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The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday October 16th, 2023 – World Food Day
World Food Day: A Call For Collective Action to Protect the Planet by Rene Wadlow
16 October is the U.N.-designated World Food Day. The date was chosen to mark the creaton of the Food and Agriculture Oranization in 1945 and located in Rome which had been the home of an agriculture institute related to the League of Nations. The Constitution of the Food and Agriculture Organization states as one of its aims “contributing towards an expanding world economy and ensuring humanity’s freedom from hunger.” Freedom from hunger is not simply a technical matter to be solved with better seeds, fertilisers, cultivation practices and marketing. To achieve freedom from hunger for mankind, there is a need to reduce poverty. The massive reduction of poverty must draw upon the ideas, skills and energies of whole societies and requires the cooperation of all countries.
World Citizens have played an important role in efforts to improve agricultural production worldwide and especially to better the conditions of life of rural workers. The World Citizen Lord Boyd-Orr was the first director of the FAO.
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Cursed Prophecies (Second Threshold) #poem & #ArtInstallation by Amir Khatib
“As you grow, death grows with you!
There’s nothing really scary,
Make it easy for you!
All you have to do is wait,
As you waited for your future with mystical joy to grow with you,
As if you will have what you dreamed of and rushed to be happy.”
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Always something; the family edition #72 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday June 19th, 2023 – International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict
Every year on June 19th, the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict raises awareness for conflict-related sexual violence. The day also honors the victims and survivors of sexual violence around the world. Women and girls are not the only victims of conflict-related sexual violence. Men and boys are also subject to it as well. Unfortunately, many survivors of this type of sexual violence do not come forward. This is primarily due to fear and cultural stigmas. When the survivors do not come forward, justice does not get served. It also allows the perpetrators to repeat their violent acts.
The most important people in her life by Abigail George
So I turned to my father. I was this kid and said to him.
‘You’re mean. You’re just being cruel. Stay away from me. She’s not dead. I just saw her this morning.’
What does death mean to a child after all said and done but when you’re an adult it defines you.
The grief and then the denial of it all settles in with depth and seriousness. There was still the life of the girl inside of her. You’re there but you’re also not there. People talk of cancer. I saw something inside of my aunt that paralysed me. Her beautiful face that was so open. That spoke of kindness and grace. Mercy but all I could remember of her was her cleaning the kitchen. Cleaning up after us all. Her boys and us, her nieces. All I remember was her grilled cheese sandwiches. The two pizzas ‘they’ bought after a trip to the beach.
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Everything changed #poem & ArtInstallation by Amir Khatib
“Everything around me changed,
change on its own without interference;
streets and house facades,
bridges and under them,
tables and food and the smell of bread disappeared”
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The Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict: Greater Awareness Building Needed by Rene Wadlow
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 19 June of each year to be the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict in order to raise awareness of the need to put an end to conflict-related sexual violence and to honor the victims and the survivers of sexual violence around the world. The date was chosen to commemorate the adoption on 19 June 2008 of Security Council Resolution 1820 in which the Council condemned sexual violence as a tactic of war and as an impediment to peacebuilding.
For the U.N. “conflict-related sexual violence” refers to rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced abortion, and any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity perpetrated against women, men, girls and boys, linked to a conflict. The term also encompasses trackficking in persons when committed in situations of conflict for purposes of sexual violence or exploitation.
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Fika bonding! #60 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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Dealing with the anxieties and stresses of managing your own business by Stan Popovich
Many business owners have to deal with a lot of stress and anxiety nowadays. It can be tough to have your own business and to be successful in what you do. As a result, here are some suggestions on how you can reduce the stress of having your own business.
The first step is to manage your expenses and pay your bills on time. Develop a budget, do not spend more than what you make, and learn to reduce your expenses when you can.
Learn to manage your responsibilities by assigning certain tasks to others. If you do not have time to do a task, then let your assistant do it. You are only one person and can only do so much on a given day. Do what is most important and delegate the rest.
Talk with your customers and employees on a regular basis. Find out what is on their minds. Ask for any suggestions on how to improve business productivity and morale. Communicating with your workers and clients will help prevent future problems and conflicts.
Most importantly, develop a business plan and follow it. Being organized and goal oriented is very important in managing a business. Following a plan or set of goals will prevent you from a lot of stress and anxiety.
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Confession #poem & #ArtInstallation by Amir Khatib
“If it must,
I want a court of which there is no doubt
And say what I have:
I left at the open hour, without doors or locks,
A bitter wind cut my neck,
So I hid my head between the collarbone and the neck. just in case,
The thick woolen swaddle was sufficient for what was to come.
Things have always guaranteed us, we are innocent of mistrust…”
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Gary Snyder : (1930 – ) A Zen View of Nature by Rene Wadlow
Gary Snyder reached the consciousness of a wide reading public in the USA as Japhy Ryder, the name given to him in Jack Kerouac’s 1958 novel The Dharma Bums. Kerouac, then the best known of the USA-based Beat Generation, sums up Snyder’s life till then “the number one Dharma Bum of them all was he, Japhy Ryder, who coined the phrase. Japhy Ryder was a kid from eastern Oregon brought up in a log cabin deep in the woods with his father and mother and sister, from the beginning, a woods boy, an axman, farmer, interested in animals and Indian lore so that when he finally got to college by hook or crook he was already well equipped for his early studies in anthropology and later Indian myth and in the actual texts of Indian mythology. Finally he learned Chinese and Japanese and became an Oriental scholar and discovered the greatest Dharma Bums of them all, the Zen Lunatics of China and Japan. At the same time, being a Northwest boy with idealistic tendencies, he got interested in old-fashioned Industrial Workers of the World anarchism and learned to play the guitar and sing old workers songs to go with his Indian songs and general folksong interests.”
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Worming #65 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday May 1st, 2023 – International Labour Day
May 1st, International Labour Day, commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world, and is recognized in most countries. The struggle for the eight-hour day began in the 1860s. In 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labour Unions of the United States and Canada, organized in 1881 (and changing its name in 1886 to American Federation of Labour) passed a resolution which asserted that “eight hours shall constitute a legal day’s work from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organizations throughout this district that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution”.
Protection of Human Rights at International Organizations – only a Fiction? – part V by Frantisek Brychta
The reason for writing this article (which follows on the previous ones) is to inform the reader about the way in which complaints concerning the failure of the Council of Europe (hereinafter “CoE”) to fulfil its main task – the duty to ensure justice – are dealt with.
In this case, the handling of a written complaint dated 26 October 2022 is involved. The written complaint was sent to the address of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejcinovic BuricÂÂÂÂÂová, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt via the Czech Post on 26 October 2022.
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejcinovic Buric, has not responded to this complaint (concerning the failure of the Council of Europe (CE) to fulfil its main task) yet. The complaint concerns:
a) Violation of the main task of the Czech Republicand the CE–i. e. to ensure justice and rule of law.
b) Repeated Complaint dated 01 August 2022 (“Repeated Complaint dated 01 August 2022”) filed with theECtHR on 01 August 2022 – the document was included as an evidencein the submission sent to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe on 26 October 2022.
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To my peers… #poem & #artInstallation by Amir Khatib
“O my companion, who afflicted me and afflicted him,
which I do not describe, just as I do not know how to describe myself,
Let’s try the slope from top to bottom,
After squandering dozens of years as we ascend,
And here we are, panting.
We have the certainty away from the abyss…
Publicly on the way back we realize ourselves,
We do what others cannot and hate to do;
We descend to the bottom where no one else wants an experience like this.”
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Manish’s Zodiac Signs Predictions for May 2023 by Manish Kumar Arora
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Tang & Ram #62 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday April 3rd, 2023
U.N. Focus on Consequences of Climate Change by Rene Wadlow
On 20 March 2023, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a Synthesis Report based on its three previous reports covering eight years of work. The IPCC is a panel of 93 scientists co-chaired by Hoesung Lee of South Korea and Valerie Masson-Delmotte of France. The Synthesis Report stressed that “Prioritizing equity, climate justice, social justice, and just transition actions are needed for climate resilient development.”
There are three billion people who live in areas that are highly vulnerable to climate change. One of the consequences of climate change is to increase migration from these vulnerable areas. The concept of safe and orderly migration has not yet been put into practice. Climate change also has a negative impact on food production.
The IPCC, created in 1988, makes recommendations for action, put policies have to be established and carried out by governments. Thus, a UN conference will be held in New York this September. The recommendations of the IPCC also influence the policy proposals of non-governmental organizations whose influence on climate issues is growing.
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The clavicle #poem & #artinstallation by Amir Khatib
“How many times do we seek so at the highest
Their thoughts opinions on matters of our concern
As though age or position makes them much the wisest,
Able to take stands, magically matters discern.”
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Tang & Ram #60 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday March 20th, 2023
Indonesian and Malaysian concerns over AUKUS by Murray Hunter
Operating nuclear submarines from HMAS Stirling naval base near Perth will increase military surveillance off Australian coastlin.
Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, UK prime minister Rishi Sunak, and US president Joe Biden, publicly announced an implementation timetable for the AUKUS agreement, which until this week had been very abstract.
Under the plan, there would be a combined fleet of nuclear-powered submarines operating from the HMAS Stirling naval base, near Perth, Western Australia. In the joint statement,
– From 2023, US nuclear-powered subs will increase port visits to Australia, joined three years later by more visits from British nuclear-powered subs. Australian submariners would be trained.
– In 2027, the US and UK subs will start rotations at HMAS Stirling, that is set to receive a multibillion dollar upgrade.
– From the early 2030s, pending Congress approval, Australia will buy three Virginia-class submarines from the US, with an option to buy two more.
– During the 2030s, the UK plans to build its first AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine – combining its Astute-class submarine with US combat systems and weapons.
– In the early 2040s, Australia will deliver the first of its domestically built and constructed AUKUS subs to its Royal Australian Navy.
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What I lacked #poem & #artInstallation by Amir Khatib
“In the days that go to her death,
and the days that come late,
or that never comes;
Something is missing!
When I was born I lacked air.”
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Tang & Ram #59 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday January 23rd, 2023
Will the 2024 elections in Bangladesh be any different? by Dr. Habib Siddiqui
The 5-year long tenure of the current (11th) JatiyaSangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh is scheduled to expire on 29 January 2024. General elections are, thus, expected to be held in January 2024.
With thousands of party members behind the bar or in hiding, the opposition BNP has been effectively neutered by the ruling Awami League (AL). The party wants its leaders to be fully released immediately.
While the AL leadership may feel secure with the demise or choking of opposition forces, it is not a good sign for democracy. Bangladesh is, thus, back to square one, and what we witnessed in the 2018 election does not bode well for the nation.
In this regard, the question that comes to our mind is: did the ruling party need such vote rigging to win the 2018 election? I don’t think so. Despite many flaws, including burgeoning corruption and politicization of all the wings of the administration, the ruling alliance has had many positives that it could have banked upon to cement its win in a fair election, even if held under a care-taker government (CTG).
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To march every year #poem & artinstallation by Amir Khatib
“When the rose turns into a cannon
And ants to guard legions
I sit by the window
heavily
Watch the yellowing of tree leaves
A hole around me”
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Screws & Chips #52 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday January 16th, 2023
Spy vs. Spy Square Off in Malaysia by Murray Hunter
Strange as it may seem, Malaysia, a modest, rather dull middle-income country near the tail end of Southeast Asia, is a hotspot for international intrigue and foreign covert activity. Although new anti-espionage laws are due to be presented to the Dewan Rakyat, Malaysia’s parliament, it’s difficult to see how legislation would stem any covert activities on Malaysian soil, given the country’s sizeable diasporas many of them dissidents from countries like Turkey and other more deeply Islamic societies.
The plotters of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York held early meetings in Kuala Lumpur before the horrific events of September 2001 that kicked off the misguided global war on terror. In 2017, Kim Jong-Nam, the brother of North Korean dictator Kim ong-un, was assassinated by outsourced assailants, using a nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). Fadi Muhammad al-Batsch, a Palestinian engineer, academic and a member of Hamas, the radical Islamist terror group seeking to liberate Palestine from Israeli rule was assassinated gangland style outside a mosque in 2018 for unknown reasons.
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The task of poets #poem & #artinstallation by Amir Khatib
“It is no longer the task of poets to write poetry, for so much has been written about it that the seas were overflowing with disgusting plastic words, and the fish died of thirst… Thousands of whales commit suicide in agony because of hearing bad poetry, and millions of birds migrate to escape it.”
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Always something; the family edition #53 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday December 5th, 2022
Gallic Rebuke: France and the US Rules-based Order by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Gerard Araud was not mincing his words. As France’s former ambassador to Washington, he had seen enough. At a November 14 panel hosted by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft titled “Is America Ready for a Multipolar Word?”, Araud decried the “economic warfare” being waged by the United States against China, expressing the view that Europe was concerned by the evident “containment policy” being pursued.
Araud is very much the diplomat establishment figure, having also served as French representative to the United Nations from 2009 to 2014. But despite his pedigree, he was most keen to fire off a few salvos against such concepts as the “rules-based order” so treasured by the Anglosphere and the “West” more broadly defined. “To be frank, I’ve always been extremely sceptical about this idea of a ‘rules-based order’.” Both he and the French in general loved the United Nations, “but the Americans not too much”.
With unerring frankness, he also noted that the UN and broader international hierarchy was dominated by the US-European bloc. The undersecretaries to the organisation reflected that fact, as did the stewardship of the World Bank and the IMF. “So that’s the first element: this order is our order.”
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Forgiven sins #poem & #artinstallation by Amir Khatib
“I reveal to you a great secret;
When I took you to the garden,
It wasn’t my intention to harvest the wet as I promised you”
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Ma-Siri & Alexa #47 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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