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November 5, 2024 Democracy means that the people of a country decide their own future by their votes. Here in the United States of America we are about to see that concept move us in an alarming direction. There was more at stake in this election than the short term benefits of a low cost of living and status. The great unmaking of what Franklin Delano Roosevelt called The New Deal and Lyndon Baines Johnson called The Great Society — along with separation of Church and State, our equal justice under the law judicial system, our healthcare system, our educational system, our rights of assembly, our free press, civil rights, environmental safeguards, social equality and more will all be unmade — due to the choices we collectively made on November 5, 2024. Our movement as a country to a more just and equitable future for ourselves and the world have been unquestionably altered. For almost one hundred years we have been on this journey from The New Deal to November 5, 2024 — taking us all ...

The question, "What are we here to do?" can be answered by what we are not here to do as much as what we are here to do. To start with we are not here to make money, exploit our planetary resources for profit or control our environment or each other.  We are not here to worship anything. Or look for any kind of salvation from anything. Those are myths. What are we here to do is to establish harmony amongst our selves and our environment. To share the planet with nature as equal partners and to seed kindness, understanding and compassion across our planet. To give rather than take. Build rather than destroy.  We are here to seek knowledge that will help create a more loving world and then apply that knowledge, doing so by peaceful inclusive means. Doing no harm to our planet or ourselves.

“WOKE a consciousness of the world around you…” …recognizing it in all its iterations and embracing it as an agent of progressive change.

First -- yes, get vaccinated -- but as the recent January/February 2021article in the the AARP Bulletin plainly states, "...the vaccine itself doesn't prevent you from getting the virus; it simply prepares your body to mount a vigorous defense so that if you do become infected, the resulting illness is far less likely to be life-threatening." The Covid-19 vaccines are not a cure. They do not protect you from getting or spreading the virus. Even when you get the vaccination you still may be infectious, "...because up to 10 percent of vaccinated individuals will not be protected from getting Covid-19 and because reinfection, while uncommon, can still occur". You can still spread the virus and infect people who are not vaccinated and possibly some who are -- and even get reinfected yourself. No. There is no going back to "normal". Even after vaccination we all must still wear a mask, social distance and stay apart from others whenever possible. Until 80 p...

It is by far the worst hurricane season on record. During 2019 we had 18 named storms including 6 hurricanes. This year the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is tracking to be the most active hurricane season on record and it’s not over yet. To date it looks like 30 namesake storms including 14 hurricanes. It is well recognized that our fossil fuel burning and human encroachment is wreaking havoc with our ecosystems across the planet. What we need to face also now is that ecosystem disruptions are also wreaking havoc on our health. As we struggle with the Covid19 today we must also face the facts that we are enabling more zoonotic spillover of viruses to jump from animals to humans as we impact natural habitats without regard for the consequences. As more hurricanes are the result of our activities as humans heating up the oceans. More viruses will emerge as a result of our encroachment on more and more natural habitats and the destruction ecosystems that once created a buffer zone that p...

On this 50th anniversary of Earth Day our mastery over the earth and its species has earned us something quite different than we were expecting. How did this happen? A bat in China bites a wildlife animal? Sells at a market. Infects someone. Pandemic. “In any case, researchers agree that the coronavirus jumped from an animal to a human, a phenomenon known as "zoonotic spillover." As we struggle to meet this pandemic we must not ignore this “spillover” factor and what caused it. We defend human rights but what of the rights of Nature, wild animals, natural habitats and our surrounding environment? In a Lancet Journal article experts cited, “...scientific evidence that support the theory that "overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originated in wildlife, as have so many other emerging pathogens”. It is not surprising then that a UC Davis study of animal species that host viruses known to infect humans found, “The exploitation of wildlife increases the risk of ani...