By Stuti Mishra
This Blog is created to stress the importance of Peace as an environmental directive. “I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it’s hell.” – Harry Truman (I receive no compensation from any entry on this blog.)
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
There goes FOX one more time, using disgusting analogies rather than facts.
By Stuti Mishra
Rihanna has received a distinction of honor in Barbados. Very special.
By Tony Jones
"...era of biding time is over..."
It took decades of spying and trying since Nixon, but, China has finally achieved the status of enemy to The West. Tell me no one saw this coming.
Australia is the first to pick up on these changes because it has had a very close relationship with China for decades. Australia has always believed they would be great allies and now all that is changing. France really needs to lose it's anger over submarines. Austrialia is on the front lines of protecting The West and our democracies.
Omicron
I think the American people are ready for this mess. Vaccines, masks, social distancing and hand hygiene especially if touching the face and everyone should be good. I am surprised there is no current finding of Omicron in the USA, but, it might be contained.
Monday, November 29, 2021
Happy Hanukkah. It started during the USA Thanksgiving weekend, November 28, 2021.
Yes! There is absolutely no doubt Bezos put his thumb on the scale.
November 29, 2021
By Anne D'Innocenzio
The move, announced Monday, is a major blow to Amazon, which had spent about a year aggressively campaigning for warehouse workers in Bessemer to reject the union, which they ultimately did by a wide margin.
The board has not yet determined the date for the second election and it hasn’t determined whether it will be conducted in person or by mail.
The rare call for a do-over was first announced Monday by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which spearheaded the union organizing movement....
It is time to educate the public and medical providers to the best use of medical cannabis.
There is an opiod crisis. What is wrong with everyone?
November 24, 2021By A. J. Harrington
...An overwhelming majority (84%) of the health care providers (click here) surveyed said that their patients had requested or asked about cannabis for chronic pain, with 72% reporting that they had been asked in the previous 30 days. Dr. Daniele Piomelli, the director of the Institute for the Study of Cannabis at the University of California, Irvine and a member of the UCI Institutional Review Board that approved the research, said in a press release that the study “emphasizes both the public interest around cannabis as an analgesic and the lack of reliable data and/or medical education about its correct use.”...
Oh, yeah. Marijuana is a "gateway drug." True, if one is talking about alcohol and tobacco, but, it does not lend itself to addiction to other substances.
...These findings are consistent (click here) with the idea of marijuana as a "gateway drug." However, the majority of people who use marijuana do not go on to use other, "harder" substances. Also, cross-sensitization is not unique to marijuana. Alcohol and nicotine also prime the brain for a heightened response to other drugs51 and are, like marijuana, also typically used before a person progresses to other, more harmful substances....
Can we please move this along? Bah-humbug to the Republican Party.
By Martin Pengelly
Time to call a tow truck. Seriously. Drowning is not worth it.
They look like trees our families would have in their homes. I think the decorations are great.
For those that don't like them, then they don't appreciate a Middle Class Christmas.
The White House decorations are great. I think they add a string sense of home. Everyone who celebrates Christmas will identify with those decorations. Lovely.
Sunday, November 28, 2021
Happy Thanksgiving
Monday is proving to be a real let down from what everyone expected, a vaccinated and happy Christmas season. That may still be the reality if the latest viral mutation is contained which means 5 South African nations isolate those infected and not export the virus.
Let’s hope the Biden Safety Blockade of South African travelers works. My initial thought is that if the UK has it, the USA isn’t far behind. But, hopefully measures were put in place soon enough to keep the virus out of the country.
This latest virus is going to put a lot of strain on our borders, especially if there is no additional virus mutations in the USA. This holiday season will be once again a challenge, but, I am convinced we still can manage a joyful season.
Vaccine inequality.
Africa has been doing the best of every continent on Earth. Did anyone except this?
This pandemic has little to nothing to do with the G20. I am sure there are measures made at the G20 to send more vaccine, but, in all honesty, economics and safety from a global pandemic is hardly an equivalent.
Equating government policy to a virus is exactly what has been the problem the entire time, especially in the USA where "Trump Denial Initative" caused a greater spread of the virus and geater number of deaths. The economy that was supposed to bring about jobs during the pandemic in the USA was the production of PPE and that never happened because Jared's buddy couldn't get the approvals of companies fast enough to stem the need.
Counting on business people during this pandemic has been the biggest mistake anyone ever made. Greed is what caused this pandemic when the USA pulled out of China's monitoring to reduce the federal budget under Trump.
Now, South Africa wants the entire world to live in denial. No one in South Africa deserves this outbreak. It happened and now we all have to deal with it. South Africa needs to stop exporting Omicron and hunker down for FOUR FULL WEEKS to end the virus spread. This is easier than anyone in South Africa cares to admit!
All flights from South Africa must stop.
November 27, 2021
These are people fleeing South Africa.
Amsterdam - Dutch health authorities (click here) said that 61 people who arrived in Amsterdam on two flights from South Africa on Friday tested positive for COVID-19, and they were conducting further testing early Saturday to see if any of the infections are with the recently discovered Omicron coronavirus variant....
The count in the Netherlands is now 61. Physicians in South Africa have no control over airport towers. The governments have to put a hold on all non-essential flights out of the country and into the country for that matter.
South Africans are best to be vaccinated and seek medical care as needed. That said, I am also confident medical facilities will be out of beds soon if not already. This is a problem for the international community. They need to respond with vaccines, COVID pills and any other needs of the people there. The people of South Africa must not be left isolated, alone and suffering.
Anytime a belief or behavior becomes obsessive and effects the wellness of a person, it enters into a mental health dominion. People are claiming religious exception for not taking the vaccine, that is a mental health issue. People are dying because of such mental health problems and it needs to be addressed so the illness and/or death of one person doesn't effect us all.
This is a virus and has potential for causing hardship to every person on Earth. This is not the mask of the devil. Idiots!
Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom, talks about Omicron exactly correct.
Omicron
Thirteen cases out of South Africa to the Netherlands by plane. Two cases in Australia. Australia is reporting they are asymptotic and fully vaccinated, but, testing positive. It is a wait and see situation. They are quarantined.
They probably won’t be allowed out of quarantine until they test negative.
Google has started its holiday page.
And of all places, Elk Rapids, Michigan has hired a consultant to end community discourse. Honestly. The social fabric of the USA is in significant disrepair.
Saturday, November 27, 2021
Friday, November 26, 2021
Warning
The EU is shutting down travel from Africa for what appears to be a level three virus mutation that defies immunity.
This is a game changer. Ebola precautions are necessary. If that fails returning to shutdown necessary for at least 4 weeks.