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

Interference

normabobb

Every moment of every day is an opportunity for us to make changes in our lives and to inspire others to change their lives. If we focus on our lives we won’t have time to sow seeds of interference into other people’s lives.

© Norma Bobb-Semple 2021

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11th Airborne Division – June 1944 – Lt. Gen. G.C. Kenney

Pacific Paratrooper

Crashed Zero, Lae, New Guinea

Smitty always made mention of how hard the soldiers before him had to struggle. He noticed that no matter how hard people or nature tried to disguise their surroundings, the scars of war were everywhere. In New Guinea, my father had a clear view of the battle remnants of General Robert Eichelberger’s Australian and American troops from when they fought on a similar terrain and in battles as fiercely intense as Guadalcanal – on each island the territories had to be taken inch by inch. (Many veterans know of what I speak.)

Japanese equipment

Lt. Gen. George C. Kenney, Chief of Allied Air Forces, in the southwest Pacific sent his complaints to the War Dept. and Gen. “Hap” Arnold, head of the U.S. Army Air Forces to explain just that in 1942:

“… The Japanese is still being underrated. There is no question of our…

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Jeux Olympiques de Tokyo 2020 – Cérémonie d’Ouverture — VOYAGE ONIRIQUE

Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 – Opening Ceremony * For foreign visitors, you can use the translator (on the side of the blog, in sidebar ) widget “Traduction”, for translate the article into your original language.   29 more words

Jeux Olympiques de Tokyo 2020 – Cérémonie d’Ouverture — VOYAGE ONIRIQUE

Maned Three-toed Sloth Bradypus torquatus — Palm Oil Detectives

Barbara Crane Navarro

The extremely rare Pernambuco Pygmy-owl is critically endangered on the @IUCNredlist due to massive logging and deforestation for #palmoil #beef farming in #Brazil support this animal’s survival by making art and joining the#boycott4wildlife

Maned Three-toed Sloth Bradypus torquatus — Palm Oil Detectives

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Day 55/67 of GED in Five Months, Linear Inequalities, and Health Care

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

So, why do you think that it may be important to understand linear inequalities as they relate to Health Care, especially to health care outcomes for Black, Latino, and White Americans?

Today’s reading:

Although the Affordable Care Act (ACA) lead to large coverage gains, some groups remain at higher risk of being uninsured, lacking access to care, and experiencing worse health outcomes. For example, as of 2018, Hispanics are two and a half times more likely to be uninsured than Whites (19.0% vs. 7.5%) and individuals with incomes below poverty are four times as likely to lack coverage as those with incomes at 400% of the federal poverty level or above (17.3% vs. 4.3%).”

 Start of week 15/18
Day 55, Week 15
Writing -Continue working on your Cons (or finish Pros) paragraph
math: Graphing linear inequalities
Who is behind today’s Science reading?
Please see the Lesson plan…

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European agency clears Moderna vaccine for children 12-17 – The Washington Post

The European Medicines Agency on Friday recommended authorizing Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 12 to 17, the first time the shot has been authorized for people under 18.

The EU drug regulator said research in more than 3,700 children aged 12 to 17 showed that the Moderna vaccine — already given the OK for adults across Europe — produced a comparable antibody response.

Source: European agency clears Moderna vaccine for children 12-17 – The Washington Post

Por usted

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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¿Es que, por usted, he perdido la razón? ¿Es que, por usted, alguna vez decidí modificar mi ruta y mi destino, hasta seguir, juntos, el mismo sendero? ¿Es que, por usted, mis letras aceptaron compartir las novelas y los cuentos -oh, mi arte tan amado- con palabras románticas, con textos poéticos, con alfabetos que se convierten en flores y en gotas de lluvia y de cristal al dedicárselos? ¿Es que, por usted, renuncié a mi soledad natural y ahora la sé mi musa y la siento conmigo? ¿Es que, por usted, asomé y abrí la puerta y las ventanas, y recibí los abrazos de las ilusiones, las caricias del amor y las miradas de un idilio inolvidable? ¿Es que, por usted, cuando escribo algún poema, le entrego un soneto, una canción, un concierto? ¿Es que, por usted, al escribirle…

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Land Grabbers: The Growing Assault on Brazil’s Indigenous Areas – Yale E360

One afternoon last month, several vehicles descended on a village in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, where Avelin Buniacá Kambiwá and other members of some 20 Indigenous families were building their homes. Emerging from one of the cars, a man known only by his nickname, Piauí, shouted to his companions and anyone else within earshot, “Feathers are going to fly!”

He was referring to the feathered headdresses of the local Indigenous people. He was outraged, and he wanted them gone.

Piauí is what Brazilians call a grileiro, a land-grabber — someone who invades Indigenous or public land, or land that simply does not belong to them, before claiming it as their own. They frequently use fake documentation to carry out activities such as illegal logging, mining and real estate speculation.

Two years earlier, some members of the Pataxó and Pataxó Hã-Hã-Hãe peoples had lost their homes along the Paraopeba River after a tailings dam at a major iron ore mine collapsed. The Brumadinho dam disaster killed 270 people, spewed millions of tons of toxic waste into the river and surrounding communities, and left hundreds of Indigenous people homeless.

Source: Land Grabbers: The Growing Assault on Brazil’s Indigenous Areas – Yale E360

Top Indian newspaper raided by tax authorities after months of critical coverage – The Washington Post (Me: Repression over compassion again by Modi mob)

Indian tax authorities on Thursday raided one of the country’s most prominent newspapers in what journalists and the political opposition denounced as retaliation for the outlet’s hard-nosed coverage of the government’s pandemic response.

The Dainik Bhaskar Group, whose Hindi-language broadsheet boasts a combined circulation of more than 4 million, was raided simultaneously in at least four locations, including at its headquarters in Madhya Pradesh state.

Source: Top Indian newspaper raided by tax authorities after months of critical coverage – The Washington Post