Orangutan with the golden hair: A short story by @setiabudhi18 about #palmoil plantations, how pesticides seep into the groundwater killing people and animals @global_witness @GreenpeaceUK @EIA_news #Boycottpalmoil#Boycott4Wildlife
He’s a golden haired orangutan, at least that’s what the villagers called him….
He is a male of the species of Pongo pygmaeus. This orangutan appears all the time on the slopes of the Müller Mountains, located10,000 meters from the Mantikip Dayak village in the lush green heart of Borneo.
News spreads rapidly throughout the village of the presence of this magnificent creature with the golden hair.
As a result, leaves and branches of the tree glisten with golden flashes of light. Not only that, plants such as Meranti trees, Balau Wood, Keruing and weeds catch the hairs and become woven in golden threads.
From his explorations of the jungle, the orangutan’s golden hair sticks…
Turkey has requested Finland help it prosecute a resident living in Finland, who allegedly insulted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on social media.
The Turkish government claims that the man posted derogatory images and comments on Facebook in 2016.
The recent request by the Turkish government comes after both Finland and Sweden signed a “memorandum of understanding” with Turkey for them to join NATO.
Under the agreement, Finland and Sweden will be expected to comply with extradition requests of individuals suspected of terrorism.
The man Turkey wants to be extradited has dual citizenship of Turkey and Finland, and has lived in the Nordic country for decades.
Finland has refused all previous requests, arguing that Turkish courts might not respect human rights, and, while the comments could be considered derogatory, his chances of a fair trial in Turkey are minimal.
Turkey has a law making it illegal to insult the president. In 2016, Ankara called for the prosecution of a German comedian after they posted a poem attacking Erdogan. Hundreds of supporters replied by also writing satirical poems.
Following the release of the poem, the Turkish consulate in the Netherlands encouraged people to report insults to Erdogan that they had heard.
Under the controversial law, tens of thousands of people, including children as young as 12, have been prosecuted.
At the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference last year, positive reports were published on a pair of studies where Alzheimer’s patients were exposed to one hour each day of 40Hz light and sound over a period of weeks.
The goal of the light and sound therapy was to boost and reinvigorate a rhythmic brain wave frequency called gamma waves. Gamma frequency is known to slow down in the Alzheimer’s brain.
Amyloid plaque buildup in the brain has long been considered a key factor in the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
Scientists have been working to develop drug therapies to attack and reduce the Amyloid Beta plaque build up. Historically pharmaceutical therapies for Alzheimer’s have been challenged and controversial at best.
Li-HueiTsai (Chinese: 蔡立慧) is a neuroscientist and the director of the Picower Institute
This latest research focused on a drug-free non-invasive approach.
Both research studies were led by scientists at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
These scientists pioneered research and development of 40Hz stimulation in the Alzheimer’s brain.
“One study conducted testing on people with mild Alzheimer’s disease. Individuals were exposed to light and sound therapy for 1 hour daily. After three months, the test group brain scans revealed improved brain wave potency, while signs of Alzheimer’s-related brain degeneration slowed. The test group also performed better on face and name recognition tests. “
“The second study focused on patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease and similarly exposed them to daily, 60-minute, 40Hz light and sound therapy. This team determined that while brain degeneration linked to Alzheimer’s continued to progress within the test group, it did so 65% more slowly compared to similar stage patients with no 40Hz therapy. “
A Syrian-flagged ship named the Laodicea that docked in the Lebanese port of Tripoli was detained last Saturday, preventing desperately needed flour and barley from reaching people in the Middle East.
The move came after Western threats against Beirut and unsubstantiated claims from Kiev that the cargo was stolen from Ukraine.
Beautiful Lebanon is bankrupt, near starving and swamped in refugees. It was destroyed in a corrupt capitalist feeding frenzy, much like what happened in Ukraine. Only it was the billionaire sons of Arab petro-states to the fore, instead of the sons of US politicians.
The ship, which has been on a US blacklist since 2015 for allegedly carrying shipments from sanctioned Crimea, is now under investigation.
On Friday, allegations emerged in Western media, citing the Ukrainian embassy in Beirut, that “stolen” flour and barley had been transferred to the Lebanese port of Tripoli and that Kiev had warned the Lebanese government against buying the grain.
On Wednesday Lebanon’s top prosecutor lifted his seizure order on a ship accused by Ukraine of carrying stolen flour and barley, allowing it to sail after finding “no criminal offence committed”, a senior judicial source told Reuters.
However the ship, the Laodicea, remains unable to sail for the time being due to another seizure order issued by a judge in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, where the ship is dockedthe source said.
Suspicions were raised as to the impartiality of the judges.. NATO/Ukraine want the food blocked while Lebanon/Hezbollah/Syria want it unloaded and sold.
The blocking showed up the cynical and cruel US policy. However within days more ships, already ‘checked’ and laden with grain, may dock in Lebanon on their way from Ukraine under the new export agreement.
The fight against Bristol Airport expansion takes a new turn as campaigners unite to target airport owner the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.
A new group, Stop OTPP Funding Airport Expansion (SOFAX), is composed of members of the National Education Union (NEU) climate network, medical activists MedAct Bristol, and airport campaigners BABE and London-based HACAN East.
Together the members of the group have launched a solidarity campaign aimed at pressuring the OTPP, which owns stakes in five European airports, to pull its investments in airport expansion.
Climate campaigner Tanguy Tomes said: ‘We know teachers in Ontario are worried about climate change. Some have even campaigned on this issue before, so SOFAX seeks to build on those efforts. The Pension Plan’s claim to be a responsible investor is completely incompatible with its commitment to expanding airports across Europe.’
A still from the new video by SOFAX: Image: SOFAX.
Bristol teacher and NEU member Loz Hennessy said: ‘Ontario teachers are resisting budget cuts and ever-increasing workloads: many of the same issues we face in the UK today. We stand in solidarity with their struggle and see it as related to the fight against airport expansion. What are we prioritising?’
Free the prisoners: Kill the Bill returns to Bristol's streets this Saturday. https://t.co/GyA9jLn6Ql
— The Bristol Activist (@BristolActivist) August 3, 2022
« Então eu decidi defendê-lo e fiquei tipo ‘Isso é bom! Agora que os brancos inventaram seu discurso ‘ecológico’, eles não devem se contentar em repeti-lo em vão para fazer dele novas mentiras.
Mulheres Yanomami pescando na lagoa, Amazonas, Venezuela – Eu também estava pescando! – foto: Barbara Crane Navarro (foto de la película)
Eles realmente precisam proteger a floresta e todos que vivem lá: a vida selvagem, os peixes, os espíritos e os humanos. »
Menina Yanomami pescando no rio e cuidando do irmão, Amazonas, Venezuela – foto: Barbara Crane Navarro (foto de la película)
Os povos Indígenas utilizam a água dos rios e córregos em seus territórios ancestrais para beber, cozinhar, tomar banho e pescar.
O garimpo de ouro e outras indústrias extrativas contaminam a água, envenenando as pessoas, a vida selvagem e o solo.
Desmatamento em terras Indígenas e contaminação por mercúrio para mineração de ouro
As crianças Indígenas também brincam em rios e córregos próximos a suas casas.
Aqui está um filme de 38 segundos com Namowë, o menino Yanomami, em sua canoa:
Namowë, um menino Yanomami, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela – foto: Barbara Crane Navarro (foto do filme)
Ajude os povos Indígenas e a natureza boicotando todos os produtos do desmatamento; ouro, óleo de palma, madeira exótica, soja, carne bovina, etc. !
Barbara Crane Navarro 1.06K subscribers A film of instants of daily life of a Yanomami community in the Amazon Rainforest of Venezuela made to accompany the children’s book series: “Amazon Rainforest Magic” “La Magie de l’Amazonie” and “La Magia de la Amazonia” for ages 8 to 12, written and illustrated by Barbara Crane Navarro
– Here’s some information for anyone wondering why this longer version of the Yanomami film, originally posted in June 2014 and viewed over 25,000 times, has recently been rated “over 18”:
The Yanomami women in the film have bare torsos and small children are unclothed, as is traditional for them. There are no scenes that could be considered in any way suggestive.
The moments of Yanomami daily life are woven with illustrations from my books of the “Amazon Rainforest Magic” series, available in three languages, both volumes of which show drawings of Yanomami women and girls with bare torsos.
Over a thousand copies of my books have been purchased for schools by a school book distribution company in Pennsylvania.
I’ve also shown this film in schools while discussing Yanomami community life in the Amazon Rainforest for decades to acclaim by teachers, parents and students of all ages.
Antonio Guterres sounds a global alarm at the opening of the meeting to review a landmark nuclear weapons treaty.
Russia’s military launches a Yars intercontinental ballistic missile in this photo taken from video [File: Russian Defence Ministry via AP]
2 Aug 2022
Nuclear threats emanating from the war in Ukraine as well as in Asia and the Middle East have put the world one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation”, the United Nations secretary-general said.
At the UN on Monday, Antonio Guterres issued the dire warning at the opening of a long-delayed meeting to review the landmark 50-year-old Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and eventually achieving a nuclear-free world.
Guterres told many ministers, officials and diplomats gathered in the General Assembly Hall that the month-long review conference is taking place “at a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War”.
The meeting is “an opportunity to hammer out the measures that will help avoid certain disaster, and to put humanity on a new path towards a world free of nuclear weapons”, he said.
However, Guterres warned that “geopolitical weapons are reaching new highs” as almost 13,000 nuclear arms are in arsenals around the world and countries are seeking “false security” by spending hundreds of billions of dollars on “doomsday weapons”.
“We have been extraordinarily lucky so far. But luck is not a strategy. Nor is it a shield from geopolitical tensions boiling over into nuclear conflict,” the UN chief said.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken noted North Korea is preparing to conduct its seventh nuclear test, Iran “has either been unwilling or unable” to accept a deal to return to the 2015 nuclear agreement aimed at reining in its nuclear programme, and Russia is “engaged in reckless and dangerous nuclear saber-rattling” in Ukraine.
He cited Russian President Vladimir Putin’s warning after his country’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine that any attempt to interfere would lead to “consequences you have never seen”, emphasising his country is “one of the most potent nuclear powers”.
This is contrary to assurances given to Ukraine of its sovereignty and independence when it gave up its Soviet-era nuclear weapons in 1994, Blinken said, and sends “the worst possible message” to any country thinking it needs nuclear arms to defend itself and deter aggression.
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