Over the past month, the country of Turkiye in Asia Minor is in great distress from repeated earthquakes. Up to 7.8 on the Richter scale, with many aftershocks. The most recent follow up earthquakes was two days ago, 6.4 and 5.8 on the Richter scale. Due to the connection with the plate and fault, Syria is also an affected region, […]
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We have been learning about Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) ever since the story broke at Redacted.inc about social workers, healthcare professionals, and others openly suggesting to patients that they “take the plunge.” Since Canada has socialized medicine, I always thought it might be the model of what the United States should enact—a real working single-payer system. However according to […]
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According to alternative news sources, over 50% of Ukraine lacks electricity right now due to intermittent attacks by the Russians against the energy grid. The attacks include select power plants, takeover of nuclear power plants by Russian forces, on energy conveyance systems such as gas pipelines, and on roads and bridges leading to maintenance facilities. The Ukrainian forces have also […]
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Has World War III begun The Ukraine-Russia War, now in its eighth month, shows no sign of peaceful resolution. To make matters wars, the war is actually intensifying and expanding outside Ukraine’s borders. In the Baltic Sea, on Sept 26, 2022, the Nord Stream pipeline for running gas from Russia to Germany was sabotaged. Both Nord Stream I and the […]
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According to experts and media pundits, the Ukraine war is becoming a dangerous debacle because the Biden administration refuses to negotiate openly and honestly with Russia. Since the Russian invasion on February 26, 2022, a pre-emptive action which President Putin labels as “special military operations” to take back NATO-militarized borderlands, the U.S., NATO, and world allies have implemented aggressive multilateral […]
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Rollbacks, Extortion, Shortages—-What do we do? In a time of new frustration and vexation, it’s easy to succomb to all kinds of acting out. Maybe that is why the Triad has decided to raise once “settled” issues. Over the past week, we’ve seen a new “contest” over the right for women to have abortion, and a new cry and hue […]
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Over the past months, the West has launched a new war in Ukraine via its NATO proxies. Recently an aid package amounting to 40 billion dollars and a new Lend-Lease Act passed through the House of Representatives in Washington. A huge increase in the sale of armaments, all kinds of weapons, vehicle systems, training, expertise, and hiring of mercenaries is […]
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Currently the President Biden Administration faces critical choices with regard to resolving twin crises: The crisis in mass protests, including trucker convoys, against any vaccine mandates. The second is the unfolding crisis in Ukraine, after a prolonged military buildup on both sides, but now with Russia taking the first step in pre-emptive war. The strange thing is that the twin […]
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WASHINGTON — On July 20th, the House Financial Services Committee held an extended hearing in Congress over proposed legislation by California Representative Maxine Waters. The hearing was attended mandatorily by new Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Marcia Fudge. The Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen was not present however. Waters, who represents the Los Angeles 43rd District, has proposed […]
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According to Empower DC, a Washington, D.C. city-wide coalition of local grassroots citizen organizations, the proposed changes to the DC Comprehensive Plan underway is a developers’ brainchild. The revision will intensify redevelopment and gentrification not only in urban neighborhoods but existing residential neighborhoods, such as in Anacostia. They are doing so by demanding reclassification of zoning considerations, shortening or eliminating […]
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From Your Homeless Blogger, “Making Peace with God-Universe-Nature.” Too few news pundits talk about Death and its impacts on our lives from anything other than a bonehead statistical perspective. Newsmakers focus on numbers and demographics, but never on the deeper ramifications. In fact, too often when someone dies or is being mistreated, such as at Sehome facility in Bellingham, Washington, […]
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Here is a crosspost from YourHomelessBlog.blogspot.com Recently I ran into a person I used to see at Miriam’s Kitchen, one of the poets of our group. There were several white males in our group that met every Wednesday morning (pre-Covid). One was a former professor, up in years, who due to taking care of his wife, had used up his […]
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