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Project Blitz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blitz

* coalition of >40 Christian right groups

* seeks to "protect the free exercise of traditional Judeo-Christian religious values & beliefs in the public square, & to reclaim & properly define the narrative which supports such beliefs"

* rooted in Christian nationalist ideology

Abby Abildness, jHealing Tree International: https://www.healingtreeinternational.com/our-team.html

#AbbyAbildness #theocracy #DominionTheocracy #ChristianRight #ProjectBlitz

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Abby Abildness

* Healing Tree International: https://www.healingtreeinternational.com/our-team.html

* Apoliticism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoliticism) apathy/antipathy towards all political affiliations

She’s a Prophet, Theocrat, Most Powerful Lobbyist You’ve Never Heard Of

Christian far right road map

* Abby Abildness, Pennsylvania Apostolic Prayer Network (PAPN) Leadership: https://pennsylvaniaapostolicprayernetwork.org/leadership

* ​Drs. James & Abby Abildness, Healing Tree International: https://www.healingtreeinternational.com/our-team.html

* Apoliticism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoliticism) apathy/antipathy towards all political affiliations

#AbbyAbildness #ChristianRight #theocracy FarRight #HealingTreeInternational #PAPN #apoliticism #apathy

Addendae 4

Real Agenda of Moms for Liberty

As Republicans pay the political price for overturning legal abortion, they’re banking on “parents’ rights” as a way to paint their opponents as extreme

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/moms-for-liberty-philadelphia

#Philadelphia #MomsForLiberty #M4L #ExtremistGroup #extremism #lgbt #education #neofascism #CutureWars #FarRight #GOP

Kirk and Spock’s Response to Racism in Star Trek’s “Balance of Terror”

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/07/kirk-and-spocks-response-to-racism-in-star-treks-balance-of-terror

Balance of Terror: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_Terror

* investigates the connection between wars and race, that it shows both sides of a conflict in deep space

* Critic Ed Gross praised the episode for exploring the theme of bigotry

* similar to WWII films like “The Enemy Below:” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enemy_Below

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Star+Trek+Balance+of+Terror

#StarTrek #racism #bigotry

Addendae 1

Confronting Climate Crisis Requires Disruptive Action & Radical Healing

https://truthout.org/articles/confronting-the-climate-crisis-requires-disruptive-action-and-radical-healing

* Margaret Klein Salamon, Ph.D.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Klein_Salamon (Climate Emergency Fund)

* disruptive climate activism is most effective way to intervene in climate emergency; offers highest ROI

* Extinction Rebellion (XR): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_Rebellion

* XR prevented 12.5 tons carbon entering atmosphere/dollar spent

https://ssir.org/articles/entry/protest_movements_could_be_more_effective_than_the_best_charities

#ExtinctionRebellion #ClimateActivism #XR #SocialMovements

Climate Change Made North America Heatwave 1,000x More Likely

https://www.theenergymix.com/2023/08/06/climate-change-made-north-america-heatwave-1000x-more-likely-study-finds

* h2023-07 eatwaves in western North America, southern Europe, China virtually impossible w/o climate change study found

* World Weather Attribution initiative (WWA)’s findings not yet peer reviewed

Extreme heat in North America, Europe and China in July 2023 made much more likely by climate change

https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-heat-in-north-america-europe-and-china-in-july-2023-made-much-more-likely-by-climate-change

* pdf: https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/bitstream/10044/1/105549/8/Scientific%20Report%20-%20Northern%20Hemisphere%20Heat.pdf

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ExtremeHeat #HeatStress

Montreal Adds Nine More Car-Free Streets after ‘Mind Blowing’ Success

https://www.theenergymix.com/2023/08/06/montreal-adds-nine-more-car-free-streets-after-mind-blowing-success

* 4 years ago Montreal made 2.5-km downtown stretch car-free ea. summer

* rave reviews: users; local businesses

* daily festival with thick crowds almost around the clock, shopping, wandering, packing private patios, or sinking into chairs laid out for public use

* Montreal avenue’s car-free transformation proves a hit with residents, business owners

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-montreal-avenues-car-free-transformation-proves-a-hit-with-residents

*Montreal *UrbanDesign

Addendae 1

Number theory and evolutionary genetics

https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/number-theory-and-evolutionary-genetics

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37011776

Maximum mutational robustness in genotype–phenotype maps follows a self-similar blancmange-like curve

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2023.0169

Addendae 6

Claims of Room Temperature and Ambient Pressure Superconductor

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/claims-of-room-temperature-and-ambient-pressure-superconductor.1106083/page-13

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37031724

#LK99 #superconductivity

🎵 Morning ☮-in cont'd [2023-08-07]

The Last Waltz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Waltz

* 1976-11-25 concert by Canadian-American rock group

* special guests Ronnie Hawkins, Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield, Bobby Charles, Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, Neil Young

* Martin Scorsese made it into a 1978 documentary of same title

#TheBand #LastWaltz #MartinScorsese #movie

🎵 Morning ☮-in

[audio] The Weight - The Band (lyrics)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFqb1I-hiHE

[live] The Band - The Weight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-w9OclUnns

[live] The Last Waltz (1978) - The Weight Scene (4/7)

* joined by the Staple Singers

Namaste 🙏 🕊

#MorningPeaceIn #TheBand #ClassicRock

100,000's attend Vancouver Pride Festival

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/hundreds-of-thousands-attend-vancouver-s-pride-festival-1.6509382

* partner, I did not attend (COVID-19 risk) but passed nearby

* can be a harsh critic of police but I believe VPD very well-trained/equipped 👍️ 🚔️ 🙏

* Police/city vehicles (dump trucks) strategically placed

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to block all arteries to parade route (ramming) but allow emergency access

* police presence off-site but nearby; assault rifles seen; likely snipers

#Pride #Vancouver #BritishColumbia #Canada #lgbt #PrideParade #VPD

Canada has not answered 2020 invite to join global body creating vaccines for poor people

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-government-global-vaccine-group-1.6929393

* federal gov. spent 3 yrs deliberating invitation for Canada to join global body that designs vaccinations to protect world's poorest people f. preventable diseases

* [doing less w. more] Economy of Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Canada

* world's 8th-largest economy 2022; nominal GDP of $2.221 trillion USD

* International Vaccine Institute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Vaccine_Institute

#Canada #vaccines #IVI

Addendae 1

German far-right says EU a 'failed project'

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/german-far-right-says-the-eu-is-a-failed-project-as-it-prepares-for-european-parliament-elections-1.6508859

* far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany) declared European Union a "failed project"

* states EU has "completely failed" in all important areas, incl. migration & climate policy

* rejects Euro as a currency

* calls for EU to be re-founded as "federation of European nations"

https://persagen.com/index.html >> search: AfD

#Europe #EU #FarRight #neofascism #AfD #xenophobia #ClimateChange #extremism

Addendae 8

Landlords’ Anti-Rent-Control Argument Is B.S.

https://socialistproject.ca/2023/08/landlords-anti-rent-control-argument-is-pure-bs

* landlords, their defenders can’t defend the indefensible: rents soaring 92% in last decade

* squeezes working class tenants while corporate landlords like Essex ($408-million 2022 profits), Equity ($807-million), Avalon Bay ($1.1-billion) enrich billionaire class

#poverty #AffordableHousing #RentControl #capitalism #SocialistProject #PrivateEquity #DefundBillionaires #WealthInequality #PovertyIndustrialComplex

Addendae 2

Poll a Wake-Up Call for DeSantis Campaign

Appears Republican voters don’t care about battling woke

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/08/this-poll-should-be-a-wake-up-call-for-the-desantis-campaign

* [NYT poll] Trump Crushing DeSantis & GOP Rivals: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110809565325488120

* poll indicates DeSantis’ war-on-wokeness campaign is a flop

* DeSantis made culture wars central tenet of presidential bid: “Florida is where woke goes to die”

* losing fight w. Disney; incessant attacks on public education

#Desantis #WarOnWoke #neofascism #CultureWars #transphobia

Addendae 2

Where is outrage about “grooming” by religious institutions?

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/letters/2023/08/06/letter-where-is-outrage-about

* lg-scale sexual abuse of minors by religious figures: Catholic Church clergy members in Portugal

* abuse of minors by people in religious positions of power: Catholic priests; Southern Baptist pastors; ...

* Why hasn’t been an outpouring of condemnation, boycotts & laws directed at these apparent “grooming” institutions?

#ConspiracyTheories #CultureWars #ReligiousRight #ChristianRight #religion

Novel approach to control energy wave

Synthetic metamaterial directs mechanical waves along specific path

https://showme.missouri.edu/2023/scientists-create-novel-approach-to-control-energy-waves-in-4d

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36996075

* builds on: https://engineering.missouri.edu/2021/mizzou-engineering-team-discovers-method-to-control-sound-waves-in-the-fourth-dimension

Creating synthetic spaces for higher-order topological sound transport

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25305-z

Waveguide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waveguide

Structure that guides waves e.g. sound, light, radio waves, other EM waves w. min. loss of E by restricting E transmission to 1 direction

#acoustics #metamaterials #waveguide