Imagine A Country Like This

In Saner Thought

This is an excellent look at the direct of this country through the pen of Paul Street……

Imagine a nation so reactionary and racist that “Black Lives Matter” is considered a “radical slogan” inside its borders.

Imagine a nation so racially unequal that the median household wealth of its Black households is equal to 7 cents on the dollar of its median white households.

Imagine a nation so sexist that its women make 82 cents for every dollar men make while 15% to 20% of its women have been raped and girls and women are regularly subjected to sexual harassment and domestic violence.

Imagine a nation so sexist that its women’s rights to control their own bodies and reproductive decisions are under constant patriarchal assault.

Imagine a nation so racist that its states pass laws suppressing the votes of non-whites and forbidding honest teaching about the country’s long and ongoing…

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Thoughtful Thursdays, Stayed on Freedom’s Call page 22, and Farther Along

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

It is crucial that we each help our society to become more fully inclusive for all of us today, and to come and work together, for all of us, right? 

“we will understand it all…”

I believe that attention to shared histories, as in DC, may provide part of an answer.  I started a note about that, a few years ago, in my book Stayed on Freedom’s Call:

” … Chapter 3: Shepherd Park: Integration Starts In The Home
Keeping the Neighborhood Integrated: Neighbors, and T.I.

“We will understand it all, by and by”

-from Marvin Caplan ́s favorite song, “Farther Along”

 

When “Boss” Alexander R. Shepherd ́s mansion still stood, 16 th Street was Embassy Row, and in elite White society the three Patton sisters were rumored to be the fastest form of communication in Washington, DC. After the
1940 ́s, it became known as “Little Jerusalem.”…

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« You don’t understand why we want to protect our forest? Ask me, I will answer you! – We want our children to grow up here laughing! – Today I refuse to let them die from the gold smoke!  Chase the gold miners out of our home! »

Barbara Crane Navarro

Yanomamiwoman, Amazonas, Venezuela

« You don’t understand why we want to protect our forest? Ask me, I will answer you! Our ancestors were created with it in the beginning of time. Since then, our people have eaten its game and its fruit. We want our children to grow up here laughing. In the past, many of our people perished from your epidemics. Today I refuse to let their children and grandchildren die from the gold smoke! Chase the gold miners out of our home! They are harmful beings whose thought is dark. They are metal eaters covered in deadly xawara epidemicsmoke. »

  • Yanomami spokesperson and shaman Davi Kopenawa

30% of what is now recognized as ancestral indigenous lands are in danger of being «legally» opened to gold mining and other extractive operations as well as logging and industrial agriculture. The bill that would permit this atrocity, PL490 – already…

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Jewellery’s big challenge: Cleaning up gold, a conflict mineral – Vogue Business — Tiny Life

Barbara Crane Navarro

Gold is a conflict mineral. Gold mining creates devastation & deforestation in the Amazon, & jewellery company sourcing policies can’t account for it! Advocates are urging the industry to come up with solutions. SOLUTION: #DoNotBuyGOLD! Jewellery’s big challenge: Cleaning up gold, a conflict mineral – Vogue Business https://ift.tt/3jYW1nY Jewellery’s big challenge: Cleaning up gold, a[…]

Jewellery’s big challenge: Cleaning up gold, a conflict mineral – Vogue Business — — Tiny Life

Amazon rain forest deforestation, Agua Branca gold mining site, Para State, Brazil. (Photo by Ricardo Funari/Brazil Photos/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Gold mining and Amazon deforestation – hydraulic mining known as the”chupadeira system”is a form of gold mining that uses high-pressure jets of water to dislodge rock material or move sediment. Prospectors deforest the designated work area and then excavate down to the level of ore-bearing material. Large and deep holes are made in the former forest land. Mercury is…

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How to Honor Those You Know Who Have Died from Covid-19

1, Remember them well and share about them.

2. If you are not vaccinated, get vaccinated to live and to carry on and share the memories of the one(s) you lost.

3. Do what ever you can to get those you know and care about to get each of them vaccinated if not already vaccinated.

4. Write or call your state representative and senator and let them know that you expect them to do whatever is needed to assure that people get vaccinated.

5. Write or call your United States representative and senators and let them know that you expect them to do whatever is needed to assure that people get vaccinated.

Remind people that if the vaccinations for small pox were not mandatory, hundreds of thousands of people would still be dying around the world from small pox. The same applies to polio vaccines. If they had not been required to attend or teach/work in schools, we would still be worried about polio summers, thousand of deaths and thousands disabled. Before the vaccines became available, every time my brother got a cold in the summer, my parents had him checked for polio.

Think about and remind people why all teachers, school staff, and healthcare are required to be tested for tuberculosis? To protect your children and your family!

Texas Rep. Pat Fallon dumped Microsoft stock before Pentagon nixed $10B contract (Me: Smoke-fire-insider trading?)

A congressman who supervises the Defense Department’s tech spending dumped up to $250,000 worth of Microsoft stock two weeks before the Pentagon revealed it was canceling a $10 billion contract with the software giant, according to public documents.

US Rep. Pat Fallon, a Texas Republican who sits on a key subcommittee overseeing the Department of Defense’s technology policy, sold between $100,000 and $250,000 of Microsoft shares on June 21, government disclosures show.

Two weeks later, the Pentagon made the surprise announcement that it would cancel a $10 billion cloud computing contract — called JEDI, or Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure — that it had awarded to Microsoft in 2019 after the company fought a bidding war and legal battle against Amazon.

Fallon, who was elected last year to represent a northeastern district of the Lone Star State, is a member of the House’s Subcommittee on Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems. According to the subcommittee’s site, Fallon and his colleagues have “jurisdiction over Department of Defense policy related to the acquisition of computer software.”

Source: Texas Rep. Pat Fallon dumped Microsoft stock before Pentagon nixed $10B contract

Grow through with what you go through

Bio-Blogger

Life is to live and move forward whatever we go through or wherever it plants us, isn’t it?? We should not filter and await only for the good and happy moments. Ups and downs in life won’t come up as we plan, we should always be positive and prepared to face any situation that comes in our way and become a life’s warrior. If we still don’t find the right way, just have to make the one by clearing all the obstacles and make the life smooth but never rough out of the tough situations.

God is what the truth and right path we should always trust and walk along, with prayers.

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“Past is a history, future is a mystery, present is the presentation” that any one can make most out of it to become a better and happy person. I still remember this beautiful…

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COVID outbreak reported at Boy Scouts camp in Preble County

It was the second COVID-19 outbreak reported in a week involving a summer camp in the area. Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery County on Monday reported 30 cases linked to Chautauqua Camp and Conference Center near Miamisburg. The number of cases has now surpassed 70 after more than 800 mostly youth from Baptist churches in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois attended camp from June 28 through July 2 at 10550 Camp Trail in Miami Twp. Source: COVID outbreak reported at Boy Scouts camp in Preble County