Category Archives: Viva!

Lonesome Traveler (J Haeske) posted a photo: Near Monument Valley, Utah

Lonesome Traveler (J Haeske) posted a photo:

Near Monument Valley, Utah

a curfew in the prison… a Palestinian story

It all happened in Ramallah. The man is definitely not Hamas or disguised in Hamas. He is a pure Fateh production. He is not going to a school that brainwashes his thoughts. He is not a child actually. He is not a teenager. He is not a desperate Palestinian with any job or salary. The security people are the only secured people when it comes to benefits and salaries.

Collective punishment?

Of course….

Putting a curfew on the prison and close it to those who were allowed visitations.

For a change…

The cynical situation is turning a dramatic. Traumatic turn against all those who have been orchestrating it … Israel and Palestinian leadership that has been benefiting from occupation …

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I was driving back from Ramallah thinking of how much of a big prison, our life is about. The scene of the wall, the wires, a wall in a wall in another wall. The soldiers and their barrier zones. The internal walls among people that grew higher than the cement built walls. A state of imprisonment. An n occupation so systematic in its approach that everything is eventually falling into the planned perspective.

A perspective that intends to get the people into a state of self-destruction.

By the time you reach the checkpoint, and the visibility of the wall and wires and barrier becomes more and more visible. The scene of people walking between caged pathways to another destination is nothing but a real living image of this reality. Our reality of living in a prison.

And then things erupted confusingly to all sides. I mean of course Palestinian authority…

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Yanis Varoufakis, Edmund Burke and Mario Draghi stroll into a bar

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing.” Edmund Burke’s brilliant line applies to today’s Europe perfectly.Here, on this site and across Europe, ‘something’ is brewing, ‘something’ is under construction…

Source: Yanis Varoufakis, Edmund Burke and Mario Draghi stroll into a bar

Economists to Cameron: refugee crisis response ‘morally unacceptable’

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In open letter to PM, more than 120 leading economists including former UN and World Bank officials say UK can do far more

More than 120 leading economists, among them former government, UN and World Bank officials, have lambasted the UK government’s response to the refugee crisis, calling it seriously inadequate, morally unacceptable and economically wrong.

In an open letter to David Cameron, the economists argue that as the world’s fifth-largest economy, the UK “can do far more” and are calling on the government to take a “fair and proportionate share of refugees, both those already within the EU and those still outside it”.

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