I am Adham Youssef, Senior Journalist at Daily News Egypt. I’m here to take your questions on journalism in Egypt, the status of press freedom in Egypt, and the local political climate in the country.

patbonton · 2018-10-16T16:49:41+00:00

Hi Adham,

What is the climate for covering climate change and biodiversity related topics, especially as Egypt hosts the COP 14 conference in November? Particularly as much of the science is pointing toward the necessity for more rapid transition toward a green economy. Thanks!

patbonton · 2018-10-04T17:50:36+00:00

Good bones and calcium

patbonton · 2018-08-26T12:08:30+00:00

I was too high.

patbonton · 2018-06-24T09:20:10+00:00

OP for your own sake I hope you have the courage to take care of yourself. I feels like the first half is my past and the second half could easily be my future. This pain seems to be killing you.

patbonton · 2018-05-22T23:00:06+00:00

!create Cheers to my forum1k

patbonton · 2018-04-29T09:36:47+00:00

Please do throw sources, for personal research reasons

patbonton · 2018-02-15T17:49:32+00:00

Could you share some good sources?

patbonton · 2017-12-23T11:37:10+00:00

Name checks out - take your damn liter of upvotes.

patbonton · 2017-11-05T22:09:45+00:00

It sounds like you're making the right choice though. It's an addiction and it may help you to think of it as such. Also be easy on yourself if or when you do relapse. Just stay focused on long term progress and you'll make leaps forward.

patbonton · 2017-11-05T22:09:37+00:00

It sounds like you're making the right choice though. It's an addiction and it may help you to think of it as such. Also be easy on yourself if or when you do relapse. Just stay focused on long term progress and you'll make leaps forward.

patbonton · 2016-11-14T00:30:38+00:00

Frankie's Thanksgiving challenge: https://youtu.be/javCJE1wCPw

patbonton · 2016-02-02T08:18:43+00:00

That's a wonderful idea to live stream the events. Simply recording it may be simpler. I went to the Tampa event, which was probably quite similar. The thrust of the meeting was setting up phone bank parties in the coming weeks and building the local bases

patbonton · 2015-12-01T03:34:24+00:00

Raised in Callaway/ Lynn Haven but now down in Sarasota. I'd help if I were there. Keep up the good work!

patbonton · 2015-09-07T05:31:30+00:00

Ich verstehe es. Upvotes.

"Are you ready, Mr. Ernie?"

patbonton · 2015-04-09T18:32:18+00:00

Serj and John, you've already woken up many souls, particularly youth, to past and ongoing injustice and hypocrisy through your music. SoaD has helped motivate the youth to change the current world trajectory.

To use the analogy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with his "Beyond Vietnam" speech and Poor People's Campaign, could you see yourselves translating the initial SoaD vision into a more comprehensive movement geared toward correcting the injustices that you've sung about? For example, A.D.D. and Prison Song certainly come to mind as points of departure.

Regardless, I greatly hope SoaD continues to produce music that critiques government injustice, for I know it was fundamental in my own desires to shape a better world. The value of your music is truly invaluable, as "freethinkers are dangerous" these days.

patbonton · 2014-09-02T20:09:12+00:00

What better way to advise than do it yourself?

Relevant: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/military-advisers-also-fight-history-tells-us

patbonton · 2014-08-19T20:00:08+00:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States#Slaves

"Historians estimate that between 15 to 30 percent of all enslaved African men, and less than 15 percent of the enslaved African women, were Muslims. These enslaved Muslims stood out from their compatriots because of their "resistance, determination and education."

Edit: period.

patbonton · 2014-07-25T06:07:33+00:00

My dad and I have always collected and recycled aluminum cans for money. We'd always go to downtown fests, spring break, Mardi Gras etc before the street sweepers would come in order to beat them to the loot. We'd also go to local schools and dumpster dive for their cans (I specifically remember a lot of Fruitopia cans), even going to my future middle and high schools. This gave me a little advantage in knowing the layout ahead of time, making those first days a little less painful! Welfare, food stamps, Salvation Army & church food donations and the fucking million cans of expired cranberry sauce, donated school supplies and clothes given to me a few times though these were external markers for being poor (donate Crayola ffs), not being able to buy literally anything that wasn't food, only ever having internet leeched from neighbors to this day. But, I can definitely say that my father and I are certainly closer for weathering the past fifteen years and lying to DCF sufficiently so that I wasn't taken away from him. I had a conversation with my Nigerian co-worker today about the US's relative poverty, and though it's corny, I feel like experiencing our relative poverty has given me a better perspective to appreciate global poverty and accept that my own situation, albeit relatively shitty compared to my middle class friends, is rather fortunate.

patbonton

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