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

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Cae la tarde
y me envuelve el sudor,
…es ya verano.

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Avian flu may have killed millions of birds globally as outbreak ravages South America | Bird flu | The Guardian (Me: I believe that industrialized poultry agriculture has facilitated this animal pandemic)

Millions of wild birds may have died from bird flu globally in the latest outbreak, researchers have said, as the viral disease ravages South America, with 200,000 deaths recorded in Peru alone.

The highly infectious variant of H5N1, which gained momentum in the winter of 2021, caused Europe’s worst bird flu outbreak before spreading globally. The disease reached South America in November 2022, and has now been reported on every continent except Oceania and Antarctica.

Working out how many wild birds have died is difficult because so many carcasses are never found or counted. Michelle Wille, from the University of Sydney, co-authored research that is believed to be the first attempt to assess numbers on a global scale. It documents deaths since October 2021. “We estimate the scale of mortality among wild birds is in the millions rather than tens of thousands reported,” the paper says.

Source: Avian flu may have killed millions of birds globally as outbreak ravages South America | Bird flu | The Guardian

‘No more cover-up’: Nazi concentration camps on Channel Island finally to be officially investigated | Second world war | The Guardian

 The British population of Alderney, 10 miles from the French coast, was evacuated, which allowed Nazi high command to turn the island into a giant prison for slave labour.

Though the majority of prisoners were Russians and Ukrainians, brought from the occupied parts of the Soviet Union to build the giant defences of Hitler’s so-called Atlantic Wall, it is known that many Jews, north Africans and Spanish republicans were also taken to Alderney.

According to testimony from the time, many prisoners were killed through a policy of systematic murder known as “Vernichtung durch Arbeit” – extermination through labour. Others were tortured, shot, given fatal injections and those sick, or unable to work, were sent to extermination camps in Occupied Europe.

Source: ‘No more cover-up’: Nazi concentration camps on Channel Island finally to be officially investigated | Second world war | The Guardian

Visitas

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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A veces, por cierto, toco a mi puerta, me busco, visito mis soledades y mis silencios; entonces, descubro mi compañía, percibo el lenguaje de la vida y siento en mí el pulso del océano, de la lluvia, de las estrellas y de algo sublime que parece inmortal. Experimento, así, el milagro de existir.

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Temecula Valley Unified Reverses Course And Adopts Controversial Social Studies Curriculum | LAist

Superintendent Tony Thurmond told EdSource that he spoke to students in Temecula who told him that the board’s decision to ban Critical Race Theory and refuse to implement curriculum on LGBTQ-plus rights made them feel bullied and devalued. Source: Temecula Valley Unified Reverses Course And Adopts Controversial Social Studies Curriculum | LAist

A Con Con in Forty Years?

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

    This idea is dependent, obviously, on our making a lot of progress, here in the ‘USA,’ before that, over the next four decades, in growing our levels of empathy, compassion, especially for ‘out-groups’ or those who look and think differently from ourselves, and our levels of desire to cooperate in the interests of The Common Good.  I suggested some time ago, without remembering to specify the time lapse involved of waiting this forty years, during which Phases I, II, and III could have time to build better common public and cultural infrastructure, that a Constitutional Convention is needed, and I have learned that many readers will not pay attention to the full paragraph, so now, I am listing that time lag up front.  Project Do Better is arranged in four phases of about fifteen to twenty years each, unless community organizers choose to revise these timelines for their…

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