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

In France, Dam Is the Catalyst for a Flood of Young People’s Anger – NYTimes.com

Many of those who gathered to oppose the dam call themselves “Zadistes,” or partisans of the ZAD, the French acronym for zones à defendre, or areas to defend. They say they have come to build an independent society. Increasingly, they are seen as environmental extremists, or “green jihadists,” as Xavier Beulin, the president of the main agriculture union, put it.

“For once, we are fighting a project that represents symbolically what we reject,” said Jordan Samson, a geography student in the southern city of Toulouse. “Our movement is spreading to an entire generation.”

The protests here are the latest aimed at a widening number of projects that the demonstrators criticize as monuments to the overweening ambitions of local politicians and their business connections.

Last month, demonstrations in support of the Zadistes were held across France, including in Nantes, where more than a hundred protesters went on a rampage. In the nearby town of Gaillac, several shops and a memorial to war dead were vandalized.

via In France, Dam Is the Catalyst for a Flood of Young People’s Anger – NYTimes.com.

délicieux automne – delicious Fall…:-)

my virtual playground

motto:”Chaque pomme est une fleur qui a connu l’amour…”(Félix Leclerc)

lumière subtile et floue, splendeur rouge et dorée, couleurs aux effets harmonieux et magnifiques – chacun ressemble à un état ​​de notre âme… l’automne est une formidable saison qui nous surprend avec ses détails et novembre est presque la fin de l’année… sa beauté silencieuse est en marche, on peut deviner le printemps et l’été à travers son doux “visage”… L’AMOUR est comme une pomme coupée en 2 morceaux égaux – réunis, ils forment un tout… 2 petites pommes d’amour croquantes et sucrées-acides que tu me glisses à l’oreille, avec un sourire sous-entendu… et voilà que sous le ciel azur-profond je deviens… caraMel! 🙂

motto:”Each apple is a flower that has known love…”(Félix Leclerc)

subtle and blurred light, red and gold splendor, mellow and superb colour effects – each one seems to be a state of our soul… Fall’s a…

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Egyptian Aak 2014 – Week 44 ( Oct 27- Nov 2)

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(A house was blown up during a military operation to create a buffer zone in Rafah)

(via AFP)

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Defending Slackness At All Costs

Preaching truth where it needs preaching. Plan to protect against chik-V? Do nothing and hope no one notices you did nothing! Was in good company with non-leaders all around your lake.

Jamaica Woman Tongue

Prime Minister and Minister of Health at press conference on public health crisis Prime Minister and Minister of Health at press conference on public health crisis

So the prime minister, who is also the minister of defence, is perfectly satisfied with the performance of her minister of health. She has every confidence in Dr. Fenton Ferguson. It doesn’t seem to matter that the nation is in a perilous state: pop down, mash up, largely due to the incompetence of the minister of health and his technocrats in handling the chik-V crisis.

Yes, I know; this is my fourth column on the virus. And if you substitute chik-V for Ebola, you can also count last week’s column: why there’s no vaccine for chik-V. It’s the same story. Victims of chik-V are poor people in Asia, Africa and now Latin America and the Caribbean. They can’t guarantee huge profits for pharmaceutical companies.

The current estimate is that it takes 10 years and 1 billion dollars…

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Things That Go Bump in the Night

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From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!

As children, we used to recite this little Scottish poem at night, with a little shiver. What did the long-leggedy beasties look like, I wondered to myself. Were they hiding in our bedroom cupboard, or were they creeping around on the roof?

In English folklore, fairies can be quite malicious and harmful to humans. The Fairy Queen (sometimes called Queen Mab) is an untrustworthy creature, to be feared. In English folklore, fairies can be quite malicious and harmful to humans. The Fairy Queen (sometimes called Queen Mab) is an untrustworthy creature, to be feared.

I realize that I grew up with ghosts (or duppies, as Jamaicans would call them). My grandmother used to talk about the supernatural a great deal, and had a perfectly huge repertoire of superstitions and fears. “You shouldn’t wear green,” she would tell us. “It’s the fairies’ color and they will get jealous.” (Fairies are not necessarily nice, at all). Old Nick would…

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