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dustypenguin@sysad.org
dustypenguin

One of the most descriptive pictures of the Biden presidency. Inaccessible, defeatist and even with a multitude of handlers, alone. Reminds me of the sad picture of Tricky Dick Nixon shuffling along the beach in his later years. #sad #fail #puppet

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jakob@pod.orkz.net
Jakobu

Hey ho, one hour gone by with me trying to translate one of the most distressing and sad poems in the whole world. The poem called Estadio Chile that was written by the Chilean Poet and folk-singer Victor Jara as he was in detention in the Chile Stadium after the coup in 1973. The paper he wrote it on was smuggled out in the shoe of another prisoner. Victor Jara was beaten to death and dumped in a favela not far from the stadium four days after the coup..

Yes, I know. Rather sad. Sometimes you can get in a mood like that.

The poem is in Spanish

We are five thousand here
in this small part of town.
We are five thousand.
How many in all
in the cities, in the whole country?
Only here,
ten thousand hand that could seed the fields
go work in the factories.
All this human life
with hunger, cold, panic, pain,
pressure, terror and madness.

Six of us is lost
in space amongst the stars.
One dead, one beaten like I had never belived
a human could be beaten.
The four left just want to flee
all the terror,
one jumps into the nothingness.
another beats his head against the wall
but all stare at death.
What horror the face of fascism creates!
They carry out their plans with cunning precision
nothing means anything to them,
To them Blood is medals,
Killing an act of heroism.
Is this the world you created, dear God?
Was it for this: your seven days of work and wonder?
Inside these four wall exists only a number
that will not progress.
That will slowly crave more death.

But then consciousness hit me
And I see this tide has no heartbeat
And I see the pulse of the machines
And the military show off their motherly face
filled with sweetness.
And Mexico, Cuba, and the world?
Scream out againt this atrocity!
We are ten thousand hand
that can do nothing.
How many in the whole country?
The blood of our comrade president
hits harder than bombs and guns.
That is how our fist will strike back anew.

Song, how bad I am selling this
when I must sing of horror.
Horror that I am living,
that I am dying - horror.
To see myself amongst so many, and so many
Infinite moments
where the silence and the screams
are the goal of this song.
What I have seen I never saw.
What I have felt and what I fell
will grow from this moment...

(1973)

Maybe some of the Spanish speaker here can correct me. @gargamello maybe? I had difficulties with:

  • menos que no producen.
  • harán brotar el momento...

#poetry #translation #sad #sadder #VictorJara #stadium #Chile #1973

Estadio Chile [o Canto que mal me sabes] (Víctor Jara)

Letra y otras informaciones de la canción Estadio Chile [o Canto que mal me sabes] (Víctor Jara) - Cancioneros.com, canción de autor, letras, discos y noticias de trovadores y cantautores.

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dkkhorsheed@diasp.org
Donna

#Remembering #Hiroshima #Nagasaki #Japan #Atomic #Bombings #Nuclear #Weapons #Devastation #LittleBoy #FatMan #US #WorldWar11 #August01945 #August091945 #Death #Never_Forget #Our #Sad #World

Never Forget / Hiroshima and Nagasaki

August 06 - 09, 1945

August 6th 1945 was just a regular day. Little did the citizens of Hiroshima know, but for thousands of them, life was about to come to an end. Hiroshima had been selected by the United States as the very first atomic bomb target. Nobody knew for certain what the effect would be. The single atomic bomb weighed 4 tons, which is 3,600 kilograms. The person who dropped the bomb was Major Tom Ferebee from the aircraft, the “Enola Gay”. The pilot who was flying the “Enola Gay” at the time was Colonel Paul Tibbets. The dropping happened just after 8:00 a.m. Less than a minute after the dropping, the atomic bomb exploded. The explosion produced a temperature of 5,400 Fahrenheit, which is twice as high as the melting point of iron. Victims' skin began to peel off their faces, hands, and arms. It has been estimated that people living within 1,100 yards (1km) of the bomb site burned to death. Survivors were in a state of shock. Dead and dying people lay all around Hiroshima. Hiroshima used to be a city of 245,000 people with only 150 doctors and 1,780 nurses. 65 doctors were killed and the rest were wounded, and 1,654 nurses were dead or wounded. At the biggest hospital, only 1 doctor out of 30 was uninjured and the nursing staff of over 200 was down to 10. Nobody knows the exact number of people who died in Hiroshima. Official figures estimated 100,000 died. However, due to radiation sicknes the estimate rose to 140,000 by the end of 1945. After the bombing, Japan rejected the United States’ ultimatum to surrender unconditionally, so America dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. It is estimated that the bomb killed 80,000 people. Japan surrendered to the United States on August 14, 1945, eight days following the first bombing.

Photo: Victims of the Hiroshima Bombing, Japan / August 06,1945

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