Clarence Thomas defends “gun rights” in domestic violence cases

June 22, 2024

“The Thomas dissent is only further proof that he is simply a threat to America,” said the father of a mass shooting victim. Trump and Thomas at the October 2020 swearing-in of Justice Barrett. White House photo by Tia Dufour.

‘Truly evil’ Clarence Thomas defends guns for domestic abusers

by Jessica Corbett – Common Dreams

“Thank goodness. Also, Clarence Thomas is truly evil.”

That’s how one progressive pollster responded Friday to the US Supreme Court’s 8-1 ruling in United States v. Rahimi, which upheld a law prohibiting individuals subject to a domestic violence restraining order from possessing a firearm.

Critics across the political spectrum called Thomas’ lone dissent in the case “insane” and blasted the right-wing justice as “fucking awful,” a “corrupt lunatic,” and a “contemptible POS” who “continues to undermine the safety of women and disgrace the court.”

Some pointed out that after Thomas was nominated to the court in 1991 by then-President George H. W. Bush, during the Senate confirmation process, Anita Hill accused the future justice of sexually harassing her. More recently, Thomas has faced demands for his recusal or even resignation because he took gifts from right-wing billionaires and declined to report them.

Journalist Matt Fuller highlighted a portion of Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion that describes various instances of Zackey Rahimi behaving violently with a weapon, including a December 2019 interaction with C.M., the mother of his child.

“C. M. attempted to leave, but Rahimi grabbed her by the wrist, dragged her back to his car, and shoved her in, causing her to strike her head against the dashboard,” Roberts wrote. “When he realized that a bystander was watching the altercation, Rahimi paused to retrieve a gun from under the passenger seat. C. M. took advantage of the opportunity to escape. Rahimi fired as she fled, although it is unclear whether he was aiming at C. M. or the witness.”

Clarence Thomas thinks this person should be allowed to have a gun. pic.twitter.com/VRtHHj74n8
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) June 21, 2024

Amid expressions of relief that the court’s other members joined Roberts’ majority opinion—with several also writing concurring opinions—Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts said that “the Rahimi case should never have been taken up by SCOTUS. To even question whether domestic abusers should have access to guns shows just how extreme this court has become.”

Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter Jaime was murdered in the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, said that he was “glad to see the Supreme Court got it right” in Rahimi, compared with the 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.

“This case only existed because of the horrible Bruen ruling, a decision written by Justice Thomas who was the lone dissent here,” Guttenberg noted. “I am hoping that they cleaned up some of the Bruen issues with this case. The Thomas dissent is only further proof that he is simply a threat to America.”

Bruen struck down New York state’s restrictions on the concealed carry of firearms in public but had a broader effect on various gun control laws—which legal experts said could be further disrupted by the new decision. Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern explained Friday that while “both the majority and several concurrences are attempting to narrow and refine Bruen,” Thomas “says everybody else misunderstood his opinion” in the 2022 case.

Thomas wrote Friday that after Bruen, “this court’s directive was clear: A firearm regulation that falls within the Second Amendment’s plain text is unconstitutional unless it is consistent with the nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. Not a single historical regulation justifies the statute at issue.”

However, given the majority, Stern predicted that “A LOT of lower court decisions that interpreted Bruen as a maximalist cudgel against virtually all modern gun safety measures—and struck down a bunch of laws accordingly—are about to get vacated and remanded by the Supreme Court for reconsideration in light of Rahimi.”

This is a win for the gun safety movement and another loss for the gun lobby hellbent on putting lives in danger.

Gun control advocates cheered Friday’s ruling—which overturned a decision from the far-right US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit—and what it could mean for future court battles.

“Today, we’re celebrating that the Supreme Court ensured that the lives and safety of millions across the country will be protected over the desires of gun rights extremists. This is a win for the gun safety movement and another loss for the gun lobby hellbent on putting lives in danger,” declared Moms Demand Action executive director Angela Ferrell-Zabala.

Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), who has worked on gun violence prevention since surviving a 2011 shooting, said that “this is a win for women, children, and anyone who has experienced domestic abuse,” and it “would not have been possible without the work of gun safety and domestic violence advocates across the country.”

People for the American Way President Svante Myrick called out the “extreme, ultraconservative 5th Circuit” and stressed that while “we’re glad” the justices “made a reasonable ruling” in Rahimi, “we can’t lose sight of the fact that far-right majorities on the Supreme Court and a lower court set the stage for what could have been a disaster.”

“In fact, the majority of the court made clear that they may well invalidate other gun safety rules under Bruen even after today’s decision,” he warned. “That’s why we have to keep courts in mind when we go to the polls in November.”

The next Presidential election is actually quite simple. The next President will probably appoint 1 or 2 justices. Do you want another Justice like Clarence Thomas? A justice who can't agree that domestic abusers should not have guns. If not, your only choice is to vote for… pic.twitter.com/68VUJpfbsx
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) June 21, 2024

In the November election, Democratic President Joe Biden is set to face former Republican President Donald Trump. While Trump’s three appointees to the high court sided with Roberts in Rahimi, they were also part of the majorities in Bruen and Garland v. Cargill, a ruling from last week that struck down the Trump administration’s bump stock ban.

Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday that “while President Biden and I stand up to the gun lobby, Donald Trump bows down. Trump has made clear he believes Americans should ‘get over’ gun violence, and we cannot allow him to roll back commonsense protections or appoint the next generation of Supreme Court justices.”

“This case is yet another reminder that some want to take our country back to a time when women were not treated as equal to men and were not allowed to vote—and husbands could subject their wives to physical violence without it being considered a crime,” Harris added. “Trump is a threat to our freedoms and our safety, and we must defeat him in November.”

The US National Domestic Violence Hotline can be reached at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233), by texting “START” to 88788, or through chat at thehotline.org. It offers 24/7, free, and confidential support. DomesticShelters.org has a list of global and national resources.

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¿Wappin? Panama’s also a Caribbean country / Panamá también es un país caribeño

June 21, 2024

También quienes somos
Also who we are

Bob Marley and the Wailers – No Woman, No Cry
https://youtu.be/55_eCsTAo5Q?si=vbV8j7s1KiSXS2_1

Grupo Kathia Thomas — Desfile de la Junta Comunal de Rio Abajo
https://web.facebook.com/thepanamanews/posts/pfbid02qHk42shxT87eBsN8QC8KhjWmugAxmjKZAbVmLNYJ6vE2wZyzHW3MKBXvtv2P41pVl

John Francis Jacobs & Milagros Blades — ¡AWA!
https://youtu.be/Zawd0c9ZntI?si=VSUdnFxe6X5qa-Xc

Mad Professor – Melt Down Dub
https://youtu.be/_sbqdZP1Xxs?si=6ka_MZNmuFvLwtAF

Panama 3 Anthology
https://youtu.be/M_w3YaSgmkM?si=L4Z17ATSvkJGEQln

Oscar De León – Lloraras
https://youtu.be/Obv4rk5Xs3s?si=X9-iemTAUI_HqV55

Aisha Davis – Only In My Head
https://youtu.be/3fENiXyaW14?si=5wUofWAgV3QeY7aK

Yomira John – Madre Tierra
https://youtu.be/tuwAnf2pop0?si=ZweMHAReWOsItGLK

Wynton Marsalis & Rubén Blades – Pedro Navaja
https://youtu.be/UibAE_x6NM8?si=FErEoJFmxPcydXcP

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Into the city and back – a day-long adventure, mostly by public transportation

June 21, 2024

Sunrise just past Rio Hato no traffic delays at that moment, the pavement dry, the air conditioning on the bus turned way up. The clock reads six in the morning and the bus is headed east, into the sun.

12 hours of getting around the way the editor does

photos and story by Eric Jackson

I fed and watered the dogs and cats, made sure that things were locked and nothing that somebody would want to steal was within reach of the windows, then I was out the door, locking the door and gate behind me. It was four dark thirty and I had a doctor’s appointment in the city, on a day when SUNTRACS said they’d be out protesting in the streets. Gotta start early, so I stationed myself under the street light closest to my bus stop. Khaki pants, yellow and black striped shirt, my bag with things that will reflect.

The first bus was one of the little ones that I didn’t recognize as a bus until it almost got to me, so I didn’t motion and the driver didn’t stop. The second bus was not yet in service and its driver gestured that to me as he passed. Then came a Penonome bus, which after the entrada would be headed in a different direction from how I wanted to go. But good enough to pay my 40 cents and get off and go into the Van y Ven at the entrada. There I went in and got me one of those Monster Zero ginseng energy drinks to power me on my way, then went across the road to the caseta on the eastbound lane of the Pan-American Highway. Soon enough a David to Panama bus stopped and I got on.

It wasn’t an express bus, or it probably would not have stopped for me. The norm here is that there are true express buses, which make no stops between from whence they set out and their final destination, and then there are the express buses that will stop where someone wants to get off, and take boarding passengers at that point, but won’t stop at any caseta along the way where people are waiting. There are variations on the theme. I had timed things to make it to my appointment on time even if it was one of those agonizing stop-everywhere-along-the-way things. This one made stops but was not quite that extreme.

The longest delay getting into the city was at La Chorrera around 7 a.m., where this and another largely empty Panama bus had the same idea — add more passengers from the local buses arriving at La Espiga. We had this dueling pavos competition before we were more fully loaded an on our way. The Torrijos and Martinelli administrations largely eliminated the painted diablo rojo buses in the Panama City and San Miguelito metro area to make way for the Metro buses, but the art of bus painting survives in many other places in Panama, including La Chorrera.

I arrived at the terminal around 8:30, later than might have been in an epoch with no mega construction on the monorail in Panama Oeste. SUNTRACS had called a one-day strike to protest the denial of banking services to the union and several of its leaders — which Nito’s banking superintendent admits is about politics, in particular the bankers’ support for the wildly unpopular and flagrantly unconstitutional copper mine project. Let word about that get out and abroad in the world and see what the practice of politically motivated account closures does to Panama’s status as an international banking center. But leave it for Mulino to face that sort of fallout.

I grabbed a pastelitos de queso, baked chicken and chicha de limon breakfast in one of the food courts, then off by taxi to the clinica in Punta Pacifica.

The way to the clinic was circuitous. The union brothers were blocking Avenida Balboa, as was to be expected. It was not, however, a mass of angry labor militants making a do-or-die stand on a main drag. It was a roadblock here, then move on, a roadblock down the street, other roadblocks across town, little pockets of protesters showing up suddenly and dispersing suddenly, with police trying to keep up and direct drivers around the disruptions. Surely the companies with the contract to sell tear gas and rubber bullets to the Public Ministry must have been disappointed.

I got to the dermatologist’s office before he did, and soon enough heard that it’s not skin cancer. When The Reaper comes for me, it probably won’t be that.

Then, into another cab. Getting me around the protests all the way to the terminal was asking a lot, but it was less trouble getting me to the Metro subway station near Via Argentina.

The Metro trains continue to revolutionize the transportation calculations in Panama City, especially for those of us who are not enslaved to automobiles.

Up from the underground at Albrook, and all around I saw the work on expanding the train station. As in, adding a monorail line that will cross the canal and go all the way out to La Espiga in La Chorrera. Perhaps it’s also expanding for a contemplated Panama to David train. Across the bridge, from which I took some pictures, and into the bus terminal, and on my way home.

The day of protest was still ongoing, leading to the bus taking the other than legally prescribed route to the Bridge of the Americas through Balboa but instead taking the more direct way past the Electoral Tribunal on Avenida Ascanio Arosemena.

Out front of the Electoral Tribunal a small band of protesters were blocking the street, and a little beyond them, police were routing traffic around them. Going back to my teenage militant day, I could think of ways that SUNTRACS might have done battle to thwart what they were doing. But this, after all, was just a WARNING strike day. And the outgoing director of the National Police? Face it – he dealt with some serious disruptions, including a national strike supported by the great majority of Panamanians, a national uprising, really, with aside from some minor and isolated blunders by cops and strikers alike, avoided severe violence and the downfall of the elected government. The bodies on the pavement in Chame? Forget the MAGA gringo hero worship: he was born Panamanian, a long-time mafia lawyer with old PRD insider ties and whose daughter is married to Vice President Gaby Carrizo’s daughter. Might as well call it an isolated incident provoked by an irate PRD guy, for which he has been sentenced to 48 years in prison with hardly a peep of protest.

Back to the piquera in Antona little before four in the afternoon, with dinner to buy for the animals, a few cleaning supplies, some late dim sum and some pan moña con queso blanco at my usual haunts next door. As I was carrying a lot going into the city, it was the more expensive but also more convenient choice to take a cab back to Barrio El Bajito. I got everything unpacked and put away before I ventured to survey the dogs’ trashing in my absence. It was about four thirty by then. Long day, even before giving the livestock their dinner.

From the pedestrian bridge between the Albrook Metro station and the national bus terminal. More train station construction underway. Panama is deeply indebted, yet it’s standard Keynesian economics to keep an economy in danger of collapse working via public works contracts. Seen Ancon Hill in the background, which has its own attractive development possibilities if one discards “just like Disney World” thinking and considers what this national park has in it, and in the Cold War bomb shelter tunnels underneath it.

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A visit to John Douglas’s Lazy Man’s Farm II

June 16, 2024

So THAT’S what a dragon fruit looks like! This and other photos on this page by Eric Jackson.

The easier and healthier way
to grow your living

by Eric Jackson

John Douglas has been a private sector agronomist for some time now. When, as a subcontractor he worked to set up a park in Panama City? A few years back, and he was never paid. He taught organic permaculture for Uncle Sam as a Peace Corps volunteer and otherwise, but now he holds forth in his second farm near Penonome, smaller and a bit closer to town than the previous one, with the back of his property on the Zarate River. There are various aspects to the business, but subsistence agriculture and the teaching of sustainable farming without all the chemicals are the main things. As a side gig for some of the neighbors, he gives some English lessons. He’s not set up to do it as a main business, but you might be able to get a plant, a cutting or some seeds to start growing your own stuff.

These days John’s truck has died, he’s an octogenarian and he generally gets around by public transportation. People find their ways to his farm out on Via Sonadora north / northeast of the Penonome town center, across from the Catholic Church in the corregimiento of Pajonal. It’s along the back roads that meander from Penonome to El Valle, a little ways up from the historic battlefield where Victoriano Lorenzo’s Liberal guerrillas defeated the Conservatives in a trench warfare episode of the Thousand Days War, setting the stage for Lorenzo to take Penonome and Aguadulce. Sonadora’s a somewhat sparsely populated, prosperous neighborhood these days. It’s part of a scenic drive from El Valle to Penonome or vice versa.

At one point the government was into “agricultural tourism,” which was one of the premises for the first Lazy Man’s Farm, but in recent times “tourism promotion” is about subsidies to ad agencies and tax incentives to build redundant hotels. And agricultural promotion? The people who import and sell agro-chemicals, not the organic farmers, are the ones with the political influence. Still, healthy farming has its many fans and practitioners here.

In the background, the Catholic church in Sonadora provides the across-the-road landmark to find The Lazy Man’s Farm.

John and his assistant have been celebrating a new success in composting papaya trees.

Mother and son drop by for an English lesson.

Flowers and medicinal plants, too…

There is an ethic that goes along with this. You wouldn’t want a perfectly good planter go into a landfill just because it no longer serves its original intended use.

TEACHING — that’s the ticket.

Every well-appointed organic permaculture farm should have a wonder dog.

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Physicians sound a fraud alarm about Medicare Advantage

June 15, 2024

“The time has come to declare MA a failed experiment,” write the authors of a new paper. Stock photo.

A $600 billion swindle: study makes the
case to ‘abolish’ Medicare Advantage

by Jake Johnson — Common Dreams

A new academic analysis published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine details the enormous sums that privatized Medicare Advantage plans have cost US taxpayers in recent years and calls for the abolition of the program, which has been massively profitable for the insurance giants that dominate it.

Citing the nonpartisan Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, the paper notes that Medicare Advantage (MA) plans have overcharged the federal government to the tune of $612 billion since 2007—and $82 billion last year alone.

MA plans—now used by more than half of the eligible Medicare population—utilize a range of tactics to reap larger payments from the federal government, which provides insurers a lump sum for each Medicare Advantage patient. The size of the payment depends on the enrollee’s health, which MA plans are notorious for portraying as worse than it is in order to receive heftier government payments.

“Paradoxically, despite those overpayments, MA plans spend 9% less on medical services than [fee-for-service] Medicare spends for comparable enrollees,” reads the new study. “If MA plans pay for less care, where do the overpayments go? Some pay for supplementary benefits, although plans do not disclose how much they spend on them, and MA enrollees do not get significantly more dental care or incur lower out-of-pocket dental costs than those in FFS Medicare. Instead, overhead and profit eats up the lion’s share.”

The study’s authors estimate that MA plans’ overhead from 2007 to 2024 was $592 billion, which is “equivalent to 97% of taxpayers’ $612 billion overpayments to them during that period.”

Medicare Advantage plans have, in effect, stolen hundreds of billions from taxpayers

Dr. Adam Gaffney, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the lead author of the new study, said in a statement that “Medicare Advantage is a bad deal for taxpayers.”

“Money that could be used to eliminate all copayments or shore up Medicare’s Trust Fund is instead lining insurers’ pockets,” said Gaffney. “And the private insurers keep Medicare Advantage enrollees from getting needed care by erecting bureaucratic hurdles like prior authorizations and payment denials.”

Gaffney and study co-authors Drs. Stephanie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein—co-founders of Physicians for a National Health Program (PHNP)—argue based on their examination of Medicare Advantage’s decadeslong history that “the time has come to declare MA a failed experiment and abolish it.”

“Medicare Advantage plans have, in effect, stolen hundreds of billions from taxpayers,” says David Himmelstein, a lecturer at Harvard Medical School and a research associate at the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen. “And the private plans’ schemes also raise seniors’ Part B Medicare premiums. Even seniors who don’t choose to enroll in Medicare Advantage are subsidizing the private plans’ profits.”

The study’s authors observe that the elimination of Medicare Advantage would allow the federal government to use the roughly $88 billion in estimated MA overpayments for the coming year to instead “upgrade benefits for all Medicare beneficiaries.” Traditional Medicare typically does not cover dental, vision, or hearing services, which often leads people to choose MA plans.

“A smarter, thriftier way to expand benefits and lower out-of-pocket costs is possible for all Medicare beneficiaries, but first, we must eliminate MA and double down on traditional Medicare, covering all enrollees in an expanded and improved Medicare program,” the analysis concludes. “That would be a good deal for patients and taxpayers.”

Wendell Potter, a former insurance executive who has become a trenchant critic of Medicare Advantage, told Common Dreams that he agrees with the study’s authors that MA “should be eliminated.”

“Not only has it never saved taxpayers a dime since it was created during the George W. Bush administration, but it has cost us $592 billion over the last 17 years because of the high administrative costs inherent in the program and the way insurers have rigged the system to get paid excessively every year,” said Potter, president of the Center for Health and Democracy.

“The program is so entrenched, and the companies have so much political influence over Democrats as well as Republicans through campaign contributions and lobbying, that eliminating the program will be a heavy lift, at least in the near term,” Potter added. “That means that proposals to reform MA that address overpayments and abuses like prior authorization are essential and important for reform advocates to support.”

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¿Wappin? The Endless Cycle / El Ciclo Sin Fin

June 14, 2024

Mein Gott! Der Kommissar is back in town! Photo by biphop, Lyon 2007.

Haven’t we been here before?
¿No hemos estado aquí antes?

Rubén Blades & Roby Draco Rosa – Patria
https://youtu.be/ql0G312R2IQ?si=chCBf30reouJ48O7

Cyndi Lauper et al – Big Yellow Taxi
https://youtu.be/CoqSZktN5PU?si=z4s6pHB2N3n1YJzb

REM – Losing My Religion
https://youtu.be/xwtdhWltSIg?si=w4tHvVePrrjtj4xC

Combos Nacionales Mix By DJ Markito 507
https://youtu.be/7Ks_aSiDIUE?si=-ij_ilIg_For078-

Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody
https://youtu.be/blNvxiilC3s?si=fMrGntgV4kOyINNb

Los Mozambiques – El Presidiario
https://youtu.be/uzjXVTQ6C9U?si=l7JDywt71fEU50Hp

Four Tops – I Can’t Help Myself
https://youtu.be/7LwjipizvKQ?si=B39USkEc0uh5_RFf

After The Fire – Der Kommissar
https://youtu.be/vBfFDTPPlaM?si=lTsnDkFKKWFEruLp

Sia – Courage to Change
https://youtu.be/p5QfyF9pkHU?si=Z-B1Nv_C-xvoP32E

Danny Rivera y Yomira John – Concierto Siempre Amigos
https://youtu.be/1pku4P1M7pg?si=g1sF-jZqRcWm4xj9

Aisha – So Broken
https://youtu.be/aJT_0BOcv4k?si=8TBSczpcPBf5L7Zu

Michael Bolton – Never Say Goodbye
https://youtu.be/92T9pVBNG0c?si=0WDG7q-tMxXceeOo

Lauryn Hill – Doo Wop That Thing
https://youtu.be/Njcj4-bc4DQ?si=-OkaXM2S9oPNz78J

Solinka – Desdén
https://youtu.be/OCuPiiaoLDE?si=2bOIB75la1LMpqB5

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Nanotubos de carbono hilados para formar un hilo. Imagen Wikimedia por CISRO.

Antes de salvar el mundo con nanotubos de carbono, ¿sabemos si son reciclables?

por Anastasiia Mikhalchan

¿Reciclables?

Tratamiento térmico

Como un Lego®

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“The Thomas dissent is only further proof that he is simply a threat to America,” said the father of a mass shooting victim. Trump and Thomas at the October 2020 swearing-in of Justice Barrett. White House photo by Tia Dufour.

‘Truly evil’ Clarence Thomas defends guns for domestic abusers

by Jessica Corbett – Common Dreams

This is a win for the gun safety movement and another loss for the gun lobby hellbent on putting lives in danger.

También quienes somosAlso who we are

Bob Marley and the Wailers – No Woman, No Cryhttps://youtu.be/55_eCsTAo5Q?si=vbV8j7s1KiSXS2_1

Grupo Kathia Thomas — Desfile de la Junta Comunal de Rio Abajohttps://web.facebook.com/thepanamanews/posts/pfbid02qHk42shxT87eBsN8QC8KhjWmugAxmjKZAbVmLNYJ6vE2wZyzHW3MKBXvtv2P41pVl

John Francis Jacobs & Milagros Blades — ¡AWA!https://youtu.be/Zawd0c9ZntI?si=VSUdnFxe6X5qa-Xc

Mad Professor – Melt Down Dubhttps://youtu.be/_sbqdZP1Xxs?si=6ka_MZNmuFvLwtAF

Panama 3 Anthologyhttps://youtu.be/M_w3YaSgmkM?si=L4Z17ATSvkJGEQln

Oscar De León – Llorarashttps://youtu.be/Obv4rk5Xs3s?si=X9-iemTAUI_HqV55

Aisha Davis – Only In My Headhttps://youtu.be/3fENiXyaW14?si=5wUofWAgV3QeY7aK

Yomira John – Madre Tierrahttps://youtu.be/tuwAnf2pop0?si=ZweMHAReWOsItGLK

Wynton Marsalis & Rubén Blades – Pedro Navajahttps://youtu.be/UibAE_x6NM8?si=FErEoJFmxPcydXcP

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Sunrise just past Rio Hato no traffic delays at that moment, the pavement dry, the air conditioning on the bus turned way up. The clock reads six in the morning and the bus is headed east, into the sun.

12 hours of getting around the way the editor does

photos and story by Eric Jackson

The Metro trains continue to revolutionize the transportation calculations in Panama City, especially for those of us who are not enslaved to automobiles.

Fragmemtation, governability and Panamanians’ will to live together

Among Democrats

Vonnegut portrait by Giovanni Scifo – Deviant Art.

Bear in mind…

On second thought…

Photo and note by Eric Jackson

Exclusionary bigotry never did anything to lift this country up. Immigrants, on the other hand, have shown us what true greatness and perseverance look like. A US Border Patrol agent on the Rio Grande near McAllen, Texas. US Department of Homeland Security photo by Donna Burton.

Beware the xenophobes: immigrantshave always made this nation great

by James Zogby — Common Dreams

Not only will they become American, but also America itself will be transformed by them and their contributions.

So THAT’S what a dragon fruit looks like! This and other photos on this page by Eric Jackson.

The easier and healthier wayto grow your living

by Eric Jackson

In the background, the Catholic church in Sonadora provides the across-the-road landmark to find The Lazy Man’s Farm.

John and his assistant have been celebrating a new success in composting papaya trees.

Mother and son drop by for an English lesson.

Flowers and medicinal plants, too…

There is an ethic that goes along with this. You wouldn’t want a perfectly good planter go into a landfill just because it no longer serves its original intended use.

TEACHING — that’s the ticket.

Every well-appointed organic permaculture farm should have a wonder dog.

“The time has come to declare MA a failed experiment,” write the authors of a new paper. Stock photo.

A $600 billion swindle: study makes thecase to ‘abolish’ Medicare Advantage

by Jake Johnson — Common Dreams

Medicare Advantage plans have, in effect, stolen hundreds of billions from taxpayers

Mein Gott! Der Kommissar is back in town! Photo by biphop, Lyon 2007.

Haven’t we been here before? ¿No hemos estado aquí antes?

Rubén Blades & Roby Draco Rosa – Patriahttps://youtu.be/ql0G312R2IQ?si=chCBf30reouJ48O7

Cyndi Lauper et al – Big Yellow Taxihttps://youtu.be/CoqSZktN5PU?si=z4s6pHB2N3n1YJzb

REM – Losing My Religionhttps://youtu.be/xwtdhWltSIg?si=w4tHvVePrrjtj4xC

Combos Nacionales Mix By DJ Markito 507https://youtu.be/7Ks_aSiDIUE?si=-ij_ilIg_For078-

Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melodyhttps://youtu.be/blNvxiilC3s?si=fMrGntgV4kOyINNb

Los Mozambiques – El Presidiariohttps://youtu.be/uzjXVTQ6C9U?si=l7JDywt71fEU50Hp

Four Tops – I Can’t Help Myselfhttps://youtu.be/7LwjipizvKQ?si=B39USkEc0uh5_RFf

After The Fire – Der Kommissarhttps://youtu.be/vBfFDTPPlaM?si=lTsnDkFKKWFEruLp

Sia – Courage to Changehttps://youtu.be/p5QfyF9pkHU?si=Z-B1Nv_C-xvoP32E

Danny Rivera y Yomira John – Concierto Siempre Amigoshttps://youtu.be/1pku4P1M7pg?si=g1sF-jZqRcWm4xj9

Aisha – So Brokenhttps://youtu.be/aJT_0BOcv4k?si=8TBSczpcPBf5L7Zu

Michael Bolton – Never Say Goodbyehttps://youtu.be/92T9pVBNG0c?si=0WDG7q-tMxXceeOo

Lauryn Hill – Doo Wop That Thinghttps://youtu.be/Njcj4-bc4DQ?si=-OkaXM2S9oPNz78J

Solinka – Desdénhttps://youtu.be/OCuPiiaoLDE?si=2bOIB75la1LMpqB5

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Bob Marley and the Wailers – No Woman, No Cry
https://youtu.be/55_eCsTAo5Q?si=vbV8j7s1KiSXS2_1

Grupo Kathia Thomas — Desfile de la Junta Comunal de Rio Abajo
https://web.facebook.com/thepanamanews/posts/pfbid02qHk42shxT87eBsN8QC8KhjWmugAxmjKZAbVmLNYJ6vE2wZyzHW3MKBXvtv2P41pVl

John Francis Jacobs & Milagros Blades — ¡AWA!
https://youtu.be/Zawd0c9ZntI?si=VSUdnFxe6X5qa-Xc

Mad Professor – Melt Down Dub
https://youtu.be/_sbqdZP1Xxs?si=6ka_MZNmuFvLwtAF

Panama 3 Anthology
https://youtu.be/M_w3YaSgmkM?si=L4Z17ATSvkJGEQln

Oscar De León – Lloraras
https://youtu.be/Obv4rk5Xs3s?si=X9-iemTAUI_HqV55

Aisha Davis – Only In My Head
https://youtu.be/3fENiXyaW14?si=5wUofWAgV3QeY7aK

Yomira John – Madre Tierra
https://youtu.be/tuwAnf2pop0?si=ZweMHAReWOsItGLK

Wynton Marsalis & Rubén Blades – Pedro Navaja
https://youtu.be/UibAE_x6NM8?si=FErEoJFmxPcydXcP

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Beware the xenophobes: immigrants
have always made this nation great

The easier and healthier way
to grow your living

A $600 billion swindle: study makes the
case to ‘abolish’ Medicare Advantage

Haven’t we been here before?
¿No hemos estado aquí antes?

Rubén Blades & Roby Draco Rosa – Patria
https://youtu.be/ql0G312R2IQ?si=chCBf30reouJ48O7

Cyndi Lauper et al – Big Yellow Taxi
https://youtu.be/CoqSZktN5PU?si=z4s6pHB2N3n1YJzb

REM – Losing My Religion
https://youtu.be/xwtdhWltSIg?si=w4tHvVePrrjtj4xC

Combos Nacionales Mix By DJ Markito 507
https://youtu.be/7Ks_aSiDIUE?si=-ij_ilIg_For078-

Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody
https://youtu.be/blNvxiilC3s?si=fMrGntgV4kOyINNb

Los Mozambiques – El Presidiario
https://youtu.be/uzjXVTQ6C9U?si=l7JDywt71fEU50Hp

Four Tops – I Can’t Help Myself
https://youtu.be/7LwjipizvKQ?si=B39USkEc0uh5_RFf

After The Fire – Der Kommissar
https://youtu.be/vBfFDTPPlaM?si=lTsnDkFKKWFEruLp

Sia – Courage to Change
https://youtu.be/p5QfyF9pkHU?si=Z-B1Nv_C-xvoP32E

Danny Rivera y Yomira John – Concierto Siempre Amigos
https://youtu.be/1pku4P1M7pg?si=g1sF-jZqRcWm4xj9

Aisha – So Broken
https://youtu.be/aJT_0BOcv4k?si=8TBSczpcPBf5L7Zu

Michael Bolton – Never Say Goodbye
https://youtu.be/92T9pVBNG0c?si=0WDG7q-tMxXceeOo

Lauryn Hill – Doo Wop That Thing
https://youtu.be/Njcj4-bc4DQ?si=-OkaXM2S9oPNz78J

Solinka – Desdén
https://youtu.be/OCuPiiaoLDE?si=2bOIB75la1LMpqB5

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