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Recipe : Pan Fried Okra

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I had a hankering to eat something fried and crispy. I have been refraining from meat and I had a whole lot of okra in my pantry. I also did not want to invest much time into cooking. Yes, one of those lethargic days where you feel like opening an instant noodle packet but decide it’s okay to invest few more minutes into something else instead and pat yourself on the back until you realize you’ve still eaten way too much and are bloated.

Ingredients: feeds 6 as a snack

  • 500gms Okra
  • 1/2 cup all purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup corn flour
  • salt to taste
  • 3/4 tsp turmeric powder
  • 3 finely chopped green chilies
  • chaat masala powder to taste, optional
  • a pinch of baking soda

Instructions:

Wash and clean the bhindi well.

Chop into manageable cubes that will fry equally fast and won’t crowd the pan.

Gather your flours and spices…

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List of place names of Native American origin in the United States – Wikipedia

Native American influence in USA – not counting that Constitution drawn from Native American sources – What evidence exists that the delegates studied Native governments? Descriptions of them appear in the three-volume handbook John Adams wrote for the convention surveying different types of governments and ideas about government. It included European philosophers like John Locke and Montesquieu, whom U.S. history textbooks have long identified as constitutional influences; but it also included the Iroquois Confederacy and other Indigenous governments, which many of the delegates knew through personal experience. https://www.history.com/news/iroquois-confederacy-influence-us-constitution Source: List of place names of Native American origin in the United States – Wikipedia

Humanity needs nature to prevent ‘chaotic’ climate change: 3 stories you may have missed

1. Humanity’s greatest ally against climate change is the Earth itself 

2. Four in ten Americans breathe polluted air, with people of color hit hardest 

3. Changes in India’s monsoon rainfall could bring serious consequences to more than a billion people

 

Source: Humanity needs nature to prevent ‘chaotic’ climate change: 3 stories you may have missed

Parks Department Investigating After Thousands Packed Tompkins Square Park For Permitted Hardcore Concert – Gothamist (Me: Stupidemic still reigns amongst concert organizers and attendees in NYC)

Image As you can see in videos below, several of the state’s COVID safety guidelines were not followed during the show. There was no social distancing happening during a show that featured tons on moshing, and no distance between the performers and the audience. There also clearly were a lot of people not wearing masks. And according to state guidelines, the max amount of people who can be attendance at outdoor events right now is capped at 500 people.

Source: Parks Department Investigating After Thousands Packed Tompkins Square Park For Permitted Hardcore Concert – Gothamist

RIP – Brampton, Ont., teen among youngest Canadians to die with COVID-19 | CBC News

Emily Victoria Viegas, 13, died on April 22, according to an online fundraiser launched in her memory that’s raised more than $80,000 for her grieving family.

Family friend Adrian Goddard, who organized the fundraiser, told CBC News that Viegas had contracted COVID-19 as well as pneumonia. Her mother is currently in intensive care with COVID-19, Goddard said, while her younger brother is also infected and in isolation, but doing OK.

Source: Brampton, Ont., teen among youngest Canadians to die with COVID-19 | CBC News

RIP – Indian journalist and Guardian news assistant Kakoli Bhattacharya dies from Covid-19 | India | The Guardian

Indian journalist Kakoli Bhattacharya. Kakoli Bhattacharya, an Indian journalist who was a researcher, translator, news assistant and friend to Guardian correspondents for more than a decade, has died from Covid-19 in Delhi.

She died on 23 April after being admitted to hospital earlier in the week during a catastrophic second wave of the virus in India that has claimed tens of thousands of lives since it took off in March.

Bhattacharya, 51, worked with every Guardian correspondent in south Asia since 2009. Her daily contributions to Guardian journalism ranged from obtaining the phone numbers of sources with remarkable speed, translating one of the several languages she spoke fluently, accompanying correspondents in the field, and beyond.

Source: Indian journalist and Guardian news assistant Kakoli Bhattacharya dies from Covid-19 | India | The Guardian

California council member compares her refusal to wear mask to Rosa Parks’s civil rights fight | TheHill

“Not being treated as a human being or [being treated as] a second-class citizen is totally different from a universal measure to protect lives,” Jackson said.

Tisa Rodriguez, chairwoman of the Riverside County Democratic Party, said it was “unconscionable” that an elected member of the city council would “malign their memories in such a self-serving way.”

Source: California council member compares her refusal to wear mask to Rosa Parks’s civil rights fight | TheHill

RIP – Stray bullet kills Jewish reporter for NPR affiliate in Kansas City – The Jerusalem Post – (Me: Despite senseless killings, GOP wants to allow anyone to carry a gun, rifle, or shotgun without a permit in the open or concealed anyplace if they wish)

Aviva Okeson-Haberman on the job as a reporter for KCUR in Kansas City in September 2020. (photo credit: BRANDON PARIGO/JTA) 24-year-old Aviva Okeson-Haberman was about to start a new job covering social services and criminal justice.

On Friday, Okeson-Haberman was hit by a stray bullet that entered her first-floor apartment in Kansas City’s Santa Fe neighborhood. The Jewish journalist was found unconscious and rushed to a hospital, where she was placed on life support.
On Monday, her colleagues at the affiliate, KCUR, posted an anguished obituary reporting her death. Okeson-Haberman was 24.

Source: Stray bullet kills Jewish reporter for NPR affiliate in Kansas City – The Jerusalem Post

Illegal Rare Earth Mines on China Border Multiply Since Myanmar’s Coup

Illegal rare earth mining has surged in northern Kachin State on the Chinese border following Myanmar’s Feb. 1 coup in areas controlled by a junta-sponsored militia.

Environmental groups say mining has increased at least five times in Pangwa and Chipwi townships amid Myanmar’s political turmoil, with a rapid influx of Chinese workers.

“Before the coup, we only saw one or two trucks per day. Now there is no proper inspection we are seeing 10 to 15,” an activist in Chipwi told The Irrawaddy.

He said the trucks are loaded with ammonium sulphate fertilizer bags filled at illegal mines.

“The Chinese authorities have tightened border security for imports from Myanmar due to COVID-19. But materials for the mining move across the border easily,” he added.

Source: Illegal Rare Earth Mines on China Border Multiply Since Myanmar’s Coup

A triple pandemic strikes the Ecuadorian Amazon | openDemocracy

7AIYPY5IN5EQHNUSLNSRMC6F7M.jpeg The spill affected more than 2,000 Indigenous families living along the Coca and Napo rivers, contaminating their food source and their cultural and spiritual way of life. The Indigenous communities were not told about the spill and went out fishing as normal. They used the river water for everyday tasks and are now affected by skin disease and stomach problems.

Children from 60 communities have such issues with their skin. “The oil stains are for life. We demand that the state repair the damage it caused by its lack of attention. Those who are paying the price are the members of the community. No more impunity or injustice!” said Carlos Jipa, community leader and president of the Federation of United Communes of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

A year has passed, but 120,000 people, including 27,000 Indigenous people, continue to face the pandemic without clean water or food that is safe to eat. The rivers, their crops and even their own bodies have been horribly affected. Many of us have joined the struggle of the Amazonian Kichwas for justice and full reparations, and we ask the new court sitting to break the historical cycle of impunity.

It is in the judges’ hands to act fairly and give the victims their livelihoods back, while demanding full reparations from the state and the companies responsible. This violation of the rights of communities and nature by unscrupulous oil companies cannot go unpunished.

Source: A triple pandemic strikes the Ecuadorian Amazon | openDemocracy