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ONLY SIX YESTERDAY….

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Six humans slaughtered.

When will the killings come to your town?  They came to Philadelphia and Chattanooga yesterday…

At least three people were killed and 11 injured Saturday when multiple people opened fire on Philadelphia’s busy South Street. At least three more died in a shooting later Saturday at a club in Chattanooga, Tennessee. For the moment, none of those six victims count as victims of “mass shootings”—a FBI designation that requires four deaths in a single incident. (Mother Jones, today’s date).

I live in Ohio, and on  June 13, 2022 (a week from tomorrow) a permitless carry law goes into effect in my state.  Unfortunate timing, eh?  Any time humans are slaughtered is unfortunate.

Moreover,  the NRA (National Rifle Association)  touts itself as “America’s oldest civil rights  organization.”

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Resposta

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Alguma coisa escapa do naufrágio das ilusões.

Uma palavra marcante

O medo que refugia a sensação de imprudência

O horror que procura um canal para escapar

O cenário melancólico

Um poeta que se abandona em meio a violação da consciência

Eis que tudo na boca evapora, até o riso que não rira.

Tudo se dissipa

Tudo é inconsolável, até mesmo a poesia.

Não há avanço em meio ao que

D i l a c e r o u

Agora não quero sonhar em versos!

Quero o raciocínio lógico

Em meio ao martírio que embrutece meu ser.

Palavras duras

Roucas

Secas

Tristes

Parecem reforçar

A dor que se instala em minhas entranhas.

Quero palavras não ditas!

Quero as respostas que estão do lado de dentro

Só me interessa o que é meu

Preciso confrontar as contradições

O ingênuo

Astúcia

O não dito

Mas que estava bem diante do monótono de minhas…

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Mini-Snippets of Snark

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I sometimes have a short attention span and today I have only a few mini-snippets of snark for you …


The Republicans have solutions for mass shootings.  Last week it was arming the teachers. This week it’s arm the doctors, arm the undertakers. But when that white supremacist shot up the Black grocery store in Buffalo, guess what they did not say:  Arm the black people.  Anybody wonder why?


Nobody who still believes that the 2020 election results were not fair, that the former guy actually won, has any right whatsoever to be placed in a position of trust either monitoring or otherwise affecting election results in 2022 or 2024 … or ever.  The Republicans talk the talk about election integrity, but they damn sure don’t walk the walk, for they already have plans in the works to put partisan hacks in charge of elections starting this November.


Rumour has…

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Kit Carson Electric Coop Hits 100% Daytime Solar Power

Kit Carson Electric Cooperative (KCEC) and Guzman Energy recently celebrated the cooperative’s achievement of providing 100 percent of its daytime power with solar energy this summer.

Integral to this milestone, construction has been completed on KCEC’s Taos Mesa Solar Array. The completed array has testing underway as it nears ongoing generation and delivery of 15 MW of solar power, which will be capable of powering approximately 7,500 homes with locally generated renewable energy.

 

Source: Kit Carson Electric Coop Hits 100% Daytime Solar Power

Palestinian farmers sound alarm over foot-and-mouth outbreak | Mena – Gulf News

“I got no help from the PA, not even a telephone call,” Basheer, who owns thousands of livestock near the city of Nablus, told AFP, voicing frustration over what he described as inaction from the Palestinian agriculture ministry.

Palestinian farmers blamed the PA for halting a vaccinations programme that had proven essential in protecting livestock against an endemic disease.

And with animals absent from large stretches of grazing land, farmers fear land grabs from Jewish settlers who have repeatedly set up illegal outposts on West Bank land they claim is unused.

The PA “should protect us because we protect the land,” Basheer said. “The farms protect the land… If you remove the farmers, Israel takes the land.”

Farmers ‘destroyed’

A new strain of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), which causes potentially lethal fevers and blisters in young animals, was detected in livestock last November in Jordan.

It soon spread across the West Bank, a territory occupied by Israel since 1967, and heavily reliant on agriculture.

But the PA’s agriculture ministry has not carried out a regular vaccination drive since 2019.

A ministry official, who requested anonymity, told AFP that a normal year sees 60 to 70 per cent of goats and sheep in the West Bank vaccinated against FMD.

That figure dropped to 20 percent in 2020 and 2021, the official said.

 

Source: Palestinian farmers sound alarm over foot-and-mouth outbreak | Mena – Gulf News

How do we test for monkeypox? — Quartz

Monkeypox has been endemic in parts of Africa for decades, but there isn’t fast testing for it, and detecting the virus is limited to lab analysis. Currently, only a few labs have the capacity to run tests to detect monkeypox, although this may change soon.

Diagnostics companies are racing to develop new monkeypox tests

A person who suspects having a case of monkeypox (for instance, after noticing skin lesions) should contact a doctor, who can then contact one of the labs with equipment for testing for orthopoxviruses. Experts recommend labs testing for monkeypox from swabs and lesion tissue specimens.

The test doesn’t confirm monkeypox per se, but just the presence of an orthopoxvirus. Given the current situation, the assumption is that it’s monkeypox, and the protocol is to isolate the individual for up to 21 days. Should cases rise significantly, more specific testing would be needed to confirm the virus is actually monkeypox and not one of its relatives.

 

Source: How do we test for monkeypox? — Quartz