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

Plaidoyer pour la nature et les peuples autochtones ! Non au projet de loi #490 ! …et un message d’un chaman Yanomami… – actualisé

Barbara Crane Navarro

Un homme Yanomami en route pour inviter un village voisin à un festin, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela

« Je pensais que si les blancs pouvaient m’entendre, ils convaincraient le gouvernement de ne pas laisser la forêt être détruite… Maintenant, les mineurs d’or puent la forêt avec les fumées de leurs moteurs et les vapeurs de l’or et du mercure qu’ils brûlent ensemble. Désormais, nous craignons le paludisme des mineurs d’or, qui est également très féroce…

Le souffle de vie des habitants de la forêt est fragile face à ces fumées épidémiques de xawara. Si nous mourons tous, personne ne pourra compenser la valeur de nos morts. L’argent et la marchandise des Blancs ne les ramèneront pas parmi nous! Et la forêt dévastée ne pourra jamais être restaurée non plus, elle sera perdue pour toujours. »

– porte-parole et chaman Yanomami Davi Kopenawa


Une forêt en territoire indigène détruite par…

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L’APIB dénonce Bolsonaro devant la CPI, à La Haye, pour génocide autochtone — Entre les lignes entre les mots — Tiny Life

Barbara Crane Navarro

L’Articulation des peuples autochtones du Brésil(Apib) a déposé, ce lundi(9), une déclaration devant la Cour pénale internationale(CPI) pour dénoncer le gouvernement de Bolsonaro pour génocide. En cette date qui marque la Journée internationale des peuples autochtones, l’organisation demande au procureur de la Cour d’examiner les crimes perpétrés contre les peuples autochtones par le président Jair[…][…]

L’APIB dénonce Bolsonaro devant la CPI, à La Haye, pour génocide autochtone — Entre les lignes entre les mots — Tiny Life

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Gardiens pour sauver ce qui reste de la forêt amazonienne — DR livres et publications

Barbara Crane Navarro

Qui sont réellement les Amérindiens qui habitent les forêts et les savanes d’Amazonie ? Que connaît-on de leur Histoire, de leurs anciennes traditions, de l’extrême diversité linguistique et culturelle de leurs tribus ? Un univers particulier et mystérieux qui se transforme peu à peu sous l’influence du monde moderne. Même leurs territoires le plus officiellement[…]

Gardiens pour sauver ce qui reste de la forêt amazonienne — DR livres et publications

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Minbari Mondays, Mora’dum, and Cursing Names

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

There is another interruption in the sending of our fictional letter (reviewing each film and episode of Babylon 5) that I receive each week from Ranger Mayann.

Hopefully, reports from The Great Machine on Epsilon 3 will resume soon. Meanwhile, here is a short, based on the Ranger training use of terror, as it could be applied here on earth:

        The punishment will be worth it.

        If any technology sufficiently advanced appeared to be magic, so much the better for this human, harming others of his kind with no thought even for himself.  The Moradum would be perfect, to set an example.

    As the flame met the paper, the man’s hands began to burn.  His screams were muffled by the bands that began to wind more tightly around his face.  That had been a gift from a passing…

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Israel starts Covid antibody testing for children three and older

Israel on Sunday launched antibody testing for children aged as young as three, seeking information on the number of unvaccinated youths who have developed protection against coronavirus ahead of the new school year. Despite surging daily infections caused by the highly transmissible Delta variant, Israel’s government insists it wants to avoid the hardships and developmental setbacks caused by school closures.

Source: Israel starts Covid antibody testing for children three and older

QAnon antisemite outed as Evangelical who gave synagogue one-star review – The Jerusalem Post

A popular, vociferously antisemitic promoter of the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory was identified as an evangelical Christian man from Florida. The man, who goes by GhostEzra on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, has more than 300,000 followers and posts “explicit Nazi propaganda, including outright Holocaust denial and a slew of conspiracy theories that often range from obliquely to explicitly antisemitic,” according to Logically, an organization that tracks disinformation online and uncovered his identity. Among materials, the man has posted is a 12-hour film that claims Jews created communism in order to dominate the world. GhostEzra’s Telegram channel, according to Logically, has effectively become a neo-Nazi chat room.

Source: QAnon antisemite outed as Evangelical who gave synagogue one-star review – The Jerusalem Post

Mississippi orders coronavirus-infected individuals to isolate at home or face up to 5 years in prison | Fox News

The Mississippi State Department of Health issued an alert on Friday ordering any coronavirus-positive individuals to isolate for at least 10 days or face up to a 5-year prison sentence and a fine of up to $5,000.

The isolation order comes amid surging COVID-19 cases in Mississippi, as the 7-day average for new cases in the state reached 4,316 on Friday, nearly double the highest point during the second wave in January, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

Friday’s order, issued by State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs, says that anyone “infected with COVID-19 must remain in the home or other appropriate residential location for 10 days from onset of illness.”

Source: Mississippi orders coronavirus-infected individuals to isolate at home or face up to 5 years in prison | Fox News

Why a US military base became a centre for Chinese Covid conspiracies – BBC News (Chinese based disinformation?)

A clear example unfolded in July, when Chinese state media outlets began relentlessly reporting on criticism written in a Facebook post by “Wilson Edwards”, a user claiming to be a Swiss scientist.

“Mr Edwards” argued that Washington was “so obsessed with attacking China on the origin-tracing issue that it is reluctant to open its eyes to the data and findings.”

But the Swiss embassy in China later said that there is no registry of a Swiss citizen with the name, and urged Chinese media to remove “false” news reports.

Experts believe “Wilson Edwards” likely does not exist, but is instead a fictitious propaganda profile. His Facebook page was launched on the day that he published the Covid-19 post. A new Twitter account under the name of “Wilson Edwards” also tweeted out the same message on that day.

The “Wilson Edwards” story appear to have first been reported through an obscure Fiji-based Chinese-English bilingual outlet, the Voice of South Pacific.

Though it is unclear whether Voice of South Pacific is backed by the Chinese state, its mobile app is developed by a wholly-owned subsidiary of state news agency China News Service, the first major Chinese state-owned outlet to report on Edwards’ claims.

The BBC found that even before Edwards’ Facebook post drew wide media attention, it had been shared by hundreds of Facebook accounts which claim to be based in Southeast Asia, for example, “Eastman Tyla” in Malaysia and “Tyree Schmidt” in Indonesia.

“Tyla” and “Schmidt” also circulated a long and identical list of pro-China news stories on their Facebook pages, praising Beijing’s handling of the pandemic.

Source: Why a US military base became a centre for Chinese Covid conspiracies – BBC News