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“Eulogy” for James Bond: World Peace Is at Peril
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Oct 2021

1 Oct 2021 – The Glorious End

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Celebrating the 2021 National Indigenous Peoples Month
Genevieve Balance Kupang | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Oct 2021

10 Oct 2021 – Capitalizing on inclusion, cultural heritage, shared commonalities, and recognition of contribution to the Kiwi community, the New Zealand tangata whenua (locals) welcomed indigenous peoples from the Philippines and other migrants who work in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.

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Florida’s Republican Governor Awards Medal of Freedom to Che Guevara’s Assassin
Michael Stephen Smith | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Oct 2021

6 Oct 2021 – After Rodriguez ordered Che be shot, his hands were chopped off and shipped to Langley, but not before he stole the Rolex from Che’s corpse that was meant for the son of one of his compatriots in Bolivia.

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The Anonymous Executioners of the Corporate State
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Oct 2021

6 Oct 2021 – Judge Loretta Preska, an advisor to the conservative Federalist Society, to which Chevron is a major donor, sentenced human rights attorney and Chevron nemesis Steven Donziger to six months in prison Friday [1 Oct]. Imprisoning the David to Chevron’s Goliath is the latest outrage by a US judiciary now engineered to always favor the interests of capital.

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COVID World Data -Total: 238,6M -Dead: 4,8M -Survival Rate: 98%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Oct 2021

On 11 Oct 2021 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 238,652,927
Deaths: 4,867,295
Active: 24,459,776
Recovered: 215,856,036
Cases Closed: 220,723,331
Total Vaccinated: 3,664,224,352
Percentage Dead: 2% (approximately)

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(Português) Nove Vezes em que Woody Harrelson Promoveu o Veganismo ou os Direitos Animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Oct 2021

21 set 2021 – Sem se alimentar de animais há mais de 30 anos, o ator vegano Woody Harrelson tem utilizado há muito tempo a sua influência para motivar mais pessoas a considerarem o veganismo, os direitos animais e a preservação do meio ambiente.

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Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Music Video of the Week)
Israel "IZ" KamakawiwoʻOle – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Oct 2021

The Hawaii state flag flew at half-staff on July 10, 1997, the day of his funeral attended by some ten thousand people. Thousands of fans gathered as his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean at Mākua Beach in Hawai’i two days later. The funeral and the scattering of ashes were featured in this music video released posthumously.

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What Went Right This Week: Historic Malaria Vaccine for Africa Gets Go-Ahead, plus more Positive News
Sarah LaBrecque | Positive News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Oct 2021

7 Oct 2021 – The WHO gave the nod for a malaria vaccine to be rolled out to much of Africa, an indigenous group officially named a new species for the first time, and a global citizens’ assembly was announced for Cop26, plus.

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A New Water Source That Could Make Drought a Thing of the Past
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

1 Oct 2021 – Oceans of water are beneath our feet, and new technologies are extracting it economically without ecological damage.

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Integrating Ouroboros and Yi Jing as Fundamental Symbols in 3D
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

Dynamics of Change Indicated in Virtual Reality by a Torus of 64 Hexagrams – Curiously the imaginative anticipation of the organization of a possible future by different cultures involves a change of metaphor from “global” to “toroidal.”

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A Buddhist Perspective on Gandhi and Nonviolence
Dr. A.T Ariyaratne | Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

Facebook Live, Tue 5 Oct 2021, 11:30 am (GMT)
In Celebration of Mahatma Gandhi’s 2 Oct Birth Anniversary

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The True Cost of the Military-Industrial Complex
Our Changing Climate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

The environmental and social costs of militarism with a focus on the US military industrial complex as the biggest military in the world. How the military is a massive polluter in terms of both emissions and chemical waste. The video connects environmental destruction with military imperialism and concludes that demilitarization is the only truly effective answer to the carbon footprint of the military.

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Lending Legitimacy to a Murderous Military: What Is in the “Stateless” Label for Rohingyas?
Natalie Brinham and Ali Johar | University of Melbourne - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

Oct 2021 – Critiquing the widely accepted understanding of “statelessness” as a rights claim, the authors call our attention to the ways in which labelling the Rohingya ethnic community as stateless undermines belonging and legitimises the power of the Myanmar military to exclude.

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Jesus, Judas and Che Guevara
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

Che Guevara, of the Bolivia diaries and the brilliant movie based on them, was assassinated by the CIA on 9 Oct 1967. In an interview in the early 60s he conveyed to this author his disappointment that his respected Fidel privileged Soviet support against a US attack, and the Soviets wanted raw sugar in return for their industrial goods.

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Problems with Capitalism
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

We need a new economic system. Capitalism is driving us towards disaster.

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The Conceit of U.S. Indispensability
Sam Klug | Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

In recent years debates about U.S. foreign policy have been haunted by the history of the 1940s. Donald Trump resurrected the “America First” slogan, associated with the far right during World War II. As both politicians and historians mine for alternate visions of international order, we must guard against the presumption that the United States remains the benevolent center of global politics.

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USA’s Fate: Oligarchy or Autocracy
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

27 Sep 2021 – The competing systems of power are divided between alternatives which widen the social and political divide — and increase potential for violent conflict.

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“Avoid the tyranny of the law. Obedience keeps the rules, but love knows when to break them.”
Anthony de Mello – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

Anthony de Mello, also known as Tony de Mello, [4 Sep 1931 – 2 Jun 1987] was an Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist. A spiritual teacher, writer, and public speaker, de Mello wrote several books on spirituality and hosted numerous spiritual retreats and conferences.

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(Italiano) La devastante tecno-privatizzazione del mondo
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

1 Ottobre 2021 – In prossimità dell’inizio della terza edizione del Festival della Nonviolenza e della Resistenza Civile proponiamo un recente articolo sulle imprese spaziali che potrebbero anche coinvolgere Torino, come testo di riflessione e di sintesi su temi che saranno affrontati da diverse angolature nelle giornate del Festival.

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Pfizer, Moderna Eye Windfall Profits as COVID Booster Rollout Begins
Megan Redshaw | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

27 Sep 2021 – One analyst predicted COVID boosters alone will bring in about $26 billion in global sales next year for Pfizer — that splits profits with BioNTech — and around $14 billion for Moderna.

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Europe after Angela Merkel: Is the Atlantic Era Over?
James W. Carden | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

29 Sep 2021 – Any answer must begin with France’s role in the EU and include the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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The Secret Philosophy of Bonsai Trees
Tim Brinkhof | Big Think - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

To be successful at bonsai cultivation, you must acquire the perseverance and unconditional kindness normally reserved for devout monks.

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Killing Off Humanity: How the Global Elite Is Using Eugenics and Transhumanism to Shape Our Future
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

30 Sep 2021 – The world as we knew it has ended. If we are to recover the vaguest semblance of what we once had and, hopefully, an even better version of it, we have a monumental struggle ahead of us. So our choice is simple. Resist, strategically, as outlined above or watch Earth being depopulated to a planet of cyborg slaves.

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(Italiano) Intervista con Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

30 Settembre 2021 – In prossimità dell’inizio della terza edizione del Festival della Nonviolenza e della Resistenza Civile, presentiamo un’intervista a Vandana Shiva per una riflessione e una sintesi sui temi che saranno affrontati da diverse angolature nelle giornate del Festival.

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Superbug: “The Annihilator”
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

The Final Nemesis of Humanoids

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COVID World Data -Total: 235,7M -Dead: 4,8M-Survival Rate: 98%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

On 4 Oct 2021 (7am GMT):
Total Cases: 235,730,535
Deaths: 4,816,145
Active: 24,790,506
Recovered: 212,609,370
Cases Closed: 217,425,515
Total Vaccinated: 3,589,157,141
Percentage Dead: 2% (approximately)

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Multiple Articles Questioning Aspects of COVID19 or Vaccines
The Defender and Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

* To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
* The Flip Side of the Official Discourse/Narrative

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China’s ‘Hostage Diplomacy’ Wins: Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou Flies Home a National Heroine after Her Release from Detention in Canada
Tom Fowdy | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

27 Sep 2021 – Big crowds greeted Huawei senior executive Meng Wanzhou’s arrival back in China, which believes its show of strength against the USA forced Washington to back down in this three-year standoff.

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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated Daily

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Ode to a Dove
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

Everyday, a gentle dove comes  to visit.
he perches his head and stares at me.
Trying to give me a message.

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Indigenous People of Brazil Fight for Their Future
Nick Estes | Independent Media Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

17 Sep 2021 – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has given new license to the killing of Indigenous people in Brazil. Before he came to power in 2019, it wasn’t clear what he wanted to build, but he knew exactly who and what he wanted to destroy: the Indigenous people and the Amazon rainforest respectively.

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Adiya Sutta – Benefits to Be Obtained from Wealth
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

Then Anathapindika the householder went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there the Blessed One said to him: “There are these five benefits that can be obtained from wealth. Which five?

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Imagine (Music Video of the Week)
John Lennon – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

Please click on Watch on YouTube and ENJOY!

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The NYT’s Partisan Tale about COVID and the Unvaccinated Is Rife with Sloppy Data Analysis
Jeremy Beckham | Outside Voices - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

1 Oct 2021 – The Times’ piece on “Red Covid” obscures the reality of the pandemic and manipulates data in favor of a self-congratulatory liberalism.

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War on Terror Film Festival
Coalition for Civil Freedoms – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

The War on Terror Film Festival will run on five weekends (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) beginning Friday, October 1 and ending Sunday, October 31. Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras, Mohamedou Slahi, Michael Moore and many others.

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US Lawyer Who Sued Chevron Sentenced to 6 Months in Contempt Case
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

1 Oct 2021 – Disbarred American lawyer Steven Donziger, who spent more than two decades battling Chevron Corp over pollution in the Ecuadorian rainforest, has been sentenced to six months in prison on contempt charges.

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Lives in the 19th Century
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

30 Sep 2021 – Human History as Cultural History – I announce the publication of a book that presents many aspects of science and culture during the 19th century. The book may be freely downloaded and circulated.

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Mansoor Adayfi: Detainee #441, Lost and Found at Guantánamo
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

30 Sep 2021 – Yemeni-born Mansoor Adayfi, or “Detainee #441,” was held for 14 years, until 2016. He is now living in exile in Serbia, where the U.S. forced him to relocate despite having no connection to the country. Adayfi’s memoir has just been published. “I was sold to the CIA and was taken to the black site, where I was tortured for over two months.”

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Václav Havel (5 Oct 1936 – 18 Dec 2011)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

Václav Havel, Czech playwright, poet, and political dissident, who, after the fall of communism, was president of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and of the Czech Republic (1993–2003). Havel was the son of a wealthy restaurateur whose property was confiscated by the communist government of Czechoslovakia in 1948.

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U.S. Litany of Lethal Lies
Andrew Mitrovica | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

27 Sep 2021 – The latest US drone strike that obliterated a family in Afghanistan was a heinous crime. A “Hellfire” missile fired from a “Reaper” drone obliterated the Corolla and the 10 dead included Ahmadi and three of his children, Zamir, 20, Faisal, 16, and Farzad, 13, as well as his cousin, Ahmad 30, and three of Ahmadi’s nephews, Arwin, seven, Benyamin, six, and Hayat, two and two three-year-old girls, Malika and Somaya.

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The Myth of Green Capitalism
Katharina Pistor | Project Syndicate - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

It is perfectly understandable that major corporations and private financial institutions would rally behind new disclosure standards and other market-based measures to address climate change. It is an approach that allows the owners of capital yet another way to avoid a real reckoning. If business and finance leaders were serious, they would recognize the need to change course drastically to ensure that this planet remains hospitable for all of humanity now and in the future.

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CIA Officials under Trump Discussed Assassinating Julian Assange – Report
Julian Borger | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

27 Sep 2021 – Mike Pompeo and officials requested ‘options’ for killing Assange following WikiLeaks’ publication of CIA hacking tools, report says.

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Good Riddance… Afghanistan Wins
Paper Cartoon – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

One more down.

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Nobel Literature 2005 Acceptance Speech by Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public; an act intended to consolidate American military and economic control of the Middle East masquerading – as a last resort – all other justifications having failed to justify themselves – as liberation. A formidable assertion of military force responsible for the death and mutilation of thousands and thousands of innocent people.

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The Doomsday Clock
Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

3 Oct 2021 – Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, and the Prospects for Survival – Prospects for decent long-term survival are not high unless there is a significant change of course. A large share of the responsibility is in our hands — the opportunities as well.

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The UN after 75: A Mixed Record of Disappointment and Fulfillment
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

UN: Does It Punch above Its Weight? Can pressures toward unity and global public good remake a UN oriented and empowered to serve the human interest rather than national ones or geopolitics? Its contribution is in symbolic politics, as ‘a soft power superpower,’ its Secretary General being almost alone as a respected voice of reason and empathy or a gentle critic of geopolitical excess.

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(Português) 88 Bilhões de Animais São Abatidos para Consumo por Ano
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

25 set 2021 – Isso Equivale a mais de 11 Vezes a População Humana Global

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The Cycle of Wingnuttery
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

And people look up to them. The joke is on whom, exactly?

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Harold Pinter (10 Oct 1930 – 24 Dec 2008)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

Born in London, Harold Pinter is a renowned playwright and screenwriter. His plays are particularly famous for their use of understatement to convey characters’ thoughts and feelings. In 2005, Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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John Lennon (9 Oct 1940 – 8 Dec 1980)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

John Lennon was born in Liverpool, England. John met Paul McCartney in 1957 and invited him to join his music group. They eventually formed the most successful songwriting partnership in musical history. Lennon left the Beatles in 1969. On December 8, 1980, he was killed by a crazed fan named Mark David Chapman.

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Pandora Papers: Biggest Ever Leak of Offshore Data Exposes Financial Secrets of Rich and Powerful
Guardian investigations team - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

3 Oct 2021 – The secret deals and hidden assets of some of the world’s richest and most powerful people have been revealed in the biggest trove of leaked offshore data in history: More than 100 billionaires, 30 world leaders and 300 public officials.

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Free Julian Assange!
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

CIA Plotted to Kidnap and Assassinate Assange! What the US and UK are doing to Julian Assange for exposing the crimes of empire is criminal. A free society stands on freedom of the press, speech, and dissent. We all need to speak out for his freedom. If not, we’re next!

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Child’s Gaze
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

The child is gazing at us
Looking for help from us

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Ethiopian Mystery: The Case of the 428 Disappearing Food Aid Trucks
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

29 Sep 2021 – For nearly a year, warmonger and USAID administrator Samantha Power has been shrieking about famine in Ethiopia’s Tigray, and demanding the humanitarian corridor that 428 massive food aid trucks have now mysteriously disappeared into.

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The Poison Cartel Is Poisoning the World, Driving Species to Extinction, and Contributing to Hunger
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

1 Aug 2021 Pachamama Day – The web of life is a food web woven by Pachamama through her self-organization, creativity, generative power and regeneration. Food is the flow that embodies our relationship to the earth, materially, biologically, nutritionally, ecologically. Food is the currency of life which flows from biodiversity in living soil, through plants and insects, to sustain the biodiversity in our gut microbiome.

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Second October — A day of Peace, Harmony
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

Most people would know that this was the day Gandhi was born in 1869. This day, 2 October, is now internationally recognised as the International day of Nonviolence and for promoting Peace, Justice and Harmony. For a person like me, I feel proud that I was born in the country of Gandhiji.

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Reacting to Crime by Waging War(s) – 9/11+9/12: Compounding Tragedy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

20/22 Sep 2021 – Greater transformative effects resulted from 9/12 than the tragic events of 9/11 due to the vengeful recklessness of the U.S. response. It is a reflection of the deficiencies of political pedagogy and journalistic priorities in the US that despite all that has happened at home and abroad in the course of the last twenty years virtually no distinct attention is given to 9/12.

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India State of 241 Million People Declared COVID-free after Government Promotes Ivermectin
Infowars - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

18 Sep 2021 – The state of Uttar Pradesh in India, which has the equivalent of 2/3 of the U.S. population, has been declared COVID-free. There are no more active cases of coronavirus in the 33 districts, the state government announced.

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Covid Vaccines and Cancer
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

25 Sep 2021 – Can Covid vaccines cause cancer? In some cases, the answer appears to be yes. They can cause a temporary immune suppression or immune dysregulation and could potentially trigger sudden tumor growth and cancer in the weeks following vaccination. Of note, lymphocytopenia has also been frequently observed in cases of severe covid.

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Biden Threatens Sweeping Sanctions on Ethiopia, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Responds
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

22 Sep 2021 – The U.S. is once again attempting to overthrow a legitimate head of state in Africa, this time in Ethiopia, where they want to put their old puppet, the TPLF, or a new one, in power.

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ShadowDragon: Inside the Social Media Surveillance Software That Can Watch Your Every Move
Michael Kwet | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

21 Sep 2021 – A Michigan State Police contract obtained by The Intercept sheds new light on the use of a little-known surveillance software that helps law enforcement and corporations watch people’s social media and other activities—the product of a growing industry.

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Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Trial Sequential Analysis to Inform Clinical Guidelines
American Journal of Therapeutics – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

Repurposed medicines may have a role against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The antiparasitic Ivermectin, with antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties, has now been tested in numerous clinical trials.

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“Last Warning, They Want to Take Control!”
Edward Snowden | Inner Vision – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

27 Jun 2021 – Edward Snowden explains how the government is taking advantage of the people, stealing their information and storing it in a secret data center. He tells about his experience working at the CIA, NSA, and FBI as a contractor. Snowden further suggests that we need to take action against mass surveillance.

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The Meaning of the FDA Resignations
Jeffrey A. Tucker | Brownstone Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

14 Sep 2021 – How significant is it that the two top US Food and Drug Administration officials responsible for vaccine research resigned last week and this week signed a letter in The Lancet that strongly warns against vaccine boosters? This is a remarkable sign that the project of government-managed virus mitigation is in the final stages before falling apart. 

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How Big Corporations and Bill Gates Took Over the UN Food Summit
Nils McCune and Camila Escalante | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

24 Sep 2021 – Large corporations and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation took over the UN Food Systems Summit, abandoning small farmers on behalf of Big Ag companies, endangering food sovereignty.

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Culture
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

A boy asks, “Father, where is the equator?”

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Bayer Forced to Change Roundup Label, Pay $39.5 Million for Misleading Advertising
Sustainable Pulse | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

22 Sep 2021 – Bayer, which acquired Monsanto in 2018, agreed to settle the case of Lisa Jones et al. v. Monsanto Company for $39.5 million, and will make changes to the Roundup product label.

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Huge Hack Reveals Embarrassing Details of Who’s Behind Proud Boys and Other Far-Right Websites
Drew Harwell, Craig Timberg and Hannah Allam | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

21 Sep 2021 – Extremism researchers and political opponents have treated the leak as a Rosetta Stone to the far-right, helping them to decode who has been doing what with whom over several years.

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Pegasus Project: All the Articles
Forbidden Stories | Global Investigative Journalism Network - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

21 Sep 2021 – Forbidden Stories Gathered All the Articles from the Pegasus Project Here

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The Profits of War: How Corporations Won the War on Terror
William Hartung | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

21 Sep 2021 – The costs and consequences of America’s twenty-first-century wars have by now been well-documented: a staggering $8 trillion. Who has benefited most from such an orgy of military spending has received far less attention, however. -How U.S. Corporations Cashed in on the Post-9/11 Pentagon Spending Surge-

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The Difference (Gandhi’s Birthday Music Video of the Week)
Peter Gonsalves – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

A Sing-Along Anthem for Mahatma Gandhi’s Birth Anniversary – “You be the change you want to see.”

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Eric Schmidt Cashes in on Artificial Intelligence Arms Race
Dan Cohen | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

21 Sep 2021 – As the Pentagon drives a hi-tech arms race to maintain its global military superiority, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is the man at the center. How the U.S. empire’s drive to control the world using Silicon Valley technology creates the possibility of a devastating war.

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Resisting the Corrosive Power of Consumerism — A Conversation with Ela Gandhi (Podcast)
Ela Gandhi | Nonviolence Radio - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

16 Sep 2021 – The granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi discusses growing up in her family’s intentional community and the importance of self-sufficiency.

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The Good War
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

What for?

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War of Terror: Legal Colonialism Reincarnated
Azeezah Kanji | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

18 Sep 2021 – Did 9/11 really open a ‘new’ chapter in U.S. history? What we are told to “never forget” and what we are made to “always forget” are two sides of the same operation of power. And so the colonial present continues, inscribing each new chapter of violence as if it was the first.

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Twenty Years in a Security State: CIA Goes into the Torture Business
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

20 Sep 2021 – CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou was asked in July 2002 if he wanted to be trained in “enhanced interrogation techniques.” He was one of 14 people invited to learn how to apply these torture methods who declined the offer. “I had a moral and ethical problem with them. I had a legal problem with them. Besides being immoral and unethical, to me, they were clearly illegal. We have very clear laws and are signatories to international treaties that ban this kind of behavior,”

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Haitians Fleeing “Unacceptable Misery” Greeted by Whips and Shackles at U.S. Border
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

23 Sep 2021 – Images of U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback whipping Haitian asylum seekers as they waded across the Rio Grande River into Texas shocked the world this week. After as many as 15,000 refugees arrived, sheltering under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, President Biden responded with an aggressive deportation campaign.

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Mahatma Gandhi (2 Oct 1869 – 30 Jan 1948)
History – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as ‘Mahatma’ (meaning ‘Great Soul’) was born into a Hindu Modh family. His father was the Chief Minister of Porbandar, and his mother’s religious devotion meant that his upbringing was infused with the Jain pacifist teachings of mutual tolerance, non-injury/killing of living beings (ahimsa), and vegetarianism.

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(Italiano) Invertire la marcia verso l’auto-distruzione?
Howard Richards | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

Sì, è ancora possibile invertire la marcia verso l’auto-distruzione. Oggi non esistono più i conflitti d’interesse che hanno creato l’insostenibile mondo odierno.

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The Fall of the U.S. Empire–And Then What?
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

An empire is a transborder Center-Periphery system in macro-space and macro-time with a culture legitimizing a structure of unequal exchange between center and periphery: economically, exploiters/exploited as inequity; militarily, killers/victims as enforcement; politically, dominators/dominated as repression; culturally, alienators/alienated as conditioning. Empires have different profiles.

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Clear Away the Hype: The U.S. and Australia Signed a Nuclear Arms Deal, Simple as That
Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

On 15 Sep 2021, the heads of government of Australia, UK and USA announced the formation of AUKUS, “a new enhanced trilateral security partnership” between the three countries. While not explicitly mentioned, countering China is the unstated motivation for the new partnership.

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(Italiano) 11 settembre: quanti sono?
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

Perché ci dimentichiamo che gli 11 settembre (famosi) sono 3?

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“A man who doesn’t read the newspaper is uninformed. A man who reads the newspaper is misinformed.”
Mark Twain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the “greatest humorist the United States has produced,” and William Faulkner called him “the father of American literature”.

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U.S. Militarism’s Toxic Impact on Climate Policy
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

23 Sep 2021 – The U.S. failure to address climate change and how our government’s militaristic priorities are still diverting it from confronting the real existential crisis that threatens us all.

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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated Daily

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The Saga of Filicide
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

The Epitome of Mental Illness

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Agroecology Is the Solution to World Hunger
Raj Patel | Scientific American - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

21 Sep 2021 – “We know how to do better. Agroecology more than fits the bill—not only because the crops grown are more diverse but because the social arrangements that surround them are more cognizant of power. Industrial agriculture’s hidden costs are precisely the ones agroecology makes explicit.”

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Rūmī (30 Sep 1207 – 17 Dec 1273)
Annemarie Schimmel | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

Sufi Mystic and Poet – Rūmī’s use of Persian and Arabic in his poetry, in addition to some Turkish and Greek, has resulted in his being claimed variously for Turkish and Persian literature. The influence of his writings in the Indian subcontinent is also substantial.

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The U.S. May Have Lost the Military War in Syria, but Has Won the Propaganda War at Home by Portraying Its Murderous Invasion as a Moral Crusade
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

22 Sep 2021 – As It Did with Castro in Cuba and Noriega in Panama, the “Mighty Wurlitzer” of U.S. Propaganda Defused Antiwar Sentiment by Painting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as a Brutal Animal Who Had to Be Removed

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Global Leaders Waging Wars against Humanity Claim Peace and Success
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

In a time of humanitarian crisis as is COVID-19, we must allow truth of being One Humanity to support our existence and sustainable future. We must rethink that we are not alone, how we care about others, the neglected and tormented mankind. Often, politically aligned thoughts in Europe and the USA have ignored the humanitarian vitality of Asia, Africa or China and Russia for convenient political expediency.

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The Trillion Dollar COVID-19 “Vaccine” Market
Dr. Rudolf Hänsel | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

21 Sep 2021 – Worldwide Blood Trail of “Good Business” – Vera Sharav, Holocaust survivor and founder of the “Alliance for Human Research Protection”, said in an interview that the whole attraction of the COVID 19 vaccine empire is the expected trillion-dollar market. Parallels to the war and drug empires or to the organ trade are obvious. It is always about good business.

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COVID World Data -Total: 232,6M -Dead: 4,7M -Survival Rate: 98%
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

On 27 Sep 2021 (6am GMT):
Total Cases: 232,602,292
Deaths: 4,761,948
Active: 18,600,768
Recovered: 209,239,576
Cases Closed: 214,001,524
Total Vaccinated: 3,496,988,925
Percentage Dead: 2% (approximately)

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Live Now
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

Out of your entire life give just one moment!
All of your life that has gone past,
all to come after it, – so you know it won’t last,

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(Italiano) Il ritiro USA/NATO dall’Afghanistan è soddisfacente?
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

Alcuni “costruttori di pace” dicono di No!

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Biden Administration Seeks a Contractor for a Migrant Facility at Guantanamo
Joel Rose | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

23 Sep 2021 – As the Biden administration scrambles to relocate thousands of Haitian migrants camped in a small Texas border town, it’s also looking for a private contractor to help operate a migrant detention facility at the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — and to hire at least some guards who speak Spanish and Haitian Creole.

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Former Apple Engineer Says the Button on iPhones Asking Apps Not to Track You Is a ‘Dud’ That Gives Users a ‘False Sense of Privacy’
Hannah Towey | Business Insider - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

24 Sep 2021 – Even if users request apps not to collect their activity, popular iPhone apps still collect personal data, a new study by Lockdown Privacy determined. “We found that App Tracking Transparency made no difference in the total number of active third-party trackers. We further confirmed that detailed personal or device data was being sent to trackers in almost all cases.”

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(Italiano) 11 settembre 20 anni dopo: che cosa avrebbero dovuto fare gli USA
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

11/9/2021 – Quando mi si chiede che penso dell’11 settembre rispondo invariabilmente: “Non ho fatto ricerche personalmente, ma per me la spiegazione ufficiale lascia senza risposta troppi quesiti…

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Iran’s Role in the Shifting Political Landscape of the Middle East
Danny Postel | New Politics – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

The Other Regional Counter-Revolution – The last decade has seen historic political upheavals across the Middle East and North Africa: a tsunami of popular uprisings that have brought down several dictators and led to momentous transformations in political consciousness, if not always to democratic outcomes. But the last decade has also seen a concomitant counter-revolutionary roll-back across the region.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s “Metaverse” Is a Dystopian Nightmare
Ryan Zickgraf | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

25 Sep 2021 – The Facebook founder intends to usher in a new era of the internet where there’s no distinction between the virtual and the real — and no logging off.

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The Empire’s Last Stand
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

20 Sep 2021 – The origins of the first Cold War have been hopelessly blurred in the histories. We can watch this time. It is occurring before our eyes. I venture a prediction. When enough people begin to resist the madness and we begin to get somewhere, Cold War II will turn out to be the American empire’s last stand.

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