Smile – Silent Songs of Sonsnow

“When I meet people, I just think of myself as another human being, I don’t think about being a Buddhist, a Tibetan or the Dalai Lama, just a human being — I find it’s easier to make friends that way. And I find that a smile is a true expression of friendship.” His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

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What Medicare enrollees can expect after Covid emergency ends

Seniors will no longer get free over-the-counter Covid-19 tests, and they will eventually have to pay for Covid-19 treatments like Pfizer’s Paxlovid antiviral. At least at first, however, the antivirals will continue to be free because current doses in circulation were provided by the U.S. government. When the products transition to the commercial market in the summer or early fall, there may be some cost-sharing, the agency said.

Source: What Medicare enrollees can expect after Covid emergency ends

“Deep Sea Matters”: Young Jamaican activists take a dive into the issue of deep sea mining

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The ambitious event organised by a group of collaborators to highlight the issue of deep sea mining was highly successful. On a warm and very breezy lunchtime on Thursday, January 26 at the University of the West Indies Mona campus in Kingston, there was a full house audience consisting of university students, high school students, educators, researchers, diplomats, civil society representatives and environmentalists. You can watch the entire event on YouTube here (the audio is a problem for the first five minutes, but thereafter it is fine).

Here’s what these young people, who participated in Thursday’s event, think about deep sea mining.

After a comprehensive introduction and an overview of the issue of deep sea mining by climate activist and geologist Geasean Johnson, the four panelists came to the table and delivered a brilliant range of views, facts and perspectives. Geasean highlighted transparency! This word cropped up several times.

Geasean…

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TikTok discovered and blocked a web of Russian propaganda accounts — Meduza

TikTok uncovered and blocked 1,682 accounts that spread Russian propaganda about the war in Ukraine to users in Europe, the company reports. According to TikTok, the propaganda web operated from Russia and was aimed chiefly at residents of Germany, Italy, and the UK. The accounts, which were disguised as European users, posted content in German, Italian, and English, often using speech synthesis programs. In total, they had more than 130,000 subscribers. TikTok also reported that it had shut down a web of Russian-language propaganda accounts operating from Georgia and aimed at residents of Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Ukraine. The 18 accounts in that group had around 85,000 users.

Source: TikTok discovered and blocked a web of Russian propaganda accounts — Meduza

Can’t Find My Way Home

Inhale Peace; Exhale Love. Joy will Follow! - RUELHA

Thought I had it all sorted In my head, exact routes plotted Yet, I can’t find my way home Aimlessly, I seem to roam The worst was over Never again to be a pushover Promised myself this Feelings, I’d dismiss Only practicality rules the throne Human still, with flesh and bone To mere subjects, still listening Their inputs, only to be crippling I sure do have the keys But at these crossroads, I freeze The endpoint is just happiness and bliss So many routes, one could be the abyss So, I can’t find my way home Paralyzed with the fear syndrome The consequence of every decision At this point, weighed to precision Are my anxieties and fears limiting me? Preventing me from what could be If only the past, I could erase These scars, no longer traced Maybe, then I’d know Which direction to go All roads could take me…

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Climate change makes its presence felt in the Amazon’s shrinking fish

“Everything is happening at the wrong time,” says Myrian Pereira Vasques. “The trees are blossoming at the wrong time, the soil isn’t the same, the weather is too hot and the fish are dying in the dry season. People who fish for a living are feeling it.” Myrian lives in the Amazonian village of Filadélfia, home to the Indigenous Ticuna people of the Upper Solimões River region, near Brazil’s border with Colombia and Peru. “When the rains come, they are extremely heavy. This also impacts farmers and people who fish,” she says. “These days, fishermen sometimes come home empty-handed. The fish they catch are so small that it makes them sad.” Source: Climate change makes its presence felt in the Amazon’s shrinking fish

Marii Freire

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Hoje, fiquei tocada por uma expressão usada por mãe ao falar sobre a filha e dizer que ” com pai, ou sem pai” ela vencerá na vida. E, eu acrescentei ” vencerá! Você como mãe, será um norte na vida de sua filha. Quantas mães solos não olham para seus filhos e imaginam ou falam essa mesma coisa para a criança? Milhares gente. Entenda, eu aqui, não questionando a ausência do pai, mas foco na força da mãe, porque existem muitas razões pelas quais uma criança não tem um pai presente, e como disse ” não vou entrar no mérito dessa questão “, mas no poder dessa mãe que que representa essa intensidade emocional tão linda, lúcida, transparente, e que mesmo tempo, lança nas palavras, o poder que dissolver todos os limites imposto à vida da criança. Sim, essa é uma análise que trago à luz para que se compreenda…

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