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

Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, stores in West Bank – report – The Jerusalem Post

Source: Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, stores in West Bank – report – The Jerusalem Post

Myanmar tumbles into the abyss

Since the February 2021 coup, Myanmar’s democrats have needed to begin reckoning with this history and with the shape of a future federal union. But, for now, their attention is on the struggle to stay alive and to keep up their united opposition to the military’s claim to rule.

There is no easy way to end the post-coup conflict and yet the Myanmar army’s capacity to consolidate its rule appears more fragile than ever, especially with so many new armed groups now taking up to the fight to the military regime and its representatives. Outrageous attacks by the junta against civilians are likely to only fortify the already strong resolve of resistance forces in the mountains, but also in the country’s big cities. There is simply no good future for Myanmar while the military leadership strangles its own people.

Source: Myanmar tumbles into the abyss

Efforts to dim Sun and cool Earth must be blocked, say scientists

  • Scientists are calling on political institutions to place limits on solar geoengineering research so that it cannot be deployed unilaterally by countries, companies or individuals.
  • Long-term planetary-level geoengineering interventions of this kind are unprecedented and extremely dangerous, say the academics behind the letter, and should not therefore be experimented with outdoors, receive patents, public funds or international support.
  • Solar geoengineering’s leading proposal — injecting billions of aerosol particles into the Earth’s stratosphere — could have severe, unintended and unforeseen consequences. Modelling suggests that it may cause drying in the Amazon rainforest
  • In addition, if solar geoengineering were deployed, it would need to be maintained for decades. Sudden discontinuance would result in Earth facing what scientists call termination shock, with a sudden temperature rise due to existing atmospheric carbon emissions which would have been masked by cooling stratospheric aerosols.

Source: Efforts to dim Sun and cool Earth must be blocked, say scientists

Mules in the CBI and their Veterinarians

Pacific Paratrooper

Merrill’s Marauders

We often comment on the animals who help us, especially in war, BUT the Veterinarians who care for them are very rarely given a voice…

I received a message from Lavinia Ross @ Salmon Brook Farms about her veterinarian, D.E. Larsen, DVM and his mentor, Robert W. Davis, DVM, Please visit to read!

GP, you might like this post by our old veterinarian who retired some years back. One of his mentors in vet school was the same veterinarian who cared for the mules used by Merrill’s Marauders in Burma during WWII.”

Article about Dr, Davis

Dr. David E. Larsen, So. Korea

The most famous American unit of the CBI was the 5307th Composite Unit, also known as “Merrill’s Marauders.” Undertaking operations similar to those of the Chindits, it used large numbers of mules. Six Quartermaster pack troops were part of the unit, and mules were liberally…

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Minbari Mondays, Babylon 5: Convictions, and Health

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

       This week’s review, from February of our year 2260 CE,  is just by me, since Ranger Mayann is now prohibited from writing to us from Minbar, where she is stationed. 

All life is sacred.

   When the object of your actions does not share that conviction, that can be a problem.  Especially if poor and lacking health care, too!

    And on the not-so-light side, this is The Elevator Episode!!  Check out Neatnik’s review for some great quotes from that scene, and Neatnik’s review also has a more traditional discussion of  this episode.

Last Monday’s review was S3e1: Matters of Honor,

Next Minbari Monday is Season 3, ep3: A Day in the Strife…

Shira

 

Nih sakh sh’lekk, sleem wa.

I come in peace, I am your friend.

 

There are earlier episodes, as part of a letter on the history of the Babylon Project.  

Action Prompts

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Atomic Mushrooms Harvest

yaskhan

A poetic collaboration with Lubomir Tomik aka Midian Poet

Behind the windows of a gray face
At the end of the road
Broken glass lanterns will never find glassmakers
And white nights
The shore is out in the haze of fog.

Faces like words
Expressions soundless
Seeking understanding
A metamorphosis
Bursting
Into existence
Light in the haze
Finding the sixth sense
A glass that survives the crash
Shattering into renaissance

Faces silent
Suddenly changing
In the atomic mushrooms of you
In the morning mist you collect them in a basket
At breakfast
Then you will embrace me with tenderness
Coffee by you
Unbelievable you

Face masks cling
Eyes light up
In the oxygen that floats
You collect them in your breath
And embrace me with life
Your soul sparkles
Unbelievable
Breathing
Tender.



https://midianpoet.com/2022/01/19/poet-cooperation-atomic-mushrooms-harvest/

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«A Cegante Feitiçaria de Ouro … Para os mais velhos, o ouro era apenas lascas brilhantes na areia, como a mica.» — Barbara Crane Navarro

Série « transe xamânico » e foto do xamã Yanomami, Amazonas, Venezuela: Barbara Crane Navarro « Para os mais velhos, o ouro era apenas lascas brilhantes na areia dos leitos dos rios, como a mica. Eles coletaram para fazer uma substância de feitiçaria destinada a cegar as pessoas de quem estavam zangados. … Este pó de metal […]

«A Cegante Feitiçaria de Ouro … Para os mais velhos, o ouro era apenas lascas brilhantes na areia, como a mica.» — Barbara Crane Navarro