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“I’m different than other people. I’m never sad. I make my…

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“I’m different than other people. I’m never sad. I make my life happy through discipline. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, and I eat lots of fiber. Every day I take a walk in the park to think about my balance. I’ve been a chef, a fashion designer, a painter, and now I’m learning martial arts. I do Tai Chi in the park every morning. It helps give me energy for my painting. I have already learned forty-two moves. I’m ahead of everyone. I’m almost eighty years old, but all the women in my group think I’m in my fifties.”

From Paris to Jerusalem; Terror is not disguised with religions ..it’s governments using religion

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It coincided that I was in France on the eve of the attacks in Paris. A state of chaos erupted. Everyone stood frozen infront of the TV. A strange feeling of numbness occurred inside me. I couldn’t grasp my emotions. But one thing definitely popped in my head at the instant; “ the world is becoming palestine”. The whole situation seemed fogyish. For an instant I felt: “ is this a karma?” but as everyone started defending islam or accusing it as the responsible brain of the attacks, the clarity of the situation became obvious to my mind. Definitely not to the whole world.

Answering all those questions on Islam. Is it a religion that promotes violence? Is it Muslims that are violent or terrorists? The answer is a straight yes. But don’t Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism produce violent people and terrorists as well? The answer is also a straight yes…

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“I’ve been in America since January. But it won’t feel like…

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“I’ve been in America since January. But it won’t feel like home until I can get my mom here. For me, home is my mom. It was just the two of us in Panama. We did everything together. The day that I left was a terrible day. We slept together in the same bed that night. We cried in the house, cried in the car, and cried at the airport. I stood at the entrance of airport security for an hour, because we kept waving at each other through the window. My goal is to bring her here. I found a job on the Monster website. I knock on doors for Verizon. I’m supposed to knock on 120 doors a day. It has really been helping me with my English. If I make five sales in a week, I will have my own team. Then if my team does well, then I can be a manager with my own office. If I have my own office, then maybe I can bring my mom to America.”

RIP to Cynthia Robinson of Sly & the Family Stone | 3CHICSPOLITICO

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RIP and get up and dance to the music!

Cynthia Robinson stood out in a band in which every member stood out. She was a funky high priestess wielding a trumpet like a thaumaturgic ramsinga. And she wore a crown, a black afro, that was epic in its sculpted glory. Her presence was majestic. She was one of the first black women trumpet players in a rock band and set the tone for others to follow. But beyond the music, Robinson was commanding figure, not content to stay in the shadows. She was the one that implored us to “get up and dance to the music” and showed us how it was done. Robinson died of cancer this past Monday.

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Israeli government to open a diplomatic office in IRENA, Abu Dhabi

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Yesterday early morning, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz released in first hand that the Israeli government will open its first diplomatic mission in the United Arab Emirates capital, Abu Dhabi.

However, the diplomatic mission will be accredited to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), after years of discussions, not as a “normal style” Embassy.

It is the first official Israeli presence in Abu Dhabi, even though the two countries have no diplomatic relations.

Emmanuel Nahshon, a spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry, denied that the mission meant that Israeli government and the UAE had now established diplomatic relations, as stated by Al Jaazera.

He stressed that the Israeli diplomatic representative will be accredited to IRENA only, not the UAE’s foreign ministry.

“We only have an accredited diplomat to represent Israel at IRENA, which is an international organisation that happened to be based in Abu Dhabi,” adding that, “the representative will be a resident diplomat in Abu Dhabi with IRENA only”.

According to Haaretz, “a senior official in Jerusalem reported that diplomat Rami Hatan has been appointed to head the Israeli legation, and will depart for Abu Dhabi in the near future.”

In a statement quoted by the UAE’s official news agency WAM, Maryam al-Falasi, the director of communications at the ministry, said that “any agreement between IRENA and Israel does not represent any change in the position of the UAE or its relations with Israel”.

“In January 2010, Uzi Landau, Israel’s minister for infrastructure, participated in an IRENA conference in Abu Dhabi, marking the first time an Israeli cabinet minister had visited the UAE.

One month later, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a leading Hamas militant, was assassinated in Dubai. News of the incident reverberated around the globe. Dubai police investigators accused the Israel’s Mossad espionage agency of the assassination, and even published photographs of members of the hit team.

The affair led to enormous tension between the UAE and Israel, even at a time when there were no diplomatic relations between them”, as state by Haaretz.

Across the Arab world, Israel only maintains embassies in Egypt and Jordan. Israeli passport holders are barred from entering the UAE. The UAE, along with other Arab countries, does not have diplomatic ties with Israel and remains opposed to its occupation of Palestine.