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भरम / Illusion – Kaushal Kishore

 

भरम में ही रहने दो मुझे कुछ वक्त,  

इन्हें पालने का इरादा सही है…

छुपा रहने दो अपनापन को आंखों में,

पराए लोग मुझे पसंद नहीं हैं…

✊ ✊ ✊ ✊

Allow me to linger 

in my illusion’s gentle embrace…

I find no comfort 

with the strangers in my space…

.

–Kaushal Kishore 

Source: भरम / Illusion – Kaushal Kishore

Heather Cox Richardson: Trump Can’t Escape Project 2025 | Diane Ravitch’s blog

It also calls for a national ban on abortion and for eliminating the Civil Service and replacing career government employees with people loyal to Trump. It is the document that describes—department by department, agency by agency—how to destroy “the administrative state.”

There’s a saying that comes to mind: “When an authoritarian tells you what he plans to do, believe him.”

Heather Cox Richardson wrote about Trump’s clumsy efforts to distance himself from an agenda written by senior officials in his administration:

On Friday, speaking to Christians at the Turning Point Action Believers’ Summit in West Palm Beach, Florida, Trump begged the members of the audience to “vote. Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what: it’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine…. In four years, you don’t have to vote again, we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.”

The comment drew a lot of attention, and on Monday, Fox News Channel personality Laura Ingraham gave him a chance to walk the statement back. Instead, he said: “I said, vote for me, you’re not going to have to do it ever again. It’s true.” “Don’t worry about the future. You have to vote on November 5. After that, you don’t have to worry about voting anymore. I don’t care, because we’re going to fix it. The country will be fixed and we won’t even need your vote anymore, because frankly we will have such love, if you don’t want to vote anymore, that’s OK.”

Source: Heather Cox Richardson: Trump Can’t Escape Project 2025 | Diane Ravitch’s blog

Jumping toad – Frits Ahlefeldt – HikingArtist

Video (27s. ) Beautiful European green toad (bufotes viridis) crossed my path and some of my watercolors of the species

Toad in my headlamp light

Text and drawing by Frits Ahlefeldt

Stopped as the not too shy little green toad sat still and turned and looked at me

One of my favorite amphibians to draw is the European green toad ( Grønbroget tudse in Danish)

YoutTube of the moment the toad crossed my path:

Source: Jumping toad – Frits Ahlefeldt – HikingArtist

The true cost of your jewelry: Cartels launder drug money selling BLOOD GOLD to Cartier and others in the luxury industry and to discount gold shops. The Yanomami and other Indigenous people pay the price! | Barbara Crane Navarro

photo montage: series “Pas de Cartier” – Barbara Crane Navarro – with ad for Cartier, photo João Laet and Cartier LOVE™ ring

Illegal gold is the most lucrative way for drug cartels, terrorist groups, arms traffickers, the mafia, unscrupulous bankers as well as international gold traders and brokers to launder money because, contrary to cocaine, gold that’s “legal” looks exactly like illegal gold.  Consumers participate at the top of the money laundering chain when they purchase gold watches and jewelry from shops, unknowingly contributing to deforestation, pollution and violence; ecocide and ethnocide in Indigenous territories.

Since 2007, illegal Gold has taken the place of drugs as the principal income source for organized crime and the growing demand for gold has generated a violent illicit commerce more difficult to track than drugs. These brutal actors have infiltrated every aspect of the supply chain from extorting the gold miners prospecting in muddy ponds up through bribing gold traders, mining officials, customs officers, smelters and refineries. Banks and the luxury goods industry often look the other way and claim not to know the criminal source of the gold.

Criminal groups and drug cartels oversee gold mining operations, buy blood gold with the illicit cash proceeds from their activities, falsifying documents to sell it through a shell company that contacts a refinery in the US or Europe which buys the gold and then wires “legal” money to a bank account.  Finally the now untraceable gold is bought by Cartier and others. Blood gold is fashioned into jewelry and sold in boutiques in the world’s major cities while Indigenous peoples in the world’s rainforests face ecological devastation and disease from gold mining in their territories.

Tens of thousands of gold miners are invading Indigenous Territories in Brazil, Venezuela and all of the nine countries of the Amazon region, destroying the forest and contaminating the soil and the rivers with mercury.

Indigenous leaders are voicing their fears of genocide and pointing to the gold industry as the cause.

Historically, armies and police have tried to stop gold miners from going into Indigenous lands, but the miners return after the soldiers leave.

This is why consumers must mobilize and stop purchasing gold in order to stop this abominable abuse by the gold industry!

The primary use for gold – approximately 75% of the gold dug out of the earth yearly, is jewelry, watches and other useless status symbols sold by the luxury goods industry and others. The frenzy for owning and wearing gold adornments is the incentive for environmental destruction and the degradation of Indigenous lives by gold miners as well as organized crime, not just in the Amazon, but around the globe.

Detail: Claudia Andujar, La Lutte Yanomami, 2020, Fondation Cartier, Paris. LUC BOEGLY 2020

It’s easy to be deluded by the museum-like façade of the Cartier Foundation. Once you’ve clicked on

https://www.cartier.com/en-us/shop-online.html

and scrolled past the gold jewelry, gold watches and accessories, you can click on “Fondation Cartier” at the end of the list to read about their current greenwashing projects…

Source: The true cost of your jewelry: Cartels launder drug money selling BLOOD GOLD to Cartier and others in the luxury industry and to discount gold shops. The Yanomami and other Indigenous people pay the price! | Barbara Crane Navarro

Nearly 1,500 Jaguars Killed or Displaced in Brazilian Amazon – Treehugger! | Barbara Crane Navarro

Nearly 1,500 Jaguars Killed or Displaced in Brazilian Amazon – Treehugger https://ift.tt/3aGtIF3 Nearly 1,500 Jaguars Killed or Displaced in Brazilian Amazon  Treehugger Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/2tI2HiE

Nearly 1,500 Jaguars Killed or Displaced in Brazilian Amazon – Treehugger —

Source: Nearly 1,500 Jaguars Killed or Displaced in Brazilian Amazon – Treehugger! | Barbara Crane Navarro

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