“The way to make people trustworthy is to trust them”
Ernest Hemingway
via Facebook 2020-02-29T19:44:29.000Z
“The way to make people trustworthy is to trust them”
Ernest Hemingway
via Facebook 2020-02-29T19:44:29.000Z
2018 EU survey:
Least lonely countries (most social):
1. Denmark
2. Netherlands
3. Sweden
Most lonely countries (least social):
1. Greece
2. Hungary
3. Lithuania
via Facebook 2020-02-29T18:43:32.000Z
Religion deals with soul of individual and of society and has nothing to do with disease or science. Stop looking for answers about viruses in religion. The answers are only in labs.
When the issue is a virus, everyone follows the direction of the scientist, including the Pope and the Ayatullah.
via Facebook 2020-02-29T16:32:04.000Z
“I realized that intercepted nudes were a kind of informal office currency…. the unspoken transactional rule seemed to be that if you found a naked photo or video of an attractive target [surveilled person] – or someone in communication with a target – you had to show the rest of the boys, at least as long as there wasn’t any women around.
That was how you knew you could trust each other: you had shared in one another’s crimes.”
Edward Snowden
#permenantrecord
via Facebook 2020-02-29T15:18:08.000Z
Arabs had no choices or voices for the last 500 years, and every time they try to speak up, they are crushed. It changed their DNA to self suppression now.
نحن العرب لم نختر شيئاً لانفسنا منذ ٥٠٠ سنة. و كلما حاولنا، قُمعنا، الئ درجة ان القمع اصبح جزءاً من جيناتنا.
I haven’t chosen to be labeled as the French colonials chose for me: Lebanese, to grow up in Abu Dhabi, to seek asylum in Canada, or to immigrate to the US. I was forced to. I haven’t made any self determination yet. So are most of the Arabs.
انا لم اختر ان أكون، ما اختاره الاستعمار الفرنسي لي، لبنانياً، و لم اختر ان أربى في صحراء جزيرة أبو ظبي وافداً، و لم أختر أن ألجأ إلى كندا، و لم أختر أن أهاجر إلى أمريكا. جُبرت عليها جميعها كرهًا و غصباً و نفياً. أنا لم أقرر مصيري مرّةً و كذلك معظم العرب.
When are you going to start make your own decisions?
متى سوف تبدأ لأن تقرر مصيرك لنفسك؟
#الثورة_العربية_الكبرى
#الثورة_اللبنانية
#الثورة_العراقية
#الربيع_العربي_الثاني
#lebaneserevolution
#iraqirevolution
#arabspring2
#thegreatarabrevolt
via Facebook 2020-02-28T17:50:06.000Z
If you have noticed, there is a phenomenon in the pronunciations of Arab American youth in Dearborn which is extending the vowels, almost obnoxiously, when using exclamations.
I don’t know where that came from, but perhaps from the extension of Arabic vowels in the slang of Southern Lebanon villages, which is the founding majority of Arabs in Dearborn.
via Facebook 2020-02-28T17:24:05.000Z
To delete a document out of history, you need to destroy all its copies, delete all the people that know it, delete all the other documents that mention it, then delete all the people that know those other documents.
via Facebook 2020-02-26T16:39:10.000Z
I might not agree with many of the ideologies of Bernie Sanders. I lean more Republican in fiscal policy and deregulation. I love most of the Silicon Valley billionaires and believe they are the engine of our economy, future, and innovation. But most Americans and the World need Bernie right now. So I vote for the World. #bernie
via Facebook 2020-02-23T01:58:58.000Z
بعد أربعة عشر قرناً من المحاولة على إشعال الحرب بين السنة و الشيعة، فشلت كل هذه المحاولات و إلى الآن لم يحدث حرب مذهبية كبرى في الإسلام …. و ذلك لان الشعوب الإسلامية بالاعم الأغلب تتجاوز الخلافات البسيطة و تؤمن بالأخوة الإسلامية مهما نبحت كلاب التفرقة مثل ياسر الحبيب و عثمان الخميس اللذان تبث محطاتهما ٢٤ ساعة بميزانيات هائلة.
After 14 centuries of attempts to start civil war between Shia and Sunni, all these attempts have failed to create one single major war between them. That is because most Muslims do not see that the minor differences do not break their Muslim brotherhood, no matter how much the dogs of divisiveness bark like Yasser Alhabib and Othman Alkhamees whose networks broadcast 24 hours with huge budgets.
via Facebook 2020-02-20T14:27:06.000Z
ما كان مصدر قوة للحراك اللبناني و هو العفوية الشعبية و غياب القيادة، بات ضعفاً له بعد مرور ١٥٠ يوم على انطلاقته.
What was a source of power for the Lebanese revolution which is its sponteniouty and leaderlessness became a source of weakness after 150 days from the beginning of the revolution.
غياب العقل التنظيمي الديموقراطي هو مقتل معظم الحراكات الشعبية العربية و الإسلامية.
The absence of the parliamentary democraric mind from the Islamic and Arabic popular movements have destroyed most of it.
البحث عن الشخص الفاضل ليكون قائضاً هو بحث عن المستحيل. نريد نظاماً فاضلاً و موظفين تحت الرقابة و المحاسبة.
Looking for an ideal person to lead is an impossibility. We want ideal systems managed by individuals who are under over sight and checks and balances.
إلقاء اللوم على الأشخاص في الحكومة الحالية ليس له جدوا لانه لا يؤثر على المشروع ألنهضوي و لا على مستقبل البلد، و بالنهاية للقضاء الحق الوحيد للحكم على الأشخاص.
Blaming individuals in current government is not beneficial because it does not contribute to a progressive plan nor to the future of the country. At the end of the day, only the Justice system has tbe right to incriminate someone.
التفوا حول مجلس واحد. ارشّح التجمّع الوطني الديموقراطي في لبنان لهمّة التنسيق بين قوى الحراك الشعبي.
Gather around one organization. I nominate the National Democratic Coalition of Lebanon for such a task.
@التجمع الوطني الديموقراطي في لبنان
التجمع الوطني الديموقراطي في لبنان
via Facebook 2020-02-18T21:11:39.000Z