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25 September 2015

WE ARE ALL MIGRANTS

WE ARE ALL MIGRANTS

WE ARE ALL REFUGEES

Aadam (Adam) migrated from Africa to Mecca to Sri Lanka;

Nuh (Noah) migrated from Kufa in Iraq to Mount Ararat in Turkey - by boat;

Ibraahim (Abraham) migrated from Babylon to Mecca to Egypt to Mecca to Hebron;

Musaa (Moses) migrated from Egypt to the banks of the Jordan:

- he died before he reached the promised land;

Iisaa (Jesus) migrated from Nazareth to Kashmir;

Muhammad migrated from Mecca to Medina;

The whites in the United States migrated from Europe;

The whites in Canada migrated from France & Britian;

The whites in Australia migrated from British prisons;

The whites in New Zealand migrated from Britain;

The whites in South Africa migrated from the Netherlands & Britain;

The Jews in Israel migrated from Europe and Russia;

The Cubans in the United States migrated from Cuba;

We all migrate from ovum and sperm to life;

We all migrate from life to death;

We all migrate from death to the afterlife.

WE ARE ALL MIGRANTS

WE ARE ALL REFUGEES

SILENCE AGAINST TYRANNY IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.

work in progress

posted: 25.09.2015

original composed: september 2015.

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26 August 2015

IT'S RIDICULOUS

IT'S RIDICULOUS

[] to call a gastank filled with nails

a weapon of mass destruction.

[] to feel guilty

about surviving a holocaust or a hurricane.

[] to call a marriage between a man and a woman obsolete;

and a marriage between homosexuals desirable.

[] to be against the death penalty

and to advocate for abortion.

[] to say cigarettes are harmful;

but smoking marijuana is therapeutic.

[] to ban advertisements for cigarettes,

but allow advertisements for alcohol.

[] to call for peace,

while declaring war on other people.

[] to call for democracy,

while imposing western values on other nations.

[] to award the Nobel peace prize to leaders who declare war -

then sign a peace treaty.

WHITE MAN SPEAKS WITH FORKED TONGUE.

native american saying

SILENCE AGAINST TYRANNY IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.

work in progress

posted: 26.08.2015
original composed: 2014.

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NEW: the anthology I Dream In Long Sentences by Farouk Asvat
is now available on amazon: paperback @ $10 & kindle @ only $5
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[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]

Sadness In The House Of Love: the first NOVEL by Farouk Asvat
is now available on amazon: paperback @ $15 & kindle @ only $5
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]

[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]

the anthology The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs by Farouk Asvat
is now available on amazon: paperback @ $10 & kindle @ only $5
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the anthology A Celebration Of Flames by Farouk Asvat
is now available on amazon: paperback @ $10 & kindle @ only $5
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the anthology The Time Of Our Lives by Farouk Asvat
is now available on amazon: paperback @ $10 & kindle @ only $5
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[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]

the anthology Bra Frooks … by Farouk Asvat is now available
on amazon: paperback @ $10 & kindle @ only $5
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Farouk Asvat asserts his moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

without the prior permission of the author in writing.

Permission to publish or reproduce the writings in any format can be obtained from the author.

Reproduction of this work without permission, except for scholarly & nonprofit purposes,

is liable to a payment of 10, 000 ren men bi or US$ 1,500.

farouk asvat can be contacted at: farouk.asvat@gmail.com

[] please check out my blogs @:

farouk asvat - poems: www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com

weapons of words: www.faroukasvat-viewpoint.blogspot.com

piquante: www.faroukasvat-piquant.blogspot.com

piqued: www.faroukasvat-piqued.blogspot.com

books by farouk asvat: www.faroukasvat-books.blogspot.com

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#war #democracy #westernvalues #people #nations #nobelpeaceprize #peacetreaty

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30 July 2015

RESURRECTIONS AND SUPERHEROES

THE NEED FOR RESURRECTIONS & SUPERHEROES
© Farouk Asvat

Now that the United States and Europe have lost the war in Afghanistan (just like the Soviet Union and the British Empire before them) - and have had to withdraw with their tails between their legs from Afghanistan and Iraq - they need the reassurance that they possess superheroes and people with extraordinary powers who can solve all problems and conquer all enemies.

But more than that they also need to reassure the public that death is not final - that their dead are still living, that they will meet them again - as zombies or as resurrected family members they can speak to, if only for a brief period until things have been amicably settled between the restless dead in the inbetween world and the regrets of the living - so that all can then rest in peace.

Thus the plethora of movies and programmes about the dead speaking or coming back to life:

The Ghost Whisperer
Resurrection
The Walking Dead
iZombie
Supernatural
Forever

And then there are the impossible resurrections of characters in virtually every tv programme,

from "O my God, they've killed Kenny" on South Park to Brian on Family Guy; from The Arrow (Oliver himself, Thea's father and then Thea herself), to Agents Of Shield (Skye and of course Coulson); to just about everybody in Resurrection.

Medically, a person in a coma is in a state of unconsciousness in which the patient cannot respond to painful stimuli, light, sound or commands. So, it is wishful thinking that people in a coma can hear you; and even more ridiculous that the dead can hear you when you visit their grave - but these are images that are constantly exploited and churned out by Hollywood.

The concept of zombies arises from Papua New Guinea and the regional islands: referring to those who were drugged by traditional healers with specific herbs into a deep sleep of suspended animation, so that they appeared dead - and so were brought back to life.

Then there are the super powers of deduction that so many of the American investigators have: from The Mentalist to Unforgettable (which was completely forgettable); to a host of other programmes and movies.

And simultaneously there is the resurrection of all the north American heroes who never die, who will conquer all aliens and enemies - so the exhumation of all the Marvel comics:

The Avengers
Superman
Batman
Iron Man
Agents Of Shield
Agent Carter
Iron Man
The Hulk
The Flash
and even Ant-man.

Almost all the crime programmes are exaggerated (each murder that is discovered more bizarre than the last); so many of the series based on fantasy and science fiction (from Extant to Under The Dome); most of the movies utilizing ridiculously fast-moving images generated by computer graphics - so that there is hardly a programme dealing with realistic human relationships.

SILENCE AGAINST TYRANNY IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.

work in progress

posted 30.07.2015
original composed: 2014.

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without the prior permission of the author in writing.

Permission to publish or reproduce the writings in any format can be obtained from the author.

Reproduction of this work without permission, except for scholarly & nonprofit purposes,

is liable to a payment of 10, 000 ren men bi or US$ 1,500.

farouk asvat can be contacted at: farouk.asvat@gmail.com

[] please check out my blogs @:

farouk asvat - poems: www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com

weapons of words: www.faroukasvat-viewpoint.blogspot.com

piquante ! : www.faroukasvat-piquant.blogspot.com

piqued ! : www.faroukasvat-piqued.blogspot.com

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24 June 2015

THE USA MASS MEDIA

The media in the United States is completely puerile and parochial, to put it mildly:

NPR: is now a Neutered Public Radio.

PBS: is a Proscribed Broadcast System (PBS) which is also largely patriotic - as so many of its programmes are sponsored by the Koch brothers, Boeing and General Motors. So it is hardly likely to be critical of the United States.

BBC America is absolutely putrid - one news programme for instance spent 20 minutes on some sports field that was still using the old flip-over boards to display the score.

ABC

CBS
NBC
are all more concerned with local issues, meaning completely regional community issues, rather than even a perspective of events in America - every evening its about cops raiding some place, somebody being arrested, somebody being charged, about a forest or building fire in the vicinity - always only about the city the station is situated in; inevitably ending with some piece about health; about what the latest study shows: how donuts may be good for you - find out why at 11; or about fats being bad for you - find out why during our prime time news, and of course finally rounding off with some cute piece about a baby or a pet. And the weather is always read out as if the network was actually dispensing rain or sunshine or fog for the next day or week. During the weeks of the Baltimore killing and the protests, there was hardly a mention of the events - on any of the regional news broadcasts.

Democracy Now is the only North American medium (radio broadcast & internet site) that covers international issues and examines local and world events with a critical perspective, (though it too devotes a large proportion of programmes to its American audience - nowhere in the world are people so concerned about the finer points of the law, and it seems especially about paying their taxes and obeying the minutiae of the law) - this applies especially to its liberal audience, which considers itself rather radical and well-informed.

BBC World Service no longer broadcasts to the USA on shortwave, medium wave or fm. One can only receive it via satellite or the internet. But of course BBC World Service has also deteriorated substantially since the first war against Iraq, and even more so after the invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan and the Muslim world in general. (Of course, the initial reason for setting up the BBC by the British government was to control the strikes and the left in Britain).

Al Jazeera has been prevented from broadcasting its multimedia site over the internet - this by AT&T - which has refused to relay the programmes, as has all the other carriers. (Remember Chile - where AT&T also had a role in overthrowing the elected government of Salvador Allende). AT&T stopped carrying Al Jazeera just before the military coup in Egypt that overthrew the elected government of the Muslim Brotherhood - just a few days after John Kerry visited Egypt and handed over 2 billion US dollars to the army - and not to the elected government. All the elections and referendums endorsed the Muslim Brotherhood, making it quite obvious that the people supported the Muslim Brotherhood by a clear majority (- elections monitored and confirmed as legitimate by international media, organisations and observers).

Most Americans , especially those considering themselves enlightened or liberal or who read a lot, just do not seem to have the capacity for critical thinking, and are easily duped by the official version dished out by the regime via the supposedly free media. This was especially evident when so many supposedly well-informed liberals found the military coup in Egypt completely justified! as explained by the mass media.

During the Glasnost / Perestroika period initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian journalists visiting the United States, especially the offices of the New York Times, Washington Post and the main networks, commented: at least in Russia we know we have censorship.

And of course MSN, Google and Yahoo all prioritise the absolutely banal, irrelevant, lowest common denominator nonsense as news.

So where is the democracy? and where is the free speech?

SILENCE IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.

work in progress

posted 24.06.2015
original composed: 2012.

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Sadness In The House Of Love: the first NOVEL by Farouk Asvat
is now available on amazon: paperback @ $15.00 & kindle @ only $5
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Farouk Asvat asserts his moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

without the prior permission of the author in writing.

Permission to publish or reproduce the writings in any format can be obtained from the author.

Reproduction of this work without permission, except for scholarly & nonprofit purposes,

is liable to a payment of 10, 000 ren men bi or US$ 1,500.

farouk asvat can be contacted at: farouk.asvat@gmail.com

[] please check out my blogs @:

farouk asvat - poems: www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com

weapons of words: www.faroukasvat-viewpoint.blogspot.com

piquante ! : www.faroukasvat-piquant.blogspot.com

books by farouk asvat: www.faroukasvat-books.blogspot.com

[] also link up on:

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