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According to Wikipedia, The Great Reset Initiative is an economic recovery plan drawn up by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The project was launched
Continue readingThe Great Reset: Global Government & Digital Currency by 2030?
Wars and crises tend to reveal the true, unrivaled power of art, which is often the last redoubt of freedom in the face of the suffering that such politicians cause. … Continue readingWhen Art Is All That Remains
I sangto atoms emptied in a mother’s feetreplicating the prosody of Adhān itselfthe dust trembling like a lost childburgeoning parable-like when her feetshot up vertically & as her facedescended to
Habib Khan, Quetta: The news that a clock manufactured by John Jacob –more than 150 years ago, is still running and keeping accurate time was truly stunning to me. In
I am taken with the hot animalof my skin, grateful to swing my limbs and have them move as I intend, thoughmy knee, though my shoulder, though somethingis torn or
Continue readingSunday Poem: The Moon Rose Over the Bay. I Had a Lot of Feelings.
by Adele A. Wilby at 3 Quarks Daily: Many decades ago, I was fortunate to have had the opportunity of living in India for several years. I was enthralled by
Continue readingThe New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the 21st Century
by Andrew Ryvkin at Air Mail: Pavel Durov, the Russian enfant terrible who created Telegram, the notorious messaging app, is not easily pegged. French authorities arrested him last week, claiming
A big bush called to a tree man: Hey tree,what are you doing up there? Are you justdoing a dance move? Are you just doing theABCs, like the letters? I don’t
by Syed Muzammil on YouTube: The huge begging network in Pakistan –claimed to be worth about $42 billion annually, prospers despite anti-begging laws amid absence of ‘rule of law’. Some
by Shelly Fan at Singularity Hub: Alzheimer’s disease slowly takes over the mind. Long before symptoms occur, brain cells are gradually losing their function. Eventually they wither away, eroding brain
Continue readingSome Brains Develop Alzheimer’s—Others Don’t. A New Cell Map Could Explain Why.
Andrew Sullivan at The Weekly Dish: Carville needs no introduction, but he’s a legendary consultant, a former CNN contributor, and the author of a dozen books. He currently co-hosts the Politics
by Abigail Tulenko in Aeon Magazine: The Hungarian folktale Pretty Maid Ibronka terrified and tantalised me as a child. In the story, the young Ibronka must tie herself to the
Continue readingHow Folktales Unsettle Us Into Thinking Anew