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

Morsi, the last caliph-president of Egypt

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This piece is  written by Mbayo Lo for Mondoweiss. I read it here  when the former deputy PM of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim has re-blogged it today.   

The ousting of Egypt’s now former President Muhammad Morsi, by popular protest in some interpretations, or by a military coup in others, has raised many problematic questions on the latitudes of democracy and limits of legitimacy. While those who relate his ousting to popular protest see it as a legitimate, corrective move justified by his non-democratic conduct, those who morn his departure blame a military establishment determined to oppose any civilian rule

Both prospects are intellectually entertaining, but equally represent a profound rupture with the existing problem. There are competing conceptions of legitimacy between the Islamist administration of Morsi and the majority of the Egyptian people who associate legitimacy with substantive democracy. In Morsi’s understanding, his democratic legitimacy is the result of a…

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photo-challenge-one #photography #poetry #Christmas

penned in moon dust

One candle shone brightly

on a lonely face

where a smile once belonged

One candle shone brightly

through solitary leaf

worn by days

one candle shone brightly

a tiny creature

burdened and alone

one candle shone brightly

on a world

reaching for the light

fall light

This week’s photo challenge at WordPress is One

Wishing each of you a wonderful and warm Holiday season!!!

Photographers I enjoy and appreciate:

  1. One (Weekly Photo Challenge) | Icezine
  2. Weekly Photo Challenge: One | Flickr Comments
  3. Weekly Photo Challenge: One | Ese’ s Voice
  4. Weekly photo challenge: One | An Enchanted Eye
  5. Week Photo Challenge: One | nancy merrill photography
  6. Weekly Photo Challenge: One | autopict
  7. Weekly photo challenge: one | MyBlog – solaner
  8. Weekly Photo Challenge – One | Chittle Chattle
  9. Photo Project “52 Bolivian Sundays” [‘One’] | 3rdculturechildren
  10. My.Vivid.Visions | Weekly Photo Challenge: One
  11. Just One | The Ambitious Drifter
  12. Weekly Photo Challenge: One…

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CENSORED NEWS: Navajo Councilman Leonard Tsosie pushing for uranium mining to poison Navajo water

This action by a few elected officials is UNACCEPTABLE!! This will no doubt endanger our community, our children, and the area we call home.  Uranium is a poison and mining it is an improper and dangerous use of our water and natural resources!! Uranium should be left in the ground! We cannot regulate it and to think that we have power over nature is arrogant and dangerous. I am asking you to please Send Comments and join many other Dine\’ people in saying NO AND TO STOP NEW URANIUM CONTAMINATION at the Special RDC meeting next Monday morning at Chilchinbeto Chapter.

via CENSORED NEWS: Navajo Councilman Leonard Tsosie pushing for uranium mining to poison Navajo water.

ANSWERING ATTACKS ON MY CREDIBILITY AS A PHILANTHROPIST | Jane Fonda

Since 2006, between my two foundations and my own personal finances, over $3 million dollars have been contributed to various causes.

 

It is a shame that “News” outlets chose to report on a fraction of this without checking their facts and telling the whole story. I will continue to support the various causes that I believe in as much as I can. And I hope that these outlets will do their part to give a platform to these causes, instead of sharing information that’s incomplete, inaccurate, or misleading.

via ANSWERING ATTACKS ON MY CREDIBILITY AS A PHILANTHROPIST | Jane Fonda.

London Underground Tube Diary – Going Underground’s Blog

The carriage would have been filled with lots of lovely pine smells. Great way to mask out the normally damp coat / sweaty / smoky Underground odours of the day. Some commuters may have left their journey with pine needles on their hats and coats, but that\’s a small price to pay for some great festive spirit.

Even with the image enlarged I can\’t work out which line this is.  Maybe someone would like to hazard a guess.

Thanks to Georges P for bringing this to my attention who originally saw this on Vintage everyday.

Merry Christmas!

via London Underground Tube Diary – Going Underground’s Blog.

IRIN Africa | Plague in Madagascar | Madagascar | Governance | Health & Nutrition | Urban Risk

The bubonic plague season arrived in Madagascar earlier than usual in 2013, and with it an apparently greater prevalence of a more deadly strain of the disease.

Between September and December the health ministry reported 42 known deaths and 84 cases from the illness in four of the country’s 112 districts. The cases have been recorded at various geographical locations: Mandritsara in the north, Soanierana Ivongo in the northwest, Ikongo in the southwest, and Tsiroanomandidy in the central highlands.

via IRIN Africa | Plague in Madagascar | Madagascar | Governance | Health & Nutrition | Urban Risk.

Immigration Talk with a Mexican American: Mexican American and Frustrated by Lack of Movement on Immigration Reform

Here we are during the Holiday Season.

We are in the 5th year of our President\’s tenure.

We have no movement on Comprehensive Immigration Reform.

I know the issues. I know the Problems.

Republicans have one agenda.

Democrats, a different agenda.

Republicans, especially the extremists, want to close the borders and deport everyone who does not have citizenship.

Democrats want Immigration Reform, but lack the strength to take a stand to pass it.

I have to give it to Republicans and all people who thrive in HATE for their strength and determination. They are willing to be demonized, ridiculed, hated, attacked, voted out of office, and they still stand their ground. They don\’t care about polls. They don\’t care that main street America disagrees with them and ridicules them. They stand their ground and still fight.

Democrats, on the other hand, always try to be politically correct. They thrive on polls and popularity. They continue to apologize for their views if they get a bad poll. Apologize and beg for forgiveness. Where are their guts?

Here I sit. Frustrated. Knowing Mexican Americans and Latinos are on the RIGHT SIDE of History. Immigration Reform is the right thing to do. (Like Healthcare, Civil Rights and so many other humanitarily correct philosophies).

What is the resolution? Do we have to wait until the 2014 elections?

I honestly don\’t know.

So here I sit.

Frustrated.

Not willing to post on my Blog every day anymore.

I still believe in Truth, Justice, America – the Land of Immigrants and Immigration Reform.

But I am NOT willing to be a pawn of those pushing forward a political agenda.

I DEMAND Comprehensive Immigration Reform for the Sake of Humanity and because it is the Right Thing to Do for OUR America!!

via Immigration Talk with a Mexican American: Mexican American and Frustrated by Lack of Movement on Immigration Reform.

Obama sends small military to continent to South Sudan to help protect US Embassy

President Barack Obama has deployed a small military contingent to South Sudan to help bolster security at the U.S. Embassy amid escalating violence in the fledgling African nation.

In a letter to Congress, Obama said the 45 military personnel were sent to South Sudan on Wednesday. While they were equipped for combat, Obama said their purpose was to protect U.S. citizens and property and that they would remain in South Sudan until the security situation there improved.

\”South Sudan stands at the precipice,\” Obama said in a written statement. \”Recent fighting threatens to plunge South Sudan back into the dark days of its past.\”

via Obama sends small military to continent to South Sudan to help protect US Embassy.

Drug-Resistant Bacteria on Chicken: It’s Everywhere and the Government Can’t Help – Wired Science

Two important, linked publications are out today, both carrying the same message: The way we raise poultry in this country is creating an under-appreciated health hazard, and the government structures we depend upon to detect that hazard and protect us from it are failing us.

The two pubs are:

A long piece that will be in the Feb. 2014 edition of Consumer Reports but has been placed online today.

A companion report by the Pew Charitable Trusts, addressing some of the systemic problems raised by the Consumer Reports story.

Short version: Independent tests show that multi-drug resistant disease-causing bacteria are widely present on chicken, and the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has insufficient personnel, or legal authority, to change that.

via Drug-Resistant Bacteria on Chicken: It’s Everywhere and the Government Can’t Help – Wired Science.