AquaCool will be participating in Blog Action Day, October 15th.
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I’m just loving this whole concept of getting global updates so easily and so quickly!
Thought you might as well enjoy the Global Incident Map.
[Via: Refugee]
I’ve always believed that beauty has no rules, limits, or standards. Beauty, I strongly believe, is a matter of taste. There is no such things as “beauty idols”, or “steps to beauty”, or anything of the kind.
Whoever may look beautiful in the eyes of someone, might look normal, or even ugly in the eyes of someone else. That’s because -no matter how hard people try to say otherwise- beauty is not limited to the outside looks only but consists also of many factors that include the character as well as the behavior.
So,I like to always insist that beauty is an inside out thing, limited by nothing other than our own taste. That’s why I find this constant striving to perfection of looks simply ridiculous. And women -even little girls- are becoming obsessed with this ridiculous striving, and many are willing to do anything just to attract others and be called “beautiful”.
I believe that, in order to be truly beautiful, a woman needs to:
– be herself.
– avoid being a slave to fashion trends.
– be really confident.
– be proud of her looks, as well as her age.
– be as natural and simple as possible.
But unfortunately, with the help of media, our concept of beauty is evolving in the ugliest way ever. People are being subject to brainwashing on daily basis; beauty lost its natural precious values and is being transformed into an artificial product.
Women imitate this product, they look for magical touches to hide whatever they wish to hide, willing to pay fortunes and work their heads off just to maintain whatever that artificial product possesses.
Women have become unbelievably afraid of aging, they lie about their age, they are ashamed of who they really are, they prefer the masks they could buy to hide their true looks and their real age!
What a shame!
I believe many women need a wakeup call, to get back to their senses and show them the real meaning of beauty… that’s why I simply LOVE Dove’s campaign for real beauty.(Arabic…)
I hope women will finally realize that age, skin color, body shape, do not define beauty unless we want them to, so please, don’t let stuff like that hold you back or scare you or limit your potential to be a really beautiful being in your life.
Despite the happy news about Palestinian fractions signing the unity government deal, one can’t but feel humiliated and heart-broken for the miserable crimes committed against Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Again and again and again, Israel is crossing all limits terrorizing Palestinians and destructing their land with the exception of nothing, not even the holy sites.
Once again, people are being attacked during prayers in Al Aqsa mosque, this sacred place which is supposed to be respected and protected by anyone belonging to any religion, anyone believing in God, or at least anyone who believes in humanity.
Jewish extremists believe that its their responsibility to dig for “the temple”, which they claim is under Al-Aqsa mosque, letting it be a matter of religious duty, and have been digging and constructing underground bridges putting the foundation of Al-Aqsa Mosque at stake.
Few years ago I watched this interview on one of the international news channels with a rabbi and a Jewish historian, both giving proof that the whole Temple Mount thing is based on no logical or historical or religious grounds. I wish I recalled the names, but I don’t, and I promise to publish the names on my blog if I succeed to find them.
Anyway, and suppose we wish to argue that it’s a religious matter, what kind of religion calls for the destruction and elimination of other religious sites? what kind of religion gives itself the right to humiliate and mistreat other religious groups while justifying their actions as “saving/protecting” their own religious principles?
I truly doubt that Judaism, a religion we believe in and respect as being the first known to humanity, would ever call for such inhuman actions! so who’s to blame? it’s the extremists and Zionists for sure!
I personally believe that, regardless of the endless lists of reasons Israel gives to justify their diggings, one fact remains as clear as can be: attacking unarmed people who are causing no threat is an act of terror; shooting people gathering inside a holy place is an act of terror; digging under or around a holy site in a way that jeopardizes its foundations is an act of terror, i.e. Israel proves ONCE AGAIN being a state of terror… one would only wonder: till when will Israel be given the right to punish and never get punished for whatever it does!
Related:
Dig at Al-Aqsa Mosque worsening Mideast tensions.
Jordan urges world powers to stop Israel’s Aqsa excavations.
A while ago I discovered Fatafeat. It’s a delicious satellite TV channel dedicated to nothing but food and cooking 24 hours.
I can’t tell you how great I felt when I first found out about it. It became one of my favorites just like that. I’d sit literally mesmerized in front of it, whenever I have the time. I’d even see the reruns the next day. I became obsessed with it, telling people about it and spending most of the time in which I bottle-feed Adam, watching it so that even my husband got annoyed, lol!
What can I do! with all the beautiful international cooks telling their cooking secrets and working their magic, watching Fatafeat has become a delicacy by itself.
I love Fatafeat!
“Three football players at Guilford College, a school with a Quaker background, face assault and ethnic intimidation charges after an attack on three Palestinian students, authorities said.
The victims were beaten with fists, feet and brass knuckles early Saturday by attackers who called them “terrorists” and used racial slurs, the News & Record of Greensboro reported Tuesday.
The college will allow the three to remain on campus while it conducts its own investigation.
Two of the students who were attacked, Faris Khader and Osama Sabbah, are students at Guilford. The third, Omar Awartani, is a student at North Carolina State University in Raleigh who was visiting.”
[Source: Yahoo News -passed to me by Jimbo-]
All I can say is: it has always been, and it’ll always be the average Palestinian who’ll pay the price.
Thanks to the media for portraying Palestinians as dangerous terrorists, thanks to Israeli extremists for brainwashing the crowds, and thanks to Fatah & Hamas for reflecting such a shitty picture of Palestinians by fighting each other in such an irresponsible stupid way.
More:
Alleged brawlers and accusers asked to move off campus
Guilford College’s Updated Response to Bryan Hall Incident
Watching the heart-breaking news of violence in Gaza, showing Palestinians fighting each other and causing the death of so many innocent people, it’s so easy from the comfort of one’s own home to “condemn”, or call Palestinians different kinds of things such as “stupid”, or “uncivilized” or “savages”.
But what did we really do to prevent this from happening? did we at least support Palestinians with regard to the sanctions they’re suffering from? Did we help them convince the world to respect their elections and their choices? Did we ask to give them a chance? no, we only wait and watch and then comes our favorite part: condemning.
Clashes broke out following the Palestinian president’s decision to have early presidential and parliamentary elections.
And now we have Fatah and Hamas fighting… such a big mistake!
This reaction is so wrong, yet as disappointing, as wrong, and as saddening as their reaction is, I can’t but find myself understanding it.
I mean, what do we expect of people suffering under occupation, starving because of stupid sanctions that took place only as collective punishment to teach people a lesson: democracy is just a theoretical term, used only as an excuse to interfere in your own affairs and to fulfill our own interests, but if you apply this term in a way that contradicts our interests then there’s a high price to pay, and then we’ll be ready to watch your society fall apart and starve to death.
Few months ago, when no Palestinian-Palestinian fights took place, and when Palestinians were suffering from sanctions to the extreme, no damn country interfered to support or to help the starving people, no one including the Arab World.
But now, when there’s a chance that the sanctions have proven themselves “useful” and there is finally “hope” that new elections will take place and will be as undemocratic as the –you know who- wish them to be, then the current situation has immediately became of interest to the whole world, including the Arab world, and is now considered “a matter of security”, as they prefer calling it, and so we find everyone interfering to “calm Palestinians down” and to “urge Palestinians to work as one hand” and to “find a solution”,well, at least they’re finally interfering… positively.
Fact 1: Few care whether Palestinians have no work, no food, no water, no electricity, no freedom or no dignity, and those few do nothing but watch or throw speeches, and rarely make a difference.
Fact 2: No democracy allowed to be applied in Palestine (or elsewhere in the Arab world unless it meets the interests of certain democracy-making-countries).
Fact 3: No one cares if Palestinians exterminate themselves as long as they elect the “right” ones, those being the ones who are ready to cooperate with outer interference anyway this interference wishes, even if it contradicts the interests of Palestinians or deny them their most basic rights on any level of life.
Fact 4: Those fights are understood as a reaction, but are not accepted as a solution and are SO WRONG and should stop now. But in order to make them stop, Palestinians should be supported: a) by canceling the unfair sanctions, and b) by letting Palestinians practice democracy the way its occupier and the rest of the “democratic” world practice it.
I really can’t say how much I loved the latest album of Cat Stevens/ Yusuf Islam. I love the music, lyrics, style, every thing about this album is just perfect.
I thought I’ll be sharing you the lyrics of one of my favorite songs in this particular album:
“Maybe There’s a World”
I have dreamt of a place and time,where nobody gets annoyed,
But I must admit I’m not there yet but Something’s keeping me going
Maybe there’s a world that I’m still to find
Maybe there’s a world that I’m still to find
Open up o world and let me in,
Then there’ll be a new life to begin
I have dreamt of an open world,
Borderless and wide
Where the people move from place to place
And nobody’s taking sides
Maybe there’s a world that I’m still to find
Maybe there’s a world that I’m still to find
Open up a world and let me in,
Then there’ll be A new life to begin
I’ve been waiting for that moment
To arrive
All at once the palace of peace
Will fill My eyes – how nice!
Maybe there’s a world that I’m still to find
Maybe there’s a world that I’m still to find
Open up o world and let me in,
Then there’ll be A new life to begin
I’ve been waiting for that moment
To arrive
All at once the wrongs of the world,
Will be put right – how nice!
Following the recent Israeli attacks on Palestinian CIVILIANS, with rockets aiming at homes of innocent people killing huge numbers of unarmed citizens; some Israeli officials decided to express their “apologies” for this “regrettable incident”, Tzipi Livni: “The Israeli military does not intend to harm civilians – that is never our aim”. Aljazeera
Yet all attacks seem to be targeting civilians… now what are the odds!
Ehud Olmert, said in a statement that he regretted the attack but said that Israel’s army had fired in an attempt to prevent Palestinians from firing rockets into Israel. In other words, he’s saying: Israel did this for self-defense.
And I saw on CNN today an Israeli official commenting: “we ask the Palestinian people: Why don’t you use your power as people and influence the resistance to stop killing Israelis?”
It’s just the same old scenario, Israel ends up justifying its massacres as “self-defense”. I’m really tired of explaining why this whole “self-defense” thing is nothing but a big fat lie, and I’ve lost hope in getting people to understand that innocent Palestinians, including harmless children are being butchered in the name of self-defense, so this time I’ll assume that Israeli claims are right and comment accordingly.
Assuming that Israel wishes for peace and those massacres took place only in response to Palestinian missile attacks, and let’s say Israel wants to deliver a message to the Palestinian authorities and decision makers, why murder civilians? Did the small amount of “smuggled” Palestinian missiles cause massacres as the ones your high-tech best-quality missiles cause every time they hit a spot? Isn’t one massacre enough? Why do you have to terminate the whole population?
Why when Palestinians reply to an attack with a similar one _ equal in concept not in power that is- why are they accused of violence and terrorism, whereas Israeli attacks and massacres are called self-defense?
How can you blame the Palestinian people and ask THEM to stop what you’ve started, when those people are: 1) under your occupation, 2) suffering from International sanctions that left them starving, with no food, no money, no medical supplies and NOTHING!
How come you ask suffering people to make a difference when your people, with all the International support and sympathy they’re getting, are not able to influence their government to stop war crimes and murders?!
Let me make this unforgivable mistake and believe that Israel is defending itself and is in favor of peace… why can’t I see any record in history, or a single present attempt, to give this claimed peace a shot! Israel didn’t, not for once, give any peace process or truce a chance, it always managed to end any attempt by claiming it’s defending itself!
A Message to Arabs:
We’re big in quantity, but when it comes to actions, WE SUCK!
Knowing that we lack no brains, no power, and no conscious –or at least that’s what I think- what the hell are we waiting for?
Why don’t we show some dignity and self-respect and do something?!
Can’t we stop sponsoring our precious disgusting video clips and stupid reality shows for a while and support suffering people? Why don’t we interfere to lift sanctions and make sure Palestinians have medical care and food supply?
If we can’t do that, I see no point of our existence, and I think it’d be better if we simply dig one huge deep hole and bury ourselves alive!
Shame on us!
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