The disarming case to act right now on climate change | Greta Thunberg

   

The disarming case to act right now on climate change | Greta Thunberg 

In this passionate call to action, 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg explains why, in August 2018, she walked out of school and organized a strike to raise awareness of global warming, protesting outside the Swedish parliament and grabbing the world's attention.

"The climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions," Thunberg says. 

"All we have to do is to wake up and change."

Link: https://youtu.be/H2QxFM9y0tY  

Don't Give Up Adapt and Persist

Don't Quit

Don't quit when the tide is lowest,

For it's just about to turn;

Don't quit over doubt's and questions,

For there's something you may learn.

Don't quit when the night is darkest,

For its just a while 'til dawn;

Don't quit when you've run the farthest,

For the race is almost won.

Don't quit when the hill is steepest,

For your goal is almost nigh;

Don't quit, for you're not a failure

Until you fail to try.

By: Jill Wolf

5 RULES FOR WHEN NEWS ABOUT MUELLER REPORT COMES OUT. by Neal Katyal

5 RULES FOR WHEN NEWS ABOUT MUELLER REPORT COMES OUT. by  Neal Katyal

5 RULES FOR WHEN NEWS ABOUT MUELLER REPORT COMES OUT. 
1. Believe only the text of the Report, not others’ characterizations of it. This WH in particular spins “up” as “down” (like the Nunes documents).

2. Ask what the scope of the Report is. Is it just conspiracy with Russia? Does it include, for example, the campaign finance allegations, where federal SDNY prosecutors have said the President ordered the commission of felonies?

It’s almost never happened in American history that federal Prosecutors have said a sitting President orchestrated the commission of felonies.

3. Examine whether the Report is limited to criminal acts. Some of the most egregious allegations against Trump, like lying to the American people about his business dealings with Russia before the 2016 election and saying he had no biz in Russia, are not necessarily criminal.

Others, like being beholden to the Kremlin out of self interest, may be. Has Mueller only resolved the latter? If not, expect Congress to be taking all of that up.

4. Ask whether Mueller has actually resolved anything. Has he said there are other avenues to investigate for matters within the scope of his Report, such as a sit-down interview with Trump? Again, Congress may investigate further — but also don’t forget about state prosecutors.

5. Ask yourself, if the American people knew in 2016 what Mueller’s Report says,even if the Report says Mueller won’t indict the President, Trump would have won the election. Does this President have the judgment&transparency appropriate to serve as the nation’s highest official?

Don’t focus on the one-line spin. Focus on the facts, judgments, and limitations in the Mueller Report.

And ask yourself, if Trump had just been honest and forthcoming about all of this, we could have spared this long ordeal. 

END



Neal Katyal:
Supreme Court lawyer; law professor; extremist centrist. Former Acting Solicitor General of United States

Source:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1108460853118918656.html  

Don’t sweat the small stuff. That’s how the saying goes, right?

This is an interesting take on a popular self-help book:



How to make an attitude adjustment by using his  uplifting approach:


“Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.”

Don't Sweat the MS  

By Michael Wentink Mar 07, 2017  

Don’t sweat the small stuff. That’s how the saying goes, right?



But what if the seemingly smaller aspects of your life are actually the ones that drive your engine and spirit?

Life with multiple sclerosis is not easy.

 Energy needs to be rationed. 

The odd and sometimes agonizing sensations never cease. 

Pain is constant. 

The quantity and quality of vision and mobility is negotiated on a moment-to-moment basis.

I once had a bad relapse that caused foot drop, prohibiting me from walking straight because my left foot dragged behind me. 

Blurred and limited vision is a regular occurrence. 

Vertigo surprises me often.

These ailments were and are incredibly difficult to cope with, but I feel oddly energized to fight them and continue on.



http://www.msconnection.org/Blog/March-2017/Don-t-Sweat-the-MS

Paul R. Ehrlich warned about the consequences of population growth and limited resources.

Paul R. Ehrlich in 1974.

Born: Paul Ralph Ehrlich
May 29, 1932 (age 86)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Residence Stanford, California, U.S.
Alma mater

University of Pennsylvania (AB)
University of Kansas (MA, PhD)
Known for The Population Bomb
Spouse(s)
Anne Howland (m. 1954)
Children 1
Awards

Crafoord Prize (1990)
The Heinz Awards (1995, with Anne Ehrlich)
Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (1998)
Fellow of the Royal Society(2012)
Scientific career
Fields

Entomology
Population studies
Institutions Stanford University
Thesis The Morphology, Phylogeny and Higher Classification of the Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) (1957)
Doctoral advisor C. D. Michener


Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29, 1932) is an American biologist, best known for his warnings about the consequences of population growth and limited resources. 

He is the Bing Professor of Population Studies of the Department of Biology of Stanford University and president of Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology.

Ehrlich became well known for his controversial 1968 book The Population Bomb, which asserted that the world's human population would soon increase to the point where mass starvation ensued.

 Among the solutions he suggested in that book was population control, to be used in his opinion if voluntary methods were to fail. 

Ehrlich has been criticized for his opinions; for example, Ronald Bailey termed Ehrlich an "irrepressible doomster".

However, Carl Haub observed that Ehrlich's warnings had encouraged governments to change their policies to avert disaster.  

Ehrlich has acknowledged that some of what he predicted has not occurred, but maintains that his predictions about disease and climate changewere essentially correct, and that human overpopulation is a major problem.



Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Ehrlich

Paul Ehrlich: The Population Bomb

Paul Ehrlich: The Population Bomb

The master predicament that remains unaddressed Full description and comment at: http://www.peakprosperity.com/podcast... In 1968, Paul Ehrlich released his ground-breaking book

The Population Bomb, which awoke the national consciousness to the collision-course world population growth is on with our planet's finite resources. His work was reinforced several years later by the Limits To Growth report issued by the Club of Rome. Fast-forward almost 50 years later, and 

Ehrlich's book reads more like a 'how to' manual. Nearly all the predictions it made are coming to pass, if they haven't already. Ehrlich admits that things are even more dire than he originally forecasted; not just from the size of the predicament, but because of the lack of social willingness and political courage to address or even acknowledge the situation.

Link: https://youtu.be/0qewnc74Wqg

Notes to Myself: Haydn - The Cello Concertos (recording of the Cent...

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Choose Your Poison: Dr. Dean Ornish: UnDo It! Reversing Chronic Diseas...

Choose Your Poison: Dr. Dean Ornish: UnDo It! Reversing Chronic Diseas...: Living with multiple sclerosis Living with multiple sclerosis  has necessitated choosing a healthy lifestyle and Dean Ornisg provided the ...

7 Inspiring Poems for My Son in Prison to Smile About

7 Inspiring Poems for My Son in Prison to Smile About 











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Alicia Keys and Kathleen Battle - Ave María and Not Even The King

Alicia Keys and Kathleen Battle - 

performing Ave María and Not Even The King at BlackBall 2013

Link: https://youtu.be/luC84MvRBeU

Thomas Edison, 1931

  

Thomas Edison, 1931 

  

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade op.35 - Leif Segerstam - Sinfónica de Galicia

NIKOLAI RIMSKI-KÓRSAKOV (1844-1908)
Scheherazade, op. 35

 Introducción. El mar. El barco de Simbad (00:05)

La historia del príncipe Kalender (12:03) 

El joven príncipe y la princesa (25:10) 

Fiesta en Bagdad. El mar. El barco de Simbad naufraga al chocar contra una roca en cuya cima se halla un herrero de bronce (37:18) 

 Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia
Leif Segerstam, director
Slava Chestiglazov, concertino

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Grabación realizada en el Palacio de la Ópera de A Coruña, el 15 de mayo de 2015 

Realización de Antonio Cid/RDC 

Producciones
Ingeniero de sonido: 

Pablo Barreiro (CRTVG)

Link: https://youtu.be/zY4w4_W30aQ

Chief Seattle/Quotes

 

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

 

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

 

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.  

Chief Seattle/Quotes

 

 

Statement on surrendering tribal lands to Isaac Stevens, governor of Washington Territory (1855)

(NB: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Seattle for historical details of this statement, which states "Chief Seattle gave a speech in January 1854 that was reported by Dr. Henry A. Smith in the Seattle Sunday Star in 1887. It is most usually called Seattle's Reply since it was a response to a speech by Territorial Governor Isaac I. Stevens. While there is no question that Chief Seattle gave a speech on this occasion, the accuracy of Smith's account is doubtful.").

• My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.

• At night when the streets of your cities and villages are silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them and still love this beautiful land. The white man will never be alone.

Link: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chief_Seattle

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Requiem for a Nun ~ A Capsule Book Review  

  

Requiem for a Nun ~ A Capsule Book Review By Allen Kopp

William Faulkner, the master of twentieth century Southern American gothic writing, wrote Requiem for a Nun as a sort of sequel to his novel Sanctuary, meaning that it’s a brief glimpse into the life of fallen woman Temple Drake eight years after the close of Sanctuary. Requiem for a Nun was written around 1951, when Faulkner was 54 years old, about twenty years after Sanctuary.

Requiem for a Nun is an odd little book, not a traditional novel. The story is told in dramatic form, meaning that reading it is like reading a play. That’s not all, though. The “acts” of the novel are interspersed with some of Faulkner’s dense prose; dense in the sense that sentences are frequently half-a-page long or longer, and you won’t know what he’s saying unless you’re reading carefully and go back and break down the sentences into their various parts. Faulkner is the master of interjectional writing. Great writer though he was, it’s as if his mind was so twisted with interweaving thoughts that he couldn’t finish one thought before he started in on another. I suppose this is part of his “innovation,” although not easy on the reader.

The “narrative” portions of the book that are interspersed with the “dramatic” portions are about the fictional history of the fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi, in fictional Yoknapatawpha County; specifically the jail, the courthouse, and how the town was begun. These fictional historical details actually have nothing to do with the “story” told in dramatic form.

Readers familiar with the character Temple Drake from Faulkner’s earlier novel Sanctuary know that she ended badly. She was witness to a murder and lied on the witness stand to defend the real murderer, a deformed thug named Popeye, who took her to Memphis and set her up in a whorehouse to keep her from going to the police and telling them what she knew. Requiem for a Nun picks up her story eight years later. She is free of Popeye (he was hanged for another crime that he apparently was innocent of) and is married to her drunken male companion, Gowan Stevens, from Sanctuary. They have two children, an infant daughter and a slightly older son.

Temple has taken a black woman named Nancy Mannigoe, former drug addict and prostitute, into her house as a sort of governess for her two small children. Temple believes she is saving Nancy from her terrible life and giving her a chance to have a better one. When the action of Requiem for a Nun begins, Nancy has murdered Temple and Gowan’s baby daughter in her crib and is going to be executed in a few days for her crime. Temple decides within two days of Nancy’s execution that she herself is responsible for the murder of her own baby, beginning with her actions eight years earlier, and attempts to save Nancy’s life. There is one very long scene where she and her husband’s lawyer uncle go and see the governor of the state in the state capital in the middle of the night to plead for Nancy’s life, even though Temple knows there is no use.

Since there is no nun in Requiem for a Nun, I’m not sure what the title means, although I’m figuring it refers to Nancy Mannigoe. She goes to her death serenely because she believes she deserves to die and because she is a “believer.” Nancy’s serenity is something that Temple Drake cannot touch, understand or share. She is a tormented woman and we get the distinct impression that she will never be anything but that.


 


Copyright © 2013 by Allen Kopp





Link: https://literaryfictions.com/reviews/requiem-for-a-nun-a-capsule-book-review/

Changing Worlds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Changing Worlds is a great concept and not unlike the idea of reincarnation.  Better if you don't like the idea of returning to this revolving slaughter house.

Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.  - Spinoza

I drink not from mere joy in wine nor to scoff at faith -- no, only to forget myself for a moment, that only do I want of of intoxication, that alone.  - Omar Khayyam

Changing Worlds is a great concept and not unlike the idea of reincarnation.  Better if you don't like the idea of returning to this revolving slaughter house.

Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.  - Spinoza

I drink not from mere joy in wine nor to scoff at faith -- no, only to forget myself for a moment, that only do I want of of intoxication, that alone.  - Omar Khayyam