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Five Decades Later, Medicare Might Cover Dental Care – The New York Times

Tens of millions of older Americans who cannot afford dental care — with severe consequences for their overall health, what they eat and even when they smile — may soon get help as Democrats maneuver to add dental benefits to Medicare for the first time in its history. The proposal, part of the large budget bill moving through Congress, would be among the largest changes to Medicare since its creation in 1965 but would require overcoming resistance from dentists themselves, who are worried that it would pay them too little. The impact could be enormous for people like Natalie Hayes, 69. Ms. Hayes worked in restaurants, raised a son and managed her health as best she could within her limited means. As she lost her teeth — most of them many years ago and her remaining front ones last fall — she simply lived with it. “I had a lot of pneumonia,” she said, at a recent visit to the Northern Counties Dental Center in Hardwick, Vt. “Not a lot of good dental care.”

Fauci: 100,000 new Covid deaths in US ‘predictable but preventable’ | Anthony Fauci | The Guardian

“What is going on now is both entirely predictable and entirely preventable,” Dr Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, told CNN’s State of the Union. “We know we have the wherewithal with vaccines to turn this around, and the reason the numbers are so alarming is that we have about 80 million people in this country who are eligible to be vaccinated who are not yet vaccinated. “We could turn this thing around and we can do it efficiently and quickly if we could just get those people vaccinated. It’s so important that people in this crisis put aside any ideological and political differences and just get vaccinated.”

Source: Fauci: 100,000 new Covid deaths in US ‘predictable but preventable’ | Anthony Fauci | The Guardian

APO Group – Africa Newsroom / Press release | U.S. Department of Defense Donates 300,000 Pre-Packed Humanitarian Meals to Southern Madagascar

U.S. Chargé d’Affaires Amy J. Hyatt donated nearly 300,000 pre-packed humanitarian meals from the U.S. Department of Defense to the regional office of the Bureau National de Gestion des Risques et Catastrophes (BNGRC) and Catholic Relief Services in an official handover ceremony on August 25.

“This $2.1 million contribution by the U.S. Department of Defense is part of the U.S. government’s unwavering support for the Malagasy people facing food insecurity in the South and the Government of Madagascar’s response to the crisis,” Chargé Hyatt said.

Source: APO Group – Africa Newsroom / Press release | U.S. Department of Defense Donates 300,000 Pre-Packed Humanitarian Meals to Southern Madagascar

A Little Bit Rant-y

Filosofa's Word

I’m in rather a rant-y mood this evening, so tell you what … I’ll share my angst with you, just in case your life was feeling a bit too peaceful at the moment.  No need to thank me.


Punish the truth-seekers

Jim Banks is a representative in the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana.  Jim Banks is apparently not a very conscionable person, apparently has forgotten that Oath of Office he last took on January 3rd of this year.  He has served in the House since 2017, though for the life of me I cannot imagine why.

That’s congressman Banks above … looks like a real sharp one, yes?

Naturally Mr. Banks was one of many Republicans to contest the results of the 2020 election, even knowing that President Biden had won fairly and honestly, but it seems to be some sort of rite of initiation for those in…

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NÃO ao estratagema de « Marco Temporal » – Uma aberração!

Barbara Crane Navarro

«Marco temporal é um caminho do inimigo da floresta junto com meu povo. Marco temporal para mim significa roubar mais a minha terra Yanomami. Roubar mais as nossas terras que já foram demarcadas, homologadas e registradas pelo governo brasileiro.»

Porta-voz e xamã Yanomami Davi Kopenawa

Desde 22 de agosto, mais de 6.000 indígenas de 176 nações indígenas se reuniram em frente ao Supremo Tribunal Federal em Brasília para exigir que os juízes decidam em seu favor e rejeitar o « marco temporal» de 1988 adotado pelo governo Bolsonaro em 2016 e promovido pelos setores de agronegócio, pecuária, madeira exótica e mineração de ouro.

A apelação judicial do povo Xokleng do estado de Santa Catarina, argumentando que o « marco temporal» é uma interpretação muito restrita dos direitos indígenas que só reconhece as terras ocupadas por comunidades indígenas na época em que a constituição do Brasil foi ratificada em 1988 …

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Analysis | Brazil’s Top Court Can Stop Bolsonaro’s Unjust Land Grab – The Washington Post — — Tiny Life

Barbara Crane Navarro

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Analysis | Brazil’s Top Court Can Stop Bolsonaro’s Unjust Land Grab – The Washington Post — — Tiny Life

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Líderes da Igreja Católica se manifestam contra o julgamento do Marco Temporal — Mágica Mistura✨

Barbara Crane Navarro

Waimiri-Atroari

Yanomami

« Estamos na iminência do STF julgar o assim chamado Marco Temporal. É uma coisa quase inacreditável que se tenha que chegar ao Supremo para definir uma realidade que não tem lógica », afirma Dom Adriano Ciocca, Bispo da Prelazia de São Félix do Araguaia (MT), a respeito do julgamento sobre demarcação de terras indígenas que acontece…

Líderes da Igreja Católica se manifestam contra o julgamento do Marco Temporal — Mágica Mistura✨

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