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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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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!”
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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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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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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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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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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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‘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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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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(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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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 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.
→ 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.
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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
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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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.
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A Palestinian Guide to Surviving a Quarantine: On Faith, Humor and ‘Dutch Candy’
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
6 Apr 2020 – Call it a ‘quarantine’, a ‘shelter-in-place’, a ‘lockdown’ or a ‘curfew’, we Palestinians have experienced them all, though not at all voluntarily. Personally, the first 23 years of my life were lived in virtual ‘lockdown’. My father’s ‘quarantine’ was experienced much earlier, as did his father’s ‘shelter-in-place’ before him. They both died and were buried in Gaza’s cemeteries without ever experiencing true freedom outside of their refugee camp in Gaza. Currently in Gaza, the quarantine has a different name. We call it ‘siege’, also known as ‘blockade’.
→ 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.
→ read full articleTriple Jeopardy for Palestinian Prisoners
Prof. Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
The allegation of Triple Jeopardy arises from the failure to suspend or mitigate prison condition in light of the Coronavirus Pandemic, and the related failure to take responsible steps to protect those so confined from contracting the potentially lethal disease. A virtual death sentence hangs over every single Palestinian prisoner, and in an especially acute form with respect to particularly vulnerable Palestinians living in crowded unhealthy prisons.
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A Universal Basic Income Is Essential and Will Work
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
19 Apr 2020 – A central bank-financed UBI can fill the debt gap, providing a vital safety net while preventing cyclical recessions. Spain is slated to become the first country in Europe to introduce a universal basic income (UBI) on a long-term basis. Its Minister for Economic Affairs has announced plans to roll out a UBI “as soon as possible,” with the goal of providing a nationwide basic wage that supports citizens “forever.”
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As Nicaragua Confronts COVID-19, Its U.S.-Backed Opposition Exploits the Pandemic to Create Chaos
Ben Norton | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
13 Apr 2020 – Nicaragua’s right-wing opposition is waging an information warfare campaign to undermine the elected Sandinista government, spreading fake news on coronavirus, while the state takes a balanced approach with close attention to the working class and poor.
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Myanmar’s Double Contagion: The COVID-19 and the Viral Discourse of Islamophobia
Maung Zarni | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
15 Apr 2020 – Over the last 8 years, another type of virus, namely Islamophobia, has effectively spread across all segments of Burmese society, with devastating impact on Muslim communities and, more acutely, the community of Rohingyas, numbering 2 million in total.
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Solidarity in a Time of Pandemic as USA Capitalizes on Disaster
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
13 Apr 2020 – What we are seeing is not social distancing but people coming together… while maintaining the prescribed 6-foot physical distancing. Our enforced physical isolation has paradoxically awakened a deeper appreciation of our commonality and mutual dependence, echoed by the response of nations other than the US.
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NATO in Arms to “Fight Coronavirus”
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
The 30 NATO foreign ministers met on 2 Apr 2020 by video conference and instructed US General Tod Wolters, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to “coordinate the necessary military support to fight the coronavirus crisis”. He is the same general who declared in the US Senate on 25 Feb that “nuclear forces are supporting every US military operation in Europe” and ”I am a fan of a flexible first-use policy” of nuclear weapons, that is nuclear attack by surprise.
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(Português) Caça às Focas Continua na Noruega, Japão e Canadá
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
10 abr 2020 – Durante a pandemia de coronavírus, enquanto se discute o impacto causado pela interferência humana na natureza e no ciclo de vida de muitas espécies de animais, Noruega, Japão e Canadá continuam permitindo a caça às focas e baleias e classificando as duas “atividades” como “essenciais”.
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A Call for Review of the Historical Facts Surrounding the UNGA Resolution of 1959 That Recognized Attainment of Self-Government for Hawaii
Pōkā Laenui, Kioni Dudley, Leon Kaulahao Siu and Alfred de Zayas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
April 2020 – In 1959, the territory and the people of the formerly independent nation/state of Hawaii was declared a State of the U.S. union and Hawaii was removed by the UN General Assembly as one of those places subject to further reporting by the United States in the progress toward Hawaii’s self-governance under Article 73 of the U.N. Charter. This document calls upon the UN General Assembly to review its actions taken in 1959.
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Wall Street Feasts on Death
David North | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
15 Apr 2020 – Since March 23, the COVID-19 pandemic has claimed more than 25,000 lives in the United States. During the same period, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has risen more than 30 percent.
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Rebuilding after Corona
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
15 Apr 2020 – I announce the publication of a book that discusses the changes that we must make to create a better world after the pandemic has ended. The book may be freely downloaded and circulated.
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The State, the Deep State, and the Wall Street Overworld
Peter Dale Scott | WikiSpooks - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
4 Dec 2017 – A recommended and highly referenced overview of the deep state in action centering on the complex milieu of Khashoggi, the BCCI, and the Safari Club.
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Life in Lockdown – Is This What Captivity for Whales and Dolphins Is like?
Cathy Williamson | Whale and Dolphin Conservation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
7 Apr 2020 – What will this global pandemic mean for the future of whale and dolphin captivity? There will be challenges but maybe also some silver linings. Our End Captivity lead, Cathy Williamson, reflects.
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Resisting COVID-19 in Haiti
Pierre Labossiere | Haiti Action Committee -TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
The struggle against the coronavirus is a world-wide fight. It demands that we stand in solidarity with each other, across all borders. Despite the lack of coverage, the people of Haiti are confronting a dual crisis. Their struggle against a corrupt and repressive system and now COVID-19 demands strong advocacy and support. It is essential that we see their struggle as our own.
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Coronavirus Capitalism and How to Beat It
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
16 Mar 2020 – Governments around the world are busily exploiting the coronavirus crisis to push for no-strings-attached corporate bailouts and regulatory rollbacks. “I’ve spent two decades studying the transformations that take place under the cover of disaster,” writes Naomi Klein. “I’ve learned that one thing we can count on is this: During moments of cataclysmic change, the previously unthinkable suddenly becomes reality.”
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Brazil: Bolsonaro Sabotages Anti-Covid-19 Efforts
Human Rights Watch | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
10 Apr 2020 – President Jair Bolsonaro is putting Brazilians in grave danger by urging them not to comply with social distancing and other measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 from state governments and his own Health Ministry, Human Rights Watch said today. He has also acted recklessly by disseminating misleading information about the pandemic.
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Cowering for One’s Country in the War against Coronavirus
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
11 Apr 2020 – The argument here follows from a previous criticism of the strategy of social distancing, so rapidly adopted worldwide. The speed with which consensus was achieved within countries could be considered remarkable when compared to the procrastination so evident with respect to other issues variously upheld as urgent.
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San Marino Declared 1st Nonkilling Country in the World
Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
13 Mar 2020 – In a statement at the Human Rights Council on March 12, Christophe Barbey, CGNK’s representative at the United Nations in Geneva, declared the Republic of San Marino to be the first nonkilling country. To our knowledge, there were during the last five years no murders, no suicides and no deadly traffic accidents in the country.
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In Response to President Maduro’s Letter to the People of the United States
Network in Defense of Humanity US Chapter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
6 Apr 2020 – The Network in Defense of Humanity-US Chapter expresses our heartfelt solidarity with the people of Venezuela and its only legitimate President Nicolas Maduro Moros in this hour of danger. The US administration is creating more conflict and aggression against Venezuela, while people all over the world are fighting a dangerous virus pandemic.
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A Prayer in the Time of Pandemic
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
8 Apr 2020 – Affirming spirituality as the power over life and death I aspire to achieve
this spirituality that is nothing other than the blending of love and mystery
cherishing wonder at a precarious precipice, respecting knowledge
Oliver Stone: USA Weaponizing COVID-19 against Venezuela and Iran
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
5 Apr 2020 – “As a number of religious scholars have warned, ‘plagues expose the foundations of injustice’ in our societies,” film director Oliver Stone wrote exposing the U.S. government’s “profound lack of human decency” amid the new coronavirus pandemic. “It is accurate to say that the U.S. is weaponizing the virus against these countries,” Stone said.
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We Need Solidarity, Not Sanctions
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
10 Apr 2020 – According to the United Nations Charter, only the Security Council may impose sanctions. No individual nation may do so. Nevertheless, the United States currently imposes economic sanctions on Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Cuba, Venezuela, Belarus, Burundi, Central African Republic, China, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen and Zimbabwe. Besides violating the UN Charter, these unilaterally imposed sanctions also violate the Fourth Geneva Convention.
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NATO’s Destruction of Serbia: And Where Is Serbia, China and the West Today?
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
24 Mar 2020 – It was NATO’s first out-of-area operation, against its own Treaty and without a UN mandate. On March 24, 1999. Independent Kosovo was established – against UN SC resolution 1244. Serbia suffered tremendously from the 78 days of indiscriminate, hard bombing. I know because I was there. Finally, Serbia and its president Milosevic was threatened with total destruction of Belgrade. He gave in. And today – 21 years later?
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Rewilding Food, Rewilding Farming
Prof. Vandana Shiva | The Ecologist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
Dr Vandana Shiva argues that agroecology holds the key to solving the climate and ecological crisis in a just and equitable way.
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Seed Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
One Planet, One Health, Navdanya International Campaign
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Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
How many of us are deluded and deceived Amanda Wingfields, clinging to the hope of the proverbial “gentleman caller”—in the guise of a bold new president, a gallant billionaire philanthropist, a miracle vaccine—solving all our problems and sweeping us off to a fantasy world where those who work hard and follow the rules might have the opportunity–if they’re lucky–to enjoy democracy, freedom and good health?
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Listen to the Poets
The Schumacher Center - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
11 Apr 2020 – It is Easter week and Passover, and soon Ramadan. Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism all celebrate sacred days during this same period. It is a time of introspection. Each of these traditions offer their own stories of the relationship of individuals to Nature, of the tragedies that ensue when this relationship is out of balance, and of how to begin the healing of that relationship. The poets of these traditions speak through their sacred texts – The Torah, The New Testament, The Quran, The Vedas, The Suttas, the teachings of Confucius, and the Tao Te Ching. Perhaps it is time that we listen to the poets.
→ read full article(Português) Cidade Chinesa Proíbe Consumo de Animais Domésticos e Silvestres
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
2 abr 2020 -Shenzhen, cidade chinesa com 12,53 milhões de habitantes, anunciou hoje a proibição oficial do consumo de carne de cães e gatos.
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Bolsonaro Is Far from Alone in Putting Profits over Lives—but He Is a Useful Scapegoat
Brian Mier | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
12 Apr 2020 -Far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro—already a media fixture for his propensity to say horrible things on Twitter—has over the past few weeks become one of the most ridiculed leaders in the world due to his handling of the coronavirus crisis.
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Meanwhile in Gaza…
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
More of the Same… Only Much More
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Insights into China’s Victory over the Coronavirus
Liu Jian | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
30 Mar 2020 -What we have experienced in the past two months is too dreamy and now, in retrospect, it seems not so real. On January 23, the day before Chinese New Year’s Eve, people who were ready to celebrate the New Year were shocked by the sudden outbreak of the virus. Wuhan, a super big city with a population of 11 million, was declared closed by the government. Anxiety and unease quickly enveloped the whole country.
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Trump Sends Gun Boats to Venezuela While the World Partners to Fight a Deadly Pandemic
Vijay Prashad, Paola Estrada, Ana Maldonado, and Zoe PC | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
3 Apr 2020 – On April’s Fools Day, U.S. President Donald Trump gave a press conference where he announced a new “counter-narcotics effort” by U.S. Southern Command. “We’re deploying additional Navy destroyers, combat ships, aircrafts and helicopters, Coast Guard cutters…doubling our capabilities in the region,” he said. On 26 March, less than a week before Trump’s announcement, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted several members of the Venezuelan government for narco-trafficking. An indictment is not a verdict of guilt, merely a note—in this case – prepared by the U.S. government against an adversary.
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Ending the Unthinkable Injustice of Human Chaining
Emina Ćerimović and Kim Samuel | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
When Akanni’s mother died in early 2018, she stopped eating for three weeks. Her mood became unpredictable; she was often shouting or sulking angrily. Akanni’s father took her to a church in Nigeria and left her there. The evangelist chained her in a room, where she was left on a bare floor for three days straight with no food or water. She stayed there with a man who was going through a mental health crisis. The staff gave Akanni a pot to urinate and defecate in, right in front of the man.
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U.S. to Block Iran’s Request to IMF for $5 Billion Loan to Fight Coronavirus
Ian Talley and Benoit Faucon | The Wall Street Journal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
7 Apr 2020 – The U.S. plans to block Iran’s requested $5 billion emergency loan from the International Monetary Fund for funding Tehran says it needs to fight its coronavirus crisis. Trump administration officials say Tehran has billion-dollar accounts still at its disposal.
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