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

B.C. man completes cross-country bike trip while wearing COVID-19 mask

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Along the way, he raised more than $20,000 for cancer research and more than $4,000 for COVID-19 relief. 

EU animal farming exceeds combined climate impact of cars and vans — The Free

https://greennews.ie 22 September 2020  Greenhouse gas emissions from animal farming in the European Union eclipse that of all cars and vans in the region put together, according to a new study.  Greenpeace’s European Unit published its “Farming for Failure” report where it found livestock farming accounted for 17 per cent of total emissions for the […]

EU animal farming exceeds combined climate impact of cars and vans — The Free

Paris plans first statue of black woman for anti-slavery heroine — Repeating Islands

Agence France-Presse reports that, this weekend, mayor Anne Hidalgo announced that Paris is planning to erect its first statue of a black woman in honor of Solitude, who fought against slavery in Guadeloupe. [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said Saturday the French capital plans […]

Paris plans first statue of black woman for anti-slavery heroine — Repeating Islands

David Attenborough: Free Range Meat is “Middle-Class Hypocrisy”

Source: David Attenborough: Free Range Meat is “Middle-Class Hypocrisy”

However, the 93-year-old filmmaker and activist said: “I eat fish and chicken, and my conscience does trouble me. I’m affluent enough to afford free-range, but it’s a middle-class hypocrisy.”

“The planet can’t support billions of meat eaters. If we all ate only plants, we’d need only half the land we use at the moment.”

Trump’s Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance – The New York Times – “paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency”

Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.

He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.

100,000 march in Belarus capital on 50th day of protests

About 100,000 demonstrators marched in the Belarusian capital calling for the authoritarian president’s ouster, some wearing cardboard crowns to ridicule him, on Sunday as the protests that have rocked the country marked their 50th consecutive day.

Protests also took place in nine other cities, underlining the wide extent of dismay and anger with President Alexander Lukashenko, who has stifled opposition and independent news media during 26 years in power.

Source: 100,000 march in Belarus capital on 50th day of protests

A Public Health Threat: Censorship…

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

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I remain surprised to have learned (via my favorite currently running TV show: El Ministerio del Tiempo) that the so-called Spanish Flu of 1918 actually did not likely begin in Spain, but was called Spanish due to the fact that Spain was the first (or only) nation to have reported the illness when the outbreak began.  Other countries censored the news due to The Great War, and thus ended up helping the virus spread with the return of the soldiers after WWI.   A very sad lesson on how censorship can have deadly consequences world-wide.

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