The Danger of Collective Amnesia

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Nearly five months after the attack on the Capitol on January 6th of this year, Republicans continue to downplay and naysay the attack.  Time seems to have diminished their memories of that fateful day, and they claim it was nothing more than a few ‘tourists’ or ‘patriots’ having a good time.  Never mind that five people were killed and 140 police officers injured, and never mind that if the attempt to overthrow an election had succeeded, we would be living in a very different country today, one ruled by a madman and his cronies.

Robert Reich explains the utter importance of investigating the attack and the events that led up to it, the people who may have played a role in instigating it.  If we fail to learn from the past, then we are destined to repeat it.  Listen closely to his words, for he speaks the truth.  We the…

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A new COVID-19 wave overwhelms pandemic-conscious Taiwan · Global Voices

On May 16, Taiwan’s health minister Chen Shih-chung issued a level 3 soft lockdown alert, with restrictions such as mandatory mask-wearing in all public spaces and a 10-people limit to outdoor gatherings.

The greater Taipei city area was the most affected by the new wave. With the restrictions, its wealthiest areas have become empty in the past few days.

The Taiwanese CDC has identified two major infection clusters — one linked to China Airlines’ flights and another to a “sexy tea shop,” entertainment venues where men, usually older, are served intimately by young female waitresses.

Critics blamed the relaxation of quarantine rules for unvaccinated China Airlines’ staff in mid-April for that cluster. By May 11, 13 China Airlines pilots had tested positive for COVID-19, and there have been 30 domestic cases linked to the hotel where airline staff was being quarantined.

A former chair of the local chapter of Lions Club International developed COVID-like symptoms and tested positive on May 11. Contact tracing showed that he had visited a sexy tea shop in Taipei’s Wanhua area between May 4 and May 10.

There are more than 100 sexy tea shops in Wanhua district and the sector employs thousands of people. By May 20, 299 COVID-19 positive cases had been linked to the Wanhua district, which means the infection chain could be far more extensive.

Source: A new COVID-19 wave overwhelms pandemic-conscious Taiwan · Global Voices

Rutas de un viajero: Capítulo I. Zona arqueológica de Tzintzuntzan

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

Fotografía: Lázaro Alejandre Gutiérrez

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Las flores amarillas brotan diminutas, cautivantes, risueñas, en la tierra que un día, otro y muchos más se ha acumulado entre las piedras, sobre la ciudad legendaria y sagrada de los antiguos purépechas, quienes antes de la llegada de los conquistadores y evangelizadores españoles, en el siglo XVI, dominaron Michoacán.

Hierba y flores con pétalos de textura fragante y policromada, brotan incontenibles, plenas e insaciables; exhalan aromas silvestres y suspiros que parecen provenir de algún lugar secreto de las entrañas de la tierra, acaso repitiendo el eco de una cultura enterrada, perdida durante un atardecer prehispánico, una mañana incierta, un día colonial. Un día, todo cambió para ese pueblo.

El sol ardiente se filtra entre las nubes rasgadas por el viento e incendia el lago plomado que refleja, cual espejo, las montañas azuladas que se…

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25th May: Africa Day

° BLOG ° Gabriele Romano

Africa Day (formerly African Freedom Day and African Liberation Day) is the annual commemoration of the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity on 25 May 1963. It is celebrated in various countries on the African continent, as well as around the world. The organisation was transformed into the African Union on 9 July 2002 in Durban, South Africa, but the holiday continues to be celebrated on 25 May.

The First Congress of Independent African States was held in Accra, Ghana on 15 April 1958. It was convened by Prime Minister of GhanaDr. Kwame Nkrumah, and comprised representatives from Egypt (then a constituent part of the United Arab Republic), Ethiopia, Liberia, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon and of the host country Ghana. The Union of South Africa was not invited. The conference showcased…

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Russia supports Ryanair highjack

Anna Van Densky blog

Brussels 24.05.2021 Anna van Densky OPINION The defence of Belarus President Lukashenko actions, which have been already defined by some of the EU politicians as “state terrorism”, indicated that Russia has been informed or, even engaged in this operation, which also can lead to a suggestion the the liberation of Protasevich and the other political prisoners in Belarus would be possible through an asymmetric answer. The extensive presence of Russians at French Riviera, purchasing luxury mansions and palaces could become an key to the liberation of all political prisoners in Belarus, just through questioning the sources of their wealth.

“There is no reason why Western countries should…

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Infections and the Immune System

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Pandora didn’t unleash evils on the world by opening her box. Rather, the evils existed; the world didn’t have a name for them or understood what they were. So the ancients made up stories about gods fighting and striking a stone with a staff and constellations and planetary motion. Maybe there’s some truth in some of those stories? Who knows. Coincidences happen.

We have a new study led by Dr. Katherine King of the Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital that may tell us more than we have ever known about what ails us. And if you have a paranoid streak, put on your seatbelt.

Current theory holds that the root of our immune system is in gut bacteria. However, the mechanism for resisting injury and disease is via white blood cells that are generated in bone morrow. In those two sentences, there is a massive complexity that…

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18th Century Venetian Street Trades: The Cat Gelder

Gobblers by Masticadores

by Robin Saikia blog

This plate is from an important and entertaining book published in Venice in the mid-eigthteenth century, Tratto da Le arti che vanno per via nella città di Venezia (Venetian Street Traders would be a suitable short title), with engravings by Gaetano Gherardo Zompini. It shows an itinerant tinker who would sell or repair pots and pans, but was also prepared to neuter your cat – hence he came to be known colloquially as the Castragatti, the Cat Gelder. Rats were and still are a big nuisance in Venice, so the community was faced with the double challenge of keeping cats as a deterrent but also trying to keep down the increasingly out-of-control colony of feral cats. Thus the Castragatti played an important part in city life. Below we see the Inchiostro, the ink vendor, who also sells rat poison. Note the gruesome dead rats he uses…

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Vacation series: episode#10: Bundt cake with orange bake!

LITTLE CHEF’S APRON

Hi everyone! Welcome to Little Chef’s Apron! Today we will be making something sweet.

I tried this recipe having no expectations as I didn’t know it would taste this good!

There is a cyclone happening in he Bay of Bengal and it is affecting southern India as well. As much as I enjoyed to see the rain and catch the wind, it had also cost my cake to almost fail! As the winds were immensely strong, the power supply was cut while the cake was baking!

As this was the first time I used Bundt mould, I didn’t want anything to go wrong with it but here it was, sitting in the oven without any heat. But the worst part was that it had only been exposed to heat for 15 minutes.

So if I took it out now, then there were heavy chances of it sinking in the middle…

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FORESIGHT, AND PLANING FOR THE FUTURE, RATHER THAN WAIT AND SEE WHAT MAY HAPPEN, A TIME FOR HEART.

Kone, Krusos, Kronos

A Time For Heart

EVERYTHING WE ARE GOING THROUGH WAS PREDICTABLE.

We have eyes to see, so we can navigate safely, you see an obstacle in your path when walking, well you avoid it.

We have ears to hear, and alert us to whatever noise we hear, if it’s not normal, example being at home relaxing in your bedroom doing whatever, and hearing a loud noise away in the Livingroom when you know you are alone.

We smell a heavy butane odor, and look for a leak, we open windows, and above all we do not light a match.

We eat something, and we notice it taste funny, we stop eating, and get rid of whatever we had in our mouth and spit it out.

Foresight

Well, you get what I am saying, our senses protect us from danger, but how come when we see, and hear everyday bad news, about injustice, wars, violence, hate…

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