#breed: lithuanian white backed

[hedoughnism]

If you have ever interacted with your state Fish and Wildlife Service, or If you have ever read anything with a large mainstream US based conservation NGO ( like Audubon or the National Wildlife Federation) you have probably come across “ The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation” ( or some variation thereof ) the idea is that conservation, at-least on this continent, is somehow crucially tied to hunters, that hunters provide most of the real support for conservation, either financially as hunting licenses, duck stamps, and taxes on equipment help fund state and federal conservation programs, or in terms of being an interest group, as hunters want wildlife habitat/wildlife so they can hunt, and that this is a great innovation of the US/Canada we should be patriotic about ( in a vaguely rural Red Tribe way)

To get a sense of what makes hunting in the US different from what is before, we have to go back to Europe, throughout most of European history since at-least the Middle Ages, hunting, at-least of large “game” animals like deer, boar, bison, and wild cattle. Was an Aristocratic activity, It was often restricted legally from commoners at all. ( If you ever heard the funny factoid about The Queen owning all the swans in Britain, this is why) . Aristocracy wanted to hunt animals, and this motivated them to conserve There populations, in part by restricting and regulating hunting to avoid the tragedy of the commons . We also see them maintain large areas of non cultivated semi-natural space as “ hunting parks” so The wildlife has habitat to maintain their population in , so they can continue to hunt them.

The last wild European Bison populations ( before reintroduction from captivity) belonged to the Russian Tsars and before that the Polish-Lithuanian Aristocracy, from the 13-17th century the last Aurochs populations could only be hunted by Aristocracy and then Royalty, and a number of British cattle breeds ( Chillinghan, British White Park , Vaynol, British White) are descended from populations of Feral White cattle kept as ornamentation and hunting victims on large semi forested/ semi-meadow parks since the Middle ages

I want to highlight this was not a uniquely European Phenomenon, for example, In China, the last herd of Milu Deer, in the late 1800’s , was maintained in the walls of The Nanyuan Royal Hunting Garden, owned by the Emperor Tonghzi. Eventually the garden was stormed by German Soldiers, and the only reason the species survived is some were exported beforehand from the Garden to European zoos. You can also look at the Establishment of Game Reserves for the white elite in Southern Africa.

As european settlers colonized North America, armed with guns and free from Aristocratic regulations, and eventually coupled with the rise of large industrialized populations in the North East, they engaged mainly in not the subsistence, sport hunting, or even hunting of pests your probably more familiar with, but Market-Hunting , hunting, especially unregulated and at industrial scale , for the sale of the animals body parts as commercial goods, Meat, Leather, Fur and Feathers from wild land animals were sought in large numbers by the general public, including in densely populated areas.

Elk and other deer, Geese, Heath hens, Passenger pigeons, Carolina Parakeets, pronghorn, Wading birds, Bison, Beaver, Fishers, american Martens, sea Otters, sea mink, trumpeter swan, Labrador duck, Great Auk, and many other species had There populations severely impacted, often to the point of extinction, by this commercial scale hunting for their body parts

Meanwhile, we started to see the formation among the settlers, at-least the Upperclass ones, of an American Identity in contrast to that of the English or other Europeans. This identity thought of themselves as tougher, more rugged, less civilized ( but better suited for “civilizing”, this wasn’t seen as in conflict, like how a wild tough man may tame a wild Bronco) than the Europeans, and was tied to the idea of the US as a Wild uncivilized land not yet altered by man ( and of-course the dehumanization of native Americans and the Denial that they have shaped and altered the land severely). Think of Davy Crocket, and Pail Bunyan, and Buffalo Bill. Look at The Hudson River school of landscape painting, and how it diverged from older European styles, the focus on wild landscapes instead of farmland, the sharp jagged rocks and landscape formations , the twisted trees and snapped broken branches, the dramatic storm clouds, and rushing waterfalls. It is nature wild, but particularly nature powerful and rugged, untamed and full of rough “imperfections”, this is how the US Naturalists of the time saw themselves and There country in contrast to Europe.

Now the Environmentalist movement as we know of it was really kicked off by Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, in 1962. That is when it went mainstream, when we see a greater focus on pollution, and the start of the understanding of different species as playing an important role in supporting a functioning ecosystem rather than being set pieces on the landscape

Before this Modern Environmentalist movement however , we had an older Conservationist movement, that was based in this rugged American Identity I discussed already. These people were “ Naturalists” , mostly outdoorsy upper class white men, who engaged in sport hunting alongside other outdoorsy leisure activities , There focus was on conserving natural resources, like Game Animals or Timber, so they could be exploited in perpetuity, as well as preserving scenic natural areas for themselves to hang out in and maybe shoot something in.

Teddy Roosevelt’s role in the timber industry is a great non-animal example of how these people see the natural world, he brought much needed regulation and reform to the Lumber industry, without which we might have lost all our forests and the US ran out of wood, but he only saw a forest as a source of wood, not as an ecosystem, so today large areas of federal/state land, that are in theory natural areas, are leased out to the timber industry to operate what are essentially monoculture farms, no more a forest than an apple orchard, but labeled as forests by the US government.

So these upperclass sport hunters, who recognized that the demands of the Market economy were unsustainable, put extreme regulations into place. The Migratory Bird Treaty Act, was aimed mainly at protecting birds, especially wading birds, from the feather trade for women’s hats, as was the first National Wildlife Refuge, Pelican Island. hunting and fishing regulations and licenses were introduced, operated by state governments, that restricted how many animals could be taken by how many people, Regulations on the production and sale of meat restricted Market hunting for venison, poultry and other meats for the table out of existence. The International Whaling Commissions Moratorium heavily restricted commercial hunting of large Whales globally, and among other things, the first National Park, Yellowstone, was note worthy for being home to the last wild bison herd in the US, with continued hunting in the park labeled “ poaching” .

Today the fur trade is all that’s left of Market Hunting of warm blooded native animals in the US and Canada, and even then it it only exists still as means of supplemental income and a hobby, not as a large scale industry and means of living.

So while the Conservationist of old were sport hunters motivated by sport hunting, their success largely if not mostly was due to being able to control, restrict, regulate and curb hunting. Including regulating Market Demand related hunting practically out of existence. The focus has been on how to control hunting pressure, giving money from hunting activities to the Fish and Wildlife Services makes extra sense in the light that they mostly exist to keep the hunters in line in the first place. If there was something novel about the North American Model, it wasn’t hunting incentivizing conservation, or even putting the wildlife into government hands, It was the democratization of hunting, while avoiding the tragedy of the commons, and the Near Elimination of trade of terrestrial wild animals based goods.

While it’s true Hunters give a share of funding to “conservation” larger than There share, it’s still a tiny share of the total ( 6% as of 2015 according to one study, likely decreasing, while they were 4.6% of the population in 2020 ( combined with fishers 18% in 2016)), and much of that is due to peaceful wildlife/nature goods, like high end cameras, Kayaks, or camping equipment, not getting the Conservation Taxed, additionally a large share of those funds would not be needed, or could be used for other things, without hunters , as they wouldn’t be needed for hunting regulation/support in the first place. We could also see great support for mushroom or wild plant foraging for income, or better yet, better funding from the general pot of State or Federal governments. But either way , the vast majority of funds, 94%, is already from the General public, not hunters specifically)

( This isn’t even to get into the ways advocate encourage damaging environmental practices or damage the environment themselves even under this system, but I’ll leave that to another post maybe, this is already extremely long)

The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation is based on the democratization of what we do with wildlife, and the regulating out of entire forms of hunting entirely. , as the general public supports conservation and protection of wildlife even if they don’t hunt, As hunters make up a tiny shrinking share of the population ( 7.7% in 1960 and shrinking since) , are not a crucial source of conservation funds, and a minor but large and growing share of the public disapproves of hunting, opposing hunting, and decentralizing hunting interest groups from wildlife and ecosystem management discussions , is not only the morally right choice, but in the spirit of the North American Model hunting advocates praise.

[1coweveryday]

6/4/21🐄

#daily cow #breed: lithuanian white backed #bbbbbbbbbbbbb ive never drawn a cow in this pose b4!! #i was so happy to find the photo tho #they do the cat thing 🥺

[cannoli-reader]

A Thought or two on the race of the Wheel of Time casting.

So “The Wheel of Time” has cast a group of people to play the characters born to Two Rivers families, Nynaeve, Perrin, Egwene & Mat.  And there have been concerns.  And there have been people making knee-jerk assumptions that these concerns are entirely founded in racism. And hey, maybe there are some. But I don’t think all of them necessarily are. 

First of all, some personal context. I am not really a SJW or much concerned about race issues in general. I am white, of entirely European ancestry, but I haven’t the slightest bit of “white guilt”. “Get Out” did not make me the least bit uncomfortable because I had absolutely no comprehension of the white characters. I understand that “representation matters” in media, but it matters to white people as well, which is why ‘Hollywood’ which is not a monlithic entity, mostly casts white people.  I don’t care if there are not enough black people or too many white people in any given movie.  We can have Scotsmen playing Lithuanian-Russians or try to pass off their burr as a brogue. We can have Terry Molloy, Stanley Kowalski and Vito Corleone, members of immigrant communities from very different parts of Europe, played by the same man. 

That said, while I think adaptations have a degree of responsibility to be faithful to the original work or to the historical time period, I don’t care that Michael Jordan and Reg E Cathay and Jessica Alba were cast as members of a family that is white in the picture books in which the Fantastic Four originated or that black paratroopers were in “Overlord”. I would not approve of T’Challa being played by a white person, because that IS important to his character.  And insisting on casting a woman of color as Cleopatra in the name of historical accuracy instantly destroys my respect for you. 

What we know about the appearance of the Two Rivers people is that they seem to be about average height for their part of the world.  Nynaeve & Egwene are short by modern standards (for a white or black North American), while Perrin is tall and Mat above average. They have somewhat darker complexions than the very Nordic-looking Aiel and possibly Andorans, but on the other hand, no character ever uses Two Rivers folk as a touchstone for dark skins, the way they do the Sea Folk or Tairens.  Even Domani are often mentioned as having coppery colored skins, with Two Rivers people using the terminology the same as lighter-skinned people, suggesting that they too, are lighter-skinned than the Domani.  When Elaida points out that Rand’s natural skin tone is unusually light for a Two Rivers native, she pushes up his sleeve to show the untanned skin, which to me suggests that Two Rivers people are not much, if at all, darker than a very pale person tans. So people do have a point that the actors for Perrin and Nynaeve, at least, if not also Egwene, are darker than they are portrayed in the books.

To which I say, “So what?” The important thing is that Rand is clearly different from the others.  That is probably even easier to convey visually if they use actors from different races, so Rand clearly stands out.  It might have been more interesting to make Rand the person of color, but then you’ll turn all the stuff into racial issues, and we don’t need that in discussions of the show.  Seriously, that was one of the more tedious parts of reveling in all the on-line criticism of Season 8 of Game of Thrones, which I prefer to think of as HBO’s six-part documentary, alternatively titled “Cannoli Was Right All Along.”  They didn’t kill off the Dothraki because they are racists, they killed off the Dothraki, to the extent that they did, because they long ago jettisoned everything else in service to spectacle.  Which brings me to the point that TV writers can’t be trusted and there are lots of other concerns in what they are going to do, beyond letting some black folks get full of themselves because Nynaeve would make Captain Marvel, Wonder Woman and Rey hide under the bed when she’s annoyed at them. 

One of the problems in “Game of Thrones” was that a lot of adaptational choices were not thought through, long term, nor were the implications. Like how Daenerys crowd-surfing on her freed slaves would look, compared to her riding her horse through a cheering crowd.  Or how abandoning a lot of the world building meant some things made very little sense.  If you read the books, between the lines, you know that the Dance of the Dragons (a war in-universe, not the book title) pretty much put paid to the idea of a woman inheriting the Iron Throne. But on the show, all we heard about that is that Stannis thinks the name is stupid.  In the books, he has definite opinions, including that the losing female contender was a traitor for attempting to claim the crown over her younger half-brother. But this sort of world-building would justify the characters’ stated preference for Jon’s gender over Daenerys in Season 8.  Going by the show alone, that makes no sense, because most of the nobles left at this point are women, and very few of the male lords would have reason to favor Jon over Dany, or else they were opponents of Dany for other reasons, like their die-hard support of Sansa, who was pro-Jon. The show’s worldbuilding undercut their own point of conflict, but they tried to fall back on book worldbuilding they had never serviced and made deliberate choices to omit characters or storypoints that would have supported that detail.

At this point I can’t see how the particulars of the Two Rivers’ ethnicity would affect the story, but I also thought cutting fAegon from “Game of Thrones” was a good idea when Season 5 rolled around.  To the extent that it is an issue in the story, the Two Rivers district of western Andor was once the heartland of a legendary nation called Manetheren.  When the nation was betrayed by their allies, the army fought alone to hold the ford of one of those eponymous rivers for far longer than anyone had thought possible, with civilians taking up arms to join them in hopes of preserving some fraction of the population.  In the end they all died fighting, but the enemy force was wiped out as a result of their defense, and so the few survivors who had got out came back, rebuilt their homes and said “We’re only leaving this country feet first.” But they lacked the human capital or resources to rebuild the nation and have been reduced to a rural farming community centered around a trio of villages.  There is a fourth village, called Taren Ferry, at the river crossing that is the only known way in or out of the Two Rivers, but they don’t have much to do with the rest of the area, and are looked at askance by the proper Two Rivers folk.  

It is also established in the text that the Taren Ferry people are the only ones to interbreed with outsiders or to have much intercourse with them at all.  The people living deeper in the Two Rivers are an isolated culture and breeding population.  Itinerant enterainers, merchants buying their crops and peddlers selling goods they cannot make themselves are their only contact with the outside world, and at one point a character actually scoffs at the idea of marrying one of them.  Rand is physically unique because his father, nearly equally uniquely, left the Two Rivers as a young man and came home with a wife from somewhere else and their baby.  

Because the Two Rivers people have only been reproducing among themselves for two thousand years, certain characteristics are reinforced in their genetics.  This is revealed when one of them, in a moment of stress, facing the same enemy that destroyed Manetheren, starts shouting in the language Manetheren spoke, using phrases specific to Manetheren.  This is later diagnosed as a kind of racial memory emerging, and strongly suggests that the character is a descendant of strong geneological connections to the last king of Manetheren. A second character feels a sort of recognition, suggesting a lesser degree of this Old Blood as it is called in the books. The other two native Two Rivers people don’t feel it. 

Now here’s the two fold problem with the casting.  The problem is not Marcus Rutherford and Zoe Robins, it is Barney Harris. They should ALL be the same race.  They’re isolated and have had very very few reproductive encounters with outsiders. Mat Cauthon should not be played by a clearly white actor if the rest of the Two Rivers is something else. 

But the really funny bit comes with the implications of the casting with regard to the Old Blood. 

Because these are the two people who are not the purest royal-blooded Two Rivers folk:

and 

while this is the one with maybe a hint of the blood of the legendary hero-king:

and THIS is the pure-blooded descendant of ancient royalty:

Ooops.  Gonna be fun when the people whose major problem with Missandei’s death is that a black woman didn’t have get to be in the last two episodes, watch the scene where Rosamund Pike tells THAT GUY, up there, how special his bloodline is.

But maybe they just rolled with the casting choices because they are going to skip the Old Blood issue. Okay. But like I said above, you never know what’s going to bite you in the butt seven or eight seasons down the road.   But the cynical part of me is greatly amused at the implications of the apparent mixed race heritage of the Two River people, and what it suggests about who the nobles and who the commoners were in the glory days of Manetheren.  On the other hand, you get the suggestion that the barriers between lords and commoners came down as they fought side by side to save their land and then worked side by side to make their community survive and we got people intermarrying without regard to the old social divisions.

[canaryrecords]

"On the wedding day of Yanko and Katshka, the silence of the camp is broken by the sound of a screeching violin, followed by the wailing of a clarinet and the grunting of a bass viol. Above the discord of noise made by those instruments is heard the voice of the bridegroom, who leads the dance with the song: 'I am so glad I have you, I have you, and I wouldn’t sell you to anyone.' If you enter the house of the bride, you will find it full of sweltering humanity, all of it dancing up and down, down and up, while the fiddlers play and the bridegroom sings about 'The sweetheart he is glad to have and wouldn’t sell to any one.' Usually the Slav dancers provide the notes and the bank notes also; for at the end of the piece half a dozen stalwart men will throw themselves in front of the musicians, each one of them demanding in exchange for the money tossed upon the table, his favorite tune to which he sings his native song. The result is, half a dozen men, each singing or trying to sing, a different song, all of them pushing, crowding, and at last fighting until in the middle of the room you will find en entanglement of human beings which beats itself into an unrecognizable mass." Edward A. Steiner, On the Trail of the Immigrant (Fleming H. Revell) 1906 All of the performers on this collection were born in the late 19th century in a geographical region bounded east to west by the cities of Budapest to Odessa and north to south by Bucharest to Vilnius - an area a little larger than the combined square mileage of Texas and New Mexico. Around 1900, this region was the intersection of three empires, the Austro-Hungarian, Prussian, and Russian, and today includes all or part of ten countries. The period 1890 to 1930 saw the largest wave of immigrants that the United States has ever seen. By its peak in 1907, nearly 15% of the U.S. population was foreign-born with more than half of foreign-born population having arrived from Eastern Europe. The 1940 U.S. census found that 3,569,360 people living in the U.S. spoke Polish, Russian, Slovak, or Ukrainian as their first language, only 200,000 fewer than the number of people for whom Italian was their native language. This does not count native speakers of Yiddish, Hungarian, Czech, Rumanian, or Slovenian. In a 1982 essay on ethnic recordings in the U.S., Pekka Gronow showed that Columbia Records - one of two major record labels in the U.S. before the Second World War - released 1,856 discs for the Polish, Russian, Slovak, and Ukrainian markets between 1923 and 1952. Add to this thousands more released by Victor and numerous smaller labels, in addition to the other Eastern European ethnic/language groups, and it becomes clear that tens of thousands of performances by Eastern Europeans were released in the U.S. by immigrant performers in the first half of the 20th century, greatly outnumbering those by Southern (Italian, French, Greek, etc) and Northern (German, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, English, Irish, Scottish) European immigrants. It was in this era that America built its lexicon of racial slurs: polack, hunkie, russki, kike, etc. for the Eastern Europeans, dago, greaser, wop, etc. for the Southern Europeans. The polite press avoided these terms but argued openly about the presumptions underneath them: Are they criminals? Are they mentally inferior? Are they prone to violence and drunkenness? Are they capable of assimilation? Can they be trusted? Social scientists appeared before Congress and argued, using reams of data gathered from prisons and insane asylums, that America’s integrity, our very moral substance, and the future of the country’s “breeding-stock” would be irreparably denigrated by the continued influx of Eastern and Southern Europeans at the rate things were going. In response, in 1924, the Johnson-Reed act was passed, setting quotas on the number of immigrants allowed in based on their nation of origin. Those numbers were designed to reset the ethnic makeup of the U.S. to what it had been before 1890, namely predominantly White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. And those quotas stood for four decades, so that baby boomers lived most of their lives in an America that was more predominantly native-born than their parents or grandparents had. The repeal of the quota system has allowed for increasing immigration over the past forty years to the point that we are, once again, approaching the level of a 15% foreign-born population, and, once again, we are publicly discussing the same questions: “Can they ever be like us?” “Won’t they take over and make a mess of things?” and, worst of all, “Aren’t they basically violent/ criminal/ inferior/ sick/ bad people?” These have always been questions of power and, inherently, questions arising from fear of the diminution of power. The individuals who played on these recordings were predominantly Slavs - Catholic, Greek and Russian Orthodox primarily, possibly some Protestants - as well as Jews and Roma, speakers of a half-dozen languages and ethnic identities who did not always get along with one another. In the U.S., all lived, at the time of these recordings, near the industrial hubs of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois, where the mines, mills, and factories often worked men six days a week for twelve to fourteen hours. William P. Shriver’s book Immigrant Forces: Factors in the New Democracy (Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada, 1913) estimated that the average Lithuanian, Slovak, Polish, South Italian, or Hungarian man over 18 earned $400-$450 a year; 43.5% of the foreign-born population earned under $400 a year. One factory owner said the wage was 16 cents an hour. Asked by an inspector, “how long to they last?” He replied, “Well, they’re no good after forty-five. But you ought to see these Polish women and children work when they’re put to it. Why, a woman and a half-grown girl will feed the whole family, and the man too.. The stockyards are full of them.” The average cost of a record - two songs at a total duration of about six minutes - in the 1920s was between 75 cents and a dollar. Kate Holladay Claghorn’s The Immigrant’s Day in Court (Harper & Bros, 1923) notes: “A clever and heartless scheme, playing upon the immigrant’s homesickness and loneliness was reported to the New York State Bureau of Industries and Immigration [1915]. An offer was made through the foreign press to sell a phonograph ‘with records of your national songs in your own tongue’ on payment of $5 and the balance on small installments. On receiving the machine by express with instructions to collect on delivery the entire amount of the balance. The immigrant, usually unable to pay so large a sum, had to allow the express company to take the machine back, so that the phonograph company retained both the machine and the original payment. A great deal of money was collected in this way. The fraudulent transactions of one man in this line of business was found to have netted him about $125,000 a year, and it was learned that he kept an emergency deposit of $30,000 to be used for legal services should he be arrested. The man, when caught and convicted was fined $750.” Of thee I sing.

#78rpm #78 rpm #Polish #Ukrainian #Jewish #Russian #klezmer #immigrant

[toldnews-blog]

New Post has been published on https://toldnews.com/technology/entertainment/watch-liam-neeson-clarifies-controversial-revenge-remarks-im-not-a-racist/

WATCH: Liam Neeson clarifies controversial revenge remarks: 'I'm not a racist'

Transcript for Liam Neeson clarifies controversial revenge remarks: ‘I’m not a racist’

We’re back with Liam Neeson who has a new movie out called “Cold pursuit.” 24 hours ago he made headlines for talking about an incident that happened decades earlier involving a very close friend of his who he says was assaulted. And, Liam, first of all, I really appreciate your willingness to have this discussion because when it comes to race, it can be very uncomfortable for people and it just caught people off guard. How you responded when you were asked about revenge and do you want to explain what you said. Yeah, we were doing a press junket and it was, you know, the topic of our film is revenge. It’s a dark comedy too but it’s base is revenge and the lady journalist was asking me how do you tap into that? And I remembered an incident nearly 40 years ago where a very dear friend of mine was brutally raped and I was out of the country and when I came back she told me about this and she handled the situation herself incredibly bravely, I have to say that. But I had never felt this feeling before which was a primal urge to lash out. I asked her did you know the person? It was a man. No. His race? She said he was a black man. I thought, okay. And after that there were some nights I went out deliberately into black areas in the city looking to be set upon so that I could unleash physical violence and I did it for, I’d say maybe four or five times until I caught myself on and it really shocked me this primal urge I had. It shocked me and it hurt me. I did seek help. I went to a priest, heard my confession and I was a catholic. Two very good friends that I talked to and believe it or not, power walking. Power walking. Two hours every day to get rid of this and I’m not racist this was nearly 40 years ago, but because I was brought up — maybe I’m rabbiting on. I was brought up in the north of Ireland and brought up in the troubles, the ’60s, ’70s and early ’80s. Can you explain to people what that is. The religion — There was a war going on in the north of Ireland. And I had acquaintances who were involved in the troubles. The bigotry, one catholic would be killed the next day a protestant would be killed. One catholic pub would be bombed. A protestant pub would be bojed but I was never part of it. Because I — Excuse me. No, no, no, I appreciate your willingness to discuss and to explain and to put it into context. I know you have heard from people or the reaction from people. Sure. And one of them, one response is the fact that when asking your friend and I’m glad she’s okay. She passed away by the way five years ago. Sorry for your loss. Thaw asked about color. That you didn’t ask the person was tall or short, big or small. I asked all those questions too. I did. I did. But I did ask about race, yeah. Because what we heard and saw was it was only asking about color. You did ask about other aspects. Would you have had the same reaction if your friend said it was a white manage. Definitely said an Irish or a Scott or a britt or a Lithuanian. I know I would have had the same effect. I was trying to show honor to my — stand up for my dear friend and terrible medieval fashion and I’m a fairly intelligent guy and that’s why it kind of shocked me when I came down to Earth after having these horrible feelings. Luckily no violence occurred ever. Thanks be to god. Do you think you actually would have — if a — Yes. If it was a black man who had nothing to do — That was my feeling that I did want to lash out, yes. Because my friend was brutally raped and I thought I was defending her honor. And I admit that and it’s a learning curve and — What is a teachable moment? You said you wanted to — it doesn’t matter what you say, some people are going to be outraged. Others are going to say, well, at least he’s admitting — he’s being honest that this is a feeling that some people have that never really acknowledge it. Yes, sure. But what is the teachable — what are you hoping people will learn from you making these statements? To talk, to open up. To talk about these things, you know. We all pretend we’re all kind of, you know, politically correct. I mean, in this country it’s same in my own country too. You sometimes just scratch the surface and you discover this racism and bigotry and it’s there. I remember when we were shooting “Schindler’s list” in Poland 25 years ago, 26 years ago almost, and hearing remarks from drivers who were taking us to the set thinking to myself am I hearing this right? This guy is making anti-jewish comments to me who is playing oskar Schindler in the back of the car and it happened on several times and sometimes driving to the set we’d see swastika signs painted on walls knowing we were — been driven past this area to go to set. What do we do? How do we have — it goes beyond dialogue and conversation. You tell me what the teachable moment is. Please. I’m going to throw it back to you. I think the teachable moment is we have to own up to when we — the one point I want to make out is that this wasn’t discovered by somebody — you admitted this. This isn’t a gotcha. So I give you credit there. But also having to acknowledge that the hurt, even though it happened decades ago, the hurt of an innocent black man knowing that he could have been killed for something he did not do because of the color of his skin. No or people — or they could have killed me too. At the time. At the time. But to get beyond it being a — a difficult conversation and understanding that we do need to get to the root of it, to stop just talking about it and not — I know that you’re getting crucified before saying what you did. Sure. You’re not shying away. You’re admitting that it was wrong. You’ve learned interest that. But have to also understand the pain of a black person hearing what you said. Of course, of course, absolutely. You’re absolutely right. Yeah. And at the time even though it was nearly 40 years ago I didn’t think about that. All those things surprised me but it was this primal — Yeah. Hatred, I guess that really, really shocked me. When I eventually came down to Earth and saw what I was doing, going out looking for a fight. Not the way — that’s never — and that’s what the basis of your movie too. It goes on and on and I wish we had time — Violence breeds violence. Bigotry breeds bigotry. There’s no end when you do it like that. Liam Neeson, thank you. Thank you. I know, it’s not easy, I know — I wish we could settle it all. See the movie. It’s a good movie, by the way. Having said all that. It is dark. I will say that. It is dark but we will have a lot more of the movie tomorrow. But thank you for coming here as promised to have this discussion with us. It means a lot.

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[greatwrath]

Azrael’s powers and abilities [UPDATED]

• Immortality - As an Archangel, Azrael possesses an unending lifespan. Her vessel does not age. 

• Bioluminescence - When Azrael revs up her Light, it spills out over her vessel, first from her eyes, then through her skin. 

• Mental Projection - Azrael is capable of projecting her consciousness into someone else’s mind. This ability is especially useful for communicating with people who are possessed by another entity, or communicating with people who are unconscious. 

• Heightened Senses - Azrael’s visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, and olfactory senses are incredibly sensitive. This is why she frequently wears dark tinted sunglasses and steers clear of modern foods with too much sugar. Her senses are that way to give her an edge in battle. However, in the modern world, Azrael can become overwhelmed with so much input. 

• Temperature Resistance - Azrael is easily able to withstand some pretty extreme temperatures, from about -1500 °C and + 1500 °C. However, in the event that she is badly injured, her Light, which is normally super hot and bright, will fade and its temperature will drop, leaving her susceptible to the cold. 

• Enhanced Reflexes - Azrael’s average reaction time is a little more than five hundredths of a second (fifty-five milliseconds) - faster than a Lamborghini gear shift. 

• Enhanced Strength - Azrael is strong enough to throw a 300lb man through a steel reinforced wall. She can also break a gun in half, punch through metal or solid rock etc.

• Enhanced Combat Skills - Warrior angels and Archangels possess superhuman hand-to-hand combat skills. Basically, you don’t want to get into a fight with Azrael, because she is probably at least four times faster and hits harder than a motherfucker. 

• Expert Swordsmanship - Azrael has been wielding Vanquish for upwards of 300,000 years, so it goes without saying that she has both the skills and the experience handling a sword. This is an example of how Azrael uses a sword. 

• Regenerative Healing (Limited) - Azrael can easily heal anything that was’nt dealt by white fire or empyrean steel. Wounds dealt by white fire and empyrean steel are difficult to heal, especially given the fact that Azrael has to rely on her own steam. 

• Soul Detection - Azrael can tell whether you have a soul, and what sins you have committed. That’s partly how she can tell whether a person is a half-breed, because the soul of a half-breed is distinctly different from a mortal human soul. 

• Heavenly (White) Fire Production - As an Archangel, Azrael can summon white fire to the blade of her sword, which remain burning until she extinguishes it.

• Memory Manipulation - Azrael can erase memories and manipulate them. It’s not something she uses often, but she can do it. 

• Extrasensory Perception - Azrael can see and communicate with spirits lingering in both the astral and earthly realm. She also possesses Claircognizance, clairsentience, clairaudience and clairomancy.

• Telekinesis (Limited) - Like the other Archangels, Azrael is a very, very powerful telekinetic, even running on her own steam. At the height of her power, she could’ve easily raised the Titanic from the Atlantic ocean without experiencing any blowback. She could do the same now, but it would put significant strain on her and result in her running out of power entirely. 

• Resurrection of dead mortals(Limited) - Azrael is more than capable of bringing a dead person back to life, even if that person’s body is desiccated and rotted. It takes some time and a lot of power, but she can do it.  • Temporal Control (Limited) - Temporal control is how angels travel through time, though they usually only use it when ordered to do so. Azrael has only used temporal control once, and it knocked her out for several days because of her being disconnected from The Source. In that instance, Azrael divided her light into billions of fragments and spread them across the previous nine hundred years.

• Photokinesis (Limited) - Azrael can manipulate her Light to make images that look like holograms. Sometimes she uses her Light to show people what she looks like in her second form, sometimes her Light pulses in her hands and on her fingertips, sometimes she forms the a map of the cosmos around her  

• Interdimensional Travel/Teleporting - Azrael uses this ability to get places quickly, to move around in battle, and to move between the earthly realm, the spirit world and the heavens. She can also shift between alternate dimensions in order to hide from her enemies.

• Atmokinesis - Azrael can and has been known to conjure up some pretty crazy storms, like the storm she created to destroy the Tower of Babel. Around the time of Moses, the Egyptians became afraid of dark clouds and lightning. The storms are probably part of how Azrael earned ‘the great wrath’.

• Wing Manifestation - Azrael has gigantic wings in her corporeal ‘cryptid’ form, and they translate onto her vessel as two six-foot-wide wings with pitch-black feathers. They are bulletproof, sharp as razors when they need to be, and very sensitive.

• Self Sustenance (almost) -  Azrael doesn’t require water/food/air, and does not ‘evacuate’ waste. The only thing Azrael does require is sleep, but she refuses to sleep all the same.

• Earth Contaminant Immunity - Azrael is immune to all pathogens from the Earthly/physical realm. That means things like polio, rabies, small-pox, tuberculosis, leprosy, bubonic plague etc. However, rare and fatal pathogens created in Hell, or created by Raphael’s angels, can infect Archangels.

• Omnilingualism - Azrael can speak and read every language ever written or spoken on Earth, including her own mother-tongue. She also understands the Infernal languages but never speaks them. These are the languages she speaks, reads and write:

Enochian, Demonic Tongues (Cthonic, Gehenic, Tartarian, Purgatic etc.), English, Middle English, Latin, Aramaic, Hausa, Iroquoian (Seneca, Cherokee, Mohawk Etc.), Phoenician, Ammonite, Māori, Archaic Japanese, Haitian Creole, Navajo, Qaniujaaqpait, Old Chinese, Old Cyrillic, Powhatan, French, Nepalese, Italian, Inuktitut, Russian, Adamic, Chaldeac, Kathlamet, Xhosa, Spanish, German, Sanskrit, Assyrian, Malay, Filipino, Shina, Ancient Greek, Persian, Sumerian, Archaic, Punjabi, Egyptian, Afrikaans, Chiricahua, Old Huron, Hebrew, Gothic, Etruscan, Scythian, Proto-germanic, Western Apache, Celtic, Swahili, Yucatec Maya, Akkadian, Malagasy, Mycenaean Greek, Carthaginian, Sinhalese, Zulu, Mauritian Creole, Mandarin Chinese, Xiang Chinese, Turkmen, Uzbek, Nobiin, Atikamekw, Mi'kmaq, Kashmiri, Gujurati, Kurdish, Tamil, Chechen, Portugese, Witsuwit'en, Kazakh, Icelandic, Tajik, Kyrgyz, Qatari Arabic, Sioux, Cree, Korean, Algonquian (Ojibwe-potawatomi, Menominee, Cheyenne), Tibetan, Urdu, Adyghe, Bhutanese, Kachin, Burmese, Kabardian, Lithuanian, Old High German, Hittite, Danish, Mayan, Somali, Batek, Amharic, Manding, Vietnamese, Thai, Kordofan Nubian, Pictish, Turkish, Kanakanabu, Coptic, Lao, Khmer, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Polish, Auyokawa, Sentinelese, Jarawa, Czech, (Irish, Scottish) Gaelic, Welsh, Gaulish, Proto-celtic, Old Brythonic, Maharashrtri, Bering Strait Inupiatun, Eskimo-Aleut, Kalaalisut, Signing Exact English, ASL Etc.

• Ecological Empathy - Angels have a connection to all creation, including plants and animals. If you see Azrael talking to an animal, she’s not mad, she’s just doing what angels do.

• Enhanced Intelligence - Azrael’s IQ number is 400+ approximately, which is twice the number of the most intelligent human being.

• Possession - Although Azrael has her own vessel, she can possess a human body for a limited amount of time. If she is out of a vessel for an extended period of time, then she can become disorientated after returning to her body or another body.

• Neurocognitive Deficit - In the event that Azrael is low on power or experiencing a lot of pain, she can put herself into neuro-shut down, which essentially means that she is still in her vessel but totally unresponsive to all outside stimuli. This is also called a state of dormancy.

• Dimensional Awareness - The power to detect cross-dimensional portals/barriers within their proximity. Useful when Hell gates are opened.

• Astral Trapping - “The user can restrain, trap and/or seal astral beings (including astrally projecting being, ghosts, spirits, psychic entities, etc.) into a specific place, item or being (possibly allowing their energies to be tapped by others) or prevent them from entering certain areas or possessing beings/items. They can prevent a ghost from manifesting, prevent an astral projector from entering their body, or force ghosts on or off their plane of existence.”

• Beacon Emission - Azrael can send out a sort of SOS signal which can be perceived by other angels and intercepted by some other creatures. It’s kind of like the ping from a crashed aircraft.

• Omnidirectional Light Waves - Azrael can release a blast of destructive light that is powerful enough to send anyone and anything standing in its way flying. It’ll also smash windows and lights, and knock out the electrical grid. 

• Energy Field Emission - The energy field around Azrael is a constant presence. It’s is the reason people who encounter her experience cold chills, goosebumps, and a feeling of dread when she gets close. 

MISC. • She is immune to radiation. • She can interfere with the electrical grid (power cuts) and manipulate electrical instruments.

#hollow is our chest [headcanons & shit] #i am ruination [abilities & skills]