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Minbari Mondays (B5:s4e16) “Exercise of Vital Powers” Against The “Other” — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

So, Garibaldi, how do you decide what your new employer’s agenda is, and whether he is really telling you the whole truth? Edgars claims that Clark needs to be stopped, “but not by military action.” But how else could he be ethically and transparently stopped, rich guy? We know from previous episodes that Garibaldi is […]

Minbari Mondays (B5:s4e16) “Exercise of Vital Powers” Against The “Other” — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

The Power of Listening

From Behind the Pen

Image Credit: Aneta Pawlik

Over the weekend, I decided to reorganize my bookshelves, and oh Lord, what a bigger task it was than I thought. I purchased a bookcase which was smaller, that my husband and I put together since I had books that needed to be properly housed other than on the floor. Then I came across the book “The Summer of Swans” by Betsy Byars, and decided to reread it.

man near trees

The book surrounds a little boy who is non-verbal, and at the time this book was copywritten, he is deemed mentally retarded. In today’s terminology, he would probably be diagnosed as autistic. Charlie wanders off in the middle of the night, and of course, he gets lost, and no one knows where he is. His sister Sara usually looks after him but everyone is terrified of what could happen because of Charlie’s condition. When Sara and her friend…

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The Week’s Best Cartoons 10/1 — Filosofa’s Word

I seem to have a bouncing mind this weekend for I have three separate posts in process, but haven’t managed to finish a single one of them!  So, I figured there’s no better time than the present to see what cartoons our friend TokyoSand has managed to dig up for us!  Naturally, Hurricane Ian is […]

The Week’s Best Cartoons 10/1 — Filosofa’s Word

An ‘epidemic of murder’: Are Russia’s millionaires dying to fund Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine? – ABC News

Rather, he said the deaths demonstrate President Putin’s desperation to maintain control of one of the most lucrative sectors in the Russian economy — the oil and gas industry.

“Vladimir Putin has been kneecapped by the sanctions,” he said.

“He’s the richest man in the world and he holds his money via these individuals called the Russian oligarchs, who have all been sanctioned.

“The only money that hasn’t really been sanctioned has been the revenues from the oil and gas industry, and he needs more money now to run his war.”

Mr Browder said they would be under pressure to provide some of that money to the Kremlin, and used the example of the chairman of Lukoil, Ravil Maganov, who was found dead on September 1.

“These people all sit in front of large cash flows or assets,” he said.

“I would suspect that this guy said “no” and then the best way of getting that flow of cash is to kill him and then ask his replacement the same question.

“I would suspect that Putin gets a cut of whatever redirected flows of money are resulting from these murders.”

Source: An ‘epidemic of murder’: Are Russia’s millionaires dying to fund Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine? – ABC News

João Cabral de Melo Neto

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Os sonhos cobrem-se de pós.

Um último esforço de concentração

morre no meu peito de homem enforcado.

Tenho no meu quarto manequins corcundas

Onde me reproduzo

e me contemplo em silêncio.

João Cabral de Melo Neto. Poesias Completas. 3 ed. Rio de Janeiro: José Olympio, 1979.p 37p )

João Cabral de Melo Neto. Literatura brasileira em diálogo com outras literaturas e outras linguagens. William Cereja e Thereza Cochar. Editora Atual. 5 ed reform. São Paulo, 2013

Marii Freire

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 2 de outubro de 2022

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Did You Know That? More Etceteras

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Meet Austria’s young marmot whisperer. Eight-year-old Matteo Walch’s friendship with a clan of Alpine animals has spanned more than half his lifetime.“When we come, they run straight to him,” Matteo’s mother, Michaela Walch, a mathematics teacher and amateur photographer, told TODAY.com.

The mother-and-son team have been traveling from their home in Innsbruck to Hohe Tauern National Park in Grossglockner to spend time with the large ground squirrels since Matteo was just 3 years old.Like a horse whisperer or dog whisperer, the schoolboy has an uncanny ability to interact with the normally skittish wild animals — even greeting them nose to nose and having them climb in his lap

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The new approved covid shot has now been authorized in the U.S. for a full month, but nearly half of adults have heard little or nothing about it, according to a new report. (Yesterday I…

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