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

China-backed AIIB puts Russia and Belarus lending ‘on hold’ over war in Ukraine | South China Morning Post

The China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has announced that “all activities relating to Russia and Belarus are on hold and under review” due to Russia’s war on Ukraine.

“As the war in Ukraine unfolds, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) extends its thoughts and sympathy to everyone affected. Our hearts go out to all who are suffering,” read a statement published on the website of the Beijing-based lender.

Source: China-backed AIIB puts Russia and Belarus lending ‘on hold’ over war in Ukraine | South China Morning Post

One Lesson from La Casa de Papel (Money Heist) P1e2

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

1.) Teach where your students learn best!!

This reaction tries not to spoil the episode, and gives random reactions in the original Spanish, and in English, for the majority of my current readers:

Intento no dar todo, y doy comentarios en los dos idiomas, ya que mis lectores solo hablan inglés, en su gran mayorîa…

Me encanta ése modelo de la Fábrica de Moneda y Timbre! … I love that model of the Money and Change Factory!
Berlin: sociopath. 5 divorcios…
Pero no es un tonto. … But he’s not an idiot.
Si, una relación… Yup, an intimate relationship…
Y la inspectora, con lápiz en el pelo, y un hombre que quiere darle órdenes. … And the inspector, Rachel Murillo, with a pencil in her hair, and a man trying to give her orders.
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Carnicería de Moscou ? Y el coronel fastidiandola con su vida personal:. Internal and external…

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When Will We Ever Learn?

Filosofa's Word

It takes so little to raise my hackles these days, so let me just share two little snippets that left me growling this week.


Life on Planet Earth … but for how long?

Just as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its latest report detailing the threats posed by global warming and concluding that nations aren’t doing nearly enough to protect the planet, the U.S. Supreme Court stands poised to curtail the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to proceed with sweeping regulation of climate-warming emissions from the nation’s power plants.

According to the IPCC report, water and food insecurity have become widespread, affecting millions across the globe, as droughts, heat waves and floods inundate the planet.  More than 13 million people in Africa and Asia were displaced by extreme weather in 2019.  Says ecologist Camille Parmesan, one of the report’s authors …

“One of the most…

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That Collection of Soaps

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Putin and the Ukraine are the latest example in a long sad line of history. Another madman invades his neighbors.

The past repeats itself.

We watch the news each night and wonder, will Putin resort to dropping nukes? Or will he let his despot buddy Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko push the button in Belorussia? I watch the maps showing a 50 kilometer long procession of tanks heading inexorably towards Kyiv. The Ukraine is the country on the other side of Poland, which is the country on the other side of – us.

I take walks. I do the daily shopping and welcome my routines. Yesterday morning, coming around the corner I saw stacks and stacks of boxes in the plazza in front of our Town Hall. I went over and checked them out. They looked like supplies, the kind you gather and send as disaster relief or to refugee camps.

Back…

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The Ethnocide of Indigenous Peoples is happening in South America AND in North America NOW! — Barbara Crane Navarro

« They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time. They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.  The white man knows how […]

The Ethnocide of Indigenous Peoples is happening in South America AND in North America NOW! — Barbara Crane Navarro

Ailton Krenak: próxima missão do capitalismo é se livrar de metade da população do planeta — Existe Guarani em São Paulo — Barbara Crane Navarro

Antes da pandemia, Ailton Krenak man­­tinha uma agen­da intensa. Es­critor finalista do Prêmio Jabuti com seu livro Ideias para Adiar o Fim do Mundo, também lançou A Vida Não É Útil e O Amanhã Não Está à Venda, todos pela Companhia das Letras. Por conta da produção, viajava com frequência pelo Brasil. Desde a chegada do vírus, Krenak cumpre, […] […]

Ailton Krenak: próxima missão do capitalismo é se livrar de metade da população do planeta — Existe Guarani em São Paulo — Barbara Crane Navarro

Boycotts are a crucial weapon to fight environment-harming firms! — Palm Oil Detectives — Barbara Crane Navarro

Bill Laurance, James Cook University Campaigns and boycotts get the attention of large corporations, because they hit them where it hurts: their reputation and market share. Campaigns and get the attention of large corporations, because they hit them where it hurts: their reputation and market share Tweet In October 2000, I was […]

Boycotts are a crucial weapon to fight environment-harming firms! — Palm Oil Detectives — Barbara Crane Navarro

Kulturni pejzaž Sintre, Portugal – Sintra Cultural Landscape, Portugal — Myrela

„Dvorci i vrtovi što stoje između visokih krševitih brda, vodopada i litica, zajedno s manastirima, na veličanstvenim visovima i pogledom na daleko more i Taho, čine mješavinu divlje zapadne Škotske i zelene južne Francuske.” Tako je 21-godišnji Bajron opisao ljepotu Sintre u pismu majci. Iako on prije toga nije vidio ni Škotsku ni Provansu, te […]

Kulturni pejzaž Sintre, Portugal – Sintra Cultural Landscape, Portugal — Myrela