A truly amazing/inspiring site of how activism can be applied in a civilized yet effective manner even in the workplace to shame politicians when they fail miserably in performing their duties and/or when they make controversial statements. Activism as I mentioned in a previous post should be an integral part […]
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A very interesting interview that I thought to share with Jens Spahn, Germany’s health minister explaining how Germany so far has managed to keep mortality rate from the Coronoavirus so low – hopefully this will continue to get even lower. The take away I believe are 3 strongly linked elements; […]
Read More As I mentioned in many previous posts a global pandemic – particularly one likely to stay with us for some time – needs a global response both in terms of R&D to develop immunization/medication as well as protections. Many countries now are considering removing restrictions and incrementally opening up their […]
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A beautiful performance by Andrea Bocelli as usual and well timed/intended. The only take is that I wish the clip would have shown other parts of the world equally affected by this pandemic. If anything this pandemic should be a wake up call for us to realize/appreciate the global context […]
Read More Here it is pure simple and with no further comments; We’re being blindsided unintentionally (and intentionally in many cases) about the real threats that we face by threats power brokers fabricate for political and/or ideological reasons. The net effect is that we are more vulnerable than ever when our efforts/resources […]
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It is quite chilling listening to Bill Gates in TED Talk 2015 warning about the likelihood of a pandemic and how ill prepared we are to face it. Yet no stone was turned. The reason for lack of action in my opinion is pretty simple and I hope people begin […]
Read More A couple of very interesting interviews with American business magnate and philanthropist Bill Gates – one a few years ago warning of a pandemic and one a day ago talking about essentially his prediction materializing; would recommend watching both. The main take away for me are 2 points; What we […]
Read More Here is what we’re up against; Germany tries to stop U.S. from luring away firm seeking coronavirus vaccine: As I mentioned in my previous post below the effort to counter this pandemic needs to be globally coordinated for it to be effective. So when I read news like this I […]
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A damming report that delivers a startling facts about the loss of Earth’s natural life and the level of environmental degradation we all face in this and age. We have to understand that this is not a political left vs. right issue – it never was and never will be […]
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I came across this very interesting Youtube clip about how communication/technology has transformed our lives in ways that are far from positive. It’s NOT that this is because technology is bad necessarily but rather how we apply – or rather should apply it – in a controlled/common sense manner when […]
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