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

Here are 13 Reasons Why You Should Boycott Gold For The Yanomami and ALL Indigenous People! — Palm Oil Detectives | Barbara Crane Navarro

Hunger for Gold in the Global North is fueling a living hell in the Global South. Here are 13 reasons why you should #BoycottGold4Yanomami

13 Reasons Why You Should Boycott Gold For The Yanomami People — Palm Oil Detectives

Source: Here are 13 Reasons Why You Should Boycott Gold For The Yanomami and ALL Indigenous People! — Palm Oil Detectives | Barbara Crane Navarro

Ein Dienstagslächeln / … A Tuesday smile – Stella, oh, Stella

Die Geschichte beginnt etwas trist, aaaaaber … ihr wisst ja, Geschichten mit traurigem Ende sind dienstags verboten 😉
Es geht um Routine, in der man gefangen ist, weil man aufgegeben hat. Aber auch um den inneren Funken, der manchmal noch nicht ganz tot ist. Und die Überwindung der Furcht vor dem Unbekannten.

… The story starts a bit sad, buuuuut … you know, stories with a sad anding are banned on Tuesdays 😉
The topic is routine, in which one is trapped because one has resigned. But, also about the inner spark, which sometimes is not completely dead yet. And overcoming the fear of the unknown.

Angst und Furcht behindert uns in allem.

… Anxiety and fear interfere with us in everything.

Source: Ein Dienstagslächeln / … A Tuesday smile – Stella, oh, Stella

Russian propagandist and soldiers openly boast of looting homes in occupied Ukraine

Yulia Chicherina and the soldiers with their stolen ’trophy Screenshot from the video

Yulia Chicherina and the soldiers with their stolen ’trophy Screenshot from the video

 

Yulia Chicherina, Russian singer and pro-war propagandist, has posted a video on which, surrounded by Russian soldiers, she shows off the Chanel cosmetic bag that they have, purportedly, ‘given’ her. It was not, of course, theirs to give and the entire video is effective admission of the war crime of looting, although they all evidently feel certain of their impunity, and laugh about their ‘trophy’.

Chicherina (b. 1978) has actively supported Russia’s aggression against Ukraine since 2014, and this was not her first visit to territory seized since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.  According to Dialog.ua, which reposted the video, in 2022, she also proposed that Russia invade Finland and Sweden, both of whose governments had responded to the full-scale invasion by deciding to join NATO…

Source: Russian propagandist and soldiers openly boast of looting homes in occupied Ukraine

Israeli ex-PM Olmert says Netanyahu ultimately to blame for death of hostages – Tête à tête

In an interview with FRANCE 24, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert said Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was ultimately to blame for the shocking death of six more hostages in Gaza over the weekend. Israel says the six hostages were “brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists”, something the group denies. “They were killed by Hamas,” Olmert said. But “Netanyahu is responsible for the erosion that led to the killing of these six people, and the killing of many others that were found before, and the ones that will be killed tomorrow and the day after tomorrow”, he added.

Olmert said that Netanyahu “will not reach an agreement because he doesn’t want to bring back the hostages, because he wants to continue the war“.

He added: “There can be only one way to bring the hostages [back]: Israel will agree to end the war. It’s as simple as that.”

Source: Israeli ex-PM Olmert says Netanyahu ultimately to blame for death of hostages – Tête à tête

Elon Musk Posts Fake Image of Kamala in Communist Uniform | Diane Ravitch’s blog

Twitter (X) has few rules but one of them bars fake images.

X belongs to Elon Musk, the richest man in the world. He can do whatever he wants on X. Rules are for others. So he did.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk, a supporter of former President Donald Trump, on Monday posted a fake image of what appears to be Vice President Kamala Harris dressed in a red communist uniform.

“Kamala vows to be a communist dictator on day one. Can you believe she wears that outfit!?” Musk posted on X, the social media platform he owns, in response to the vice president’s post warning about Trump being a “dictator on day one.”

According to X’s policy, users “may not share synthetic, manipulated, or out-of-context media that may deceive or confuse people and lead to harm. … In addition, we may label posts containing misleading media to help people understand their authenticity and to provide additional context.”

Musk’s post does not have any such label on it.

Last month, Trump posted a fake, AI-generated image depicting Harris speaking in front of a communist symbol at the Democratic National Convention. 

The least trustworthy tweets are those posted by Musk.

Source: Elon Musk Posts Fake Image of Kamala in Communist Uniform | Diane Ravitch’s blog