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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.
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COVID 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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(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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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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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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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.
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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.
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World 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.
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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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Uncle Sam’s Year-End News Roundup
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
Same old, Same old…
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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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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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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.
→ read full articleThe Threat of a Large-Scale Famine
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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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
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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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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The Racing World
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
All types of racing events take place
It could be a cycle race for students
Cycle fast and you may win the race
WHO: Omicron in 38 Countries, No Deaths Reported
Jack Phillips | The Epoch Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
The World Health Organization on Friday [3 Dec] said the COVID-19 omicron variant is now in 38 countries, up from 23 two days ago. No deaths have been reported so far in connection to the COVID-19 strain, another WHO spokesperson told reporters.
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Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.’s Heroic Resistance to the CIA’s Continuing Covid Coup D’état
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 Dec 2021 – With his extraordinary new book, RFK, Jr. has made it very clear that he will not allow Orwell’s 1984 totalitarian boot to stamp on his face. His is a very rare moral courage, and he is asking us to join him, before it is too late and we enter into a new dark age.
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How to Counter the Growing Threat of Agent Provocateurs
George Lakey | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
3 Dec 2021 – Those who want movements to fail will try to lure them into violence. A new handbook shows how to reduce that risk.
→ read full articleCOVID World Data -Total: 270,4M -Dead: 5,3M -Death Rate: 0.01%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
On 13 Dec 2021 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 270,430,922
Deaths: 5,322,088
Active: 22,002,057
Recovered: 243,106,777
Cases Closed: 248,428,865
Total Vaccinated: 4,408,091,244
The Judicial Kidnapping of Julian Assange
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
14 Dec 2021 – In the crudest, most political judgement in memory, two High Court judges in London have ordered the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States, where a trial in a kangaroo court awaits him, followed by a life lost in a barbaric prison system.
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8 Top Pfizer, Moderna Shareholders $10 Billion Richer after Media Hypes Omicron Fears
Seth Hancock | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
Global Justice Now on Saturday [4 Dec] released data showing “just eight top Pfizer and Moderna shareholders” and their CEOs made $10.31 billion since the new COVID variant, Omicron, emerged, but doctor who discovered it says it’s mild, and may even be useful.
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Assange Ruling a Dangerous Precedent for Journalists and British Justice
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
10 Dec 2021 – The High Court’s ruling paves Assange’s way to a US trial following ‘assurances’ he will not be mistreated. But the US has been persecuting Assange for a decade after he exposed its war crimes.
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All Humans Are Born Equal in Rights? That’s Still Far from Being True
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
6 Dec 2021 – 6 Dec 2021 – “All Human, All Equal” is the slogan for the 2021 Human Rights Day, marked 10 December. The introduction to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights;” it proclaims the “inalienable rights that everyone is entitled to as a human being regardless of race, color, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.”
→ read full articleWorld Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 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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The Messiah – Hallelujah Chorus (Music Video of the Week)
George Frideric Handel - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square
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Why the Dutch Are Closing Prisons – and What They’re Doing with Empty Ones
Deborah Nicholls-Lee | Positive News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 Dec 2021 – The Netherlands has reduced its prison population to such a degree that it’s now turning old prisons into socially useful buildings, such as schools and refugee centres. What went right?
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How Congress Loots the Treasury for the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
6 Dec 2021 – The conjunction of dysfunctional military leadership, an ever-growing arms industry and a Congress that keeps handing them trillions of dollars, constitutes the full flowering of President Eisenhower’s greatest fears for the future of the United States.
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Strategic Resistance to the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ Gathers Pace
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. and Anita McKone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
13 Dec 2021 – The ‘We Are Human, We Are Free’ campaign was launched earlier this year. It is designed to enable people to participate in a grassroots nonviolent campaign to strategically resist the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ and related initiatives of the Global Elite including the transhumanist, eugenics and Cyber Polygon agendas.
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2021 Scandal: How It Fits the CIA and US ‘Democracy’ Global Media War
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 Dec 2021 – Imagine that the Nobel Prize in Literature is given to a book publisher or papermaker and the official motivation is that publishers or papermakers are preconditions for the writer writing and being read. Roughly, this is how the Nobel Peace Committee reasons – unreasonably.
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The Sneaky Snake
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
It’s easy to be gripped by fear
Sometimes it takes a slithering slimy snake!
Or even the thoughts that we make!
Gun Talk
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
Sociopaths
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American Satyricon
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
6 Dec 2021 – The Maxwell trial will not hold the powerful men complicit in the rape and abuse of countless girls by the Epstein ring accountable or challenge the oppressive systems which fuel the scourge of male violence.
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Rohingya Sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar Genocide
Dan Milmo | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
6 Dec 2021 – Facebook’s negligence facilitated the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar after the social media network’s algorithms amplified hate speech and the platform failed to take down inflammatory posts, according to legal action launched in the US and the UK.
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Pfizer Smoking-Gun Secret Document: Their Deadly COVID Vaccine
Jon Rappoport – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 Dec 2021 – Awakening from the Trance: Court-ordered Documents Pfizer Tried to Have Sealed for 55 Years
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Updating Dire Warnings
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 Dec 2021 – A little over a year ago, I wrote in this blog that we are at a turning point in human history, that the US Empire is crashing and that there is a serious risk of a new North American Civil War. The blog was illustrated by automatic weapons being accumulated by millions of US citizens.
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(Norwegian-Norsk) Overskuddsdeling – etisk atferd i praksis
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
13. desember 2021 – De siste tiårene har noen hundre mennesker i Norge blitt ufattelig rike, en tendens vi ser i en rekke land. Globalt kontrollerer noen styrtrike familier praktisk talt alle økonomiske sektorer over hele verden. Man kan undre seg over at rike mennesker er så uvillige til å dele av sin overflod med folk som ikke får dekket sine mest grunnleggende behov.
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Biden Deploys National Guard: It’s “Déjà Vu All Over Again” as Government Hawks and Corporate Media Play Up Ethiopian Atrocities in Tigray
Ann Garrison | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
9 Dec 2021 – Twelve days after a Bloomberg Nov. 11 Headline proclaimed that “Ethiopia’s Civil War Is a Problem That U.S. Troops Can Help Solve,” President Joe Biden announced the Deployment of 1,000 National Guard Troops to the Ethiopian border—as if he had learned nothing from the U.S.’s disastrous 75-year history of military involvement in (and incitement of) foreign civil wars in Korea, Vietnam, Lebanon, Somalia, Nicaragua, Haiti, Serbia, Libya, Afghanistan and Syria.
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‘Pool of Blood’: US Drone Strike Hits Syria Family
AFP | France24 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
8 Dec 2021 – Ahmad Qassum was driving home with his family when a US drone targeting an Al-Qaeda-linked militant in Syria struck.
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The American Psychological Association Still Owes Guantanamo’s Victims an Apology
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
Ultimately, even apologies won’t be enough for the victims of U.S. government torture. The association should also join other human rights groups in publicly calling for the permanent closure of this ignominious offshore prison.
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A COVID Letter from Aotearoa
Dr. Emanuel E. Garcia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
13 Dec 2021 – When has a healthy person ever been considered a danger before? What do those who are already jabbed have to fear from those who are not? Does any of this make any rational sense? In the true spirit of science and human morality we should be asking questions, questions about everything. And the question above all we must ask ourselves is whether we value life and liberty over fear, control, segregation and slavery.
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“Folks, I don’t trust children. They’re here to replace us.”
Stephen Colbert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
Stephen Tyrone Colbert is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. He is best known for hosting the satirical program The Colbert Report and the CBS talk show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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Ludwig van Beethoven (17 Dec 1770 – 26 Mar 1827)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. His personal life was marked by a struggle against deafness, and some of his most important works were composed during the last 10 years of his life, when he was quite unable to hear.
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What Went Right This Week: A ‘Historic’ Win for Nature, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
9 Dec 2021 – Ecuador recognised the rights of nature in a landmark ruling, encouraging data emerged about Omicron, and lab-grown meat reached another milestone, plus more positive news.
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We Wage Wars Because We Are Violent Animals Likely Headed Toward Extinction
Jack Balkwill | Intrepid Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
6 Dec 2021 – We are spiraling headlong toward extinction as long as we allow our primitive violence to dominate. Ours is a species that builds cities only to blow them up in wars, again and again. Capitalists profit from the weapons that destroy the cities, and again from rebuilding the cities, and since their only concern is for profit, the insanity won’t end until a new economic order is adopted.
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A Great Loneliness Has Befallen…
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
10 Dec 2021 – A great loneliness has befallen the world’s people. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic and global challenges of climate change, toxic pollutions, and risks of extinction, humanity is faced with harsh choices between compliance with authority-imposed restraints on individual rights and human rights. There is considerable conflict regarding choice.
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Outcome from the Two-Hour Biden-Putin Summit: Putin Rejects Biden’s Demand That the U.S. Take Control of the Negotiations in Ukraine
Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
The 7 Dec 2021 Biden-Putin video-conference focused mainly on the conflict between Ukraine and its breakaway Donbass region, which borders Russia. In order to understand the conversation, some basic history that produced the current situation there needs to be stated.
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How Google Advances the Zionist Colonization of Palestine
Yarden Katz | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
8 Dec 2021 – Software engineers at Google and Amazon have objected to providing services to the Israeli government because of the harm it would bring to Palestinians, yet these companies are already contributing to Israel’s colonial project in many ways.
→ read full articleCreate, or Help Create, Dignified Livelihoods That Do Not Depend on Sales
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
Project Save the World’s six threats to humanity: War and Weapons, Global Warming, Famine, Pandemics, Radioactive Contamination, and Cyber Risks. Question: “Where do we start?”
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The Lot of the Exploited, Discriminated and Oppressed (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 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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The Defender and Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
Richest 1% Took 38% of New Global Wealth Since 1995. The Bottom Half Got Just 2%
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 Dec 2021 – A new report finds that global inequities in wealth and income are “about as great today as they were at the peak of Western imperialism in the early 20th century. If there is one lesson to be learnt from the global investigation, it is that inequality is always a political choice.”
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Finding Our Real Spiritual Identity
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
Among all the philosophical understanding that the Vedic texts provide, this is one of the most important. An essential part of understanding spiritual knowledge is that we realize our spiritual identity. The suggestion that we detach from the world or from our bodies to see beyond the influence of the illusory energy, makes no sense until we realize that we are spiritual beings in a temporary material form.
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A Myanmar’s Military That Burns Civilians Alive Ought to Be Designated as Terrorist
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
9 Dec 2021 – While governments and human rights organizations were occupied with the farce of the coup junta’s trial of Aung San Suu Kyi and the expected guilty verdict on 6 December 2021, the junta’s back-to-back acts of terrorism have not been reported in the ways they deserve nor have they received worldwide scrutiny and condemnation.
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The Unspeakable
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
1 Nov 2021 – Full Documentary – Their loved ones were murdered on 9/11. Twenty years later, they are still fighting for the truth.
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Serenity Prayer
Reinhold Niebuhr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
Oh Lord, please grant me:
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(Français) Mise à Jour des Avertissements
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 déc. 2021 – Il y a un peu plus d’un an, j’écrivais dans ce blog que nous étions à un tournant de l’Histoire de l’humanité, que l’empire américain s’effonderait et qu’il existe un risque sérieux d’une nouvelle guerre civile aux USA. Le blog était illustré par les armes automatiques accumulées par des millions de citoyens américains.
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Billionaires Increased Wealth by $3.6 Trillion in 2020, as Millions Died from Global Pandemic
Trévon Austin | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
The World Inequality Report 2022, released by the World Inequality Lab on 7 Dec, found that the COVID-19 pandemic has widened the financial gap between the rich and poor. The world’s billionaires enjoyed the steepest increase in their share of wealth last year since the World Inequality Lab began keeping records in 1995.
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Changes
Rick Godwin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
Right!
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Backed By AFRICOM, Corporations Plunder DR Congo for “Climate-Friendly” Materials and Blame China
T.J. Coles | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
Cobalt, a key metallic element used in lithium batteries and other “green” technology, is sourced from slave labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo. As the West points the finger at China, the US Africa Command is indirectly policing mining operations that profit US corporations.
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Russia’s ‘Plan to Invade Ukraine’ Exists Only in the US and NATO Imagination
Scott Ritter | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
5 Dec 2021 – Ukraine has accused Russia of preparing to invade, triggering a crisis that will bring Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin together via a phone call. Someday international-relations students will scratch their collective heads, wondering what, if anything, was going through the minds of those responsible for the current crisis. In any other circumstance, this sort of narrative would be fodder for dark comedy.
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In That Final Moment
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
6 Dec 2021 – When the nukes start flying,
when we see the mushroom cloud growing on the horizon,
when reality comes crashing down in the most overt way possible,
when the realization slowly dawns that this really is the end,
none of our old stuff will matter anymore.
OMG, Omicron! Why It’s too Soon to Panic about COVID Vaccines and the New Variant
Adam Taylor | Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
3 Dec 2021 – We won’t know whether Omicron evades COVID vaccines for another few weeks. Here’s why.
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The Ancient Technique to Making Tough Decisions
Gregg Braden | The Outcome – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
What Gregg Braden calls “heart intelligence” is an ancient technique used to make tough decisions.
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Call It ‘Old’, ‘Contemporary’, ‘Modern’ or Whatever: It Is Slavery
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
1 Dec 2021 – No matter what it is called — it is the abhorrent daily life of a billion enslaved humans. The real number of “modern” slaves is understandably unknown. The International Labour Organisation estimates that more than 40 million people worldwide are victims of modern slavery.
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‘We Have Fallen into a Trap’: Qatar’s World Cup Dream Is a Nightmare for Hotel Staff
Pete Pattisson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
18 Nov 2021 – I spent weeks waiting at the Kathmandu Airport. Among the returning migrant workers were coffins bearing the bodies of young men who had paid the ultimate price in search of work overseas. They were being flown home from Qatar, host of the 2022 football World Cup.
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Republican Congressman Sparks Outrage for Family Christmas Photo with Guns Days after School Shooting
Lauren Booker | Boston Globe - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
4 Dec 2021 – Republican US Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky received swift condemnation for posting a Christmas-themed photo of him and his family holding firearms today. It has been called insensitive given the 30 Nov school shooting in Michigan that resulted in the deaths of four Oxford High School students.
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