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Nuclear Plants
Decolonization and post-colonial studies in the post-Soviet sphere (excerpt) April 26th, 38 years after Chornobyl /// nuclear blackmail today The catastrophic nuclear disaster of the Chornobyl power plant, the largest anthropogenic disaster in human history, occurred in Prypiat, a town around 130 km north of Kyiv on April 26, 1986. The root cause of the…
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Synevyr and the Bloodstone
Oзеро Синевир, Synevyr Lake, the largest mountain lake in Ukraine is crystal clear and located in the Carpathian Mountains. Scientists estimate that it was formed in the post-Ice Age period, about 10 thousand years ago as the result of a powerful, earthquake-induced tectonic shift. The lake belongs to the National natural preserve “Synevyr”, and is…
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червона калина
CHEVRONA KALYNA The red kalyna bush (or guelder-rose/red viburnum) grows wild in the woods, meadows and along riverbanks, is a cultivated as an ornamental bush and can be found in most village home gardens and many urban gardens throughout Ukraine. Blooming from May to June, the fruit mature in September and October, fruits that aren’t harvested…
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The Steppes
Ukrainian Shield, Crystalline Massif The Ukrainian Shield, also called Crystalline Massif stretches from the Sea of Azov to the border of Belarus. It is an uplifted block of Precambrian basement that rises above the surrounding plain of younger sediments. Taking central position and encompassing one-third of the country, it is located in the Dnieper Upland,…
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Negative Inertia, Exotic Matter
russia is inertia siberian hibernation sleeping bear murder bear nobody likes friction privilege is a static state ‚Let’s say, for the sake of argument, exotic matter comes from exotic places. These exotic places are alternate dimensions/parallel universes, etc., but are accessible via wormholes. Perhaps another being came from these places and ended up in our…
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Peaceful Sky Above You
Condemnations echo in chambers, alongside excuses about cumbersome bureaucracy, bumbling acts of “philanthropy,” and demands for pats on the back. Word goes around that “things are slowing down”, talks of “peace deals,” succession of territories, demilitarized zones, …etc. These quick answers suit a lot of peoples convenience. Cognitive dissonance took hold in corona time and…
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Penelope at the Loom Watching the War
Penelope at the Loom Watching the War No-one can imagine in the year 2023— how it is to be Penelope, time suspended in an antique, soviet tragedy. Counterbalance revisionist aggressions by weaving invocations of protection, beauty for the eyes of he who faces the aftermath of annexation. Failed Trojan horse—wooden tank full of little, green…
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What will happen to all that beauty?
It was some time later that I discovered the teachings of Manly P. Hall. Since then, I often come back to his lectures, which provide a great sense of stability, imaginative possibility, inspiration, truth and rationality. The following excerpt is from his lecture: ‘Armageddon-War Ends in Peace.’ ‘An inscription on the base of the statue…
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Forced to Leave
Don’t fund war, give russia tunnel vision, provide no light at the end, boycott and demand companies to end business involvement in and with russia. dontfundwar.com provides an automatically synchronized database (collected by Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute), including a rubric that separates companies based on level of engagement with the russian federation. Ranging from…
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Туне́ль Коха́ння, Tunnel of Love
The Tunnel of Love is located in the small town of Klevan, in the northwest Oblast of Rivne, a sort of half way point between Lviv and Kyiv. The train track was originally used by the Soviets in the Cold War, to transport military equipment to a nearby, secret military base. The trees were planted…
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