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
Heâs a golden haired orangutan, at least thatâs what the villagers called himâŠ.
He is a male of the species of Pongo pygmaeus. This orangutan appears all the time on the slopes of the MĂŒller 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 orangutanâs golden hair sticksâŠ
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 âmemorandum of understandingâ 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 Alzheimerâs Association International Conference last year, positive reports were published on a pair of studies where Alzheimerâs 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 Alzheimerâs brain.Â
Amyloid plaque buildup in the brain has long been considered a key factor in the development and progression of Alzheimerâs disease.
Scientists have been working to develop drug therapies to attack and reduce the Amyloid Beta plaque build up. Historically pharmaceutical therapies for Alzheimerâs have been challenged and controversial at best.
Li-HueiTsai (Chinese: èĄç«æ §) 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 Alzheimerâs brain.
“One study conducted testing on people with mild Alzheimerâs 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 Alzheimerâs-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 Alzheimerâs disease and similarly exposed them to daily, 60-minute, 40Hz light and sound therapy. This team determined that while brain degeneration linked to Alzheimerâs 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 âstolenâ 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 Teachersâ Pension Plan.Â
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: âWe 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 Planâs claim to be a responsible investor is completely incompatible with its commitment to expanding airports across Europe.â
A still from the new video by SOFAX: Image: SOFAX.
Bristol teacher and NEU member Loz Hennessy said: âOntario 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?â
Free the prisoners: Kill the Bill returns to Bristol's streets this Saturday. https://t.co/GyA9jLn6Ql
— The Bristol Activist (@BristolActivist) August 3, 2022
Aqui estå um filme de 38 segundos com Namowë, o menino Yanomami, em sua canoa:
NamowĂ«, um menino Yanomami, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela â foto: Barbara Crane Navarro (foto do filme)
Ajude os povos IndĂgenas e a natureza boicotando todos os produtos do desmatamento; ouro, Ăłleo de palma, madeira exĂłtica, 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”:Â
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.Â
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 annihilationâ, 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 âat a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold Warâ.
The meeting is âan 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 weaponsâ, he said.
However, Guterres warned that âgeopolitical weapons are reaching new highsâ as almost 13,000 nuclear arms are in arsenals around the world and countries are seeking âfalse securityâ by spending hundreds of billions of dollars on âdoomsday weaponsâ.
âWe 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,â the UN chief said.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken noted North Korea is preparing to conduct its seventh nuclear test, Iran âhas either been unwilling or unableâ to accept a deal to return to the 2015 nuclear agreement aimed at reining in its nuclear programme, and Russia is âengaged in reckless and dangerous nuclear saber-rattlingâ in Ukraine.
He cited Russian President Vladimir Putinâs warning after his countryâs February 24 invasion of Ukraine that any attempt to interfere would lead to âconsequences you have never seenâ, emphasising his country is âone of the most potent nuclear powersâ.
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 âthe worst possible messageâ to any country thinking it needs nuclear arms to defend itself and deter aggression.
