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Violência Doméstica

Vivaldi translation: Domestic Violence
Whoever beats also offers flowers. It offers the hand as a gesture to promote dialogue, but it does not change.

Marii Freire Pereira

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Quem bate, também oferece flores. Oferece a mão como um gesto de promover o diálogo, mas não muda.

Marii Freire Pereira

https://pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!

Imagem & criação: Marii Freire Pereira/ VEM comigo!

Santarém, Pá 3 de outubro de 2021

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COVID-19 patients ‘begging’ for vaccines before being put on life support, Melbourne nurses say – ABC News

There are 476 people in hospital with COVID-19 across Victoria, with 98 of those in intensive care, including 57 people on a ventilator.

Of the people in hospital on Saturday, only 5 per cent were fully vaccinated.

As of Sunday afternoon, there were 12 teenage patients in hospital, none of whom were fully vaccinated. Of the 22 patients in their 20s, only one was fully vaccinated.

There were 64 patients in their 30s, only one of whom was fully vaccinated, and 60 patients in their 40s, none of whom were fully vaccinated.

Source: COVID-19 patients ‘begging’ for vaccines before being put on life support, Melbourne nurses say – ABC News

In Alaska’s Covid Crisis, Doctors Must Decide Who Lives and Who Dies – The New York Times

There was one bed coming available in the intensive care unit in Alaska’s largest hospital.

It was the middle of the night, and the hospital, Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, had been hit with a deluge of coronavirus patients. Doctors now had a choice to make: Several more patients at the hospital, most of them with Covid-19, were in line to take that last I.C.U. spot. But there was also someone from one of the state’s isolated rural communities who needed to be flown in for emergency surgery.

Who should get the final bed?

Dr. ​​Steven Floerchinger gathered with his colleagues for an agonizing discussion. They had a better chance of saving one of the patients in the emergency room, they determined. The other person would have to wait.

That patient died.

“This is gut-wrenching, and I never thought I’d see it,” said Dr. ​​Floerchinger, who has been in practice for 30 years. “We are taxed to a point of making decisions of who will and who will not live.”

Avian Flu Diary: Alaska Activates Crisis Standards of Care Across 20 Health Districts

Crisis standards of care are peer-reviewed guidelines that may be used during a disaster or public health emergency when there are not enough health care resources to provide the usual standard of care to people who need it. They guide health care providers and systems to triage patients and resources to do the most amount of good for the most people in times of scarce resources.  Source: Avian Flu Diary: Alaska Activates Crisis Standards of Care Across 20 Health Districts

New ‘Babylon 5’ Reboot Being Developed By Original Creator J. Michael Straczynski – Slashdot

According to many sources and the Babylon 5 creator/writer/director/producer himself, J. Michael Straczynski (JMS), the CW — partly owned by the original Babylon 5 producer and rights holder, WarnerMedia — will be rebooting the popular franchise. JMS will be writing and executive producing the series. Source: New ‘Babylon 5’ Reboot Being Developed By Original Creator J. Michael Straczynski – Slashdot

Reavis Ranch Autumn Sweep

Michael Stephen Wills Photography

….continued from the chapter “Apple Orchard in the Wilderness”

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Vantage point from which this video was captured

The following year my sister Diane and I did two expeditions into the Superstitions, March and November 2006.

“A This video is from the November backpack, taken from the hill above the Ranch Ruin (Click me for “A Ride to Reavis Ranch”) you will experience the peace of this wilderness valley.

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My soul is filled with poison of the world

Grounds For Hope

My soul is filled with poison of the world I can’t live among you people Life has become as complex as crosswords I hear bells from wicked steeples. The burning liqueur down my throat Is my relief from agony and from despair How foolish am I to believe That someone cares about my welfare. Already down, can’t get up Or if I can, what would be the meaning? A demon called me a lost soul The demon wasn’t dreaming. Don’t cry for me my dear mom, Don’t cry for me my sister. I have been your long lost son A brother without a home. A drifter. Tomorrow you’ll forget about my existence Tomorrow you’ll carry on With claims “depression was persistent” “his life just started; he was thirty-one”. Hate is killing you while you are breathing Selfishness entrapped you like a caged bird. I can’t live among you people, My…

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Opinion | ‘The Moratorium Saved Us. It Really Did.’ – The New York Times

Lakia Higbee thinks she got Covid-19 at the Amazon warehouse near Cleveland where she worked as a picker, filling orders for bleach and cat food and anything else customers wanted. She was sent home in November 2020. She was 43 and in decent health, but suddenly she felt she was breathing through a pillow.

Ms. Higbee slowly recovered, but it was “a month of no money,” she told me. She hadn’t worked long enough at Amazon to qualify for paid time off, and her two adult daughters, who live with her, had lost their jobs too. Also in her home were Ms. Higbee’s 16-year-old son and her two granddaughters, 6 and 3, who call her Mom.

Ms. Higbee clocked back in at Amazon in December. Her rent was $950 a month, not bad, she thought, for a four-bedroom house, even if the windows were so thin and drafty that the monthly heating bill could reach $500. During the first months of winter, Ms. Higbee managed to stay current on her rent but often paid late, incurring a $47.50 fee.

Then February arrived, and Ms. Higbee’s life began to unravel. Out of the blue, she started having seizures. She’d convulse while on Zoom with her psychiatrist or while playing with her granddaughters. That month, after learning that a man who had assaulted her had been released from prison, Ms. Higbee began having panic attacks and drifted into a depression. She was her family’s breadwinner, but the seizures and anxiety kept her from returning to work.

When Ms. Higbee missed March’s rent payment, her property management company served her with an eviction notice — her first, she told me. She was terrified but had heard that the government wasn’t allowing evictions like hers to move forward during the pandemic. Ms. Higbee filled out the paperwork, claiming sanctuary.

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Ms. Higbee with her son, Edward.
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A window in Ms. Higbee’s house.
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On Sept. 4, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control issued a national eviction moratorium that lasted for 331 days. During this time, people who fell behind in rent because of financial hardship stemming from the pandemic, and who met conditions that included doing their best to make partial rent payments and obtain government assistance, were shielded from displacement. If the moratorium wasn’t in place, Ms. Higbee, her children and her grandchildren would have probably lost the home they have lived in for the past three years.

A MORTE da NATUREZA – para a Mercadoria do Ouro e do Diamante – A Arte da lavagem verde por mercadores de luxo e a morte da natureza e dos povos indígenas … em suas próprias palavras … atualizado em 2021

Barbara Crane Navarro

Montagem de fotos: série “Pas de Cartier” – Barbara Crane Navarro – com anúncio da Cartier, fotode João Laet de garimpo em território indígena de João Laet e anel de ouro Cartier® LOVE

Na “Utopia” de Thomas More, publicada em 1516, ouro e pedras preciosas não têm valor. Na verdade, eles têm o peso do sangue, da escravidão e da loucura humana …

“Sua verdadeira natureza # 1 – Fondation Cartier”
fotos: Fundação Cartier – Luc Boegly / garimpo de ouro – João Laet / foto de Yanomami, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela e fotomontagem – Barbara Crane Navarro

A Arte da Manipulação:
O conceito corporativo de patrocínio artístico foi perfeitamente descrito por Hans Haacke em “Libre-Echange“, o livro de Pierre Bourdieu e Hans Haacke, publicado pela Editions du Seuil / les presses du Réel em 1994, que cito um trecho aqui: “Mas seria subestimar a Bienal…

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PF combate funcionamento de garimpos ilegais na terra indígena Munduruku, no Pará. — Ecoamazônia

Barbara Crane Navarro

Polícia Federal deflagra a Operação Bezerro de Ouro III, em Itaituba/PA, para dar prosseguimento a investigações que apuram funcionamento de garimpos ilegais em terras indígenas. Itaituba/PA –A Polícia Federal (PF) deflagrou hoje (9/9) a Operação Bezerro de Ouro III. Essa é a terceira fase da Operação Bezerro de Ouro que tem por objetivo reprimiro…

PF combate funcionamento de garimpos ilegais na terra indígena Munduruku, no Pará. — Ecoamazônia

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