Leander keeping schools open, against Williamson health district’s advice (Me: Why, oh why are they still playing with the lives of staff and children and their family’s?)

Kindergarten teacher Rosalyn Haug leads her class on the first day of school at Tarvin Elementary School in Leander on Aug. 12. The district has reported more than 400 coronavirus cases since school began. The Leander school district may close some classrooms to slow the spread of the coronavirus, but will keep schools open.

Source: Leander keeping schools open, against Williamson health district’s advice

Profit Over People — The “American” Way

Filosofa's Word

Sure, go ahead, blame President Biden.  Blame George W. Bush, blame President Obama, blame the former guy … there’s plenty of blame to spread around.  Blame the military advisors who advised Bush and Obama (the former guy took advise from nobody, believing he actually had a functional brain).  Blame your Aunt Mabel for all I care.  The bottom line is that there was only one winner in the entire U.S.-Afghanistan fiasco:  private military contractors.

If you purchased $10,000 of stock evenly divided among America’s top five defense contractors on September 18, 2001 — the day President George W. Bush signed the Authorization for Use of Military Force in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks — and faithfully reinvested all dividends, it would now be worth $97,295.  Not a bad return on investment, eh?  Defense stocks outperformed the stock market overall by 58 percent during the Afghanistan War.  Those top…

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Landing the 11th Airborne Division

Pacific Paratrooper

Medic on Leyte

As General Eichelberger said more than once: “The 11th Airborne Division are the fightingest men I’ve ever seen.” And the largest and most violent armed conflict in history was about to start for these men.

November of 1944 arrived and with that came packing up for the next destination, Leyte, Philippines. It also meant the arrival of the rains, an understatement to say the least. Such downpours are alien to those who do not live in the tropics. Even the darkness is unique when it arrives in a flash and the blackness envelops everything like a sweeping shroud. A man’s eyes can no longer be trusted; he stands as though blindfolded.

11 November – 9 APA’s (naval transport ships designed to attack) and AKA’s (cargo ships designed to attack) would be required to carry the 11th A/B on to their target from Oro Bay with an escort…

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WACs in New Guinea + current news

Pacific Paratrooper

WACs in New Guinea, 1944

In June 1944, about the same time that Smitty landed in New Guinea, Gen. Kenney of the 5th Air Force started building up a WAC detachment in Australia. He had nearly 200 women in the HQ doing the secretarial duties.  They must have been originally scheduled for Alaska, because they arrived with heavy woolen skirts, coats and shirts.  The quartermaster re-equipped them with cotton G.I. clothing and the tailors of Brisbane were kept busy making alterations.

They were told of the deplorable conditions on New Guinea, but not a one backed off from the ‘hard knocks’ assignment.  So, General Kenney handed the women over to their commanding officer, Captain Blanche Kline.

US Army WACs, New Guinea

The women were warned that eggs would be nothing but a memory, so they purchased 30 hens from an Australian poultryman.  The WACs talked about the bacon and eggs…

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Un appello per la natura e i popoli indigeni! No alla Legge #490! …e un messaggio di uno sciamano Yanomami… aggiornato

Barbara Crane Navarro

Un ragazzo Yanomami nella foresta, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela

«Ho pensato che se i bianchi avessero potuto sentirmi, avrebbero convinto il governo a non lasciare che la foresta venisse distrutta … Ora, i cercatori d’oro puzzano della foresta con i fumi dei loro motori e i fumi dell’oro e del mercurio che bruciano insieme.

Adesso temiamo la malaria dei cercatori d’oro, che è anche molto feroce … Il soffio vitale degli abitanti della foresta è fragile di fronte a questi fumi epidemici di xawara. Se moriamo tutti, nessuno sarà in grado di compensare il valore delle nostre morti. I soldi dei bianchi e la merce non ce li riporteranno! E la foresta devastata non potrà mai essere ripristinata, sarà persa per sempre.»

– portavoce e sciamano Yanomami Davi Kopenawa

Una foresta in territorio indigeno distrutta dai minatori d’oro

Il 30% di quelle che ora sono riconosciute come terre indigene…

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Somos todos Xokleng pelo meio ambiente e contra o “marco temporal” —

Barbara Crane Navarro

Por Joenia Wapichana, deputada federal (Rede/RR), nascida na Raposa Serra do Sol, Sonia Bone Guajajara, coordenadora executiva da Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (Apib) e Ana Patté, integrante da Apib e do povo Xokleng O Supremo Tribunal Federal pode definir neste dia 30 os critérios definitivos para demarcação de terras indígenas, além de exorcizar[…]

Somos todos Xokleng pelo meio ambiente e contra o “marco temporal” —

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Brazil indigenous protesters camp on Bolsonaro’s doorstep – FRANCE 24 —

Barbara Crane Navarro

Brazil indigenous protesters camp on Bolsonaro’s doorstep – FRANCE 24 https://ift.tt/3AXR18u Brazil indigenous protesters camp on Bolsonaro’s doorstepFRANCE 24 Superforest via “deforestation” – Google Newshttps://ift.tt/2tI2HiE

Brazil indigenous protesters camp on Bolsonaro’s doorstep – FRANCE 24 —

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Riso Venere in crema di peperoni con dadolata croccante di patate

InTheNameOfSeitan

Un calorosissimo saluto a tutti ed eccomi ritornato per cercare di stimolare la vostra fantasia e le vostre curiosità sul mondo dell’alimentazione vegana proponendo un piatto molto originale a base di riso Venere, una delle varietà di riso da me preferite.

E’ un riso integrale molto ricco di fibre, vitamine e sali minerali. Ha la caratteristica che quando lo si cucina emette un’odore di pane fresco… appena sfornato! Meraviglioso, non trovate?

Forza allora cominciamo e non perdetevi per strada che è abbastanza semplice questa proposta 😜👊

Ingredienti (per
2 persone)
:

160 gr di riso Venere

2 Peperoni (di media grandezza)

2 patate di media-piccola dimensione

1 spiccio d’aglio privato dell’anima

prezzemolo

Sale

Pepe

Olio di semi di girasole

Olio evo

In una padella facciamo imbiondire uno spicchio d’aglio diviso in quattro ma privato dell’anima

Sfilettiamo i nostri peperoni con l’ausilio di un…

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U.S. plans COVID-19 booster shots at six months instead of eight – WSJ | Reuters

U.S. health regulators could approve a third COVID-19 shot for adults beginning at least six months after full vaccination, instead of the previously announced eight-month gap, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

Source: U.S. plans COVID-19 booster shots at six months instead of eight – WSJ | Reuters