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

‘Viruses don’t care:’ rural Pennsylvania ravaged by spike in COVID-19 cases | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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O Amor pelas Mercadorias – o Valor que os brancos dão ao Ouro que tanto desejam

Barbara Crane Navarro

foto: Yanomami: transformação xamânica – Barbara Crane Navarro

Como diz o porta-voz Yanomami Davi Kopenawa em seu livro “A Queda do Céu”: “Hoje não restam muitos grandes xamãs em nossa floresta. A fumaça dourada das epidemias a esvaziou quase completamente. Nossos pais e avós não confiavam nos brancos e sempre temeram seus vapores epidêmicos. Não sabiam que tinham vindo marcar os limites do Brasil no meio de nossa terra. Eles nunca imaginaram que mais tarde os filhos e netos dessas pessoas voltariam em grande número para minerar os rios em busca de ouro. Eles nunca pensaram que esses estrangeiros um dia os expulsariam de suas casas para tomar suas terras! Então as epidemias de xawara seguem seus rastros e imediatamente começamos a morrer uma após a outra! Somos os poucos habitantes da floresta que sobreviveram aos vapores epidêmicos de seus pais e avós. É por isso que quero falar com…

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Wisconsin reports 6,141 COVID-19 cases, 62 deaths

Wisconsin on Friday reported more than 6,000 new COVID-19 cases for the first time, capping the deadliest week of the pandemic so far.

The state Department of Health and Human Services on Friday reported 6,141 new cases and 62 new deaths, bringing the death toll to 2,256.

Friday’s toll is just under the record 64 deaths reported Oct. 27. Deaths from the virus are rising quickly, concerning health officials who do not see an end in sight to Wisconsin’s escalating public health crisis unless residents take action to slow its spread.

Source: Wisconsin reports 6,141 COVID-19 cases, 62 deaths

Supreme Court orders separate count of late-arriving Pa. ballots | TheHill

The Supreme Court on Friday ordered Pennsylvania election boards to segregate mail ballots that arrived after Election Day and count them separately from the state’s overall vote tally, leaving open the possibility that the justices could exclude
— Read on thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/524900-supreme-court-orders-separate-count-of-late-arriving-pa-ballots

Ohio Sheriff-elect makes history as first woman in role, wins against ex-boss who fired her | TheHill

Charmaine McGuffey has been elected sheriff of Hamilton County, Ohio after her predecessor allegedly fired her for being a lesbian.
— Read on thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/524901-ohio-sheriff-elect-makes-history-as-first-woman-in-role-wins-against-ex

Hamilton County – Cincinnati

Saving the world’s most trafficked mammal – Sheree Bega 5 Nov 2020 | Just Sayin’

All eight species of endangered pangolins — four in Africa and four in Asia — are trafficked largely for their scales, used in some traditional Chinese medicines. Pangolin meat, too, is prized as a delicacy in China and Vietnam.  Source: Saving the world’s most trafficked mammal – Sheree Bega 5 Nov 2020 | Just Sayin’

Federal Court Declares Genetically Engineered Salmon Unlawful | LRInspire

The Court ruled that FDA failed to consider and study the environmental risks of this novel GE fish. When GE salmon escape or are accidentally released into the environment, the new species could threaten wild populations by mating with endangered salmon species, outcompeting them for scarce resources and habitat, and/or introducing new diseases. The world’s preeminent experts on GE fish and risk assessment, as well as biologists at U.S. wildlife agencies charged with protecting fish and wildlife, heavily criticized FDA’s approval for failing to evaluate the impacts of GE salmon on native salmon populations. Yet FDA ignored their concerns in the final approval.

“This decision underscores what scientists have been telling FDA for years—that creating  genetically engineered salmon poses an unacceptable risk if the fish escape and interact with our wild salmon and that FDA must understand that risk to prevent harm,” said Earthjustice managing attorney Steve Mashuda. “Our efforts should be focused on saving the wild salmon populations we already have—not manufacturing new species that pose yet another threat to their survival.”

Studies have shown that there is a high risk for genetically engineered organisms to escape into the natural environment, and that genetically engineered salmon can crossbreed with native fish. So-called “transgenic contamination”—where genetically engineered crops cross-pollinate or establish themselves in nearby fields or the wild—has become common. These contamination episodes have cost U.S. farmers billions of dollars over the past decade. In wild organisms like fish, it would be even more damaging.

Source: Federal Court Declares Genetically Engineered Salmon Unlawful | LRInspire