from CNN: breaking news: UN overwhelmingly votes to upgrade Palestine status from “permanent observer” to observer non-member status 138 to 9 (Tambak!) with 41 abstaining. Among other things, it allows Palestine to file cases and maintain a prosecution proceeding before the International
United Nations (Photo credit: Ashitakka)
Criminal Court. CNN likened the status to that of the Vatican. CNN says it is “a key step to Palestinian independence”.
Liveblog: United States Ambassador Rice now speaking against the results.
CNN U.N reporter Richard Roth says there are no vetoes for this in the U.N. Security Council. Last year, the U.S. vetoed the U.N General Assembly grant of statehood to Palestine.
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(The relevance of this to Filipinos is that: OFW’s are always caught in the crossfire of armed conflicts).
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From WordPress: “For this special mid-week photo challenge, we want to see portraits of you doing something that inspires you to blog…” (underscoring supplied)
In other words, this WordPress photo challenge is asking for a picture of the Wordpress-user, preferably an action shot that answers what WordPress wants to know: What (i.e., what activity) is your Muse? i was originally going to use photos from files, i have hundreds… That took a long time, choosing and deciding and second-guessing. Then i finally decided — Here it is, this was shot two days ago, i had intended to use it for November 30, Philippine National Heroes Day and birth anniversary of Philippine hero Andres Bonifacio. It’s a 21st century variation of an ancient yoga pose called vira, which is Sanskrit for “hero”. But i saw the WordPress prompt. And i was inspired. i produced this while watching how the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was successfully brokered by Egypt (see post below a couple of hours ago). And i am inspired.
Blogging is like a yoga pose.
You inhale to live
You exhale to surge.
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