So, this is a timely topic! From the latest issue of #InTheseTimes! The connection between Amazon Deforestation and CEO land grabs in the Western United States -- bought with blood money!
Fortress Yellowstone
The #UltraRich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact #ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological #SacrificeZones around the world
by Joseph Bullington, April 6, 2026
Excerpt: "Some of these ultra-rich ranch owners celebrate the natural beauty of their land and are ardent conservationists when it comes to the Yellowstone ecosystem. In digging into their business dealings, however, I found that most of these landowners accumulated their wealth through industries that help drive the destruction of nature elsewhere. Their ranks include private equity investors, oil and gas billionaires and real estate developers. "
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"Now, instead of forests full of fruits and animals and mandioca clearings, industrial soy plantations press in on #Açaizal like a closing fist. There is no escape from the onslaught of #monoculture. Manoel shows me where rows of broken cornstalks run right up against the edge of the community’s soccer field, which the soy farmers also want to plow. The soybeans and corn, like those in the United States, are genetically engineered to withstand the #herbicides and #pesticides the farmers dump on them to beat back weeds and pests, but the chemicals drift, says Manoel, making it impossible to grow fruits and vegetables and #mandioca nearby. The streams run low and full of poison."
Read more:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/yellowstone-billionaires-conservation-montana-deforest-amazon
#Billionaires #UberRich #CEOs #AmazonDeforestation #BigAg #SoybeanProduction #IndustralSoybeans #PoisoningTheAmazon #GMOs #Monoculture #Deforestation #Cargill #HomeDepot #SoyPlantations #SaveTheForest #SaveTheRainforest #Earth4All #DSA #DemocraticSocialism #ReadItBeforeItsBanned #TaxTheRich #NoTaxHavens #EatTheRich #YeetTheRich #BigCorporations
Jarabe de Menta: Una de las grandes bandas «olvidadas» que encendió la mecha del rock nacional
Nacida en pleno estallido del rock nacional, dejaron su huella en cinco simples dignos de ser escuchados. Por Carlos Alberto Resurgián para Noticias La Insuperable En la trastienda más rica –y menos recordada– del rock argentino, Jarabe de Menta aparece como una de esas formaciones fundacionales que ayudaron a encender el movimiento entre 1968 y 1970, mucho antes de que las historias oficiales fijaran el canon. De raíces porteñas, ligados al circuito beat, al estallido creativo de […]I managed to plant most of the cassavas today.
The weather was great, cloudy and cool. Started to rain only at sunset.
#agroforestry #agriculture #mandioca #macaxeira #cassava #abundance
“Rainha do Brasil”, a farinha de pau causou discussões acaloradas que apontavam tanto suas virtudes enquanto alimento ameríndio quanto seu atraso na construção de um mundo “civilizado” segundo a lógica do colonizador. A proposta de seu desterro não logrou sucesso; e a mandioca resiste em pleno século XXI como alimento essencial na cultura de inúmeros povos. #RBHE #Mandioca #Amazônia
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“Rainha do Brasil”, a farinha de pau causou discussões acaloradas que apontavam tanto suas virtudes enquanto alimento ameríndio quanto seu atraso na construção de um mundo “civilizado” segundo a lógica do colonizador. A proposta de seu desterro não logrou sucesso; e a mandioca resiste em pleno século XXI como alimento essencial na cultura de inúmeros povos.