Are You Wearing Gold? … « The forest is bleeding, I can feel it in my heart. »

Barbara Crane Navarro

Photo: Ricardo Stuckert « Brazilian Indians series »

«The gold miners pour more poison mercury on the earth than the weight of the gold they take away. They are like living dead, covered in golden mud.»

– cacique Raoni Metuktire

Photo: Gold mining destruction in the Amazon Rainforest
“The gold miners are destroying the forest” – drawing on paper: Anaomi Yanomami

Gold mining and the indiscriminate use of mercury to ferret out gold are turning swaths of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems into a nightmarish moonscape!

PLEASE DO NOT BUY OR USE GOLD!

As much as 75% of the gold extracted each year is used for jewelry, watches and other vain and futile status symbols sold byCartierand other corporations in the luxury industry as well as discount retailers worldwide.

Tens of thousands of rainforest trees must be uprooted, hundreds of tons of soil mined and mixed with dozens of tons of toxic environmental pollutants…

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Video: Slowing deforestation is the key to preventing the next pandemic – but what does that cost? — Palm Oil Detectives

Barbara Crane Navarro

Les Kaufman, Boston University In a recent journal article, a team of biologists, medical scientists, environmental scientists and conservationists proposed a number of measures to reduce the likelihood of future pandemics, many of which originate with wild animals such as bats. They argue that spending billions of dollars per year – a fraction of the[…]

Video: Slowing deforestation is the key to preventing the next pandemic – but what does that cost? — Palm Oil Detectives

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Pentral – What Lies Ahead of Us — Weathered Music

Barbara Crane Navarro

Brazilian progressive rock / metal trioPentralpresent their debut long-player‘What LiesAhead of Us’on the trail of high-energy singles‘Aiming For The Sun’,‘All My Wounds’and‘Silent Trees’– the sonic launching pad into the sonic expansive of a concept album reflecting on today’s society, presenting the saga of a lowly couple fighting for their lives and sanity. This long-player tells[…]

Pentral – What Lies Ahead of Us — Weathered Music

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Vancouver mayor apologizes to retired Black B.C. judge wrongly handcuffed by police | Globalnews.ca

Vancouver’s mayor has apologized to a retired B.C. Supreme Court judge who was detained and handcuffed by police in English Bay on Friday. Selwyn Romilly, the first Black judge elevated to B.C.’s superior court, was held by police who were searching for an assault suspect they said matched his description.  Romilly, who is 81, said police were looking for a “dark-skinned man in his 40s or 50s.” “I thought things had changed and they haven’t,” Romilly told Global News of the incident. “I hate to say racial profiling, but I can’t help but think if it was an 81-year-old white man, regardless of the description, they wouldn’t have put him in handcuffs for ‘officer safety.’”

Source: Vancouver mayor apologizes to retired Black B.C. judge wrongly handcuffed by police | Globalnews.ca

U.S. schools should continue to use masks, latest CDC guidance says – National | Globalnews.ca

Schools in the United States should continue to use masks for the 2020-2021 school year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Saturday. The CDC in its latest guidance said all kindergarten through grade 12 schools “should implement and layer prevention strategies and should prioritize universal and correct use of masks and physical distancing.” The CDC said masks should be worn at all times by all people in school facilities and buses, while maintaining a six foot distance between teachers and students. Earlier this month U.S. regulators authorized Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for use in children as young as 12 years old.

Source: U.S. schools should continue to use masks, latest CDC guidance says – National | Globalnews.ca

La táctica de la distracción

Excellent! Google translation: The tactic of distraction

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

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Y tambien quiero recordarles que ellos, los dueños del poder económico y político, suelen recurrir, como táctica de caos y desintegración social, a la estrategia y práctica de distraer a las multitudes, no solamente por medio de programas de televisión cómicos y grotescos, telenovelas con historias estúpidas e irreales, chismes de celebridades, declaraciones insulsas y series patrocidadas que difunden y normalizan violencia, situaciones negativas, vicios y ausencia de valores; también lo hacen, perversamente, a través de acontecimientos negativos que propician, desgracias personales y masivas, noticias alarmantes. Somos testigos de tal ejercicio de poder absoluto en radio, televisión, redes sociales y páginas informativas. Mientras la gente, contabilizada en multitudes, ríe y llora, sufre y goza, habla y calla, obtiene y pierde, generalmente distraída en asuntos baladíes y cotidianos, en temas intrascendentes, en memes y en escenarios de todo tipo, propiciados…

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Vamos a vivir

Google translation: We are going to live.

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

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Toda experiencia ajena a lo cotidiano, a la rutina, desmorona la mediocridad, construye y enriquece la vida, principalmente cuando es para bien de uno y de los demás. Cuando uno se atreve a vivir libre y plenamente, se da cuenta de que lo que suponia eran barrotes, simplemente formaba parte de una cerca endeble y despiadada con aspecto de mazmorra. La luz penetra a la habitación conforme se descorre el cortinaje pesado y se abren los ventanales. La oscuridad, en cambio, permanece hasta que alguien la desvanece por medio de la luz y sus colores mágicos. Incontables personas tienen miedo de renunciar a sus conveniencias aparentes y a su comodidad, se sienten más seguras como espectadores o creen que algún día llegarán hasta sus puertas las oportunidades, la fortuna y la dicha, cuando se trata de aprender y asimilar…

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رهاب المدرسة

School phobia

حلم الدرويش

(نم مبكرا المدرسة تبدأ فى الغد) جملة يقولها الأباء والأمهات كنصيحة للأطفال بحسن نية , لا يعرفون أنها قد تدفع الطفل لعدم النوم طوال الليل مع احتمال إصابته بالأرق فى ليال تالية . خوف الطفل من المدرسة هو نوع من الاضطراب الذى ينشط من القلق ويتطور لسلوكيات يقوم بها وأعراض جسدية ونفسية , يظهر الخوف من المدرسة بصورة كبيرة فى العام الدراسى الأول للطفل وتستمر إمكانية الإصابة به حتى نهاية سنوات المراهقة .

علامات رهاب المدرسة :

_ خوف مستمر وعدم الشعور بالأمان

_ خوف من ترك المنزل والانفصال عن الوالدين

_ صعوبة فى النوم وكوابيس مزعجة

_ خوف الأطفال من البقاء بمفردهم فى الغرفة

_ الخوف الزائد من البقاء وحيدا فى الظلام

_ مخاوف من أشياء لا توجد وغير واقعية

_ اختلاق أعذار لعدم الذهاب للمدرسة

_ الخوف والهلع فى حالة إجبار الطفل على الذهاب للمدرسة

_ أعراض جسدية مثل ألم فى البطن, غثيان, ترجيع, إسهال, إمساك, زيادة ضربات…

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