Category Archives: News to use

Useful news for all to advance knowledge of the world and how it works

Marii Freire Pereira

Vivaldi translation: “To live is to find ourselves where we left off”.

Marii Freire Pereira

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Viver é nos encontrar aonde nos deixamos”.

Marii Freire Pereira

https://pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!

Imagem: pinterest/ Macro_ brilliance

Santarém, Pa 30 de setembro de 2021

View original post

Poem of the day: the new colossus

The New Colossus
BY EMMA LAZARUS

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

The grey clover

The New Colossus
BY EMMA LAZARUS


Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

View original post

Noisy NYC Anti-Vaccine Protests Are Hiding a Simple Fact – Mother Jones

The mandates are working.

… the NYPD’s vaccination rate rose to 84% on Friday, up from 79% the day prior. FDNY’s rate increased to 77% from 69%. The Sanitation Department went from 67% to 77% .

Last night, the mayor announced that 91 percent of city workers now had one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, after a Saturday surge saw an additional 2,300 shots. In all, according to Gothamist, 19,000 employees joined the ranks of the vaccinated since the city did away with weekly testing as an alternative.

Source: Noisy NYC Anti-Vaccine Protests Are Hiding a Simple Fact – Mother Jones

Commerce secretary says putting off vaccine mandate until after holidays would be a ‘mistake’ | TheHill

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Sunday stood by the timing of federal work vaccine mandates, asserting that waiting any longer to put them into effect would be a “mistake.”

CBS “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan noted that many businesses have not necessarily spoken out against the vaccine mandates themselves but on their timing, claiming that the vaccine mandates would contribute to labor shortages as the U.S. heads into the holiday seasons.

Brennan noted that Jeff Zients, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, has said there is flexibility in terms of when to administer the mandates and asked Raimondo if pushing it back until after Christmas was possible.

“No, I think that would be a big mistake. People want to work in a workplace where they feel safe,” Raimondo said. “You know, United Airlines, that was among the first to do the mandate. Their number of folks applying for jobs is through the roof. The best thing we can do to get people back to work is to make sure everybody’s vaccinated.”

Source: Commerce secretary says putting off vaccine mandate until after holidays would be a ‘mistake’ | TheHill

Why America is Experimenting With ‘Postal Banking’ – Slashdot

In 1947, more than 4 million Americans owned $3.4 billion in saving deposits held not by a bank or credit union, but by the United States Postal Service. It’s a largely forgotten part of American banking (and postal) history that the USPS ran the Postal Savings System for 56 years, from 1911 to 1967… [T]o this day postal services around the world provide small-scale financial services, from check cashing to savings accounts to e-commerce solutions, such as allowing refunds for returned goods to be deposited directly into a consumer’s postal account. In September, the U.S. Postal Service took the first steps toward restoring its place in Americans’ financial lives: At four East Coast post offices, customers can now get paychecks or business checks worth up to $500 cashed for a flat fee of $5.95…. Source: Why America is Experimenting With ‘Postal Banking’ – Slashdot

A message for the deciders at the G-20 and COP-26: « The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. »

Barbara Crane Navarro

«Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.

This we know – the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.»

  • Chief Seattle, from a speech in 1854 during the governor of Washington’s visit to a council of local tribal chiefs

Global chiefs met this weekend at the G-20 summit in Rome. The 2021 summit’s motto is « people, planet, and prosperity»but these leaders represent the earth’s wealthiest industrialized countries, most powerful governments and multinational corporations who are responsible for the majority of the pollution and CO2 emissions that have brought…

View original post 711 more words

Imported deforestation: How Europe contributes to tree loss worldwide – Phys.org —

Barbara Crane Navarro

Imported deforestation: How Europe contributes to tree loss worldwide – Phys.org https://ift.tt/2ZwCa7F Imported deforestation: How Europe contributes to tree loss worldwidePhys.org Superforest via “deforestation” – Google Newshttps://ift.tt/2tI2HiE

Imported deforestation: How Europe contributes to tree loss worldwide – Phys.org —

View original post

An Overview Of COP26 – And More. The Climate Talks ! — World Animals Voice

Barbara Crane Navarro

COP26 is the 2021 United Nations climate change conference For nearly three decades the UN has been bringing together almost every country on earth for global climate summits – called COPs – which stands for ‘Conference of the Parties’. In that time climate change has gone from being a fringe issue to a global priority.[…]

An Overview Of COP26 – And More. The Climate Talks ! — World Animals Voice

View original post

Noche de muertos – Totenfest in Michoacán, Mexiko

Senioren um die Welt

Für mehrere indigene Völker in Mexiko, wie z.B. die Purépecha im Seengebiet von Pátzcuaro, ist die Totennacht etwas ganz Besonderes. Sie sind ihrem Glauben zufolge davon überzeugt, dass in dieser Nacht die Seelen der verstorbenen Angehörigen aus dem Jenseits zurückkehren. Deshalb versammeln sich die Familien, vom Kleinkind bis zu den ganz alten Menschen, an den Gräbern und verbringen dort die ganze Nacht gemeinsam. Überall werden Kerzen aufgestellt, und auf die Gräber werden Blumen, die Lieblingsspeisen und -getränke sowie die Habseligkeiten, die ihre Verstorbenen am liebsten mochten, gelegt. Auf den Gräbern der Kinder sind es die Spielsachen und Süßigkeiten, die die verstorbenen Kinder gerne hatten. Die Angehörigen sind davon überzeugt, dass die Verstorbenen die Nahrung und das Wasser für ihre Rückkehr ins Jenseits brauchen werden. Jedes Jahr erscheinen Ende Oktober in den bewaldeten Bergen im Osten von Michoacán zahllose Monarchfalter, die in den Wäldern überwintern. Die Nativos glauben, dass die Schmetterlinge…

View original post 1,715 more words