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

Merchant: In new crush RFK Jr., Silicon Valley sees itself – Los Angeles Times

The first reason is pretty obvious: COVID and vaccine denialism is in vogue with a prominent subset of Silicon Valley’s power players.

Kennedy has spent the last two decades as one of the leading voices for the anti-vaccine movement, alleging a (spurious) link between vaccines and autism. So, when COVID rolled around, and that particular brand of skepticism found much wider purchase, RFK Jr. was ready for prime time. He was kicked off Instagram for spreading misinformation but embraced by figures such as Tucker Carlson, as the right’s dalliance with anti-vax politics bloomed.

Source: Merchant: In new crush RFK Jr., Silicon Valley sees itself – Los Angeles Times

Photographer Spotlight: Enjoy an Adventure and the Views with Isaac Borrego

Daily Observation

Isaac Borrego is an adventurer, a photographer and a Flickr member currently located in the Pacific Northwest. Get to know more about his adventures and his love of landscapes in our new Photographer Spotlight blog.

Photographer Spotlight: Enjoy an Adventure and the Views with Isaac Borrego

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A CONSPIRACY? NO

NANMYKEL.COM

Take a look at this, then consider:

…In response to Jill Biden presenting Rueda* with the ‘International Women of Courage’ award, social media users have accused the First Lady of ‘encouraging the diminishment of women’ and ‘erasing women’.

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who has been a vocal critic of President Joe Biden, tweeted: ‘It’s International Women’s Day – a good time to remember that the Democrats can’t even tell you what a woman is.”

From <https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11839053/Row-erupts-online-Jill-Biden-gives-transgender-woman-Argentina-Women-Courage-award.html>

*Ruenda is Alba Rueda,  is a transgender woman who the government of Argentina earlier this year named as its first-ever global envoy for LGBTQ.  She was one of  eleven women who received the International Women of Courage award from Jill Biden.

In the hope that by looking rationally at heated statements of both parties we might let a little fresh air in and raise the level of logic...So. to start…

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Cultivate respect for others – Silent Songs of Sonsnow

“Our modern education systems don’t reveal much understanding of how to transform our emotions. To do so, we have to use our intelligence. We need to conduct ourselves with non-violence and on the basis of compassion, cultivate respect for others.”

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Source: Cultivate respect for others – Silent Songs of Sonsnow

Amidst Bloodshed and Fragmentation: Reflections on Loss, Sacrifice, and the Shattered Homeland – Nadia Harhash

How do we condemn the brutal killings by the occupying forces while also addressing the savage arrests by the ruling authority? How do we denounce the absence of justice and the silence of the international community regarding the crimes of the occupation, while the authority evades accountability for its own crimes against its own people? How do we demand justice for prisoners and victims of the occupation, while the pursuit of justice for individuals like Nizar remains elusive? How do we raise our voices against the annexation of settlements and the construction of new units, while the authority continues to surrender our resources and lands for the benefit of the powerful and privileged?

Source: Amidst Bloodshed and Fragmentation: Reflections on Loss, Sacrifice, and the Shattered Homeland – Nadia Harhash

♫ Happy Together ♫ (Redux)

Filosofa's Word

I decided that today we need some HAPPY music!  Well, in all fairness, rawgod put this in a comment after one of the sad songs I recently played, so I must give credit where credit is due, yes?  Thanks, rg!!!  So let’s put on some smiles and listen to some happy music for a change!


Despite what the title implies, this is not a song about a couple in love. According to Gary Bonner, who wrote the song with Alan Gordon, the song is about unrequited love. Our desperate singer wants the girl to “imagine how the world could be so very fine,” proposing what would happen “if I should call you up.” The line in the fadeout, “How is the weather?” is when he realizes they will never be more than passing acquaintances, as he resorts to small talk to keep from bursting into tears.  Who knew?

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Dam-building spree pushes Amazon Basin’s aquatic life closer to extinction

  • A recent study looking at 343,000 kilometers of waterways along 6,000 rivers across the Amazon Basin highlights the importance of free-flowing rivers to migratory species of fish and turtles, as well as river dolphins.
  • More than 20 species are threatened by the construction of hydroelectric dams on long-distance rivers, considered to be key corridors for biodiversity.
  • The study’s researchers identified 434 dams that have either been built or are currently under construction across the whole of the Amazon Basin, and a further 463 proposed dams that are in various stages of planning.
  • One of the proposed dams on the Tapajós River would leave at least four pods of river dolphins isolated from one another, leaving them facing a similar fate to the tucuxi river dolphins impacted by similar projects on the Madeira River and today threatened with extinction.

Source: Dam-building spree pushes Amazon Basin’s aquatic life closer to extinction

“We Carry On” by Cindy Georgakas

MasticadoresUsa // Editor: Barbara Leonhard //

My skin stretches over the horizon, covering wounds scabbed over when I was a shadow of myself.  The meadows have weathered me. Harsh conditions no longer scare or threaten me, but aging has.
 
Wisdom is infused in my brittle bones.  Love has opened vessels of a hardened heart, others at an impasse where inroads are blocked.

Weeds are not for the weary, but still, we must till the soil daily. I wish on the dandelions mystical fate in the fog and fires of June bloom and pray I’m spared of viscous tomorrows.
 
I make peace with new versions of my fully embodied self, sitting on the stump of a 200-year-old oak with acorns scattered around my feet as my grandchildren’s children see reflections of me in the afterlife, long after I retire.
 
Copyright © 2023 Cindy Georgakas
All Rights Reserved

Cindy Georgakas is a writer of words…

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