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In the Yucatan Peninsula, at Uxmal, I spent a few hours,

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Uxmal, 2019

În peninsula Yucatan, la Uxmal, am petrecut câteva ore,

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într-o amiază caniculară,

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printre vestigiile mayașe încărcate de o energie neobișnuită.

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Între secolele 7-10, aici a fost o cetate înfloritoare,

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abandonată, apoi, în mod inexplicabil.

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La sfârșitul secolului 10, nu mai rămăsese nici țipenie.

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Jungla joasă și impenetrabilă a fost defrișată doar în incinta construcțiilor.

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Din marginea sitului, zărești doar liziera de unde te poți scufunda în hătișul vegetației.

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Orașul a fost edificat sub patronajul unui cuplu divin: Chaac, zeul apei și Venus, planeta ploii și a vântului.

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Pentru ploaie și prosperitate, era nevoie de ofrande din belșug.

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Stilul Puuc, caracterizat de fațade lungi împodobile liniar cu figurile geometrizate ale zeilor, îl văd reprodus pe toate obiectele comerciale din artizanatul maya,

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confecționate de actuala comunitate mayașă, care își păstrează tradițiile, dialectul și demnitatea.

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Numele Puuc se referă la acest ansamblu de coline și la stilul construcțiilor, mai cu seamă…

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Merchandise Love – The Value the white people give the Gold they covet so much

Barbara Crane Navarro

photo: Yanomami: shamanic transformation – Barbara Crane Navarro

As the Yanomami spokesman Davi Kopenawa says in his book “The Falling Sky”:                     “Today there are not many great shamans left in our forest. The gold smoke of epidemics nearly completely emptied it.Our fathers and our grandfathers did not trust the white people and had always feared their epidemic fumes. They did not know that they had come to mark the edges of Brazil in the middle of our land. They never imagined that later these people’s children and grandchildren would come back in large numbers to dig gold from the rivers. 

They never thought that these outsiders would one day chase them from their homes to take their land! Then the xawara epidemics arrive in their footsteps and we immediately start dying one after another! We are the few inhabitants of…

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Justice Dept.: Armed Agents Are Allowed to Oversee Ballot-Counting Venues – The New York Times – Tin-pot, 2-bit dictator tactics!

The email created the specter of the federal government intimidating local election officials or otherwise intervening in vote tallying amid calls by President Trump to end the tabulating in states where he was trailing in the presidential race, former officials said.

law prohibits the stationing of armed federal officers at polls on Election Day. But a top official told prosecutors that the department interpreted the statute to mean that they could send armed federal officers to polling stations and locations where ballots were being counted anytime after that.

The statute “does not prevent armed federal law enforcement persons from responding to, investigate, or prevent federal crimes at closed polling places or at other locations where votes are being counted,” the official, Richard P. Donoghue, told prosecutors in an email that he sent around 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday.

Department of Health Provides Update on COVID-19: 2,795 Additional Positives Bring Statewide Total to 217,666

The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., November 4, that there were 2,795 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 217,666. Daily increases are now the highest they have ever been since the start of the pandemic. Source: Department of Health Provides Update on COVID-19: 2,795 Additional Positives Bring Statewide Total to 217,666

‘Stop the count’ protesters push toward door of Detroit ballot counting place | TheHill

The former vice president led by more than 60,000 votes in the state as of Wednesday afternoon, according to estimates from The Associated Press. Trump carried the state by less than 11,000 votes in 2016.

“Michigan’s elections have been conducted transparently, with access provided for both political parties and the public, and using a robust system of checks and balances to ensure that all ballots are counted fairly and accurately,” Jarvi added in the statement, which Nessel shared on Twitter.

“When we are served, we will review it and respond accordingly,” Jarvi added. “Michigan will always continue to protect the rights of all voters to have their ballots counted.”

Source: ‘Stop the count’ protesters push toward door of Detroit ballot counting place | TheHill

Covid-19 Live Updates: Parts of Italy Will Lock Down Again as Europe Tries to Halt Second Wave – The New York Times

The Italian government announced Wednesday night that it will lock down a significant portion of the country, including the northern regions that are its economic engine, in an effort to stop a resurgent wave of coronavirus infections. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced that the measures, the most drastic since the nationwide lockdown in March, will take effect on Friday and will seal off six regions in the country’s deeply infected north and highly vulnerable, and poorer, south.

Postmortem lungs of COVID-19 patients show massive damage | CIDRAP

Lung imaging

study of the lungs of 41 people who died from COVID-19 in Italy has revealed extensive damage, persistent distortion of the normal organ structure, scarring of respiratory tissue, and massive blood clotting of the arteries and veins, which may help explain why it takes some people—so-called “long haulers”—months to recover from fatigue and shortness of breath.

Source: Postmortem lungs of COVID-19 patients show massive damage | CIDRAP