This is absolutely Heartbreaking.

 

Photo is c/o Lynsey Addario

 When I read the books about building schools in Afghanistan several years ago, I was enchanted by the thirst for knowledge among these wonderful people.  

 Little did the world know what would eventually happen in Afghanistan.   This LINK goes to an article from the archives of The Atlantic Magazine.

What is it about the rights of women, over half the human race, that men are afraid of?  Maybe it is time to just wipe the slate clean.. maybe we are defective as a species.  Maybe it's time....

We in the United States still can't get the Equal Rights amendment passed.  So, don't say that something isn't hidden in the species psyche that isn't in operation here in our own country. 

My heart is just breaking.  I'm not reading any more news until I have done all that I can do to fulfill the dying wish of my daughter.  She asked me to knit SF gloves for her clinic, and the friends that she had made there.   

Knitting for a good cause makes me a whole lot happier than sitting and contemplating the stupidity of the "dominant" sex.

"Dead Man's Clothing" ....

PHoto and the article C/O Lintin Besser Foreign Correspondent for ABCnet Au...

 

This is an article about what happens to clothing donated to countries, in this case, Ghana.  Much of it is brand new. Other articles are used.

35 or so years ago, when the twins were teens, - so it was a long time ago -  I was recycling cardboard and other things to keep it all out of the landfill.  

One of my regular stops was at a small charity for a local hospital in North Park. 

In back of the store, in the side alley, there were two HUGE dumpsters, the kind that are pulled up onto the bed of a semi. They were over flowing with brand new and beautiful clothing.  

I'm sure all of it was destined for a country like Ghana, where some of it was needed and served well.  Now these countries are drowning in such largess.  This was before "Fast Fashion" was a "Thing".  I can only guess that it's much, much worse now. 

So we have sweat shops paying pennies an hour to girls and women - mostly (who are enduring outrageous working conditions with poor pay) in the developing world. These shops make billions of $$dollars$$ for wealthy "designers" in the developed countries, and a shed load of that "product", the overproduction as it were,  goes into OTHER third world countries. It's estimated 40% ends up on their trash hills.  No wonder our world is grinding to a halt ...   

Follow the links within the article to other articles written about the problem it has created.  

All of this is avoidable, and I guess the remedy consists of not buying fast fashion.  Don't buy it, unless you are desperate.  Tell yourself that it has a terrible cost that neither humans nor the planet can now pay. 

 

Article of how the communists exploited low troop moral after end of WWII

 “ The subject of the troops’ low morale became a subject of newspaper editorials and articles. Someone who must have been pleased was Erwin Marquit. A lifelong Marxist and a U.S. Communist Party member from a young age, he’d joined the Navy in 1945. Marquit’s detailed, personal memoir, “The Demobilization Movement of January 1946” (Nature Society and Thought, 2002), recounts with pride and in detail how “the Communists and those allied with them helped guide this GI outburst into a powerful, well-organized movement.”

From this article at History.com 

Covid19 Variants can still arise.

Thoughts... anyone?  Most of the children are still not vaccinated, as well as huge portion of the US adult populations.  Let’s get the kids vaccinated at least!  

 “I’m a nurse practitioner and vaccinated. I wear a mask both at work and when I’m in public. I have friends and colleagues who are both vaccinated and not vaccinated, and masked and not masked. My 8-year-old grandson just tested positive. My granddaughter will probably be positive soon. Their parents are teachers. I am done being polite with my words. Get vaccinated. Wear a mask. Think about someone other than yourself and shut your mouth about your rights. What are your responsibilities?”

— Diane Wright, Connecticut

This is from the August 6th Corona virus Briefing Newsletter of the New Your Times...  

Are plants sentient beings? A very interesting article about a study done in Germany...

Article from Nautilus 

 Go have a look in.  

Venus Flytrap from the Article.C/o Sergei Aleshin

From my point of view, they do.