Dan Littauer

Holocaust Memorial Day

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:05:02 +0000

Today is the Holocaust Memorial Day, remember the millions that were murdered, Jews, gays, people with special needs, Roma people, communists, and many others… Remember them well, so we can hope that history will not repeat itself.

Wonderful. I didn’t expect this - 7 of December.

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:50:13 +0000

Wonderful. I didn’t expect this - 7 of December.

Aimee Mann - Wise up

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:21:22 +0000

Aimee Mann - Wise up

In a field of red flowers

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:41:00 +0000

The river snakingly flowed

Fields of flowers caress its banks

Countless fragile Red petals

Men, women and children

Stood here a moment ago

Muslims, Jews, Christians

Searched with hope the sky

But God’s mercy clouded over

Machines mercilessly returned a gaze,

Before any of them could see,

Or even meaninglessly identify

Skud, Kassam, Israeli Air to ground rocket, a bullet

They laid here silently

Embraced forever

Blood mingled together

Into this red red river

If god had mercy

Salam who caressed with his hands

Olive branches for ninety years

Would not loose them as to have

His soul flowed into the river

And Tikvah,

A little three year old girl who chased

A white dove that also dropped like her

At this spot where I stand.

If god had mercy

I would be making love with you

In a field of white flowers

Not standing here

In a field of red

Leaf wraps of tenderness

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:59:00 +0100

We exchanged leaf wraps of tenderness
Firmness and intensity
Casual fire moments
Of canon blasts
that sank deep inside
To leave a mark
Secretly shared
Implanted seed
Of bright death rose
Mine to keep eternally

At the crossroads of life
I stand alone
Dark rain pearls
Wash over my forzen body
Not of cold
Of the unknown
How to carry a gift
And road to take
Standing by an Oak
Shedding leaf Wraps of tenderness
Autumn wind howls
Sailing me to winter

Lebensraum? Blind spots make history repeat itself, perversely.

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 22:47:26 +0100

Lebensraum? Blind spots make history repeat itself, perversely.

Waldeck - Make my day

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:18:33 +0100

Waldeck - Make my day

Rest in Peace,Dad

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 19:54:00 +0100

I hope you didn’t suffer dear dad and that you are at peace right now, with mum.

You gave me so much, I don’t know where to begin, but I want to tell you, thank you.

I love you.

I will never forget you.

I remember how you let me “drive” the old Triumph car we had when I was five. You used to sit me on your knees and put my hands on the wheel pretending I was driving the car. I loved driving the car with you…

Or, you used to take me to your lab and I even dissected a huge frog…

When my ex and I split up, you told me ‘If you want me, I am on the next plane to be with you.’

I hope you forgive me for not being able to come and see you before your death or be at your funeral. You know it was not my doing.

Please forgive my sisters for what they did and love them.

May you rest in peace.

Why is there tension between Iran and Azerbaijan?

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:33:00 +0100

Iran was nervous about Azerbaijan right from its independence, the idea of homeland for the Azerbaijani people is seen as dangerous. It may give “funny ideas” to its local Azerbajani population to join it.

There are also historical reasons for this fear; In 1945, Soviet troops moved into Iranian Azerbaijan and created a short lived Soviet-backed puppet regime by the name of “Azerbaijan People’s Government”, which was abandoned under international and local pressure.

More recently the regime in Azerbaijan has been making noise about being the home and leaders of “all the Azeri people,” something that deeply alarms Iran.

Most of all, the Iranian regime is worried about that the ethnic Azerbaijanis (at least 25% of the population of Iran) within its territory might demand the implementation of secular values and modernisation, or worse seek to join Azerbaijan. The Azeris are a Turkic people both ethnically and linguistically distinct from the Persians, the only thing that is common to both is that most come from a background or are Shi’a Muslim.

That is why Iran is taking great strides in launching a religious campaign out of Tabriz, the historical centre of Azerbaijani culture, against the “corrupt” and “morally defunct” Republic of Azerbaijan. It attempts to delegitimise and make the neighbour to the north less appealing to the population of Azerbaijanis at home, which are an oppressed minority.

The ruling regime in Azerbaijan, on the other hand has an element of calculation in how it uses this conflict. The government had been stung by western criticism of its human rights record, and was deliberately trying to show itself in a positive light, especially with the Eurovision contest, compared with Iran.

The Azerbajani regime is using Iran to stress its own importance to the West. It knows that the West is not friendly with Iran and will support Azerbaijan. Tensions have been raised deliberately so as to divert the West’s attention towards a contentious issue and away from its own appalling human rights records. It also keeps the Azerabajani population under the spell of anti Iranian nationalism that divert its attention from political-economic problems at home.

The whole issue with “gay pride” or “Israel” is part of a “side show”, journalists need to understand that and do their homework of research, rather than fixate on the superficial propaganda aspect between the two countries.

Oral stimulus in Glasgow… (Taken with instagram)

Thu, 10 May 2012 20:27:07 +0100

Oral stimulus in Glasgow… (Taken with instagram)

Sè i guai si mittiani à u soli Ognunu si ripigliaria i soi. On...

Wed, 09 May 2012 23:38:18 +0100

Sè i guai si mittiani à u soli Ognunu si ripigliaria i soi.

On the 9th of May, 1769 the French Royal army defeated the Corsican Republican army at Ponte Nuovu. The French may have killed the first democracy, but they did not murder its ideas, nor the Corsican people.

Thirsty? (Taken with instagram)

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:26:26 +0100

Thirsty? (Taken with instagram)

Heritage of the Falkland War: Nationalism and Oligrachies

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:41:00 +0100

THIRTY years to the Falklands Wars. SO MANY PEOPLE DIED! So much grief and misery… For what?

Both governments of Argentina and the UK manipulated the conflict for cynical dirty politics that killed many people.

Argentina military junta tried to use the war as a last ditch attempt to rally people behind a hated dictatorship.

UK’s Margaret Thatcher used the war to save her from a sure election defeat and to give her strength that destroyed the remnants of the UK manufacturing industry laying down the hazardous future of financial services which we suffer from today.

What is the heritage of this war?

We should remember the war today and its dead, and realise , what price we are paying for its heritage today.

Argentina with an Evita Peron like politician, Christina Kirchner (now hyping up the ‘Malvinas’ hysteria because of the economic crisis in her country).

And the UK a victim of its own success at the war, it gave the Tories the power to fuck up finally the country for good and lay the seeds for the economic catastrophe we are suffering today.

The true cost of this war is not only counted in hundreds of dead people and ruined families, and horrible grief. It is destroying millions of lives right now in the United Kingdom who suffer the success of the war and its economic legacy - brutal corporate capitalism and an increasingly rigid plutarchy.

Pierre Berton once said: “Racism is a refuge for the ignorant.” To this I would add, Nationalism is surely then his/her second home…

Bearlicious love :)

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:58:26 +0000

Bearlicious love :)

100 Pills - Mr. Meeble

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:01:34 +0000

100 Pills - Mr. Meeble

No words…

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:00:09 +0000

No words…

A Ton of Bricks - Mr. Meeble

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:38:08 +0000

A Ton of Bricks - Mr. Meeble

Bogus Piety

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:36:00 +0000

They assembled in black

red eyes tears dripping

appearance of touching piety

to bury our mother

While she was still alive

they care laboured

so she could be blinded

by aluminium foil fealty

for family kaleidoscope love

masqueraded knives of heart stabbing

haemorrhaging golden coins from the dying

Two women sitting seven days

needles for the soul

evaporated salt waste

eyes read and deader

than the dead sea

They assembled in a pack

counting profit

beaks deep into flesh

marking their share

of the still living

AMEN

God is full of mercy

that is why non

was left for the

still living

Even Loch Lomond

Has no room for all my tears

To my sisters, who care more about revenge and getting inheritance money from my dying parents, who are prepared to stab each other and pretend to be loving while hiding the dripping knifes behind their backs.

My Mother - RIP Atida Eisenberg Littauer - 1927-2012

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:48:29 +0000

My Mother - RIP Atida Eisenberg Littauer - 1927-2012

A Man's a man for a' that - Robert Burns

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:05:13 +0000

Is there for honest Poverty

That hings his head, an’ a’ that;

The coward slave-we pass him by,

We dare be poor for a’ that!

For a’ that, an’ a’ that.

Our toils obscure an’ a’ that,

The rank is but the guinea’s stamp,

The Man’s the gowd for a’ that.

What though on hamely fare we dine,

Wear hoddin grey, an’ a that;

Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine;

A Man’s a Man for a’ that:

For a’ that, and a’ that,

Their tinsel show, an’ a’ that;

The honest man, tho’ e’er sae poor,

Is king o’ men for a’ that.

Ye see yon birkie, ca’d a lord,

Wha struts, an’ stares, an’ a’ that;

Tho’ hundreds worship at his word,

He’s but a coof for a’ that:

For a’ that, an’ a’ that,

His ribband, star, an’ a’ that:

The man o’ independent mind

He looks an’ laughs at a’ that.

A prince can mak a belted knight,

A marquis, duke, an’ a’ that;

But an honest man’s abon his might,

Gude faith, he maunna fa’ that!

For a’ that, an’ a’ that,

Their dignities an’ a’ that;

The pith o’ sense, an’ pride o’ worth,

Are higher rank than a’ that.

Then let us pray that come it may,

(As come it will for a’ that,)

That Sense and Worth, o’er a’ the earth,

Shall bear the gree, an’ a’ that.

For a’ that, an’ a’ that,

It’s coming yet for a’ that,

That Man to Man, the world o’er,

Shall brothers be for a’ that.