Olympics

With the Olympics taking place in Brazil, one of the hotbeds for Zika activity, researchers will be monitoring exposure on a small sample of Olympic and Paralympic athletes participating in the games as well as staff members accompanying them. Funded by NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the study hopes to help researchers understand why some people are infected with Zika, while others are not, in addition to the various effects that take hold in different people’s bodies.

Fear-based politics, horse heads and dead hair + this day in history w/sliced bread and our song of the day by Ages And Ages on your Morning Monarchy for July 7, 2016.

The Olympics will be starting soon in Rio de Janeiro, and by all accounts, it’s setting up to be somewhat of a nightmare.
With less than 50 days before the Games are set to begin, a financial crisis is preventing the city from honoring its commitments to the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The governor has said the crisis is so severe that it could eventually result in “a total collapse in public security, health, education, mobility, and environmental management.” [1]

Olympic body parts, Slender Man trial and Netflix mind control + this day in history w/the Tunguska event and our song of the day by Desdamona on your Morning Monarchy for June 30, 2016.

For Rio’s favela dwellers the story of the 2016 Olympics has been one of disbanded communities, demolished homes and broken promises of urban renewal. But, as Ben Whitford finds, the determination of one community offers hope for other ongoing strugglesThe post Keeping pace: the Rio residents fighting to keep their communities appeared first on Positive News.

Fighting fluoride, stoned sheep and depressed fish + this day in history w/Scotch whisky and our song of the day by Beach Slang on your Morning Monarchy for June 1, 2016.

This week we look at the current turmoil in South America, where the so-called “pink tide” is beginning to recede in Venezuela and Brazil as the United Snakes seeks to exploit political and economic crises for its geopolitical gain.
For the musical break, we’ve got Calle 13, with La Bala.
Next up, we pay homage to the Oaxaca Commune, ten years later…. and finally we wrap things up with an interview with Cesar Chavez, a teacher from Oaxaca from Section 22 of the CNTE.

Invisibility cloaks, Olympic meteors and BangFit + this day in history w/the first Eurovision contest and our song of the day by Adia Victoria on your Morning Monarchy for May 24, 2016.

Television personality and former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner catapulted transgender issues into the mainstream. But it’s the new Olympic guidelines that are really impressing the trans communityThe post Levelling the field for transgender athletes appeared first on Positive News.

Brazilian football great Rivaldo is telling tourists to stay away from the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
The post Brazilian Football Star Warns Olympic Visitors “Stay Home, Your Life Is At Risk Here” appeared first on The Anti-Media.