It is all very complicated in this 24/7 world and judging it by 8/5 standards just does not work anymore.
Dream a little dream with Junot Diaz
Wow!
British parents ask: “Why are so many middle-class children speaking in Jamaican patois?”
Legacy of Slavery Still Monumental
Children are being tortured in the UK. So why is no-one being prosecuted?
(not satire)
Around 20,000 children are estimated to be at serious risk of physical torture in the UK – some as young as 4 years old.
The kids are often held down by several adults and have bits of their tiny bodies cut off without any anaesthetic. Some of them will even die from the trauma.
Obviously this torture is illegal – however there has not been even one prosecution of the perpetrators in the UK. Not one.
How can that be?
The sad fact is that if I had included in the headline the letters FGM – Female Genital Mutilation – I suspect a lot of people reading this post now wouldn’t have bothered.
Why is this horrific crime so easy to ignore? Is it because the children in question are girls? Often from ethnic minorities? Or are some people worried about upsetting ‘cultural sensitivities’?
Well, this…
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Egyptian Aak. Week 41
Main headlines
Monday
- Triple attacks in Egypt following day of clashes
- Prosecutor general initiates investigation into violence of the last 2 days
- Egypt’s stocks climb to 8-Month high as investors ignore violence
- Canadians freed in Egypt still face travel ban travel ban
- Prosecutor general asks Interpol to arrest Brotherhood’s deputy guide Mahmoud Ezzat
- Egypt’s interim president visits Saudi Arabia to ‘thank’ the kingdom
Tuesday
- Egypt’s general Sisi leaves open possibility of running for president in interview with local newspaper
- Egypt to seize Muslim Brotherhood’s funds
- Egypt cuts IMF delegation in political protest
- Anti-army protests staged at Egyptian universities
- Canadian Ambassador meets Prosecutor to discuss Loubani, and Greyson case
- Unverified video shows masked men attacking Egypt’s satellite
- PM’s advisor says no deal with Brotherhood in sight
Wednesday
- U.S. plan to curb military aid to Egypt
- IMF ready to work with Egypt’s government: Lagarde
- Egypt’s satirist Bassem Youssef back after long…
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Orlando Cruz: ‘I’m gay, but I’m also a boxer. This is my time’
Apocalypse Emergency: Love’s Wake-Up Call. Book by Michael Adzema released. Order Information.
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Well, I “pulled the trigger” on the first one. 3 more books coming in short order.
This book can be ordered now and will be available, is available ….
CreateSpace eStore: Immediately
Amazon.com: 5-7 Business Days
Amazon Europe: 5-7 Business Days
Expanded Distribution channels: 6-8 Weeks
in Kindle it has been available already….
More information coming, as I have it.
Click below to order.
https://www.createspace.com/4455846?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026
Apocalypse Emergency—Love’s Wake-Up Call is about a frightening global predicament that everyone seems to be aware of but which few people are giving the attention and seriousness it deserves. Why people would do that and why the media would be inclined to shy away is understandable.
We simply have no way of comprehending the magnitude of what is happening—the end of life on Earth—nor how fast it is occurring—likely in our lifetime—since no living thing on this planet in its multibillion year history has had…
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This Website is Banned As Per The Lebanese Ministry of Telecommunications
A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares
Yesterday afternoon, Twitter user Raja Farah was busy researching late Lebanese politician Habib Pasha Saad when he stumbled on a page that wouldn’t open.
The notification as to why that particular website was unaccessible was a simple prompt: This website is banned as per the Lebanese ministry of Telecommunications. The above screenshot is what he got.
Using modern technology, which seems to have escaped our ministry of telecommunication, I managed to access the website in question. It turned out to be a directory of people: trying to build family trees, connect with relatives you may not know, etc. There was nothing more to it and definitely nothing less since it was pretty bland as it is. And yet, the website was banned. I tried to access it using a different ISP and the website would refuse to load even though my internet connection worked quite well.
The page Mr. Farah…
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The Embrace #haiku #photography

Embrassez moi
sous la pluie
ne jamais cesser
*
never stop
holding me with your heart
catch love’s tears
*
catch love’s tears
save them in a bottle
for a sunny day
The prompt for today’s Carpe Diem is “Embrace.” There are many forms of that gesture I was in a romantic mood so my haiku cascade starts with a French Kiss!!!
Photography: “Rainy Tears” © L. Moon 2013
The famous embrace ” Le_Baiser_de_lHotel_de_Ville” by celebrated French photographer Robert Dosineau


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