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Parashat B’chukotai, & Whispers

This week’s Torah portion, Bechukotai,  is the 33rdnd (33/54 or 52, depending on the year: this year, it’s 54…) reading in the annual cycle, and the …

Parashat B’chukotai, & Whispers

Esta semana los Yanomami deben celebrar el 30 aniversario de la demarcación oficial de su territorio el 25 de mayo de 1992, pero decenas de miles de …

Niño Yanomami jugando en el río, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela – Fotograma de mi película: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHsocVWqT8E Barbara …

Esta semana los Yanomami deben celebrar el 30 aniversario de la demarcación oficial de su territorio el 25 de mayo de 1992, pero decenas de miles de …

Forests in the tropics are critical for tackling climate change – yet the people showing how are being exploited! — Geography Directions

By Oliver Phillips, University of Leeds; Aida Cuni Sanchez, University of York, and Renato Lima, Universidade de São Paulo This article is …

Forests in the tropics are critical for tackling climate change – yet the people showing how are being exploited! — Geography Directions

Meetings, speeches – and by the way, our fifth wave of COVID-19

Petchary's Blog

Jamaica’s Health and Wellness Minister Christopher Tufton and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie have been very busy recently in Geneva, Switzerland, where the 75th World Health Assembly took place, ending on May 28. They have been talking a great deal about non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which as we know are rampant on the island – that is, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and other “lifestyle” conditions. I wish the press release below did not contain so much jargon, but it points to the Ministry’s focus on much-needed primary health care reform.

Minister of Health & Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (left) chairs day one of the 34th Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting in London on Tuesday (May 17, 2022). Seated next to him (from second left) are the Rt. Hon. Patricia Scotland QC, Commonwealth Secretary-General; Dr. Ruth Kattumuri, Senior Director for the Economic, Youth and Sustainable Development Directorate with the Commonwealth Secretariat; and Jamaica’s High Commissioner…

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Monkeypox outbreak could be just ‘the peak of the iceberg’, WHO warns | Monkeypox | The Guardian

“We don’t know if we are just seeing the peak of the iceberg [or] if there are many more cases that are undetected in communities,” Sylvie Briand, WHO’s epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention chief, acknowledged on Friday in a briefing to countries.

Since the UK first reported a confirmed monkeypox case on 7 May, nearly 200 cases have been reported to the UN health agency in countries far from the states where the virus is endemic.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has put the number of such cases at 219.

Endemic in a number of west and central African nations, monkeypox cases have suddenly been detected in more than 20 other countries around the world, including the US, Australia, the United Arab Emirates and nearly a dozen EU countries.

The Spanish health ministry said on Friday that 98 cases had been confirmed there so far, while the UK currently counts 90 verified infections.

Portugal has meanwhile registered 74 confirmed cases, health authorities said on Friday, adding that all the occurrences are in men, mainly aged below 40.

Argentina confirmed the first two cases of monkeypox in Latin America on Friday.

“We are still at the very, very beginning of this event,” Briand told member state representatives attending the World Health Assembly in Geneva. “We know that we will have more cases in the coming days,” she said, but stressed there was no need to panic.

“This is not a disease the general public should be worried about. It is not Covid or other diseases that spread fast.”

Source: Monkeypox outbreak could be just ‘the peak of the iceberg’, WHO warns | Monkeypox | The Guardian

Guns Don’t Kill People. The United States Senate Does.

just drive, will you?

It’s a grand ol’ tradition here in these United States.

School shootings.

Young, lone gunmen armed to the teeth. Innocent children, senselessly murdered. Teachers laying down their lives for their students. Grief-stricken families. Shattered communities.

“Thoughts and prayers”, a phrase as empty and meaningless by now as “Compassionate Conservatism”. (Remember that?)

And, perhaps even most disgusting, wacky conspiracy theories.

No, actually, one thing more disgusting than that: Impotent leaders hiding behind lame excuses for doing absolutely nothing to end all this.

More specifically, the United States Senate.

Would you like some examples? Check out this story by Mary Clare Jalonick of Associated Press:

A decade of congressional inaction on gun control

Pathetic. Inexcusable. Infuriating.

And, for all the dead children and their families, so…so…sad.

Cartoonist Clay Jones says it all in this gruesome image that’s hard to look at, but very much on point:

They’re committed to…

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