In a rare, if fleeting, moment of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill, senators approved the bill 94 to 1. Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri was the only no vote. (Me: Hawley doesn’t want to miss out on any possible support from anti-Asian racists) Source: Bill targeting hate crimes against Asian Americans passes Senate – Los Angeles Times
Monthly Archives: April 2021
OSS in Kunming, China
Julia Child with OSS colleagues
The OSS group that included Julia Child and her future husband Paul found themselves in a flood in mid-August 1945. But what they were encountering was nothing compared to the civilians. Chinese villages of mud huts were “melting like chocolate.” Farmers drowned in their own fields. As the flooding began to subside, Japan was hit with the second atomic bomb.
The incoming Russian soldiers only added to the Pandora’s box that was already opened in China. The OSS HQ in Kunming went into overdrive. Eight mercy missions were launched to protect the 20,000 American and Allied POW’s and about 15,000 civilian internees.
Elizabeth McIntosh w/ colleagues during Kunming flood
All the frantic preparations – for rescue operations, food and medical drops and evacuation – had to undertaken despite the weather conditions. Adding to the drama was the uncertain fate of the 6-man OSS team dispatched…
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Am a proud Ink drinker
The other day I was learning Transfiguration, Charms, Potions, History of Magic, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Astronomy, Herbology.
Which all was just fascinating. Well not only I was learning but also I was discovering new mysteries, & not to brag but, also saving my school from dangerous creatures.
The next day I was on a lovely, stunning, beautiful island with ten people including myself.
In a wonderful modernized Mansion. Just like a dream come true; which eventually became a nightmare! As an unidentified, unknown killer started to kill people one by one.
This wasn’t a dream, it was all real!
No, no I wasn’t hallucinating nor am I crazy!
It all happened, in a real-world name Books.
The first one was Harry Potter and the second one’s, And Then There Were None!
Many people ask what books do? But I would like to ask what they don’t?
There are…
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Thoughtful Thursdays, Stayed on Freedom with the Call of Freedom, and Public Health Care
Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better
Libraries are even part of the community health care network, in many neighborhoods.
So, how do we each help our society to become more fully inclusive for all of us, and to give more money for Public Health Care?
I believe that attention to shared and connected community institutions, like Public Health Clinics, may provide part of an answer. I started a note about that, a few years ago, on page ten of my book Stayed on Freedom’s Call:
“… Georgetown businessman Moses Zachariah Booth in 1865, and the Nash and
Mayo families from Virginia at the turn of the 20th century, so Jewish
businessmen and families trickled into the city before and, poured in during the
Civil War, as with Cantor Lansburgh from Baltimore in 1860, and the Small
family at the turn of the 20th century. Thus there are multiple parallels in the
ways that the…
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Alvis’ world : The clever bunnies
India Sets Covid-19 Daily Case Record – The New York Times
India’s rapidly worsening coronavirus outbreak is now expanding on a scale beyond any previously measured in more than a year of the pandemic: The health ministry reported more than 310,000 new infections on Thursday, the most recorded in any country on a single day.
True happiness is hidden in freedom of mind
True happiness is hidden in freedom of mind. We may look independent, but our mind is tied in many bonds. Sometimes we run towards social media for happiness and sometimes towards relatives. But, this happiness does not last. We all want to be happy, but real happiness comes only when we are spending time leisurely, we take small decisions in life and we are not under any kind of pressure, our mental Do not depend on anyone else for peace. But we connect our happiness with such things, which we do not insist on. Therefore, when difficulties arise, patience begins to be answered. Liberate yourself from mental slavery. No one else but ourselves can liberate our mind.
La poalele vulcanului — ore de drum

Teotihuacan, 2019 Aztecii susțin că al cincilea soare ar fi cel pe care-l vedem strălucind peste lumea de azi, creată chiar aici, la Teotihuacan, în succesiunea unor lumi imperfecte, guvernate de alți patru sori. E ultimul ciclu solar înainte de sfârșitul lumii, zic ei. Construit de muncitori de pe tot continentul sud-american, însuflețiți de convingerea […]
La poalele vulcanului — ore de drum
Tomorrow Rising
Journée de la Terre — Le journal des Jum’s

Journée de la Terre Aujourd’hui, en ce 22 avril, nous célébrons la 51ème journée mondiale de la Terre. Cette journée qui a lieu chaque année, pour rappeler l’importance de la nature et de la préservation de la planète. Afin de sensibiliser les populations du monde entier sur les thématiques environnementales. Les origines de…
Journée de la Terre — Le journal des Jum’s


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