Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR): Press Release | July 22, 2023 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the Israeli Occupation Forces’ (IOF) unjustified commission of two separate murders yesterday that left two Palestinian civilians dead, including a child, in Nablus and Ramallah in the West Bank, as part of IOF’s extrajudicial […]
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday, six Palestinians, including a woman from the occupied Jerusalem and Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, according to local sources. In the occupied city of Jerusalem, soldiers stormed and searched the home of a former prisoner, identified as Mamdouh Amira before abducting him. In the Jabal al-Mokabber neighborhood of […]
A large army force invaded, on Monday at dawn, the Nour Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank, local sources reported. Dozens of military vehicles, including an armored D-9 military bulldozer, stormed the camp, and cordoned off the entire area, while operating UAV reconnaissance planes overhead. The […]
As Africa Loses Forest, Its Small Farmers Are Bringing Back Trees
The loss of forests across Africa has long been documented. But recent studies show that small farmers from Senegal to Ethiopia to Malawi are allowing trees to regenerate on their lands, resulting in improved crop yields, productive fruit harvests, and a boost for carbon storage.
For decades, there have been reports of the deforestation of Africa. And they are true — the continent’s forests are disappearing, lost mainly to expanding agriculture, logging, and charcoal-making.
‘Africa is still colonized. All they do is invent a lot of money and lend it to doubtful ‘leaders’ in artificial ex colonies – Then cash in for ever from the CASH COW interest of the odious impossible debt. Sure your pension fund isn’t still sucking Africa dry?‘ TheFree
But the trees? Maybe not, according to new satellite data analyzed by artificial intelligence and a growing body of on-the-ground studies. This new research is finding ever more trees outside forests, many of them nurtured by farmers and sprouting on their previously treeless fields..
Across the continent — from Senegal and Niger in the west, to Ethiopia in the east, and Malawi in the south — smallholder farmers are rejecting government advice that trees should be expunged from fields because they get in the way of growing crops. Instead, they are allowing previously suppressed trees to regenerate on their land — to improve soils and crop yields; to provide harvests of fruit, fuelwood, and fodder for their livestock; and ultimately to achieve a better life for their families.
As large areas of farmland across Africa turn from brown to green, the results are also good for local economies, offering an easy and cheap way to intensify their farming and increase output, as well as benefiting biodiversity and the global climate. An acre of growing trees on farmland captures and stores up to 4 tons of carbon from the atmosphere each year, researchers say.
A study published last month found at least 29 percent of tree cover in Africa is “outside areas previously classified as forest.”
The latest published evidence of Africa’s resurgent farmland trees comes in the first ever detailed analysis of satellite images of the continent carried out at a scale that can identify individual large trees outside forests. Florian Reiner, a remote-sensing analyst at the University of Copenhagen, working with an international team of colleagues, reported in Nature Communications last month that at least 29 percent of tree cover in Africa is “outside areas previously classified as forest.” continues below…
‘Farmers are plant breeders and seed savers, soil conservators and soil builders, water preservers and water keepers. Farmers are food producers. While using only 30 percent of the world’s resources, small-scale farmers provide 70 percent of the planet’s food. Small-scale famers, farming families, and gardeners feed us.‘
There’s only one plausible explanation for continuing silence on excess deaths: governments, media and regulators are frightened of what the research may uncover
During the pandemic, the challenge for each of us was to maintain critical distance: spurning both the tribalism of those insisting Covid was a hoax and the counter-tribalism of those who demanded complete acquiesence to a corporate-political agenda dictated by Big Pharma under the mantle of “Follow the science”.
Fear of living under Big Brother or of dying from plague drove many people not only into the arms of one of these two oppositional camps but fuelled a pandemic mania in which reason and compassion were replaced with either extreme cynicism or extreme compliance.
We are still living with the consequences.
There has been a spate of “excess deaths” over the past two years across the West – well above what would normally be expected – and yet this sustained trend is being universally ignored by governments, establishment media and medical bodies.
No one is protesting. The cult of compliance is still in the ascendant.
More on that in a moment.
But it is worth first revisiting briefly the climate of intolerance and willed ignorance that predominated at the height of the pandemic, as I documented in real time in a series of essays that upset more of my readers than any I had written before.
It was always unwarranted to press for vaccine mandates, if only because they violated the critically important principle of bodily autonomy.
But the demand became completely unhinged once it was clear – as it was much earlier than publicly let on by Big Pharma, the World Health Organisation and national regulators – that the vaccines were doing little to halt virus transmission.
Similarly, it was always unethical to insist that children should be routinely given the vaccine and boosters when it was evident that the virus posed no threat to the overwhelming majority of them – and all the more so given that the mRNA vaccines were based on a new technology whose development had been rushed through on an emergency licence.
By definition, no one could know the long-term effects of mRNA vaccines on humans because there had been no long-term studies.
Excess mortality in Finland, Norway, Denmark and UK. Look closely at the graphs. Not random change but manmade and caused by the horrific corona-crisis handling with ignorant lockdowns aso. Every number has a name #ExcessDeathspic.twitter.com/86Fo4fC4x4
The science was built on a wing and a prayer, which is part of the reason the Joint Committee on Vaccinations and Immunisation, the British government’s official advisory body on vaccinations, demurred for so long, and despite huge political pressure, on recommending vaccination for children.
LIVE | Suspended eviction. The lawyer who defends @csonabat3 tells the people and groups mobilized this morning at the gates of the Albert Germans factory (San José) that he has received official notification of the suspension of the eviction “without a new date”
CSO Nabat 3 (former Fàbrica Albert Germans) was threatened with “administrative eviction” by the Hospitalet de Llobregat Council (Socialist Party PSC).”CSO Nabat 3 (formerly the Albert Germans Factory)
This is a rare type of ‘instant eviction’ that can only be used by the public administration.As far as we are concerned, the City Council is trying to evict us ex officio (without going through the courts 🏛) , violating the “guarantees” that a trial could provide.
The old textile factory from 1928, demolished and abandoned since 2007 and with municipal ownership since 2016, was recovered (squatted) in…
The massive arrival of African emigrants to European shores is a consequence of the disastrous policy of NATO and Brussels towards the Black Continent. The assassination of Gaddafi and the destruction of Libya in 2011 opened a Pandora’s box.
Brussels had to put a lot of money on the table for the fragile Libyan government to prevent emigrants from leaving for Europe, and the remedy turned out to be worse than the disease, as we explained in a previous post.
Now it does the same with Tunisia, which is a departure point for thousands of migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe. Under the impulse of the Italian fascist Meloni, Brussels will finance the government of Kaied Saied to control migratory flows in the Mediterranean and prevent them from reaching Europe.
Yesterday Ursula von der Leyen signed a memorandum of understanding with the Tunisian government for a “comprehensive strategic partnership” related to the fight against irregular immigration, the country’s economic development and renewable energy.
Von der Leyen has welcomed the signing of an agreement to “invest in shared prosperity”, referring to the “five pillars”, within which emigration control is included.
According to the UNHCR, 51,215 illegal immigrants arrived in Italy by sea this year, 150 percent more than the previous year. Almost half came from Tunisia and the other half from Libya. A thousand immigrants died or disappeared in the Mediterranean during that period.
But if Libya has turned emigrants into slaves, Tunisia is not going to do any better because in February its government condemned immigration and propagates openly racist discourse. The “hordes of immigrants” from sub-Saharan Africa may “change the demographic composition” of the country, says the government.
Brussels puts its favorite policy back into practice: leaving the fox in the care of the chickens. Why do they sign an agreement on emigration with a racist government?
As in the case of Libya, it is possible to even think much worse and conclude that what the European Union is financing is racism in North Africa, as a containment barrier against the arrival of emigrants.
Perhaps from now on the tomb of the emigrants will not be the waters of the Mediterranean, but the sandy roads of Tunisia, where many of them have been murdered.
Without going any further, last week there were clashes between immigrants and neighbors in Sfax, where the bodies of 13 immigrants appeared.
On July 3, there were also clashes in the same town, which resulted in the death of a resident. In retaliation, hundreds of them were expelled from the town and transferred to inhospitable areas on the borders with Libya and Algeria, without water, shelter or food. Among them were children and pregnant women.
La Unión Europea financia a Túnez para contener a los emigrantes
La llegada masiva de emigrantes africanos a las costas europeas es consecuencia de la desastrosa política de la OTAN y de Bruselas hacia el Continente Negro. El asesinato de Gadafi y la destrucción de Libia en 2011 abrieron la caja de Pandora.
Bruselas tuvo que poner mucho dinero encima de la mesa para que el frágil gobierno libio impidiera la salida de emigrantes hacia Europa, y el remedio resultó peor que la enfermedad, como ya expusimos en una entrada anterior.
Ahora hace lo mismo con Túnez, que es un punto de partida para miles de inmigrantes que cruzan el Mediterráneo hacia Europa. Bajo el impulso de la fascista italiana Meloni, Bruselas financiará al gobierno de Kaied Saied para controlar los flujos migratorios en el Mediterráneo e impedir que lleguen a Europa.
Ayer Ursula von der Leyen firmó con el gobierno de Túnez un memorando de entendimiento para una “asociación estratégica integral” relacionada con la lucha contra la inmigración irregular, el desarrollo económico del país y las energías renovables.
Von der Leyen se ha felicitado por la firma de un acuerdo para “invertir en la prosperidad compartida”, refiriéndose a los “cinco pilares”, dentro del cuando se incluye el control de la emigración.
Según el ACNUR, este año llegaron a Italia 51.215 inmigrantes ilegales por mar, un 150 por cien más que el año anterior. Casi la mitad procedían de Túnez y la otra mitad de Libia. Mil inmigrantes murieron o desaparecieron en el Mediterráneo durante ese período.
Pero si Libia ha convertido a los emigrantes en esclavos, Túnez no lo va a hacer mejor porque en febrero su gobierno condenó la inmigración y propaga un discurso abiertamente racista. Las “hordas de inmigrantes” procedentes del África subsahariana pueden “cambiar la composición demográfica” del país, dice el gobierno.
Bruselas vuelve a poner en práctica su política favorita: dejar al zorro al cuidado de las gallinas. ¿Por qué firman un acuerdo sobre emigración con un gobierno racista?
Como en el caso de Libia, es posible incluso pensar mucho peor y concluir que lo que está financiado la Unión Europea es el racismo en el norte de África, como barrera de contención contra la llegada de emigrantes.
Quizá a partir de ahora la tumba de los emigrantes no sean las aguas del Mediterráneo, sino los caminos arenosos de Túnez, donde muchos de ellos han sido asesinados.
Sin ir más lejos, la semana pasada se produjeron enfrentamientos entre inmigrantes y vecinos en Sfax, donde aparecieron los cadáveres de 13 emigrantes.
El 3 de julio también se produjeron enfrentamientos en la misma localidad, que se saldaron con la muerte de un residente. Como represalia, cientos de ellos fueron expulsados de la localidad y traladados a zonas inhóspitas en las fronteras con Libia y Argelia, sin agua, refugio ni alimentos. Entre ellos había niños y mujeres embarazadas.
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