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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Rudy Sleeping Fleece Blanket for Sale by Nancy Jones

Rudy Sleeping Fleece Blanket for Sale by Nancy Jones

Rudy Sleeping Fleece Blanket (50″ x 60″) by Nancy Jones. Our luxuriously soft throw blankets are available in two different sizes and feature incredible artwork on the top surface. The bottom surface is white.

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Trump Rioter Who Attacked Cops With Fire Extinguisher Should Serve 5 Years, Feds Say | HuffPost Latest News

An enthusiastic supporter of Donald Trump who assaulted law enforcement officers with a fire extinguisher while wearing an American flag sweatshirt emblazoned with Trump’s name should serve more than five years in federal prison, Justice Department prosecutors said Friday.

Robert Scott Palmer was arrested 12 days after he was identified in a March HuffPost story as the Capitol rioter who assaulted cops with a fire extinguisher as they tried to protect the Capitol on Jan. 6. He has been locked up since he pleaded guilty in October to assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon, inflicting bodily injury.

Judge Tanya Chutkan will sentence Palmer, who committed his assault on officers while wearing a red “Florida for Trump” hat, on Dec. 17. In a sentencing memo Friday, federal prosecutors sought 63 months behind bars.

Palmer will be the first Capitol defendant to be sentenced for a felony assault in connection with the brutal attack on law enforcement on the west side of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Video showed him spraying embattled officers with the contents of a fire extinguisher and then chucking the empty canister at the police line.

Source: Trump Rioter Who Attacked Cops With Fire Extinguisher Should Serve 5 Years, Feds Say | HuffPost Latest News

Human rights in Jamaica and beyond – past and present

Petchary's Blog

It’s International Human Rights Day, and it’s not just a hashtag.

A lot has been going through my mind today. These are stormy times, with the wind blowing first one way and then the other. A sudden rogue wave appears and nearly knocks you off your feet. 2021 has been strangely – and perhaps surprisingly – complex; it’s as if one needed eyes in the back of one’s head, to make sure nothing was creeping up on you. Even so, we got caught out many times. It has been a long, hard year. And we still have three weeks to go.

I am thinking about the state of the world, and it’s as if human rights have been shoved aside to make way for greed, ego, anger, power, hunger. Yes, hunger and desperation.

One word that comes to mind is inequality. Orwell was particularly brutal on this topic:

“It was…

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Playing Brass

Weekend Stories by Trishikh

Strolling down the Mahatma Gandhi Road from the College Street end towards Howrah Tram Depot in the vibrance of the Kolkata metropolis, one can spot a unique world of orchestral cacophony. Little shops from the colonial days of the British showcase a wide array of musical instruments and jazzy uniforms of starking colours with gilded studs and Zari strips. Lining the bustling pavements on both sides of the busy street, they stand testament to a vanishing era of classical music. While snoozing old owners and staff doze on rickety wooden stools, impoverished young Indian musicians of a gasping profession practice on various musical instruments honing their skills.

At one corner of this hustling sea of tussling humanity and chocking traffic stands a hundred-and-twenty-one-year-old orchestral shop featuring a crumbling hoarding with bevelled wooden alphabets spelling out “Manna Band Party.” Forty-one-year-old Muslim bandmaster Arman Ali stood inside the eight by ten feet…

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Madeira: Insel rund … Madeira: Island tour

Stella, oh, Stella

Ich hatte euch ja versprochen, dass wir dieses Mal ein wenig die Insel erkunden werden. Nach dem ersten Ausflug zu der völlig kahlen Felsenzunge, werdet ihr dieses Mal ganz andere Landschaften kennenlernen. Der Monte Palace Madeira Park hat euch ja schon gezeigt, dass Madeira nicht nur aus unbewachsenen Felsen besteht.

… I had promised you that this time we would explore the island a bit. After the first excursion to the completely bare rocky land tongue, you will see very different kinds of landscapes. The Monte Palace Madeira Parks has already shown you that Madeira does not only consist of bare rocks.

Wenn es irgendwo noch eine Sandstrasse gibt, dann finde ich sie. Diese Fähigkeit habe ich von meinem Vater geerbt 😉 😀
… If there should be a dirt road somewhere, I will find it. I inherited this ability from my father 😉 😀

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Moartea lentă a iubirii- Indiferența

Secretele vieții

În zilele noastre cauza principală a iubirii eșuate este indiferența. Se spune despre indiferentă că este moartea lentă a iubirii. Indiferența are putere de a distruge încet-încet, picătură cu picătură dragostea.

Îngrijorător este că această pierdere poate dura chiar și ani de zile.

Cu siguranță nimeni nu acceptă indiferența ca mod de viață, decât dacă este vorba de un om slab emoțional sau neinteresat.

Nici măcar un om slab emoțional în mare parte nu va aceepta insensibilitatea persoanei de langă el.

Cei care se resemnează în fața disprețului se usucă în interior și secătuiec de iubire.

Indiferenta are multe fațete, iar una dintre ele este lipsa de admirație pentru tot ceea ce ne înconjoară.

Poate există admirație fără dragoste, dar invers este imposibil.

Personal, nu cred că există o rană sufletească mai mare decât cea provocată de indiferență.

Cea mai pură cruzime omenească este indiferența.

Pune stăpânire ușor pe oameni…

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