This is the Yangtze river dolphin, known in China as the Baiji. One of the world’s few species of freshwater dolphin, and now one with the snows of yesteryear.
\The Baiji’s habitat was destroyed by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam, its prey species were wiped out as a result of overfishing, and it suffered huge losses to boat traffic, pollution, and probably existential malaise.
What’s so important about this creature? Why should anyone care? These are questions that I pose to myself when making these pieces about extinct animals.
These creatures were on this planet for more than ten million years.
They lived lives of swift elegance in the muddy Yangtze water, curling through the turbidity and chaos of spring floods, snapping up fish with their long, toothy beaks.
Like many beautiful lost things, they were eliminated not necessarily by human rapaciousness, but by the byproducts of human industrial development and consumption.
People didn’t kill the Baiji off, but they did make it impossible for them to survive.
Who is responsible? We all are. This is what we do, and we are the losers, if only because only we can be tortured by the knowledge of what we’ve done.
Admiral Olson is a commando operations specialist and has been decorated several times for actions of war
mpr21.info, [5/18/2022 7:40 AM] [ Photo ] The media is being used extensively to hide the surrender of the Nazis in Azovstal. Claiming it is Ukraine that has ‘rescued’ the Nazi troops hidden in the steel millmpr21.info, [5/18/2022 7:50 AM][ Video banned ]
“The Azovstal evacuation mission continues. It is run by our military and intelligence officers,” says Zelensky of the Nazis’ surrender of the Azov Battalion. We witness an absolute denial of reality. There is zero Ukrainian presence, the wounded are ferried in ambulances of the Donetsk republic, the soldiers disarmed by Donetsk and Russians and taken for questioning in local coaches.
The wife of a prominent nazi became a weeping TV star
They take the Ukrainian Nazis to European television to show pity, while they hide what they have been cultivating in Ukraine with the full protection of NATO and the European Union. Just as Nazi as the Ukrainians are those who advertise them on television
One of 10 buses with hundreds of Ukrainian Nazis from the Azov Battalion who have surrendered at the Azovstal steelworks.
New footage of the evacuation of Azov Battalion members who have surrendered in Azovstal
Yesterday the Cannes Festival began and Zelenski intervened in the opening gala.
Ayer comenzó el Festival de Cannes y Zelenski intervino en gala de inauguración. No se pierde una
The shipment of weapons to Ukraine raises concerns about diversion, in a country known to be a key location for the black market, and one of the most corrupt on earth since the western coup.. “There is a very important risk related to the proliferation of weapons in Ukraine, especially light and small caliber,” says the Flemish Peace Institute.
On Tuesday, May 17th, Atlanta police, backed by a phalanx of other state and federal law enforcement, including “DeKalb Police, the Georgia State Patrol, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” invaded the Weelaunee forest, also known as the Atlanta forest.
Report from OTG: Dozens of forest defenders moving in groups all over the woods throughout raid. No arrests *inside* forest reported so far, only from perimeter at public park. Police seem unwilling to pursue people thru forest.
Accompanied by off-duty police, a bulldozer destroying plants + animals in Intrenchment Creek Park was pushed out of the #Atlanta forest by several dozen land defenders who forced “cops + bosses [to] quickly retreat…back to their cars.” #StopCopCity
During a press conference, Assistant Chief Darin Schierbaum argued that the new facility would improve police training which in turn would generate improved police service.
Ironically, this statement comes as the department is embroiled in a costly lawsuit with an APD Sergent who claims he “was demoted and retaliated against after he filed a complaint accusing a senior officer of racial discrimination” and is in hot water for an “incentive system that encourages Atlanta Police officers to arrest more people.”
El rapero mallorquín huyó a Bélgica en 2018 tras ser condenado por injurias a la corona y enaltecimiento del terrorismo.
El Tribunal de Apelación de Gante (Bélgica) ha rechazado este martes que el rapero balear Josep Miquel Arenas, más conocido como Valtònyc, sea entregado a las autoridades españolas por un delito de injurias a la corona, en un fallo que reproduce la decisión ya fallada en un primer juicio pero que el Tribunal de Casación belga obligó a repetir.
«El tribunal de Apelación ha establecido por segunda vez que los insultos al monarca de España no son un delito en Bélgica. La decisión de no extraditar se ha vuelto a confirmar en Gante, pese al fallo de Casación de Bruselas», ha informado el abogado del cantante, Simon Bekaert, tras una vista que ha durado solo unos minutos y en la que el tribunal ha comunicado su sentencia.
Con una nueva composición, el tribunal analizó si la ley belga es aplicable al delito de injurias a la Corona, como ordenó Casación, que no estimó el recurso sobre rechazar la entrega por el delito de amenazas y el enaltecimiento de terrorismo como solicita España.
«Casación no dijo que tuviera que extraditar, sino examinar si los hechos son imputables a un crimen normal de injurias. Ahora el tribunal ha evaluado esto en más detalle y ha decidido que esta hipótesis tampoco es un delito», ha explicado Bekaert a los periodistas congregados en Gante.
La Fiscalía belga ha anunciado que no va a recurrir la sentencia, por lo que la euroorden por la que le reclama España queda definitivamente archivada.
Cerca de terminar el periplo judicial en Bélgica iniciado en 2019
«Hoy era un día duro porque no sabíamos que podía pasar, decidimos venir aquí por un tema de derechos fundamentales y al final, ya está», ha asegurado el cantante, visiblemente emocionado en declaraciones a la prensa.
Tras el fallo de la justicia belga, Valtònyc se ha presentado como un luchador por la libertad de expresión y ha indicado que ahora «es el momento de hacer política». «Es el momento de reivindicar que toda la gente que ha sufrido esto en España lo deje de sufrir, que Pablo Hasel salga de la cárcel y seguir haciendo militancia política», ha subrayado.
El rapero huyó en 2018 a Bélgica parar evitar el ingreso en prisión en España, donde fue condenado a tres años y medio de cárcel por enaltecimiento del terrorismo, calumnias e injurias graves a la corona, tras lo que las autoridades españolas dictaron una Orden Europea de Detención y Entrega (OEDE).
El proceso judicial se prolonga desde 2019, cuando la entrega del mallorquín fue rechazada por un juzgado de primera instancia belga, una decisión que el Tribunal de Gante confirmó en diciembre del pasado año.
Sin embargo, en enero de este año el Tribunal de Casación ordenó reexaminar la cuestión de los insultos al monarca, uno de los delitos por los que las autoridades españolas reclamaban la entrega del cantante balear, condenado además en España por amenazas y enaltecimiento del terrorismo.
Valtònyc fue detenido hace una década por el contenido de las letras de algunas de sus canciones y condenado en 2017 por los delitos de enaltecimiento del terrorismo, calumnias e injurias graves a la Corona y amenazas.
En su sentencia, la Audiencia Nacional estimó que algunos de los temas comprendidos en sus discos tienen un «indudable contenido laudatorio» de las organizaciones terroristas ETA y GRAPO, que justifican e incitan a la reiteración de las acciones violentas.
note> Ukraine went to extreme lengths to secure the release of the trapped soldiers in Mariupol, by now the nazi Azov battalion has huge influence inside the military. . It was rumoured that Generals and NATO Generals might be among the trapped. We don’t know yet if this was true, although at least one Canadian General was arrested in an escape bid. Russia has promised good treatment and probably the 2.5 thousand AFU servicemen and wounded will be exchanged for Russian prisoners.
However Russian reps are campaigning to put the 800 Azov nazis on trial for crimes against humanity in the last 7 years of Donbass attacks, bombings, torture, rape, etc., if they are released they would probably bomb Mariupol for another 7 years:-
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Massive Surrender Of Ukrainian Fighters in Mariupol begins
On May 17, the Russian Ministry of Defence confirmed that the surrender of the militants of the nationalist Azov regiment and Ukrainian servicemen, who were blocked at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol began.
Over the past day, 265 militants have laid down their arms and surrendered, including 51 seriously wounded. All those in need of medical care were sent for treatment to the hospital in Novoazovsk, Donetsk People’s Republic.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has quietly set up a Disinformation Governance Board to oversee what information is and isn’t “truthful”.
By now, you’ve probably heard that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has created a Disinformation Governance Board to oversee what information is and isn’t “truthful.”1
This includes information relating to elections.2 It’s so incredibly Orwellian, you’d think it was pure fiction, yet here we are. It’s real.
This “Ministry of Truth” will reportedly operate under and receive funding from the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3), created by President Biden to “curb radicalization in the U.S.”3
It appears those in the Biden administration must have thought “1984” was an instruction manual rather than a warning.
Known Disinformation Spreader Made Head of Truth Ministry
Heading up this new “Ministry of Truth” is Nina Jankowicz,4 a “Russian disinformation expert” who in her spare time makes a fool of herself singing made-up show tunes about disinformation and erotic Harry Potter songs5 on TikTok.
As noted by both Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson and Jimmy Dore of “The Jimmy Dore Show” in the videos above, Jankowicz is qualified to do absolutely nothing. Independent journalist Glen Greenwald also highlighted Jankowicz’s obvious lack of real credentials in a May 4, 2022, Substack article:6
“The concept of ‘anti-disinformation expert’ is itself completely fraudulent. This is not a real expertise but rather a concocted title bestowed on propagandists to make them appear more scholarly and apolitical than they are …
There is no conceivable circumstance in which a domestic law enforcement agency like DHS should be claiming the power to decree truth and falsity … The purpose of Homeland Security agents is to propagandize and deceive, not enlighten and inform.
The level of historical ignorance and stupidity required to believe that U.S. Security State operatives are earnestly devoted to exposing and decreeing truth is off the charts … That nobody should want the U.S. Government let alone Homeland Security arrogating unto itself the power to declare truth and falsity seems self-evident.”
Surprisingly enough, even mainstream news outlets have pointed out Jankowicz’s role in the spreading of disinformation and outright lies. For example, as reported by the British Daily Mail:7
“The Russia disinformation expert previously called the laptop of President Joe Biden’s son Hunter a ‘Trump campaign product.’ This is causing questions over Jankowicz’s ability to accurately judge disinformation now that several sources have come out confirming the validity of Hunter’s laptop …
When stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop started emerging, several outlets, social media sites and left-leaning disinformation experts claimed that it was just misinformation coming from Trump and others on the right.
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