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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Put The Blame Where It Belongs

“CEO John Tyson made $13.74 million last year, an increase of more than 22% over the prior year, while Tyson employee’s pay increases averaged 9%.”

Filosofa's Word

Let’s talk about inflation for a few minutes.  Log onto any news site and you will see something about the current rate of inflation.  Many, even among the mainstream news, have chosen to blame President Biden, but they are turning a blind eye to the reality … it’s easier to pick on the president than do a bit of digging into the causes, right?

First, let’s narrow this discussion to the price of food, for everything else is irrelevant or unnecessary when you get down to the bare bones.  You have to eat, you must have carrots, but you don’t have to have that new pair of shoes or even the latest James Patterson book.  The grocery store is the one place where everyone, no matter their station in life, skin colour, religion, or gender is going to feel the pinch in times of high inflation.

Now … let me…

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New penguin colony in Antarctica warns of climate crisis – Mágica Mistura 車

…For the past thirty years, Antarctica warmed up three times faster than the rest of the world. In February 2020, he beat the 20 ° C A record.

This disorder is caused by climate change and directly influences the behavior of some species. This is the case of Gentoo penguins, which are migrating to breed in regions further south of the continent, as researchers at Stony Brook University (United States) verified on an expedition by the NGO Greenpeace.

Scientists discovered a penguin colony on Andersson Island, on the east side of the Antarctic Peninsula – a mountainous region close to South America. Until then, this area was too cold for penguins, who prefer milder temperatures to raise their young. Before, only one nest had been found in such a southern location. Now, the researchers have counted 75 puppies.

For the first time, scientists explored parts of the peninsula on foot where penguin colonies had been detected via satellite. Second Heather Lynch, the researcher who led the expedition, mapping these areas helps to understand how animals are responding to climate change :

“We are finding Gentoo penguins almost everywhere we look – more evidence that climate change is dramatically changing the species mix in the Antarctic Peninsula,” said Lynch…

Source: New penguin colony in Antarctica warns of climate crisis – Mágica Mistura 車

« No to GOLD! – Pas de Cartier ! » Yanomami and Trees – Gold Mining and Gold Luxury items / Exhibition 2022

Barbara Crane Navarro

«The Forest Is Burning»
Photo montage from Fire Sculpture Performances
Barbara Crane Navarro

«The Yanomami shamans who fight thexawaraepidemic see the disease’s image appear in the form of strips of scarlet fabric. Thexawaraepidemic is approaching and its smoke is glowing red! It is making the sky become ghost and is devouring all the human beings in its path! It must be driven away!»

  • Davi Kopenawa, Yanomami spokesman and shaman

«Yanomami shamans struggle againstxawara– smoke of epidemics»
installation – mixed media
Barbara Crane Navarro

Shamans in the Alto Orinoco region of Amazonas, Venezuela, describedoru a wakëxi –the gold smoke – to me in these terms decades before I read Davi’s words. Dreaming in my hammock in the Yanomami collective house, the shabono, I saw the totemic sculpture I would later create when I returned to Paris.In another dream, I saw my sculpture burning…

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Apple removes suppliers over ‘Conflict Minerals’ failures. Since 2009, Apple has directed the removal of 163 smelters and refiners from its supply chain (a total of 85 gold, 50 tin, 19 tungsten, 9 tantalum smelters and refiners)| AppleInsider — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Maior área do mundo com indígenas isolados foi mapeada na Amazônia —

Barbara Crane Navarro

Anosdeintensotrabalhodedocumentaçãorenderamprovasúnicasdegruposindígenasisoladosdesconhecidosemapearamoslimitesdeseusterritórios.Avasta eintocada áreadeflorestatropicalestá sobcrescentepressão, colocando emriscoasobrevivênciadosgruposisolados Por: Kristin Rødland Buick para a Rainforest Foundation Norway Lima / Oslo, 9 de dezembro de 2021 “As propriedades desta área de floresta tropical contíguas são simplesmente de proporções de património mundial, com culturas e natureza únicas.Portanto, é fundamental que esta área e as pessoas vulneráveis ​​que dela dependem[…]

Maior área do mundo com indígenas isolados foi mapeada na Amazônia —

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Salute e Benessere

Napoli ieri oggi e domani

Erbe medicinali delle Alpi – Dalle erbe la salute

Lavanda – Lavanda officinalis

Habitat: zone aride montane, spontanea e coltivata.

È un’elegante pianticella cespugliosa, dai rami eretti e ramosi, che cresce spontanea e perenne nei luoghi aridi o sassosi o sui dossi bene esposti. È pure coltivata negli orti e nei giardini o anche su scala industriale per estrarne quell’essenza profumata nota ormai in tutto il mondo. Se la lavanda ci suscita cari ricordi di case ordinate e pulite, dei cassettoni delle nostre nonne nei quali la biancheria odorava di spigo, non di meno questa pianta possiede delle virtù medicinali non indifferenti.
Chi non ricorda il famoso “asedo de spic” che si preparava in primavera mettendo a macero un’abbondante manciata di fiori di spigo in un litro di aceto? Agli impacchi di questo aceto miracoloso si ricorreva per calmare un atroce mal di testa o un’improvvisa vertigine.
Ottimo anche l’olio di…

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French Fridays, & Two Lessons Lupin, Ch. 7, Teaches About Trust

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

     French Fridays with Lupin, Omar Sy style!

  (all in English this week, but listening,  and using the CCs for the Hard of Hearing to catch ‘swallowed’ words, is excellent practice for learning a language…)

   This episode, p2e2, should be called “When not to trust authority… ”

 

 
        Wow, 

   So,

       1.)  Assàne is right not to trust even a good-hearted police officer under the command of a bad one.

     2.)  He is also right to have a backup hiding place, even at the home of his son’s mother.

     We see that the police officer being given orders by the commissioner who is completely on the taken in the hands of the really evil bad guy, makes Assàne right: They are either all incompetent or directly or indirectly on the take. Because even our good guy fan of Lupin police officer…

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Carbonara Vegana

InTheNameOfSeitan

Non solo buonissima e cruelty-free, ma anche super veloce. Pronti?

Ingredienti (per 2 persone):

180 g di spaghettiAvat_pag

120 g di muscolo di grano (in alternativa si può utilizzare anche il seitan al naturale)

½ cipolla

4/5 cucchiai di panna vegetale da cucina

½ cucchiaino di curcuma (in alternativa si può utilizzare anche il classico zafferano)

Sale

Pepe

Vino bianco

Olio evo

Partiamo tagliando a dadini molto piccoli e irregolari il muscolo di grano e mettetelo da parte.
Intanto in una padella  mettete un filo di olio e lasciate imbiondire il trito finissimo di mezza cipolla. Aggiungete quindi i dadini di muscolo di grano con una piccola spolverata di pepe e, a fuoco medio, fate andare. Sfumate con qualche spruzzo di vino bianco (occhio al tipo di vino che utilizzate perché diventa fondamentale per il carattere che il piatto assumerà).

Nel frattempo mettete a cuocere gli spaghetti…

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The ruling on Nzinga King raises long-standing discrimination issues in Jamaica

Petchary's Blog

It has not been a good week; not for the environment (permits were issued for the mining in Cockpit Country to go ahead) – or for human rights. On Wednesday, February 9, after a wait of around seven months, our Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn announcedthat she is recommending that no criminal charges be brought against the policewoman accused of cutting the locks of a young woman in custody at Four Paths Police Station last summer. Before Nzinga King even reached the station, she had been reportedlypepper sprayed by the police inside the taxi cab she was traveling in on June 29, 2021. She may even be chargedwith public mischief, it is reported.

Nzinga King was the complainant in this matter. However, in the eyes of some local reporters (and social media observers) she might just as well have been the defendant, and been…

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