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Global Economy: Oil vs COVID-19
Prof. Cyrus Bina | New Cold War - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
22 Apr 2020 – How can oil prices become negative, and what does this mean for the global economy? World oil expert Cyrus Bina explains the current new turn of the global economy and the role that oil is playing in it.
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Poem Beginning with a Line from Neruda
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
“Puedo escribir versos mas tristes esta noche.”—Neruda
(Tonight I can write sadder verses.)
Because the moon has disappeared…from grief.
Because the children weep for their parents.
Because memories are whitewashed… and stolen.
Because words have lost their meaning.
(Português) A Dor dos Animais pela Lente de Andrew Skowron
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
29 abr 2020 – Por meio da fotografia, quero mostrar o que é invisível para a sociedade – as relações entre os animais, sua capacidade de sentir, o respeito que eles merecem. Minhas imagens mostram suas existências, que foram degradadas e reduzidas a produtos, bens comuns.
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Standing on the Shoulders of Solitude: Newton, the Plague, and How Quarantine Fomented the Greatest Leap in Science
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
“Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.” In the 1650s, the penumbra of plague slowly began eclipsing Europe. Italy fell first, soon Spain, then Germany, then Holland.
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New Zealand Has ‘Effectively Eliminated’ Coronavirus — Here’s What They Did Right
Aaron Gulley | National Geographic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
30 Apr 2020 – The island nation chose strict lockdowns and austerity. What’s next?
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Buddhism and Its Vedic Connections
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
Many people may know about Buddhism, but few seem to understand its connections with the Vedic Culture and how many of its aspects originate in the Vedic philosophy. It was several hundred years before the time of Lord Buddha that his birth was predicted in the Srimad-Bhagavatam.
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Time to Repatriate Humanity
Wael Qarssifi | Malay Mail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
30 Apr 2020 – It is rather disappointing and shocking in 2020 to read that a Malaysian writer and journalist is asking the Rohingyas — the most persecuted minority in the world — to be thankful for not being put on an island camp, and using factual errors and xenophobic remarks to provoke the Malaysian public against one of the most deprived communities in the world.
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A Beacon in India’s Deep Hinterland
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
In the last two decades, the gender landscape in rural India has been greening, and women are now on the cusp of a powerful social and political revolution. The harbinger of this change is a unique policy experiment in village-level governance, the Panchayat Raj Act, which has brought transformative results for the weakest of the weak: the village women.
→ read full articleCOVID-19: Breaking the Lockdown, Defeating the Coup, Averting Extinction
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
Using its fora such as the World Economic Forum and its agents (particularly the World Health Organization, the pharmaceutical industry, governments, the medical industry and corporate media) the global elite continues to tighten its grip on the human population, bombarding us with COVID-19 propaganda to heighten people’s fear while introducing new and/or extending existing restrictions to conceal the many measures being taken to execute their ongoing coup against humanity.
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Portugal Leads the Way: How European Countries Fared in Their Treatment of Refugees
Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
28 Apr 2020 – Although one of the poorest European countries, Portugal has decided to legalize all of its undocumented refugees and migrants, therefore, providing them with the same medical attention and support as its own citizens. Neglecting the refugees while fighting to halt the spread of the coronavirus is as foolish as it is inhumane. The last few months have taught us that provisional and self-centered strategies do not apply in the cases of global healthcare crises.
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Soul Rebel (Music Video of the Week)
Song around the World | Playing for Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
Bob Marley once said, “One good thing about music is that when it hits you feel no pain.” Another good thing about music is that it touches our souls and lifts our spirits. Connecting people is one thing, but connecting souls is a whole different level. Enjoy Bunny Wailer, Manu Chao and Bushman singing the Wailer’s classic, Soul Rebel, with musicians around the world.
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My Priorities or Yours?
Joe Kandra and Pat Daniel | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
Good old US of A
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On ‘The Plague’ by Albert Camus
Tony Judt | New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
Camus’s insistence on placing individual moral responsibility at the heart of all public choices cuts sharply across the comfortable habits of our own age. His unwavering grasp of the difference between good and evil, despite his compassion for the doubters and the compromised, for the motives and mistakes of imperfect humanity, casts unflattering light upon the relativizers and trimmers of our own day. And his controversial use of a biological epidemic to illustrate the dilemmas of moral contagion succeeds in ways the writer could not have imagined.
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(Italiano) Come collaborare con il nemico… ce lo spiega Adam Kahane
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
24 Aprile 2020 – Vi voglio presentare un personaggio che ha dedicato il suo lavoro e la sua vita al cambiamento e ai metodi per conseguirlo in contesti diversi.
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Clean Air in Europe during Lockdown ‘Leads to 11,000 Fewer Deaths’
Jonathan Watts | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
30 Apr 2020 – The improvement in air quality over the past month of the coronavirus lockdown has led to 11,000 fewer deaths from pollution in Europe, a study has revealed. It also finds less asthma and preterm births.
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The Coronavirus Pandemic as Opportunity in the Midst of Suffering: For a Future of Global Solidarity
Dr. Evelin Lindner | Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
2 Apr 2020 – Where do we stand, as humankind? We have dug ourselves into a multitude of perilous crises, both despite and because of what we call progress or economic growth. In service of profit, we practice strategies of development that shred our social fabric while simultaneously plundering our planet – fuelling a toxic combination of sociocide and ecocide that leads to intractable cycles of systemic humiliation. The coronavirus pandemic is one manifestation of this dire predicament.
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Malaysia Cites Covid-19 for Rounding Up Hundreds of Rohingya Migrants
Kaamil Ahmed | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
2 May 2020 – In move condemned by UN, refugees including Rohingya detained amid rise in xenophobia.
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Global Military Expenditure Sees Largest Annual Increase in a Decade Reaching US$ 1.917 Trillion in 2019
SIPRI-Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
27 April 2020 – Total global military expenditure rose to US$ 1.917 trillion in 2019, according to new data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The total for 2019 represents an increase of 3.6 per cent from 2018 and the largest annual growth in spending since 2010. The five largest spenders in 2019, which accounted for 62 per cent of expenditure, were the United States, China, India, Russia and Saudi Arabia.
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Running of the Bulls: Pamplona’s San Fermin Cancelled over Coronavirus
Fiona Govan | The Local - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
21 Apr 2020 – Spain’s most famous running of the bulls fiesta has been cancelled this year due to the coronavirus. Acting Mayor Ana Elizalde announced that the festival could not be carried out with social distancing measures in place. She was unable to say whether it might be held at a later date, given the unpredictability of the coronavirus health crisis.
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Earth Day Communiqué
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
21 April 2020 – The health emergency we face as a global community is strictly connected to the health emergency the Earth is facing. This Earth Day over 500 organisations, movements and leaders from over 50 countries call for integrated action putting the health and wellbeing of all peoples and the planet at the centre of government and institutional policy, community building and civic action.
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Conflict Irresolution: U.S.-Taliban Peace Deal
Cristina Cabrejas-Artola – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
23 Apr 2020 – At a time when the international community had high hopes for conflict resolution and a first glimpse of peace victory, all is left is an agreement of conflict irresolution and defeat.
→ read full articleFacts about COVID-19: Apr 25, 2020 Update
Swiss Propaganda Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
25 Apr 2020 – Fully referenced facts about Covid-19, provided by experts in the field, to help our readers make a realistic risk assessment.
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Positives of Corona Virus
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
27 Apr 2020 – Ever since the world became familiar with the new pandemic named Coronavirus or COVID-19 about two months back, we have seen so many of its tragic features. But we hope the pandemic comes to an end soon and that the lessons learnt by people and the peace and harmony displayed are retained by humanity.
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I Think I Shall Never See… (Earth Day Poem)
Adwik Roshan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
I Think I shall never see
A creation as lovely as a tree
As it dances in the wind,
Moving back and forth in glee
Alternating between Complementary Images of Coronavirus
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
27 Apr 2020 – The response to the coronavirus, COVID-19 and the pandemic is variously framed in terms of threat, fear, surprise, panic, evil, pestilence, and the like. There is a case for exploring the set of such images as a source of insight in its own right.
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Light a Candle
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
21 Apr 2020 – Israel has over 13,000 COVID-19 cases and close to 200 deaths. Yet, the Israeli regime keeps thousands of Palestinian political prisoners in crowded prisons (and using them as guinea pigs to test drugs to profit its pharmaceutical industry). The regime shuts down a Palestinian clinic in occupied East Jerusalem (Silwan) that is fighting the pandemic.
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Oil Plunges below Zero for First Time in Unprecedented Wipeout
Catherine Ngai, Olivia Raimonde and Alex Longley | Bloomberg - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
20 Apr 2020 – Of all the wild, unprecedented swings in financial markets since the coronavirus pandemic broke out, none has been more jaw-dropping than today’s collapse in a key segment of U.S. oil trading:
* U.S. crude trades at lowest level in data going back to 1946.
* Crude in U.S. trades more than $40 below zero at lowest level.
Singapore’s Spike in Coronavirus Cases Shows the Road to Recovery Will Be a Bumpy Ride
Pushan Dutt | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
23 Apr 2020 -Singapore was widely praised as one of the countries that reacted quickly and effectively to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. But subsequent spikes show how long and bumpy the road to recovery from coronavirus will be. Lockdowns will have to be lifted cautiously and new waves of infection are likely.
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Coronavirus Advice
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
Digniview
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Gates’ Globalist Vaccine Agenda: A Win-Win for Pharma and Mandatory Vaccination
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Children's Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
9 Apr 2020 – Vaccines, for Bill Gates, are a strategic philanthropy that feed his many vaccine-related businesses (including Microsoft’s ambition to control a global vaccination ID enterprise) and give him dictatorial control of global health policy. Gates’ obsession with vaccines seems to be fueled by a conviction to save the world with technology.
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Self-Extinction of Neoliberalism? Don’t Bet on It
Gilbert Achcar | New Politics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
24 Apr 2020 – The magnitude of the ongoing economic disaster is such that it has revived and boosted the hope that it will lead to a major global shift in economic policies and priorities. Naomi Klein quotes from one of the key contributors to the neoliberal shift–Milton Friedman: “Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.” She quotes it approvingly: “Friedman, one of history’s most extreme free market economists, was wrong about a whole lot, but he was right about that. In times of crisis, seemingly impossible ideas suddenly become possible.”
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(Italiano) Aosta 25 aprile 2020. Lettura collettiva, sincrona e nonviolenta dei Principi fondamentali della Costituzione Italiana
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
25 APRILE 2020 – Dal vivo e dal palco dell’autorevolezza della Costituzione della Repubblica italiana è stata effettuata la lettura collettiva, sincrona e nonviolenta, dei Principi fondamentali della Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana.
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‘No Evidence’ That Recovered COVID-19 Patients Cannot Be Reinfected, Says WHO
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
25 Apr 2020 – The UN World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that there is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection.
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Vulture Capitalism
Joe Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service~,
27 Apr 2020
As It Is…
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‘Closing Borders Is Ridiculous’: The Epidemiologist behind Sweden’s Controversial Coronavirus Strategy
Marta Paterlini | Nature - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
21 Apr 2020 – As much of Europe imposed severe restrictions on public life last month to stem the spread of the coronavirus, one country stood out. Anders Tegnell talks about the nation’s ‘trust-based’ approach to tackling the pandemic.
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(Português) O Golpe COVID-19 das Elites Contra uma Humanidade Aterrorizada: Resistindo Poderosamente
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
27 Apr 2020 – Eu expliquei anteriormente como a infecção por COVID-19 está sendo usada para nos assustar a nos submeter impotentemente ao mais recente passo da elite global para assumir um controle muito maior de nossas vidas e como aqueles que podem perceber isso e desejam resistir a isso podem fazê-lo efetivamente.
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(Português) COVID-19 Força Cancelamento da “Corrida de Touros” da Festa de San Fermín na Espanha
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
24 abr 2020 – De acordo com a PETA, a famosa “Corrida de Touros” realizada anualmente em Pamplona como parte da Festa de San Fermín foi cancelada este ano. Agora a PETA está aproveitando a ocasião para tentar motivar o poder público a cancela-la para sempre.
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Are We before the Possible ‘Awakening’ of Mankind?
Juana Pérez Montero | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
10 Apr 2020 – A door has been opened and it is worthy to work on a new impulse for the humanization of the world. If we can be silent in this isolation, perhaps we will advance towards the awakening of the human being, towards the arrival of the Winged Lion.
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From Trump to Erdoğan, Men Who Behave Badly Make the Worst Leaders in a Pandemic
Simon Tisdall | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
26 Apr 2020 – Around the world, authoritarian leaders are exploiting, exacerbating or grossly mishandling the response to the pandemic, placing selfish interest ahead of public good. Their behaviour is frequently appalling. They are a modern incarnation of TS Eliot’s “hollow men”. Sex is relevant, in that female leaders are generally thought to be behaving better.
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Planet of the Humans | Full Documentary, Earth Day 2020
Michael Moore – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
21 Apr 2020 – A documentary that dares to say what no one else will in this Earth Day: We are losing the battle to stop climate change on planet earth because we are following leaders who have taken us down the wrong road–selling out the green movement to wealthy and corporate interests.
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Banking on Climate Breakdown
Brendan Montague | The Ecologist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
23 Apr 2020 – Banks must stop funding climate breakdown-driving fossil fuels as the world recovers from the coronavirus pandemic. Barclays and HSBC must address their role in funding the climate crisis and contribute to delivering a sustainable recovery from the impacts of COVID-19, announces new report from a coalition of NGOs.
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Tourism
Banksy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
Symbolic …
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Bernie Sanders Tests the Limits of the US Political System
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
The Great Gray Hope has bowed out of the presidential primary race, leaving tottering Joe Biden as the last Democrat standing. What Bernie Sanders accomplished electorally was remarkable, revealing both how far a progressive can venture and the limits proscribing further advancement to the left within the Democratic Party.
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From Emergency to Emergence
David Korten | YES! Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
23 Apr 2020 – The COVID-19 emergency has exposed our societies’ failure to address the needs of billions of people. Simultaneously, we are witnessing a fundamental truth about human nature: There are those among us eager to exploit the suffering of others for personal gain. We can be reassured, however, by how few of them there are. Their actions contrast starkly with the far greater numbers at all levels of society demonstrating their willingness, even eagerness, to cooperate, share, and sacrifice for the well-being of all.
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Pentagon Brass Can Kiss My Ass
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
22 Apr 2020 – The coronavirus-stricken crew of the USS Roosevelt would be more useful making N-95 masks, building housing for people living on the streets, and tilling community gardens to prepare for supply chain collapse. Why don’t we just bring them all home? What the hell is our Coast Guard doing off the coast of Iran anyway? Who’s protecting New Jersey?
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Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
The powerful ‘ruling elites’ of one country very often have better ties with the ‘ruling elites’ of another country, than with the average folk of their own country. ‘Birds of a feather fly together’ is the rule. No ‘special one’ wishes to be seen to be close to the average Joe or Jane. Therefore social, business and political ties are far stronger among ‘ruling elites’ across countries, than across the deep ‘economic schism’ in one country.
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Can a Virus Undermine Human Rights?
Olivier Nay | The Lancet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
20 Apr 2020 – Can exceptionality jeopardise some democratic principles in the long term? Could the epidemic lead to a reduction of individual rights after the peak of the crisis? How can humans think about health crisis management systems that protect society without undermining individual freedom?
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W.H.O and China: A Case of Geo-Political Misdirection
Hassanal Noor Rashid | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
20 April 2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic has been a real roller-coaster ride as far as geo-politics is concerned. In times of peace there are politicians, but in times of crisis, the true leaders emerge.
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Teilhard de Chardin (1 May 1881 – 10 Apr 1955): Evolution toward World Unity
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
Pierrre Teihard de Chardin, the French paleontologist, after a lifetime of study of the evolution of the human species concluded that humanity was entering a new age with a higher, peaceful and more responsible sense of the unity of the world community. Optimism and evolution are the two themes that Teilhard de Chardin leaves with us. He insisted at looking at the human population as one global family, developing a network of mutual support − recognizing the need of global solidarity.
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Celebrating the 125-Year-Old Legacy of Healthcare Work of Missionaries in Central India
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
Central India has been one of the most fertile belts for several unique experiments undertaken by missionaries in the field of education and healthcare. The result is a network of several well-known schools, colleges and hospitals that have woven themselves into the social landscape of the region. They have also become a byword for quality and affordable services delivered to all sections of the society.
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Second Wave of Locusts in East Africa Said to Be 20 Times Worse
Samuel Okiror | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
13 Apr 2020 – UN Warns of ‘Alarming and Unprecedented Threat’ to Food Security and Livelihoods in the Region – A second wave of desert locusts is threatening east Africa with estimates that it will be 20 times worse then the plague that descended two months ago.
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21st Century Crusaders
Rolf Odd - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
8 Apr 2020 – The Ideology of the Modern Crusaders–Old Testament Warriors or Déjà-vu All Over Again
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Redemption Song (Music Video of the Week)
Playing for Change | Song around the World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
This is a version of Redemption Song performed around the world in honor of Bob Marley’s birthday [6 Feb 1945]. We have reunited Bob with his son Stephen and the support of the entire planet. There is a feeling of rising above the past and moving forward with love in our hearts and hope in our eyes.
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Victory in Brazil: Evangelical Missionaries Barred from Uncontacted Tribes’ Land
Survival International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
17 Apr 2020 – In a landmark ruling, a Brazilian judge has blocked evangelical missionaries from making contact with uncontacted tribes in the Javari Valley, home to the greatest concentration of such peoples anywhere on Earth.
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The Psychology of the COVID-19 Coup: The Elite, Their Victims and Those Who Resist
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
It is interesting to observe the vast number of fearfully submissive people who are willing to accept, or even ask for, greater constraints on our rights, freedom and economic security, ostensibly to ‘protect’ them from a virus. Sadly, too, the fear of these people plays a critical collaborative role in advancing the elite coup. These lives, if lost or marginalized while suiting some elite depopulation agenda, will be a stark but ugly reminder that COVID-19 was never about a virus but about our fear.
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What Would and Should a Post-Pandemic World Look Like?
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 – Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been a general feeling that the world is at an historical turning point, that nothing will ever be the same again. A post-American, post-liberal world order awaits us. But what shape will it take?
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Remembering Carl Sagan on Earth Day
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
22 Apr 2020 – The excerpt below is from Carl Sagan’s book, Pale Blue Dot, and it was inspired by an image recorded by Voyager-1 on 14 Feb 1990. As the spacecraft was leaving the solar system for its no-return outer-space exploration trip, NASA technicians redirected the camera for a last photo of Planet Earth behind. Voyager was about 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) away when it captured this unique, historical, unflattering portrait of the world. Among light rays from the Sun, our Earth appears as a tiny, almost invisible point of light 0.12 pixel in size in the beam to the right of the frame. The landmark photo was by Sagan’s request.
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Prophets of Instability
Rick Perlstein | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
How Finance Broke the Modern Corporation – What are corporations for? In his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman gave a blunt answer: profit. Almost two decades earlier, Karl Polanyi had a different answer. Who was right?
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Why the West Hates Sandinista Nicaragua
Stephen Sefton | teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
In Nicaragua’s case, Western media and NGOs have comprehensively distorted and repeatedly lied about the country’s extraordinary achievement of containing the COVID-19 pandemic. As of 20 Apr 2020, there were 10 confirmed cases and two deaths in a population of 6.5 million.
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Julia Roberts as Mother Nature Speaking
Conservation International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
Julia Roberts Just Made a Most Powerful Video
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Trump Halts US Funding for World Health Organization as COVID-19 Pandemic Spreads throughout USA
Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and Noah Higgins-Dunn | CNBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
14 Apr 2020 – The U.S. will suspend funding to the WHO while it reviews the agency’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s unclear exactly what mechanism Trump intends to use to withhold WHO funding, much of which is appropriated by Congress.
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(Português) Verdade Absoluta: O Que É? ou Quem É?
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
Os cientistas concordam que todo o tempo, toda a história e toda a criação começam a partir de um único ponto. E esse ponto teria de ser a Verdade última ou Absoluta. Então o que é exactamente a Verdade Absoluta? Como é que recuamos no tempo e no espaço para encontrar a fonte original de tudo? Mesmo que pesquisemos a Bíblia, o Corão, os escritos judeus, ou mesmo os textos sikh, zoroastrianos ou budistas, encontraremos informação limitada sobre o que é a Verdade Absoluta. E esqueçam a dependência da ciência moderna, eles ainda estão à procura e têm muitas teorias diferentes para oferecer.
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(Castellano) La Granja del Dr Frankenstein
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
Documentary on the Use of Genetic Engineering in Animals
Documental sobre el Uso de la Ingeniería Genética en Animales
Israel Shuts Palestinian Coronavirus Testing Clinic in East Jerusalem
Nir Hasson | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
Israeli police raided a coronavirus testing clinic in the East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan and arrested its organizers on Tuesday [14 Apr] night because the clinic was operated in collaboration with the Palestinian Authority.
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(Português) A Terra Contra-Ataca a Humanidade pelo Coronavírus
Leonardo Boff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
16 abr 2020 – Mais e mais cresce a consciência de que a Terra e a Humanidade têm um destino comum, pois formam uma única e complexa unidade. Foi o que os astronautas da lua ou de suas naves espaciais nos testemunharam. Uma porção dela é inteligente e consciente: os seres humanos. Desde a mais alta antiquidade a Terra era vista como a Grande Mãe, viva e geradora de todo tipo de vida.
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Cuba Under Media Attack for Sending Doctors, Not Bombs, to Help COVID-19 Victims
Belen Fernandez | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
14 Apr 2020 – As coronavirus ravages the world, Cuba has exhibited disproportionate heroism, deploying medical personnel to at least 14 countries thus far to battle the pandemic. It is a welcome bit of uplifting news in an otherwise mostly dismal international panorama. Lest anyone start feeling too inspired by the idea of humanity, however, sectors of the US corporate media are dutifully standing by to burst the bubble.
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Spike-Endowed Global Civilization as COVID-19
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
The following argument explores the sense in which the very form of the virus effectively mirrors the nature of global civilization at this time. To an interesting degree it could be asked whether COVID-19 “is” global civilization — or whether global civilization “is” COVID-19. Like it or not, does the coronavirus effectively define the identity of global civilization as humanity has chosen to engender it?
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Why the Stock Market Is Healthy as Americans Die from Coronavirus
Jon Schwarz | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
12 Apr 2020 – This past week the S&P 500 went up 301 points, or 12 percent, its best performance in 46 years. During the same week, the reported number of Americans killed by Covid-19 went up 11,499, or 161 percent, the coronavirus’s best performance ever. So this seems like a good time to reevaluate our treasured belief that a rising stock market reflects general human flourishing. Consider a few more events that happened this week around the same time as this excited tweet from Donald Trump, who somehow is the president of the United States:
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‘Nature Welcomes the Change’: With No Tourists, Wildlife Roams California’s Yosemite
Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
17 Apr 2020 – A bear ambles across a forest glade and a herd of deer stroll down a silent road. At Yosemite National Park in Northern California, coronavirus restrictions mean no tourists – and bolder wildlife.
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Recovery from the Coronavirus Crisis Must Lead to a Better World: António Guterres
António Guterres, UN Secretary General – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
Now is the time to redouble our efforts to build more inclusive and sustainable economies and societies that are more resilient in the face of pandemics, climate change and other global challenges. The recovery must lead to a different economy. Our roadmap remains the 2030 agenda and sustainable development goals.
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World Order and COVID-19 Pandemic
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 – I am aware of the greater strength and role of cooperative movements in European countries, a residue of the socialist movements of the prior century, that give rise to more spontaneous approaches on local levels to immediate threats to well-being, exhibiting both less trust and less dependence on governmental undertakings. Furthermore, European health systems are more evolved, fewer people left out, and more sense of public responsibility, although some deficiencies also emerged.
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Easy to Replace: The US Contribution to the WHO
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
It ought to be peanuts for the world’s countries and private donors to contribute more and thereby do two important good things:
*show their commitment to this world-important UN organisation by compensating the loss of the US contribution at least 100% in this situation, and
*thereby reduce or abolish US bullying and money-based attempt to dominate.
The Muslim Religious Community and the Global War on COVID-19
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
30 Mar 2020 – The world is going through an unprecedented multi-dimensional crisis caused by the rapid spread of the virulent COVID-19, which seems to have built a consensus among the community of Muslim scholars on the need to work together with others, despite the diversity of their ideological references and political views, in order to face this health disaster collectively, and to assume fully their role as influencers in society.
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(русский-Russian) Норвежский «Нострадамус» еще 20 лет назад предрек крах США к концу 2020 года
Григорий Карачев | The Russian Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
12 апреля 2020 – Йохан Галтунг, который известен своими точными прогнозами, связанными с распадом Советского Союза и терактом в Америке 11 сентября, также предрек крах США. Данные его прогноз вызвал небывалый ажиотаж в сети.
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The Use of Propaganda in Times of Global or National Crises
Dr Gary Kohls | Duty to Warn - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
16 Apr 2020 – When Edward Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud (the Father of Psychoanalysis), wrote his famous 1928 book, Propaganda, he titled the first chapter of the book “Organizing Chaos”. The first part of this article are quotes from the first chapter of the book. It is obvious that Bernays doesn’t try to sugar-coat what he thinks are the reasons why propaganda is necessary – and not even evil – in a modern society.
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An Extremely Normal Weekend of Pestilence, Locusts, a Fire in Chernobyl, and a Volcano
Charles P. Pierce | Esquire - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
13 Apr 2020 – Here’s a sampling from around the world that gives substance to my now-regular reaction to any news at all—“Oh, come the fck on!”
→ read full articleThe Elite’s COVID-19 Coup against a Terrified Humanity: Resisting Powerfully
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
13 Apr 2020 – I have previously explained how the COVID-19 infection is being used to frighten us into submitting powerlessly to the global elite’s latest move to take much greater control of our lives and how those who can perceive this, and wish to resist it, can do so effectively.
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Libertango (Music Video of the Week)
Bel Suono – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
Piano Show Bel Suono & Ballet Todes – These three virtuosos pianists were educated in the best music universities in Russia and are winners of national and international competitions. Author: Piazzolla
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Coronavirus: Trump’s WHO De-funding ‘as Dangerous as It Sounds’
BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
15 Apr 2020 – US President Donald Trump has been heavily criticised for halting funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) amid the global coronavirus pandemic.
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The Pandemic of Fear: A View from Moscow
Lyubov Sharkova – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
14 Apr 2020 – We will be able to analyze all that happened and all the unprecedented measures that were taken only when this pandemic is over and we get back to our normal lives. But we won’t be able to revise the cost we paid for our mistakes. So maybe we should think first and then act, leaving our Pandemic of Fear behind.
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Why China Is Emerging as a Leader in Sustainable and Organic Agriculture
Steffanie Scott and Zhenzhong Si | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
10 Apr 2020 – This transformation provides lessons for the rest of world, for shifting away from chemical agriculture towards a healthier system for people and the planet.
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As Washington DC Faces Coronavirus Spike, Secret Military Task Force Prepares to Secure the Capital
William M. Arkin | Newsweek - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
16 Apr 2020 – A little-known military task force charged with evacuating Washington has already been activated, charged with “securing” Washington in the face of attackers, foreign and domestic. Activated on March 16, Joint Task Force National Capital Region is chartered to “defend” Washington on land, in the air, and even on its waterfronts. The only one of its kind in the country, it demonstrates how there are two sides of government preparedness.
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One Humanity and the Remaking of Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
One Humanity and the Remaking of Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution, by Mahboob A. Khawaja, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, 12/2019, 537 Pages – While science and technology have advanced immensely human thoughts, pleasure-seeking sports and entertainment, comforts and lifestyles, mankind remains disconnected to the imperatives of its own origins, purpose of life and relationships to the Nature of Things within a splendid Universe.
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The Fabulous Flimflamo
Joe Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
MAGA?
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‘Tip of the Iceberg’: Is Our Destruction of Animals and Nature Responsible for Covid-19?
John Vidal | The Guardian, Age of Extinction - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
18 Mar 2020 – As habitat and biodiversity loss increase globally, the coronavirus outbreak may be just the beginning of mass pandemics.
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
Doctor: “I’m sorry but you suffer from a terminal illness and have only 10 to live.”
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(Français) « La crise corona doit conduire à un monde meilleur » selon António Guterres, Secrétaire général de l’ONU
Marc Vandepitte - Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
15 Avr 2020 -Dans une lettre remarquable, António Guterres explique pourquoi nous devons prendre cette crise au sérieux et appelle les pays riches à venir en aide aux pays du Sud, notamment par intérêt personnel.
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Rohingyas at Sea for 2 Months, 32 Die
Abdul Kuddus and Gias Uddin | Prothom Alo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
17 Apr 2020 – In 2018 trafficking gradually began again in the region, but presently due to coronavirus, no country is willing to take in the Rohingya refugees, who said they came back to Bangladesh after being turned away first by the Malaysian navy, then by the Thai navy and then also by the Myanmar navy.
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Abrupt Ecosystem Collapse
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
A new study in Nature Magazine 8 Apr 2020 casts a disturbing light on the prospects of abrupt ecosystem collapse. The report analyzes the probabilities of collapsing ecosystems en masse, and not simply the loss of individual species.
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Door by Door the Cuban Government Delivers Immune Boosting Medicine to the People
Susana Hurlich | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
Taking the Concept of “Solutions-Oriented Peace Journalism” to New Heights
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The Decapitation Effect
Martin Sieff | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
16 Apr 2020 – In Brasilia, as in Washington and London we see welcome signs of reality belatedly breaking in to shatter the old fantasies. The political leadership of the world is being transformed.
→ read full articleCOVID-19: How China Broke the Chain of Infection
Vijay Prashad, Weiyan Zhu and Du Xiaojun | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
As information about coronavirus emerged, the Chinese government and Chinese society began to organize an immense campaign against its spread.
→ read full article(Français) Le coup d’État de l’Élite contre une humanité terrorisée: Comment montrer une résistance puissante
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
Je continuerai à attirer l’attention sur ce qui se passe et à encourager les gens à résister par les moyens stratégiques que j’ai exposés ci-dessus. Et je ferai ensuite tout mon possible pour que le plus grand nombre possible de personnes, qui sont assez puissantes pour le faire, réagissent avant qu’il ne soit trop tard.
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NYT Blames Maduro for Healthcare Horror, Downplays US Role
Bryce Greene | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
The New York Times (10 Apr 2020) published an article describing the horrendous shape of the Venezuelan healthcare system. The piece fumbled the most important aspect of the story: how and why the system is as bad as it is. In true “manufacturing consent” fashion, it downplayed the US role in destabilizing the Venezuelan economy, and instead pointed to President Nicolás Maduro’s “authoritarianism” as the primary cause of the crisis.
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Scientists and Spirituality — Moving away from Materialism
Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
Recently there was a report in newspapers about a 68-year-old American-born nuclear physicist who got inspired by the Hare Krishna doctrine. After becoming familiar with Vedic philosophy, he decided to move away from physics into the spiritual realm of ISKCON and became known as Guru Prasad Swami– the Physicist Monk.
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Antidotes to Fear of Death
Rebecca Elson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
Sometimes as an antidote
To fear of death,
I eat the stars
The Difficult Art of Self-Compassion
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
“We need to re-learn the value of calculated moments of self-compassion; we need to appreciate the role of self-care in a good, ambitious and fruitful life.”
“Compassion asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.”
“Have compassion for everyone you meet … You do not know what wars are going on down there, where the spirit meets the bone.”
Ranting in a Time of Plague
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
14 Apr 2020 – Overriding all else is the spectacle of a President, DULY ELECTED BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, who is a malicious psychopath with not a single redeeming trait. A physical, intellectual and emotional spectre, he has gathered around him a witch’s coven of scoundrels, crooks and crackpots as bereft of mind and ethics as he is. This man is viewed favorably by 46% of the public. THAT REALITY ECLIPSES EVERYTHING ELSE. What Have We Learned?
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Coronavirus, Herd Immunity and the Eugenics of the Market
Vito Laterza and Louis Philippe Romer | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
14 Apr 2020 – There is a clear element of eugenics in the proposals to pursue herd immunity as a strategy against the pandemic. Despite the dramatic rise in the number of COVID-19-related deaths around the world, governments of several countries heavily affected by the pandemic continue to send mixed messages about their responses.
→ read full articleUS and Russia Blocking UN Plans for a Global Ceasefire amid Crisis
Simon Tisdall | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 – The Trump administration and Russia are blocking efforts to win binding UN security council backing for a global ceasefire to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. The UN secretary-general, António Guterres, called for an immediate end to fighting involving governments and armed groups in all conflict areas almost one month ago.
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