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New Nikon rebates in Europe, Nikon USA to follow next week:
nikonrumors.com/2024/10/26/n…
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"If he plays all three cards well –private sector, international community and Guatemalan people, he may deliver on the hopes and expectations of the Guatemalan people."
By Eric L. Olson @Eric_Latam , Director of Policy and Strategic Initiatives at SIF
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Oppenheimer, in centering the moral angst of the weapon creator while omitting the humanity of the victims, reminds me of the popular genre of Israeli film, “יורים ובוכים,” literally “shooting and crying.”
The subtext is inevitably that violence is okay if you feel bad about it.
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Interesting fact: Tony Bennett was demoted during World War II because he ate with a black soldier before racial integration. Tony Bennett invited his Black friend, Frank Smith, to dine with him at a time when soldiers were still officially segregated. As a result, a bigoted officer demoted Bennett from corporal to private and reassigned him to a unit that exhumed mass graves and prepared the bodies of soldiers for shipment back home[1]. This incident was an example of the widespread prejudice and discrimination that existed in the army during that time[1]. Tony Bennett later became an advocate for civil rights and joined Dr. Martin Luther King during the 1965 civil rights march in Alabama[1].
RIP Tony Bennett
Citations:
[1]pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters…
[2]popcrush.com/tony-bennett-li…
[3]washingtonpost.com/history/2…
[4]reddit.com/r/todayilearned/c…
[5]france24.com/en/live-news/20…
[6]rfi.fr/en/international-news…
Paul Jeffrey retweeted
The head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land tells @AP the rise of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government has made life worse for Christians in the birthplace of Christianity and emboldened extremists. apne.ws/NcHhOto
Paul Jeffrey retweeted
So, to sum up the Supreme Court’s week: life begins at conception and ends in a mass shooting.
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So, as I understand the Supreme Court, the government can arrest and jail you without Miranda rights, execute you even if your lawyer screws up, force you to have a baby, and use tax dollars to support religion.
But it can't protect your right to vote or keep you safe from guns.
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Turkish photographer Mehmet Aslan has won “photo of the year” at the Siena International Photo Awards 2021 with this picture of a Syrian refugee boy and his father in Reyhanli, Turkey. petapixel.com/2021/10/21/emo… via @Saeed_Alnahhal
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One month after two Catholic sisters were executed on a road in South Sudan, their killers remain unidentified, and church leaders are losing patience with an apparent lack of progress in resolving the murder. @GlobalLens via @sistersreport
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The people who cheered for 40 years as western bombs killed Muslim civilians, cheered as Trump’s Muslim ban blocked refugees, now pretend to care about accountability—and not even to accept refugees—but to score political points.
Reckless hypocrisy. Don’t fall for it.
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Congratulations to Paul Jeffrey @GlobalLens for 1st place in Catholic Press Assn awards, for his Lens on Creation series of reflections for @EarthBeatNCR in September 2020 ncronline.org/news/earthbeat…
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#BREAKING US ruler, aging white moderate, Joe Biden, who is yet to acknowledge his nation's genocide against Native Americans or stop its regular ethnic massacres and ethnically-tinged state-sponsored extrajudicial killings, to recognize 1915 massacre of Armenians as a genocide.
Paul Jeffrey retweeted
Lots of data to suggest a fairly rapid increase in social activity in the US as cases begin to rise again.
Some of it is optimism about vaccines, but I wonder if it also has something to do with the 1-year anniversary of the lockdowns contributing to social distancing fatigue.
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On #WorldWaterDay we celebrate how water benefits our lives so we can value it properly and safeguard it for all. Here a woman in Nepal checks water quality tests women in her village carried out to identify any problems which they'll organize to solve. Photo @GlobalLens for LOEP
Paul Jeffrey retweeted
New CNN poll:
Men: Trump 49, Biden 47.
Women: Biden 66, Trump 32.
Tocqueville: "If one asked me to what do I think one must principally attribute the singular prosperity and growing force of this people, I would answer that it is to the superiority of its women." (DA II, 3.12)
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We're in danger of a majority of Justices on the Supreme Court being chosen by Presidents who didn't even get the majority of the popular vote.
Any way you look at it, we're getting less democratic by the day.
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@EarthBeatNCR te brinda reflexiones del fotógrafo Paul Jeffrey @GlobalLens sobre cambio climático y fe 3 veces por semana durante el #TiempodelaCreacion ncronline.org/news/earthbeat…