On this day, 9 January 2013, three Kurdish women – Fidan Doğan, Sakine Cansız and Leyla Söylemez – were assassinated in Paris. Two of the victims had been founding members of the left-wing Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK). French judicial officials told the Agence France-Presse that the murder suspect, Ömer Güney, was involved with the Turkish secret service, Millî İstihbarat Teşkilatı (MIT). The Turkish government denied involvement. Güney died of a brain injury before his murder trial began. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2182790895239382/?type=3
“Sweet Dreams”
Martin Gregus captured a once in a lifetime moment of a Polar Bear sleeping on a bed of fireweed.
Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
Newly elected U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy took the gavel of the chamber after a bruising weeklong battle within his own party, promising to carry out a conservative, America-first agenda, tackling the immigration crisis at the Mexican border, cutting back funding at the IRS and fixing “woke indoctrination in our schools.”
After 14 failed votes since Tuesday, the California Republican was able to overcome opposition after making extraordinary concessions to a small bloc of far-right holdouts who refused to support his speaker bid.
The Democrats need to block every single thing this whimpering snivelling little neo-nazi dipshit wants to pass and indeed vote down every single bill that any nauseating little Republicunt attempts to pass
There needs to be absolutely zero collaboration with the RepubliKKKan party on anything for any reason. The Democrats need to treat these filthy inferior trash as what they are…a disease upon America and the American people
AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED VOLUTE-KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO THE BALTIMORE PAINTER, CIRCA 330-320 B.C.
36 ¼ in. (92 cm.) high.
The Baltimore Painter, according to A.D. Trendall “is the most important and significant of the later Apulian vase-painters…”. He decorates a wide range of shapes, both large and small, and many feature multi-figure mythological scenes framed by elaborate ornament. The upper register of the obverse on the present example has an assembly of gods, including Pan, Artemis, her brother Apollo with a swan on his thigh and a deer to his left, and Aphrodite. The lower register has five offering-bearers around a laver. The obverse neck is centered by a frontal head of Io amidst florals. The reverse has a youth seated within a naiskos surrounded by four offering-bearers. An unusual feature of the present vase is the fish and other marine creatures encircling the foot.
While this vase was never published by Trendall, he became aware of its existence late in his life, since a friend had sent him a copy of the 1988 exhibition catalog from Nara. The catalog is preserved in the Trendall Research Centre for Ancient Mediterranean Studies at La Trobe University, accompanied by his hand-written note attributing this to the Baltimore Painter.
