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

No, I Will Not Give Trump a Chance | Dame Magazine

There’s no giving a chance to a man who doesn’t understand the basic principles of the U.S. Constitution. Who threatens Americans their citizenship or prison for burning the flag.Not only will I refuse to participate in my own soul murder of a foul man who takes a Victory Tour that got rebranded a “Thank-you” tour while visiting only states where he “won,” but that foulness doesn’t get a chance.There’s not a person on the planet who gets a chance after allowing “Lock her up” chants or racial and imperialistic violence at his rallies to win a seat to work for us.No influential person worth his salt gets a chance after messing in the business dealings of Carrier or Toyota or General Motors or who influences stocks to fall when he publicly pouts about their loyalty. No one who affects Boeing stock and causes it to plummet after lying about the cost of it compared to Air Force 1, gets a chance.There’s no giving a chance to a man who sides with a murderous leader like the Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte. DUTERTE.

Source: No, I Will Not Give Trump a Chance | Dame Magazine

This Vermont CEO is picking up the tab for employees attending the Women’s March

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nna Carpenter, the co-owner and CEO of Burton Snowboards, is a huge proponent of women’s rights and she has the receipts to prove it. When word spread about the upcoming Women’s March in Washington, D.C. she knew that many of her employees would be making the trek from Vermont. That’s why she offered to cover two nights hotel and $250 towards a plane ticket for any worker planning on attending the march. As a proponent of women’s equality, she wanted to do her part to help with the March’s numbers and help her employees’ experience. In an interview with Cosmopolitan she said, “Having a hotel room makes all the difference.” (As someone who has traveled a lot for work, I totally agree. This woman has a heart of gold.)Carpenter’s interview is a great read if you’re especially interested in gender equity issues in the workplace. This woman has made a tremendous effort to practice what she preaches by working to make Burton a great place to work for everyone. And it seems she’s doing a pretty good job. Carpenter explained:

Source: This Vermont CEO is picking up the tab for employees attending the Women’s March

Polanski to preside at French Oscars: ‘We feel sick’, say French feminists – The Local

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“Making Polanski president is a snub to rape and sexual assault victims. Some people say that he is a great film-maker, that everything is relative.   “The quality of his work counts for nothing when confronted with the crime he committed, his escape from justice and his refusal to face up to his responsibilities,” she added.   Polanski, who was 43 at the time, was accused of drugging the girl before having sex with her. ‘It was 40 years ago’    He pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a minor, or statutory rape, as part of a plea bargain under which he served 42 days in detention while undergoing psychiatric evaluation.   But in 1978, convinced that a judge was going to scrap the deal and hand him a hefty prison sentence, Polanski fled to France.

Source: Polanski to preside at French Oscars: ‘We feel sick’, say French feminists – The Local

Blood test can predict life or death outcome for patients with Ebola virus disease | EurekAlert! Science News

The results of this new study, which are published in Genome Biology, identified a small number of genes whose expression accurately predicts patient survival, independent of viral load.

Source: Blood test can predict life or death outcome for patients with Ebola virus disease | EurekAlert! Science News

My note: This would be somewhat limited, perhaps, to this particular version of Ebola but should be an entry point to any new versions and a test to see who needs how much of new vaccine that has been developed.

Is the GOP Trying to Kill Americans? | Dame Magazine

I’m cussing a lot because I’m furious. Like millions of Americans (despite my Welsh birth, I’m about to become an American citizen) I have never had an employer who paid for my health care. (Actually, I had one employer, who was mandated to provide me with health care for a year through the Writers Guild.) But now this kind of bullshit is back. Donald Trump and the Republicans’ attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act is not a way to curb a bureaucratic mess, but an out and out war on the American people. Because repealing the ACA would mean everyone with a preexisting condition will no longer be able to get health-care coverage. It means those of you middle-income people without health care provided by an employer, but unable to qualify for Medicare, will have to dig deep and find $200 to $300 a month to give to an insurance company who will squabble over each and every doctor’s visit, every dime you spend, every minor symptom you have.After the birth of my son and a horrible divorce, I was crippled with depression and anxiety and PTSD. I credit mental-health-care services—weekly visits to a therapist at $40 a pop even with insurance, monthly visits to a psychiatrist at $50, monthly prescriptions at $20—with saving my life. I am a healthy person. I do yoga, I dance, I eat healthy, I’m active. Being felled by MRSA, a retained placenta, mental-health issues could and would have killed me without insurance.Living in America is prohibitively expensive, and in a big city, even more so. Rent, traffic tickets, tickets for having you dog off leash, tickets for overtaking in the fast lane—it never fucking ends. I often feel like white men are masticating me as they try to suck the sinews off my bones to make stock for their fucking stew. This country is a devastating and unfriendly place to be, and yet here we all are, trying to make the best of it, faced with little choice but to wake up, day after day, work in jobs we hate for pennies our employers argue over, paying rent for homes owned by people who see us as cash cows. I knew this was happening, but the reality of it has devastated me more than I can say. In my ten years of American living, moving here during the Bush era, I began to see real change, and now I am bearing witness to a perilous plunge into a new, worse horror.We need to do everything we can to stop it. Start by picking up the phone: Call. Your. Senator.

Source: Is the GOP Trying to Kill Americans? | Dame Magazine

Pope admits to ‘darkness’ in his faith – The Local

“If I say I’m Catholic and every Sunday I go to mass but then I don’t talk to my parents, I don’t help my grandparents, the poor, I don’t visit the sick, then there’s no point,” said Francis.”In that way, we’re nothing but a Christian parrot: words, words, words.”

Source: Pope admits to ‘darkness’ in his faith – The Local

News | Embassy of the Earth

A breakthrough in science, knowledge and consciousness is beginning to unfold for all human beings. As we pay attention, we begin to experience life through new perceptions of a delicately woven interdependence, cluing us in to larger patterns and expanding our knowledge and awareness of continuous flow and change. As an ABC community these larger patterns are helping us to better grow nutritious and delicious food for the world. Simultaneously this awareness directs us to allow the natural world, our eco systems to do what they do best: protect and regulate the biosphere.The case I’m making here is that there is a profound essence in the world’s smallholder farmers, fisher folk, pastoralists, forest dwellers. They are not just food producers, they are frontline custodians of biodiverse landscapes, with them lies the true regenerative power of our societies.

Source: News | Embassy of the Earth

Egyptian Aak 2017-Week 2 (Jan 9-15)

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Top Headlines

  • Militants attack checkpoint in Egypt’s Sinai, killing 8
  • New restrictive measures to enter Sinai
  • Al-Sisi: Egypt’s counterterrorism efforts is staking a heavy toll on state sources
  • Cabinet creates protests-free zone around vital facilites
  • Egypt slams EU, UK for criticizing ruling on activists
  • Egypt’s cost-of-living soars as currency dives
  • Egypt drops case against mob that attacked a Christian woman

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