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kazimirkharza · 1 year
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Under no pretext should arms and munitions be surrendered to those who call themselves “authorities,” or anyone for that matter. The state maintains its power through holding a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. This is used to protect interests of big business that states need to survive these days; these interests are also predominantly responsible for dragging us towards extinction; bowing to or compromising with state/corporate interest is suicidal. Disarming oneself can only mean surrender and defeat.
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tattoos4mnd · 6 months
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faizyy3 · 4 months
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Nature Quote
“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.” Hippocrates
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Whenever I see someone posting about banning abortion, just one question comes to mind:
What do you propose to make sure that no one should be desperate enough to do something drastic like that?
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apopcornkernel · 3 months
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wdym i now have to plant two trees before i can graduate. wdym parents now have to plant two trees before they can get their newborn's birth certificate. man. we live in a country
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spawksstuff · 6 months
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The Thimblerigger (Lawman)
Video of De's parts, because honestly this episode just isn't that good. But De's great in it. You can find the whole episode on joshwhotv...but the site does look a bit sketchy although I didn't have any issues.
Best part is the YOU CAN'T STOP ME HEAR!
Story below the video.
A thimblerigger shows up town saying he's come to destroy the man that gave his wife to a highwayman in order to save his own skin. He tells the town that the pea will show up only for this cowardly man. Everyone in town lines up to prove their innocence. Those that haven't lined up are basically dragged into the saloon to prove their innocence. One guy gets it in his head that they'll hang this cowardly man once he's revealed. Sam (De) doesn't want to play, and Troop prevents the gang from dragging Sam to the saloon, but Sam is furious with him for contributing to the general feeling that he’s the coward. Sam finally takes his turn, warning Troop off with, "I got a chance with him; I got no chance with them." He gets the pea, and when he asks the Thimblerigger “who are you?” the Thimblerigger turns out to be the highwayman. Sam shoots him; Troop jumps Sam and they cart him off to jail. Dying, the Thimblerigger explains that Sam’s bride stayed with him all those years, and turned his life around, but she was always in love with Sam, which is why he hated him so much. All the drama was because he didn’t know what the guy looked like, but believed he would recognize “the terror in his eyes.” At the very end, it's revealed every shell had a pea in it.
Troop rescue and talking to
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Entering the Saloon
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The Pick
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The Saddest Part of Climate Change
So, as I have (probably) stated, I live on a hill in Southern California, that is surrounded by more mountains and hills. Around this time, the tallest mountains used to be covered in a white layer of snow...
Used to be... It is December 19th as I write and post this, and there isn't a single drop of snow to be found. And if my memory serves me correctly, this is the second year that this has happened.
This is the sad thing that people don't realize about climate change. We end up losing such beautiful things.
The trees and flowers that once flourished, now brown and dead because of drought. The jungles and rainforests that produced life-giving oxygen for the planet, now chopped down for fickle reasons. The animals that use to thrive in their habitats, now becoming endangered or extinct. The rivers and lakes that used to sustain a wonderful ecosystem, now dried up and/or polluted.
All of this damage, we're responsible for it. All of these beautiful things, we have ruined them. Yet we continue to deny it, again and again and again.
And that to me is the saddest part about climate change. We have the power to do something. We can change it. But we don't want to. Even as the world crumbles around us in retaliation for all the damage that we have done to it. We do nothing.
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Currently freaking out over the Rio movie. Like what the fuck do you mean there will never be an another movie that makes me feel so many complex emotions over endangered birds? It makes me sad to think i will never know a movie that makes me feel the eay rio does, it was my childhood comfort.
Shit hit the fan? I would watch Rio
Was freaking out over something? Put on Rio and i would be calm
I rewatched Rio last year during this time and tbh I had felt so much second hand embarassement because for some reason thats a thing i feel the most when watching movies but fuck that i still loved the movie . The nostalgia factor might have been working overtime but i was too stressed from exams to give a fuck
Anyway the verdict is that the nostalgia factor had me in a death grip and i will forever love the Rio movie, and probabky forever be conflicted on the nostalgia factor and how good the movie actually is.
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noneedtofearorhope · 2 years
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A diverse coalition of organizations and individuals have coalesced in an attempt to prevent the destruction of the forest on a variety of grounds—environmental advocacy, racial justice, police and prison abolition, indigenous rights, and the preservation of urban green space. Resistance to the project has taken a variety of shapes, from lawsuits and lobbying to construction of barricades, sabotage, claims of tree spiking and occupation of the forest. Even a children’s group has gotten involved in the campaign.
Environmental organizations, such as the South River Forest Coalition, have opposed both the police facility and the Blackhall swap, arguing against the loss of green space, the destruction of forested land in the midst of climate change, and the impact on water quality and wildlife. The group Save the Old Atlanta Prison Farm has proposed an alternate vision for the forest, which includes a dog park, community gardens, sports fields and a nature preserve.
Those who oppose the expansion of police power have also come out against the Atlanta Police Foundation’s project, placing it within the lineage of the expansion of the “prison-industrial complex.”  Such critics claim that the training facility will further expand police militarization in the aftermath of nationwide calls in the summer of 2020 and beyond to defund and even abolish policing infrastructure.
The proposed police training facility is slated to include a “mock village” with a “gas station/bank, bar/nightclub, school, residential homes, apartments…park/splash pad” and “training warehouse” for training in police tactics.
The plans have raised concerns that one thing the facility is intended to do is train officers to put down urban insurrections such as those that occurred in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
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tostrekkiegirl · 1 year
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I had a dream last night that De Kelley was on one of those Western shows, and I was watching as his character was getting whipped, and more brutally than the real clip I've seen from when he was in the show Black Saddle. I was like 💔 😭 He also wasn't even the bad guy.
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rickybutlersays · 1 year
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currently thinking about how Spock was always the equivalent of a black cat in every sense.
and when Leonard was dying, he stopped reaching out to William which worried him a lot.
"cats often withdraw and prefer solitude when they are gravely ill. hiding is a way to protect themselves."
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kazimirkharza · 1 year
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The irony of doing deforestation in a land that already has nearly no forests, only to place some giant bird-killing things there in the name of "green energy." Don’t let me even get started about how much harmful manufacturing processes need to take place to make wind turbines.
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mushroomcaphat · 2 years
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whenever people say some shit like "people in the US won't feel the effects of climate change for decades" i go °_°
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faizyy3 · 4 months
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no-passaran · 1 month
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Genocide experts warn that India is about to genocide the Shompen people
Who are the Shompen?
The Shompen are an indigenous culture that lives in the Great Nicobar Island, which is nowadays owned by India. The Shompen and their ancestors are believed to have been living in this island for around 10,000 years. Like other tribes in the nearby islands, the Shompen are isolated from the rest of the world, as they chose to be left alone, with the exception of a few members who occasionally take part in exchanges with foreigners and go on quarantine before returning to their tribe. There are between 100 and 400 Shompen people, who are hunter-gatherers and nomadic agricultors and rely on their island's rainforest for survival.
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Why is there risk of genocide?
India has announced a huge construction mega-project that will completely change the Great Nicobar Island to turn it into "the Hong Kong of India".
Nowadays, the island has 8,500 inhabitants, and over 95% of its surface is made up of national parks, protected forests and tribal reserve areas. Much of the island is covered by the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, described by UNESCO as covering “unique and threatened tropical evergreen forest ecosystems. It is home to very rich ecosystems, including 650 species of angiosperms, ferns, gymnosperms, and bryophytes, among others. In terms of fauna, there are over 1800 species, some of which are endemic to this area. It has one of the best-preserved tropical rain forests in the world.”
The Indian project aims to destroy this natural environment to create an international shipping terminal with the capacity to handle 14.2 million TEUs (unit of cargo capacity), an international airport that will handle a peak hour traffic of 4,000 passengers and that will be used as a joint civilian-military airport under the control of the Indian Navy, a gas and solar power plant, a military base, an industrial park, and townships aimed at bringing in tourism, including commercial, industrial and residential zones as well as other tourism-related activities.
This project means the destruction of the island's pristine rainforests, as it involves cutting down over 852,000 trees and endangers the local fauna such as leatherback turtles, saltwater crocodiles, Nicobar crab-eating macaque and migratory birds. The erosion resulting from deforestation will be huge in this highly-seismic area. Experts also warn about the effects that this project will have on local flora and fauna as a result of pollution from the terminal project, coastal surface runoff, ballasts from ships, physical collisions with ships, coastal construction, oil spills, etc.
The indigenous people are not only affected because their environment and food source will be destroyed. On top of this, the demographic change will be a catastrophe for them. After the creation of this project, the Great Nicobar Island -which now has 8,500 inhabitants- will receive a population of 650,000 settlers. Remember that the Shompen and Nicobarese people who live on this island are isolated, which means they do not have an immune system that can resist outsider illnesses. Academics believe they could die of disease if they come in contact with outsiders (think of the arrival of Europeans to the Americas after Christopher Columbus and the way that common European illnesses were lethal for indigenous Americans with no immunization against them).
And on top of all of this, the project might destroy the environment and the indigenous people just to turn out to be useless and sooner or later be abandoned. The naturalist Uday Mondal explains that “after all the destruction, the financial viability of the project remains questionable as all the construction material will have to be shipped to this remote island and it will have to compete with already well-established ports.” However, this project is important to India because they want to use the island as a military and commercial post to stop China's expansion in the region, since the Nicobar islands are located on one of the world's busiest sea routes.
Last year, 70 former government officials and ambassadors wrote to the Indian president saying the project would “virtually destroy the unique ecology of this island and the habitat of vulnerable tribal groups”. India's response has been to say that the indigenous tribes will be relocated "if needed", but that doesn't solve the problem. As a spokesperson for human rights group Survival International said: “The Shompen are nomadic and have clearly defined territories. Four of their semi-permanent settlements are set to be directly devastated by the project, along with their southern hunting and foraging territories. The Shompen will undoubtedly try to move away from the area destroyed, but there will be little space for them to go. To avoid a genocide, this deadly mega-project must be scrapped.”
On 7 February 2024, 39 scholars from 13 countries published an open letter to the Indian president warning that “If the project goes ahead, even in a limited form, we believe it will be a death sentence for the Shompen, tantamount to the international crime of genocide.”
How to help
The NGO Survival International has launched this campaign:
From this site, you just need to add your name and email and you will send an email to India's Tribal Affairs Minister and to the companies currently vying to build the first stage of the project.
Share it with your friends and acquittances and on social media.
Sources:
India’s plan for untouched Nicobar isles will be ‘death sentence’ for isolated tribe, 7 Feb 2024. The Guardian.
‘It will destroy them’: Indian mega-development could cause ‘genocide’ and ‘ecocide’, says charity, 8 Feb 2024. Geographical.
Genocide experts call on India's government to scrap the Great Nicobar mega-project, Feb 2024. Survival International.
The container terminal that could sink the Great Nicobar Island, 20 July 2022. Mongabay.
[Maps] Environmental path cleared for Great Nicobar mega project, 10 Oct 2022. Mongabay.
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maobaobao · 7 months
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does anyone want to think about deforestation with me
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