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Images can shock

Ramona — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:15:43 +0000

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Since I was very moved by this amazing video, I'd like to share it with you. Enjoy!

IMAGES CAN SHOCK
by Gioacchino Petronicce

"This idea came to me by watching TV.After it was boosted with the current problems in Japan, in libya.Images shocked me."

Music by: Max Richter
2011

No comment from Gioacchino Petronicce on Vimeo.

سپندارمذگان بر همه هم میهن نان گرامی فرخنده باد

Ramona — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 02:13:45 +0000

در فرهنگ ایران باستان، 17 سده پیش از میلاد، روزی موسوم به سپندار مذگان یا اسفندار مذگان را بعنوان نماد عشق می پنداشتند و یویژه بانوان و عشق زمینی را پاس می داشتند! ویژگی این جشن اینست که به نام سپنته ارمییتی یا فروزه ی از خود گذشتگی و فروتنی و مهر بی پایان مزین است.

In Celebration of Yalda - Persian Roots of Christmas Traditions

Ramona — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:50:36 +0000

While Christians around the world are preparing to celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25th, the Persians are set to tribute one of their most festive celebrations on Dec. 21st, the eve of winter solstice, the longest night and shortest day of the year. In Iran this night is called SHAB-E YALDAA, also known as SHAB-E CHELLEH, which refers to the birthday or rebirth of the sun.

Kseniya Simonova's culture breaking art of story telling through sand animating.

Ramona — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:29:02 +0000

Kseniya Simonova (born 1985) is a sand animator from Ukraine who recently won the "Ukraine's got talent" award. Using a giant light box, poignant music, lively imagination and a marvelous magical sand painting talent, she portrays her images of life during Ukraine's Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany.

Song for Gaza: "We will not go down"

Ramona — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:48:05 +0000

"We will not go down in the night

without a fight

You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools

But our spirits will never die

We will not go down Gaza tonight..."

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlfhoU66s4Y

Then/Now: Nazi Germany and the Gaza Strip

Ramona — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:45:25 +0000

These images were carefully compiled by a Catholic to show the degree of malevolence in both eras. They were intended as a critique of the conduct of the state of Israel, not the Israeli people and not Jews.

Warning: some images include graphic results of violence.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/monashaw/sets/72157612804626454/show/

Stop the Holocaust in Gaza!

Ramona — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:52:17 +0000

In February 2008, Israel’s deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai threatened Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip with a “holocaust.” His threat came a day after Israeli occupation forces killed 31 Palestinians, nine of them children, one a six-month-old baby, in a series of air raids across the Gaza Strip. A report on the BBC News website headlined “Israel warns of Gaza ‘holocaust’” noted that the word “holocaust”—shoah in Hebrew—is “a term rarely used in Israel outside discussions of the Nazi genocide during World War II.”

A People Betrayed

Ramona — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:16:07 +0000

If Wall Street hogs are just now facing economic crisis, Main Street has been feeling the crunch for much longer, and My Street has been struggling to survive the soaring cost of living for years.