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The truth about the Tory Party’s cover up of its links to paedophilia
Tories cover up for their pedophiles and facilitating their abuse of young men and children for more than 40 years!
(not satire – it’s the Tories)
According to the Daily Mail, Labour should apologise for its supposed links in the 1970s to the Paedophile Information Exchange.
Not a squeak from the Mail or any of the other right-wing press about the Tory Party’s links to paedophiles though.
And I’m not just talking about Savile’s frequent social visits to Thatcher at Number 10 when she was Prime Minister.
It’s been revealed recently that Savile was not a lone abuser. He was part of a paedophile ring based in the Scarborough and Whitby area. One of the leading members of the ring has been revealed by a local newspaper to be a senior local Conservative politician, Mayor and Councillor Peter Jaconnelli.
But don’t expect to read much about that in the mainstream media. Because the cover up of Tory Party connections to paedophilia in general has been going on for decades.
In 1983, when Lord Carrington became Secretary General…
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#Ebola2014: Why the Huntsman is Important
Two days ago, all 7 suspected and confirmed cases of Ebola in Liberia could be traced back to Guinea [1, 2].
But Case #8 is different.
Current media coverage from Liberia reports that Case #8 was an isolated incident; he hadn’t recently traveled to or been in contact with anyone from Guinea [3].
But he was a huntsman [3].
Given the region’s consumption of bat- and bush- meat, it’s likely that he contracted the disease while handling the remains of an infected animal [4]. Laurie Garrett – Pulitzer Prize winner and author of I Heard the Sirens Scream, Betrayal of Trust, and The Coming Plague – tweeted:
Liberia #Ebola case takes us back to the rain forest: Hunter w no Guinea travel. Points again to stress in bat pop. http://t.co/lh7IidhLIC
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) April 4, 2014
I agree with her completely. To…
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23 Vintage Photos of Egypt’s Golden Years
A woman reading a magazine in the 1950s
By Mohamed Khairat, Founder, EgyptianStreets.com
Egypt in the 1900s was a different place. Egyptian cinema was the third largest in the world, Cairo was a city that foreigners dreamt of spending their holidays exploring, Egyptian music flourished and shook the world, Jews, Muslims and Christians lived together as neighbours, and women had freedoms that were unheard of in many other countries.
Egypt was a place of liberal spirits, unhampered by sectarian and ethnic prejudices. The rights of men, women and children were championed.
Yet, all that has changed, and often may Egyptians forget the Egypt that used to be. Here are 23 photographs of vintage advertisements and other images that will teleport you to Egypt’s ‘golden years’ and show you an Egypt you may have forgotten ever existed.
(These photographs are available thanks to ‘Vintage Egypt. Click here for more)
1. “The Japanese do…
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Empathy: Open Your Heart
You Are Here – Image by Jenny Owens Young
“Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver
Turning from Me to We
We live in a culture that has typically not had a lot of use for empathy; that is, the ability to see the world through the eyes of the ‘other.’
We pride ourselves on how rugged and individualistic and awesome we are, pretending we didn’t get any help along the road through life. This stance is, and should be, truly laughable.
Everyone alive owes the fact that they are even breathing to at least two human beings: their parents. The web begins there. They wear clothing made by poor women in factories in China or Bangladesh or India, and drink milk…
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there is always hope
Spring and hope are twins of the soul
Open
FD Photoessay: A little casual jazz
The Door to the Garden #atozchallenge #poetry #art
entrance to another world
crack it open
songs stream through the opening
throw it wide
sunlight treasure dusts your path
go through the door
look upon adventure
don’t look back
behind you is gone
your past is a closed book
keep walking
surprise in the garden
you are never alone
love grows here
its fresh scent opens your eyes

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment…
~Carl Sandburg
Didactic Poetry: A form of verse, the aim of which is to instruct the mind and improve morals. (information on forms gathered from Poetry Soup)
The painting: “Filoli Courtyard” is one of my mother’s paintings. It kept me sane this past winter.
Women’s HERstory Month Poderosa Profile: Sylvia Rivera
Each March the U.S. celebrates women’s achievements and contributions to society during Women’s History Month. Though March has come and gone, it’s better late than never to acknowledge women and our innumerable contributions. In honor of this Women’s History Month, we picked a fierce poderos@ to profile, based on her valuable contributions to social justice and society in general.
This year our Women’s HERstory Month poderosa is Sylvia Rivera, who was a trans woman activist and queer youth advocate whose activism spanned over the course of four decades. She is sometimes referred to as the “mother of all gay people” – a title bestowed upon her during the Millennium March because of her important contributions to the LGBTQ liberation movement.
Sylvia Rae Rivera was born on July 2, 1951 in New York City to Puerto Rican and Venezuelan parents. She was orphaned as a toddler and raised by her grandmother…
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