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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Fuel – normabobb

We are fuelled by the things that haunts us: hunger, greed, money, jealousy, entitlement and hatred. The list goes on. What we ought to be fuelled by is our purpose, experiencing and living it.

© Norma Bobb-Semple 2023

Source: Fuel – normabobb

A View From Across The Pond | Filosofa’s Word

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief…

Source: A View From Across The Pond | Filosofa’s Word

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US imposes visa bans on Israeli settlers responsible for West Bank violence | Israel | The Guardian

In a rare punitive move against Israel, the US has announced it will impose travel bans on extremist Jewish settlers implicated in recent attacks on Palestinians in theWest Bank.

The secretary of state, Antony Blinken, announced the decision on Tuesday after warning Israel last week that Joe Biden’s administration would be taking action over the attacks. Blinken did not announce individual visa bans, but officials said those would be coming this week and could affect dozens of settlers and their families.

“We have underscored to the Israeli government the need to do more to hold accountable extremist settlers who have committed violent attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank,” Blinken said in a statement. “As President Biden has repeatedly said, those attacks are unacceptable.”

Source: US imposes visa bans on Israeli settlers responsible for West Bank violence | Israel | The Guardian

US delays, mixed messages in COVID booster rollout may have cost nearly 30,000 lives | CIDRAP

Older man about to be vaccinated If the United States had rolled out COVID-19 booster doses with the same speed and consistent public health messaging as Israel, another 29,000 US lives could have been saved by June 2022, estimates a new study published in Health Affairs.

The Northwestern University-led study team mined COVID-19 death and vaccination data for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, for 2017 to 2022 to estimate vaccine effectiveness against death among people ages 55 years and older. They then extrapolated the estimates to national death and vaccination data. 

Source: US delays, mixed messages in COVID booster rollout may have cost nearly 30,000 lives | CIDRAP