Katzenjammer aus Kakanien

“Sie sind in der Festung drin.  Diese Festung fällt nicht morgen oder übermorgen, aber wir wissen, sie fällt.  Nicht in fernen Generationen, sondern wir alle, wir wollen es noch erleben, daß sie fällt.

-- Otto Bauer, Vienna, March 1927

 It has been a month of awkward anniversaries.

=> Germany celebrated its reunion, in the midst of what feels like a national implosion.

=> The U.N. marked its 70^th year of increasing uselessness.

=> And today, Austria feted its national day, while a ragtag army of intruders swarmed across its undefended national borders,  the police and politicians  looking on helplessly.   As for the Army, it has been gynecized into imbecility:

Was macht das für Landesverteidigung zuständiges Bundesheer währenddessen?

Es beschäftigt sich mit einem Gender-Sprachleitfaden aus dem SPÖ-Frauenministerium, der überall für Kopfschütteln sorgt.

(Worte wie Mannschaft, man, jeder, jemand und niemand sollen nicht mehr verwendet werden.)

Unglaublich...

http://derstandard.at/2000024247292/Rund-1-500-Fluechtlinge-in-Spielfeld-auf-eigene-Faust-losgegangen

The eve of the celebrations (such as they were) were besmirched by an astonishing outburst against Austria’s neighbors, by the Interior Minister Madame Mikl-Leitner:

Deutschland übernimmt nach Angaben von Innenministerin Johanna Mikl-Leitner (ÖVP) "aktuell einfach zu wenig Flüchtlinge”.

http://kurier.at/politik/inland/mikl-leitner-deutschland-uebernimmt-derzeit-zu-wenig-fluechtlinge/160.314.572

Now that is chutzpah in high-heels and a cocked hat:  Germany, the cul-de-sac into which the rest of the world is pouring its wretched-refuse, with Austria acting as the Schleuderer-in-Chief !

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For just a moment, it looked as if, although Mutti Merkel has yet to come to her senses and defend her country's borders,  Mutti Mikl just might finally have caught on:

Österreichs Innenministerin spricht von einem Zaunbau.

http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article148014268/Deutschland-uebernimmt-zu-wenig-Fluechtlinge.html

But no such luck.  She still has not the gumption to suggest such a procedure for Austria;  rather, “let Ivan do it”:

Sollte die EU-Außengrenze in Griechenland nicht rasch geschützt werden, sei ein Zaunbau an Sloweniens Grenze zu Kroatien "überlegenswert".

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Actually, Miss Mikl showed a certain pragmatism, in passing the buck  only as far as the next statelet over, Slovenia.   After all, it is in Slovenia’s own interests  that she defend her borders, keeping out the unwanted.   Whereas Merkel made a Canossa-trek all the way to Turkey, to implore Erdogan to do the dirty-work in her stead.

Now, let’s reason this out logically.   Whereas Norway, Finnland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia and Greece (to name the ‘extended West-Balkan route’, the Appalachian Trail of in-migration) would each like to keep the migrants out (but lack the will to do so),  Turkey by no means wishes to keep them in, which is what Merkel is asking.  Turkey doesn’t want the Syrians and she doesn’t want the Kurds, nor any other migrant band that uses Anatolia as a way-station.  Hence, whereas a nudge might induce overstressed Slovenia to guard its entrance-gates, Merkel would have to pay Turkey very dearly, to close its exits.   Thus keeping the steam inside the kettle.

And this she has proposed to do, via three inducements.  …

*  Mucho moolah.   Unfortunately, this one’s no longer such a breeze, since Germany paid to bail out Greece yet again;  and as there will be a bill coming due for all those immigrants, a bill with (to use the chancellor’s chiselled phrase) “keine Obergrenze”.

*  No more visas required for Turks to enter Germany.  (Turkey already does a land-office business in fake Syrian passports; now fake Turkish passports  will also be in demand.)

*  A promise to speed Turkey’s entry into the European Union.  (This, at a time when Erdogan has been sliding ever deeper into dictatorial excess, and where civil war seems to loom.)

A more reckless piece of diplomacy  would be difficult to conceive.

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[Update 28 October 2015] Gingerly advancing a toe towards what eventually needs to be done:

Angesichts des Flüchtlingsandrangs will Österreich seine Grenze zu Slowenien offenbar teils auch durch einen Zaun sichern. Österreichs Innenministerin Johanna Mikl-Leitner sagte am Mittwoch dem Sender Ö1, es gehe aber nicht darum, die Grenze "dicht zu machen". Vielmehr solle ein "geordneter, kontrollierter Zutritt" geschaffen werden.

http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/newsblog-zur-fluechtlingskrise-thomas-de-maiziere-will-mehr-afghanen-zurueckfuehren/12507218.html

A reader wryly comments, in reference to the increasingly urgent polemics from the Bavarian CSU-chef:

Grenzzaun zu Slowenien

Na also - offenbar war der Klartext von Seehofer doch nicht vergebens.

Another, more wryly still:

wozu brauchen die nen Zaun, die schicken die Flüchtlinge ja eh gleich weiter nach Deutschland. Wollen die jetzt auch noch den Sprit für die Busse sparen, die die Flüchtlinge an die deutsche Grenze karren. Da regt sich diese fragwürdige Innenministerin auf, das Deutschland zu wenig Flüchtlinge aufregt, und sie offensichtlich dann gar meine mehr

[Note to anglophones:  Sprit = fuel.]

Nun denn, wir bauen doch ‘nen Zaun --
aber doch nur 10 cm hoch !

Dazu:

Am Nationalfeiertag lobte die Staatsspitze in ihren Festreden in höchsten Tönen, wie sich das Land in der Flüchtlingskrise bewähre. Diese Bewährungsprobe besteht aus Improvisation und fußt auf der Annahme, dass Deutschland unbegrenzt alle Menschen aufnimmt, die sich über die Balkanroute durchgeschlagen haben. Bislang tut dies die Wirtschaftsgroßmacht auch; doch der Konsens in der Berliner Regierungskoalition, mit dieser Praxis fortzufahren, erscheint zunehmend brüchig.

http://www.zeit.de/2015/44/fluechtlinge-oesterreich-grenze-deutschland

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[Update 28 Oct 2015]  Einführung in die Flüchtlings-Semantik

Mikl-L, responding to an interviewer, with a (probably unintentional) double-entendre.

Könnte Österreich in eine Situation kommen, in der es die Grenze nach Slowenien doch völlig dicht machen müsste?

Daran denkt keiner.

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/fluechtlingskrise/johanna-mikl-leitner-zu-oesterreichs-plaene-in-fluechtlingskrise-13880650.html

The intended conveyed-meaning is:  “No, of course not, nobody would ever want to do that.”

The literal, yet repressed (subconscious) meaning:  “Nobody is thinking of that -- not entertaining the possibility” (because they have their head in the sand;  yet it still might come up and bite them on the ass).

[Update 29 October 2015]   Flüchtlings-Semantik : Weiteres zum Thema
A mincing minuet, choosing euphemisms:

Innenministerin Johanna Mikl-Leitner (ÖVP) bleibt dabei: An der Grenze im steirischen Spielfeld müsse es Befestigungen geben.

Einen Vergleich mit Ungarns Zäunen weist sie strikt zurück.

Angesichts der Debatte um die Lage in Spielfeld – die steirische Integrationslandesrätin Doris Kampus etwa verwahrte sich strikt gegen "Zäune", kann sich aber ebenfalls bauliche Maßnahmen am Grenzübergang selbst vorstellen

http://derstandard.at/2000024758814/Mikl-Leitner-Oesterreich-wird-zum-Zielland-fuer-Asylwerber

Recall the polemics, a few years ago, over whether Israel’s divider against the Palestinians was a “fence” (good) or a “wall” (bad).  But now we are more delicate:  it’s between a “fence” (bad) and “temporary constructional measures” (acceptable).

Ceci n’est pas une clôture

For a superb gallery of political fences in history:

http://diepresse.com/home/zeitgeschichte/4834123/Wo-Zaeune-Menschen-trennten

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[Update 30 October 2015]  In fairness, and hewing to the principle that what’s sauce for the goose  is sauce for the gander (or, the people who live in glass houses, should not throw stones), we must concede that the United States, in addition to being often unwilling to defend its borders, has long been too feckless even to protect the White House with an adequate fence.  This latter saga is less well known to our European readers;  read about it here.

[Update 31 Oct 2015]   Austria, too, is running out of bears:

Spielfeld (Steiermark), 31 Oktober 2015

Dazu, letzlich, diese Ministerin:

http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article148281032/Die-Flucht-Fahimis-aus-der-Schlangengrube.html#disqus_thread

[Update 10 November 2015] 

NDLR, explaining the latest euphemism:

Kein Wort von Mikl zu Zaun

Zu einem Bericht des "Kurier", wonach sie am slowenischen-österreichischen Grenzübergang in Spielfeld einen 25 Kilometer lange Sperre, vulgo Zaun, hochziehen will, erklärte Mikl-Leitner nur: "Ich werde zu dem Konzept nichts sagen."

http://derstandard.at/2000025426718/Grenzzaun-SPOe-und-OeVP-grenzen-sich-erneut-voneinander-ab

A reader comments:

Die BMI führt sich auf wie eine spätpubertierende Klassensprecherin. Dauernd irgendwelche eigenartigen Wortspenden absondernd, droht sie mit einem Zaun, um zuletzt mit einem schmallippigen Grinsen anzumerken, dass die bösen Buben schon sehen werden was passiert.

[Update 11 November 2015]  Okay, it has gotten too complex for me to follow.  A rough outline.

(1) Deutscher Innenminister de Maizière  announces -- on what turns out to be his own hook -- that, henceforward, Syrian Eindringlinge  will be (save in exceptional cases) granted only a “secondary” asylum, with a time-limit and no right of family reunification.

In itself, that move, while significant, does not affect Austria, and Austria does not react.

However, swiftly thereafter, Merkel’s Sprachrohr  Altmeier says:  Nothing of the kind.  And de Maizière rapidly retracts.

Now:  At first blush, this makes de Maizière look like a fool, and as though he had been punked by Altmeier.  But … by that rash act, he successfully, subtlely, altered the terms of debate.   A sort of knight-sacrifice in the Great Game.

(2) Yesterday, de Maizière (or, as the press reported it, “Germany”) unlooses a bombshell:  the Dublin agreement (arbitrarily and de factco swept aside by Merkel and indeed all the other states on the immigrational Appalachian Trail) is once again in effect, even for (purported) Syrians.  Meaning, basically, that they get summarily sent back to whatever European country first admitted them (modulo unimportant provisos).

Now, this would be a very big deal, the tipping-point for the whole European migrant crisis;  yet few media reported on it -- I first learned of it, actually, from the Austrian media.  For:  the immediate effect of such a change in policy, would primarily impact Austria.

Quite interestingly -- and to her credit -- Mikl-L rushed into print hailing the decision, which she called long overdue.

Now, saluting a Zaun, such as that reprobate Orban (boo! boo!) quickly and manfully erected, is taboo;  so why would M-L make so bold as to salute one?  Isn’t she a coward, like virtually every other European politician?  -- Well,  doch;  but consider.  Once Germany closes its border (or enforces Dublin, which amounts to the same thing), Austria must needs swiftly do likewise.   Hence, to reduce the inevitable heat from doing so, praise the Germans for doing it first.  Otherwise you are in an impossible position.

But!  The proposal to enforce Dublin, turns out to have been another de-M. smoke-signal or trial-balloon:  He (reportedly) had not pre-cleared this bold and major move, neither with the Kanzlerin nor Altmeier nor anyone else.  Loose cannon, off the reservation?  And yet the blowback within Germany  was surprisingly mild.  As though all factions, from the Chancellor to the Greens, were, if not actively welcoming, at least seeing what anemometrical indications they might receive  from said smoke, said balloon.

(3)  And now -- Slovenia, the third domino in line, before the second (Austria) has fallen, and before the fall of the first (Deutschland) has been confirmed, begins building -- not “announces” its intention to maybe being discussions re (etc etc), but actually hands-on, soldiers-on-the-Grenze, build -- a border fence.  Which, if it were done correctly and were effective, would actually relieve Austria of the necessity of building one of its own.  So-o …  will Mikl-Leitlein  therefore backpedal?  -- Stay tuned.

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Tekrar hoş geldiniz!

I have just been informed by blogger-stats (beside which, the N$A pales, as regards tracking what everyone is doing everywhere in the world at any given  instant), that a couple of surfers in the great Anatolian nation  are viewing a Google-Translate rendition of our essay about the (somewhat) mathematics-related movie “Die Vermessung der Welt”.   The title of that worthy screed appears thus to our turcophone readers:

Daha Matematik Porno: "Die Vermessung der Welt"

(We trust that the attraction for these viewers was more the “Matematik” than the “Porno” part;  but allahu-a`lamu.)   Anyhow, we hope that our Turkish visitors enjoy what they found;  there’s a good chance of that, since much of Google-Translate is scary-good.   (Note, for example, that their parser did not dumbly assume that “Die” was here the English verb.)  As a linguist, that makes me nervous;  but hopefully by the time my employers announce they can dispense with my services, I shall have put aside a sufficient nest-egg to take up my retirement avocation of Hamster Fancying  without fearing the wolf at the door.  Still, one can never be too cautious, so in the meantime, please buy my books.)

What most struck me, though, was the way my blog has been baptized in the Turkish tongue:

Dr Adalet Dünya

I like it!   

Notice that here, by contrast with the case of the quoted German title (to treat the first word of which  like the English homograph, would have been absurd), the translator was faced with a judgment call.  (Granted, we’re talking about the judgment of a computer;  but with time, that will cease to be depreciative.)  Here they did translate “Justice” like the word “justice” (yielding Adalet, borrowed from the Arabic word for ‘justice’, عدالة), even though it is a surname, and hence in principle not subject to such translation.    But the name already looks so much like a nom de plume,  and so suggestive of foreign adventures like my French-undercover job as le docteur Justice, that the rendition may be said to have been faithful to the sense though not the letter.

The Case for Intervention in Liechtenstein (renewed)

[Update 26 September 2013]  Long’s we gonna bombard Syria over chemical weapons, might as well bomb Turkey too -- it’s right in the neighborhood.  Two birds / one stone.

Almost 40 percent of protesters surveyed by a Turkish medical group complained of continuing repercussions from their exposure to the tear gas that security forces used to quell last spring’s antigovernment demonstrations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/26/world/europe/turkish-protesters-are-still-said-to-be-ailing-from-tear-gas.html?ref=global-home&_r=0

Sounds like the government added a little somethin’ special to that ‘tear gas’ …

[Update 27 Sept]  Another reason it was worth waiting, and not just barging in  guns blasting, like Rambo, or Maverick John McCain:

Most of Syria’s toxins said to be ‘unweaponized’

U.S. and Russian officials believe the country’s chemical arsenal could be destroyed more easily than thought, lowering the risk that the nerve agent stockpile could be hidden away by the regime or stolen by terrorists.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/most-of-syrias-toxins-can-be-destroyed-more-easily-than-officials-initially-thought/2013/09/26/66cd1ca2-26e3-11e3-b75d-5b7f66349852_story.html

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The vexed question, whether the United States should risk sending ground troops into Liechtenstein, or simply while away the time knocking the stuffing out of them with drones, has caused much scratching of educated heads.   But before we tackle that tough one head-on, herewith a quick run-down of other trouble spots, that cry out for invasion.

=> FLASH UPDATE ! <=

Liechtenstein's incredible response!

This means War !!!

Nigeria

For many years now,  the Boko Haram terror group has been slaughtering Christians -- burning churches, killing children, etc.  The government is powerless or unwilling to stop it.

India

In India, decade after decade, brides are attacked with acid or scalding water, to extort a larger dowery, or in some dispute with the mother-in-law.  Meanwhile, rape is epidemic, including gang-rape.

Egypt

After many years of military rule, a civilian president is finally democratically elected.  He is removed in a military coup.   The nation teeters near civil war.  This one could get really ugly.

Mauritania

Slavery is alive and well and living in Mauretania.  An unbelievable one in five there is a slave:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Mauritania

Intervention?  Obviously.  Immediately.
[Update 27 Sept 2013] And now this:
Obwohl seit 1981 verboten, ist die Sklaverei in Mauretanien noch immer an der Tagesordnung und de facto straffrei.
http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/international/auslandnachrichten/die-sklaverei-ist-nicht-verschwunden-1.18157241?extcid=Newsletter_27092013_Top-News_am_Morgen

Papua

For a tiny country, Papua New Guinea generates a disproportionate number of mind-numbing atrocities:

Spurred by the killing this week of a young woman accused of witchcraft in Papua New Guinea, the United Nations called on the country to address increasing vigilante violence against people accused of sorcery and to revoke a controversial sorcery law.   The United Nations human rights office in Geneva said it was deeply disturbed by the killing of the woman, Kepari Leniata, 20, who was stripped, tortured, doused in gasoline and set on fire on Wednesday as hundreds of spectators watched. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/09/world/asia/un-calls-on-papua-new-guinea-to-curb-violence-after-burning-death-of-woman.html

And now:

An infamous Papua New Guinea cult leader known as “Black Jesus” was castrated by an angry mob after being hacked to death for killing young girls as sacrifices.

Steven Tari, a convicted rapist who was suspected of cannibalism, was killed in a remote PNG village.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/479857/black-jesus-castrated-after-cult-sacrifices-report

Looks like a job for the Marines.

Yemen

A cottage industry of kidnapping Westerners has been netting tens of millions of euros for al-Qaeda from spineless European governments (while pretending not to).    The results are intolerable.  Either the problem must be addressed at the criminal source (Yemen, Mauritania, etc.) or, with a creatively different strategic approach which sounds more and more attractive the longer you think about it, at the financial source, by invading France, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, and other perpetrators.

North Korea

A basket case;  total loss; probably past saving.  The latest wrinkle: a large segment of the population is addicted to crystal meth, of all things.  At this point, it might almost be a kindness to drop a large bomb on the thing.  Put them out of their misery.
About their only exports are super-high-quality counterfeit dollars and other contraband.  Plus  threatening their neighbors with nuclear annihilation should count for something, anyhow. 

Burma

There are lots of bad things to say about Burma, but we’ll let you go hunt them up yourselves.

So there you have it;  one could go on.   As for Liechtenstein, the main plus for intervention there is that, militarily, compared to the other countries, it would be a piece of cake.

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[Footnote]  We almost forgot Syria.  For some years now, it has been in a multi-sided civil war, with increasingly significant foreign intervention; at present, the major players are al-Qaeda and Iran.   Its President, beleaguered, is striking back with everything he has.   Although there are many factions, the principal line of cleavage is:  Sunnis on the one side, spearheaded by al-Qaeda-affiliated groups (ISI, ANF);  versus Alawites and Christians, backed by Iran.   John McCain’s bright idea is that the U.S. should wade into the morass on the side of al-Qaeda against the Christians. -- Oh, wait …

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savourez la série noire

en argot authentique d’Amérique :

http://www.linguasacrapublishing.com/justiceexcerptdivorce.html

Weiteres zum Thema:

Syria:  Logic vs. Victimology

Gar nicht zum Thema  aber doch unterhaltsam,

an diesem sonnigen Sonntagsmorgen:

Christian Morgenstern zum Gedächtnis

Der Schweiz zugewidmet:

Das blosse Anschauen …

A consulter aussi:  notre compte-rendu de la glorieuse intervention de l’Islande en Azawad:

Crevez, sales Sarrasins!

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[This just in]  A reader comments:

I found one reason for intervention: they are really Lichtenstan -- yes,  one of those democracy-hating "stan" countries.

We reply:

Yesss !!!!  For too long that rogue mountain nation has thumbed its nose at the world!!!

Lichtenstan delenda est !!!!

[Flash update]  A motive-analysis of the interventionist faction:
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2013/08/intervention-in-syria-cui-prodest.html

Tahrir, Taghyir, Taksim

So the ague-fever dreams of freedom have spread to Istanbul.   And once again, the spark was no economic development, but a spiritual imponderable, just as in Tunisia:   The authorities had a sort of Stalinoid bureaucratic vision for transmogrifying a park -- “They paved Paradise, put up a parking-lot.”

It was like that in Berkeley, too, when I lived there:  People’s Park, nothing but a semi-vacant and highly unsightly lot off Telegraph Avenue, overrun by dogs and vagrants, but a symbol to the die-hards.

De Toqueville nailed it when he identified the Revolution from Rising Expectations, rather than objectively increasing tyranny.    The ground-shaking developments in the Muslim world  have no evident economic motivators -- none that were not equally in place  ten, twenty, fifty years ago.   Nor is it really the spread of ideas (these are surprisingly few;  emotions, rather), nor even Exemplary Action:  if anything, you would think that the dreadful results of the insurrection in Syria  would give potential insurrectionists pause.  Nor do Iraq, Egypt, Libya  or Tunisia  offer a hopeful model.  -- Likewise, you would have thought that Erdogan, contemplating the example of Assad (and Mubarak, and Gaddhafi) might have thought twice about playing the tyrant card…

And so the Zeitgeist rolls, groans in its sleep.   And its brain-born feverdreams  people the planet.

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Philological footnote:

The three names above look similar because each is in origin a verbal noun (masdar) of a form-II Arabic verb.  In each case, the final vowel is long, and hence receives the stress:  tahh-REER, tagh-YEER, tak-SEEM.  (That “gh” is a gargling sound, similar to the Parisian “r”.)

Tahrîr means ‘liberation’;  Taghyîr means ‘change’ (click here for an explanation of why that square in San`aa is so named);  and Taksim …  well, taksim doesn’t necessarily mean anything, it’s just the Turkish spelling of a word borrowed from Arabic,

ميدان تقسيم

I have no idea why the square was named that.  Literally, taqsîm means ‘division’, quite at variance with the usual Mideast fetish for Tawhîd (‘unity, unification’; also ‘monotheism’).  

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For a more generous collection of morphosemantic remarks about Arabic, check out this:

The Semantics of Form in Arabic

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A correspondent comments:

The real issue is the attraction of violence on the personal level, in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, etc.. Unstable societies with large components of young men with little to lose plus religious divisions and no protection for minority religious groups. But then most wars have always been holy wars.

My response:

That is a giant issue in societies generally, to be sure;  but, it by no means explains the movements symbolized by the three Squares here.

The current, potentially revolutionary situation in Turkey  was unleashed by a government plan to cut down some trees in a park, and the protestors are to a great extent women.   Nor does religion particularly figure in this one.

The very oddity and symbology of these "Square" protests are what make them intriguing.

Indeed, specifically in the Turkish case, the symbolism of that Square as the site for a militant ongoing sit-in, is especially piquant.  In the expert words of Wikipedia:

Taksim Square (Turkish: Taksim Meydanı), situated in the European part of Istanbul, Turkey, is a major tourist and leisure district famed for its restaurants, shops, and hotels. It is considered the heart of modern Istanbul

(And no, don’t imagine for a moment that the infallible Wikipedia, greatest of all the gods, has nodded here by so much as a jot or a tittle -- specifically, the jot or dot over the final vowel of Meydanı.   That is indeed orthographically a dotless “i”, its pronunciation comparable to that of the similar Russian vowel in non-palatal contexts.   Indeed, these vowels are not only phonetically but phonologically similar, since neither contrasts phonemically with the tenser variant, being rather conditioned by the palatal/nonpalatal environment.)

[Update 29 June 2013]  This morning’s Washington Post offers an intriguing survey of ‘Taksim’-like developments around the globe, emphasizing their volatility, unpredictability, and elusive etiology.   The trigger can be something as offbeat as this:

In the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, thousands of furious residents across ethnic lines united on the streets this month, at one point blockading lawmakers inside parliament for 14 hours to protest government ineptitude in clearing a massive backlog of unregistered newborns. Public anger erupted after a Facebook posting — about a 3-month-old baby whose trip to Germany for a lifesaving transplant had been delayed by the backlog — went viral.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/middle-class-rage-sparks-protest-movements-in-turkey-brazil-bulgaria-and-beyond/2013/06/28/9fb91df0-df61-11e2-8cf3-35c1113cfcc5_print.html

Sarajevo, recall, is celebrated in history as the locale where a seemingly minor insident -- the 1914 assassination of a ducal royalty whose name otherwise would not even have come down to us -- proved the spark for a world-wide powder-keg.

[Update 26 juillet 2013]  The latest from Tunisia (miserere nobis, domine):
http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2013/07/25/01003-20130725ARTFIG00425-assassinat-de-brahmi-les-tunisiens-dans-la-rue-pour-exprimer-leur-colere.php?m_i=yXBy57EcWebF6MMv7ybMT6Jvg_pN_HEjADD0NFNrgb%2B4w4CyM

Avortement et Islam

Les “féministes turques” s'insurgent contre une boutade d’Erdogan contre leur droit intangible d’anéantir leurs fœtus:

http://www.medi1.com/player/player.php?i=5193693

Qui plus est, il l’assimile 

--> à  “un complot contre la démographie”.

Du point de vue logique, ce dernier -- très important en soi  -- en est distinct: d’ordre politique, et national. 

En Amérique, les deux soucis existent:  mais pour la majorité blanche, au lieu de s’aligner, ils s’entrecoupent. 

--> Mais on n’en parle jamais.
http://www.medi1.com/player/player.php?i=5184917

Calcul moral enchevêtré.

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Travaillant au noir,

le détective  se trouve aux prises

avec le Saint-Esprit

C’est quoi, le péché irrémissible ???

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Autre dilemme de sexe et de moral, pas si connu en Amérique:

Entre 18 mois et deux ans de prison pour les parents exciseurs

Le père et la mère de quatre jeunes filles excisées ont été condamnés