Category Archives: Viva!

Vladimir Putin ready to disclose President Trump talk transcript | Euronews – “Which means that the Russians recorded the conversation in the White House? ROTFLMAO”

Vladamir Putin has said he is willing to hand over a transcript of talks between Donald Trump and senior Russian officials.

Source: Vladimir Putin ready to disclose President Trump talk transcript | Euronews

المنطق الغائب واغلاق الشوارع

نادية حرحش

المنطق الغائب واغلاق الشوارع

في كل يوم امر به من الحاجز في الايام الاخيرة لا استطيع الا ان افكر بحثا عن منطق ما لما يحدث. كم تبدو العلاقة مع الاحتلال اقل تعقيدا عند محاولة فهم تصرفات المحتل الواقف امام الحواجز في محاولات قمعه التي يتلذذ بها الى درجة السادية في كل مرة. ولكن في كل مرة تستطيع ان تؤكد على مشاعرك نحوه. تمقته ، تكرهه ، تتمنى زواله. عندما يغلق الحاجز عنوة وتضطر للبحث في طرق التفافية لا يعلم بها الا الله ، تفكر بكم الكراهية والحقد والبغض نحوك من قبل هذه الالية التي تنتهج اذلالك. عندما يعطلك الجندي بتبجح وعندما ينتهك انسانيتك وعندما يقف امامك موجها بندقيته نحوك على بعد انفاس من الانتهاء على حياتك تتيقن ان الاحتلال بغيض وكريه ومقيت .

ولكن عندما تجد الشوارع فجأة تحترق بجوانبها باطر السيارات وفرشات النوم وحاويات النفايات والاخشاب على امتداد شارع يصل ما هو مقطع من مما تبقى من اوصال هذا…

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Inoreader – Tuesday Open Thread | Here’s what we do if GOP refuses to impeach Donald Trump for giving classified intel to the Russians

We take over every town hall that every Republican in Congress holds from here on out. When it comes to the cowards who refuse to hold town halls, we peacefully march on their offices in Washington DC. We occupy the National Mall out front of the Capitol, or wherever else we can get permits. We use every legal means possible to take over DC, to the point that nothing happens until these coward Republicans realize their careers are over in 2018 if they don’t do something about Trump now.

Source: Inoreader – Tuesday Open Thread | Here’s what we do if GOP refuses to impeach Donald Trump for giving classified intel to the Russians

Is There a Point in Trying to Engage in a Dialogue With Your Oppressor? | Dame Magazine

Despite the anger of the president, who threatened the students with expulsion from their own graduation ceremony, the students stood as a group and turned their back on DeVos, indicating that they were both unwilling to listen to her and they did not recognize her right to speak to them. The students were absolutely right to do this: What is the point of trying to engage in dialogue with people who will not even recognize your basic rights to exist?

Source: Is There a Point in Trying to Engage in a Dialogue With Your Oppressor? | Dame Magazine

Donald Trump Defends Sharing Information With Russia – The New York Times

Mr. Trump’s tweets on Tuesday morning appeared to undercut the carefully worded statements made by his advisers on Monday night that attempted to dispute the original story without taking issue with specific facts in it. Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson said in a statement that the president “did not discuss sources, methods or military operations” with the Russians. Mr. Trump’s national security adviser, H. R. McMaster, likewise told reporters that Mr. Trump had not disclosed intelligence methods or sources.

 

Meltdown coming soon!

Inoreader – Privilege or Right? A segregating question

Certainly, there are varying degrees of privilege but they all have one thing in common – privilege acts as a prejudicial filter to how a person perceives the world.

  • A person with privilege may not understand, or forgotten, what it’s like living paycheck to paycheck.
  • A person with privilege may not understand why the Civil Rights Act is still needed.
  • A person with privilege may not understand why, for some, Obamacare was a godsend.
  • A person with privilege may not understand why in some communities law enforcement is feared rather than seen as an agency of help.
  • A person with privilege may not understand why or how life is so bad somewhere that people are willing to risk their lives and personal safety to reach the US side of the border.
  • A person with privilege may not understand how some parents choose to pay rent over buying food for their children.
  • A person with privilege may not understand someone working 18-hour days, at two jobs, still doesn’t have healthcare but will have a smartphone.
  • A person with privilege may not understand why can’t everyone just get along.

Source: Inoreader – Privilege or Right? A segregating question

Egyptian Aak 2017- Week 19 ( May 8- 14)

Nervana

Top Headlines

  • IMF reaches staff level agreement for second loan installment to Egypt
  • Thomas Cook cancels hundreds of flights to Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt on Foreign Office guidance
  • Egypt’s Sisi receives an invite to upcoming Riyadah Trump summit
  • Egyptian armed forces foils attempt to smuggle arms through Libyan border
  • Egyptian Muslim Cleric who called Christians ‘unbelievers’ to face trial for contempt of religion
  • Egypt ‘uncovers 3700 year-old burial chamber of a Pharoah’s daughter
  • Mubarak-era interior minister Habib al-Adly escapes arrest  

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The dismal state of some of Egypt’s Islamic scholars | Nervana

In contrast, other Muslim scholars have moved away from such medieval nostalgia, and view Islam from a progressive stance that matches current realities. For example, Dr. Abdalla El Naggar, a member of the Islamic Research Centre, said that religion aims to unite people and it is not permissible for anyone to invalidate the faith of another because, in the end, God is the only Judge of all of us.The stark difference between Abdel Galil and Naggar defines the struggle for the soul of Islam in today’s challenging times. It is time for our scholars to abandon their obsession with blasphemy. Many challenges face Muslims today; the faith of others is not one of them. The era of medieval dominance of one faith over others has gone. We must not allow religion to be used as a time machine enacting harmful regressive ideas that can only ruin our current fragile societies.

Source: The dismal state of some of Egypt’s Islamic scholars | Nervana

Noga Erez: ‘I get told by people not to talk about what is happening in Israel’ | Music | The Guardian

If there’s any hope to be found, it could come from among Israel’s small but diverse underground music scene. In Tel Aviv, at venues such as the Block, Jewish and Arab audiences are said to dance together, united by electronic DJs. “It’s all about trying to form a new conversation and trying to be normal,” says Erez. “This is probably the only idea that I believe in now 100% – building communication through normalising the connection. If that’s something that we aim for, I think it could create some change.” Erez says that she hopes one day to collaborate with Palestinian artists but her ambitions are also that of any global pop artist: to break out of her local scene and make her songs “something that people can relate to from different parts of the world. As personal as the music is, it’s as universal as it can be.”

Source: Noga Erez: ‘I get told by people not to talk about what is happening in Israel’ | Music | The Guardian

Russian Oval Office Pix: Team Trump Done in by “Dual Hatter” – Reading The Pictures

Let’s not ascribe intent or malice in the place of deluded bumbling. As far as the White House thought, the meeting was supposed to be private, except that the Russians said they were bringing an official photographer so Trump team invited theirs. The fact that the Russian Foreign Ministry posts obsessively to a Flickr page, or Russia has been playing Trump all along, or there is no Russian division between media and state, or Russia would use the photos for something other than a thank you card seemed to escape the Trump communicators entirely. Given that cluelessness, you’ve got to love this administration quote (via WAPO): “We were not informed by the Russians that their official photographer was dual-hatted and would be releasing the photographs on the state news agency.”

Excuse me if the statement reminded me of the “Mad Hatted.” It’s the same ignorance that caused a political uproar after Trump’s meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister during the transition, given Ivanka Trump’s prominent presence. In that instance, Mr. Abe showed up with a photographer and a translator, and the photos were distributed the next day as official handouts of the Japanese Government Press Office.

Nothing like learning from your mistakes.

Source: Russian Oval Office Pix: Team Trump Done in by “Dual Hatter” – Reading The Pictures