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Hochul Orders Statewide Mask Mandate Inside All New York Schools – Gothamist

New York City already had a mask mandate in place for its public school system, which returns September 13th.

Source: Hochul Orders Statewide Mask Mandate Inside All New York Schools – Gothamist

Sirhan Sirhan: six Kennedy children condemn decision to grant killer parole | Robert Kennedy | The Guardian

The ruling will be reviewed over 120 days then sent to the governor, who will have 30 days to decide whether to grant, reverse or modify it. If Sirhan is freed, he must live in a transitional home for six months, enroll in an alcohol abuse program and get therapy. The six Kennedy children who oppose release said they were “devastated” and appealed to the governor, Gavin Newsom, “to reverse this initial recommendation” which had “inflicted enormous initial pain”. “Sirhan Sirhan committed a crime against our nation and its people,” they said, adding: “We hope that those who also hold the memory of our father in their hearts will stand with us.”

Source: Sirhan Sirhan: six Kennedy children condemn decision to grant killer parole | Robert Kennedy | The Guardian

Why Are Cops So Resistant to Getting Vaccinated? – Mother Jones

When public employees’ Facebook-meme rabbit holes make them a danger to the general welfare, the solution is not to accommodate those unfounded fears, it is to remind those employees who they are supposed to be working for. The vaccine is the simplest of steps police can take to ensure that, whatever else they might do, their literal presence is not inflicting harm, so that fewer people—and fewer cops—get sick and die from a virus that should never have killed this many. This is the absolute most basic threshold of “to serve and protect.”

Source: Why Are Cops So Resistant to Getting Vaccinated? – Mother Jones

Atrocious Myanmar Military at Risk of Splitting: Army Defectors

With a record-breaking number of defections unmatched in nearly six decades and brewing discontent among the ranks against their superiors, Myanmar’s more than 300,000-strong military is now at risk of splitting, according to some ex-army officers who have deserted their units recently. Currently, around 2,000 soldiers and police have joined the country’s Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), a nationwide boycott by Myanmar civil servants against the regime following their takeover in February. Many more are in the pipeline and out of the current 2,000 defectors, one-third are military personnel, said the officers who have joined the CDM as they are not pleased with the country’s military regime.

Source: Atrocious Myanmar Military at Risk of Splitting: Army Defectors

Calls Grow to Discipline Doctors Spreading Virus Misinformation Online – Slashdot

“When a doctor speaks, people pay attention,” said Dr. Humayun Chaudhry, president of the Federation of State Medical Boards. “The title of being a physician lends credibility to what people say to the general public. That’s why it is so important that these doctors don’t spread misinformation.”

Source: Calls Grow to Discipline Doctors Spreading Virus Misinformation Online – Slashdot

Soy uno

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Soy uno, pero me sé, en el mundo, hecho de pedazos, ecos y fragmentos de aquí y de allá, luces y oscuridades, rumores y silencios. Soy yo, el de entonces, el de siempre, con rostro de tierras distantes y cercanas, con memoria de ayer y de hoy, con episodios protagonizados tantas veces y momentos futuros aún inexplorados y, a la vez, presentdos. Emulo, al crear, al escribir, a la flor, al tulipán, a la orquídea, a la rosa, que reproducen los matices y los perfumes del cielo, las formas de un paraíso que se siente en uno y, no obstante, se extienden en su tierra nativa. Estoy compuesto de partes, luz y arcilla, esencia y barro, éter y textura, infinito y hora. Soy de esos linajes con historia, que navegan en mares impetuosos, entre olas y tempestades, y hasta…

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Revealed: Foreign Office ignored frantic pleas to help Afghans | Afghanistan | The Guardian

“They cannot possibly know [how many people have been left behind] because they haven’t even read the emails. Even among those who’ve been registered, many have been left behind. But there’s also a much, much larger group of people who just haven’t been dealt with at all.”

The claims will heap further pressure on the Foreign Office’s handling of the evacuation process and the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, who has been criticised for initially remaining on holiday when the Afghanistan crisis began.

Starmer said the “complacency and incompetence of this government has been exposed yet again and with tragic consequences”. He added: “The fact that so many emails have simply gone unopened is not the fault of civil servants but of government ministers who have been missing in action during this whole crisis.”

Source: Revealed: Foreign Office ignored frantic pleas to help Afghans | Afghanistan | The Guardian

Why it is Good to Build Environmental Protection Awareness

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If we don’t build environmental protection awareness in a new and better way

What will happen to the children when they grow up, what will they say?

When the air is too toxic and beaches are full of plastic

Will they ever be able to say life is so fantastic?

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It is easy to take the environment for granted and believe our waste will disappear

When we don’t realise that it will be burned and it will pollute the air

So easy to believe we can live in a great way whenwe destroy ecosystems

Not knowing that after a while we will have many problems

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You see our Mangroves protects the land from sea surges when the weather is bad

We should not be covering them with buildings, after a while we will be sad

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632,786 Covid-19 Deaths in USA as of August 26, 2021

How many deaths could have been prevented if everyone who could be vaccinated was vaccinated?

How many more will die before people who are fooling themselves about the need to mask up, vaccinate, get tested if you have symptoms, isolate if you test positive – join with those who want their families to live?

Try your best to get people you know and care about but are unvaccinated and do not mask up to help protect you and your family by getting vaccinated and masking up. If they refuse, let them know you cannot see or be near them any longer.

Sixty-Six Years Ago …

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It was sixty-six years ago today that a 14-year-old boy, Emmett Till, was brutally murdered for the crime of being Black in a town called Money, Mississippi.  You all know the story, but allow me to just quickly refresh your memories …

Emmett was from ‘up north’ in Chicago, but his mother had sent him to Mississippi to spend the final two weeks of summer with his beloved grandfather before returning to school.  One day he went into a small store to buy some candy and as the cashier returned his change, his hand accidentally and briefly touched hers.  That, my friends, was all it took to get this young man killed.

By the time the story had been spread and embellished on, it was said that he caressed the clerk … a woman much older than Emmett who he would likely have seen as being the age of his…

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