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The Corona Crisis: Is the Tide Turning? “A Rapid General Awakening”?
Peter Koenig | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
6 Jan 2022 – Early indications are that the tide may be turning, that “peak-covid tyranny” may have been reached. Going into 2022 under these new apparent signs could mean a rapid general awakening, to the point of reaching a critical mass of people who start doubting the going billion-dollar propagated narrative. That would be good. It’s never too late.
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Slavoj Zizek: It’s Naive to Think Bitcoin & NFT Give Us Freedom
Slavoj Žižek | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
8 Jan 2022 – In a world where digital control and manipulation have become a norm, many believe that cryptocurrency and Non-Fungible Tokens, or NFTs, enable freedom. But this is not exactly true.
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The Partition of India by the British Raj: Destruction of Peace, National Cohesion and Love
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
The Butchering of a Nation by the Guardians of the Civilised Western World
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The Restart of International Politics after August 2021
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
6 Jan 2022 – A disruption has occurred in the superpower state, the USA. In the 1950s, Lanza del Vasto predicted the “fall of the western hero”. The US is such a powerful “hero” that no enemy can attack. But it is a decadent powerful state and therefore it is subject to fatalism.
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The Myth of the Good War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
5 Jan 2022 – The myth of the good war may well be the most destructive certainty misleading the crumbling empire known as “USA! USA!” Here’s the problem, though. Building global and environmental peace — listening to and understanding one another — is a slow, extraordinarily complex process. It’s so much easier to keep waging war against the bad guy of the moment, who will never go away.
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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
The Defender and Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative
COVID World Data -Total: 307,9M -Dead: 5,5M -Death Rate: 0.01%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
On 10 Jan 2022 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 307,909,895
Deaths: 5,506,141
Active: 42,816,513
Recovered: 259,587,241
Cases Closed: 265,093,382
Total Vaccinated: 4,656,381,992
The U.S. Makes a Mockery of Treaties and International Law
K.J. Noh | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
7 Jan 2022 – The United States claims it is operating under a “rules-based order”—but the term is not the same international law recognized by the rest of the world. Rather, it is camouflage behind which U.S. exceptionalism flourishes.
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Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of “Do the Next Right Thing”
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
“There is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the right effort at the right place… do the next thing with diligence and devotion.”
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New India
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
This is a photograph of a twelve year old student who is teaching the poor children of his locality in Delhi. What he teaches is what he learns in his own regular school — arithmetic, Hindi language and some history of India.
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441,449 Low Earth Orbit Satellites – Operating, Approved and Proposed
Arthur Firstenberg | International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
5 Jan 2022 – While the attention of a terrified world has been riveted on a virus, the assault on the heavens has reached astronomical proportions. During the past two years, a flood of new projects has brought the number of operating, approved, and proposed satellites to at least 441,449. The satellite projects include the ones listed below.
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The Pentagon and CIA Have Shaped Thousands of Hollywood Movies into Super Effective Propaganda
David Swanson| World Beyond War - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
5 Jan 2022 – Propaganda is most impactful when people don’t think it’s propaganda, and most decisive when it’s censorship you never knew happened. When we imagine that the U.S. military only occasionally and slightly influences U.S. movies, we are extremely badly deceived.
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The War on Terror Is a Success — for Terror
Nick Turse | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
4 Jan 2022 – Terrorist Groups Have Doubled Since the Passage of the 2001 AUMF
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What Does the Statement of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States on Preventing Nuclear War Tell Us?
Kim Petersen | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
5 Jan 2022 – The Doomsday Clock has been sitting at 100 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to civilization-ending apocalypse. Will the first-ever Joint Statement of the Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races help to put a damper on any potential conflagration? An analysis of the statement seems called for.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (15 Jan 1929 – 4 Apr 1968)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
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PEN America and the Betrayal of Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
27 Dec 2021 – Nils Melzer, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, is one of the very few establishment figures to denounce the judicial lynching of Julian Assange. Melzer’s integrity and courage, for which he has been mercilessly attacked, stand in stark contrast to the widespread complicity of many human rights and press organizations, including PEN America.
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Matt Taibbi and Matt Orfalea | TK News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
31 Dec 2021 – Pandemic Scare-Coverage Reaches New Heights, or Depths, or Something
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Dissonance Searching for Resonance: An Open Letter to TRANSCEND Members and Friends
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
1 Jan 2022 – Needless to say, if you are a frequent writer, contributor, or visitor to the TRANSCEND Media Service website, you are aware of the unique significance this Weekly Digest offers both as a beacon and archive. Thirteen years of thought on major global issues from a wide variety of peace and conflict transformation perspectives. You also must be aware of the financial difficulties that TMS now continues to face.
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Nonviolent Theory on Communication: The Implications for Theorizing a Nonviolent Rhetoric
Ellen W. Gorsevski | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
The interrelationship between nonviolence and rhetoric is examined. While we have studied the world of adversarial relationships, conflict, and difference of belief, rhetorical critics have not done as much to understand the practices of seeking mutual identification, cooperation, and learning how to live with diversity and adversity. Nonviolent theory shows rhetoricians that language and culture—our ways of creating and perpetuating our reality—can impose minimal aggression while maximizing the potential for peacemaking.
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The Death of the Father of the Rainbow Nation
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
31 Dec 2021 – “I wish I could shut up, but I can’t and I won’t.” — Desmond Tutu. A Celebration of the Glorious Life of the Global Icon, Reverend Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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Hey There Delilah (Music Video of the Week)
Plain White T | HollywoodRecordsVEVO - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
(Official Video) Please click on WATCH ON YOUTUBE kick back and enjoy!
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Warnings from the Far North
Robert Hunziker | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
27 Dec 2021 – It’s never been more urgent and timely for the world to change its ways and abandon the current economic maelstrom that haunts all life on the planet. The pros and cons of capitalism’s experiment with neoliberal tendencies that enrich the few and bury the many should be debated in the context of strained resources throughout the biosphere, including all life forms.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR
The TRANSCEND Media Service team,
3 Jan 2022
We at TMS take this opportunity to thank wholeheartedly all those who contributed to keep us alive in 2021, and we hope to keep improving for the benefit of our readers worldwide. We are in this together because TMS is 100% financed by you, the reader. HAPPY NEW YEAR and please pitch in for the 2022 budget in case you haven’t.
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Musings on Olympia by Emanuel Garcia
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
31 Dec 2021 – If you are a lucky reader, you chance upon a book that makes your hair stand on end in wonder and sends a shiver down your spine. This book does that, for it is deft, digressive, and capricious in ways that leave you wondering what whim set the author’s mind so ablaze to dare to set this story to paper.
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(Italiano) La minaccia di una carestia diffusa entro metà secolo
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
23 Dicembre 2021 – A meno che vengano fatti sforzi per stabilizzare e infine ridurre la popolazione globale, c’è una grave minaccia che il cambiamento climatico, la crescita demografica e la fine dell’era dei combustibili fossili possano combinarsi nel produrre una carestia di casta scala per la metà del secolo in corso.
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What Shall We Call a State That Lets Its Soldiers Kill Lots of Innocent People without Punishing Even One?
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
27 Dec 2021 – Did you hear about it? See it on your Western prime time news? This is a state that pretends to be a global leader and insists on teaching the world what human rights, democracy and justice are. In my view, only a criminal state does this, not one that adheres to the rule of international law.
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Big Power Rivalries: The Thugs of Myanmar
José Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Laureate | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
21 Dec 2021 – ASEAN leaders should explore a joint strategy with China, India and the US. By working together on a conflict that does not directly affect the three powers’ strategic interests, ongoing high tensions between China and US could cool down, and pave the way for additional small building blocks of cooperation and partnership.
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Sex Crimes of the CIA—Unreported, Unrepented, and Unpunished
John Kiriakou | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
27 Dec 2021 – The CIA rivals the Vatican in covering up sex crimes against children and then protecting the members of its organization who commit them.
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Finding Our Real Spiritual Identity
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
The author presents some of the most important spiritual information in Vedic philosophy so that everyone can understand their real spiritual nature. Out of all the philosophical understanding that the Vedic texts provide, this is one of the most important of all.
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US Still Doesn’t Know How and Where It Will Store Its Growing Pile of Nuclear Waste
Charles Pekow | Earth Island Journal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
23 Dec 2021 – Senate Armed Services Committee report: “As the USA continues to modernize its nuclear weapons, waste will be generated. It is not clear whether there are sufficient facilities to address the waste or if such facilities are in current plans and budgets.” The estimated cost of handling the degrading radioactive material is rising steadily — $512 billion at last count.
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The Penguin
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
Thought I will find you in the Antarctic
But there you are, in Africa!
All dressed up in your finest.
‘Rampant Forest Destruction’ Wracks Reserve as Cattle Ranching Advances in Brazilian Amazon
Morgan Erickson-Davis and Ana Ionova | Mongabay - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
29 Dec 2021- The Terra do Meio reserve is a federally protected area across the Amazon Brazilian state of Pará. But, despite its protected status, the reserve has come under growing pressure. Between Jan. 1 and Dec. 14 2021, some 25,943 deforestation alerts were confirmed in primary forest within it.
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Experts (?)
Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
Right!
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British Colonialism and How India and Pakistan Lost Freedom
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
29 Dec 2021 – Irony of Historic National Freedom and Unspoken Tyranny of Imperialism – A challenging new historic viewpoint and critical analysis for many obsessed with systematic colonization of poor and helpless masses across the globe.
→ read full article(Français) La Biennale de Luanda : Passé et Avenir de la Culture de la Paix en Afrique
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
1 Jan 2022 – Maintenant, l’avenir de la culture panafricaine de la paix est là où il devrait être, entre les mains de la jeunesse africaine et de la diaspora. Un nouveau jour se lève. Il a besoin de notre soutien.
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(Français) Rétrospective 2021: Le Regard du CETRI
CETRI Centre Tricontinental - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
23 décembre 2021 – L’année 2021 s’est ouverte sur l’investiture à la présidence de Joe Biden, et se clôt par la victoire aux élections chiliennes de Gabriel Boric, à la tête d’une vaste alliance de gauche, face au candidat d’extrême droite, nostalgique de Pinochet. Tiraillements entre héritages du passé et espoirs de changements, entre désillusions et élans populaires.
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What’s Ahead for Palestine in 2022
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
2 Jan 2022 – To begin with, we will witness a growing awareness that traditional diplomacy will not bring stability, much less peace with justice to this struggle that has gone on for more than a century.
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The Biennale of Luanda: Past and Future of the Culture of Peace in Africa
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
1 Jan 2022 – Now the future of the Pan-African Culture of Peace is where it should be, in the hands of the youth of Africa and the Diaspora. A new day is dawning. It needs our support.
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Private Prescriptions for a Better Life in 2022
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
1 Jan 2022 -A thoughtful Indian friend in Paris sent this list as her prescription for a better life in 2022. I adopted her list and added to it. I invite readers to propose their own additions and subtractions.
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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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A Startling Video Emerges
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
Year 2022
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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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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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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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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.
→ read full articleCOVID 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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[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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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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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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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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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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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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A Multidimensional View of PEACE
Francisco Gomes De Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
PEACE is
Harmony serenely shared
(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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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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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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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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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.
→ read full articleWorld Coronavirus Map
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…
Objective
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
A little girl became restless as the preacher’s sermon dragged on and on.
→ read full articleDo 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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‘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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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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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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(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!
→ read full articleEducation 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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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.
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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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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