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“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
Socrates – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
Socrates was a scholar, teacher and philosopher born in ancient Greece. His Socratic method laid the groundwork for Western systems of logic and philosophy. He always emphasized the importance of the mind over the human body. This credo inspired Plato’s philosophy of dividing reality into the world of the senses and the world of ideas, the latter being the only important one.
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Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Restrings the Brain
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
“Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.”
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A Startling Video Emerges
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
Year 2022
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Journalist Karl Grossman Interviews Bruce Gagnon on His 39-Year Career against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
EnviroVideo1 | TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
Bruce tells of hearing Lt. General Daniel O. Graham, head of the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, nicknamed “Star Wars,” declaring as nearly a million people protested in New York City against nuclear weapons, “We are moving into space. They don’t have a clue. Let them keep doing what they are doing.”
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Your $1.7 Billion of Gold Is Now Ours, UK Tells Starving Venezuelans
Belen Fernandez | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
26 Dec 2021 – In its prolonged freezing of Venezuelan assets, the UK continues to withhold 31 tons of its gold stored at the Bank of England, with a new Supreme Court ruling supporting the seizure.
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Birthday Greetings
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
If it is your birthday you will get dozens of good wishes
The more good wishes, the more popular you are
Don’t worry if you are not popular in life
At least one day of the year you are popular.
Revengeful Attitude: How to Get Rid of It
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
In this regard there is an interesting story regarding Nelson Mandela, the President of South Africa who fought against apartheid and was jailed for a long time. Once, he was waiting along with some of his security staff for the food they had ordered in a popular restaurant. He suddenly noticed that another person was also sitting all by himself at a nearby table and waiting for his order to be served.
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Humanity’s Massive Footprint on the Face of Nature
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
I would like to announce the publication of a new book which discusses the reasons for our human encroachment on the earth’s ecological systems, and the possible consequences if we do not take steps to correct the problem. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
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COVID World Data -Total: 290,6M -Dead: 5,4M -Death Rate: 0.01%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
On 3 Jan 2022 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 290,640,023
Deaths: 5,460,449
Active: 30,633,650
Recovered: 254,545,924
Cases Closed: 260,006,373
Total Vaccinated: 4,590,745,127
The New Year: Review and Renewal
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
We highlight two events that start 2022 and which may provide frameworks for renewal and conflict transformation.
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Kahlil Gibran (6 Jan 1883 – 10 Apr 1931): Spirits Rebellious
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
Gibran’s bitter denunciation of both religious and political injustice brought his anticipated exile from Lebanon. He was also excommunicated from the Church in a country where much civil identity and justice was based on religious membership — not to mention the popular idea that God did not allow excommunicated souls into his Heaven.
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[Nobel Peace Laureate] Desmond Tutu, the Nonviolent Foe of Two Apartheids – South Africa and Israel-Palestine
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
27 Dec 2021 – “Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the violence of suicide bombers, and we condemn the corruption of young minds taught hatred; but we also condemn the violence of military incursions in the occupied lands, and the inhumanity that won’t let ambulances reach the injured.” — Desmond Tutu
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NBC News Uses Ex-FBI Official Frank Figliuzzi to Urge Assange’s Extradition, Hiding His Key Role
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
2 Jan 2022 – The most dangerous, and under-discussed, development in corporate media is the spate of ex-security state agents now employed to deliver the “news.”
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Learning Something New about [Nobel Peace Laureate] Desmond Tutu
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
28 Dec 2021 – You are unlikely to learn about it in the media tributes to Archbishop Rev. Desmond Tutu who died on 26 Dec at 90 (1931-2021). But Tutu, like the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was morally and spiritually a true world citizen belonging to a large list of VIP’s who supported the drafting of a new world constitution – what is now known as the Earth Constitution.
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A Multidimensional View of PEACE
Francisco Gomes De Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
PEACE is
Harmony serenely shared
Natural Immunity Denial Disorder: Diagnosing a Dangerous Condition
Diane Perlman | TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
31 Dec 2021 – Natural immunity has been known for centuries. It has not been questioned until now.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated Daily
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Covid Vaccines: A Reality Check
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
28 Dec 2021 – Prior to the most recent immune-evasive mutation (omicron), covid vaccine protection against infection and transmission decreased to zero within about half a year. The latest unbiased facts on covid vaccine safety and effectiveness.
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(Français) Gabriel Boric, l’ancien leader étudiant qui a été élu président de Chili
Guido Vassalo | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
24 Déc 2021 – A 35 ans, il était le plus jeune candidat et veut mettre fin au néolibéralisme. Écologiste, féministe et fervent critique du modèle néolibéral mis en place pendant la dictature militaire et consolidé plus tard dans la transition, Boric était aussi celui qui offrait le programme de changements le plus profond en Chili.
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Humanitarian Exemptions to Crushing U.S. Sanctions Do Little to Prevent Collapse of Afghanistan’s Economy
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
28 Dec 2021 – More Afghan people may die from sanctions than from 20 years of war.
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A Conversation with Dr. Emanuel Garcia in New Zealand
Tessa Lena | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
24 Dec 2021 – This story is about a brave and classy human being and a medical doctor in New Zealand, [a TRANSCEND member] who had his medical license suspended and was forced to retire due to his opposition to mandates and his general sense of dignity and a lack of desire to fold under the boot.
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Fully Vaccinated Individuals at Risk for COVID Infection with Omicron Variant – Columbia Study
Columbia University Irving Medical Center – SciTechDaily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
24 Dec 2021 – Results suggest that previously infected individuals and fully vaccinated individuals are at risk for infection with the omicron variant, and omicron is completely resistant to all antibodies in clinical use today.
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Was China’s Amazing Rise Due to ‘Socialism with Chinese Characteristics’ or ‘Capitalism with a Chinese Facade? Or a Little of Both?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
23 Dec 2021 – There has in recent months many discussions centering around the proper characterization of China from an ideological point of view. The Chinese leadership has its own reasons for doing this, seeking to present what it deems a glorious self-image.
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The Lot of the Exploited, Discriminated and Oppressed (Part 3)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
Is It Predestination, Karma, or Hedonistic Colonial Subjugation by People of Aryan Origins? An Odyssey of Generational Suffering of Humanoids of Colour
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What Would Europe, the US, Do with One Billion Climate Refugees?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
20 Dec 2021 – A bit of fiction. Or maybe not. If things keep going the way they are, the result will be that such a massive flux would create instability and tensions, impact the global markets, cause record prices of fossil fuels, food and everything else, and the bankruptcy of big private financial corporations…
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Severe Water Stress, Absolute Scarcity for 2 to 4 Billion Humans by 2025
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
23 Dec 2021 – Up to four billion people–over half the population of the planet–are already facing severe water stress for at least one month of the year, while half a billion suffer from permanent water stress.
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Diwali and Hanukkah — India and Israel Festivals
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
Both these names are of festivals that signify victory of good over evil, light over darkness and joy over sorrow. Both the festivals are celebrated by lighting Diyas (earthen lamps), candles or electric bulbs.
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The Real Antidote to Inflation: Stoking the Fire without Burning Down the Barn
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
24 Dec 2021 The Fed has options for countering the record inflation the U.S. is facing that are more productive and less risky than raising interest rates.
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We Are All Strangers and Pilgrims
Lanza del Vasto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
Let us light a fire at the crossroads, to call on the name of the Lord.
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South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu Dies at 90
BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
26 Dec 2021 – Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace prize laureate who helped end apartheid in South Africa, has died aged 90.
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Monsanto to Plead Guilty to 30 Environmental Crimes, Pay $12 Million Fine
U.S. Attorney’s Office, California | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
13 Dec 2021 – “Monsanto is a serial violator of federal environmental laws,” said U.S. attorney Tracy L. Wilkison. “The company repeatedly violated laws related to highly regulated chemicals, exposing people to pesticides that can cause serious health problems.”
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Socrates on Teaching
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
Feeding your thought…
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How to Spiritualize Your Busy Life–and Why
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
How to spiritualize our lives is easier to explain than why, especially when we are so busy. Where are we going to get the time and how is that going to help? This is a common excuse that many people use to justify why they have no time for spiritual practice. However, there are points we need to consider.
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“People don’t resist change. They resist being changed.”
Peter Senge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
Peter Senge (1947) is a US scientist, teacher and director of the Center for Organizational Learning at de MIT Sloan School of Management. He is the author of The Fifth discipline (1990) and founder of the five disciplines of learning organizations.
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Twitter: Singing in the Rain
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
26 Dec 2021 – Barely two years after becoming a major Twitter shareholder, US hedge fund billionaire Paul Elliott Singer has managed to oust Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. How can advanced Twitter users respond to this development? Ten suggestions.
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Will the Islamic World Save Afghanistan?
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
21 Dec 2021 – Between the complex internal dynamics of the Taliban and the western trick of conditional aid, it is the Muslim world that must act to save Afghanistan.
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World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated Daily
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Obituary: South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu
DW - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
26 Dec 2021 – One of South Africa’s giants in the fight against the apartheid regime in the 20th century, Desmond Tutu remained a critical voice in the country’s politics throughout his life. He died today aged 90.
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Oh Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
Your sisters stayed in their palaces
With golden chains and shameless lies
Some grinned and aided criminals…
Do We Dare Stop Being Afraid of Ourselves?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
22 Dec 2021 – We’re stuck, right now, in the myth of collective suicide, more generally known as the myth of the conquest of good over evil. And since history is told by the winners of humanity’s wars, those currently in power are always — always! — the good guys. David Suzuki puts it this way: “As dictators have shown throughout history, collective narratives are often successful when they have a bad guy, someone or something that is ‘other.’”
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
A little girl became restless as the preacher’s sermon dragged on and on.
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‘Colourless’ vs ‘Coloured’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
25 Dec 2021 – In short: is it just a matter of ‘colourless’ versus ‘people of colour’? Or is it also a question of ‘full-pockets’ versus ‘empty-pockets’? By the way: aren’t all humans… African-descent?
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Prof. Werner Brilliantly Explains How the Banking System and Financial Sector Really Work
RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
Power, Privilege, Riches, Control…
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These Are the Days of Our Lives (Music Video of the Week)
Queen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
Taken from Innuendo, 1991 and Forever, 2014 – Freddy Mercury, the legend…
→ read full articleCOVID World Data -Total: 280,3M -Dead: 5,4M -Death Rate: 0.01%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
On 27 Dec 2021 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 280,339,663
Deaths: 5,416,737
Active: 24,510,978
Recovered: 250,411,948
Cases Closed: 255,828,685
Total Vaccinated: 4,516,340,355
There’s Only One Essential Role Humans Have on Earth—A Humbler Perspective Could Save the World
Captain Paul Watson | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
While the world’s oceans, nonhuman animals, and plants play starring roles in sustaining our ecosystem, why are we so bent on sabotaging it?
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
After WWII it was believed that the formula for peace, dignity, and sustainable prosperity had been discovered. It was called “Development.” Its ingredients included the rule of law, human rights including those declared in the Universal Declaration of 1948, and–crucially–mixed economies like those pioneered in Scandinavia. Now the dreams of 1948 have turned into the nightmares of 2021. Why?
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Everything Going Great
Edward Snowden | Continuing Ed - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
23 Dec 2021 – Gospel, a word from Old English, is a compound that means “good news.” And it’s gospel that’s been in short-supply as we head into the Christmas season. Whenever this fact gets me down, I remember that finding evil, malfeasance, and even suffering in the headlines is just a sign that the press is doing its job. I don’t think any of us wants to wake up in the morning and read “Everything Going Great!”
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For Third Year, Committee to Protect Journalists Excludes Assange from Jailed Journalist Index
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
20 Dec 2021 – A record number of journalists are imprisoned throughout the world, according to the annual prison index released by the Committee to Protect Journalists. But that number excludes WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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The “Humanewashing” of Meat and Dairy, Explained
Jessica Scott-Reid | Vox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
21 Dec 2021 – Why you can’t trust claims of humane treatment on meat and dairy labels. Most meat, dairy, and eggs sold in the US come from factory farms, where animals are tightly packed together in dark, unsanitary warehouses. But you wouldn’t know it while browsing the meat, dairy, and egg aisles at the grocery store.
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(Italiano) Solo il disarmo è razionale. La pace armata è guerra.
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
20 Dic 2021 – Il 22 gennaio 2021, quasi un anno fa, entrava in vigore, nel diritto internazionale, il divieto (votato dall’Assemblea dell’Onu il 7 luglio 2017) di costruire, usare e anche solo detenere armi nucleari.
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Julian Assange Files Appeal to UK Supreme Court
Stella Moris | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
23 Dec 2021 – Official statement from Stella Moris and Don’t Extradite Assange campaign. This morning Julian Assange filed an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court the High Court’s ruling that he can be extradited to the US on three grounds.
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May Sarton on the Cure for Despair and Why Solitude Is the Seedbed of Self-Discovery
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
“Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.”
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Nasa Launches James Webb Revolutionary Space Telescope
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
25 Dec 2021 – The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from the USA has successfully launched the James Webb space telescope into orbit, giving scientists the opportunity to peer back further into the universe’s history than ever before.
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Winter Solstice: “The Day of the Longest Night . . .”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
I write in awe and reverence of Time! I write with respect for ancients pursuing mastery and control of Time’s mysterious cycles, determining life and lives. On “The Day of the Longest Night,” today calendarized as December 21, uncertainty of light’s return once brought chants, prayers, and sacrifices. Shrines, columns, and monuments were erected to map the past… So, let it be written . . . so, let it be sung . . . So let us honor, Time!
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Education and Learning— Views of Mahatma Gandhi
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
For most countries of the world learning or education is an essential requirement for children’s development. It is well known that higher the educational levels better will be the country’s development.
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The Assange Case Explained Simply
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
16 Dec 2021 – In reality, the complexity of this case is a complete illusion. It only looks complicated because many years of media distortion have made it appear so. The US government is trying to extradite a journalist and prosecute him under the Espionage Act for exposing its war crimes, with the long-term goal of normalizing this practice. That’s it. That’s the whole entire thing.
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Massive Release of WikiLeaks Files
WikiLeaks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
14 Dec 2021 – After the Royal Court of Justice UK allowed extradition of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks dumped ALL of their files online. Everything from Hillary Clinton’s emails, Vegas shooting done by an FBI sniper, Steve Jobs’ HIV letter, PedoPodesta, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Bilderberg, CIA agents arrested for rape, WHO pandemic… Happy Digging!
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Call to Account!
Vladimir Mayakovsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
The drum of war thunders and thunders.
It calls: thrust iron into the living.
From every country
slave after slave
are thrown onto bayonet steel.
Israel Killed Up to 192 Palestinian Civilians in May 2021 Attacks on Gaza
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
9 Dec 2021 – More than 70 percent of the Israeli attacks that killed civilians in Gaza had no corresponding reports of militants hit alongside them. “I still don’t know why they bombed my house and killed my wife and children and my sister and her children.”
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The American Psychological Association’s “Psychology PAC” Must Do Better
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
17 Dec 2021 – Since the APA promotes itself as the leading voice representing psychology in the US, it seems important for Psychology PAC to explain the rationale for its contributions to the candidates identified above. Given that today’s GOP has become a virulent anti-democratic force, it’s hard to see how these donations can be justified.
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Ten Contradictions That Plague Biden’s Democracy Summit
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
9 Dec 2021 – Ten of the many contradictions plaguing President Biden’s “Summit for Democracy” from its undeclared but transparent purpose of isolating Russia and China to USA’s own failing democracy and anti-democratic international behavior.
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India: Making Sense of Kerala
Patrick Heller and Olle Törnquist | The Hindu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
13 Dec 2021 – A Closer Look at the Social Democratic Experiment of India’s Southern State
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Lives in the 17th Century
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
I would like to announce the publication of a book which presents many aspects of science and culture in the 17th century. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge.
→ read full articleCOVID World Data -Total: 275M -Dead: 5,3M -Death Rate: 0.01%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
On 20 Dec 2021 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 275,017,621
Deaths: 5,370,462
Active: 22,880,635
Recovered: 246,766,524
Cases Closed: 252,136,986
Total Vaccinated: 4,472,959,422
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
Karl Marx – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, and socialist revolutionary. Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at the universities of Bonn and Berlin.
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Freedom and Rights Coalition Address
Dr. Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
16 Dec 2021 – Over the past two years, we in New Zealand and around the world have had to endure immense changes – healthy people have been locked up and down, travel has been restricted, face coverings have been imposed, and rules have been issued to make sure we didn’t get too close to one another, all ostensibly on behalf of health.
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The NYT Reports US Forces ‘Killed Dozens in Syria’–The Reality Is Far Worse
Eva Bartlett | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
15 Dec 2021 – Two recent reports by the New York Times highlight some of the US’ manifold crimes in Syria, murdering untold numbers of Syrian civilians over the years, under the pretext of fighting the Islamic State.
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(Italiano) Creare sussistenze dignitose che non dipendano da vendite
Howard Richards | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
Si dissolvono i principali ostacoli al salvarci dalle sei minacce all’umanità trattate in Project Save the World; per chi non ne sappia abbastanza, le 6 minacce sono: Guerra e armi, riscaldamento globale, fame, pandemie, contaminazione radioattiva, e rischi cibernetici.
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Poisoning Ourselves with War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
15 Dec 2021 – War spews hell in all directions. Just ask the guys at Talon Anvil, a secret U.S. “strike cell” recently exposed by the New York Times as a unit with a reputation for ignoring the rules of engagement and killing lots and lots of civilians with drone strikes as it plays war with ISIS.
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Patterns
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
Paradigm Change
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(Italiano) Pace mediante disarmo globale o libertà di stampa?
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
Commento sul Premio Nobel per la Pace 2021
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The Lot of the Exploited, Discriminated and Oppressed (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
17 Dec 2021 – Is It Predestination, Karma, or Hedonistic Colonial Subjugation by People of Aryan Origins? An Odyssey of Generational Suffering of Humanoids of Colour
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‘Monster’ Antarctic Glacier at Risk as Key Ice Shelf Faces Collapse Years Earlier Than Expected
Kenny Stancil | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
13 Dec 2021 – The ice shelf holding back one of Antarctica’s most perilous glaciers is eroding from below due to higher ocean temperatures, prompting scientists to warn today that this key reinforcement could shatter in the next three to five years—a development that would threaten millions of people with intensifying sea level rise.
→ read full articleThe Origin of Violence
Henna Maria Vermeulen interviews Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Odysee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
29 Nov 2021 – Where violence comes from and how we can best reclaim our freedom in this time of ever increasing oppression and surveillance. I speak with a man who has dedicated 14 years of his life in seclusion to explore in depth why human beings kill each other. Robert is an author and world renowned scholar and teacher of nonviolent action strategy, especially the Gandhian approach.
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The Execution of Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
13 Dec 2021 – He committed empire’s greatest sin. He exposed it as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, callous disregard for human life, rampant corruption and innumerable war crimes. And empires always kill those who inflict deep and serious wounds.
→ read full articleWorld Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated Daily
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Breaking Down the State
James M. Jasper, Clifford Bob and Jack Goldstone | Amsterdam University Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
This text concentrates on interactions between protestors and the various players who comprise the state, from courts to police, legislators to bureaucrats. Again, some remarkable contributors are helping to develop a new language for describing political interaction.
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How Can Some Progressives Get Basic Information about Nicaragua so Wrong?
John Perry and Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
On 7 Nov Nicaragua held elections in which current president Daniel Ortega received 75% support. Not surprisingly, the US government described the election as a “sham.” Of more concern is that many on the left seem to agree.
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(Italiano) USA in declino fanno i prepotenti con Cina/Russia, Terra, spazio extra terrestre, sé stessi: letture per aprire gli occhi
Jan Oberg | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
9 Dicembre 2021 – Voi siete oggetto di una operazione psicologica per far sì che abbiate solo opinioni negative sulla Cina. E’ il più importante conflitto al mondo. Leggete il Sommario esecutivo TFF in 15 punti: “Dietro la cortina di fumo. Un’analisi della distruttiva Agenda Occidentale per la Guerra Fredda alla Cina e del perché deve cessare” *
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Israel Is Hell-Bent on Sabotaging US Nuclear Negotiations with Iran
Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold | Jacobin Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
10 Dec 2021 – You’d think that Israel might feel obligated not to drag the United States into another disastrous military conflict in the Middle East, this time with Iran. But no: Israel is doing everything it can to sabotage US-Iran nuclear negotiations and stoke a war.
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Red Current, Pink Tide: A Visit to El Maizal Commune in Venezuela
Chris Gilbert | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
1 Dec 2021 – Chris Gilbert on how Venezuela’s El Maizal Commune’s flag-waving communards are among the reddest elements in the so-called Pink Tide.
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Incredible Cave Paintings 8 Miles-Long Revealed Deep in Amazon Forest: The Sistine Chapel of Ancients
Good News Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
15 Nov 2021 – Believed to be 12,500 years old, tens of thousands of pristine cave paintings were found across an eight-mile stretch of rock in Colombia’s Amazon rainforest. Hailed as the “Sistine Chapel of the Ancients,” it’s the kind of discovery that changes the world of archaeology; the art is extremely detailed.
→ read full articleUncle Sam’s Year-End News Roundup
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
Same old, Same old…
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The Mysterious Case of Joe Biden and the Future of Drone Wars
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
15 Dec 2021 – The handling of the Kabul strike is an ominous sign that while Biden has pledged to review the drone program, a long-standing mechanism for self-exoneration remains entrenched.
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Ave Maria (Music Video of the Week)
Andrea Bocelli – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
Andrea Bocelli in Roma Sings Ave Maria from Franz Schubert
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What Putin Really Told Biden
Pepe Escobar | Asia Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
8 Dec 2021 – So Russian President Vladimir Putin, by himself, and United States President Joe Biden, surrounded by aides, finally had their secret video link conference for two hours and two minutes – with translators placed in different rooms. Both leaders dropped their respective rhetorical gauntlets but nobody really expects Russia to invade Ukraine.
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“Every Option Is on the Table”: US Prepping for Libya-Style Intervention in Ethiopia
Alan Macleod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
10 Dec 2021 – War Drums Sounding – While many in the Horn of Africa clearly need help, the Biden administration’s idea of “help” might not be exactly what they had in mind.
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The Covid Vaccine War (I)
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
13 Dec 2021 – While “vaccine passports” have of course been entirely ineffective and indeed counterproductive at the medical level, this doesn’t really matter at the strategic level, if their primary strategic purpose is to introduce QR-based or even RFID-based identity systems that may later be linked to other personal health and financial data as well as to digital currencies and payment systems.
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John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
The Threat of a Large-Scale Global Famine by the Middle of the 21st Century
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Prayer for Peace
St. Francis of Assisi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
Sublime, non-sectarian, timeless… it says it all.
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Slanted Truths: Women Characters in Vijay Tendulkar’s Plays
Dr. Bill Bhaneja | The Beacon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
The philosophy behind Tendulkar’s writing is based upon his perception of society and its values — his life experiences, and observing what he had seen in others around him: “I did not attempt to simplify matters and issues for the audience, though it would have been easier to do so through such a medium. Sometimes my plays jolted the society and I was punished…I was adamant as it is an old habit with me to do what I am asked not to.” (2)
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The Simile of the Snake – Alagagadduupama Sutta
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
Thus I heard: At one time the Blessed One was living in the monastery offered by Anathapindika in Jeta’s grove in Savatthi. At that time to a Bhikkhu named Arittha, a vulture trainer in his previous birth, this evil view had arisen.
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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
The Defender and Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
FDA Now Wants 75 Years to Release Pfizer Vaccine Documents
Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
10 Dec 2021 – “ … it is dystopian for the government to give Pfizer billions, mandate Americans to take its product, prohibit Americans from suing for harms, but yet refuse to let Americans see the data underlying its licensure.”
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Vandana Shiva: Great Reset Is ‘a Project of Extermination’
Jeremy Loffredo | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
9 Dec 2021 – Indian scholar, environmental activist, and food sovereignty advocate, Vandana Shiva explained how the economic plan known as the Great Reset is a “project of extermination” dissecting the motives and psychology of the ruling elite.
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UK High Court Overturns Assange Win
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
10 Dec 2021 – The British High Court in London today overturned an earlier lower court decision blocking the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States. The ruling sends the case back to Magistrate’s Court with instructions to allow the extradition to be approved or denied by the British Home Secretary Prita Patel.
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‘Reckless Misuse of Resources’: US House Approves $778 Billion Military Budget
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
In bipartisan fashion, the U.S. House of Representatives late Tuesday [7 Dec] passed a sprawling military policy bill that contains nearly twice as much funding on an annual basis as Democrats’ flagship social spending and climate bill. “There was no CBO score needed. No concern about the deficit. No mention of inflation,” said Rep. Jamaal Bowman.
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Journalists: How to Cope with Trauma
Deutsche Welle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
25 Nov 2021 – According to the Dart Center at Columbia University, 80 percent of journalists have been exposed to a work-related traumatic event. Of those, nine out of ten say they’ve had at least four episodes of trauma. We have five basic tips on how to deal with it.
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Covering Up Failure: Ignoring the Record of Regime-Changing Interventions
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
6 Dec 2021 – The militarized U.S. political class rejects the record of failure with respect to regime-changing interventions since suffering defeat in the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975.
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