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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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The 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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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

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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

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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.

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COVID 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

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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.”

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World 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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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!

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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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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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Gun Talk
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Dec 2021

Sociopaths

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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.

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Create, 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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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
The Defender and Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Dec 2021

* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative

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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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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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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.

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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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From AIDS to Omicron, Pharmaceutical Apartheid Hurts Us All
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

2 Dec 2021 – People over profit must be the guiding mantra as we soon enter the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Without immediate action, we could well be dealing with COVID, just as we still battle AIDS, for the next forty years.

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Declining USA Bullies China/Russia, Earth, Outer Space, Itself: Eye-opener Readings
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

2 Dec 2021 – As I write, serious tension is building–again–around Ukraine, Iran and Taiwan while we could live in a much more peaceful and thriving world. Who and what are the constant peace destroyers? You are the object of a psychological operation to make you have only negative views about China.

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Biden’s Global Democracy Summit Raises an Awkward Question: Can Ours Endure?
Sue Halpern | The New Yorker – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

30 Nov 2021 – In the past year, the prospects for improving American democracy have dimmed considerably. In the months since Joe Biden took office, nineteen states have enacted thirty-three laws that make it more difficult for citizens to vote.

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Oliver Sacks on Gratitude, the Measure of Living, and the Dignity of Dying
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

“I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”

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Bannon’s Plea
Lalo Alcaraz | OppArt/The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

Come Clean

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The Unknown Help
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

Unknown to you, who comes to help you,
Is (s)he a messenger of God
Is she your friend from your previous life

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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
The Defender and Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative

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New Study Links Major Fashion Brands to Amazon Deforestation
Laura Pitcher | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

29 Nov 2021 – LVMH, Zara, Nike and others at risk of contribution to destruction of rainforest based on connections to leather industry.

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Resisting the Gatekeepers of Hell: Gandhi, ‘Vaccine Passports’ and the Great Reset
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

Misunderstanding what is happening around the world at the moment is understandable. Misrepresenting what is happening through misunderstanding it is also understandable. However, it makes it difficult to get the truth out there when blatant and persistent lying is being used by relevant international organizations: World Economic Forum, UN, World Health Organization, national governments, pharmaceutical and medical industries, and the corporate media.

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Prof Johan Galtung on Peace Journalism, Capitalism, Positive Peace, Structural Violence, Feminism, and Much More
Josef Mühlbauer | Varna Peace Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

3 Dec 2021 – Johan Galtung was at the core of the group of intellectuals who established the Peace Research Institute Oslo in 1959. Without his enormous effort and personality, PRIO would never have come true. He left it in 1969 to become Professor of Conflict and Peace Studies at the University of Oslo and was the founding editor of the Journal of Peace Research in 1964. In 1993 Galtung, Dietrich Fischer, Poka Laenui and wife Fumiko Nishimura founded TRANSCEND-A Peace Development Environment Network in Honolulu, Hawai’i, a Conflict Mediation Organization that thrives to this day with about 400 members worldwide. In 2008 he co-founded TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS with editor Antonio C.S. Rosa.

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‘Hate Crime’ Attacks by Israeli Settlers on Palestinians Spike in the West Bank
Steve Hendrix | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

29 Nov 2021 – Israeli settlers have dramatically increased their attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank over recent months, with violent incidents up about 150 percent in the past two years, according to data presented by the Israeli military at a defense ministry meeting this month.

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Hasta Siempre Che Guevara (Music Video of the Week)
Nathalie Cardone – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

Subtitles English/Spanish

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(Italiano) Baloccarsi mentre Roma brucia: mentre USA e Cina si preparano alla guerra, i soloni USA esitano
Richard E. Rubenstein - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

Coloro che negli USA battono i tamburi di preparazione alla guerra sono mossi da preoccupazioni di cui possono essere inconsapevoli, come timori che il proprio tessuto sociale stia disintegrandosi, che il dominio bianco a livello globale come negli USA sia obsolescente e che il ruolo della propria nazione da egemone globale (o “leader”, come direbbero) sia alla fine

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COVID World Data -Total: 266,2M -Dead: 5,2M -Survival Rate: 99%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

On 6 Dec 2021 (1pm GMT):
Total Cases: 266,274,026
Deaths: 5,273,877
Active: 22,692,991
Recovered: 239,888,481
Cases Closed: 245,162,358
Total Vaccinated: 4,334,032,397
Percentage Dead: Less than 1%

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Goading China to Go to War
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

28 Nov 2021- A number of defence analysts are convinced that the United States of America, supported by Britain and Australia, is goading China to go to war over Taiwan. They point to constant statements by officials from the three countries pledging to come to Taiwan’s defence.

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Inventing the Science of Race
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran | The New York Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

16 Dec 2021 issue – In 1741, Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest searching for the origin of “blackness.” The results help us see how Enlightenment thinkers justified chattel slavery. With Foreword by Dr. Maung Zarni for TMS.

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Pride and Poverty: Qatar’s World Cup Fever Tempered by Legacy of Labour Abuses
Pete Pattisson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

18 Nov 2021 – With a Year to Go, the New Stadiums, Hotels and Roads Are Finished and Locals Are Excited, but the Low-Paid Workers Who Built Them Are Ambivalent

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The Impact of Omicron Infection in South Africa
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

4 Dec 2021 – The Virus Strikes Back

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Criminalization of the Bedouin Victim
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

29 Nov 2021 – For some time, there has been an intensification of the media campaign against the Bedouin community in the Negev. This campaign seeks to prevent the ongoing and abiding harm perpetrated by the Israeli government against the Bedouin minority from coming to public attention.

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Peace by Global Disarmament or by Press Freedom?
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

6 Dec 2021 – The Norwegian Nobel Committee never abided by Nobel’s vision of peace and has used the prize to serve its own ideas and interests. It has practiced a concept of Peace without any meaningful limitation; Nobel did not use the word peace in his will. It has been glorifying individuals whereas the task is to promote a political idea: Peace by Disarmament.

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Necessary Struggle
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

Indeed

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The Provisional World Parliament & Earth Constitution Offer Inspiration and Hope
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

Dec 2021 – The ideal of a one world global family is one of the underlying moral and spiritual foundations for the values which will be needed to save the world. The Earth Constitution expresses this high ideal by providing a new, visionary governing structure designed for the benefit of the whole world, not just the few. The current Session of the Provisional World Parliament serves to provide potential future world legislation which would be extremely useful.

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Homeland or Death! Che Guevara’s Historic Speech at the UN on 11 Dec 1964
Juliana Medeiros, Ernesto Che Guevara | Jornalistas Livres - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

Che declared, in that historic UN Assembly meeting, the internationalist character of the Cuban Revolution and the non-negotiable willingness to defend its sovereignty — concepts that have become even more urgent and universal due to the coronavirus pandemic that the world faces today.

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The Role of Value Systems in Conflict Resolution
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

Understanding, “right-​sizing,” and adequately respecting the role of value systems in conflict transformation avoids both over-​ and under-​emphasis. It aims at a better understanding of the interplay between tangible conflict issues and religious or secular value systems.

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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 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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(Italiano) Sicurezza e limiti
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

1 Dicembre 2021 – Ma il concetto di ‘sicurezza’ può essere anche riferito alla protezione e al benessere delle persone, e implica un approccio diverso, più ampio, volto a prevenire, trasformare, mitigare le minacce che derivano dai conflitti violenti ai cambiamenti climatici, dalle pandemie alle crisi economiche e all’oppressione politica.  

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As Executives Hike Prices, US Corporations Rake in Biggest Profits Since 1950
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

30 Nov 2021 – New data shows that over the last two quarters of 2021, U.S. corporations outside the finance sector have raked in their largest profits since 1950. “Let’s be clear. The problem is not the worker who got a small raise and a $1,400 check seven months ago. Corporations can get away with it because they have too much power in the economy.”

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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909.

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