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simplyrav: A Kurdish baby in a giant watermelon, this picture...

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:54:12 -0400

A Kurdish baby in a giant watermelon, this picture was taken in Amed (Diyarbekir) North Kurdistan

North Kurdistan is known for its famous delicious watermelons.

alchemicalascension: If your bananas aren’t spotted then they...

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:52:57 -0400

alchemicalascension:

If your bananas aren’t spotted then they aren’t ripe! Make sure to wait until they have litto spots on them to eat them. If they are yellow the starches have yet to turn to sugars which causes gas & if it causes gas that means your body is having trouble digesting it. So if you want the full flavor & full benefits of a nana just wait till they get their spots! Often grocery stores will sell ripe bananas for a discounted price which means you can totally make a meal out of them! #rawfood #rawvegan #standfullyraw #breakfast

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israelfacts: A Health Ministry inspector poured bleach over...

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:07:12 -0400

israelfacts:

A Health Ministry inspector poured bleach over pots full of food in a Sudanese restaurant in Tel Aviv Sunday night.

The inspector, from the ministry’s district office for Tel Aviv, was participating in a raid by police and municipal inspectors on illegal businesses owned by African migrants. Altogether, the raid shut down 10 businesses in the city’s Neveh Sha’anan neighborhood, confiscating their equipment and welding the doors shut. The equipment was then loaded onto vans by other African migrants who had been hired as contract workers.

Many diners saw the inspector pouring bleach on the food, and one, asylum-seeker Aladin Abaker from Sudan’s Darfur region, posted photos of the incident on his Facebook page. He also described his feelings of humiliation.

“Everyone − except the destroyers − was in tears from the humiliation,” he wrote. “The waitress told us, ‘I’ve seen very harsh things in my life, like torture in Sinai, but this humiliated me more than what happened to me in Sinai.”

Abaker accused the inspector of “insensitivity to people and their culture, which sees food as a sacred thing that must be respected,” and said the raid was aimed at “embittering our lives so we’ll return to Africa ‘voluntarily.’”

Altogether, he said, more than 200 kilograms of meat, chicken and fish and over 500 prepared meals were destroyed.

The inspectors said they didn’t know where the meat came from and therefore feared for the diners’ health, Abaker wrote. “We told them: But this is the only place we’ve eaten all our meals for four years now, and none of us ever had stomach problems. Even whites eat here.”

The Health Ministry responded that inspectors had discovered “deplorable sanitary conditions, food stored under unsuitable conditions and temperatures, and food from unknown sources. In order to preserve the public’s health and that of the diners themselves, it was decided to destroy the food immediately. As part of the process of destroying the food, chemicals suitable to this purpose are used. It should be noted that this was a routine process of food destruction that is no different from other destructions of food/meat.”

Tel Aviv’s deputy city manager, Ruby Zelof, said the raids were carried out “to eradicate the undesirable phenomenon of businesses operating illegally, with sanitation and safety problems and illegal connections to electricity and water, and sales of alcoholic beverages without permits.”

Haaretz | Photo credit: Aladin Abaker

Israel is deporting Africans and also planning to put tens of thousands into detention camps.

Knesset Member Miri Regev — a member of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud Party — called the refugees “a cancer in our body” and Danny Danon — also a Likud Knesset Member — wrote on his Facebook page referring to the Africans as “infiltrators”. Interior Minister Eli Yishai said the African asylum seekers threaten “the Zionist dream,” adding, “Jobs will root them here.”

See also:

Why is the birth rate in Israel’s Ethiopian community declining? Ethiopian women who immigrated to Israel were coaxed into agreeing to injections of long-acting birth control drugs, or told they would not be allowed into the country

Israeli woman has her photo taken with Africans, titles the Facebook album: “Late night tour of the Tel Aviv Safari”, captions the photo: “There are no signs forbidding taking pictures with the animals. There were no signs that forbid feeding, but we passed on that.”

stopdropandrun: Jonathan Hobin Re-Creates the World’s Most...

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:50:13 -0400

"The Twins" - depicting the attacks of 9/11

"A Boo Grave" - depicting Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse and torture

"GOT HIM" - depicts Seal Team 6 's raid and takedown of Osama Bin Laden

"Dear Leader" - depicting North Korea and their threats against the world.

"White Nights" - depicting Jim Jones and the fall of Jamestown

"Obama Nation" - depicting Obama's rise to presidency and politics

"Holy Smoke" - depicting a monk, Thich Quang Duc who burned himself, protesting the Vietnam War

"Acid Washed" - depicting acid attacks in Muslim countries

stopdropandrun:

Jonathan Hobin Re-Creates the World’s Most Infamous Tragedies with Children

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Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:08:31 -0400

Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode

ancienttimenews: Lost Kingdom Of Cleopatra Off the shores of...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:44:16 -0400

ancienttimenews:

Lost Kingdom Of Cleopatra

Off the shores of Alexandria, the city of Alexander the Great, lies what is believed to be the ruins of the royal quarters of Cleopatra. A team of marine archaeologists led by Frenchman Franck Goddio made excavation on this ancient city from where Cleopatra, the last queen of the Ptolemies, ruled Egypt. Historians believe this site was submerged by earthquakes and tidal waves more than 1,600 years ago.

The excavations concentrated on the submerged island of Antirhodus. Cleopatra is said to have had a palace there. Other discoveries include a well-preserved shipwreck and red granite columns with Greek inscriptions. There were also founded two statues which were lifted out of the harbor. One was a priest of the goddess Isis; the other a sphinx whose face is said to represent Cleopatra’s father, King Ptolemy XII. The artifacts were returned to their silent, because the Egyptian Government says it wants to leave most of them in place to create an underwater museum

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CISPA's Immunity Provision Would Allow Corporate Hacking

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:42:42 -0400

CISPA's Immunity Provision Would Allow Corporate Hacking :

thinksquad:

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) passed the House last Thursday on a 288-127 vote. The bill now heads to the Senate, where it is expected to face stiff resistance. President Obama is on record as opposing CISPA, threatening to veto the bill if it doesn’t address civil liberties concerns.

So, that’s certainly something worth cheering about. On the tech side of things, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian continues his campaign to kill CISPA. The masses, meanwhile, are too transfixed by the Boston Marathon spectacle to care much about internet privacy. Not to devalue that horrible tragedy, but Americans might also want to watch their government’s debate on a bill that will have vast repercussions far into the future.

Under CISPA, corporations would be allowed to aggressively combat loosely-defined “cybersecurity threats.” Rep. Jim Langevin wisely attached an anti-hack-back amendment to CISPA limiting corporations to cybersecurity measures only on their own networks. Language found in the exemptions section, however, effectively nullifies this amendment. Companies would be able to act with immunity outside their networks. Translation: it’s illegal to hack as an act of civil disobedience (see: Anonymous), but perfectly legal if you are a corporation.

Another implication is that neither companies nor the government will have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt who committed the cyber-crime.

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mentalalchemy: bigcatrescue: BIG cats love boxes too! That...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:44:38 -0400

mentalalchemy:

bigcatrescue:

BIG cats love boxes too!

That black jaguar looks absolutely overjoyed!

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Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:38:33 -0400

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anarcho-queer: Strike Day One On Thursday, hundreds of students...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:41:01 -0400

anarcho-queer:

Strike Day One

On Thursday, hundreds of students from the University of Indiana walked out of class and joined a march to the ‘School of Education’ where the IU Board of Trustee’s were having a meeting.

The students were protesting low wages for the support staff at IU, high tuition for students, a population of minority students that has not doubled from 4 percent as previously promised by school officials and more.

Follow IUonStrike on Tumblr for updates.

"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable..."

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:35:19 -0400

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”

- Arundhati Roy (via sorakeem)

fuckyeahmarxismleninism: Washington, DC: March from the White...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 20:51:44 -0400

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Washington, DC: March from the White House to General Atomics to protest the Obama administration’s drone war. Caskets representing those murdered were placed outside General Atomics, a company that produces drones. April 13, 2013

Photos by Jenna Pope