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Slice Of Compassion

Daily Observation

Ukraine’s president talks today;

Mentions the very young Russian soldiers

Ill trained, scared, peowns in others’ play

Bodies deleted, kept from parents’ tears

Perhaps, compassion on a cruel day

@douryeh

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China-backed AIIB puts Russia and Belarus lending ‘on hold’ over war in Ukraine | South China Morning Post

The China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has announced that “all activities relating to Russia and Belarus are on hold and under review” due to Russia’s war on Ukraine.

“As the war in Ukraine unfolds, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) extends its thoughts and sympathy to everyone affected. Our hearts go out to all who are suffering,” read a statement published on the website of the Beijing-based lender.

Source: China-backed AIIB puts Russia and Belarus lending ‘on hold’ over war in Ukraine | South China Morning Post

One Lesson from La Casa de Papel (Money Heist) P1e2

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

1.) Teach where your students learn best!!

This reaction tries not to spoil the episode, and gives random reactions in the original Spanish, and in English, for the majority of my current readers:

Intento no dar todo, y doy comentarios en los dos idiomas, ya que mis lectores solo hablan inglés, en su gran mayorîa…

Me encanta ése modelo de la Fábrica de Moneda y Timbre! … I love that model of the Money and Change Factory!
Berlin: sociopath. 5 divorcios…
Pero no es un tonto. … But he’s not an idiot.
Si, una relación… Yup, an intimate relationship…
Y la inspectora, con lápiz en el pelo, y un hombre que quiere darle órdenes. … And the inspector, Rachel Murillo, with a pencil in her hair, and a man trying to give her orders.
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Carnicería de Moscou ? Y el coronel fastidiandola con su vida personal:. Internal and external…

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When Will We Ever Learn?

Filosofa's Word

It takes so little to raise my hackles these days, so let me just share two little snippets that left me growling this week.


Life on Planet Earth … but for how long?

Just as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its latest report detailing the threats posed by global warming and concluding that nations aren’t doing nearly enough to protect the planet, the U.S. Supreme Court stands poised to curtail the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to proceed with sweeping regulation of climate-warming emissions from the nation’s power plants.

According to the IPCC report, water and food insecurity have become widespread, affecting millions across the globe, as droughts, heat waves and floods inundate the planet.  More than 13 million people in Africa and Asia were displaced by extreme weather in 2019.  Says ecologist Camille Parmesan, one of the report’s authors …

“One of the most…

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