Steffen Seibert, spokesman to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said on Monday that the Bundestag – Germany’s lower house of parliament – “had reached a sovereign decision.””That must be respected,” he added.The comments from Berlin on Monday came in light of Turkey’s reaction last week to Germany’s decision to pass a resolution which refers to the mass deaths of 1.5 million Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as “genocide.”As the successor state to the Ottoman Empire, Turkey officially denies that the events that started in 1915 amounted to genocide. Ankara’s official line is that ethnic Armenians represented a fifth column backed by Russia during World War I, and that the mass deportation and accompanying Armenian deaths were not premeditated or intentional – a key requirement in the legal definition of genocide.
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General elections in Spain: Unidos Podemos leaves Socialists behind, takes second place in polls | In English | EL PAÍS
Unidos Podemos is in a similar position. Despite public perceptions that Podemos has blocked efforts to form a government, supporters of the coalition led by Pablo Iglesias and Alberto Garzón have rallied (78% say they will repeat their vote on June 26), giving it a 25.6% share of the vote according to Sunday’s Metroscopia poll (5.4% ahead of the PSOE).
The ECB’s Illusory Independence – Project Syndicate op-ed — Yanis Varoufakis
ATHENS – A commitment to the independence of central banks is a vital part of the creed that “serious” policymakers are expected to uphold (privatization, labor-market “flexibility,” and so on). But what are central banks meant to be independent of? The answer seems obvious: governments. In this sense, the European Central Bank is the quintessentially independent […]
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monstruos marinos y mapas antiguos..
كل نكسة وفانوس الميدان يجمعنا
هناك سؤال ملح يضرب في رأسي . هل نحن في وضع انتفاضة / ميني انتفاضة/ هبة؟ يعني كل هذه المسميات التي انشغلنا في تسميتها قبل أشهر ليست ببعيدة.
قبل أيام كنت في غزة ، وأوقفني أحد الشباب في “خزاعة” . أراد أن يقول شيئا ما لم أعد أذكر، في ظل المآسي غير المنتهية هناك . لم يكن بإمكاني الا أن أرى ساقه المبتورة . سألته متى فقدها ،فقال :”انتفاضة القدس” . مع أن شكله لم يوح لي بأنه عاش الانتفاضة الثانية ، الا انني ظننت انني أخطأت في قراءة عمره . وبين حديث عابر عن الانتفاضات ، قال لي الشخص المصاحب له : ” هل تظني ان هناك افضل من الانتفاضة؟” كنت لوهلة قد نسيت اين انا ، في ظل كل تلك المشاعر المصاحبة للمآسي المختلفة . وكدت ابدأ نقاشا بيزنطيا عن جدوى الانتفاضات او عدم جدواها . ولا اذكر اللحظة تلك التي استوعبت فيها تماما ،بأن المقصود بانتفاضة القدس…
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Gaza Diaries
“This experience of the last five days was one of the richest in my life. I walked around the streets, markets, and neighborhoods and was hosted by people in their houses. I haven’t felt for an instant a moment of fear. I never felt the need to wear less of more clothes. I never felt the need to speak in quieter tone or I wasn’t for instant feeling the need of coping a conversation or a discussion in mode that needed to be secretive or reserved.
In our different encounters in the workshops, meetings, lunches and dinners. I was relaxingly expressing and hearing the opinion of the people around me on the situation. The convenience or non-convenience of the situation. The anger on the authority whether Hamas or Fateh. People are no longer afraid to say what they feel. I was even able to hold discussion on my liberal women idea of man and woman relations. My critical views on religion. My criticism on politics. I was most of the time not in consensus with the others, especially when it came to my views on religion. But I haven’t felt for a moment that I need to be more reserved in expressing my opinion.
I have seen Gazans just like normal people, with an extra load of misery. A life that the sea and its shore can be the breathing out space of seizure that is so visible no one can miss seeing. That willingness to live. To live well. To live in the best way they can seems never to seize to amaze me.”
Hang on to day five))

Day one
(stripped in emotions)
So many things are flashing in my mind to be written, and as usual I get distracted. I was excitingly telling my mother about my experience in Gaza, when ach time she stopped me saying: “ no body tried to shoot you? “ “ The Hamas didn’t harass you?” “You were able to walk in the streets on your own?” “They allowed you to walk without a hijab?”
Well… Gaza is definitely not Paris. Just to make it clear.
The amounts of miseries one can spot are indescribable. But the amount of life that is there is just, what life is.
I have spent five days, trying my best to see people. My first visit was more of limited to exposure. I was held with too many emotions, and worries, and stigma of phrases in my head like the ones…
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Lin-Manuel Miranda says Donald Trump is spreading ‘a virulent strain of a virus’ — Repeating Islands
The U.S. has always had a tradition of xenophobia, says Lin-Manuel Miranda, and our current moment is no exception, Jorge Ramos and Jorge Rivas report for Fusion. “What you’re seeing is a particular virulent strain of a virus that has always affected our American politics, and it’s one in which when times are difficult, politicians […]
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bee and lavender — Paul Militaru
In a French Open final that pitted one of the sport’s legends against one of its rising stars, Garbine Muguruza won the 2016 French Open over Serena Williams. The world No. 4 defeated Williams 7-5, 6-4 to capture her first Grand Slam title. She is the first Spanish woman to win a major title since […]
via Garbiñe Muguruza: I play for Venezuela in my heart — Repeating Islands
Hillary Clinton para Presidente | La Prensa San Diego
Hillary Clinton merece nuestro apoyo. Merece un triunfo en California y llevar esa sinergia a las elecciones generales. Debe contar con la mayor solidez posible para permitirle hacer frente a la campaña de odio, división y peligroso aislacionismo que está montando Trump. Ya estamos más allá de política partidista. Se trata de quienes queremos ser. Se trata de ser el tipo de país en el que queramos vivir y heredar a nuestros hijos. Se trata del mismísimo motivo por el cual nuestras familias decidieron originalmente venir a este país. Hillary Clinton para Presidente.
Source: Hillary Clinton para Presidente | La Prensa San Diego








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