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Happy Lebanon on #HappyDay

Happy Day After Happy Day!

Hummus For Thought

Yesterday, I announced on Facebook and Twitter the following:

Today's International Happiness Day (Yes, it's a thing). A group of young Lebanese will be in Hamra today at 5pm to spread some joy. Here's their message: Fear has taken over our Lebanese life. A rational fear of war. A rational fear of death. A rational fear of getting severely injured walking down the street. A fear of explosions, sniper bullets, stray bullets, all sorts of bullets really, knives too, and whatever home appliance our violent minds have been able to turn into deadly weapons (a pressure cooker if used "right" can also take away a human life we've learned). These rational fears have developed over years of being fed the news about the tragedy that surrounds us. But also irrational fears have surfaced. A fear of phone-calls (announcing a tragedy), a fear of beards (and what's hidden underneath them), a fear…

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Raw

Poetry for Palestine

This poem is dedicated to my friend Genie (Palestine Rose)

When you write raw

You leave your heart exposed
Unmasked
Unprotected

It will carry many cuts and bruises

It might even bleed its life out

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Me too, I also write raw

Not to appease
Neither to please
And certainly not to hurt or cause harm

Not to praise or to be praised
Not to condemn or put anyone down

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But to heal and ease the pain
Of an injured world
With which I fell madly in love
Long before the day I was born

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I hear rivers and oceans weeping I go to pieces
I see the tears running down sky’s face,

I melt away, I go insane

I would peel off the kernel of my soul
I would crush my being to nothingness
I would dwindle and wither away
I would set my heart ablaze
To see a child…

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Witness: “I’m being held as a slave in Lebanon”

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Ivory Coast-based Koaci.com has learned that 6 women are currently held in slavery conditions in Nabatieh, South Lebanon within a “Mafia-like” network. The following is a rough English translation of the original article in French written 3 days ago.

Two Togolese, two Burkinabé and two Ghanaian have been kidnapped for the past week [now 10 days] and have been severely beaten in Nabatieh, South Lebanon, we’ve learned following the testimony of the two who have been able to reach Koaci.com’s Ivory Coast office (The number is +225 08 85 52 93).

Everything started when they attempted to escape their condition after realizing that they were tricked by a recruiting network that works in the African continent to provide cheap domestic workers in a country with a culture that considers blacks like sub-humans as we have noticed in all African countries where these recruiters are located.

“I want…

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Egyptian Aak 2014 – Week 11 (Mar 10-16)

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Main Headlines

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Updates – Susiya

But we may read any day that the demolitions have taken place and people thrown out of their homes

The Villages Group: Cooperation in Israel-Palestine

Dear Friends,

We would like to update you regarding several recent developments in the legal circumstances of Palestinian Susiya.

The current phase of threat on the existence of Palestinian Susiya started in February 2012 with a petition to the Supreme Court, submitted by the Jewish settlement of Susiya and the “Regavim” organization. In this petition the settlers asked the Supreme Court to order the Civil Administration of the Israeli army to demolish the dwellings of the Nawajeh clan in Palestinian Susiya, located close to the Susiya settlement, claiming that the Nawajeh people are “trespassers”.* About a year after the petition was submitted, Civil Administration officers arrived at the place and marked almost all the dwellings of the Nawajeh clan in Susiya as designated for demolition.** On the other hand, the people of Palestinian Susiya, assisted by “Rabbis for Human Rights” and other bodies accompanying them, submitted to the Civil Administration’s…

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A Republican World – The “States Have Rights But The Voters In The States Were Wrong’ Edition – ‘WATCH: GOP Demands Obama ‘Enforce The Law’ In Pro-Weed States, Passes Bill’

Two-faced, double tongued, neo-fascists!

The Last Of The Millenniums

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Republicans.

First they demand that States have rights.

Then when the voters in two States voted to approve pot sales, the House Republicans want to take away States Rights.

So it’s States Rights subject to approval by House Republicans.

And then there’s that pesky little thing called ‘Separation Of Power’ in the Constitution.

‘The Republican House just passed the “ENFORCE the Law Act” in an attempt to force President Obama to enforce federal laws, even where state laws directly contradict federal law’.

‘Representatives Trey Gowdy (R-SC), Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Jim Gerlach (R-PA) and Darrell Issa (R-CA) introduced the bill, which passed almost strictly on party lines. Now it’ll go to the Senate, where Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said it would be dead on arrival’.

‘Goodlatte submitted a report on the bill, which says that the purpose of the bill is “To prevent executive overreach and to ensure that the…

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Stories From The Republican Fringe – ‘Rafael Cruz blames California drought on UN Agenda 21, ‘Mother Earth worship’

As ding-a-ling as his son. 2+2≠18

The Last Of The Millenniums

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‘A little-known United Nations sustainable development plan is behind California’s worst drought in a century, according to conservative pastor Rafael Cruz’.

“There is more than one way to confiscate private property,” the father of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said last Saturday in Longview, Texas. “Have any of you heard of Agenda 21? Agenda 21 is all about confiscation of private property. It’s all about the worship of Mother Earth. You know, in California they are trying to tear down all the dams to let the rivers flow freely. They’ve created a drought in southern California to save a little fish, a little minnow.”

‘Agenda 21 is a non-binding action plan developed by the United Nations to promote “sustainable human settlement development.”
From : http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/13/rafael-cruz-blames-california-drought-on-un-agenda-21-mother-earth-worship/

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