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Deception? Deception?
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.
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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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(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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Meanwhile in Gaza…
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
More of the Same… Only Much More
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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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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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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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Why the U.S. Is the World’s Leading Perpetrator of Global Terrorism
Ghali Hassan | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
31 Mar 2020 – For nearly a century, the U.S. regime has made it its goal to terrorise (defenceless) nations it deemed geopolitically unfriendly. It is a well-financed and deliberate campaign of unprovoked aggression, war crimes and wanton destruction to dominate the world. Without effective deterrence, every nation is at the mercy of U.S. barbarism. More than 39 countries are currently under U.S.-imposed economic sanctions – more than a quarter of the world’s population. To avoid the fate of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, Iranian leaders should pursue a defensive military strategy by emulating the DPRK’s formidable defence capability model to stop any U.S. acts of terrorism against their nation.
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Arundhati Roy: ‘The Pandemic Is a Portal’
Arundhati Roy | Financial Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
3 Apr 2020 – “Who can use the term ‘gone viral’ now without shuddering a little? Who can look at anything any more — a door handle, a cardboard carton, a bag of vegetables — without imagining it swarming with those unseeable, undead, unliving blobs dotted with suction pads waiting to fasten themselves on to our lungs?” The novelist on how coronavirus threatens India–and what the country, and the world, should do next.
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Joan Baez & Mercedes Sosa “Gracias a la Vida” (Music Video of the Week)
ROXYTOM – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
June 5, 1988 at the Roman Amphitheatre, Xanten, Germany
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How US Media Dish Out Their Own Propaganda on China and COVID-19
Alex Lo | South China Morning Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
12 Apr 2020 – Their stereotypical framing of China’s actions against the pandemic verges on parody and caricature, portraying even innocent and uncontroversial measures in the most insidious light possible.
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UN Chief Calls on Religious Leaders to Unite in the Fight against COVID-19
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
11 April 2020 – António Guterres made the call in a special appeal issued today, and at a time when Christians are celebrating Easter, Jews are marking Passover, and Muslims will soon begin the holy month of Ramadan.
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Charities Are Turning to Bitcoin amid the Global Fight against Coronavirus
Jinia Shawdagor | Cointelegraph - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
6 Apr 2020 -In the war against the novel coronavirus, cryptocurrencies are emerging as a much-needed tool for charity and fundraising projects. Already there are a number of large nonprofits accepting Bitcoin donations. Plus, some blockchain and crypto firms are contributing medical supplies to hospitals in an attempt to curb the virus, while others are setting up fundraisers and charities that are aimed at helping its victims.
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Coronavirus: Sanctions and Suffering
Chandra Muzaffar | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
7 Apr 2020 – In the midst of the most horrendous crisis to confront the entire human family in recent decades, the Unite States elite, it appears, is hell-bent on perpetuating massive sanctions against certain states and affecting regime change in some of them. Sanctions cause much pain and suffering and even death on a wide scale.
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National Security or Human Security?
Leonard Eiger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
10 Apr 2020 – We need to step back and ponder the significance of unfolding events, find humility, and reconsider our direction as a nation. As much as we are hugely overfunded and overprepared militarily, we are grossly underprepared in every way to deal with real, human needs. The coronavirus debacle in our nation is a glaring example of that. A pandemic is a deadly as war, yet the resources committed to pandemic prevention and response are a fraction of the resources we commit to military expenditures.
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(Português) SeaWorld: A Verdade por Trás do Parque que Explora Orcas para Entretenimento
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
6 abr 2020 – O parque que ficou conhecido por tirar orcas e golfinhos do mar para aprisioná-los em pequenos tanques de água segue condenando diversos animais marinhos ao sofrimento. Vendendo a falsa imagem de preocupação com o bem-estar animal, o SeaWorld confina em espaços reduzidos – menores que o próprio estacionamento de veículos do parque – animais que deveriam viver na imensidão do oceano.
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As US Consigns Iranians to Death, Corporate Media Look the Other Way
Gregory Shupak | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
8 Apr 2020 – Covid-19 has hammered few countries as hard as it has hit Iran, which reports (as of April 8) 64,586 cases and 3,993 deaths. US sanctions are a major reason that Iranians are getting infected with and dying from the coronavirus in such large numbers: The US’s economic warfare softened Iran up for the pandemic well before its outbreak.
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COVID-19 Crisis: Crime, Poverty and the Need to Evolve Social Security
Hassanal Noor Rashid | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
Global inequality and injustice have been heated topics and of deep social concern throughout human history.
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Justice for the Rohingya: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
Sandra Smits | Chatham House - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
8 April 2020 – The Cambodian case study illustrates the challenges of ensuring justice and accountability for the Rohingya in Myanmar.
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The Portuguese Miracle: How Lisbon Has Managed the Corona Crisis
Alexander Smoltczyk | Der Spiegel - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
9 Apr 2020 – While Spain continues to battle a dire coronavirus outbreak, the situation is vastly better in neighboring Portugal. But why?
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Marcus Aurelius in Love: The Future Stoic Philosopher and Roman Emperor’s Passionate Teenage Love Letters to His Tutor
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
“Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love,” a trio of psychologists wrote in their wonderful inquiry into limbic revision and how love rewires the brain. But whom we love equally depends on who we are and who we want to become. Love, like time, is as much a function of us as we are a function of it.
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The Absolute Truth: What or Who Is It?
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
Scientists agree that all time, all history, and all creation start from a single point. And that point would have to be the ultimate or Absolute Truth. So what exactly is the Absolute Truth? How do we go back through time and space to find the original source of everything? Even if we research the Bible, the Koran, the Jewish writings, or even the Sikh, Zoroastrian, or Buddhist texts, we will find limited information on what is the Absolute Truth. And forget about depending on modern science, they are still searching and have many varying theories to offer.
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Of Beards and Bubonic Plague: German Village Prays for a (2nd) Miracle
Katrin Bennhold | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
5 Apr 2020 – In 1633 the Bavarian village of Oberammergau, ravaged by a pandemic, made a pledge to God. Now another pandemic has forced villagers to abandon their promise.
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Silence, Oh People of Kashmir
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
The poem depicts the situation in Kashmir in early 1990s and does not necessarily reflect current opinion of Poet.
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COVID-19 Pandemic and the Global Humanity
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
4 Apr 2020 – We desperately need to re-organize our thoughts and genius for unity and coordination to pool the humanitarian resources to fill the political gaps of egoism and anarchy between inept patriotism and its global outreach to restructure our policies and practices to extend humanitarian help to all those who needed most, not the weapons of mass destruction, not the claims of individual greatness but a revitalized sense of One Humanity ready to protect the present and future of human civilizations.
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Parlez-Vous Français? — Do You Speak French?
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
8 Apr 2020 – There are thousands of spoken languages in the world of which hundreds are dying every ten years or so. But the principal languages of the world apart from English are Chinese, Spanish, French, Hindi and Arabic. These are well established and spoken by millions of people.
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Leonardo da Vinci (15 Apr 1452 – 2 May 1519)
Leonardo da Vinci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
In 1466, at the age of fourteen, Leonardo was apprenticed to one of the most successful artists of his day, Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio. Verrocchio’s workshop was at the centre of the intellectual currents of Florence, assuring the young Leonardo of an education in the humanities. Leonardo would have been exposed to a vast range of technical skills and had the opportunity to learn drafting, chemistry, metallurgy, metal working, plaster casting, leather working, mechanics and carpentry as well as the artistic skills of drawing, painting, sculpting and modeling.
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Haiti on the Precipice as Coronavirus and US-Imposed Leadership Take Their Toll
Jeb Sprague and Nazaire St. Fort | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
30 Mar 2020 – While Haiti’s widely despised, US-backed government officially promotes social distancing to suppress Covid-19, the stark reality is that most of the population is likely heading toward herd immunity, where many must get infected in the street rather than die by hunger at home.
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Iranian President Rouhani Sends Message to People of the United States of America
Hassan Rouhani, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran | IFP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
20 Mar 2020 – On behalf of the great Iranian nation, I write to the people of the United States of America on the occasion of the Iranian New Year (Nowruz). The coronavirus outbreak has endangered the health of—and even presented a considerable threat to—humanity with no distinction as to nationality, or gender or religious backgrounds. This presents an opportune moment to further contemplate our common pains and our human principles.
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What Goes around Comes around…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
There!
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12 Experts Questioning the Coronavirus Panic
OffGuardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
24 Mar 2020 – Below is our list of twelve medical experts whose opinions on the Coronavirus outbreak contradict the official narratives of the MSM, and the memes so prevalent on social media.
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COVID-19: How Much Is It Worth to Save the Elderly?
Sarah Edmonds | News Decoder - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
9 Apr 2020 – COVID-19 is squeezing the economy as nations impose lockdowns. Some are asking: Is the financial pain worth saving the elderly?
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Gandhi: The Soul Force Warrior
Bill Bhaneja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
Gandhi: The Soul Force Warrior by Pascal Alan Nazareth with foreword by HH The Dalai Lama, New Delhi: Wisdom Tree, 2019, pp. 135 – Peace Studies scholar Johan Galtung cited in Nazareth’s book states: “Gandhi was certainly a revolutionary, much more revolutionary than the piecemeal revolutionaries of Western civilisation, starting with the bourgeois revolution, then the workers’ socialist revolution, then the feminist revolution. Gandhi was all of this and even more, including revolutionising revolution itself.”
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Here’s How Your Body Gains Immunity to Coronavirus
Zania Stamataki | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
10 Apr 2020 – Unprecedented efforts and diverted resources mean we are fast learning about human defences against this new threat. Importantly, Covid-19 cannot gain entry to our homes or bodies by itself – we have to let it in.
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Do Not Be Afraid…. All Will Be Well….
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
If this virus has done anything, it has reminded us that we are only human and very vulnerable; we need each other to survive and thrive. If anything, this virus hopefully will cement the opinion that we are All One, brothers and sisters; what affects one affects all. Hopefully, it will create a greater sense of community and solidarity within the human race in addition to respect for each other, for nature and the universe. We will become more aware that we are interconnected, interdependent, cooperation and solidarity being key to human and environmental survival.
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Bob Avakian Responds to Mark Rudd on the Lessons of the 1960s and the Need for an Actual Revolution
The Bob Avakian Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
19 Mar 2020 – Infantile Expressions of Outrage, or Accommodation to This Monstrous System, Are Not the Only Alternatives – In the New York Times of 5 Mar 2020 a commentary appears authored by Mark Rudd, a former 1960s radical. He emphasizes that significant acts of violence today, and the danger this poses to society, is being perpetrated by what he terms the “far right”; and, more generally, he insists that nonviolence is the only legitimate and effective way to bring about desired (and desirable) social change and that all violence, on the part of any social movement for change, must be renounced.
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Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
Nothing will be the same again…
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Coronavirus — Global Plan, Doughnut, Torus, Helix and/or Pineapple?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
Zome Modelling Dynamics Allowing for Uncertainty in Perception of Order in Governance? Given widespread urgent calls for a “Global Plan” in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the argument first challenges the appropriateness of any “plan” in a global context. This is contrasted with the so-called doughnut model which has been presented as appropriate to ensuring a safe operating space for humanity.
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In Time of Pandemic Praise for the UN
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
3 Apr 2020 – What the COVID-19 experience made clear was the importance of information to virtually every person and governmental body on the planet, and the degree to which the WHO and its Director General were quickly established as a valued source of reliable and trustworthy information. Establishing public trust and informational reliability become paramount goals, and WHO and Tedros Adhanan Grebreyerus, its Director General, have risen to the occasion, gaining media credibility and worldwide respect.
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Anti-Parasitic Drug Kills COVID-19 in Lab
Christine McGinn | MSN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
4 Apr 2020 – An anti-parasitic drug available throughout the world has been found to kill COVID-19 in the lab within 48 hours. A Monash University-led study has shown a single dose of the drug Ivermectin could stop the SARS-CoV-2 virus growing in cell culture.
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Inside Jared Kushner’s Coronavirus Research: A Wide Net on a Giant Facebook Group
Anita Kumar | Politico - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
Just before midnight on 11 March, a doctor asked a group of fellow emergency room physicians on Facebook how they would combat the escalating coronavirus outbreak. “I have direct channel to person now in charge at White House,” Kurt Kloss wrote in his post. Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, had asked him for recommendations.
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Portugal to Treat Migrants as Residents during Coronavirus Crisis
Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
28 Mar 2020 – All foreigners in Portugal with pending applications will be treated as permanent residents from Monday until at least July 1, authorities said on Saturday, to ensure migrants have access to public services during the coronavirus outbreak.
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(Português) Identificado Medicamento Antiparasitário que ‘Mata’ Covid-19 em 48 Horas
Notícias ao Minuto - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
3 abr 2020 – Um estudo conjunto levado a cabo pelo Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute e pelo Peter Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity, na Austrália, identificou um medicamento antiparasitário capaz de ‘matar’ a Covid-19 nos testes laboratoriais no espaço de 48 horas.
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Beyond Chutzpah: US Charges Venezuela with Narco-Terrorism
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
According to the parable, the ungrateful son takes out a life insurance policy on his parents, murders them to collect, and is caught and found guilty. At his sentencing, the judge asks if he has anything to say on his behalf. The son replies: “Have mercy upon me because I am an orphan.” That’s chutzpah. US Attorney General Barr’s indictments on March 26 against the government of Venezuela for narco-terrorism go beyond chutzpah.
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The Corona – An Opportunity to Replace Militarist Security with Common and Human Security (Part 1)
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
2 Apr 2020 – Governments have spent trillions on preparing for military threats created by their own policies. No one prioritised human and societal security. The unique over-reaction to COVID-19 should worry us much more than the virus itself. It can be seen as a panicky attempt to cover-up the failure of an outdated militarist security policy.
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Siddhartha Gautama–the Buddha’s —Birthday: 8 April (563 – 483 BC)
Good News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
8 Apr 2019 – Today is the anniversary of the Buddha’s birth—born Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, the fourth largest religion in the world.
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1918 Pandemic (H1N1 virus)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recent history. It was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin and spread worldwide during 1918-1919. It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide.
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(Italiano) «Il virus è la malattia del pianeta stressato»
Francesco Bilotta interviste Prof. Gianni Tamino | Il Manifesto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
26 marzo 2020 – Intorno alla pandemia causata dal nuovo coronavirus si sta sviluppando un intenso dibattito sugli aspetti sanitari. Anche nel campo delle scienze sociali, per l’impatto che il virus sta avendo sulle nostre abitudini e stili di vita, si stanno producendo riflessioni ed analisi.
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Coronavirus: Once You Have Antibodies, Are You Safe?
Connor Bamford | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
31 Mar 2020 – As more and more people get infected, survive and build up antibodies and T cells against SARS-CoV-2, we may eventually reach a threshold where we achieve “herd immunity”. This refers to the phenomenon where not everyone is immune, but because most people in the population are, the chances that those non-immune susceptible people catch a disease is very small.
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One Year of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Spending Would Provide 300,000 ICU Beds, 35,000 Ventilators and Salaries of 75,000 Doctors
Matthew Impelli | Newsweek - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
26 Mar 2020 – The amount of money spent in one year by the U.S. on nuclear weapons could instead provide 300,000 ICU (intensive care unit) beds, 35,000 ventilators and 75,000 doctors’ salaries, according to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).
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How Deadly Is the Coronavirus? It’s Still far from Clear
Dr John Lee | The Spectator - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
28 Mar 2020 – There Is Room for Different Interpretations of the Data – Any testing regime that is based only in hospitals will over-estimate the virulence of an infection.
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The Coronavirus Did Not Escape from a Lab–Here’s How We Know
Jeanna Bryner | Live Science - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
As the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 spreads across the globe, with cases surpassing 284,000 worldwide today (March 20), misinformation is spreading almost as fast. One persistent myth is that this virus, called SARS-CoV-2, was made by scientists and escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, where the outbreak began.
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COVID-19 Blunders Signal End of ‘American Century’
Wang Wen | Global Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
30 Mar 2020 – For most people it’s unfathomable that the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic is the first global event that hasn’t been led by the US since 1941. The principal founder of peace and conflict studies, Johan Galtung, predicted in his 2009 book ‘The Fall of the US Empire-And Then What?’ that the US empire will decline and fall by 2020. According to Galtung, it is due to USA expanding hegemon that has driven it to exploit and suppress other countries.
→ read full articleEmpowering and Protecting Families during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Mariana Price - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
22 Mar 2020 – Dr. David Price of Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City shares information on empowerment and protection during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first 15-20 minutes are the most beneficial. An important and simple message/method to follow to avoid being infected.
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The Coronavirus Outbreak Is Part of the Climate Change Crisis
Vijay Kolinjivadi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
30 Mar 2020 – The two emergencies have their roots in the world’s current economic model – that of the pursuit of infinite growth at the expense of the environment on which our survival depends – and both are deadly and disruptive. The pandemic is part of climate change and therefore, our response to it should not be limited to containing the spread of the virus. What we thought was “normal” before the pandemic was already a crisis and so returning to it cannot be an option.
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We Can All Help!
Joe Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
How to Help Others in the Pandemic
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Paul Robeson (9 Apr 1898 – 23 Jan 1976)
Tayo Aluko | Counterfire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
Black Lawyer, Singer and Football Player, Paul Robeson’s Extraordinary Life Holds Many Lessons for the Present Day
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Letter from President Maduro as the U.S. Threatens Venezuela with War
Nicolás Maduro Moros - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
2 Apr 2020 – In greeting you, with affection, I take the liberty of addressing you on the occasion of denouncing the severe events taking place against the peace and stability of Venezuela, at a time when the concern of the States and Governments should be focused on the protection of the life and health of their citizens, due to the acceleration of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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U.N. Security Council ‘Missing In Action’ in Coronavirus Fight
Rick Gladstone | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
2 Apr 2020 – The leader of the U.N. has called the pandemic the biggest international threat in the 75-year history of the organization, but its most powerful body has yet to take action.
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DiEM25 Presents 3-Point Plan for Dealing with COVID-19 Depression
DiEM25 Communications - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
Step 1: Issue €1 trillion in ECB-Eurobonds
Step 2: Inject a €2000 European Solidarity Cash Payment
Step 3: Introduce a European Green Recovery & Investment Program
Europe Sends Medical Aid to Iran Bypassing U.S. Sanctions
Al-Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
31 Mar 2020 – In the first transaction of its kind, France, Germany and Britain have sent medical goods to Iran under a trade mechanism set up to bypass US sanctions against Tehran.
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Prof. Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
Among the most significant challenges of political reporting today is the rise of the so-called ‘alt-right’, led by demagogues who specialise in evidence-averse rabble-rousing, notably on issues of race and immigration. A classic BBC kerfuffle followed the call by President Trump last year for members of the so-called ‘squad’ – four left-wing Democratic Congresswomen of colour – to “go back to the places from which they came”. Three of the four were born in the USA. But it was clearly not Trump’s intention to appeal for Rashida Tlaib to return from Washington to Detroit, or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to the Bronx.
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(Italiano) Proteggere la filiera alimentare… non solo merci, anche persone
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
29 Marzo 2020 – “Scarsità di cibo”: questo il titolo di un recente articolo pubblicato sul giornale «The Guardian». Se i governi introducessero misure protezionistiche durante questa crisi sanitaria da coronavirus, potrebbero verificarsi difficoltà di approvvigionamento di cibo in tutto il mondo: questa l’opinione espressa da Maximo Torero, economista dalle FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation).
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Brazil Scales Back Environmental Enforcement amid Coronavirus Outbreak
The Guardian | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
27 Mar 2020- Brazil will reduce efforts to fight environmental crimes during the coronavirus outbreak, despite concerns that reduced protection could lead to a surge in deforestation.
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Amid War Threats, Washington Blocks UN Resolution Demanding End to Sanctions
Bill Van Auken | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
4 April 2020 – Washington and its allies on 2 April killed a UN resolution calling for the lifting of unilateral sanctions that are severely impeding efforts to combat the spread of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Joining the US in blocking the resolution were the European Union and the United Kingdom, along with the right-wing governments of Ukraine and Georgia.
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A New Book on Iran
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
A new book entitled Politics of Oil and Nuclear Technology in Iran has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. In it, Johan Galtung’s version of the Center Periphery model, described in his article entitled “A Structural Theory of Imperialism,” has been used as an analytical framework.
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The Race Between Economics and COVID-19
Mohamed A. El-Erian | Project Syndicate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
26 Mar 2020 – For years, the economics profession has suffered from a stubborn reluctance to adopt a more multidisciplinary approach. But now that the COVID-19 pandemic is transforming economic life the world over, the profession has no choice but to leave its comfort zone.
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(Português) O Coronavírus Resgata a Nossa Verdadeira Humanidade
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
31 mar 2020 – A pandemia do coronavírus nos obriga a todos a pensar: o que conta, verdadeiramente, a vida ou os bens materiais? O individualismo de cada um para si, de costas para os outros, ou a solidariedade de uns para com os outros? Podemos olhar a guerra que o coronavírus está movendo em todo o planeta sob um outro ângulo, e este positivo. O vírus nos faz descobrir qual é a nossa mais profunda e autêntica natureza humana.
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Investigating Israeli Criminality at the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
Amicus Brief submitted to the International Criminal Court in The Hague on 16 Mar 2020 in the jurisdictional phase of a proceeding in which to initiate such a legal proceeding and whether the ICC has jurisdiction, that is, legal authority to investigate and possibly prosecute such alleged. As the Prosecutor indicated, the facts at her disposal indicate a basis for accepting Palestine’s request for an investigation of alleged Israeli criminal conduct.
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Schulz | Peanuts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
Right!
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He’s Got Eight Numbers, Just like Everybody Else”
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
April 3, 2020 – Trident nuclear disarmament activist Steve Kelly, a Jesuit priest and member of Kings Bay Plowshares 7, begins his third year imprisoned in a county jail as he and his companions await sentencing.
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‘Can I Keep You Safe? Your Future Is Uncertain’: Climate and the Fate of Humanity
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
31 Mar 2020 – In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the most immediate objective is to slow its spread, minimise the death toll and help people through the crisis. But, despite government promises to support citizens who are now losing their jobs and income, the underlying establishment concern will be as it always has been: to preserve the global inequitable system of wealth and power. Private interests, including airlines, fossil fuel industries and sinister-sounding ‘businesses crucial to national security’, have been busy lobbying governments for taxfunder-paid bailouts.
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Acquiring Knowledge and Wisdom
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
Knowledge appears in various forms and of various subjects — science, social sciences, mathematics, economics, etc. Not only newer forms of knowledge such as AI (Artificial Intelligence) or Robotics are emerging, but the nature and features are constantly increasing. I am using the word features to suggest the extension or details of the concept of knowledge.
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Never Has So Little Done So Much Harm to So Many
Scott C. Tips | The National Health Federation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
4 Apr 2020 – The Latest Coronavirus Attack Is A Cover for Restricting Our Health Freedoms
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Bob Dylan’s Midnight Message to JFK’s Ghost
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
If you listen to Dylan’s piercing voice and follow the lyrics closely, you might be startled to be told, not from someone who can be dismissed as some sort of disgruntled “conspiracy nut,” but by the most famous musician in the world, that there was a government conspiracy to kill JFK, that Oswald didn’t do it, and that the killers then went for the president’s brothers.
→ read full article(Português) Acorrentados, elefantes passam fome e podem morrer após anos de exploração
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
3 abr 2020 – Cerca de 2 mil elefantes estão passando fome e vivendo acorrentados na Tailândia, após seus tutores argumentarem que a pandemia de Covid-19 os deixou sem condições financeiras para cuidar dos animais, que há anos são explorados no país para entretenimento humano. Sem alimentação adequada, os animais correm risco de morte.
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The World Rediscovers Cuban Medical Internationalism
Helen Yaffe | Le Monde Diplomatique - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
30 Mar 2020 – Just weeks ago, US Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders was vilified by the US establishment for acknowledging education and healthcare achievements in revolutionary Cuba. Now, as the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, the island’s medical prowess is back in the spotlight.
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Nonviolence Charter: Progress Report 16 (Apr 2020)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D., Anita McKone, and Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
Defending Humanity against the Elite Coup – In lieu of the usual six-monthly report of the activities of signatories of the Nonviolence Charter, which would normally go out in April, we are sending this very brief report and invitation to action, in response to the events taking place around the world at the moment.
→ read full articleWhy Nation States See Themselves in a War against a Virus and Forbid Any Normal Life
Michael Kuhn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
30 Mar 2020 – Is it really all happening or are we living in a science fiction? Within a few days nothing is as it always was. Everybody must go home and without any objection and all this carried out as a veritable state action, always staged and carried out by the foreign ministries of the states with the right publicity for the people at home and the other states abroad, telling everybody that after all, ‘it’s not about health issues, but about state affairs between states.’
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“Murder Most Foul”: Unpacking Bob Dylan’s New Epic, from Dallas 1963 to the Pandemic of 2020
David Masciotra | Salon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
4 Apr 2020 – Bob Dylan’s new song, “Murder Most Foul,” arrives in the mailbox like a postcard from the apocalypse. In an effectively restrained voice, America’s most important songwriter delivers an act of mourning for John F. Kennedy that enlarges into political prophecy, almost as if he is auditioning for authorship of a follow chapter to the book of Revelation.
→ read full articleCOVID-19 Dashboard Global: 11.5 Million+ Infected, 530 Thousand+ Deaths
Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
Permanently displayed on TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS for the duration of the pandemic. The dashboard shows global, localized, specific data in real time.
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Why Inequality Could Spread COVID-19
Joseph Stiglitz et al. | The Lancet - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
2 Apr 2020 – Pandemics rarely affect all people in a uniform way. The Black Death in the 14th century reduced the global population by a third, with the highest number of deaths among the poorest. As these populations are more likely to have chronic conditions, this puts them at higher risk of COVID-19-associated mortality. Since the pandemic has perpetuated an economic crisis, unemployment rates will rise substantially and weakened welfare safety nets further threaten health and social insecurity.
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Trump: US to Deploy Anti-Drug Navy Ships near Venezuela
Joshua Goodman | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
2 Apr 2020 – President Donald Trump announced yesterday that Navy ships are being moved toward Venezuela as his administration beefs up counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean following a U.S. drug indictment against Nicolás Maduro. The announcement came at the start of the daily White House press briefing to discuss the coronavirus pandemic.
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An Antidote to Helplessness and Disorientation: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Our Human Fragility as the Key to Our Survival and Our Sanity
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
“Only through full awareness of the danger to life can this potential be mobilized for action capable of bringing about drastic changes in our way of organizing society.”
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(Português) Jane Goodall Diz que Devemos Deixar os Animais em Paz
Jane Goodall | Vegazeta - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
31 mar 2020 – Considerando a origem e as consequências da pandemia de coronavírus, este mês a famosa primatologista Jane Goodall, de 85 anos, protagonizou um vídeo disponibilizado no YouTube em que pede que os animais sejam deixados em paz. “Nosso relacionamento muito próximo com animais silvestres nos mercados ou quando os usamos para entretenimento, desencadeou o terror e a miséria de novos vírus”.
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(Português) Tranquilidade Face ao Coronavirus
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
Tranquilidade
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The German Government Has Declared a Complete Stopping to «Defender Europe 20»
Edgars Palladis | The Duran - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
28 Mar 2020 – According to the official Bundestag representative, the the U.S.-led multinational Exercise «Defender Europe 20» has been cancelled.
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Messianic Zionism – The Ass and the Red Heifer
Moshé Machover | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
1 Feb 2020 – The relation between Zionism and Judaism (the Jewish religion) is paradoxical and complex. In its early days, Zionism was apparently a thoroughly secular political movement. Apparently. In reality, while its ego was secular, its id has always been religious. And in recent times, the latter has emerged from its hidden recess and is parading in full view. A form of religious Zionism has gained influence in Israel, which shares with militant Christian evangelism and Islamic jihadism the character of political movement with fundamentalist religious ideology.
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Israeli Warplanes Attack Several Places in Gaza
Days of Palestine | Kia Ora Gaza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
Gaza Strip, 28 Mar 2020 – Despite coronavirus pandemic, the Israeli occupation forces continue its crimes against the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip.
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Visiting Auschwitz the Day Poland Locked Itself Down
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
30 Mar 2020 – Genocides start with an act of framing human community, with their distinct group identity, typically vulnerable and weak, as ‘a virus’ or ‘existential threat.’
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Not Letting Covid-19 Crisis Go to Waste? US Ramps up War on Drugs… Focusing on Venezuela’s Maduro
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
1 Apr 2020 – Trump has announced a massive naval deployment in the Caribbean to prevent drug cartels from ‘exploiting’ the Covid-19 pandemic, singling out Venezuela as a major threat to America. Hard pass on the Noriega remix? US narcotrafficking charges against Maduro straight out of Panama playbook
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Walt Whitman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!
Clouds of the west—sun there half an hour high—I see you also face to face.
Israeli Forces Demolish Emergency Coronavirus Clinic for Palestinians
Kia Ora Gaza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
29 Mar 2020 – Israeli forces on Thursday [26 Mar] entered a Palestinian village in the northern Jordan Valley to confiscate materials designated to build a clinic to deal with the novel coronavirus outbreak. Officials from the Israeli Civil Administration came to the village of Khirbet Ibziq with a military escort, bulldozer and two trucks equipped with cranes to demolish community clinic and emergency housing, according to Israeli human rights monitor Btselem.
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Global Call
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
24 Mar 2020 – A global call from Palestine Action for the Planet. More and more people realize that the current global political and economic structures are unable to deal with global climate crisis, the endless conflicts, proliferation of WMD, and the increased frequency of pandemics. This is no longer just a question of morality and rights but a question of our survival as a civilization and as a planet facing mass extinction.
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Preparedness for Earthquakes and Tsunamis
Vidushi Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
The disasters are continuously increasing; in future there is a need to concentrate the resources to lessen the effects of the catastrophe. The emergency preparedness should be ready to evacuate the population and provide the necessary health needs in a disaster situation. It is recommended that countries in disaster prone area should sign a pact deciding that in the case of emergency the help should be provided by their neighbouring country.
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Collateral Murder–10 Years Later
WikiLeaks - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
Today is 5 Apr 2020. Ten years ago today, Julian Assange/WikiLeaks released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in Iraq including two Reuters journalists, and injuring small children. It was called Collateral Murder. The killers in the video are running free whereas Julian Assange, the publisher revealing the crime, has been politically persecuted and arrested on 12 Apr 2019 after being holed up at the Ecuadoran Embassy since 2012. Now he is under pre-trial detention at a high-security prison in London, threatened by extradition to the US, and highly vulnerable to the Coronavirus, after his humanitarian bail request was rejected.
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Don’t Just Avoid the Virus — Defeat It by Strengthening Your Immunity
Amory B. Lovins and Eric Rasmussen, MD | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
30 Mar 2020 – Simple, science-based steps to boost your immunity can help prevent or moderate infection — including challenging the conventional wisdom about Vitamin C.
→ read full articleMurder Most Foul (Music Video of the Week)
Bob Dylan - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
Bob Dylan’s New Epic (with lyrics) – Released on 27 Mar 2020
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