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Colonialismo del 21 ° secolo: implementato da alcune ONG? Di chi è in gioco la sopravvivenza qui, Survival? La sopravvivenza delle foreste pluviali e delle popolazioni indigene o dell’industria della gioielleria di lusso in oro e diamanti? | Barbara Crane Navarro (21st century colonialism: implemented by some NGOs? Whose survival is at stake here, Survival? The survival of rainforests and indigenous peoples or the luxury gold and diamond jewelry industry?)

Source: Colonialismo del 21 ° secolo: implementato da alcune ONG? Di chi è in gioco la sopravvivenza qui, Survival? La sopravvivenza delle foreste pluviali e delle popolazioni indigene o dell’industria della gioielleria di lusso in oro e diamanti? | Barbara Crane Navarro

At Least 25 Indian Lawmakers Test Positive For Coronavirus As Parliament Reopens : Coronavirus Live Updates : NPR

India has been reporting nearly 100,000 new infections a day, despite a low testing rate per capita. More than 1,000 deaths per day have also been reported. Source: At Least 25 Indian Lawmakers Test Positive For Coronavirus As Parliament Reopens : Coronavirus Live Updates : NPR

Why COVID-19 Cases in Europe Are Surging Back to March Levels (they thought they could go on vacation as in past-wrong!)

With new COVID-19 cases ebbing, many European nations started reopening their borders in mid-June. Travelers began to fly south for vacation like they would on any nonpandemic-ravaged year.

But outbreaks bloomed in summer holiday destinations, such as the French Riviera, Greece, and Croatia.

And then those travelers flew back to their home countries, where the outbreaks had been relatively contained.

Source: Why COVID-19 Cases in Europe Are Surging Back to March Levels

A 26-year-old American woman ignored quarantine instructions to go on a bar crawl in Germany, and caused a COVID-19 outbreak at the hotel she works in, officials say

  • An American woman has been accused of causing a COVID-19 outbreak in a German town after going on a bar crawl while showing symptoms, according to multiple outlets.
  • The unnamed 26-year-old, who works at a hotel for US armed forces and their families in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, was tested on September 8 and told to quarantine until the results were ready, reports said.
  • However, she went out to a series of bars, including a karaoke bar, local media reported. Her test came back positive the next morning.
  • Since last Monday, at least 24 people at the hotel have tested positive for COVID-19, according to Der Spiegel, with a total 49 new infections in the town.
  • Markus Söder, the prime minister of the Bavaria region, said there would be “consequences.” German lawyers told The Guardian that the woman could also face criminal proceedings.

Source: A 26-year-old American woman ignored quarantine instructions to go on a bar crawl in Germany, and caused a COVID-19 outbreak at the hotel she works in, officials say

Gov’t evaluating possibility of closing schools tomorrow – The Jerusalem Post

“The government made the wrong decision, against professional recommendations,” Gamzu said in the letter. “Moreover, we are seeing a spike in infection in general and specifically among the general public.”

According to the commissioner, the spike is particularly centered on school-aged children, especially those 10 and up.

“I request that you accept the professional recommendation and do not allow schools to open tomorrow, with all the complications that entails,” he continued. He said that if need be, only grade five and up could shutter early.

“Behind this recommendation stand all relevant professionals,” he concluded.

Gamzu’s letter came as nearly 5,000 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry reported on Tuesday. Source: Gov’t evaluating possibility of closing schools tomorrow – The Jerusalem Post

Over 50 US groups to protest the UAE and Bahrain normalization with Israel during deal signing 

Within a week of the deal’s announcement, a secret clause within the deal to sell tens of billions of dollars in weapons to the UAE was revealed. On September 11, 2020, it was announced that Bahrain—another repressive Gulf country involved in the brutal war in Yemen—will also sign a deal to normalize relations with Israel, also without any concessions for Palestinians. It is understood that Bahrain would not be able to make such an agreement without the tacit approval of Saudi Arabia, the leader of the war in Yemen.

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On Tuesday, September 15, Donald Trump will host a ceremonial signing of deals to normalize relations between Israel and the UAE and Israel and Bahrain. Activists will gather to protest these deals which are not about peace but about furthering Israel’s systems of occupation and apartheid. The protest will be led by a coalition of over 50 Palestinian rights organizations and groups, many of which are led by Palestinian Americans and Arab Americans.

The U.S.-brokered deal which will be signed at the White House by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan is an underhanded way to maintain Israel’s status quo of land theft and apartheid and should be seen in the context of over three years of Trump administration policies that have supported Israel’s war on the Palestinians: moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, recognizing the illegally occupied Golan Heights as Israeli territory, and creating a so-called peace plan with no Palestinian participation or input. Supposedly, the UAE-Israel normalization deal, which is part of the Trump administration’s fake peace plan, would benefit Palestinians by halting de jure annexation of the West Bank, but not only is de facto annexation a daily reality for Palestinians, but Netanyahu, in his Israeli press conference announcing the deal, said that de jure annexation was “still on the table” and that it was something he is “committed to.”

Within a week of the deal’s announcement, a secret clause within the deal to sell tens of billions of dollars in weapons to the UAE was revealed. On September 11, 2020, it was announced that Bahrain—another repressive Gulf country involved in the brutal war in Yemen—will also sign a deal to normalize relations with Israel, also without any concessions for Palestinians. It is understood that Bahrain would not be able to make such an agreement without the tacit approval of Saudi Arabia, the leader of the war in Yemen.

The normalization of relations between the UAE and Bahrain and Israel, facilitated by the U.S., serves to prop up repressive leaders — US president Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, UAE King Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (MBZ), Bahrain King Hamad bin Isa bin Salman al-Khalifa — guilty of gross human rights abuses and war crimes.

A coalition of over 50 organizations and groups that will be protesting on Tuesday released a statement (full statement below) clarifying that calling the deal between Israel and the UAE, the “Abraham Accord”, is nothing more than a thinly veiled ploy “to represent the anti-colonial struggle of the indigenous Palestinians as a religious and fratricidal fight between “the children of Abraham.” It is not. The coalition’s statement takes on the UAE calling them out as, “complicit in Israel’s ongoing theft, colonization, and annexation of Palestinian land. Rather than benefit Palestinians, these deals put an Arab seal of approval on what is one of the world’s worst, most enduring and well-documented records of human rights abuses and grave breaches of international law.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

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