was rebuilt in flamboyant Gothic style.”

While the abbey’s architectural evolution continued uninterrupted until the 19th century, one of its highest points was the construction of “La Merveille” (The Wonder) in the 13th century, a jewel of Norman Gothic art.

It consists of two buildings on three levels, supported by high buttresses, with a cloister and refectory, 80 meters above sea level, beneath which were built an almshouse, a storeroom, and guest rooms.

The fame of the shrine started to decline in the 17th century, when part of the abbey was turned into a prison by the royal power.

Seized by central government during the revolution, it became a detention center for priests deemed hostile to the Jacobin terror.

In the 19th century, the site, listed as a historic monument in 1874, was gradually returned to monastic life and its original vocation as a sanctuary.

The abbey’s distinctive silhouette was further enhanced by a neo-Gothic spire in 1897, topped by a gilded statue of the archangel.

To mark its 1,000th anniversary, a special tribute is being paid to the abbey that many have dubbed the “Wonder of the West” with the exhibition “La Demeure de l’Archange” (The Archangel’s Abode), retracing its glorious and tumultuous history through some 30 masterpieces, until November 5.

Many of these items, which include sculptures, scale models, statues, and silverware, will be on display to visitors to the abbey for the first time.

Another highlight of the many celebrations taking place over the summer and part of the autumn will be the “Millennium Solstice,” a never-before-seen light show projected onto Mont Saint-Michel from various spots in the bay on the evening of June 23.

The beauty of this sacred site, trodden by millions of pilgrims over the centuries, has been celebrated and immortalized in the writings of many great men of letters over the last few centuries, from Gustave Flaubert to Théophile Gautier and Victor Hugo.

In particular, it inspired the novel “Les Merveilles du Mont Saint-Michel” (1879) by the prolific writer Paul Féval.

He had already paid tribute to the monument a few years earlier, in “La Fée des grèves,” with these lines often quoted by admirers of the famous Mont:

“Twilight broke. Mont-Saint-Michel was the first to emerge from the shadows, offering the golden wings of its archangel to the reflections of the dawning dawn; then the sides of Normandy and Brittany lit up in turn.

Then again, a sort of light steam seemed to rise from the receding sea, and all was veiled except for the statue of Saint Michael, which dominated this wide ocean of mist.”

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Exercice de défoulement (que je n'ai pas besoin d'expliquer)

Mon exercice de la journée: pratique des coups de pied aux derrières d'oligarques

Ça défoule et ça fait du bien!

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au moins j'ai plus jamais besoin d'étudier le français ou en français pour le reste de ma vie!! yéé!!!

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Crimes de guerre à Gaza : enquête d'Al Jazeera expose la brutalité de l'assaut israélien

Al Jazeera dévoile les crimes de guerre à Gaza L’enquête choc d’Al Jazeera, diffusée sur YouTube sous le titre “Investigating war crimes in Gaza”, jette une lumière crue sur les atrocités commises lors de l’assaut israélien sur Gaza. Ce documentaire dévastateur explore l’utilisation de technologies de pointe pour cibler des civils, la destruction massive d’infrastructures civiles et l’impunité…

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A l'ombre d'un péril païen - Olivier Lechat

Photo O.Lechat A l’ombre d’un péril païenJ’entretiens la sève d’un miroir anarchique Peut-être la vie de ce que je suisDe ce que je ne suis pasDe ce que je pourrais êtreDe ce que l’enchanteur des foulesCroit savoir N’ai-je fui ces alcools pourrissantsCes fantômes de chairQui flagellent mon esprit de litoteJe ne sais Ainsi, je marche à reculons de ce mondePuisant le sel de mes propres…

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29 septembre 1837 : création de la Commission des Monuments historiques ➽ http://bit.ly/Commission-Monuments-Historiques Aucune instance ne protégeait à cette époque des monuments historiques livrés au pillage par une administration complice, suscitant l’ire d’écrivains de renom, tel Victor Hugo qui en 1834 publie une "Guerre aux démolisseurs", vibrant plaidoyer en faveur de la sauvegarde de notre patrimoine national

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Æluin: By Sûl! She's not chained to that rock! Let's go elsewhere, Shiv!

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)  –  Dodongo's Cavern  /  Death Mountain Crater  /  Tombs  /  Thieves' Hideout  /  Gerudo Training Ground

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Urgence érosive à Kinshasa : Les communes de Ngaliema et Mont-ngafula en péril

La capitale de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC), Kinshasa, est une fois de plus en proie à une menace grandissante : les érosions. Parmi les zones les plus touchées, les communes de Ngaliema et Mont Ngafula subissent particulièrement les ravages de ce phénomène naturel qui, aggravé par les pluies torrentielles, met en danger la vie des habitants et leurs biens. L’année dernière, ces…

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Jacob Gautreaux. Review of Shinozuka, Jeannie N., Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890-1950. H-Environment, H-Net Reviews. August, 2024.