The Race Is On — And It’s Gonna Be Ugly

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In January 2021, Ohio’s Republican Senator Rob Portman announced that he is retiring at the end of his term and will not seek re-election in 2022.  Now, you might think I’d be jumping up and down with joy, but the announcement did not please me in the least, for Portman is one of the few remaining Republicans in the Senate with both intellect and a conscience.  While I have frequently disagreed with Portman’s ideology – and have often let him know of my disagreements – he has never been one of the obstructionist, destructive ones like McConnell, Ernst, Cruz, Hyde-Smith, Hawley, Kennedy, Johnson, Paul, Rubio, Tuberville and many others.

One of the reasons Portman gave for his decision to retire is that “it has gotten harder and harder to break through the partisan gridlock and make progress on substantive policy.”  Of course, he has added to that gridlock by…

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Lo sfruttamento dei detenuti nell’Arcipelago gulag

le pagine dei nostri libri

I campi di lavoro forzato, chiamatigulag,cambiavano nel tempo seguendo le necessità interne dell’Unione Sovietica e il lavoro dei detenuti ha permesso di industrializzare il Paese, di realizzare grandi opere pubbliche e di sfruttare i giacimenti del sottosuolo in Siberia

All’inizio, la maggioranza dei prigionieri deigulagera composta dacriminali comuni e da kulaki, cioè contadini benestanti, che spesso furono arrestati quando si ribellarono alla collettivizzazione imposta dal governo sovietico che obbligava i contadini ad abbandonare le fattorie individuali per unirsi all’agricoltura collettiva.

Successivamente furono rinchiusi neigulag anche iprigionieri politici in quanto il Codice penale sovietico, all’art. 58, puniva con la detenzione neigulag“ogni attività controrivoluzionaria”. Con le grandi purghe dell’epoca di Stalin,tra il 1937 e il 1953, il numero dei reclusi crebbe in modo esponenziale e durante questo periodo, soprannominato “il Grande Terrore”, le epurazioni raggiunsero il loro apice:un totale di 3.7 milioni di persone passò…

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Beta Readers Still Needed for Do Better

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

This Project is nearly ready, but cannot complete its guidebook without more Beta Readers for the 5th Draft.  Until then, I cannot publish and release this work into other hands.  I need help, please.

   This post is the start of the rough draft of  Chapter 8,Chapter 8, section II. E.: 5/5 of a map for the early years of Phase II,  of my non-fiction WiP, Do Better, fka Baby Floors.   This chapter will begin the early years of mapping out a path to get there for Phase II, with a potential new adulthood rite of passage.

Sorry, Dear Readers, I forgot that this chapter has 5 sections per early and late, rather than the usual 4.

The overall objective remains that of putting a floor on poverty so that each and every baby born can have a safe childhood.

Outlines for chapter 8 will attempt to match…

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Amazon – Sebastião Salgado:

The Amazon exhibition is globally sponsored by the Zurich Insurance Group, which, since 2020, has also been an exclusive sponsor of the reforestation and biodiversity project in Brazil at Instituto Terra, led by Sebastião Salgado and Lélia Wanick Salgado. The exhibition in São Paulo is sponsored by master from Itaú and Natura, companies connected with the Amazon cause, in addition to the companies Energisa and Banpará. In this edition, the project has an Institutional Partnership of Sesc São Paulo.

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Pećina pod lipom, Republika Srpska – Cave under the linden tree, Republika Srpska

Myrela

Okapine Pećine pod lipom nalaze se u blizini sela Kadića brdo, na području Glasinačke visoravni, na oko 900 metara nadmorske visine. Lokalitet je pronađen potpuno slučajno, za vrijeme terenskih radova na brdu Gradina u blizini Sokoca, 1987. godine. U toku rekognosciranja, mještani su odveli arheologe da pogledaju usječene linije u horizontalnoj stijeni u ulazu jedne od okapina Pećine pod lipom, za koje postoji vjerovanje da su ih usjekli vitezovi oštreći sablje pred borbu. Tajanstveni crteži sastoje se od spleta linija i brazda u kojima se može prepoznati lik čovjeka, životinje ili predmeta. Probna sonda napravljena je 1988. godine i već tada je pronađen obiman arheološki materijal i ustanovljeno da je nalazište slojevito. Identifikovane su kulture donjeg, srednjeg i gornjeg paleolita, mezolita, ranog neolita, eneolita i srednjeg vijeka.

U probnoj sondi pronađen je i zub pećinskog medvjeda. Zadnja, sistematska istraživanja preduzeta su 1991. godine. Iskopavanjima su rukovodili arheolozi iz Zemaljskog muzeja…

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