As if the early darkness wasn’t depressing enough, it also rains regularly in the last few weeks of autumn. I’m traumatized by seasons and rain anyway, it was in fifth grade when my teacher asked me what time of year it rains the most. I said winter because I associated it with bad weather.

Our Umbrella stand used to contain at least 5-7 Umbrellas!

“Wrong,” he said!

Splashing water on an umbrella in the rain As soon as it dribbles, we grab the little Knirps. If we haven’t lost him already. And that brings us to the problem I want to talk about: Umbrellas always get left somewhere!

At a restaurant, on the train, in the shop, or with friends. The other day I visited my mother-in-law, and I observed that she must have had at least 5-6 umbrellas on the stand by her front door.  I have never seen my mother-in-law with an umbrella before, she seldom goes anywhere, especially not when it’s raining. These umbrellas must be all left behind by family members.

You won’t notice the loss until the next time it rains.

Double bad luck, messed up hair, a wet jacket, and a bad mood.

I have never lost an article of daily use as often as the umbrella.

Do you feel the same way?

$365

A colleague of mine thinks he has found the solution, buy an absurdly expensive umbrella. It should cost about three times what an umbrella should cost.

He says they’ll never forget it again.

It’s worth a try, next summer will come!

Below is a link if you would like to purchase an expensive Umbrella! 

In September 1620.

a small ship called the Mayflower left Plymouth, England, carrying 102 passengers – an assortment of religious separatists seeking a new home where they could freely practice their faith and other individuals lured by the promise of prosperity and land ownership in the “New World.”

After a treacherous and uncomfortable crossing that lasted 66 days, they dropped anchor near the tip of Cap Cod, far north of their intended destination at the mouth of the Hudson River. One month later, the mayflower crossed Massachusetts Bay, where the Pilgrims, as they are now commonly known, began the work of establishing a village at Plymouth.

The first Thanksgiving, as I mentioned beforehand, and as folks understand it, was in 1621 between the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony and the Wampanoag tribe in present-day Massachusetts. While records indicate that this celebration did happen, there are a few misconceptions we need to clear up. Because of the erasure (in words, removal and exclusion) of native American narratives from histories a lot of us were taught, we’ve been left with an incomplete picture of what really happened. So here’s the full story.

*There’s no evidence that the Wampanoag people were even invited in the first place. An Account from the time said 90 members of the Wampanoag tribe were present and makes no mention of invitations. Some experts believe that these 90 men were an army, sent by Wampanoag leader Quasemquin at the sound of gunshots. (which turned out to be a part of the celebration)

EAST FALMOUTH, MA – JULY 6: Native Americans enter the arena during the Grand Ceremony of the 92nd Mashpee Wampanoag Powwow at the Barnstable County Fairgrounds in East Falmouth on July 6, 2013. (Photo by Essdras M Suarez/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

* In the first encounter with the Wampanoag people, the Pilgrims stole from the tribe’s winter provisions – it wasn’t until later that Quasemquin formed an alliance between the groups. Even then, the alliance really only existed because the Wampanoag people were ravaged by diseases brought by European colonizers in the years prior. It was less about intercultural harmony and more about survival (made necessary by the actions of these settlers).

*That first harvest was followed by deadly conflicts between colonizers and Native people, including (but definitely not limited to) the Wampanoags.

The Europeans repaid their Native allies by seizing Native land and imprisoning, enslaving, and executing Native people.

*Following *Thanksgiving” celebrations by European settlers often marked brutal victories over Native people, like the Pequet Massacre of 1636 or the beheading of Wampanoag leader Metacom in 1676.

WHEN DID AMERICA FIRST CALL FOR A NATIONAL THANKSGIVING?

America first called for a national thanksgiving to celebrate victory over the British in the battle of Saratoga. In 1789, George Washington again called for a national day of thanks on the last Thursday of November 1777 to commemorate the end of the Revolutionary War and the ratification of the Constitution. During the Civil War, both the Confederacy and the Union issued Thanksgiving Day proclamations following major victories.

In September 1620, a small ship called the Mayflower left Plymouth, England, with 102 passengers – a collection of religious separatists seeking a new home where they could freely practice their faith, and other individuals lured by the promise of wealth and land ownership in the “New World.”

After a treacherous and uncomfortable crossing lasting 66 days, the anchor dropped near the tip of Cape Cod, well north of their intended destination at the mouth of the Hudson River. A month later, the Mayflower crossed Massachusetts Bay, where the Pilgrims, as they are now commonly known, began establishing a village at Plymouth.

The first Thanksgiving, as I mentioned before and as people understand it, occurred in 1621 between the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony and the Wampanoag tribe in what is now Massachusetts. While records show this celebration did occur, there are a few misconceptions we need to clear up. Due to the erasure (in words, removal, and exclusion) of Native American narratives from history, many of us have been taught that we have been left with an incomplete picture of what really happened. So here’s the full story.

EAST FALMOUTH, MA – JULY 6: Native Americans enter the arena during the Grand Ceremony of the 92nd Mashpee Wampanoag Powwow at the Barnstable County Fairgrounds in East Falmouth on July 6, 2013. (Photo by Essdras M Suarez/The Boston Globe via Getty Images )

*There is no evidence that the Wampanoag people were even invited. One report from the time states that 90 members of the Wampanoag tribe were present, and makes no mention of invitations. Some experts believe that these 90 men were an army sent by Wampanoag leader Quasemquin at gunpoint. (which turned out to be part of the celebration)

* When the pilgrims first encountered the Wampanoag people, they stole the tribe’s winter supplies – it was only later that Quasemquin formed an alliance between the groups. Even then, the alliance really only existed because the Wampanoag had been plagued by diseases brought by European colonizers in the years before. It was less about intercultural harmony than about survival (made necessary by the actions of these settlers).

*This first harvest was followed by deadly conflicts between colonizers and Native Americans, including (but definitely not limited to) the Wampanoags.

The Europeans repaid their native allies by conquering native lands and imprisoning, enslaving, and executing natives.

*Thanksgiving celebrations by European settlers were often followed by brutal victories over the Native Americans, such as the Pequet Massacre of 1636 or the beheading of the Wampanoag leader Metacom in 1676.

When did America first call for a national Thanksgiving?

America first called for a national Thanksgiving to celebrate the victory over the British at the Battle of Saratiga . In 1789, George Washington again called for a national day of thanksgiving on the last Thursday of November 1777 to commemorate the end of the Revolutionary War and the ratification of the Constitution. During the Civil War, both the Confederacy and the Union issued Thanksgiving proclamations after major victories.

the eighth Veganuary already saved 15000 car journeys around the world. At the beginning of the new year, more and more people are going vegan for a long time as part of. According to a calculation by Harvard University’s Animal Law and Policy Program, this saved around 103,840 tons of CO2 equivalent from 2014 to 2020. That corresponds to around 15,000 car journeys around the world. In the meantime, the value should have increased significantly again, because the number of participants is increasing every year. In 2022, 629,000 people from over 200 countries and regions participated.

 there’s an Earth Overshoot Day?

This describes the day at which the sustainably usable resources of a whole year are used up. It is calculated every year by the Global Footprint Network and shows the ecological limits of the planet. In 2021, Earth Overshoot Day fell on July 29th. This means that the earth’s sustainably usable resources are used up almost as early in the year as in 2019. Due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the Earth Overshoot Day 2020 was pushed back by more than three weeks. Now we are experiencing the feared rebound effect, the sudden increase in emissions after the peak of the pandemic

By Coop Newspaper, Switzerland, Feb.2020

Max Havelaar never lived.

Yet he exists twice: as the main character in a Dutch bestseller from 1860 that denounced colonialism, and today as a symbolic figure for fairly produced and traded products.

In 2020, Swiss consumers spent around 860 million Swiss francs on goods with the Max Havelaar label. This makes our country one of the leaders in the trade of fairly produced products. The Swiss Max Havelaar Foundation was founded in 1992, and Coop, a Swiss Supermarket company, has been a partner of the foundation for 30 years

But who is Max Havelaar, really?

1. The novel Character

In the 1860 book “Max Havelaar or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company”, Max Havelaar is a humanist colonial official who fights for the rights of the natives of Java and against exploitation by the Dutch.

2. The Author

Eduard Douwes Dekker (1820-1887) wrote under the pseudonym “Multatuli” (roughly: “who has suffered much.”) He was himself a colonial official and became a sharp critic of colonialism in Indonesia.

3. The Injustice

Indonesia was exploited as part of the Dutch colonial empire for 350 years. Peasants were forced to grow coffee and work 66 days a year for the colonial masters. The coffee was sold in the Netherlands with great profit.

4. The Foundation

In 1988, an initiative for fair trade coffee was founded in the Netherlands, which gave itself and its label the name Max Havelaar. Four years later, the Max Havelaar Foundation was established in Switzerland. Coop was one of the first retailers to include coffee with the new label in its product range.

5. The New Max Havelaar

The fact that the foundation is named after the character in the novel has a special reason: around 1990, the price of coffee sank to rock bottom, and small farmers were barely earning anymore. Like Havelaar in the novel, the new organizations also aimed at fair payment for producers in countries of the South.

6. Coop and Max Havelaar

Over the past 30 years, Coop of Switzerland has expanded its food and non-food range to include 1300 products bearing the Max Havelaar label. Coop thus has the largest Fairtrade range in the world.

one must look way back to when France owned it back in the 1800s. To resolve their political disaster, the people’s misery, and the destruction of the country’s resources, my opinion is that either France or the United States should intervene to resolve, resurrect, and establish an infrastructure, promote and initiate investing from abroad to establish manufacturing and jobs. It is unacceptable that a country like Haiti exists at the doorsteps of the richest and most powerful country, the USA, in the 21st century!

Saint-Domingue colony

Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was the richest and most productive European colony in the world going into the 1800s.^[7][4] France acquired much of its wealth by using slaves, with the slave population of Saint-Domingue accounting for one-third of the entire Atlantic slave trade.^{[8][better source needed]} Between the years of 1697 and 1804, French colonists brought 800,000 West African slaves to what was then known as Saint-Domingue to work on the vast plantations.^{[8][better source needed]} The Saint-Domingue population reached 520,000 in 1790, and of those 425,000 were slaves.^{[8][better source needed]} The mortality rate among slaves was high, with the French often working slaves to death and transporting more to the colony instead of providing necessities as it was cheaper.^[4] At the time, goods from Haiti comprised thirty percent of French trade while its sugar represented forty percent of the Atlantic market.^[4] About sixty percent of the coffee consumed in European markets was also produced in the colony.

The Haiti indemnity controversy involves an 1825 agreement between Haiti and France that included France demanding a 150 million franc indemnity to be paid by Haiti in claims over property – including Haitian slaves – that was lost through the Haitian Revolution in return for diplomatic recognition.^[1] The payment was later reduced to 90 million francs in 1838, comparable to US$21 billion as of 2004)^[2]

France’s demand for payments in exchange for recognizing Haiti’s independence

was delivered to the country by several French warships in 1825, twenty-one years after Haiti’s declaration of independence in 1804.^[1][3] Though France received its last indemnity payment in 1893,^[4] the government of the United States funded the acquisition of Haiti’s treasury in 1911 in order to receive interest payments related to the indemnity.^[5] It took until 1947 – about 122 years – for Haiti to finally pay off all the associated interest to the National City Bank of New York (now Citibank).^[6][5]

You may read the entire history by clicking on the button below

The Haiti Story – click here

Therefore it seems that the retrofitting has been completed. But in fact and truth, the situation presents itself totally differently. What is designated as 5 G, is nothing else but an improved 4 G, which was installed over the already existing antennas. In contrary to that, Swisscom, (the Swiss Internet provider) requires new antennas for 5 G.
However, several Societies are fighting to avoid such new installations. Today there are an estimated 3000 5G antennas in operation in Switzerland. The Operators want more, namely over 26000 Antennas they want to install. Additionally to those, there will be 30,000 Basis stations. In urban areas, according to projections, fine distributors would have to be placed every 150 to 200 meters. Through that, the population will clearly be exposed to increased total radiation network operators are complaining about this growth, while fueling it by offering unlimited cellular packages or encouraging people to use wireless internet boosters to improve cellular speed. 80 percent of the traffic is videos, the resolution of which could be cut in half if you watch them on your smartphone.

This could reduce traffic by 75 percent. In addition, people should know that wireless access (via smartphone or booster) would unnecessarily burden the cellular network and their devices and promote 5G, which many did not want.

In the afternoon he took part in the swearing-in of 24 new Swiss Guardsmen. Because of the pandemic, the swearing-in ceremony took place in the narrowest possible framework and without guest cantons, as the Swiss Guard wrote. Only parents and siblings of the new guardsmen as well as the families of the active guardsmen were allowed to take part in addition to a few selected representatives from Switzerland.The new guardsmen come from the cantons of Aargau, Lucerne, Bern, Nidwalden, Zurich, Valais, Solothurn, Waadt, Thurgau, Graubünden, Ticino, Freiburg and St.Gallen. For the first time, the celebration was broadcast via live stream, from Vatican Radio. “This morning I had the honor of talking to Pope Francis,” tweeted Guy Parmelin on his visit to the Papal States in the early afternoon. He also spoke to Cardinal Secretary Pietro Parolin.

Guard in “Gran Gala”

The Garde presented themselves at the inauguration later in the afternoon in “Gran Gala”, ie in uniform including armor. This is usually only worn for the papal blessing “Urbi et Orbi” at Christmas and Easter.

The body of the Pontifical Swiss Guard was founded in 1506 by Pope Julius ° II. founded, discontinued twice, and only reorganized in 1810. The defense of Pope Clement VII against the numerically far superior Sösdner army of Emperor Charles V at the Sacco di Roma – the sack of the Holy City – in 1527 is remembered. 147 Swiss Guards perished at that time.

The Swiss Guard is still responsible for the Pope’s security today. The guard has been gradually increased from 110 to 135 men since 2018, as the Department of Economics, Education, and Research had announced before the inauguration. A member of the Papal Guard must be Swiss, at least 1.74 meters tall, younger than 30 years, and Catholic. The inauguration of the world’s smallest army always takes place on May 6th – in memory of Sacco di Roma.

Barracks expansion by 2027

In his address, Christoph Graf, the commander of the Swiss Guard, referred to the construction of the barracks, which should be completed on the 500th anniversary of the Sacco di Roma in 2027.

Because the Swiss Guard has increased its staff, the new building will offer up to 60 percent more space but consume 55 percent less energy, as reported by the kath.ch portal, which is closely related to the Swiss Bishops Conference.

A special challenge is therefore the outer facade of the barracks facing Via di Porta Angelica. This is also the border between the Vatican State and the Republic of Italy and should fit into the street scene. For this, they need the green light from Unesco.

No wonder Americans are pissed

As you may remember, in a post that I published on December 8th, 2018, (Today’s World Through My Eyes!) I mentioned some concerns about the mishandling of US government funds. This Stimulus Relief Bill contains pork that shouldn’t be a priority at this time, that bill should, foremost, contain relief for the American people, and help the American economy!

This is what this Covid bill contains:

*$85.5 million to Cambodia?

*$134 million to Burma?

*1.3 billion to Egypt & the Egyptian military. which will go out and buy Russian military equipment.

*$25 million for democracy & gender programs in Pakistan. the place that was hiding Osama Bin Laden!

*$505 million to Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Remember the exodus from some of those same countries trying to reach the US! What are they really doing with those US subsidizing funds? Certainly, nothing for its people!

*$40 million Kenedy Center in Washington, DC, which is closed for business at this time.

*$1 billion for the Smithsonian

*$154 million for the National Gallery of Art, also closed at this time.

This is certainly not the first time Congress has used crisis and clever wording to gain the approval of their opposite party, the people, and the president. It is far more difficult in Congress to gain the support needed for bills on individuals, so they attach other projects, often at great expense, to the hottest bill in the line-up. Nothing could be more red-hot than getting help for hurting Americans right now. The shorthand for the additional items on the bill is referred to as “pork,” the part of the bill that you aren’t supposed to see until after it passes.

Economic turbulence is expected to continue in 2021 as “life as normal” seems to have been postponed indefinitely. It seems tricky to come to support the creation of two new expensive museums, a Women’s History Museum and an American Latino Museum, or to support programs like, “A Statement Of Policy Regarding The Succession Or Reincarnation Of The Dalai Lama”!