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Thanks to "zardoz" for the heads up e-mail and making my day.

Gazaan mothers

... finding their children under the rubble after 20 days only to rebury them.

The mother of Palestinian Billal Nabham, cries after his body was found under the rubble of a house, after being missing for 20 days, in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza strip, on January 19, 2009.

-photo & news caption via Getty Images

STOP. THE. MASSACRE.

NOW!

..does the Gaza carnage include the newborns that won't make it?

TV zapping

While Wolf Blitzer on CNN was talking with passengers, getting a first hand account of how everyone was saved the Greek TV channel 'MEGA' was talking about the "seriousness" of the crash, if there were any survivors, how long it would take to get them out....

Don't they have TV sets over at MEGA TV?

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Trapped, besieged and dying.

Gazans have nowhere to go
January 14, 2009 - The Real News Network speaks with Sameh Habeeb, a photojournalist based in Gaza City, reports, shortages of water, food, gas and fuel have left many with nothing but what they have stored from before the attack began. Habeeb says the Israeli army has been warning Palestinians to evacuate in advance of bombings, but explains that for the majority of the people, they have nowhere to go.
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Let the Shministim go!

FREE THE SHMINISTIM – ISRAEL'S YOUNG CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS. The Shministim are Israeli high school students who have been imprisoned for refusing to serve in an army that occupies the Palestinian Territories. December 18 marks the launch date of a global campaign to release them from jail. Sign the letter: http://december18th.org/

T for Thank you!

It's an honor getting an award and even more so if it comes from a blog like "This Is Not My Country" because DeviousDiva tackles some very important issues that keeps Greeks on their toes and the world informed. Thanks for the cyberspace award and the inspiration to keep paddling my way along the blogosphere.

I would like to pass it around some of the most inspiring blogs on my blogroll and pay it forward:

• V-grrrl, for her exceptionally creative writing
• Glyptothiki, for his dedication to presenting one of the most complete on line collections of Athens public sculptures and their creators
  
• Arkoudos, for his insightful photoshops and concise posts on contemporary life in Greece

Microblogging

Sometimes I don't have a whole lot to blog about and sometimes I do. When I do, this is my main cyberspace nook. However, most of the times I only have scattered thoughts or interesting links that don't warrant an entire blog post. That's why I also created my "micro blog" at flubberwinkle.tumblr.com and I invite you to stop by. You can pick up the rss for my tmblr updates.

2009

When I was a kid, my mother told me a New Year's Eve taradiddle her mother had told her that If you had unwashed laundry, unironed clothes or a dirty home when the New Year came... then all year long you'd be 'cursed' with endless loads of laundry, piles of ironing and dust that never quit.

In short, whatever shape the house was in on New Year's Eve, that was how your home would be all year long.

This old wives' tale inadvertently stuck in one of my brain cells that should have been used for more worthwhile information and came back to me on larger, global scale on New Year's Eve.

As 2009 punched in for work and 2008 retired, Israel was bombarding Gaza, the largest open air prison they created for Palestinians. The US military was still occupying Iraq. Hot spots all over the world with unfathomable despair and pain. Greece in an upheaval. Our home - the world- was definitely a mess on New Year's Eve and according to the housekeeping myth the mess will be around all year.

Here's to Peace. May it come in the form of large broom and sweep across the globe and next New Year's Eve find all nations and peoples unmessed.