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

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Phimai, 2017

Am urmat, în Thailanda, ruta parcurilor istorice, dintre care am văzut patru, toate cuibărite în interiorul țării.

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Parcurile istorice sunt niște amenajări pe zone întinse, cu vegetație bogată, în care s-au descoperit vechi construcții monumentale relevante pentru istoria lor națională.

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Cel de aici, din Phimai, se deosebește de celelalte prin edificiile din secolele 11-12, în stil Angkor, ceea ce presupune o exuberantă decorațiune în basorelief cu figuri mitologice.

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Orasul este mic, iar parcul istoric se afla chiar în centru.

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Deja văzusem două alte parcuri, impresionante, iar acesta a fost ultimul din călătoria thailandeză. Mi s-a părut cel mai frumos, ca intimitate și armonie.

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Deși în plin centru, spiritul său rămăsese în secolul 11, când energiile umane erau diferite.

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Este liniște, turiștii sunt amuțiți de uimire în fața unei clipe despre care îți dai seama că e de neuitat.

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Fără nici o urmă de conotație religioasă, ai certitudinea că…

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Coronavirus digest: Israel finds vaccine booster lowers infection risk | News | DW | 22.08.2021

In Israel, a third dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19-19 vaccine has significantly improved infection protection and serious illness among people aged 60 and older in Israel compared with those who received two shots,
findings published by the Health Ministry showed on Sunday.

The third jab for over 60-year-olds offered five to six times greater protection after 10 days with regard to serious illness and hospitalization.

That age group is particularly vulnerable to COVD and in Israel was the first to be inoculated when the vaccine drive began in late December.

The findings were on par with separate statistics reported last week by Israel’s Maccabi healthcare provider, one of several organizations administering booster shots to try to curb the Delta coronavirus variant.

Source: Coronavirus digest: Israel finds vaccine booster lowers infection risk | News | DW | 22.08.2021

Full FDA approval of Pfizer Covid shot will enable vaccine requirements | US news | The Guardian

“We already know that there are many businesses and universities that have moved toward vaccine requirements,” Murthy told CNN’s State of the Union. “And I think it’s a very reasonable thing to do to create a safe environment.”

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is trying to finish its licensing process for the lifesaving drug as soon as Monday, the New York Times has reported.

Until now, the Pfizer shot has been administered under an emergency use authorization, though experts continue to emphasize that it is safe and effective.

“We’ve given it to hundreds of millions of people,” Murthy said. “We’ve seen that it’s doing its job. And that’s why we’re continuing to recommend that people get vaccinated starting today and … as soon as they can.”

As the highly infectious Delta variant spreads, the US is experiencing a surge in Covid-19 cases. Many southern states are struggling for hospital capacity amid resistance from Republican leaders and the public to vaccinations and mask mandates.

The overwhelming majority of Covid hospitalizations and deaths in the US are among unvaccinated people.

As health misinformation continues to dog the pandemic response, some have started self-medicating with ivermectin – a drug intended for horses that the FDA has warned could lead to hospitalization.

“The best protection we have against Covid-19 is the vaccine, and if you get Covid-19, we actually do have treatments that work,” Murthy said.

“Ivermectin is not one of them.”

With the start of a new academic year, students across the US are returning to crowded school campuses. Yet younger children still aren’t eligible for the vaccine, and hospitals in hard-hit areas are running out of pediatric intensive care space.

“Unfortunately, in those places that they’re using politics to block good practice, we’re seeing hospitalizations through the roof for young children,” the education secretary, Miguel Cardona, told NBC’s Meet the Press.

“That’s unacceptable.”

Source: Full FDA approval of Pfizer Covid shot will enable vaccine requirements | US news | The Guardian

We Don’t Need More Babies!!!!

Filosofa's Word

I saw an article headline in the New York Times this morning …

Who Has the Cure for America’s Declining Birthrate? Canada.

A number of things went spinning through my mind, but the dominating thought was – why does our declining birth rate need or deserve a cure???  All things considered, this world does not need any more humans hellbent on destroying our precious resources!  It seems, especially of late, that there is a taint in the gene pool here in the U.S. that more and more of our population are affected with TS – Terminal Stupidity.

Rather than trying to increase an already hefty population, let’s focus on educating the ones we have!  In fact, I would advocate sterilization for every single individual who blatantly refuses to be vaccinated or to wear a mask.  They are the breeders of TS.

And then there’s the environment.  At the current rate…

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Utopia

De malinha pronta

Photo : Paul Laurent Bressin

I wish I had wings to fly to a better place
I wish we could erase all the sadness
I wish I could open all the locked doors
I wish hope and peace were our best friends
I wish we knew how to end floods and fires
I wish I could give a voice to those who cannot speak
I wish we could heal the Earth
I wish I could shut down all the stupids
I wish cancer didn’t exist (or it was just an ugly word!)
I wish the earthquakes were only real in action movies
I wish Haiti would be a happy country again
I wish we could reset the world.

Filipa Moreira da Cruz

Merci Paul Laurent pour ta magnifique photo! Tu es une inspiration et le monde a besoin de gens comme toi.

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A Plea for Nature and Indigenous Peoples! And a message from a Yanomami shaman – Updated

Barbara Crane Navarro

Yanomami at the edge of the river, Amazonas, VenezuelaA forest in indigenous territorybefore the invasion of gold miners– Photo: Barbara Crane Navarro

«I thought that if the white people could hear me, they would convince the government to not let the forest be destroyed… Now the gold miners stink up the forest with the fumes from their motors and the vapors from the gold and mercury that they burn together. Now we fear the gold miners’ malaria, which is also very fierce…

The people of the forest’s breath of life are fragile in the face of these xawara epidemic fumes. If we all die, no one will be able to compensate for the value of our dead. The white people’s money and merchandise will not bring them back down among us! And the devastated forest will never be able to be restored either, it will be…

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SALSA Statement Against Brazil’s Proposed Law #490/2007 (6-27-21) — Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Barbara Crane Navarro

Indigenous peoples protesting Law 490 in Brasilia

SALSA Statement Condemning Brazil’s Proposed Law #490/2007 27 June 2021 Strongly supported by the agro-industrial sector, Law #490/2007 provides for several changes in the territorial rights of Indigenous Peoples as guaranteed by Brazil’s Constitution. 48 morewords

SALSA Statement Against Brazil’s Proposed Law #490/2007 (6-27-21) — Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

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