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Sam Gerrans
RT 2015-10-18 12:27:00
The United States is in decline. While not all major shocks to the system will be devastating, when the right one comes along, the outcome may be dramatic. Not all explosives are the same. We all know you have to be careful with dynamite. Best to handle it gently and not smoke while you're around it. Semtex is different. You can drop it. You can throw it. You can put it in the fire. Nothing will happen. Nothing until you put the right detonator in it, that is. To me, the US - and most of the supposedly free West - increasingly looks like a truck being systematically filled with Semtex. But it's easy to counter cries of alarm with the fact that the truck is stable - because it's true: you can hurl more boxes into the back without any real danger. Absent the right detonator, it is no more dangerous than a truckload of mayonnaise. But add the right detonator and you're just one click away from complete devastation. | |
Comment: Some very interesting connections were made in this article.
Indeed, historical evidence suggests that some extremely virulent plague outbreaks happen right when society is in no position to cope with them. New Light on the Black Death: The Cosmic Connection New study suggests cometary activity preceded Justinian Plague, wiping out Roman civilization and Western Europe 1,500 years ago | |
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2015-10-16 00:00:00
This territory has never been in the hands of the Islamic State, deputy chief of the Russian General Staff Andrey Kartapolov points out Traces of airstrikes against household buildings have been found at the Syria-Jordan border, where Russian warplanes have performed no missions, deputy chief of the Russian General Staff Andrey Kartapolov said on Friday. "We have spotted ruins of household buildings destroyed by bombing near the settlement of Kherbet Ghazala at the Syrian-Jordan border," he told a briefing for foreign military attaches and journalists. "Russian warplanes have never performed any missions there and, as far as we know, the Syrian aviation has not been used there either," he stressed. "This territory has never been in the hands of the Islamic State. Moreover, this area has been controlled by the Free Syrian Army since 2013." He demonstrated photos of the area featuring bomb-destroyed buildings. "You can see on these photos that there are no signs of military activity around these cottages, there are no military hardware, not even signs of military hardware. These are regular gardens and fields with buildings to keep farming tools," he said. | |
Comment: As the Western coalition and its army of mercenaries have had no qualms about killing innocent civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure, it's not difficult to conclude that the same coalition's airstrikes these past 18 months were actually done to bring about the refugee crisis.
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James Petras
Global Research 2015-10-18 17:29:00
In 1975 the people of Vietnam successfully ended one of the longest and bloodiest anti-colonial wars in world-history - defeating the US, the world's biggest imperial power, after 20 years of struggle. Barely forty years later the Vietnamese regime signed off on the US-Japanese dominated Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement (TPFTA), which essentially converted Vietnam into a vassal state. Vietnam has gone full circle: From a neo-colony ruled by puppet dictators backed by an American occupation army involving 500,000 troops from 1955-1975, to its current 'Communist' rulers who have turned-over its markets, industries, ports, resources and labor to the 500 largest Western and Asian multi-national corporations. | |
Comment: Vietnam can be seen as another of the technocrat's 'laboratories' in the modern world. The 'shock doctrine' is applied and what follows is a rebuilding in the globalist's image. Fortunately, with the US losing its role as the sole world power, a multi-polar world may form in which there are many paths into the future, and not just the psychopathic capitalist elite's.
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Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook 2015-10-18 17:19:00
The complexity and history behind the current tensions in Asia Pacific are belied by simplistic narratives underpinned by superficial nationalism. China's portrayal across the Western media as a regional "bully" versus its victims across Southeast Asia is dividing the general public down two sides of a predictable line. On one side are those who welcome the rise of China as a counterbalance for longstanding Western hegemony across Asia Pacific, on the other are those that fear China will simply replace a "benevolent" Western hegemony with its own brand of regional domination. Somewhere in the middle lies the truth, but to arrive there, one must understand the true nature of the unfolding, and very unnecessary tensions in the South China Sea. | |
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Sputnik
2015-10-18 17:37:00
In the wake of 9/11, the Pentagon immediately sought to eliminate what it called the "tyranny of distance" in Africa. By establishing a network of small, nondescript military bases across the continent, the US was able to launch a covert war far from American shores. In July, reports began to surface that US Africa Command (Africom) was operating top secret drone bases out of Somalia. These suspicions were based largely on the testimony of local officials, who reported military activity around the cities of Kismayo and Baledogle. "They have a base over there," a state minister told Foreign Policy. "They have high tech; they have drones; they have so many things." | |
Comment: The US has been doing its best to destabilize the region and make sure no benign development takes place. This is a blatant crime against humanity. Check out:
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Sputnik
2015-10-18 17:54:00
The Nigerian House of Representatives has urged the country's federal government to establish a state authority which would be tasked with searching for those adults and children who had been kidnapped by Boko Haram. Boko Haram, an ISIL-affiliated terrorist group operating primarily in northern Nigeria, has kidnapped over 45,000 people in the country since 2012, Daily Post Nigeria reported on Wednesday, citing the Nigerian House of Representatives. The Nigerian government announced the number during a discussion of the group's kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok. According to sources, 219 of those kidnapped remain missing. The group is said to be using the captured girls as human bombs. | |
Comment: Boko Haram, another terrorist organization designed to destabilize nations and legitimate Western intervention, if necessary:
Also see: Boko Haram: A CIA Covert Operation
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Sputnik
2015-10-18 16:05:00
With the ongoing Russian anti-ISIL campaign in Syria, one no longer hears about US airstrikes in Syria; Washington is quickly losing its position in the international arena, while Moscow, on the contrary, is proving there is an alternative to a US-dominated unipolar world. The United States has long been the undisputed hegemon, who dominated international relations and was involved in most key affairs around the world. However, with the start of Russian airstrikes in Syria, it has become clear that the US-dominated unipolar world is falling apart at the seams, US political analyst and journalist Eric Best told Czech newspaper Parlamentnilisty.cz. | |
Comment: Russia appears to be everything the average American believed their country was - and would still like it to be. But with Russia exposing the West for what it is some are finally waking up to the fact that their government is run by a criminal cabal. Also see:
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RT
2015-10-18 15:54:00
The humanitarian situation in Yemen is reaching disturbing proportions, with half a million children now facing life-threatening malnutrition and imminent famine, according to a senior UNICEF official. An announcement made on Friday by the organization represents a three-fold increase in numbers of those not receiving enough food since fighting began in March. Afshan Khan, director of the UN Children's Fund's emergency programs worldwide, told Reuters Friday that "We are facing the potential of a huge humanitarian catastrophe... The levels of malnutrition that are being reported for children are extremely critical. "A nutritional survey will be done at the end of October. How close are we to a famine declaration? We see some zones that are worse than others," she confirmed. | |
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2015-10-18 15:43:00
Japan has showcased its naval strength, including Tokyo's latest helicopter carrier Izumo. The commander of the US Third Fleet, which was recently given a greater role in the western Pacific, visited the event. The Fleet Review of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) is held every three years. The display held on Sunday in Sagami Bay, southwest of Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, featured an armada of carriers, cruisers, destroyers and submarines. The highlight of the show was Japan's new 250 meter long helicopter carrier, the Izumo, the biggest warship Japan has built since World War II. Japan designates it a 'helicopter destroyer' rather than carrier to comply with the country's pacifist constitution that renounces war and the threat of force as means to settle international disputes. Technically the country has no military and for numerous years, has not been building aircraft carriers, which are needed to wage war far from home soil. | |
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F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook 2015-10-18 16:22:00
The Russian decision to proceed with military support to the Damascus government has shifted the global geopolitical map significantly. For the moment Washington is choosing to react with words, no doubt planning carefully its next move. The Russian intervention has exposed the fraud of the US position in the Middle East and shown the world that Washington lies, that she supports the very terrorists who allegedly were behind the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and at the Pentagon. The decisive question now is what strategic plan does Moscow have to foster world peace after the defeat of ISIS? From the standpoint of tactics, Russia has made a brilliant, unexpected move against the war agenda of certain very bad circles in the USA by her invitation to Washington to form a common coalition to combat terrorists in Syria, to wage a real "war on terror," an offer immediately rejected by President Barack Obama. By accepting the invitation of the legitimate government of Bashar al-Assad to help combat the grave danger of ISIS, Al Qaeda (al-Nusra Front), and numerous other outlaw terrorist gangs, most made up of foreign mercenary psychopaths from at least 80 foreign countries, Russia is scrupulously abiding by the UN Charter. The US, which has been bombing a sovereign nation for more than one year without permission, is not abiding by international law. As Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared repeatedly over a period of years, Washington and those who control Washington policy are pursuing some form of what they like to call America's Manifest Destiny, ever since the Soviet Union dissolved and with it the Warsaw Pact military alliance in 1990-1991. It is neither manifest nor destiny, rather the mad plan of some power-addicted circles. | |
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Sarah Lazare
New research finds, through their silence, mainstream news outlets are 'legitimating' U.S. military's burn pits on civilians in Iraq and AfghanistanCommon Dreams 2015-10-16 15:28:00
Mainstream media outlets are systematically disregarding the hazardous health impacts of widespread U.S. military burn pits on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, thereby playing a direct role in "legitimating the environmental injustices of war," a harrowing new scholarly report concludes. "During the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the US Department of Defense burned the majority of its solid waste in open-air pits or trenches, producing large amounts of potentially hazardous emissions," noted Eric Bonds, assistant professor of sociology at University of Mary Washington, in his investigation, published in the journal Environmental Politics. "It is well known that the uncontrolled burning of plastics, Styrofoam, electronics, unexploded weapons, and other manufactured and highly processed materials releases harmful toxins and particulate matter into the air," Bonds continued. However, when he surveyed major U.S. newspaper stories from 2007 to 2014, Bonds found that discussions of the negative health impacts of these burn pits overwhelmingly focused on the plight faced by U.S. military service members and veterans—but the actual civilians nearby were almost entirely missing from the picture. | |
Comment: How about the corporate media ignoring the suffering, bombing and killing of innocent children and civilians? Drone attacks? Funding and arming ISIS and other 'regimes'? The millions, upon millions killed from U.S. wars? What about that?!
Study: U.S. regime has killed 20-30 million people since World War Two Having a complicit media that lies and hides atrocities committed by the U.S. government is 'war made easy' for the defense department and the military industrial complex. If the people really knew the truth, they might rise up in mass against them. Censorship: American media has shaped everything you think | |
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Jeffrey Blankfort
Algérie Résistance 2015-05-30 00:00:00
Jeffrey Blankfort: It is both considerable and immeasurable and their influence can be felt, if not seen, in every critical sector of American society. AIPAC and the ADL are only the most well known among a web of powerful political organizations that function on Israel's behalf and effectively set the parameters for US Middle East policy although for most of its sixty plus years AIPAC has preferred to limit its public profile to the political class and those who fund it. There is no lobbying group or combination of groups in the United States or elsewhere that begin to compare with the Zionist network in terms of sheer political power at every level of government, including the courts. What I am referring to is, essentially, the Jewish political establishment, religious as well as secular, plus a number of "think tanks" and foundations that while not officially identified as Jewish or pro-Israel, function as if they are. They include the American Jewish Committee, the establishment's foreign policy arm; the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA); the national arm of Jewish Community Relations Councils across the country;TheWashington Institute for Near East Policy (TWI), which was founded by AIPAC in 1985 to take a more direct role in influencing Congress and setting policy; the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), a neocon stronghold which former Secretary of State Colin Powell later blamed for the Iraq war; Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) and theFoundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), the successor organizations to PNAC (Project for a New American Century; the Saban Forum of the Brookings Institution, initiated and paid for by Israeli-American Haim Saban, the biggest contributor to both of the Clintons; andThe Israel Project (TIP) which propagandizes the media and has on its advisory board 25 members of the US Congress (12 Senate; 13 House), to name the most important. | |
Comment: When will we wake up and liberate ourselves from the scourge of this self-serving and diabolical ideology that counts on and demands our defeat to serve its ends. It is an agenda that has spanned ages and has insidiously honed/owned public thought. Can we see the deep, deep hole that has been dug and the blatant manipulation--at the expense of each and every country, therefore every one of us--to do Israel's bidding? Are our countries and politicians suffering from Stockholm Syndrome (feelings of trust or affection felt in certain cases of kidnapping or hostage-taking by a victim toward a captor) from the source we detrimentally choose not to realistically see? Or is it just about the money... Apparently, the US sold its soul long ago.
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James Petras
The James Petras Website 2015-10-17 13:58:00
Comment: Petras cuts through the transparent character assassination campaign in the media, aimed squarely at the president of Russia. Unfortunately for the West, there isn't much meat on the bones of their propaganda. People aren't buying it. The lies are just too obvious. The major influential western print media are engaged in a prolonged, large-scale effort to demonize Russian President Putin, his politics and persona. There is an article (or several articles) every day in which he is personally stigmatized as a dictator, authoritarian, czar, 'former KGB operative' and Soviet-style ruler; anything but the repeatedly elected President of Russia. He is accused of hijacking Russia from the 'road to democracy', as pursued by his grotesquely corrupt predecessor Boris Yeltsin; of directing the bloody repression of the 'freedom loving Chechens'; of jailing innocent, independent and critical oligarchs and robber barons; of fomenting an uprising in the 'democratic, newly pro-Western' Ukraine and seizing control of Crimea; of backing a 'bloody tyrant' in Syria (elected President Bashar Assad) in a civil war against ISIS terrorists; of running the Russian economy into the ground; and of militarily threatening the Baltic and Eastern European NATO member countries. In a word, the media have propagated an image of an 'out-of-control autocrat', who makes a mockery of 'democratic' norms and 'Western values', and who seeks to revive the 'Soviet (aka Evil) Empire'. | |
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RT
2015-10-14 13:35:00
Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has blamed the Obama administration for its failure to make progress in talks between the US and Russia on coordinating airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria. Speaking to the Rossiya 1 TV station, Medvedev said he was perplexed at the reasons behind the US not wanting to agree to President Vladimir Putin's proposal to work with Washington to drive Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) out of Syria. "The issue is that our American colleagues always tell us that it is necessary to solve the problem in a single package," Medvedev said. | |
Comment: Medvedev also said:
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Barbara Opall-Rome, Joe Gould and Awad Mustafa
Defense News 2015-10-16 12:20:00
Earlier this month, Shia militiamen in Iraq dropped off an American-supplied Abrams tank at a US-supported repair facility where workers were surprised to find an attached Russian machine gun plus Iranian ammo, Defense News has learned. The MIA1 main battle tank — one of 146 frontline tanks the US sold to Baghdad — was transported through the Green Zone to a US-supported Iraqi service facility at al-Muthanna that was established as part of the Pentagon's Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program. The tank was equipped with a Russian .50-caliber machine gun and Iranian-stamped 12.75-mm ammunition, according to a source at the facility. "They brought it in through Iraqi checkpoints, back-rolled it off the trailer and then drove away," recounted the source. "Once all the ammo was removed, as per procedure, by Iraqi personnel, we noticed Iranian markings on the back of the shell casings. Seems they put a Russian machine gun with Iranian ammunition on an Abrams tank." | |
Comment: The Iraqi forces are trying to do the best they can against ISIL, even if that means 'upgrading' US supplied weapons to be more effective with Russian hardware.
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RT
2015-10-18 12:24:00
Russian attack jets have hit 51 Islamic State targets in Syria in the past 24 hours, including four command posts, six arms depots, a mortar battery, two underground bunkers, 32 field camps and six outposts. The strikes took place in the Latakia, Aleppo, Hama and Damascus provinces. The damage the Russian SU-34 jets caused to the underground bunkers was especially significant, Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said. They hit the terrorists' underground infrastructure in Homs, which had allowed the militants to move undetected and increase their effectiveness in combat.
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Comment: A worrying development. The mobilization of children shows how desperate the 'moderate' rebels are becoming.
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Julie Dermansky
TruthOut 2015-10-17 18:46:00
When the news broke that National Geographic was sold to Rupert Murdoch, fans of the magazine gasped. A magazine known for its photo essays paired with reports often based on scientific research being under the control of an outspoken climate change denier worried them. As a photojournalist, it is to difficult for me to imagine that the sale of National Geographicto Murdoch won't contribute to the decline of photojournalism, because it is one of the few publications left whose brand is connected to original, visually-oriented content. | |
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Sunday Express
John Ingham 2015-10-18 18:22:00
A family torn apart by the Second World War has been reunited after a saga that crossed four continents. Retired council worker Maria Nawara had nearly given up hope of tracing Polish relatives after 13 years of spending her holidays trawling through records across Europe. But then the Red Cross found her long-lost aunt Stanislawa, by now 92, in Toronto, Canada. | |
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RT
2015-10-18 17:23:00
A Santiago to Copiapo plane with 137 passengers onboard had to turn back to the airport in the Chilean capital after one of its engines fell apart as it prepared to take-off. A passenger filmed the horrifying scene from a seat above the wing. Parts of the plane, which was carrying 137 passengers, started to rip apart as the plane gained altitude, according to Chile's Tele 13, which also says the parts looked flimsy from the outset and the protective casing on the engine broke off very soon after take-off. | |
Comment: This year has seen numerous incidences of aircraft accidents and mishaps:
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Sputnik News
2015-10-18 17:15:00
Rallies supporting Russia's operation in Syria have been held Sunday in European and Middle Eastern states, including Berlin, Lebanon, Hungary and Serbia. Members of Germany's Syrian community gathered outside the Russian embassy in Berlin on Sunday to express their gratitude to the Russian people for Moscow's support in the Syrian war against terrorism. | |
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Nick Bernabe
The Anti Media 2015-10-18 17:08:00
Embattled fast food giant McDonald's is making headlines yet again. The company has just launched its much advertised all-day breakfast program, but as that campaign rolls out, franchise owners are voicing their concerns over what may be the company's dying days. As we covered at Anti-Media in June, the McDonald's franchise has been shrinking for the first time in the company's over 40 year history: "McDonald's announced in April that it would be closing 700 'underperforming' locations, but because of the company's sheer size — it has 14,300 locations in the United States alone — this was not necessarily a reduction in the size of the company, especially because it continues to open locations around the world. It still has more than double the locations of Burger King, its closest competitor." | |
Comment: Good Riddance! McDonald's, with it's horrific 'food' and slave-labor wages, will not be missed.
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Eva Decesare
The Free Thought Project 2015-10-18 16:47:00
A good cop is a cop who is good at his job, right? So let's review what a cop's job is, and what a cop's job is not. A cop's job is to enforce the law, no matter how unjust, using force to punish anyone caught disobeying. A cop's job is not to protect and serve. The Supreme Court admitted in Castle Rock v. Gonzales that the police are under no legal obligation to protect anyone. That phrase, "To Protect and Serve," written on the side of their vehicles? Just a PR slogan. Their actual job description is to enforce laws; not to prevent harm, but to make sure that anyone caught disobeying arbitrary legislation written by corrupt politicians is punished by any means necessary, whether by something as "mild" as the threat of violence, all the way up to and including execution on sight with absolute impunity. And there is now agrowing trend in which cops are going above and beyond the call of "duty," and preemptively harassing, attacking, and executing innocent people before they even get a chance to break any kind of law. Bravo officers, you get a paid vacation for your efforts! | |
Comment: Let's also hope that new, 'bad cops' are not screened out during the hiring process.
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Eric Draitser
Counterpunch 2015-10-15 00:00:00
The video of 13 year old Palestinian Ahmed Manasrah bleeding to death on the pavement of an East Jerusalem neighborhood has been described as "shocking," "disturbing," and "painful to watch." The callous verbal abuse and insults from Israelis watching the child writhe in agony are variously characterized as "heartless" and "cruel"; and indeed they are."Die you son of a whore. Die! Die!" the Israeli onlookers can be heard shouting in the video which has since gone viral on social media. While there has been much discussion of this video, and other similar incidents involving the extrajudicial executions of Palestinian youths accused by Israel of having stabbed Israelis (the veracity of some of these claims is disputed), there is decidedly little examination of the sociological implications. Specifically, it has become taboo to interrogate just what sort of ideological and psychological conclusions can be drawn about Israelis society - a society where such behavior is not an outlier; where, rather than being an anomaly, it is indicative of a significant, if not mainstream, attitude. Such undeniably barbaric treatment is not simple hate, and cannot be explained away or justified. But that is precisely what the corporate media does. | |
Comment: Similar to it's Imperial counterpart, the US, there seems to be a sea change in the way that the World is viewing Israel's viscousness, brutality and pathology. It is just a question of time before even more is unveiled about the inhuman nature of the Israeli government and military, and the psychopathic thinking so prevalent among so many in its society.
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John Vibes
The satire news website The Onion has become well-known for publishing fake news stories that could be true, and point out how totally ridiculous our reality has become. More than once a week, the staff at The Free Thought Project passes around at least one of these articles behind the scenes for fun, but today we are going to share a few of our favorites.The Free Thought Project 2015-10-17 15:57:00
1. Insecure, Frustrated Bully With Something To Prove Considering Career In Law Enforcement Calling it his lifelong dream, local man Brendan Lockhart, an insecure and perpetually frustrated bully who believes he has something to prove to the world, told reporters Thursday that he is seriously considering a career in law enforcement. | |
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Mark Bauerlein
First Things 2014-09-15 15:28:00
The motives for tattoos are many, but they all have a common subtext. A tattoo can mark a group identity—sailors, soldiers, inmates, gangs, motorcyclists. It can memorialize a person or event, as in a virtual archive of snapshots of tattoos showing names and faces of deceased loved ones (I attended a presentation of the archive by two academics in Toronto last year). Sometimes they happen by blunt peer pressure, a set of 20-year-olds on Saturday night getting drunk, knowing not what to do until one of them blurts, "Let's go get a tat and a ring!" (a good friend tells me of pulling out just as his turn came up). Beneath the variety, though, is the same call: "Look at me." The bearer may think it's cool or lovely or poignant, a certification of membership, a work of art, or a testimonial, but a selfish demand accompanies each message, not because of what they say but where they say it. Tattoos go on a person's skin, and so they can't be separated from the ego of that person. It's always there as part of one's being, and others must register it as much as they do one's face and speech. A tattoo has form and color and meaning, but it also solicits a social recognition, a "This is me, check me out." | |
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Annie Robbins
Mondoweiss 2015-10-17 15:01:00
As the devastation in Gaza continues unabated, teams of medical professionals work to combat the psychological impact on children raised in that densely populated and blockaded human laboratory. Many of those children have already lived through 3 major military offenses. I saw a photo today of some of those beautiful kids — visiting the graves of their fathers and brothers killed in Gaza during the summer slaughter of 2014 — and wondered how those kids were holding up. Reminded of some people I met who cycle around the globe raising funds for children's mental health in Gaza, I visited Cycling4Gaza's (C4G) Facebook page and coincidentallyintercepted some drawings they'd posted from the Gaza Mental Healthcare Project,launched in partnership with the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF). The eyes in this drawing bore into me:
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Comment: Some wonderful news for a change!
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Kara O'Neill
Thousands of people in Russia thought the enormous explosion was simply an early sunrise - when in fact, flames were as high as 20mThe Mirror, UK 2015-10-16 15:54:00
A huge gas explosion was mistaken for an early sunrise by thousands of people in Russia after it caused the sky to light up like a giant fireball. Flames rose over 20 metres high when an underground pipe ruptured near the city of Novy Urengoy in North-Eastern Russia. It is believed there are casualties, but emergency services are not certain how many yet because the intense heat melted everything around it. A video of the burning flames was shot by shocked resident Lilia Lukyanova, who posted it on social media website vKontakte saying: "This is the view from my window."
Firefighters raced to the scene and managed to get the blaze under control when they discovered where to turn off the gas supply. Supplies to local villages were not affected. The blast happened near a petrol station and experts have launched an investigation into the cause. It is possible that the pipe, which was 700 millimetres wide could have cracked or split in the freezing conditions as temperatures have plummeted in the region. Representatives from the gas suppliers Gazprom also attended the scene. | ||
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Udi Aloni
Mondoweiss 2015-10-16 14:52:00
This coming December, a group of Palestinian intellectuals will join forces with a number of world renowned philosophers (including Slavoj Zizek,) for a week-long conference around the work of Walter Benjamin in Ramallah. Those who wish to read, learn and deeply understand Benjamin, are welcome to do so in the place where Benjamin belongs: side by side with the occupied who will not remain silent and with the oppressed who no longer await the angel of history, for they know he has no role in their salvation. Concurrently, this December, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem plans a series of events in honor of Walter Benjamin. To think of Benjamin in the context of the apartheid city, where only those privileged not to live under occupation, can attend a seminar in his honor - is to feel oneself not at home. (Uncanny) | |
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