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

♫ You Gotta Love Someone ♫ (Redux)

Filosofa's Word

It’s been four years since I last played this one, but … not much has changed!  Ollie is still sitting on my lap, demanding pats and when I’m too slow on the draw, putting his claws into my bare foot to remind me that, “Hey, Gwammie, pat me … pat me now!!!”  Gotta love me some Elton while patting this purry furry …


I’m sitting here, really thinking it is past time I went to bed for a bit of reading, maybe even some sleep, but see … there’s this sleeping kittie in my lap, he’s purring his contentment with every breath he takes, and I cannot bear to disturb him.  It is, of course, Oliver, aka Ollie … the only one of our Feral Five who actually likes me!

So, since I will be sitting here for a bit longer, I might as well play a tune, don’t you…

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Sinéad O’Connor was quiet and loud. Brilliant and bashful. She oozed a kind of creative lava

What remains is the sound. That sound isSinéad O’Connor’speerless voice, a gift to anyone who ever heard it.O’Connor’s deathwill suck the air out of the places that her astonishing talent inhabited.

Her death marks a dark day, because O’Connor’s work, and the soul that transmitted that work, is peerless. An artist who was much more than an artist, a cultural behemoth who inhabited a petite human form, a woman whose aura glowed and vibrated when you were in her creative presence, be that watching her on stage, or listening to her records, or hearing her interviews.

She was quiet and loud. Brilliant and bashful. Earnest and mischievous. From her sprang forth the kind of creative lava that seeps and explodes from the tectonic shifting of genius and trauma.

A teenage…

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The Burnt Roti*

Kaushal Kishore

In the morning I had shared a post on Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, the 11th President of India. But there are many beautiful and inspiring stories about him that I would like to share. So today instead of my usual ditty, I am going to share one such story, that too, in his own words as follows:

When I was a kid, my Mom used to cook food for us. One night she had made dinner after a long hard day’s work. Mom placed a plate of ‘sabzi’ (vegetable) and extremely burnt roti in front of my Dad.

I was waiting to see if anyone noticed the burnt roti. But Dad just ate his roti and asked me how was my day at school. I don’t remember what I told him that night, but I do remember I heard Mom apologising to Dad for the burnt roti.

And I’ll never…

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Missile Man of India

Kaushal Kishore

On this day (July 27) in 2015, he died of cardiac arrest while delivering a lecture on “Creating a Livable Planet Earth” at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Shillong at the age of 83.

He was none other than Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen (APJ) Abdul Kalam, the 11th President of India. Today once again, I want to refresh the memories of this great son of India.

Dr Kalam was an aerospace scientist, who was deeply involved in the space programme, missile development and launch vehicle technology. He was known as the “Missile Man of India“. He had also played a pivotal role in India’s nuclear tests in 1998.

Freed from the shackles of his presidential protocol after demitting the office in July 2007, he returned to his civilian life of education, literature and public service. He started mingling with the public as a common man…

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Studies Link Monsanto’s Glyphosate to Ocean Death.

UNIVERSE

https://trinfinity8.com/studies-link-monsantos-glyphosate-to-ocean-death/

As a certified diver, who has dove many reefs, I was ready to see an incredible display of aquatic life. Everything looked absolutely dead.

“What happened?” I asked. Theexplanation back then was pollution. No one mentioned what exactly that “pollution” might be.

Today we are getting a much clearer picture, and it may mean throwing out what we’ve been programmed to believe about fossil fuels, CO2 emissions and global warming being the main culprit killing our oceans and planet. Now, according to research by the Marine Pollution Bulletin and others, we can add glyphosate, Monsanto’s Roundup Ready herbicide, to the top of the list.

Everything in the ocean relies on phytoplankton for their sole food source. That includes whales, reefs, sponges, coral, etc. Some fish rely on getting their phytoplankton needs met by feeding on other fish who feed off the plankton. Everything is interconnected. In the…

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Emmett Till National Monument Follows Decades of Efforts

On Tuesday, which would’ve been Emmett Till’s 82nd birthday, President Joe Biden established a national monument with three sites in Mississippi and Illinois to honor the slain boy and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.

“At a time when there are those who seek to ban books, bury history, we’re making it clear—crystal, crystal clear—while darkness and denialism can hide much, they erase nothing,” Biden said at Tuesday’s ceremony.

Two white men killed Till, a 14-old Black child from Chicago, when he was visiting family in Money, Miss., in August 1955 after Carolyn Bryant, a white woman, claimed Till made sexual advances towards her. (She would admit decades later to lying about him grabbing her by the hips).

An all-white jury acquitted Till’s murderers, J.W. Millam and Roy Bryant, in the Tallahatchie County Courthouse. Both men later confessed to the killing in a 1956 Look magazine article.

Source: Emmett Till National Monument Follows Decades of Efforts