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

Deseja ser feliz, tenha coragem de lutar pelo o que você quer

Vivaldi translation of title: You want to be happy, have the courage to fight for what you want

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Lutar pelo que queremos é a primeira regra para responder as nossas necessidades. Desejo, todo têm, mas coragem de lutar, não. Eu diria que o desejo é algo contagiante e, ao mesmo tempo limitador. Limitador porque no mesmo momento que você pensa em avançar, vem aquela sensação de fracasso e tristeza, misturado ao sentimento de gratidão pelo que você já conquistou. Entente? Você fica na contramão do próprio discurso. Você questiona, mas na maioria das vezes, vive naquela aglomeração de ideias, críticas pessoais ( depreciação), situação bastante comprometedora que impedem você de ir além.

Quando desejamos algo ou alguma coisa, devemos nos esforçar. A diferença – essa- há de ter comprometimento. Você deve adquirir destreza, mudar de comportamento, estudar práticas, usar a inteligência para construir caminhos. É isso que estou falando: estímulos. Quando você pensa, busca soluções.

Cada pessoa tem a sua particularidade, as suas manias, seus vícios, a sua…

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Stop modern lynchings, learn languages, and get ProBono Legal education for ALL

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

Some languages help us communicate, while other languages help us make things run smoothly. Computer languages and legal language are examples of the latter. To understand computer languages, one studies computer science, and to understand legal language, one studies the law and policies active in the state of residence. But not all of us have the opportunity to study the crucial legal language that governs much of our existence:   the consequences of that lack    are devastating.

Lynching once occurred physically, but now happens financially, through the court system all across the South, and make no mistake, it is just as murderous, and just as racist:

“…42% of the cases involved black families, despite the fact that only 6% of Carteret’s population is black. Heirs not only regularly lose their land; they are also required to pay the legal fees of those who bring the partition cases. In 2008…

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Trump’s national security adviser says Pompeo signed ‘surrender agreement’ with Taliban: ‘We defeated ourselves’ | The Independent

HR McMaster, one of Donald Trump’s former national security advisers, has condemned the deal struck with the Taliban during the previous administration as a “surrender agreement”. “Our secretary of state [Mike Pompeo] signed a surrender agreement with the Taliban,” Mr McMaster said on Bari Weiss’ podcast Honestly. “This collapse goes back to the capitulation agreement of 2020. The Taliban didn’t defeat us. We defeated ourselves.” Mr McMaster has hit out at both the Trump and Biden administrations for their handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, but he has long been critical of the agreement signed during his former boss’s term in office. The retired US Army lieutenant general is one of many former senior Trump officials who have sought to distance themselves from the Taliban peace deal that was signed in February 2020, as chaos gripped the capital Kabul over the past week.

Source: Trump’s national security adviser says Pompeo signed ‘surrender agreement’ with Taliban: ‘We defeated ourselves’ | The Independent

Here are two sentences of truth about the US and Afghanistan | The Kansas City Star

One: For 20 years, politicians, elites and D.C. military leaders lied to us about Afghanistan.

Two: What happened last week was inevitable, and anyone saying differently is still lying to you.

I know because I was there. Twice. On special operations task forces. I learned Pashto as a U.S. Marine captain and spoke to everyone I could there: everyday people, elites, allies and yes, even the Taliban.

The truth is that the Afghan National Security Forces was a jobs program for Afghans, propped up by U.S. taxpayer dollars — a military jobs program populated by nonmilitary people or “paper” forces (that didn’t really exist) and a bevy of elites grabbing what they could when they could.

Source: Here are two sentences of truth about the US and Afghanistan | The Kansas City Star

New Zealand extends national lockdown to Friday, Auckland through Aug. 31 – UPI.com

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Monday that a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown would be extended through Friday, while Auckland, the source of its current outbreak would remain locked down until Aug. 31.

Source: New Zealand extends national lockdown to Friday, Auckland through Aug. 31 – UPI.com

COVID may be most infectious 2 or 3 days around symptom onset | CIDRAP

The greatest risk of transmission was 2 days before and 3 days after the index patient became ill, peaking on the day of symptom onset (adjusted relative risk [aRR], 1.3). This link was consistent, regardless of other factors such as exposure setting and duration or age and sex of the contact. Source: COVID may be most infectious 2 or 3 days around symptom onset | CIDRAP

Firefox Follows Chrome and Prepares To Block Insecure Downloads – Slashdot

Mozilla developers are putting the finishing touches on a new feature that will block insecure file downloads in Firefox. From a report:Called mixed content downloaded blocking, the feature works by blocking files downloads initiated from an encrypted HTTPS page but which actually take place via an unencrypted HTTP channel. The idea behind this feature is to prevent Firefox users from getting misled by the URL bar and think they’re downloading a file securely via HTTPS when, in reality, the file could be tampered with by third parties while in transit. Source: Firefox Follows Chrome and Prepares To Block Insecure Downloads – Slashdot

First U.S. COVID deaths earlier — and in different places — than previously thought

the far-flung nature of the deaths — in the West, Midwest and South — might suggest that restrictions on travel and social interactions should have been used in more places much earlier — and that such rapid response could be a more critical tool in the next pandemic. In January, when the United States announced it would begin limiting travel from China and other international hotspots, the virus may already have been speeding across state borders. Source: First U.S. COVID deaths earlier — and in different places — than previously thought

Covid Scotland: Deaths of 92 people despite receiving two vaccine doses | The National

“Evidence has shown that vaccination is highly effective in protecting against death from coronavirus (Covid-19).” The fatalties of people who died with Covid despite having received two vaccines reflect the risk posed by the virus even among those who have been jagged and that while vaccines substantially reduce the chances of serious illness, they do not eliminate it entirely. An analysis of 14,019 cases of the dominant Delta variant in the UK, released by Public Health England in June, found the BioNTech/Pfizer and Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines were, respectively, 96% and 92%  effective against hospitalisation after two doses.

Source: Covid Scotland: Deaths of 92 people despite receiving two vaccine doses | The National