Saturday, October 06, 2018

Waiting In Vain (Jody Watley)



Jody Watley's "Waiting In Vain."


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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Speaks of Peace, Unity, Service to Others at 13th Annual Mahatma Gandhi Day

13th Annual Mahatma Gandhi Day


October 3, 2018 
Press Release

Honolulu, HI—Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) yesterday spoke at the 13th Annual Mahatma Gandhi Day at the Gandhi statue in Kapiolani Park on O'ahu. The event, hosted by the Gandhi International Institute for Peace, focused on bringing communities together to celebrate the birth of Mahatma Gandhi and his legacy of peace, love, and respect for all people. Hawai‘i is the first state in the nation to recognize October 2nd as Mahatma Gandhi Day.
This year’s ceremony also recognized the historic sister-state partnership between Hawai‘i and Goa, India, which was finalized at a signing ceremony at Washington Place on O'ahu on Friday. The Goan delegation, led by Gurudas Pilarnekar, Director of Art and Culture, Goa State Government, has conducted multiple visits and engagements across the islands in various sectors like education, security, culture, agriculture, and more.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said: “Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy continues to inspire generations. Dr. Martin Luther King spoke about how much Mahatma Gandhi’s life and message inspired his own work for peace, justice and equality in America. Both Dr. King and Mahatma Gandhi shared the universal message of love and respect for all, regardless of their race, ethnicity or religion. Their leadership and example were critical for their time, and their universal message of love continues to be so necessary for our country and the world, as we are faced with ever deepening divides. May we continue to be inspired by them, and defeat bigotry and hatred with love and aloha.”
Background about Goa, India:
  • Goa’s per capita GDP is one of the highest in India, a country that currently boasts the third largest GDP in the world.
  • Goa has a growing market for US food and retail products, with imports of US agricultural food products doubling in 2015 to $20.6 million.
  • Goa is a top tourist population globally (7,785,693 visitors in 2017), known for its beaches, abundant seafood, tropical climate, and historic architecture, which has also attracted film opportunities.
  • Goa has many multinational companies with offices in the state covering various sectors like fisheries, pharmaceuticals, information technology, tourism, and hospitality.
  • Goa’s biodiversity is rich and is home to thousands of species ranging from plants, animals, and marine life.
  • Hawaiʻi’s agreement with Goa highlights the continued growth of US-India relationships, with the US-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue concluding earlier this month.
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Some Tweets from Sarah Abdallah


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     24 hours ago
    Not on mainstream media: Nearly two years after Syria’s Aleppo was liberated from Al-Qaeda terrorist occupation, young Syrians come together to restore beauty to their ancient city by repainting its streets.
     
    29 replies616 retweets1,220 likes
     
     
  •  21 hours ago
    As Obama’s Vice President, you enabled and fully backed the tyrants in Saudi Arabia and the UAE as they bombed and starved millions in Yemen, and you sent billions in arms to jihadist thugs destroying Syria. You don’t have any moral superiority.
    1:21
    Former VP Biden slams President Trump during rally in California: "The world is watching. They see a president who has debased our American values, ceded global leadership to tyrants and thugs."
    57 replies590 retweets1,170 likes
     
     
  •  24 hours ago
    Rather rich coming from the woman who empowered jihadists that paraded women around cities and villages in cages and sold young girls into sex slavery in Syria and Libya.
    Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad’s work to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war has brought awareness to a horrific practice and helped survivors get the care they need. My heartfelt congratulations to both for their well-deserved Nobel Peace Prize.
    39 replies635 retweets1,261 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 4
    Says the woman who destroyed Libya and handed it over to slave-selling jihadists, paving the way for a global refugee crisis and ruining millions of families’ lives forever.
    A full 10 weeks since the administration's deadline to reunite families they separated at the border, over 100 families are still waiting.
    85 replies1,817 retweets3,761 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 4
    Young men and women in Syria’s liberated Aleppo literally work day and night to restore the war-torn ancient city to its former state. A continuing triumph over jihadist terrorism that mainstream media refuses to cover.
     
    25 replies538 retweets926 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 4
    Not to mention while the British government does billions of dollars in arms deals with Saudi Arabia and helps this barbaric regime bomb and starve millions of men, women and children in Yemen. Faux humanitarianism.
    The British government sends £2 million to help Indonesian tsunami relief. Compared to the £50 million cost of the bombs alone it dropped on Libya in helping destroy that country's physical and social infrastructure.
    8 replies243 retweets371 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Oct 3
    What countries in the EU have NOT turned a blind eye to the Genocide in ? History will dam the European supporters of the Arms Industry for their complicity in war crimes in Yemen - the ghost of hasn't gone away you know....
    The US, UK and France constantly threaten Syria because they’re so seemingly “concerned” for civilian lives, yet these very same powers are arming and enabling Saudi Arabia in its genocidal onslaught against Yemen.
    10 replies146 retweets305 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 3
    The US, UK and France constantly threaten Syria because they’re so seemingly “concerned” for civilian lives, yet these very same powers are arming and enabling Saudi Arabia in its genocidal onslaught against Yemen.
    34 replies671 retweets894 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Oct 3
    There's a very disturbing trend where people will only speak up when "their team" isn't in power. Once "their team" is in power, every encroachment against liberty is met with silence. SPEAK UP! ... NO MATTER WHAT! Your "team" cannot save you when your Liberty is gone.
    103 replies1,184 retweets2,780 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 2
    The media continues to treat Hillary Clinton like this trailblazing feminist icon as if the polices she pursued when she was Secretary of State and a Senator didn’t destroy the lives of millions of women in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Honduras, Haiti and beyond.
    1:00
    Hillary Clinton: "Women's lives, women's narratives - they've been historically dismissed, condescended to."
    118 replies1,463 retweets2,843 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 2
    There’s a child dying in Yemen every ten minutes because of the US-Saudi bombing and siege. And not so much as a squeak from all those so-called humanitarian heroes who claim to care so much about civilians in Syria’s Al-Qaeda-occupied Idlib.
    Daily reminder: Yemen’s humanitarian crisis is the worst in the world and we’re doing nothing to make it better. We’re making it worse, assisting the Saudi-UAE-etc. coalition war machine.
    35 replies770 retweets1,017 likes
     
     
  •  Oct 1
    A beautiful story nowhere to be found on CNN or the BBC: Syrian children are returning to school for the first time in 5 years after their town in Syria’s Idlib was liberated from the clutches of Al-Qaeda jihadists.
    54 replies1,187 retweets2,041 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Oct 1
    "Washington’s record in the Middle East is catastrophic. It is time to bring home America’s troops."
    220 replies1,327 retweets3,914 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Oct 1
    The way Julian Assange's voice has been summarily disappeared - no internet access, very restricted visitors, a complete inability to communicate with the world since March - has been chillingly effective. You don't have to like someone to find their treatment troubling.
    299 replies2,937 retweets7,566 likes
     
     
  •  Sep 30
    Did she also share memories of all the 500,000 kids she helped sanction to death in Iraq and all the families she helped destroy in Yugoslavia?
    . shares memories of what it was like to be the first female Secretary of State and how women and technology are instrumental to developing foreign policy
    112 replies1,343 retweets2,481 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Sep 30
    This genuinely fascinates me. How can you be someone who everyone knows worked inside the US Govt when it was interfering in countless countries - indeed, when you yourself were one of the leading advocates of that - and then post something pretending you respect sovereignty??
    Russia likes sovereignty, except that of Ukraine, Estonia, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, the United Kingdom, the United States...
    145 replies1,474 retweets3,891 likes
     
     
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  •   Retweeted
     Sep 29
    Samantha Power, who helped destroy the sovereignty of Syria, Libya and Yemen. Samantha Power, who helped arm terrorists in Syria, bring slave-trading to Libya, and presided over Saudi Arabia's genocide in Yemen, thinks she has the moral-superiority to speak about "sovereignty" 😂
    Russia likes sovereignty, except that of Ukraine, Estonia, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, the United Kingdom, the United States...
    19 replies420 retweets758 likes
     
     
  •  Sep 29
    This is Syria’s Lattakia yesterday. Thousands of Syrians peacefully enjoyed a soccer match. But Nikki Haley would rather turn this into another Libya — a failed, war-torn state ruled by jihadists who enjoy selling human beings in open air slave markets. (Photos via )
     
    69 replies851 retweets1,680 likes
     
     
  •  Sep 29
    Oh yeah. Because you and the Obama administration really respected the sovereignty of Syria, Libya, Yemen and Ukraine when you carried out one regime change operation, invasion and coup after another, arming jihadists and empowering neo-Nazis in the process.
    Russia likes sovereignty, except that of Ukraine, Estonia, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, the United Kingdom, the United States...
    51 replies937 retweets1,882 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Sep 29
    Mostly the work of Putin. So yea, we’re not seeing this on MSM in 🇺🇸.
     
     
    Not on mainstream media: Thousands of young Syrians took to the streets of Syria’s Aleppo today to celebrate their ancient city’s liberation from terrorism and the return of peace.
    10 replies206 retweets425 likes
     
     
  •  Sep 28
    Syrians celebrating in the streets of Syria’s liberated Aleppo today. A beautiful sight you would have never seen under Obama and Hillary’s Al-Qaeda “rebels”.
     
    85 replies1,483 retweets2,898 likes
     
     
  •  Sep 28
    Not on mainstream media: Thousands of young Syrians took to the streets of Syria’s Aleppo today to celebrate their ancient city’s liberation from terrorism and the return of peace.
     
    130 replies2,566 retweets4,523 likes
     
     
  •  Sep 27
    You and the Obama administration enabled and facilitated Saudi Arabia’s genocidal war in Yemen to begin with. You’re the last person to be lecturing anyone about “concern for loss of life”.
    A similar effort in the Senate earlier this year came close to passing. There has only been more horrific, pointless bloodshed since. We in the Obama admin should have cut off aid. Trump shows no concern for loss of life, but Congress can act to end US involvement
    33 replies504 retweets1,036 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Sep 27
    US House candidate, HI-2
    Yesterday, I and a bipartisan coalition in Congress introduced a resolution to end US support for Saudi Arabia’s brutal war in Yemen. Sign on thru the link below. Thank you to and all orgs standing w/ us.
    36 replies424 retweets914 likes
     
     
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