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I'm an old baby boomer who survived Uni in the Joh era and still have plenty of my old idealisms although they're possibly tempered with a bit more life-acquired wisdom. This photo is of General Giap, the great North Vietnamese military strategist. He lived long enough to see the ascendance of a corrupt socialist govt in the country he had fought so valiantly and idealistically for.
“I did not sacrifice 21 years of my life to stand idly by, while religious fanatics try to impose fascism on my country”
My hero this week is former Navy Commander John Wessley Rexrode, who goes to the podium at a local schoolboard meeting to speak the truth about the new book ban laws. 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
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Essential for understanding Patricia Highsmith’s transgressive life and prophetic work, this volume is also “one of the most observant and ecstatic accounts . . . about being young and alive in New York City” (Dwight Garner,—<em>New York Times</em>)., Patricia Highsmith's Diaries and Notebooks, The New York Years, 1941-1950, Anna von Planta, Joan Schenkar, Patricia Highsmith, 9781324092940
If you are the kind who says, “You know, I'd mask on flights if WHO or the CDC said I should,” I guess you can now start masking on flights.
WHO urges travellers to wear masks as new #COVID19 variant spreads. #wearamask
Countries should consider recommending that passengers wear masks on long-haul flights, given the rapid spread of the latest Omicron subvariant of COVID-19 in the United States, World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Tuesday.
A leading Queensland university has begun trialling a 3-in-1 mega vaccine that would protect against COVID-19, Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus.
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