This infant named Ahmad al-Aqra was killed today in the Syrian & Russian bombing of Kafranbel, Idlib Province. The Assad regime & its amoral guppies like Ben Norton, Eva Bartlett, Vanessa Beeley, portray this tiny boy as an “al-Qaeda affiliated Salafi-jihadist rebel” to justify the slaughter & carpet bombing of homes, schools, markets, & hospitals.

It has been observed that Syrian & Russian bombers are more aggressively targeting those towns that stood boldly against the Assad dictatorship & against the extremist paramilitary groups operating in the region. Kafranbel is one of those towns prominent in the Syrian Arab Spring uprising which held weekly protests against the Assad regime & against the paramilitary groups. Because of their commitment to the ideals of the Arab Spring, Kafranbel’s residents became known as “the conscience of the revolution.” Baby Ahmad is one of those civilians killed because of their commitment to human freedom from tyranny & dictatorship.

May baby Ahmad Rest In Peace.

(Photo from White Helmets)

My sweet little Miss Penny died last Friday. She was 7-years-old & less than 3-pounds. A former landlady gave her to me in 2012 because she worked & traveled & would leave Miss Penny alone closed in a dark laundry room. When she traveled, I would take Miss Penny with my little Dombolino, another Chihuahua who was later killed chasing a car. Penny & Dombolino loved each other & were inseparable. When Miss Penny went home to the landlady after a stay, she was bereft & wouldn’t eat so the landlady gave her to me.

She was a fearless, willful little girl whose personality filled the house & terrorized bigger dogs afraid to mess with her. She never did learn not to poop & pee wherever she wanted & I gave up trying to teach her. It’s not that she didn’t know but that she would have it her way, no discussion. She’s been to the vet several times for bleeding from her little butt. This time, the bleeding wouldn’t stop, no matter what I gave her. She was her usual happy little self at the dog park at 2 pm but only five hours later passed away in my arms as I was trying to find an emergency vet still open in the evening.

She came to me a diva & passed away a diva. There are some who say ‘pets are like family’ but that’s not so. They are family & part of our hearts forever. She followed me wherever I went & resented any who dared claim my attention from her. Her annoying little bark & sweet sweet self will be missed forever. <3

“#CRDI Statement: Protect refugees

The Government of Bangladesh should halt its plans to erect fencing around the Rohingya refugee camps which would restrict freedom of movement, said CRDI today.

Rohingya refugees and their wider diaspora families point out that the authority’s recommendations present a one-dimensional narrative of the complicated dynamics within the camp. The emphasis on surveillance and physical blockades as solutions to the crimes are troubling to the Rohingya refugees.”

–Saiful Rohin

https://www.rohingya.ca/crdi-protect-refugees/?fbclid=IwAR1UgxT46TUZrL2-dWFcw9ibZPOVYc-Yz6IKe8nPII4HP6ltSo_GJhzjoYM

 

Jared Kushner, Trump’s Middle East adviser on Israel & Palestine, said he’s not sure Palestinians are capable of self-governance. If it wasn’t for fraud, corruption, & marrying into an even more corrupt family, Kushner would be selling hot dogs off a push cart in Central Park. No insult to street vendors intended but he has no place in international politics. Palestinians don’t like dealing with lowlifes.

Trump’s visit with Betty Windsor is a cornucopia of follies with both having personal entourages of troll-like creatures, including Ivanka, Jared Kushner, Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Theresa May, Camilla & Charles who she had to drag from the race track to meet the fart-faced POTUS. Judging from photos of the state banquet (which Betty closed down several schools to bankroll), Trump & Betty delighted in each other’s company, as one would expect from two utterly vapid & detestable sponges.

There was some concern that Trump’s vulgar & lumpen manners would offend the ostentations of an aristocracy now 400 years past its historic prime & stinking like a corpse. But since Phil Windsor, the epitome of vulgar (though in a more aristocratic than lumpen way), was holed up in the palace so as not to be outdone in abusive non sequiturs by Trump, the POTUS merely filled his social function of amusing Betty & the other lowbrow aristocrats with flatulent idiocies, flattery, & shameless groveling.

Great wealth has not made the Trump entourage less vulgar but on the contrary has lit up their follies & pretensions in technicolor for the whole world to deplore. Trump has only been in England for a day & was so overawed & obsequious to feudalism that he hasn’t had a chance to create a major rupture in international relations which we sincerely hope he gets around to. Give him time. There’s still two days left. Hopefully before he & his goose-stepping entourage get back on the plane to DC, he will have moved from groveling to farting obscenities that will bring down NATO.

(Photo of Betty & Trump from Getty Images)

“#Eidmubarak πŸ’•πŸ’šπŸ’•πŸ’™πŸ’•to all my dear friends worldwide……may this Eid we keep in our prayers refugee children of the world…………let our mind and heart become borderless and we all embrace #humanityπŸ’ŒπŸ’ŒπŸ’ŒπŸ’ŒπŸ’ŒπŸ’ŒπŸ’ŒπŸ’ŒπŸ’Œ”

–Rollie Mukherjee

We should take a moment to pay tribute to this young man named Mehran Banday, the 22-year-old son of Mehraj Din Banday, who has died as a result of pellet injuries to the head sustained at a protest last year in Nowhatta, Srinagar. It isn’t clear from reports when he sustained the fatal injuries since there have been many protests in Nowhatta, including in June 2018 when Indian occupying forces ran over two young men & crushed 24-year-old Kaiser Ahmed to death with an armored vehicle. The June protest in Nowhatta was after Friday prayers during the Ramadan holy days. Like the Israeli occupying army at Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the Indian occupying army makes mosques a target of their desecrations & assaults.

This photo is one of many of the arrest of Mehran by an undercover cop at a protest after Friday prayers outside Jamia Masjid in Nowhatta on September 7th, 2018. We don’t know if young Mehran was injured with pellet munitions that day or at another protest. The only account we have of the encounter is from the police who describe the incident as they do all of their aggressions against unarmed protesters. They claim they arrested four young men from a group of “miscreants” who pelted stones at soldiers deployed at the main gate of the mosque. But soldiers are regularly deployed at the mosque during Friday prayers only as a provocation & of course it angers worshippers as an aggressive violation of their religious rights.

May Mehran Banday & Kaiser Ahmed Rest In Peace. We honor them for their contributions to the struggle for Kashmiri freedom. Mehran’s body has been taken to Nowhatta for funeral prayers.