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

Marii Freire Pereira

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Há formas de beleza que você desgusta vagarosamente através do tempo. Algumas enchem os olhos, outras sacia a alma e as vezes, existem aquelas que cativam através do silêncio. É como um acontecimento sagro que de joelhos, você se dobra diante delas. Mas independente do acontecimento em si, é impossível não cometer um crime com os olhos. Você fixa o olhar sobre o que a alma se encanta e caminha junto com ela até as suas cerimônias mais íntimas.

– A beleza é sua! Ela existe na forma de como você consegue vê-la. Quanto mais suave lhe parece, mais paira o silêncio sobre os minutos de contemplação.

Marii Freire Pereira

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 7 de abril de 2022

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The G.O.P.’s ‘Putin Wing’ – The New York Times

Tucker Carlson, the host of one of cable television’s highest-rated shows, has suggested that American liberals represent a bigger threat than Putin. “It might be worth asking yourself, since it is getting pretty serious, what is this really about?” Carlson said in February. “Why do I hate Putin so much? Has Putin ever called me a racist?”

Carlson has also promoted a false rumor, popular in Russia, accusing the U.S. of funding biological weapons labs in Ukraine. These comments are consistent with Carlson’s history of arguing that the U.S. should align itself with Russia over Ukraine. “I think we should probably take the side of Russia, if we have to choose between Russia and Ukraine,” he said in 2019.

Koch Industries, the conglomerate whose controlling family is a major funder of Republican candidates and conservative causes, has said it would continue to operate in Russia even as many Western companies have left.

Political advocacy groups affiliated with Charles Koch have also questioned why the U.S. is levying harsh sanctions on Russia and have suggested that a Ukrainian victory is not in America’s interest, as Judd Legum of the Popular Information newsletter has reported. “The United States can and should do very little for Ukraine,” Will Ruger, the president of a Koch-funded group, has said. “Ukraine simply doesn’t matter to America’s security or our prosperity.”

Thoughtless Commentary Thursdays -La Casa de Papel, aka Money Heist: part 1, ep. 7, Coches sueltos & Living out of your Car?

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

       My reaction this week tries not to spoil this episode:  Refrigerada Inestabilidad, and gives random reactions in the original Spanish, and most of the time in English, for the majority of my current readers:

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Vaya, de las llaves, saben el coche en 5 minutos!  …   Wow, from the keys, they know the car in 5 minutes!

 

Note how the homeless guy living in the abandoned car lot seems to make no impression on, nor surprise, anyone: Society can definitely Do Better than this, no?
 
Pégale un tiro!!  …   Shoot him!!
 
 
Idiot Helsinki!!!  Ni siquiera habla español!
 
 
 Coqueteando con la inspectora.  Y cómo es que están sorprendidos de los conocimientos legales del Profe!?   …     Flirting with the inspector.  And why are they surprised at his legal knowledge?!

 

Idiota Helsinki!: Mil euros a cambio de todos??

 

   Si, hackear sistemas…

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Guns Make Whom Feel Safer?

CRAIN'S COMMENTS

The LA Times reports on a study by researchers at Standford University of murder statistics for a 12-year period from 2004 to 2016. The data is from California, one of the states that provides consistent and relatively complete information. (Many US states don’t.)

Bottom line: A gun may make the owner feel safer, but an adult living with the owner of a handgun is three times more likely to be shot and killed than someone living in a home with no handgun. It’s twice the risk of death for all types of guns, and three times when we limit the discussion to pistols.

I suppose there are two ways you could look at these data:

  1. It’s better not to have a handgun in the home.
  2. If another adult in the home has a handgun, you may need your own to protect yourself from that person.

Really, who wants to live…

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Barbara Crane Navarro: Artist & Activist In Her Own Words — Palm Oil Detectives — Barbara Crane Navarro

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Racismo contra povos indígenas é histórico, cultural, estrutural e permanente — B@ú dos Pymenta´s — Barbara Crane Navarro

A diferença do racismo contra os indígenas é que são o único grupo social a quem se pode dirigir na esfera pública propondo o extermínio da sua condição especial. A questão aqui não é de quantidades, mas de um modelo insuportável de racismo que sobrevive e justifica a ofensiva anti-indígena mais intensa desde a época […]

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