Burning Europe is beneficial for you-know-who. These are no 'simple' student protests....However, there is noone else to blame BUT Europe itself #Albania#Italy#France
6/ La violencia verbal en las juntas de condominio casi nunca surge por cuestiones de convivencia, sino por la rabia de quien descubre que ya no puede explotar la ingenuidad financiera de otro.
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The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘_white, angry old man’s_’ advice to go back where they came from.*
Why Rita Moreno Still Stops You Cold
Some clips age. This one doesn’t.
In 1976, Rita Moreno walked onto The Muppet Show in a red dress and sang Fever while Animal tried to beat the drums into dust. The song is about heat. The show is for families. That should have been a problem. It wasn’t. She made it look easy.
She doesn’t just look beautiful in the clip. She looks in charge. The hair, the dress, the way she holds still and then moves — none of it feels decorative. It feels like a person who knows exactly how much space she is allowed to take, and then takes a little more.
What still works is the mix. She can be glamorous and funny in the same breath. She sings the song like she means it, then turns on Animal, scolds him in Spanish, grabs his head, and tells him to cool it. Later she slams the cymbals on him. He falls over and says, “That’s my kind of woman.” The joke lands because she never begs for it. She stays in control until the last second.
That control is the point. Plenty of stars can look good on camera. Fewer can look good next to a wild puppet and still feel like the most adult person in the room. Moreno doesn’t protect her glamour. She uses it. She lets the scene get messy, then she ends it on her terms.
The performance also explains why the clip keeps coming back almost fifty years later. It is sexy without being cheap, comic without being silly, and polished without going cold. Children can watch the chaos. Adults can see the craft. Both remember her.
By then she already had an Oscar, a Tony, and a Grammy. This episode gave her an Emmy. Awards are not why the video still travels. The reason is simpler. She had presence. Not the kind that asks to be liked. The kind that makes you watch until the last line.
Rita Moreno did not stay famous because she stayed young. She stayed interesting because she never made herself smaller. In that red dress, in front of a Muppet drummer, she looks like a woman who can sing, joke, command, and walk away. That is still rare. That is why the clip still works.
As the genocidaire Mladic's name quietly slips from the global front pages, we must recall that his most steadfast supporter was, and remains, the sitting President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic.
On July 20, 1995, as Mladic's forces were still hunting and killing survivors of the Srebrenica Genocide across northeastern Bosnia, Vucic, then an MP in the ultranationalist Radical Party, stood at the podium of the Serbian National Assembly. Incensed, he declared that if the international community dared respond to the bloodbath in Srebrenica, if they struck "Serb positions" in Bosnia, and if even "one Serb is killed" then "we will kill a hundred Muslims!"
And for years after the fact, throughout the 2000s and into the 2010s, he was the chief advocate for Mladic in Serbia. Not because he denied the genocide in Srebrenica, or the broader genocide in Bosnia, but precisely because he glorified it, and because Vucic considered Mladic a Serbian national hero for having conducted the same.
This is not ancient history. These are very recent events. And Aleksandar Vucic remains the dominant figure in Serbian politics today. Mladic is dead but the politics of Serbian ultranationalism remain decidedly, and unfortunately, alive. So, I remind you again of Faulkner: "The past is never dead. It’s not even past."
One of the world's most brutal murderers is finally dead.
At 84 years old the former Bosnian Serb general, Ratko Mladić lived way longer than he allowed his tens of thousands of victims.
The more than 7000 Muslim men and boys he had slaughtered in Srebrenica will be his enduring shame.
At least he was tried by an International Criminal Tribunal and found guilty of his enormous crimes of genocide.
I am proud of the work we journalists did in the 90s to document his crimes against humanity, to finally hold him accountable.
It was revealed that Dolly Parton was secretly battling cancer but she didn't say anything and instead released this song as one of her last to raise funds for children with cancer. Even while she was sick she was still thinking about others. I’m absolutely devastated.