Monday, August 31, 2020

Portland shooting victim, possible suspect identified
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown to send state troopers to help police protests after fatal shooting
Did you see photos of officers supposedly injured last weekend in NW cities? The facts don’t check out
Portland police make 29 arrests after declaring unlawful assembly at Penumbra Kelly Building
Portland group on mission to save Black neighborhoods
GOP portrayal of urban mayhem doesn’t always match reality
Shooting death in downtown Portland spurs wave of reaction from city, state and national leaders
Oregon governor announces plan to bring violence to an end, protect free speech in Portland

Black Portlander Who Changed His Mind About Riots Sets Up Fundraiser for the Cops
Prominent Portland property owner pleads with city leaders to curb 'lawlessness'
People hurl racist epithets at protesters outside Confederate memorial in Clark County
Person shot and killed during pro-Trump car caravan through downtown Portland
Why Do Portland Police Keep Slashing Protesters’ Tires?
Portland police stand by as Proud Boys and far-right militias flashed guns and brawled with 'antifa' counterprotesters
Otter Pops Faces Backlash for Retracting Offer to Donate Ice Pops to Portland Protesters
Neighbors near Portland police union share concerns about ongoing demonstrations
Portland Man Says Riot Police Assaulted Him While He Was Walking Home From a Bar
Police declare riot as Portland protesters set fires, attack government building
Comic Jim Gaffigan Strikes Back With 1 Simple Test For Trump Voters
‘Zombie’ Herman Cain Tweets That Coronavirus ‘Not As Deadly’ As Media Said
How Jim Gaffigan's profanity-laced tirade could hurt Trump
Watchdog group: Trump campaign improperly masking payments
Melania's ex-friend: Trump family tainted by 'deceit, deception'
UPenn Professor Calls For Investigation Following New SAT Cheating Revelations By Trump's Sister
Mary Trump Reveals More Secret Audio of Blunt Family Comments from President’s Sister: Eric’s Become a ‘Moron,’ Ivanka Is a ‘Mini-Donald’
Michael Cohen Perfectly Translates Donald Trump's Lies to the American People in Scathing New Ad
Former state Republican chair: Dismayed by Trump's convention and how my party treats women
Judge voids 50,000 absentee ballot requests in Iowa county
University of Pennsylvania professor wants to investigate claim Trump faked admission exam
‘Get F**ked, Jared!’: John Oliver Unloads On Kushner’s Clueless Comments
What the US Census has to do with hunger in our schools
Germany is beginning a universal-basic-income trial with people getting $1,400 a month for 3 years
‘They’ve had enough of everything’: Record numbers of Americans are giving up their US citizenship
35 Best And Worst Countries To Raise A Family (You Won’t Believe America’s Ranking)
How your brain decides what is beautiful
Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don't become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistake. Don't remind yourself of what should have, could have, or would have been. Release it and let it go. Move on. - Les Brown

I attract my desires with ease. - unknown

“Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves...” -Pema Chödron

Love yourself first and everything else will follow - unknown

Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle. - Charles Glassman

We are all in this world together, and the only test of our character that matters is how we look after the least fortunate among us. How we look after each other, not how we look after ourselves. That's all that really matters. - Tommy Douglas

May your heart heal. May your past no longer block your view of the present. May you breathe again, laugh again, rest again, live again. May it be so. - Thema Bryant Davis

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and everything you do, is for yourself, and there isn't one. - Wei Wu Wei

Sunday, August 30, 2020

8 more ballot boxes installed in Clark County
Vancouver district supports retiring Chieftain mascot at Columbia River
Oregon students won't return to classroom until coronavirus cases decline
Evergreen Public Schools, teachers union at odds over reopening
What It Looks Like When School, And Everything Else, Happens At Home

Working on healing.. I will mend my broken heart.

Cultivating Compassion

"Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.” - Eckhart Tolle

Everyone wants to be the sun to brighten up someone's life, but why not be the moon, to shine on someone's darkest hour? - unknown

It is up to you and only you to create the life you want, and to live each day surround by that which brings you happiness. - unknown

How others see you is not important. How you see yourself means everything. - unknown

Sometimes you have to stop thinking so much & just go where your heart takes you. - unknown

Once you know the truth, you are never the same. - unknown

Let it wound you, then let it heal. Be proud of your survival, because there is no shame in the beauty of your scars. -S.L. Heaton

It is your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. - Rumi

Think on These Things

“It’s love alone that brings to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back to and reasons to stay. - unknown

Relax. You are enough. You do enough. Breathe extra deep, let go, and just live right now in the moment. - unknown

The goal is not to be better than the other man. But your previous self. - Dalai Lama

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasure. - Lao Tzu

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You just need to accept yourself. - unknown

Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny. - Mahatma Ghandi

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them. ~ Iyanla Vanzant

Your karma is based off of your intent. Your heart can't lie to the universe. - unknown

There are two types of tired: one that requires rest, and one that requires peace. - unknown

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. - C.S. Lewis

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out, is in. - Junot Diaz

Be like the lotus: trust in the light, grow through the dirt, believe in new beginnings. - unknown

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker

Ir you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. - Wayne Dyer

It's not our job to fix people, it's our job to love them, even when they feel broken. - Ann Grace Taylor

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor touched but are felt in the heart. - Helen Keller

Never forget where you've been. Never lose sight of where you're going and never take for granted the people who travel the journey with you. - Suaan Gale

Don't use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe. - unknown

Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can. - A simple view

No one changes unless they want to. Not if you beg them. Not if you shame them. Not if you use reason, emotion or tough love. There's only one thing that makes someone change...Their own realization that they need to do it. And there's only one time it will happen... When they decide they're ready. - Spiritual Awakenings ॐ

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think. - Socrates

Be kind. Be fair. Be honest. Be true. And all of these things will come back to you. Always remember, what goes around, comes around. - unknown

When practicing met, you may feel that some people may not deserve your goodwill. It's not the question of whether they deserve your good will nor not. It's you who needs the good will. - Thanisarro Bhikkhu

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything. - Anger, anxiety or possessions, we cannot be free. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Whatever comes, let it come. Whatever stays, let it stay. Whatever goes. Let it go. - unknown

Happiness is not something that you pursue; it is something you allow. - Chade-Meng Tan

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things work.s. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. - Confucius

When you can't control what's happening, challenge yourself to control the way you respond to what's happening. That's where you power is. - unknown

As you ask and feel and believe, you will receive. - Rhonda Byrne

"Beauty is the truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror." - Rabindranath Tagore

The one who plants tress, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning o life. - Rabindranath Tagore

See the light in others and treat them as if that is all you see. - Wayne Dyer

Nobody really tells you this but sometimes the healing hurts more than the wound. - unknown

A person's most beautiful asset is not a head full of knowledge, but a heart full of love, an dear ready to listen and a hand willing to help others. - unknown

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” - Earl Nightingale

The wise are heard through their silence. - Lao Tzu

You can not save people. You can only love them. They have to save themselves. - unknown

When you see something beautiful in someone, tell them. It may take seconds to say, but for them, it could last a lifetime. - unknown

I said: what about my eyes? God said: Keep them on the road. I said: what about my passion? God said: Keep it burning. I said: what about my heart? God said: Tell me what you hold inside it? I said: pain and sorrow? He said: ..stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ~ Rumi

You ever liked someone so much that nobody else is attractive to you?? - unknown

Stop worrying how it's going to happen and start trusting that it will - unknown

The problem is, everyone is looking for unconditional love, carrying a bag full of conditions. - Simian Chaddha

“The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.” - Robert Wyland

The real glow up is when you stop waiting to turn into some perfect vision of yourself * consciously enjoy being who you are in the present. - unknown

Be that one. That one who forgives when deep offense has been committed. That one who loves when no one else does. The tone who gives kindness to those who are mean. Be that one who looks past the insult, instead seeing the pain that motivated it. That one who shines light upon those who sit in utter darkness. Because the impact of being that one runs far and wide. It brings healing to the wounded, joy to the sad, and hope to those in despair. Be that one. - Sheri Echart

If you live in a world where you are constantly replaying the past, you can never imagine a world that has not yet existed. - Adam Curtis

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where yo are and change the ending. - C.S. Lewis

Our Task Must Be To Free Ourselves By Widering Our Circle Of Compassion ToEmbrace All Living CreaturesA nd The Whole Of Nature And It's Beauty. - Albert Einstein

Sometimes you have to stop thinking so much & just go where you heart takes you. - unknown

Action prove who someone is, words just prove who they want to be. - unknown
戰狼滑鐵盧!王毅訪歐五國 一路遭輪番「洗臉」
王毅明訪法國 羅冠聰去信總統馬克龍 促為港人基本權利自由發聲
【港版國安法】路透社委託民調:60%人反立法 70%撐獨立查警暴
Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp is resisting the city's universal coronavirus testing plan
China's top diplomat dismisses European rights concerns
Mike Pompeo: HSBC giving into China's 'bullying' in Hong Kong
【亞洲普立茲】紐時整合 721 警員不作為、眾新聞「元朗恐襲」資訊圖表奪獎
HK court grants bail to opposition lawmakers charged over 2019 protests
Hong Kong Arrests Lawmakers and Bars Another Journalist
You can get reinfected with Covid-19 but still have immunity. Let’s explain.
COVID-19 Is Transmitted Through Aerosols. We Have Enough Evidence, Now It Is Time to Act
New Thinking on Covid Lockdowns: They’re Overly Blunt and Costly
6 months of COVID-19: Why Oregon is faring better than neighbors but could be ‘next Idaho, California or Washington’
A 1-year-old is now the youngest reported coronavirus victim in Georgia
Most U.S. states reject Trump administration's new COVID-19 testing guidance
CDC advises retail employees: Don't argue with anti-maskers
Trump’s tough talk on China faces harsh trade realities
Coronavirus stimulus: New unemployment requirements make it tougher for workers to qualify

Saturday, August 29, 2020

Jeff Bezos Becomes The First Person Ever Worth $200 Billion
Elon Musk unveils pig with computer chip in brain
The RNC weaponized exhaustion
NBA, players say games will resume on Saturday and arenas can be used for voting
Jimmy Stewart's Daughter Perfectly Shames RNC Speaker for Her Questionable 'It's a Wonderful Life' Analogy
Trump’s RNC Loses Bigly to Biden’s DNC in TV Ratings
RNC airs video clip of 'Biden's America' — it was actually Barcelona
U.S. state election officials say little evidence of absentee ballot fraud
Biden's latest ad puts Trump's weirdest moments and empty rallies to a Bad Bunny song
RNC Speech Accusing Biden Of Nepotism Gets Hilariously Awkward Thanks To CNN Graphic
The 3 charts that disprove Donald Trump’s convention speech
CNN Fact Checker Spent More Than 2 Minutes Quickly Debunking RNC Lies and He Still Wasn't Done
Watch Melania Trump greet her step-daughter Ivanka at Trump's RNC speech
Opinion | What country does Mike Pence live in?
In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Friday, August 28, 2020

Berlin police brace for virus protest as court overturns ban
Berlin bans planned weekend protests against COVID-19 restrictions
Philippines protests China's 'illicit' warnings, coast guard conduct
Vietnam says Chinese bomber on disputed islands 'jeopardises peace'
China’s CDC, Built to Stop Pandemics Like Covid, Stumbled When It Mattered Most
Kamala Harris' nomination adds 'fuel to fire' for China-US conflict: Chinese observers
Wisconsin farmer: Results of trade deals have 'been disappointing'
House Democrats consider new push on coronavirus relief
Coronavirus stimulus: South Dakota governor declines Trump’s extra unemployment benefits
Coronavirus stimulus checks: President Trump calls for 'direct payments' to 'all Americans'
March on Washington 2020: Jacob Blake's sister: 'Black America, I hold you accountable'
A former slave market will be removed from the center of Georgia's first capital
Breonna Taylor's Mother Urges Criminal Charges: 'Every Day Is Still March The 13th'.. everyday!
The WNBA is determined to keep Saying Her Name
'Hispanic,' 'Latino,' or 'Latinx'? Survey Says...
Melania Trump Wore A ‘Green Screen Dress’ And It Played Out Just As You’d Expect
Education is not something you can finish. - Isaac Asimov
Mike Pence’s Big Lie About Trump and the Coronavirus at the Republican National Convention

Thursday, August 27, 2020

“We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent. I desperately wanted mercy for Jimmy Dill and would have done anything to create justice for him, but I couldn’t pretend that his struggle was disconnected from my own. The ways in which I have been hurt—and have hurt others—are different from the ways Jimmy Dill suffered and caused suffering. But our shared brokenness connected us. Paul Farmer, the renowned physician who has spent his life trying to cure the world’s sickest and poorest people, once quoted me something that the writer Thomas Merton said: We are bodies of broken bones. I guess I’d always known but never fully considered that being broken is what makes us human. We all have our reasons. Sometimes we’re fractured by the choices we make; sometimes we’re shattered by things we would never have chosen. But our brokenness is also the source of our common humanity, the basis for our shared search for comfort, meaning, and healing. Our shared vulnerability and imperfection nurtures and sustains our capacity for compassion. We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing. Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our own humanity. I thought of the guards strapping Jimmy Dill to the gurney that very hour. I thought of the people who would cheer his death and see it as some kind of victory. I realized they were broken people, too, even if they would never admit it. So many of us have become afraid and angry. We’ve become so fearful and vengeful that we’ve thrown away children, discarded the disabled, and sanctioned the imprisonment of the sick and the weak—not because they are a threat to public safety or beyond rehabilitation but because we think it makes us seem tough, less broken. I thought of the victims of violent crime and the survivors of murdered loved ones, and how we’ve pressured them to recycle their pain and anguish and give it back to the offenders we prosecute. I thought of the many ways we’ve legalized vengeful and cruel punishments, how we’ve allowed our victimization to justify the victimization of others. We’ve submitted to the harsh instinct to crush those among us whose brokenness is most visible. But simply punishing the broken—walking away from them or hiding them from sight—only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.” ― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Presidential historian Jon Meacham: I endorsed Biden because 'this is an existential election'
McConnell inexplicably claims that Democrats want to tell Americans 'how many hamburgers you can eat'
DeJoy Has “No Intention” to Reinstall Sorting Machines, Mailboxes
Louis DeJoy Vows Post Office Can Handle Mail-In Ballots, In Senate Hearing
New Research Suggests In-Person Voting May Be Less Risky Than Previously Thought
Shedding Big Hats and Hoopla, Democrats Find Love Online
More Than 550,000 Primary Absentee Ballots Rejected In 2020, Far Outpacing 2016
Battered by Democrats, Trump fires back against 'total anarchy, madness and chaos'
“Voter intimidation”: Trump floats “illegal” plan to deploy law enforcement to polling sites
Trump decries Democratic convention as 'gloomiest' in history
Trump says he wants to use 'sheriffs' as poll watchers on Election Day
More than 70 Republican former national security officials come out in support of Biden
'To stay silent is to be complicit': Hillary Clinton questions why her former GOP colleagues won't challenge Trump
How Democrats’ unconventional convention succeeded — and where it missed the mark
Andrew Yang said the smartest thing about Biden at the DNC
Trump Just Out and Said He'll Deploy 'Law Enforcement' as Poll Watchers on Election Day
Chris Wallace believes Joe Biden’s speech ‘blew a hole’ in Trump’s characterization of him
Taiwan 'on front lines of freedom' after HK crackdown: president
張建宗籲年青人勿揀擇 指洗碗也是工作經驗
Jimmy Lai, a Man for All Seasons
Hong Kong censorship fears as protest slogans removed from some textbooks
Chinese politics students at Princeton 'will be given code names to protect identity from Beijing'
US halts extradition with Hong Kong in response to China’s sweeping national security law on territory
Hong Kong slams US decision to end tax, extradition deals
Taiwan to further free up economy, aiming to become Asian financial hub
Thousands of Taiwan government email accounts 'hacked by China'
Taiwan joins race to lure talent and companies from Hong Kong

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

There's way to disagree with someone which is polite and respectful. The goal is to be open minded enough to truly listen, and open hearted enough to not spew hate. - karen Salmansohn
Protests Erupt After Wisconsin Police Shoot Unarmed Black Man Seven Times

Monday, August 24, 2020

“12 more years!”: Trump’s opening speech got the 2020 RNC off to a dark start

Bravery is a curious thing..

There are two forms of courage in this world. One demands that we jump into action with our armor on. The other demands that we strip ourselves bare-nakedand surrender. Bravery is a curious thing. - Jeff Brown, Spiritual Graffiti

Sunday, August 23, 2020

It has been my experience that the one that families call the “crazy one” is often the sane one. This is particularly true in very dysfunctional families where ideas of healthy functioning are turned upside down. In these families, members often repress their authentic feelings and turn against anyone who reminds them of their unresolved issues and patterns. As a result, the truth-speakers, the ones who refuse to contain their feelings, those who challenge and humanize the toxic status quo, are often scapegoated and vilified, made to feel crazy by those who lack the courage and insight to see beyond the family's madness. If you have been labeled the 'crazy one', take heart. You are truly not alone. Most great creators and paradigm-shifters were met with fiery resistance by those afraid to grow. Whatever you do, do not allow your voice to fade away in the face of their messaging. Your voice, your vision, your ways of being, live at the heart of your unique soul's journey and are the key to collective transformation. No one has the right to bury them under a bushel of shame. No one! And remember- what is crazy to an unconscious person is often brilliantly sane to one who is awakening. Without you, we are lost. Blessed be the 'crazy' ones! - Jeff Brown, Grounded Spirituality

Saturday, August 22, 2020

PHOTOS: Belarus' Massive And Unprecedented Protests
'We can only help ourselves': women in Belarus take protests into their own hands
Partner of Belarus' dead protester demands independent probe
Belarus chaos brings a poker-faced response from Russia
It's never about the size of your circle, It's the loyalty that's in it. - AFTM
The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments. - Thich Nhat Hanh
Give no fucks, and take no shit. This is the path, to inner peace. - K. Warren Welch

“The deepest reasons to love yourself have nothing to do with anything outside you – not with your body or with others’ expectations of you. If you ground yourself in your own goodness, nothing will be able to damage your self-esteem.” – 17th Karma, from the book "The Heart Is Noble:

If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love. - Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ

"Not talking, by itself, already can bring a significant degree of peace. If we can also offer ourselves the deeper silence of not thinking, we can find, in that quiet, a wonderful lightness and freedom..." ~ Thích Nhất Hạnh

Our Capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Go after what you want or you will never have it. - unknown

"Stay open and quiet, that is all. What you seek is so near you that there is no place for a way..."~ Nisargadatta

'I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence...' ~ Thích Nhất Hạnh

Don't mix bad words with your bad mood. You'll have many opportunities to change your mood, but you'll never get the opportunity to replace the words you spoke. - Buddha

Be around people that are good for your soul - unknown

I know you're exhausted and tired of hurting, but you can't give up yet. You still have more sunlit afternoons to bask in and more friends to meet. You still have more cats to pet and more contains to climb. You still have a life to live, no matter how stuck you feel right now. You still have a beautiful future coming. - Unknown

"Sometimes when I am alone in my room in the dark, I practice smiling to myself. I do this to be kind to myself, to take good care of myself, to love myself. I know that if I cannot take care of myself, I cannot take care of anyone else." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~


HOW TO TALK ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS WITH ANYONE
Trump Says He Will Pardon Susan B. Anthony as He Again Targets the 2020 Election
Hannah Gadsby on comedy, free speech, and living with autism

Friday, August 21, 2020

《約定2020》晴天林(林夕改編)|林夕改歌詞贈羅冠聰

Autumn Leaves - Live @ Acapela Studios - May 2015

Autumn Leaves - Live @ Acapela Studios - May 2015 Beegie Adair Trio - Autumn Leaves
Coronavirus stimulus: President Trump's action on unemployment benefits is falling short, experts say
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WHO warns coronavirus vaccine alone won't end pandemic: 'We cannot go back to the way things were'
Florida hits 10,000 coronavirus deaths of residents, with 117 new fatalities reported
Birx Stokes Hopes That Key Hospital Data Tracking Will Soon Return To CDC
France, Germany, Italy and Spain see highest daily coronavirus cases since lifting lockdown
Canada, U.S. continue border restrictions into September
New Zealand Investigates A Mystery: Where Did Its New Cases Come From?
New Outbreak In New Zealand Leads To New Rules And Supermarket Runs
New Zealand On Alert After 4 Cases Of COVID-19 Emerge From Unknown Source
Opinion: Clear back-to-school guidelines are needed to ease parental angst
B.C. is no longer a model for COVID-19 prevention — and getting back to that stage is not guaranteed




People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Ah, kindness. What a simple way to tell another struggling soul that there is love to be found in this world. - unknown

Dozen of times throughout your life, you'll outgrow what you thought you couldn't live without, and fall in love with what you didn't even know you wanted. Life will lead you on hard yet necessary paths. You'd never travel by choice. Don't be afraid. Have faith. Trust the journey. - Marcadangel

You don't' find your worth in a man. You find your worth within yourself and then find a man who's worthy of you. - unknown

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world. 0 Pema Chodron

One some days, you will feel more fragile than you do on others. Allow yourself to break. Allow yourself to retreat. You are allowed days like these, days to feel, days to recluse, days to process. Tomorrow will taste much sweeter. - unknown

& every day I fall deeper in love with the notion that "I am enough" and always been. - Lorelei poetry

Parenthood is a journey towards emotional maturity. It is learning to respond in love when you are hurt, triggered and overwhelmed. It is learning to love, even when another's behavior is unlovable. - Sarah Boyd

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive. Fully Aware. - Thich Nhat Hanh

It's often hard to trust others after a painful experience with someone untrustworthy. - Karen Salmansohn

Carry Mercy and kindness in your heart for all people. - Iman Ali
Trump loses bid to delay handover of tax returns to NY prosecutor
Watch: Unearthed Video of Steve Bannon Joking About Stealing ‘Build a Wall’ Money to Escape to St Tropez on Million Dollar Yacht
Judge Rejects Trump's Latest Effort To Keep His Tax Records From Manhattan DA
Sheesh. What a Day.
This is the $28 million yacht Steve Bannon was arrested on
Read The Indictment Against Steve Bannon
Trump is trying to distance himself from the private wall builders. His officials and family publicly supported it.
Steve Bannon Charged With Misusing Donations For Trump's Border Wall
Trump defends excluding immigrants from representation, urges lawsuit's dismissal
NYT: White House reached out to South Dakota governor about adding Trump to Mount Rushmore
Trump promotes book by former aide who talked Ivanka, Tiffany with reporters
Bette Midler to Trump: ‘Shut the F**k Up, You Nitwit. YOU Are the Enemy of the People’
As Trump threatens to ban TikTok, Sarah Cooper mocks him, again, on the platform
Critics Convinced Trump Wants TikTok Banned Because Sarah Cooper Is Driving Him Nuts
Judge Rejects Trump's Latest Effort To Keep His Tax Records From Manhattan DA

1st day of Elul

Jewish High Holidays are a month away.

Thursday, August 20, 2020

Trump Says QAnon Followers Are People Who ‘Love Our Country’
Comedian Sarah Cooper riffs on Trump at DNC
More than 70 Republican former national security officials come out in support of Biden
Trump ‘is flailing away and attacking Americans’ by boycotting Goodyear: former U.S. ambassador
Trump Is Laying The Groundwork For Rejecting Election Results If He Loses
Obama's Devastating Convention Speech Made Trump Break His Caps Lock Key
RNC Will Feature Right-Wing Internet Celebrities And Trump Every Night
‘When you’re late, you're late’: Kanye falls short in Wisconsin
Search underway for missing United executive
Massive search is underway in a Chicago preserve for a United Airlines executive, 49, who has been missing for more than a week after going out jogging
The Atlantic Is Awash With Far More Plastic Than Previously Thought, Study Finds
As wildfires rage, California Gov. Newsom uses DNC spot to attack Trump on climate change
Hundreds of wildfires tear through California
Northern California wildfires threatening thousands of homes
Some Good News: An 'Elephant Baby Boom' In One Kenyan National Park
Trump administration finalizes plan to open up Alaska wildlife refuge to drilling
President Trump signs bill permanently funding Land and Water Conservation Fund
The greatest defeat is not the end of a relationship, it’s the unwillingness to learn from it. Most love relationships end, yet the opportunities for growth live on. We have been conditioned to believe that endings are failures, but they are not. At this stage of human development, it’s all we can do to manage our own issues, let alone merge happily with another. We still have so much to learn about how to sustain love. The real victory is growing through the experience, clarifying and healing our issues, converting the unresolved material into the transformation at its heart. Relational success is not a tangible outcome- it's a process of awakening. If the experience grew you, if it prepared you for a more heartfelt and awakened life, it was a true victory. - Jeff Brown
G.O.P.-Led Senate Panel Details Ties Between 2016 Trump Campaign and Russia
Shadow Immigration System: Migrant Children Detained In Hotels By Private Contractors
Stephen Bannon, three others charged with defrauding donors to online fundraising campaign for border wall
Disapproval of Trump COVID response hits new high — and many aren’t hopeful, poll says
Top DHS officials Wolf and Cuccinelli are not legally eligible to serve in their current roles, GAO finds. The U.S. Government Accountability Office found that Department of Homeland Security acting secretary Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli, effectively the ag...
Congressional watchdog finds acting DHS chief Wolf, senior aide not legally qualified
Biden Would End Border Wall Construction, But Wouldn't Tear Down Trump's Additions
Americans Back Trump On Immigration — But Only To Stop COVID-19, Poll Finds
The Horrifying ICE Documentary Trump Doesn’t Want You to See
Supreme Court won’t intervene in last stages of border-wall construction projects
Trump's top official at ICE, Matthew Albence, to leave post
“Give Light and the People Will Find A Way” - Ella Baker
Stamp Out the Trump Attacks on Our Postal Service!
The tragedy of Hillary Clinton
NYT Reporter Names Obama DNC Moment That’ll Enrage Trump The Most
USPS chief Louis DeJoy says he is suspending some changes to the post office until after the 2020 election. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said Tuesday that he is suspending certain changes at the U.S. Postal Service until after the 2020 election in order to...
Why Doug Jones thinks Alabama’s Democratic voters are ‘energized’ this year
Democrats to highlight women leaders as Harris accepts VP nomination
A New Biden Administration Would Face Old Problems With Congress
Despite Awkward Debate Moment, Biden Found Unique Bond With Harris
'We Have Her Back': Harris' Rise Follows Generations Of Organizing By Black Women
4 Takeaways From Night 3 Of The Democratic National Convention
Samantha Bee Warns Voters What To Expect From GOP Before The Election
Barack Obama to warn that democracy itself is on the line in November election
Harris prepares to make history with VP acceptance speech
Obama Returns to the D.N.C. With a Chance to Rescue His Legacy From Trump
Yang criticizes 'patronizing element' of Democratic messaging ahead of convention speech
Bill Moyers Talks with Lisa Graves about the Ongoing Threat to the US Postal Service
Andrew Cuomo undercuts Democrats' message on coronavirus
Ocasio-Cortez blasts NBC News for Sanders nomination tweet: 'All to generate hate-clicks'
Barack Obama, Kamala Harris to speak on Day 3 of the Democratic National Convention
Hillary Clinton’s Bittersweet Return to the Democratic Convention
Ironically enough, when you make peace with the fact that purpose of life is not happiness, but rather experience and growth, happiness comes as a natural byproduct. When you are not seeking it as the objective, it will find its way to you. - unknown

You bloom differently when you 're not focusing on anyone's bloom but your own. - Billy Chapata

Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase. - unknown

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. - jane Goodall
This Is Where I Stand
Birtherism 2.0, explained
Trump And His Campaign Amplify Untrue 'Birther' Conspiracy Against Kamala Harris
延後之後;「延後‧對拆」嘉賓:劉兆佳,游清源
When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending. - Thich Nhat Hanh
Don't Sweat(pants) It. The House Dress Is Here To Rescue 2020
How Tim Cook Made Apple His Own

鏗鏘說:周冠威、郭臻:十年太長


00:00 一、遠離自卑男 02:38 二、遠離孤寒男 04:10 三、別用錢栽培男人 06:14 四、女人做女人事 男人做男人事 11:55 五、愛情不存在了解 18:08 六、愛情無得賠 21:40 七、最好不結婚 23:46 張媽媽的智慧:不買樓、不生育 27:44 八、愛情無法培養 29:09 九、付出不一定有收穫 30:57 十、有愛必有性 不存在有愛無性
Facebook bans some, but not all, QAnon groups, accounts
Trump, Addressing Far-Right QAnon Conspiracy, Offers Praise For Its Followers
Eric Trump’s ‘Absolutely Terrible’ Tweet During The DNC Gets Flipped On Him
Sean Hannity has reportedly privately admitted he thinks Trump is a 'bats--- crazy person'
Fox News Hosts Couldn't Stop Raving About Michelle Obama's Democratic Convention Speech
Trump wrong on 'My generals, my military.' They belong to the people.
Laura Loomer wins GOP primary to challenge Rep. Lois Frankel
Trump resorts to fearmongering in rambling media appearances
UConn students evicted from dorms for holding pandemic party
Why Republicans are failing to govern
UNC-Chapel Hill goes to remote learning after 135 COVID-19 cases within week of starting classes
Obesity increases risk of death from COVID-19
Fauci says virtual classrooms better in parts of country hard hit by COVID-19
Notre Dame traces more than 50 coronavirus cases to off-campus party, official says
The True Coronavirus Toll in the U.S. Has Already Surpassed 200,000
More than 2,000 students, teachers and staff quarantined in several schools
America’s uniquely bad Covid-19 epidemic, explained in 18 maps and charts
Oregon special education and English-learning students can attend school in-person under new guidelines
Texas is 'flying blind' as schools reopen amid decline in COVID-19 testing
Georgia School District Quarantines Over 900 Students and Teachers
The Big Ten, Pac-12 Postpone Football, Other Fall Sports Over Coronavirus Concerns
Ga. School District Quarantines Hundreds Of Students Over Fears Of COVID-19 Exposure
Coronavirus cases lead over 800 to quarantine in Georgia school district where masks not required
Illinois school district bans pajamas for online school
Are dying with COVID-19 and dying from COVID-19 the same thing? In Oregon, they are
Cloth masks do protect the wearer – breathing in less coronavirus means you get less sick
Pharmacists can give childhood shots, U.S. officials say
As We Return To Work And School During The Pandemic, Can The Air Inside Be Kept Safe?
How To Tell A Real COVID-19 Contact Tracer's Call From A Scammer's
Trump Wanted FDA To Fast-Track Blood Plasma Therapy. What Is It?
'Silent spreaders’: Evidence grows that children may play a larger role in transmission than once believed
Iowa governor's push to reopen schools descends into chaos
New York City teachers threaten to strike over school reopenings
The CDC wants state and local sewage systems tested for coronavirus
What Derailed America’s Covid Testing: Three Lost Weeks
CDC Director Warns This Fall Could Be The Worst Ever For Public Health
On Native American Land, Contact Tracing Is Saving Lives
How Should I Cover My Face? A Deeper Look Into Neck Gaiters And Face Shields
COVID-19 long haulers on months of debilitating symptoms: ‘They don’t know how to make me better’
Wearing a neck gaiter may be worse than no mask at all, researchers find
Neck gaiters may actually increase COVID-19 transmission, study finds
Study shows most homemade masks help slow coronavirus droplets
Huawei, long resilient, suffers under tougher US pressure
North Korea's leader acknowledges economic shortfalls
Why U.S. intelligence findings undermine the Trump administration's Beijing-centric coronavirus narrative
China Hits Australian Wine Imports With Probe as Relations Fray
China partygoers cram into Wuhan water park
China Says Frozen Chicken Wings from Brazil Test Positive for Virus
For China's landlords, rent-to-riches dreams fade in red flag for fragile economy
Suspension or Termination of Three Bilateral Agreements With Hong Kong
On Xinjiang, even those wary of Holocaust comparisons are reaching for the word “genocide”
Police couldn’t take into custody Apple Daily’s inspirational courage, commitment and conscience|Benedict Rogers
Canada Should Join Allies to Coordinate a Global Response to Hong Kong Crisis, Says British Rights Advocate
History tells us that regimes die from their own poison after gagging the press
Canadians in Hong Kong at risk of arrest by ‘secret police', MPs told
Hong Kong is about to see a Tiananmen-era wave of migration
Chinese academic disciplined after criticising Xi and Communist Party
Hong Kong's Lam resigns from honorary role at Cambridge college in UK

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Trump Doubles Down On Goodyear Boycott After Twitter Points Out His Presidential Limo Uses Goodyear Tires
Trump urges Goodyear tire boycott after company bars political attire
Why Are Some Groceries Still So Hard to Find During Covid?
Most San Francisco Gap stores close permanently, including Market Street flagship
'You can't fix stupid' — Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro rips Kodak executives
Intel provides grants to 7 school districts to help with distance learning
U.S. Puts Kodak Deal On Hold Amid Scrutiny Of Its Finances
Goya CEO's cozying up to Trump may have backfired, study shows
Sometimes you have to make a decision that will hurt your heart but will heal your soul. - unknown
Senate panel finds Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election
Trump Is Getting Brutally Roasted After 2007 'Fan' Letter He Wrote to Vladimir Putin Emerges
Trump’s 2016 campaign chair was a ‘grave counterintelligence threat,’ had repeated contact with Russian intelligence, Senate panel finds
Kamala Harris' Secret Service code name reportedly reflects her groundbreaking nomination
Opinion | Kamala Harris, the Prosecutor Trump Fears Most
Biden's VP pick: Why Kamala Harris embraces her biracial roots
Trump's Former DHS Chief of Staff Just Came Out in Support of Joe Biden in Terrifying New Video
American carnage
St. Louis couple who waved guns at Black Lives Matters demonstrators to take part in GOP convention. The white couple from St. Louis who waved guns at Black Lives Matter demonstrators in a video that went viral will participate at the Republican Natio...
From ‘golden showers in a sex club’ to tax fraud: Michael Cohen releases explosive foreword to Trump book
'Urine Trouble Trump' Sprays Twitter As New Golden Showers Allegations Emerge
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.” - Stephen King
Wait for someone who loves you differently. One can see the fire in your soul. The child in your laugh and the ocean in your heart. - Jmstorm

Let go of expecting people to be a certain way just because you are. You are a deep soul with a big heart. Not everyone will understand or respect that. Detach yourself from wanting to be understood &flow in your self-love who and what will be in your life will reveal itself. - unknown

One of the greatest gifts you can give someone: Thanking them for being part of your life. -Karen Salmansohn
Australians stranded overseas as airlines fly with as few as four economy passengers
China Doesn't Need 125,000 Miles of Track
Macau VIP casino industry out of luck as China cracks down on capital flows
Cathay Pacific reports first-half loss of US$1.27 billion
Passengers from mainland China to be allowed temporary transit through Hong Kong
Cathay posts record loss, sees no quick rebound in passenger demand
Airline Food For Sale. No Plane Ticket Required
Cathay Pacific offers early retirement scheme to older pilots
國泰航空三分之一客機遷至澳洲停泊 不排除第二輪轉移
Cathay Pacific reaches deal for Airbus delivery delays, in advanced talks with Boeing
Multnomah County seeking volunteers for coronavirus efforts
Portland Public Schools board approves $1.2 billion bond for November ballot
Clark County homebuilders scramble due to shortage of materials
Portland State will disarm campus safety officers this fall
Nearly 120 cats, dogs seized from NE Portland facility after complaints of possible abuse, neglect

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

USPS to Suspend Changes Until After Election
Michelle Obama Writes the Five-Word Epitaph for Trump’s Presidency: ‘It Is What It Is’
5 winners and 2 losers from the first night of the Democratic National Convention
Pelosi to Recall House for Postal Service Vote as Democrats Press for DeJoy to Testify
What do you know that life-long civil rights activist, philosopher, and academic Angela Davis does not know?
How to Foil Trump’s Election Night Strategy
The President Has Openly Declared He’s Destroying the Post Office to Suppress Votes
Trump Opposes Postal Service Funding But Says He'd Sign Bill Including It
Concerned postal workers lay blame for delays squarely on recent overhauls
Bernie Sanders Delivered the Best Line of the DNC’s First Night
A COVID Victim’s Daughter Gave the Most Pointed Speech of the Night
U.S. Postal Service Warns of Potential Mail-In Ballot Delays
How USPS policies and the pandemic could create mail-in voting ‘perfect storm’
Democratic convention highlights: 6 takeaways from night 1
Trump lashes out at Michelle Obama over address at Democratic convention
GOP Ohio attorney general calls on Trump to delay Postal Service changes
3 takeaways from the first night of the Democratic National Convention
Michelle Obama, Bernie Sanders Open Democratic National Convention With Case Against Trump
Michelle Obama makes impassioned plea and Republicans boost Biden: Key moments from the convention
2020 Daily Trail Markers: DNC like none other kicks off
'The unthinkable has become normal' -Sanders
Michelle Obama, Bernie Sanders Open Democratic National Convention With Case Against Trump
3 takeaways from the first night of the Democratic National Convention
Donald Trump retweets his response to the first day of the Democratic National Convention
Michelle Obama warns that Trump ‘cannot meet this moment’
Bernie Sanders: 'Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Trump golfs.'
I wish I could make everyone understand how important this statement is: go where you are wanted. - S. McNutt
Tikkun Olam by Leah Klass

Healing the world
the whole world
her round, warm belly
her soft hills and her jagged cliffs
her deep pools and her hot center

Healing and nourishing her babies
responding to their cries
such endless work
for those mamalehs
this bearing witness
to life

Softening,
so that the men might too
more than freeze or melt
might soften themselves
find peace

Healing the wounded
and the suffering
lending a hand
an open palm
joining in a moment of wonder
gifting a wash of hope
breathing in green, lush, moist
breathing out kindness, love

Healing the world
not only my world
not only our world

Healing the whole world
the WHOLE world
the world as one
Tikkun Olam.
We are most alive when we are in love - Rumi

Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, any state. - Green Roth

It will never matter how many people believe you are capable of great things, if one of those people isn't you. - J. Warren Welch

It is necessary to be on the other side to understand the value of the details of humanity such as a smile, a kind comment, a call for support, compassion and friendship. When they are genuinely given and not only received, it can change someone's life. - unknown


"Choose every day to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed, and most of all, worthy of love." - ALISON MALEE

Build someone up. Put their insecurities to sleep. Remind them they're worthy. Tell them they're magical. Be light in a too often dim world.- unknown

Gonna spend the rest of my life making other people feel less broken. - unknown

Always love people from your heart and not from your mood or needs. - unknown

All of us have special ones who love us into being. - Fred Rogers

Love life, live a life of love. - unknown

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. - Christopher Robin to Pooh”

If we don’t heal our individual and collective trauma, it will continue to manifest itself everywhere. That’s what we are seeing everywhere we look. The toxic effects of unresolved trauma. Heal the trauma, or live the drama... - Jeff brown

It will take more than a change of thinking. It will also require a healing of the collective heart. - Jeff Brown

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh

Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become what we think.- Buddha
"If you look for the Dhamma, you will find that it has nothing to do with the forests, the mountains, or the caves – it exists in the heart. The language of the Dhamma isn’t English or Thai or Sanskrit. It has its own language, which is the same for all people – the language of experience. There is a great difference between concepts and direct experience. Whoever puts a finger into a glass of hot water will have the same experience of hot, but it is called by many words in different languages. Similarly, whoever looks deeply into the heart will have the same experience, no matter what his or her nationality or culture or language." -The language of experience by Ajahn Chah
A Prophet Of Soil Gets His Moment Of Fame
How to drive fossil fuels out of the US economy, quickly
The Oil Spill At Mauritius Is A Disaster. And It Could Soon Get Worse
California Issues 1st Rolling Blackouts Since 2001 As Heat Wave Bakes Western U.S.
California power grid manager urges residents to conserve energy amid intense heat wave
Federal Appeals Court Throws Out California Ban On Large-Capacity Gun Magazines
A small federal agency focused on preventing industrial disasters is on life support. Trump wants it gone.
Kodak Shifts Into Drug Production With Help of $765 Million U.S. Loan
Walmart, McDonalds, and Geico are the latest companies to reportedly pull advertising from Facebook amid a growing boycott, costing the tech giant millions
Wildfire in Opal Creek Wilderness area brings closures, campers evacuated
Stephen's LIVE Monologue Following Day 1 Of The Democratic National Convention Amb. Susan Rice: Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping Benefit The Most From Four More Years Of Trump Amb. Susan Rice Says The American People Need To "Call B.S." On Trump's Attack On The Postal Serv…
[經典回憶] 70/80/90年代經典粵語金曲167首(1974-1994) - ORIGINAL 原本
You need to wake up from your autopilot mode. You have to live deeply and with more awareness so that you can be attentive to each moment. - Thich Nhat Nanh

" When you get free from views and words, reality reveals itself to you,and that is Nirvana." - Thich Nhat Hanh
China’s CDC, Built to Stop Pandemics Like Covid, Stumbled When It Mattered Most
Taiwan finalizes $62bn purchase of F-16 jets from Lockheed Martin
China's Houston consulate had long been on FBI radar: Justice Department official
Americans Fault China for Its Role in the Spread of COVID-19
Skepticism Greets Putin's Announcement Of Russian Coronavirus Vaccine