Biden has said his goal is to close the camp, but how to deal with this toxic inheritance? A new report by AAN’s Kate Clark aims to provide context to the new administration as it weighs up what to do with Guantanamo by injecting a dose of reality into discussions. Source: New Special Report from AAN: “Kafka in Cuba, a Follow-Up Report: Afghans Still in Detention Limbo as Biden Decides What to do with Guantanamo” – Afghanistan Analysts Network – English
Monthly Archives: April 2021
Did You Know {23} ~ What Do All Mythologies Have In Common?
Apologies not Required

You can advise people but you can’t make them change the course they have chosen. Oxygen is all around us and we breathe it in effortlessly, in the same way the people we love will find their rhythm in life. Exhort your energy on the one person that means the most to you and that’s unapologetically you.
© Norma Bobb-Semple 2021
Jamaican leaders, citizens must “act firmly” on violence against women – enough talk
This is one deeply disconcerting case, since it involves a public servant. However, the global case against the epidemic of gender-based violence – a pandemic – is never closed. I hope our political leaders realize that this is much bigger than the evasive, elusive Member of Parliament and his political future (which frankly I could not care less about). There are also legal and constitutional issues. But I hope that the matter will not be just wished away. For a long time now (and in particular, in this early part of 2021) the issue of violence against women has been as topical and high profile as the COVID pandemic itself – especially after at least two highly publicized femicides (and several others, this year) have deepened the malaise. There are many examples from our not too distant past, also.
Case closed.
The Jamaica Constabulary Force put out a statement on Friday (April 16th) that it cannot continue investigations into a violent episode that took place in a parking lot ten days earlier, because the two people involved (a man and a woman) are not willing to press complaints. Also, the JCF said, the quality of the video was poor – although all relevant parties seem to have identified the alleged perpetrator (seen in a video beating Ms. Tannisha Singh with a stool) as businessman and “embattled” Member of Parliament, George Wright. Mr. Wright has not been charged.
Mr. Wright has not been particularly cooperative at any stage, but eventually met with the Chairman of the Jamaica Labour Party Horace Chang at party headquarters. Their disciplinary committee is now looking into it, and meanwhile Mr. Wright is on leave (I believe, sort of). Other party members (including several women elected…
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The Lonely Magpie
Tarachand And The Trembling Tracks
Tarachand turned over in his wobbly charpoy. The rickety bamboo bed meshed with handmade jute cord was just strong enough to support his enormous frame, however, it squeaked in protest with every twist and turn that the slumbering hulk made.
At seven-and-a-half feet of stature, the sleeping man’s arms and legs jutted well beyond the confines of the cot on which he lay. Deep in his sleep, he would occasionally place his palm flat on the floor to feel the ground rumble.
The giant had mastered the art of detecting an approaching train just by feeling the floor even in his sleep many miles before the locomotive passed by his ten-by-ten residential quarter cum office provided by the railways, the only dwelling in this wild and remote part of the Chapramari forest in the northeastern confines of India’s West Bengal state.
With the first faint vibration of the approaching locomotive…
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Ponto de vista…por Tolstói — Mágica Mistura✨

“Há quem passe por um bosque e só veja lenha para a fogueira.” Leon Tolstói imagens doWordPress
Nacionalni park Serengeti, Tanzanija – Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
Prema jednoj staroj afričkoj legendi posljednja životinja koju je Bog stvorio bio je gnu – oblikovao ga je spajajući ostatke dijelova tijela drugih životinja. Istina je da gnu (Connochaetes taurinus) – sa svojom prevelikom glavom i prednjim dijelom tijela koji je viši i krupniji od zadnjeg – nije graciozna životinja, posebno u poređenju s ljupkim antilopama koje naseljavaju savanu, ali ipak predstavlja najznačajniju kariku u lancu koji čini ekosistem Serengetija. Sezonska migracija skoro dva miliona gnua – kojoj se može pridružiti 300.000 zebri i drugih antilopa – fenomen je koji fascinira i prirodnjake i laike. Tokom kišne sezone (između decembra i juna), gnui se okupljaju u krateru Ngorongoro gdje se razmnožavaju. A kada trava počne da se suši, oni na sjeveru prelaze veliku ravnicu Serengeti, gdje ih stalni riječni tokovi snabdjevaju hranom neophodnom za njihov opstanak. Kraj novembra je vrijeme za povratak. Seoba traje četiri ili pet dana tokom kojih…
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Vontades…por Fernando Pessoa — Mágica Mistura✨ — Barbara Crane Navarro

“Deus quer, o homem sonha, a obra nasce.” Fernando Pessoa imagens do WordPress Vontades…por Fernando Pessoa — Mágica Mistura✨
Vontades…por Fernando Pessoa — Mágica Mistura✨ — Barbara Crane Navarro
« In assenza del sacro, tutto è in vendita. » — Barbara Crane Navarro

Foresta pluviale lungo il fiume Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela – foto: Barbara Crane Navarro « L’ambiente non è qui. L’ambiente non c’è. Tu sei l’ambiente. » « Quelle che chiamate le vostre risorse naturali, la nostra gente chiama i nostri genitori. » – Oren Lyons, nazione Seneca Dobbiamo adorare di nuovo la foresta, fiumi, cielo – […]
« In assenza del sacro, tutto è in vendita. » — Barbara Crane Navarro
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