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Iran:Ehsan Fatahi political prisoner on hunger strike From eastkurd in KURDISH BLOG (56 minutes old)

EastKurd: Ehsan Fatahi After hearing the death sentence to the hunger strike and most political prisoners have supported him. Adnan Hassanpour, Anwar Hossein Panahi, Arsalan Awleyaie, Habiboalla Lati… more

Iran:Ehsan Fatahi will be executed Wednesday From eastkurd in KURDISH BLOG (7 hours old)

EastKurd: Justice of Kurdistan province in a letter to the Fatahi family, and his lawyer has communicated that Ehsan will be executed on Wednesday. He charged enmity with God, participating in protes… more

DON'T GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS From kendrive ^Pro in I SAY (9 hours old)

HOLD FAST TO DREAMS For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. Langston Hughes… more

IS IT YOU? From kendrive ^Pro in GRUMPY OLD MAN (9 hours old)

FRANTIC SEARCH FOR TWO LUCKY BRITONS Two British lottery players are unaware they are sitting on a record-breaking £90 million ($149,500,000) fortune. They each won £45,570,835.50 ($74,7050,000)… more

Swine flu kills 33 in Iran From eastkurd in KURDISH BLOG (9 hours old)

TEHRAN - Thirty-three Iranians have so far died from swine flu and more than two thousand have been diagnosed with the illness, the reformist Etemad newspaper reported on Sunday quoting the health min… more

Iran hangs four drug smugglers: report From eastkurd in KURDISH BLOG (9 hours old)

TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran has hanged four drug smugglers in the southern province of Kerman, Watan Emrooz newspaper reported on Sunday, taking the overall number of executions so far in 2009 to more than la… more

MISSED THE BOAT? From kendrive ^Pro in KENDRIVE (9 hours old)

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WOOD NYMPH From kendrive ^Pro in ART FOR ART'S SAKE (10 hours old)

Hamadryad One traditional symbolic meaning of the female nude is a Nature spirit. One of these, the Hamadryad, represents a stand of oaks. The Hamadryad is noble, robust, and fertile, full of… more

TRAVELS IN ITALY From kendrive ^Pro in POEMS AND PROSE (10 hours old)

Swinburne takes us to three Italian cities. THREE FACES I. VENTIMIGLIA The sky and sea glared hard and bright and blank: Down the one steep street, with slow steps firm and free, A t… more

Turkish delegation shocked over Mandela-Ocalan comparison From eastkurd in KURDISH BLOG (18 hours old)

Johannesburg – A Turkish delegation visiting South-Africa was shocked by a comparison between the imprisoned PKK-leader Abdullah Öcalan and the South-African leader Nelson Mandela reports the Turkish … more

Hunger strike amongst Kurdish political prisoners in Syria From eastkurd in KURDISH BLOG (1 day old)

Kurdish political prisoners in Adra Prison and Sednaya Military Prison, Damascus, Syria are suffering degrading conditions similar to those that were suffered by prisoners in the Middle Ages. Dozens o… more

Pyrrhic victory From eastkurd in KURDISH BLOG (1 day old)

The government's attempts to resolve the country's Kurdish problem have stalled, reports Gareth Jenkins On Sunday, thousands of Turkish nationalists took to the streets across Turkey to protest their… more

Iranian accusations of separatism and treason From eastkurd in KURDISH BLOG (1 day old)

During the rule of the two Pahlavi Shah’s (father and son) it was claimed that all citizens of Iran were “Iranians” with a common Aryan ancestry, hence there were no need for one “group” of Iranians t… more

November is cold From janeygodley in Janey Godley’s Blog (1 day old)

Am listening to Jay-Z and I do so love him…Empire State of Mind is awesome…anyway I am sure you are not reading this to find out what music am into. Last week, my ears decided to totally block up w… more

President Barzani visits to EU headquarter From eastkurd in KURDISH BLOG (1 day old)

Kurdistan President Masoud Barzani will visit the main European Union headquarter on the forthcoming Tuesday, in Brussels. According to a statement from KRG's representative to EU, on Tuesday in the n… more

Iran releases arrested foreign journalists From eastkurd in KURDISH BLOG (1 day old)

Three foreign journalists arrested during public rallies in Iran on the National Day of Combating International Imperialism on Nov. 4 were released, Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi s… more

Human Rights Watch: Iran covered up rape of detainees From eastkurd in KURDISH BLOG (1 day old)

An international human rights group said Friday it has documented three cases of sexual assault against detainees arrested during Iran's post-election turmoil, including one that was supported by an o… more

Iran says over 100 people detained at anti-U.S. rally From eastkurd in KURDISH BLOG (1 day old)

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian police detained more than 100 people for "disturbing public order" during a rally this week to mark the anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy, the official IRNA new… more

Oh weh.... From Conchenn ^Pro in Ein Beagle erkundet die Welt (1 day old)

Gestern war echt nicht mein Tag. Angenfangen hat er ja ganz gut, aber spätestens, als ich ins Auto gepackt wurde, ging es rasant bergab. Autofahren ist ja nunmal nicht meins, hab ich ja schon gesagt. … more

AY, THERE'S THE RUB From kendrive ^Pro in I SAY (1 day old)

I said yesterday that from today I would be posting a few poems about dreams and dreaming. However, today's post is not a poem and the comment on 'dream' is only passing and incidental. Having s… more

PERSISTENCE From kendrive ^Pro in GRUMPY OLD MAN (1 day old)

A South Korean woman is celebrating after passing the written exam for a driving licence - on her 950th attempt. After four years of trying, 68-year-old Cha Sa-soon finally managed to secur… more

LIVE AND LET LIVE From kendrive ^Pro in KENDRIVE (1 day old)

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DOWN THROUGH DARKNESS From kendrive ^Pro in POEMS AND PROSE (1 day old)

SLEEP Sleep, when a soul that her own clouds cover Wails that sorrow should always keep Watch, nor see in the gloom above her Sleep, Down, through darkness naked and steep, Sinks, … more

HE JUST GETS BETTER From kendrive ^Pro in ART FOR ART'S SAKE (1 day old)

This painting by Waterhouse illustrates the poem 'Echo and Narcissus by Ovid. Echo was a nymph. She was in love with Narcissus but he became so enamoured with his own reflection in a stream that he… more

Border frustration:Video Report From eastkurd in KURDISH BLOG (1 day old)

EastKurd: Daily life youth Marivan, They are young, because of unemployment with all the risks are forced to live their lives to play with. They are young people daily by regime forces in the borde… more

Ähm... From Conchenn ^Pro in Ein Beagle erkundet die Welt (2 days old)

So, wo war ich stehen geblieben... ach ja, richtig, mein Einzug ins neue Heim. Um das ganze Abzukürzen: ich hab mich eingelebt und Rudelchefin ist leider manchmal echt konsequent. Ich darf nicht mit i… more

WE ARE SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE OF From kendrive ^Pro in I SAY (2 days old)

I am coming to the end of my own work and today's poem is the last that will appear here - at least for some time. It is on the theme of 'dreaming' and from tomorrow I shall post some of the poems … more

IGNORANCE From kendrive ^Pro in GRUMPY OLD MAN (2 days old)

Hitler, the German football coach and other historical 'facts' according to our schoolchildrenIn a survey one in 20 children aged nine to 15 surveyed believed Adolf Hitler was a football coach, not t… more

A STREET BY ANY OTHER NAME From kendrive ^Pro in KENDRIVE (2 days old)

Seen in Sandwich, Kent (The Times)… more

ROBERT BROWNING From kendrive ^Pro in POEMS AND PROSE (2 days old)

Robert Browning, the English poet and playwright, was born in Camberwell, London in 1812. He died at his son's home 'Ca' Rezzonico' in Venice in 1889, and was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster A… more