sam

freethinker, cosmopolitical & a global nomad. Post & reposts about politics of conflict & violence.

[sam @global_nomad_]

The new meaning of #FIFA acronym is:
F**k
Infantino
F**k
Argentina

[sam @global_nomad_]

This is my window seat by @Delta
And someone forgot their chewing gum while @Delta forgot to clean it! 🤮

[sam @global_nomad_]

After 4 years here, I can confidently say I’m in love with the United States. So welcoming, so much fun, incredibly kind people, and stunning nature. 💙❤️🤍

[sam @global_nomad_]

President Nayib Bukele dons a dark blue, standing-collar jacket, adorned with intricate silver embroidery of the Salvadoran national bird, the torogoz. The jacket is elegantly cross-buttoned, blending traditional elements with a sleek, modern silhouette for a truly chic look.

[sam @global_nomad_]

Salvador’s 🇸🇻 President Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele turned the United Nations 🇺🇳 General Assembly runway into a fashion diplomacy statement! 🔥🕴️
Can we all agree he's redefining presidential style? 🌟👔
#FashionDiplomacy #StylishLeader

[Nadia Murad @NadiaMuradBasee]

Ten years ago today, my mother was on one of the last trucks when ISIS took all the women of Kocho into captivity. I'll never forget how she looked. The wind had pushed her white headscarf back on her head, and her dark hair, normally parted neatly down the middle, was wild and messy, her scarf covering only her mouth and her nose. Her white clothes were dusty, and she stumbled when she was pulled down to the ground. "Get going," a militant yelled at her, pushing her toward the garden, laughing at her and other older women who couldn't move quickly. She came through the gates and walked toward us in a trance. Without saying a single word, she sat down and rested her head on my lap. My mother never lay down in front of men. It was late, and we were exhausted. My mother's head still rested on my lap. She hadn't said anything since she arrived, but her eyes were open and she wasn't sleeping. I assumed we would spend the night crammed together in the institute, and I wondered if I would be able to sleep at all. I thought about asking my mother what she was thinking, but it was too hard to talk. I wish I had said something. #Kocho #YazidiGenocide

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

A tribe full of centenarians attributes its longevity to a simple rule: leave the dinner table while still slightly hungry, feeling unfinished.

The principle is similar in writing & conversation. Resist the compulsion to say everything there is to say on the topic.

[DaiWW @BeijingDai]

United Nations Secretary General Guterres went to the Gaza border with some supply material as human shield. His expression looks like "Israel can bomb whatever you want, but I must deliver the supplies to the Gaza people."

I usually think he's useless, but I like him a lot this time.

[sam @global_nomad_]

@MonicaLMarks There was a technical problem with Iraq’s vote apparently.

[Rami Ayari @Raminho]

UPDATE: @iraq_un just requested to change their vote to in favor and said that there was "a problem in the voting system" at the time of the vote!

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

if you don’t like the united nations general assembly, your problem isn’t with the united nations.

it’s with the state of the world.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

the difference 100 years can make

[Annika H Rothstein @truthandfiction]

I don’t know the name of the Swedish man who came to the Israeli embassy in Sweden to lay down 900 roses in memory of the slaughtered victims, but I know I love him and hold him in my heart forever.

[Thomas de Waal @Tom_deWaal]

If you read only one piece on the #Karabakh conflict and Armenia and Azerbaijan do read this. A powerful blast of humanity and a cry from the heart, as an Azerbaijani IDP calls for the cycle of ethnic cleansing to stop. https://t.co/bjrghzda05

[Mahmud Mohammed @MahmudM27830556]

The flood disaster in the city of #Derna was triggered by the dramatic collapse of the valley dam, viedo show’s aftermath the Dam collapse
#Libya

[Nahel Belgherze @WxNB_]

Here’s the first post-event high-resolution satellite image of the port city of Derna.

Libya's 9/11.

[Humans of Judaism @HumansOfJudaism]

On September 5-6, 1972, 11 Israelis were killed in an attack known as the Munich Massacre. During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, members of a Palestinian terrorist group stormed the Olympic Village, killing 2 members of the Israeli delegation, and taking 9 more hostage.

One of the athletes present that day was runner and racewalker Shaul Ladany who, along with 5 others, was able to escape from their apartment. Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1936, Ladany fled to Budapest with his family after their home was bombed by the Luftwaffe in 1941. His parents tried to hide him in a monastery, but they were captured and sent from the Budapest ghetto to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1944. Ladany spent 6 months there before being rescued on a train to Switzerland.

He immigrated to Israel in 1948 and went on to become a world champion, world record holder, two-time Olympian, and a renowned professor of industrial engineering. Today, Ladany is still an active racer, participating in marathons and completed the Maccabiah Fun Run last summer. The 87 year old visits the graves of his Israeli teammates in Tel Aviv every year on September 6th.

May the memories of the 11 Israelis killed in the Munich Massacre - David Berger, Ze’ev Friedman, Yossef Gutfreund, Eliezer Halfin, Yossef Romano, Amitzur Shapira, Kehat Shorr, Mark Slavin, Andre Spitzer, Yakov Springer, Moshe Weinberg - forever be a blessing.
Contributor: @Jggoltz

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

"Conflict". Excerpt from 1983 Soviet animated film.

[UNESCO @UNESCO]

1940: 🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘 3M
1980: 🐘🐘🐘🐘 1.5M
2023: 🐘 < 500k

This #WorldElephantDay lets all reflect on the importance of conserving biodiversity. The time to act #ForNature is now.