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Palm oil used in chocolate spreads, cooking oil may fuel cancer spread — As well as destroying forests and wildlife habitat! – WGNO — Barbara Crane Navarro

Experiments on mice found palmitic acid, the main saturated fatty acid in palm oil, promotes mouth cancers and deadly skin melanomas. Palm oil used in chocolate spreads, cooking oil may fuel cancer spread — WGNO

Palm oil used in chocolate spreads, cooking oil may fuel cancer spread — As well as destroying forests and wildlife habitat! – WGNO — Barbara Crane Navarro

In Malaysia’s Johor, forest reserves are being replaced with gold mines and palm oil plantations — The Stringer — Barbara Crane Navarro

Forest reserves in northeastern Johor are shrinking due to land clearing linked to economic projects, prompting concerns over elephant-human conflicts Experts say the deforestation of an area with a rich biodiversity is alarming and runs counter to Malaysia’s commitment to protecting its natural heritage About five years ago, a herd of elephants showed up at […] […]

In Malaysia’s Johor, forest reserves are being replaced with gold mines and palm oil plantations — The Stringer — Barbara Crane Navarro

Dutch COVID-19 unrest ‘pure violence’ by ‘idiots’: PM | eNCA

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Monday slammed three nights of unrest over anti-Covid measures as “pure violence’ by “idiots” and vowed to prosecute those responsible.

The Netherlands was taking stock after a weekend that saw dozens of violent protests across the country against the government’s anti-coronavirus measures.

At least 130 people have been arrested, four people wounded and several police officers injured since the violence first erupted on Friday, when a protest in the port city of Rotterdam turned into running battles between police and rioters.

The unrest in Rotterdam and in several cities around the country “is pure violence under the guise of protest,” Rutte told Dutch media on Monday.

“I understand that there is a lot of tension in society because we have been dealing with the scourge of corona for so long,” Rutte said.

He said he would always defend the right to protest, but “I will never accept that idiots use pure violence,” he said.

Source: Dutch COVID-19 unrest ‘pure violence’ by ‘idiots’: PM | eNCA

I can’t breathe

LANDBACK Friends

CONTENT WARNING: POLICE VIOLENCE

I first learned about the concepts of #LANDBACK and the work of the Wet’suwet’en peoples’ work to protect their pristine land and water from construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline in January 2020. One of the first things I saw was the following video. In it Denzel Sutherland-Wilson talks about land back.

Our culture and our tradition is the land. We are directly connected to the land. It’s our spirituality. We cannot be forced to be away from our land.
Nine days since we took the land back.
It feels like something you don’t normally do. (laughter) Its revolutionary, right?
I don’t think anyone’s ever really evicted like a 6 billion dollar pipeline before.
People get confused about what we want as Native people. Like “what do you want?”

Just like, “land back!”. Don’t need any reconciliation, don’t want money, like I don’t want programs or…

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