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Mexican Justice approves land grab in Chiapas

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Mexican Justice approves land grab in Chiapas

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Injustice and impunity continues against the ejidatarios of San Sebastián Bachajon, adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), who have been fighting a legal battle over the last four years, after the Mexican government transferred the ownership of the ejido lands.

The Third Collegiate Tribunal in Tuxtla Gutierrez referred the case to the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), but the minister Beatriz Luna proposed to the court to return the case to the Tribunal. In recent days this body of justice denied the ejido’s amparo, and, although this was derived from the amparo, the Third Tribunal ordered all the government authorities of Chiapas not to continue the acts of dispossession; the decision to recuperate the land on 21st December last was due in part to the legal foundation that was given them…

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Study of isolated Amazonian tribe shows how modern life is changing human bodily bacteria – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

A microbiota diversity decline may be linked to the increase in the past several decades of immunological and metabolic diseases such as asthma, allergies, diabetes and obesity, said Maria Dominguez-Bello, a professor of medicine at New York University’s Langone Medical Centre.

The researchers analysed microbial samples from 34 of the 54 Yanomami villagers.

They were compared to a United States group, another Venezuelan Amazonian indigenous people, the Guahibo, and residents of rural Malawi in southern Africa.

Yanomami were found to have twice the number of microbe varieties of the US subjects and 30 to 40 per cent more diversity than the Malawians and Guahibo.

Some of the bacteria found in the Yanomami, but not in the others, offer beneficial effects like protecting against kidney stones.

The Yanomami are semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers in their remote mountainous region.

“It really is a unique opportunity to contact communities with this ancient lifestyle,” said Oscar Noya, a researcher with the Amazonic Centre for Research and Control of Tropical Diseases in Venezuela who visited the villagers.

via Study of isolated Amazonian tribe shows how modern life is changing human bodily bacteria – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Turkey accuses EU of ′religious fanaticism′ in Armenia genocide resolution | News | DW.DE | 16.04.2015

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused the European Parliament of being unfair with regards to history. The MEPs demonstrated “religious and cultural fanaticism,” the Turkish government said.

via Turkey accuses EU of ′religious fanaticism′ in Armenia genocide resolution | News | DW.DE | 16.04.2015.

Hundreds of thousands of people have reported sides hurting because they could not stop laughing at President Erdogan’s latest attempt to be taken seriously.

6 Things You Don’t Know About Björk | Dame Magazine

It’s a big year for Björk. Last month New York’s MoMA launched a retrospective of the Icelandic multi-hyphenate’s career, in June she will resume her Vulnicura world tour, and in November she turns 50. It seems like just yesterday we were ruing the breakup of her band, the Sugarcubes, and emulating her head of hair knots. We consider ourselves pretty well-versed in all things Björk, but here are a few tidbits even we were surprised to learn, not least of which is that we’ve been pronouncing her name incorrectly for more than two decades.

via 6 Things You Don’t Know About Björk | Dame Magazine.