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

A New Low For Tea Bagger Bigots: Public Shaming Of The Disabled | Liberals Unite

While this is a lot like public shaming of those who receive food stamps or need a high amount of pain meds to survive, it reaches a brand new low for these bigots, because they’re actually naming disabled people who receive benefits. Let’s hope that the people responsible for this are tracked down and … well, what should we do with them? Let us know in the comments. I can think of several ideas, mostly involving torches and sharp farm tools.

via A New Low For Tea Bagger Bigots: Public Shaming Of The Disabled | Liberals Unite.

A Phone Call with Lebanon’s Police

Wish it were satire but it is true…

A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares

I keep hearing about security plans for this country, especially for the places where security has been non-existent. My idea of a security plan, despite me not being an expert whatsoever, involves – at the very least – a sense of involvement from the police seeing as we are asked nowadays to report any suspicious behavior because you never know if that behavior might lead to us getting blown up.

For instance, one of the two bombers in Tripoli apparently parked double parked the car in broad daylight and simply walked away. People called after him and I’m sure someone might have tried to call 112. What would 112 have done in that setting?

I present to you a transcript of a phone call of a man from Tripoli, the city that was victim of two explosions on Friday, with the police in his city. I’m not sure if this…

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Steve McCurry: Photographer of Life

The Secret Reveler

Steve McCurry  is a phenomenal photographer. He has been working as a photojournalist for the majority of his life & if you think you don’t know who he is, think again. His iconic national geographic image of the Afaghn Girl , resonates with everyone. His photographs truly capture what it is to be human, from absolutely all around the world. Below are just a few of his outstanding photographs. He also has a personal blog on wordpress, so start following to see continuous updates of his magnificent and inspiring work…

 

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Day One: Rebuilding Tripoli

A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares

Day one post two blasts that killed 45 of its sons and daughters, this is Tripoli.

This morning, these young men and women are not pointing fingers and expressing blame. They are not sinking to the sectarian rhetoric that many people believe will change how this country is going. They are mourning their city in the way they know best: by cleaning up the rubble and the destruction so they can at least have part of the place they call home back.

For many Lebanese, Tripoli is a city that exists way up there, beyond that army checkpoint, that we don’t need to visit. For many Lebanese, Tripoli exists only as a city that is ravaged by Islamists and militants and violence and destruction. But this city, which currently sits in a near-comatose situation, is – thanks to the efforts of those young men and women – trying to get…

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AMERICA/COSTA RICA – Violence against children: an “epidemic” that continues to spread – Fides News Agency

Since the beginning of 2013, 1,115 children who suffered physical assaults have been assisted at the National Pediatric Hospital (HNN) in Costa Rica. According to data released by the health center, the situation is alarming because the annual average of cases of violence against minors correspond to 1,500. Concern is also growing because the attacks are becoming more violent, physical, sexual and psychological. However, the actual figures reported by the Patronato Nacional de la Infancia (Pani) exceed those of the HNN. Every year this organization receives more than 13,000 complaints.

via AMERICA/COSTA RICA – Violence against children: an “epidemic” that continues to spread – Fides News Agency.

The Curfew Hours

Egyptian Streets

By Alice Tegle, correspondent, EgyptianStreets.com

With Egypt on curfew, daily routines can quickly into dangerous encounters. A packet of biscuits nearly killed 24-year-old Amin Abu Hashem.

“Well…Today I was shot at”, said Amin Abu Hashem to Egyptian Streets during the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Friday of rage”.

He is on the phone from his house in El-Nahda square where weeks of violence between the Muslim Brotherhood and the military culminated in Wednesday´s bloodshed. At least 87 people were killed meters from his apartment.

“A guy was behind a shed the workers use for coffee breaks. Suddenly I heard the sound of a shotgun,” said Amin before momentarily pausing.

“I dodged the bullet, felt it fly by and I hurried back inside.”

The sound of gunfire has filled the streets of Cairo the past two days. Amin had watched the sit-ins evolve from his window before they were dispersed by security forces on August 14.

“I…

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