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

Let the Midnight Special 🎶

And Big Joe Turner’s version too: https://youtu.be/58VQQJEyr40

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Well, you wake up in the mornin’, you hear the work bell ring…
And they march you to the table, you see the same old thing
Ain’t no food upon the table, and no pork up in the pan
But you better not complain, boy, you get in trouble with the man
Let the Midnight Special shine a light on me
….
Let the Midnight Special shine ‘er ever-lovin’ light on me
Yonder come Miss Rosie, how in the world did you know?
By the way she wears her apron and the clothes she wore
Umbrella on her shoulder, piece of paper in her hand
She come to see the gov’nor, she want to free her man, oh

Let the Midnight Special shine ‘er ever-lovin’ light on me
If you’re ever in Houston, well, you better do right
You better not gamble there, you better not fight, Lord
Or the…

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Let’s demonstrate where power truly lies

LANDBACK Friends

It is heartening to see indigenous-led climate actions at the White House, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the US Capitol this week. I admire those who are participating in acts of civil disobedience, with hundreds of arrests. But disappointed in the absence of a response from the Biden administration. And deeply concerned at the latest news that funding to address environmental catastrophe might not be included in the budget negotiations. White House looks to scale back climate initiative after stiff pushback from Manchin

I’m reminded of the days of the Keystone XL pipeline Pledge of Resistance, a national campaign to use civil disobedience to force denial of the permit for the construction of that pipeline which began in 2013. President Obama, with Vice President Biden, did deny the permit. The President was aware of the Keystone resistance. How much that affected his decision isn’t known. (more below).

This week over…

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A pessoa certa

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Quando se fala a respeito de amor, é natural que as pessoas idealizem os seus parceiros, a forma de recepcionar um sentimento, e que inclusive, busquem referência delas próprias na figura do outro. Há quem acredite que encontrar a pessoa certa é como ganhar na loteria, porque assim, elas se sentem felizes e realizados. Claro, o resultado é querer alcançar o ápice do que agregar valor. Independente, de se encontrar a pessoa certa ou não, vale ressaltar que a função de se relacionar com alguém, é construir uma relação onde há êxito

Os relacionamento tem a sua importância diante dessa difícil tarefa que é aprimorar a construção dos desejos mais profundos entre o cadal. A troca de informações entre si é muito recompensante para as pessoas que se amam, porque dentre outras coisas, as experiências positivas trazem paz, leveza, alegria, tranquilidade e uma série de benefícios ao casal. O namoro…

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Prof John Potter: ‘Not just a respiratory virus’ – Long Covid warnings for unvaxxed | RNZ (Me: Show to stupid and hateful anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers!)

“Two hundred and seventy thousand Covid survivors, and they followed them, and between a third and a half had symptoms three to six months later,” Potter said speaking today to Saturday Morning.

“And those are a wide variety of symptoms that are indicative of the fact that this particular virus infects a lot of different parts of us. It’s not just a respiratory virus.”

“It’s a virus that gets into lots of organs and has downstream consequences that are really nasty for a lot of people.”

Long Covid symptoms can include breathing problems, abdominal symptoms, fatigue, pain, anxiety and depression.

Victims can have myalgia, pain in the muscles, which can present similar to chronic fatigue syndrome.

“Abnormal breathing persists in a decent percentage of people almost 20 percent of people because of damage to the lungs,” Potter said.

“Some people have headaches and cognitive symptoms which tells us that it does damage to the brain.”

Source: Prof John Potter: ‘Not just a respiratory virus’ – Long Covid warnings for unvaxxed | RNZ

Super Saturday Vaxathon sees biggest-ever one-day vaccine update for Māori | RNZ News

Just short of 130,000 vaccine doses were given at the so-called Super Saturday events.

Of the 129,995 doses administered, 39,024 were first doses and 90,971 second doses.

The Ministry of Health will release final figures this afternoon.

Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said multiple records were broken yesterday, including the biggest-ever one-day vaccine update for Māori, with more than 21,000 doses given – 10,941 first doses and 10,874 second doses.

Source: Super Saturday Vaxathon sees biggest-ever one-day vaccine update for Māori | RNZ News