All posts by nedhamson

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

Daily Inspiration – Daily Quotes: Wondrous Things: Peace and Hope and Pride

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I’m Filled with Love Inside.
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
– Mother Teresa

We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
– Bradley Whitford

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
– Bruce Barton

True love doesn’t come to you it has to be inside you.
– Julia Roberts

Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
– Carl Jung

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
– Anne Frank

Source: Daily Inspiration – Daily Quotes: Wondrous Things: Peace and Hope and Pride

JUST A DAMN MINUTE!! | NANMYKEL.COM

As though it was not sufficient to take Woke away, and support charter schools and halt affirmative action funds–many of which have been continuing from the past (as at O.U.)–and snip at universities’  freedom of speech and lower teachers’ standards and threaten to wipe out the national Board of Education  (see Trump’s plans) and move toward putting chaplains in some public schools [see Florida] but a number of colleges are closing, nationwide.  Higher education was experiencing financial challenges  even before the pandemic, from dwindling enrollment to rising tuition to doubts about the value of a degree. Colleges are losing room and board revenue and associated fees, and even facing lawsuits from angry families demanding tuition refunds. The core product — teaching and learning — has come under attack for dubious quality  (and more recently for attacks on student’s and   professors’s freedom of speech).  –See at least Ohio’s manipulative actions.  Higher education is indeed in crisis, 

According to surveys, nearly half (45%) of US companies plan to eliminate bachelor’s degree requirements for some roles in 2024. This follows a significant trend in 2023, where 55% of companies already did away with degree requirements. According to surveys, nearly half (45%) of US companies plan to eliminate bachelor’s degree requirements for some roles in 2024. This follows a significant trend in 2023, where 55% of companies already did away with degree requirements.

About one university or college per week so far this year, on average, has announced that it will close or merge. That’s up from a little more than two a month last year, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, or SHEEO.  Recently closed or planning to close colleges and universities, plus cutting back positions or merging, include: Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama, Fontbonne University in St. Louis and Eastern Gateway Community College in Ohio all announced that they would close — Birmingham-Southern in May, Fontbonne next year and Eastern Gateway by June, unless it gets a financial bailout. The private, for-profit University of Antelope Valley in California was ordered by the state in late February to shut down because of financial shortfalls. Lincoln Christian University in Illinois and Magdalen College in New Hampshire will close in May, Johnson University of Florida in June and Hodges University in Florida by August. The College of Saint Rose in New York, Cabrini University in Pennsylvania, Oak Point University in Illinois, Goddard College in Vermont and the Staten Island campus of St. John’s University will all be shuttered by the end of this semester. Notre Dame College in Ohio will also close its doors at the end of this semester, stranding for a second time students who transferred there from Alderson Broaddus University in West Virginia, which shut down just days before classes were scheduled to begin the year before. —
AND…Maybe it sounded like a good idea to some, but after Florida’s governor moved to allow chaplains in Florida’s public schools, the Satanic Temple asked to be included….(Miami Herald).

Source: JUST A DAMN MINUTE!! | NANMYKEL.COM

GOP says U.S. is awash in immigrant-driven crime. What do the data say? – Los Angeles Times (Me: Fact: Wrong again)

“The evidence of declining gun violence and murder in the U.S., though, is incontrovertible.”

Declines in both blue and red states are contributing to the improved picture nationwide, Asher said.

California saw 1,892 homicides reported in 2023, which was “roughly in line” with annual figures seen from 2016 to 2019 — and well below the state’s historic high for homicides and its levels during the peak of the pandemic.

In 1992, the city of Los Angeles alone saw 1,092 homicides. In 2022, there were 392. In 2023, there were 327.

Source: GOP says U.S. is awash in immigrant-driven crime. What do the data say? – Los Angeles Times

མིག་ཆུ། Tears – Silent Songs of Sonsnow

Namkyi, a former political prisoner, sheds tears as she speaks of the torture she endured under Chinese repressive rule.

Tears,

They have shed tears for too long,

If they were a glacier, it would eventually dry up one day.

The warmth of heart will wither away,

If they were a river, one day their flow would cease,

And hope would wither away, like a fading breeze.

If they were an ocean, even its vastness would turn into a dunes,

And happiness’s smile would set, like the sun in a distant land.

Tears are mere droplets, a symbol of our deepest longing,

But they cannot quench our thirst,

nor ease our heart’s tormenting.

Tears alone cannot sustain us,

nor can they quench the fire within.

Even our heart aches within

For the freedom we seek, let us march forward, undaunted and unbroken,

until we claim our victory.

By Sonsnow

Source: མིག་ཆུ། Tears – Silent Songs of Sonsnow

« Yanomami – Fighting for existence in our sacred land! » | Barbara Crane Navarro

Júnior Hekurari Yanomami

« Exactly 8 years ago, the Yanomami people began to experience suffering, as a result of the negligence of the Brazilian State that was supposed to protect us, but left us at the mercy of invaders and lack of assistance.

In the period from 2019 to 2022, gold miners poisoned our rivers, our forest, our lives.
In 2023 we continued to face malaria, malnutrition, infectious diseases and hunger.
We are still dying from diseases that are considered treatable and have an easy solution.

Now the world looks forward to a new year, with new goals, achievements, dreams, hope.
From here, I don’t know what to wish for my people, other than resistance and strength to continue believing in better days. Strength to continue fighting for our space within a prejudiced society. Resistance to continue fighting for existence in this sacred land. »
– Júnior Hekurari Yanomami

Please Help Nature, Indigenous peoples and Wildlife:            Boycott all products of ; Gold, PalmOil, Soy, Beef, ExoticWood, Gemstones, etc. !!!

Source: « Yanomami – Fighting for existence in our sacred land! » | Barbara Crane Navarro

A principal infraestrutura da Amazônia é a floresta em pé! | Barbara Crane Navarro

A Carta de Alter, documento final do maior encontro de organizações ambientais, associações locais e institutos de pesquisa da Amazônia, defende um desenvolvimento para as pessoas e com o meio ambiente Paisagem interior de uma floresta amazônica intacta Após três dias de debates em Alter do Chão (PA), organizações socioambientais, pesquisadores e cientistas atuantes em todo […]

A principal infraestrutura da Amazônia é a floresta em pé —

Source: A principal infraestrutura da Amazônia é a floresta em pé! | Barbara Crane Navarro