Category Archives: Viva!

Combat Photographer’s Last Photo a Resounding Media Failure – Reading The Pictures – “Fake news from greater need for profit than doing the job correctly!”

I would qualify these photos as war porn. I say that because too many publishers couldn’t bother with the larger context or even the basic facts when they had the news cycle to contend with and these macabre and sensational photos to display. Instead, these suddenly employable four-year-old photos and their hasty circulation serve as an indictment of spectacle — just like the news and the pictures of the near nuclear-scale “mother of all bombs” did a few weeks back — when the corrosive war in Afghanistan remains otherwise invisible.

Source: Combat Photographer’s Last Photo a Resounding Media Failure – Reading The Pictures

TV Titan Requires Its Stations to Air Segments That Roil Its Staff – The New York Times

During the election campaign last year, it sent out a package that suggested in part that voters should not support Hillary Clinton because the Democratic Party was historically pro-slavery. More recently, Sinclair asked stations to run a short segment in which Scott Livingston, the company’s vice president for news, accused the national news media of publishing “fake news stories.”

Dear immigrant and muslim mamas: your sacrifices & struggles don’t go unnoticed

My immigrant mama has been mistreated, harassed, and discriminated against so many times that she began to internalize it. She apologizes for her imperfect English. When in public, she speaks only when spoken to. She worries for herself and for her family and has nightmares about her deportation and our separation. Even when she doesn’t say it, I can tell she feels isolated and alone in this country. Loss has defined the last twenty years of her life. And before now, I have never once acknowledged her wounds or accepted the invitation to understand her pain. My Mamas Day card will be both an apology and a love letter for the strongest warrior I know.It’ll say: It’s harder than ever to be an immigrant mama. Eres mi heroe.

Source: Dear immigrant and muslim mamas: your sacrifices & struggles don’t go unnoticed

F.B.I. Director James Comey Is Fired by Trump – The New York Times

“While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau,” Mr. Trump said in a letter to Mr. Comey dated Tuesday.

Too weird and so Trump, #LoserTrump, #TraitorTrump

Video: Jimmy Kimmel ‘Apologizes’ For Saying Children In America Should Have Health Care: LAist – Not! grin

“Senator, since you mentioned this test, since I am Jimmy Kimmel, I would like to make a suggestion as what the Jimmy Kimmel Test should be,” he said. “The Jimmy Kimmel Test, I think, should be no family should be denied medical care, emergency or otherwise, because they can’t afford it. Can that be the Jimmy Kimmel Test, as simple as that?”As for how to pay for it: “Well, I can think of a way to pay for it: don’t give a huge tax cut to millionaires like me and instead leave it how it is.”

Source: Video: Jimmy Kimmel ‘Apologizes’ For Saying Children In America Should Have Health Care: LAist

Dozens of Palestinian cars defaced in J’lem ‘price tag’ attack | +972 Magazine

The attack took place between the Palestinian village of Shuafat and the Jewish neighborhood Ramat Shlomo in the northern part of the city. Some of the cars had their tires slashed, while others were spray-painted with graffiti reading “administrative price tag” or “Pikar the King” referencing Elkana Pikar, a settler who was recently served with a four-month administrative restraining order.Over a dozen restraining orders barring Israeli citizens from the West Bank have been issued in recent weeks.

Source: Dozens of Palestinian cars defaced in J’lem ‘price tag’ attack | +972 Magazine

24 Year Old Sara Sleiman Was Killed In Zahle By Kassem Al Masri, And Her Wish To Donate Her Organs To Save Others Will Be Fulfilled

A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares

Over the weekend, a tragedy took place in Zahle that took the life of 24 year old Sara Sleiman whose only fault, like many before her, was being at the wrong place at the wrong time in a country that allows pests and disgusting abominations like her killer prosper unchecked.

Outside the local pub “Blue Bar,” a car accident took place that prompted Kassem El Masri to deal with the situation the only way his primordial brain knew how: fire a few rounds from his gun, one of which hit Sara and took her life soon after.

This is Sara’s killer. He’s the kind of brainless Lebanese men whose entire existence can be summarized with how they can express their manliness better, which is why you see him pose with guns and bazookas, because he can.

Kassem El Masri is also known as Tah El Masri (in Arabic: طه المصري). He’s a known…

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Egyptian Aak 2017- Week 17 (April 24-30)

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Pope Francis with Al-Azhar Grand Imam – via BBC

Top Headlines

  • Pope Francis visits Egypt to promote “unity and fraternity”
  • Egypt’s Coptic pope signs agreement with Pope Francis on baptism recognition
  • A Swiss court ordered Egyptian naturalgas companies to pay Israel $2 billion in fines for breach of previous contract
  • IMF delegation to review Egypt’s austerity program
  • Province of Sinai claims responsibility for attack targeting Tarabin tribesmen
  • Cairo slams US senate hearing suggesting a ‘review’ of aid to Egypt

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