Impeachment: Senate Republicans are on trial as much as Trump – Los Angeles Times

Trump exploited that divide by positioning himself as the leader of people who feel the country is changing in ways they don’t like. It is the politics of resentment, interspersed with delusion. And even with Trump back among the ranks of everyday citizens, the politics he exploited remain potent.

Yet, this impeachment should not be an issue of party politics and party loyalty. This should be about what we are as a democracy, and whether our vaunted constitutional safeguards are worth the paper they were inscribed upon.

Unfortunately, the outcome of the Senate trial seems to be a foregone conclusion. The necessity of holding a rogue president accountable for his abuses is being overwhelmed by Republican senators’ fear of their own electorates — members of which heeded their president’s call to action and physically invaded the Capitol five weeks ago — and by a poisonous embrace of party loyalty ahead of political responsibility.

Source: Impeachment: Senate Republicans are on trial as much as Trump – Los Angeles Times

Explosives missing from the largest base in US.

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The largest marine training base located in South California, United States announced that a number of explosives have gone missing. The military has not given any details regarding the missing explosives. It is not yet known what type of explosives went missing, and how many.

Since last month, there have been training sessions in the base involving thousands of soldiers. The training will come to an end next week. While the missing explosives could not be attributed to someone stealing them, it is important to note that an investigation is underway in the base into the suspected infiltration of the US base by right-wing extremists. The investigation was confirmed by Jeff Houston with The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS).

Out of respect for the investigative process, NCIS does not comment on or confirm details relating to ongoing investigations.

Jeff Houston.

The missing explosives went missing, at the…

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Where’s the help for parents ill with Covid 19? – The poor side of life

Government ‘advice’ has always been poor, thats if you can call it advice in the first place. It was more like lets ignore everyone thats ill because we have to ensure that the economy comes first. We only have to see how long it took the government to shut the schools, even though they’re still not fully shut.

To evidence this you only have to look at the supposed government press conferences to see this. They’ve never given up on their herd immunity plans. Thousands of people have died and will continue to die as a result of their incompetence.

Every day people are dying and the public are becoming normalised to it. The government certainly doesn’t care so why should we many would say.

Personally the deaths of thousands of people never leaves my thoughts. It could have been so different if we had followed New Zealand’s example. Thousands of people wouldn’t have died and the economy would be on its way to returning back to normal.

I won’t apologise for writing about this again because it has changed my life as it has for thousands of other people. We can get through this and one day we will be able to return to ‘normal’ whatever that means for us.

I’ll end it here but please read, share, tweet and email my blog. This does make a difference and it means the world to me.

Source: Where’s the help for parents ill with Covid 19? – The poor side of life

Parrot and Bag of Sugar — A Voice from Iran

178th story Many years ago, a merchant brought a parrot to his country from India. The parrot and merchant became best friends. After that, the merchant believed the parrots are the most loyal creatures in the world. The parrot was always with the merchant. He sometimes carried the parrot on his shoulder or hand. The […]

Parrot and Bag of Sugar — A Voice from Iran

Public policy and health in the Trump era – The Lancet

Disdain for science and cuts to global health programmes and public health agencies have impeded the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, causing tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, and imperil advances against HIV and other diseases. And Trump’s bellicose trade, defence, and foreign policies have led to economic disruption and threaten an upswing in armed conflict.
Although Trump’s actions were singularly damaging, many of them represent an aggressive acceleration of neoliberal policies that date back 40 years. These policies reversed New Deal and civil rights-era advances in economic and racial equality. Subsequently, inequality widened, with many people in the USA being denied the benefits of economic growth. US life expectancy, which was similar to other high-income nations’ in 1980, trailed the G7 average by 3·4 years in 2018 (equivalent to 461 000 excess US deaths in that year alone). The so-called war on drugs initiated by President Richard Nixon widened racial inequities and led to the mass incarceration of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people. Overdose deaths soared, spurred by drug firms’ profit-driven promotion of opioids and the spread of despair in long-afflicted communities of colour and among working-class white people. Market-oriented health policies shifted medical resources toward high-income people, burdened the middle class with unaffordable out-of-pocket costs and deployed public money to stimulate the corporate takeover of vital health resources.

Source: Public policy and health in the Trump era – The Lancet

Tears flow as Fresno doctors get 2nd COVID-19 vaccine dose – Los Angeles Times

Extended Ramiez family at their home in Fresno.

One evening, after another brutal shift, he joined his wife to pick up food at a taco truck. Many people in line weren’t wearing the cloth face masks that could help slow the spread of the virus. One unmasked man made eye contact with Rene and commented to his companions about some people being sheep.

“You want me to take my mask off? I’ll be happy to,” he told the man. “But you should know that I’m an ER doctor and I just did CPR and intubated a COVID patient.”

The man stepped back.

Rene said that when he broke down after getting vaccinated, it wasn’t mere relief at being able to care for patients without falling ill. He said that everything that he had pushed down, welled up: the frustration, anger, gratitude and grief. The exhaustion. The fear that people will refuse the vaccine or that the delivery of the shots will falter.

“I want my kids to be able to do the things they want to do. I want us as a couple to do the things we want to do. I want our son to know his grandparents,” he said.

“I want to go places. I want to hold my family the second I walk in the door. I want our life back.

“And we have this one shot.”

Source: Tears flow as Fresno doctors get 2nd COVID-19 vaccine dose – Los Angeles Times

A Prayer To Lord🙌🏻🙏🏻

Soni's thoughts

Hey folks, i have written a prayer to Lord Sai in hindi and also have translated sentence by sentence in english… do have a look😊😊

Oh Lord Sai,
Show some kindness to human being!

Save the world from this pandemic…
Now all hope only on you Sai🙌🏻

Please show mercy on people…
All are tired of this long going battle!!

Have heard you show divination…
Now why are you sitting with no motion!

Whole world is praying…
Save us oh lord sai!

You lessen everyones sorrow…
You understand everyones trouble!

In this difficult phase, please do not leave our hand…
You can only give life to a stone!

You light fire from water…
You can only save us from this pandemic, no wonder!

Small, big, poor and rich, you never differentiate…
You embrace everyone whoever come at your place!

You have never dissapointed anyone…
In this situation, kindly come oh…

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calibrating the waking

yaskhan

In the warmth of moon's pale reflections
I gather stars in my night
Sipping midnight dew ambrosial
I sleep
Sleep awakens my dreams
In monochrome of sepia
Perceptions hue thought transitions
Weaving a tapestry of a thousand suns
Calibrating the waking

Sky whispers
On calathea breath
Butterflies dance
On a sunshine lattice
Birds dash through
Quivering sunrays
Nectar scents bloom

My ink follows
birth of
the milky way...

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