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Misplaced Priorities

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The effects of climate change are predicted to bring us our hottest summer ever and one with even more hurricanes, tornadoes, and extreme wildfires than past years. We are told that we should expect rolling electricity ‘blackouts’ this summer as power companies try to protect the electric grid from damage due to overuse.  We have become a nation known for its mass shootings, known for people who carry a gun into churches, schools, and grocery stores just looking for trouble – we are not safe shopping for food, and our children are no longer safe in school.  There is a war in Ukraine (just in case you’ve forgotten) that is likely to expand into other nations and may well ultimately involve the U.S.  Our voting rights are being stripped, states are passing ridiculous laws to deny women of their rights and children of the right to learn those things they…

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Memorial Day Weekend Shootings Kill Over 130

In just a 72-hour span over Memorial Day weekend, there were more than 300 shooting incidents across the US, according to data tabulated by the Gun Violence Archive. More than 130 people were killed, including a 16-year-old girl and 21-year-old woman shot dead around 1 a.m. on Monday at a holiday party in Philadelphia’s Port Richmond neighborhood.

Source: Memorial Day Weekend Shootings Kill Over 130

Entirety of Virginia in either ‘growth’ or ‘surge’ COVID-19 trajectories, data shows | 13newsnow.com

Just one metric from the Virginia Department of Health and the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute shows every health district in the Commonwealth is in the middle of a “growth” or “surge” trajectory. This means there is no longer an area in Virginia, from a health district standpoint, where the trajectory is considered “declining.”

In the Hampton Roads region, you’ll see the entire area is marked “red’ to show an “in surge” growth trajectory. The previous week’s biocomplexity report showed that four health districts in the state were still considered in a “plateau” state.

Source: Entirety of Virginia in either ‘growth’ or ‘surge’ COVID-19 trajectories, data shows | 13newsnow.com

Monkeypox: WHO experts speak on risk factor, as cases rise to 257

WHO said; “While smallpox vaccines have been shown to be protective against monkeypox, there is also one vaccine approved for prevention of monkeypox. “This vaccine is based on a strain of vaccinia virus (known generically as modified vaccinia Ankara Bavarian Nordic strain, or MVA-BN). “This vaccine has been approved for prevention of monkeypox in Canada and the United States of America. In the European Union, this vaccine has been approved for prevention of smallpox.”

Source: Monkeypox: WHO experts speak on risk factor, as cases rise to 257

Turkish Tuesdays, and Two Lessons from Hakan:Muhafiz/The Protector, s2e7, on Empathy for Misplaced Love, and Names — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

What do we learn from season 2, episode 7? Lessons: 1.)  Sorry for the heartbreak, Hakan, but sometimes there is a very good reason for those traditions you disdain. 2.)  Even those with beautiful names can still lack the empathy that should go with them.     For those who don’t speak Turkish, Rüya, the […]

Turkish Tuesdays, and Two Lessons from Hakan:Muhafiz/The Protector, s2e7, on Empathy for Misplaced Love, and Names — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Toute cette forêt tropicale perdue, tout ce mercure s’infiltrant dans les systèmes d’eau, empoisonnant les peuples autochtones et la faune. Juste pour un peu d’or !Le prix de cet or est beaucoup trop élevé… Nous ne pouvons pas nous le permettre ! — Barbara Crane Navarro

Mère et bébé Yanomami, Amazonas, Venezuela – photo : Barbara Crane Navarro «Vous ne comprenez pas pourquoi nous voulons protéger notre forêt? Demandez-moi, je vous répondrai! Nos ancêtres ont été créés avec elle au début des temps. Depuis, notre peuple a mangé son gibier et ses fruits. Nous voulons que nos enfants grandissent ici en […]

Toute cette forêt tropicale perdue, tout ce mercure s’infiltrant dans les systèmes d’eau, empoisonnant les peuples autochtones et la faune. Juste pour un peu d’or !Le prix de cet or est beaucoup trop élevé… Nous ne pouvons pas nous le permettre ! — Barbara Crane Navarro

A Natureza é política: a crítica social é insuficiente se não contém uma crítica das relações sociais com a Natureza — Barbara Crane Navarro

A crítica social é insuficiente se não contém uma crítica das relações sociais com a natureza. Isso é mostrado por escritos marxistas como a Teoria Crítica, que tentaram superar a suposta oposição entre o ecológico e o social Por Ralf Hutter para o Neues Deutschland Uma suposta contradição entre ecológico e social surge repetidamente nos discursos […] […]

A Natureza é política: a crítica social é insuficiente se não contém uma crítica das relações sociais com a Natureza — Barbara Crane Navarro