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Beautifully crafted verse; you're so multitalented!

But any real biologist knows why amphibians are declining worldwide. Like any network, ecological networks are tightly integrated feedback communication systems in which alteration of any condition will ramify through numerous network layers. Likewise, your brain, for example -- folks who have what are known as somatic-sensory strokes don't just experience sensory losses. Often, there are changes to ability to use muscles correctly, even sometimes to unconscious functions like digestion. Ecosystems are like brains extended in space-time. While we might not know the exact condition change(s) that occurred to lead to frogs dying/not reproducing, we know, in principle, that the change(s), whatever they are, will spread through a tightly integrated communication network with often unpredictable consequences.

We fail to see this because we've been propagandized by reductionist biomedicine into becoming fragmenters, seeing our bodies as individual organs -- sick or healthy --- and Nature as a confusing array of sometimes very different species. Modern humans, unlike aboriginals are extremely poor at cybernetic systems thinking, while rather skilled at narcissism.

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Do we know for sure why the frogs are dying? Frogs do die, I know that. I'm sure a lot of frogs died when they built all those shit hole cities on the coast, but that's all okay, right? I think the cities need to go back and live as the aboriginals did, that will fix it, and make so much more frog habitat. Be hard to convince the the aboriginals though probably... Just being snarky...sorry.

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Snarky takes are at least amusing. And not that far off --- when you consider that my stock answer is that Nature is highly probabilistic and so complex that we really don't know a whole hell of a lot. Just seems that way compared to 100 years ago.

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Yes, and it's not static, at all as the propaganda likes to teach. There is no real balance, everything is evolving and something is always on the way out and something else on the way in. Voids are filled. We measure things based on our short time table which is basically statistically irrelevant. I find snarky comments more interesting myself, no virtue-signaling usually. They have used the 'environment' so well to take over politics and form a new religion, when it was probably better prior to the rise of the administrative state in most cases.

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So beautiful !!!

Biden administration is full of Russia-gate hoax conspirators. Among them is Hillary campaign's national security advisor, Jake Sullivan — now President Biden's National Security Advisor.

Sullivan was a member of the team that concocted the Russia-gate scam of the century and has played a role in destruction of Trump’s National Security Advisor, a distinguished general Michael Flynn (whom narcissist Obama abhorred). The persecution and insults to Mike Flynn still continue to this day:

Chase bank just cancelled credit card of US general, Michael Flynn.

Reason given: Flynn is a "reputation risk"....

Truly an outrage – always remember Obama’s bank mega-gangsters and their “reputation”.

The Indictment of Hillary Clinton's Lawyer is an Indictment of the Russia-gate Wing of U.S. Media

The DOJ's new charging document, approved by Biden's Attorney General, sheds bright light onto the Russia-gate fraud and how journalistic corruption was key.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-indictment-of-hillary-clintons

PS: I am sure that Hunter Biden has all his credit cards - full of money "earned" by Biden-family corruption.

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blazingly beautiful... a gift that has me pause to appreciate it and your indomitable spirit

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The article is, once again, outstanding. And now -- so what?

What can be done? What specific actions??

For example:

1. Can a sitting Senator or Congresswoman be removed for CORRUPTION?

2. Are there prior cases -- in prosecuting corruption?

3. What is necessary to initiate a process?

4. What are other 10 or 20 specific actions population can undertake in fight of a massive and endemic corruption at all levels of US government?

PS: The "soo bad" China executes yearly few extreme cases of corruption in China; when was the last time any major US politician was jailed in the US (beyond few months or years)?

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Lovely ! Thank you Caitlin.

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There are NO more sparrows in Munich, and very small number of tits . My precious birds !

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Your creative writing is so important to us all in the way it inspires us around the world. I see you quoted and am pleased about that. We don't need to agreewith each and every point on every topic, and I agree with most of your perspectives. All my views are provisional. I keep changing my mind as I learn new things anyway. You assist me on this journey.

So much appreciation for the persistence of will to write to the world. We need you now.

Thanks so much CJ

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Does this have something to do with the cancelation of the submarine contract?

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That's what I had expected from the title

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Thank you for writing and sharing this. We are also seeing mystery wild bird diseases in the mid and eastern USA. The scientists don’t know why or what the disease is. Is this how ecosystems and populations collapse?

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/songbirds-are-mysteriously-dying-across-eastern-us-scientists-are-scrambling-find-out

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The time is always now. The answer is always love. Until we learn this simple lesson, for our selves and our dear Earth, we struggle. Our eternity together is what holds us, here in Life - even as the dark energy thrashes in its failing power. There is no fear.

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!!!!😑😑😑😑

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Australia is lost, they gave up their guns so easily Stalin would be proud, and became 'subjects' again, and are now the frogs themselves. Whatever, they chose it and didn't fight. I'm sure the outback didn't like it, and they probably have some guns buried in oil cloth and might survive with the frogs who are probably doing fine anyway. Remember the Spotted Owl anyone?...yeah, a big hoax but it wiped out all the small business loggers in the Northwest so easily and left it for the big corps. Genius. Now we have fire and whole towns burning up while the bureaucrats turn that into 'their' industry that only loses money, security and freedom. FS and BLM's new slogan, "Living with Fire." Really? Better than "Let it Burn", but it probably means let it burn and then live with it. How does that work out? It's came a long way from "Don't play with matches". And everything is labelled 'Wild'. What trash, it's settled country and has been so for over a hundred years, it's just not a shit hole 'city'. Wild Lands, Wild Fire, Wild and Scenic, Wild Horses, Wild BS... Before the bureaucrats got a death hold and 'expanded', guess what, We the People living there put the fires out fast, and on the few big ones the State stepped in, and it didn't cost America anything and saved lots of grass and timber. We called them range fires and forest fires. Didn't cost the government a dime. We never let them burn like they do now...smoky all summer. I'm sure it's all better though, for the frogs and everything...

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Romanticizing the crisis won't save the frogs--or ourselves!

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Beautiful. Reminded of a gently weeping guitar..

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Thank you for such a gift this morning.

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