Where it all began - the Omari mosque in #Daraa, where protesters used to gather in 2011 - This @AFPphoto shot today, exactly 7 years into the #Syria conflict: image via AFP Beirut @AFP_Beirut, 15 March 2018
With #Russia’s support, Syrian govt forces are seizing Eastern #Ghouta using shockingly brutal but familiar tactics @hrw Civilians incl. women, children were incinerated on Friday in an attack that appeared to involve use of despicable incendiary weapons.: image via Mary Wareham @marywareham, 18 March 2018
More than 78 People killed today most of them Children and hundreds of injuries as a result of the targeting of the cities and towns in #EasternGhouta by #Russia warplanes and Rockets loaded with napalm and explosive barrel and rocket launchers. #EasternGhouta #GhoutaGenocide #EasternGhouta: image via Majd Bakkora @MajdAldean, 16 March 2018
More than 78 People killed today most of them Children and hundreds of injuries as a result of the targeting of the cities and towns in #EasternGhouta by #Russia warplanes and Rockets loaded with napalm and explosive barrel and rocket launchers. #EasternGhouta #GhoutaGenocide #EasternGhouta: image via Majd Bakkora @MajdAldean, 16 March 2018
DSCF8516 [Keserwan, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon]
DSCF7461-2c1 [Abdi Subasi, Istanbul]
IMG_7567c | Beirut Garbage Crisis Demonstrations [Mar Mikhael, Beirut]
With #Russia’s support, Syrian govt forces are seizing Eastern #Ghouta using shockingly brutal but familiar tactics @hrw Civilians incl. women, children were incinerated on Friday in an attack that appeared to involve use of despicable incendiary weapons.: image via Mary Wareham @marywareham, 18 March 2018
More than 78 People killed today most of them Children and hundreds of injuries as a result of the targeting of the cities and towns in #EasternGhouta by #Russia warplanes and Rockets loaded with napalm and explosive barrel and rocket launchers. #EasternGhouta #GhoutaGenocide #EasternGhouta: image via Majd Bakkora @MajdAldean, 16 March 2018
More than 78 People killed today most of them Children and hundreds of injuries as a result of the targeting of the cities and towns in #EasternGhouta by #Russia warplanes and Rockets loaded with napalm and explosive barrel and rocket launchers. #EasternGhouta #GhoutaGenocide #EasternGhouta: image via Majd Bakkora @MajdAldean, 16 March 2018
More than 78 People killed today most of them Children and hundreds of injuries as a result of the targeting of the cities and towns in #EasternGhouta by #Russia warplanes and Rockets loaded with napalm and explosive barrel and rocket launchers. #EasternGhouta #GhoutaGenocide #EasternGhouta: image via Majd Bakkora @MajdAldean, 16 March 2018
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than 78 People killed today most of them Children and hundreds of
injuries as a result of the targeting of the cities and towns in #EasternGhouta by #Russia warplanes and Rockets loaded with napalm and explosive barrel and rocket launchers. #EasternGhouta #GhoutaGenocide #EasternGhouta: image via Majd Bakkora @MajdAldean, 16 March 2018
DSCF8516 [Keserwan, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon]
DSCF7461-2c1 [Abdi Subasi, Istanbul]
IMG_7567c | Beirut Garbage Crisis Demonstrations [Mar Mikhael, Beirut]
Mark Zuckerberg running through Berlin with his bodyguards in 2016.photo Paul Zinken/EPA via The Guardian, 18 March 2018
Running to the Sunken Place
Hey, wanna hit The Sunken Place after we finish our closely guarded fun run through somebody else's city, guys?
Yo Mark sounds cool, but how bout we just find a dustbin and stuff you in it stop and get a latté instead, eh Homes?
Um ok I guess just so long as I make $972m while we're doing it and we get hella Likes! I so enjoy and see absolutely no contradiction in being both Rich and Progressive at the same time, don't you?
Uh yes Mark.
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad talking with government troops in eastern Ghouta.: photo by/AFP/Getty Images, 18 March 2018
Rebels in Syria's eastern Ghouta discussing ceasefire with UN – statement: Main rebel group in talks about aid and evacuation of sick and wounded as President Assad visits troops: Reuters in Beirut, Sunday 18 March 12:40 EDT
“We are engaged in arranging serious negotiations to guarantee the safety and protection of civilians,” said Wael Alwan, the Istanbul-based spokesman for Failaq al-Rahman.
“The most important points under negotiation are a ceasefire, ensuring aid for civilians and the exit of medical cases and injured people needing treatment outside Ghouta.”
However, a general evacuation of civilians and rebels was not on the table, he said.
The news came as Syrian state-run TV carried images of President Bashar Assad visiting troops on the front line in the newly captured areas of eastern Ghouta.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Syrian government was in control of more than 80% of the area, which has been a rebel stronghold since 2012.
In a month-long assault, pro-Syrian government forces have marched into much of eastern Ghouta, the last major insurgent bastion around Damascus.
Troops have splintered Ghouta into three besieged zones in one of the bloodiest offensives of the seven-year war, with rebels facing their worst defeat since the battle of Aleppo in 2016.
A number of patients requiring urgent medical attention have been evacuated from the northern pocket and some aid has entered the area. This has not yet happened in the southern pocket.
Figures close to the two main rebel groups – Failaq al-Rahman in the south and Jaish al-Islam in the north – have told Reuters discussions are under way for the transfer of Failaq al-Rahman and Jaish al-Islam fighters to opposition-held areas in northern and southern Syria respectively.
After a morning of calm, shelling and ground battles resumed across eastern Ghouta on Sunday afternoon, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (OCHA) said on Thursday at least 20,000 people had left eastern Ghouta in the past week, most from the southern pocket through the Hammouriyeh area.
The Observatory said about 50,000 people had left the southern pocket in the past 72 hours and thousands left on Sunday.
On Sunday, President Bashar al-Assad visited army positions in Syria’s eastern Ghouta, Syrian state media reported. “In the line of fire in eastern Ghouta ... President Assad with heroes of the Syrian Arab army,” read a caption next to photographs of Assad in a crowd of men in military uniforms, some perched on top of tanks.
SYRIA - Syrian children walk in a street of the Eastern Ghouta rebel-held enclave of Douma, near Damascus Photo @hamza_alajweh #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 March 2018
SYRIA
- Syrian Red Crescent buses evacuate humanitarian cases from Douma in
the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta to the government-controlled
area. Photo @hamza_alajweh #AFP: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 18 March
2018
SYRIA - Syrian Red Crescent buses evacuate humanitarian cases from Douma in the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta to the government-controlled area.: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 March 2018
SYRIA - Syrian Red Crescent buses evacuate humanitarian cases from Douma in the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta to the government-controlled area.: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 March 2018
SYRIA - Syrian Red Crescent buses evacuate humanitarian cases from Douma in the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta to the government-controlled area.: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 March 2018
SYRIA - Syrian Red Crescent buses evacuate humanitarian cases from Douma in the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta to the government-controlled area.: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 March 2018
statement (eyes of a stranger)
after life and time comes arriving in lebanon kentucky late alone and knowing no one
long night of syria and kitty traffic - first scaredest one of ferals spotty boy blind in both eyes conjunctivitis
also lame, having run gauntlet of dark path o'er ruled by blackie his enormous nemesis and son, showed up skulking and afraid then his daughter sweetie delighted silvery haired mistress of manor (not) by dragging in half-et corpse of wee rodent
leaving bloody un-et bits scattered through dark rooms, as though old haunted
house were crazy red in tooth and claw animal extension of field hospitals of Ghouta
then getting caught up in random saint paddy's cop tangle
in street after rich woman from suburbs drove hubby's Boxter at high speed over curb (wanted Reverse, got Drive)
straight at cinematically lit mouthbreathing-model window display alcove of highend Beauty
Salon (!) - stopt by im'movable object later lay awake in dark admiring imagined (?) word plink - then up sleepless, unable to find
same word anywhere but in deranged old blind man's wig bubble billowing void
repurposed as soundstage for greater resonance in chasms within nugget of victim’s brain in fugue state
this night (spine) not get down broken steps in soon rain, only thing down there anyway
murder by vehicle, so stay up with orphan ferals with blind eyes who drag in half eaten rodent corpses
and fight all night with raccoons on broken steps, pain in gut
another momentous whiteworld tragedy swedish and blond from walnut creek
rammed her husband's pristine toy Boxter (he's in Tahoe skiing) she did
sleek teardrop black and with MISTER BLACK plates
into hardmetal bikeparking stanchion afront aveda
hair body skin art emporium on the street
of the living futons, after only one drink she said
on saint paddy's night, she blond swedish and crying over smashed concave wheel well
as police were awaited and then arrived in waves
to not breath test her but inform her she would be liable
for the violated stanchion, she stopt tearflow to say insurance
consequent cop imbroglio gawkers snapping shots
with idiotphones @midnight in sharp cold wind bleak dead murica of smasht carparts
later lower los angeles below toxic tunnel puddle large unhealthy looking
coyote slowly ambled across street and up contracosta into enclosing night
What's time for if not to live in or was that life O rueful lustrous beauty
I your broken tin soldier w heart of brass it's our Golden Anniversary
"We
left our house, our car -- I even left my daughter behind underneath
the rubble... I wasn't able to pull her out." @AFP #EasternGhouta today #Syria: image via AFP Beirut @AFP_Beirut, 15 March 2018
With #Russia’s support, Syrian govt forces are seizing Eastern #Ghouta using shockingly brutal but familiar tactics @hrw Civilians incl. women, children were incinerated on Friday in an attack that appeared to involve use of despicable incendiary weapons.: image via Mary Wareham @marywareham, 18 March 2018
SYRIA:
Syrians fleeing Hammuriyeh in Eastern Ghouta today, March 15. Army
later captured town, opening 'corridor' for thousands into regime-held
zones nearby - shot by @AFP photographer @abdfree2: image via Maya Gebeily @GebeilyM, 15 March 2018
SYRIA: Syrians fleeing Hammuriyeh in Eastern Ghouta today, March 15. Army later captured town, opening 'corridor' for thousands into regime-held zones nearby - shot by @AFP photographer @abdfree2: image via Maya Gebeily @GebeilyM, 15 March 2018
URGENT: More than 12,000 flee #Syria's #EasternGhouta today: monitor @AFP: image via AFP Beirut @AFP_Beirut, 15 March 2018
Rebels (Stars fell over Area 52, Lebanon, Nebraska)
Lebanon, Kentucky: photo by cedrus', 2 January 2017
Sanford, Maine | Walmart Parking Lot
A woman skates on the frozen Baltic Sea in Vaasa Photo @afpolm #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 March 2018
Lebanon Junction, Kentucky: photo by cedrus', 2 January 2017
Norwich, New York | Walmart Parking Lot
Richfield Springs, New York
Richfield Springs, New York
Richfield Springs, New York
Longbranch saloon. Lebanon, South Dakota.
Norwich, New York | Walmart Parking Lot
Richfield Springs, New York
Richfield Springs, New York
Richfield Springs, New York
Longbranch saloon. Lebanon, South Dakota.
Sanford, Maine | Walmart Parking Lot
A woman skates on the frozen Baltic Sea in Vaasa Photo @afpolm #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 March 2018
Denzel Washington Enters a Sunken Place ft. Jay Pharaoh
ReplyDeleteStars Fell On Alabama (Cover) by Daniela Andrade x Hanbyul Kang
We lived our little drama We kissed in a field of white And stars fell on Alabama Last night I can't forget the glamor Your eyes held a tender light While stars fell on Alabama Last night I never planned in my imagination A situation so heavenly A fairy land where no one else could enter And in the center just you and me My heart beat like a hammer My arms wound around you tight And stars fell on Alabama Last night We lived our drama We kissed in a field of white And stars fell on Alabama Last night I can't forget the glamor Your eyes held a tender light And stars fractured 'Bama Last night I never planned in my imagination A situation so heavenly A fairy land where no one else could enter And in the center just you and me My heart beat just like a hammer Arms wound around you tight While stars fell on Alabama Last night