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

DRC logging is out of control as Chatham House study lays bare | Greenpeace International

DRC logging is out of control as Chatham House study lays bare | Greenpeace International.

On top of everything else, continued logging and deforestation will induce new outbreaks of ebola and create perfect conditions for massive increase in breeding grounds for malarial carrying mosquitoes!

Vote rigging in Anti-union vote in Tennessee? Haslam Administration Linked $300M Offer To VW-UAW Process – NewsChannel5.com | Nashville News, Weather & Sports

After seeing the confidential documents, UAW organizer Gary Casteel argued that they show the Haslam administration was part of a coordinated anti-union campaign doing exactly what they had denied — using hundreds of millions of dollars from taxpayers as leverage.

“I think since this document is public, and I appreciate you bringing it forward, that it’s obvious that the state was threatening or at least intimidating Volkswagen [that], to get the incentives, they had to change their business model,” he said.

NewsChannel 5 Investigates asked Casteel, “Is this incentive document a game changer?”

“To me,” he answered, “it puts pressure on the state to do what they should have done in the first place — and that’s give the incentives with no strings attached, just like they would any other company, union or non-union.”

The Haslam administration declined to provide anyone to go on camera to answer questions about the documents.

But we also obtained emails that show that Senator Corker’s chief of staff was in direct contact with anti-union organizers who were brought in to fight the UAW. He then shared those emails with people in the Haslam administration who were in charge of the incentives.

The union has asked the National Labor Relations Board to order new elections, citing interference by Tennessee political leaders.

via Haslam Administration Linked $300M Offer To VW-UAW Process – NewsChannel5.com | Nashville News, Weather & Sports.

The House of My Spirit

Shavawn M. Berry, Photographed in 1988 by Mori Bak Shavawn M. Berry, Photographed in 1988 by Mori Bak

For my mother

“When you’re young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You’re your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don’t yet know about the habit they have, of coming back. […] You can never get away from where you’ve been.”Margaret AtwoodThe Blind Assassin

Wallpaper Girl

In a few days, I ‘ll shuttle through another birthday, another twirl around the sun. I am almost twice the age of the woman I was in the [above] photograph.

It seems impossible, but it’s true.

I look deeply into that face and wonder how it is possible she felt so useless, so small. When I look at her now, she seems impossibly and…

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Do the best that you can … but be kind to yourself.

Not an April Fool, am I nor is Mickel

Sillymickel's Blog of the Obvious Unspoken Things

Do the best that you can but … aware of the better thing to do … but be kind to yourself. Part of it is realizing that you can be reckless and even screw up and make mistakes and you are always held and guided and comforted. You cannot get this wrong. You are perfection. Even thinking you are imperfect and need to change something is part of the perfection … and falling short is part of it, too.

Be caring of others, and passionately committed to changing yourself and helping the suffering … but be kind to yourself in the process.

The entire Universe is on your side. You be, too.

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Spin alert, spin alert, spin alert! Disinformation campaign! U.S. could free Israeli spy in deal to save peace talks: source close to talks | Reuters

An Israeli spy serving a life sentence in the United States and groups of Palestinian prisoners could be freed under an emerging deal to salvage Middle East peace talks, sources close to the negotiations said on Monday.

via U.S. could free Israeli spy in deal to save peace talks: source close to talks | Reuters.

Interesting way to try and get around justice, national policy, common sense. Reuters playing along?