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The Ogoni 9

In 1995, 9 activists were murdered in Nigeria by the military, for protesting against the impacts of Shell’s oil production.

There were arrests, followed by torture. For example, Baribor Bera, was forced to swallow his teeth after being beaten. This is not a movie. This really happened.

Shell knew and enabled the executions.

No one was ever held responsible.

~Full report by Amnesty International~

@hansw @ravenclaw how do you make deb packages of your self-steem?

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Man Spends 30 Years Turning Degraded Land into Massive Forest

youtube.com/watch?v=3VZSJKbzyM

The incredible story of how degraded gorse-infested farmland has been regenerated back into beautiful New Zealand native forest over the course of 30 years..

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve, on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula, and its kaitiaki/manager of 30 years, botanist Hugh Wilson. When, in 1987, Hugh let the local community know of his plans to allow the introduced ‘weed’ gorse to grow as a nurse canopy to regenerate farmland into native forest, people were not only skeptical but outright angry – the plan was the sort to be expected only of “fools and dreamers”.

Now considered a hero locally and across the country, Hugh oversees 1500 hectares resplendent in native forest, where birds and other wildlife are abundant and 47 known waterfalls are in permanent flow. He has proven without doubt that nature knows best – and that he is no fool.

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RT @EpochTimes: “All charges against Edward Snowden should be dropped. We need to protect whistleblowers, not the powerful elite.”

President Trump should pardon former @NSAgov contractor & @WikiLeaks founder , says Rep. @TulsiGabbard. t.co/v4jalr4nS2

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RT @MrsC_Assange: These photos of my son Julian broke my heart...

What 1O years of brutal & unlawful political persecution has done to a truthful & courageous multi-award journalist!

Is this what freedom & democracy in the West looks like now?

Who is next?


t.co/lJjbzmcsXq

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#BuyNothingDay

"This year's #BuyNothingDay stands to be the most critical yet in the activist tradition's nearly 30-year history.

Why? It hardly bears repeating: the coronavirus has decimated the economy and (re-)exposed nauseatingly profound inequalities. In its wake, barely any but the biggest and most ruthless of businesses can hope to survive while the rest drop like flies."

adbusters.org/

#consumerism #oligarchy #inequality #capitalism #jeffbezos #adbusters

@danrabbit@mastodon.social 3pm... where?

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RT @IndexCensorship: Index is alarmed by reports of an escalation in Covid infections at Belmarsh prison, where Julian Assange has been confined to a cell for 10 days now. These conditions are clearly a threat to his own health and safety. His release is not only necessary, it is urgent t.co/7pUdl7msfU

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@paul_schmehl
Can you provide some links to studies supporting this?

Thank you!

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@General

I get that many people in prison did bad things. But we need to get past our petty feelings of revenge and hurting back people as "justice". We can do better.

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Time for morning espresso :cupofcoffee:

Putting in hours over the weekend so I don't have to work next week which isn't holiday.

To anyone who plans on going out on Black Friday:: if you need that materialistic item so badly that you might be insistent on waiting in a crowded line during COVID, why didn't you buy it before? If the cost is so important to you- either buy a knock-off or wait until the price naturally drops during a time to won't have to wait in line with other mouth-breathers(if you don't understand what that last part means, ping me).

I plan on staying in indoors next week, doing what I always do- buy what I need replaced online. Any free time I get next week will likely be spent catching up on books/games/projects. Maybe start learning a new skill before New Years?

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@General

So apparently the Japanese produced this sewing machine that had a slot for a Gameboy color and connected to it withrough the game slow. This would bring up an interface on the gameboy so that you can control the sewing machine with it.

This has got to be the most Japanese thing on the face of the planet.

@blinkwarp I was talking specifically about “illusions of correlation or causality”.

Basically speaking, this is when we credit a result to the wrong originator. For example, thinking that homeopathy can cure a disease; or that wearing a “magic” bracelet can help you perform better in a given sport.

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