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Mexican Drumpfster Fire spreads to New Hampshire
By ann summers Continuing to ad lib his way through the pre-Cleveland daze of Summer, tehDonald tries to do something to make up for his teleprompter droning and in New Hampshire thinking that there were no Latinos in the audience… … Continue reading
ON THIS DAY: July 1, 2016
July 1st is: Zip Code Day International Joke Day Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day National Holidays Bangladesh – Jumatul Bidah British Virgin Islands – Territory Day Burundi – Independence Day Botswana – Sir Seretse Khama Day Canada – Dominion Day … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Egypt, History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged George Sand, Ice Cream, Napoleon Bonaparte, Prince Charles, Qinghai-Tibet Railway, Zip Codes
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Word Cloud: REQUIEM
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD When you write 60 to 70 profiles of poets a year, you read a lot of poetry. Searching for poems that make you want to read more is both joy and drudgery. Joy when you find something … Continue reading
Posted in California, Immigration, Memorial, Mexico, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Chicano-Latino, Francisco X. Alarcón, Homosexuality, Requiem
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Dragonfly Dance
Matsuo Bashō (松尾 芭蕉, 1644 – 1694): Crimson pepper pod add two pairs of wings, and look darting dragonfly. Kobayashi Issa (小林 一茶?, 1763 – 1828) The dragonfly! Distant mountains reflected in his eyes. by unknown poets: Meeting in flight, how … Continue reading
Posted in Japan, Poetry, Short Video
Tagged Dragonflies, Dragonfly Dance, Haiku, Kobayashi Issa, Matsuo Bashō
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“It’s Not the End of the World at All”
“It’s not the end of the world at all,” he said. “It’s only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan’t be in it. I dare say it will get along all right … Continue reading
Life Out-of-Focus – the MYOPIA Boom
There’s an “epidemic” of MYOPIA — By 2050, it’s predicted that half the world’s population will be near-sighted. In China, up to 90% of its youth are already “short-sighted” to some degree. Having been extremely near-sighted all of my life, I … Continue reading
Posted in China, Eye Care
Tagged Eyestrain, Life-out-of-focus - The MYOPIA Boom, Myopia, Near-sightness, Sunlight
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Being on the right side of neoliberal Water
“Well, art is art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb … Continue reading
Posted in Countries, Economics, Energy Policy, environment, European Union, France, Government, Immigrants, Immigration, Media, Neoliberals, Political Science, Politics, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, United States
Tagged Brexit, commoditfication, commodities, commons, EU, European Union, Public Policy, Water
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EU Disintegration and BREXIT: sanctimony & pseudoscience
“The EU’s disintegration is now running at full speed.” By ann summers Like Wile E. Coyote going off the Dover Cliffs, anti-immigrant discourse fervor and the MOE made the destruction of the UK Tory party inevitable but can Labour and … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Austerity, Countries, Democracy, Economic Policy, Economics, England, European Union, Foreign Policy, History, Immigrants, Media, Neoliberals, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Racism, Scotland, Society, Stock Market, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, Brexit, Donald Trump, EU, European Union, Racism, Terrorism
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Food for More Than Thought
A simple idea to help fight a complex problem. Zara Nadeem and Zehra Hassan launched their “Food for Thought” campaign to reduce food waste in Karachi, Pakistan. The two friends distribute to-go packaging labeled “Food for Thought” to upscale restaurants … Continue reading
BREXIT: not that bad despite Trumpian resemblance
Brexit will take many years to complete and some legal experts are even suggesting that it cannot even be completed considering other matters like NATO. That it seems like a reaction against cheap labor migration amidst austerity makes it seem … Continue reading
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