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Myanmar Regime Arrests About 36 Protest Leaders, Celebrities, and Activists in a Single Day

About three dozen people, including a prominent protest leader, protesters, celebrities, activists and ordinary citizens, were arrested by the military regime on Thursday in four states and regions.

Regime forces arrested six medics during a crackdown on a protest column led by members of the medical community in Mandalay about 10 a.m. Thursday.

Members of the medical community in Mandalay marched to protest against the military regime on Thursday.

A least 20 other people in the neighborhood were arrested during the crackdown. The junta’s forces opened fire and destroyed motorbikes and vehicles.

Source: Myanmar Regime Arrests About 36 Protest Leaders, Celebrities, and Activists in a Single Day

United States announces new sanctions against Russia — Meduza

  • Sanctions against six Russian technology companies that, according to the U.S. authorities, provide support to the Russian Intelligence Services’ in their cyber programs;
  • Sanctions against 16 individuals and 16 legal entities involved in “carrying out Russian government-directed attempts to influence the 2020 U.S. presidential election”;
  • Sanctions against five individuals and three legal entities “associated with Russia’s ongoing occupation and repression in Crimea”;
  • The expulsion of ten personnel from the Russian diplomatic mission in Washington, DC (allegedly, some of them are Russian intelligence operatives);
  • The expansion of sanctions on Russia’s sovereign debt: as of June 14, U.S. investors will be banned from purchasing ruble or non-ruble denominated bonds issued by Russia’s Central Bank, National Wealth Fund, or Finance Ministry on the primary market.

Source: United States announces new sanctions against Russia — Meduza

‘The Last Time a Vaccine Saved America’ Polio

In 1955, epidemiologist Thomas Francis Jr. announced the results of a field trial of the polio vaccine that Jonas Salk had developed. America erupted in joy.

Now a phalanx of bulky television cameras focussed on Francis as he prepared to report on the efficacy of the vaccine. He had good news to share: to cheers from the audience, he explained that the Salk vaccine was sixty to seventy per cent effective against the most prevalent strain of poliovirus, and ninety per cent effective against the other, less common strains. All this had been shown through what was, at that time, the largest vaccine trial ever conducted.

All afternoon and evening, church bells rang out across America. People flooded into the streets, kissing and embracing; parents hugged their kids with joy and relief. Salk became an instant national hero, turning down the offer of a ticker-tape parade in New York City; President Dwight D. Eisenhower invited him to the White House and, later, asked Congress to award him a Congressional Gold Medal. That night, from the kitchen of a colleague’s house, Salk — whose name was being touted in newspapers, magazines, radio reports, and television news broadcasts around the world — gave his first network-TV interview to Edward R. Murrow, whose show “See It Now” had exposed the tactics of Senator Joseph McCarthy a year earlier. Blushing in admiration, Murrow asked the doctor, “Who owns the patent on this vaccine?” “The people,” Salk said, nobly. “There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”

Source: ‘The Last Time a Vaccine Saved America’

O que você considera « ofensivo »? — Mágica Mistura✨ — Barbara Crane Navarro

« Os garimpeiros cavam em todos os lugares como porcos selvagens. Os rios da floresta logo serão nada mais do que remansos lamacentos cheios de lama, óleo de motor e lixo. 36 more words O que você considera « ofensivo »? — Mágica Mistura✨

O que você considera « ofensivo »? — Mágica Mistura✨ — Barbara Crane Navarro

« In the absence of the sacred, everything is for sale. » — Barbara Crane Navarro

Originally posted on Barbara Crane Navarro: Rainforest near tepui Yapacana along the Orinoco river, Amazonas, Venezuela – photo: Barbara Crane Navarro «?The environnent isn’t over here. The environment isn’t over there. You are the environment. What you people call your natural resources our people call our relatives. » – Oren Lyons, Seneca Nation We need…

« In the absence of the sacred, everything is for sale. » — Barbara Crane Navarro

Thoughtful Thursdays, Stayed on Freedom with the Call of Freedom, and Public Libraries?

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

Libraries are part of the community gathering and information sharing system for all Americans that must not be forgotten, nor underfunded. 

So, how do we each help our society to become more fully inclusive for all of us, and to give more money for local branches of Public Libraries?

I believe that attention to connecting community institutions, like Public Libraries, may provide part of an answer.  I started a note about that, a few years ago, on page nine of my book Stayed on Freedom’s Call:

Chapter 1: Shared Oppression, Shared Cultures, Shared
Resistance, Shared History Of Oppression:

“You accepted 400 years of oppression, I have just accepted three thousand years of
oppression!”

-African-American Dr. Jean Cahn, upon converting to Judaism, by permission, E. Cahn

   The rabbis say that it took one man plunging into the Sea and wading in
up to his neck before the waters…

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La inmigración masiva y la fuga de cerebros NSTM Planet La inmigración masiva y la fuga de cerebros

Leaving the place where you were born and loved hurts. Leaving behind the people you grew up with hurts twice as much, and not knowing that it awaits you across any border, it scares, these and a lot more fears, sadnesses and dangers that millions of people annually have to go through by being forced to leave their home countries because of political persecution, lack of employment , hunger, or the zero social integration of thought. the number of migrants in the world reached 272 million in 2019, we talk that within a few decades, a share of the world’s population would be forced to emigrate to other countries, where the predominant issues of mass migration will be violence, hunger and climate change. Source: La inmigración masiva y la fuga de cerebros NSTM Planet La inmigración masiva y la fuga de cerebros

True happiness is hidden in freedom of mind — My experience

True happiness is hidden in freedom of mind. We may look independent, but our mind is tied in many bonds. Sometimes we run towards social media for happiness and sometimes towards relatives. But, this happiness does not last. We all want to be happy, but real happiness comes only when we are spending time leisurely, […]

True happiness is hidden in freedom of mind — My experience

Conversație la catedrală

Mexico City, 2019 On the Camino, when you make a stop, the first thing is to go to the church / abbey / collegiate / sanctuary / cathedral to put the initials of your place in the pilgrimage credential.

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Ciudad de Mexico, 2019

Pe Camino, atunci când faci un popas, primul lucru e să mergi la biserică/abație/colegială/sanctuar/catedrală ca să-ți pună parafa locului în credențialul de pelerinaj.

Abia după aceea te cazezi și tot restul.

Am procedat întocmai, fără să-mi fi propus dinainte, în dimineața când am aterizat în Ciudad de Mexico, după douăsprezece ore de zbor.

Ca întotdeauna, imagini cu subiecte familiare îmi acordă ospitalitate când ajung într-un loc cu desăvârșire străin.

Ne reîntâlnisem, după mulți ani, cu partea americană a familiei, să petrecem trei zile în capitala mexicană. Astfel că prima noastră lungă conversație s-a petrecut, îmbrățișând de-a valma toate subiectele, în interiorul și în jurul catedralei.

Impunătorul sălaș a fost construit pe parcursul a două secole și jumătate ce au urmat debarcării spaniole. A fost terminat în 1813, la crepusculul perioadei coloniale. Privesc picturile din cele șaisprezece capele înșiruite pe margine, încercând să descifrez, în figuri…

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The Sack of Wheat|کیسه گندم

A Voice from Iran

“187th story”

Once upon a time, There was a very poor old man who passed life so hard. His son and daughter were sick, and the poverty didn’t allow him to take them to a doctor.

He didn’t even have money for a portion of proper food for his children. They had ripped clothes and not a very warm place to sleep. His job was to walk around the bazaar and beg for money to buy a piece of bread and take it home to feed them.

Every night he came home tired with a broken heart. He was so ashamed and couldn’t face his children. One of the days, no one gave him even a penny. He walked from alleys to bazaars, but still no luck for a piece of bread.

He couldn’t go home empty-handed; he was tired and disgraceful. He decided to go to the miller and…

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