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

Lebanon: No Justice 6 Months After Blast | Human Rights Watch

Lebanese authorities have failed in the past six months to deliver any justice for the catastrophic explosion at Beirut’s port on August 4, 2020, Human Rights Watch said today. The stalled domestic investigation, riddled with serious due process violations, as well as political leaders’ attempts to stop the investigation reinforce the need for an independent, international inquiry.

The investigation has been paused since December 17, 2020, after two former ministers charged in the case filed a motion asking Lebanon’s Court of Cassation replace the investigating judge, Fadi Sawan. It is not clear when the investigation will resume. Sawan has, since August, brought charges against 37 people, 25 of whom are detained under conditions that appear to violate their due process rights. Those detained are mostly mid to low-level customs, port, and security officials; and their families and lawyers say that the judicial authorities have not yet presented the specific charges or evidence against them.

Source: Lebanon: No Justice 6 Months After Blast | Human Rights Watch

How the world’s largest rhino population dropped by 70 percent—in a decade – BY DINA FINE MARON PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRENT STIRTON PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 2, 2021 — Just Sayin’

Many rhinos on private reserves in South Africa—these are at John Hume’s game ranch in Nelspruit—are dehorned to reduce the chance of their being killed by poachers. But horns grow back every few years, making this a costly strategy for cash-strapped public parks such as Kruger. https://www.npr.org/2021/01/25/960378979/whos-black-enough-for-reparations

How the world’s largest rhino population dropped by 70 percent—in a decade – BY DINA FINE MARON PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRENT STIRTON PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 2, 2021 — Just Sayin’

Poem of Trees — Perkins Designs

With a love of hiking & the great outdoors, I was inspired by the beautiful words of a friend’s writing, Trees Are The Poem The Earth Wrote To Heaven, to create this poem: Of roots and trunks and branches, tooAnd don’t forget each leafWith bark that’s better than a biteMore sun is warm relief Let’s […]

Poem of Trees — Perkins Designs

« The gold prospectors crammed into the highlands of our forest. Countless white people feverishly dug into the ground of the forest, which all stank of the motors’ xawara epidemic fumes. » — Barbara Crane Navarro

Yanomami territory, Rio Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela As the Yanomami spokesman and shaman Davi Kopenawa says in his book The Falling Sky :  « They cleared landing paths all over the place for their airplanes and helicopters, which constantly crisscrossed the sky. They marched past the forest people’s houses in dense columns, as numerous as koyo ants. The women […]

« The gold prospectors crammed into the highlands of our forest. Countless white people feverishly dug into the ground of the forest, which all stank of the motors’ xawara epidemic fumes. » — Barbara Crane Navarro

709,000 Artworks Of The Rijksmuseum Are Available Online — Tfarhad

The Rijksmuseum has allowed seeing 709,000 artworks for free online. The museum is one of the world’s greatest museums and has artworks of famous artists like Van Gogh, Rembrandt, and so on. The Rijksmuseum is one of many museums that have been digitizing their extensive collections over the last two decades. This process has taken on new […]

709,000 Artworks Of The Rijksmuseum Are Available Online — Tfarhad

Artist Creates Realistic Oil Paintings With Amazing Details — Tfarhad

Chinese artist Leng Jun creates such realistic oil paintings that it is hard to realize it is a painting or a photo. It is possible to call his paintings hyperrealistic. Jung mostly paints women figures in a very detailed way and he reached great popularity with his 2004 Mona Lisa painting. “For people like me who were born […]

Artist Creates Realistic Oil Paintings With Amazing Details — Tfarhad

Freda Joséphine Baker membro dei servizi segreti francesi

le pagine dei nostri libri

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Freda Joséphine Baker, nata McDonald (St. Louis, 1906 – Parigi 1075), era di origine creola afroamericana e anche amerinda degli Appalachi. Venne adottata dal compagno della madre poiché la famiglia ispanica del padre naturale non aveva accettato la relazione del figlio con una donna i cui nonni erano stati schiavi. 

Joséphine ebbe un’infanzia molto povera e abbandonò la famiglia all’età di 13 anni per iniziare presto la carriera di ballerina nei piccoli teatri della sua città e a sedici anni debuttò a Broadway in una rivista che fu replicata per due anni.

Nel 1925 giunse in Europa con la Revue negre al teatro degli Champs-Élysées e divenne in breve tempo la prima ballerina in quanto la sua bellezza e la sua bravura avevano entusiasmato i parigini. Nei suoi spettacoli e nelle sue canzoni unì il gusto piccante e ricercato del varietà francese alla musica jazz e alle musiche nere.
Si…

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THAT SPECIAL FRIEND- FINAL CHAPTER

Soni's thoughts

Hey folks, whats up… Hows days going…
As mentioned before, today i am back with third and last chapter of my post. so lets continue 😀

Our second phase of jim-dandy days were over with Divya shifting to other lab and me to other, our guru gaaru to other building completely.
Our work pressure mushroomed and we eventually got hard pressed in that and got to spend very less time together.

And as usual i was all verklempt for not being able to spend time with my buddies, getting stucked with work always…
Then one fine day we got to know about opening a small bakery inside our office caffeteria…
Then what?? well me and divya contacted each other and decided to just run over there to grab some cake or pastry or whatever available, let the work pause for sometime😆
As soon as we went near the bakery, we…

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Marjorie Taylor Greene: An outlier or the future of the Republican Party?

A traitor.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is a new Republican congresswoman from Georgia, just one of hundreds in the House. But in the words of Senator Mitch McConnell, she’s behind “loony lies” that could be a “cancer” for the GOP. Greene is symbolic of the power struggle within the party and her fate is now in the hands of House Republicans who are deciding whether to punish her for extreme comments she made before winning her seat. We take a closer look.

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