Monthly Archives: October 2020
Europe’s Muslims being treated like Jews before WWII, says Erdogan
Tit-for tat not helping anyone and certainly not wannabe Caliph Erdogan. Turkey’s president calls for a boycott of French products in a growing row over Emmanuel Macron’s remarks about Islam
The Blinding Sorcery of Gold
As the Yanomami spokesman Davi Kopenawa says in his book “The Falling Sky”:”To our elders, gold was just shiny fakes on the sand of the forest’s stream beds, like mica. They collected it to make a sorcery substance intended to blind people with whom they were angry. … this metal dust was highly feared. This is why we call the shards of shiny metal that the gold miners extract from the riverbeds oru hipëre a – the blinding sorcery of gold. When the white people tear minerals out of the ground, they grind them up with their machines, then heat them in their factories.… Gold and other minerals are dangerous evil things that only bring disease and death. … Though this metal may be the most beautiful and most solid they can find to build their machines and their merchandise, it…
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Stocks Slide as Virus Cases Surge: Live Updates – The New York Times
Stocks dropped on Monday, with Wall Street reacting to the most recent rise in coronavirus cases in the United States and the political stalemate over more economic relief for struggling businesses and out-of-work Americans.
NASA reports traces of liquid water and widespread ice on the Moon, raising hopes for exploration and habitation – ABC News
There really is water on the Moon — and it might be much more widespread than previously suspected.
The Empty Boat by Chuang Tzu – DAILY ZEN
Who can free himself from achievement
And from fame, descend and be lost
Amid the masses of men?
He will flow like Tao, unseen,
He will go about like Life itself
With no name and no home.
Simple is he, without distinction.
To all appearances he is a fool.
His steps leave no trace. He has no power.
He achieves nothing, has no reputation.
Since he judges no one
No one judges him.
Such is the perfect man:
His boat is empty.
-Chuang Tzu
Man accused of stealing bulldozer to tear down Biden signs in Florida | TheHill
Bay News 9 reported that 26-year-old James Blight told police he was drunk at the time and did not remember the incident. Residents told the news outlet that Blight stole signs from some houses and destroyed at least one resident’s chain-link fence, while destroying others on his rampage around town.
“This man came onto my property, took the two Joe Biden signs I had in my yard and them came back with a bulldozer to run down my fence,” said Adam Burgess, the town’s former vice mayor, in an interview with Bay News 9.
Source: Man accused of stealing bulldozer to tear down Biden signs in Florida | TheHill
Tube ramps up anti-viral regime with dynamo-powered UV lights
Over 200 devices that use ultraviolet light to sanitize surfaces are to be installed across London’s sprawling tube network.
In a statement Monday, Transport for London said the technology would be deployed on the handrails of 110 escalators over the next few weeks.
The rollout comes off the back of a six-week trial at a tube station serving Heathrow Airport. Six escalators at King’s Cross St Pancras have now been fitted with the devices, which will also be used at other major stops such as Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road and Waterloo.
Source: Tube ramps up anti-viral regime with dynamo-powered UV lights
Trump calls U.S. coronavirus case spike a media ‘conspiracy’ – National | Globalnews.ca (Also claims “sky is falling” and keeps yelling, “wolf, wolf, wolf”)
Nine insect-eating bird species in Amazon in sharp decline, scientists find | Birds | The Guardian
Scientists have found a sharp decline in nine insect-eating bird species in the lowlands of the central jungle in the space of a few decades. No equivalent decline was found among fruit-eating birds. This, they said, indicated that the climate crisis and its effect on insect populations may be to blame. Source: Nine insect-eating bird species in Amazon in sharp decline, scientists find | Birds | The Guardian

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