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Beautiful Thing
Après tous ces films gays sur le modèle Roméo et Juliette ou avec d'autres fins tragiques comme dans Brokeback Mountain ou Eyes Wide Open (sans parler de Latter Days qui n'a pas de fin tragique mais un genre de "happy-end", "mérité" par des tragédies le précédant bien plus monstrueuses que dans Beautiful Thing), avec leurs fins rassurant les bien-pensants, quel régal (et espoir!) que ce film existant depuis à peu près une décade et demie sans avoir vieilli d'une once, mais que je n'ai vu personnellement que l'autre jour. Comme le formule si bien un commentateur: "Glad to be gay - that's what this movie made me feel. I came out of the cinema feeling ecstatic. At last, they let us have a movie with a happy ending!! One where we weren't crippled by prejudice or dying of AIDS or mincing around in a feather boa. Awesome!"Samedi soir, tard, dans une petite salle alternative et sympa, dans le Paulinenviertel, un quartier coincé entre le St. Pauli de la Reeperbahn et le Schanzenviertel (ce dernier, ce soir-là, en pleine effervescence violente ou état de guerre à l'occasion du 1er mai [avec des manifs et protestations et vandalismes si peu révolutionnaires dans un vrai bon sens et en cela pas meilleur que l'État...], et bloqué du reste de la ville par la police), j'ai été si heureux d'enfin le découvrir! Encore dans la nuit j'écris à une amie: "le film ce soir était extraordinaire, grandiose, très dense et en même temps un feu d'artifice, extrêmement touchant, avec un humour superbe, des dialogues brillants et des acteurs époustouflants, surtout, mais pas seulement, la jeune noire. et une fin aussi surprenante et secouante que dans le film israélien... le public, moins bourgeois (beaucoup de punks [P.-S.: du moins de cette inspiration un peu, donc atténués...] et de jeunes lesbiennes), est aussi resté dans la salle un peu plus longtemps qu'attendu.
je n'aimerais cependant pas devoir vivre dans ces milieux prolos de londres..." Ou ailleurs...
Pour plus d'information, voici quelques liens importants:
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
http://fr.wikipedia.org/...
http://www.beautiful-thing.com/
http://homepage.mac.com/kesterlovelace/...
http://akas.imdb.com/...
http://akas.imdb.com/... (ne manquez pas de cliquer sur See more en bas de cette page)
http://www.daveant.net/btfanfic/
Concernant mon billet précédent, j'avais oublié de rendre attentif au documentaire suivant offrant davantage d'éclaircissements sur le thème orthodoxie juive et homosexualité: Trembling Before G-d
"Eat figs!" Mangez des figues!???
Christian Butterbach
May 05, 2010
03:53 PM GMT+1
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Un nouveau Brokeback Mountain
Je vous recommande le premier long-métrage "Tu n'aimeras point" (titre original "Einayim Pkuhot", titre anglais "Eyes Wide Open", titre allemand "Du sollst nicht lieben") du réalisateur israélien Haim Tabakman (une co-production: Israël, Allemagne, France) : un homme marié, père de quatre enfants, juif orthodoxe, boucher cachère de profession, qualifié de " juste" par son entourage dans un quartier ultraorthodoxe à Jérusalem, devient amoureux d'un étudiant qu'il prend comme apprenti. Les deux ne veulent pas renoncer à leur appartenance à la synagogue. Voilà l'histoire succincte.J'ai vu ce film vendredi soir dans une salle à Hambourg, à quelques rares sièges près complètement remplie d'un public masculin (je n'ai déniché qu'une seule femme dans l'audience) "mûr", c'est-à-dire guère de personnes en-dessous de la trentaine, bien au contraire... Il s'agit d'un film si peu hollywoodien que cela ne m'aurait nullement surpris si après un quart d'heure un tiers de la salle eût quitté les lieux... Lors de la projection de "Brokeback Mountain", un film partiellement comparable d'intensité mais aussi d'une certaine réserve et lenteur de développement ne correspondant pas au goût de l'actuelle génération droguée, gâtée et nourrie non au sein mais de "lait" pop sortant d'une bouteille de polyéthylène téréphtalate, j'ai dû intervenir énergiquement contre plusieurs femmes "émancipées" dérangeant la jouissance religieuse de ce film.
Tout au contraire, toute la salle durant les 93 minutes de la version allemande (version française : 91 minutes, version américaine : 90 minutes) a observé un silence total. Bravo à ce public! Qui plus est, manifestement sous l'immense impact de la fin du film et de l'image finale, sans doute unique dans l'histoire du cinéma, durant le long générique de fin, d'abord personne ne s'est levé, comme il se doit pour un public vrai amateur et connaisseur du Septième art, ensuite un petit nombre de personnes se sont levées pour ne pas rater le bus vers leur bled ou l'avion pour la disco à Tel Aviv ou New York, mais presque tous sont restés assis en silence, non seulement jusqu'à la fin du générique, mais plusieurs minutes au-delà, durant lesquelles l'écran ne montrait plus que le logo de la chaîne de cinémas. Ensuite ce public sympa a finalement et lentement quitté la salle, toujours dans un silence religieux et en méditation.
Enfin, je recommande ce film pour son honnêteté, pour montrer équitablement les pour et les contre de la vie sous l'orthodoxie religieuse (avis aux amateurs de discussions théologiques!), mais finalement aussi ses aboutissements qui ne sont pas plus une solution que celle des terroristes et leurs vierges (vie sur terre ou "vie" dans l'au-delà... ; vie et mort, deux concepts ou réalités que certaines religions établies, pour mieux nous dominer, se sont arrogées le "droit" au cours de l'histoire d'interpréter à la façon du novlangue, en anglais newspeak, décrit par George Orwell...). Le film montre la nécessité conjointe du sexe et de l'amour et la souffrance et la brutalité qu'engendrent l'hypocrisie et l'ignorance regagnant tant d'adeptes récemment, même dans des milieux se croyant ou se disant "libertaires"... Quant aux autres milieux conservateurs, je recommande au pape de s'enfermer tout nu (somme toute l'état original de la création et sans nul doute aussi celui au paradis auquel il compte entrer, à moins que ce paradis ne soit sponsorisé par le garment district de Manhattan) dans une chambre obscure et regarder ce film. Il pourra se faire tenir compagnie dans cela par plusieurs musulmans, mais par mesure de précaution je lui recommande que leur nombre reste inférieur à quatre...
Quelques liens utiles :
- http://www.imdb.com/... (en anglais, quatre critiques très intéressantes dans "The Internet Movie Database")
- http://www.imdb.com/... (en anglais, davantage d'informations avec aussi une bonne bande-annonce)
- http://www.allocine.fr/... (en français, de nombreuses informations, parfois révélatrices, telles que les évaluations identiques de "L'Express" et de "La Croix"... ~~ les libéraux modernes en soutane, un phénomène que nous pouvons observer actuellement en Allemagne; en France, après la disparition du regretté Jean-François Revel, "Ni Marx ni Jésus" semble faire partie d'une époque révolue aussi...; de nombreux liens sur ce site mènent aussi vers toutes les critiques complètes et souvent fascinantes de la presse française)
- http://upload.wikimedia.org/... (la belle affiche israélienne)
- http://www.filmfund.org.il/... (en anglais, la page sur ce film de l'Israeli Film Fund à Tel Aviv)
- http://www.festival-cannes.com/... (en anglais [avec d'autres langues disponibles], la page sur ce film du Festival de Cannes, où il fut montré, comme Sélection Officielle 2010 de "Un Certain Regard", comme p.ex. aussi le film "Precious")
Sur "Brokeback Mountain" sur ce site:
En connexion avec le sujet et Jérusalem, voici un très grand texte en italien de Anna Lauwaert, avec citation d'un texte anglais bien moins grand... :
http://www.butterbach.net/...
Christian Butterbach
April 29, 2010
08:45 PM GMT+1
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XXII FÓRUM DA LIBERDADE
Strange as it may appear to some, but I must believe my server's logfiles, this site, since many years, is much visited from Brazil. This may have to do with Brazilians so often being much more daring than some of the German locals here I am cursed to deal with... ;-) This snotty remark of mine put aside, I extend a big thank you to my friends over there, in particular Margaret Tse, for drawing my attention to the upcoming Brazilian Liberty Forum – 22nd Edition – The Culture of Liberty. 22nd Edition? Yes, when Liberty has been sold out, you have to put a new edition on the market... :-) Have a look at the outstandingly well done Liberty Forum website. That's the English language version. Versão em Português. The portal Terra [at this writing not accessible from here!] will broadcast live all the panels and debates during the two-day Liberty Forum at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, on April 6 and 7, 2009. Pontifical Catholic? Since when is that pontiff for (full) liberty??? Oh well, maybe only in Africa... ;-) At this writing, the Programme on the Liberty Forum website is still only a skeleton, waiting for the flesh, the names of the speakers of the various panels, to be added. I have a Tentative Program though, which you can download in PDF here. Among the many names I recognize the one of Franklin Cudjoe from Ghana [don't miss the article with the many pictures!], who had also attended the ISIL conference at Gummersbach near Cologne in 2005. CU in Porto Alegre! [see the beautiful pictures; some more on the corresponding English page]
Porto Alegre will also ring a bell with people very knowledgeable in the monetary field ("ORECOPA", Organização Econômica Pôrto-Alegrense, cautelas de compra... — but that is half a century ago, before the "Remington Reform", as you can see from the spelling).
Christian Butterbach
March 23, 2009
11:55 AM GMT+1
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The Civilization of Wrong Money and the End of Our Future or the Future of Our End...
"Very few economists today seem to be able to read a balance sheet and even fewer understand the aggregate effects of meddling with accounting principles and interest rates. Unfortunately, this also holds for most people in official positions, those with the power to really influence the course of events. To handle the system-wide crisis of banks and major companies they propose many nearly desperate things, like consolidating balance sheets in various ways - mergers, acquisitions, takeovers and nationalization - and cutting interest rates down towards zero."
The above heading, though playing on the preceding one by Tom Greco, is my sole responsibility, quickly cooked as it was by me in this CB's notewok: It is not meant as a critique in the form of a parody of Tom's book or of the essay by Richard C. B. Johnsson I took the above quote from. It only expresses my own opinion and my clear aim, as I hope, to make you read both works and reflect on what presently seems to be the most pressing problem of this world. With the work of both of these authors and of the ones they refer to, you will gain knowledge that will place you miles ahead of those funny clowns of either sex steeped in their smiling egos (example Merkel, example Obama, not to forget Sarkozy) who cheerfully push us into the grave while, as a pulled forward funeral meal, feasting their summit parties...
Please read
Here is some information about the site it was published on 3 days ago, containing some further valuable references:
Christian Butterbach
March 21, 2009
11:52 AM GMT+1
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The End of Money and the Future of Civilization
The above striking heading is the title of a forthcoming book (from Chelsea Green Publishers) by Thomas H. Greco, Jr., about whom, should you not know him yet or well enough, you can find a wealth of information on the following web pages, starting with the more "official" and ending with the more private. Please do visit them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_H._Greco
http://www.Reinventingmoney.com
http://beyondmoney.net
http://tomazgreco.wordpress.com
http://picasaweb.google.com/tomazhg
This next book of him is expected to be in print around the middle of April. Here below is a description and detailed table of contents.
The End of Money and the Future of Civilization considers the money problem within the broad historical and political context that has made the control of money and banking the primary mechanism for concentrating power and wealth and the nullification of democratic governance.
It provides the necessary understanding for entrepreneurs, activists, and civic leaders to implement approaches toward monetary liberation, approaches that empower communities to restore their environments and democratic institutions, and begin to build economies that are sustainable, equitable, and insulated from the financial crises that plague the dominant systems of money, banking and finance.
It provides specific design proposals and exchange-system architectures for local, regional, national, and global financial systems, and offers strategies for their implementation prescribing actions that grassroots organizations, businesses, and governments will need to take to achieve success.
Those among the individualist readers of my websites and my blogs who will stumble above over words like communities, democratic governance, democratic institutions, governments, should simply replace them with panarchies, governance, non-governance etc., as they like. One thing is sure: that panarchy and panarchism will need what monetary freedom has to offer!
John Zube wrote me referring to the author of this book: "On some points I am still in disagreement with him - but full monetary & clearing freedom would embrace all types of it." and "Experimental freedom is what all of us need, in this sphere and, generally, in the political, economic and social spheres, rather than more opinion exchanges and arguments."
I for one consider the following table of contents already worth a thousand books. And I hope the book will replace those hundreds of thousands of wrong ones in the field... Please forgive my advance enthusiasm. I have occasionally been called on the carpet for indulging in such enthusiasm by the dryer type. I won't repent! :-)
Now then:
The End of Money and the Future of Civilization
Contents
List of Tables and Illustrations
1 My Purpose and My Journey
My Personal Journey • Seeds of Disillusionment • Awakening • In the Wake of Inflation • E.C. Riegel • Why Yet Another Book?
2 Mega-Crisis and Metamorphosis–Can Civilization Be Saved?
Prospects and Prognostication • Exponential Growth • Limits to Growth • Paradigm Shift •Metamorphosis • The Egg, the Caterpillar, and the Butterfly • Get With the Program
3 The Contest for Rulership–Two Opposing Philosophies
Elitist or Egalitarian? • The Contest in American History: Monarchy or Republic? • Power by Other Means
4 Central Banking and the Rise of the Money Power
Central Banking, an Unholy Alliance • The Bank of England • Central Banking in the United States • The First Bank of the United States • Andrew Jackson and the “Bank War” • The Free Banking Era • The Federal Reserve • Central Banking Spreads around the World
5 The New World Order
The Power Behind the Central Banks • A Merging of Interests • Wars, Internal and External • Money Power, the Key Element in the New World Order • Erosion of National Sovereignty
6 Usury and the Engine of Destruction
Monetary Stringency, Past and Present • Increasing Instability • The Magic of Compound Interest • What’s Wrong with the Global System of Money and Banking? • How Debt-Money is Dysfunctional • Three Aspects of Money Dysfunction • Moral Arguments, Laws, and Practical Solutions • Keys to Transcendence • Exchange and Finance–Two Distinct Credit Functions
7 The Nature and Cause of Inflation
What Is Inflation? • Who Has the Power to Inflate? • Improper Basis of Issue by Banks Is Inflationary • Government Deficits and Inflation • The German Hyperinflation–A Classic Case • How the Inflation Was Ended • Constraints Upon Debasement of the Money • Responding to Inflation
8 The Separation of Money and State
The Separation of Church and State–A Comparison • The Disestablishment of Monetary “Religion” • Two Meanings of “Dollar” • Delinking from the Dollar as a Payment Medium • Delinking from the Dollar as a Measure of Value • Stable Value Reckoning • Toward Freedom of Exchange
9 The Evolution of Money–From Commodity Money to Credit Money
What We Don’t Know Is Hurting Us • Kinds of Economic Interaction • “The Ladder of Economic Civilization” • The First Evolutionary Step–Barter to Commodity Money • Commodity Money • Symbolic Money • The Second Evolutionary Step–From Commodity Money to Credit Money • Two Distinct Kinds of Money–Fractional Reserve Banking • Redeemability Abandoned • Checks and Checkable Deposits Displace the Use of Banknotes • Gold Versus Credit Money–A Comparison • How Credit Money Malfunctions
10 The Third Evolutionary Stage–The Emergence of Credit Clearing
Banks and the Credit Clearing Process • A Confusion of Language • Particle or Wave? Thing or Relationship? • Clearing Through Banks Versus Mutual Credit Clearing • Direct Credit Clearing Makes Conventional Money and Banking Obsolete
11 Solving the Money Problem
The Basis of Monetary Dysfunction • Reform or Transcendence? • Emerging Exchange Alternatives • Separating the Functions of Money • Back to Commodity Money? • The Unit of Account Versus the Unit of Currency • The Measurement of Value • Proper Relationship Between Commodities (Gold/Silver) and Credit • Confusion Caused by Legal Tender Laws
12 Credit Clearing, the “UnMoney”
What Is Credit Clearing? • A Simple Example of Clearing among Banks • Settlement of Accounts • Mutual Credit Clearing Systems as Clearing Houses • Direct Credit Clearing–A Simple Illustration Using Four Accounts and Ten Transactions • Balance Limits and Settlement • Providing Surety of Contract • An Insurance Fund
13 The State of the Alternative Exchange Movement
Two Currents of Alternative Exchange • The Tucson Experience • Why Exchange Alternatives Fail to Thrive • Failure of Reciprocity • Inadequate Scale and Scope of Operation
14 How Complementary Currencies Succeed or Fail
Architecture of the Currency Itself • Principle 1: Who Is Qualified to Issue Currency? • Principle 2: On What Basis Should Currency Be Issued? • Principle 3: How Much Currency May Be Issued By Each Issuer? • Implementation Strategies • The Situational Context • WIR • Social Money in Argentina
15 Commercial Trade Exchanges–Their Present Limitations and Potential Future
Limiting Factors • Limited Scale and Scope • The Value Proposition • Operations and Agreements • Proposed Remedies • The Real Deal–Credit Clearing Services • Tapping the Vast Potential Market • What About Taxes? • An Eventual Cashless Trading Network
16 A Regional Economic Development Plan Based on Credit Clearing
Approaches to Community Economic Development • Stage I: Mapping the Territory and Import Substitution • Stage II: Mutual Credit Clearing Provides an Alternative Means of Payment • Sage III: The Credit of “Trusted Issuers” Provides an Alternative Currency for Regional Circulation • Stage IV: Support Structures for Localization–Saving, Investment, Finance, and Education • Stage V and Beyond: Transition to an Objective Measure of Value and Accounting Unit
17 The Next Big Thing in Business: A Complete Web-Based Trading Platform
The Convenience of Cards • Improving the Exchange Process–Challenge and Opportunity • Significant Trends and “Disruptive Technologies” • Strengths and Vulnerabilities of Political Money and Conventional Banking • From Disruptive to Sustaining–Moving Upmarket • The Emergence of a Complete Web-Based Trading Platform • Essential Components of the Web-Based Trading Platform • Completing the Web-Based Trading Platform
18 Organizational Forms and Structures for Local Self-Determination and Complementary Exchange
Toward Economic Independence • The “Banjar” and the Balinese Governance Structure • The Mondragon Cooperatives • Ways of Organizing Credit Clearing Exchanges • Corporations • Limited Liability Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships • Mutual Companies • Scale of Organization
19 The Role of Governments in Establishing Economic and Financial Stability
What National Governments Should Do • Objectives • Rationale • Legislative Proposals in Brief • The Role of State, Provincial, and Local Governments • An Early Example of a Local Currency
20 Exchange, Finance, and the Store of Value
The Store of Value • Saving and Investment • Liberating Saving and Investment • Debt Claims Versus Equity Claims • A Shared Equity Mortgage • Savings and Investment within Complementary Exchange Systems
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Appendix A: A Model Membership Agreement for a Credit Clearing Service
Appendix B: An Objective Composite Standard Measure of Value
Notes
References
Index
About the Author
Christian Butterbach
March 18, 2009
10:02 PM GMT+1
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BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
This is above all a reproach to myself for not having seen to it to draw your attention to this video much earlier...
Christian Butterbach
February 06, 2008
02:31 PM GMT+1
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Heath Ledger †
The one who has moved us all to the very marrow has tragically passed away. It should and will touch in particular the readers of this blog. And it is an occasion to reread Brokeback Mountain by Jonathan David Morris. For more lines (and a picture link) please go to my main blog "CB's notewok" (permanent links therein: 1, 2, 3).
PS: Good lines by JDM regarding this also in this column and a reference (reverence?) to the film in this column and this one. And a short irreverence (not to the film, mind you, but to a disliker of the film) in this obituary.
Christian Butterbach
January 23, 2008
04:16 PM GMT+1
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