Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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A Plea for Peace Journalism — Peace by Peaceful Means
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2018
TRANSCEND Media Service is having a fund drive to keep its valuable service tailored to those of us who want in-depth critical analyses not sensationalist corporate media reportage. I’d rather throw TRANSCEND a lifeline than watch BBC, for example, and pay the license fee. Who in their right mind would pay to be brainwashed by yet another military-industrial complex?
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A Day of Mother Earth: Living in Harmony with Nature
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
International Mother Earth Day on 22 April each year was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2009. Its aim is to promote living in harmony with Nature and to achieve a just balance among the economic, social and environmental needs of present and future generations.
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Israeli Army Kills Four More Nonviolent Gaza Protesters
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
21 Apr 2018 – For the fourth Friday in a row, the Israeli military responded to unarmed Palestinian demonstrators on Gaza’s eastern border with live ammunition, killing four and wounding hundreds. Among those killed Friday was a 15-year-old boy, Mohammad Ibrahim Ayyoub. The three others murdered by Israeli snipers were identified as Ahmed Rashad, 24, Ahmed Abu Aqil, 25, and Saad Abdul Majid Abdul-Aal Abu Taha, 29.
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In a Time of Endless Wars
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
I write for the men of a thousand years hence—
and the women—and their healthy children.
And…, if you are suffering, if night is day
and day is night,
I will drink the cup of despair with you,
for I have tasted of despair.
Independent Swiss Lab Says ‘BZ Toxin’ Used in Skripal Poisoning: US/UK-Produced, Not Russian
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
15 Apr 2018 – Somebody has some explaining to do… or did the Syrian airstrikes just ‘distract’ the citizenry from the reality surrounding the Skripal poisoning? The substance used on Sergei Skripal was never produced in Russia, but was in service in the US, UK, and other NATO states.
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As Israel Marks 70 Years, What Have Been the True Costs?
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
18 Apr 2018 – Independence Day celebrations tomorrow should be a moment for Israelis – and the many Jews who identify with Israel – to reflect on what kind of state it has become after seven decades. Israel is an ugly ethnic supremacist state that closes its doors to Jews who decry the oppression of the native Palestinian population.
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Attacking Syria
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
18 Apr 2018 – These strikes raise questions of international law, domestic constitutional authorization for international uses of force, strategic logic, and moral imperatives and rationalizations. Each of these issues is capable of multiple interpretations raising further concerns about the appropriate location of the authority to decide given the nature of world order in the 21stcentury.
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Out of 26 Major Editorials on Trump’s Syria Strikes, Zero Opposed
Adam Johnson | FAIR-Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
18 Apr 2018 – A survey by FAIR of the top 100 papers in the US by circulation found not a single editorial board opposed to Trump’s April 13 airstrikes on Syria. Twenty supported the strikes, while six were ambiguous as to whether or not the bombing was advisable. The remaining 74 issued no opinion about Trump’s latest escalation of the Syrian war.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
They are up against emirs and pashas not gladly ceding privileges to a carpet dotted with imams. IS–not ISIS, ISL, DAESH–the Islamic State, backing politically-militarily the Islamic Caliphate (IC), understands this, and relates directly to imams. The West got lost in the image of Syria as a Western colony, which it also was from 1916 (Sykes-Picot).
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In Love with Bicycles
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
23 Apr 2018 – In today’s fast moving world a bicycle may appear to be an anachronism. Speed is the buzz word so we have fast cars and SUVs that go up to 160 km/h on highways or German autobahns, where there is a limit on the minimum not on the maximum speed.
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Structural Analysis and Chemical Models
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
1974 – The goal of this very simple exploration has been not to lose contact with the socially relevant. One socially relevant factor is what might be called structural imagination, where a look at a textbook of organic chemistry and a textbook of, say, sociology, gives a clear indication of where this factor is more developed. Social scientists talk about human and social variety, the specialists in organic chemistry not only talk about it, but present it and produce it. In this there is much to learn, but there is also much to learn from the way chemistry has managed to integrate empirical and constructive approaches.
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(Italiano) (A) Piccoli passi verso la Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
22 Apr 2018 -La proposta contiene tre idee-azioni: “Il dovere di non collaborare”, la lettura COLLETTIVA dei Principi fondamentali, letture animAzioni e testimonianze d’archivio.
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UN Hails Release of More Than 200 Child Soldiers in South Sudan
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
Two hundred and seven child soldiers have been released by armed groups in South Sudan, part of a series of planned discharges that should see nearly 1,000 children return home over the coming months.
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On Longevity: A Digniview
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
LONGEVITY ? In a Book of LIFE more than a daily page
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Facebook, Myanmar Genocide and Its Dehumanizingly Sexualized Discourses
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
19 Apr 2018 – But whatever, whoever is shaping the public opinion in today’s Myanmar anyone monitoring genocidal discourses in the public domains in Burmese language cannot fail to notice the Nazi parallel: Myanmar public, in my assessment, is in the mental world of the Nazis. I don’t use this word lightly – and for the effect. The paradox of a genocidal system: the system creates the problem which it cannot itself resolve.
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The Real Target of the Alleged Chemical Attacks: Jeremy Corbyn
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
17 Apr 2018 – Very shortly thereafter, as if to make a bold connecting link between evil Russian and deadly chemicals, we have the story of Assad’s ‘regime’—it’s always a regime, isn’t it, instead of a government, and one never hears of Netanyahu’s ‘regime’ in Israel which has just killed unarmed stone-throwers, for which there is very clear-cut evidence.
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(Português) Qual é a nossa dieta natural?
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
20 abr 2018 – Em 2004, o proeminente biólogo Randall Collura, que tem doutorado em biologia molecular e biologia antropológica pela Universidade Harvard, publicou um ensaio intitulado “What is our natural diet and should we really care?” A obra integra o livro “Food for Thought: The Debate Over Eating Meat”, editado pelo conceituado filósofo moral Steve Sapontzis, especialista em direitos animais e ética ambiental com doutorado em filosofia pela Universidade Yale.
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The 1%’s Mind Games: Psychology Gone Bad
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
18 Apr 2018 – Multi-millionaires and billionaires comfortably ride the waves and add to their enormous wealth and power. The contrast is jarring to be sure, but it persists nonetheless because self-interested representatives of the 1% have become masters at using manipulative psychological appeals — I call them “mind games” — to defuse and misdirect our outrage.
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The Great Day
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
21 Apr 2018 – Two days ago, the State of Israel celebrated its 70th birthday. For days we heard about nothing else. Innumerable speeches full of platitudes. A huge festival of kitsch.
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Gaza Offers Us the Choice of Life
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
23 Apr 2018 – Will Gaza’s nonviolent struggle be a turning point? Israel has always cited the murderous struggle waged by the Palestinian terror organizations as justification for its policies, but now Gaza has chosen to explore the option of nonviolence.
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Reflections on the Cultural Construction of Reality: Assumptions, Issues, Directions
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
There is an inherent human impulse in the human brain and body to describe, understand, and predict the world through the processing and ordering of stimuli. Culture is a concept and construct. It is a word and terms. It joins thousands of other concepts among social, psychological, and behavioral disciplines, and is essential foundation for “culture” disciplines and professions.
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Striking Syria: The Real Reasons
Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
16 Apr 2018 – Is it because the so-called evidence was obtained from dubious sources — such as the terrorist group, Jaish al- Islam which was fighting the Assad government and in control of parts of Douma on the 7th of April? Were the White Helmets, a fake civil defence outfit established by British intelligence and funded by both Britain and the US yet another supplier of ‘evidence’? Or as it has happened on numerous occasions in the past, was the ‘evidence’ generated by Mossad, Israel’s intelligence network, in pursuit of its own nefarious agenda?
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What Is Bitcoin? Here’s What You Need to Know
Julian Goldie | King Passive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
Cryptocurrency has taken the world by storm…but just what is Bitcoin? In this guide, you’ll discover everything you need to know about it.
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Whatever…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
A father told his young son, “You have gotten a little sister.”
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As Lies on Syrian Gas Attack Unravel, US and UK Shift to Claims of Russian “Cyber War”
Will Morrow | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
On Monday [16 Apr], the US and British intelligence agencies released a joint report charging Moscow with unspecified “cyber warfare” against the West. The coordinated campaign comes amid the unraveling of the official pretext for Friday [13 Apr] night’s illegal US-British-French bombing of Russia’s ally Syria—the claim that the Assad government carried out a chemical weapons attack in eastern Ghouta on April 7.
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Unpersons
William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report #157 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
18 Apr 2018 – One reason it’s so easy to get an American administration, the mainstream media, and the American people to jump on an anti-Russian bandwagon is of course the legacy of the Soviet Union. To all the real crimes and shortcomings of that period the US regularly added many fictitious claims to agitate the American public against Moscow. That has not come to a halt.
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Johan Galtung Speaking at the World Tribunal on Iraq
Deep Dish TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
Istanbul, Turkey, June 2005
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Affair Skripal — Cui Bono? Hysteria before Multi-Polarity
Ivaylo Grouev – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
23 Apr 2018 – Rushing into the Parliament without presenting any evidence — Scotland Yard officially declared that it needs months to complete its investigation — UK Prime Minister Theresa May gave a twenty-four hour ultimatum to the Kremlin to admit its guilt. However, the hard question cui bono? [who benefits] from the Skripal case remains open.
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Let the People, Not the Politicians or Generals, Decide
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
The province of Schleswig had changed hands between Denmark and Prussia several times during the 19th century and was under German control before World War I.
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Scientists Accidentally Develop ‘Mutant’ Enzyme That Eats Plastic
Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
17 Apr 2018 – Researchers in the UK and the U.S. have inadvertently engineered an enzyme that eats up plastic. It is able to digest polyethylene terephthalate—the same material used in the ubiquitous plastic bottle that’s clogging up landfills, coastlines and oceans around the world.
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Hawaii’s Ho’oponopono for Earth Day – 22 April
Jacob Devaney | Uplift – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
The Power of Humility, Forgiveness, Gratitude and Love
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Wake Me Up – Official Video (Music Video of the Week)
DJ Avicii – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
23 Apr 2018 – Tim Bergling (8 Sep 1989 – 20 Apr 2018), better known by his stage name DJ Avicii was a Swedish musician, DJ, remixer and record producer. Knowledge about the circumstances of Avicii’s death and surrounding events may change rapidly as more facts come to light. “Wake Me Up”, 2013, topped most music markets in Europe and reached number four in the US.
1,511,112,649 YouTube views as of today. Avicii was 28 years old. R.I.P.
Why Not Emphasize Assad Had No MOTIVE to Use Gas! He Had Defeated the Terrorists Sent by USA
Jay Janson | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
Why Not Emphasize That Assad Had No MOTIVE to Use Gas When He Already Defeated the Terrorists Sent and Armed by USA and Saudi Arabia, while Assad’s Enemies Had a Reason to Stage a Gas Attack to Give USA a Pretext to Bomb yet Again?
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A Socialist Economy for the 21st Century
Richard Rosen | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
Richard A. Rosen explores the changes necessary for a modern definition of “socialism” and describes key concepts and issues that arise when aiming to restructure the American economy to include social and environmental sustainability in the Twenty-First Century.
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Nonviolence Charter: Progress Report 12 (April 2018)
Robert J. Burrowes, Anita McKone & Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
This is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ together with a sample of news about Charter signatories and organizations. Our collective effort to build a worldwide consensus against the use of violence in all contexts continues to make progress, even against rather overwhelming odds!
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CEO Pay, Bank Profits, Corporate Cash Set New Records
Barry Grey | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
No money for teacher pay or textbooks, but…
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Where on Earth is the Just Economy That Works for All, Including Afghan Children?
Dr Hakim Young | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
14 Apr 2018 – How can Afghan youngsters living in a war zone survive violence, an unjust economy, hunger and displacement? Who can help them?
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Space Mining Will Produce World’s First Trillionaire
RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
22 Apr 2018 – The world’s first trillionaire will make his/her fortune by mining in outer space, Goldman Sachs claims. Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says: “The first trillionaire there will ever be is the person who exploits the natural resources on asteroids.”
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Banking on a ‘Shithole’: US-Led Racial Capitalism in Haiti Began Long Before Trump
Peter James Hudson | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
18 Apr 2018 – Donald Trump’s recent description of Haiti, El Salvador, and Africa as “shithole countries [sic]” offered an ugly example of how US foreign policy is often shaped by the dictates of racial capitalism — by an economic system suffused with racial ideology and racist thinking. The comment recalls an earlier episode of racial capitalism in Haiti.
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Exhortation to We the Peoples from the Club of Rome
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
Review of “Come On: Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet” – Prepared on the occasion of the book launch during the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the Club of Rome (London, 26 April 2018)
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Tehran’s Syria-Lebanon Colonization Project Is Collapsing Iran’s Rial as Iranians Hoard Dollars
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
23 Apr 2018 – “Leave Syria, think about us!” and “No to Yemen! No to Lebanon and Hezbollah! Our lives for Iran!” are among graffiti sentiments scrawled across Tehran. The campaign is being led by students, unemployed workers, and other detractors of Iran’s Wali al Fique “Supreme Leader” rule and its much opposed foreign and monetary policies.
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Attack on Syria
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
WIN-WIN:
1) US/UK/France target unused fields and facilities with no damage for domestic propaganda purposes (to appear tough and satisfy the Israel/Zionist lobbies who have been pushing for war like they did in Iraq, Yemen, and Libya and now pushing for war on Iran).
2) Russia and Syria also get a propaganda “win” having shot most of the missiles using “old” Soviet era weapons and Syria gets to get more advanced weapons.
Major War Journalism Papers Urge Trump to Kill Syrians, Risk World War III
Gregory Shupak | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
12 Apr 2018 – Clamoring for Catastrophe: President Donald Trump is threatening to escalate the Syrian war, as are France and the United Kingdom, while Israel bombed Syria three days ago. In this context, major “liberal” media outlets are writing that Trump should attack Syria further.
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Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
14 Apr 2018 – Write down: I, Uri Avnery, soldier number 44410 of the Israel army, hereby dissociate myself from the army sharpshooters who murder unarmed demonstrators along the Gaza Strip, and from their commanders, who give them the orders, up to the commander in chief. We don’t belong to the same army, or to the same state. We hardly belong to the same human race.
→ read full articleSnipers Shooting Unarmed People at 100 Meters Isn’t a ‘Clash’ as War Journalists Make Believe
Adam Johnson | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
9 Apr 2018 – “Clash” is a reporter’s best friend when they want to describe violence without offending anyone in power—in the words of George Orwell, “to name things without calling up mental pictures of them.” It’s predictable, then, that in coverage of Israel’s recent mass shootings in Gaza—which have killed over 30 Palestinians and injured more than 1,100—the word “clashes” is used to euphemize snipers in fortified positions firing on unarmed protesters 100 meters away.
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Pentagon Does Not Have Evidence of Chlorine, Sarin Use in Syria’s Douma–US Defense Secretary Mattis
Sputnik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
12 Apr 2018 – “There have been a number of these attacks. In many cases, you know we don’t have troops, we’re not engaged on the ground there, so I cannot tell you that we had evidence, even though we had a lot of media and social media indicators that either chlorine or sarin were used,” Mattis said, speaking to members of the House Armed Services Committee today.
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Motionless Palestinian Shot by Israeli Sniper to Sound of Soldiers’ Cheers
Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
9 Apr 2018 – The Israel Defense Forces sniper who shot a Palestinian while fellow soldiers cheered was using the victim as “target practice,” Kamel Hawwash of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign said. He went on to describe the disproportionate amount of power on the two sides of the border.
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Ending the Agony: Access to Morphine as Ethical & Human Rights Imperative
UN Human Rights Council | Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
The Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering is a Swiss think-and-do tank putting compassion at the heart of the society of the future. OPIS promotes the ethical principle that nothing matters more than preventing or relieving the physical or emotional suffering of sentient beings, both humans and non-humans, with highest priority given to those suffering most intensely.
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Poison Gas: Weapon of Choice for “False News”
Peter Koenig | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
12 Apr 2018 – When such poison gas attacks are mere false flags, or by the new term, “false news”, and are used to provoke war, perhaps an all annihilating war, then humanity has turned to what it never should have become–a lowly-lowly herd of brainless zombies. Is that what we have become, brainless, greedy, selfish beings, no sense of solidarity, no respect for other beings–any living being?
→ read full articleSpace Alien Reveals Trump Romp!
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
12 Apr 2018 – I know it sounds incredible, but this is how it happened…. I was flipping channels on my Fake News cable box, hunting/searching for a morsel of something tasty, digestible and real, when suddenly there was a strange buzzing in my ears, I felt a bit dizzy, I lay down on my sofa, and I heard a high-pitched, electronic-like voice—some static, I mean—messaging.
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A Grassroots Initiative to Adopt 25 Aug as Rohingya Remembrance Day
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
Sharing a Few Updates: 12 Apr 2018 – I was in Ireland. The Irish supporters of Rohingya’s needs for protected homeland in collaboration with Irish Rohingya community had packed meetings with educators, religious leaders, activists, parliamentarians, media interviews, and two public talks.
→ read full article(Italiano) Lettura dei principi fondamentali della Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana in Collettivamente memoria 2018. Gavardo 19 e 23 aprile 2018
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
NO alla guerra. Per principio. Per l’articolo 11 della Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana: “L’Italia ripudia la guerra come strumento di offesa alla libertà degli altri popoli e come mezzo di risoluzione delle controversie internazionali.”
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Poisoned Dialogue: Skripal Case Descends into a Propaganda War
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
In its rush to assign guilt to Moscow for the nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter, the British government now finds itself on the defensive. Some German politicians have their doubts.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
16 Apr 2018 – Gaps in the testimony of Mark Zuckerberg at a US Senate hearing? The questions are each introduced as shown below, but are presented separately in much expanded form in the [Go to Original] complete document. This also includes animated mappings of the set of questions as a means of evoking more integrative perspective on the set of questions as a whole.
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Condemning the US-Led Aggression on Syria: In Support of the Syrian People, International Law and True Peacemaking
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
14 Apr 2018 – We do not know who exactly did what in Douma at this point. Only the perpetrators themselves do. Irresponsibly and non-rationally, this US-British-French attack increases markedly the risk of major war that is not based on any legality – not to mention legitimacy and moral considerations. TFF strongly condemns any military action and the rush to war before any independent investigation has been carried out.
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U.S. Attack on Syria Could Lead to Nuclear War – Call for Veterans and GI’s to Resist Illegal Orders
Veterans For Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
11 Apr 2018 – “Why the rush to war?” asked Gerry Condon, president of Veterans For Peace. “Why is the mass media cheerleading for war instead of asking hard questions? Why are Democratic and Republican politicians trying to out-do one another with calls for ever more massive attacks on Syria? There is no proof yet of a Syrian government gas attack, only a video made by a fundamentalist rebel group that wants more U.S. intervention.”
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Here’s Why Chemical Attack in Syria’s Douma Is Just another FAKE of White Helmets
Inside Syria Media Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
14 Apr 2018 – Two medics from the hospital of Douma told the truth about the staged video, widely spread by the discredited White Helmets. A group of unknown people broke into the hospital, started screaming about the chemical attack, panicked, and then sprayed people with a fire hose. At the same time, eyewitnesses confirmed that the “victims” on the videos had no signs of chemical poisoning.
→ read full articleThe Hidden War in the Negev
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
The Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz has reported that 2,220 Bedouin homes were demolished in 2017! This means that, in the Negev, the government of Israel is waging a unilateral war against its Bedouin citizens. It euphemistically calls the war “law enforcement.”
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Learn to Be Soft and You Will Be Strong
Joshua Kauffman | Tiny Buddha – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
Language is a powerful thing. Though often dismissed as ‘semantics,’ the imagery our words and terminology impart often adds unintended or even misguided connotations to what we intend to say. This is why it is so difficult to speak about spirituality. When we say ‘God’ or ‘salvation’ or even ‘peace,’ those words can bear an unintended doctrinal, political, or social stamp on them that means something very different to the listener than it does to the speaker.
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Charles Maurras (20 Apr 1868 – 16 Nov 1952): The Long Road from Cultural Regionalist to Narrow Nationalist
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
At a time when there is a growth in many parts of Europe of a narrow nationalism often linked to xenophobia and violence, it is useful to look at the life of Charles Maurrras and what he called “integral nationalism”. Maurras is in many ways the intellectual “godfather” of these narrow nationalist movements.
→ read full articleAt Security Council, UN Chief Pushes for Creation of Body to Determine Perpetrators of Chemical Attacks in Syria
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
13 April 2018 – António Guterres today again called for the creation of an independent panel that could determine who used chemical weapons in Syria, as the absence of such a body increases the risks of a military escalation in a country already riven by “confrontations and proxy wars.”
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The Tragic Farce in Myanmar
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
Belfast, 12 Apr 2018 – Last night, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire’s Peace People hosted a Burma talk. I spoke on the urgent need to inform and mobilize grassroots communities about Myanmar genocide in order to build pressure on respective EU governments, as well as others to help end the genocide and support the Rohingyas’ NEED–not simply RIGHT–to a protected homeland. Plus: Saudi Gazette Editorial
→ read full articleSyria: Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
13 Apr 2018 – There is the story of a man who lived in an apartment house with very thin floors and walls. He hears the man above him going to bed and dropping one shoe on the floor. Now he cannot sleep as he is waiting for the other shoe to drop. We are somewhat in the same position waiting for a US military response to the charges that chemical weapons were used in Syria.
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‘Moonlight’ Sonata (Music Video of the Week)
HJ Lim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
”This exceptionally gifted artist ignited an incomparably fiery pianistic space…with super-virtuoso sound images, an incredible enchantment of possibilities of pianistic expressions, subtle and grandiose, magically performed by the phenomenal virtuoso.”
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Toward the Creation of a World Parliament: Strongly Recommended Reading
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
13 Apr 2018 – This is a brief promotional comment to call attention to the publication of a truly outstanding contribution to creative and restorative world order thinking. The book is entitled A World Parliament: Governance and Democracy in the 21stCentury by Jo Leinen and Andreas Bummel.
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Johan Galtung—TRANSCEND: Methods and Solutions
AlternateFocus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
Galtung’s approach to mediation offers concrete proposals to give all sides the sense that they are winners. In this interview he describes his methodology and offers solutions for peace in the Middle East and other areas of conflict (not to confuse with violence).
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Is Trump Employing R2P to Save the Remaining Syrian People? Or…?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
12 Apr 2018 – The word in parts of Beirut this morning is that Trump’s bluster about bombing Syria in the next few days is, are like many of his emotional threats during his three months in office, to be taken with a shovel of salt. We will likely know more soon. But when, where, why, how or whatever, as we have come to wonder, is anyone’s guess.
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Taking the World to the Brink
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
10 Apr 2018 – Western neoconservatives and hawks are driving the international situation to increasing tension and danger. Not content with the destruction of Iraq and Libya based on false claims, they are now pressing for a direct US attack on Syria.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
A mental patient believed he was a mouse.
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Deconstructing Power (Part 2)
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
16 Apr 2018 – We have noted in Part 1 that the psychology of violence is also the psychology of power. Therefore we may benefit hugely from analyzing the psychology of power; that may in turn help in preventing a breakout of violence or war.
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Red Crescent Says No Evidence of Chemical Attack in Syria’s Douma
Jason Ditz | AntiWar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
9 Apr 2018 – The Syrian Red Crescent issued a statement today dismissing the allegations of a weekend chemical weapon attack in the city of Douma. The statement insisted their medical personnel in the city had found no evidence any such attack took place.
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War Crimes Prosecutor Seeks Jurisdiction over Rohingya Deportations
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
9 Apr 2018 – The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has asked it to rule on whether it has jurisdiction over the deportations of Rohingya people from Myanmar to Bangladesh, a possible crime against humanity, according to a filing published today.
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Milk and Honey, by Rupi Kaur
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
Milk and Honey, by the Indian-Canadian poet Rupi Kaur, is about love and loss; and it is also about the very uncomfortable subject of abuse.
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(Português) Tom Regan x Peter Singer: abolicionismo e utilitarismo, uma discussão sobre os direitos animais
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
5 abril 2018 – A rivalidade de Tom Regan e Peter Singer no campo da filosofia moral dos direitos animais surgiu nos anos 80. De um lado, Regan, autor de obras como “The Case for Animal Rights” e “Empty Cages”, com uma perspectiva mais próxima de abolicionismo animal, e “Peter Singer”, autor do clássico “Animal Liberation”, com um posicionamento utilitarista e pragmático que permite concessões no uso de animais em casos específicos.
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Enlightenment and Social Hope
Stefan Schindler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
During America’s wars on Puerto Rico and the Philippines, Mark Twain declared: “America’s flag should be a skull-and-crossbones.” And when Mahatma Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilization, he replied: “I think it would be a good idea.”
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Syrian Army Captures British Militants in Eastern Ghouta – Reports
Sputnik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
12 Apr 2018 – According to a report by Al-Mayadeen news channel cited by Fars News, a number of British troops have been captured during the Syrian Arab Army’s operations in Eastern Ghouta. They are believed to be a part of international military forces deployed in the region to launch a ground assault in Damascus in cooperation with the US.
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John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
Several alarming recent events ought to awaken citizens of Europe and the United States to the fact that their insane governments have driven the world to the brink of an all-destroying thermonuclear war.
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Addressing the Systemic Challenge at the Heart of Escalating Inequality and Environmental Destruction
Ted Howard | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
2 Apr 2018 – To cite just two figures: in the United States, just 400 people own as much wealth as the bottom 204 million people.1 Globally, just 8 billionaires own as much wealth as 50% of the entire population of our planet.2 And this negative trend – representing a medieval concentration of wealth and power that is deeply problematic for democratic culture – is escalating.
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Faust Walks Out on Easter Morning
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
“All things transient are but a parable.”
— Goethe, Faust
Forest Rights Act and Environmental Issues in India
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
16 Apr 2018 – The Indian Forest Act was established by the British government in 1927 according to which all the forests and the forest lands became a property of the British government and the customary rights of the tribal populations and other peoples were suspended. The purpose of the Act was not to protect forests but to convert them into the property of the Colonial British government.
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Open Letter to Prime Minister Theresa May from Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
12 Apr 2018 – We have in our generation seen the madness of military action upon Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Sudan, Chechnya – the list is endless. Are we now to add Syria to yet another bombed out country? Millions dead, millions displaced, little children left without parents and living in poverty? Surely we can all do better than this? Appeal to P.M. May and U.K. Government to choose Peace and not war against Syria.
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(Français) Gleisi Hoffmann : “Lula est le plus grand leader politique de notre histoire”
Le Journal de Notre Amérique – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
“L’emprisonnement du président serait une injustice (…) Nous considérerons cet emprisonnement comme un acte politique”.
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Israelis Gather by Gaza Border to Watch and Cheer as Military Uses Live Fire against Palestinians
Daily Sabah (Istanbul) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
7 Apr 2018 – A disturbing image of young Israelis sitting by the Gaza border, cheering and watching as bombs fall on Palestinians just a few miles away has evoked widespread condemnation as it circulated on social media. The scene is unfortunately not unfamiliar.
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Welcome to the Land of King!
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
A Memorial Commentary on the April 4, 2018 Anniversary of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination – Ladies and Gentlemen, I write to you today from Atlanta, Georgia, USA, birthplace and national shrine of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968), clergyman, civil rights leader, social activist, Nobel Prize Laureate, and martyr to the cause of justice.
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Boycott, Divest and Sanction Israel
Askiah Adam | International Movement for a JUST World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
5 Apr 2018 – Palestine, that enclave of humanity occupied, brutalised and without any form of military defence against aggressors is conveniently perceived as a threat by the Jewish state, Israel, the undeclared, sole nuclear power in West Asia and North Africa. This occupying power is a usurper legitimised by Britain and unconditionally supported and armed by the USA.
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Trump’s Syria “Withdrawal” Was Textbook US Deception
Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
8 Apr 2018 – The US media is now priming the global public for US intervention in Syria following alleged “chemical attacks” carried out in the remaining pocket of US-backed militants in Douma, just northeast of Damascus.
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(Ialiano) Striscia di Gaza: La nuova strategia dei palestinesi
Catherine Cornet, | Internazionale – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
5 aprile 2018 – Erano mesi che la società palestinese preparava “la grande Marcia del ritorno”, una manifestazione pacifica rivolta all’opinione pubblica mondiale per riportare l’attenzione sulla causa palestinese. Per l’occasione i palestinesi volevano mostrarsi uniti e pacifici. Il massacro del 30 marzo invece ha fatto vedere in diretta l’uccisione di 17 giovani disarmati e il ferimento di 1.400 persone da parte dei cecchini israeliani.
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(Français) Comment faire des reportages à Gaza
Vijay Prashad | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
Si vous êtes un journaliste occidental et que vous devez faire un reportage à Gaza, la meilleure chose à faire est de traiter les Palestiniens comme une menace. Leurs corps sont des armes, leur existence est dangereuse. Si un Palestinien est tué par un soldat israélien, le terme le plus approprié pour qualifier cela est “affrontement”. Normalement, des affrontements se produisent lorsque deux forces armées entrent en confrontation.
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Middle East Turmoil: Israeli Massacre, Palestinian Grievances
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
The Middle East Is Heating Up–Again – A Postscript on the Land Day Massacre (‘Great March of Return’)
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Israel: Gaza Killings Unlawful, Calculated
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
3 Apr 2018 – Senior Israeli officials who unlawfully called for use of live ammunition against Palestinian demonstrations who posed no imminent threat to life bear responsibility for the killings of 14 demonstrators in Gaza and the injuring of hundreds on March 30, 2018, Human Rights Watch said today.
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An Open Letter to Burmese Buddhists Concerning the Rohingya
Buddhists for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
2 Apr 2018 – Letter with 72 cosigners “of Burmese Buddhist Upbringing” Denouncing Persecution of Rohingya and All Ethnic Minorities – “Ultranationalist monks routinely harass interfaith activists and journalists, and rally against the Rohingya and other Burmese Muslims in the country. We have struggled to reconcile these events as adults, when as children we were taught to pay respects to monks at Buddhist monasteries.”
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New Lows Reached with Drug Ads
Martha Rosenberg | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
26 Mar 2018 – .” Creon, AbbVie’s drug to treat the hitherto unknown disease of EPI is priced at over $500 a prescription. Selling obscure diseases to sell obscenely priced drugs is unethical for two reasons. It doesn’t just raise everyone’s health care costs and raise their taxes through government programs. It makes a mockery of the entire health care system by aggressively seeking people who are not sick to “treat” while ignoring millions who really are sick but for whom there is no profit in treating.
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The Isolation of Julian Assange Is the Silencing of Us All
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
1 Apr 2018 – In this letter, twenty-eight writers, journalists, film-makers, artists, academics, former intelligence officers and democrats call on the government of Ecuador to allow Julian Assange his right of freedom of speech. If it was ever clear that the case of Julian Assange was never just a legal case, but a struggle for the protection of basic human rights, it is now.
→ read full articleWill ‘Democracy’ Survive? How? Whether? Hard Questions in Dark Times
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
7 Apr 2018 – Global democracy has become, is becoming, a matter of ultimate concern. Issues raised concern transparency, accountability, participation, and responsiveness of global policy processes, and of course, how the global is to be linked with the regional and national so as to pursue the goal of global humane governance: equitable, stable, sustainable, peaceful, compassionate, and above all, mindfulness.
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The Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
4 Apr 2018 – Bayer and Monsanto have a long history of collusion to poison the ecosystem for profit. The Trump administration should veto their merger not just to protect competitors but to ensure human and planetary survival.
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Moral Education for Structural Change
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
The experience of the education for social responsibility program at the University of Concepción suggests the viability of large-scale moral education programmes, aimed at forming a functional, realistic, and solidary ethical conscience. Three educational principles supported by scientific findings are proposed to guide moral education: understanding, participation, and empathy. Taking as an example the ‘structural trap’ by which the good intention of complying with social human rights, such as health, ends up discouraging economic investment…
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Parkinson’s Disease: Causes, Symptoms & Treatments
Rebecca Evans | Geriatric Nursing – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
World Parkinson’s Day for public awareness is on Wed, 11 Apr 2018–on the birthday of James Parkinson, who first mentioned the illness in 1817. Infographic and full article.
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Peace Journalism in Lebanon
Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
Inaugural Conference, Association of Media Educators of Lebanon, Lebanese American University, Beirut 7-11 Dec 2017 — Lebanon is a country in acute need of Peace Journalism. In a general sense, there is a hunger among both journalists and their readers and audiences for ways to engage with social and political issues in the public sphere that do not exacerbate the tensions inherent in a diverse society, still coming to terms with the legacy of a vicious civil war.
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(Français) La cage vitrée
Regard Animal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
Le fait d’acheter des poissons provenant d’une animalerie n’est pas une activité ou un hobby banal et contribue à faire fructifier une industrie génératrice de souffrance et de dommages environnementaux. Au niveau de l’individu, il est important de rappeler que le poisson, bien que n’attirant généralement que peu la compassion chez la plupart des gens, est un être animal sentient, social et intelligent qui a le désir et l’intérêt à vivre dans son milieu naturel plutôt qu’en captivité.
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Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
While the number of billionaires is increasing, the number of impoverished people without adequate nutrition, education and health care is showing no signs of decline in India and neighbouring countries. These poor people look at the photos or hoardings with awe and wonder why the Gods are so kind to them whereas they cannot even feed their families adequately.
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