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Lily For Cee’s #FOTD – Suzette B’s Blog
No Pedaling – Haiku 2024 – Suzette B’s Blog

Watch out! Comin‘ through!
no pedaling outdoor rides
standing room only
Streetart – Piet Rodriguez @ Grenoble, France – Barbara Picci
Title: L’Envol
Location: Grenoble, France
Artist: Piet Rodriguez (Belgium)
For: Street Art Fest Grenoble Alpes
Address: 10 rue Aimé Bouchayer, Seyssinet-Pariset
Year: 2024
Photo credits: Andrea Berlese
Source: Streetart – Piet Rodriguez @ Grenoble, France – Barbara Picci
Jolly Monday … Can I Go Back To Sleep Now? | Filosofa’s Word
(2) NENA | 99 Luftballons [1983] [Offizielles HD Musikvideo] – YouTube

COLONIALISMO do século 21 – implementado por corporações e ONGs? Cuja sobrevivência está em jogo aqui, Survival? A sobrevivência das florestas tropicais e dos povos Indígenas ou da Cartier e outros na indústria de joias de ouro e diamantes? – Pensando em doar para uma ONG? Por favor, leia isso primeiro! – 2024! | Barbara Crane Navarro

“A tolice do homem aumentou o valor do ouro e da prata por causa de sua escassez; enquanto a natureza, como um pai amoroso, nos deu gratuitamente as melhores coisas, como ar, terra e água, mas escondeu de nós as que são vãs e desnecessárias.” – Thomas More,” Utopia “, livro II – 1516

A sistemática conquista e colonização européia das Américas começou em 1492 e ainda está em andamento. A motivação principal era, e continua a ser, a exploração. O aumento da riqueza na Europa dependeu do ouro, os diamantes e outras riquezas saqueadas às custas da degradação da natureza e da subjugação dos povos Indígenas …

A ONG Survival proclama: “Estamos lutando pela sobrevivência dos povos indígenas. Evitamos que madeireiros, mineiros e empresas de petróleo destruam as terras, vidas e meios de subsistência de tribos em todo o mundo. Pressionamos os governos a reconhecer os direitos às terras indígenas. Documentamos e expomos as atrocidades cometidas contra os povos tribais e tomamos medidas diretas para detê-los. “
Fui voluntária para a Survival France nos anos 90 e início dos anos 2000, quando voltei para a França depois de viver com os Yanomami na Venezuela e no Brasil e inicialmente pensei que a Survival fez a coisa certa.
Passei muito tempo coletando assinaturas em petições da Survival defendendo os direitos dos povos Indígenas em diferentes partes do mundo (antes que as petições existissem na internet) incluindo impressões digitais como assinaturas Yanomami.

Yapacana tepui, Amazonas, Venezuela – foto: Barbara Crane Navarro
A comunidade Curripaco em Guachapana, ao longo do rio Orinoco, me pediu para criar uma petição para ajudá-los a se livrar dos garimpeiros da Colômbia que os aterrorizaram em seu caminho para locais ilegais de mineração de ouro no Yapacana tepui.
Agora, em 2024, a aldeia de Guachapana e as florestas circundantes foram efetivamente varridas do mapa; saqueada, escavada e contaminada com mercúrio pelos garimpeiros – a comunidade totalmente devastada.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/06/venezuela-yapacana-gold-mining/
A situação piorou e a mineração de ouro está destruindo o tepui Yapacana, um local sagrado, e contaminando com mercúrio as fontes de água, peixes, solo, animais selvagens e povos indígenas da região. Mas não só nesta região. A Venezuela está mais desmatada, envenenada e saqueada por minas de ouro do que o Brasil!…
Primary Threats to Bees + 10 ways to save them! [Visuals] — ecogreenlove | Barbara Crane Navarro

Insects play a vital role in the food chain – with around a third of the food we eat relying on pollination mainly by bees.
Primary Threats to Bees + 10 ways to save them [Visuals] — ecogreenlove
Source: Primary Threats to Bees + 10 ways to save them! [Visuals] — ecogreenlove | Barbara Crane Navarro
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NIKON D7500 – ƒ/8 1/500 600mm ISO200 – Crex Meadows Wildlife Refuge, WI
The Promise of Medicine – CRAIN’S COMMENTS
A recent post in Becker’s Healthcare highlights what both the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) and the Value-Based Care movement were supposed to do and what can still be achieve.
The basic concept is that a focus on early detection can reduce the overall cost of healthcare in the US.
The example involves WellSpan Health, a York, Pennsylvania-based health system with nine hospitals and more than 250 care locations. By identifying a problem among Spanish-speaking residents, the hospital was able both the save lives and money.
Simply, WellSpan staff identified that Hispanic households were seeking cancer care later with their cancer at a more advanced stage of treatment. By spending $3,600 to have a team of Spanish-speaking interviewers canvas 23,000 households and encourage people with possible cancers to be screened, they were able to identify 375 early cancer cases. Early treatment increased the life expectancy for each of these individuals by an average of 10.6 years and saved an estimated $600,000 in treatment costs.
Mantra: Early detection saves lives and money. Lots of quality years of life and lots of money.
The ACA was intended to connect consumers with care and reduce of eliminate the barriers to early detection of disease.
The value-based care initiative was intended to improve care results for patients. It’s been twisted into something else.
“‘Value-based care’ has strayed far from its original intent to align healthcare delivery incentives with the interests of patients, to improve patient outcomes and to create real value in healthcare. ‘Value-based care’ has increasingly become a financial construct, more focused on managing reimbursement models than on patient well-being. What was once a philosophy centered on enhancing patient care has been reduced to a polarizing buzzword that exemplifies the lack of alignment between the financial and delivery elements of the healthcare system.”
Paul Hinchey, MD, COO of Cleveland-based University Hospitals (2)
It’s time for us to take these concepts back to their roots and obtain the intended benefits for patients and taxpayers alike.
Source: The Promise of Medicine – CRAIN’S COMMENTS






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