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The tantrum inside me
By: Blank Voice
Tags: Writing, Writer, Writers On Writing, Writing Life, Blogger

Photo by https://unsplash.com/@aaronburden

I should not write again. I’ve decided this for the ’n’ th time. Each and every time when love slipped through the fractures of insecurity I decided not to write again.

Every time jealousy cheated on me with masks of care, I decided not to write again.

Whenever I make up my feelings with a daring smile, I decided not to write again.

Everyplace that we wandered, when they brought memories, I decided not to write again.

When I hid my emotions in an indulging silence, I decided not to write again.

But when the bugs of anxiety crawling over my skin start plowing in every night, with the ultimate aim of holding me behind tissues of depression and when my blankets weren’t strong enough to embed those pores...

I go back to the pale pages and bleed until I decide… not to write
How to Add Running Text In Blogger Layout [ HTML and CSS ] — Smartest Blogger
By: Smartest Blogger
Tags: Blogging, Blogging Tips, Text, Google Adsense, Blogger

How to Add Running Text In Blogger Layout [ HTML and CSS ] — Smartest Blogger.

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It looks very nice and too professional that a Heading of our Blog is passing through the Blogger template. In this blog, I am going to tell you stepwise How to Add Running Text In Blogger Layout [ HTML and CSS ]. You can design it very well and you can add your links to it also…

How to Add Running Text In Blogger Layout [ HTML and CSS ] — Step 1:

Go to the Blogger Dashboard and create a new post.

How to Add Running Text In Blogger Layout [ HTML and CSS ] — Step 2:

Step 2 is to Type whatever you what to show on the running text and you may add links to it, you may bold it, you may change its style. You do whatever you want.

How to Add Running Text In Blogger Layout [ HTML and CSS ] — Step 3:

You will see the Pen Symbol in the left corner of the toolbar. Click on it and change the view to HTML vi…………………

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HYDERABADI BIRYANI
By: Waseem Akram
Tags: Food Recipes, On Page Seo, Off Page Seo, Food, Blogger

The perfect blend of Mughlai and Hyderabadi cuisine, this delicacy becomes a must have for all Biryani fans when made with National Sindhi Biryani Mix. It’s spicy, indulgent and above all, a supreme classic from the family of Biryanis.
Three Reasons Why Your Blog is More Dead Than George Washington
By: Alexandria Ducksworth
Tags: Writing, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Blog, Blogger

There are 600 million blogs out of 1.7 billion websites across the internet. In America, nearly 32 million bloggers are typing away their latest content. How many do you think are ultra-successful? I’m talking well enough they can live alone as full-time bloggers without a care in the world. Are you one of them?

Let’s say you’re a health and wellness writer. You know everything under the sun about this topic and create a blog. After three months of posting a weekly article, you only receive 20 views. No comments, no monetary compensation from your affiliate links. WTF? Why is your blog more dead than George Washington?

Here are three reasons:

1. No Traffic

Your blog needs traffic to stay alive. Traffic are surges of viewers coming into your blog daily. Business Insider receives an estimated monthly 30.4 million visitors to their site. Imagine that kind of traffic flooding into your blog.

Use social media, whether it’s Facebook or Pinterest, to attract more traffic. I share content on Instagram and Twitter for extra eyes.

My pinned article on Twitter (via @alexaducks)

If you’re thinking about establishing a YouTube channel, use it as an advantage for your blog as well. Create a video on your topic with a blog link (based on the same subject) about it in the description area.

For returning visitors, you may want to start an e-mail list. You can go with ConvertKit, MailerLite, or Mailchimp. Keeping contact with your readers is a big plus.

Lastly, you can gain traffic through guest posting. Share your expertise on high authority sites based on your niche. If you’re an entrepreneurship writer, head to onEntrepreneur or Addited2Success. Digital marketing? Try ResultFirst.

To find which sites accept guest posts, type in “write for us” on Google, including your niche. Here’s one for pets:

Travel:

Technology:

2. No Engagement

Don’t drop your post and go expecting your blog will flourish. If you receive comments on your blog, reply. You don’t have to respond to trolls.

Blog engagement contributes to SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Such activity on your site sends a message to Google your blog is a lively place.

3. No Consistency

Writing consistency can be tricky, especially if you’re a newbie blogger. I’ve been blogging for years, and sometimes I slip up.

Blogging one post per month isn’t going to give you the results you desire. Start with 2–3 posts a week, around 300–600 words. If you want to publish more, you’re free to do so. The internet appreciates more content in its gigantic system.

You can get away with writing one post per week if it’s over 2,000 words (like Neil Patel). Besides, long-form content helps you rank higher on Google. If you’re on the first-page search results, people are more likely to click on your site for the answers they’re looking for.
“Vantage Point” (Short Form — MicroBlog)
Tags: Personal Growth, Microblog, Bloggertips, Blog, Blogger

“A lot of what you see depends on where you’re sitting.” — My Father.

Very few people actively seek out multiple viewpoints and new life paradigms.

If there is “o” or “0” painted on a wall, most would describe it as a circle, a zero, or the letter “O”.

Richard Feynman would see a hole.

But from yet another vantage point, you’ll see a wonderfully powerful spiral.

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Everything important in life should be examined from all angles.

Otherwise, your life will surely be short-changed.

In lak’ech, JaiChai

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This is Your TORUM Invitation.

JaiChai 12–16–2020. All rights reserved.
Good Morning Friends.
By: Jawahar Lalla
Tags: Jbl, Jbl7, Writer, Jawaharlalla, Blogger

Good Morning Friends.

As I am having my pungent aroma favored tea was wondering how are we going to welcome the new year 2021.To start with a covid vaccine piercing our body the substantial truth is yes but it's for our life immunity & safety.

Today I am sharing one more inspiring anecdote about eagle & raven.

The only bird that dares to peck an eagle is the raven. It sits on the eagle's back and bites its neck. However, the eagle doesn't respond or fight with the raven. It does not spend time or energy with the raven. It just opens its wings and begins to fly higher in the sky. The higher the flight, the harder it is for the raven to breathe and the raven eventually falls due to lack of oxygen. Not all battles we need to respond to???

Not all arguments or critics we need to respond to or answer back???.

Just lift a standard, the opposition will fall off! ??

Stop wasting time with the 'ravens around us'.

Just take them to your height and they'll fade away.

The enemies may sit on our back and bite our neck. But remember, "the race we are running is not for the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor the bread to the wise, nor riches to men of skill, but to play a right-brain game against ravens.

May God takes us to the height where it'll be difficult for the enemies to peck on us in God's name!

Pl share & comment yr valuable thoughts.#jawaharlalla@jbl7#inspiring stories.

✍️🍵🌹💐🙏
Can’t reach the deplorables: a memo to my progressive American friends
By: Sol Chrom
Tags: Culture War, Deplorables, Fascism, Violence, Hate

(This was originally written before the election was officially called for Joe Biden.)

As I write this, Joe Biden’s electoral-vote count has been pegged at 264. They haven’t actually called it yet, but pretty much everyone knows where this is going.

We’ve all read about how this has been much closer than expected, and the anticipated overwhelming repudiation of the Orange Plague Lesion and all he stands for hasn’t happened. I’ve been going on on the Book of Face about this, so it’s only fair that I spell it out. It’s not too complicated.

My dear progressive, thoughtful, and decent American friends, there’s one overarching lesson you need to draw from this. It’s based on three observations:

A good solid chunk of the electorate — 40, 45 per cent — voted for Trump knowing what he is and what he stands for. Call them whatever you like — MAGA morons, deplorables, white trash — but that’s who they are, and they’re not going away. That isn’t going to change, regardless of how far right or left the Democrats tack. There will be no bringing them back to the good side, and no siphoning off any of the MAGA vote. You won’t reach them with arguments about the economy, agriculture, industrial policy, infrastructure … whatever. They don’t care about any of that as long as the people they hate are getting hurt. They’re called deplorables for a reason. They believe all kinds of crazy shit. They hate you and they want to kill you. And they have guns.

Remember the old saying, “when someone shows you who they are, believe them?”

No more talk of “reaching out” or “bringing people together.” Time to deal with this for what it is, and plan accordingly. That’s strategic. Tactically, you might want to arm up and prepare to return fire.
Why I cannot publish my story?? Whether you charge your subscription fees
By: Pooja Parkash
Tags: Subscribe, Publishing, Violence, Unfair, Membership

Why I cannot publish my story?? Whether you charge your subscription fees
Power and control
By: Diana Slabinschi
Tags: Metaphor, Poetry, Spirituality, Poem, Violence

Muted emotions

Rooted in prescience

The bloodbath

became the word for violence

the sign language to define our love

where is the line between love and loathe

entwined, assimilated, sink into my mind

divided they’re the same

hiding your feelings transcend in a conundrum

can’t keep track of all that we are,

the cracks breathe to the surface

calling killer

serial killer

paid killer

heart killer

aggression aggression

use your body, all that we are

a bullet in your brain

my power and control

cold-blooded killer

it has become a metaphor

to fill this void of a God role

one shot

murder me with my ignorance

my demons crying feelings

in my absence.

The wounds

lost in a past lifetime,

you’re the victim, I am the psychopath,

in between lies a mirror. Can you spot the difference? Do you need to understand? Why can’t you feel?

Blink and you’re dead. Bang bang!

Our fears, my addictions.

Dehumanized and blinded, darkness has become see-through.
Live Your Life; but be Prepared for Violence
By: Personal Defense Connection
Tags: Defensive Mindset, Defend Yourself, Self Defense, Be Prepared, Violence

“…Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.” Nehemiah 4:14 NIV

When I read this verse in the past, I used to see it as simply telling me that I should protect my family.

However, I now believe it tells me much more.

In addition to protecting my family, it also tells me to prepare my mind for the violence that is in our own communities.

Nehemiah knew that rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem would anger the tribes/nations around the area. When the leaders of Judah expressed their concern for safety, Nehemiah set armed guards to protect the workers.

He also told them to keep the Lord in their thoughts to ease their fears. And so He will also give them courage to fight for what’s right.

Be Prepared for Possible Violent Situations

I personally believe that this verse tells us to not live in denial. Additionally, it tells us to realize that there are evil people in our communities.

It also tells us that we should prepare ourselves, physically and mentally, to handle possible violent situations as we go about our daily lives.

Related Post: “How Violence can Save Your Life”

Note that Nehemiah did not tell them to just work on the walls and let God protect them.

Instead, he told them to get the right mindset of being responsible for their own safety by being prepared to fight while they worked on the walls.

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Tough Talk meets its Comeuppance — 2021 payback!
By: Sam Dubois
Tags: Behavior Change, Locker Room Talk, Trump, Violence, Violent Language

Tough Talk meets its Comeuppance — 2021 payback!

It has been fashionable to talk tough lately. As my “political idol” put it, “locker-room talk”.

It looks like things are starting to happen to the tough talkers. There are beginning to be consequences…

This doesn’t always involve violence, turning the tables, but sometimes it does. A couple of tough guys decided to harass a woman at the diner, who was a trans woman, and could take care of herself — they got a good thrashing, with the added embarrassment of all the other patrons watching…

This coming year, as things begin to normalize, as “the dust settles”, we will begin to see tough talk backfire.

If a politician encourages a crowd to chant “lock her up” in reference to another politician, maybe the chant will turn into “lock him up”! — And this will become a new chant — and a new reality!

When some tough guys pick on a couple — two guys — they may find that the one “sissy” is a cheerleader, and can surprisingly snatch the bat and twirl it like a baton, giving the bullies a bop in the noggin and sending them running away!

When a politician who is in trouble, herself, exhorts another not to leave the publicly owned residence where he lived while elected, instead of making him a hero, she may get to see a cartoon of a nanny dragging a naughty child out of the White House by his naughty ear!

When a bigmouth refers to his “second-amendment” friends, as a not-so-subtle call for violence, even assassination, he may run into trouble with people who have been encouraged to carry firearms — what goes around, comes around.

When thugs have been called upon to “stand by” and start feeling their oats to push people around in the street, how about as police forces start weeding out the people who are looking for an excuse to act out, and their rules start to include using their fancy gear to wrap bullies up on the ground, ready to roll them away to cool off in jail.

When we start “thinking twice” because people started thinking that they could say or do whatever they wanted, and now start thinking that they might be stopped… Thinking twice.

Bullies often mouth off and act out precisely because they are sure they can get away with it. What about when it becomes wise to look around at the broader reality, and find that society is watching, and something might happen if they look for trouble!
Hatred
By: Voicing Freedom
Tags: Internet, Violence, Crime, Mental Health, Incel

VICE News

The evidence of hatred online is clear. The whole problem with incel-ish type groups, pseudo communities, etc online that jeer on the incredibly hateful and disturbingly harmful to innocent people and the public is that behavior as we’ve seen doesn’t just remain online. It can’t all that insidiousness can’t remain bottled up in an unfulfilling space. If you give a psychopathic mentality like so enough of a push, enough attention from negative harmful behaviors, enough ideas, enough incentive it really is like giving a loaded weapon to a maladjusted kid. Their hatred and resentment will go beyond the realms of the internet. None of those types are harmless or a joke, they’re all harmful to innocent people and the public. That’s where the Elliot Rodgers come from, the Anissa Weier’s and Morgan Geyser’s, Timothy Mcveigh’s, Dylan Roof’s and so on to give many examples of individuals that their online activity to commit harm became an unfortunate reality. Matter of fact one of the sayings incel types tell fellow incels prior to committing some crime towards others “Be a hero” because in their mindset they really see themselves as some martyr on a campaign to go out in a blaze of glory. As an old friend used to say when being gone at constantly by obviously deranged I would say and on hardcore substances to boot “What would keep them from getting on a plane and coming after you if they got high enough? Nothing.” Myself having been in the field dealing with predators and crime for years it is just a fact. That mentality do not have a stopping point nor a point of any human respect. Point is don’t play with those types because they aren’t harmless anything but so honestly. Could they hurt someone if given the opportunity? For certain, especially if they felt glorified or attention given in some way for doing so. When individuals are full of that much disdain and hatred it doesn’t just stop on the internet.
Human Destiny
By: Randy Shingler
Tags: Poetry, Blue Insights, Violence, Environment, Destiny

Contemplations on our human destiny

As earth’s environment slowly erodes

Wildfires, hurricanes and increasing floods

Strange weather cycles are taking hold

Many ancient glaciers have melted away.

Divisions and discords are more common

Violence erupts as more guns proliferate

Far right radicals have become more bold

Marching publicly while bearing arms

Intimidations into state capital buildings.

What does this say about human destiny?

When difficult to agree on common good

To address looming crisis of climate change

And putting aside many petty differences

Letting go of racism and discriminations.

Wondering what human future will be

For generations coming after us?

Perhaps new wisdom will fill their hearts

Behaviors insuring human destiny’s survival.
Fiction
By: Reza Fahlevi
Tags: Poetry, War, Fiction, Poem, Violence

Wondering the hard time, when will it end…? as I feel so weak to face it again tomorrow. Wondering the hopes, thinking off if I don’t have anything left to keep it staying in my soul. Asking too much the tragedies, as I feel too much afraid if some time I can’t continue to survive in the day of storm.

All I want is to see people start doing the humanity each other, everyday. When the day begins.

All I want is to face the sweet things with the loves, as we care each other. Without stopping, without any ends, until we pass through.

As all I want is to feel the freedom, touching my heart when I begin my early morning, keeps warming me from the extremely cold night.

But wars are still taking place. Coloring the beauties to turn up to be dark, faded slowly where the black comes along.

Screaming and shouting scare the birds to fly high in the sky. Crying has trapped any children to dream their wishes. Then a big question stuck in me, “why?”

The innocents lying cold on the land. No words no voice. Some keep running to be at the shelter, saving their soul from the eye of the guns.

So let me create the world where you and I are in the same land. Talking and laughing. Sharing and smiling. Because we deserve to feel that peace ever.

And everyday, I’m trying to start moving my feet. Walking pass through, where I can feel the wind wishpering me a message… a message of good bye of the sorrow. And begins greeting the world by saying hello.

The pain seems so real. But it’s hard to be explained. Tears that have been blown away, never enough to make us cry again tomorrow. As I feel so tired.

Let me begins with my world, my wish, my own fiction. I want to hug you everyday. And don’t let me stop doing that, because I love you. Because I’m caring of your sorrow.

I wanna draw the birds. Painting the rainbow. Asking the storm to be friendly. Thunder’s becoming friend. Cause I don’t have any voice to shout aksing help. This time to end it.

Yesterday passed, we live our lives in tragic. They won’t hear us, they won’t come. God, please make us to keep standing by our legs, when we have no more strength. This seems like over, trapped and there’s no way out.

So let them in to my fiction. I will tell them a happy ending story. So they can wash away the fear inside. They can go through together.

I don’t know about tomorrow. The jail keep in closed. The gloomy days still coloring up above. Cloud can’t deliver good news. Looks like and feels like in hell. High water temperature, burning away our skin. No more left.

And if my fiction never taken place, please bring us to a better side. This crying is the witness, they destroy us like the animals.

If my fiction’s still not enough, send us Your love. We could be by Your side anytime. Die in peace…
American Bar Association Violations
Tags: Claims, Attorney, Trump, Violence, American Bar Association

Attorneys Shouldn’t Be Filling False Claims

Claims that Voters Fraud was Committed Was Tossed-Out of Courtrooms

Going forward the states whereas the false claims was made should take a serious consideration as too why lawyers continued, to make false claims, sanctions should come as a results…

In light of the baseless allegations of election fraud the attorneys who on behalf of the Trump administration filed the petitions that fraud was in several states concludes that voting was fraudulent without bringing any shred of evidence. Should these attorneys be sanctioned? I don’t know as a matter of fact, but seemly too a layperson it does. The Washington Post reported that 1500 attorneys filed a petition for sanctions. Will the American people allow this administration to violate bar rules and watch a democracy be challenged and the presidential elections be decided in the courts and disobey the will of the people.

Rule 3.1Meritorious Claims And Contentions

A lawyer shall not bring or defend a proceeding, or assert or controvert an issue therein, unless there is a basis in law and fact for doing so that is not frivolous, which includes a good faith argument for an extension, modification or reversal of existing law. A lawyer for the defendant in a criminal proceeding, or the respondent in a proceeding that could result in incarceration, may nevertheless so defend the proceeding as to require that every element of the case be established.

Rule 4.1: Truthfulness in Statements to Others

In the course of representing a client a lawyer shall not knowingly:

(a) make a false statement of material fact or law to a third person; or

(b) fail to disclose a material fact to a third person when disclosure is necessary to avoid assisting a criminal or fraudulent act by a client, unless disclosure is prohibited by Rule 1.6.

Rule 8.4: Misconduct Maintaining

The Integrity Of The Profession

It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to:

violate or attempt to violate the Rules of Professional Conduct, knowingly assist or induce another to do so, or do so through the acts of another;

In the petitions filed by the Trump attorneys didn’t demonstrate any claim that any electors or the Board of the County were guilty of fraud. Most of the claims made argument as “inadmissible hearsay within hearsay.” The court asserted that to the attorneys be inform you that your submission is defective. Too many false claims was made under the pretext of voter fraud, which not one shred of evidence wasn’t given in any of the petitions. The Trump lawyers found themselves backpedaling when pressed in court for admissible evidence, or dropping out when they were accused of helping derail the democratic process. Nationally, it’s becoming clear that a Biden win in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, and Wisconsin with enough electoral votes, was imminent. The Trump’s legal team cried vote fraud, but courts found none…
Let it not fade
By: Nathan Barrett
Tags: Beauty, Arès, Violence, Human Nature, Athena

Violence is real

When we loose contact with what is real,

We loose contact with who we are.

We are human

Steeped in the turmoil

Of millions of years of barbarous

Violence

Because violence resides

In the hearts of the living.

All life engages in violence.

Violence bares a strange truth,

Unequivocal in all other disciplines.

To be struck down,

To be defeated

Is to come into

contact with

your reality.

Your shortsightedness

Your arrogance

Your failing of humility,

unequivocally.

In violence we learn the most fundamental lessons.

In violence we learn of life and death,

What it means to live

And what dignity means in death.

Because all life must pass

Through the crucible

Of violence,

One way or another,

To meet ones end.

From the mother’s cries of agony in childbirth,

To the slow withering of a body ruined by disease.

There is both

Terror and beauty in it.

As it is said:

Life would not be worth living

if it did not end.

All would be trivial and meaningless,

Beauty would not exist

Because it would not end.

And so,

The gods of war

Do not simply

Slip out of existence

By a passing turn of generation.

They live and breath

as humanity lives and breaths.

They live and breath with life itself.

They will return.

God forbid,

They will return.
Gender-based violence in Pakistan
By: Attee Tee
Tags: Empowering Women, Gender Based Violence, Gender Equality, Violence

Violence on women is increasing like wildfire in Pakistan, women are subjected to various sorts of violence inflicted by men mostly.

Pakistan is sadly a male dominating country where men can get away with doing anything, but what’s even more upsetting is that women are at each other’s throat.

In many cases of domestic abuse, the victim mostly the wife is threatened by her husband’s family to keep quiet and keep living as if nothing happened the husband mostly also threatens the wife with divorce.

In our male dominating society what a dependent married woman fears most is the word “Divorce” because according to her she’s nothing without her husband’s support and if she is a mother than she worries about her children’s future.

A staggering 32 per cent of women have experienced physical violence in Pakistan and 40 per cent of ever-married women have suffered from spousal abuse at some point in their life. These stats are according to a survey taken in 2012–2013.

Honour crimes are also at top in Pakistan where women or young girls are brutally murdered by a male member of their family in the name of honour. Pakistan has the highest number of documented and estimated honour killings per capita of any country in the world; about one-fifth of the world’s honour killings are performed in Pakistan (1000 out of the 5000 per year total).

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy a Pakistani journalist, filmmaker and an academy award winner filmed a documentary named: “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness” it depicts the story of a girl who became a victim of honour killing for falling in love. In the starting of the documentary there is a description which states that almost 1000 women are murdered by their male family members in the name of honour. This documentary won the Academy award and it pressurized the law officials to take the honour killing crimes more seriously.

There are so many cases in Pakistan where a woman’s rights are violated, in most cases the victims are never brought to justice.

Here in this society a woman is only seen as a sexual object by men, I can’t even bring myself to write about the rape cases because there are so many, and it hurts me too much being a woman myself and seeing this injustice happening to other women.

Aurat march stirred up a lot of controversy in Pakistan because mainly it was a huge threat to fragile egos of the males as the males were so against it what mostly irritated the males was the slogan “mera jism meri marzi” which means “my body, my choice” which is pretty obvious because a woman’s body belongs to her only and no man can have any authority over it, the egos of many men was hurt because of this they started slut shaming the women who attended aurat march mainly because their fragile egos couldn’t take the hit, well whatever ruckus these males caused despite that the aurat march still took place and many women attended the march.

It makes me feel immense pleasure when women stand up for themselves.
Goodbye Mr. Lennon…..
By: Christine Schrade-Keddy
Tags: Memoir, Grief, Violence, The Beatles, John Lennon

Goodbye Mr. Lennon…..

38 years ago today, a deranged man walked up to perhaps the most talented singer/songwriter there ever was….and blew him away in the doorway of his NY City apartment building.

Time stopped for me that day. It was the first death that I experienced of a loved one. The first time I was personally affected by the evil violence of this world. I remember that morning like it was yesterday. The strangest thing was that I had just awakened from a nightmare that Paul McCartney had been shot. How bizarre is that? My subconscious was close…..but not entirely.

I was crying hysterically. There was NO WAY I was getting on the school bus. No Way.

If you believe that you didn’t know my Mother.

I got on that school bus.

Driving to school as all of the other kids were laughing and talking like nothing else was different-like the most horrible thing ever had not just happened that morning. Like things were normal- when CLEARLY they weren’t. John Lennon’s music had helped me through the devastating loneliness of the seventh and eighth grade. He had helped me through the loneliness of my parent’s marital problems and my Dad’s drinking. With the door to my bedroom closed and my journals and the Beatles- I could get through anything. He turned my room into a sanctuary. He believed in peace- that it was actually possible. He was brilliant and witty and wise…..clearly the BEST Beatle. And the best songwriter as a solo act (Imagine, Jealous Guy, Give Peace a Chance, Instant Karma…..??- need I go on????) How could I possibly navigate the rest of High School without him?

I shuffled through the school day in the fog of shock- until I got to Western Civ. with Mr. Stockbridge- my favorite class and my favorite teacher. He understood. We spent his class talking about John Lennon, and the history of the Beatles and grief and violence. There were other friends in that class who had loved John almost as much as I did. There was community. I was not alone in my sorrow.

I will never forget that day.

And I will never forget Mr. Stockbridge.
My views about Twitter - Is twitter India safe?
By: Abhikesh Tarwan
Tags: Twitter, Social Media, Trolls, Violence, Cyber Bullying

My views about Twitter - Is twitter India safe? Bulling Harassment & trolling in twitter - AbhikeshSpeaks

Mere thoughts thode se alg h me thoda alg sochata hun, syd ho b skta h ki koi sochta ho mere jesa soch mil b skti h qki duniya bahut badi h.

Twitter vese aap sabhi ko iske bare me to btane ki koi jarurat nahi hai.

Twitter ko jisne bnyaya tha kuch acha sochke hi bnaya tha Entertainment or bhi bahut kuch.

Pr jo twitter India h muje usme thodi ( ya yun kahun ki bahut ) jyada problem dekhane ko mili hai

Isme Violence vali chije jyada jldi grand krti hai me pichale kuch salo se dekh rha hun, isi saal ka e.g. le ligie

Cyber bulling jyadatar dekhane ko milti hai or yehi chij trand krti h isme, or to or agr kisi account ko cyber bulling harassment ke liye report kro to uspe b koi action nahi liya jata hai.

Sbse important bat is media platform pe jyadatar vo log violence create kr rhe h jinko blue tick yani jinka account verified hai vo krte hai.

Twitter create so much violence ya youn keh de ye bdava de rha h, agr twitter vale bole ki hmari koi glti nahi h ye to users krte. Hai

To fir aap log unko blue tick q dete ho q unka account verified krte ho.

Twitter create mental disturbing

Twitter pe aae din logo ko troll kia jata h or complaints krne pr twitter koi action nahi leta cyber bulling pe kuch nahi krta hai mene khudh pta nahi kitane users ki report ki h pr koi action nahi leta h twitter.

I think twitter ko apani guidelines ko change krna chahiye or guidelines ko follow b krna chahiye.

And isi ke sath main ab twitter nahi use krunga agr future main twitter ek safe platform bnta h to hm jarur use krege.

Abhikesh Tarwan
Ghana a rising model for Africa in a tale of two elections; Ghana’s Election campaigns end peacefully in sharp contrast to the violent images coming from the East African country of Uganda
By: Roland Cunningham
Tags: Ghana, Bobi Wine, Violence

In a few days time, on Monday 7th of December 2020, Ghana goes to the polls where the incumbent is seeking another term.

As the campaign closes, to date, there thankfully has not been reported violence that has the propensity to capture international headlines.

This followed a pact between the two main rivals to ensure peace and accept the outcome of the elections, which has generally characterised the peaceful transfer of power from incumbents to the opposition.

‘I WILL ACCEPT THE VERDICT OF GHANAIANS ON 7TH DECEMBER — PREZ AKUFO-ADDO @NAkufoAddo has reiterated his commitment to the peace and stability of the country, & has assured the Ghanaian people of his readiness to accept the verdict of the election. #VoteNumber1 #MaintainNanaAddo’

This is in sharp contrast to some of the African countries, where elections are characterised by vicious violence, attacks on the opposition, mass arbitrary arrests and killings of unarmed civilians.
Raising awareness of the increase in domestic violence amid the COVID-19 health crisis in Puntland…
Tags: Violence Against Women, Gender Based Violence, Activism, Violence, 16 Days Of Activism

Raising awareness of the increase in domestic violence amid the COVID-19 health crisis in Puntland, Somalia

A blog by Hawa Feminist Coalition

Gender-based violence (GBV) increases during every type of emergency — whether economic crises, conflict or disease outbreaks. Pre-existing toxic social norms and gender inequalities, as well as economic and social stress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have led to an increase of GBV, particularly in the camps where internally displaced persons (IDPs), some of them the most vulnerable people of our society, are housed.

The increase in gender-based violence since the outbreak of COVID-19 can be attributed directly to the lockdown and containment measures that forced people to stay indoors and resulted in women and girls being trapped at home with their abusers.

Hawa Feminist Coalition carried out a series of public awareness campaigns, focusing on the increase in domestic violence amid the COVID-19 health crisis. 3,000 posters were printed that delivered a vital message urging people to act to support women and girls experiencing domestic violence during the pandemic. These posters were placed in public places where they were highly visible and distributed through social media platforms.

The messaging was also distributed in the IDP camps of Bosaso and Garowe in Puntland Somalia as well as through associated the social media platforms reaching up to 20,000 online users.

Hawa Feminist Coalition mobilized its volunteers to deliver the awareness messages in IDP camps and also interacted with the women and girls there to encourage them to come forward and report the GBV cases to the police or designated hotline.

Hawa Feminist Coalition will keep fighting until these violations are stopped and young women and girls enjoy their rights in Somalia.
Are Handguns Making You Safer?
By: Valerie M. Gantzler
Tags: Suicide, National Statistics, Handguns, Violence

My uncle killed himself with a handgun in the basement bathroom of his home. He used a .365 Magnum. The mess that was left, both literally and figuratively, was profound. My uncle was dying of cancer and was probably very depressed. Instead of asking for help or taking advantage of Colorado’s assisted suicide law, he took his own life — with a handgun.

I was Zooming with a group of girlfriends and one of them mentioned that she and her husband had purchased his and her handguns. The reaction from the other girls was very similar to the reaction you would expect if she had a new grandchild on the way. I immediately felt apart from the group. I do not find handguns exciting or fun. I find them dangerous.

I’ve never liked guns. They don’t seem to serve much purpose except to kill. And if you have one in your home, you are more likely to be injured or die via murder or suicide. Certainly, there are instances where people used guns to protect themselves during a break-in. But statistically, those are far and few between. You are more likely to hear about a father killing his own child as she comes back in the house after sneaking out in the middle of the night.

I wish I had access to real statistics about handgun violence in the U.S. but it’s very hard to come by. That’s because the National Rifle Association (NRA) lobbies Congress to disallow the collection of gun violence data by the Centers for Disease Control. The NRA doesn’t want Americans to know the national number of people that are killed by handguns in accidents, suicides, or domestic violence cases. And it isn’t all about the 2nd Amendment. It’s about money. When you purchase a gun you not only put yourself and members of your household in danger, you put money in the NRA’s many pockets.

Americans feel safer with a gun in the home, but the reality is that they are not. There are many small studies that verify this. But our national obsession with guns and the interpretation of the 2nd Amendment that we believe allows us to own them, makes the U.S. a very dangerous place. Almost anybody can purchase a gun. And if you’re white and live in an open-carry state, you can carry your semi-automatic weapon around in the street. Don’t get me started on what would happen if a person of color were to exercise these rights.

I, personally, will never own a handgun or allow one in my home. Therefore, my chances of being injured or killed with a handgun reduces to almost zero. I will advocate for stronger gun laws and a more conservative interpretation of the 2nd amendment.

Please visit the CDC website or this link for more information about handgun injury/death statistics:

https://injury.research.chop.edu/violence-prevention-initiative/types-violence-involving-youth/gun-violence/gun-violence-facts-and#.X8fXYmhKjIU
Modern World and Transgenders: YEF’s report.
By: Yef India
Tags: Ngos In India, Transgender, Violence, Transgender Rights, Transgender Woman

Modern World and Transgenders: YEF’s report.

Photo by Cecilie Johnsen on Unsplash

As we head on to a greater world, our mindset is still damaged and not yet fixed from the ancient blow that we are still recovering from. Our race is against time, and what we expect is to be at a similar pace with time and run parallel with it, but we fail to do so and ignore the fact that time is much ahead than we generally think it to be. This is a generation of new thoughts and powerful ideas, and old customs are not much appreciated. Some things can still be done the old way but 98% of the living is now modernized and has been acquired due to the new way of thinking and new ideas.

“It’s all of us versus Patriarchy”.

Living in this modern world we all might have thought of fewer problems and many solutions but we are still stuck at a major problem that shouldn’t be one, Gender Discrimination. There are Men and then there are Women, nothing in between. But as we all know, trans people are given a different identity other than male and female, the reason being a difference in their physical appearance. We need to understand it now that there is no trans, it’s either male or female, and calling them trans or anything else just makes them different from the rest and indirectly excludes them from all common proceedings, and that is not a good thing.

Violence against people from the transgender community is not new. The British infamously registered and controlled Indian transgender persons under the guise of The Criminal Tribes Act, 1971 which considered Hijras (called ‘Eunuchs’ in the Act, a derogatory term referring to castrated men) as criminals and barred them from dressing as women or engaging in their traditional activities.

Hear this case where a trans woman was murdered as she traveled in a cab with two other men. Her name was Alka, who happily wore a saree as she traveled as an independent woman, but as soon as she took that cab her life was endangered and was caught up in a cell from where an escape was not an option. When the news surfaced, Alka was mentioned as a man and was given a deadname, Jaiprakash, which stripped her of her identity. Even in death, her dignity was not respected. As the reports described the case, Alka was, at many places, called a ‘eunuch’, which is a disrespectful term for the entire community of trans people.

Trans women are women. Trans men are men. This is not up for discussion. To deadname a trans person is bad enough.

It was a heinous crime committed on a small misunderstanding that Alka was a transgender woman and not a cisgender. She was killed because the two men realized that Alka was not a cisgender woman but a transgender woman. They felt so angry that they decided to punish her by mutilating her genitalia and then killing her. This took place in Chhattisgarh, at Tattapani.
The Battles of Sangamner (11.14.1995)
By: Z S
Tags: Life Lessons, Memories, Violence, Life, Youth

“Sangle, you should close your shop and go home”, I tell him still looking at the horizon, away from his shop.

Sangle, a skinny lanky 20-year-old tea vendor stands by his stove warming up a batch of tea for the customers who might take the last ride out late into the night. The stove hisses as the scent of the sweet milk tea permeate the atmosphere.

“It’s still an early night Saab. The last movie ends at 12.00.

There will still be people coming over”, he is busy chopping ginger as he throws it into the cauldron on the stove.

He starts to arrange the glasses of tea in his tray for the upcoming customers.

Suddenly he stops and comes over. He senses something is about to happen.

“Go home Sangle. It’s late”.

His mind slowly registers the tone and starts to understand what I am saying. Taking a couple of steps back he turns off the stove in a hurry and puts the glasses back on the shelf. The stove is hot but he picks it up wrapped in a thick cloth, pulls down the tin door of his little shop, and locks it up quickly. It’s a useless activity and the tin shed barely protects anything except shield its inner wares from prying eyes.

But it’s a matter of habit.

He picks up the stove and walks quickly towards the direction of the fields. Even if the shop is broken, the most expensive item in his shop needs to be safe.

I sit there outside the shop on a wooden bench with a red plastic chair next to it.

Picking up the wooden bench I drop it behind the shop. It’s not a selfless move trying to protect the poor man’s furniture. I just don’t want it to be used against me.
Dismantle Of Migrant Tents Leads To Human Rights Violation In Paris
By: The Workers Rights
Tags: Human Rights, Paris, Tents, Migrants, Violence

Paris migrant camp has been rocked by human rights violations that has unearthed violence against media and journalists. Two police officers are under investigation for attacking journalists on more than one occasion. These officers were dispatched to remove a group of mainly Afghan migrants from Place de la République in the centre of Paris recently.

Episodes of notoriety and deliberate physical violence were filmed by the social media. One officer was found tripping a man who was running away from the police. This made him fall and injure himself badly. The second officer pinned a journalist to the ground while appearing to be threatening him with a truncheon.

Violence was also used with other immigrants that were trying to dissuade the officers from tearing off makeshift tents. This was despite appeals made to a number of local councillors, politicians, lawyers and humanitarian organisers. Immigrants from various parts of Middle East nations have been trying to find a place to stay.

The stand is ironic to the recent speeches that French president Emmanuel Macron has been making over equal rights of French nationals. It seems there is no concern for the lives of the immigrants stuck in transit. The French authorities were ordered to send in a squadron of mobile gendarmes as well as officers from the anti-crime brigade and several companies from a “security and intervention unit” to break up the camp.

This camp was relocated from an ad-hoc one on the northern edge of Paris at Saint-Denis. Several hundred migrants had set up tents in Place de la République after a call by humanitarian organisations. Literally all of them were thrown out of the ad-hoc one.

Paris is a hot spot for the stopover for migrants. Thousands have travelled from Paris to the port of Calais and attempted to stow away on trucks heading across the Channel to England. A small number attempt the crossing by boat.

https://www.theworkersrights.com/dismantle-of-migrant-tents-leads-to-human-rights-violation-in-paris/
Escalating violence in strategic Syria
By: Joie Cooper
Tags: Assasination, Rebel, Violence, Syria, Syrian

Violence has erupted in recent weeks in a strategic Syrian city with government forces and former rebels clashing amid a wave of assassinations, revealing the difficulty President Bashar al-Assad faces in maintaining control over areas he says he has pacified.
How We Will Stop the Violence in Durham
By: Min. Paul Scott
Tags: Number Of Shootings, Durham, Shooting, City Council, Violence

Image Courtesy of Pixabay.com

How We Will Stop the Violence in Durham

Min. Paul Scott

So far there are reports of over 800 shootings in Durham in 2020 with hundreds of victims. We cannot wait for the politicians or police to come save us because “WE” are the solution. Below are 10 basic solutions that are either in operation or can easily be implemented on the streets of Durham right now.

1) Since the violence is ,disproportionately, affecting the African American community we must replace the term “Stop the Violence” with “Black Empowerment.”

2) We are calling for the formation of study groups to examine the root causes of “Black on Black Violence.” Suggested readings should include , Black on Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination by Dr. Amos Wilson and The Psychopathic Racial Personality by Dr. Bobby E. Wright.

3) We are calling for hotlines, chat rooms and text groups for parents to contact community activists if they are experiencing problems with their children or family members. The purpose is to squash beefs that could lead to violence.

4) We are calling for the formation of a Council of Elders to mediate disputes and maintain order in the community.

5) We are calling for the establishment of “street institutes” where organizations adopt one block in the city and are responsible for that section of town. The organizations must be highly visible in that area and visit it frequently. An example is the Black Messiah Movement Street Institute on the West End where we give out free black history books, snacks, ski caps, gloves , and hold “street rallies” and listening sessions in the community.

6) We are calling for the duplication of initiatives like Operation PULLUP (People United Loving Life Uplifting People) where community activists visit areas that are experiencing problems and offer assistance.

7) We are calling for operations like From Hood to HOOD ( Hope Out Of Despair) where members of the community share information about resources available in Durham.

8) We are calling for the creation of a “Bureau Against Misinformation” to make sure that the community is getting the most accurate information about the happenings in Durham, politically , economically, and socially.

9) We calling for an initiative to “deputize” squads of Black men to insure the safety of our women, children and elders. They will take it upon themselves to perform simple tasks such as making sure women and elders get to their cars safely at night, especially during the holiday season.

10) We are calling for the establishment of think tanks that will be responsible for promoting the philosophy that the key to stopping the violence is a knowledge and appreciation of black culture and history. An example is STICK (Society To Increase Cultural Knowledge).

For more information contact The Black Messiah Movement (919) 972–8305.

Website BlackMessiahMovement.com