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de/from WIKIPEDIA:
El Parlamento (en húngaro: Országház que significa: casa del país o de la nación) es, probablemente, el edificio más conocido de Budapest. Es el centro de la legislatura húngara y otras instituciones, como la biblioteca del Parlamento. Se trata, sin duda, de uno de los edificios legislativos más viejos de Europa. Está ubicado en el distrito V de la ciudad, junto al río Danubio, situándose la entrada principal en la plaza Kossuth.
El edificio fue construido entre 1885 y 1904, siguiendo los planos de Imre Steindl. Intervinieron en la construcción alrededor de mil personas y se utilizaron 40 millones de ladrillos, medio millón de piedras preciosas y 40 kilos de oro.
Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el gobierno se constituyó en una única cámara por lo que, actualmente, sólo ocupa una pequeña parte del edificio.
El 23 de octubre de 1989, Mátyás Szűrös declaró constituida la República de Hungría desde el balcón que da a la plaza Lajos Kossuth.
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The Hungarian Parliament Building (Hungarian: Országház, which translates to House of the Country or House of the Nation) is the seat of the National Assembly of Hungary, one of Europe's oldest legislative buildings, a notable landmark of Hungary and a popular tourist destination of Budapest. It lies in Lajos Kossuth Square, on the bank of the Danube. It is currently the largest building in Hungary and still the tallest building in Budapest.
After World War II the diet became single-chambered and today the government uses only a small portion of the building. During the communist regime a red star perched on the top of the dome, but was removed in 1990. Mátyás Szűrös declared the Hungarian Republic from the balcony facing Lajos Kossuth Square on 23 October 1989.
The Parliament Building is in the Gothic Revival style; it has a symmetrical facade and a central dome. The dome is Renaissance Revival architecture.[3] Also from inside the parliament is symmetrical and thus has two absolutely identical parliament halls out of which one is used for the politics, the other one is used for guided tours. It is 268 m (879 ft) long and 123 m (404 ft) wide. Its interior includes 10 courtyards, 13 passenger and freight elevators, 27 gates, 29 staircases and 691 rooms (including more than 200 offices).
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* Cambodian temples were built during Khmer regime much before 15th century. However after the fall of this dynasty the temples remained neglected for 5 long centuries, that is till 20th century.
Nobody realized how and when these trees completely captured several of the temples here. The roots have grown over, through and then under these temple foundations crushing them completely.
The trees at Cambodian temples are nicknamed as strangler trees of Angkor, as their growth results in death of host trees.
Two other varieties of trees too took firm root here, the Silk Cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) and Thitpok tree (Tetrameles nudiflora). They are common in tropical forests throughout the world. Birds and bats propagate these seeds which are sticky in nature.
Young strangler lives on the tree’s surface, grows long roots, and descends along the trunk of the host tree. Eventually they reach the ground, enter the soil and get a firm hold. As several roots go through this process they get grafted together, enclosing their host’s trunk in a strangling latticework.
Ultimately they create a complete sheath around the trunk. At many places we saw this network of roots, and they have fiercely strong grip.
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وداعا لهم .. وإلى لقائي بك.
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الآن ..
تزداد ذكراك لدي .. كلما نقصت أنت لديهم..
أخبرك حقا ما يعزيني؟
أنهم قد ماتوا بالنسبة إليك.. قبل أن تموت أنت بالنسبة إليهم..
أنك نسيتهم قبل أن ينسوك..
أنك محوت الدنيا .. وتاريخها الأصفر
فتلاشت كل الدوائر .. و بقيت دائرتك الأصغر..
أبقيت عليها وأبقيتني فيها حتى آن الأوان ..
فحذفتني وحذفت العالم ..
وأبقيت لوحة ولونا وبعض مذاقات الطفولة ..
أنت .. وربك .. ومساحات لا تحدها إلا الألوان ..
أخبرك سرا ؟؟
أحسدك .. وأحزن إذ لم أرث عنك آلية النسيان..
أتمنى الآن .. لو أستطيع محو الأشياء .. التاريخ والأسماء ..
وقد شربت منك فن التفرد وصنعة التسامي ..
وتدربت على رمي الحقائب والخروج من سجن التسوق وتراكم المقتنيات ..
وفهمت كيف أصعد إلى عليتي فأفرغها بشجاعة .. وكيف أدخل إلى نفسي فأفرغها بشجاعة ..
وكيف أصبح خفيفا كلما أفرغت صناديقي ..
وكيف أصالح نفسي وأصبح أنا في لحظة الشك .. صديقي..
لكنني حتى هذه اللحظة لم أفهم آلية النسيان.
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أما بيتك الذي سكنني قبل أن أسكنه.. فلي فيه بصمة مزروعة تحت الجدار ..
وطن كامل خارج القطيع وداخل الأسوار ..
ولي فيه غار .. كغار حراء اكتشفت فيه الله .. وقرأت حتى أتقنت فن القراءة ..
ولي فيه غار.. كغار ثور .. اختبئت فيه .. وداريت نفسي عن صديد الجاهلية..
ولي مدينة منورة .. هاجرت إليها وتركت ورائي قريش العنصرية ..
ولي في بيتك سماء ..
وأرض وضيف وشمس وصيف وحر خفيف ..
وبرد لطيف ..
وخريف.
والآن..
يا صاحب الألوان ..
غريب كيف يفتح الموت أبوابا موصدة لجدولٍ من الذكريات ..
فأذكر شمس العصر في شرفتك .. أو شرفتي ..
وأذكر كيف نبتت أوراقي في غرفتك ..
أو غرفتي..
وتفوح وصاياك التي عمرتني..
وأذكر أنك أول من سماني كاتبا ..
وأول من علمني أني أكتب لكي أعرف نفسي ..
وكم أوصيتني بأن أصبح زهرة .. لكي أرسم زهرة ..
وكم حذرتني مِنْ تنازلِ الفن أمام قسوة السلطة..
وكم أخبرتني أن الله جميل يحب الجمال..
وأن الجمال مخبوء في البساطة.. وفي حسن التوظيف .. وفي خفايا التفاصيل الصغيرة ..
وفي نعمة الصمت .. ولون الحبر.. وغبة الهواء ..
وفي ورق الكتاب .. وترتيب النفس .. وإطلالة الشمس ..
وأشياء .. وأشياء .. وأشياء..
أعرف أنك .. قد تمل كعادتك إسهاب الكلام الطويل ..
سأضمك إلى قائمة من أشتاقهم..
وسأكتب كما طلبت مني كل شيء .. عن كل شيء ..
وسأبقى خارج الدوائر ..
وسأبذل جهدي كي أمحو ذاكرتي..
فالرحيل بلا ذاكرة _ كما تعلمت منك اليوم_ أمر لا يتقنه الجميع..
وداعا لهم الآن ..
وإلى لقائي بك .. يوما .. خارج أسوار القطيع.
ل محمد الحموي
Only few cars work in Douma, due to the existing siege which bans any form of power supplies, food or medicine from entering the city.
Douma is one of the neighbourhoods which Assad's Regime is desperate to control due to its close proximity from the capital city of Damascus. The siege is currently in its fifth year so far and the Assad & Russian air forces have not stopped their bombardment over the area in order to evacuate the city and force the citizens to migrate to the city of Idlib in Northern Syria.
Douma, Eastern Gouta on 2/1/2017
Carrying on the tradition that the Algoma Central started so many years before, the newest version of the Agawa Canyon Tour Train, now being operated by Watco after the line was acquired from CN, had a great first season. On the second to last day of the season, the passengers on board were treated to splendid fall color along the whole line. After spending the morning traveling up and midday in the canyon, the afternoon coming back was a everything the passengers could have wanted. Coming into Heyden, the color is on full dispay with just a little ways left back to the station in the Soo.
This residential building collapsed after Assad's Regime shelling, which is still applied on freed cities in Syria.
Doma - Eastern Ghouta near Damascus
May / 2015
Nam Tso གནམ་མཚོ། The lake lies at an elevation of 4,718 m, and has a surface area of 1,870 square kilometres. It is the highest salt lake in the world, and largest salt lake in the Tibet Autonomous Region. However, it is not the largest salt lake in the Tibetan Plateau. That title belongs to KokoNor མཚོ་སྔོན་ མཚོ་ཁྲི ་ཤོར་རྒྱལ་མོ་ (almost twice the size of Namtso). Namtso has five uninhabited islands of reasonable size, in addition to one or two rocky outcrops. The islands have been used for spiritual retreat by pilgrims who walk over the lake's frozen surface at the end of winter, carrying their food with them. They spend the summer there, unable to return to shore again until the water freezes the following winter. This practice is no longer permitted under the Communist Chinese regime in Tibet. www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...
Belchite is a municipality in the province of Zaragoza, Spain, located 49 km from the capital. It has a population of 1,636 inhabitants (source: INE (2010)) and 273.58 km². It is the head of the region known as "Tierras de Belchite".
It is known to have been the scene of one of the symbolic battles of the Spanish Civil War, the Battle of Belchite. As a result of the clashes, the town was destroyed. Instead of its reconstruction, Francisco Franco's regime decided to create a new town next door (today known as Belchite new), leaving intact the ruins of the previous one as a reminder of the civil war and what were considered excesses of the vanquished side.3 The whole, today abandoned and partly closed to the passage of people, is known as Pueblo Viejo de Belchite. It has the titles of very noble, loyal and heroic villa, and holds the cross laureate of San Fernando that Franco gave him.4
Grup Yorum is a band from Turkey known for their leftist songwriting. The group members have been persecuted by the Turkish government for many years, they have been arrested and jailed again and again and even tortured.
I took this picture during the great concert the band gave at the Volksstimmefest 2013 in Vienna. A short time before Turkish Police had burst Grup Yorum vocalist Selma Altın's ears "by hitting on both of her ears with their hands" and had broken violinist Dilan Balcı's fingers.
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Grup Yorum members Helin Bölek and Ibrahim Gökçek recently died of the hunger strike they had begun "in protest to the treatment the band received from the Turkish Government". The day after Ibrahim Gökçek's death the myrmidons of the Turkish terrorist regime raided the funeral using teargas, arrested mourners and seized his coffin.
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This is a panoramic view of the L'Hôtel de ville on the Vieux-Port in Marseille, was created buy stitching together several individual images.
The construction of the Hôtel de ville (town hall) began in 1653 but was not completed until 1673. The Hôtel de ville has a number of idiosyncratic features. Firstly, it is divided into two parts: the Puget Pavilion, which overlooks the port, and the Bargemon Pavilion behind it, linked by an archway on the first floor. Secondly, the Puget Pavilion does not have a staircase from the ground floor to the floors above it; these can only be accessed via the Bargemon Pavilion as, originally, the ground floor of the Puget Pavilion was reserved exclusively for merchants, and was therefore separated from the municipal authorities.
The Hôtel de ville was one of the few structures to survive the Rafle de Marseille in 1943 when, with the support of the French police and the Vichy regime, the German army evacuated and destroyed most of the buildings in the 1st arrondissement of Marseille.
Hylaeus Bees come with a large number of different masks for each of which a species is named. They're tiny and versatile and quite pretty, too, I think. They always remind me of the masked balls of the 'ancien régime'. And that takes me immediately to Catullus, the Roman poet, who in one of his poems to sweet Lesbia writes about the thousand kisses he would bestow on her, calling to mind the multitudinous Libyan sands and the flowers of Cyrene: probably a Laserpitium on one of which Hylaeus is foraging here. Whether Catullus thought of its qualities as an aphrodisiac or rather a contraceptive, I won't hazard to guess.
This picture was took in Qaboun, Damascus for one of the civilians whose home was destroyed by Assad's Regime shelling.
1\9\2013
Qaboun, Damascus, Syria
Always think of future blue skies and brutal regimes that never gives up. We all live in a constant state of flux.
#neverending
On March 25, 1949, Līna, Fricis, Jānis (grandfather who is not in the photo) and a little daughter Alda Jurkevics were taken out of the Štrampi home in Tārgale Parish, Ventspils District and deported to Siberia.They spent 10 years in the village of Marjanovka in the Omsk region of Russia. As Economic enemies of Soviet Regime...they were individual farmers with 10 cows band two horses. ... In 1959, everyone was acquitted, but only Līna and Fricis returned home to Latvia. Their daughter Alda and Frica's father remained in distant Siberia forever ... God's peace to all the victims of Stalin's regime🙏❤
People in photo are my late husband's mum, father and sister who he never met as she died in Siberia.
More information about Soviet deportations
Blick durch die Königskolonnaden und den Kleistpark auf das Gebäude des heutigen Kammergerichts, in dem unter dem Nazi-Regime der berüchtigte Volksgerichtshof tagte, der unter anderem die Urteile gegen die Widerstandskämpfer des 20. Juli 1944 fällte. Darauf weist der Gedenkstein im Vordergrund hin.
View through the Königskolonnaden and Kleistpark to the building of today's Kammergericht (Court of Justice), where the infamous People's Court met under the Nazi regime, which, among other things, passed sentences against the resistance fighters of July 20, 1944. The memorial stone in the foreground marks this.
Nam Tso གནམ་མཚོ།
salt lake The lake lies at an elevation of 4,718 m, and has a surface area of 1,870 square kilometres. It is the highest salt lake in the world, and largest salt lake in the Tibet Autonomous Region. However, it is not the largest salt lake in the Tibetan Plateau. That title belongs to KokoNor མཚོ་སྔོན་ མཚོ་ཁྲི ་ཤོར་རྒྱལ་མོ་ (almost twice the size of Namtso). Namtso has five uninhabited islands of reasonable size, in addition to one or two rocky outcrops. The islands have been used for spiritual retreat by pilgrims who walk over the lake's frozen surface at the end of winter, carrying their food with them. They spend the summer there, unable to return to shore again until the water freezes the following winter. This practice is no longer permitted under the Communist Chinese regime in Tibet. www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...
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These guys are hand thrashing the rice bushels to separate the grain. They come from the states of Bihar and UP and are the back bone of agriculture in Punjab, which is India's food bowl. Around 90% of Punjab's Wheat and Rice is under combine harvester, the remaining is harvested manually to make fodder for the milch animals.
... for totalitarian regimes (secular and religious), book banning that is. We are not surprised to find the usual culprits here. But do surprise yourself and make yourself knowledgeable and you will find that the country banning most books, and by a mile, is the country of the free, that paragon of liberty, that country whose social media behemoths accuse the European Union's attempts at controlling "fake news" as a form of unacceptable censorship. And Trump is not even in power. Sony A7iii.
Four civilians died today by insane Assad's airstrike on Doma - Eastern Ghouta.
Assad's regime has been besieging and striking Eastern Ghouta and Jobar for three years; because they support the revolution.
27/7/2015
Le régime alimentaire de la Gallinule poule-d’eau est mixte, en partie carné (insectes aquatiques, larves, vers, limaces, escargots, têtards, etc.) et en partie végétal.
The diet of the Moorhen is mixed, partly meat (aquatic insects, larvae, worms, slugs, snails, tadpoles, etc.) and partly vegetable.
La dieta de la polla de agua es mixta, en parte cárnica (insectos acuáticos, larvas, gusanos, babosas, caracoles, renacuajos, etc.) y en parte vegetal.
The new regime in the US is destroying what was left of the reputation of America. Friends are being treated as foes and foes as friends, the rule of international law is, at best, optional. People inside and outside of the US are stunned by the speed at which basic structures of democracy are being dismantled. What was worrying yesterday is a threat today. Leica M8, Elmar (collapsible) 4/90 at F8.
This is one example of the decaying grandeur of an old Soviet spa in Georgia.
In the 1920s, Tskaltubo was a thriving spa town with an exclusively Soviet clientele. Citizens would flock here as part of a state-funded health program on sanctioned vacations meant to reenergize them while they contemplated socialist ideals. If the workers were healthy, as the theory went, the workforce would be healthy and thus more productive to support the regime.
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Also do pay a visit to Crimson Regime. The people are friendly and sometimes feed you cookies.
And the snowpeaks of the Nyenchen Tanglha mountain range.
Father Tanglha and Mother Namtso.
Nam Tso གནམ་མཚོ།
salt lake The lake lies at an elevation of 4,718 m, and has a surface area of 1,870 square kilometres. It is the highest salt lake in the world, and largest salt lake in the Tibet Autonomous Region. However, it is not the largest salt lake in the Tibetan Plateau. That title belongs to KokoNor མཚོ་སྔོན་ མཚོ་ཁྲི ་ཤོར་རྒྱལ་མོ་ (almost twice the size of Namtso). Namtso has five uninhabited islands of reasonable size, in addition to one or two rocky outcrops. The islands have been used for spiritual retreat by pilgrims who walk over the lake's frozen surface at the end of winter, carrying their food with them. They spend the summer there, unable to return to shore again until the water freezes the following winter. This practice is no longer permitted under the Communist Chinese regime in Tibet. www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...
"Gnyan-chen-thang-lha"means "the God of Grassland" in the Tibetan language.
གཉན་ཆེན་ཐང་ལྷ > gnyan chen thang lha > Nyenchen Tanglha - 7088m (23254ft)
Nyenchen Tanglha. Important protector of the Nyingma teachings, regarded as a bodhisattva on the eighth level. Also a name of a mountain range south-east of Lake Namtso..
Nyen Chen Tanglha: a mountain god from the central Tibetan area of U-tsang. Aside from the people of the local region Nyen Chen Tanglha is most popular with the Karma Kagyu and the Gelug Traditions of Buddhism.
TYRANNICAL regimes’ ugliness can be covered under a white blanket of snow: A superficial lustre of ostensible happiness and laughter conceals Slavery in broad daylight, allowing monstrous rulers to create an illusion of normality. Tyrants are happy whenever the stormy weather hinders or impedes the protest marches.
The people are unwilling or afraid to criticize the widespread logical fallacies powdered by something as immaculate as snow flakes, or the fallacies enforced by millions’ worth of mighty propaganda. Lips are too frozen stiff (or scared) to speak out about the (nonexistent) emperor’s new clothes.
Hold on, free souls: The snow can and will melt exposing the tyrant bare, without anything on, soon, real soon!
REGIME
by Hanan Muzafar Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Their vicious and brutal spider-web,
made of violence and ignorance,
serves oppression,
To rip your innocence,
corrupting your mindset,
performing suppression,
making you to choose mediocrity,
filling you with disgust,
and plans to kill the resistance.
Slogans from prison cells,
roaring for freedom;
whose here to hear them—
witnesses and victims,
What they want
'One time tea and two time bread,
A fine dine on a dead one'
Selling their crimes and lies,
hiding them in pockets.
Reformers standing up,
Revolutionaries fighting against them,
Tyrants killing them,
Mothers crying and fathers numb;
A purpose to bring justice,
making a way for wisdom—
A hideous regime making them,
To suffer.
I want to inform you that everything is fine with me and with my wife Elena. Right now I'm abroad, and at the moment I do not know if this is good or bad. The rest of my family - parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents and many friends - in Ukraine.
In a country where there is a war going on right now. Where the "Putin regime" is attacking the whole country with planes, missiles and tanks. Russian troops that invaded our independent country - killing our people.
Ukrainians are a brave nation, and our small, compare of the U.S. and Russia, but huuuge, by the standards of Europe, the country is now holding the line. But Ukraine holds the defense not only of its own land. Ukraine holds the defense of Europe and the entire civilized world. If the war is not stopped in Ukraine today, tomorrow it can come to any country in Europe, as well as beyond its borders.
These are not chaotic, random and single attacks. Four days ago, the closest and dearest people to me woke up from rocket explosions, from shelling that was held across the country. Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, Mariupol, Chernivtsi, Chernihiv, Chernobyl are cities that are known not only in Ukraine and Europe, but also far beyond its borders. Not to mention hundreds of other settlements. Enemy missiles flew into each of them, enemy tanks entered.
Ukraine stands and will not break. But we need your support! Support for ALL of YOU, without exception. Speak and write about this hell every day, every hour, every single minute! Go outside, urge politicians to join the comprehensive and unconditional support of Ukraine in everything.
I will repeat again. If Putin and Russia are not stopped today in Ukraine, tomorrow he will come to Europe. And at 4 in the morning (how cruel and cynical) as during the WW II, and as on February 24, 2022 in Ukraine, everyone will wake up from rocket explosions.
If you want to financially support my family, Ukrainian army and volunteers, write in private messages, or in my instagram account @wakeuphumansnow
#STOPTHEWAR
As our cruise ship proceeded along the Rhine, we stopped for a day in Heidelberg -- one of the oldest university towns in Germany, and all of Europe.
I decided to go along on the tour with the rest of the group on this particular morning -- even though it was foggy and raining, and there wasn't much opportunity to wander around. After seeing several parts of the old campus, we were taken back down to the town square and given an hour to amuse ourselves in the rain.
As usual, I wandered about and took some photos...
The man holding this umbrella turned out to be one the passengers on my cruise ship ... but whenever I saw him on the ship, he seemed so grumpy that I decided not to tell him that I had photographed him. In fairness, I saw him mostly in the dining area, and perhaps he was just hungry and concentrating on his food ... in any case, I did tell his niece, who seemed pleased but did not seem to have any interest in having the photo sent to her. C'est la vie ...
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day for Oct 14, 2015.
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During the first two weeks of September 2015, we took a river cruise down the Rhine River, and wrapped up the trip with a few days in Berlin. This Flickr album contains various photos from that trip …
We spent the first couple days recovering from jet-lag in Interlaken, Switzerland. This is the site of the Jungfrau and various other spectacular peaks in the Alps range — but it was so foggy that we could hardly see anything. I’ve included a couple of videos of a tram ride down the mountain, as well as some paraglider who floated down into the town park.
We then traveled to Bern, where we got on-board a Viking Cruise ship that headed north for the next several days — eventually arriving in Amsterdam, after making stops nearly every day to see ancient castles and fortresses, as well as various villages and small towns that have survived various wars, tyrants, and regimes for well over a thousand years.
From our final cruise destination in Amsterdam, we flew to Berlin — where we spent a few days at a very nice hotel that turned out to be in what was once East Berlin. Indeed, the separation between East and West Berlin, once so obvious and important, is now almost impossible for a visitor to spot. Except for some rubble, and a few small mementoes (like Checkpoint Charlie, a few blocks from our hotel), there is no obvious difference between East and West from pre-1989 days.
JAMAL KHASHOGGI
Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi (Medina, Saudi Arabia, 13 October 1958 – Istanbul, Turkey, 2 October 2018) was a Saudi journalist, political commentator, and dissident voice who became a global symbol of the price of truth when truth disturbs absolute power. His story is not that of an ordinary reporter: it is the story of a man who grew up within an authoritarian system, who understood the machinery of power from the inside, and who therefore knew exactly how propaganda can turn into violence.
Origins, family, and education
Khashoggi was born in Medina, one of the most important cities in Islam. He came from a well-connected and socially recognized Saudi background: his family had status and access, and he grew up close enough to institutions and elites to understand how authority truly functions. This point is crucial: Jamal Khashoggi was not a dissident “from the margins.” He was a man who knew the structure—and became dangerous precisely when he chose not to lie.
He studied and developed part of his education abroad, which helped shape a broader view of politics and freedom of expression. His professional identity was built on journalism rooted in facts and direct observation: he did not write to entertain, he wrote to expose.
Journalistic career and public role
For decades, Khashoggi worked as a journalist in Saudi Arabia and across the Arab world. He had close knowledge of political life and witnessed crises, wars, transformations, and power struggles. He wrote about sensitive subjects: corruption, extremism, internal repression, war, and the relationship between society and religious authority.
In this stage, his role was complex: on one side he was a journalist with access and connections; on the other he tried to preserve an independent space of thought. This tension reflects a country where speaking truth is always dangerous and every sentence becomes a negotiation with the limits imposed from above.
Exile and the choice to speak
In the final years of his life, as political repression intensified in Saudi Arabia and the control of critical voices grew harsher, Khashoggi increasingly collided with power. His public positions, his call for reform, his criticism of censorship, and his denunciation of arrests of opponents made him unacceptable to the regime.
He moved to the United States and began writing as a columnist for The Washington Post. At that point his voice became international—and therefore even more intolerable. He was no longer a manageable dissenter within the country’s borders: he had become a global witness.
Private life and his relationship with Hatice Cengiz
On a human level, Jamal Khashoggi was not only a political symbol: he was a man with a private life, love, and plans. He was engaged to Hatice Cengiz, who would later become a crucial witness after his disappearance. Their story makes the tragedy even more brutal: Khashoggi entered a building expecting to complete paperwork necessary to marry and build a life, and was instead erased.
His death: how, where, and why
On 2 October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, to obtain documents required for his marriage. He never came out.
International investigations and reconstructions indicate that he was lured into a trap: inside the consulate a team of Saudi agents was waiting. Khashoggi was killed and his body was made to disappear. The brutality of the operation—carried out inside a consulate, a formally diplomatic space—turned the case into a message to the world: no place is safe if power decides you must vanish.
The murder of Khashoggi was not “just another killing.” It was a political execution. An act of state terror against an unarmed man, guilty of only one thing: writing, criticizing, thinking.
Those who ordered it, and its historical meaning
Questions about who ordered the murder and higher-level responsibility have marked the entire case. The most disturbing truth is this: an operation of that kind is not the action of uncontrolled criminals, but the expression of a power structure capable of using death as a political instrument.
Khashoggi became a symbol of the violation of press freedom, the repression of dissidents, and the fragility of human rights when they collide with economic interests and geopolitical convenience.
Why Khashoggi belongs in this series
Jamal Khashoggi died for truth in a modern and terrifying way: not in a public execution, but through a planned disappearance, inside an official building, in the twenty-first century.
His death forces a question the world continues to avoid: how many times does global politics choose silence over justice when truth becomes inconvenient for the powerful?
In the geographical area known as Alto Bradano, between Acerenza and Ripacandida, is where Forenza is located. It is a centre which enjoys an excellent panoramic position overlooking Puglia. Close to the present-day habitation, one can visit the remains of the ancient City of Forentum, which was founded by the Apuli and known as Pherente. It was conquered by Rome during the Second Sannitica War of 317 BC under the command of the Roman Consul Quinto Giunio Bubulco. It became a municipality under Emperor Augusto (I century BC). It was destroyed by the Goths during the clashes of the Greek-Gothic War (535-553), and subsequently passed under Byzantine domination. With the advent of the Longobards (VII century AD), Forenza entered as part of the Gastaldato of Acerenza. The Normans (XI century) gave it to the Pagani family who were the founders of the Order of Templar Knights, and the Swabians (XIII century), who made it part of royal government property. The Angioiniansans (1268) made it a fief of the Caracciolo family, who ruled it until the initial years of the 16th Century. The ascension to the Imperial throne by the Hapsburgs coincided for Forenza with being assigned to the Doria family, who kept it until the abolition of feudal rights (1806). In 1799, the inhabitants took part in the Neapolitan Revolution, by adhering to the Partenopean Republic, and planting a Freedom tree in the square. During 1860, it was one of the centers of revolt against the Bourbon regime, and subsequently the Unity of Italy (1861). It was distinguished in the fight against brigands who impoverished northern areas of Basilicata.
A destroyed school from southern neighborhoods of Damascus.
South of Damascus has been besieged for over than three years, and under the continuous shelling, which were applied by Assad's forces.
Add that schools became known targets for Regime's airstrikes, even though, few schools are not closed and some children are still studying.
Assad's Regime have done all of this to stop people there from supporting the Revolution, but they didn't.
South of Damascus
18 / 10 / 2015
* Cambodian temples were built during Khmer regime much before 15th century. However after the fall of this dynasty the temples remained neglected for 5 long centuries, that is till 20th century.
Nobody realized how and when these trees completely captured several of the temples here. The roots have grown over, through and then under these temple foundations crushing them completely.
The trees at Cambodian temples are nicknamed as strangler trees of Angkor, as their growth results in death of host trees.
Two other varieties of trees too took firm root here, the Silk Cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) and Thitpok tree (Tetrameles nudiflora). They are common in tropical forests throughout the world. Birds and bats propagate these seeds which are sticky in nature.
Young strangler lives on the tree’s surface, grows long roots, and descends along the trunk of the host tree. Eventually they reach the ground, enter the soil and get a firm hold. As several roots go through this process they get grafted together, enclosing their host’s trunk in a strangling latticework.
Ultimately they create a complete sheath around the trunk. At many places we saw this network of roots, and they have fiercely strong grip.
My complete Cambodia Album is found at www.flickr.com/photos/domnessi/albums/72157680697116845
President Jose Ramos-Horta: " It is one of the most abominable humanitarian catastrophes in modern times, in the 21st century, next to the killing fields in Cambodia during Pol Pot’s regime." - www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/12/qa-east-timors-presiden... ▪️Tá Gaza ar cheann de na tubaistí is uafasai i saol daoine le déanai (...) beagnach cosuil le pairceanna marfacha na Cambóide le linn réimeas Phol Pot." - an tUachtaran José Ramos-Horta.▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️Pont King Morgan, Caerfyrddin/ King Morgan Bridge, Carmarthen - a enwyd ar ôl y brodyr King Morgan, o'r dref/ - named after the King Morgan brothers, from the town.
Prairie blazing star (Liatris pycnostachya) blooms in profusion in a high quality longleaf pine savanna in Newton County, Texas.
This is another image taken on private land in the Pineywoods of east Texas. In stark contrast with the imperiled forest I posted yesterday, these woods are protected through legal agreements with nonprofit conservation partners and are managed to maintain exceptionally high quality habitat. I use the term “woods” lightly for this longleaf pine savanna, as, despite the trees, places like this are more prairie than forest. This site is rich in prairie genera like Schizachyrium, Andropogon, Eryngium, Silphium, and so on. This savanna received a growing season burn this year, which is typical of the fire regime under which the community evolved, and contrary to the cool season burns that primarily occur today due to a variety of non-ecological reasons. The results were spectacular, and Liatris pycnostachya in particular seemed to respond.