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21.02.22 by – Mona Gonzalez
We must safeguard the web of life and care about the other living species that we share this planet with. Pygmy tarsiers eat and host bugs that we’ve seen at home — insects, spiders, lizards, bedbugs, lice, fleas, roundworms, and tapeworms. The vaquitas are preyed upon by large sharks and killer whales, keeping them away from us. But whereas just last year there were only 10 vaquitas left, today their numbers have fallen further below. A tiger in the wild indicates that the forest it inhabits is healthy and diverse. As of now, there are 3,900 tigers in the wild globally, and more than twice as many (8,000) in captivity. By protecting the web of life, we build a kinder world for everyone.
There are pink dolphins (Inia araguaiaensis) in South America’s Amazon River. They are very intelligent, with a 40 percent higher brain capacity than a human brain.
They inhabit the Amazon, the largest river in the world by freshwater volume. This river crosses through Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
The pink dolphin is also called the Amazon river dolphin, the pink river dolphin, boto cor-de rosa, (pink river dolphin), or botos, which we’ll call them in this article. They weren’t always pink. At birth they’re gray, then they turn pink with age.
Their degree of pink varies. Some have only speckles of pink, while others are completely pink. Pinkness is spurred by their capillary placement, diet, sun exposure, and emotions. Pink male dolphins flush a brighter pink when excited, especially during mating season. Females are most attracted to the pinkest dolphins. Gray dolphins roughly attack their pink counterparts, resulting in scar tissue that adds more pinkness. Sometimes, the male boto will have a “gift” in its mouth for a female.
Swimming in the forest
Procreation occurs in the rainy season, when the Amazon rainforest is flooded with water, allowing male botos to leave the flooded rivers and swim for miles between the flooded forest trees.
The wetlands system of the Amazon was granted international protected status in 2018, because of the role it plays in dolphin breeding. The males reach females residing in lakes. The boto’s habitat is both the forest and the river. When the rainy season ebbs, the males return to the Amazon river.
Mother botos are pregnant for 13 months, They nurse their young for two years, and reproduce every 3-5 years. Botos have a 30-year lifespan.
Myths of the river dolphin
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A statement by the EZLN on the invasion of the Russian army into Ukraine.
Illustration above by taller ahuehuete in solidarity.
Originally published by Enlace Zapatista. Translated by Taller Ahuehuete.
ZAPATISTA SIXTH COMMISSION. Mexico.
March 2, 2022.
To those who signed the Declaration for Life:
To the national and international Sexta:
Comrades and Sisters:
We give you our words and thoughts on what is currently happening in the geography they call Europe:
FIRST.- There is an aggressive force, the Russian army. There are interests of big capital at stake, on both sides. Those who are suffering now because of the delusions of some and the crafty economic calculations of others are the peoples of Russia and Ukraine (and, perhaps soon, those of other geographies near and far away).
As Zapatistas we do not support one State or the other, but those who fight for life against the system.
Continue reading “There will be no landscape after the battle – Words by the EZLN on the invasion of the Russian army into Ukraine”
The US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) program in the Republic of Georgia. Photo: Ministry of Internal Affairs of GeorgiaWhile the US is planning to increase its military presence in Eastern Europe to “protect its allies against Russia”, internal documents show what American “protection” in practical terms means.
The Pentagon has conducted biological experiments with a potentially lethal outcome on 4,400 soldiers in Ukraine and 1,000 soldiers in Georgia. According to leaked documents, all volunteer deaths should be reported within 24 h (in Ukraine) and 48 h (in Georgia).
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On March 5, shocking information was received from Mariupol. Members of the so-called “territorial defense” units, who had previously arrived in Mariupol from western regions of Ukraine, had mined and blown up an multi-storey civilian building.
“There were 200 people, mostly women and children, in the basement, under the ruins”,according to Denis Pushilin, head of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. The news could not be independently confirmed however, due to the siege.
All week reports have come in of a planned False Flag attack by the Azov and other proudly nazi batallions who have come to the ethnic Russian city and by all accounts are ‘holding the civilian population hostage’ or using them as a ‘human shield’.
Russia declares temporary ceasefire in Mariupol to allow civilians to leave …
The surrounding Russian and DPD (Donetsk) forces therefore cancelled plans to take over Mariupol and Volnovakha and yesterday (5th March) declared a one day ceasefire to allow evacuation.
“Not a single civilian could get out along the designated humanitarian corridors. The population of these cities is held by Ukrainian nationalists as a ‘human shield’,” however, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Continue reading “Mariupol: new evacuation attempt today amid reported Nazi ‘massacre of ethnic Russian civilians’”
On March 5, several explosions took place in Mariupol. Despite the ceasefire regime proclaimed by the Russian Defense Ministry since 9 a.m. local time, so that civilians could leave the cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha in accordance with the agreement reached during the second round of negotiations between Moscow and Kiev.
The explosions took place at around midday local time. Columns of black smoke were seen in in the city center, on the left bank of the Kalmius River.
Shortly thereafter, the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin reported that the militants of the Azov battalion blew up a civilian house in Mariupol at 15/20 Meotidi Boulevard. The building is located in the eastern part of the city.
Up to 200 people were trapped under the rubble, most of them women and children.
According to the updated data, the crime was committed not by the fighters of the Azov nationalist battalion, but by volunteers of the so-called ‘territorial defense’ detachments who arrived to Mariupol from the western regions of the country. they have recently carried out a massive mining of entrances to the civilian houses.
Territorial defence. Illustrative Image
The Investigative Committee of Russia, in accordance with the instructions of the head of the department, opened a criminal case on the fact of blowing up a residential building in Mariupol.
For several days, the left bank district of the city remains the main stronghold of the Ukrainian nationalist battalions. The joint Russian and DPR forces have not entered this region yet. Thus, they could not carry out the mining of the civilian multi-storey buildings. The street fightings have not yet begun in Mariupol, the Russians remain on the outskirts of the city.
As the ceasefire regime is now broken, the mopping up of the city is likely to begin in the coming days or hours.
Civilians are persuading Ukrainian nationalists not to deploy their positions near their house and the hospital:
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At the same time, nationalist battalions take in hostage the local civilians. While the central command of the UAF have lost control over the forces in the blockaded city, the nationalist are using members of the so-called territorial defence to commit bloody war crimes.
Civilians waited for several hours attempting to leave the city, but they were stopped by forces of the Azov nationalist battalion
In the village of Bezymennoye near Mariupol, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR has equipped a reception point for refugees.
In the village of Bezymennoye near Mariupol, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR has equipped a reception point for refugees.
The Russian forces secured the humanitarian corridor for civilians in Mariupol a few days ago, but to reach it they have to leave the city first. Armed Ukrainian militants are shooting at them and the soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces blocked the exit to the civilians, as they blew up bridges when they were leaving the city.
“Nobody told us anything, the Ukrainian soldiers blew up the bridges after they left the city and that’s it – we were left isolated” – civilians from Mariupol reported.
The families who managed to get out of Mariupol said that they had not even heard about the humanitarian corridor. They were leaving under the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for almost a week.
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Of the declared 200 thousand civilians from Mariupol and 15 thousand from Volnovakha, no one has arrived at the open humanitarian corridors so far. In total, only three families got out of the city, according to the DPR-linked sources.
The DPR officials have recently warned of the upcoming provocations with mass killings of the civilians in Mariupol. Kiev makes its best to blame Russia in all crimes during the conflict but a simple analysis of the situation on the ground reveals that the majority of such claims are lies and bloody provocations committed by the Kiev regime.
We don’t talk about racism much at OffG, except in meta-analyses of its political weaponisation.
A lot of the time “racism” is used by the establishment to attack people who pose a threat to the status quo (see: Jeremy Corbyn). Other times it is used to simplify complex political matters into good guys and bad guys.
HOW long until we get reports of people pelting Siberian huskies on the street?Probably not too long. Already there are videos of Russian food shops being vandalised such as this one in Germany.
The marketplace of ideas has become saturated with contorted attempts to turn everything into a simple question of race, to the point it has almost robbed the word “racism” of any meaning at all.-
It’s always been pretty clear that beneath this ersatz outrage there lurks – ironically – some of the most ignorant and most unreconstructed racism currently being manifested anywhere.
The indignation, for example, among the woke, that Tolkien’s orcs are ‘obviously’ intended to represent black people (because orcs are stupid and violent), or that this mural must show Jewish bankers (because of the “hooked Jewish noses”) – only shows that the wokest middle class whites have an image of blackness as dumbly bigoted as any white supremacist.
So, it probably shouldn’t shock you – though it will – to realize one very potent reason the war in Ukraine is particularly upsetting is because it’s happening to white people.
Don’t believe me? Then take a look. From page to screen to social media the message has been loud and clear that this war is especially bad because it’s being waged in Europe on a population with “blond hair and blue eyes”:
A reporter on ITV News talked about the “unthinkable” happening: War “in Europe”, not “some developing third world nation”.
A CBS reporter talked about Ukraine being “civilised” and “European”, “not a place like Iraq or Afghanistan that has seen conflict for decades” and provoked this response –
The Free 