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

Jolly Monday — Food, Fun, and QUOKKAS!!!

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Good Monday morning, dear friends!  Are you ready to face the week head-on, to meet all those challenges that are out there just waiting for you?  Yeah … me too … let’s all just go back to bed.  But, since we can’t do that, let’s have a little snack and some fun stuff to fortify us for the week ahead, shall we?  Joyful has been working in the kitchen for a while now, so let’s go see what she’s got for us …

    


You might remember that I love quokkas, those cute little critters that are mostly found in Australia.  I came across some fun quokka memes and pictures that brought a smile to my face and I thought you might enjoy them, too!



I found some funny ‘toons for you guys … I hope you like ’em …


Here are a few things to jog your…

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‘Homegrown’ Vaccines: Monash Uni to House Moderna’s Only mRNA Facility in the Southern Hemisphere

The deal is between the Australian government, the Victorian government and Moderna. Under the agreements, an mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility will be built at Monash University. Moderna will also establish its headquarters and a Regional Research Centre in Victoria. Source: ‘Homegrown’ Vaccines: Monash Uni to House Moderna’s Only mRNA Facility in the Southern Hemisphere

Why Wagner Group Is Snatching Children From Their Mothers in the Central African Republic

“I counted up to 20 children in a gold mine controlled by Russian fighters near Bambari [in the central part of the country],” Sylvestre, a 27-year-old artisanal miner based in Bambari, told The Daily Beast. “One of those I saw is someone here in Bambari whose mother had said he had been kidnapped by Russian soldiers.”

“Children are now being brought into gold mines as workers while established artisanal miners are chased away, or killed, by these Russian soldiers,” said Sylvestre, who—like other miners residing in CAR—The Daily Beast is choosing to identify by his first name to protect him from possible retribution.

A number of locals who live in mining communities across the restive Central African Republic told The Daily Beast that children have also been taken from communities by Wagner mercenaries. Three of them said they have spoken to family members who claimed the Russians had driven the kids into mining areas and made them work in open-pit mines where they use shovels and sieves to scour the red earth for diamonds by the very group accused of abducting them.

“The sad thing is that many of these children were kidnapped and their family members are still crying to have them back,” a former rebel with the notorious Union for Peace (UPC) told The Daily Beast on condition of anonymity. “We have identified some of them and the good thing is that their families now know that they are still alive.”

Source: Why Wagner Group Is Snatching Children From Their Mothers in the Central African Republic

Minbari Mondays: Two Lessons “Atonement” (B5:s4e9) Teaches On Transportation — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

1.) Marcus is the very entertaining model of a modern major general, on a new form of semi-public transit! 2.) We do not have to atone for our multi-racial heritages.  But we do have to transport our ways of thinking to a higher level. Ivanova is still Drazi leader on the station, and Lenier […]

Minbari Mondays: Two Lessons “Atonement” (B5:s4e9) Teaches On Transportation — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story