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ELASTIC DEATH - Terceiro impact demo

is a good time I'm posting this demo on the blog. A group of guys had asked me via Soulseek, and as is my habit I put off until tomorrow what I could do today. Elastic Death are Brazilian, live in extreme hardcore, the voice reminds Spazz Infest or the duration of the pieces idem. It's good for a product demo, is more than a 7.''

ELASTIC DEATH - Terceiro impacto demo [BRAZIL - 2010]

01 - Opening theme

02 - A knife from under the pillow

03 - Santa's incredible death

04 - Kaiju era

05 - Slave machune inc.

06 - Imperialist bloodsheed

07 - Mr Kato And His boring life

08 - One way down to death

09 - Mindless arrogant

10 - Eiji Tsuburaya

Download enployés of superlatives for this band, I even read that it was the new Discharge, oops if it is no exaggeration. Mauser made in the D-Beat punk crust, after we must recognize that it is not bad, though. For my part I hang it. It went on Vinyl Rites

still available and if you're a fan of the genre.

01 - End Of The Line

02 - Lunatics

03 - Social Lobotomy
I have little info on what group they are from Nova Scotia, Dartmoth precisely. This is still a demo chopée with Mike, the little comment''highly recommended''is usually enough to know that it's good. Old School Still, some say that this group does nothing more, they merely repeat things already made, but hey who can now boast of inventing something on Hardcore Punk. I often say that hardcore is a snake biting its tail incessantly, and what, as it grows, no. The sound is a bit uneven, the pieces do not be registered at the same time, it gives a more traditional aspect of the case. They pay tribute to seniors by taking The Deal of the Brotherhood.

		04 - Strangle The Bastard
		05 - Haha...
		06 - New Threat
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		WORD ON THE STREET - Demo [USA - 2010]

01 - Intro
02 - Word on the street

03 - Strength inside 04 - Square one

05 - Get a clue

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MAUSER - End of the line

This should be 90/91 and I know Jerry's Kids name, I had to listen to that radio once or twice and I found this LP in a shop ephemeral in Barcelona. For the record I also passes beside full of good stuff I grabbed that day, I still bite roubignoles. More metal''that''Is this my world, this album on Taang emerged in 1989 after the reformation of the group in 1985. Have a look at the wiki

a funny story, the first singer left the band his parents being not agree that it continues to play after breaking a leg during a concert, hardcore music is really young. If not currently used for the group replays from time to time, I saw the dates here and there. I also recommend their tracks on the compilation This Is Boston,''not''L.A also worth their weight in peanuts.

Jerry's Kids - Kill Kill Kill [USA - 1989]

1.Torn Apart

2.Need Some 3.Breathe & Fuck 4.Fire

5.Bad Trip

6 .
Back Off 7.Tired Eyes

8.Spymaster

9.Right Now

10.Satan 's Toy

11.Twisted Brain

12.My Machine Gun

13.Satan 's Toy (Reprise)

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As heard in social media

Hearing the Radio-Canada, in recent days, news reports covering the revolt in Libya to tell what is happening there by reading Tweets Arabic we feel that the information ecosystem heals well grafting of new on old media.

I see further confirmation that the ecosystem is functional with new, head, media that attempt to harness the flow of social media. (Read my series of 3 articles on the subject)

There obviously remains some to criticize the content found on these social networks as futile or worse, the d & # 233; SINFORM.

In fact, they regret that the Internet is not "published a priori, so that only quality flows. Wherever their eyes Expert info are worn, they see no quality.

Part of the discomfort (of "narcissistic injury") is that they consider themselves As experts in the news, gold, their status depended on much of the monopoly of the news that they had any exclusive expertise. This exclusivity has been pleased them. Duly noted. If

still see some quality in the new social media is that they still think a centralized publishing e and a priori, yet the system is reversed. For better or worse, this is not the center but the periphery that sorting and subsequent calls.

The critical thinking is decentralized and reporting of the facts is the same. (See my post on Publish now sort later )

In the absence of journalists in Libya collapsing, it is possible for some time, with the pr & # 233; necessary deposits, the flow sort of cries from the river of blood. Some tears do not lie.

Image via Laurent Vermot-Gauchy

At also read Zero Second

information ecosystem (third): Surge Twitter

information ecosystem (2 / 3): P2P news

information ecosystem (3 / 3): Information broker

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Ghazi Gheblawi

Screaming Pain

Upon dawn
and after sun rise
closing yesterday, eating today
when it began, it wasn't time.
Finding me praying,
For tomorrow to save
To heal, to obstruct my scream
Upon the rise
The burning soul,
Started to rise
And rays of glow,
Struck my eyes

Inside the pain of mine
Lives my joy
With candles and scents of past
Approaching till today
Sitting, eating pieces
Of cold sadness,
And dead happiness
Killed smiles,
Childish laughers.
Inside lives joy
forgetting its being,
Losing icts name
Sending icts Last Sigh, last icts joy.

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Suffering to shout


the morning
And at sunset
Complete yesterday, enjoy the Today
Initially, it is already too late.
As I pray
For tomorrows save
Soothe , obstructing my screams
At sunrise
my soul on fire
who exalts
And these rays blazing
Who hit my eye

In My pain
throbs with joy mine
include candles and scents of the past
Approaching still far
Sit down, biting to
A cold sadness
Happiness vanished
Smiles bruised
laughter of children.
My inner joy
Who forgets who she is
Loses up to its name
Addressing his last breath, his ultimate joy.

© Adaptation: George Festa - 02.2011
Courtesy Ghazi Gheblawi.

Born in 1975, Ghazi Gheblawi is a poet. He lives in Libya.

site: http://www.gheblawi.com/

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Baliozian Ara - Poems / Poems

Denis Donikian
"On my skin dry and suns.
How to write. "
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The Human Condition


We walk like apes
Eat like cannibals
talk like parrots
Fight dragons like
And call Ourselves
Civilized human beings.

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The human condition


As we walk the monkeys
As we eat cannibals
Since we're talking parrots
As dragons we fight
And we dare say
civilized human beings.


Haiku


Little toadstools
On the lawn:
Reminders of Hiroshima.

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Haiku


Small toadstools
On the lawn:
Recalls Hiroshima.


Dreams / Nightmares


When Dreams Come True
/ They turn
Into Nightmare.

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Dreams / Nightmares


Where dreams
To realize / They turn
In nightmares.


Ara Baliozian

Texts from: Armenian-American Poets: A Bilingual Anthology , ed. and trans. Gariga Basmadjian (Detroit, Mich.: Alex Manoogian Cultural Fund of the Armenian General Benevolent Union, 1976).

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Source: http://armenian-poetry.blogspot.com/search/label/Ara% 20Baliozian
Translations: © George Festa - 02.2011

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Emma Gevorghian

Emblem of the Republic of Armenia Soviet Socialist
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The vicissitudes of an Armenian after the Second World War

by Anoush Garsanzian

Deportate, spurge, profughe , No. 4, March 2006

Entering the orbit the Soviet Union, the Republic of Armenia hired 600,000 men in the Second World War, of which 200 000 were Armenians from the diaspora, and this one with ulterior objective: to save what remained of the great Armenia. Many never returned from that conflict, while the few who managed to save their skins were placed under surveillance, and if they showed too agitated, exiled to Siberia by the Stalinist government, anxious to prevent the reconstitution of a ruling class Armenian.
The Armenians, who have always maintained the historical memory of their people, to which they educate their children, who suffer and have fun, now as before, remember it well.
12 and 13 June 1949: two dates indelible in the minds of Armenian and that of Mrs. Emma Gevorghian, petulant septuagenarian 77, who lives in the village of Panik (Artik region). The night of 12 to 13 June 1949, Emma was at home with her son born recently, her husband was then in Russia.

"At midnight the bell rang at the door and I, who was not yet fully awake nor aware of what was happening, I found myself facing the mayor with two policemen. They ordered me to get dressed and take my baby for 15 days with the minimum for a business trip. I was lost, I could not understand what was happening. I took a short stack, I've wrapped my baby and I joined the truck that was waiting outside, not knowing where he was taking us. I did not know what was happening and why. That night, dozens of other families were deported from the village: only four of them returned, we have had no news of others. We, Armenians Oriental could not imagine that the Russians can behave so badly and for us they had always been saviors, friends, brothers! "

At night, they transfer Emma truck in a freight train:

" Lots of ordinary people were charged the train with their children, without a word, without complaint, sad faces crying without shedding a tear. Where do they take them and why? ... What did they do? ... "

Such were the questions that came and went in Emma's head without being able to find a plausible explanation, logical.

"On the sidewalk, police hurried and pushed women into the cars, one of them dropped, another weeping, and then, once inside, they closed the doors and nobody could know anything, nor humbly ask the reason for such acts. "

Mrs. Emma remembers her aunt, they had put in a car next to her, passing her and throwing a bowl:" Emma, "to wash the breakfast! It will serve you! "

" We left, but without knowing where ... Nobody flinched, nobody cried, even if we suspect a little of what would happen then ... No one spoke to anyone, everyone had plenty to discovered, but had not the courage to ask ... or inform. During the journey a woman began to have pain after the blows received during a transfer, another is dead. He had to stay together until the next stop, which never happened, in order to free themselves from the corpses of those who died, and also to give orphaned children in various orphanages on the road to ... nothing. They gave us food once a day, food that looked like dirty water or just as, given the smell. Women in the car got a terrible smell, due to the natural needs met standing vision indescribable. "

The trip lasted a month, the car lost 30% of women of held, they do support neither hunger nor heat, nor a long trip in such conditions. A month later, the train arrived in Siberia in the village of Altaj. There they separated the men and sent them in different places, separated again. Mrs Emma was with a dozen families who already knew before this adventure, an adventure which was also mixed with an Armenian family in Lebanon, returned diaspora in Armenia, in the hope of a better life and who, unlike suddenly found himself exiled to Siberia for no reason or motive.

" Good people. They had two son. Two of their wives and children died in distant Siberia and one saved his skin, all this large family. He lived to be able to tell me about the suffering of a life filled with hope, ended tragically. We lived in one room, which served as a dormitory for the night all but a bathroom, dining room and lounge. I could not speak because of fear, I became silent and only after a long period that I started to talk. I wanted to write myself a letter to Armenia to tell them where I was and what I did, but Of course, everything being controlled by the police, I could not write to them that I was wrong, I was in a terrible situation! "

Four months later, the husband of Emma went in search of his wife and son to get them out of hell Siberia, but not having the right to do it was also deported and remained there.
Mrs. Emma then asked her husband the reason for all this, why a man looking for his family could in turn be deported. So it taught him that all those who made war and, for a particular reason, had surrendered to the enemy or had been captured, had no choice: not to return to their homeland. Only remaining way to deportation. Anyone returning to Armenia, as defeated or victorious soldier, was sentenced to exile in a faraway place, a fate undeserved and heavy unknowns. They stayed eight years in this difficult situation. Winter lasts about seven months in Siberia, with temperatures reaching - 40 ° C. Winds and snowstorms are the daily lot.

"Only men were able, they were united together, to go outside to brave the storm together to bring some wood and food for their families. They ate little, but he had to eat to survive. So we started making our own bread at home and raise chickens. From time to time, they took the men for questioning in the barracks, to know God knows what ... It is not known. It was forbidden to speak a language other than Russian and no one spoke Armenian as when we were home alone, but always at our heels ... afraid that somebody might hear the words not spoken Russian. It Thus were born in exile that my son Kolya and Valya, Russian first names. We could not give that Russian names to our children. They had no right to think of giving these beautiful Armenian names to our children. We could not even think about it ... Not far ... We lived in an area of 20 square meters. Everything had become difficult to treat, have medications and a lot of things. It lasted like this until the death of Stalin ... "

Stalin's death has also left a strong impression in the mind of Emma

"When the news of his death arrived, we all started crying, tears of joy sad. The sad eyes of those that have suffered and never profited could not keep from crying. But in our heart they all say, "Finally! With Stalin's death they all began to hope to return to their homeland, Armenia, but many have not had the courage to do so, fearing that during the trip should something happens to them and that s By taking their brothers and sisters they had left in Armenia. "

Finally, in 1956, Emma, her husband and their three children back to Armenia.

"In Armenia, long after Stalin's death, his shadow a reign of terror. That's how nowhere, my husband could find work, I started working the land in the village and he, finding nothing to do in his homeland, went back to work in Russia, where he died, five years after. "

Today, Mrs. Emma is 77 years old, she lives with her youngest son and his nephews. In his eyes read the long, difficult nights that she has suffered, but she is happy now: at least his life is worthy and above all she is alive, which is much, seen so many people who were with her have died without seeing their homeland.

"Life is always beautiful! "She says.

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Source: http://www.unive.it/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=21730
Translation from Italian: © George Festa - 02.2011
Courtesy of Bruna Bianchi (Università Ca 'Foscari, Venice).

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Armenian Genocide - Repairs

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The movement for reparations and a genuine settlement of the Armenian genocide

by Henry C. Theriault, Ph.D.

the Armenian Weekly, April 2010

In Memory of Dennis Brutus, poet and activist South African Human Rights, 1924 - 2009


[Over the last five centuries of genocide, slavery, apartheid, mass rape, conquest and occupation imperial wars aggressive targeting non-combatants, expulsions of populations and other mass violations of human rights have proliferated. Each process has lasted for months, if not centuries. While the companies were mostly responsible for the traditional European states or the states of European settlement in Australia, Africa and the Americas, states and societies in Asia and Africa are also among them. These processes have been the decisive force that has shaped the demography, economy, political structures and forces, and the characteristics cultural world in which we live today, and the conflicts and challenges we face. For example, why the population of the United States is what it is - why African Americans are there, which have "disappeared" millions of Native Americans, why are the Vietnamese and Cambodians have immigrated to the U.S. States, etc.. - Needs to recognize the fundamental role of genocide, slavery and war in the formation of aggressive U.S. and regions such as sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia is affected by these phenomena.]

Around the world, people in poverty, victimized war after war, small groups of residues once numerous, and others realize that their current difficulties, their present poverty, the direct result of these powerful forces operating submission and destruction. Besides the irresistible logic of "necessary impartiality" - impartial treatment necessary for their physical survival and basic dignity as human beings - many acknowledge that the devastating effects of these past injustices must be addressed in a serious way, if their groups and companies can expect to exist in the future and sustainably. This recognition has led to various movements of repairs. Native Americans claim land withdrawn through a brutal conquest, genocide and a sham. African Americans require compensation for their contribution to a significant portion of the activity that built the United States, their work was stolen and paid back by the only cruelty, violence and destruction of individuals and communities. Formerly colonized societies, whose work was exploited to build Europe and North America, whose raw materials were stolen to provide resources and whose companies were "de-developed", are now struggling to survive, while the global societies of North, built from their losses, capitalizing on their depredations prior to consolidate their domination. And so on.

past decade, those involved in these battles began to become aware of their common cause and a global movement for reparations has emerged. In 2005, for example, the Worcester State College, Massachusetts, organized an international symposium on reparations, which was attended by Dennis Brutus, a famous activist for human rights, with papers on repairs under apartheid in South Africa, Jim Crow - under slavery and African-American beyond - the genocide of Native Americans and the theft of land, the system of "comfort women" - sex slaves implemented by Japan, the overall use of debt instrument as "post-colonial" domination, and the Armenian genocide. While major repair process in the tens if not hundreds, in the world today, it may be instructive to study these cases in detail, as illustrations of the many battles.
Slavery in the United States destroyed African societies, exploiting and abusing millions of people for 250 years. At its abolition, he threw the former slaves in the U.S. economy, private land, capital and education. The initial recognition of the need to pay any compensation for slavery, to give former slaves a chance for economic self-sufficiency elementary aroused violent racism and discriminatory treatment. Former slaves were incorporated by force in the economic order at the lowest level. Wealth is preserved through the generations through inheritance. Those whose population began with little and n'asservissent or exploiting others, will remain with little. The movement for reparations for African Americans recognize that poverty, discrimination and other challenges facing African Americans today are the result of injustices perpetrated there for over 100 years, never been repaired as well as violence and discrimination racist later who were then preserved the status quo of the post-slavery.

The South African case revolves around the fact that while the world turned away from South Africa during the 1980s, the Afrikaner government borrowed money, especially in Switzerland, to continue finance apartheid. Against the international embargo, loans bankers were paying rifles and other military equipment used to kill black militants and keep their people in slavery. The end of slavery did not mean that debt. Today, South Africans live in poverty because their country is obliged to repay tens of billions U.S. $ loans contracted before, so keeping them in slavery. They also pay billions more for the pensions of military officials, police and government Afrikaner which rivers comfortable days after murdered with impunity, tortured and raped for decades. More, the U.S. and other multinationals have withdrawn huge profits from the labor of South Africans. Many victims of apartheid-related debt to reject these loans and require compensation for all they have suffered and all that they have been expropriated, as a fair way out of their society poverty. After years of rejection, the South African government itself has recently revised its position, based on a desire to curry favor large multinationals, and began supporting the court proceedings relating to reparations from multinationals enriched by apartheid.
the aftermath of decolonization, of societies devastated by decades if not centuries of occupation of exploitation, destruction of crops and families and genocide, found themselves in poverty and lacking the resources most basic, necessary to meet the minimum needs of their population. Suddenly forced to compete with those who had enriched and increased their cultural and military power through the settlement, they had no chance. Having no other choice but to borrow money in hopes of "catching up". But selfish and corrupt leaders have embezzled billions on private bank accounts (with the consent of former colonial powers), investing in public works or foolish and irrelevant if not monopolizing the money supposed to help these people. Donors such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, then imposed their conditions to precipitate these companies in a new enslavement to the economies of the United States and other major powers. Honor loans that have not helped their economies to grow back now to sacrifice public services and basic health care to these desperate companies and accept an external control scale on them in favor of the former colonizers and multinationals, and at the cost of further degradation of human dignity and physical conditions of their populations. Jubilee Movement calls for the obliteration Debt as a step forward towards justice under the devastation caused by colonialism and post-colonialism, and a transition towards a sustainable and equitable global economy.
The former "comfort women" have long been outraged dignity in their own countries and from Japan. They were often impoverished because of their terrible experience, raped thousands of times in rape camps permanent as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers. Physical damage associated with these incessant forced sex and brutal violence to which these military tenders, consequences of a forced addiction to drugs and intense psychological trauma have frequently accompanied these women into old age. They needed medical care, and recognition of human injustice perpetrated against them. In the early 1990s, "comfort women" survivors began to demand reparations to address the consequences of what they had suffered.

Native Americans and Armenians share some similarities in their experiences and their current challenges, because of their crushing games and imperial conquests of powerful rival and successive, and a series of treaties broken or unfair and to a history of massacres, sexual violence and social destruction. Members of both groups were taken to death during the "long march". In the aftermath of a genocide perpetrated by means of active direct killing and deportations death, what remained of these people was even removed from their lands, through raids and destruction of hundreds of thousands to millions of graves Native Americans as part of a policy elite "science" of the United States, and the continued destruction of the Armenian Church and other remaining structures through Turkey. For Native Americans, the continued expropriation of land and resources, the blocking of social structures and demographic catastrophic destruction of these same populations (estimated at 97% in the United States on the mainland) have left the Indian nations subject the whims of government of the United States, forced to fight to preserve their identity and physical survival in a hostile world. Repairs, particularly with regard to traditional territories, are essential the survival of indigenous peoples and cultures. Similarly, lost its status as the largest minority in the Ottoman Empire a century ago, an Armenian population of less than 3 million people in the new republic faces a Turkey of 70 million people with resources tremendous economic, built on the plunder of wealth and land of the Armenians - via a genocide, preceded by a century of oppression and mass killings - and a huge military power gained from using the United States, in recognition of its regional power - also obtained by means of genocide. The Armenian diaspora, which has about 5 million members, is dispersed throughout the world, slowly losing its cohesion and its relevance, as powerful forces of assimilation and fragmentation take their share. Reparations in the form of compensation for looted wealth, we can identify in many cases families and business circles in Turkey today, as well as territorial and so emptied of Armenians " turkicization "through genocide, are crucial to the viability of society and the Armenian culture in the future. Without this kind of sanctuary that the Treaty of Sevres was supposed to give to the Armenians, a true regeneration is impossible: the Turkish government, always violently hostile to the Armenians, is growing every day, while Armenia residual post-genocidal decline.
course, repairs are not only to mitigate damage to human communities, to make possible in the future some semblance of recovery or survival, but it's important. The repairs are also a tangible recognition, material, permanent, beyond words, from the groups perpetrators or their descendants, the moral injustice of what has been done, and the dignity and legitimacy of human victims groups. They take the form of genuine apology and an act by which members who wrote the original infringement against the rights of man or who have taken advantage - economic, political, military, cultural and terms of security of the identity of individuals and groups - break decisively with the past and refuse to promote genocide, slavery, apartheid, mass rape, the imperial conquest and occupation, war aggressively focused on civilians, forced evictions and other forms of violations of human rights.

It is in this spirit that in 2007, Jermaine McCalpin, political scientist, who recently defended his doctoral thesis at Brown University [Providence, Rhode Island], a specialist long-term justice and the democratic transformation of societies after mass violations of human rights; Ara Papian, former Ambassador of Armenia in Canada and an expert in diplomatic history and law, Alfred de Zayas, a former lawyer with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Petitions of support, and currently Professor of International Law at the Institute for Diplomatic Studies and International Relations in Geneva [Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations] and myself, met to consider the issue of reparations under the Armenian genocide in concrete terms. The Task Force on Reparations under the Armenian Genocide [Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group - AGRSG] resulted in an interim report on the legal justifications, diplomatic and ethical repairs and makes concrete proposals for the political process that will support real repairs.
International law clearly states that the groups who are entitled to compensation for the injuries committed against them. This applies to the Armenian genocide for two reasons. First, the acts committed against the Armenians are illegal under international law at the time of the genocide. Second, the United Nations Convention of 1948 on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide applies retroactively. Although the term "genocide" was not yet invented, when the Armenian genocide of 1915 was perpetrated, the Convention subsumes laws and existing international agreements relevant, such as the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. As genocide is illegal under both conventions, it remains illegal under the 1948. In addition, the Republic of Turkey today, as the successor of the Ottoman Empire and beneficiary of wealth and land expropriated by the 1915 genocide, has the responsibility to repair.
While the Treaty of Sevres of 1920, which recognized an Armenian state more extensive than exists today, has never been ratified, some elements keep the force of law and the treaty as such has not been superseded by the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923. In particular, the delimitation of an Armenian state was undertaken pursuant to this treaty and decided by binding arbitration award. Whatever the final mode of ratification of this treaty, the procedure implemented by the commission to decide the award was accepted by the Contracting Parties to the Treaty, under international law, the resulting decision is legally law, whatever the ultimate fate of the treaty. This means that under international law, the so-called "Wilsonian borders" are the real borders of the Armenian state, which should exist today in Asia Minor.

Various arguments were moral wielded against repairs in general, especially for damage committed during the previous decades or centuries. Both are of considerable importance, namely that 1) a State and a contemporary society that have not committed a violation of mass human rights, but have merely succeeded to the state and society who were the authors do not bear the responsibility for this crime, or to repair the damage, because it would penalize innocent people, and 2) those that require repair in terms of land under the Armenian genocide implement a territorial nationalist irredentism of the same order as the Turkish nationalism, which led a turkicization land through genocide, which is illegitimate.
At the first objection, the report said that, because the current members of Turkish society benefit directly the destruction of Armenians in terms of increasing political and cultural power, and territory "Turkish" significantly more extensive and a large amount of personal wealth and state that were the basis for a series of economic developments, they have a connection with the genocide. Even if they can be morally criticized for that, they are responsible for the return of wealth and the application of compensations against Armenians to other dimensions of genocide. A second objection, the report said that the lands in question became "Turkish "Under the project specifically ultranationalist genocide. Maintain the land so "turcisées indicates an implicit approval of this genocidal ultra-nationalism, while raising their control in Turkey is the only path leading to a rejection of this ideology.
addition to legal arguments, political and ethical justifications repairs, the report also proposes a complex model in the political process to determine and carry out repairs. The report highlights the fact that material reparations and symbolic reparations, including apologies and dissemination of truth on what happened in 1915, and the rehabilitation of the corporation commission, are essential components of a process of repair, with regard to achieving a stable and respectful of human rights. The report proposes to convene a Commission on Truth and repairs under the Armenian Genocide, involving Turkey, Armenia and others who work to promote both a set of feasible repair and rehabilitation process conditioning repairs to a democratic transformation positive, respectful of others, state and society Turkish. Both repairs constitute a settlement of the legacy of the Armenian genocide, as they will be an opportunity for productive social change in Turkey, which will benefit the Turks.
Finally, the report submit preliminary recommendations for financial compensation and reparations land as such. The first is based in part on the detailed estimate of repairs prepared within the framework of the Peace Conference of Paris [1919], plus the additional consideration of items that were not sufficiently covered during this same conference, by taking into account the material losses suffered by financial Armenians. The report also considering several options regarding the restitution of land, the symbolic restitution of churches and other cultural property in Turkey to make full restitution of the territories covered by the award Wilsonian. The report includes the highly innovative option of allowing Turkey to maintain political sovereignty over the territories in question, but the demilitarizing and enabling Armenians to join the current residents, while enjoying political protection and commercial and residential rights in their entirety. This model is interesting, partly because it offers a conception of politics that respects human rights, post-national, that could be considered as part of a transition out of territorial aggressive brand of nationalism - the type adopted by the Young Turks - which often occurs if genocides and conflicts.
On May 15, 2010, the Study Group on Reparations under the Armenian Genocide [Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group - AGRSG] will officially present the report at a public event at the Institute of Analysis and Conflict Resolution, near George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia.

[ Henry C. Theriault has a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts (1999), specializing in social and political philosophy. Since 1998 he teaches philosophy at Worcester State College. Since 2007 he is deputy editor of the journal Genocide Studies and Prevention . His research focuses on a philosophical approach to issues of genocide, particularly denial, critical thinking and the criteria for demonstrating the long-term justice, analysis ethical motivations of perpetrators, as well as the role of violence against women in genocide. Among his publications: "Rousseau, Plato, and Western Philosophy's Genocidal Anti-Strain" [The anti-genocide in Rousseau, Plato, and in Western philosophy], in Metacide: Genocide In The Pursuit of Excellence , ed. James R. Watson and Erik M. Vogt (Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, published in 2010 - translator's note) "The Albright-Cohen Report: From Fantasy to Realpolitik Realist Ethics," Genocide Studies and Prevention 4.2 (August 2009); and "Genocide, Denial and Denomination: Armenian-Turkish Relations From Conflict Resolution to Just Transformations" National University of Rwanda Center for Conflict Management Journal , April 2009.]

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Source: http://www.armenianweekly.com/
Translation: © George Festa, Ph . D. - 02.2011

Courtesy of KM, editor of the Armenian Weekly .

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Watson: Watson's intelligence increased

Since this week, so we know that the machine can play on the field of questions and answers with a blur in the context relevance and surprising speed. It fell yesterday by chance on a game show where a contestant had to remember the name of the country, its population, its capital and its lawful currency of flags from before it dawned on me that soon this archaic desire to see the capabilities of robotic memory hypertrophied encyclopedic information of candidates. And so, some experts ...

Watson has won . We do not yet see all the symbolic and actual changes that will bring. Here's a little back of what was said on the subject of smart this week.

This post follows my two previous reports on the subject: Exponential, my dear Watson and Watson first

expansion, Raphaële Karayan has collected about Jean-Gabriel Ganascia in cognitive science:

That shows us that experience in artificial intelligence?

Jean-Gabriel Ganascia " Herbert Simon, a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, who developed with Watson IBM had announced in 1957 that computers would become capable of writing music and to become world champions of chess. He retorted that it was impossible. And then there was Deep Blue . It then said: " not really intelligence, it's abstract and systematic calculation. True intelligence is language. "Here we see that a computer is capable in very concrete situations to cope so amazing."

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In his blog on Automata intelligent Le Monde, Jean-Paul Baquiast paints a realistic picture of future impacts on the world of work

What one might conclude on Artificial Intelligence .

John Paul Baquiast: "Contrary to what one believes , most threatened will those who today call for elaborate forms of natural language understanding and judgment based on considerable amounts of accumulated knowledge in their brains as well as in literature sources they use. "

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These are professionals who have expertise based on their ability to store information stored and make complex inferences (think doctors, lawyers, teachers, its appearance "question / answer "of their employment) who may fear the worst with comeback "expert systems".

John Paul Baquiat remains skeptical of a computational approach based on "brute force" machine, facing the man who will always be more imaginative and creative.

That makes him say that Watson is not a form of artificial intelligence (simulated intelligence) but a form of increased intelligence (assembly and overlap of knowledge).

Have you read other intelligent conclusions on the subject?

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Lory Bedikian - Night in Lebanon / Lebanon Night

Night in Lebanon


The Youngest boy, With his ulcer,
sleeps. His lower lip pulsates, a small fish
breathing. A bed of torn pillows, cradles four
of them, two brothers, two sisters –
curved, quiet on the living room floor.
Buzzing, the open window has its mouth full
of street lights, mosquitoes, those who stay
awake. Peeled paint on the ceiling, the door

sheds the skin it wore through
a drawn-out, twenty-year civil war.
The parents sleep in a room full of faith
hammered to the walls. Posing, a copper
cross, its inscription in Armenian asks
for blessing of God upon this home.
Through the mother’s sleeping lips a prayer
slips, rises, drifts and hovers above the boy

who dreams : he’s a grown man
spinning yarn around their home
until it’s as thick as a bombshell.
Then, cane in hand, walking through a cedar
grove, he drops a string of worry
beads into a well. Cracking a pumpkin
seed open with his teeth, he tastes
childhood in each closed casing.

In the morning, a thin scroll
of bread filled with tomato paste, oil, mint
will start the hurried day. But now, he sleeps
as he did the day he was born. Stillnes
Enters His lip, mouth history finally rest
have breathing When He Will IS His older
Whose finger Than This war has carved a scar
in HIM, The Size Of An Eye That Will not closed.

Lory Bedikian


Night in Lebanon


The youngest, with his ulcer,
asleep. Her lower lip quivers, like a small fish
breathing. The bed pillows ripped rocks
four, two brothers, two sisters -
huddled, quiet on the living room floor.
buzzing with the window open and his mouth filled
of city lights, mosquitoes, those
awake. Peeling paint on the ceiling, the door

discarding the skin which was endorsed during
an interminable civil war, twenty years.
Parents sleeping in a room filled with a faith
nailed to the walls. Affixed a cross
copper inscription in Armenian called
God's blessing on this house.
lips of the sleeping mother a prayer
slides, rises, drift and flutters around the boy

that dream: he is the man adult
weaving a thread around their house
until it has the thickness a shell.
Then, stick in hand, through a grove
cedar, it takes a komboloï Pearl
in a well. Cracking a seed
pumpkin with his teeth, he feels
his childhood in each sealed envelope.

the morning, a thin slice
bread filled with tomato juice, oil, mint
open on day release. For now, he sleeps
as he did at birth. Immobility
wins his lips, his mouth finally rests,
breathing as he will when his breath is older
this war whose finger was cut a scar
in him, big as an eye that does not close.

Adaptation: George Festa - 02.2011


Night in Lebanon was published in the journal Crab Orchard (Vol. 8, No. 1, 2003) - site: http:// craborchardreview.siuc.edu / - and was again published in Blue Arc West: An Anthology of California Poets (ed. Tebot Bach, 2007). Reprinted in Poets Against War - site: www.poetsagainstthewar.org .

Lory Bedikian is the recipient of the 2011 Levine Prize in Poetry.

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Source: http://armenian-poetry.blogspot.com/2008/05/lory-bedikian-night-in-lebanon.html

Armenian Poetry Project, a project of Lola Koundakjian

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Hratchia Kotchar - Vahram Alazan - Zabel Essayan

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Hratchia Kotchar, The White Paper - Vahram Alazan, Paths suffering - Essayan Zabel, On Meguerditch Bechigtachlian and Bedros Tourian

by Eddie Arnavoudian

www.groong.org

1.

In the early 1960s, freed of some of the constraints of past policies, some Armenian writers managed to address some aspects of 1915, with a level of artistic integrity and patriotism that this avoided the vulgar chauvinism, which destroy any creative potential. Among these works is a volume entitled The White Paper , the Armenian Soviet Hratchia Kotchar writer, who died tragically in 1966 at age 55. Collection of two novels and several short stories, The White Paper is a reflection on the strength of national identity and the human will to live.

The most remarkable work in this volume is Desire, enthusiastic and sincere a reconstruction of life in Soviet Armenia during the 1930s, the genocide against the backdrop of the story alive. Arakel aging is a refugee, a native of Western Armenia, which caused a political crisis after illegally crossing the border into Soviet Armenia what was once a province of Armenia. It is motivated by a strong desire to visit his birthplace and honor the graves of his family.

Wonderful writing exercise, the story talks about his struggle to revisit, remember and thereby recover and relive those things and places, who shared the existence of the older generation of refugees of 1915. It is also a faithful picture of the daily life of these peasants, now settled in villages of Soviet Armenia. The clashes between generations, between families and between political factions, who exploit the political crisis caused by Arakel to advance their interests, their supporters and reduce their opponents, are finely seized. All levels of society are portrayed, without embellishment, the central state apparatus in Yerevan, the capital, to City Council with its leaders squabble. The answer brittle and bureaucratic government officials of all ranks to requests Arakel determines the fate of many individuals and families. Commendable feature of the work, the realistic depiction of members of the Kurdish community, which avoids the parameters of a widespread racist mythology. It is a hymn to human life.

Nahabed , the other short novel is not as refined and penetrating. But he reconstructs the suffering, despair and renewed hope, a house and a home that followed the massacres of 1915. Although Nahabed like character, is close to caricature, it does not diminish the warmth and humanity that his experience is marked.

His experiences during the genocide traumatized Nahabed. It is gripped by despair and a fatalistic resignation to his death. Yet despite this, he remarried to a somewhat advanced age, creates children and begins to rebuild a life. This transformation is depicted not without strength, vigor and density of emotion. What gives it depth and power is the fact that the revival of Nahabed is not inspired or triggered by some revelation "inner" metaphysical or supernatural value of human life in the abstract. It is more the product of social pressures, social solidarity, of family issues and support the local community. For deep of their despair, human communities have to live and when they do, they bring with them to the people most desperate and discouraged.

2.

Paths suffering (Yerevan editions Sovetakan Krogh, 1990), Vahram Alazan, is written in Armenian wonderfully intact. The style and manner of telling is simple and friendly as if we were narrated some ancient tale. Yet it is a testimony to the harsh and brutal life in Soviet camps from 1936 to early 1950. A tribute to the courage, solidarity and human resistance. Alazan was a devoted member of the Communist Party of Armenia, a man of letters, poet and novelist. He was also one of the main popularizers of Western Armenian literature in Soviet Armenia. Like many others, he was the victim of the purges.

The real courage, notes Paul Nizan, is to overcome small enemies. Fifteen years in prison and exile, Alazan never lacked that true courage. At each step, he and his companions did show an amazing ability to bounce back and show resistance. Never succumb to despair or. Solidarity and collective protests against the powers that be made sure that during the years darkest, they preserved their humanity, their spirit and hope.

During their two-month journey towards Siberia, they protest by throwing out the window of the car that stale bread and rotten supposed to feed them. Their leader is imprisoned, ten days in an isolated cell without light or heating. At camp, they live in fear of imminent execution. They see many comrades be convened in the premises of the prison and never returned. The common criminals with whom they are forced to mingle, are encouraged to persecute hitting and stealing political prisoners, hoping to demoralize them and reduce them to the state of horse passive and obedient. Despite high blood pressure and serious heart problems, Alazan is forced to perform grueling physical work in arctic conditions. He saw many friends and fellow prisoners die of exhaustion, disease and hunger.

Despite this hell that is their daily existence, political prisoners are still human, still enjoy life, laugh, joke, have fun and hope. In fact, their behavior is marked by nobility. Rendered, after months of confinement isolated in the company of their fellow detainees, they organize parties foolish, as if they were in paradise. A hot bath and a set of clean clothes arouse in them a sense of freedom. They organize conferences and debates. They meet Gurgen Mahari and celebrate his twenty years of literary activity. The book is filled with poignant anecdotes about life in the camps, on meetings with other artists and intellectuals imprisoned and ingenuity deployed as prisoners in their struggle to remain human.

There are fields whose existential one would have liked to talk see Alazan, but he keeps silent. There's just an observation on the political spirit of time and the cultural and political battles that led to the purges. Virtually nothing is said of his creative attempts, his efforts and frustrations. In some ways, however, we find an allusion to an important contemporary political attachment. Aghasi Khanjian, then leader of the Communist Party of Armenia, who was also a victim of the purges, appears as the champion decided and convinced of the Armenian national interests against an overbearing central government. During his life he took up the defense of Charents and Bakounts. There was a significant barrier against the objectives of Beria to replace the leadership of the Communist Party of Armenia by ignoble "yes-man." Beria then assassinate him, removing a significant barrier to the purges that ensued.

Alazan was not released from the gulag in 1946 at the age of 43 years. But, like many others, it was not yet a free man. He had to spend another eight years of exile in Siberia, before regaining their freedom. In 1954, he was reinstated in the Communist Party and began to write. But his health was broken. He died ten years later.

3.

The detailed test of Essayan Zabel, On Meguerditch Bechigtachlian and Bedros Tourian, reveals an intellectual and a leading artist. With a sensitivity and depth invigorating, she addresses issues of national, social, political and artistic. Result, a brilliant presentation and informed the poet and playwright Bechigtachlian (1828-1868) (despite the title, and unfortunately for us, there Bedros Tourian not keep its promises) and his time. Here's what we've been able to glean.

Bechigtachlian lived during the Enlightenment in the 19th century Armenian and decline of the Ottoman Empire. A moment of national rebirth in which, alongside the emergence of a new middle-class Armenian intelligentsia developed a relatively large national integrity. This period witnessed the fight to save, revive and modernize the Armenian language and turn it into a tool for elevation of the people. It then also show delivery drama, the art of letter writing, poetry and prose modern Armenian. The great intellectuals, artists and thinkers of the time, which Bechigtachlian, vowed their efforts to improve the lot of the people.

The intellectual progressive Armenian had much to do in Constantinople. In order to gain social status, power and progress, the Armenian elite who had settled there, readily assimilated all that was Ottoman, except religion. She revered all that was foreign and a class composed of the most revolting parasites and servile. This same elite showed contempt virulent and almost racist against tens of thousands of immigrants newly arrived from the Armenian provinces. And it is against this backdrop that progressive intellectuals sought to revive the consciousness, culture and national language. The broader objective of this democratic enterprise was significantly lay the groundwork for economic and social progress for the mass of the Armenian people - the oppressed peasantry and immigrants occupying the slums in cities. This is the context in which Essayan comments on plays and poetry Bechigtachlian.

The approach to art by Bechigtachlian Essayan is as penetrating as his evocation of the conditions that eventually led to his appearance. Incisive and uncompromising, she is very spiritual in his devastating critique of "political theater" contemporary, with its absurd plot, characters one-dimensional, cardboard, pulp, and its bombastic and verbose dialogue. It notes however that this theater, truly inept in terms of art is the work of men and women have a real artistic talent. Why did he take this form? Because at that time, theater is not really art, this is propaganda, a tool to reach the people, a way to revive the consciousness and pride. For the Armenian oppressed, the romantic image, often crudely disguised, ancient glories, sowed the seeds of a new national pride. The theater was not, as for the middle classes in Europe, an entertainment. So that, despite all its shortcomings in relation to standards and criteria of artistic perfection, this repertoire played a positive role and was, in fact, praised by the people. He met a real need. This literature and propaganda permeates nearly their whole historical novels, plays and Armenian poetry.

His assessment of the poetry of Bechigtachlian is equally complimentary, indicating a highly developed artistic sensibility. It there is almost no trace of sentimentality appalling that this declamation and bombast that plague his speeches and plays. A refined taste, a sense of balance and harmony, all contribute admirably to make the grief and emotions of the human soul. The appreciation of poetry by Essayan Armenian classical Bechigtachlian is significant. If nationalist and patriotic poetry, written in modern Armenian, is of high quality, not without a universal dimension, it is with his writing in Armenian classical Bechigtachlian may, in its view, be ranked alongside the greatest poets through the world.

[ Arnavoudian Eddie is a graduate of history and political science from Manchester, England. He has published numerous essays and political Haratch (Paris), Nairi (Beirut) and Open Letter (Los Angeles).]

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Source: http://groong.usc.edu/tcc / cc-20000524.html
Article published 24.05.2000.
Translation: © George Festa - 02.2011
Courtesy of Eddie Arnavoudian.