Discover My Adopted Home Town, Chiang Rai, Thailand – Redux

In other words, some of you will have seen this OP before. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Not the larger and better known city of Chiang Mai, but Chiang Rai, in Northern Thailand deserves your attention. I am a retired USMC infantry officer and have seen more than a few interesting places, some of which I even liked. One … Continue reading Discover My Adopted Home Town, Chiang Rai, Thailand – Redux →

Another mosckerr comment promoted to OP

Had a dream that interpreted the k’vanna of the niggun of Hava Nagila. A powerful mussar walks a narrow line, it does not bounce from subject to subject, rather it clings to a simple idea that arouses the אומץ לב of joy within our hearts, the Will to possess the land. 1948, the declaration of … Continue reading Another mosckerr comment promoted to OP →

NENA – 99 Luftballons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aLiT3wXko0 Gutten morgen krap

Anti-Predator

There is a scene in the movie American Sniper during which the father is talking about people being either sheep, wolves, or sheepdogs. I think there are a handful of great men who walk amongst us who are willing to go toe-to-toe with evil predators, but they are not sheepdogs. A wolf kills out of … Continue reading Anti-Predator →

Yazidi ruling helps children of women kidnapped by ISIS return — Wadi

Ein Interview von Seth J. Frantzman mit Wadi-Geschäftsführer Thomas von der Osten-Sacken vom 26. April 2019, erschienen bei MECRA A new ruling by the Yazidi Supreme Spiritual Council has sought to help solve one of the more complex and controversial traumas the continue to haunt women who were kidnapped and enslaved by ISIS in 2014. […]Yazidi … Continue reading Yazidi ruling helps children of women kidnapped by ISIS return — Wadi →

Operation SEARCHLIGHT

https://dailyhistory.org/images/7/70/East_bengali_trying_to_rescue_woman.jpg Bengali rape victim The Pakistani soldiers sent to 'liberate' Bangladesh were under orders to purify the country by impregnating the Bengali women with "muslim fetuses." The woman in the photo may have been fortunate in that someone for some reason appears to be trying to save her. The Pakistan military set up 'rape camps' … Continue reading Operation SEARCHLIGHT →

Savage Garden – Truly Madly Deeply

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQnAxOQxQIU Savage Garden coming to you from the land down under.

How many Muslim women inside Saudi Arabia do you hear…

...protesting about anything?

Doi Chaang Mountain

This is Lisu Hill Tribe land. In northern Thai 'doi' means mountain and 'chaang' is elephant. Can you see Doi Chaang in the background?

East Timor: Note 3

The island of Timor lies near Australia in the Timor Sea. Part of the island, Timor-Leste, was a colony of Portugal until August of 1975. Indonesian troops began infiltrating East Timor as soon as the Portuguese abandoned their former colony. On December 7, a day that will live infamy, Indonesia invaded from their western side … Continue reading East Timor: Note 3 →