Tim’s El Salvador Blog: El Mozote and Bill O’Reilly
El Mozote and Bill O’Reilly
Recent stories in The Nation and Huffington Post have criticized Fox News personality Bill O’Reilly, then a young TV reporter for CBS News, for his role when the US government and US mass media turned a blind eye to the 1981 massacre at El Mozote.
Wannabe Il Duce II – Italy anti-immigrant Northern League rallies against Renzi | Reuters
As well as immigrants and the EU, his attacks have also been directed against Italy’s business establishment, ranging from the head of Fiat Chrysler, Sergio Marchionne to employers lobby group Confindustria and business daily Il Sole 24 Ore.
“Italy isn’t Marchionne and it isn’t Renzi. Italy is millions of tradesmen and small businessmen,” he said.
via Italy anti-immigrant Northern League rallies against Renzi | Reuters.
Nearly Beaten in Sierra Leone, Ebola Makes a Comeback by Sea – NYTimes.com
Sick fishermen came ashore in early February to the packed wharf-side slums that surround the country’s fanciest hotels, which were filled with public health workers. Volunteers fanned out to contain the outbreak, but the virus jumped quarantine lines and cascaded into the countryside, bringing dozens of new infections and deaths.
“We worked so hard,” said Emmanuel Conteh, an Ebola response coordinator in a rural district. “It is a shame to all of us.”
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Public health experts preparing for an international conference on Ebola on Tuesday seem to have no doubt that the disease can be vanquished in the West African countries ravaged by it in the last year. But the steep downward trajectory of new cases late last year and into January did not lead to the end of the epidemic.
via Nearly Beaten in Sierra Leone, Ebola Makes a Comeback by Sea – NYTimes.com.
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Triggs was attacked for defending the powerless – and one day another PM will apologise for it | Richard Flanagan | Comment is free | The Guardian
The only accusation of Gillian Triggs with the ring of truth is that she has lost the confidence of the government – but then so too has Tony Abbott. Gillian Triggs’s real crime is that as human rights commissioner she spoke up for human rights with a government that has no respect for them.
Women’s bodies can’t perform magic. Someone please tell Republicans | Jessica Valenti | Comment is free | The Guardian
One congressman this week thought that if women swallow pills, they end up in their vagina. The GOP still knows nothing about female anatomy.
Two Languages Spoken Here #poetry #photography

I couldn’t ascertain the jumble
her lips moved rapidly
conveying a nervous nothing
hard and dark were the etchings
that scored her jeweled beauty
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his pockets were empty
evidenced by the ragged attire
but worse was what wasn’t in his mind
his hands filled with nothing
he clung to baggies to satisfy
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strange languages spoken at the ocean
when you aren’t looking and when you are
the conch shell strives to moan a warning
bearing witness to retreating tide
but it was silenced in a museum
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a dog wears an empty backpack
as he begins his predawn duty
he proudly returns with a filled sack
lacking his master’s understanding
how many children will get hooked today?
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I’ve never spoken the language
born in guilty bloodshot eyes
I see them as they dart about the shadows
the words are meaningless
promises seldom unbroken
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I chose to walk…
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Waiting for a friend
Still waiting after all these years
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