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

A Gift

normabobb

Today is not a given, it is a gift to me, you and everyone else who are lucky to be still breathing the breath of life. Let’s use it in a positive way before we lose it.

© Norma Bobb-Semple 2021

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11 x French movies and series

Vive La Gioia

The French films and series I have seen have always been special and not boring or basic. Somehow they always manage to touch me, they are real. And of course, not to forget: funny. In this post you will read eleven French series and movies that I have seen, and which are worth watching. Let me know which ones you already know, or if you might have a tip for a French series or movie that is not yet in my list below!

  1. Amélie
    I think almost everyone knows this romantic comedy film. Besides the beautiful music and colorful decor, the story is also funny. Amelie is an innocent, sensitive and shy woman who lives alone in an apartment in Paris. She works at a café, where weird guests have a coffee everyday. Although she misses love in her own life, she tries to bring love into the lives of…

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3D-printed ‘meat’: Does the plant-based product pass the taste test? – BBC News

For the first time, 3D-printed ‘meat’ is being served as a whole ‘cut’, with the product launching in four cities around the world this week.

Produced by Redefine Meat, the ‘meat’ is made of plant-based products, and is completely vegan.

BBC Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis went along to London restaurant Chotto Matte to see if it passes the taste test.

Source: 3D-printed ‘meat’: Does the plant-based product pass the taste test? – BBC News

Covid cases highest in younger children in England – BBC News

The data, up to 14 November, shows this younger age group has overtaken older, secondary school aged children for the first time.

In recent months, the 10 to 19 age group maintained the highest rate of infections per 100,000 tested.

It is too soon to say what is behind the change and if it will continue.

In recent weeks, children aged 12 and over have started being offered Covid jabs.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) report shows 723 cases recorded per 100,000 among children aged five to nine.

That’s up week-on-week from 484.5 per 100,000.

The rate for 10 to 19-year-olds is 694.2, up from 571.7.

Covid infections are lowest among the eldest in society – those aged 80-plus – with a weekly rate of 76 per 100,000. But this group has the greatest risk of getting more seriously ill with Covid if they were to catch it, particularly if they are not vaccinated.

Covid case rates by age group

Source: Covid cases highest in younger children in England – BBC News

“Earthshine” from the Moon shows our planet is dimming, intensifying global warming

  • This graph shows the downward trend in Earth’s albedo, as measured by earthshine (black) and CERES data (blue) in watts per square meter. Image credit: Goode et al. (2021), Geophysical Research Letters.This graph shows the downward trend in Earth’s albedo, as measured by earthshine (black) and CERES data (blue) in watts per square meter. Image credit: Goode et al. (2021), Geophysical Research Letters.
  • …Earth’s brightness, as seen from space, has dropped significantly over the past two decades.
  • When the planet reflects less light, more sunlight reaches the ground and the sea, warming the atmosphere.
  • A natural rise in Pacific Ocean temperatures in 2015-2017 made Earth even dimmer by reducing bright clouds over the western Americas, a new study concludes.

For 20 years, researchers stared at the dark side of the moon to measure its faint but visible “earthshine,” a glow created by sunlight reflecting off Earth and onto the lunar surface. Their new analysis, published recently in Geophysical Research Letters, revealed that this ghostly light has darkened slightly, confirming satellite measurements that our planet is getting dimmer.

As the planet reflects less light, the incoming heat gets absorbed by the seas and skies. This lingering warmth probably intensifies the rate of global warming, scientists believe…

Source: “Earthshine” from the Moon shows our planet is dimming, intensifying global warming

Urgent: RCMP now raiding Gidimt’en Checkpoint

LANDBACK Friends

“This is Sleydo over here on Cas Yih Yintah. The RCMP have moved in this morning on Gidimt’en Checkpoint. CGL is enforcing their own injunction order. 

They started this morning on both ends of the blockade at 63 with a bunch of heavy machinery, chasing somebody with a dozer, they had rock trucks. 

Currently right now the state of Gidimt’en Checkpoint is that dozers have rolled in (as well as) Heavy Machinery, CGL workers and RCMP. We just got word that they released K9 units at the bridge at Gidimt’en Checkpoint. Our warriors are down there. Our matriarch is there. There’s a lot of people that are there that are at risk of this police violence.

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Two Iranian Nationals Charged for Cyber-Enabled Disinformation and Threat Campaign Designed to Influence the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election | OPA | Department of Justice 

  • …In October 2020, members of the conspiracy, claiming to be a “group of Proud Boys volunteers,” sent Facebook messages and emails (the “False Election Messages”) to Republican Senators, Republican members of Congress, individuals associated with the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump, White House advisors, and members of the media. The False Election Messages claimed that the Democratic Party was planning to exploit “serious security vulnerabilities” in state voter registration websites to “edit mail-in ballots or even register non-existent voters.” The False Election Messages were accompanied by a video (the “False Election Video”) carrying the Proud Boys logo, which purported, via simulated intrusions and the use of State-1 voter data, to depict an individual hacking into state voter websites and using stolen voter information to create fraudulent absentee ballots through the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) for military and overseas voters.[1]
  • Also in October 2020, the conspirators engaged in an online voter intimidation campaign involving the dissemination of a threatening message (the “Voter Threat Emails”), purporting to be from the Proud Boys, to tens of thousands of registered voters, including some voters whose information the conspiracy had obtained from State-1’s website. The emails were sent to registered Democrats and threatened the recipients with physical injury if they did not change their party affiliation and vote for President Trump…

Source: Two Iranian Nationals Charged for Cyber-Enabled Disinformation and Threat Campaign Designed to Influence the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election | OPA | Department of Justice

(Me: Why did two Iranians try to help the Trump 2020 campaign???)