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Chasing phantom protests Meduza looks into why Moscow police arrested four Pussy Riot activists in a single day — Meduza

Source: Chasing phantom protests Meduza looks into why Moscow police arrested four Pussy Riot activists in a single day — Meduza

Insurrection Update #6

In Saner Thought

Yesterday was the 6 month anniversary of the failed coup by Trump supporters….

My continuing series on the betrayal of the republic on 06 January 2021 bu followers of his high disillusioned followers of his highness Trump.

Why do I call this person such?

Well one GOPer thinks he is to put it bluntly…..GOD.

Glorious readers, it’s time to meet Wisconsin Republican Senate President Chris Kapenga, who probably ought to wash his tongue after the letter he just delivered unto Dear Leader Trump, begging for his approval and desperately trying to prove his devotion. It is the most embarrassing thing we have ever seen from a person who is ostensibly a grown man. It is more embarrassing than Tom Cotton trying to do push-ups and instead doing the worm because he’s apparently been skipping core day for the past 20 years.

Granted this douche was not part of the insurrection…

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Agro-industry Surrounds Xingu Indigenous Territory in Brazil — CSP-Conlutas

Barbara Crane Navarro

In the last 20 years, the region around the land of Yawalapiti has been transformed into a production hub for soybeans, corn, cotton and meat, connected by highways and railways. Today, the Xingu area produces 10% of Brazil’s soybeanexports.

Agro-industry Surrounds Xingu Indigenous Territory in Brazil — CSP-Conlutas

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Brasil: Pueblos originarios exigen el respeto de sus territorios  — Indigenous News of the World (INW)

Barbara Crane Navarro

Brasilia. – Cerca de 450 indígenas, representantes de los diferentes pueblos que conforman Brasil marcharon este lunes, hasta la sede del Tribunal Supremo Federal (STF). Los indígenas exigen que se agende la demarcación de las tierras indígenas y que los ministros avalen la solicitud de protección de los pueblos Yanomami y Munduruku, afectados por la[…]

Brasil: Pueblos originarios exigen el respeto de sus territorios — Indigenous News of the World (INW)

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« O dinheiro não nos protege… não cria a nossa alegria. Para os *brancos, é diferente. »

Barbara Crane Navarro

Casa comunal Yanomami na floresta, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela
foto: Barbara Crane Navarro

«Os xamãs Yanomami não trabalham por dinheiro como os médicos brancos. Eles simplesmente agem para manter o céu e a floresta no lugar, para que possamos caçar, plantar nossos jardins e ter uma vida saudável. Nossos mais velhos não sabiam sobre dinheiro. … O dinheiro não nos protege… não cria a nossa alegria. Para os brancos, é diferente. Eles não sabem sonhar com os espíritos como nós. Eles preferem ignorar que o trabalho dos xamãs é proteger a terra, tanto para nós e nossos filhos quanto para eles e os deles.»

  • Porta-voz e Xamã YanomamiDavi Kopenawa

* O citado xamã Yanomami refere-se à destruição da floresta tropical e das vidas indígenas desde a “conquista das Américas” pelos europeus brancos (não indígenas) que deu início à violenta expropriação dos povos indígenas há 520 anos.

30% do que…

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Wondering Wednesdays, Baby Acres, Chapter 1, part IV: The End (Goal)

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

This post finishes the rough draft of  Chapter 1 of my non-fiction WiP, Baby Acres.  This is all of outline section IV, chapter 1, end of chapter 1.

This section is about 1100 words long, as I wanted each chapter section to be.

And still again, by way of disclaimer, the overall goal is now to explain why we need both equ. + justice, & why in 4 phases.  This chapter will transition to a chapter (2-5) for each phase, showing what Phases I-IV could look like as part of a possible roadmap for a fully inclusive society for all of us.  This vision is laid out in the hope that All HumanKind  will eventually have each person’s basic needs  met, without taking anything from anyone, and without violence, intimidation, nor coercion of any kind. 

Chapter One, section IV:

(section III was last week…)

IV.

 

chapter 1,  IV:  Where…

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‘The Entire World Grovels to the Jews’: Belarus Dictator Alexander Lukashenko in Antisemitic Outburst | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com

Ninety percent of Belarus’s Jewish community — 800,000 people — were exterminated during the Holocaust. As in other countries in the region, including Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine and Latvia, the issue of local collaboration with the occupying Germans has been the subject of bitter debate in Belarus. One unit of the SS composed of Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian collaborators was known as the 1st Belarusian Division, while thousands of Belarusians also served the internal security apparatus created by the Nazis following the 1941 invasion.

Yad Vashem, Israel’s national memorial to the Holocaust, has named 669 Belarusians as “Righteous Among the Nations” for risking their lives to protect Jews.

Lukashenko’s antisemitic outburst comes at a time when Belarus is facing increasing international scrutiny.

Source: ‘The Entire World Grovels to the Jews’: Belarus Dictator Alexander Lukashenko in Antisemitic Outburst | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com

Chick Parsons – Our Man In Manila

Pacific Paratrooper

Charles ‘Chick’ Parsons

Charles Thomas Parsons Jr. was born in 1900 in Shelbyville, Tennessee, but his family moved frequently to avoid creditors. When young Charles was 5, his mother sent him to Manila for a more stable life with her brother, a public health official in the American-run government. The boy received his elementary education speaking Spanish at the Santa Potenciana School, a Catholic school founded in the 16th century. 

He returned to Tennessee as a teenager and graduated from Chattanooga High School. He sailed back to the Philippines as a merchant marine seaman in the early 1920s and shortly got himself hired as a stenographer for Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, a hero of the Spanish-American War  On January 2, 1942, the Japanese Army marched into Manila unopposed.

Parsons retreated—only so far as his house on Dewey Boulevard, where he burned his uniforms and any other evidence that he was…

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Nutrients | Free Full-Text | Animal Protein versus Plant Protein in Supporting Lean Mass and Muscle Strength: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Results from the meta-analyses demonstrated that protein source did not affect changes in absolute lean mass or muscle strength. Source: Nutrients | Free Full-Text | Animal Protein versus Plant Protein in Supporting Lean Mass and Muscle Strength: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Miss Mexico 2021 organisers press ahead with pageant despite Covid surge among contestants | Mexico | The Guardian

At least 15 of the 32 contestants in the Miss Mexico 2021 pageant tested positive for coronavirus. A pageant staff member also tested positive, according to the Chihuahua state health secretariat.

“Even though many [of the contestants] were coughing, had body aches and even a temperature, they asked them not to complain,” a source from the pageant told the newspaper Reforma.

Prior to the pageant the contestants travelled to a school run in the scenic but impoverished Copper Canyon run by nuns for indigenous Tarahumara children, where they delivered school supplies and posed for selfies with the students. The source told Reforma that “a minimum 10 [contestants] had symptoms” on that trip.

Organizers in the northern city of Chihuahua proceeded with the pageant on 1 July – two days ahead of schedule. It is unknown why the date was changed and organizers have not commented.

Source: Miss Mexico 2021 organisers press ahead with pageant despite Covid surge among contestants | Mexico | The Guardian