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Myanmar’s Junta Seems Serious About Executing Leading Activists. Can We Stop It?

Is Myanmar’s junta really so merciless that it would execute leading pro-democracy activists Ko Jimmy and Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw, as it has decreed? And what will happen if it does?

For many people—be they members of pro-democracy groups, the countless young resistance fighters across the country, or the general public, who already hate the ruling generals for the atrocities they have committed, and for their sheer barbarity—the execution of the two public figures would feel as if their hearts were being ripped out of their chests. 

That pain would be unforgivable. 

Source: Myanmar’s Junta Seems Serious About Executing Leading Activists. Can We Stop It?

Do Better Wednesdays, Walk for Libraries Prompt

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

    Introducing a new prompt from the old chapter 7 (and the outline of old chapter 10’s Introduction…):  how would you start a daily ‘walk to our library’ group?

How many branch libraries do you have in your part of town, and how far a walk is the most convenient one for you?

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♫ Bridge Over Troubled Water ♫ (Redux)

Filosofa's Word

Today I am depressed, my mind jumbled by the level of utter ignorance and cruelty in the nation where I live.  I played this one back in 2018 and again in 2020, but … it just seems so appropriate for the current times that I’m playing it again.  These days I feel that we are living under a bridge over troubled waters with no shoreline in sight.


Did you know that Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel met in grade school when they both appeared in a production of Alice in Wonderland. Paul was the White Rabbit and Art was the Cheshire Cat.  They began recording together in high school as Tom and Jerry — yes, as in the cartoon cat and mouse.

Simon and Garfunkel split up in 1970, and Garfunkel went on to become a math teacher at a private school in Connecticut.

The album, Bridge Over Troubled…

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BLINDERS OFF!

Spot on!

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JOKE:   They’re laughing–  Other countries don’t have to wait:  U.S. citizens are killing off each other themselves, without forcing other countries to waste lives  in a war

As long as U.S.  liberals spend energy calling Republican accusations conspiracies, the less likely will it be to look at them as possible evidence of SABOTAGE of democracy.  Evidence of actual increasing purposeful sabotage of America’s democracy?

  1. Florida’s governor forming his own military force who only report to him, not the nation.
  2. Supreme Court in 2010 ruling to allow the wealthy to buy elections.
  3. Koch brothers meetings with Republicans to help word congressional bills
  4. Former president’s  overt attachment to Russia, continuing to manifest in many conservatives.
  5. Elected representative blatantly calling for the dark MAGA to come out.
  6. Former president’s asking militant groups to stand by
  7. Overt attempt to overturn presidental election and the January 6 attempt
  8. Trying to limit peaceful protests, aggressive…

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Marii Freire Pereira

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Após séculos de falta de consideração, humilhações profundas, mortes inclusive. O medo da mulher em relação ao enfretamento à violência, assim como talvez a advertência para não ” gritar ” e pedir socorro, transformou-se numa questão de honra para salvar sua vida.

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Santarém, Pá 8 de junho de 2022

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A cada nova experiência, um novo aprendizado

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A cada experiência, um novo aprendizado

A vida é uma eterna caixinha de surpresas. De fato, algumas boas, outras ruins. Mas, o que importa é essa relação de troca que adquirimos uns com os outros ao longo da história. A medida em que os anos passam, descobrimos obviamente que, através de nossas experiências, a bagagem adquirida pode se tornar leve, se aquilo que por vezes, cria condições para nos tornarmos adultos for interpretado como processo necessário, onde se constrói diálogos conosco, digo “com a boa relação com o tempo, com o que se extrai dos acontecimento, fatos traumáticos, ou simplesmente, aqueles que vemos com uma certa ironia. A vida é isso, ou seja, ela composta por eternos [ re]começos. A maturidade, chega não pelos aniversários, mas pelas marcas de cada cicatriz, assim como também, pela pele enrugada, o sorriso que se carrega, depois que se encerra um ciclo, ou uma…

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