Monthly Archives: August 2015
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Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui refers to Japan as ‘the motherland,’ infuriates both sides of the strait
Taiwan’s former President Lee Teng-hui is facing criticism from all sides after a recent interview in which he called Japan “the motherland” and dismissed the current Taiwanese administration’s efforts to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II as nothing more than an attempt to “curry favor [with mainland] China.”
Dutch dynamism caught on camera
What happened on Saturday the 22nd of August
This is a personal account of what happened yesterday night, Saturday the 22nd of August 2015. I was there alongside thousands of Lebanese citizens demanding for our rights when we were met with police brutality, teargas canisters, water-canons and armed thugs following peaceful protestors and beating them. As with the previous post, I’m responsible for my own words.
As one of those who helped organize this protest, I can safely tell you that the government’s reaction was beyond anything we were expecting. We were expecting water-cannons like last time, and many of us came prepared for those (putting our phones in plastic bags etc.). But we were not prepared for the teargas and we were certainly not expecting to see riot police and army men playing the role of government thugs.
The sheer savagery of riot police and army men shooting teargas canisters haphazardly at any concentration of people they…
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When We Protested and The Lebanese Government Tried To Kill Us
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At 6:00PM on August 22nd, 2015, around 10,000 Lebanese people gathered in Downtown Beirut to protest the country’s overwhelming garbage crisis and with it the corrupt political system that has allowed it to prosper unresolved over the past month, as it has allowed the country to disintegrate since its moment of inception.
I daresay it was the first time a Lebanese crowd gathered this substantially to protest in an apolitical way against a political system that’s affecting everyone. It was beautiful:
All pictures are taken by me unless noted otherwise.
The crowd was immensely creative. They carried Lebanese flags devoid of the Cedar, a bunch of hilarious posters, and even Batman was there:
The people at the protest had one goal in mind: to tell anyone who’d hear us exactly how horrifying our political system has become, to the point where we’re drowning in garbage and no one cares. To the…
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When We Protested and The Lebanese Government Tried To Kill Us
The day after, I’m the most proud I’ve been in years. I’m proud of every single man, woman and child that went down yesterday to protest. I genuinely love every single one of those 10,000 people that gathered around in Beirut yesterday, even the smokers.I’m proud of the people of Tripoli who went down to Beirut late at night to protest even when no one protested for them when their city was being burned again and again. I’m proud they were not deterred at the Madfoun checkpoint which was blocked by the army at 1:40AM to stop them.You people turned Beirut into a city that’s worth being plastered across the world yesterday because you were amazing, courageous and wonderful. You got people all across the country to see the government for what it truly was: a rotten establishment that reeks of decay.The day after, you are all heroes, with your cuts and scars and bruises and teary eyes. The government fears you. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t have reacted this way. In a few years, when you have children in a country that’s hopefully become civilized enough for us to bring children into, you will sit down and tell them how you changed things. It’s a beautiful story to tell, believe me.
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VDU’s blog: Whether MERS-CoV spreads or stops is entirely up to the hospitals…
We propagate epidemics. We create our own headaches in this arena. Many viruses wouldn’t break out if we didn’t create the circumstances for an outbreak. The biggest headache? Infected patients who spread virus to uninfected patients and health workers when they are in unprotected close contact in a healthcare setting.
via VDU’s blog: Whether MERS-CoV spreads or stops is entirely up to the hospitals….
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“I’m bored with my life. Last year my wife passed away. …
“I’m bored with my life. Last year my wife passed away. I used to leave work as early as possible so we could have dinner together. Now I go home as late as I possibly can.”
(Chalus, Iran)

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