« You don’t understand why we want to protect our forest? Ask me, I will answer you! – We want our children to grow up here laughing! – Today I refuse to let them die from the gold smoke!  Chase the gold miners out of our home! »

Barbara Crane Navarro

Yanomamiwoman, Amazonas, Venezuela

« You don’t understand why we want to protect our forest? Ask me, I will answer you! Our ancestors were created with it in the beginning of time. Since then, our people have eaten its game and its fruit. We want our children to grow up here laughing. In the past, many of our people perished from your epidemics. Today I refuse to let their children and grandchildren die from the gold smoke! Chase the gold miners out of our home! They are harmful beings whose thought is dark. They are metal eaters covered in deadly xawara epidemicsmoke. »

  • Yanomami spokesperson and shaman Davi Kopenawa

30% of what is now recognized as ancestral indigenous lands are in danger of being «legally» opened to gold mining and other extractive operations as well as logging and industrial agriculture. The bill that would permit this atrocity, PL490 – already…

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Jewellery’s big challenge: Cleaning up gold, a conflict mineral – Vogue Business — Tiny Life

Barbara Crane Navarro

Gold is a conflict mineral. Gold mining creates devastation & deforestation in the Amazon, & jewellery company sourcing policies can’t account for it! Advocates are urging the industry to come up with solutions. SOLUTION: #DoNotBuyGOLD! Jewellery’s big challenge: Cleaning up gold, a conflict mineral – Vogue Business https://ift.tt/3jYW1nY Jewellery’s big challenge: Cleaning up gold, a[…]

Jewellery’s big challenge: Cleaning up gold, a conflict mineral – Vogue Business — — Tiny Life

Amazon rain forest deforestation, Agua Branca gold mining site, Para State, Brazil. (Photo by Ricardo Funari/Brazil Photos/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Gold mining and Amazon deforestation – hydraulic mining known as the”chupadeira system”is a form of gold mining that uses high-pressure jets of water to dislodge rock material or move sediment. Prospectors deforest the designated work area and then excavate down to the level of ore-bearing material. Large and deep holes are made in the former forest land. Mercury is…

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How to Honor Those You Know Who Have Died from Covid-19

1, Remember them well and share about them.

2. If you are not vaccinated, get vaccinated to live and to carry on and share the memories of the one(s) you lost.

3. Do what ever you can to get those you know and care about to get each of them vaccinated if not already vaccinated.

4. Write or call your state representative and senator and let them know that you expect them to do whatever is needed to assure that people get vaccinated.

5. Write or call your United States representative and senators and let them know that you expect them to do whatever is needed to assure that people get vaccinated.

Remind people that if the vaccinations for small pox were not mandatory, hundreds of thousands of people would still be dying around the world from small pox. The same applies to polio vaccines. If they had not been required to attend or teach/work in schools, we would still be worried about polio summers, thousand of deaths and thousands disabled. Before the vaccines became available, every time my brother got a cold in the summer, my parents had him checked for polio.

Think about and remind people why all teachers, school staff, and healthcare are required to be tested for tuberculosis? To protect your children and your family!

Texas Rep. Pat Fallon dumped Microsoft stock before Pentagon nixed $10B contract (Me: Smoke-fire-insider trading?)

A congressman who supervises the Defense Department’s tech spending dumped up to $250,000 worth of Microsoft stock two weeks before the Pentagon revealed it was canceling a $10 billion contract with the software giant, according to public documents.

US Rep. Pat Fallon, a Texas Republican who sits on a key subcommittee overseeing the Department of Defense’s technology policy, sold between $100,000 and $250,000 of Microsoft shares on June 21, government disclosures show.

Two weeks later, the Pentagon made the surprise announcement that it would cancel a $10 billion cloud computing contract — called JEDI, or Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure — that it had awarded to Microsoft in 2019 after the company fought a bidding war and legal battle against Amazon.

Fallon, who was elected last year to represent a northeastern district of the Lone Star State, is a member of the House’s Subcommittee on Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems. According to the subcommittee’s site, Fallon and his colleagues have “jurisdiction over Department of Defense policy related to the acquisition of computer software.”

Source: Texas Rep. Pat Fallon dumped Microsoft stock before Pentagon nixed $10B contract

Grow through with what you go through

Bio-Blogger

Life is to live and move forward whatever we go through or wherever it plants us, isn’t it?? We should not filter and await only for the good and happy moments. Ups and downs in life won’t come up as we plan, we should always be positive and prepared to face any situation that comes in our way and become a life’s warrior. If we still don’t find the right way, just have to make the one by clearing all the obstacles and make the life smooth but never rough out of the tough situations.

God is what the truth and right path we should always trust and walk along, with prayers.

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“Past is a history, future is a mystery, present is the presentation” that any one can make most out of it to become a better and happy person. I still remember this beautiful…

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COVID outbreak reported at Boy Scouts camp in Preble County

It was the second COVID-19 outbreak reported in a week involving a summer camp in the area. Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery County on Monday reported 30 cases linked to Chautauqua Camp and Conference Center near Miamisburg. The number of cases has now surpassed 70 after more than 800 mostly youth from Baptist churches in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois attended camp from June 28 through July 2 at 10550 Camp Trail in Miami Twp. Source: COVID outbreak reported at Boy Scouts camp in Preble County

“Nature is our lifeline”: A young indigenous Surinamese woman speaks during Caribbean Tree Planting Week

Petchary's Blog

Caribbean Tree Planting Week (July 5 – 11, 2021) was diverse, vibrant, packed with valuable information, and full of youthful energy. Two sessions per day for a week, it covered a great range of topics – centred on nature-based solutions and climate action in the form of tree planting.

One of the participants on the first day was Shylina Lingaard, a young woman who feels passionately about threats to her own culture in Suriname and to the forests that her people depend on.

Another problem is that indigenous knowledge and way of life is “fading – slowly but certainly” – especially among the youth, many of whom do not speak their native language. “Development” is happening – not always good development, said Shylina. She feels that indigenous people are “slowly disconnecting” from their culture. And a critical part of that culture is the connection with Nature.

The connection of Indigenous…

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