tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28380583049464675822024-03-13T12:58:19.066-07:00KultūraAjarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.comBlogger571125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-60969316166335968452018-06-08T21:26:00.001-07:002018-06-08T22:31:00.397-07:0040 Years of Photographing Street Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">How do we archive works of art that are
inherently temporary? For four decades, Martha Cooper has used
photography to memorialize and record public works of street art and
graffiti.</span></span></h1>
Read full article here...<br />
<a href="https://www.lensculture.com/articles/martha-cooper-40-years-of-photographing-street-art-around-the-world">https://www.lensculture.com/articles/martha-cooper-40-years-of-photographing-street-art-around-the-world</a><br />
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See more of Martha Cooper's photos here....<br />
<a href="http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/2017/04/20/martha-cooper-solo-exhibition-reveals-many-unseen-action-shots/" target="_blank">http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/2017/04/20/martha-cooper-solo-exhibition-reveals-many-unseen-action-shots/ </a><br />
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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/marthacoopergram/?hl=en" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/marthacoopergram/?hl=en </a><br />
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<a href="https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/3kbnmv/documenting-the-70s-golden-age-of-nyc-graffiti-culture">https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/3kbnmv/documenting-the-70s-golden-age-of-nyc-graffiti-culture</a> Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-70297971527502395662018-06-02T00:13:00.001-07:002018-06-02T02:38:48.808-07:00Three Videos to Warm the Soul X<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>When We Were Knights</b><br />
<a href="https://vimeo.com/167054481">https://vimeo.com/167054481</a><br />
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<b>HuF NYC</b><br />
<a href="https://vimeo.com/176817356" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/176817356 </a><br />
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/183252171">https://vimeo.com/183252171</a><br /><br />Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-4780295143327974432018-05-28T02:54:00.004-07:002018-05-28T02:54:57.649-07:00An American Drug Lord in Acapulco<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>How a high school jock from Texas rose to the top of one of Mexico's most powerful and ruthless cartels</b></span></span><br />
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Excerpt: ....a few weeks later, one of Barbie's assistants was pulled over by the
police on the way to a carwash in Mexico City. Two officers jumped out
of their black truck, guns drawn. "Freeze, motherfucker!" they screamed.
They demanded to know where Barbie was. "Where is that son of a bitch?"
one officer said. "Don't bullshit, or I'll cut off your balls and feed
them to you."<br />
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READ FULL ARTICLE HERE....<br />
<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/an-american-drug-lord-in-acapulco-20110825">https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/an-american-drug-lord-in-acapulco-20110825</a> <br />
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Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-41716405431162735042018-05-27T08:59:00.000-07:002018-05-27T08:59:54.881-07:00When Einstein Visited Japan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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“On the exquisiteness of the Japanese woman, this flower-like
creature—I have also remained reticent; for here the common mortal must
cede the word to the poet.”<br />
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Read more here... <br />
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<a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/albert-einstein-visited-japan-180968737/">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/albert-einstein-visited-japan-180968737/</a>Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-35015319229683875822018-05-27T05:56:00.000-07:002018-05-27T05:56:03.506-07:00How “Seinfeld” and “The Simpsons” Changed TV Forever<br />
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The debuts of “Seinfeld” and “The Simpsons,” like the debut of "Citizen
Kane" or Bob Dylan's ‘electric’ performance at the Newport Folk
Festival, expanded the boundaries of genre and medium. Television,
comedy, and American culture have permanently changed.<br />
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Read more here...<br />
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<a href="https://www.wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/summer-2014-1989-and-the-making-of-our-modern-world/how-seinfeld-and-simpsons-changed-tv-forever/">https://www.wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/summer-2014-1989-and-the-making-of-our-modern-world/how-seinfeld-and-simpsons-changed-tv-forever/</a>Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-4168720119074438072018-05-23T23:55:00.001-07:002018-05-23T23:57:25.235-07:00Comforting Myths<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"By the standards of the European industrial world, we are poor peasants,
but when I embrace my grandfather I experience a sense of richness as
though I am a note in the heartbeats of the very universe."<br />
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Read full article here... <br />
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<a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2018/06/comforting-myths/" target="_blank"> https://harpers.org/archive/2018/06/comforting-myths/</a>Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-78382932028181315402018-05-23T22:38:00.000-07:002018-05-23T22:38:37.828-07:00Mexican Masters<br />
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Master artisans in the Mexican state of Michoacan produce exquisite works of Art.... <br />
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Pottery<br />
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/249752354">https://vimeo.com/249752354</a><br />
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Copper<br />
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/249749574" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/249749574 </a><br />
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Stonemasonary<br />
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/249743267">https://vimeo.com/249743267</a><br />
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Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-30241898771778212852018-05-23T22:04:00.000-07:002018-05-23T22:04:42.508-07:00Landing New York | B777 Cockpit View 4K<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Incredible cockpit view of a jet landing at JFK... <br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ckRAPgWwQY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ckRAPgWwQY</a>Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-4162839324585927172018-05-23T21:28:00.000-07:002018-05-23T21:28:27.183-07:00Why We Can't Save Her<br />
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Powerful video from the International Committee for the Red Cross... <br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm0TYebjyHQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm0TYebjyHQ</a>Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-12075151982232538892018-05-23T21:14:00.000-07:002018-05-23T21:14:14.328-07:00 Disney Animator Illustrates Life With Two Children After His Wife Passed Away <br />
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<a href="http://www.24hviralphotos.com/disney-animator-illustrates-life-with-two-children-after-his-wife-passed-away-and-it-will-break-your-heart-21-pics/">http://www.24hviralphotos.com/disney-animator-illustrates-life-with-two-children-after-his-wife-passed-away-and-it-will-break-your-heart-21-pics/</a>Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-30170009715405873252018-05-23T21:07:00.000-07:002018-05-23T21:07:05.154-07:00L.A. Dreamers<br />
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Five Japanese girls meet in Los Angeles. They are far
from home but they have same goal, chase the dream of becoming hip hop
dancers.</div>
Shot on Arri Alexa Mini and Zeiss Standard 2.1 <br />
Directed By<br />
Dani Fortuny<br />
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Watch Video here.... <br />
<a href="https://vimeo.com/153879475">https://vimeo.com/153879475</a>Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-15701240713649916272018-05-23T21:02:00.000-07:002018-05-23T21:02:20.070-07:00I LOVE NY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The short time I spent living in Spanish Harlem will not be forgotten....I Love NY. A visual and heart-warming dedication to NY and the man behind the famous logo...<br />
<a href="https://vimeo.com/270244268">https://vimeo.com/270244268</a>Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-16689850832036717972018-05-23T20:47:00.000-07:002018-05-23T20:47:15.222-07:00From Memory to Myth: The Adventures of Patrick Leigh Fermor<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The daring exploits and beguiling charm of the 20th century’s greatest travel writer...
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<a href="https://www.weeklystandard.com/dominic-green/from-memory-to-myth-the-adventures-of-patrick-leigh-fermor">https://www.weeklystandard.com/dominic-green/from-memory-to-myth-the-adventures-of-patrick-leigh-fermor</a>Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-5944384253343750862018-05-23T00:36:00.000-07:002018-05-23T00:36:30.314-07:00Stories from the Sinai <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Excerpt: "We were sitting on a dune overlooking the glittering Red Sea east of
Sinai. The mountains of Saudi Arabia could be seen in the distance. It
was 1984.<br />
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With me were the renowned smuggler-poet Ayaad and his eldest son,
Salim. They had asked me to join them “to discuss something serious,”
out of earshot of those who were encamped with them. We knew each other
well. I had been recording and studying Bedouin poetry for some fifteen
years, and Ayaad was the best poet in Sinai.<br />
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Once we were seated in the sand, our legs folded before us, Salim, facing me, opened the...<br />
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<a href="https://hudsonreview.com/2018/04/stories-from-sinai/">https://hudsonreview.com/2018/04/stories-from-sinai/</a>Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-57910520660747154332018-05-22T01:41:00.002-07:002018-05-22T01:53:40.279-07:00Want to feel unique? Believe in the Reptile people.<br />
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He who believes bin Laden is still alive will have something <span class="highlightNode">in</span> common with she who believes <span class="highlightNode">the</span> 1% are <span class="highlightNode">reptiles</span> masquerading as humans: <span class="highlightNode">the</span> <span class="highlightNode">need to feel unique</span>. For someone with a conspiracy mentality, what matters most is their exclusive knowledge.<br />
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READ FULL ARTICLE HERE.... <br />
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<a href="https://aeon.co/ideas/want-to-feel-unique-believe-in-the-reptile-people">https://aeon.co/ideas/want-to-feel-unique-believe-in-the-reptile-people</a>Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-84661264883322150992018-05-22T01:30:00.001-07:002018-05-22T01:51:47.018-07:00The Problem of Hyper Liberalism<br />
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Excerpt: "In institutions that proclaim their commitment to critical inquiry,
censorship is most effective when it is self-imposed. A defining feature
of tyranny, the policing of opinion is now established practice in
societies that believe themselves to be freer than they have ever been."<br />
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Read full article here... <br />
<a href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/john-gray-hyper-liberalism-liberty/">https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/john-gray-hyper-liberalism-liberty/</a>Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-73591425007778384912018-05-21T20:19:00.001-07:002018-05-22T01:31:47.075-07:00The Serial Killer as Marketing Genius<br />
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An ode to a bygone era and one man's hunt for one of America's most elusive serial killers.<br />
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<a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-serial-killer-as-a-marketing-genius">https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-serial-killer-as-a-marketing-genius</a>Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-79115311964505961552015-07-05T09:39:00.000-07:002015-07-05T09:42:53.055-07:00Drought Spreads WorldwideStories of drought are mostly localized to the affected country. However, this is a global problem...take a look at these news headlines gathered from around the world...all within the last couple of months.<br />
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/jun/12/decade-of-drought-a-global-tour-of-seven-recent-water-crises" target="_blank">Decade of Drought: A <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Global</b> </span>Tour of Seven Recent Water Crises </a><br />
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<a href="http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/613128/drought-persists-in-13-provinces" target="_blank">Drought Persists in 13 Provinces: <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Bangkok</b></span> Post</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-island-fishing-banned-as-drought-hits-level-4-1.3137599" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Vancouver Island</b> </span>Fishing Banned as Drought Hits Level 4 : CBC</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2015/07/116_182149.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>North Korea</b></span> Hit Hard by Drought: Korea Times</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/california-drought/lake-san-antonio-dries-summer-kicks-n386031" target="_blank">Dried Up <span style="font-size: large;"><b>California</b></span> Lake Shuts as Summer Kicks in: NBC Photos</a> <br />
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<a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/puerto-rico-grappling-potentially-historic-drought-expands-water-rationing-1971400" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Puerto Rico</b></span>, Grappling With Potentially Historic Drought: IBT</a><br />
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<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/150628-sao-paulo-brazil-drought-water-pictures/" target="_blank">Dramatic Photos Show <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Brazil</b></span>'s Crippling Drought</a><br />
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<b>Excerpt:</b><br />
He got out of his car and his smartphone showed images of a
devastated Syria. Not a person in sight. It was about 9pm there, and it
was absolutely silent. Suddenly, men’s thick voices broke the silence.<br />
“Don’t say anything!” Bilel ordered. “I don’t want anyone to see or
hear you! You’re my jewel; you’re pure. OK? Do you understand?”<br />
Mélodie said she understood. I listened to the conversation. I was
able to distinguish the voices of two other men. They greeted each other
in Arabic, then French, which sounded like their mother tongue. They
laughed, congratulating themselves for having “slaughtered them”.<br />
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/26/french-journalist-poses-muslim-convert-isis-anna-erelle">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/26/french-journalist-poses-muslim-convert-isis-anna-erelle</a>Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-8609671515632254992015-05-20T08:56:00.000-07:002015-05-20T08:56:24.099-07:00The Killing of Osama by Seymour Hersh<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The White House still maintains that the mission was an all-American
affair, and that the senior generals of Pakistan’s army and
Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) were not told of the raid in
advance. This is false, as are many other elements of the Obama
administration’s account. The White House’s story might have been
written by Lewis Carroll: would bin Laden, target of a massive
international manhunt, really decide that a resort town forty miles from
Islamabad would be the safest place to live and command al-Qaida’s
operations? He was hiding in the open. So America said. <br />
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READ FULL ARTICLE HERE.... <br />
<a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden">http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden</a>Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-72220112870783651232015-04-29T23:07:00.002-07:002015-04-29T23:07:19.760-07:00Am I being executed?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A Brazilian man executed by firing squad along with seven other prisoners in <a class=" u-underline" data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/indonesia">Indonesia</a> on Wednesday had no idea he was about to be killed until his final minutes, the priest who counselled him has said.<br />
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He was hearing voices all the time,” Burrows told Irish radio. “I
talked to him for about an hour and a half, trying to prepare him for
the execution. I said to him, ‘I’m 72 years old, I’ll be heading to
heaven in the near future, so you find out where my house is and prepare
a garden for me.’
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“But when they took [the prisoners] out of the cells … and when they
put these bloody chains on them, he said to me, ‘Am I being executed?’ ”
Burrows said.<br />
“I said, ‘Yes, I thought I explained that you.’ He didn’t get excited
– he’s a quiet sort of a guy – but he said, ‘This is not right.’<br />
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/brazilian-executed-by-indonesia-was-hearing-voices-all-the-time" target="_blank">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/brazilian-executed-by-indonesia-was-hearing-voices-all-the-time </a>Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-55787513505753191422015-04-25T08:26:00.000-07:002015-04-25T08:26:09.686-07:00China’s Offering a World Bank Alternative — and U.S. Allies Are Signing Up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Excerpt:<br />
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United States and 15 developed countries control 52 percent of voting
rights at the IMF, leaving 48 percent for the 168 other member
countries. China, now the world’s biggest economy, has only 3.8 percent
of voting power — that’s a smaller share than those of the UK, France,
Germany, or Japan. Brazil, South Korea, and Mexico each enjoy less
voting power than tiny Belgium.<br />
Despite much protest from the BRICS and other developing economies,
they’ve received just 6 percent more voting power over the last 20
years. The proportions and trends have been roughly the same at the
World Bank.<br />
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The United States and the Europeans have also held tightly to what’s
been characterized as their “feudal” prerogatives of filling the World
Bank presidency with a U.S. citizen and the managing director post at
the IMF with a European.<br />
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With some 17 percent of the vote in both institutions, the United
States also exercises veto power over key policy decisions. To show that
it didn’t want to replicate the Americans’ behavior at the World Bank,
Beijing announced that despite its contribution of the largest share of
capital to the AIIB, it would <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/china-forgoes-veto-power-at-new-bank-to-win-key-european-nations-support-1427131055" target="_blank" title="not demand veto power">not demand veto power</a> over policy decisions.<br />
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<a href="http://fpif.org/chinas-offering-a-world-bank-alternative-and-u-s-allies-are-signing-up/" target="_blank">http://fpif.org/chinas-offering-a-world-bank-alternative-and-u-s-allies-are-signing-up/ </a><br />
Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-28632683956305723832015-02-14T09:32:00.000-08:002015-02-14T09:32:14.555-08:00Life under drones — in victims’ own words<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">‘I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer grey skies.’</span></h2>
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<a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/war/150210/living-under-drones-victims-own-words">http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/war/150210/living-under-drones-victims-own-words</a>Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-32466525269293015332015-02-06T07:32:00.000-08:002015-02-06T07:32:33.443-08:00"Prison to college" programme builds brighter futures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We are in a university English class watching a lively debate about
Macbeth. The enthusiasm of the visiting professor and the students is
infectious.<br /> <br />We feel like we could be in any university across
the United States. That is until the harsh crackle of a prison guard's
walkie-talkie cuts the ambience and reminds us that <br />
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<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/americas/2015/02/college-programme-builds-brighter-futures-150205173823287.html">http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/americas/2015/02/college-programme-builds-brighter-futures-150205173823287.html</a>Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838058304946467582.post-47577783910266569482015-02-05T19:56:00.001-08:002015-02-06T07:34:07.024-08:00The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think<br />
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Exceptional article...I really hope we are in the last days of the War on Drugs.<br />
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Read full article here... <br />
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html</a>Ajarn Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00645204971813037093noreply@blogger.com0