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UN warns of deepening health crisis in Gaza amid mass casualty incidents
As scores of people – including medical staff and their families – have reportedly been killed in the past week, UN health partners in Gaza continue to provide emergency care despite very limited resources.www.globalissues.org
The Take: Is direct action for Palestine ‘terrorism’? The UK says it is
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The Take: Is direct action for Palestine ‘terrorism’? The UK says it is
The UK’s ‘terrorist’ listing of the Palestine Action group puts pro-Palestine protests and free speech at risk.Al Jazeera
US Supreme Court permits Trump to move ahead with mass layoffs and destruction of federal agencies
The US Supreme Court issued an 8-1 order on Tuesday—without addressing the constitutionality of the issue—that allows the Trump administration to proceed with the destruction of government agencies and the firing of tens of thousands of federal emplo…World Socialist Web Site
Bullies and cowards who don't like the truth
"Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, a Mazatec Indigenous community in Oaxaca, Mexico, has been defending its river from gravel and sand dredgers for over a decade. As a well-organized and determined force, the community has endured unprecedented repression, including criminalization, torture, displacement, imprisonment, and violence. Now, the community faces a new attack — 200 trumped-up charges against 56 residents, among them teachers, farmers, mothers, and the elderly. The trumped-up charges are meant to relate to a conflict in the region in 2014."
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#Mexico #Oaxaca #Indigenous #environment
Sand Mining Is a Booming Industry — This Mexican Community Is Paying the Price
Fifty-six residents of an Indigenous Oaxaca community face 200 trumped-up charges for resisting mining in their rivers.Tamara Pearson (Truthout)
Cam Schlittler brings heat and hope to Yankees in winning MLB debut
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Trump Sneaked Huge Gift for Peter Thiel–Backed Company Into Budget
Donald Trump’s budget essentially hands an exclusive contract to Anduril.The New Republic
ICE Official Reveals Disturbing Blacklist Behind Roundup of Students
ICE agents are using the shady online blacklist Canary Mission to target student protesters.The New Republic
French police raid far-right National Rally headquarters in finance probe
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Asian shares mostly gain after big tech rally on Wall Street
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Major cannabis company to end operations in Michigan as industry slows
Major cannabis company to end operations in Michigan as industry slows
Despite the closure, officials say the marijuana industry has provided economic value to Lansing.Rachel Fulton (WILX)
Part of a Los Angeles tunnel collapses, possibly trapping workers inside
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Hundreds gather at high school stadium to honor the many lost to Texas deadly floods
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New Mexico village rebuilds all over again after record-breaking flash flood kills 3
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Rainy Bedtime stories for sleep
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The COZIEST Rainy Bedtime Stories: Sleepy Stories with Rain Sounds
Let the soothing sounds of rain to help you fall asleep fast. This collection of the coziest rainy bedtime stories are narrated by a woman's voice, accompani...YouTube
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These are the arms that held him and touched him
Lost him somehow
Colour them empty now
These are the beads I wore
Until she came between
Colour them green
Sandy Stewart is 88
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Sandy Stewart "My Coloring Book"
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Nick Jameson, American actor (24), pop-rock songwriter, and record producer (Foghat) is 75
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Please, don’t forget us…
Hope is fading as donations slow down.
We’re holding on to the little hope we have left.
All we’re asking for now is to secure the most basic rights in life:
Food, water, and medicine for my sick father.
Please, stand with us.
Your support keeps us alive.
#gaza
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Help Sehwel family with their medical treatment
I'm Joe in the UK, I've been in touch with Aseel from the Sehwel family for over a year now and have been following their difficult struggle to afford medication, shelter and food in Gaza.Chuffed
#Taybeh, the last fully #Christian town in the occupied #WestBank, faces systematic #Israeli settler attacks and illegal outpost expansion
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#AllEyesOnWestBank #EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
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#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine
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⭕️ Taybeh, the last fully Christian town in the occupied West Bank, faces systematic Israeli settler attacks and illegal outpost expansion — The heads of the three main churches in Taybeh — the Greek Orthodox, Latin Catholic, and Melkite Greek Cathol…Telegram
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US sanctions UN expert Francesca Albanese, critic of Israel's #Gaza offensive
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US sanctions UN expert Francesca Albanese, critic of Israel's Gaza offensive
Secretary of State Marco Rubio linked the move to her support for the International Criminal Court (ICC).Tom Bateman (BBC News)
Judas Priest, Rick Springfield, John Oates and Bob Geldof reflect on 40 years of Live Aid
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How British Merchants "Perfected" Money Laundering
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Britain and France try again to tackle English Channel migrant crossings
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Analysis: "In conditions like the conditions the Palestinian people in Gaza face today, the concept of free choice is a lie."
“Israel has no right even to be in Gaza or in the West Bank.. everything Israel does there.. is also illegal, including in implementing any of these plans for forced displacement whether within or outside of Gaza."
~International law expert Ralph Wilde
#GazaGenocide #USPol #EuroPol IsraeliLies @palestine .
Updates: Israel kills 95 Palestinians in Gaza as Trump, Netanyahu meet
US president to meet Israeli prime minister again with Gaza ‘exclusively’ topping the agenda.Lyndal Rowlands (Al Jazeera)
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by a military court for a crime they didn't commit.
These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade
to the Los Angeles underground.
Today, still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune.
If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them... maybe you can hire..."
New Hampshire judge to hear arguments on class action against Trump’s birthright citizenship order
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"just mad at myself for being upset and then feeling bad."
Been there. As a sage friend of mine once phrased it: "I eventually learned to stop beating myself up, for beating myself up."
Admittedly, I am not sure if I figured out that friend's solution for myself? His way of phrasing it was helpful framing to at least attempt to acknowledge when I am caught up in some similar mental anguish loop.
For me, changing scenery is a methodology that I find is sometimes helpful? Going for a walk in nature if possible, far away from humans and their noises is ideal! A babbling brook, raging rapids, or the moon reflected in an ocean with waves crashing seem to be fantastic for me when I can enjoy such things.
Rain drops, while soaking in some rustic hot springs far away from most signs of so-called "civilization"? Better still!
Unfortunately, it is not always easy or possible to change scenery to such realms without significant effort and often expenses.
Simpler things, such as making an herbal tisane, the meditative qualities of watching steam "peel" off the "skin" of the tea cup, help to slow down and be in the moment, a different moment than incessant negative thoughts.
Tea kettles and water and loose leaves are not always readily available.
So perhaps some headphones, and a song, or album, or something musical can be helpful, for me at least, to have another frame of reference when I am in exceedingly urban hellscapes full of human maladies.
Barring that, earplugs.
Admittedly, reducing inputs from the world around me that I find harrowing isn't the be all end all, but a starting point.
If stuck with human trappings and no good tunes are readily available, vegging out to some movies or something similar (ideally: comedic in nature if looking for levity) might be beneficial?
No doubt, if the negative thoughts are persistent (as they often are in my experience) such strategies may be of limited utility, but even temporary distractions can still be welcome in my experience.
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Trump has completely failed to deliver on any of MAGA's expectations.
He's shown himself to be no better than the Biden admin on foreign policy.
Nothing has changed.
6 months in and already a lame duck to the deep state.
Well, Bazzite just obliterated one of the last reasons I was still clinging to Windows 11.
My living room PC has an RTX 3090, yet Windows still won’t run anything at 4K 60fps. It caps out at 4K 30fps or 1080p 60fps—no matter what I do. For years, I blamed the TV. Thought maybe I cheaped out. Spent all this money on a high-end rig, and it never delivered what I wanted.
Then I docked my wife’s Legion Go. It dual-boots Windows 11 and Bazzite.
Guess what? Same problem on Windows. But boot into Bazzite? Boom—4K at 60fps, no issue.
Turns out it wasn’t the TV. It was Windows.
Once again, Linux quietly proves it’s the better OS for gaming.
Universities and artists face funding threat under antisemitism plan being considered by Australian government | Australian politics | The Guardian
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"The report recommended all levels of government adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. However that definition is contested in some quarters, with some concerns it was increasingly being used to conflate antisemitism with criticism of Israel."
Universities and artists face funding threat under antisemitism plan being considered by Australian government
Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal also urges Labor government to bolster education and seek new powers to deport visitorsJosh Butler (The Guardian)
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I don't think it will do anything good. Instead we will have less certainty and more hurtful decisions, head lines and arguments.
We have laws and courts. That's enough to deal with. We cannot make every public institution judges for the expressions of employees and students.
You need a mirror.
Something that shows the soul behind the brand.
The vision behind the voice.
The silence behind the message.
AI is not the tool.
It’s the portal.
I don’t do “trending”.
I build fragments of future memory.
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One reel can change perception.
One story — direction.
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If You can't SEE it You are brain dead the same goes For anyone that watch this video
The Empire Is A Nonstop Insult To Our Intelligence
The US has imposed sanctions on UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for using her position to oppose the most thoroughly documented genocide in history.
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The Empire Is A Nonstop Insult To Our Intelligence
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)
What would happen if people took Ivermectin at the dose reccommended to fight Malaria every day for the resr of their life?
What would be the horrible side effect that was the reason they tried to prevent people from using it?
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The terrible side effect would be no money being made for gene therapy MRNA injections.
Apparently, 35 billion euro by the EU
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So do you thihk if people had ivermectin every day even not to treat a specific problem they might be healthier?
Corporate media is more outraged at the possibility of a Democratic socialist entering the NY Mayors office than at the certainty that a white supremacist has reentered the White House.
Corporate politicians are more outraged that Mamdani won't condemn something he didn't say than they are at Trump repeating racist things he definitely said.
Silicon Valley is more accepting of a racist who dehumanizes Muslims than they are of a Muslim who defies billionaires.
Sigh...Are we great yet?
@gemlog @tk @keithzg
Thanks for that link! I knew it was bad here. I didn't realize it was even worse in so many places. We are only in the top ~40!
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The Great Depression can be seen as a sort of (very painful) correction to wealth inequality. 2008 can be seen as an aborted correction of the same type. Without that correction, we have now reached the point where the wealthy are so far ahead that they can be blatant about their ownership of the government, and there is mass unrest. They turn us against each other instead of against them. And so fascism is born.
U.S. income inequality, on rise for decades, is now highest since 1928
Credit: Dorsey Shaw; Source: Emmanuel Saez, UC Berkeley President Obama took on a topic yesterday that most Americans don't like to talk about much:Drew DeSilver (Pew Research Center)
U.S. Tourism Just Lost Its Big-Spending Tourists To Its Friendliest Ally
data from the World Travel and #Tourism Council suggests that the only country among 184 globally to experience a decline in international tourist spending in 2025 will be the United States
The US tourism industry will lose over $12 Billion this year
European Travelers Are Skipping The U.S. For Toronto
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U.S. Tourism Just Lost Its Big-Spending Tourists To Its Friendliest Ally
America's ally is sniping its tourists while it suffers record tourism losses, and a surprising destination is winning, per a new study.Lauren Feather (TheTravel)
Former Olympic wrestler and MMA star Ben Askren recovering after double lung transplant
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“Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have gained access to a massive database of health and car insurance claims and are using it to track down people they want to deport”
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ICE Is Searching a Massive Insurance and Medical Bill Database to Find Deportation Targets
The database, called ISO ClaimSearch, is nearly all encompassing and contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
Detainees At 'Alligator Alcatraz' Decry Lack Of Water To Bathe, Maggots In Food
"Albanese said on Wednesday that the governments of Italy, France and Greece needed to explain why they provided “safe passage” to Netanyahu, who they were theoretically “obligated to arrest” as an internationally wanted suspect when he flew over their territory on his way to meet United States President Donald Trump on Sunday for talks."
aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/9/un…
UN expert Albanese slams states that let Netanyahu fly over airspace to US
Rome Statute signatories Italy, France, Greece criticised for providing ‘safe passage’ to subject of ICC arrest warrant.Al Jazeera
TLDR summary, a lot of big corporations enable the Palestinian genocide and are making big bucks doing it. Israel and the US deny any wrong doing.
#genocide #Palestine #corporategreed #israel
An economy of genocide: Israel and Francesca Albanese's report | Green Left
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An economy of genocide: Israel and Francesca Albanese's report
Francesca Albanese’s report for the United Nations Human Rights Council makes for stark and dark reading, writes Binoy Kampmark.Green Left
McDonald's uses an AI bot to do hiring, and it stored the personal data of everyone who applied, hidden by the security equivalent of a post-it note saying "plz no steal".
After her parents, sister and husband were killed in a bombing, Lubnah prayed they would be the last victims of the war.
Her father, Dr Marwan al-Sultan, was one of Gaza’s most respected physicians, the director of the Indonesian Hospital and one of only two surviving cardiologists in the Strip.
On July 2, an Israeli bomb killed him alongside his wife, Dhikra, their daughter, Lamees, his sister, Amneh, and his son-in-law, Mohammed, Lubnah’s husband.
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Israel is killing doctors so Gaza can never heal from genocide
Medicide is a central part of Israel’s goal of making Palestinian life in Gaza impossible.Ghada Ageel (Al Jazeera)
Seeking bulldozer drivers to demolish Gaza: how a genocide is being outsourced – Arwa Mahdawi
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#IsraeliWarCrimes #LeahyLaw #EndAidToIsrael #NetanyahuWarCriminal #FreePalestine #EndTheGenocide #BDS #SettlersOut #StopAIPAC #IDFTerrorists
Seeking bulldozer drivers to demolish Gaza: how a genocide is being outsourced
The systematic destruction of Gaza is hardly a secret. Now, the IDF is posting Facebook ads for bulldozer operators to help demolish the stripArwa Mahdawi (The Guardian)
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If the Democrats don't campaign on reversing the SCOTUS rulings with laws and adding more justices, they will lose again and deservedly so.
Yes, electoralism, and yes it may be moot.
@violetmadder As long as the donors are funding the DNC and their circle of consultants and strategists, election results seem optional. I mean, what are the plebs going to do about it - vote for the 3rd party?
The DNC is the political equivalent of a non-profit company that doesn't really do anything to make the world better, but all the executives make excellent salaries and the company runs expensive, tasteful advertising about their corporate success.
To avoid confusion, I don't favor Democrats over Republicans, and not the other way around either. I consider them both parasites.
And here's a more controversial opinion: although Mamdani distanced himself from the rest of the herd and went more socialist and offered something more of substance, I am skeptical about him because of his resorting to "vibes".
I prefer boring people who address our minds, not performative entertaining sales persons.
May both parties go to hell.
Absolutely. It's why I said he offered something of substance. His message resonated with people, unlike, say, Kamala Harris.
Perhaps it's just me, I tend to be skeptical whenever someone employs entertainment or vibes; what I call a sales personality. It immediately subtracts from their genuinity.
Maybe he's just trying all possible means and I should give him the benefit of the doubt.
Anyway, why do I bother? I live in Montreal.
USA sanctions Francesca Albanese for working with the International Criminal Court, and for being early at calling the Gaza Genocide a genocide.
This regime is a global menace, to the freedoms of each of us. Where will this end?
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#FarRight #Genocide #Gaza #USA #USPol #ICC #ICJ #Law #HumanRights #Palestine #EU #Geopolitics #Albanese #FrancescaAlbanese
For those not up to speed with the latest AI jargon, I hope to clarify some things:
- AI: Actually Indians
- LLM: Low-cost Labor in Mumbai
- AGI: A Genius Indian
- GPT: Gujarati Professional Typist
- API: A Person in India
Every time a company promises a revolutionary “AI” product, they just exploit cheap labor from India.
When will the world tire of American labor practices and its exploitive forms of offshoring?
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Does every empire have to build itself on wage suppression and slavery?
The Online Hell of Amazon's Mechanical Turk
For some Americans, sub-minimum-wage online tasks are the only work available.Alana Semuels (The Atlantic)
We love you, Joe Davidson!
Bezos is a whore.
Washington Post columnist calls Bezos a 'Donald Trump supplicant' in final parting shot
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#JeffBezos #WillLewis #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
Washington Post columnist calls Bezos a 'Donald Trump supplicant' in final parting shot
Longtime Washington Post columnist Joe Davidson recently resigned after the paper — which is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — killed his latest column for being "too opinionated.Carl Gibson (Alternet.org)
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in reply to dobó istván • • •WOW that's craptacular! That block map is hilarious!
You can probably buy those on Amazon for 9 bucks. Prime Day!
Did you do the testing? WHat software is that?
dobó istván
in reply to tom jennings • • •Photos were from furious buyers in the comments. I’m not gullible enough to think I can get 1TB flash for $3.
Still ranked 4.9 stars because Ali reviews are so heavily botted!
I think AliExpress you have to look at the reviews with pictures. Everything else is botted and AI slop.
tom jennings
in reply to dobó istván • • •In my AliExpress purchase, I specifically looked for the SMALLEST cards I could find. I'm only using 32 MEGA-bytes of each card... so seriously you can't buy a card too-small. I hope this takes me off the front lines of scam-dom. Most of what I buy are 16GB claimed. If they work reliably, I don't care. Even slow cards are adequately fast.
As crappy as things are now, I suspect it will only get worse, and things could become effectively impossible to navigate.
And then we could soon (do...) have more pressing daily concerns.
dobó istván
in reply to tom jennings • • •I remember a decade or so ago there was someone else who ran into issues with cards and it led to an amazing blog article where they encountered the concept of “ghost shift”.
Apparently the “ghost shift” is when workers show up at the factory in the middle of the night when the boss is gone, rerun all the materials that failed during day shift, mark them with bullshit data, and dump it onto the market for extra cash.
dobó istván
in reply to dobó istván • • •The guy writing had contracted a factory to make his product and 80% of the products were failing. It was eventually traced to the SD cards being used for internal storage, which were bought for way below budget (someone pocketed the money) from workers dumping the rejected goods on the market.
Lots of that kind of stuff goes on.
I remember getting a whole batch of 74hc595 shift registers that uh… didn’t shift. Same story.
ティージェーグレェ
in reply to dobó istván • • •The blog entry to which you are referring is this one from 2010:
bunniestudios.com/blog/2010/mi…
Written by: @bunnie@treehouse.systems who still blogs about fascinating hardware explorations (and unsurprisingly, also designs hardware, e.g. betrusted.io/ )
Though maybe more related to hardware trust concerns, here's a BlueHat talk from 2019 on supply chain risks: youtube.com/watch?v=RqQhWitJ1A…
CC: @tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
BlueHat IL 2019 - Andrew "bunnie" Huang - Supply Chain Security: "If I were a Nation State...”
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in reply to ティージェーグレェ • • •@teajaygrey Wow. Thanks for taking the time to dig that up.
Forwarding the post for anyone else who might be curious.
ティージェーグレェ
in reply to dobó istván • • •You are more than welcome!
I had the good fortune to meet bunnie in person at REcon around two decades ago and took a hardware hacking class (back when the Chumby was still in prototype stage) from him at ToorCon as well. We last crossed paths in person in SF probably circa 2010?
I was hoping to see him (and even contemplated bringing a first edition self published "Hacking the Xbox" book for him to sign just in case, but decided I didn't want to lug the extra mass in transit on just a chance), and a bunch of other old familiar faces at REcon this year for the 20th anniversary but aside from Hugo, almost everyone was new to me!
I have been "out of the loop" for a very long time though; I think the last tangential event I attended was Chaos Communications Camp circa 2011?
So for me, a blog post from 2010 probably is still fresher in my neurons. ;)
Maybe I'll catch back to -CURRENT one of these days?
I've got more menial Maslow's hierarchy of needs layers to address first (I seem to have been stuck on the physiological needs being unsatisfactory for well over a decade as well) before loftier ideals! Still seemingly stuck in a "survival" mode. My suspicion: I will require a new (non human) incarnation to transcend my current corporeal maladies.