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Lebanon Imposes Another Lockdown over Virus Surge — Naharnet

Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab Tuesday announced a fresh two-week lockdown to stem the spread of coronavirus despite a grinding economic crisis that has already battered businesses.

“We’ve reached a stage of critical danger as private and public hospitals don’t have the capacity to receive severe cases,” Diab said in a televised address.

He said the lockdown, with limited exemptions, would go into force from Saturday until November 30.

Source: Lebanon Imposes Another Lockdown over Virus Surge — Naharnet

How children with lethal cancers and other incurable illnesses have benefited from the Affordable Care Act – and why they’ll suffer if the Supreme Court overturns it

The ACA extended health care insurance to a broad range of people – about 20 million. While the little-known provision about children with cancer may not be as broad in scope, the effect is deep.

Until the ACA was enacted 10 years ago, there were two care choices for kids with cancer whose parents were told they had less than six months to live: They could continue treatment for their little ones, or they could decide to cease treatment and enter hospice. In most cases, when a patient enters hospice care, insurers no longer will pay for treatment. Instead, the care becomes comfort care. The decision to enter hospice care is always one of the toughest decisions patients and their families ever make. It is impossible to know the heartbreak that parents of children with cancer must make in choosing between hospice care or treatment.

Source: How children with lethal cancers and other incurable illnesses have benefited from the Affordable Care Act – and why they’ll suffer if the Supreme Court overturns it

Lawyers Still Can’t Find the Parents of 666 Migrant Children

Lawyers say it’s the parents in the latter group who have been more difficult to track down since many of them were deported before the court order that they be reunited with their children. But part of the problem is also that DHS did an extraordinarily terrible job of keeping track of parents’ contact information: According to a 2019 report from the Office of Inspector General, DHS lacked the “system functionality” to carry out this evil task, knew this to be true, and moved forward with the separations anyway. Terrifyingly, this assessment suggests the possibility that the Trump administration may not be withholding the phone numbers Herzog requests in his email—rather, the administration might not have them at all.

Source: Lawyers Still Can’t Find the Parents of 666 Migrant Children

Defining Cultures by Their Occupation(s) and Environment(s)

Foundation Operation X for Languages, Cultures and Perspectives

Written by Dyami Millarson

Figuring out the traditional or historical primary means of subsistence of (usually small and isolated) communities has been relevant to our language preservation efforts, because it helps us to identify what kind of language community we are dealing with. For instance, a people such as the Hindeloopen Frisians who were historically sea-faring traders is deeply connected with the language they speak, thus they are influenced by their historically transmitted terms and idioms which reflect their unique sea-faring trade history. After studying the vocabulary of the endangered language we are interested in, we move on, as a matter of procedure, to study the occupational history of the community of speakers in order to confirm what the vocabulary was already telling us about the chief occupation(s) of the speakers. We operate by the principle that an orally transmitted endangered language would not possess certain terms that are connected…

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You Keep Me Running… #poetry

I run toward the sun

press hope to my soul

will feet forward

rough and dusty road

Look over my back

pursuit darkness’ aim

a claim upon my life

forward, aghast they gain

I run toward the son

press hope to my soul

will feet forward

rough and dusty road

*

life is in the balance

in my shoe a stone

press on a little longer

closer now, I’m home

penned in moon dust

I run toward the sun

press hope to my soul

will feet forward

rough and dusty road

Look over my back

pursuit darkness’ aim

a claim upon my life

forward, aghast they gain

I run toward the son

press hope to my soul

will feet forward

rough and dusty road

*

life is in the balance

in my shoe a stone

press on a little longer

closer now, I’m home

David a shepherd, a psalmist, a king understood the running from and running toward “something.”

David was always running toward God in faith and running from enemies, his own king, his son, his guilt…

What are you running from? what are you running toward?

Are you longing for a peaceful green pasture to lay down on today?

Are the talons of fear and darkness digging into all hope, all resolve?

Call out to Jesus you who are weak, afraid, burdened.

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The Gold Smoke of Epidemics – oru a wakëxi — Barbara Crane Navarro

Yanomami shaman invoking the spirit of the Anaconda – Barbara Crane Navarro, an illustration for the children’s fantasy/adventure book “Amazon Rainforest Magic: The adventures of Namowë, a Yanomami boy” (Volume 1) As the Yanomami spokesman Davi Kopenawa says in his book “The Falling Sky “:  “They suddenly found a lot of gold. From that moment on, […]

The Gold Smoke of Epidemics – oru a wakëxi — Barbara Crane Navarro

DOJ official steps down over Barr’s voter fraud investigation memo – Axios

  • Pilger states in his email to colleagues, also obtained by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the new DOJ policy is “abrogating the forty-year old Non-Interference Policy for ballot fraud investigation in the period prior to elections becoming certified and uncontested.”

For the record: Pilger stated, “Having familiarized myself with the new policy and its ramifications … I must regretfully resign from my role as Director of the Election Crimes Branch.”

  • He has been director of the Election Crimes Branch of the Department of Justice since 2010 and will now “move to a nonsupervisory role working on corruption prosecutions,” per the NYT.

Source: DOJ official steps down over Barr’s voter fraud investigation memo – Axios