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Bank of America to take $1B hit
By Richard Burnett and Sentinel Staff Writer
The nation's credit crunch shows no sign of letting up as major mainstream banks continue to ax billions of dollars from their assets as a result of the mortgage meltdown, industry experts said Monday.
In the latest round, Bank of America is expected to absorb a charge-off of $1 billion in its upcoming earnings statement, according to estimates by a senior industry analyst.
The Charlotte, N.C.-based bank -- Florida's largest and Central Florida's third-largest -- is projected to lose $700 million from its leveraged home loans and $300 million in direct mortgage write-downs, Sanford Bernstein analyst Howard Mason told The Financial Times.
Bank of America plans to announce its third-quarter earnings Oct. 18.
Figures also indicate JPMorgan Chase will take at least $2 billion in mortgage-related charge-offs in its upcoming quarterly report, the analyst said.
The latest estimates would bring the total to nearly $22 billion in asset write-downs so far this year for the nation's banks as they absorb fallout from rising home-loan defaults, especially troubled subprime mortgages held by customers with credit-history problems.
The so-called subprime meltdown, which began with scores of subprime borrowers going out of business, has spread to mainstream banks, many of whom invested in mortgage-backed securities that included subprime home loans.
Big banking losses -- coupled with regulatory pressures -- will mean borrowers can expect banks to continue to be stingier than in the past few years when it comes to loan-approval standards, finance experts said.
"In the short term, everyone's knee-jerk reaction will be to tighten up on granting credit," said James Gilkeson, a finance professor at the University of Central Florida and former federal banking regulator. "But really that just means a return to what would be called prudent underwriting. There were obviously some pretty weak practices out there in recent years."
Though they agree the shakeout is necessary, some bankers warned that the solution may be causing more problems in the process.
"There are a lot of problems now with the mortgage market raising the bar so high that fewer really eligible people are qualifying for mortgages," said Alan Rowe, president of Orlando-based First Commercial Bank of Florida. "Nobody disputes that the process had gotten too lax. Now I'm concerned the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction. We're hearing a lot of people are having to walk away from contracts because they can't get approved."
Despite the massive write-offs so far this year, Rowe said he doesn't foresee it reaching a crisis threat. "Clearly it involves a lot of dollars, but that's all relative to the huge size of these major institutions," he said. "There's a general feeling that they're just being very conservative and taking charges for everything that might remotely be a problem."
But some analysts were not convinced that the banks won't take more serious hits in the next year or so.
"The question is whether they are being overly aggressive with these charges now, with some chance of them making some good recoveries later," said Kris Niswander, a senior industry analyst for Virginia-based SNL Financial, a stock-research firm. "Or will we see these losses continue to unwind and extend into other lines of business."
The housing meltdown has also had a ripple effect on the financial lives of many borrowers, said Robert Manning, a consumer-finance expert and author of Credit Card Nation.
"There's a double financial bubble," said Manning, a native of Leesburg and humanities professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. "First, there was the incredible run-up in housing values that pushed banks to encourage people to get into greater credit-card debt and refinance it back to their home. After that bubble popped, it has left a lot of people with the second bubble of huge credit-card interest rates."


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This post was supposed to go live on WEDNESDAY, but I've had such a bonkers week I scheduled it for the wrong day. DOH.
That's not a great introduction to what I wanna chat about today tbh, but hey ho. Since transitioning back to being vegan last year, I've been asked a lot about vegan travel. Because, as a travel obsessive (and journalist) it's pretty high on the 'topics I think about most often' list.
It's a funny concept isn't it though? The thought I wouldn't be able to travel anywhere because of what I eat. But having travelled all over the world I know there are certain places where I've eaten a meal and couldn't tell you what on earth it contained.
Y'all know I'm not too strict, and if someone offers me a cuppa with cows milk I really don't stress. But I also wouldn't want to be accidentally chowing down on a baby cow while twiddling noodles round my fork either.
I guess what I'm trying to say is this: I have to think a little bit more deeply about where I want to travel to next.
Although I'm not really one for 'bucket lists' and I certainly don't keep one (too morbid) I have started planning out my travels a lot more, because baby and because work is a LOT busier than it used to be.
So, in no particular order, please find the vegan travel destinations I'm desperate to visit this year!
To be honest, even though I ate meat when I was in India, it's one of the EASIEST destinations for vegan travel due to the sheer volume of delicious vegetarian food on offer.
In fact, it's not even a 'thing' to worry aout finding specific veggie or vegan restaurants because you can essentially divide Indian cuisine into two types: North Indian and South. While the north is a little more meat heavy (except for cows which are sacred in Hindu culture), while the south is way more vegetarian.
I'm SO keen for a beach break, so I'm thinking of heading down to Palolem, a hippy paradise in Goa, home to yummy curry, cheap beer (Goan tax on beer is the lowest of all Indian states!)and SUN.
I've been SO keen to visit Newfoundland. I don't know exactly why, but I am just desperate to take a trip over the pond to magical Atlantic Canada…….because Newfoundland dogs, and because OMG poutine and hello, yes please it's only a five-hour flight!
I can't speak French. (I know., I know….so I let the funky music do the talking, talking……?) But I CAN speak Deutsch. Sprechen sie Deutsch? Ja?
Then you probably long to sing Auf Wiedersehn and "Wie komme ich am besten zum bahnhof bitte?" too then.
Apologies for this aggressive, slightly braggy detour into my beautiful German. All this is to say I'm excited to take a trip to Berlin this year!
But I'd always imagined Germany to be the worst kind of place for vegans. All that sausage, y'all! Apparently, though, it's a total haven for us herbivores! Huzzah!
From somewhere vegan-friendly to the country that eats the most butter in the WORLD.
Yep, France. I'm a Francophile guys so I can't go a year without visiting my favourite country, and this year I'm off the Provence for a wedding (I love it when my friends get married in nice places!) and I can't wait to see how I fare.
Paris was pretty easy, to be honest because, well, it's a city but there's also a burgeoning vegan scene and I'm excited to while away some lazy Provence days at the beautiful Provence Hotel.
Tell me, tell me! What's your travel bucket list!
Please note this post was sponsored by my good friends at Expedia, who I love and use to book trips. As always, all views are my own. See my full disclaimer here.
My tip for a great vegan travel destination is Porto. I've been twice now and the food is amazing!
I quite fancy the sound of Berlin, thanks for that!
I love Porto too! I really want to try Lisbon this year though. I agree that my best bet is often Middle-Eastern food (which is fine, as I LOVE it!) but sometimes it gets a little dull trying to find nice places to eat.
Exciting you're heading to Provence! Going by the link above, it looks as though you're staying in Aix? If so, you're in luck! Aix is an awesome destination for vegans. I'm there a few times a week and never struggle to find amazing food. Have fun!
I am indeed!!! That's good to hear, as people keep laughing at me when I say I'm vegan and going to France!
Thank you for your posts on Vegan restaurants in London and areas to stay. The lists are extremely helpful. A few places that surprised me with amazing vegan food are Copenhagen (Souls restaurant), Siem Reap Cambodia (Moringa Bar and Vibe cafe), Cuzco (Greenpoint Vegan Cafe) and Turkey (amazing salads, muhammara, hummus, pomegranate juice etc). I'd love to get to Morocco and Portugal soon.


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The .Codemirror div in combination with the #header div takes up more height than the height of the browser. How can I make them have a combined height of 100% of the browser window so I have no scrollbar?

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making combined height equal to the height of the browser window

Just add this snippet of code. It will set your content to 100% of browser window.
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A: I would take a different approach to this. You can make a small 1px high and 30px wide image that looks like the background behind the line numbers and apply it to the body with a repeat-y and aligned left. Remove the height:100% on the .CodeMirror div
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By CommonWealth Staff	Hillary Clinton, National Politics, Presidential Election	0 Comments Jun 7, 2016
A raspy-voiced Hillary Clinton shared the news with supporters at Long Beach, California, rally as the word broke yesterday that the Associated Press tally of her pledged delegates and superdelegates had reached the magic number of 2,383 needed for the Democratic presidential nomination.
This morning's Boston Globe gives the news the full history-making treatment, trotting out Clinton's full name, which has disappeared from most daily coverage, declaring: "Hillary Rodham Clinton clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Monday night with timely help from Democratic Party insiders, shattering a glass ceiling to become the first woman in American history to top a major party ticket."
In a single sentence, Annie Linskey captures the competing characterizations of Clinton's candidacy: That she is the insider candidate of the party establishment at a time of voter dissatisfaction with the status quo, and that she is a pathbreaking insurgent poised to make history for women nearly 100 years after the Constitution guaranteed them the vote.
The pace of social change has been so rapid that Clinton's history-making role in the race hasn't been enough to automatically lock down huge margins among women voters in Democratic primaries, especially younger women, who have overwhelmingly broken for her rival, Bernie Sanders.
Indeed, in a sign of the loosening hold of identity politics, yesterday's New York Times story on President Obama's eagerness to get out on the stump on her behalf included this remarkable claim: "The White House argues that Mr. Obama could help Mrs. Clinton appeal to independent voters — particularly suburban independent women — in the Midwest."
While Obama, whose favorability numbers have been rising, could be a huge asset on the campaign trail, Clinton's best hope at this point may be that Donald Trump continues to simply be himself.
No one can say at this point what Trump could do that would be so far out of the bounds that it would put a huge dent in his support. His comments in recent days about federal judge Gonzalo P. Curiel, declaring the Indiana-born jurist incapable of presiding over a lawsuit involving Trump's scammy failed university because he's of Mexican heritage, have hit a fresh nerve with some, while others say it's just the more of the same racist stuff he's been spewing. Plenty of Republicans who once denounced Trump as a dangerous demagogue but then came to heel and endorsed him were busy figuring out how to justify his latest outbursts.
Sen. Susan Collins, the moderate Maine Republican, said she hoped Trump would take back his words about a highly-respected federal judge and show some "respect for the separation of powers doctrine" in the Constitution. "I continue to believe in redemption," she said in a fit of absurdist fantasy that her party's presumptive nominee is capable of introspection or self-criticism.
It was left to Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senator who famously declared earlier this year that his "party has gone batshit crazy," to offer what may become a new theme to the race.
"This is the most un-American thing from a politician since Joe McCarthy," Graham said of Trump's racist attacks on Curiel. "If anybody was looking for an off-ramp, this is probably it. There'll come a time when the love of country will trump hatred of Hillary."
If Clinton wins, it will make history. But it may happen, as Graham suggests, less because she has inspired a nation than because her opponent has struck fear into it.
The Clintons, dogged and determined for decades, probably appreciate as much as anyone the old adage applied to sports as well politics: A win's a win.
A state-funded report finds that there is often little apparent rhyme or reason to funding levels for the state's sheriffs. (The Republican)
A Salem News editorial calls on House and Senate budget negotiators to exercise fiscal constraint in the face of news that tax revenues are coming in slower than expected.
Records show the former Provincetown police chief offered to leave the post over allegations he violated election laws in exchange for $350,000. Selectmen refused the offer, but ended up buying him out for more than $500,000. (Cape Cod Times)
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh arrives in China for a two-day international summit on climate change. (Boston Globe) Secretary of State John Kerry announces in Beijing that Boston will host the 2017 installment of the conference, a chance to put the city on the global climate change stage. (Boston Globe)
Dracut Town Meeting bucks a growing trend, voting to keep the police and fire chief positions within the Civil Service system. The town manager had argued removing the positions from Civil Service would attract a much broader pool of applicants. (The Sun)
Holyoke wants to crack down on water and sewer deadbeats by cutting off service to those who don't pay. (Masslive)
The Mashpee fire union has gone public with a vote taken more than six months ago voicing no confidence in the fire chief and his deputy over safety and communication concerns. (Cape Cod Times)
Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen raises some concern about a recent jobs report. (NPR)
Donald Trump's attacks on the judge overseeing the civil suit against him in California is not the first time the billionaire has accused a jurist of bias against him. (New York Times)
In a conference call with surrogates, Trump allegedly instructed them to ignore a memo from his aides telling them to avoid talking about the criticism of the judge and to attack journalists who question Trump as "racists." (Bloomberg)
In a Globe oped, Bill Weld makes the case for "two classical Jeffersonian liberals" and urges voters to cast a "principled" ballot in November for him as vice president and Libertarian Party ticket-mate Gary Johnson as president.
Conservative writer and lawyer David French, who was the target of influential pundit William Kristol's efforts to launch an independent bid for president, explains why he won't enter the campaign despite his view neither Trump nor Clinton are qualified. (National Review)
The Cape Ann Marina in Gloucester joins forces with the boat-sharing service Boatsetter. (Gloucester Times)
A Whitman family whose social media post accusing a pet groomer of killing their dog went viral and resulted in threats to the business owner are lashing out at a police report that found the groomer did nothing wrong. Said the Whitman police chief: "We're not Ace Ventura." (The Enterprise)
The switch to chip-enhanced credit cards is frustrating consumers for whom the several seconds it takes for their card to be read feels like years in today's go-go digital world. (Boston Globe)
A now-shuttered for-profit school that operated four campuses in Massachusetts as well as in Maryland admitted to fraudulent business practices in a consent agreement with Attorney General Maura Healey, an admission that paves the way for former students to have their federal loans forgiven. (Patriot Ledger)
A Globe editorial says the state should include measures of student learning in teacher evaluations and it slams a Senate budget amendment that would forbid that.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute is defending itself in a civil lawsuit filed by a former student by saying the student, who was raped while on a WPI study program in Puerto Rico, is partially responsible because she had been drinking and followed a stranger onto a dark rooftop where the assault took place. (Boston Globe)
The Lowell Planning Board approves a privately build dormitory for UMass Lowell students. (The Sun)
HEALTH/HEALTH CARE
Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll's budget includes funding for two social workers and two police officers to engage in a "knock and talk" program with drug addicts. (Salem News)
John Oliver, the host of HBO's edgy Last Week Tonight, set up a dummy debt collection organization and bought $15 million in delinquent hospital bills for $60,000 — then forgave the debt for the 9,000 people who owed it. (New York Times)
Five years after a state audit highlighted the problem, the MBTA says it still can't reconcile its fare data and actual cash receipts. A T official looking to privatize the authority's money-counting operation calls the situation a "system failure." (CommonWealth)
The head of the T's pension fund, under fire its secrecy and performance, will resign in August. (Boston Globe)
The Boston area is poised for further growth, a development that will tax a regional transportation infrastructure that is already stressed to its limits, says a new report from the advocacy group A Better City. (Boston Globe)
The MBTA's Fiscal Management and Control Board votes to end refunds on commuter rail fares. (CommonWealth)
All-electronic tolling on the Massachusetts Turnpike is scheduled to take effect in October but officials say it won't yield any savings. (Masslive)
New Bedford airport officials are talking to carriers in an attempt to add some flights to destinations outside the region. (Standard-Times)
The Worcester Regional Transit Authority tweaks its routes. (Telegram & Gazette)
Abel Jimenez of Proper Pipe Inc. urges natural gas distribution companies to fix leaks by replacing old pipe. (CommonWealth)
CRIMINAL JUSTICE/COURTS
Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe disses the Supreme Judicial Court's investigation of how a confidential deposition of House Speaker Robert DeLeo was leaked to the press. O'Keefe likened it to his office shutting down a murder investigation after the suspects said they didn't do it. (CommonWealth)
The New York Times is exploring selling an ad-free digital subscription. (AdAge)
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2015 NBC Sunday Night Football Week 4 Odds: Cowboys vs. Saints
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The busy day of NFL action concludes tonight when the New Orleans Saints host the Dallas Cowboys at 8:30PM ET on NBC.
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According to oddsmakers at BetDSI, the Saints are the slight favorite at home in this game, as they are getting odds of -3.5 points against the Cowboys. The over/under total for the game has been set at 47.5 points. New Orleans has won three of its last four against the Cowboys, but Dallas is 3-2 against the spread in its last five against the Saints. These two have hit the over in four straight meetings.
Dallas is 2-1 on the season, 1-2 against the spread and 2-1 with the over. Dallas started the year with wins over the Giants and Eagles, but lost Tony Romo in the second game and then lost to the Falcons at home last week. Dallas is scoring and giving up 25 points per game thus far on the season. Brandon Weeden has thrown for 305 yards with one touchdown in his limited action. Joseph Randle has rushed for 203 yards and three touchdowns while Sean Lee has 33 tackles with one sack and an interception.
New Orleans is 0-3 on the season, 1-2 against the spread and 2-1 with the over. The Saints have lost to the Cardinals, Buccaneers and Panthers this season. Last week's loss was without Drew Brees, who sat out with a shoulder injury. Brees is back for this week's game and he looks to lead an offense that is averaging just 20 points per game. Brees has thrown for 610 yards and two touchdowns this season, but has been sacked six times. The leading rusher is Mark Ingram, who has just 127 yards on 39 carries. The New Orleans defense is allowing 28 points and 402.3 yards per game. Hau'oli Kikaha is leading the unit with 18 tackles and two sacks.


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The following excerpt comes from Robert Prisig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, pp 174-177. Phaedrus is the alter personality of a partially insane university professor who is searching for the meaning of what "quality" means in our lives. It most closely expresses my philosophy on education as anything I have ever read. Reading the following passage will give you a look inside my head, with respect to the way I view teaching you. The book, it is a little slow for about 100 pages, while he is travelling about on his motorcycle, but it then picks up as he begins to show what is going on inside his head. Once there it is quite interesting and provocative. I have changed Phaedrus to "the professor" The professor's argument for the abolition of the degree and grading system produced a nonplussed or negative reaction in all but a few students at first, since it seemed, on first judgment to destroy the whole University system. One student laid it wide open when she said with complete candor, "Of course you can't eliminate the degree and grading system. After all, that's what we're here for." She spoke the complete truth. The idea that the majority of students attend a university for an education independent of the degree and grades is a little hypocrisy everyone is happier not to expose. Occasionally some students do arrive for an education but rote and the mechanical nature of the institution soon converts them to a less idealistic attitude. The demonstrator was an argument that elimination of grades and degrees would destroy this hypocrisy. Rather than deal with generalities it dealt with the specific career of an imaginary student who more or less typified what was found in the classroom, a student completely conditioned to work for a grade rather than for the knowledge the grade was supposed to represent. Such a student, the demonstrator hypothesized, would go to his first class, get his first assignment and probably do it out of habit. He might go to his second and third as well. But eventually the novelty of the course would wear off and, because his academic life was not his only life, the pressure of other obligations or desires would create circumstances where he just would not be able to get an assignment in. Since there was no degree or grading system he would incur no penalty for this. Subsequent lectures which assumed he'd completed the assignment might be a little more difficult to understand, however, and this difficulty in turn, might weaken his interest to a point where the next assignment, which he would find quite hard, would also be dropped. Again, no penalty. In time his weaker and weaker understanding of what the lectures were about would make it more and more difficult for him to pay attention in class. Again, no penalty would be attached. But what had happened? The student, with no hard feelings on anybody's part, would have flunked himself out. Good. This is what should have happened. He wasn't there for a real education in the first place and had no real business there at all. A large amount of money and effort had been saved and there would be no stigma of failure and ruin to haunt him the rest of his life. No bridges had been burned. The student's biggest problem was a slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot-and-whip grading, a mule mentality which said, "If you don't whip me, I won't work." He didn't get whipped. He didn't work. And the cart of civilization, which he supposedly was being trained to pull, was just going to have to creak along a little slower without him. This is a tragedy, however, only if you presume that the cart of civilization, "the system," is pulled by mules. This is a common, vocational, "location" point of view, but it's not the Church attitude. 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Lance Corporal Joshua Fardon is one of the men commemorated on the Memorial Bells. He was killed in action at the Battle of Cambrai in 1917 when he was just 19 - he had joined up when he was 16.
His great-niece, who lives near the church in Plaistow, only found out about his existence when her grandfather died in 2005. She had been researching family history, and when she saw an item in the Newham Recorder that mentioned a chance to see the Memorial Bells at an event on 12 September 2015 - Heritage Open Day - she went along.
Nobody in her family had mentioned the bells, and she was amazed and moved to see her long-lost great uncle's name there.
As a small child Linda went to the Memorial church every Remembrance Sunday, but didn't know why.
Linda's grandfather Frank was the oldest boy in the family and Joshua was the youngest. Frank was shot in the shoulder on the Somme and could never fully lift his arm, but the injury probably saved his life. He married Maud, whose brother was in the same regiment as him and was in military hospital at the same time. Maud was from a Baptist family in Essex She got baptised at the Memorial Church and, Linda remembers, used to go to a regular meeting there - probably the popular women's meeting. So it is likely to be her who put forward her brother-in-law's name for the Memorial Bells.


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In Our Own Voice
Songs of American Indian Women
Joanne Shenandoah, photograph by Steve Wall. More photos and information from the liner notes of the album Heartbeat: Voices of First Nations Women.
Very little is known and appreciated about American Indian women's songs and voices, even among people who are familiar with American Indian music. Because most Native women's traditional singing takes place in the private, domestic settings associated with family, clan, ceremonial, or work activities, it is rarely heard or seen outside of these settings, leading to the unfortunate misperception that women have little presence or significance in the performance and preservation of Native musical traditions. The numerous, diverse, and powerful American Indian women's voices on Smithsonian Folkways prove otherwise.
Ceremony, Healing, and Life-Giving
Women have important and profound roles in the performance of music associated with ceremonial and spiritual life. One ceremonial song particular to women is the northern California "Spotted Fawn Song," which is associated with the creation of the first Flower Dance and relates to a girl's first menses, when she becomes a woman. Many American Indian women's ceremonial songs are about life-giving and renewal. Songs among Navajo and Pueblo women are connected with the grinding and preparation of corn, the main life-giving food among southwestern tribes. At the upper Orinoco River between Venezuela and Brazil, Yecuana women lead agricultural practices and ceremonies focused on yucca, their staple food. The Yecuana believe that the fertility of the soil and hence the result of the harvest are affected by the fertility of the woman who does the planting. Among some peoples, like the northern California Pomo and the Navajo, women serve as spiritual healers and conduct healing ceremonies. As a Pomo medicine woman, Bernice Torrez carries on the healing songs and ceremonies of her foremothers.
Coming to the Drum and Other Instruments
American Indian women have historically played a small role as instrumentalists in traditional music. However, in recent years, young Navajos such as Geraldine Barney and Lillian Rainer have taken up the flute and become well-known artists. In the mid-nineteenth century, American Indian women learned to play European instruments such as the fiddle, accordion, and guitar to participate in non-Native, often Christian music. Historically, American Indian women in Plains tribes were prohibited from powwow drumming, and sometimes even from touching a drum. Changes are underway, however, with respect to the place of women "sitting at the drum," particularly in the northern plains. The drum circles of the Crying Woman Singers are proudly composed of American Indian women from the Canadian and far northern American plains. Inspired by the need to preserve their culture, they teach the drum to young women in their communities.
Christian music in the context of ceremonial performance is widespread among American Indian women. As is true to a large extent among Christian communities in general, the major participants in Christian ritual among Indians are women. Christianity may have provided American Indian women—robbed of their traditional economic and political roles in Native culture by missionization, acculturation, and the "civilization" policies of the colonizing governments—one of the few opportunities to maintain a significant role. The women sing and compose hymns and gospel songs, even masses, in their tribe's language, helping to keep it alive.
Contemporary Songmakers
In contemporary music, American Indian women have made an extraordinary contribution to songwriting, not only composing new lyrics for traditional songs but composing new music and lyrics with contemporary relevance. Their lyrics speak to present-day wounds and current issues of domestic abuse, alcoholism, environmentalism, and threats to Indian sovereignty. The songs may still have a strong tribal base, but they are rearranged for non-Native instruments, along with traditional instrumentation and lyrics that integrate tribal languages with English.
American Indian women's musical traditions—and the women themselves—are resilient. The sounds are vital and dynamic, and an important part of the process through which Native peoples everywhere are preserving and revitalizing their lives and cultures.
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GOOGLE JUST GOT U.S. APPROVAL FOR RADAR TECH THAT COULD KILL TOUCH SCREENS
Danny Paez
Small screen? No problem.
Google is one step closer to replacing the touchscreens on its hardware with a motion-sensing system. The company's Soli Project venture wants to embed a tiny radar array into a quarter-sized chip that could go into smartphones, TVs, wearables, computers, vehicles, and even aircraft. If the tests go well, it could open the door to a whole new level of interactivity.
On Monday, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission granted the company permission to operate its sensors at a higher power than was previously permitted. This allows Google to begin testing these new radar-enabled motion sensors in real-time and at longer range.
The idea is that, eventually, users will be able to use a wide range of motions to interact with their devices, as opposed to simply pressing buttons on a screen. The possibilities are endless: Picture raising the volume of your Google Home by simply rubbing your fingers together, for example, or switching through videos on their Chromecast with a snap.
"We further find that grant of the waiver will serve the public interest by providing for innovative device control features using touchless hand gesture technology," the FCC wrote in a statement.
Google's Wear OS smartwatches already come with a gesture control feature. However, in part because of the FCC-imposed limits on radar tech, these devices suffered from accuracy issues and were limited to few basic gestures. But the FCC's recent announcement could solve these problems, at least from a regulatory standpoint.
The agency has allowed Google to up their radar strength to a level that would enable better functionality, while not disturbing existing tech. Now it's up to the company to begin incorporating Soli Project innovations into its hardware releases.
The Soli chip incorporates the entire sensor and antenna array into an ultra-compact 8mm x 10mm package.
While Google has not stated what devices it plans to retrofit with this radar tech, anything with an annoyingly small touchscreen could stand to benefit. Instead of having to perfectly tap a smartwatch app with your pinky, you could scroll and select from afar.
Google didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Permission to narrate: Palestinians tell their stories at the 6th annual Cinema Days film festival
The festival is to give Palestinians the platform and tools necessary for telling their stories, all while reviving the cinema culture in Palestine.
October 3, 2019 at 1:00 pm | Published in: Middle East, Palestine, Review - Films & Documentaries, Reviews, Videos & Photo Stories
Megan Giovannetti
The Ramallah cultural palace was humming with anticipation. Hundreds had gathered to watch the award-winning 2019 comedy It Must Be Heaven by Elia Suleiman. A Palestinian entry at the Cannes Film Festival, as it will be at the Oscars later in the year, Suleiman's film duly kicked off the 6th annual Palestine Cinema Days organised by FilmLab: Palestine.
Launched in 2014 by now-artistic director Hanna Atallah, the goal of FilmLab: Palestine and the festival is to give Palestinians the platform and tools necessary for telling their stories, all while reviving the cinema culture in Palestine.
"Hanna Atallah believed in building an audience for cinema," FilmLab executive director Brigitte Boulad told MEMO. Boulad explained how the first few years attracted just a couple of hundred people, mainly friends and family related to the production team.
"Last year it was a moment of glory to see young people waiting in line to buy tickets," she added. Last year was also the first year that the Cinema Days festival sold tickets upon entry as a part of its new Sunbird award. The event at the cultural palace was sold out last night, Wednesday, forcing the organisers to open up a second venue in Ramallah just days before the screening, which also sold out.
All ticket sales from the eight-day event across seven cities in historic Palestine will go to a winning production. Nine documentary-style films are in the running, all telling a unique story about the lives of Palestinians.
READ: The fifth annual Big Ride takes the Palestine issue onto the streets of London
"It's something nice to bring our whole family to, something to take pride in," explained Terry Boullata, who travelled from Jerusalem to attend last night's event. "We need to build a cultural identity for the new generations."
Boullata pointed out the significance of creating a cinema culture in Palestine, especially in terms of the restrictions imposed by the Israeli occupation. "Cinema is about cultural exchange in seeing our humanity," she said. "We always say 'see things in order to believe them' and with cinema you can see other people's experiences."
Sixty films will be screened in total, split between Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nablus, Gaza and — a new venue this year — Nazareth. With the Palestinians in Gaza under siege and the Israeli-imposed permit regime around the West Bank, a multi-city film festival is necessary to ensure inclusivity.
"I think no festival in the world knows what it means to organise a festival in Palestine," noted Boulad. "The mobility issue is really paralysing. People cannot travel, so we try to bring the meaningful people to Palestine and start a conversation."
This year, nearly 60 esteemed international cinema industry professionals —from film festival organisers and producers to actors and directors — have been invited to Cinema Days. These guests not only get to experience the reality of life under occupation with their own eyes, but provide an ample networking opportunity for budding Palestinian filmmakers.
"We are breaking the closure of the occupation," FilmLab media relations contact Khulood Badawi told MEMO. "Mobility is a fundamental violation by the occupation and we are trying as much as we can to break it by bringing the world to us instead."
The value of all that effort is evident. "The Palestine Cinema Days is an important event for Palestinian directors and for the film industry in general," 24-year-old script writer Shada, who hails from Bethlehem, told MEMO at the opening night. "It throws the spotlight on us."
READ: One Day in Gaza
For a recent film school graduate, having a film festival in Palestine is also simply exciting. "[To] experience this real cinema — with a huge screen and good sound and with real movies, like from Cannes — is something big," Shada added.
The Palestine Cinema Days festival also offers a children's programme. This year it has a new open-air theatre venue in the old city of Ramallah. FilmLab executive director Boulad expressed their great pride in getting a popular German children's film dubbed into the Palestinian dialect. Such a move is rare, because it is quite expensive. Most of the short films that will be screened, though, have no dialogue.
The children's programme at Cinema Days is a part of FilmLab's larger "Next Generation" scheme that operates throughout the year to bring cinema to children and teenagers. "We teach the kids how to tell their own stories through cinema," said Boulad.
A parallel programme focusing on gender-based issues also makes this year special. The Danish-led NGO International Media Support (IMS) is making its mark on film festivals across the world with the "No Means No" initiative. This seeks to "raise awareness and bring about change that positively affects survivors of gender-based violence." Four films and a full-day of workshops will be presented as part of this initiative.
"It is tackling the issue from a cinema point of view for the first time," explained Khulood Badawi, adding that the unfortunate timing in the wake of the so-called "honour" killing of Israa Ghrayeb and the ensuing protests was not planned. "It was an almost routine incident, and while we wish that Israa's was an exceptional crime, it wasn't."
Cinema is an essential tool in designing mentalities, changing mentalities and raising awareness about basic human rights issues, concluded Badawi. She is confident that initiatives like this can and will have a meaningful impact on society.
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August 4, 2022 World
Biden's Middle East Policy Contradicts His China Policy
U.S. President Joe Biden just completed his first trip to the Middle East. Much has already been written about it, especially in terms of how it affects internal regional politics. But the global implications of this trip, the lessons it offers in terms of the U.S. Indo-Pacific policy and the China-U.S. rivalry, have not yet been systematically discussed. In what follows, I will unpack four implications.
Values vs. Interests
In the so-called "new Cold War" that the United States is attempting to wage against China, Biden has been promoting "values" (e.g., democracy and human rights) as the main bedrock upon which alliances should be constructed. His visit to Saudi Arabia puts a serious dent in that discourse.
Few missed this aspect of the trip. Following the gruesome murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi by a Saudi death squad in Turkey, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), came under heavy diplomatic pressure. Biden personally contributed to that pressure by pledging, during his presidential campaign, that he would make Saudi Arabia a "pariah" state because he, unlike Trump, would stand for "values."
On this trip, Biden "closed the Saudi's prince's pariah era" with an already infamous fist bump, which will not go unnoticed by both Indo-Pacific allies and swing states. The latter are countries that are not firmly entrenched in one camp or another and can be swayed either way. Most ASEAN countries, for instance, can be categorized as such. Developing countries could now readily justify a cold, calculated approach to working with China. Biden's "values" talk is unlikely to convince too many of them – if it ever did.
'Not Walking Away' From the Middle East
President Barack Obama's Pivot to Asia in 2011 was designed for the United States to confront or contain China. He wanted the U.S. to pivot away from the Middle East and Europe, hence his 2009-2013 reset with Russia and the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran (formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA). From the very outset, the pivot has been "derailed" by major distractions and crises, some of them self-imposed, such as the excessive focus of U.S. policymakers on Syria since 2011.
The Russian reset fell apart when Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. In 2022, the biggest derailment of the pivot happened: Putin's war in Ukraine. The United States is now practically engaged in a proxy war against Russia. This is not helping Washington keep its attention focused on the Indo-Pacific.
Meanwhile, the JCPOA has been bursting at the seams since 2018 when the U.S. reneged on the deal and withdrew from it. Instead of rejoining the deal upon taking office and removing a major distraction for the U.S. foreign policy – and bringing Iranian energy to the Western markets – Biden has, in substance, pursued Trump's maximum pressure policy against Iran. This is a fully self-made U.S. problem.
This trip showed that, for better or worse, the United States will not pivot away from the Middle East for the foreseeable future. Biden told a summit of Arab leaders that the U.S. is "not walking away" from the region so as not to leave a "vacuum" for China, Russia, or Iran to fill. The more the U.S. is stuck in the Middle East (and Europe), the more breathing space there will be for China to do its thing in the Indo-Pacific.
Pushing Iran Further to the East
Next to looking for more oil, Biden's trip to the Middle East became an anti-Iran tour of sorts, just as his recent Asia trip was an anti-China tour. Not only has Biden's trip exacerbated the JCPOA's death spiral, but he also threatened Iran with the use of force, meaning another possible large-scale disastrous war, which the U.S. can ill afford.
While this policy works as a short-term profit-making tactic of selling weapons, it falls spectacularly short of a strategy. A regional strategy needs to have a comprehensive, constructive, and long-term vision; it needs to be about more than countering a country. Biden's anti-Iran policy has already backfired on both regional and global levels.
Regionally, this policy has already backfired in two ways: First, regional countries announced that they are not going to join an anti-Iran alliance. The Saudis said that there is no Arab NATO against Iran and that the kingdom wants to normalize relations with Iran. The Emiratis said they are going to send their ambassador to Iran and rebuild ties.
Second, in response to Biden's threats on this trip and the failing nuclear negotiations, Iran announced that the country is "technically capable of building a nuclear bomb," but has not decided to pursue such a goal. All of this could have been avoided by Biden simply rejoining the JCPOA.
Globally, Biden's Iran policy works against his China and Indo-Pacific policy. Given its history and geography, Iran has been a global swing state, situated as it is between the East and West. Pre-1979, it was a staunch ally of the West against the USSR. Post-1979, it joined the anti-imperialist Non-Aligned Movement. In more recent years, the country has been steadily joining the Sino-Russian Eurasian camp thanks in no small part to American sanctions against the country – and of course Iran's own choices.
The JCPOA was (and still is) a chance for the U.S. and the West to lure Iran back, reduce its dependence on China and Russia, bring Iranian energy to the markets, and build on the country's highly pro-Western culture. But Biden's policies, including on this trip, are pushing Iran, an indispensable geopolitical and geoeconomic actor at the heart of Eurasia, to further cement its own pivot to "the East" by enthusiastically joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and potentially BRICS, signing a 25-year strategic pact with China, and pursuing a free trade agreement with the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union. Put otherwise, China (and Russia) are by far the biggest winners of U.S. policies toward Iran.
U.S. foreign policy toward West Asia suffers from the same malaise as in East Asia, namely, a screaming absence of geoeconomics. Unlike China, which materialized RCEP (not to mention its BRI) with Indo-Pacific countries, the U.S. has neither joined any existing major free trade deal (such as the Japan-led CPTPP) nor offered any substantive deal or initiative.
This absence was palpable during Biden's latest trip. While weapons sales or humbly asking the Saudis for more oil can technically qualify as short-term geoeconomic efforts, motivated by profit-making or the Ukraine crisis, they do not constitute a regional geoeconomic strategy that can compete with China's.
China's global strategy has a clear long-term vision for West Asia. In fact, part of the Chinese logic of increasing its presence in West (and Central) Asia is, inter alia, to break free from American containment policy and the claustrophobic dynamics of East Asia. The BRI functions as the long-term geoeconomic component of China's strategy, encompassing both East and West Asia. With this strategy, China has become the top trading partner of most countries in West Asia, even Saudi Arabia, for which the United States used to be the top trading partner.
Saudi and regional leaders would not fail to notice that Biden made this trip not out of strategic vision but out of the short-term urgency of the Ukraine crisis. This does not bode well for the United States' regional competition with China. Regional countries will continue to look eastward (to China, India, and others) after Biden's visit, as they did before this visit. For better or worse, China's geoeconomic influence in the region remains unchallenged.
Conclusion: The Strategic Way Forward
The United States needs a comprehensive multipronged strategy for West Asia, as it needs one for the Indo-Pacific, if it wants to be taken seriously and compete with China. Such a strategy should recognize the following four interlinked realities of the region: First, the region is geopolitically exhausted, so much so that even traditional foes are (re-)establishing diplomatic ties, such as Saudi-Iranian de-escalation talks or Arab-Israeli détente.
Second, the most widely recognized challenge for the region is to move beyond its dependence on hydrocarbons, hence the various developmental visions in the region including the Saudi, Emirati, and Qatari Vision 2030, or Oman's Vision 2040.
Third, the hot-selling commodity in the region to replace hydrocarbons is geoeconomic connectivity. Various regional countries are vying for further connectivity between East and West, North and South.
Fourth and most importantly, the Middle East is one of the regions hardest hit by climate change, currently burning in extreme heat, drying up with little water, and suffocating by dust clouds; it is in dire need of a major green future.
Going back to old tired geopolitical games of oil and weapons is not the way forward. Demonizing China in the Indo-Pacific and relying on weapons alone do not qualify as a strategy and is not enough to convince Indo-Pacific countries to join the United States. Similarly, demonizing Iran and its nuclear issue (which can readily be brought under control by the U.S. rejoining the JCPOA) and weapons sales cannot really amount to a serious U.S. regional strategy in West Asia, nor can it compete with China's multipronged strategic approach to the region.
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WE WERE IN A fortress town in southern Spain, at another one of the interminable procession of medieval fortress towns, at another one of the usual interminable procession of early-music festivals, touring our program of English Renaissance a cappella music.
It was an afternoon in September, and I was preparing for that night's show as usual: I showered, shaved and dressed in comfortable clothes, and took the lift down to the lobby, holding over my arm my formal black performance clothes (the women wore white of course), covered in launderer's plastic. Usually I was the first of the sextet to arrive in the lobby but on this occasion Bernadette was already there. Some singers like to spend time along before a show, gathering their thoughts and concentrating their mind before the pre-performance commotion begins, but I am the opposite. If anything, my mind gets too concentrated when I am alone, so I prefer to spend time in a public place - hotel lobbies are perfect - seated somewhere with a drink (usually a cup of peppermint tea, which I always bring with me in case it's not available) watching the passing parade of human beings, who are a never-ending source of entertainment to me.
But on this occasion, Bernadette was already there. She saw me and rushed, almost ran towards me, and when we came together she took hold of my forearm with the kind of grip often described as vice-like, and I noticed that she he looked pale, ghostly even, I might say, although that might an exaggeration my mind is adding in hindsight. It was well known within the sextet that I held a soft spot for Bernadette, even though I was married and completely and utterly incapable of infidelity, at least of the sexual variety. Any glance in Bernadette's direction always threw up the same thought in my mind - of her beauty, the beauty not just of her face but of something else, something intangible, something like a monument buried deep under desert sand - but on this occasion there was no such admiration. I asked her immediately what was wrong, and she began to tell me a complicated story of telephone calls in the middle of the night and indecipherable threats and a cab ride to nowhere.
My reaction, I'm sorry to say, was entirely selfish. My position in the sextet was insecure - no one had told me so directly, but there were a thousand clues all pointing in the same direction. Her story was putting my mind out of kilter, and my performance was bound to suffer. I could not afford a poor performance, this sextet was my living, whereas Bernadette was safe, Bernadette was everyone's favourite. Within minutes the others would arrive and we would have to board a minibus for the concert hall. Her story, which made no sense to me, would sew panic among the sextet.
I told Bernadette to stop, to catch her breath, you're talking too quickly, I said, I'm not following any of this. I took her hand (ice cold) and led her to one of the leather sofas in the lobby, one of those armless sofas designed to be comfortable but not too comfortable, ordering two cups of tea from the receptionist along the way, and once we had sat down she began telling me the story again, slower this time, and in more detail. The cups of tea arrived, and Bernadette held hers with both hands, as if warming her fingers. As she spoke, my anxieties about that night's performance were eclipsed by other anxieties, darker anxieties, anxieties I had never considered before, at least not outside my dreams. As her tale began to crystallise in my mind, I was overtaken by a dawning sense of horror, a sense that Bernadette was doomed, that I was doomed, that we were all, every single one of us, doomed.
This website is a remnant of something that happened once. From November 2012 to the end of July 2013, with a month off in May, the Daily Fiction Project published an improvised story every weekday - 160 stories all told.
These stories were deliberately published freshly improvised, warts and all, and that is how, for the most part, they remain. My inspirations were the automatic writing of Surrealism and the artificially generated writing of Oulipo. The central theme of 'missing persons' developed organically and spontaneously. The emphasis was on invention and improvisation, rather than drafting and fine-tuning.
Many of these stories do not stand the test of time. Others are part of story series that developed organically and only make sense when the entire series is read. This is why there's a list of the most popular stories below.
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Why are Some Injured and Others Not with COVID-19 Vaccination?
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What Would Happen Should Your Views Be Deemed Hate Speech?
In 1722, Benjamin Franklin, under the name Silence Dogood, wrote: Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; Silence Dogood, No. 8, 9 July 1722 Have you considered why is freedom...
Keyboard Commandos Won't Protect America from the Democrats
by D.W. Wilber | May 6, 2020 | Politics
During the age of Facebook and the other social media platforms we have seen the rise of what are often referred to as "Keyboard Commandos". Often well-meaning people who use their computer as a way of venting their ire or their support for a topic or subject they happen to either disagree with, or are in support of. We've all likely done it at one time or another, I know I have on a regular basis. Like right now for instance.
It's easy to cut loose on Facebook and let others hear what you're thinking about at any moment in time. Usually your comments are directed towards like-minded individuals and 'friends' who share your views on a variety of issues. Unfortunately we have reached a point in our nation's history when 'Keyboard Commandos' simply aren't going to be enough to defeat the threats that are facing our nation.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is determined to ram through the Democrats 'vote-by-mail' scheme in order to commit massive voter fraud in November and defeat President Trump.
As well as to try to retain control of the House of Representatives and take control of the U.S. Senate. We cannot simply stand by and allow this to happen. Pelosi and her Democrat Party and news media co-conspirators are so confident that no one will stand in their way to prevent them from carrying out their plans, that Pelosi smugly stands before the television cameras during press briefings and proudly declares what she intends to do. She's proud of the fact that she supports voter fraud as a legitimate political tool.
It's not enough that the Democrats and their willing allies in the news media have been involved for over three years now in an ongoing and 'so far' bloodless coup d'etat against President Trump. And they are determined come hell or high water to achieve their goal of overturning the will of the American people, which was spoken so loudly in November of 2016.
If Nancy Pelosi needs some civil unrest to help her achieve a political advantage or goal all she has to do is to pick up the phone and call Barack Obama. He'll be more than happy to get his most trusted advisor Valerie Jarrett working on the problem. Calls from his OFA (Organizing for America) outfit will soon be out to all the local ANTIFA or Black Lives Matter branches and they'll have protestors out in force wherever needed in a matter of hours.
Well the time is long past for the corrupt career politicians in Washington to understand that the American people have had enough. The time is long past for 'Keyboard Commandos' to limit their venting to just the Internet.
It's time for real Americans to take the streets back from the Democrat Party thugs, and to hold Pelosi and the rest of the corrupt politicians in Washington and in state houses across the country to account.
Am I calling for violence and anarchy? Absolutely not. We're law abiding citizens, unlike the allies of the Democrats. And we certainly don't need Nazi or Confederate flags, or any other "symbols of real or imagined hate" in our ranks.
Even the carrying of 'scary' looking firearms ought to be carefully considered. They will always be portrayed by the Democrats and their allies in the news media as attempts to scare and intimidate. And the visuals can be used to discourage or scare off many 'middle-of-the-road' people who might actually be supporters and allies to the cause you're pursuing.
Pelosi and her Democrat colleagues don't believe the American people will stand up to them. They believe that we'll all just vent our anger on Facebook, but will ultimately just accept whatever they do. Including disqualifying our vote and stealing the November elections.
It's time to step away from the keyboard and out into the streets⏤to show Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats that we're more than just 'Keyboard Commandos'.
Del is a former under cover employee of the Central Intelligence Agency serving overseas in Eastern and Western Europe, and the Middle East. He currently does consulting work in counterterrorism and writes columns, as well as appears as a guest on a number of programs.
Okay, so you've shown me you're a "keyboard commando" by ending this with a idea, but no follow up. When is your first rally(or what you want to call it)? Where? In DC or San Francisco to Nancy's house? Time? A leader is needed!
Go out and do what exactly? Yell how unfair it is? I'm so unsure of what exactly is being proposed here. It really felt r the he whole time like this post was advocating a civil war/ militia effort, but then at the end you coped out of that and then offered no other explanation for your attack on those who are civilly disobeying and speaking out and news sharing. Were you hoping that people only read halfway through and just got fired up and started a civil war? What is being said here exactly?
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The Tyre Nichols Beating Is NOT Police Culture
by Lt. Dave Smith and Sgt Betsy Smith | Jan 30, 2023 | Law and Order, Politics
In the wake of Memphis, there are renewed calls to "defund the police" and demand to "change police culture." What we saw the five former Memphis police officers do to Tyre Nichols was certainly not "police culture," these were the actions of men with no regard for the life or the rights of Mr. Nichols. We don't need to change "police culture" in this country…
A Coordinated Attempt to Conduct a Complete Overthrow of the American Free Market
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Our entire governmental system and society are under a coordinated attack. Our institutions, our elected officials, and the Supreme Court, are all being attacked and undermined by threats from within, as well as from outside influences, especially the Communist Chinese. It's long past time for the Silent Majority to be silent no more!
Societal Decline! A Frightening, Global Phenomenon
by Patricia Anthone | Jan 29, 2023 | Global, Politics
Declining birthrates, aging populations, diminishing productivity, and widespread depression are some of the symptoms of this ideologically-induced malaise. America is not alone in exhibiting these symptoms. Our Constitution's sound design cannot defend us against the rise of Marxism either domestically or internationally unless the people of the US subscribe to…
Who Will be Spared from COVID-19 Vaccine Injury?
by Dr. Peter McCullough | Jan 28, 2023 | Health, Politics
These data suggest that ~85% of those who have received COVID-19 vaccines have no significant problems, and ~15% have been damaged. While this number is unacceptably high, and the vaccine campaign should be stopped, many are wondering now: "why me?" There are almost certainly factors related to the vaccine product that plays a role…
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Any microeconomist would understand that optimizing a complex system for a single variable throws the system out of kilter. Thus needless interventions, like vaccines, are likely to be almost always counterproductive, except they are profitable for the medical-industrial complex, which has convinced us that they are making us healthier, even though they are clearly making us sicker…
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