Toward a World that Works for Everyone
At 18, He Adopted a Prostitute’s Kids. Today, He Has Rescued 1000+ Girls from Sex Traffickers. by Shreya Pareek, Better India, May 20, 2016 httpss://www.thebetterindia.com/33241/ajeet-singh-guria-sex-trafficking-varanasi/ Almost 1,400 traffickers have had cases filed against them and many are in jail, thanks to Ajeet Singh who has been waging a war to free minor girls from their […]
Jon Stewart lashes out at hearing on 9/11 responders bill: “You should be ashamed of yourselves” By Emily Tillett, Grace Segers, CBS. com, June 11, 2019 httpss://www.cbsnews.com/news/victim-compensation-fund-jon-stewart-lashes-out-at-house-hearing-on-911-responders-bill-you-should-be-ashamed-of/ Comedian and former host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” Jon Stewart took a vastly different tone than his usual satirical schtick when he spoke on Capitol Hill […]
From last summer…. Thanks to Suzi. CANADA NOW HAS THE FASTEST GROWING HOMELESS RATE WORLDWIDE 1 MILLION+ Shawna Johnsten, Canund.com, Aug. 20, 2018 httpss://tinyurl.com/y6a4xvmx Canada Now Has The Fastest Growing Homeless Rate Worldwide. with Canada now having over 1 million homeless across Canada. … This is one of the biggest epidemics ever. With 1/3 children […]
‘It’s a miracle’: Helsinki’s radical solution to homelessness Jon Henley in Helsinki, The Guardian, June 3, 2019 httpss://tinyurl.com/y2zbwt3a Finland is the only EU country where homelessness is falling. Its secret? Giving people homes as soon as they need them – unconditionally. Tatu Ainesmaa turns 32 this summer, and for the first time in more than […]
Lenticular clouds, probably masking spaceships, over Mt. Hood, Oregon, recently. Thanks to Sitara. Mark Parisi’s “Off the Mark” explanation of why most of us never see a UFO: Just kidding!!!! Thanks to Len.
Can plants make music? If they could, what would it sound like? Researchers have attached signal receivers to plants, to produce this:
I received this from Jesus during Easter of 2013. When I read it again today it was as fresh to me as a new message. I wanted to share it with you again because it touched my heart like it did the first time. I am your brother Jesus. Today is the day when many […]
“As an author, speaker, and co-founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, she posits that humanity now, as never before, is on the threshold of a quantum leap. If we are able to integrate newly emergent scientific, social, and spiritual capacities, we could transform ourselves to move beyond our current global crises to […]
Chicago’s Lightfoot leads way in what could be ‘year of the lesbian mayor’ In addition to Lightfoot’s win, out lesbian Satya Rhodes-Conway was elected mayor of Madison, and lesbian candidates head to runoffs in Tampa and Kansas City. Tim Fitzsimons, NBC News, April 3, 2019 httpss://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/chicago-s-lightfoot-leads-way-what-could-be-year-lesbian-n990451 Sweeping all 50 wards of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot on […]
After male classmates rated their appearances, these teen girls sparked a movement to change the ‘boys will be boys’ culture Catherine Thorbeck, ABC News, March 28, 2019 httpss://tinyurl.com/yxdwht2k “This boys will be boys culture isn’t a culture that needs to exist anymore.” When a group of high school girls found out their male classmates were […]
How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger Michaeleen Doucleff and Jane Greenhalgh, NPR, March 13, 2019 httpss://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/13/685533353/a-playful-way-to-teach-kids-to-control-their-anger Back in the 1960s, a Harvard graduate student made a landmark discovery about the nature of human anger. At age 34, Jean Briggs traveled above the Arctic Circle and lived out on the tundra for 17 […]
3 cities in the U.S. have ended chronic homelessness: Here’s how they did it Nine more have ended veteran homelessness. It’s part of a national program called Built for Zero that uses a data-based approach to help officials figure out exactly who needs what services. Now it’s launching in 50 more cities. Adele Peters, Fast […]
Raising Children Without the Concept of Sin My religious fundamentalist childhood was built around the fear of sin. My daughters don’t even know the word. Julia Scheeres, New York Times, Jan. 25, 2019 https://tinyurl.com/y4dvbqk8 We were standing in line for meat pies at the Great Dickens Christmas Fair. The indoor arena south of San Francisco […]
Jamie Collins, Whatcom County’s first Crisis Intervention Deputy, is finding creative ways to connect, rather than jail, those with behavioral health issues. Denver Pratt, The Bellingham Herald, February 24, 2019 httpss://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article226656699.html Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office Crisis Intervention Deputy Jamie Collins spends much of his day responding to behavioral health-related calls. The call comes in. Sometimes […]
Sitara: Here’s a wonderful example of girl power, female empowerment, where women are making their voices heard in matters important to the planet and humanity. All over the world, women are rising to responsibility and accountability and demanding that the world follows their example. A Huge Climate Change Movement Led by Teenage Girls is Sweeping […]
