Chalks Belgium
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Creative and fun community focused individual. Into Salsa, keeping fit and strong well-being.
Monday Lift:
The world may feel unsteady, but goodness is still a choice. Be steady. Be human. Take the next right step.
The world may feel unsteady, but goodness is still a choice. Be steady. Be human. Take the next right step.
January 26, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Monday Lift:
The world may feel unsteady, but goodness is still a choice. Be steady. Be human. Take the next right step.
The world may feel unsteady, but goodness is still a choice. Be steady. Be human. Take the next right step.
Monday Lift
“The time is always right to do right.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
Not when it’s convenient. Not when we feel brave.
Just… now. One honest step. One decent choice. One act of care.
“The time is always right to do right.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
Not when it’s convenient. Not when we feel brave.
Just… now. One honest step. One decent choice. One act of care.
January 19, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Monday Lift
“The time is always right to do right.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
Not when it’s convenient. Not when we feel brave.
Just… now. One honest step. One decent choice. One act of care.
“The time is always right to do right.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
Not when it’s convenient. Not when we feel brave.
Just… now. One honest step. One decent choice. One act of care.
Friendship is a lamp,
held steady in changing winds -
warm light, shared and sure.
held steady in changing winds -
warm light, shared and sure.
January 9, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Friendship is a lamp,
held steady in changing winds -
warm light, shared and sure.
held steady in changing winds -
warm light, shared and sure.
Monday Lift:
Hope isn’t denial.
It’s the discipline of believing our actions still matter—especially now.
Hope isn’t denial.
It’s the discipline of believing our actions still matter—especially now.
January 5, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Monday Lift:
Hope isn’t denial.
It’s the discipline of believing our actions still matter—especially now.
Hope isn’t denial.
It’s the discipline of believing our actions still matter—especially now.
With heartfelt wishes for an outstanding New Year
and a year ahead rich in purpose, kindness, and shared progress.
and a year ahead rich in purpose, kindness, and shared progress.
December 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
With heartfelt wishes for an outstanding New Year
and a year ahead rich in purpose, kindness, and shared progress.
and a year ahead rich in purpose, kindness, and shared progress.
This time of year invites us to pause — to appreciate how far we’ve come, and to gather strength for the road ahead.
Let the cooking and eating spree commence!
Merry Christmas to you all.
Let the cooking and eating spree commence!
Merry Christmas to you all.
December 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
This time of year invites us to pause — to appreciate how far we’ve come, and to gather strength for the road ahead.
Let the cooking and eating spree commence!
Merry Christmas to you all.
Let the cooking and eating spree commence!
Merry Christmas to you all.
As we head into a new year, a reminder:
Peace isn’t a destination.
Unity isn’t automatic.
The work continues — and that’s why it matters.
May we keep walking — together — building a world worthy of the next generation.
Peace isn’t a destination.
Unity isn’t automatic.
The work continues — and that’s why it matters.
May we keep walking — together — building a world worthy of the next generation.
December 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
As we head into a new year, a reminder:
Peace isn’t a destination.
Unity isn’t automatic.
The work continues — and that’s why it matters.
May we keep walking — together — building a world worthy of the next generation.
Peace isn’t a destination.
Unity isn’t automatic.
The work continues — and that’s why it matters.
May we keep walking — together — building a world worthy of the next generation.
Sunday Lift
Wabi-Sabi teaches that beauty lives in what’s imperfect and unfinished.
Peace work is the same.
The scaffolding isn’t always pretty — but the intention matters.
A better world is built by people who keep showing up.
#PeaceThroughUnderstanding
Wabi-Sabi teaches that beauty lives in what’s imperfect and unfinished.
Peace work is the same.
The scaffolding isn’t always pretty — but the intention matters.
A better world is built by people who keep showing up.
#PeaceThroughUnderstanding
December 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Sunday Lift
Wabi-Sabi teaches that beauty lives in what’s imperfect and unfinished.
Peace work is the same.
The scaffolding isn’t always pretty — but the intention matters.
A better world is built by people who keep showing up.
#PeaceThroughUnderstanding
Wabi-Sabi teaches that beauty lives in what’s imperfect and unfinished.
Peace work is the same.
The scaffolding isn’t always pretty — but the intention matters.
A better world is built by people who keep showing up.
#PeaceThroughUnderstanding
A late Monday Lift, but still on time.
Hemingway: “Courage is grace under pressure.”
Human Rights Day echoes the point — fairness, listening, and bridge-building move us forward.
Light, shared, always grows.
Hemingway: “Courage is grace under pressure.”
Human Rights Day echoes the point — fairness, listening, and bridge-building move us forward.
Light, shared, always grows.
December 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A late Monday Lift, but still on time.
Hemingway: “Courage is grace under pressure.”
Human Rights Day echoes the point — fairness, listening, and bridge-building move us forward.
Light, shared, always grows.
Hemingway: “Courage is grace under pressure.”
Human Rights Day echoes the point — fairness, listening, and bridge-building move us forward.
Light, shared, always grows.
Coffee, conversation, and community learning in Brussels with Carlo Sanna and photographer Luca Barberis. Volunteer-led spaces like this remind us how much we learn from one another every day. Citizen diplomacy starts locally.
ptpi.network
ptpi.network
December 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Coffee, conversation, and community learning in Brussels with Carlo Sanna and photographer Luca Barberis. Volunteer-led spaces like this remind us how much we learn from one another every day. Citizen diplomacy starts locally.
ptpi.network
ptpi.network
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Hegseth said US military should refuse ‘unlawful’ Trump orders in unearthed 2016 interview
Hegseth said US military should refuse ‘unlawful’ Trump orders in unearthed 2016 interview
Defense secretary’s comments recirculating amid dispute over US strikes on alleged drug boats in Caribbean
The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, stated repeatedly in 2016 on Fox News that US service members should refuse “unlawful” orders from a potential president Trump – exactly the position he called “despicable” when Democratic lawmakers said it last month.
The debate about whether US soldiers should refuse illegal orders is now at the center of a fiery political dispute over the US killings of alleged drug traffickers in boats off the coast of Venezuela and Columbia. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Hegseth said US military should refuse ‘unlawful’ Trump orders in unearthed 2016 interview
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Since 1992, the diagnoses of eight cancers has doubled in the U.S. in patients under age 50, including breast and thyroid cancer. While experts debate why, some cancer specialists say the surge is from detecting cancers that did not need to be found — or did not need to be found so soon.
Cancer Is Surging, Bringing a Debate About Whether to Look for It
Statistics show a clear spike in eight cancers, but some experts say that many cases never needed to be found.
nyti.ms
December 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Since 1992, the diagnoses of eight cancers has doubled in the U.S. in patients under age 50, including breast and thyroid cancer. While experts debate why, some cancer specialists say the surge is from detecting cancers that did not need to be found — or did not need to be found so soon.
Reposted by Chalks Belgium
German corporate bankruptcies to surge to a decade high in 2025 reut.rs/44hjAPn
German corporate bankruptcies to surge to a decade high in 2025
German corporate insolvencies are projected to hit their highest level in more than a decade this year, a new study revealed on Monday, as the nation grapples with a stubborn economic downturn.
reut.rs
December 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
German corporate bankruptcies to surge to a decade high in 2025 reut.rs/44hjAPn
Monday Lift:
You don’t need to have it all together. Just take the next good step.
You don’t need to have it all together. Just take the next good step.
December 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Monday Lift:
You don’t need to have it all together. Just take the next good step.
You don’t need to have it all together. Just take the next good step.
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Nice to see another one of my predictions coming true. We do know why, the efficient compute frontier limits general AI applications. AI sucks.
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
ChatGPT's hallucination problem is getting worse according to OpenAI's own tests and nobody understands why
With better reasoning ability comes even more of the wrong kind of robot dreams.
www.pcgamer.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Nice to see another one of my predictions coming true. We do know why, the efficient compute frontier limits general AI applications. AI sucks.
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
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With his popularity slipping through his fingers, I'm worried what depths Trump will fall to.
www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/trump-will...
www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/trump-will...
Trump Will Want A War Soon
It's happened before.
www.planetearthandbeyond.co
May 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
With his popularity slipping through his fingers, I'm worried what depths Trump will fall to.
www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/trump-will...
www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/trump-will...
Monday Lift:
Your mind is a garden. What you plant today becomes what you live with tomorrow. Choose thoughts that nourish, people who uplift, and actions that make you proud.
Your mind is a garden. What you plant today becomes what you live with tomorrow. Choose thoughts that nourish, people who uplift, and actions that make you proud.
November 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Monday Lift:
Your mind is a garden. What you plant today becomes what you live with tomorrow. Choose thoughts that nourish, people who uplift, and actions that make you proud.
Your mind is a garden. What you plant today becomes what you live with tomorrow. Choose thoughts that nourish, people who uplift, and actions that make you proud.
PTPI USA | Kansas City
Great evening with our Greater KC members at Trezo Mare — good food, good stories, good people. Community in action. 🌍✨
Great evening with our Greater KC members at Trezo Mare — good food, good stories, good people. Community in action. 🌍✨
November 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM
PTPI USA | Kansas City
Great evening with our Greater KC members at Trezo Mare — good food, good stories, good people. Community in action. 🌍✨
Great evening with our Greater KC members at Trezo Mare — good food, good stories, good people. Community in action. 🌍✨
Monday Lift
Be kind for no reason.
It confuses the cruel and strengthens the gentle.
Be kind for no reason.
It confuses the cruel and strengthens the gentle.
November 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Monday Lift
Be kind for no reason.
It confuses the cruel and strengthens the gentle.
Be kind for no reason.
It confuses the cruel and strengthens the gentle.
Trust is not a reward — it’s the foundation.
Jimmy Wales’ Seven Rules of Trust reminds us: lasting change starts with openness, inclusion, and shared purpose.
That’s what PTPI is built on. 🌍
#PeaceThroughUnderstanding #TrustInAction
Jimmy Wales’ Seven Rules of Trust reminds us: lasting change starts with openness, inclusion, and shared purpose.
That’s what PTPI is built on. 🌍
#PeaceThroughUnderstanding #TrustInAction
October 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Trust is not a reward — it’s the foundation.
Jimmy Wales’ Seven Rules of Trust reminds us: lasting change starts with openness, inclusion, and shared purpose.
That’s what PTPI is built on. 🌍
#PeaceThroughUnderstanding #TrustInAction
Jimmy Wales’ Seven Rules of Trust reminds us: lasting change starts with openness, inclusion, and shared purpose.
That’s what PTPI is built on. 🌍
#PeaceThroughUnderstanding #TrustInAction
💙 Celebrating 100 years of Ambassador Theodore R. Britton Jr. — a Marine, diplomat, and lifelong advocate for Peace through Understanding. A century of courage, compassion, and global connection.
#PTPI #PeaceThroughUnderstanding #Leadership #Legacy
#PTPI #PeaceThroughUnderstanding #Leadership #Legacy
October 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
💙 Celebrating 100 years of Ambassador Theodore R. Britton Jr. — a Marine, diplomat, and lifelong advocate for Peace through Understanding. A century of courage, compassion, and global connection.
#PTPI #PeaceThroughUnderstanding #Leadership #Legacy
#PTPI #PeaceThroughUnderstanding #Leadership #Legacy
🌍 Quiet progress, real impact.
Across the PTPI network — from Estonia to Poland to Delaware — people are proving that Peace Through Understanding is action, not words. 💙
#PTPI #PeaceThroughUnderstanding #GlobalCommunity
Across the PTPI network — from Estonia to Poland to Delaware — people are proving that Peace Through Understanding is action, not words. 💙
#PTPI #PeaceThroughUnderstanding #GlobalCommunity
October 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🌍 Quiet progress, real impact.
Across the PTPI network — from Estonia to Poland to Delaware — people are proving that Peace Through Understanding is action, not words. 💙
#PTPI #PeaceThroughUnderstanding #GlobalCommunity
Across the PTPI network — from Estonia to Poland to Delaware — people are proving that Peace Through Understanding is action, not words. 💙
#PTPI #PeaceThroughUnderstanding #GlobalCommunity
🍽️🌍 Greater Kansas City PTPI Council
Sponsors, Officers, & families came together for a Food Fair - 26 Sept — sharing flavors of many countries in one evening. A reminder of culture, community, Peace through Understanding. ✨
#PTPI #PeaceThroughUnderstanding #KansasCity #CulturalExchange #FoodFair
Sponsors, Officers, & families came together for a Food Fair - 26 Sept — sharing flavors of many countries in one evening. A reminder of culture, community, Peace through Understanding. ✨
#PTPI #PeaceThroughUnderstanding #KansasCity #CulturalExchange #FoodFair
October 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
🍽️🌍 Greater Kansas City PTPI Council
Sponsors, Officers, & families came together for a Food Fair - 26 Sept — sharing flavors of many countries in one evening. A reminder of culture, community, Peace through Understanding. ✨
#PTPI #PeaceThroughUnderstanding #KansasCity #CulturalExchange #FoodFair
Sponsors, Officers, & families came together for a Food Fair - 26 Sept — sharing flavors of many countries in one evening. A reminder of culture, community, Peace through Understanding. ✨
#PTPI #PeaceThroughUnderstanding #KansasCity #CulturalExchange #FoodFair
🌍 Eesti People to People International has joined a new Erasmus+ project: Combating Online Misinformation to Prevent Radicalisation of Vulnerable Adults.
🤝 Led by FENAN Consulting (NL) with partners from Lithuania, the Netherlands & Slovenia.
#ErasmusPlus #PeaceThroughUnderstanding
🤝 Led by FENAN Consulting (NL) with partners from Lithuania, the Netherlands & Slovenia.
#ErasmusPlus #PeaceThroughUnderstanding
October 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
🌍 Eesti People to People International has joined a new Erasmus+ project: Combating Online Misinformation to Prevent Radicalisation of Vulnerable Adults.
🤝 Led by FENAN Consulting (NL) with partners from Lithuania, the Netherlands & Slovenia.
#ErasmusPlus #PeaceThroughUnderstanding
🤝 Led by FENAN Consulting (NL) with partners from Lithuania, the Netherlands & Slovenia.
#ErasmusPlus #PeaceThroughUnderstanding