Opinion | The Kremlin may be slowly killing Alexei Navalny in prison. The world must not let it happen. – The Washington Post

Alarm bells went off last week when authorities prevented Navalny’s lawyers Olga Mikhailova and Vadim Kobzev from seeing him in the Pokrov colony. When they finally gained access to their client, they saw a man hardly able to walk, struggling to get off his bed, unable to feel his right leg, and suffering sharp and constant back pain. “Navalny forbade us from making this public, but … we decided to come out into the open,” wrote Kobzev. “They are deliberately turning him into a cripple,” Mikhailova added.

It is difficult to find another description. The prison authorities are not only denying civilian doctors access to Navalny. They are also refusing to accept medicines for back pain — or even a handwritten doctor’s note with exercises. Since he is not being seen by doctors, the diagnosis is unknown — but likely causes include a pinched nerve from being held in cramped paddy wagons and prison cells and the lasting effects of last year’s poisoning. In addition, Navalny’s jailers have labeled him a “flight risk” (this for a man who voluntarily returned to Russia even though he was facing arrest). That means that he is woken up every hour at night by prison guards, in what amounts to torture by sleep deprivation.

Source: Opinion | The Kremlin may be slowly killing Alexei Navalny in prison. The world must not let it happen. – The Washington Post

Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny goes on hunger strike in prison — Meduza

Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny has announced a hunger strike to protest the conditions of his imprisonment in Penal Colony No. 2 (located in the city of Pokrov, in the Vladimir region).

In an Instagram post uploaded on Wednesday, March 31, Navalny said that he’s resorting to a hunger strike because he’s being denied necessary medicines and being “tortured by sleep deprivation.” In his words, prison inmates “have no other methods of fighting.”

“I have the right to call a doctor and receive medicine. But they don’t give me either one. The back pain has spread to my leg. Areas of my right [leg] and now my left leg have lost feeling. All jokes aside, this is really a strain.”

Source: Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny goes on hunger strike in prison — Meduza

Germany’s COVID sceptics fuelled by Russian media and far-Right conspiracies | openDemocracy

RT DE, the German branch of Russia’s state-controlled media network, Russia Today, ranked as the sixth most shared media outlet in the Telegram groups and channels, ahead of German news publications such as Der Spiegel. The Russian state news agency Sputnik, known in Germany as SNA, came eighth, while Pravda, a Russian newspaper, ranked 11th.

One video produced by RT DE, titled ‘Dr Claus Köhnlein on “fatal coronavirus experiments” by the WHO [World Health Organization]’, was viewed more than 200,000 times on the Telegram channels analysed. It received 1.5 million views on YouTube in less than six months and is still available on the platform. RT DE did not respond to a request for comment.

‘Alternative’ German publications, some of which are staunchly pro-Russia, were also prominent on the list. Compact, which ranked tenth, is a far-Right magazine that has previously organised conferences alongside the Kremlin-backed Institute for Democracy and Cooperation.

Source: Germany’s COVID sceptics fuelled by Russian media and far-Right conspiracies | openDemocracy

Rose of Castlemaine

Michael Stephen Wills Photography

A chapter of our day on the Dingle Peninsula.
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The temperate oceanic climate of Ireland is perfect for roses. On R561 near Castlemaine we stopped to admire these dark red blooms growing on long stems. From the form and deep color I say these are a hybrid of the China Rose, a variety with color that deepens in sunlight.

Rose of Castlemain– CLICK ME!!!!

Rose of Castlemain– CLICK ME!!!!

Castlemaine of County Kerry, is on the southeastern coast. Here prevailing winds from the North Atlantic current moderate temperatures; winters are warmer, summers cooler than elsewhere on the island. Just across the road is a yard aburst with blooms on this June day in 2013. Castlemain is named for a castle built on a bridge over the river Maine. The river flows into Dingle Bay.

Rose of Castlemain– CLICK ME!!!!

Rose of Castlemain– CLICK ME!!!!

This is a small, quiet town, yet due to the river crossing this is…

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(1) As ethnic armies unite against coup, war returns to Myanmar’s borderlands – YouTube

Civilians wounded in #Myanmar air strikes on rebel positions spoke of their terrifying ordeal Tuesday after trekking through jungle to seek medical treatment across the border in #Thailand. Military jets hit targets in eastern #Karen state on Saturday and Sunday, as Myanmar reeled from the deadliest day so far in the junta’s #crackdown on anti-coup protests.

Day 52/67 of GED in Five Months, water, and our health

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

So, how would you figure out how much water is currently in your local aquifer, say, if you live in Albuquerque, New Mexico? 

So, what does ground water have to do with all of our health, and why do we need to understand this, as citizens of a republic?

 Middle of week 14/18
Lesson Plan for Day 52
Grammar: Misplaced Modifiers
Math: Review of solving one-step equations
Science: dig around for info. on your local water supply…
Please see the Lesson plan for Day 52’s Exit Tickets
 

Action Items:  

1.) Search for two different sources to learn the source of your local water supply,

2.) Did you notice that a key word has similar but different meanings, above?  Please tell us where your water comes from, and how you know that the sources you found are reliable,

3.) Write a book, story, blog post or…

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