Moonshineandlies - Looking On The Write ✍ Side

In her new album "Uncivil War," electric blues singer Shemekia Copeland tackles institutionalized racism, climate change and capitalism with powerful vocals and timely lyrics.

Her previous album, "America's Child," is also a must listen for blues fans and anyone trying to find hope in this political landscape.

Remembering Audrey Hepburn 🌹on her 91st Birthday ✨🎂 ✨💫💄💋

Eta, Now a Category 4 Hurricane, Takes Aim at Central America

The storm was expected to strengthen before making landfall late Monday or early Tuesday morning, producing as much as 35 inches of rain.

Eta was upgraded to a Category 4 hurricane on Monday, the National Hurricane Center said, warning that the storm was likely to strengthen before making landfall in Nicaragua late Monday night or early Tuesday.

Eta is the 28th named storm and the 12th hurricane in a dangerously active season that has brought destruction from Central America to the northern Gulf States and beyond. With Eta, 2020 has tied a record set in 2005 for the most storms that have grown strong enough to be named…

Government scientists had predicted an unusually busy hurricane season, which began on June 1. They pointed to factors like higher-than-average sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean, a strong African monsoon season and a reduced vertical wind shear, which means less wind variability at different altitudes that can disrupt the formation of storms.

Climate scientists say there are links between global warming and the intensity of hurricanes. As ocean temperatures rise, hurricanes grow stronger as warm water serves as the fuel that powers them.

But the number of named storms this year exceeded even initial forecasts from the National Hurricane Center.

“Records are made to be broken,” said Dennis Feltgen, a spokesman and meteorologist with the center in Miami. “But this is not one I would want to break.”

“If you believe very strongly in something, stand up and fight for it.”

— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Omg it's so fucking windy outside. What is this, wizard of Oz?! Dorothy, we ain't in Kansas no more 🤣

In the last days, God invites his people to take a stand. That seeing we have no abiding city in this world, we ought to look after that which is to come.

I don’t study genocides war crimes and human rights for fun. I study it bc my people have been at the foot from the very first genocide of the 20th century and previous attempts to exterminate my entire race. The fact that no one is speaking up when another genocide is at the brink of occurring to the ethnic Armenians living in Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) is mind blowing. I have to say I’m not surprised by the lack of effort - Americans, especially, are the most self interested humans I’ve met. This isn’t about narrative, this is about rapid belligerent individualism. We can philosophize all day about it but at the end - people don’t give a shit about anyone but themselves. There is rarely any altruism left in this world. As Monte said, no ones gonna fight for us, we will have to fight on our own to survive. The alternative is not an option.

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