I’m extremely grateful to Trish Wood for reaching out to me, spending the time talking with me, and for her professional interview style. She is incredibly well-informed on the matters we discussed.
*I am moving from Youtube to Odysee & Rumble, given Youtube’s ridiculous censorship. My Rumble is quite new, please be patient as I juggle doing on the ground journalism here in the DPR, write, edit & publish footage, and also try to maintain my various platforms.
Is it a coincidence that the abhorrent ISIS terrorist massacre happened on the same day as the climax massive Womens Uprising demos in Irani Kurdistan? Or that now suddenly terrorists on motorbikes upen fire at random?
We think not. The US and proxies have been trying go destroy the Irani Regime for 2 generations, driving it into a militarised police state.
Now finally Iran is beginning to be supported by Russia and China, and Israel and the US, (with its over $ One Trillion attack budget), are desperate to unleash their long held plans to create mayhem, civil war and an excuse for “humaitarian intervention”.
Just as they tried to do in Syria, Libya, Iraq… .. etc.
While supporting the Uprising against the entrenched Islamic Regime we should find ways to promote the movement also against US/Israeli sanctions, terrorist funding, etc
It is a mistake to naively demand that Irani women accept the trap of the controlled false media image of Western feminism or to totally reject the customs of Iran’s many ethnic cultures.
The US obviously cares nothing for Irani women, just using their struggle as a divisive war weapon, as they did for 20 years to Afghani women, before abandoning them.
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In a rare piece of good news in the marine world, scientists have found one place where reef manta rays are thriving – Today, only 16,000 to 18,000 may survive
Over a decade, populations increased significantly in Raja Ampat archipelago in Indonesia, highlighting the importance of long-term conservation and management measures such as well-enforced Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and fisheries regulations, says researcher Edy Setyawan, of the University of Auckland’s Institute of Marine Science.
It is the first published evidence of reef manta ray populations increasing anywhere in the world, he says.
“Despite the global decline in oceanic sharks and rays because of overfishing over the past 50 years, the reef manta rays in Raja Ampat have been recovering and thriving,” Setyawan says.,
The scientist and his colleagues studied reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi) in two of Raja Ampat’s largest MPAs, Dampier Strait and South East Misool. They used sightings of rays, each individually identified by photograph, to assess population dynamics from 2009 to 2019.
In Dampier Strait, the estimated population increased to 317, an annual compound gain of 3.9 percent, while South East Misool’s estimated gain to 511 was 10.7 percent on the same basis.
The increased population sizes resulted from high survival rates (up to 93 percent of individuals in each group survived each year) and high rates of recruitment (typically groups got a 20 percent annual boost from new members).
While conservation measures substantially reduced fishing pressures, another reason for the populations thriving was the El Niño Southern Oscillation climate cycle, which boosted plankton numbers. That lead to larger and more frequent aggregations of the manta rays for feeding, which in turn provided more opportunities for mating.
A watch-list for threatened species, the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s “Red List,” lists reef manta ray as a “vulnerable” species with declining populations throughout their range in the Indo-Pacific, based on an assessment in 2018.
Despite the recent signing of a historic maritime border agreement, tensions continue to remain high, with both Israel and the United States attempting to force Lebanon into compliance with their regional agenda.
Although Israeli and Lebanese leaders signed letters of intent earlier this month ending their long-standing maritime border dispute and averting a major escalation in their ongoing conflict, the two sides still remain technically at war.
Lebanon’s people line up in ‘queues of humiliation’ as their country .....A Syrian-flagged ship named the Laodicea that docked in the Lebanese port of Tripoli was detained by sanctions last Saturday, preventing desperately needed flour and barley from reaching people in the Middle East...Bread Queues in Beirut as starvatioin spreads
Beirut refuses to recognise the Israeli state, maintaining the stance that first the Palestine issue must be resolved, as Israel maintains control over the Shebaa Farms area which Lebanon claims to be its territory.
Last week, drone strikes were reported to have killed up to 25 people after targeting a fuel aid convoy that had just passed the Al-Qaim crossing into Syria from Iraq. There are conflicting reports on who actually carried out the attack, with both Israel and the United States accused of having been behind it.
The US military instantly distanced themselves from the incident, by denying they had carried out any strikes, whilst the Israeli government refused to comment and is now widely assumed to be culpable.
Todos los gobiernos suelen dar una de cal y otra de arena. Son los votantes los que deben pensar y sopesar. Hay mucho que pesar y valorar. Nos gustaría transportar a nuestros lectores a una dimensión positiva de la vida, a pesar de todo lo que se nos viene encima; y de todo lo que […]
I held my first photo exhibition in late 2017, a few months after returning from Mosul, Iraq, where I had documented the operation to liberate the city from Islamic State.
From the first moments of the event, I felt gloomy as my family cast concerned looks at me while the press took pictures of my hair freely protruding from my scarf and clothes – a deliberate rebellion on my part against Iran’s conservative traditions and beliefs.
I suddenly experienced a flashback to all the ways in which I had been oppressed as a woman during my life. When I turned six, they pulled me out of my games with the boys in the neighbourhood.
When I turned seven, they covered my head with the ugliest scarf in the world, which looked like a burlap sack, and sent me to school where, even though it was staffed solely by women, no one was allowed to remove the scarf.
Knowing my stubbornness, my mother tried to keep a scarf on my head by choosing a sky-blue one decorated with flowers and ribbons, something different from the black scarfs of others. I, however, found some release by ripping the scarf from under my chin, allowing me to breathe more freely.
Although I had the best marks at school, my disobedience towards the restrictive rules meant that I was never encouraged academically. Every day, I wished I had been born a boy.
When I turned nine, I was close to the age of puberty and it was time to observe religious obligations. I was taught that if a man saw my body, it was me who would be burned in hell, where I would be hung by each strand of hair that had been visible.
Maryam Mazrooei.
After weeks fearing being hung in hell, with my childish logic I found a solution in rebellion, reasoning that being hung from a bunch of hair would be less painful than from a strand. I ripped my scarf some more.
The more I matured and the more feminine I appeared, the heavier the burden of sins became. I started to hunch under this burden, to avoid the sin of seducing men with my growing breasts.
The final straw came when I was 14 and the authorities of the top-rated school that I was attending made me wear a chador, a big black cloth that covered my whole body except for my face.
It led to a long depression, one that lasted 10 years. With the help of a therapist, I finally found the most important cause was the chador, that big black shroud.
I decided to wear a loose hijab and prepared myself for the price I would have to pay. I would lose the financial and emotional support of my wealthy community, which only passively respected women’s rights.
I was aware of the consequences in a country where the hijab is legally obligatory and on every corner the morality police hunt women who don’t properly hide their female bodies, and arrest them using a snare pole.
I would have no chance of being hired officially and permanently. Even so, I decided to drop out of studying physics and restart my career as a freelance journalist and photographer.
That night at my exhibition, I was again reminded of the wounds that I had thought were healed, wounds shared by women in neighbouring countries whose photographs I had taken.
The deep wounds of the Yazidi and Iraqi women whose bodies became a battlefield and who were forced to become sex slaves, the women of Afghanistan who ran away to avoid being sold by their brothers and fathers to sex trafficking agents.
Women for sale in an ISIS market. 2015
My struggle against the norms of the Islamic republic meant that my passport was confiscated for years and I became a prisoner in my country and society – and in my female body.
Moscow insists a reported explosion near the Ukrainian border is not related to its military operation
Ukraine Weapons Tracker @UAWeapons So what crashed in the village of Przewodów, Poland? With the cooperation of @blueboy1969 we analyzed the available photos of fragments and came to a clear conclusion that they belong to the 48D6 motor of the 5V55-series missile of the S-300 AD system- a Ukrainian one.
Russia’s Mash Telegram channel has published a photo of what it said is a fragment from an S-300 defence system missile. This Soviet-era equipment is used by Ukraine.
Russia has not carried out any strikes against targets near the Polish-Ukrainian border, the defense ministry in Moscow said on Tuesday, following reports of a missile striking the village of Przewodow and killing two civilians.
Some Western media outlets and politicians have claimed that Russia is responsible for the incident. However, no evidence has been provided to…
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