Ouro Legal e Ouro Ilegal – Se a Barrick Gold Corporation ou os garimpeiros estivessem escavando seu jardim e contaminando sua única fonte de água com cianeto ou mercúrio, você ainda estaria enfeitado com joias, relógios e acessórios de ouro? | Barbara Crane Navarro

Local legal de mineração de ouro contamina terras Indígenas com cianeto!

Direito à vida em vez de lucros legais de ouro!

 

Local illegal de mineração de ouro contamina terras Indígenas com mercúrio!

 

É você?

Quanto mais você sabe, menos o ouro brilha!

Nada diz “eu te amo” como… 20 toneladas de resíduos de mineração?! Essa é a quantidade de resíduos rochosos extraídos e descartados para produzir a quantidade de ouro contida em um único anel!

Será que nos tornamos indivíduos tão manipulados pelo marketing, reduzidos à nossa única função de consumo? Somos meros compradores – ávidos por comprar e consumir tudo e qualquer coisa, compulsivamente, freneticamente, ostensivamente – sem nos importarmos com as consequências de nossas escolhas?

A mineração de ouro, esse mineral “precioso”, é uma das indústrias mais destrutivas do mundo! A indústria legal de mineração de ouro quer que você pense que o ouro é um mineral importante para energia limpa e dispositivos tecnológicos. Mas a realidade é que 92% do ouro produzido a cada ano é usado para joias e investimentos (ou seja, para cofres de bancos).

A floresta amazônica antes do desmatamento

Os povos Indígenas utilizam a água dos rios e córregos em seus territórios ancestrais para beber, cozinhar, tomar banho e pescar.

Mineração Legal de Ouro: O impacto ambiental da Barrick Gold e de outras empresas de mineração de ouro é devastador. Crianças Indígenas e suas famílias estão sendo envenenadas por cianeto devido à mineração legal de ouro em seu território.

 

Source: Ouro Legal e Ouro Ilegal – Se a Barrick Gold Corporation ou os garimpeiros estivessem escavando seu jardim e contaminando sua única fonte de água com cianeto ou mercúrio, você ainda estaria enfeitado com joias, relógios e acessórios de ouro? | Barbara Crane Navarro

These Hidden Carbon Sinks May Prove Crucial for Our Survival! — Mother Jones | Barbara Crane Navarro

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Off the Caribbean coast of Colombia, rare manatee calves have been spotted in the canals and rivers of Cispatá Bay’s mangrove forests. The once-critically endangered American crocodile is now seen more frequently. Birds and lizards nest in the branches, fish and…

These Hidden Carbon Sinks May Prove Crucial for Our Survival — Mother Jones

Source: These Hidden Carbon Sinks May Prove Crucial for Our Survival! — Mother Jones | Barbara Crane Navarro

Let Those Curves OUT – Belladonna’s Flashlight

Dear WOMEN and MEN, I have an important message so grab a sit!

The weather is starting to turn and you may be looking at your body and thinking…..

DAMN DAMN DAMN!

But try to stay positive and work with what ya got.

We let weight take over our lives and control our happiness and enough is enough.

If I had a quarter for every time a client told me, “I will be happy once I drop 10-15 pounds”, I WOULD BE RICH. Then they proceed to show me a dress or a pair of pants that they’ve been holding on to for the past few years in hopes that one day they will be able to squeeze in them.

With hesitation, I hear them out, and as soon as those lips stop flapping, I pounce.

I go right in with the truth. If we treat ourselves like we are worthy, then we will get results faster. Meaning stop holding on to that beautiful outfit in hopes of one day squeeze in it, and in the meantime, you wear that frumpy piece of cloth that you purchased from Walmart. Now I’m not hating on Walmart, but we all know they aren’t known for their one-of-a-kind clothing line. Once you wear something once and wash it, you might as well throw it away unless it’s a T-shirt. I approve of their T-shirt selection! But other than that, STEP AWAY and start dressing those curves in things that make you feel good.

Why wait?

The Key To FEELING GOOD

Stop buying cheap crap to fit those curves. Because guess what… you will continuously pull and yank at the material and look a mess while doing it. But when you cough up a few more coins, you can purchase material that will compliment every fabulous piece of your body. Which will make you feel good about yourself, and then the rolling effect will start.

Loving yourself will motivate you to make healthier food choices and chug a few extra glasses of H2O. And it will push you to get that heart rate up and pumpin.

So today, I encourage you to throw caution to the wind and put on something that makes you FEEL. Embrace those curves and show them some love.

You could have chosen any blog to read, but you chose mine, and I’m honored!

~Belladonna~

Source: Let Those Curves OUT – Belladonna’s Flashlight

US Crime Rate Drops to ‘Historic’ Lows With Murders, Rapes, and Robbery Plunging, New Statistics Show

The FBI released its latest Uniform Crime Reporting survey last week that revealed a notable positive trend continuing across the US—with violent and property crimes dropping by double digits.

Compared to January through March 2023, data from the first quarter of 2024 indicates that reported violent crime decreased by 15.2 percent.

Murder decreased by more than 26 percent.

Rape is down by 25.7 percent.

Robbery dropped by 17.8 percent.

Aggravated assault reports decreased by 12.5 percent.

Property crime also decreased by just over 15 percent.

The report includes data from more than 18,000 city, county, state, tribal, university and college, and federal law enforcement agencies.

Source: US Crime Rate Drops to ‘Historic’ Lows With Murders, Rapes, and Robbery Plunging, New Statistics Show

The murderer of Christina Lee pleads guilty – AsAmNews

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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. announced today that Assamad Nash has pleaded guilty to the murder of 35-year-old Christina Yuna Lee, who was fatally stabbed in her Chinatown apartment in New York on February 13, 2022.

Nash was charged with Murder in the Second Degree and Burglary in the First Degree as a Sexually Motivated Felony. He is scheduled for sentencing on July 30, 2024, and is expected to receive a sentence of 30 years to life in state prison.

Source: The murderer of Christina Lee pleads guilty – AsAmNews

Vote delayed for federal court appointee who Mitch McConnell calls ‘committed Marxist’ – UPI.com – (Me: Sen. McConnell…STFU!)

A Senate confirmation vote to make U.S. Magistrate Judge Mustafa Kasubhai a federal trial judge in Oregon was postponed Tuesday due to absences by members of the Senate Democratic Caucus. Photo by U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee
A Senate confirmation vote to make U.S. Magistrate Judge Mustafa Kasubhai a federal trial judge in Oregon was postponed Tuesday due to absences by members of the Senate Democratic Caucus. Photo by U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee

Source: Vote delayed for federal court appointee who Mitch McConnell calls ‘committed Marxist’ – UPI.com

White House hits back at Israel’s claims of weapons delays

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The White Houses said only one shipment of weapons to Israel had been paused

The White House has pushed back against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims that the US is withholding weapons and ammunition from Israel, hours after he lashed out at the Biden administration.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed an ongoing pause remained on one particular shipment of bombs, echoing comments from Secretary of State Antony Blinken hours beforehand, but she insisted no other weapons were being withheld.

“We genuinely do not know what he’s talking about,” Ms Jean-Pierre said on Tuesday.

Source: White House hits back at Israel’s claims of weapons delays

¿A la basura? – Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

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En la hora presente de nuestras existencias, cuando viajo, me traslado por la ciudad, consumo alimentos o café en algún restaurante, o me encuentro en una sala de espera, en una plaza comercial o en cualquier espacio público, incluidos los vestíbulos de los museos y de las galerías de arte, los auditorios en los que se presentan conferencias, las salas velatorias y los sanatorios, miro con preocupación a hombres y mujeres, principalmente jóvenes, inmersos en un mundo alterno que ellos, los dueños del poder global, han diseñado, a través de una ciencia servil y mercenaria, con la intención de mantener distraídas, inútiles, estúpidas e ignorantes a las multitudes.

Como escritor me pregunto, en el caso del arte, si tantos millones de personas, aquí y allá, en todo el mundo, se interesarán en la lectura de libros, en la ciencia, en las novelas y en los cuentos, e incluso en una pintura o en un concierto, reflejo de la inspiración, la sensibilidad y el talento de ciertos seres humanos irrepetibles y extraordinarios, cuando ya se dispone de equipos y sistemas artificiales que dan respuesta a las incógnitas y tienen capacidad de crear y responder acerca de todos los temas, aunque carezcan de esencia y sentimientos, ausencia que ya se identifica con las generaciones desposeídas de sí, con aquellos que han sido saqueados en su interior y no perciben que solo les queda una cáscara pasajera que hasta perforan y tatúan por simple moda pasajera.

Los descubro tan enajenados y distraídos en tantas estupideces que, finalmente, la basura acumulada a una hora, otra y muchas más, repercute en sus sentimientos, ideales, raciocinio y conductas, al grado de que me pregunto qué será de la humanidad dentro de un lustro o una década. No soy de los que acostumbran a expresar que todo, en el pasado, fue mejor, porque reconozco que la historia de la humanidad es compleja, más por ella que por causas externas; sin embargo, al examinar, construir y analizar los escenarios de los próximos años, defino un panorama complejo que, definitivamente, no resulta alentador.

Estoy seguro de que, intoxicados de tanta pereza mental, innumerables personas deambularán por los parajes del mundo como parias, mutilados racionalmente e incapaces de hablar correctamente, alejados del aprendizaje, carentes de sentimientos e ideales, ausentes de familia y vacíos de sí, con los únicos deseos de satisfacer necesidades biológicas, apetitos primarios e impulsos brutos.

Entre el ocaso de la década los 80 y la aurora de la de los 90, en el inolvidable, complejo e irrepetible siglo XX, escribí acerca de quienes llamé la generación perdida. Lamentablemente, los acontecimientos y la realidad me concedieron la razón. Ahora, tres décadas más tarde, ¿qué puedo manifestar ante muchedumbres que parecen no experimentar sentimientos nobles y son incapaces de pensar, crecer y aportar para bien de la humanidad, la naturaleza y el planeta?

Al hablar con ellos, resulta un fastidio entablar una comunicación en la que parecen no entender ni interesarse en los temas que se les trata, con un lenguaje totalmente ridículo y actitudes de molestia, desdén, ignorancia, desinterés, monotonía y pereza. Me pregunto, entonces, ¿será esa clase de gente la que aporte lo mejor de sí al mundo? ¿Tendrán capacidad de leer un breve relato literario, admirar la belleza y profundidad de una obra pictórica o escuchar un concierto magistral y sublime?

En este caso, es deplorable conceder la razón a quienes, desde las instituciones y las organizaciones económicas, sociales y financieras del mundo, argumentan que la humanidad ha producido mucha basura inútil que solo consume, motivo por el que es preciso, en consecuencia, eliminar a la mayor parte de la gente. Parece cruel y desgarrador, pero las sociedades de rebaño -acaudalados y pobres, académicos y analfabetos- están propiciando su destrucción y la de otros.

La televisión, el internet y las redes sociales, entre otros medios masivos de comunicación, enseñan a la gente a no esforzarse, a normalizar el mal, a deformar el lenguaje, a rechazar a la familia, a perder sueños e ideales, a no luchar por sus proyectos, a consumir, a sentirse realizada con modas y cosas materiales, a exigir derechos y a desdeñar las obligaciones y las responsabilidades. No se trata de las personas que nosotros, los artistas, intelectuales y científicos honestos, necesitamos para difundir nuestras obras y, juntos, participar en la construcción de sociedades más justas, nobles y prósperas.

No obstante, renacen mis esperanzas, como escritor, cuando en las rutas de mi existencia coincido con hombres y mujeres jóvenes interesados en el arte, en el conocimiento, en el aprendizaje. Es gente que, a pesar del remolino que parece afectar a todos para tragarlos y procesarlos, tiene esperanzas e ilusiones, sueños e ideales, motivos y proyectos.

En contraparte, en diferentes lugares del planeta, coexisten jóvenes honestos e íntegros, educados con valores, dedicados al estudio y al trabajo, con proyectos, ideales, sueños e ilusiones, quienes forman una minoría, un grupo que, sin duda, coadyuvará a restaurar un mundo que cada día luce más desgarrado, con una humanidad mutilada espiritual, menta y físicamente. Ellos son nuestra esperanza y es un orgullo cuando se interesan en algún libro, en el aprendizaje, en la productividad, en el bien colectivo, en la familia, en la naturaleza. No todo está perdido ni irá a la basura.

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Source: ¿A la basura? – Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

New protection for undocumented families applauded – AsAmNews

President Biden’s decision to make it easier for undocumented spouses and children of legal residents to stay in this country is being applauded by immigration advocates.

The White House announced two new measures today that temporarily lifts the threat of deportation.

“These necessary steps ensure that our community members can gain legal status, access essential health benefits, and lead more complete lives,” Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum said in a statement sent to AsAmNews. “Undocumented spouses and DACA-mented youth, have for too long lived in the shadows and borne the brunt of our broken immigration system.”

The order would allow them to legally work and apply for citizenship without having to leave the country. To be eligible, they must have lived in the U.S. for 10 or more years and have been legally married for that long. They also must not be on parole or pose a public safety threat. DREAMERS who have a college degree from a U.S. university and have an offer of employment, will be able to more quickly receive a work visa…

Source: New protection for undocumented families applauded – AsAmNews