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

Un plaidoyer pour la Nature et un message d’un chaman Yanomami

A plea for Nature and a message from a Yanomami shaman

Barbara Crane Navarro

Un homme Yanomami en route pour inviter un village voisin à un festin, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela

« Je pensais que si les blancs pouvaient m’entendre, ils convaincraient le gouvernement de ne pas laisser la forêt être détruite… Maintenant, les mineurs d’or puent la forêt avec les fumées de leurs moteurs et les vapeurs de l’or et du mercure qu’ils brûlent ensemble. Désormais, nous craignons le paludisme des mineurs d’or, qui est également très féroce… Le souffle de vie des habitants de la forêt est fragile face à ces fumées épidémiques de xawara. Si nous mourons tous, personne ne pourra compenser la valeur de nos morts. L’argent et la marchandise des Blancs ne les ramèneront pas parmi nous! Et la forêt dévastée ne pourra jamais être restaurée non plus, elle sera perdue pour toujours. » – porte-parole et chaman Yanomami Davi Kopenawa, La chute du ciel

Une forêt détruite…

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We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident | that all men are created equal – (McConnell’s folly)

What we witnessed on February 13, 2021 with Mitch McConnell’s reason for voting not guilty in the impeachment trial of ex-president Donald Trump, is the Senate playing the Judicial Branch.

The question on whether the Senate had jurisdiction to hold impeachment trial was raised, and voted on.  The Senate’s vote was that it had jurisdiction.

In a regular court of law, once a judge has ruled, the issue can no longer be argued, and jurors are instructed not to consider the issue during deliberations.  However, the Senate is not a court of law.  Mitch McConnell disregarded the majority Senate vote and used the issue of constitutional jurisdiction to acquit ex-President Donald J. Trump.

Source: We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident | that all men are created equal

Danseuse

yaskhan

Waltzing through air, this vision with beguiling delicate grace
Like a danseuse figure, poised, carving delicate grace.

A breeze gently embraces this fragile creature
touching nimble limbs, a limber accentuating delicate grace.

Sunlight streams iridescent on her lissome stance
symmetrically lithe and supple, flaunting delicate grace.

Rhythmic movements pattern fawn colored sand creations
nudging grass beneath, with a soothing delicate grace.

The boundless energy of this dainty, flighty antelope
as she ambulates gracefully, epitomizing, delicate grace.

Elusive, mysterious, uninhibited, she basks in nature’s fold
within a cosmos, spangled with, pleasing, delicate grace.

Her vulnerability fills me with foreboding and much fear
of bloodthirsty predators, massacring delicate grace.

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Brihospoti’s Clock

Weekend Stories by Trishikh

In the year 1582 AD the Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, and polymath, from Pisa, Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de’ Galilei discovered that time could be calculated using a pendulum. He inked the blueprint of a wound-up device, which could measure time and changed the history of Christendom. Using his designs, seventy-four years later in 1656, Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and inventor, invented the first mechanical clock in human history.

The next year, in 1657, Huygens patented the design and engaged Salomon Coster, a Dutch clockmaker from Hague to build the first pendulum clock in the seventeenth century. Twenty-three years later in 1680, William Clement discovered that by increasing the length of the pendulum the clock’s accuracy could be increased.

It meant that the casing for the pendulum had to be elongated, this gave them the name of ‘Long Case Clocks,’ which later came to be known as…

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Medicare Buy-In

CRAIN'S COMMENTS

The general rule is that a person in the US has to be age 65 or older or classified as disabled by Social Security in order to receive health coverage from Medicare.

Well, that’s true for now, but it may change.

Medicare “Buy-in” programs already exist that allow states to make Medicare coverage available to people age 65 and over who cannot afford the monthly premium. Now there are bills in Congress to expand the buy-in concept.

For this to make sense, let’s review the basics of Medicare and Medicare costs.

Technically, Medicare has 4 parts:

  • Part A is major medical insurance (hospitalization, in-patient surgery, etc.) to which most people earn the right through working a requisite number of quarters (40 quarters or 10 years) and having a Medicare tax deducted from earnings. If one has only 30-39 quarters of taxes paid, the monthly fee for Part A is $259…

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A Word From Our President

Mock Paper Scissors

Joe Biden
(undated file photo)

I missed this last night:

It was nearly two weeks ago that Jill and I paid our respects to Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who laid in honor in the Rotunda after losing his life protecting the Capitol from a riotous, violent mob on January 6, 2021.

Today, 57 Senators – including a record 7 Republicans – voted to find former President Trump guilty for inciting that deadly insurrection on our very democracy. The Senate vote followed the bipartisan vote to impeach him by the House of Representatives. While the final vote did not lead to a conviction, the substance of the charge is not in dispute. Even those opposed to the conviction, like Senate Minority Leader McConnell, believe Donald Trump was guilty of a “disgraceful dereliction of duty” and “practically and morally responsible for provoking” the violence unleashed on the Capitol.

Tonight, I…

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