TWITTERS TOP TEN BIG NEWS STORIES OF 2010
- Gulf Oil Spill
- Haiti Earthquake
- Pakistan Floods
- Koreas Conflict
- Chilean Miners Rescue
- Chavez Tas Ponchao
- Wikileaks Cablegate
- Hurricane Earl
- Prince Williams Engagement
- World Aids Day
The gulf oil spill, as tragic as it was to the environment and BP stakeholders alike, was an example of how a nuclear bomb would look if detonated. A lesson for us all to look after the earth.
Results shared via Stumble Upon.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.15.10~
A FRIEND LOVES AT ALL TIMES, THANK YOU WORLDWIDE FOR BEING SO DIVERSE AND LOVING
Namaste. Special thanks to all of you who read Horiwood.Com in Hollywood. May your holiday season be a good one and 2011 be prosperous and abundantly blessed for you all. Most of all, may your smiles increase and your spirits rise.
According to Quantcast, here’s what we all look like. Pretty diverse. I love you all. As a fellow global citizen, thanks for being my daily teachers who share yourselves on a New Zealand Maori Kiwi’s blog. You’ve taught me so much. As caring is sharing. Many thanks for your open hearts and your limitless abilities to share. Peace.
| United States | 11,875 | 53.82 | 123 | 53.81 | 102 |
| United Kingdom | 1,635 | 7.41 | 147 | 7.24 | 157 |
| Canada | 1,115 | 5.05 | 128 | 5.00 | 134 |
| Australia | 765 | 3.47 | 220 | 3.37 | 230 |
| New Zealand | 515 | 2.33 | 848 | 3.07 | 1,116 |
| Germany | 450 | 2.04 | 55 | 2.03 | 81 |
| France | 345 | 1.56 | 42 | 1.54 | 47 |
| India | 315 | 1.43 | 59 | 1.41 | 84 |
| Brazil | 310 | 1.40 | 32 | 1.36 | 39 |
| Philippines | 265 | 1.20 | 108 | 1.19 | 103 |
| Italy | 250 | 1.13 | 41 | 1.10 | 52 |
| Spain | 210 | 0.95 | 39 | 0.93 | 46 |
| Mexico | 190 | 0.86 | 34 | 0.82 | 32 |
| Indonesia | 185 | 0.84 | 52 | 0.82 | 68 |
| Malaysia | 180 | 0.82 | 89 | 0.87 | 97 |
| Netherlands | 170 | 0.77 | 52 | 0.74 | 57 |
[Photographs: Train Rider by Amy Helene Johansson and Jump by Leann Arthur] (more…)
FATIMA BHUTTO GIVES A FASCINATING ACCOUNT OF A PAKISTANI FATHER’S POLITICAL LEGACY
“I always wanted to be a writer,” she said. “I used to write short stories, and my father would act as if I’d split the atom.”
The price of politics for some families is staggering.
Fatima Bhutto: Photos (Left: Fatima Bhutto. Credit: Benjamin Loyseau. Right: Fatima writes: “Papa and I in Geneva. He had broken his arm and I insisted on being fitted with a cast too, which I wore until his came off.”)
Reports the LA Times: “The Bhuttos, a South Asian dynasty that has fueled Pakistani politics for decades. They are the subject of Fatima’s Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter’s Memoir published this month.
It is a political family that has borne the burden of power: Fatima’s grandfather, founder of the Pakistan People’s Party, was hanged. Her uncle was poisoned in France. Her father Murtaza— a political activist — was gunned down by police. And in December 2007 her aunt Benazir, the first woman to serve as prime minister in an Islamic country, was assassinated by extremists after a campaign rally in Rawalpindi.
The author documents her family’s history in her memoir, which is both violent and romantic and that excavates the small things about their lives. The book is a historical walk through her late father’s life and it’s also a family history, showing how her surname and the country are tied together … how the family has been part of the turbulence of a country conflicted.”
With so many family members slain, this author must have amazing forgiveness capacities. Sounds like a good read.
Quotes: “We are a nuclear armed state,” she laments in her memoir, “that cannot run refrigerators.”
“I still think of it as where I belong. Where I want to be,” she said. “It’s a frightening place though. It’s a place I associate with a lot of love and a lot of fear.” She paraphrases Rumi, saying: “Even though I wander, my compass always points toward home.”
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 10.24.10~
HOLLYWOOD ON PAUL HENRY’S GLASSES AND REMARKS ABOUT GOVERNOR GENERAL, SIR ANAND SATYANAND – 4.10.10
What does a New Zealander look like?
Namaste. Kia Ora. Hello. It’s a pretty overcast day in California. One of the rare days where it is raining. As I blog to you all, from my Hollywood window, mist clouds sit on the Hollywood Hills, wafting half way down The Hills. A picture of austere beauty, cleansing away the busy build up of Cosmopolitan, Los Angeles smog.
You’ll never see that on Keeping Up With The Kardashians or Sister Wives either for that matter (a Washington DC, TV series favorite, fancy that?!), but it is so pretty and reminds me of the mists of the Urewera mountain ranges where the beautiful Maori people of the Tuhoe tribe live. They are people where Maori is their first language in New Zealand. Stunningly cultured, rich, deep, poetic people.
This rather romantic Hollywood view of Tuhoe some of New Zealand’s most noble citizens, is disrupted today when I get online, and discover that Paul Henry, the talk show host of Breakfast (this nation’s version of Good Morning America) made some interesting comments about another New Zealander who wears spectacles too.
John Key (this fine nation of rubgy football champion’s Prime Minister) was a guest on the show.
All was going fine and dandy, until Henry had to open his swarmy gate? and ask the words, “is he even a New Zealander?” concerning Sir Anand Satyanand. Outrageous.
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – WED 9.8.10
تصفيق
New Zealand Focus: A mayor, Bob Parker, comes to grips with the sickening 5.1 aftershocks of an earthquake’s unpredictable might, in his City of Christchurch. Pensive, sick is how I feel watching this footage, knowing people I love and care about are caught up in this moment. This is my tuhituhi taku reta (Maori love letter) in the tradition of NZ lore. Mauri ora Otautahi.
Words from California in Maori: Ka Aroha. Kia kaha Tatou. Kia mau ki ou wairuataka me ka whanaukataka me te kotahitaka o ou ka takata o Otautahi, he whenua a Te Wai Pounamu a Aotearoa. Kai Tahi, He Takata Whenua me ka Iwi Kaitiaki o Ka Taakata Katoa o te Whenua – Ka Tu te Whare Ka Ora.
Love. Be Strong. Hold on to your spiritual belief (faith), sense of family, the oneness of all people of Canterbury and The South Island of Aotearoa-New Zealand. Ngai Tahi Maori tribe, spiritual guardians of all people of the land - May The House of Life (Your People and the People You Spiritually Guard) Stand.
Here’s our top ten entertainment news posts today.
1. S by Shakira - Simple. Sweet. Scent
2. Humanity: Angelina Jolie gets up close Pakistani flood victims
3. Earth Watch II: A 5.1 Aftershock hits Christchurch City
4. Jessica Simpson & Eric Johnson - Capri vacation pic
5. Justin Gaston – wears Psalmist King‘s ink
6. Madonna is back with new song, Broken (I’m Sorry)
7. Suzanne Hinn has a lot more time to herself these days
8. Twilight Fox redhead … model Nicole Fox
9. Alex Meraz creates strong pictures as a tribal thinking artist
10. Shakesperean tattoos literary allure for Hollywood’s wild at heart
Humor I: Kanye West for Taylor Swift MTV &… of course, Beyonce
Humor II: Beyonce‘s diamond-studded whip with Gaga-publicity. A Pic?
Almost made it: Ironside tee: Anderson Cooper for the troops
A message: A star bucks. No cigar. by Keanu Reeves as a stand in
Trapped Chili Miners’ Dramz: Wives meet mistresses
Chicago News: Rahm Emanuel could solve the Daley/ Winfrey void, IL
Book news: Cliff Curtis has novel Courage to Love by Robert Ellis
Hollywood’s new Shirley Temple?: Willow Smith is the ‘ideal’ American child
No ordinary name: Seal & Heidi Klum present Lou Sulola for Peace
From the archives: Linda Hamilton does spin for Hollywood 3D film
Maori watch: Brad Haami writes tales of whales significance from history
3 voices on Islamophobia: Mya Guarnieri. Imama Rauf. Anya Cordell
Flashmob birthday card 2009: Beyonce‘s peeps send mad love to a showgirl
Poetry: Poetry: An albatross is studied by a Maori poet as political reflection
Arts: Body as instrument - Michelle Obama honors choreographers
World Focus: Whether it be in the silt of floodwaters, the sand of beach or desert, the snow of the hungry waiting for meat and bread; or in the dust underneath the inner city’s homeless, or the parched soils of Africa or in the dust of our own humanity; in the devastating aftershocks of rubble our lives may unexpectedly stand in, or in the falling ashes of fire and wars–may our spirits always have courage to move our feet in dance, to clap our hands in haka, in taqua –knowing that we are all 60% water and 40% dust–with blood flowing as the fusion of two opposite elements, pulsating as Life’s witness through the veins, arteries, and hearts and lungs of us all. Breathe.
Music: America’s gospel roots fuse with a family of new rock Kings: It’s in the Water, in the story, the shared life of who we are: Here’s Radioactive by Kings of Leon
Images: Earthquake aftershock in Christchurch stuns a City some more. Survivors of the 1,750 people killed in Pakistan’s flood, 17 million displaced, a million more affected, nearly $43 billion worth of damage to infrastructure and agriculture since the flood began more than a month ago. Across the world, it is mainly People that matter. While rebuilding must occur for them too.
[Images: Names unknown, via Washington Post & NZ Herald. Below image: Pounamu]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 9.8.10~
STAR MAGAZINE’S COVER- BRAD PITT STARS AS ‘THE TOURIST,’ IN A TABLOID COVER FOR THE SIX MILES HIGH CLUB
Is Brad Pitt really in the six mile high club with a French hottie, whose not Angelina Jolie? OMG. Cue the: Escandelo/ tabloid-flying/ pomme de frites/ uber-celebrity cheating scandals alert button etc!!! WITH SIRENS! ASAP!!!
Personally, that’s between Brad and his publicist (Angelina doesn’t have one). But airplane allusions of “travel and sexy adventure” are the key messages that draw the imagination into this story at all, I think by this magazine cover from Star Magazine.
In reality, it also seems like the movie marketing team for Johnny Depp and Angelina‘s new film, The Tourist, have begun their ‘work’ via this always humorous and light-hearted tabloids scandals angle approach. In a clever switch out, Brad is now the star of ‘The Tourist’ not Johnny or Angelina.
After you’ve finished laughing at the above scandal, a reminder that Pakistan is on the Jolie-Pitts agenda too, so why not go here to visit the flood victims support page. Imagine your life sustaining food you’ve helped buy, traveling six miles high instead of Brad (and alleged French knock out air stewardess) winging its way; into the lives of 17 million displaced Pakistanis, and think how hot you all are for making that happen.
I mean, really!!! You’re a globetrotting magician. You should be on this cheeky cover, with aviator propellers swirling behind you for giving to Pakistan today, not just Brad. You know it! Cheers all. :)
[Image source props to Cover Awards - Front Page Celebrities PR Store Online 24-7]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 9.8.10~
TEN TWEETS FROM HM QUEEN NOOR OF JORDAN
On hob knob tweeting for Pakistan Relief: @richardbranson thank you Richard for supporting Pakistan relief.
Sir Richard had tweeted: “Join me for a webcast with @imogenheap& friends at 4pm GMT to raise money for Pakistan flood victims. http://bit.ly/dfezjv #live4pakistan“
On Pakistan Herself: An Estimated 20 Million Pakistanis in Desperate Need: Why So Little Media Attention? http://bit.ly/9GArd2
On how Peace is mediated by a leader: “@alaindebotton or to spin different possibilities…”
On googling Benjamin Franklin for inspiration: “googlebooks Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. http://goo.gl/XPUu“
On retweeting to get New York City’s attention: “palfairtrade Imagine if all of New York City was made homeless from floods. A third are starving. Now double that number & don’t talk about it. #Pakistan“
On celebrating messangers [hebrew: angels] of Peace: “CTconserv all messages and messengers of peace should be celebrated”
On Peace is a gathering of people: “@CTconserv to build peace people must come together, listen and try to understand, not shun one another-to want (cont)http://tl.gd/37t4gi”
On a Nuke Free World: HuffPo Article
On Britney Spears throwaway frenemies: “@SamLutfi. I am simply your sister in it all….”
On how to say thank you in Arabic: “@nuha81 habbibti, thank you with all my heart.”
You know, leaders who remain open and communicate with everyone like Queen Noor does on Twitter. They do the world a great favor, because readers learn lots about their worldview. Thanks Queen Noor for transparent sharing as a teacher on the world’s global stage.
[Lisa Halaby married the king of Jordan, on June 15, 1978. In 1978 Arab-American Lisa Halaby left behind her western lifestyle, converted to Islam and married Jordan's handsome King Hussein. The king named her Queen Noor al-Hussein, " the light of Hussein." The fairy-tale romance endured for more than two decades, until the king's death in 1999.]
Love will always cross-over any and every divide.
[Images courtesy of Jordan Royals blog]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 9.8.10~
ANGELINA JOLIE SHEDS LIGHT ON PAKISTAN
“I am very moved by them and I hope that I am able to, today and tomorrow, be able to do something to help bring attention to the situation for all of the people in need in Pakistan,” Jolie told reporters after visiting a refugee camp in the Jalozai area,” says Angelina Jolie visiting Pakistan for the UN.
A long black robe and a black headscarf adorned with a thin red stripe was what Jolie wore when on her official tour – the kind of conservative clothing worn by many Muslim women in Pakistan.
The United Nations issued an appeal for $460 million in emergency funds on Aug. 11, but only $294 million, or 64 percent, has been received so far for the 17 million who need help to survive.
“We need more … well-known figures who can keep the spotlight and focus because people tend to forget internationally,” said Ajay Chhibber, who is also the U.N. development agency’s regional director for Asia. Gosh, Mr Chhibber sounds a little like any Hollywood club owner, but of course, for a much better cause.
Jolie is an American national treasure of the world helping Mr CChibber and UN Team in their appeal efforts. Look at her go. She makes America look so pretty, not matter what she wears or where she appears. To help the UN, check them out, right here.
~Posted by Horiwood.com, Hollywood California USA. 9.7.10~
PAKISTAN FLOOD VICTIMS ARE BEING VERY PATIENT
Patience is a virtue, especially in times of duress. This is Pakistan’s story today. Reports Merril D Oliver, “[Pakistan] news is unrelenting — and almost unrelentingly bad. After scathing criticism that they were unprepared for the disaster and inept in their initial response, Carlotta Gall reported, government officials, ministers and even President Asif Ali Zardari are crisscrossing flood-affected areas of the country in a frantic effort to ease public anger and despair. Pakistani officials, diplomats and aid workers warn that while civil unrest has so far been averted, the aftermath of the worst-ever flooding in Pakistan could destabilize the country in the months to come and aggravate the already deep regional, sectarian and class fissures.”
Nice to see patience in operation by people who have experienced huge losses due to natural disaster claiming life and a nation’s prior way of being as they once knew it.
Pakistan support link: found here.
[This image - Graphics 18]
With thanks to: Wiz, wotty, weiner, nemo, luce
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 9.7.10~
I AM PAKISTAN, WITH LOVE . . . ANGELINA JOLIE
Timely words from Angelina Jolie for the UN for Pakistan. Hot to trot!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 8.31.10~
MOHAMMED NAWAZ HAS HAD BETTER MONDAYS
1500 are dead. Millions displaced as flood waters sweep over Pakistan. Mohammed Nawaz is rescued by the Pakistani Navy August 10 in Sukkur, Pakistan.
Parts of the world are in a global water crises. Source: Freshwater website.
Photog: Paula Bronstein, Getty Images.
+
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 8.30.10~
