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theculturedmarxist · 11 months

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A former editor for the German main daily newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Dr. Udo Ulfkotte became nationally renowned in dissident circles for his 2014 book Journalists for Hire: How the CIA Buys the News, originally published in German, which went through multiple translations.

The book relays Ulfkotte’s experience with how the CIA and German Intelligence (BND) bribe journalists to write articles free of truth and facts, and with a decidedly pro-Western, pro-NATO bent or, in other words, propaganda.

One of Ulfkotte’s formative professional experiences was as a war correspondent during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), where the Iraqis were considered to be “the good guys”—because they were serving Western interests in confronting Iran, whose Islamic regime had toppled a long-standing U.S. client, the Shah, in a 1979 revolution.

Iraqi war crimes under Saddam Hussein were covered up along with Washington’s interests in trying to weaken and divide two aspiring Middle Eastern powers so the U.S. could dominate the region and exploit its oil resources.

When he first arrived in Baghdad, Ulfkotte was a little scared. He did not have any experience as a war correspondent. The Iraqi Army quickly sent him off to the front line; the bus was full of loud, experienced war correspondents from prestigious media such as BBC, and Udo was just a miserable rookie.

The first thing that struck him as odd was that everybody was carrying canisters with them. He got upset that very moment and he thought to himself: “Ooops, if the bus gets stuck far from the petrol station, all of them chip in by filling in some petrol into the engine so Udo decided that in the future he would have to carry a canister as well.”

They were on a bus for hours on end riding through the desert. At 20 to 30 kilometers from the border, there was literally nothing there. There was no war whatsoever. There were armed vehicles and tanks long since burned to ash. The reporters got off the bus and sprayed the contents of the canisters all over the vehicles. The Iraqi soldiers were there with them with the machine guns: “Imagine that, tanks in the desert, burned to ash a long time ago, set on fire only now. The clouds of smoke all around. And the reporters positioning their cameras.”

What he witnessed was flame and clouds of smoke behind them, and the Iraqis running around in front of the cameras all the time with machine guns in their arms and scowling military looks in their eyes. Udo mustered up courage and asked one reporter: “I understand. The photos are brilliant, but why do they keep stooping and ducking down?”

The man replied: “Simple. In the audio played in the background one could hear machine guns, and it will sound very good back home.”

Udo kept thinking all the way home. “Young man, you did not see a war at all. You were by the campfire. What are you going to write about?”

Yes, that is a problem for a rookie working for a news agency. Performances are mainly adapted to suit the media needs. It is necessary that one “fits in” with the other seasoned professionals and concoct stories out of thin air that those in positions of authority want the people to hear—not ones that actually exist.

When Udo got back to Baghdad, there were no mobile phones; they were waiting in the Rashid Hotel for hours at times for the international line. He first phoned his mother, not his employer. He was desperate. He did not know what to do. At that point his mother started crying over the phone: “My boy! You are alive!” Udo thought to himself: “What do you mean? Is everything all right? My dear boy! We thought….What is happening, Mother? We saw on TV what happened around you.”

The TV channel had already sent back the fake stories and he tried to calm his mother down, trying to explain that it did not happen the way she believed it did. She thought Udo lost his mind. Udo said in his book that he would finish there, because he was not there to tell us a satire. He only wanted to say that this was his first experience with the truth in journalism and war correspondence. Basically, he was utterly shocked with the first contact he made. But, unfortunately, that was not an isolated case.[1]

In Udo’s naïve mind, war was a place where a reporter could report on horrifying events and help the public to empathize with the victims of war and expose the hidden political machinations behind it.

Instead, he found himself forced to write fake stories from far away from the front lines and to manufacture propaganda to induce consent among the public.

The ones manufacturing the stories were associated with the intelligence agencies whose job it is to deceive the public.

By serving as a correspondent in the Middle East, Ulfkotte was able to meet agents from the CIA, British M16, the Israeli MOSSAD and the German intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtungendienst (BND).

His editors used to readily cooperate in such operations of collating intelligence information, which the reporters would dutifully transcribe for the public back home.

The skill of unofficial reporting is when a reporter essentially works for the CIA and he or she is not employed in an official role, Ulfkotte explains.

Both sides hugely benefit from their partnership and at the same time both sides can deny their relationship. The CIA would have found young reporters and they would then be their mentors. All of a sudden many doors would open for them, they would be granted awards and before they knew it, their mentors (read: paymasters) would have owned their whole careers.[2]

This is basically the name of the game. This is how it all works. Ulfkotte admitted with regret that he published articles in his own name that were actually written by CIA agents and other intelligence services, particularly the German secret services.

Ulfkotte went on to say that he had close contact with the German intelligence service, BND. Two persons from BND were regularly coming to the newspaper office where he worked. On occasion, he says, he was not only given the report but that the BND wrote the articles, which were published in the newspapers under Udo’s name.

Udo was asked by an interviewer if he could document what he was saying and he responded yes, that he could.

“I can say that this and that article with my text in the papers was written by the intelligence services because I couldn’t have possibly known what was written in it. I couldn’t have possibly known what was there in a cave in Libya, what secret thing in one particular place, what is being built there. That is what BND wanted to publish (using my name),” writes Udo.[3]

It was not like this only in FAZ. This was in other media as well.

“If we had rule of law, there would be an investigative committee to investigate dubious claims. Political parties would be outraged and rise [against the injustice of the fake news], regardless of whether they were the political left, the political right or the center and they would say: ‘What is this guy Ulfkotte saying? And he claims that he can document everything? This needs to be investigated.’”[4]

Udo continued: “This is still a common thing. I know some colleagues of mine who still maintain a close contact with the intelligence services. I would feel very good if there was an investigative committee but this obviously is not going to happen, because it is in nobody’s interest to do so. Because in that case the general public would understand to what extent politics, media and secret services are closely connected in this country.”[5] And in this world!

When Ulfkotte had a close encounter with his own conscience—and if one reads Dostoyevsky, they know that there is no person in the world who does not wrestle with their own moral dilemmas—he decided to elaborate on his experiences. In doing so, he provided significant insight into contemporary media and of the society that we live in.

Almost everybody knows but only a few dare speak about what Udo said.

He wrote: “I was in close contact with some European media or big private media companies—you cannot write or say what you feel like and what your views are necessarily. I can tell you that what I am saying here is what I have experienced everywhere. There are clear directives and everybody knows that one cannot publish what they want in the newspapers owned by Springer such as Bild or Welt—for instance the articles critical of Israel. There is no way you can do that there! You have signed an agreement that you will not challenge the question of the existence of a country of Israel or the Israeli point of view. These directives exist in all big media companies.”[6]

Ulfkotte continued: “If you do not wish to remain stuck in the lower corporate levels but you would rather travel with the chancellor, ministers, president or with the politicians, in the airplanes which belong to the government, in that case you have to adhere to certain rules. I have learnt that rather quickly.

What we consider as free journalism is a rather orderly and orchestrated thing to its every detail. But for your superiors, it is vitally important that that is not viewed as censorship and limiting of free reporting or whichever (bland and vague) terms and phrases they tend to use.

I soon realized that when I was tasked to accompany Helmut Kohl, the then German Chancellor, in my capacity of a journalist, you are not invited to do this job because your name is Udo Ulfkotte but because you work for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.”[7]

Udo went on to write:

“In such a case, one is expected to deliver a certain kind of reporting. Which one? Forget about my news agency. This is to do with all of them in general. At the outset of the journey, a reporter is given a set of directions as to what to ask, how to communicate. Normally, you are not told what to say and ask, to write something in this way or that way but you are painfully aware that if you do not do that in such and such a way, you will not be invited next time. Your media company will be called to tell them that you are not wanted. And then you are out!

Those in charge of the cooperation with the media are the non-government ‘think tanks,’ those foundations and organizations which arguably are ‘independent’ in the same way that independent journalists supposedly are.

I am often asked where are those people who ‘pull all the strings,’ so that everything is told in a similar way? Look at those people who sit in the huge transoceanic think-tanks and foundations, for instance, look at the foundation Atlantic Bridge, and in all such organizations. And how is one supposed to influence others there?

I know from personal experience. Let us not speak only theoretically. The German Marshall Fund invited me as their colleague to visit the USA for six weeks earlier on. All expenses paid. This think-tank had close contact with the CIA, and I gained easy access to all the U.S. politicians, to all of them I was eager to be in contact with.

Above all, they literally showered me with gifts.”[8]

The journalists and the news agencies which are supposed to be, if one follows the logic of their role in a democratic society and its laws and constitutions, and then code of ethics and professional conduct, to take care of general interests, find themselves facing a challenging situation—take something for yourself or give something from within yourself for something distant and uncertain. A human being cannot resist small things that the powers that be are able to provide for them profusely.

“Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.” – Graham Greene

All that is the name of the game. When The German Marshall Fund took Ulfkotte to the U.S., they told him that they knew he took a diving course in Oman. The CIA knew with utmost precision. They even gave him diving equipment through his contact in Oman.

During these six weeks he got an invitation from the governor of Oklahoma. He went there. There was a small ceremony and he received honorary U.S. citizenship. He became an honorable citizen of the USA. It was written in his certificate that from then on he would only write nice things in his reports.

The English version of the book by Udo Ulfkotte, The Bought Journalists, i.e., Journalists for Hire: How the CIA Buys the News, appeared on May 15, 2017, but by it having been published, the whole story surrounding it was not over.

According to the research by Off Guardian, Tayen Lane Publishing has since removed all references for this book from its website. Amazon UK indicates that the title is currently unavailable, with the possibility of the purchase from independent distributors, which offer used copies for an exorbitant amount of a thousand U.S. dollars per copy.

At least a 2019 version of the book, Presstitutes Embedded in the Pay of the CIA: A Confession from the Profession is available for a reasonable price on amazon and goodreads.com at least in the U.S. Though you won’t find the book on display in Barnes & Noble or other big book shops as the powerful people who rule the world don’t want its content being widely read.

Regrettably, Udo Ulfkotte died of a heart attack at the age of 57 (Tracy, 2018).

After reading his books and writings, one wonders: “Is there anybody in the mainstream media who has not worked for the CIA?”

“In America, the president reigns for four years, and journalism governs forever and ever.” – Oscar Wilde.

Edward Snowden and Julian Assange are both world famous, with the former having much more luck by moving to Russia. Udo Ulfkotte, however, is almost completely out of the public gaze, although he was a journalist and whistleblower in the media industry, possibly as important as both.

One might think that this comes across as paradoxical. Yet it only means that the public does not recognize profound relations in the media industry.

Ulfkotte was a renowned European journalist with a Ph.D. in the social sciences and an immigration reform activist, among other things. When he wrote Gekaufte Journalisten: Wie Politiker, Geheimdienste und Hochfinanz Deutschlands Massenmedien lenken (the translation of its original title is Bought Journalists [alternatively, a translation of the title more to the point is Journalists for Hire]: How Politicians, Secret Services and High Finance Steer German’s Mass Media), he became one of the most significant whistleblowers in recent history.

James Tracy pointed out in Off Guardian that Ulfkotte showed how the Western secret services took over the central place in the Western journalism.” According to Tracey, Ulfkotte was able to witness all that with credibility and his personal and professional integrity because he was working in top echelons of the mainstream media profession for years.

Tracy added that the presence of the secret (intelligence) services is neither a chance encounter nor is it random. Their recruitment techniques are always similar in every corner of the globe.

#udo ulfkotte #cia #bnd #imperialism #propaganda #MI6 #mossad #iran iraq war #journalism #media corporations #mainstream media

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devilsrains · 6 months

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aoike character guide book

places visited in yasuko aoike's works (translation under the cut by the lovely @asnowperson)

ENGLAND 1- London (Midnight Collector side story among others) 2- The National Gallery (London) (Pt.1 A Thousand Kisses) 3- British Museum (London) (Pt.1) 4- Salibury Military Base (Lieutenant Colonel Eberbach side story) 5- Heathrow Airport (No.11 Seven Days in September among others)

GERMANY 6- Plymouth (El halcón) 7- Bonn 8- NATO Bonn Office 9- Cologne 10- Thermal Spas on the Rhine River and the old castles (Eroica, among others) 11- Lilienthal Monastery (Shuudoushi Falco) 12- Berlin (No. 15 Nosferatu, among otheres) 13- Trier (No.17 Trojan Horse) 14- German Military Hospital (Intermission side story) 15- Dresden (No.16 The Panda’s Maze) 16-Hamburg (From Lawrence with Love side story) 17- Eberbach Mansion

FRANCE/ITALY/GREECE 18- Paris (No.17 Trojan Horse) 19- Louvre Museum (No.1 A Thousand Kisses) 20- Charles de Gaulle Airport (No.11 Seven Days in September) 21- Nice (No.17 Trojan Horse) 22- Avignon (Alcazar Oujo) 23- Catacombes (No.8 Veni Vidi Vici) 24- St.Peter’s Basilica (No.8 Veni Vidi Vici) 25- St.Peter’s Square (No.8 Veni Vidi Vici) 26- Parthenon Temple (No.4 Love in Greece)

SPAIN/PORTUGAL 27- Sevilla (Alcazar Oujo) 28- Sigüenza (Alcazar Oujo) 29- Toledo (Alcazar Oujo) 30- Jerez Castle (Alcazar Oujo) 31- Jerez Monastery (Alcazar Oujo) 32- Jaén (No.18 Judgment of Paris) 33- Plaza de Toros de Jaén (No.18 Judgment of Paris) 34- Córdoba (Eroica) 35- Zuera, Alcala (No.11 Seven Days in September) 36- Aragon region (Eroica) 37- Calatayud (Alcazar Oujo) 38- Granada (Alcazar Oujo) 39- Barcelona (Eroica) 40- Valencia (Alcazar Oujo) 41- Lisbon (No.3 Achilles’ Last Stand)

SWITZERLAND/AUSTRIA/LICHTENSTEIN/ROMANIA 42- Zürich (No.13 The Seventh Seal) 43- Luzern (No.12 The Laughing Cardinals) 44- Vienna State Opera (No.14 Emperor Waltz) 45- Vienna Central Cemetery (No.14 Emperor Waltz) 46- Innsbruck (No.14 Emperor Waltz) 47- Innsbruck Airport (No.14 Emperor Waltz) 48- Hofburg Palace (No.14 Emperor Waltz) 49- Tyrol region (No.14 Emperor Waltz) 50- Lichtenstein (No.13 The Seventh Seal) 51- Romania military base (No. 15 Nosferatu)

THE NETHERLANDS/BELGIUM 52- Amsterdam (Eroica, Madan no Shashu) 53- Bruxelles (No.17 Trojan Horse) 54- NATO HQ (No.19 Poseidon 2000) 55- European Commission HQ (No.13 The Seventh Seal) 56- Antwerp (No.17 Trojan Horse)

NORWAY/SWEDEN/DENMARK 57- Oslo Airport (No.11 Seven Days in September) 58- Mora (No.13 The Seventh Seal) 59- Copenhagen (No.19 Poseidon 2000) 60- Kronborg Castle (No.19 Poseidon 2000) 61- Lousiana Museum of Modern Art (No.19 Poseidon 2000)

TURKEY/SYRIA/LEBANON/ISRAEL/PALESTINE/IRAN 62- İstanbul (No.13 The Seventh Seal) 63- Rumeli Hisarı (No.11 Seven Days in September) 64- Turkish air base (No.6 Inshallah) 65- National borders of Anatolian plateau (No.6 Inshallah) 66- Historical remains of Palmyra (No.6 Inshallah) 67- Beirut (No.6 Inshallah) 68- Jerusalam (Saladin no Hi) 69- Gaza (Saladin no Hi) 70- Tehran (No.6 Inshallah)

EGYPT/TUNISIA 71- Ancient remains outside Cairo (No.6 Inshallah) 72- El Alameyn (No.6 Inshallah) 73- Giza Pyramids (No.11 Seven Days in September) 74- Alexandria (No.11 Seven Days in September) 75- Hotel Rosetta (No.11 Seven Days in September) 76- Carthage (No.17 Trojan Horse)

RUSSIA/JAPAN/USA/OTHERS 77- Moscow (No.19 Poseidon 2000) 78- St. Petersburg (No.18 Judgment of Paris) 79- Hermitage Museum (No.18 Judgment of Paris) 80- Siberia (A Tale of Alaska side story) 81- Uspensky Air Base (Eroica) 82- Tokyo Tower (Hiiro no Yuuwaku) 83- Alaska (A Tale of Alaska side story) 84- FBI Fairbanks Office (No.9 The Alaskan Front) 85- Tazlina Lake (No.9 The Alaskan Front) 86- Hawaii (No.9 The Alaskan Front) 87- West of Eden (Eve no Musukotachi) 88- Olympos (Eve no Musukotachi)

#this ones actually in order since everything is numbered #charabook #from eroica with love #sons of eve #el halcon #alcazar #etc etc #yasuko aoike #my scans #mine

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richincolor · 10 months

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New Releases Week of July 17, 2023

What a week! There are so many books to get excited about this Tuesday.

Just a Hat by Shanah Khubiar Blackstone Publishing

It’s 1979, and thirteen-year-old Joseph Nissan can’t help but notice that small-town Texas has something in common with Revolution-era Iran: an absence of fellow Jews. And in such a small town it seems obvious that a brown kid like him was bound to make friends with Latinos–which is a plus, since his new buds, the Ybarra twins, have his back. But when the Iran hostage crisis, two neighborhood bullies, and the local reverend’s beautiful daughter put him in all sorts of danger, Joseph must find new ways to cope at home and at school.

As he struggles to trust others and stay true to himself, a fiercely guarded family secret keeps his father at a distance, and even his piano teacher, Miss Eleanor–who is like a grandmother to him–can’t always protect him. But Joseph is not alone, and with a little help from his friends he finds the courage to confront his fears and discovers he can inspire others to find their courage, too.

Firebird by Sunmi HarperCollins

Caroline Kim is feeling the weight of sophomore year. When she starts tutoring infamous senior Kimberly Park-Ocampo–a charismatic lesbian, friend to rich kids and punks alike–Caroline is flustered . . . but intrigued

Their friendship kindles and before they know it, the two are sneaking out for late-night drives, bonding beneath the stars over music, dreams, and a shared desire of getting away from it all.

A connection begins to smolder . . . but will feelings of guilt and the mounting pressure of life outside of these adventures extinguish their spark before it catches fire?

I’m Not Here to Make Friends by Andrew Yang

Terrace House meets Loveboat, Taipei in this fun, frothy, incisive YA debut, following two teens and their unforgettable summer on a reality show.

When Sabine Zhang is picked for Hotel California, a teen reality show with an all-Asian cast, she jumps at the opportunity. As one of few Asians at her high school in the Midwest, she’s always felt as if she was playing a side character in someone else’s story. But on this show, she’ll finally have a chance to step into the spotlight.

All Yoona Bae wants is to get away. The girls at church think she’s mean, her mom thinks she’s a troublemaker, and she’s tired of fighting against her unearned bad reputation. So when she’s invited to appear on Hotel California, Yoona sees it as an opportunity to chill out, make some friends, maybe even get a tan.

But life on the show isn’t all sunshine and self-actualization. The producers want drama at all costs, even if it means pitting Sabine and Yoona against each other. With the season finale looming, can the girls figure out a peaceful way forward, before they lose control of their own narratives?

Frontera by Julio Anta, Jacoby Salcedo (Illustrator)

Mateo makes the dangerous journey back home to the United States through the Sonoran Desert with the help of a new friend, a ghost named Guillermo in a supernatural borderland odyssey by debut graphic novelists Julio Anta and Jacoby Salcedo. As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep his eyes open, Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States.

That is until he’s caught by the Border Patrol only moments after sneaking across the fence in the dead of night. Escaping their clutches comes at a price and, lost in the desert without a guide or water, Mateo is ill-prepared for the unforgiving heat that is sure to arrive come sunrise. With the odds stacked against him, his one chance at survival may be putting his trust in something, or rather someone, that he isn’t even sure exists. If you’d asked him if ghosts were real before he found himself face-to-face with one, Mateo wouldn’t have even considered it.

But now, confronted with the nearly undeniable presence of Guillermo, he’s having second thoughts. Having spent his afterlife guiding migrants to safety, Guillermo knows things about the Sonoran Desert far beyond what could be explained by a mere hallucination. But even as Mateo forms an uneasy partnership with Guillermo, survival is still uncertain. The Sonoran Desert, with its hostile temperatures and inhabitants, is teeming with danger as the Border Patrol and rogue militias prowl its deadly terrain. As his journey stretches on, Mateo will have to decide exactly what and who he’s willing to sacrifice to find home.

A Guide to the Dark by Meriam Metoui Henry Holt

You can check out of Room 9, but you can never leave.

The Haunting of Hill House meets Nina LaCour in this paranormal mystery YA about the ghosts we carry with us.

Something is building, simmering just out of reach.

The room is watching. But Mira and Layla don’t know this yet. When the two best friends are stranded on their spring break college tour road trip, they find themselves at the Wildwood Motel, located in the middle of nowhere, Indiana. Mira can’t shake the feeling that there is something wrong and rotten about their room. Inside, she’s haunted by nightmares of her dead brother. When she wakes up, he’s still there.

Layla doesn’t see him. Or notice anything suspicious about Room 9. The place may be a little run down, but it has a certain charm she can’t wait to capture on camera. If Layla is being honest, she’s too preoccupied with confusing feelings for Mira to see much else. But when they learn eight people died in that same room, they realize there must be a connection between the deaths and the unexplainable things that keep happening inside it. They just have to find the connection before Mira becomes the ninth.

Under This Forgetful Sky by Lauren Yero

In the spirit of Paolo Bacigalupi and Laini Taylor, this futuristic star-crossed love story follows two teens in a starkly unequal world struggling to find their place.

Sixteen-year-old Rumi Sabzwari has spent his entire life behind the armored walls of St. Iago, which protect citizens of the Union of Upper Cities from the outside world’s environmental devastation. But when rebels infect his father with a fatal virus, Rumi escapes St. Iago, desperate to find a cure.

In the ruined city of Paraíso, Rumi meets fifteen-year-old Paz, who agrees to guide him on his journey. As they travel together, Rumi finds himself drawn to Paz—and behind her tough exterior, she begins to feel the same way. But Paz knows more about Rumi’s father’s illness than she’s saying and has her own agenda. With the powerful forces at play in their cities putting them at odds, can the two learn to trust in each other—enough to imagine a different world?

Clementine and Danny Save the World by Livia Blackburne

You’ve Got Mail gets a YA twist in this rom-com that spotlights the power of activism and community organizing in the face of gentrification.

Clementine Chan believes in the power of the written word. Under the pseudonym Hibiscus, she runs a popular blog reviewing tea shops and discussing larger issues within her Chinatown community. She has a loyal, kind following, save for this one sour grape named BobaBoy888.

Danny Mok is allergic to change, and the gentrification seeping into Chinatown breaks his heart. He channels his frustration into his internet alter ego, BobaBoy888, bickering with local blogger Hibiscus over all things Chinatown and tea.

When a major corporation reveals plans that threaten to shut down the Mok’s beloved tea shop, Clementine and Danny find themselves working together in real life to save this community they both love. But as they fall hard for this cause—and each other—they have no clue that their online personas have been fighting for years.

When the truth comes to light, can Danny and Clementine still find their happily-ever-after?

I Am Not Alone by Francisco X. Stork Scholastic Press

Alberto’s life isn’t easy: He’s an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who lives with his sister’s abusive boyfriend—but he’d always accepted his place in the world. Until he starts hearing the voice of a man called Captain America, a voice that wants him to achieve more, no matter the cost.

Grace has it all: She has a supportive boyfriend, she’s on track to be valedictorian, and she’s sure to go to the college of her dreams. Still, nothing feels right to her any more after the divorce of her parents, and feels she needs something more.

When Alberto and Grace meet, they have an immediate and electric connection. But when Alberto is present at the scene of a terrible crime, he becomes a suspect. And with his developing schizophrenia, he’s not even sure he believes in his own innocence.

Can Grace find a way to prove Alberto’s innocence to himself and the world?

This is a page-turning thriller and a sensitive story about mental health, love, and community that will appeal to anyone who has struggled with their place in the world, from award-winning author Francisco X. Stork.

What a Desi Girl Wants Sabina Khan

The romance of Becky Albertalli meets the nuanced family dynamics of Darius the Great is Not Okay in this YA novel from acclaimed author Sabina Khan.

Mehar hasn’t been back to India since she and her mother moved away when she was only four. Hasn’t visited her father, her grandmother, her family, or the home where she grew up. Why would she? Her father made it clear that she’s not his priority when he chose not to come to the US with them.

But when her father announces his engagement to socialite Naz, Mehar reluctantly agrees to return for the wedding. Maybe she and her father can heal their broken relationship. And after all, her father is Indian royalty, and his home is a palace–the wedding is going to be a once-in-a-lifetime affair.

While her father still doesn’t make the time for her, Mehar barely cares once she meets Sufiya, her grandmother’s assistant, and one of the most grounded, thoughtful, kind people she’s ever met! Though they come from totally different worlds, their friendship slowly starts to blossom into something more . . . Mehar thinks.

Meanwhile, Mehar’s dislike for Naz and her social media influencer daughter, Aleena, deepens. She can tell that the two of them are just using her father for his money. Mehar’s starting to think that putting a stop to this wedding might be the best thing for everyone involved.

But what happens when telling her father the truth about Naz and Aleena means putting her relationship with Sufiya at risk . . .

The Legacy of Yangchen (The Yangchen Novels #2) by F.C. Lee Amulet Books

Avatar Yangchen has succeeded in bringing a measure of stability to Bin-Er, but her successes have been limited to a single city, and rumors concerning Unanimity—a weapon capable of total obliteration—have led to increasing tensions among the Four Nations.

Desperate to restore diplomacy, Yangchen attempts to de-escalate hostilities between heads of state. But in the wake of a brutal assassination and the freeing of Unanimity, Yangchen is forced to bring Kavik—the trusted former companion whose betrayal crushed her—back into her fold.

As the Four Nations teeter on the brink of conflict and she begins to unravel the power-hungry Zongdu Chaisee’s true agenda, Yangchen is forced to measure the worth of humanity, and how much can be sacrificed in the name of balance.

This taut and provocative fourth installment in the Chronicles of the Avatar series follows Avatar Yangchen as she charts the course of her legacy, finally making peace with her choices and facing Avatarhood with the courage it demands.

Splintered Magic (The Mirror #4) by L.L. McKinney Disney Hyperion

Can dreams come true when you’re living with a family curse?

NEW YORK CITY, 2000

Twins Trey and Tai are not like other high schoolers. Trey struggles to suppress his surging magical abilities, which continually impede his dream of making first chair cello in orchestra. A budding photographer, Tai just wants to take pictures and maybe find someone to take them with. But disturbing images keep appearing in Tai’s camera lens, reigniting the twins’ search for their mother, who mysteriously disappeared ten years earlier. As the two discover more clues, Trey and Tai also uncover strange secrets about their magical ancestors and about a cunning villain who threatens their very survival. Together, Trey and Tai must work to unearth the past and preserve the future of their family.

The Mirror: Splintered Magic is the fourth book in the innovative YA fairy-tale quartet following one family—and the curse that plagues it—over several generations.

#new releases #ya lit

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canmom · 11 months

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l'aventure de canmom à annecy - mercredi 1: Nina and the Secret of the Hedgehog

going to try a different format today bc staying in my hotel for 2 hours to write a post that nobody reads isn't fun ><

on the plus side, i did surgery on my covid mask so now it's less hard on my ears! here's a picture of me with horrible lighting and messed up hair lolll

I got into the town centre pretty late today, bc yesterday left me very sleepy. I tried to get into La Sirène, a film about an Iranian trying to escape Abadan during the Iran-Iraq war... but it was full; luckily there were other screens at Pathé with places so I decided to give this movie a shot.

The blurb on the programme was kinda vague beyond that it was about a kid pov. It turned out to be a heist movie about a kid whose dad's factory closed after the manager stole and hid the money; she and her boyfriend are trying to break into the factory and find the money, against a guard with a dog who wants the same thing. The hedgehog in question is Nina's imaginary friend, a rubber hose styled hedgehog. It was well made and charming film, setting up and firing its chekhovs guns to satisfaction - straight up a good kids' movie. The animation style took a picture book sort of style, with varied perspective and textured lines.

That's all I've got time to write on that, about to watch some Mexican short films, catch you in a bit!!

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Dear United States of America: You are currently using my 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale as the template for your own dystopia and are doing so without my authorization, thereby violating U.S. copyright law. Adopting one or two aspects of The Handmaid’s Tale to rebrand the American Dream would be considered “fair use,” but all of them? Honestly, America, I get a Google alert every time you rip off one of my ideas. My condo strata filed a noise complaint, and Hulu producers banned me from The Handmaid’s Tale season 5 set due to my phone’s incessant pinging. It took me 18 months to write this book and to develop the nightmare world of Gilead, so you’ll understand my dismay at seeing you plagiarize the following key scenarios. Restricting reproductive rights By overturning Roe v. Wade, you have adopted the central dystopian feature of The Handmaid’s Tale, namely, restricting the reproductive rights of women. Did you think I wouldn’t get wind of this? Fox News, Papa John’s app, and even Hobby Lobby’s newsletter all reported the ruling as though it was the brainchild of your Founding Fathers. America, I demand you acknowledge credit by renaming “reverse-vasectomies” as “Atwood-ectomies.” Jan. 6, 2021 coup attempt In The Handmaid’s Tale, the Sons of Jacob instigated a coup d’état against the U.S. government; and on Jan. 6, 2021, your president did the same. Initially, I was flattered that the mob’s red MAGA hats replicated the red of my handmaid’s habits. But when my lawyers informed me that “MAGA” doesn’t mean “Make America Gilead Again,” I felt duped. America, you need to acknowledge credit! At the very least I would have appreciated an invitation to shoot 18 at Mar-a-Lago or a suite at the Trump Hotel in New York City. Culture of surveillance I was sure that Gilead’s surveillance-as-a-form-of-control motif would scare the bejesus out of you. Yet in the past decade, your elected officials and tech-bros have monitored phone and internet records, personal credit histories, and period-tracking apps — and I’ve yet to receive one handwritten thank-you card. When China dialed up their national surveillance efforts, they had the courtesy to acknowledge my work as their inspiration: every Christmas, President Xi Jinping sends me a gift basket of 1,000 steamed dumplings with an open invitation to join him on an electric scooter trip along the Great Wall. He’s probably trying to get in my pants, but at least he’s doing the work. Censorship This may sound catty for mentioning censorship here, as you’ve banned The Handmaid’s Tale in libraries and schools nearly as often as any other book, but censorship is yet another aspect of totalitarian Gilead you’ve purloined as your own. This parallel between your nation and my novel is there for anyone to see (assuming they attend a school whose library allows access to my book). Maybe just once, you could come up with your own f--ked-up strategies for social control. Until then, I demand a national bank holiday named in my honour, but don’t be cheeky and shove my day on Feb. 29. I want Thanksgiving replaced with National Margaret Atwood Gratitude Day. Breakdown of barriers between church and state In the Gilead of my novel, church and state are one, and that’s clearly a model you’re adopting for yourselves. In fact, your Supreme Court is going full-throttle and allowing Christians to fly flags with crosses at Boston City Hall, taxpayers in Maine to fund religious schools, and football coaches in Washington to lead Christian prayers on the field. Had I missed an email request, a Facebook message, or a Snapchat from you to adopt this theme? Even Saudi Arabia and Iran slid into my DMs with their copyright renewal requests. But from you? Nada! Baseline anxiety about everything You nailed this. To show goodwill, I’m giving you this one as a freebie. Conclusion With your $6-trillion annual production budget, you’ve produced a more faithful adaptation of my work than Hulu ever could. Hulu, however, had the decency to ask me to be a consulting producer on The Handmaid’s Tale TV series, and they gave me a cameo in the pilot. You didn’t even offer me a seat on the Supreme Court, a chair on the Senate Ethics Committee, or a spot on Forbes’ “80 Over 80 Favourite Canadians” list. America: what the f--k? Therefore, in addition to the above-mentioned demands, I insist you update the Latin motto on all your coins from E pluribus unum to E atwood unum, and replace the eagle on the Great Seal of the United States with an image of me (please use my 1978 headshot; that was my best hair year). If I do not hear from you within 10 days, I reserve the right to pursue all legal claims that I may have against the U.S., including punitive damages, compensatory damages, and withholding all of Canada’s exports of maple syrup for your pancakes.

Margaret Atwood

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Title: The Ravens: The Men Who Flew in America's Secret War in Laos Authors: Christopher Robbins ISBN: 9780517566121 Tags: A-1 Skyraiders, AC-47 Spooky, Ambassador Leonard Unger, Antonov AN-2 Colt, Aviation, B-52 Stratofortress, C-130 Hercules, C-46 Commando, C-47 Skytrain, CH-34 Choctaw, CIA Allen Dulles, CIA Hugh Tovar, COD Democratic Republic of the Congo - Congo-Kinshasa, COD Kinshasa (Leopoldville), COD Lubumbashi (Elisabethville), COD MNC Congolese National Movement, COD Mobutu Sese Seko, COD Patrice Lumumba, COD Simba Rebellion (1963-1965), CSAR, EC-47 Electric Goon, F-105 Thunderchief, F-4 Phantom II, FAC, Fast-FAC, FRA ADT Colonel Roger Trinquier, FRA ADT French Ground Army (Armée de terre), FRA ADT General Henri Navarre, FRA ADT General Raoul Salan, FRA ADT Marshall Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, FRA France, FRA Madame Lulu, From LAPL, HH-3E Jolly Green Giant, HH-53 Super Jolly Green Giants, IRN Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, IRN Iran, KHM Cambodia, KHM Cambodian Civil War (1967-1975), KHM Khmer Rouge, KHM King & President Norodom Sihanouk, KHM Phnom Penh, KHM Tonle Sap (Great Lake), LAO Attopeu, LAO Ban Ban, LAO Ban Ban Valley, LAO Ban Son, LAO Bataillon Guerrier 403 (Laotian Civil War), LAO Blind Bonze Pho Satheu, LAO Bolovens Plateau, LAO Colonel Deuan Sunnalath, LAO Communist Neutralists, LAO Defense Minister Sisouk Na Champassak, LAO Hmong Meo Tribesmen, LAO Hotel Lima, LAO ICC Internationl Control Commission, LAO Ice House One and Two, LAO Jungle's Mouth, LAO Khang Khay, LAO Khang Khay - 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Secord, US USAF General William Momyer, US USAF Generl Robert L. Petit, US USAF Gus Sonnenberg, US USAF Hurlburt Field FL, US USAF JEST Jungle Environment Survival Training, US USAF Lt Colonel George Vogel, US USAF Lt Colonel Mark Berent, US USAF Major General Harry Heinie Aderholt, US USAF Major John Clark Pratt, US USAF United States Air Force, US USMC Lt Colonel Oliver North, US USMC United States Marine Corps, USAID, USSR 1st Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, USSR Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, VNM 1972 Easter Offensive (1972) (Vietnam War), VNM Bien Hoa, VNM Bien Hoa Air Base (Vietnam War), VNM CIA Air America (1950-1976) (Vietnam War), VNM DRV Lao Dong Party, VNM DRV NVA 148th Regiment, VNM DRV NVA 174th Regiment, VNM DRV NVA 312th Division, VNM DRV NVA 316th Division, VNM DRV NVA 766th Regiment, VNM DRV NVA General Vo Nguyen Giap, VNM DRV NVA Group 559, VNM DRV NVA North Vietnamese Army, VNM DRV NVAF North Vietnamese Air Force, VNM DRV VC Viet Cong, VNM DRV VM 304th Division, VNM DRV VM Regiment 98, VNM DRV VM Viet Minh, VNM FRA ADT Cap St Jacques Military School, VNM French Indochina War (1946-1954), VNM Green Beret Affair (Vietnam War), VNM Ho Chi Minh Trail (Vietnam War), VNM II Corps (Vietnam War), VNM Nha Trang, VNM Operation Arc Light (1965-1973) (Vietnam War), VNM Operation Igloo White (1968-1973) (Vietnam War), VNM Operation Linebacker II (1972) (Vietnam War), VNM Operation Pony Express (1965-1969) (Laotian Civil War) (Cambodian Civil War) (Vietnam War), VNM Paris Peace Accords (1973) (Vietnam War), VNM Phan Rang Air Base, VNM RVN ARVN Army of the Republic of Vietnam, VNM RVN Nguyen Van Thieu, VNM RVN Vietnamization Policy (Vietnam War), VNM US MACV Military Assistance Command Vietnam (Vietnam War), VNM USAF TACC Tactical Air Control Center - BLUE CHIP (Vietnam War), VNM Vietnam, VNM Vietnam War (1955-1975) Rating: ★★★★★ (5 Stars) Subject: Books.Military.20th-21st Century.Asia.Vietnam War.Laotian Civil War.Aviation.FAC.Ravens

Description: Officially the war in Laos did not exist - both North Vietnam and the USA denied they had troops there. In fact, thousands of North Vietnamese were invading the country and pouring down the Ho Chi Minh Trail on their way to the south, and the Americans were fighting a vigorous war against them from the air.

The Ravens were the pilots, all volunteers, who flew through heavy groundfire to identify targets and call in air-strikes. Their mission was so secret that they were 'sold' their prop-driven planes for a dollar apiece so they could be struck from US Air Force records. They wore no uniform and carried no identification. Refugees from the bureaucracy of the war in Vietnam, they accepted the murderous casualty rates of what was known as the Steve Canyon Program in return for a life of unrestricted flying and fighting.

Devoted to the hill tribesmen they fought alongside, the Ravens did their job with extraordinary skill and crazy courage and with a humour that was all of its own. This is the story, brilliantly told for the first time, of these extraordinary men. Based on extensive interviews with the survivors, it is a tale of undeniable heroism, blending real-life romance, adventure and tragedy.

Review: This was a great book with a lot of problems.

The #1 problem was that I was reading an ebook version from Apostrophe books that was, quite simply, poorly done. So many issues with the conversion... I’s became 1′s... places and names were spelled 3 different ways throughout the book... issues like that.

The #2 problem was that there were multiple stories being told in a book about one story. This book had some good info on the Raven FACs, but it also went deeply into the story of the Laotian Civil War, the French Indochina War, the Hmong people, Henry Kissinger and the Nixon Administration. All of these things are intertwined and important, but the author uses up a LOT of the books real estate for these topics which tends to take a lot of the focus away form the Ravens, which the book is supposed to be about.

It’s still a 5 star book because it does go deeply into the stories of the who, the what, the when, and the where. You get a real good feel for the cast of characters that made up the Raven FACs, and you learn a lot about the Laotian Civil War, the CIA, the political issues and more.

It’s really a good primer and a good way to get a feel for what happened in the region.

#Books #Ebooks #Booklr #Bookblr #nonfiction #history #military history #laos #hmong #laotian civil war #vietnam war #forward air controller #Raven FAC

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Actions have consequences. Britain’s political elite has for a long time decided to pander to – or deliberately stoke – bigotry against migrants and refugees. This is a joint enterprise with rightwing media outlets that have sought to portray some of the world’s most vulnerable people as a marauding mob, undeserving drains on resources and incompatible with British culture. It has reaped rich political dividends: justified public anger at a lack of affordable housing and secure work, declining living standards and austerity has been redirected, crudely, at the caricatured foreigner. To achieve this aim, it has been necessary to strip migrants and refugees of their humanity: after all, most human beings do not tolerate harm being committed against those we see as “people like us”.

This brings us to the Manston migrant processing centre, in Kent, and the petrol bombs that were lobbed on Sunday at a Dover Border Force immigration centre. Most people would find the conditions at Manston intolerable if it were housing cats and dogs, let alone people. Around 4,000 people seeking asylum – way more than double the official maximum capacity – sleep on blankets on floors. It is supposed to be a short-term holding facility, where checks are conducted before the people there are moved on to detention centres or accommodation. But these human beings are being effectively imprisoned for up to four weeks. In these bleak overcrowded conditions, there has been an outbreak of diphtheria, while scabies is said to run rampant.

You may ask yourselves whether this can possibly be legal. The answer is no, it isn’t. The home secretary, Suella Braverman, stands accused of ignoring advice that it is against the law to detain asylum seekers for so long in these abhorrent conditions. (The Home Office claims Braverman “has taken urgent decisions to alleviate issues at Manston and source alternative accommodation”.) She accordingly faces being taken to court by refugee charities.

That this pantomime rightwinger is farcically unsuitable to hold one of the great offices of state should now be clear to all but those afflicted with ultra-partisan bad faith. We now know that she sent official documents six times to her personal emails – a wanton violation of the ministerial code. Civil servants tell me they would be sacked for such egregious behaviour, but different standards apply to our senior politicians. Rishi Sunak put her there for two reasons: first, because her endorsement helped keep Boris Johnson from standing for party leader again; and second, because a government intent on renewed unpopular austerity measures will seek to deflect public anger by pressing a big red button labelled “culture war”.

But however much justified condemnation Braverman receives for her email misconduct, it is her treatment of human beings that deserves most ire.

Indeed, Sir Roger Gale, the Tory MP who represents the constituency in which Manston is situated, has condemned the government’s policy. He has suggested that a deliberate decision had been taken not to book space in local hotels, leading to disastrous overcrowding and inhumane conditions. (A Home Office spokesperson later told the BBC: “Claims advice was deliberately ignored are completely baseless.”)A local refugee campaigner, Bridget Chapman, puts to me that the authorities learned cynical lessons from another holding centre, the Napier barracks in Folkestone, where campaigners and journalists were able to talk to asylum seekers and learn about the conditions there. I myself visited: people who had fled violence and persecution in countries such as Iran and Afghanistan were living in conditions that violated basic sanitary and hygiene requirements. But such access has been largely denied in Manston, where conditions are accordingly even worse.

Manston is shrouded in other myths, too. “Lots of establishment media outlets are pushing the idea that everyone is from Albania and largely adult men who are economic migrants,” says another local refugee campaigner, Benny Hunter. “I wouldn’t want to pander to the idea that men aren’t vulnerable or [that] Albanians aren’t potentially refugees, but when we went, we saw families with young children, who shouted over the fence that they were from Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq – places with war, conflict and despotism.”

While the circumstances behind the Dover petrol bomb are yet to be uncovered, there are some things of which we can be certain. Public hostility to desperate people fleeing to our shores has been systematically ramped up by politicians, newspapers and broadcasters. With legal routes closed off, asylum seekers arriving on small boats are portrayed as a sinister invading force. Local citizens languishing on social housing waiting lists (because of politicians’ refusal to build council homes) or stuck waiting weeks for GP appointments (because of an underfunded health service) are led to believe that the problem lies with desperate newcomers. The likes of Braverman are there to shield the political elite from their failure to provide the citizens of a wealthy nation with a comfortable standard of living and adequate public provision, refocusing resentment on all the wrong targets. In the process, they have inflicted cruelty on often already traumatised people. That there is finally, at least, some outcry at this travesty is to be welcomed. But until we stop allowing politicians and their media allies to scapegoat asylum seekers for problems caused by the powerful, these scandals will happen again and again.

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7.29.22 Headlines

WORLD NEWS

Russia: Blame traded with Ukraine for deadly attack on POW prison (AP)

“Russia and Ukraine accused each other Friday of shelling a prison in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine, an attack that reportedly killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war captured after the fall of Mariupol, the city where troops famously held out against a monthslong Russian siege. Both sides said the assault was premeditated with the aim of covering up atrocities.”

Iran: Ex-child bride among three women executed in one day (BBC)

“Iranian authorities put three women to death on Wednesday for murdering their husbands, a human rights charity says. According to the Iran Human Rights Group they were among 32 people executed in the past week alone. A former child bride, convicted of later killing the man she had married at the age of 15, was among them.”

Turkey: Wildfire spreads to hotel; no one hurt (AP)

“A wildfire that broke out Friday in a resort area in southwestern Turkey spread to a hotel that also serves as a tourism training school, officials said. No injuries were reported, and the blaze later was brought under control. The blaze started in the Icmeler resort area, close to the Aegean Sea port city of Marmaris, in Mugla province.”

US NEWS

Appalachian Floods: At least 16 killed as rescue teams deploy (AP)

“Search and rescue teams backed by the National Guard searched Friday for people missing in record floods that wiped out entire communities in some of the poorest places in America. Kentucky’s governor said 16 people have died, a toll he expected to grow as the rain keeps falling.”

Abortion: Top US judge mocks world leaders over abortion ruling (BBC)

“A conservative member of the US Supreme Court has mocked world leaders who criticised last month's ruling that overturned American abortion rights. Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the ruling, dismissed criticism from a host of prominent figures, including UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. He joked that Mr Johnson, who leaves office in September, had "paid the price" for arguing against the verdict.”

Economy: Unprecedented profit for major oil drillers as prices soared (AP)

“Oil companies swam in record profits over the last few months at a time when Americans struggled to pay for gasoline, food and other basic necessities. On Friday, Exxon Mobil booked an unprecedented $17.85 billion profit for the second quarter and Chevron made a record $11.62 billion. The sky-high profits come one day after the U.K.’s Shell shattered its own profit record.”

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A group of pro-Hamas protestors booked a Washington, D.C. hotel room and hung a massive Palestine flag at the same time as the White House Correspondents dinner, harassing guests as they walked in.

The Washington Hilton was hosting the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night when Code Pink, a group of left-wing pro-terrorism activists, booked a room and flew a giant Palestine flag outside the window.

“The White House Correspondents' Dinner, traditionally a symbol of journalistic integrity and freedom, has now become a platform that celebrates and endorses the administration's actions," Code Pink’s website read. "The United States media perpetuates anti-Palestinian narratives and ignores Israeli war crimes.”

Code Pink accused the media of "endors[ing]" the Biden Administration's support of Israel.

“The Correspondents' Dinner is nothing more than a celebration and endorsement of the administration's actions. That is not journalism. That is complicity,” the group said.

The pro-Hamas activists shouted and harassed guests as they arrived at the White House, yelling “Shame on you!” And “free, free Palestine!”

“Western media we see you, and all the horrors that you hide,” the protestors, who were dressed in keffiyehs, chanted.

Other pro-terrorism demonstrators lay motionless on the pavement, next to mock-ups of flak vests with “press” insignia.

“You look beautiful in your blood-stained gown,” one protestor shouted at women entering the dinner as they called for a “ceasefire.”

The Democratic Party is facing a divide among voters who say President Joe Biden is not doing enough to help Palestinians despite the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group committing heinous crimes against Israelis.

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Holidays 3.21

Holidays

AfghanistanDay (US)

Agony of Defeat Anniversary Day

Aizu Higan Shishi (a.k.a. Sanbiki Shishimai; End of Winter Lion Dance; Japan)

American Immigration Lawyers Association Day of Action

Anal Cancer Awareness Day

Ancient Babylonian New Year

Arbor Day (Belgium, Lesotho, Portugal)

Back Badge Day (Gloucestershire, UK)

Bampflugnax Day (Guyana)

Big Bang Day

Bird Day (Iowa)

Birkebeinerrennet (Norway)

Border Guard Day (Georgia)

Children's Poetry Day

Cluster Headache Awareness Day

Common Courtesy Day

Credit Card Reduction Day

Day of Marine Reconnaissance

Discovery Day (Guam)

Early Music Day

Education Freedom Day

Egyptian Harvest Festival

End of the World Day [Predicted by Leonardo Da Vinci for 4006]

Global Surveyors’ Day

Global Understanding Day

Harmony Day (Australia)

Hogithum (Elder Scrolls)

Human Rights Day (South Africa)

International Colour Day

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UN)

International Day of Forests (UN)

Memory Day

Mother's Day (Arab nations)

Music Day

National Agriculture Day

National Beverly Day

National Countdown Day

National Day of Action on Syringe Exchange

National Flower Day

National Fragrance Day

National Indigenous Water Operator Day (Canada)

National Memory Day

National Peter Day

National Propane Day (Canada)

National Renewable Energy Day

National Rosie the Riveter Day

National Single Parent Day

National Spring Festival (Turkmenistan)

National Teenager Day

National Tree Planting Day (Lesotho)

No Strings Attached Day

Nyepi Day (Day of Silence; Bali, Indonesia)

Oltenia Day (Romania)

Ougadi (Mauritius)

Panic! At The Disco Day

Paper Dress Day

Primrose Day (French Republic)

The Purge Day (in “The Purge”)

Race Relations Day (New Zealand)

Save Soil Day

Sharpeville Massacre Anniversary Day (South Africa)

Single Parents’ Day

Slytherin Pride Day

Spring Fairy Fun Day

Tea and Telphi Day (Ireland)

Telugu New Year (India)

Truant's Day (Faroe Islands, Poland)

Twitter Day

We Day

World Day of Casi Angeles (Argentina)

World Down Syndrome Day

World Forestry Day

World Freedom of Thought Day

World Home Economics Day

World Office Storage Day

World Planting Day

World Poetry Day

World Puppetry Day

World Sustainable Procurement Day

World Tattoo Day

World Wood Day

Yngismannadagur (Young Men’s Day; Iceland)

Youth Day (Tunisia)

Food & Drink Celebrations

California Strawberry Day

French Bread Day

Gallo Wine Day

International Tiramisu Day

National Crunchy Taco Day

National Healthy Fats Day

World Vermouth Day

3rd Thursday in March

Absolutely Incredible Kid Day [3rd Thursday]

Companies That Care Day [3rd Thursday]

MASD Awareness Day [3rd Thursday]

National Close the Gap Day (Australia) [3rd Thursday]

National Farm Rescuer Day [3rd Thursday]

National Spray Tanning Day [3rd Thursday]

Oranges and Lemons Day [3rd Thursday; also 3.31]

Weekly Holidays beginning March 21 (3rd Week)

Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling Against Racism and Racial Discrimination [begins 3.21; thru 3.27]

Independence & Related Days

Namibia (from South Africa, 1990)

Pacific States of America (Declared; 2023) [unrecognized]

New Year’s Days

Nowruz (New Year) [Day 2, Around Spring Equinox] (a.k.a. ...

International Day of Nowruz (UN)

Narooz (Persian New Year; Iran, Kyrgyzstan)

Nauroz (India)

Nauruz (Afghan New Year; Afghanistan)

Nauryz Meyramy (Kazakhstan)

Navro’z Bayrami (Uzbekistan)

Navruz (Tajikistan, Uzbekistan)

Naw-Rúz (Baha’i)

Nevruz (Albania)

Newroz (Iran, Kurdistan, Mesopotamia)

Norooz (Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Zoroastrian)

Novruz (Azerbaijan, Tajikistan)

Nowruz (Spring Day; Iraq)

Festivals Beginning March 21, 2024

Big Ears Festival (Knoxville, Tennessee) [thru 3.24]

Collier Fair (Naples, Florida) [thru 3.31]

Future Food-Tech (San Francisco, California) [thru 3.22]

Hawaii Hotel & Restaurant Show (Honolulu, Hawaii) [thru 3.22]

Leipzig Book Fair (Leipzig, Germany) [thru 3.24]

Louisiana Crawfish Festival (Chalmette, Louisiana) [thru 3.24]

Palm Desert Food & Wine Festival (Palm Desert, California) [thru 3.24]

PAX East (Boston, Massachusetts) [thru 3.24]

South Carolina BBQ & Shag Festival (Hemingway, South Carolina) [thru 3.23]

Warsaw Beer Festival (Warsaw, Poland) [thru 3.23]

The WhiskyX (Chicago, Illinois)

Feast Days

Akitu (Mesopotamian spring festival, "cutting of the barley," celebrating Marduk's victory over Tiamat)

Alban Eilir (a.k.a. The Light of the Earth; Celtic Book of Days)

Aries zodiac sign begins (Astrology)

Bartolomaus Spranger (Artology)

Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello (Christian; Saint)

Benedict, Passing of (Order of Saint Benedict, pre-1970 Calendar; Christian)

Birillus (Christian; Saint)

Dionysia (Ancient Greek Festival to Dionysus, God of Intoxication)

Enda of Aran (a.k.a. Enna of Ireland; Christian; Saint)

Fanchea (Christian; Saint & Virgin)

Festival of Salii (Jumping Priests; Ancient Rome)

French Bread Day (Pastafarian)

Hans Hofmann (Artology)

Jack Slade Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

John the Evangelist (Positivist; Saint)

Music Day (Pagan)

Nicholas of Flüe (Christian; Saint)

Philosophical Day (Pastafarian)

Purification of the Trumpets (Ancient Rome)

Quinquatria, Day 3: Music Day (Pagan)

Raya & Ala (Muppetism)

Seraphim of Vyritsa (Orthodox)

Serapion of Thmuis (a.k.a. The Sindonite; Christian; Saint))

Shunki-Korei-Sai (Ancestral Spirits Rite; Shinto)

Tea and Tephi Day (Holy Day; Ireland)

Thomas Cranmer (Anglicanism)

Hebrew Calendar Holidays [Begins at Sundown Day Before]

Ta’anit Esther (The Fast of Esther; Judaism) [11 Adar]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 14 of 60)

Premieres

The African Queen (Film; 1952)

Alice in the Alps (Disney Cartoon; 1927)

All of Me, recorded by Billie Holiday (Song; 1941)

Beyond Beyond (Animated Film; 2014)

Day, by Elie Wiesel (Novel; 1961)

Deadwood (TV Series; 2004)

Divergent (Film; 2014)

Escape to Witch Mountain (Film; 1975)

The Final Cut, by Pink Floyd (Album; 1983)

First Step, by Faces (Album; 1970)

GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords (Hanna-Barbera Animated Film; 1986)

God Bless America, recorded by Kate Smith (Song; 1939)

A High Wind in Jamaica, by Richard Hughes (Novel; 1929)

Jodorowsky’s Dune (Documentary Film; 2014)

Johann Mouse (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1953)

L’enfant et les Sortilèges, by Maurice Ravel (Opera; 1925)

Les Miserobots (The Inspector Cartoon; 1968)

Liar Liar (Film; 1997)

Like a Prayer, by Madonna (Album; 1989)

Little Darlings (Film; 1980)

Living After Midnight, by Judas Priest (Song; 1980)

Mad Max (Film; 1980)

Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age, by Peter Paret (History Essays; 1943)

Mission to Mars (Disneyland Ride; 1975)

Muppets Most Wanted (Film; 2014)

No Strings Attached, by ’N Sync (Album; 2000)

Old Dog Tray, featuring Farmer Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1935)

The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (Film; 1968)

The Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt (Political Theory; 1951)

Party Central (Pixar Cartoon; 2014)

Piglet’s Big Movie (Animated Film; 2003)

Rebecca (Film; 1940)

Rescue Dog (Disney Cartoon; 1947)

Rock Around the Clock (Film; 1956)

Selena (Film; 1997)

Sloop John B, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1966)

The Spectator Bird, by Wallace Stegner (Novel; 1976)

Stuck On You, by Elvis Presley (Song; 1960)

Sweet Bird of Youth (Film; 1962)

Sydney (TV Series; 1990)

Symphonia Domestic, by Richard Strauss (Tone Poem for Orchestra; 1904)

Symphony No. 9, The Great Symphony in C Major, by Franz Schubert (Symphony; 1839)

Topper Returns (Film; 1941)

Trick or Tweet (WB MM Cartoon; 1959)

Two Chips and a Miss (Disney Cartoon; 1952)

View from the Top (Film; 2003)

When Knights Were Bold (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1941)

Today’s Name Days

Alexandra, Axel, Christian, Emilia (Austria)

Kristijan, Serapion, Vesna, Vlasta (Croatia)

Radek (Czech Republic)

Benedictus (Denmark)

Küllo, Külvo, Pendo, Pent (Estonia)

Pentti (Finland)

Axelle, Clémence (France)

Axel, Christian, Emilia (Germany)

Iakovos (Greece)

Benedek (Hungary)

Benedetto, Filemone (Italy)

Benedikts, Boleslavs, Dzelme, Glezna, Una (Latvia)

Benas, Benediktas, Lingailė, Nortautas, Reda, Saulius (Lithuania)

Bendik, Bengt, Bent (Norway)

Benedykt, Filemon, Lubomira, Mikołaj (Poland)

Iacob (Romania

Blahoslav (Slovakia)

Nicolás (Spain)

Bengt (Sweden)

Arvin, Arwin, Bendix, Benedict, Benedicta, Bennett (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 81 of 2024; 285 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 12 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 5 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Ding-Mao), Day 12 (Jia-Shen)

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

Hebrew: 11 Adair II 5784

Islamic: 11 Ramadan 1445

J Cal: 21 Green; Sevenday [21 of 30]

Julian: 8 March 2024

Moon: 89%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 25 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Justin]

Runic Half Month: Beore (Birch Tree) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 3 of 92)

Week: 3rd Week of March

Zodiac: Aries (Day 1 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Aries (The Ram) begins [Zodiac Sign 1 of 12; thru 4.19]

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Holidays 3.21

Holidays

AfghanistanDay (US)

Agony of Defeat Anniversary Day

Aizu Higan Shishi (a.k.a. Sanbiki Shishimai; End of Winter Lion Dance; Japan)

American Immigration Lawyers Association Day of Action

Anal Cancer Awareness Day

Ancient Babylonian New Year

Arbor Day (Belgium, Lesotho, Portugal)

Back Badge Day (Gloucestershire, UK)

Bampflugnax Day (Guyana)

Big Bang Day

Bird Day (Iowa)

Birkebeinerrennet (Norway)

Border Guard Day (Georgia)

Children's Poetry Day

Cluster Headache Awareness Day

Common Courtesy Day

Credit Card Reduction Day

Day of Marine Reconnaissance

Discovery Day (Guam)

Early Music Day

Education Freedom Day

Egyptian Harvest Festival

End of the World Day [Predicted by Leonardo Da Vinci for 4006]

Global Surveyors’ Day

Global Understanding Day

Harmony Day (Australia)

Hogithum (Elder Scrolls)

Human Rights Day (South Africa)

International Colour Day

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UN)

International Day of Forests (UN)

Memory Day

Mother's Day (Arab nations)

Music Day

National Agriculture Day

National Beverly Day

National Countdown Day

National Day of Action on Syringe Exchange

National Flower Day

National Fragrance Day

National Indigenous Water Operator Day (Canada)

National Memory Day

National Peter Day

National Propane Day (Canada)

National Renewable Energy Day

National Rosie the Riveter Day

National Single Parent Day

National Spring Festival (Turkmenistan)

National Teenager Day

National Tree Planting Day (Lesotho)

No Strings Attached Day

Nyepi Day (Day of Silence; Bali, Indonesia)

Oltenia Day (Romania)

Ougadi (Mauritius)

Panic! At The Disco Day

Paper Dress Day

Primrose Day (French Republic)

The Purge Day (in “The Purge”)

Race Relations Day (New Zealand)

Save Soil Day

Sharpeville Massacre Anniversary Day (South Africa)

Single Parents’ Day

Slytherin Pride Day

Spring Fairy Fun Day

Tea and Telphi Day (Ireland)

Telugu New Year (India)

Truant's Day (Faroe Islands, Poland)

Twitter Day

We Day

World Day of Casi Angeles (Argentina)

World Down Syndrome Day

World Forestry Day

World Freedom of Thought Day

World Home Economics Day

World Office Storage Day

World Planting Day

World Poetry Day

World Puppetry Day

World Sustainable Procurement Day

World Tattoo Day

World Wood Day

Yngismannadagur (Young Men’s Day; Iceland)

Youth Day (Tunisia)

Food & Drink Celebrations

California Strawberry Day

French Bread Day

Gallo Wine Day

International Tiramisu Day

National Crunchy Taco Day

National Healthy Fats Day

World Vermouth Day

3rd Thursday in March

Absolutely Incredible Kid Day [3rd Thursday]

Companies That Care Day [3rd Thursday]

MASD Awareness Day [3rd Thursday]

National Close the Gap Day (Australia) [3rd Thursday]

National Farm Rescuer Day [3rd Thursday]

National Spray Tanning Day [3rd Thursday]

Oranges and Lemons Day [3rd Thursday; also 3.31]

Weekly Holidays beginning March 21 (3rd Week)

Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling Against Racism and Racial Discrimination [begins 3.21; thru 3.27]

Independence & Related Days

Namibia (from South Africa, 1990)

Pacific States of America (Declared; 2023) [unrecognized]

New Year’s Days

Nowruz (New Year) [Day 2, Around Spring Equinox] (a.k.a. ...

International Day of Nowruz (UN)

Narooz (Persian New Year; Iran, Kyrgyzstan)

Nauroz (India)

Nauruz (Afghan New Year; Afghanistan)

Nauryz Meyramy (Kazakhstan)

Navro’z Bayrami (Uzbekistan)

Navruz (Tajikistan, Uzbekistan)

Naw-Rúz (Baha’i)

Nevruz (Albania)

Newroz (Iran, Kurdistan, Mesopotamia)

Norooz (Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Zoroastrian)

Novruz (Azerbaijan, Tajikistan)

Nowruz (Spring Day; Iraq)

Festivals Beginning March 21, 2024

Big Ears Festival (Knoxville, Tennessee) [thru 3.24]

Collier Fair (Naples, Florida) [thru 3.31]

Future Food-Tech (San Francisco, California) [thru 3.22]

Hawaii Hotel & Restaurant Show (Honolulu, Hawaii) [thru 3.22]

Leipzig Book Fair (Leipzig, Germany) [thru 3.24]

Louisiana Crawfish Festival (Chalmette, Louisiana) [thru 3.24]

Palm Desert Food & Wine Festival (Palm Desert, California) [thru 3.24]

PAX East (Boston, Massachusetts) [thru 3.24]

South Carolina BBQ & Shag Festival (Hemingway, South Carolina) [thru 3.23]

Warsaw Beer Festival (Warsaw, Poland) [thru 3.23]

The WhiskyX (Chicago, Illinois)

Feast Days

Akitu (Mesopotamian spring festival, "cutting of the barley," celebrating Marduk's victory over Tiamat)

Alban Eilir (a.k.a. The Light of the Earth; Celtic Book of Days)

Aries zodiac sign begins (Astrology)

Bartolomaus Spranger (Artology)

Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello (Christian; Saint)

Benedict, Passing of (Order of Saint Benedict, pre-1970 Calendar; Christian)

Birillus (Christian; Saint)

Dionysia (Ancient Greek Festival to Dionysus, God of Intoxication)

Enda of Aran (a.k.a. Enna of Ireland; Christian; Saint)

Fanchea (Christian; Saint & Virgin)

Festival of Salii (Jumping Priests; Ancient Rome)

French Bread Day (Pastafarian)

Hans Hofmann (Artology)

Jack Slade Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

John the Evangelist (Positivist; Saint)

Music Day (Pagan)

Nicholas of Flüe (Christian; Saint)

Philosophical Day (Pastafarian)

Purification of the Trumpets (Ancient Rome)

Quinquatria, Day 3: Music Day (Pagan)

Raya & Ala (Muppetism)

Seraphim of Vyritsa (Orthodox)

Serapion of Thmuis (a.k.a. The Sindonite; Christian; Saint))

Shunki-Korei-Sai (Ancestral Spirits Rite; Shinto)

Tea and Tephi Day (Holy Day; Ireland)

Thomas Cranmer (Anglicanism)

Hebrew Calendar Holidays [Begins at Sundown Day Before]

Ta’anit Esther (The Fast of Esther; Judaism) [11 Adar]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 14 of 60)

Premieres

The African Queen (Film; 1952)

Alice in the Alps (Disney Cartoon; 1927)

All of Me, recorded by Billie Holiday (Song; 1941)

Beyond Beyond (Animated Film; 2014)

Day, by Elie Wiesel (Novel; 1961)

Deadwood (TV Series; 2004)

Divergent (Film; 2014)

Escape to Witch Mountain (Film; 1975)

The Final Cut, by Pink Floyd (Album; 1983)

First Step, by Faces (Album; 1970)

GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords (Hanna-Barbera Animated Film; 1986)

God Bless America, recorded by Kate Smith (Song; 1939)

A High Wind in Jamaica, by Richard Hughes (Novel; 1929)

Jodorowsky’s Dune (Documentary Film; 2014)

Johann Mouse (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1953)

L’enfant et les Sortilèges, by Maurice Ravel (Opera; 1925)

Les Miserobots (The Inspector Cartoon; 1968)

Liar Liar (Film; 1997)

Like a Prayer, by Madonna (Album; 1989)

Little Darlings (Film; 1980)

Living After Midnight, by Judas Priest (Song; 1980)

Mad Max (Film; 1980)

Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age, by Peter Paret (History Essays; 1943)

Mission to Mars (Disneyland Ride; 1975)

Muppets Most Wanted (Film; 2014)

No Strings Attached, by ’N Sync (Album; 2000)

Old Dog Tray, featuring Farmer Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1935)

The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (Film; 1968)

The Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt (Political Theory; 1951)

Party Central (Pixar Cartoon; 2014)

Piglet’s Big Movie (Animated Film; 2003)

Rebecca (Film; 1940)

Rescue Dog (Disney Cartoon; 1947)

Rock Around the Clock (Film; 1956)

Selena (Film; 1997)

Sloop John B, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1966)

The Spectator Bird, by Wallace Stegner (Novel; 1976)

Stuck On You, by Elvis Presley (Song; 1960)

Sweet Bird of Youth (Film; 1962)

Sydney (TV Series; 1990)

Symphonia Domestic, by Richard Strauss (Tone Poem for Orchestra; 1904)

Symphony No. 9, The Great Symphony in C Major, by Franz Schubert (Symphony; 1839)

Topper Returns (Film; 1941)

Trick or Tweet (WB MM Cartoon; 1959)

Two Chips and a Miss (Disney Cartoon; 1952)

View from the Top (Film; 2003)

When Knights Were Bold (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1941)

Today’s Name Days

Alexandra, Axel, Christian, Emilia (Austria)

Kristijan, Serapion, Vesna, Vlasta (Croatia)

Radek (Czech Republic)

Benedictus (Denmark)

Küllo, Külvo, Pendo, Pent (Estonia)

Pentti (Finland)

Axelle, Clémence (France)

Axel, Christian, Emilia (Germany)

Iakovos (Greece)

Benedek (Hungary)

Benedetto, Filemone (Italy)

Benedikts, Boleslavs, Dzelme, Glezna, Una (Latvia)

Benas, Benediktas, Lingailė, Nortautas, Reda, Saulius (Lithuania)

Bendik, Bengt, Bent (Norway)

Benedykt, Filemon, Lubomira, Mikołaj (Poland)

Iacob (Romania

Blahoslav (Slovakia)

Nicolás (Spain)

Bengt (Sweden)

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Halal Certification: Compliance with Iranian Standards and Shariah Principles

The Halal certification in Iran landscape in Iran is characterized by the presence of reputable certification bodies accredited by relevant authorities. These certification bodies play a pivotal role in verifying the Halal status of products and services, issuing certificates to compliant entities, and promoting consumer confidence in Halal offerings.

Iranian regulatory agencies and Islamic authorities regulate the conformance of goods and services to Halal standards, and they are in charge of supervising the certification process. Requirements related to Iranian regulations and Shariah compliance are addressed through a thorough evaluation of facilities, production processes, and ingredients during the certification procedure.

Through Halal certification, Iran aims to uphold Islamic ethics, safeguard consumer interests, facilitate domestic trade, and enhance its presence in the global Halal market. By adhering to Halal standards, Iranian businesses not only cater to the preferences of Muslim consumers but also demonstrate their commitment to quality, integrity, and ethical business practices.

An Array of Diverse and Halal-Certified Services in Iran

Food and Beverage: Iran offers a variety of Halal-certification in Cameroon food and beverage options, including meat, poultry, dairy products, processed foods, and beverages. These products are produced, processed, and distributed in accordance with Islamic dietary laws, ensuring their Halal status.

Islamic Finance: Iran's financial sector provides Halal financial services that comply with Islamic banking principles, such as interest-free banking, Islamic insurance, Islamic bonds, and Islamic investment funds. These financial products and services are structured to avoid prohibited elements, such as interest and uncertainty.

Cosmetics and Personal Care: Halal-certified cosmetics and personal care products are available in Iran, including skincare, haircare, hygiene products, and cosmetics. These products are manufactured using ingredients that are Halal and free from any substances prohibited in Islam.

Tourism and Hospitality: Iran's tourism and hospitality industry offers Halal-friendly services for Muslim travelers, including Halal-certified hotels, restaurants, and tour packages. These services cater to the specific needs of Muslim tourists, such as providing prayer facilities, Halal food options, and gender-segregated accommodations.

Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare: Halal-certified pharmaceuticals and healthcare services adhere to Islamic guidelines regarding medication and medical treatment. Pharmaceutical companies in Iran ensure that their products are free from any Haram (prohibited) ingredients and comply with Halal standards.

Halal Certification and Consultancy: Halal certification in Egypt Various organizations and consulting firms in Iran provide Halal certification and consultancy services to businesses seeking to comply with Halal standards. These services include Halal audits, certification process assistance, and training on Halal compliance for manufacturers, producers, and retailers.

Islamic Education and Learning: Iran is known for its Islamic education system, offering Halal-certified educational services, including Islamic schools, universities, and institutes that provide courses on Islamic studies, Quranic studies, Islamic law (Shariah), and other related subjects.

Halal Entertainment and Media: Iran's entertainment and media industry also caters to Halal preferences, offering Halal-certified entertainment options, such as Islamic films, music, books, and digital content that align with Islamic values and principles.

How to Acquire Iranian Halal Certification

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