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Israel's devastating air-and-ground assault on Gaza has now killed more than 20,000 people in the 10 weeks since the conflict began, according to Gaza's Ministry of Health — a figure that is fast approaching 1% of the Palestinian territory's pre-war population.

سِرْ إن اسطعت في الهواءٍ.

 

غيرُ مجدٍ في ملّتي واعتقادي

     نوح باكٍ ولا ترنم شاد

 وشبيهٌ صوت النعيّ إذا قِيـ س بصوت البشير في كلّ ناد 

أبَكَت تلكم الحمامة أم غـ نّت على فِرْعِ غُصنٍها الميّاد 

صاحِ هذي قُبورُنا تملأ الرُحبَ

   فأين القبور من عهد عاد 

خفّف الوَطْءَ ما أظنّ أَدِيْمَ الـ أرض إلا من هذه الأجساد 

وقبيحٌ بنا وإِنْ قَدُم العهدُ .........هوانُ الآباء والأجداد 

سِرْ إن اسطعت في الهواءٍ...... رُوَيداً لا اختيالاً على رُفات العباد

 رُب لحدٍ قد صار لحداً مراراً ضاحكٍ من تزاحم الأضداد

 ودفينٍ على بقايا دفين في طويل الأزمان والآباد

 

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Linebacker II was different, was intended to destroy high-value targets such as vital military installations, railway lines, energy plants, factories, etc., to shake the Vietnamese “to their core,” in the words of the then US National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger.

“They’re going to be so god damned surprised,” US President Richard Nixon said to Kissinger on December 17, and the next day, 129 B-52s took off from Guam and Thailand to obliterate the Hanoi and Haiphong areas in North Vietnam.
An estimated 1600 Vietnamese lost their lives in the bombings, of which 287 people were killed in one night alone in Kham Thien, an area in Hanoi, the majority of which were women, children, and elderly, according to the Vietnamese newspaper VN Express International.

An Agence France Presse journalist, who visited Kham Thien shortly after the US bombing, described a scene of “mass ruins … desolation and mourning.”

Mirror of Gaza?

Feet..

 

But about 80 percent of all strokes are preventable, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And the lifestyle steps you take can be especially powerful in fending off stroke. Here’s what you can do to reduce your risk.

Keeping certain conditions at bay or managing them properly can cut the likelihood of a stroke. Take high blood pressure, which some research suggests is responsible for almost half of strokes. A heart-healthy eating plan may help control it. 

Also, try to limit sodium to less than 1,500 milligrams a day, maintain a healthy weight and exercise regularly, says Sahil Khera, an interventional cardiologist at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.

Exercise can help you maintain a healthy weight, and being overweight or obese is itself a stroke risk — especially for those who carry a lot of fat around their midsection. (Even normal-weight women with abdominal fat may have a higher stroke risk, the American Stroke Association says.)

The CDC recommends at least 150 minutes of moderate activity, including walking, each week. Small bursts of movement, such as vacuuming, count, Goldberg says. 

And stay on your feet as much as you can. A study in the JAMA Network Open in 2022 found that people who sat for 13 hours a day or more had a 44 percent higher risk of stroke.

Isometric..

 

Exercises that engage muscles without movement — such as wall squats and planks — may be best for lowering blood pressure, according to a large study published Tuesday in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

This type of training is known as isometric, or static, exercise, according to the Mayo Clinic. Isometric muscle action happens when muscles contract but do not visibly change length, and the joints involved don’t move, facilitating stability of the body.
Isometric exercises can be done with weights or without, just relying on the body’s own weight.

“Overall, isometric exercise training is the most effective mode in reducing both systolic and diastolic blood pressure,” said study coauthor Dr. Jamie O’Driscoll in a news release. He is a reader in cardiovascular physiology at Canterbury Christ Church University’s School of Psychology and Life Sciences in England.

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Dozens of people were killed Wednesday in the Iranian city of Kerman after twin blasts near the burial site of slain military commander Qasem Soleimani, in what officials called a terror attack.  

The blasts, at least one of which was caused by a bomb, state TV said, came on the fourth anniversary of Soleimani’s death in a US airstrike, and threaten to accelerate tensions in the region that have spiked since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.   

At least 84 people were killed and 284 others injured, according to state-run news agency IRNA, citing Jafar Miadfar, head’s of Iran’s national emergency agency. The toll was revised down due to the miscounting of body parts.  

No group has claimed responsibility for the blasts, the deadliest to hit Iran since the 1979 revolution.   

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi blamed Israel for the explosions, saying it will pay a “heavy price.” The Israeli military told CNN it had “no comment” on the matter.

May be the intelligence apparatus can tell us who is behind it. Who is going around killing civilians.   Just a thoought

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Protecting Our emocracy..

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