The details of the surveillance effort, known as iCOP, or Internet Covert Operations Program, have not previously been made public. The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as “inflammatory” postings and then sharing that information across government agencies. “Analysts with the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP) monitored significant activity regarding planned protests occurring internationally and domestically on March 20, 2021,” says the March 16 government bulletin, marked as “law enforcement sensitive” and distributed through the Department of Homeland Security’s fusion centers. Source: The Postal Service is Running a ‘Covert Operations Program’ That Monitors Americans’ Social Media Posts – Slashdot
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How Polio Paved the Way for a Powerful COVID-19 Response in Nigeria | UNICEF USA
We have about 20,000 UNICEF-trained volunteers on the ground, who are from the communities they work in, and they immediately got on board, propagating messages around COVID — the importance of social distancing, of handwashing with soap and so on. UNICEF helped create a questionnaire to gauge public understanding and awareness of COVID-19, and our C4D [Communication for Development] team developed messaging and risk communication materials based on the responses. The World Health Organization has its own team of informants who work the surveillance side. These key informants immediately started contact tracing and reporting COVID cases.
Source: How Polio Paved the Way for a Powerful COVID-19 Response in Nigeria | UNICEF USA
The Greener Grass – Connect by Patty Wolters
I need to remind myself more often: the grass is NOT always greener on the other side. In addition, reaching dreams requires taking responsibility for not only my personal life, but also for the big ball we all live upon. I am not the only one, who wants to survive, evolve and connect. Source: The Greener Grass – Connect by Patty Wolters
Compliance
You say I'm not the same person I used to be, And for once I actually agree. Because that compliant girl you knew back then... Was never truely me.
Wondering Wednesdays, Baby Acres, and The Four Freedoms
Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better
This post finishes the rough draft of the Introductory Chapter of my current non-fiction WiP, Baby Acres: Making Society Suck Less in 60 Years. The overall goal has been to introduce one possible roadmap for a fully inclusive society for all of us, in the hope that All HumanKind will eventually have each person’s basic needs met. This book lays out an idea, and a potential path for getting us there.
Introduction part III: The Four Fundamental Freedoms and “perpetual peaceful
revolution”
The “four essential human freedoms” that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt listed in his
famous inaugural (?) speech of 1941 are, as the president himself pointed out, a tangible distillation of those Human Rights as a list of freedoms that each both facilitate and require the equitable implementation of the three types of justice mentioned earlier. President Roosevelt put it thusly:
“The first is freedom of speech…
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the challenge is, to silence the mind – Holly’sWorld

kiss the wild winds
and embrace the mad
flurry of sand
trace your dreams
on star trails
like the wildflowers
across the broken land
~ Sunjhini
Source: the challenge is, to silence the mind – Holly’sWorld
Maya mon amour
The Mayan region begins where Mexico’s body suddenly narrows, between the Gulf of Mexico and the South Pacific,
Mexic, 2019
În toate călătoriile, iau cu mine cărți

ale căror povești se petrec în spațiul străbătut, ca să alunec cu totul în decorul sonor și olfactiv despre care citesc.

Așa ar fi trebuit să se întâmple, în Mexic, cu 2666, dacă n-aș fi pornit în direcția opusă.

În ciuda acestei erori de strategie, întrucât cartea nu avea ce să caute la sud de Ciudad de Mexico, m-am lăsat în voia misterioasei lecturi care s-a dovedit cea mai potrivită cu traseul inițiatic care mă aștepta,

astfel că, la aterizarea în Tuzla Gutierrez,

am plonjat pe nepregătite în străfundurile realismului magic.

Regiunea maya începe acolo unde trupul Mexicului se îngustează brusc, între Golful Mexic și Pacificul de Sud,

și se întinde spre est până la marea Caraibelor, Guatemala și Belize. Subțirimea acelei bretele nu lasă nimic rău să se strecoare spre zona maya.

Am trecut, timp de treisprezece zile…
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The Mayweather – ◬ɼ† | By SIX PM

This is a New York City Punch, be careful because these delicious cocktails will have you swinging till you K.O. We call this one the Mayweather. The name was coined by my friend Melissa and I as we were enjoying a private Paint-and-Sip. The drink itself my husband invented for me on the fly at Houston’s at my 30th birthday party.
Ingredients:
- Chambord Liqueur 1 oz.
- Disaronno Originale 2 oz.
- 100% Cranberry Juice 2 oz.
- Lime wedge
- Ice
Source: The Mayweather – ◬ɼ† | By SIX PM
Kamala Harris and her Chennai connect

The celebrated Tamil poet Bharati described the modern women thus “With graceful strides and head held high and looking straight into the eyes with ideals that are not afraid of anyone in the world… the woman does not falter as she has the possession of wisdom.” These aspirational hallmarks of the new-age women seeped so deeply into the Tamil psyche that it produced an unprecedented stream of emancipated and enlightened women in the capital city of Chennai since the hundred years the poet scripted the mesmerising lines. From music, art and theatre to medicine and politics, the female folks of the metropolis has made an indelible mark in diverse walks of life and their imprints are now seen across the county and abroad. And Kamala Harris is an offshoot of such a phenomenon.
The trigger to this enthusiastic transformation is the varied socio-cultural and political factors that played out during…
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Pulling Ourselves Together

Some of us show up in life as separate parts of who we are. We cater to the whims of our audience. To truly live we have got to throw off the theatrics and embrace our authenticity. Our life is ours to live as we choose without duress from without and self harm from within.
© Norma Bobb-Semple 2021
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