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Update from Athens

Posted in commentary, news, tagged , , , , , , , , on 6-December-2011 | Leave a Comment »

Today is the big day in Athens and no one is really sure what is going to happen today. In 2009 and 2010 the demonstrations to commemorate the death of Alexis Grigoropoulos turned very violent very quickly. Everyone I have spoken with is unsure what will go down today. There are two main protests planned for [...]

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An Ugly Turn for #OccupyLA

Posted in commentary, news, photography, Uncategorized, tagged , , on 2-December-2011 | 3 Comments »

Just the other day I posted about how impressed I was with both the LAPD and #OccupyLA. Well, LA has certainly taken an ugly turn over the last couple of days. On Wednesday night the LAPD overran the Occupy encampment that had taken root in the 1.7 acre park attached to the west side of [...]

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Learning to Eat

Posted in commentary, meditations, tagged , , , on 4-September-2010 | 1 Comment »

It has been about 5 days since I landed back in Seattle and reentry is going pretty well so far.  My biggest accomplishment was being able to beat my jet lag almost immediately.  My flight back was a long and it really kicked my ass!  I have had plenty of long trips in the past [...]

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Happy New Year

Posted in commentary on 1-January-2010 | 2 Comments »

Wishing everyone a happy, safe and prosperous 2010!

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Phase Zero Begins

Posted in commentary, travel plans on 4-August-2009 | Leave a Comment »

In the airport club lounge waiting for my boarding call.  I splurged and used a bunch of my many miles and got myself a Business Class ticket for this trip to/from the States.  A guilty pleasure, but I racked up heaps of miles flying back-and-forth to Tanzania for 7 years so why not use them?? [...]

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Discussions on the new face of journalism

Posted in commentary, demotix, news, photography, tagged , , , , , on 8-July-2009 | 2 Comments »

Before I begin this post. I will mention briefly that I am very aware of my lack of posting recently.  I’m moody about writing and use the various excuses to avoid posting.  I’m aware of it so ‘nuff said at this point so onto my post … Sara Palin may, or may not, be many [...]

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The Art of Blogging

Posted in commentary on 17-May-2009 | 1 Comment »

Blogging is not easy.  In fact it is damn difficult thing to do when you get down to the brass tacks.  There are any number of “rules,” written and unwritten, about what you can, should or should not post; there are the basic issues of motivation and of course writing skill; one must always consider [...]

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Bad Blogger

Posted in commentary on 27-April-2009 | Leave a Comment »

I have been a bad blogger and not posted anything in a long time.  I am still here and thinking and doing and getting ready, it’s just that there have been a number of other things happening and i have just not been making time or space to blog. I’ve got some stuff on the [...]

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Weekend Wrap-up

Posted in commentary, news, photography, tagged , , , , on 6-April-2009 | Leave a Comment »

A brief wrap up of the weekend events.

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Pro-democracy Demonstration

Posted in commentary, news, photography on 5-April-2009 | Leave a Comment »

So the demonstration toady was actually very unique.  It was a coming together of multiple political parties and other civil society organizations all calling on the government to hold early elections in the face of the current Prime Minister, Ferenc Gyurcsány (wiki) stating that he would (finally) resign. The level of dissatisfaction with the PM and [...]

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