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

THE BRAVE MAN PUTS DOWN HIS SWORD

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       Anger eats at his heart, hurt devours this mans loving soul,

He fights within himself as he seeks the peace of restful sleep.

Listen to this man as he asks to be heard among the screaming noise,

 A battle rages between pain and the happiness so desired for so long.

 What does a man see when hate and mistrust rule his hopes and dreams,

 He seeks to walk out from the darkness and let the fight die with yesterday.

        The brave man awakes to his morning and breathes the hopeful day,

             With his hand he takes from his belt the sorrow, let it go away.

         The brave man puts down his sword fore there exists another way,

  The battle needs not to be won, the war…

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Getting It Wrong On Rape Or No Sperm, No Rape, Or Why a Two-Year-Old Girl Does Not Need to be Taught Modesty

Feminist Conversations on Caribbean Life

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After an Indigenous Guyanese woman reported that she was drugged and gang-raped at the hotel where she worked and police had no intention of investigating the rape, women took to the streets in protest and solidarity.

One local newspaper alleges that police are not investigating the rape because the woman admitted to “drinking Red Bull and Hennessey”. It also quoted a police offical as saying, “The woman never said she was raped; she said she had sex with some boyfriend or something like that, and that when he left the room another man come in and he like assault her, bite she up on her body.”

In another case, the family of a partially paralysed woman who was raped in her home have indicated that even though she was taken to the hospital she was neither examined nor treated for sexual assault:

The relatives added that when they checked with…

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Egyptian Aak 2014 – Week 40 ( Sept 29 – Oct 5)

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Eid in prison

( Images of detained activists spread in Cairo during Eid, via twitter)

Main Headlines

Monday

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Forbes trying to out Fox Fox with fear-mongering? How To Stop Ebola: Ban Air Travel From Liberia, Sierra Leone, And Guinea

{So, the next fear-mongering line will be: blockade the three stricken countries – let no one in or out and let them die or survive on their own!}

So much as I hate to admit it, Bobby Jindal is right: we need a travel ban if we want to keep the Ebola virus out of the U.S.

via How To Stop Ebola: Ban Air Travel From Liberia, Sierra Leone, And Guinea.

So, I step across the border, buy a passport from another nation and take my vacation to Miami or Dallas/Ft. Worth…

Help then improve screening there and help to end outbreak – better than trying to erect a false border in our mind.

Pakistani Taliban declare allegiance to ISIS and global jihad | News , World | THE DAILY STAR

not good – In a message marking the Muslim holy festival of Eid al-Adha, the Pakistani Taliban said they fully supported ISIS goals.

“Oh our brothers, we are proud of you in your victories. We are with you in your happiness and your sorrow,” Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said in a statement sent to Reuters by email from an unknown location.

“In these troubled days, we call for your patience and stability, especially now that all your enemies are united against you. Please put all your rivalries behind you …

“All Muslims in the world have great expectations of you … We are with you, we will provide you with Mujahideen [fighters] and with every possible support.”

The statement, released in Urdu, Pashto and Arabic, was sent after ISIS militants beheaded British aid worker Alan Henning in a video posted Friday, triggering condemnation by the British and U.S. governments.

via Pakistani Taliban declare allegiance to ISIS and global jihad | News , World | THE DAILY STAR.

Liars for profit! Not the nurses but the headline writers! U.S. Nurses Say They Are Unprepared To Handle Ebola Patients

{Really!?! – all the nurses in the United States told “un-news” reporters that they are unprepared! Bull! But meant to sell ads, scare people and shame on them for such lies! There are 2,724,570 Registered Nurses in US and they all said this? Not! http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/total-registered-nurses/}

Nurses, the frontline care providers in U.S. hospitals, say they are untrained and unprepared to handle patients arriving in their hospital emergency departments infected with Ebola.

via U.S. Nurses Say They Are Unprepared To Handle Ebola Patients.

Launched: Organic October and the #maketheswitch micro campaign

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Green Drinks has just launched Organic October, a month of celebrating healthy living and encouraging Singapore residents to reduce their toxic load by choosing organic products for personal wellbeing and health of the planet.

Organic October runs alongside Breast Cancer Awareness month to further highlight the dangers of toxins in the environment, and retailers of organic beauty and lifestyle products and services have prepared promotions for the month-long campaign.

In addition, we have launched a bold microcampaign titled “Make the Switch” to encourage a change in consumer behaviour. Through our shareable photo campaign, some individuals will be outing some well known brands and products for its not so natural ingredients, and sharing how they have made the switch to safer products. For the duration of October, Singaporeans can Make The Switch by swapping their non-natural/organic product for a discount on an equivalent product at participating outlets.

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So far, here is a list…

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Gaza is more than piles of destruction.

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One of my dearest friends wishes if she can understand how  living in Gaza feels.

Well, it feels everything and nothing all at once, it’s absolute sereneness,

peaceful whiteness, whiteness could mean nothing to some however if you mixed all the colors in the universe you will get back to whiteness _ everything.

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photo by: Mohamed Zarandah

We felt and feel all the known feelings and a little more, we felt happiness to every ceasefire, when the nightmare ended and when we survived.

It was fake happiness, some may I ask and yes need I answer. Nonetheless, fake or fakeless, it felt sort of goodness.

Goodness in badness, sun rays breaking through heavy murky gray clouds of December.

We were worried all the time and we still, you can clearly see the letters (w,o,r,r,y) sneaking around our eyeballs. Yet we are stuffed with hope, really. We exhale it…

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