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Scared of climate change, interested in good local food, bit of a linux nerd but also into warm data.
Nigel Farage wants to make the drive for net zero the "new Brexit". We must not let him succeed.

Farage accused of peddling 'no...
Farage accused of peddling 'nonsense and lies' - as he predicts 'the new Brexit'

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One of our new writers has a haunting and unforgettable take on recent events in Lebanon

West England Bylines - Powerful Citizen Journalism

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/13/last-gasp/#i-cant-breathe

Once again, a killer synopsis on the anatomy of greed from @pluralistic. #lincare #greed #fraud

Pluralistic: America’s richest Medicare fraudsters are untouchable (13 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

#Linktipp Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/
Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

The powerful haka in parliament this week exposes the serious limitations of our imported Westminster system, write Massey University educators Brian Tweed and Pania Te Maro. #TreatyPrinciplesBill #HīkoiMōTeTiriti #Aotearoa #Māori #ToituTeTiriti #Indigenous #Indigedon #WhakaRoundFindOut #Haka

https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/hanas-haka-shows-up-the-house/

Hana’s haka shows up the House | E-Tangata

“Parliament, when haka-provoked, exposed some of the tell-tale signs of its own foundational cultural system.” — Brian Tweed and Pania Te Maro.

E-Tangata
Might we drop the dogma from politics? https://youtu.be/37mg70-2mms?si=lkyxQFVr30mXRcw9 I am bored by politicians who pretend that they are from the left and right, and who either worship markets or pretend that the state can do nothing of value. The reality is that we live in a mixed economy where both the state and private sectors are essential. Why is it so hard to admit that fact?
Might we drop the dogma from politics?

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In 2014 I rescued a parcel on the #Klamath River from one of those eBay auctioneers. I paid taxes on it dutifully. In 2020, I gave #LandBack directly to the tribes, and after much work and editing on the OFFICIAL DEED, it was finalized and recorded at the County.

While this was all going on, I was being harassed and sued by a low-level HOA (HOA as in Home Owners Association -- ¨Oregon Shores Recreational Club -- and its variations are noted on the deed¨).

OSRC Inc is sneering white supremacists whose financial statements showed they were fat, ugly, oozing with too much money already.

¨And they were stupid enough to have attacked me? HA!¨

💥 🌩️ 🌩️ 🌩️ 💥

Ooooh, they lost more than easy money-making scheme from messing with this Native American.

All this other stuff going on, and reading this today, I know the work was worth it! All this to show that not all government employees are like the sneering white supremacists that sued me.

BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR BIASES; YOU ARE ON NATIVE LAND.

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ARE ALWAYS WORKING FOR SOMETHING OTHER THAN MONEY

#Salmon #Restoration
#Native #Indigenous

https://apnews.com/article/klamath-dam-removal-salmon-spawning-4240169b4bfa327a6a67383ab536e971

Salmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after dam removal

Less than a month after four towering dams on the Klamath River were demolished, hundreds of salmon made it into waters they have been cut off from for decades to spawn in cool creeks. Video showing Chinook salmon in two Klamath tributaries between the former Iron Gate and Copco dams offers a hopeful sign for the newly freed waterway near the California-Oregon border. A female salmon can be seen digging a nest. In another moment, males jockey for a good position to fertilize eggs. They are in historic habitat that wasn't accessible before the largest dam removal project in U.S. history.

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#OTD in 1892.

Ida B. Wells began publishing her research on lynching in the United States, for which she was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation, in 2020.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14975

#books #literature

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

Project Gutenberg

BC Conservative candidate shows her whole racist ass here. They don't even pretend to hide their hate and prejudice.

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/savages-bc-conservative-candidate-racist-slur-indigenous-peoples

#racism #Canada #SystemicRacism #Indigenous

B.C. Conservative candidate uses racist slur to describe Indigenous Peoples on election night

Conservative Leader John Rustad has condemned the statements by his candidate in a Victoria-area riding

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"It’s not about ownership. Right from the very beginning of the dialogues, we said, ‘No one owns the buffalo.’ We all have our part in taking care of them. They’ve taken care of us for so many generations, and it’s now our turn to take care of them. How do we work together to make sure their life is good?”

- Whisper Camel-Means, member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and wildlife biologist

#Indigenous #Buffalo #Bison #rematriation

https://thenarwhal.ca/indigenous-rematriation-buffalo-grasslands/

Travelling the Buffalo road: Indigenous nations are rematriating bison to the prairies

Millions of bison once roamed the grasslands, until colonialism nearly wiped them out. Now, Indigenous people are bringing them back and restoring balance to their homelands

The Narwhal