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Offenbach: Un mari a la porte. Borrowed from hoopla digital,

More on this performance and operetta from lennygoran viewtopic.php?t=52048

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Right. Here’s the full story as a gift article, no paywall.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/us/d ... &sgrp=c-cb

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I don't expect the USA to defend me any more than I expect it to defend another country. AUKUS??!! https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51312014122_66a9521f11_o.jpg Australian editorial cartoon depicting Oz as Beijing’s vassal state. Once upon a time moral panic and fear were associated with reactio...

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Trump Posts Video Online With Newspaper Headline About ‘Unified Reich’ The 30-second video shared from Donald Trump’s Truth Social account includes World War I-era newspaper clippings alongside fictional headlines presuming a Trump victory in November. The New York Times By Chris Cameron May 20, 20...

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Israel’s Wartime Government Frays as Frustration with Netanyahu Grows Benny Gantz, a centrist member of leadership, presented the prime minister with an ultimatum that demanded a plan for the future of Israel’s war. By Aaron Boxerman, Ephrat Livni and Kayla Guo Aaron Boxerman reported from Jerusale...

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A prosecutor is alleging Israeli officials have used starvation as a weapon of war. Here’s what the charge entails. No international tribunal has ever tried someone for the crime of using starvation as a weapon of war. So it is notable that the International Criminal Court prosecutor, Karim Khan, i...

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Biden and Blinken accuse the I.C.C. prosecutor of falsely equating Israel and Hamas. The New York Times President Biden on Monday condemned the decision by the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor to seek arrest warrants for two top Israeli officials — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a...

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Israeli Leaders Rally Behind Netanyahu Despite Divisions Over War Despite Israel’s sharp internal divides, its leaders largely projected unity on Monday after the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said he would apply for arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Y...

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International Criminal Court Prosecutor Requests Warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas Leaders While the request must be approved by the court’s judges, the announcement is a harsh rebuke of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and his war strategy in Gaza. Image Headshots of two men. Prime Minis...

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Occupation Has Corrupted the Humanity of Israel’s Military May 20, 2024, 1:00 a.m. ET By Avner Gvaryahu Mr. Gvaryahu is the director of Breaking the Silence, an organization of Israeli veterans opposed to the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. . Israel’s military has brought utter devastation to...

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On www.hoopladigital.com Korngold: Das Wunder der Heliane 2018 Naxos DVD https://marvel-b1-cdn.bc0a.com/f00000000280066/d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/nax_730099627610_270.jpeg Cast Sara Jakubiak, Brian Jagde, Josef Wagner, Okka von der Damerau, Derek Welton, Burkhard Ulrich, Marc Albrecht Erich Wolf...

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Takeaways From the Times Investigation Into ‘The Unpunished’ Radical forces in Israeli society have moved from the fringes to the mainstream and put Israel’s democracy in peril. Here are the takeaways from our investigation. NY Times Investigative Report By Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti Ronen Ber...

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Except they were all stoned at the time!! :lol: Those kiddies are mostly still living at home with mommy and daddy!! :lol: …My advice to them would be to repeat after me: "Will that be fries with that today?" Once they get that question right and learn to live without the comfort dogs, trigger warn...

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Thanks for the heads up. I posted a link to that shocking Times Magazine investigative report detailing in excruciating detail the hard-right ultranationalist takeover in Israel here (gift article, no paywall). https://www.classicalmusicguide.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=61404 Obviously, the kids curren...

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The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists, lawlessness has become the law. Video Intro by Ronan Bergman : https://www.nytimes.com/video/magazine/100000009469710/west-bank-settler-violence...

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This way!!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yT5fzEL8V ... FIAQ%3D%3D

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Verdi: Requiem Szell-Cleveland Orchestra 1968 Severance Hall

Gabriella Tucci, Soprano
Janet Baker, Contralto
Pierre Duval, Tenor
Martti Talvela, Bass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6UKBfqsS6U

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Also sprach eine Dreißigerjahre scheissdreck Bewunderin??!!

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As John Lennon once said, along with many evergreen songs, the Beatles also wrote a lot of schlock. The greatest Brit rock bands are The Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Kinks, and Pink Floyd, three of which (Stones, Kinks and Zeppelin} I heard live in their prime.

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Story also at
https://www.propublica.org/article/trum ... otel-taxes

https://chicago.suntimes.com/nation-wor ... eaks-audit

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New York Times & ProPublica Trump May Owe $100 Million From Double-Dip Tax Breaks, Audit Shows A previously unknown focus of an I.R.S. audit is a dubious accounting maneuver that effectively meant taking the same write-offs twice on a Chicago skyscraper. By Russ Buettner and Paul Kiel This article ...

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The Debate Over Rafah A look at the conflicting views of President Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu. By David Leonhardt May 10, 2024 Updated 10:04 a.m. ET At the heart of the dispute between President Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu over invading Rafah is a larger disagreement about what Israel can reason...

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A contrary view . . . OPINION BRET STEPHENS President Biden Just Made His Biggest Blunder May 9, 2024 In announcing that the United States will pause delivery of 3,500 bombs to Israel, President Biden has the laudable motive of wanting to spare innocent Palestinians from the military consequences of...

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I'm sure Biden's assessment of Netanyahu is correct. He should do more than just threaten to withhold US aid. He should go ahead and do it Yes, but hasn’t Biden already done it? Publicly, by putting a hold on a weapons-system delivery to Israel for the first time since Reagan withheld F-16s from Is...

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Excerpts from today's New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/politics/biden-bombs-israel.html “ I’ve made it clear to Bibi and the war cabinet, they’re not going to get our support if in fact they go on these population centers ,” the president said in an interview with CNN’s Erin Burn...

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Neither do I, but once outsiders declared open season on the U.S., I, to somewhat even the score, resolved to invoke the law — of talion. I watched Lucille Ball’s I Love Lucy Show every week for years, along with Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Jack Benny, and Sid Caesar; and on the radio I listened to the ...

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Bizet, Carmen (original version, 1874) - Soloists, Choeur de Chambre de Namur, B'Rock Orchestra/René Jacobs (period instruments) (live, March 2024)

Audio: https://classicalmusicinconcert.blogspo ... acobs.html

Video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5B_JvFm4IxE&vl=en-US

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I could mention all the comedies of Billy Wilder but that was essentially a European sensibility. I agree with that and everything else you wrote. Billy Wilder. European sensibility. You bet! Thumbs up to non-PC humorists. Norman Lear too. If you live in America and love comedy, even if you’re Cath...

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In contrast, Australian humor is like dark matter: we know it has to exist somewhere, but good luck finding it. Somehow I suspect you've put the usual effort that Americans do into Australia - none whatsoever. Or you wouldn't say anything quite so ill-conceived. May it please the Court to enter Exh...

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where are the developing situations and characters Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca, George Burns & Gracie Allen, Jackie Gleason & Audrey Meadows, Lucille Ball & Dezi Arnez, to name some hubby/wife TV sitcoms. There really doesn't have to be a one-liner every 45 seconds One liners? Were not both Harold Ll...

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Stewart is just another activist hack who thinks ridicule is funny. Yes, well so is having my ears sawn off. C’mon, admit it, doing THAT bit, you’d knock ‘em dead!!! 😁 We agree about Bob Hope though, that bloke was an immigrant who grew up in my hometown. Hope was really funny and a decent guy, lik...

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She wants sex offenders back out on the street after serving shorter sentences. Inevitably then, there is going be a slew of toxic

’s for the

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’ing out for! 🫤

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Reminiscent of college campuses in the late sixties early seventies. The more disgraced war-monger old-farts like Greg Abbott and Mike Johnson try to quash student protests, the more there will be for them to deal with, like playing Whack-A-Mole.

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They all did this because they thought they could have "careers". Well, their lives certainly 'careered' out of control. Women have a responsibility to behave with decorum, discretion, personal responsibility and dignity - otherwise certain types of men will pounce. And they don't even have to be w...

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Meantime, just maybe, it's time for the girls to demonstrate some discretion and personal responsibility in keeping away from KNOWN sex predators - whether for career reasons or anything else. Right, Weinstein is a KNOWN sex predator who just got off in one state, the unanimous jury guilty verdict ...

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maestrob wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:44 am
Can it be that the adults in the room have finally found a spine?

Yes, but it’s not their spine they found, it’s their Johnson.

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The Humbling of Marjorie Taylor Greene https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/04/24/multimedia/24cottle1-jmbg/24cottle1-jmbg-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=1200 April 24, 2024 The New York Times OPINION By Michelle Cottle Ms. Cottle writes about national politics for ...

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they're all hugely intelligent and speaking out. If they were, they wouldn’t. That's a very dichotomous statement. Should they not speak out because they might be pilloried or is there another reason? It’s pretty clear who is being “pilloried” here and it ain’t the Woke-hunting tag team. Three crea...

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Arizona Charges Giuliani and Other Trump Allies in Election Interference Case Those charged included Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff, and the fake electors who acted on Mr. Trump’s behalf in Arizona after the 2020 election. The New York Times By Danny Hakim Danny Hakim covers st...

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Belle wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:47 pm
they're all hugely intelligent and speaking out.

If they were, they wouldn’t.

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Bibi blaming American students for protesting against what his own actions have brought about. Netanyahu Calls Student Protests Antisemitic and Says They Must Be Quelled “What’s happening in America’s college campuses is horrific,” the Israeli prime minister said in a televised statement. “Antisemit...

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Ditto! And the U.S. just did this. U.S. Secretly Shipped New Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine Ukrainian forces for the first time used a longer-range version of weapons known as ATACMS, striking an airfield in Crimea and Russian troops in southeastern Ukraine. NYT By Eric Schmitt Reporting from Washin...

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The unrivalled comedian, Jon Stewart weighs in on the media’s overblown coverage of Trump’s criminal trial, from sketch-artist interviews to following his motorcade via helicopter... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zqkf2U5jcE0

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And then there was the cadaver trade in enslaved people … Beyond the Slave Trade, the Cadaver Trade By Daina Ramey Berry Feb. 3, 2018 NYT OPINION The topic of slavery features prominently in each February’s reflections on African-American history. But when it comes to this darkest time in our countr...

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FORTUNE

https://fortune.com/asia/2024/04/23/aus ... ensorship/

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https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/trump-golf-2-1554229284.png?resize=1024:* He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie. —Mickey Mantle Donald Trump Never Cheats at Golf. His Caddy Does That for Him. https://www.esquire.com/sports/a26454538/donald-trump-rick-reilly-commander-in-c...

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Why Did Modi Call India’s Muslims ‘Infiltrators’? Because He Could. The brazenness of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vilification of India’s largest minority group made clear he sees few checks at home or abroad on his power. Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India was criticized by the opposition fo...

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Vaughan Williams: 5. Sinfonie ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Sir Andrew Davis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsQGFlcqUmA

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I'm criticising the credulous simplicity of Americans who think it's really clever and funny to find a news clip then introduce it by asserting the opposite. Even I could do that. And a lotta folks have tried ever since Jon Stewart basically invented parodic "fake news" as a comedy form some 28 yea...

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Jon Stewart 10 Years Ago: The Daily Show, 2014
We Need to Talk About Israel https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_contin ... e=emb_logo

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