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Cook County Gets Tighter COVID-19 Restrictions This Week; State Reports 4,729 New Cases, 2,638 In Hospital – CBS Chicago

“Region 10, on the other hand, is the first region in Illinois to earn additional mitigations not because of its positivity rate alone, but because its positivity rate and its COVID-related hospitalizations have both seen a sustained increase over the last 10 days.”

Source: Cook County Gets Tighter COVID-19 Restrictions This Week; State Reports 4,729 New Cases, 2,638 In Hospital – CBS Chicago

Michigan Officials Report 3,881 New COVID-19 Cases, 29 Deaths – 9 & 10 News

Michigan health officials are reporting 3,881 new cases of the coronavirus and 29 additional COVID-19 deaths since Saturday. Michigan has now had 161,907 total confirmed coronavirus cases and 7,211 COVID-19 deaths. Saturday the state was at 158,026 confirmed cases with 7,182 deaths. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is now providing weekly updates on the number of people…

Source: Michigan Officials Report 3,881 New COVID-19 Cases, 29 Deaths – 9 & 10 News

EU expects negotiated solution for Ethiopia Grand Dam | AFRICA DIPLOMATIC

“Over 250 million of citizens of the Blue Nile basin stand to benefit from the predictable agreement based on the negotiated arrangement for the filling of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, they are expecting the investment in water security, aggregation, agricultural production, and electricity generation” the EU spokesperson said, reacting upon the resumption of the talks from October 27 after two months pause, caused by the departure of Egypt delegation.

Source: EU expects negotiated solution for Ethiopia Grand Dam | AFRICA DIPLOMATIC

The Blinding Sorcery of Gold

Barbara Crane Navarro

photo: Yanomami shaman, Amazonas, Venezuela – Barbara Crane Navarro

As the Yanomami spokesman Davi Kopenawa says in his book “The Falling Sky”:”To our elders, gold was just shiny fakes on the sand of the forest’s stream beds, like mica. They collected it to make a sorcery substance intended to blind people with whom they were angry. … this metal dust was highly feared. This is why we call the shards of shiny metal that the gold miners extract from the riverbeds oru hipëre a – the blinding sorcery of gold. When the white people tear minerals out of the ground, they grind them up with their machines, then heat them in their factories.… Gold and other minerals are dangerous evil things that only bring disease and death. … Though this metal may be the most beautiful and most solid they can find to build their machines and their merchandise, it…

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