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La Land is a big, bombastic musical – but it's the smaller gestures that make it sing "By now, there was no way back for me": the strange story of Bogdan Stashinsky

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NewsHub“Is it nostalgic?” asks Mia, the aspiring actor played by Emma Stone in the musical La Land . “Are people gonna like it?” She’s agonising over the play she has written but this is surely the voice of the writer-director Damien Chazelle asking these questions of his movie. To which the answers would be: “Duh!” and “On the whole, yes.”
Nostalgia permeates La Land right from the opening announcement that it has been shot in CinemaScope, the widescreen format that was prevalent in the 1950s. When Mia returns home, strolling past street murals of Chaplin and Monroe, a giant poster of Ingrid Bergman gazes down from her bedroom wall. And when she goes on a date with Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), it is to a picture palace with a light bulb-studded marquee.
Old Hollywood is as glorious and intimidating to these 21st-century lovers as it was in Pennies from Heaven when Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters danced in front of the flickering image of Astaire and Rogers, before entering the cinema screen themselves. Something similar happens in La Land when Mia and Sebastian drive up to the Griffith Observatory after watching Rebel Without a Cause ; it’s as though the movie has spilled over into real life.
Sebastian is Mia’s partner in nostalgia. He’s a pig-headed pianist who rhapsodises about jazz and dreams of owning a club but earns a crust playing easy-listening standards. He and Mia are at the foothills of their ambitions, not always certain whether they should go on climbing or settle for life at a lower altitude. La Land asks the same question as Chazelle’s previous film Whiplash : how do you keep your dreams alive without letting them kill you?
When modern directors tackle the musical genre, there can be an element of hostility present, as though they are slaying a dragon – or, more likely, a sacred cow. La Land is not volatile like Martin Scorsese’s New York, New York or Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark. It’s a middle-of-the-road confection, pretty rather than deep, which never quite makes its own mark. It takes its melancholic mood from Edward Hopper and its eye-popping colours from Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. The most original moments are minor ones: glitter thrown into a hairdryer creates a small silvery blizzard, a handbag matches a row of purple wheelie bins in a back alley.
What’s intriguing is that the film bestows on this stepping stone of a romance the sort of attention traditionally reserved for amour fou. It demonstrates, in a series of casually elegant dance duets beginning with a soft-shoe shuffle on a deserted back road in the Hollywood Hills, how Mia and Sebastian connect in their nostalgic reveries for the briefest of moments. Each time, they are dragged back to the present by the bleeps and blasts of the modern world – a ringtone, a smoke alarm, the chirp of an electronic fob.
The film is at its most convincing in those intimate exchanges between Gosling, with his melted eyes, and Stone, with her anime face. When it reaches for an ambitious, razzle-dazzle effect, such as in the over-complicated dance number in a traffic jam (shades of Fame ) and a poorly directed sequence in which the couple start flying like Goldie Hawn in Everyone Says I Love You , it comes across as merely ersatz. This is not, after all, a film of grand passions.
Nor is Chazelle at his most assured on a large canvas. He is an economical visual storyteller who can nail the small, telling moments. He explains in just two brief shots, for instance, exactly why Sebastian puts his ambitions on the back burner to tour with a band he hates. What Chazelle can’t always do is join up the dots to give the film momentum. After a lively scene introducing Sebastian’s sister (the excellent Rosemarie DeWitt), the picture rashly casts her aside, which is a mistake in such a long and underpopulated movie. It can’t rely, either, on the new compositions to whoosh it along, with the exception of a tentative piano number called “City of Stars”, which is first sung casually by Gosling as he strolls along a pier at night. The rest of the songs aren’t heartfelt so much as Heart FM; Magic rather than magical.
On the morning of 12 August 1961, a few hours before the supreme leader of East Germany, Walter Ulbricht, announced the sealing of the border between East and West Berlin, a funeral took place for a four-month-old boy at the Rohrbeck Evangelical Cemetery in Dallgow. Numerous KGB agents and officers of the East German ministry of security were in attendance, but the boy’s parents were missing. Instead, Bogdan Stashinsky and Inge Pohl were preparing their imminent escape from Soviet-occupied territory and into the West. They had intended to flee the following day, but the funeral provided a moment of opportunity when their surveillance was relaxed. If they wanted to go, they had to go now.
“The KGB operatives present at the child’s funeral were puzzled by the parents’ absence,” a Soviet intelligence officer later wrote. “By the end of the day on 13 August 1961, it was clear that the Stashinskys had gone to the West. Everyone who knew what tasks the agent had carried out in Munich in 1957 and 1959, and what could happen if Stashinsky were to talk, was in shock.”
Those “tasks” were the state-sponsored assassinations of Lev Rebet and Stepan Bandera, two exiled leaders of the Ukrainian anti-communist movement who had been living in Munich. Stashinsky, one of the KGB’s top hitmen, and the focus of Serhii Plokhy’s gripping book, had been given the task of tracking and killing them with a custom-built gun that sprayed a lethal, yet undetectable poison. It was only after Stashinsky’s defection to the Central Intelligence Agency, and then to the West German security services, that the cause of Rebet and Bandera’s deaths was finally known.
For decades, the KGB denied any involvement in the assassinations, and the CIA has never been entirely sure about Stashinsky’s motives. Was he telling the truth when he confessed to being the assassin, or was he, as some still claim, a loyal agent, sent to spread disinformation and protect the true killer? Plokhy has now put to rest the many theories and speculations. With great clarity and compassion, and drawing from a trove of recently declassified files from CIA, KGB and Polish security archives, as well as interviews conducted with former heads of the South African police force, he chronicles one of the most curious espionage stories of the Cold War.
Stashinsky’s tale is worthy of John le Carré or Ian Fleming. Plokhy even reminds us that The Man With the Golden Gun , in which James Bond tries to assassinate his boss with a cyanide pistol after being brainwashed by the Soviets, was inspired by the Stashinsky story. But if spy novels zero in on a secret world – tradecraft, double agents, defections, and the moral fallout that comes from working in the shadows – Plokhy places this tale in the wider context of the Cold War and the relentless ideological battle between East and West.
The story of Stashinsky’s career as a triggerman for the KGB plays out against the backdrop of the fight for Ukrainian independence after the Second World War. He was a member of the underground resistance against the Soviet occupation, but was forced to become an informer for the secret police after his family was threatened. After he betrayed a resistance cell led by Ivan Laba, which had assassinated the communist author Yaroslav Halan, Stashinsky was ostracised by his family and was offered the choice of continuing his higher education, which he could no longer afford, or joining the secret police.
“It was [only] a proposal,” he said later, “but I had no alternative to accepting it and continuing to work for the NKVD. By now, there was no way back for me.” He received advanced training in Kyiv and Moscow for clandestine work in the West and became one of Moscow’s most prized assets. In 1957, after assassinating Rebet, he was awarded the
Order of the Red Banner, one of the oldest military decorations in the Soviet Union.
Plokhy’s book is about more than the dramas of undercover work; it is also an imaginative approach to the history of Cold War international relations. It is above all an affective tale about the relationship between individual autonomy and state power, and the crushing impact the police state had on populations living behind the Iron Curtain. Stashinsky isn’t someone of whom we should necessarily approve: he betrayed his comrades in the Ukrainian resistance, lied to his family about who he was and killed for a living. Yet we sympathise with him the more he, like so many others, turns into a defenceless pawn of the Communist Party high command, especially after he falls in love with his future wife, Inge.
One of the most insightful sections of Plokhy’s book converges on Stashinsky’s trial in West Germany in 1962 over the killings of Rebet and Bandera, and how he was given a reduced sentence because it was deemed that he had been an instrument of the Soviet state. The decision was influenced by German memories of collective brainwashing under the Third Reich. As one of the judges put it: “The accused was at the time in question a poor devil who acted automatically under pressure of commands and was misled and confused ideologically.”
What makes Plokhy’s book so alarmingly resonant today is how Russia still uses extrajudicial murder as a tool of foreign policy. In 2004 Viktor Yushchenko, the pro-Western future president of Ukraine, was poisoned with dioxin; two years later Aleksandr Litvinenko, the Russian secret service defector, unknowingly drank radioactive polonium at a hotel in London. The Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya survived a poisoning in 2004 after drinking tea given to her by an Aeroflot flight attendant (she was murdered two years later). The collapse of the Soviet Union did not bring the end of the Russian threat (Putin, remember, is ex-KGB). As le Carré noted in a speech in the summer of 1990, “The Russian Bear is sick, the Bear is bankrupt, the Bear is frightened of his past, his present and his future. But the Bear is still armed to the teeth and very, very proud.”
The Man with the Poison Gun: a Cold War Spy Story by Serhii Plokhy is published by Oneworld (365pp, £18.99)

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Chelsea Manning thanks Obama for prison release

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NewsHubThe US army private serving a 35-year prison sentence for leaking classified documents has thanked President Barack Obama for shortening her sentence.
Chelsea Manning, whose sentence was commuted by the outgoing president, thanked him « for giving me a chance ».
The 29-year-old transgender soldier, born Bradley Manning, gave embarrassing documents to Wikileaks in 2010.
At President Obama’s final press conference on Wednesday, he declared that « justice has been served ».
She will be freed from the Fort Leavenworth military prison in May – 29 years ahead of her scheduled release in 2045.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange weighed in on Thursday, insisting that he would stand by his offer to be extradited to the US as long as his rights were protected.
Mr Assange, who agreed to be extradited to the US if Mr Obama granted clemency to Manning, has been holed up at the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012.
The Australian national sought refuge there to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning in relation to an alleged sex offence.
« I stand by everything I said including the offer to go to the United States if Chelsea Manning’s sentence was commuted, » he said in a live online audio news conference on Thursday.
« It’s not going to be commuted (until) May. We can have many discussions to that point, » he added.
The White House said Manning’s commutation had not been influenced in any way by Mr Assange’s offer, and the US justice department has not indicted Mr Assange nor publicly sought his extradition.
Obama says justice is served
Viewpoint: Obama got it right
Mr Obama’s last-minute commutation quickly drew criticism from Republican circles.
A spokesman for president-elect Donald Trump said he « is troubled by this action. It’s disappointing and it sends a very troubling message when it comes to the handling of classified information ».
Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan called the decision « outrageous ».
« Chelsea Manning’s treachery put American lives at risk and exposed some of our nation’s most sensitive secrets, » Mr Ryan said.
Manning does not have access to the internet, as part of the condition of her imprisonment.
However despite that, she has been tweeting from @xychelsea since April 2015.
In a handwritten letter she released to explain her social media use, she told how she calls a friend on the phone who transcribes what she says « verbatim ».
Her thank you was addressed to @BarackObama, rather than the President’s official @POTUS Twitter account, which Mr Obama will hand over to Mr Trump on Friday when he officially becomes the nation’s 45th president.

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Trump hints New York Jets owner Woody Johnson will be US envoy to UK

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NewsHubPresident-elect Donald Trump appears to have picked NFL tycoon Woody Johnson to be US ambassador to the UK.
Mr Trump introduced the New York Jets owner as « the ambassador Woody Johnson, going to Saint James », during a luncheon in Washington.
The 69-year-old billionaire philanthropist and heir of the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical giant has known Mr Trump for many years.
But he originally backed Trump rival Jeb Bush in the Republican primary.
« Congratulations, Woody, » said Mr Trump in the presidential ballroom of Trump International hotel in Washington DC, on the eve of his swearing in as the 45th US president.
The plum diplomatic appointment – known formally as Ambassador of the United States to the Court of St James – has not yet been formally announced.
Kim Darroch, the UK ambassador to the US, was among the first to tweet his congratulations to Mr Johnson.
« Surely you can replicate the success of @NYJets in London 2015, » Mr Darroch added.
The people around Donald Trump
Although he’s probably best known as the owner of the long-suffering New York Jets American football team, Johnson is quite familiar in conservative circles, having contributed millions of dollars to Republican causes.
Like many big-money donors, Johnson was an early supporter of Governor Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign – and was once cited by Donald Trump as an example of how the former Florida governor was in the thrall of big-money interests. Mr Trump even fired off a tweet mocking the Jets’ lack of postseason success.
The heir to the pharmaceutical and consumer products company Johnson & Johnson threw his support behind Mr Trump when it was clear he would be the party’s nominee, however. He then served as a loyal fundraiser and adviser during the general election campaign.
It looks like that move will pay off with one of the top ambassadorships – a prize that is traditionally given to only the most prolific donors or best-connected political insiders.
With an NFL owner in the Court of St James, can a new team in London be far behind?

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Jennifer Aniston considering a return to TV

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NewsHubFormer “Friends” star Jennifer Aniston may be back on television screens again soon.
The actress conceded in a recent interview that she has “thought about it a lot” when asked about returning to TV, where she first rose to stardom. While she has made sporadic guest appearances on series like “Cougar Town” and “30 Rock,” Aniston has not had a regular part in a TV series since “Friends” ended in 2004.
But a lot has changed in the media landscape since then, with plenty of prestigious actors heading to the small screen for accolades and meatier roles — a development Aniston has noticed.
“Yes, I would,” she told Variety when asked if she would be open to going back to TV.
“I’ve thought about it a lot. That’s where the work is. That’s where the quality is,” she said. “At this point in my career, I want to be part of wonderful stories, exciting characters and also just having a good time.”
“When you’re in your 20s, going away from home was an adventure — meeting new people, seeing other parts of the country or world was so exciting,” Aniston said. “Now it’s really about wanting to stay closer to home and just enjoying your time. It goes really fast. The experience needs to be a good experience. I have no time for the yelling, angry directors or bad behavior anymore.”

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What actually happens when time seems to fly by

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NewsHubNo one is born with an innate understanding of time, and babies must learn to synchronize and coordinate their behavior with the rest of the world. Until then, they demand attention at all hours of the day and night, completely upending their parents’ schedules. And for all of us, travel can be disorienting and disruptive, especially if we visit a place where time is organized quite differently from what we’re used to (like in Spain, with its afternoon siesta ).
But we’re all able to eventually adjust – babies included – by adapting to a system of standard temporal units: minutes, hours and days of the week.
Despite the effectiveness of this system, there’s still a big difference in how we perceive the passage of time – how fast or slow time seems to go by. A few minutes may seem to last “forever” when we’re waiting for a light to turn green, or we may be shocked to realize that the year is almost over.
Variation in the perceived passage of time has been the focus of my research for more than 30 years. I became fascinated by the subject while in graduate school at the University of Illinois. In class one day, my professor showed us an interview with an NFL quarterback who explained how, during games, he often perceived all of the other players to be moving in slow motion.
Why does this distortion occur? What causes it?
I’ve collected hundreds of stories from people in all walks of life who have described instances when time seems to pass slowly. The circumstances are quite varied, but they can be classified into six general categories.
First, there’s intense suffering, like torture, or intense pleasure, like sexual ecstasy. (Time doesn’t always fly when you’re having fun.)
Relatives of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds are planning a private funeral and public memorial service for the mother-and-daughter Hollywood s…
Then there’s violence and danger. Soldiers, for example, often describe time slowing down during combat.
Waiting and boredom may be the most familiar. Solitary confinement in prison is an extreme version of this, but working the counter at a job and having no customers will also do the trick.
People report that being in an altered state of consciousness – such as drug-induced experiences with LSD, mescaline or peyote – will also make time seem to slow down.
Next, high levels of concentration and meditation can influence the subjective passage of time. Various athletes, for example, perceive time to pass slowly when they are “in the zone.” Yet people who are adept at meditation can produce comparable effects.
Finally, there’s shock and novelty. For example, the perceived passage of time can slow down when we’re doing something new, such as learning a challenging skill or going on vacation to an exotic locale.
Paradoxically, then, time is perceived to pass slowly in situations where there is almost nothing happening or a great deal is happening. In other words, the complexity of the situation is either much higher or much lower than normal.
What might explain this paradox?
From the standpoint of a clock or calendar, each standard temporal unit is exactly the same: Every minute contains 60 seconds; every day contains 24 hours. However, standard temporal units vary in what I’ve dubbed “the density of human experience” – the volume of objective and subjective information they carry.
For example, the density of experience is high when, objectively, there is a great deal happening (as in the case of combat). Yet the density of experience can be equally high when there is almost nothing happening (as in the case of solitary confinement) because that seemingly “empty” period of time is actually filled with our subjective involvement in self and situation : We’re concentrating on our own actions or surroundings, thinking about how stressful our circumstances are or even obsessed with how slowly time seems to be passing.
Thus, the answer to this paradox lies in how unusual our circumstances are. We pay increased attention to strange circumstances, which amplifies the density of experience per standard temporal unit – and time, in turn, seems to pass slowly.
It follows, then, that time seems to pass quickly when the density of experience per standard temporal unit is abnormally low. This “compression of time” is something that occurs when we look back at our immediate or distant past. Two general conditions can compress our perception of time.
First, there are routine tasks. When we’re learning them, they require our full attention. But with familiarity or training, we can now engage in these activities without devoting much attention to what we are doing (such as driving home using a standard route).
Say you have a busy day at work. You might be doing complex things, but they’re routine because you’ve been doing them for so long. Given that we behave more or less unthinkingly, each standard temporal unit contains very little memorable experience. The “density” of unique experience is low. And at the end of the day, time seems to have passed quickly. We’re pleasantly surprised to discover that it is already time to go home.
The erosion of episodic memory is the second general condition that makes time seem to have passed by quickly. This is something that affects all of us, all of the time. Our memories of the routine events that fill our days fade with time. What did you do on the 17th of last month? Unless it was a special occasion, you’ve probably forgotten the experiences from an entire day.
This forgetting intensifies the further back we look. In another study , I asked people to describe their perception of the passage of time yesterday, last month and last year. They felt that the previous year had passed more quickly than last month, and that the previous month had passed more quickly than yesterday. Objectively, of course, this doesn’t make sense: A year is 12 times longer than a month, and a month is 30 times longer than a day. But because our memory of the past erodes, the density of experience per standard temporal unit decreases, leaving us with the perception that time has passed quickly.
However, the situations I’ve described above are anomalies. We typically do not perceive time passing quickly or slowly. Under normal conditions, 10 minutes as measured by a clock also feels like 10 minutes. I can agree to meet with someone in 10 minutes and arrive roughly on time without the aid of a watch. This is possible only because we have learned to translate experience into standard temporal units, and vice versa.
We’re able to do this because there’s consistency in our day-to-day experiences – a consistency that’s produced by society’s repetitive and predictable patterns. Most of the time, we’re not in solitary confinement or visiting new countries. The density of experience per standard temporal unit is both moderate and familiar. We learn how much experience is typically contained in 10 minutes.
Only something that alters the routine – an especially busy day at work or a pause to reflect on the previous year – will reduce the normal density of experience per standard temporal unit, leaving us with the impression that time has flown by.
Likewise, an automobile accident – a jarring incident that seizes our attention – instantly fills each standard temporal unit with the experience of self and situation, making it seem as though the accident is occurring in slow motion.
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.

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Korean Air used electric stun gun on five passengers

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NewsHubSouth Korea’s national airline has used electric stun guns on five passengers during flights, the BBC has learned.
Korean Air is believed to be the only major carrier to routinely have the weapons on board.
The airline is ramping up training for staff using the guns after criticism for the way it handled a recent in-flight disturbance.
In that incident, US singer Richard Marx was among passengers who helped restrain an unruly passenger.
Afterwards, both Mr Marx and his wife Daisy Fuentes used social media to claim that the crew was « ill-trained ».
Ms Fuentes wrote on Instagram: « They didn’t know how to use the Taser and didn’t know how to secure the rope » around the passenger.
Taser is a brand name of a electric stun gun. The reference surprised many who did not expect airlines to carry the weapons, which are more commonly used by police.
The carrier told the BBC it first introduced electric stun guns in 2002.
It now carries at least one set of weapons on every plane, with two sets on its A380 jumbo jets.
A Korean Air spokesman said that of the five incidents, three involved the gun being fired.
In those instances, the gun used compressed air to fire darts that release a 50,000-volt electric charge, designed to temporarily paralyse the target.
In the two other cases, the weapon was used as a stun gun, with the electric current fired directly into the passenger, with the weapon held against them at close range.
Korean Air would not give further details about what prompted each incident, when they occurred or what happened to the passengers.
But it confirmed all took place while the aircraft were airborne.
After the incident involving Mr Marx, the airline said it was training its crews to use the weapons more « readily » against violent passengers.
It also invited media to see a session where crew were practising using Tasers.
Korean Air’s former president, Chi Chang-hoon, said Asian airlines had not followed US carriers in tackling on-board violence and suggested « Asian culture » was to blame.
However, the airline’s spokesman said that current protocol limited cabin crews to using tasers « only during life threatening situation or when the safety of an aircraft is threatened ».
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said airlines were not required to inform them if they carried the weapons on board.
Several major carriers contacted by the BBC declined to comment on whether or not they had Tasers on board, citing security concerns.
But some large airlines including Etihad, Malaysia Airlines and India’s Jet Airways confirmed they did not carry electric stun guns.
And sources at other global carriers, including Emirates and Lufthansa, also said they were not part of standard on-board kit, although the airlines did not officially confirm this.
However, most airlines do carry equipment to restrain disruptive passengers including ropes, cuffs and adhesive tape.
There is some risk to using Tasers or other similar stun guns, although this tends to revolve around the harm to those hit by them.
In the UK, there have been at least 17 deaths linked to the use of stun guns since they were introduced by police in 2003.
And while not ideal to use one on a plane, there is not thought to be any great risk to the safety of a plane if a Taser was activated.
Bear in mind that proponents of air marshals (see below) argue that even when using regular gunfire on a flight – the level of risk is manageable.
Unruly behaviour on aircraft is a growing problem according to a study by IATA, with a sharp rise of incidents in 2015.
Incidents of people getting in fights, being verbally abusive or refusing to follow cabin crew orders were up by 17%.
Alcohol or drug use was identified as a factor in one-in-four incidents.
In 11% of cases, there was physical aggression or even damage to the aircraft.
Some 10,854 incidents of passengers disrupting flights were reported to IATA last year, up from 9,316 incidents in 2014. That’s one incident for every 1,205 flights.
An air marshal is an undercover armed guard on board a commercial aircraft, to counter hijackings and other hostile acts.
In the event of an imminent threat from a passenger, air marshals say they are trained to respond with lethal force.
Their use was ramped up, especially in the US, after the 11 September 2001 attacks.
It is thought there are now several thousand marshals employed by the US Department for Homeland Security, compared with the 33 flying regularly pre-9/11.
Israel’s El Al has had armed marshals operating on its flights for more than 30 years.
IATA says that – perhaps not surprisingly – countries which do employ air marshals, do not disclose which flights they are on.

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Nancy Sinatra shades Donald Trump with Frank Sinatra lyric

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NewsHubNancy Sinatra doesn’t seem to be happy about the rumor that President-elect Donald Trump plans to use “My Way” by her late father, Frank Sinatra, as his first dance song.
When a fan tweeted at Nancy Sinatra, “You good w/ this guy using the iconic ‘My Way’ for Friday night?” with a photo of Trump, Sinatra responded, “Just remember the first line of the song.”
Just remember the first line of the song. https://t.co/dYrXv818i9
And what is the first line of the song? “And now, the end is near,” Frank Sinatra sings in the opening. “And so I face the final curtain.”
Nancy Sinatra herself is an outspoken supporter for both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. On Thursday, she tweeted about Trump’s use of the song, “Probably calling it ‘His Way.’ That’s what he does for everybody,” and said of Trump’s upcoming term as president: “It’s scary, I know. A silent prayer: Please keep our country safe from all harm.”
She has also speculated about what her father would think. On Jan. 7, she said, “My dad didn’t hate anybody but he would never support a bigot” in response to a Trump supporter who claimed Nancy Sinatra said her father would never have sung for the president-elect.
My dad didn’t hate anybody but he would never support a bigot. @Servelan @realDonaldTrump
She has also tweeted, however, that her tweet about the first line of the song was a joke.

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Війська Сенегалу вторглися до Гамбії

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NewsHubОперація повинна примусити колишнього президента країни Яйю Джамме поступитися владі Адамі Барроу. Про участь у військовій кампанії заявили також Нігерія і Гана.
1 грудня 2016 року в Гамбії відбулися президентські вибори, в яких виграв Барроу, набравши 45,5%. Однак президент Джамме відмовився визнати підсумки голосування і передати владу. Він запровадив в країні надзвичайний стан.
Рада Безпеки ООН 19 січня одностайно виступила за передачу влади в Гамбії Адамі Барроу, висловивши повну підтримку зусиллям Економічного співтовариства країн Західної Африки (ЕКОВАС) щодо виконання « волі народу Гамбії, відображеної в результатах виборів 1 грудня ».

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Proteste in Washington | Mann zündet sich vor Trump-Hotel selbst an

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NewsHubEinen Tag vor der Amtseinführung des Republikaners Donald Trump (70) steht die amerikanische Hauptstadt Kopf!
Bis zu 900 000 Besucher werden erwartet, hinzu kommen 200 000 Demonstranten.
Ob Skandale, Statements, Klatsch oder Tratsch: Alle News zu Donald Trump lesen Sie hier im Live-Ticker.
Schon jetzt gibt es Proteste gegen den 45. Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, vor allem vor seinem Hotel in der Pennsylvania Avenue.
Dort hat es am Dienstagabend offenbar einen dramatischen Vorfall gegeben: Aus Protest gegen Trump zündete sich ein Mann vor dem Hotel an.
Er habe einen Brandbeschleuniger und ein Feuerzeug benutzt, berichtet die „Washington Post“ .
Ein Augenzeuge sagte der Zeitung, er habe einen von Flammen umgebenen Mann gesehen, der wütend Trumps Namen rief.
Der 45-Jährige wurde mit Verbrennungen dritten Grades an zehn Prozent seines Körpers ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert.
Ob die Aktion im Zusammenhang mit den Protesten anderer Demonstranten stand oder der Mann alleine handelte, ist unbekannt.
Laut einer jüngsten Umfrage des Nachrichtensenders ABC und der „Washington Post“ ist Trump kurz vor seiner Amtseinführung unbeliebter als mindestens sieben Präsidenten vor ihm.
Nur 40 Prozent der Amerikaner sind zufrieden damit, wie Trump die Amtsübernahme in den vergangenen Wochen gestaltet hat.
Zum Vergleich: Vor Barack Obamas Amtseinführung waren 80 Prozent zufrieden wie er nach der Wahl seine Regierung vorbereitet hatte. Und auch die Präsidenten George W. Bush (72 Prozent), Bill Clinton (81 Prozent) und George H. W. Bush (82 Prozent) bekamen wesentlich bessere Bewertungen für die Übernahme der Regierungsgeschäfte.
Ebenfalls nur 40 Prozent der Befragten gaben an, den designierten Präsidenten Donald Trump positiv gegenüber zu stehen – das schlechteste Ergebnis für ein US-Staatsoberhaupt seit 1977!
Vorherige Zustimmungsraten lagen kurz vor der jeweiligen Amtseinführung zwischen 56 Prozent (George W. Bush) und 79 Prozent (Barack Obama), schreibt ABC.
Und auch umgekehrt sieht es für den Republikaner düster aus.
In Umfragen, die in der Vergangenheit wenige Tage vor den Machtwechseln in Washington durchgeführt wurden, gaben 9 bis 20 Prozent an, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton und Barack Obama unfähig für das Amt zu halten.
36 Prozent äußerten sich negativ zu George W. Bush. 54 Prozent glauben derzeit, dass Donald Trump ein unvorteilhafter Präsident sein wird.
Am Freitag wird Donald Trump offiziell ins Weiße Haus einziehen. Ein Überblick über den Tag der Amtseinführung (alle Zeiten in Mitteleuropäischer Zeit ):
► 12.30 Uhr (6.30 Uhr Ortszeit): Am Kapitol beginnen die Sicherheitsüberprüfungen.
► 13.00 Uhr (7 Uhr Ortszeit): Auf einem Platz direkt an der Route der Parade wollen sich erste Demonstranten sammeln. Die Protestaktion der „ANSWER Coalition“ ist genehmigt und soll mehrere Stunden dauern.
Wenn D. Trump am Freitag zum Präsidenten gekürt wird, wollen tausender Rocker eine „Mauer aus Fleisch“ formen, um ihn zu schützen
► 14.00 Uhr (8 Uhr Ortszeit): Weitere Demonstranten treffen sich, um zur Mall zu ziehen. Ihre Proteste sind nicht genehmigt.
► Noch ohne Uhrzeit (voraussichtlich gegen 14.30 Uhr MEZ): Donald Trump, sein Vize Mike Pence und ihre Familien besuchen einen Gottesdienst in der St John’s Church.
Barack Obama und seine Frau Michelle empfangen den Republikaner und die künftige First Lady Melania anschließend im Weißen Haus. Dann begleitet der scheidende Präsident seinen Amtsnachfolger zum Kapitol.
► 15.30 Uhr (9:30 Uhr Ortszeit): Am Kapitol beginnen die Feierlichkeiten mit Musik. Die Nachwuchssängerin Jackie Evancho singt die Nationalhymne.
Es sieht aus wie ein normaler Umzug, ist es aber nicht: Hier ziehen die Obamas in ihr neues Zuhause.
In seiner letzten Pressekonferenz verteidigte Obama seine Politik – und gab Nachfolger Donald Trump einen wichtigen Rat
► 17.30 Uhr (11:30 Ur Ortszeit): Eröffnungsrede am Kapitol. Vertreter mehrerer Religionsgemeinschaften sprechen Gebete. Anschließend wird Trumps Vize Mike Pence ins Amt eingeschworen.
► 18.00 Uhr (12 Uhr Ortszeit): Donald Trump legt auf den Stufen des Kapitols den Amtseid ab. Anschließend wird er seine mit Spannung erwartete Rede halten. Dann isst er im Kapitol zu Mittag.
► 21.00 Uhr (15 Uhr Ortszeit): Die Parade zum Weißen Haus beginnt. Eine Gruppe von Demonstranten hat angekündigt, den Zug zu stören. Ihre Proteste sind nicht genehmigt.
► 1.00 bis circa 5.00 Uhr (19 bis voraussichtlich 23 Uhr Ortszeit): Trump und seine Frau Melania nehmen an drei Bällen teil.
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Polizei geht von Verbrechen aus | „Lambada“-Sängerin tot in Auto aufgefunden

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NewsHub„Lambada“ – millionenfach verkauft, millionenfach getanzt in Diskos auf der ganzen Welt. Doch heute schweigt die Sonnen-Hymne!
Die Sängerin des Hits von 1989 ist auf tragische Weise gestorben.
Loalwa Braz Vieira (63) ist tot aufgefunden worden. Die verkohlte Leiche der Brasilianerin wurde am Donnerstagmorgen in dem Ort Saquarema bei Rio de Janeiro in einem ausgebrannten Auto entdeckt, wie die örtliche Polizei der Deutschen Presse-Agentur mitteilte.
Die Polizei geht von einem Verbrechen aus. Laut brasilianischen Presseberichten sucht die Polizei nach zwei Männern, die sich in der Wohnung der Sängerin aufgehalten haben.
Angeblich soll es vor ihrem Tod einen Raubüberfall gegeben haben – laut Medienberichten soll sie um Hilfe geschrien haben.
Die Sängerin des Welthits „Lambada“, die Brasilianerin Loalwa Braz Vieira, ist tot aufgefunden worden.
Loalwa Braz Vieira hatte 1989 als Sängerin der Gruppe Kaoma Weltruhm erlangt, der Song „Lambada“ stand in vielen europäischen Hitparaden wochenlang an Platz 1.
Das millionenfach verkaufte Lied geht zurück auf den Titel „Llorando se fue“ („Weinend ging sie“) der bolivianischen Gruppe Los Kjarkas und wurde zu einem Tanzhit, der weltweit die Diskotheken eroberte. Lambada wurde auch zu einem eigenen Tanzstil. Er vereinigte Musikstile wie Cumbia und Merengue.
Braz hatte schon mit 13 Jahren mit dem Singen begonnen und war bis zuletzt ein Star in Brasilien. Nach Angaben des Portals „O Globo“ verkaufte sie über 25 Millionen Alben in ihrer Karriere.
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