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. r a n t s • & • r e f l e c t i o n s • . . . . haiku is poetry, here in Western style, with 17 syllables, on three lines: 5.7.5

Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts

now's a good time

obama orders ~ combat troops to uganda ~ our peace prize winner

Posted by Don Shall at 10/14/2011 06:48:00 PM No comments:

Labels: Africa, al jazeera. aje, haiku, Joseph Kony, Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, permanent war, poverty, Uganda, world's cop

transform the future

each one teach twenty ~ ethiopia shows path ~ out of poverty

Posted by Don Shall at 8/15/2011 10:29:00 AM No comments:

Labels: Africa, al jazeera. aje, bootstraps, co-op, credit union, Ethiopia, haiku, poverty, self-help, transformation, wise women

ethiopia shows path

our barren lands are ~ returned to fertility ~ transform the future

Posted by Don Shall at 8/15/2011 10:23:00 AM No comments:

Labels: Africa, al jazeera. aje, bootstraps, co-op, credit union, Ethiopia, haiku, poverty, self-help, transformation, wise women

it can always get worse

from brasil, something ~ new: socialist-fascism ~ combines worst of both

Posted by Don Shall at 8/10/2011 11:49:00 AM No comments:

Labels: authoritarian, Brasil, centralized, corruption, David Icke, economy, fascism, haiku, poverty, socialism, socialist, socialist-fascism, theft, worst of both

y'a think YOU've got problems?

living in their car ~ lots of prayer, and cigarets ~ family of six

Posted by Don Shall at 7/06/2011 02:38:00 PM No comments:

Labels: austerity, cigarets, debt, deficit, economy, elites, haiku, NPR, poverty, prayer, recession, savage spending cuts, shared sacrifice, shock, shock doctrine, summer of austerity, working families

david stockman's view

attack on the poor ~ republican proposals ~ to coddle the rich

Posted by Don Shall at 5/19/2011 12:44:00 PM No comments:

Labels: amorality, attack the poor, callow, coddle the rich, haiku, heartlessness, politics, poverty, rich

ya better watch out

most nigerians – live on a dollar a day – incendiary

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Posted by Don Shall at 4/06/2011 04:56:00 PM No comments:

Labels: arab spring, dollar a day, haiku, incendiary, nigeria, poverty, revolution, unequal distribution

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A few words about this haiku stream

☞ Since early February 2011, starting with the wave of uprisings leading to the fall of the dictators of Tunisia, Egypt, recently Libya, and soon Syria, with yet more to follow – in what was first called the Arab Spring, and now gone global with OccupyWallStreet and its echoes – I have been closely following these, and more local, Current Events. ∞ I have been harvesting phrases from the full range of media and content outlets. ∞ These haiku are 99% built from actual quotes of news-makers, reporters, eye-witnesses, analysts, observers, iconoclasts and occasional quacks.