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

The Assult of Insults

From Behind the Pen

Just when you think insults and bullying couldn’t get any worse, well it’s no surprise that it does. People are unfiltered, saying whatever crass things blurt from the crevices of their mouths with no empathy or compassion to soften their blows. When we see children committing bullish patterns of speech, we want to chastise them. But are they only mimicking what they hear adults say and watch what adults do?

How do we expect them to be a model citizen if those adults in their lives act like deranged, spiteful, and hateful lunatics?

What has happened to one’s conscience
where incredulous words spew like flying daggers
stabbing wounds of damning insults
piercing the spirit like venom from an asp

poisonous words and menacing actions
dart through the air like torpedoes of scorpion stingers
from a tongue so small, yet so powerful
dripping from lips plastered with ashes from infernos.

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Latest COVID origin report largely debunks the ‘lab-leak’ theory

Today, Americans are more likely to believe that the novel coronavirus, which causes Covid, came from a lab rather than from an animal infecting a human, even though most studies overwhelmingly suggest the opposite. For months, proponents of the idea that the novel coronavirus escaped from a lab have been hotly anticipating a declassified U.S. intelligence report on the origin of the pandemic. Now the report is out… and it was kind of a dud for the “lab leak” theory. Source: Latest COVID origin report largely debunks the ‘lab-leak’ theory

Russia’s Prigozhin was told he would no longer fight in Ukraine -lawmaker | Reuters

Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was told that his Wagner group would no longer fight in Ukraine as he had refused to sign contracts to bring his mercenaries under the sway of the defence ministry, a senior lawmaker said on Thursday.
— Read on www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-prigozhin-was-told-he-would-no-longer-fight-ukraine-lawmaker-2023-06-29/

Italia da el primer paso para quitar derechos a los hijos de madres lesbianas

Las asociaciones LGBTI protestan contra la iniciativa de la Fiscalía de Padua para cancelar el registro de los menores, incluso con carácter …

Italia da el primer paso para quitar derechos a los hijos de madres lesbianas

LGBTI associations protest against the initiative of the Padua Prosecutor’s Office to cancel the registration of minors, even retroactively, after an order from the far-right Government of Meloni