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

Postura

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

“A sua postura diz muito sobre você. A maneira de como se relacionar com as pessoas, constrói amores, fala, se veste. Por isso, seja o seu melhor”. Melhor no modo de ser, de expressar a sua própria linguagem.

A sua personalidade é uma marca pessoal. Cada pessoa carrega isso inconscientemente. A postura de cada indivíduo tem uma relação com a consciência. O que sou, como consigo agir diante de determinadas situações? Veja, você nunca será original se afastar daquilo que é. Você vive o que? Vive copiando as pessoas? Não, estabeleça a sua marca. Isso é interno, é meu e seu. Todos nós temos uma história de vida. Você pode ser extremamente sério e se vestir assim. Quem lê a sua imagem, vai encontrar traços pessoais com o seu modo de se vestir. Por exemplo, pessoas extrovertidas se vestem de um jeito mais colorido, descontraído talvez. Já pessoas determinadas, pessoas…

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Stories, TV, and mental health

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

   Can a story make a difference to our outlook, or even to our lives?   

Certainly for me, sometimes even a mere television show can make a difference, as in moment 2:20 of this 7th episode of the first season of Spanish Public Television’s “El Ministerio del Tiempo.”

In the very first scene of this episode, a major character is shown, years before the present date, about to take an action that would prevent her from ever contributing again.  She is standing on a ledge, about to leap to her death.  But the person who will become her mentor, leading her into an alternative that few people know even exists, recruits her to the new job by telling her that if she jumps, those who wanted her to fail will be over joyed.  Then he says:

“No los des ese gusto.”

“Don’t give them that pleasure.”

 

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They Shunned Covid Vaccines but Embraced Antibody Treatment – The New York Times (Me: Politicizing Covid-19 vaccines – insane results)

Vaccine-resistant Americans are turning to the treatment with a zeal that has, at times, mystified their doctors, chasing down lengthy infusions after rejecting vaccines that cost one-hundredth as much. Orders have exploded so quickly this summer — to 168,000 doses per week in late August, up from 27,000 in July — that the Biden administration warned states this week of a dwindling national supply.

The federal government, which was already covering the cost of the treatment — currently about $2,100 per dose — has now taken over its distribution as well. For the coming weeks, the government has told states to expect scaled-back shipments because of the looming shortages.

With seven Southern states accounting for 70 percent of orders, the new process has unsettled some of their governors, who have made the antibody treatment central to their strategy for enduring a catastrophic wave of the Delta variant.

More supplies are on the way. The federal government bought 1.8 million more doses this week, expected to arrive in the fall and winter. But for now, some hospitals are uncertain of supplies, state health officials said, even as patients keep searching for doses.

“We have providers struggling to get the necessary product,” Kody Kinsley, who leads operations for North Carolina’s Covid-19 response, said in an interview. “I think what has happened is a classic logistics issue, where all of a sudden there’s much more demand.”

Amid a din of antivaccine falsehoods, monoclonal antibodies have become the rare coronavirus medicine to achieve near-universal acceptance. Championed by mainstream doctors and conservative radio hosts alike, the infusions have kept the country’s death toll — 2,000 per day and climbing — from soaring even higher.

And after months of work by President Biden and Southern governors to promote the treatments, they have won the affection of vaccine refusers who said that the terrors and uncertainties of actually getting Covid had made them desperate for an antidote.

“The people you love, you trust, nobody said anything negative about it,” Mr. Jones said of the antibody treatment. “And I’ve heard nothing but negative things about the side effects of the vaccine and how quickly it was developed.”

W.Va. Gov. frustrated over vaccination rate: ‘We just are going to keep lining the body bags up’ | TheHill (Me: Lining up body bags ok but vaccine mandates not ok? Strange…)

Justice said he doesn’t think that vaccines should be mandated. However, he issued a warning that more people would die until enough people get the jab. 

“At the end of the day, we’re going to do one of two things,” Justice said.

“We’re going to run to the fire and get vaccinated right now. Or we’re going to pile the body bags up until we reach a point in time to where we have enough people that have natural immunities and enough people that are vaccinated,” he said. “Now, that’s all there is to it. I would really highly encourage you to get vaccinated.”

Source: W.Va. Gov. frustrated over vaccination rate: ‘We just are going to keep lining the body bags up’ | TheHill

« A terra para os indígenas não tem valor comercial, como no sentido privado da posse civil. É uma relação de identidade, que inclui espiritualidade e existência, e é possível afirmar que não existe comunidade indígena sem terra »

Barbara Crane Navarro

O ministro do Supremo Tribunal Federal, Edson Fachin, votou pela rejeição do «marco temporal» e a favor dos direitos dos povos indígenas.

Fachin disse: «Não há maior segurança jurídica do que o respeito à Constituição», refutando o argumento ruralista de que demarcações sem «marco temporal» geram insegurança jurídica.

Em seu voto, Fachin defende que os direitos constitucionais indígenas não podem ser questionados, «pois esses direitos estão vinculados à própria condição de existência dessas comunidades e ao seu modo de vida.»

Ele rejeita interpretações que tentam igualar propriedade nativa e civil, como o faz o «marco temporal». «Terras indígenas», diz ele, «são maiores do que um ‘conjunto de cabanas’; incluem todo o território necessário à existência dos povos.»

Ele acrescentou que «a terra para os povos indígenas não tem valor comercial, como no sentido privado de posse civil. É uma relação de identidade, que inclui espiritualidade e existência, e é possível…

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Brazil’s top court shelves Indigenous land case, no new date set – Al Jazeera — Tiny Life

Barbara Crane Navarro

Brazil’s top court shelves Indigenous land case, no new date set – Al Jazeera English https://ift.tt/2XhDeuS Brazil’s top court shelves Indigenous land case, no new date setAl Jazeera English Superforest via “deforestation” – Google Newshttps://ift.tt/2tI2HiE Brazil’s top court shelves Indigenous land case, no new date set – Al Jazeera English—

Brazil’s top court shelves Indigenous land case, no new date set – Al Jazeera — Tiny Life

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Indigenous people can lead the way in saving the Amazon’s rainforests – Sustainability Times

Barbara Crane Navarro

Indigenous people can lead the way in saving the Amazon’s rainforests – Sustainability Times https://ift.tt/3nI4gH4 Indigenous people can lead the way in saving the Amazon’s rainforestsSustainability Times Superforest via “deforestation” – Google Newshttps://ift.tt/2tI2HiE

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