7/25/2023 – Russia is trying to ‘fund its war machine at the expense of Africa’, Ukraine’s FM says
7/25/2023 – Ruzzians are not only destroying ports of Odesa, but they are also sentencing people worldwide to hunger and starvation…
From Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (516th day): Grown under air raids, harvested under shelling on the fields that often explode with landmines, grain of 2023 is systematically being burned by ruzzian missile and drone attacks on Odesa.
Odesa has been under massive missile strikes for 6 days and nights now. Ruzzian terrorists are systematically destroying our infrastructure for storing and transporting agricultural products. According to United Nations, 400,000,000 people worldwide depend on Ukrainian grain, most of which has been transported out of Odesa ports. Ruzzians are not only destroying ports of Odesa, but they are also sentencing people worldwide to hunger and starvation.
7/25/2023 – The “Stolen Generation”
From Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 516):
Come and hear, all you who fear God,
and I will tell what he has done for my soul.
I cried to him with my mouth,
and high praise was on my tongue.
Psalm 66:16-17
Today, I came across an article in “The Kyiv Independent” (https://cutt.ly/jwafs7FN), and it was a very somber read based on their documentary “Uprooted: An investigation into Russia’s abduction of Ukrainian children” (https://youtu.be/cq2gEMhuDps).
Deporting children from the occupied territories against their will constitutes genocide according to one of the five definitions of the United Nations Genocide Convention. However, when you look deeper into the specific stories, you see how horrible and inhumane it really is.
The abducted children are held incommunicado, brainwashed with pro-Russian propaganda, and adopted by Russian families despite having living relatives in Ukraine. The Ukrainian authorities have…
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7/25/2023 – Street Interviews: would life be better if the war hadn’t started?
7/24/2023 – How Does the War in Ukraine End?|A discussion with Fiona Hill, Samuel Charap & Andriy Zagorodnyuk
The Contemporary Arts of Attica – E. C. Feiss
Cover of the Attica Book, illustration by Antonio Frasconi.
“In 1972, the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC), in partnership with the organization Artists and Writers Protest Against the War in Vietnam, published the culmination of their swift response to the September 1971 rebellion at Attica State Prison—the Attica Book. The publication featured black-and-white reproductions of works commissioned from forty-eight artists affiliated with these organizations and their allies. This robust set of ruminations on the event ranged from images of suffering and isolation (Vivian Browne, Mary Frank, and Benny Andrews) to sparse abstract works on paper (Irving Petlin and Jack Sonenberg) and clustered prints indicating bars, chains, and crowds (Melvin Edwards and Jacob Lawrence). One collage work by Rudolf Baranik makes use of the type of blurred aerial footage that suffused the media’s coverage of the rebellion. A collection of texts by incarcerated writers, mostly poems, was assembled in…
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7/24/2023 – Odesa: “This Russian cynicism is beyond me…”
From Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 515):
O you who hear prayer,
to you shall all flesh come.
When iniquities prevail against me,
you atone for our transgressions.
Psalm 65:2-3
Last night’s initial reports were right. Russia did intentionally hit the historical center and residential quarters of Odesa. Our air-defense forces shot down 9 of 19 missiles.
They destroyed or damaged 44 buildings, 25 of which are architectural landmarks of the 19th-20th century. They killed one and injured 21 people, including four children.
Their main deliberate target was the UNESCO-protected Transfiguration Cathedral, one of the biggest and oldest in Odesa. Even before the actual attack, some sources reported that “Ukraine attacked its own temple with air-defense rockets.” Once again, it was posted before the actual missile strike, and it was written in such a…
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TCS: Wake Up, You’ll Need Your Wits About You
Good Morning!
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“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing
its best, night and day, to make you everybody else —
means to fight the hardest battle which any human
being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
─ Laura Riding,
from “Four Unposted Letters to Catherine” (1930)
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Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and
exciting – over and over announcing
your place in the family of things.”
─ Mary Oliver
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literatures work- find an energy saving mode
Energy saving mode. Not the same as being asleep. Still ticking along but not doing a great deal. Ready to wake up if called upon.
Computers have energy saving mode. So do new cars. So why not us?
How handy it would be to have energy saving mode when you’re doing one of those academic tasks which can easily spiral out of control. The tasks you still need to be awake for but where it’d be helpful to conserve your focus and effort until it’s needed. Like reviewing literatures.
One of the tasks that can easily take huge amounts of energy for not much return is reading and reviewing literatures. Now don’t get me wrong. I’m a big fan of reading. Reading and writing are pretty well inseparable in my view. And I do like having a bit of an aimless browse around the journals just to see what I…
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dean ramser 