All posts by nedhamson

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

Public transportation in North America -we could do better…

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

Here is why the trains come first, and then the quiet, safe, separately ventilated apartments and office buildings:

The fact that Vancouver transit has posted such strong gains in the absence of Uber and Lyft undercuts those companies’ claims about reducing car usage in major cities. But it also shows that the formula for rising ridership isn’t that complicated: Providing ample service while clustering development around good transit will yield results.

So, it turns out that even up in the cold north, folks use mass transit, when it is available with decent service. The US could take some lessons from our northern neighbors…

Yassas, γεια σας! Salût ! Nos vemos! Görüşürüz! ! שָׁלוֹם

Action Items in support of transportation for All that you can take right now:

1.) Search for two different reasons to use public transportation.

2.) Share them with us in…

View original post 126 more words

A new pact to end neglected tropical diseases – Mágica Mistura を

Trachoma, onchocerciasis, filariasis, leishmaniasis … These names may seem Greek or refer to diseases from a very distant past. However, they are examples of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), a public health martyrdom that continues to punish 1.7 billion people across the planet, 10 million of them in Brazil alone. NTDs, whose list of evils still includes intestinal worms a Chagas disease, are more frequent in regions without access to good housing, hygiene and health conditions. If they are no longer detected and treated in time, they usually generate significant sequelae, when they do not shorten their own life expectancy. In common, these diseases are caused by some type of microbe or parasite A small glossary helps to understand and visualize threats:.

  • Trachoma: bacterial infection that can lead to blindness ;
  • Onchocerciasis: caused by a worm transmitted by mosquitoes, compromises the eyes and skin ;
  • Phylariasis: also known as elephantiasis, comes from a worm spread by mosquitoes and unties bumps and deformations in the limbs ;
  • Leishmaniasis: it is the result of a protozoan that hitches mosquitoes and is behind lesions on the skin and other organs ;
  • Chagas: the work of a protozoan transmitted by the barber insect and by the contamination of foods such as açaí, it markedly affects the heart

Source: A new pact to end neglected tropical diseases – Mágica Mistura を

¿Quiénes son?

Verdad! Somos gente…

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

Derechos reservados conforme a la ley/ Copyright

Les llaman, en sus discursos, pueblo. Académicos, economistas, intelectuales, políticos, artistas, abogados, periodistas, religiosos, analistas. líderes y funcionarios públicos, entre otros, se refieren a la gente común con el término pueblo, como si se tratara de una palabra contagiosa o con una dosis tóxica, capaz de volver pobre, desafortunada e ignorante a cualquier persona que la pronuncie.

Incluso, al referirse al pueblo, queda la idea de que, para ellos, los que hablan en las tribunas públicas, lo hacen como si fueran ajenos y extraños a la humanidad. “El pueblo necesita atención, medicamentos, educación, asesoría, programas sociales, seguridad, fuentes laborales, obras, servicios”, en el tono que lo expresan, parece que solo falta agregar: “también requiere muletas, intermediarios, socorristas y golpes para que entienda y supere su mediocridad”.

En México, como en otras regiones del mundo, donde las clases sociales están…

View original post 607 more words

 Three Men(white supremacists)Plead Guilty to Conspiring to Provide Material Support to a Plot to Attack Power Grids in the United States | OPA | Department of Justice 

According to court documents, Christopher Brenner Cook, 20, of Columbus, Ohio; Jonathan Allen Frost, 24, of West Lafayette, Indiana, and of Katy, Texas; and Jackson Matthew Sawall, 22, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.  The charge and plea agreements indicate that the defendants knew and intended that the material support they conspired to provide would be used to prepare for and carry out the federal offense of destroying energy facilities.

“These three defendants admitted to engaging in a disturbing plot, in furtherance of white supremacist ideology, to attack energy facilities in order to damage the economy and stoke division in our country,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew G. Olsen. “The Justice Department is committed to investigating and disrupting such terrorist plots and holding perpetrators accountable for their crimes.”

Source: Three Men Plead Guilty to Conspiring to Provide Material Support to a Plot to Attack Power Grids in the United States | OPA | Department of Justice

Texas Man Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime Charges for Attacking Asian Family | OPA | Department of Justice

According to documents filed in connection with the plea, Gomez entered a Sam’s Club Warehouse in Midland, Texas, behind an Asian family with young children on March 14, 2020. Gomez had never seen the family before and believed they were Chinese. Gomez followed the Asian family in the store for several minutes because he perceived them to be a “threat” as they were “from the country who started spreading that disease around.” Gomez then momentarily left the family to find a serrated steak knife in the store. Gomez bent the blade so that when he held the handle in his fist, the blade rested against his knuckles, sharp-edge facing outward. Gomez returned to the Asian family and punched the father, identified by the initials B.C., in the face, cutting him. Gomez then left the scene, only to retrieve an eight-inch knife from the store.

When Gomez returned, he abruptly went after B.C.’s two young children – then aged 6 and 2 years old – who were seated in the front basket of the shopping cart.  Gomez slashed open the face of R.C., the then-six-year-old child. The blade entered millimeters from R.C.’s right eye, split his right ear, and wrapped around to the back of his skull. Gomez also stabbed a white Sam’s Club employee who intervened to stop Gomez from further assaulting the Asian family. While being held down on the ground, Gomez yelled at the Asian family, “Get out of America!”

Source: Texas Man Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime Charges for Attacking Asian Family | OPA | Department of Justice

The Race Is On — And It’s Gonna Be Ugly

Filosofa's Word

In January 2021, Ohio’s Republican Senator Rob Portman announced that he is retiring at the end of his term and will not seek re-election in 2022.  Now, you might think I’d be jumping up and down with joy, but the announcement did not please me in the least, for Portman is one of the few remaining Republicans in the Senate with both intellect and a conscience.  While I have frequently disagreed with Portman’s ideology – and have often let him know of my disagreements – he has never been one of the obstructionist, destructive ones like McConnell, Ernst, Cruz, Hyde-Smith, Hawley, Kennedy, Johnson, Paul, Rubio, Tuberville and many others.

One of the reasons Portman gave for his decision to retire is that “it has gotten harder and harder to break through the partisan gridlock and make progress on substantive policy.”  Of course, he has added to that gridlock by…

View original post 809 more words

Lo sfruttamento dei detenuti nell’Arcipelago gulag

le pagine dei nostri libri

I campi di lavoro forzato, chiamatigulag,cambiavano nel tempo seguendo le necessità interne dell’Unione Sovietica e il lavoro dei detenuti ha permesso di industrializzare il Paese, di realizzare grandi opere pubbliche e di sfruttare i giacimenti del sottosuolo in Siberia

All’inizio, la maggioranza dei prigionieri deigulagera composta dacriminali comuni e da kulaki, cioè contadini benestanti, che spesso furono arrestati quando si ribellarono alla collettivizzazione imposta dal governo sovietico che obbligava i contadini ad abbandonare le fattorie individuali per unirsi all’agricoltura collettiva.

Successivamente furono rinchiusi neigulag anche iprigionieri politici in quanto il Codice penale sovietico, all’art. 58, puniva con la detenzione neigulag“ogni attività controrivoluzionaria”. Con le grandi purghe dell’epoca di Stalin,tra il 1937 e il 1953, il numero dei reclusi crebbe in modo esponenziale e durante questo periodo, soprannominato “il Grande Terrore”, le epurazioni raggiunsero il loro apice:un totale di 3.7 milioni di persone passò…

View original post 515 more words