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Deadman

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Logan Staats’ beautiful new song, “Deadman” is another example of the power of art to call attention to injustice. The track comes alongside a visual accompaniment partially shot at the site of a former residential school.

Logan was beaten and arrested by the RCMP while supporting the Wet’suwet’en peoples. I was only peacefully singing our water song and hugging/protecting a 70-year-old matriarch.I was free’d and remain steadfast and committed to defending the land from sea to sea all across Turtle Island.

Mohawk singer-songwriterLogan Staatsmakes his return with the new single “Deadman,” which signals the storyteller and activist’s debut release under the Indigenous-owned label,Red Music Rising.

“I wrote ‘Deadman’ while in rehab. It’s not about a girl; the culture is the love that I’m asking for,” he revealed in a press release.

The love Staats pleads for in the song is not romantic but rather…

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short narrative nonfiction: Some Tours are Worth It

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

      …  Memories of an UnSat Plebe’s Cost Benefit Analysis…

     I was chopping down the hall after breakfast, almost to my room.  No upperclassmen around.

 

“Miss Jones!”

 

     Him.  And of course, I’d not had time to memorize that damned menu for tomorrow’s evening meal.

 

“Yes, Sir!”

 

“Hit a bulkhead!

 

“Ay, ay, Sir!

 

     Before I had even gotten to the side of the hall, he was standing there, waiting.  What did this guy do, camp out in his classmate’s room by my door?  F***’in-A!

 

“Miss Jones, did you try to hip-check Mr. O?”

 

     That fat Firstie I ran into on the way to Morning Meal Formation?  Seriously?  He’s twice my weight!  Actually, almost every upperclassman was twice my weight.  This one probably weighed three of me.  Why on earth would I ever try to hip-check the guy?

 

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No Holiday for Web Security

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Another day, another insurer getting hacked. This time its a smaller one, True Health New Mexico, with a little more than 60,000 customer records exposed. The hacker broke into a network server in early October for reasons not yet known.

We may have to emend Franklin’s pithy remark about the inevitability of death and taxes. We know people who evade taxes, or try to do so. Hackers however seem to be forever.

Source:

  1. https://www.databreachtoday.com/medical-data-exposed-in-breach-at-true-health-new-mexico-a-18001?rf=2021-11-26_ENEWS_SUB_DBT__Slot1_ART18001&mkt_tok=MDUxLVpYSS0yMzcAAAGA_BekJ_UmnH_Z5RkHp5oV0_SB9IP6PKlUE_cmgmGyX5HgzG5iSO-Dk-PLgvcsKBx7nVGbnm7TWK_vKq7iKOtrIRKs11u7krIlsxOjP0B82PtgfcI

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Growing Amazon Deforestation a Grave Threat to Global Climate | Inter Press Service

For three weeks, the Brazilian government concealed the fact that deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest increased by nearly 22 percent last year, accentuating a trend that threatens to derail efforts to curb global warming.

The report by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) based on the data for the year covering August 2020 to July 2021 is dated Oct. 27, but the government did not release it until Thursday, Nov. 18.

It thus prevented the disaster from further undermining the credibility of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s government, already damaged by almost three years of anti-environmental policies and actions, ahead of and during the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the climate change convention, held in Glasgow, Scotland from Oct. 31 to Nov. 13.

Source: Growing Amazon Deforestation a Grave Threat to Global Climate | Inter Press Service

Should Manufacturers Help with Recycling Or Consumers and Government Must Allow Things to Continue in the Same Old Way? — FunWritings

If Manufacturers could take on more of the responsibility to recycle more plastic we could have a clean environment The post Should Manufacturers Help with Recycling Or Consumers and Government Must Allow Things to Continue in the Same Old Way? appeared first on FunWritings.

Should Manufacturers Help with Recycling Or Consumers and Government Must Allow Things to Continue in the Same Old Way? — FunWritings

Laponija, Švedska – Lapland, Sweden

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U malom laponskom gradu Jančeping od 1942. godine postoji Folkogskola. To je škola u kojoj mladi Sami (Sámi), pored praćenja uobičajenog švedskog nastavnog programa, pohađaju časove na svom maternjem jeziku i obučavaju se tradicionalnim zanatima. Povrh svega, izučavaju istoriju gajenja irvasa, od njegovih početaka pa sve do danas, jer ono predstavlja osnovu njihovog načina života. Zaštita samske kulture – a samim tim i gajenja irvasa, kojim se bavi deset odsto od 20.000 Sama (Sámi) koji su stalno nastanjeni u švedskom dijelu Laponije – bila je razlog što je Unesko odlučio da oblast od skoro 9.400 km², koja uključuje devet zaštićenih oblasti, uvrsti na Listu mjesta svjetske baštine. Ova regija je, takođe, teritorija gdje se odvija sezonska migracija irvasa. Sami (Sámi) tradicionalno žive u gotovo simbiotskoj vezi sa irvasima. Od te životinje dobijaju meso i mlijeko, njene tetive koriste za šivenje odjeće, a kožu i tetive da bi napravili lajtok (tradicionalni…

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Vida

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Disfarcemos,

Escondemos.

Mas o que a nossa vontade implora,

Pede, clama e até, sussurrar baixinho é que:

Eu e você,

Passemos por essa vida

De modo que a sorte,

Não nos seja costurada,

Desastrosa,

Ingrata,

Cega.

O que todos nós, queremos mesmo, é:

Seguir o nosso caminho

Com os pés descalços,

Deixando as horas fluir!

Desmistificando o voo

Do homem que segue em frente.

No fundo, o que todos desejamos verdadeiramente é:

Carregar nos olhos,

Uma vastidão de esperança,

Composta por sonhos,

Um punhado de carinho,

e um sorriso macio como cetim.

Pedras, sempre iremos encontrar ao longo de nossa caminhada

Mas, você acha que nos deixamos vencer por elas ?

Não! São com elas ( pedras) que reconstruimos a nossa fortaleza.

Diante das que muitas sobram, algumas podem sufocar os nossos sonhos, é verdade.

Não, essa força maior que gritar dentro de nós,

e faz com que, de um…

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Why is the COVID mortality rate spiking in Germany? | Coronavirus and Covid-19 – latest news about COVID-19 | DW | 26.11.2021

This considerable proportion of the population who are not vaccinated (or not fully vaccinated) plays a major role, as the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the government agency for infectious diseases, told DW: “This also applies to the elderly, who have the highest risk of death.” Among people over 60, more than 3 million people have not yet been vaccinated.

Most of the deaths related to COVID-19 can be traced back to unvaccinated people, RKI statistics indicate. And according to intensive care medics, 90% of the COVID patients in ICUs in Germany are unvaccinated. The RKI says the chance of survival is only 53% for COVID patients in the ICU once they go on a ventilator, whether vaccinated or not.

Source: Why is the COVID mortality rate spiking in Germany? | Coronavirus and Covid-19 – latest news about COVID-19 | DW | 26.11.2021