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Monday, March 7, 2022
Warmi (Woman), Marco Vernaschi
Most of all, the Andean community relies on women (warmi, in Quechua) and worship Pachamama, supreme goddess and universal Earth Mother.
Sunday, March 6, 2022
To Ukraine, from a survivor of the Sarajevo siege
The letter from Aida Cerkez featured on #Weekend, and can be read here 👇 pic.twitter.com/qvnryz1jcu
— BBC World Service (@bbcworldservice) March 5, 2022
Saturday, March 5, 2022
Zagreb today
Ukrainian Ambassador Vasyl Kyrylych
The rally was organised by the Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (HHO) and the Association of Ukrainians in Zagreb.
More than 1,500 Ukrainian refugees arrived in Croatia by 7 a.m. Saturday, sources at the Red Cross Croatia (HCK) said.
Friday, March 4, 2022
Word on the Street
Photograph: Paulius Peleckis/Getty Images
Putin is a mad man and has gone nuclear.
CCTV footage shows the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant during shelling
Photograph: Zaporizhzhya NPP/Reuters
Thursday, March 3, 2022
“Play is really the work of childhood.” - Fred Rogers
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
People Share 30 Of The Most Unexpected Acts Of Kindness Throughout Our History
Japanese Diplomat in Lithuania during WW2. He was giving free travel passes to anyone who asked, especially Jews fleeing the holocaust. He was ordered by his government to stop and refused. As his embassy was being closed down, he and his wife were signing documents and handing them out to all refugees all the way to the train station; even to the point of throwing signed documents out the window as the train left. He saved 6,000 to 10,000 lives by his actions and was later named among "the Righteous of Nations" and had his name and story entered into a museum in Israel to be forever remembered.
Bored Panda decided to take a look back at the past and remember the moments when people proved they can be there for one another despite the difficult circumstances they were in.
Przemyśl, Poland
Could the international criminal court bring Putin to justice over Ukraine?
The prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) in The Hague announced this week that he would launch an investigation into possible war crimes or crimes against humanity in Ukraine. How likely are Putin or other Russian political or military leaders to be brought to justice and what are the obstacles that must be overcome for that to happen?
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks depicts a supposedly historical tableau, set in 1676, and based on the legend of Cossacks sending an insulting reply to an ultimatum from the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed IV.
Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan!
O sultan, Turkish devil and damned devil's kith and kin, secretary to Lucifer himself. What the devil kind of knight are thou, that canst not slay a hedgehog with your naked arse? The devil shits, and your army eats. Thou shalt not, thou son of a whore, make subjects of Christian sons. We have no fear of your army; by land and by sea we will battle with thee. Fuck thy mother.
Thou Babylonian scullion, Macedonian wheelwright, brewer of Jerusalem, goat-fucker of Alexandria, swineherd of Greater and Lesser Egypt, pig of Armenia, Podolian thief, catamite of Tartary, hangman of Kamyanets, and fool of all the world and underworld, an idiot before God, grandson of the Serpent, and the crick in our dick. Pig's snout, mare's arse, slaughterhouse cur, unchristened brow. Screw thine own mother!
So the Zaporozhians declare, you lowlife. You won't even be herding pigs for the Christians. Now we'll conclude, for we don't know the date and don't own a calendar; the moon's in the sky, the year with the Lord. The day's the same over here as it is over there; for this kiss our arse!
— Koshovyi otaman Ivan Sirko, with the whole Zaporozhian Host
"Please close the skies for Russian missiles and for Russian airplanes."
Glib Mazepas, who lives downtown in Ukraine's second city, says there was "heavy bombing" overnight from an airplane that circled three times before striking around 1km (0.6 miles) from his home.
He also described the moment he heard yesterday's rocket attack on Kharkiv's Freedom Square
"There was a whistling sound over our heads... then boom. I remember our house wasn't trembling so much as shaking from left to right, for about five seconds. It was a very strange feeling."
He says every noise he now hears he assumes could be a Russian strike.
"Yesterday my wife was heating something up with the microwave. And I freaked out because I thought it was some kind of attack."
"You get used to the war very quickly, believe me. It's a matter of a day or two. I never thought it would be like this."
Mazepas says he is grateful for international support, but wants Nato to go further by enforcing a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
"Please close the skies for Russian missiles and for Russian airplanes. Because they will just bomb the whole city to the ashes."
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Devastation
Artist Tatsuya Tanaka created an emotionally powerful piece of anti-war art that shows the devastation of conflict.
“Putin’s Tracks,” by David Plunkert.
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" Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russians feel the pain of international sanctions
The sanctions now hitting Russia are being described as economic war - they aim to isolate the country and create a deep recession there. Western leaders hope the unprecedented measures will bring about a change in thinking in the Kremlin.
Ordinary Russians face seeing their savings wiped out.
Their lives are already being disrupted.
The sanctions against some Russian banks include cutting them off from Visa and Mastercard, and consequently Apple Pay and Google Pay.
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