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UN: We undervalue nature, overvalue profits to our peril! — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Originally posted on Darcy Hitchcock: The UN recently released a damning report about global society. In a nutshell, it said we need to take into …

UN: We undervalue nature, overvalue profits to our peril! — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Brazil: killing of Lula’s party treasurer raises fears of violent runup to election | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | The Guardian

Marcelo de Arruda was killed at his own 50th birthday party on Sunday morning when a Bolsonaro supporter invaded the event and shot him three times. Arruda, a municipal guard who had organised a Lula-themed party, returned fire before his death, leaving his assailant in a serious condition in hospital.

The attack came just two days after another Bolsonaro supporter threw a crude home-made device containing faeces into the crowd at a Lula campaign rally in Rio de Janeiro. In another incident in Minas Gerais state three weeks previously, a drone dropped what was reported to be raw sewage on a pro-Lula gathering.

The attacks are in keeping with a polarisation in Brazilian politics that gathered speed in 2016 with the impeachment of Lula’s hand-picked successor, Dilma Rousseff, and the jailing of Lula two years later for crimes of corruption – convictions that were quashed in 2019 after the prosecutors were found to have colluded with the judge.

What has changed since then, according to experts, is the growing sense, especially from the right, that political differences cannot be resolved through debate.

“This far-right group, a lot of whom, including the president, have fascist ideas, doesn’t want to recognise institutions and the established rules of the game,” said Darci Frigo, president of Brazil’s National Human Rights Council. “Bolsonaro has made a decision to eliminate the left and he has allowed his supporters to use violence to do that, to divide and hate.

“What happened in Foz de Iguaçu is not an isolated case, it was encouraged by the president’s rhetoric.”

 

Source: Brazil: killing of Lula’s party treasurer raises fears of violent runup to election | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | The Guardian

The LA Dem’s endorse Luna over Villanueva, & Board of Supes vote 4 to 1 to ask county voters to give the board authority to remove the sheriff |

First, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed a motion giving the go-ahead for a special election in November to ask county voters to grant the board the authority to remove the county’s sheriff with a four fifths vote if they deem it necessary, “for cause…”

The concept of a county board of supervisors having the power to fire an elected sheriff has already been tested in San Bernardino County, where the SB Board acquired similar powers to remove their sheriff.  Sheriff Gary Penrod challenged the board’s new power, and got firmly shot down by California’s Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Source: The LA Dem’s endorse Luna over Villanueva, & Board of Supes vote 4 to 1 to ask county voters to give the board authority to remove the sheriff |

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Abortion: P. Lazos + Privilege + Pod40: Blog Tips + Loan Words

Happiness Between Tails by da-AL

Blog post title over photo of a woman holding a sign that reads, "Mandatory Vasectomies: Life Begins at Ejaculation."

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Click H-E-R-E for my podcast page at AnchorFM. This week’s show is the audio version of 27 Blog Tips + Borrowed Words by da-AL.

At the Happiness Between Tails podcast page,you’ll also find links to subscribe, hear, and share it via most any platform, fromSpotify andApple Podcasts,toGoogle Podcastsand Pocket Casts,along withRadioPublicand Castbox andStitcherand more, plus anRSS feed. Check out the full list of 50+ places.

While fooling around — erhem, doing research — for my novels, I wandered across findings that conclude many well-off white guys want equality and equity for all. The problem is, since they don’t see it regarding them, their time is all full up with making and enjoying their inherent privileges.

“Humans are rational; we rationalize whatever we want,” or something to that effect, is how noted

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She treated Myanmar’s resistance and paid with her life – BBC News

Zarli Naing

A month after the coup, she left Nay Pyi Taw and returned to her home village. But fearing her political activism would endanger her family, she decided to move on to a safe zone in the north of Magway, which is largely controlled by opposition forces.

There she became part of an extensive underground healthcare network run by the thousands of doctors and nurses who have left their jobs in protest against the coup.

She was also trying to complete an online degree course from the prestigious University of Nursing in Mandalay. She had started the programme in early 2020, but it was disrupted by the pandemic.

“When I spoke to her a month ago she told me how happy she was to be there,” says one of her online supervisors, a nursing instructor for the clandestine network.

“She was especially happy that she could give first aid training to the PDF fighters in her area, because there are no other healthcare staff there. She was the only one able to give that service to them.”

 

Source: She treated Myanmar’s resistance and paid with her life – BBC News

‘They started hunting for me’: Ukraine politicians face torture in Russian detention – By Matt Murphy BBC News July 14, 2022 — Just Sayin’

3 hours ago Russian soldiers have been accused of torturing civilians while in detention Hundreds of Ukrainians, including civilians and local politicians, are being subjected to forced detentions by Russian forces in occupied regions, the UN has told the BBC.  1,246 more words

‘They started hunting for me’: Ukraine politicians face torture in Russian detention – By Matt Murphy BBC News July 14, 2022 — Just Sayin’

The Price Of A Miracle

Weekend Stories by Trishikh

The jerk from a sudden impact startled Biju from his momentary slumber. In a split second, he applied the brakes as years of driving instincts kicked in, and the Toyota Innova Crysta veered and screeched to a dead halt. As the smell of grazed rubber gently floated into the MUV through its rolled-down windows, beads of perspiration appeared on the forehead of its seasoned driver. Looking back in his rearview mirror, Biju said a silent prayer and drove away as the broken body of an unknown man lay twitching in a pool of blood. Accidents such as these were not uncommon in the dead of a pitch-black moonless night on a remote highway, deep in the rural hinterlands of the Indian state of Bihar. To answer nature’s call in the open, sleepy villagers often crossed paved roads and national highways in the early hours.

Six hundred and thirty kilometres away…

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