Study authors say all this started after a pair of physicians submitted a petition questioning the safety and effectiveness of Pfizer’s vaccine.
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Opinion | Banning Abortion Doesn’t Protect Women’s Health – The New York Times
if concern for women’s health were truly driving this legislation, it would not be targeting abortion. A person is 14 times more likely to die by carrying a pregnancy to term than by legally induced abortion.
Black women bear the brunt of reproductive politicking in the United States. Nationally, they are over three times as likely to die because of pregnancy and labor complications as white women. That figure multiplies in states hostile to abortion rights. The 2019 Health of Women and Children Report ranked Mississippi 50th among the states overall in promoting the health of women, infants and children. Using abortion surveillance data compiled nationally, it quickly becomes clear that it is far more dangerous for Black women to give birth in Mississippi than it is for them to terminate a pregnancy.
US COVID-19 cases rising again, doubling over three weeks (Me: No going back to old normal – vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate or watch more needless deaths of friends, relatives, spouses, kids!)
Confirmed infections climbed to an average of about 23,600 a day on Monday, up from 11,300 on June 23, according to Johns Hopkins University data. And all but two states — Maine and South Dakota — reported that case numbers have gone up over the past two weeks.
“It is certainly no coincidence that we are looking at exactly the time that we would expect cases to be occurring after the July Fourth weekend,” said Dr. Bill Powderly, co-director of the infectious-disease division at Washington University’s School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Source: US COVID-19 cases rising again, doubling over three weeks
Hunger sweeps India in Covid’s shadow as millions miss out on rations | Global development | The Guardian (Me: Modi failures: Covid-19 and now hunger)
Their 40 sq metre (400 sq ft) home in Kurla East stands huddled among the 800 or so brick, tin sheet and tarpaulin houses of Qureshi Nagar, the entire shanty town trembling when a train roars past on a nearby railway line.
Once on the housekeeping staff at a hospital and later a domestic help who washed utensils and floors, Khan is now without work, income or savings. To keep tensions and arguments in her overcrowded home to a minimum, she waits every morning and evening for a small package of food from a community kitchen operated by a women’s savings group.
Khan has been entirely dependent on food aid since the kitchen was launched in April to supply free meals to the slum’s impoverished, jobless residents. She comes every day, for lunch and dinner for herself and her two daughters, aged 10 and 11 months.
Amazon rainforest now emitting more CO2 than it absorbs | Amazon rainforest | The Guardian
Growing trees and plants have taken up about a quarter of all fossil fuel emissions since 1960, with the Amazon playing a major role as the largest tropical forest. Losing the Amazon’s power to capture CO2 is a stark warning that slashing emissions from fossil fuels is more urgent than ever, scientists said.
The research used small planes to measure CO2 levels up to 4,500m above the forest over the last decade, showing how the whole Amazon is changing. Previous studies indicating the Amazon was becoming a source of CO2 were based on satellite data, which can be hampered by cloud cover, or ground measurements of trees, which can cover only a tiny part of the vast region.

The scientists said the discovery that part of the Amazon was emitting carbon even without fires was particularly worrying. They said it was most likely the result of each year’s deforestation and fires making adjacent forests more susceptible the next year. The trees produce much of the region’s rain, so fewer trees means more severe droughts and heatwaves and more tree deaths and fires.
Source: Amazon rainforest now emitting more CO2 than it absorbs | Amazon rainforest | The Guardian
Norwegian cruise company sues Florida over ban on Covid vaccine passports | Florida | The Guardian (Me: Florida law either kills cruise business or creates “death ships” which also kills cruise business)
‘Devastating’: Crops left to rot in England as Brexit begins to bite | Euronews
USS Indianapolis (CA-35) – 30 July 1945
USS Indianapolis off Mare Island, 10 July 1945
Sadly, four days later after delivering the components of the atomic bomb from California to the Pacific Islands in the most highly classified naval mission of the war, USS Indianapolis is sailing alone in the center of the Philippine Sea when she is struck by two torpedoes and sunk within twelve minutes. The ship was without a sufficient number of lifeboats, her disappearance went unnoticed for almost four days and the navy search team was called off early. Therefore, only 316 men of her 1,196-man crew were rescued. This has been considered the most controversial sea disaster in American history.
For the next five nights and four days, almost three hundred miles from the nearest land, the men battle injuries, sharks, dehydration, insanity, and eventually each other. Only 316 will survive. For the better part of a century, the story of USS
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the springing
soaring immortal horse carrying thunder, lightning constellation in northern sky marking change of season fountain inspiring art gushing from Mount Helicon Hippocrene, the deep blue eau quenching the muses thirst. |
« Non capisci perché vogliamo proteggere la nostra foresta? Chiedimi, ti rispondo! »

« Non capisci perché vogliamo proteggere la nostra foresta? Chiedimi, ti rispondo! I nostri antenati furono creati con lui all’inizio dei tempi. Da allora, la nostra gente ha mangiato la sua selvaggina ei suoi frutti. Vogliamo che i nostri figli crescano ridendo qui.
In passato, molte delle nostre persone sono morte a causa delle vostre epidemie. Oggi mi rifiuto di lasciare che i nostri figli e nipoti muoiano a causa del fumo dorato! Dai la caccia ai cercatori d’oro da casa nostra! Sono esseri nocivi il cui pensiero è oscuro. Sono mangiatori di metalli coperti dal fumo mortale dell’epidemia di xawara. »
- Sciamano Yanomami e portavoceDavi Kopenawa
Il 30% di quelle che ora sono riconosciute come terre indigene ancestrali rischia di essere “legalmente” aperto all’estrazione dell’oro e ad altre operazioni minerarie, nonché al disboscamento e all’agricoltura…
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