We Feel That This Is An Excellent Example Of Election Advertising, And It Is Particularly Encouraging

We feel that this is an excellent example of election advertising, and it is particularly encouraging to see that they are sincere in their message.

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We think her words are sincere, and the worst part is that the other candidate is sincere too, but it doesn't matter that everything he says seems somehow humanly despicable.

Or has it slowly dawned on you that fear, horror scenarios and vilification are not an election programme?

Let's get one thing straight. Being bad is an art of survival. Just because someone has money doesn't mean they are good at something. That's what we usually assume, but that's not necessarily true!

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Sometimes the investors just have to bet on everything going well, it's not so elon!

One of my qualities is not to have any qualities, but I can imitate them all very well.

Peter Smith, ..... Life Sciences

The amazing pacifist who will bravely defend democracy with a weapon if necessary when it comes to an emergency. Adapted from the brilliant Albert Einstein.

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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Albert Einstein

We always say we rehabilitate and educate with compassion and understanding, but when it really comes down to it, it's going to be hard!

Red lines are not to be crossed, full stop

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We are not into culture war and panic, we are only into the clear signal of denial that democracy is weak. To all those who follow the path of blindness, hatred and misanthropy!

JOAN JUMPSUIT - 2024

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You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

Vivienne Westwood

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

Vivienne Westwood

What a life! I want to thank both of you and also those who bring fashion forward in their own special way.

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Radical chic and professionalisation

Frontal colour photograph of a narrow black house with two upper floors. The window frames of the upper floors are white and partly decorated. On the ground floor there is a shop with a huge clock whose numbers go up to 13. World's End boutique with 13-hour clock

Born out of necessity, she soon developed her business into a respectable skill. In November 1971, she and her partner, Malcolm McLaren, opened their first boutique at 430 Kings Road in London under the name 'Let it rock', a reference to the Chuck Berry song. McLaren had started selling his fashion at the location two months earlier with a friend from art school, Patrick Casey, in the previous shop called 'Paradise Garage', until the owner, Trevor Myles, let him take over. Most of the clothes, some of which were second-hand, were aimed at 'Teds', as McLaren himself wore teddy boy suits and despised the hippie clothing that was prevalent at the time. Westwood designed the styles and East End tailor Sid Green and a seamstress took care of production. The standard range included teddy jackets, tight trousers and creeper shoes. As the racism and sexism of the Teds became increasingly apparent, they renamed the shop 'Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die' in memory of the untimely death of acting icon James Dean in the spring of 1973 and focused on rocker fashion. At the end of 1974, the name was changed to 'Sex' and the range shifted to erotic lingerie and SM items.

The boutique became a meeting place for the London punk rock scene, including Sid Vicious and other members of the future Sex Pistols, the Chelsea band members and Mark Stewart. The radicalisation of Westwood's worldview was also reflected in the shop's subsequent name: 'Seditionaries - Clothes for Heroes' (from 1976) and 'World's End' (from 1979), under which the shop still exists today.

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revolution for inclusion

All well and good, now you have to put it into practice in the real world and really start a revolution of inclusion.... so that it spreads.... Disabled people must become uncomfortable so that they are recognised politically, culturally and economically.

This is only possible by pointing out grievances and fighting...... Revolution means fighting to achieve goals and eliminate grievances.

Fight back and be outraged!

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IPC President Andrew Parsons has ignited a 'revolution for inclusion' with an impassioned speech at the opening ceremony for the Paralympic Games in Paris. In a rousing speech, the head of the International Paralympic Committee called for the games to be played in the spirit of liberty, equality and fraternity, shouting 'liberte, egalite, fraternite' to the assembled heads of state and spectators on the Place de la Concorde.

'Liberte! "The right to live freely and without oppression," Parsons exclaimed, his voice ringing with energy as he spoke of the importance of equality. Every person with a disability has the right to a life without barriers, without discrimination and without marginalisation – and we are going to make it happen! Fraternité! We are one, and we are so much more than the same! "We all belong to the same family: humanity!" He is determined to overcome the 'enormous obstacles' that people with disabilities still face, especially outside of sport.

'Through their incredible performances, Paralympic athletes will challenge stigmas, change attitudes and redefine the boundaries of what is considered possible,' Parsons continued. '225 years ago, the Place de la Concorde was the centre of the French Revolution. I hope that the spark of the inclusion revolution will now also ignite here. Vive la revolution de l'inclusion!' This call should resound beyond France to the whole world.

Please find down the speech given by Tony Estanguet, President of the Paris 2024 Organising Committee on August 28, 2024, on the occasion of the Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony. Find attached the french translations (pronounced and full). 

 [IN FRENCH DURING THE SPEECH]

"Dear athletes,

Dear lovers of the Games in France and around the world,

Welcome to the country of love… and the country of revolution.

Since tonight is the start of the most beautiful of all revolutions: the Paralympic revolution.

Tonight, the revolutionaries are you, the athletes.

Like our ancestors with their phrygien caps, you have panache and audacity.

Like all the revolutionaries around the world, you have courage and determination.

Like them, you are fighting for a cause that is bigger than you.

But, in your case, your weapons are your performances.

In your case, your weapons are your records.

In your case, your weapons are the emotions of sport.             

Even if all your life stories are unique, you have often lived with people listing all the things you are unable to do.

Until the day you first entered a sports club.

On that day, you understood that sport would not impose any limits.

On that day, you understood that sport would never put you in a box.

Like all athletes, you trained, you sweated, you failed and you got back up again…

And you became the great champions that we are honoured to have with us tonight.

What makes you revolutionaries is that, when they told you “no,” you continued.

When they said “disability,” you replied “performance.”

When they said it was impossible, you did it.

And tonight you are inviting us to join you in this Paralympic revolution.

Tonight, you are inviting us to change our perspectives, change our attitudes, change our society to finally give every person their full place.

Because when the sport starts, we will no longer see men and women with a disability, we will see you: we will see champions.

With you, we are going to re-live all the most beautiful things that sport has to offer.

We will be like kids when you are on the start line.

We will be like coaches when it gets to match point.

We will be wild supporters when you cross the finish line!

As with the Olympians, each of your victories will make an entire country proud.

But your power is such that each of your victories will also make a whole country change.

Each of your victories will help to move the world forward.

Because every emotion that you make us feel will carry a message that will never be forgotten:

You have no limits, so let us stop imposing limits on you.

That is the Paralympic revolution.

A gentle revolution, but one that is going to profoundly change every one of us, forever.

An individual revolution, but one with a universal reach.

A sudden revolution: on 9 September, we are going to wake up different.

There are few events that can truly make the world a better place.

The Paralympic Games have this unrivalled power, not only to thrill us but also to transform us.

So tonight, I want to thank the International Paralympic Committee and its President Andrew Parsons: thank you for giving us this unique opportunity to revolutionise the way we see the world.

I would also like the thank all those public and private partners who have allowed this revolution to start:

Thank you, Mister President of the Republic,

Madam Mayor of Paris,

Madam President of the French National Paralympic Committee,

Madam Minister of Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games,

Madam President of the Ile-de-France region,

Mister Presidents of the Greater Paris Metropolitan Area and the Seine-Saint-Denis department,

Ladies and gentlemen representatives of French and international sport,

Dear partners,

Thank you for your commitment. Thank you for putting all your passion and ambition into this project.

Thank you to this frenzied public that we discovered this summer, and that is back with us this evening!

Dear lovers of the Games, dear fans of ‘Les Bleus’

It’s not over, we’re going to experience more incredible moments!

It’s not over, our French athletes still need you!

Tonight, Team France is back in business, ready to break all the records!

Dear French athletes,

You’ve been waiting for this moment forever, and you are going to have the most wonderful crowds to carry you all the way to the podium.

They’ve practiced their songs,

They’ve painted their faces,

They’ve got their flags ready

They are going to make you feel the force of a whole country behind you.

[IN ENGLISH DURING THE SPEECH]

There are 1.3 billion people with disabilities worldwide. That is 16 per cent of the entire world population. The majority of them (80 per cent) live in low-income countries and have poorer healthcare, less education and are poorer than people without disabilities. Yet disabilities could often be avoided through prevention.

In 77 per cent of all people with mild visual impairment or even blindness, the cause can be prevented or treated

In children, almost 60% of hearing loss is due to preventable causes.

80% of all people with moderate to severe hearing loss live in low- and middle-income countries.

What a potential that is simply lying idle and can certainly make the world an even better place.

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Show yourselves, become visible..... time on the sidelines is over!

It was observed that chicken dino sticks are ubiquitous in supermarkets across the Western world, which is somewhat incongruous. While dinosaurs are understood to be extinct, birds are regarded as their descendants. Consequently, chicken dino sticks may be regarded as a form of dinosaur in a more readily digestible state.

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Are you familiar with the bird 🐦 paradox?

Have you ever heard of a demonstration against birds killed by cars?

Or a demonstration against birds killed by the food industry?

We assume not!

But they have certainly heard of people demonstrating against wind turbines because they kill birds in masses.

It's interesting that people can eat their breakfast eggs and drive their cars and completely ignore the fact that millions and millions of birds have died since both products were invented or used.

But at the same time, when it comes to wind power, they act like bird protectors.

What does that tell us? It's about freedom, the freedom to simply ignore something that you don't really want to know about.

And the freedom to choose arguments that ultimately aren't arguments.

Somehow the world is still a disc on the basis of freedom, smile.

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That's the way it is with the world - you choose your arguments and the world becomes a big slice. Plus, the cool thing about it is that you only have to say out loud that you're right and you're done.

The mass killing of male chicks has been common practice in the poultry industry for decades. However, many consumers do not realise how the animals are sorted out. They are shredded or gassed - for reasons of profitability.

Male chicks are considered an undesirable by-product in laying hen breeding. As they do not lay eggs later on, the hatcheries consider them useless. The roosters are also difficult to fatten and therefore have too little meat to offer. As a result, around 48 million male chicks are killed in Germany (Worldwide is not included here, but the other countries are doing well!) every year shortly after hatching. In the poultry industry, these are referred to as day-old chicks.

We don't think wind turbines can beat such a record.

We don't have any statistics for traffic, but we don't think this has ever really been recorded.