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

♫ Rain ♫

Filosofa's Word

Well, wouldn’t you just know it? I mentioned yesterday when I played ♫ Paperback Writer ♫ that Roger had sent me Rain (the song, not the precipitation that falls from the sky), and told me it was the ‘B-side’ to Paperback Writer. Then he said that it was his favourite Beatles tune, but he didn’t specify which, so I guessed Paperback Writer. WRONG! He meant Rain. So tonight I must make amends, and thus I give you … Rain!

According to SongFacts …

John Lennon wrote most of Rain. It was his first song to get really deep, exploring themes of reality and illusion – after all, rain or shine is just a state of mind.

This was the first song to use a tape played backwards, which created the strange audio effect. John Lennon discovered the technique when he put the tape for “Tomorrow Never…

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In Peru, a corrupt land-titling scheme sees forests sold off as farms (Me: theft is theft and destroying forests at this point is a crime against us all on earth)

  • An irregular land titling system is behind the deforestation of a swath of Amazon rainforest now occupied by a Mennonite colony in Masisea municipality, in Peru’s Ucayali department.
  • In 2015, more than 40 land registry files were filled out with false information to give forests titles that made them appear to be farmland.
  • This system, used in several places in Ucayali department, allowed for the deforestation of more than 1,000 hectares (2,500 acres) of forests in Masisea and within Indigenous communities.

In September 2015, officials from the agriculture agency of Peru’s Ucayali department arrived in the district of Masisea with one goal: to create a rural land registry in a forested area along the edge of the Masisea-Imiría Highway, a road that runs through a section of the Peruvian Amazon.

That was the beginning of an intricate system of irregularly ceding public and Indigenous lands that later ended up in the hands of a Mennonite colony in Ucayali department.

Some authorities from the departmental government participated in this process by using their positions to grant titles to forested land illegally. Some of them are now under investigation and under house arrest. This story is an example of how, in Peru, some forests are deforested first on paper, and then in real life.

Source: In Peru, a corrupt land-titling scheme sees forests sold off as farms

Os pulmões doentes da Amazônia — Mágica Mistura✨

Barbara Crane Navarro

Meados de julho de 2021. Durante o segundo ano da pandemia de COVID-19, o calor catastrófico e o inferno de fogo no oeste dos Estados Unidos e Canadá, bem como as inundações do século na Alemanha e na Bélgica, competem pela maior manchete com o voo espacial do o multibilionário Jeffrey Bezos na florestade…

Os pulmões doentes da Amazônia — Mágica Mistura✨

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Official data confirms #Amazon deforestation still soaring and new footage captures the horror — Western Globe News

Barbara Crane Navarro

Official data published today by the Brazilian Space Research Institute (INPE), detected deforestation alerts across an area of the Amazon rainforest over five and a half times the size of London in the last 12 months. 8,712km2 (871,200 hectares) of the Amazon saw deforestation alerts between August 1, 2020 and July 30, 2021 according to[…]

Official data confirms #Amazon deforestation still soaring and new footage captures the horror — Western Globe News

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Oh Da Snark … Try Watching Grass Grow!

Filosofa's Word

It seems I keep finding things to snark about.  I have tried to clear my mind of the detritus, tried lying in the yard watching the grass grow to find some peace of mind, but some of the blades of grass began looking like politicians after a while.  I threw myself into housework … for all of ten minutes … and then I was tired, so I went back to reading the news.  So, letting loose the snark here on ye olde blog seems to be the only way to evict it from my head!


Punished for doing the right thing

Okay, my friends … I’m going there again … ‘there’ being the place I try very hard to stay away from:  religion.  Well, not religion per se, but rather certain religious ‘leaders’ who have flown repeatedly onto my radar, almost as if they are begging me to swat them…

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Bicycle Hand Signals For Safety

Almost same for cars and motorcycles before turn signals –

Frugal Average Bicyclist

Hand signals are a very important part of bicycle safety. Signals help drivers predict where you are going to go. When riding on the road you should always use hand signals, they can even be helpful on the trail to let other riders know where you are going. These are the most important signals that you should know. Try to signal about 100 feet before you intend to turn or stop, and make sure to hold the signal for at least 3 seconds. This gives drivers time to see the signal so they can be ready for your turn.

Left Turn

Left Hand Signal Bicycle

Right Turn

Right Hand Signal Bicycle

Alternate Right Turn

I have found that people often don’t recognize the standard right turn signal. Usually, I find people are waving back at me. So, I like to use the alternate right turn signal, and just point to…

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