From Comment section in https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/deterrence-by-savagery.html#more

The savagery is a losing card. By playing it the US and the West are undercutting every ideological, normative and institutional modality of legitimacy and influence. It is a sign that they couldn't even win militarily, as Hamas, Ansarallah and Hezbollah have won by surviving and waging strategies of denial and guerilla warfare. Israeli objectives have not been realized, and the US looks more isolated and extreme than ever. It won't be forgotten and there are now alternatives.

sábado, 5 de agosto de 2017

MAKE BELIEVE...[+ BIOGRAFIA DE JOSEPHINE BAKER]


«Make Believe»
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
                            


SONG LYRICS:

Only make believe I love you
Only make believe that you love me
Others find peace of mind in pretending
Couldn't you? Couldn't I? Couldn't we?

Make believe, our lips are blending
In a phantom kiss or two or three
Might as well, make believe I love you
For to tell the truth, I do.

The game of just supposing
Is the sweetest game I know
Our dreams are more romantic
Than the world we see.

And if the things we dream about
Don't happen to be so
That's just an unimportant technicality.

You and I have never met
We need not mind convention's P's and Q’s.

If we put our thoughts in practice
We can banish all regret
Imagining most anything we choose.



Joséphine Baker (1906-1975), por nascimento Freda Josephine McDonald, foi uma cantora, dançarina, actriz, estrela de revista e resistente francesa.

Foi a primeira vedeta negra. Começou a ficar famosa em Paris, em 1925 dançando semi-nua, na «Revue nègre». 




Avec
Un tout petit, petit rien de rien
Les femmes
Obtiennent tout ce qui leur convient
C'est formidable!
Avec
Leurs tout petits, petits, petits moyens
Elles savent
Troubler le sexe masculin
Mine de rien
Elles attrapent même les plus adroits
Croyez-moi
Avec
Leur tout petit je-ne-sais-quoi
Qu'elles viennent de Rome ou de Brooklyn
Ou même de Copenhague
Qu'elles veuillent une paire de ballerines
Ou même une simple bague
Un peu de charme, un peu de larmes
Et l'affaire est dans l' sac
Avec
Un tout petit, petit rien de rien
Les femmes
Obtiennent tout ce qui leur convient
N'est-ce pas, Mesdames?
Avec
Leurs tout petits, petits, petits moyens
Elles savent
Troubler le sexe masculin
Mine de rien
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Elles attrapent même les plus adroits
Ho ho ho... Croyez-moi
Avec
Leur tout petit je-ne-sais-quoi


Adoptou a nacionalidade francesa em 1937 e desempenhou um papel importante, durante a II Guerra Mundial, na resistência. 




Utilizará depois sua enorme popularidade para lutar contra o racismo e pela emancipação dos Negros.


Vejam o documentário abaixo; «A Primeira Super-Estrela Negra»:







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