Le monde est simple comme un coup de fil, dit le slogan (“Le monde s’enfile” c’était mieux ^^). Mercredi, alors que je glandouillais sur le net travaillais d’arrache-pied pour mener à bien la réalisation de notre projet, je reçois un coup de fil :

Et là commence un dialogue intérieur, un formidable combat de pros et de cons, dont l’épique résultat final déterminera tout l’avenir de l’humanité, ou au moins ce que je vais faire ce soir.

Ah. Là je marque un point. (OUI, je suis une merde).

* Attention, ce sont des didascalies, il ne faut pas les lire à voix haute sinon on ne comprend pas tout.
** Entre anciens légionnaires, on a du jargon que le commun des mortels ne peut comprendre.

Mais qui est ce mystérieux groupe au nom chantant et évoquant le parler de la belle province ? Il s’agit bien d’un groupe québequois, formé en 1996 ; après trois CDs autoproduits de chansons naïves folk/rock, ils sortent en 2002 Break Syndical, qui les propulsera sur le devant de la scène au Québec, et leur permettra de percer en Europe. Suivront 3 albums studios, toujours quelquepart entre leurs deux valeurs, l’engagement et la naïveté.
Pour ceux qui voudraient les découvrir, je ne peux que vous conseiller Break Syndical, l’engagé (2002), mon préféré, La Grand-messe, le désabusé (2004), le préféré d’El.Dri, ou L’Expédition, le tragicomique (2008), le préféré de Sablaetis ^^ .

S’ils ont rempli des stades de 20.000 personnes dès 2003 au Québec, en Europe ils dont des salles plus petites. Le Zenith est une de leurs premières grosses salles en France – mais bien que ce soit un signe de consécration pour les artistes, à mon gout on perd trop en intimité…
Le concert commence “doucement” par l’expédition, et continue sans s’arrêter pendant quatre chansons : le rythme est donné. Le groupe, comme à son habitude, est déchaîné, l’ambiance est survoltée, mais, me fera-t-on remarquer, sans doute à cause de la présence de caméras ce soir là, ils sont moins déconnants et plus à cheval sur la perfection technique que d’habitude – pas de saut dans le public pour Karl Tremblay cette fois-ci. Ça ne les empêche pas de faire les pitres, bouger et sauter dans tous les sens. Si vous n’avez jamais vu trois guitar/bassistes traverser la moitié de la scène en bondissant en parallèle, c’est là qu’il faut aller. En particulier, Jean-François Pauzé à la guitarre et Marie-Annick Lépine au violon sont impressionnants tellement ils sautent ou dansent tout en jouant (juste ^^). Les chansons jouées varient en fonction des soirs (Le Mans a eu Léopold, la chance…), mais les trois derniers albums sont évidemment très représentés ; Break Syndical voir également plusieurs de ses chansons jouées, ce sont celles qui déchainent le plus le public, qui connait les paroles par cœur ; les albums plus anciens n’ont par contre droit qu’à une ou deux chansons. On variera entre les solos endiablés et les moments d’émotion.
Au Zénith, la fin a été très sage : trois rappels pour une douzaine de chansons, le dernier rappel obtenu en chantant tous en coeur un refrain pendant plusieurs minutes. Les lumières se rallument, les gens s’en vont. Pour comparaison, à l’Olympia, après le quatrième rappel, les lumières se rallument. Les gens ne bougent pas, continuent à chanter, applaudir, appeler. Le gérant arrive sur scène et dit que c’est fini, il faut partir maintenant. Idem, une bonne moitié de la salle refuse de partir et continue l’hystérie. Le gérant, craignant sans doute pour sa belle salle, finit par autoriser les Cowboys à faire un ultime rappel

Car ce qui fait la folie des concerts des Cowboys Fringants, c’est justement ce public déchaîné, qui connait les paroles et les mélodies par cœur. Mes deux spécialistes du Zénith avec moi n’avaient jamais vu la fosse aussi pleine et les gens aussi motivés. Toujours dans la bonne ambiance, ça crie, ça tape des mains, ça improvise une petite piste de danse, ça chante en cœur parfois plus fort que le chanteur (pourtant le son était -trop- fort). Sur certaines chansons, comme l’hiver approche, tout le public chante de bout en bout. A l’Olympia, mille personne sautant en rythme faisaient vibrer le sol en bois au point de projeter en l’air tous ceux qui auraient hésité . Le sol en béton du Zénith résiste mieux mais frémit régulièrement dans les moments les plus hystériques.
Et puis c’est aussi des moments d’émotions : dans les étoiles filantes, lorsque Karl parle des avions en papiers, spontanément, des centaines d’avions jaillissent du public, partout dans la fosse. El.Dri qui a fait pas mal de leurs concerts n’avait jamais vu ça. De même, lorsque la salle est illuminée de centaines de briquets, portables ou feux de Bengale. Ou au moment des rappels…

Voilà, les Cowboys Fringants, c’est une musique très sympa sur des paroles intelligentes, un groupe qui séduira même un néophyte, et en concert, c’est juste énorme, superbe. Comme le montrent les blagues du début de l’article, je suis complètement claqué -et sans voix- mais toujours extasié .

Manchmal wundert man sich doch, was leute in einer Grafik alles sehen können, aber diese Tintenkleckse funktionieren ja auch. Hier gehts um Olympia 2012 in London. Eine Gruppe auf Facebook denkt bei dem Logo eher an Pornografie.

Echtes Logo:

Lisa Simpson mach schmutzige Sachen:

Was so ein bischen Farbe auslösen kann! Aber mal im Ernst, was soll das Logo eigentlich darstellen?

(Danke Brüderchen, via Heavy)

The old Olympia disc of Szabelski’s orchestral music (from Polskie Nagrania LPs) has been long out of print, so it is very exciting to see this new disc coming from DUX (it would have been even more exciting to see some previously unreleased pieces from Szabelski’s relatively small output, but I’ll settle for this). It contains new recordings of the Toccata (1936) and Concerto grosso (1954). After that comes the music of Szabelski’s student, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (not Mikołaj Górecki, as the DUX site would have us believe – that’s the name of H.M.Górecki’s son, who is also a composer): the under-appreciated and rarely heard Three Dances op. 34. Górecki’s music is followed by that of, in turn, his pupil, Eugeniusz Knapik. One of my two favorite “Stalowa Wola Generation” composers. His piece is the song cycle La flute de jade for soprano and orchestra (have never heard it). Performers are: Bożena Harasimowicz (soprano) and the Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra under Mirosław Jacek Błaszczyk. I must say I greatly appreciate the idea of building a disc around a teacher-student, generation-after-generation concept. Really looking forward to this.

(The catalog number is DUX 0732.)

Firstlight Photography welcomes Molly!

These pictures of Molly were taken within her first week.  It is a crazy time for new parents – even experienced parents like Molly’s (she’s their fourth girl!) but these early shots are so amazing.

Because it is hard for new parents to travel to our studio, we like to bring the show on the road.  Within minutes our lights and backdrop are ready to go – right in the comfort of your own home.  This is especially helpful for the parents of young children. 

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Olympia is Leni Reifenstahl documentary of the 1936 Berlin Olympics.  it was released in two parts: Olympia Fest der Volker (Olympia Part One Festival of Nations) and Olympia Fest der Schonheist (Olympia Part Two Festival of Beauty)

Olympia was controversial from its release – and with reason.  funded by the Nazi party Propaganda arm, and even with no overt Nazi content per se, the images of greater-than-life godlike athletes have been interpreted as supporting the ’superior race’.  Frau Reifenstahl herself always denied any overt or covert Nazi alliances.

a very good documentary on Frau Reifenstahl’s life and work is The wonderful horrible life of Leni Riefenstahl; in addition to exploring the Nazi question,  The wonderful… also delves on the reasons why Riefenstahl is one of the great directors of the 20th century and the innovations she brought to film:  the sudden cut, extreme close-ups, cameras on rails to pan over distances, an editing craftwomanship never seen before and rarely after her time.

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the prologue to part one of Olympia, which takes place in Greece.  the music is by Vangelis and added later

Olympia (Prologue) – Leni Riefenstahl & Vangelis

again from part one, the running of the Olympic torch to the stadium

Excerpt from “Olympia” (1938) – torch into stadium

btw:  while the lighting of the Olympic flame at the stadium began for the modern games at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, the whole shebang of lighting the torch in Greece and running it to the stadium through different countries and all that was invented for the 1936 Berlin Olympics.  this one.  ….the more you know

towards the end of part two.  the fantastic diving sequence.  breathtaking

Riefenstahl- Olympia Diving Sequence

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Goodness, I’ve been spending so much time lounging around enjoying our new rights (Thanks again, Voters of Washington!), I forgot to write about our latest obsession.

Do you know who has the best restaurant recommendations in our household? It’s Levi. He has a great memory, a good sense of direction, friends/family who take him to interesting and diverse places, and a discerning palate. So if you need to find some place good or something specific, just ask him.

I’ve been complaining for months, maybe years, about a lack of vegetarian pho in Olympia. Everyone I have consulted has agreed with me – no veggie pho, or at least none worth mentioning. So, we would drive to Tacoma to eat at Nhu Thuy when the pho cravings were too powerful to resist. And then, one night when Krista was at work, Levi was like, “Can we get pho for dinner?” I reminded him there was no good veggie pho and I didn’t feel like driving to Tacoma, and he told me he found a place in Olympia. They have tofu pho with vegetarian broth, which is actually not even on the menu. The first time we went, the lady there was so sweet to us, asking how long we’d been vegetarians and complimenting us on our lifestyle choice. I don’t know about you, but I don’t often get that kind of response when I order vegetarian food. Since then, Pho Hoa has become a hotly anticipated biweekly treat. With thin slivers of onion, lots of basil, crunchy cold bean sprouts, lime juice and a some chili sauce, it’s the world’s most wonderful winter dinner.

Nov. 19, 2009-Maine Senator Olympia Snowe is mobbed by reporters after announcing she would not support the Senate's version of the health care bill. Last Saturday, the Senate voted to bring the bill to the floor and to bar filibusters.

I’ve been trying to get photos of Olympia Snowe since I got my press pass in September. It’s been months. Her phone line is always busy. I stake out one doorway and she sneaks out another. In the labyrinthine Capitol complex, Senators have tons of ways to evade the press, if they want. Last Thursday I was on the Hill, desperate for lunch after a day of shooting, and there she was—Olympia Snowe. Except I didn’t even know it was her at first. All I could see was a huddle of reporters outside the door to the Senate floor. I peeked through the tangle of arms and voice recorders, and couldn’t believe it—the coveted Snowe! I grabbed my camera and started snapping away. Here’s what I got.

Nov. 19, 2009-Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) is mobbed by reporters outside the Senate floor after she announced she would not support the Senate's version of the health care bill.

Nov. 19, 2009-Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) is mobbed by reporters outside the Senate floor after she announced she would not support the Senate's version of the health care bill.

Nov. 19, 2009-Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-MA) is mobbed by reporters outside the Senate floor after announcing she would not support the Senate's version of the healthcare bill.

Nov. 19, 2009- Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) is mobbed by reporters after announcing she will not support the Senate's version of the healthcare bill. This Saturday, the Senate will vote on bringing the bill to the floor.

Nov. 19, 2009- Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) is mobbed by reporters after announcing she will not support the Senate's version of the healthcare bill. This Saturday, the Senate will vote on bringing the bill to the floor.

I was in Olympia, Washington driving towards Evergreen State College when I got a phone call from someone in the occupied West Bank of Palestine. An Evergreen graduate named Rachel Corrie had been killed a few days before by an Israeli soldier in an armored bulldozer, and someone with an Australian accent on my cell phone named Tom was wondering whether it was OK for the International Solidarity Movement to use the lyrics to a song I had just written about the incident on their website. Rachel’s murder was followed quickly by the murder of a British ISM activist named Tom Hurndall.

And now, almost six years to the day after the murder of Rachel Corrie, my friend and comrade Tristan Anderson has been critically injured by the IDF. He joins ISM activist Brian Avery, who was also shot in the face. Brian survived, seriously disfigured but otherwise intact. Tristan lies in a coma in a hospital near Tel Aviv and may or may not be as lucky as Brian. His brain was exposed by the tear gas canister fired at close range at his face, and as I write, large parts of his frontal lobe have had to be removed by the surgeons.

Rachel, Tom, Brian and Tristan join the ranks of the thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese civilians killed and the tens of thousands maimed by the IDF since 2000 alone. Being privileged foreigners (at least before they were killed or maimed), they did not have the opportunity to join the ranks of the millions of Palestinians and Lebanese who have been driven into desperate poverty, malnourishment and homelessness by the Israeli invasion and occupation of their lands.

There are many other contemporary and historical examples of genocidal regimes. A few of them – contemporary Turkey, Indonesia or, chiefly among them, the United States – lay claim to the notion that they are democratic countries. Others, such as Saddam’s Iraq, apartheid South Africa, and Nazi Germany also made such claims, but nobody believed them. It’s challenging to make comparisons between them, at least in terms of trying to figure out which one should deserve the title of Most Genocidal Regime. There are issues of scale, longevity and historical circumstances that make such judgements difficult. Other types of comparisons, though, are not only easy to make, but seem as unavoidable as the elephant in the living room.

It probably didn’t help that as the Israeli military was laying siege to the Gaza Strip two months ago I was on a tour of Australia, free from my responsibilities as a father and thus with more free time than I ever have when I’m home these days. I did then what I normally do in my free time – read. The book I happened to be reading at the time was one I had been meaning to read for decades, which I had just picked up at a book store during a visit to Canada – William Shirer’s 1,200-page tome, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. As Israel’s massive armored divisions and ultra-modern Air Force was laying waste to an already-occupied walled ghetto filled with nearly starving refugees armed with nothing more than rocks and the occasional small arms, mostly home-made, I was reading about the siege of the Warsaw Ghetto.

The comparisons are not exact. At the height of what was then widely known as the Nazi Terror, in Auschwitz the SS killed thousands of Jews and Russians every day. No such gas chambers exist or have ever existed in Israel. But for those of you reading this who have not already decided that I am a self-loathing Jew or some kind of anti-Semite, I would like to share with you some of the streams of consciousness that were passing through my head as I was attending protests in Australia against the bombing of Gaza, in between the unavoidable visits to the ubiquitous Australian war memorials and the next chapter of Shirer’s history of Nazi Germany.

There I was, bearing witness to the siege of a walled ghetto already under occupation. There have been many sieges of cities over the centuries, but sieges of already-occupied walled ghettoes are far fewer, and for any student of history the similarities are obvious, the comparisons inevitable.

When I first visited Israel in 1999 I was struck by what a nation of trauma survivors it was. I was reminded immediately of my first visit to Ireland some years before, where the great famine that wiped out half the population over a century before seemed like it had happened perhaps a generation ago. In Israel the Nazi Holocaust seemed to have happened yesterday, and in the mindset of many Israelis it seemed as if it were carried out by Palestinians rather than Germans. I encountered anti-Arab racism daily in Israel. When I sang songs about the horrors of the sanctions against Iraq (around a half million Iraqi children dead as a direct result at that point according to UNICEF) I was told by middle-class, middle-aged Israeli folk music fans that killing Iraqi children was OK because they were just going to grow up to become terrorists anyway. I was told that “the Arab mindset” was hopelessly backwards and that They just wanted to “drive us into the sea.” (I even heard Israeli Jews refer to “Latin numerals” when it was clear from the context that they meant Arabic numerals – a Freudian slip I’m sure.)

Most of the Israeli Jews I met seemed confident of the historical persecution of Jews in the Middle East. Actual history bears no resemblance to their version of it, but this did not get in the way of their fantasies. It was in Europe where the Catholic Church and the Nazi movement carried out pogroms and built death camps, not in the Muslim world, but these Jews identified culturally with their European inquisitors, not with their historical Muslim and Christian friends with whom their Arab and Persian Jewish brethren had lived in peace for thousands of years.

And now after decades of the so-called “peace process” Israel’s new Foreign Minister openly advocates for the ethnic cleansing of Israel, for the driving out of the million or so Palestinians living within Israel’s 1948 borders. In this nation of survivors of the Nazi Terror, race laws reign supreme. There is one set of laws for Jews, and another set of laws for everyone else. As in Nazi Germany, “everyone else” is then divided into groups with relative privileges in comparison with each other (for example, “Israeli Arabs” vs. West Bank Palestinians vs. those condemned to live in Gaza, the world’s largest open-air prison and the most densely-populated place on Earth).

Like the Zionists, the Nazis also came to power on the backs of trauma and claims of victimhood. For decades, history has been written by the victors, so it is hard to imagine how well Hitler was able to sell the case to the German people (and to many others around the world) that Germany was a nation oppressed by their neighbors as well as by “the enemy within,” the Jews.

Millions of Germans had been slaughtered — along with millions of Russians, French, Brits, Australians, etc. — in the War to End All Wars (WWI). German Jews were disproportionately of a leftwing persuasion, and many of the leaders of the social democrats who signed the Treaty of Versailles were, in fact, Jewish. Thus the Jews could be blamed for Germany’s defeat (never mind the Kaiser’s imperial ambitions) and could also somehow be blamed for the devastating economic depression that followed it (never mind the fact that much of the rest of the world was also in the throes of a similarly devastating depression). The Nazi solution to the “Jewish problem” was to create a society based on racial laws that systematically discriminated against Jews, took away their property, prevented them from joining the military or doing any number of other jobs, drove them out of the country or into ghettoes around which the Nazis built walls, and then ultimately invaded many of the countries into which the Jewish refugees had fled, laid siege to the ghettoes, starving and ultimately killing most of the residents.

Fast forward a few years to 1948, to Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel’s father and others in the Zionist movement. The propaganda to try to encourage Jewish emigration to Palestine was that Palestine was a “land without a people for a people without a land,” but the Zionist movement actually on the ground in Palestine knew better. For them, the Palestinian people were all too real, and were an obstacle, a problem to be fixed through systematic, brutal ethnic cleansing. The Zionist movement in Palestine, followed by the State of Israel, dealt with the Palestinian problem (that is, the problem of the existence of Palestinians), by creating a society based on racial laws that systematically discriminated against Palestinians, took away their property, prevented them from joining the military, drove them out of the country or into ghettoes around which the Jews built walls, and then ultimately invaded many of the countries into which the Palestinian refugees had fled, laying siege to their cities, ghettoes and refugee camps, starving and killing thousands upon thousands of the residents, oftentimes in the form of wholesale slaughter that in some instances rivalled the intensity of the Nazi genocide.

The Irgun and other groups whom the British administrators of Palestine referred to as terrorists blew up buses full of Palestinian civilians, attacked Palestinian towns and cities with naval bombardment, laid siege to towns with tanks and automatic weapons on three sides in order to force the residents to flee. This is how the Zionist movement formed their state, this was the Israeli “war of independence.”

The Zionists who were flooding into Palestine and quickly changing the demographics of Palestinian society claimed they were being persecuted. There were many isolated incidents that could be called persecution, and many more incidents of Zionist settlers in pre-1948 Palestine persecuting the residents with whom they were sharing a country. By the same token, the Nazis made mostly baseless claims that German-speaking citizens of Poland and Czechoslovakia were being persecuted – the Germans were being persecuted and had to defend themselves by invading their neighbors. By the time the Nazis invaded and occupied France, and Britain finally decided to make good on its treaty obligations and fight fascism, the Nazis could – quite rightly – claim that they had been attacked by Britain. The Germans were the victims of Britain was the Nazi line.

Fast forward again to 1948. The Arab countries neighboring Palestine belatedly sent in a force to defend their fellow Arabs from the Zionists – a force that was numerically and militarily no match for the Zionist army and was quickly defeated. But in the annals of Zionist propaganda this was not Arabs coming to the defense of their brethren who were being slaughtered and driven from their land, it was an “unprovoked attack,” like the British assault on poor Germany. Like the Germans surrounded by hostile neighbors bent on keeping the Germans down, “the Arabs” wanted to “wipe Israel off the map.”

One of Hitler’s favorite methods of managing, at least in the Nazi-run press, of appearing to be the voice of reason in the face of his “war-mongering” European neighbors was to make a pretense of “peace negotiations” which were generally last-minute ultimatums that could be accepted or not without any actual negotiating at all. For example, Czechoslovakia (and its ostensible allies, Britain and France) was told it could give up the Sudetenland and other Czech territories and thus avert destruction at the hands of the German military. It actually acquiesced to all German demands (with the encouragement of Britain and France) and was annexed by Germany anyway, on the grounds that the Czechs were being unreasonable, that Czechs were terrorizing ethnic Germans within its borders, etc.

Similarly, the Israeli government regularly asserts that if countries like Syria and Lebanon and political movements like Hamas would only “recognize Israel’s right to exist” then there could be peace. The Arab states are consistently portrayed by Israel as the unreasonable parties, and any efforts on the parts of Arab countries to obey the will of the majority of their people and stand up to Israel’s daily theft of Palestinian land and slaughter of Palestinian people is portrayed by Israeli leaders as proof that they want to “wipe Israel off the map.” Yet when the Israeli government is asked the very simple question, where are your borders, no answer is forthcoming. Like Nazi Germany, the neighboring countries are expected to acquiesce to all Israeli demands or be portrayed as the aggressors. But how can any reasonable country be expected to recognize a nation that will not itself recognize its own borders? What is Israel, and where does it end and its neighbors’ lands begin? Also, on what grounds should Israel be recognized, when it is daily involved in violating all sorts of international laws, daily involved in theft and murder, daily involved with the subjugation of the Palestinian people, and refuses to give back land it took by force of arms from Lebanon and Syria?

Resistance to Nazi tyranny within Germany or in occupied countries was dealt with through incredible brutality. Entire families of dissidents would routinely be sent to concentration camps and often killed. If an occupation soldier was killed, collective punishment was the modus operandi of the Nazi regime. Oftentimes a hundred people in a village would be killed in retribution for the murder of one German soldier.

Similarly, whereas the families of partisans would be sent to the camps, the houses of the families of resistance fighters from the West Bank and Gaza are routinely destroyed. An attack on Israeli territory is routinely responded to (even when the attack itself was generally a response) with massively disproportionate collective punishment, including attacks by helicopter gunships on densely-populated areas where multiple families are killed in order to take out one Hamas or other political leader. Border closures resulting in loss of employment for hundreds of thousands are another routine Israeli response to any resistance to their occupation. Thousands of children and adults are routinely arrested and held indefinitely in Israeli prisons without ever being charged (in courts that are themselves illegitimate anyway). As in Nazi-occupied Europe, no Palestinian man or boy can ever be confident that he will not be dragged out of bed on any given night, taken from his home and arrested.

We are told by the Israeli government not to pay attention to the numbers, that proportionality doesn’t matter. There often seems to be a clear effort on the part of the IDF and its political leaders to kill a hundred Palestinians for every Israeli killed, as was the case in the most recent Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. If proportionality is irrelevant and morality has no numerical measure, then presumably it would be morally justifiable from the Israeli government perspective if a hundred Israelis were killed for every Palestinian the IDF shoots, but if such a thing were to happen we could be sure to hear from the Israelis all about Palestinian monstrousness, no doubt. This, however, is extremely unlikely ever to happen, since there is no Palestinian military, no Palestinian tanks, no Palestinian Air Force, etc. It’s jet fighters versus home-made bombs and ineffective “rocklets” that rarely hit any target.

The Nazis became famous for, among other things, developing methods of torture that make the Spanish Inquisition look humane. Israel has also excelled at developing new ways to cause horrible physical and emotional suffering to human beings. During the most recent Israeli “war” against Lebanon, among the many buildings demolished from the air was the old Khiam Prison in southern Lebanon. When I visited Lebanon in 2005 I toured the Khiam Prison, which was in an area abandoned by the Israelis in 2000 after years of fighting between the IDF, their Lebanese collaborators, and Hezbollah. In Khiam Prison one could see where the US military got its ideas for torturing Iraqis at Abu Ghraib. There were specially-designed boxes just big enough for a man to kneel, far too small to stand up or lie down, in which men would be held for weeks at a time and subjected day and night to loud music, regularly taken out of their boxes to be beaten.

We are told by the Israelis that the massive civilian death toll among Palestinians is unavoidable, since Palestinian “terrorists” hide among the civilian population when they carry out their attacks on occupation soldiers. We are also told that the Palestinians are targeting civilians in the (now almost nonexistent) suicide attacks inside Israel. It’s an interesting form of two-faced logic, since the main form of transportation used by Israeli soldiers are public buses. This is abundantly obvious to anyone who takes a public bus in Israel. In this highly militarized society where most men and women over the age of eighteen are either active-duty soldiers or reservists, you can hardly find a public bus that is not transporting at least one uniformed soldier with a machine gun hanging off of his shoulder.

It’s also an interesting form of dual logic, since the ghetto fighters of Warsaw so justifiably revered by Israeli society were fighting entirely from civilian areas, since they were themselves civilians, fighting from and for their homes, armed with home-made or occasionally smuggled weapons, just like the Palestinian fighters today.

The Nazis found collaborators within the Jews of Warsaw, who became their Jewish Police, or Judenrat. Prior to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, it was the Judenrat who arrested or rounded up Jews wanted by the Nazis, and brought them to the border of the ghetto, to be safely (for the Nazis) handed over, and generally sent to their deaths. Taking a page from this history, the Oslo “peace process” involved a dividing up of Palestinian territory into areas A, B and C. Area A is the downtown, or the area within the ghetto walls that now surround so many of the bombed-out shells that were once thriving Palestinian towns and cities. Area A is the part that Israelis have generously allowed to be policed by Fatah, which has increasingly become, in the eyes of many Palestinians, Israeli collaborators. Israel regularly invades Area A parts of the West Bank whenever it wants to, but otherwise it tries to get the Fatah police to do their policing for them.

Hamas, which refuses to go along with the program, is then painted as a terrorist group that simply must be wiped out, because they doggedly refuse to be collaborators. Like the Jewish Fighting Organization (the ZOB was their Polish acronym) in Warsaw, Hamas does not deal gently with collaborators or with the Israeli occupation forces. Facing impossible, overwhelming odds and essentially certain death, Hamas does what they can to mount some kind of a resistance to the Israeli Terror. ZOB fighters referred to themselves as the “walking dead.” Like the ZOB and other valiant resistance groups throughout the history of every continent, Hamas also embraces martyrdom. Embracing martyrdom is often painted by Israelis and others as some kind of peculiar trait of “Islamic fundamentalists,” which is ridiculous and completely ahistorical, as well as an insult to the memory of the very ghetto fighters in Warsaw who helped inspire the Zionist state in the first place.

Hitler loved to portray his “Aryan” soldiers as icons of morality and good behavior, which of course was nonsense. Like the IDF, the German soldiers fought very well and bravely, especially from the inside of a tank. And like the IDF, who are also widely viewed within Israel as the world’s most moral army, the German soldiers consistently engaged in acts of sadism against civilians throughout Nazi-occupied Europe. And like the IDF, they were almost never punished for such acts.

Reminders of the sadism that permeates the Israeli military are never far away, and are often described most eloquently by former occupation soldiers who turned against their commanders in the Knesset. (Thankfully, there are many such soldiers. Unfortunately, there aren’t nearly enough of them to make a difference.) The tendency of IDF soldiers to shoot children in the head with live ammunition is well-known and well-documented.

I vividly recall the outrage of many of my Jewish Israeli fans when Ariel Sharon “visited” the Al-Aqsa Mosque, along with hundreds of soldiers, prompting some stone-throwing from local Palestinian youths, to which the soldiers responded with live ammunition, killing many, leading to the Al-Aqsa Intifada and thousands more deaths, overwhelmingly of Palestinian children.

My fans weren’t outraged at Sharon, however, they were outraged at me for writing my first of a series of songs about the Israeli occupation, “Children of Jerusalem.” What many people took particular offense to was the line about the general (Sharon) grinning. They told me this couldn’t be accurate, because IDF soldiers carried out their duties with a grim sense of necessity, never enjoying the killing of the kids who were always shot because they were in the way of the ubiquitous “Palestinian gunmen” who were always firing first, at the poor defenseless tanks which for some reason were in the middle of their cities. For my outrageous accusations they called me a fascist and all sorts of other things.

But unfortunately they’re wrong. The soldiers often are grinning. Like the smirking soldier who was standing in the ambulance that was trying to transport Tristan Anderson to the hospital just a few days ago, refusing to move to allow the medics to close the door. Tristan was only one of a multitude of victims of the Israeli Terror, and this sadistic soldier was only one of many other sadistic Israeli soldiers obeying the whims of a government run by sadistic, racist men and women.

Israel bears many of the hallmarks of a fascist regime. What’s more, it is, like Nazi Germany, a very popular regime among its people. Like Nazi Germany, it is justly reviled by people around the world, but actively supported by so many of its people. Like Nazi Germany, governments and corporations around the world prefer to profit from trading with it rather than standing up to it and isolating it. Like Nazi Germany, it is dependent on the outside world for food, fuel and other basic necessities of life.

Unlike Nazi Germany, Israel possesses hundreds of nuclear weapons. Unlike Nazi Germany, Israel is not going to be defeated militarily. But it can be defeated if the people of the world – especially in the US — pressure their governments to recognize Israel for the aggressive, racist state that it fundamentally is and has been since 1948, cut off the aid and impose trade sanctions of the sort that were imposed on South Africa under apartheid. The beginning of the process of isolating this small country from the world community that allows it to prosper is to educate people about the true nature of Zionism.

The Middle East has been and must be shared by Muslims, Christians and Jews as it was since long before the Zionist armies expelled 700,000 Palestinians from their lands in 1948. Nothing, including the Nazi Holocaust, justifies what has been done and, most importantly, continues to be done to the Palestinians. The time is long since past to call the Jewish state out for the fundamentally racist regime that it is. In the name of the ghetto fighters of Warsaw, let us strive to see a world where no one needs to die with a stone in their hand trying to defend a starved, walled ghetto against an army of tanks and planes, where people like Tristan don’t need to have their brains blown out for trying to prevent a wall from being built around yet another ghetto.

David Rovics is a singer/songwriter, father, and occasional essayist based in Portland, Oregon.  His website is http://www.davidrovics.com

Der TV-Sender Euronews strahlt eine Nachrichtensendung mit dem klingenden Titel “No Comment!” aus. Hierbei werden tagesaktuelle Themen gezeigt, wobei sich die Berichterstattung lediglich auf die bewegten Bilder beschränkt. Kein Kommentar. Nur die reine Wirkung der Bilder.

In Anlehnung an diese Überschrift, sehe ich es als meine Aufgabe, auch im Namen des Menschenrechtes auf Informationsfreiheit, meinen geehrten LeserInnen Informationen zukommen zu lassen, die zwar ohnehin öffentlich zugänglich sind (auf der offiziellen Internethomepage zu finden), aber noch mal mit Nachdruck jedem vor Augen geführt werden sollten.

Ein Auszug der “Wahrheiten” und “Handlungsvorschläge” der Olympia Burschenschaft, die unlängst mit einer Rede von FPÖ-Chef Heinz Christian Strache ihr 150-jähriges Bestehen gefeiert hat:

• “Die Menschen sind nicht gleich, außer im Bezug auf ihre Würde.”
• “Es stellt keine ‘Diskriminierung’ dar, wenn Ungleiches ungleich behandelt wird.”
• “Die Zuwanderung in dem Ausmaß der letzten Jahrzehnte stellt keine Bereicherung dar.”
• “Der ‘Import’ fremder Menschen löst das Finanzierungsproblem bei unseren Sozialnetzen (z.B. Pensionszahlungen, Krankenkassen) nicht.”
• “Jeder, der eingewandert ist, kann auch wieder auswandern.”
• “Wir wurden zu keinem Zeitpunkt gefragt, ob wir mit Zuwanderung, Einbürgerung, Öffnung der Sozialleistungen, etc. einverstanden sind.”
• “Niemand hat uns verboten, Menschen unserer Herkunft im täglichen Leben bevorzugt zu behandeln.”
• “Alle Rahmenbedingungen für eine höhere Geburtenrate wären leistbar, wenn bei den Fässern ohne Boden gespart werden würde.”
• “Es ist in den meisten Bereichen (z.B. Intelligenz, Medizin, Sport, etc.) von Relevanz, von welcher biologischen Abstammung ein Mensch ist.”

Link zur Homepage:
Akademische Burschenschaft Olympia: olympia2.burschenschaft.at

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David

[/caption]Last weekend saw the annual World Sushi Awards which was this year held at Olympia in conjunction with Masterchef Live (the new name for the BBC Good Food Show London). So, after a good few hours doing the rounds sampling an obscure range of chutneys, dips and pickles; a few too many wines, ports and toffee vodkas; and far too many underwhelming ready-made curry sauces, it was definitely time to up the ante Japanese style.
The really tricky part was getting there. Whilst I don’t doubt the effort the so-called Seven Sushi Samurai put into their show-piece sushi, I think the travel must be on a par. A 13 minute wait on the district line platform at Paddington would be enough to put off any but the hardcore, and it was the anticipation of sake alone which made an equally dire connection at High Street Kensington survivable. And a word to the wise – that helpfully large sign clearly stating that all trains to Olympia will leave from platform 3, not so useful. Reasonable eyesight alone was what made me finally see a sushi-bound train pulling up at platform 4. Oh well, I guess the sprint over the bridge was appetite building…
Once in Olympia, the sushi was still elusive. A stop-off at the hard to miss find Japanese Pavilion was promising but largely futile since it seems the exact location of the awards was a closely guarded state secret not to be passed to the likes of I. It did, however, present the opportunity to take part in an authentic Japanese Tea Ceremony. Interesting and terrifying in equal measures, this primarily involved being shouted at by two Japanese matriarchs for banging my matcha spoon a little too enthusiastically against the side of my tea bowl. Surviving their wrath and the enforced drinking of my large bowl of slightly pasty tea, by now I really needed some sake.
Thankfully the third of the security guards I asked was able to direct me to the ‘pillar halls’ where the awards were taking place. On arrival at the doors of the hall, I felt slightly as if I were asking to join the Masons. My name was checked first by a friendly PR, second by a less friendly bouncer and third by a down-right unfriendly doorman. Being certified good-to-go, the doors of the hall were opened only just briefly enough for me to slip through before being shut tight behind me. I had made it.
The room was something of a Japanophile’s fantasy. Piles of Asahi, rows of premium sake, circulating trays of green tea pancakes and (this is the best bit) more wasabi nuts than you could imagine. Time to concentrate, though, as the Sushi Samurai roll call is beginning…

Stefan Gates – Cooking In The Danger Zone presenter and sometime eccentric – was host as one by one the seven samurai, each representing a different country, were welcomed to the stage and their sushi explained. After saying their piece, the chefs would return to the floor and start to make their sushi. Guests could then try one of each chef’s sushi before using the voting card handed out on entry to choose a winner.
Ricardo Sanz represented Spain with his entry Nigiri Sardina made with sardine and topped with a beautifully fresh curd cheese and honey – all Spanish flavours but Japanese technique. Brendan Becht of Italy went a step further (and I would argue too far) by mixing his sushi rice with a rich pesto and then topping with black Taggiasche olives and pine nuts in order to create a taste of Liguria. The entry from Czech Marek Hora was almost as surprising as the Czech Republic being shortlisted for the awards at all. Strangest of all, though, is the chef’s explanation of his fishless recipe: it was designed to be safe for pregnant women. What?!? The sushi is effectively a remoulade, including red beet and apple, wrapped in nori. I assume for eligibility reasons there must have been some rice as well, but it wasn’t obvious.
Stranger than this was the Swedish entry by Michelin starred
Sayan Isaksson. The chef could best be described as a Nordic hybrid of Heston Blumenthal and Fergus Henderson with his showy show-piece sushi, so-called Wild Salmon in Tranquility, using emulsification, dehydration and even (shock horror) foam in his plight to use every part of the salmon – head to tail cooking, if you will. The sushi was a peculiar, fishy beast where crispy skin replaced nori as wrapping. The pinnacle, though, was a little wooden box of dust which came with it. Designed for dipping, this dust was (of course) dehydrated salmon, though in actual fact it could just have easily been dried parmesan left over from the 70s.

Nachdem ich soeben ein entsprechendes Blogpost von Thomas Lohninger gelesen habe, indem er berichtet, dass sich (farbentragende)* Burschenschaftler vor allem vor dem Audimax aufhalten, um zu provozieren, und die Vermutung naheliegt, dass sie das tun um Gewalt und somit einen Polizeieinsatz und letztlich die Räumung des Audimax herbei zu führen, kommt hier die dringende Aufforderung:

• Morgen, Samstag, findet die 150-Jahrfeier der Burschenschaft Olympia in Hofburg statt.
• An diesem Samstag muss das Audimax voll sein – nicht bloß, damit mehr Leute im Audimax drin sind als drüben bei Olympia, sondern weil damit zu rechnen ist, dass die Feiernden zum Audimax kommen.
• Wenn sie kommen, dann liegt die Vemutung nahe, dass sie auch versuchen werden zu provozieren – je mehr da sind, um ZeugInnen zu sein, um Gewalt zu verhindern, desto besser.

Thomas verweist dabei auf gruselige Statements von der Seite Alpen-Donau.info:

Erst gestern berichteten wir von den Planungen der antifaschistischen Krawallszene. Die SPÖ, die „GrünInnen“ und diverse andere Halbweltsorganisationen mobilisieren einmal mehr den Abschaum der Menschheit gegen Deutschtum und Meinungsfreiheit. [...]
Die Polizei wird mit entsprechenden Kräften im Einsatz sein. Wir empfehlen die Durchsetzung des „Vermummungsverbots“ sowie eine Räumung des „Audimax“. Darüber hinaus wünschen wir einmal mehr unseren Freunden bei der Exekutive: „Viel Spaß und Knüppel frei!“

Anbei noch zwei Bilddokumente von Thomas Lohninger – sehen diese Jüngling aus als hätten sie Spaß an der Provokation? Ich meine ja. Irgendwann nach Mitternacht waren die Burschis letzten Freitag vorm Audimax – es wird also morgen die ganze Nacht notwendig sein, den Audimax zu füllen, da zu sein, die Provokation und die Gewalt und die Räumung nicht zu zu lassen.

* Es gibt einen Plenumsbeschluss, der farbentragenden Burschenschaftlern den Aufenthalt in den besetzten Räumen untersagt.

EDIT: Drüben bei Gerald Bäck wird debattiert ob, wie er meint, es bedenklich ist, wenn farbentragende Studierende per Plenumsbeschluss ausgeschlossen werden. Ich meine, nein:

Da auf Seiten der Burschenschaftler bisher kein allzu heißes Interesse zu verzeichnen war, im Audimax vertreten zu sein, und – wenn sie solches hätten – es doch für sie möglich sein sollte ohne ihren Karnevalsaufzug zu erscheinen, ist der Beschluss eh keine Ausgrenzung von Burschenschaftlern, sondern nur von solchen, die auf das Tragen der Abzeichen bestehen.

EDIT: In den dokumentierten Beschlüssen ist nicht von einem solchen Beschluss zu lesen – Dank an Jürgen für den Hinweis.

Rappel des faits:

Licenciés en 2005, 47 employés attaquent Olympia parce que la société aurait du leur proposer un reclassement dans leur usine polonaise.

Ok, ils sont dans leur droit. A noter tout de même qu’ils auraient été employés au salaire polonais, soit une centaine d’euros par mois, ce qu’Olympia avait jugé indécent (l’entreprise s’était d’ailleurs entendue avec le CE sur ce point)

Donc les 47 ex-employés gagnent leur procès: Olympia leur doit donc 2.5M€ de dommages et intérêts. Le hic, c’est que le versement d’une telle somme ferait fermer l’usine, et mettrait donc au chômage 296 autres salariés.

Après de longues discussions, Olympia propose un arrangement. Ils verseront l’argent, mais le versement serait étalé sur deux ans. Ca serait toujours un coup dur pour la société, mais cette solution leur permettrait de perdurer.

Et bien les 47 employés ont refusés cette proposition, exigeant la somme immédiatement. Il est bon de rappeler que les 47 employés en questions avaient tous déjà eu des dédommagements suite à leur licenciement, certains ont même eu des formations payées par l’entreprise pour leur permettre de retrouver plus facilement un nouveau travail. A noter également qu’à ce jour, aucun des 47 employés n’est dans une situation telle qui nécessiterait cet apport d’argent immédiatement et non pas étalé sur deux ans. La plupart ont retrouvés un emploi ou sont en pré-retraite.

Qu’en est-il aujoud’hui?

Suite à cette (aberrante) décision, Olympia est aujourd’hui en cessation de paiement. Ces prochains jours, l’entreprise va surement tomber en dépot de bilan, où suivra un plan social qui mettra au chômage entre 70 et 100 personnes.

Et moi je me demande si la connerie humaine s’arrêtera un jour.

A lire:

La semaine de tous les dangers pour Olympia

« Catherine Rambaud manipule les salariés ! » (ben voyons)

OLYMPIA / Me Brun confirme son intention d’assigner la société

OLYMPIA / Un dépôt de bilan et bientôt un plan social

Olympia, SMB, Petitjean, la Sirc : le préfet face aux gros dossiers sociaux

Heute gleich das zweite Video, und zwar mit den Geschehnissen von gestern. Gestern gab’s naemlich ein bisschen Olympialuft in Halifax zu riechen: Die olympische Fackel kam nach Halifax!
Ich war mit 15000 anderen Haligonians (so heissen die Einwohner von Halifax) direkt in Downtown und habe bei 2 Grad zugesehen wie die Fackel von Hockeystar Sidney Crosby und Canada Snowboard Hoffnug Sarah Conrad durch die Stadt zum “Grand Parade” Platz getragen wurde. Dort ging die Party mit einer in Halifax bekannten Band und einer fuer die Snowboarderin aufgestellten Schanze weiter. Ein Lied der Band hoert ihr am Ende des Videos unten.
Auf dem Bild sieht man “Citadel Clock” das Wahrzeichen von Halifax auf dem Citadel Hill. Die Leute die man da sieht, haben sich die bete Aussicht ueber die Strecke der Fackel ergattert, hatten danach aber Probleme zum “Grand Parade” Platz zu kommen, weswegen wir den Platz direkt an der Strasse bevorzugt haben.

Citadel Clock

Hier nun das (sehr kurze) Video vom Fackellauf. Vor dem Fackellaeufer kam ein grosser Umzug von den Sponsoren und Organisations Fahrzeugen der Winterspiele und alle 100 Meter kam ein Polizeiauto. Der Laeufer (im Video Sidney Crosby, Eishockey) wurde von ca. 20 Bodyguards und mindestens genau so vielen TV-Kameras umrahmt. Der kurze Ausschnitt am Ende, von dem Konzert von “Classified” ist eine Techno Version der Nationalhymne “O Canada”. Da der Ton meiner Digitalkamera noch bescheidener ist als die Bildqualitaet hab ich das Bild mit dem original Song unterlegt.

Wenn das Video nicht funktioniert, hier ist der direkt Link zu Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSwTOrlXLjs

Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games

What if you paint and sculpt your way into the Olympics?    Well, you could have between 1912 and 1948. 

Baron Pierre de Coubertin revived the Olympics and incorporated art competitions as part of the games. It was de Coubertin’s dream to “create an environment in modern society where artists and athletes could again be mutually inspired,” Beatriz García writes in her essay entitled The Concept of Olympic cultural programmes.

It is a little known fact that the Olympic Games have always included competitions in the arts since their origin in ancient Olympia over two thousand years ago.  The first art competitor in Olympia was said to be Herodotus, the historical writer in 444 B.C.  If you’re curious to know more, you can read all about it in the book titled The Forgotten Olympic Art Competitions.

The art competitions within the Olympics were called the ‘Pentathlon of Muses’ and medals were awarded in the categories of sculpture, painting, music, literature and architecture.  Athletes could compete in both the sports and arts aspect of the competitions.  Alfréd Hajós of Hungary won two gold medals at the 1896 Athens Olympics as a swimmer and then, twenty-eight years later, he won a silver medal in architecture.

Although the competition of the arts in the modern Olympic games was short-lived, the marriage of art and sport would remain in the form of the Cultural Olympiad. 

The Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad runs January 22 until March 21, 2010 with art and cultural exhibits popping up all over the city’s urban landscape.

A glimpse of what to expect at this year’s Olympiad:

Bright Light   

Bright Light will feature a collection of 14 commissioned public art projects that will light up the Downtown Eastside and highlight the community’s cultural vitality.

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Visceral Bodies displays the work of 18 contemporary artists who investigate the human body. This exhibition will be presented alongside Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Man, a collection of 16th century drawings by the first major artist to study human anatomy.

 Gabriel de la Mora; Memoria I, 24.10.07           

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Tracing Night is a large maze-like installation that combines drawing, video and sound to recreate the phenomenon of night and darkness.

 Detail from Tracing Night, 2004, by Ed Pien

For a full listing of arts and culture at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games click below.

Desde siempre el arte no ha gustado a todos. Degenerado es un término muy difícil de determinar ya que no tenemos completa precisión de lo que es o no degenerado para unos y otros. A pesar de todos los interrogantes, es un concepto que en los últimos siglos ha dado mucho de qué hablar en arte y otras disciplinas, pero arte es lo que ahora mismo nos concierne.

La exposición en el Salón de los renegados, de la obra Olympia de Manet, aún siendo el salón de los que eran rechazados por el principal salón de exposiciones, supuso un ataque a la decencia y a la pureza, puesto que en ese cuadro se mostraba a una mujer desnuda de la calle (prostituta), y sólo estaba bien visto si tenía temática mitológica. Fue muy criticado y la gente sólo iba a verlo para exigir su retirada y criticarlo.

Pero no sólo Manet sufrió críticas a su obra, llamándole loco y degenerado, sino que Van Gogh “heredó” esos piropos puesto que su obra no era entendida por la gente, mientras que esas mismas obras supusieron una lanzadera para otros movimientos artísticos.

Posteriormente, Hitler confiscó numerosas obras a las que él llamaba degeneradas, entre las que se hallaban muchas obras cubistas, surrealistas, dadaístas…

La mentalidad abierta de hoy en día, conseguida gracias a las conexiones interculturales, ha permitido que a día de hoy estos artistas, anteriormente vapuleados y criticados, sean reconocidos y sus obras valgan millones.

Así pues, hoy por hoy cuesta saber qué se considera o no arte, puesto que es algo demasiado subjetivo. De todos modos, sobresale más la gente que intenta hacernos creer que entiende de arte y lo que los artistas muestran, que la gente que verdaderamente sabe.

PUBLICIDAD DEGENERADA

El arte siempre ha supuesto más o menos escándalo (sobre todo en estos dos últimos siglos), pero también las mentes de la gente evolucionan y por ello se aceptan estas obras y sus artistas son reconocidos mundialmente.

El escándalo y la controversia está a la orden del día, ya que cualquier “artista” lo usa para publicitarse o para darse fama, puesto que “lo importante es que hablen de mi, aunque sea mal”, y mientras se hable de uno, se le dará fama e importancia a ese uno y su obra.

Los temas más provocativos y que suscitan mayor alteración en la sociedad suelen ser los relacionados con la religión, el sexo y todo tipo de temas controvertidos y atractivos para unos, pero a la vez “dañinos” para otros.

Algunos de los ejemplos más famosos, son las fotografías de Cristo, los anuncios “sexistas” de Dolce & Gabanna, de Bennetton o el anuncio del sida, de Alemania, en el que se ve a Hitler practicando sexo con una mujer y pone: “El asesino de masas”, refiriéndose al sida.

Los extremismos se han convertido en la forma de expresión más popular tanto si estamos hablando de arte, publicidad u otros muchos ámbitos. Pero también se busca el entrelazar distintas materias como en el anuncio antes citado, en el que encontramos alusiones a la historia y la salud.

Arte y publicidad han sucumbido al escándalo para dar a conocer sus obras y con ello provocar la atención del público. Cuanto más escándalo provoque más venderá y más conocido será ese artista. Ya no es belleza lo que se vende, no es arte, sino escándalo y controversia.

Als neuer Leiter der Bewerbungsgesellschaft München 2018 soll der Unternehmer und ehemalige Ski-Profi Willy Bogner die Olympischen Spiele in die bayerische Landeshauptstadt holen. Im Interview mit der “Süddeutschen Zeitung” spricht der 67-Jährige, der den Posten für ein symbolisches Gehalt von einem Euro übernommen hat, über seine Pläne und die Erfolgsaussichten der Bewerbung. So wolle er die Spiele wieder auf ein menschliches Maß bringen, bei dem der Sport und nicht ein gigantischer Rahmen im Fokus steht. Bogner will bei den IOC-Mitgliedern vor allem mit einem Image der “freundlichen Spiele” punkten – freundlich zu den Athleten, freundlich zur Umwelt und freundlich zu den Menschen, den Gästen. Der Beschaffung der für die Bewerbung benötigten Finanzmittel von 30 Mio. Euro sieht Bogner trotz Krisenzeiten optimistisch entgegen.
Quelle: SZ

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