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Cartoonjournaal 20 september 2026:
"Mislukt experiment...?"
#minderheidskabinet #politiek #instabiel #experiment #Jetten #Yesilgöz #Bontenbal #D66 #CDA #VVD
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Cartoonjournaal 20 september 2026:
"Mislukt experiment...?"
#minderheidskabinet #politiek #instabiel #experiment #Jetten #Yesilgöz #Bontenbal #D66 #CDA #VVD
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Cartoonjournaal 20 september 2026:
"Mislukt experiment...?"
#minderheidskabinet #politiek #instabiel #experiment #Jetten #Yesilgöz #Bontenbal #D66 #CDA #VVD
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Cartoonjournaal 20 september 2026:
"Mislukt experiment...?"
#minderheidskabinet #politiek #instabiel #experiment #Jetten #Yesilgöz #Bontenbal #D66 #CDA #VVD
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Cartoonjournaal 20 september 2026:
"Mislukt experiment...?"
#minderheidskabinet #politiek #instabiel #experiment #Jetten #Yesilgöz #Bontenbal #D66 #CDA #VVD
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Ambassador Bridget Brink here.
After Trump presented Zelenskyy with a “peace plan” that was just Putin’s wish list,
Trump is trying it again.Here’s the problem,
Putin has zero interest in peace.His goal is to take Ukraine, divide Europe, and weaken the United States.
And worse, we now know that Trump’s objective is not freedom and security for Ukraine
but personal gain for those in and around the Trump Administration.There’s no other way to look at this but as
🔥corruption at the highest level of our government
- at the expense of the values upon which our country was founded.As the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, I lived through Putin’s nightly missile and drone attacks for three years.
And when Trump appeased Putin instead of standing with Ukraine, 👉 I resigned in protest.
💥Now, I’m running Congress to flip a must-win seat to take back the House.
I will always fight for what’s right.
I was even accused of “focusing too intensely on the issue of corruption.”Too focused on corruption?
I would argue there is no such thing,
especially when we see what’s happening in DC right now.I am committed to bringing principled leadership to Washington,
holding the powerful accountable,
and delivering for my district and our country.If you believe in defending democracy and taking on Trump’s corruption,
chip in before my end of year deadline to help us win MI-07https://brink4michigan.org
Thank you, -
Ambassador Bridget Brink here.
After Trump presented Zelenskyy with a “peace plan” that was just Putin’s wish list,
Trump is trying it again.Here’s the problem,
Putin has zero interest in peace.His goal is to take Ukraine, divide Europe, and weaken the United States.
And worse, we now know that Trump’s objective is not freedom and security for Ukraine
but personal gain for those in and around the Trump Administration.There’s no other way to look at this but as
🔥corruption at the highest level of our government
- at the expense of the values upon which our country was founded.As the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, I lived through Putin’s nightly missile and drone attacks for three years.
And when Trump appeased Putin instead of standing with Ukraine, 👉 I resigned in protest.
💥Now, I’m running Congress to flip a must-win seat to take back the House.
I will always fight for what’s right.
I was even accused of “focusing too intensely on the issue of corruption.”Too focused on corruption?
I would argue there is no such thing,
especially when we see what’s happening in DC right now.I am committed to bringing principled leadership to Washington,
holding the powerful accountable,
and delivering for my district and our country.If you believe in defending democracy and taking on Trump’s corruption,
chip in before my end of year deadline to help us win MI-07https://brink4michigan.org
Thank you, -
Ambassador Bridget Brink here.
After Trump presented Zelenskyy with a “peace plan” that was just Putin’s wish list,
Trump is trying it again.Here’s the problem,
Putin has zero interest in peace.His goal is to take Ukraine, divide Europe, and weaken the United States.
And worse, we now know that Trump’s objective is not freedom and security for Ukraine
but personal gain for those in and around the Trump Administration.There’s no other way to look at this but as
🔥corruption at the highest level of our government
- at the expense of the values upon which our country was founded.As the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, I lived through Putin’s nightly missile and drone attacks for three years.
And when Trump appeased Putin instead of standing with Ukraine, 👉 I resigned in protest.
💥Now, I’m running Congress to flip a must-win seat to take back the House.
I will always fight for what’s right.
I was even accused of “focusing too intensely on the issue of corruption.”Too focused on corruption?
I would argue there is no such thing,
especially when we see what’s happening in DC right now.I am committed to bringing principled leadership to Washington,
holding the powerful accountable,
and delivering for my district and our country.If you believe in defending democracy and taking on Trump’s corruption,
chip in before my end of year deadline to help us win MI-07https://brink4michigan.org
Thank you, -
Ambassador Bridget Brink here.
After Trump presented Zelenskyy with a “peace plan” that was just Putin’s wish list,
Trump is trying it again.Here’s the problem,
Putin has zero interest in peace.His goal is to take Ukraine, divide Europe, and weaken the United States.
And worse, we now know that Trump’s objective is not freedom and security for Ukraine
but personal gain for those in and around the Trump Administration.There’s no other way to look at this but as
🔥corruption at the highest level of our government
- at the expense of the values upon which our country was founded.As the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, I lived through Putin’s nightly missile and drone attacks for three years.
And when Trump appeased Putin instead of standing with Ukraine, 👉 I resigned in protest.
💥Now, I’m running Congress to flip a must-win seat to take back the House.
I will always fight for what’s right.
I was even accused of “focusing too intensely on the issue of corruption.”Too focused on corruption?
I would argue there is no such thing,
especially when we see what’s happening in DC right now.I am committed to bringing principled leadership to Washington,
holding the powerful accountable,
and delivering for my district and our country.If you believe in defending democracy and taking on Trump’s corruption,
chip in before my end of year deadline to help us win MI-07https://brink4michigan.org
Thank you, -
Ambassador Bridget Brink here.
After Trump presented Zelenskyy with a “peace plan” that was just Putin’s wish list,
Trump is trying it again.Here’s the problem,
Putin has zero interest in peace.His goal is to take Ukraine, divide Europe, and weaken the United States.
And worse, we now know that Trump’s objective is not freedom and security for Ukraine
but personal gain for those in and around the Trump Administration.There’s no other way to look at this but as
🔥corruption at the highest level of our government
- at the expense of the values upon which our country was founded.As the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, I lived through Putin’s nightly missile and drone attacks for three years.
And when Trump appeased Putin instead of standing with Ukraine, 👉 I resigned in protest.
💥Now, I’m running Congress to flip a must-win seat to take back the House.
I will always fight for what’s right.
I was even accused of “focusing too intensely on the issue of corruption.”Too focused on corruption?
I would argue there is no such thing,
especially when we see what’s happening in DC right now.I am committed to bringing principled leadership to Washington,
holding the powerful accountable,
and delivering for my district and our country.If you believe in defending democracy and taking on Trump’s corruption,
chip in before my end of year deadline to help us win MI-07https://brink4michigan.org
Thank you, -
Trump’s #violent and #authoritarian rhetoric on the 2024 campaign trail has attracted growing alarm and comparisons to historical fascist dictators and contemporary populist strongmen.
In recent weeks, he has dehumanized his adversaries as “#vermin” who must be “#rooted #out,” declared that immigrants are “#poisoning the #blood of our country,” encouraged the #shooting of shoplifters and suggested that the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, deserved to be #executed for treason.
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Crater formed from Dinosaur extinction event produced by carbon-rich ‘C-type’ asteroid, scientists suggest
Experts studying material from event 66m years ago find signs to show how Chicxulub impact crater was formed
When a massive space rock slammed into Earth 66m years ago, it wiped out huge swathes of life and ended the reign of the dinosaurs.
Now scientists say they have new insights into what it was made from.
Experts studying material laid down at the time of the event say they have found tell-tale signs to support the idea the Chicxulub impact crater was produced by a carbon-rich,
“C-type”, asteroid that originally formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter.Mario Fischer-Gödde, co-author of the research from the University of Cologne, said the team are now keen to look at deposits associated with an impact some suggest was behind a large extinction about 215m years ago.
“Maybe this way we could find out if
C-type asteroid impacts would have a higher probability for causing mass extinction events on Earth,” he said.Writing in the journal Science, the researchers report how they studied different types, or isotopes, of ruthenium within a layer of material that settled over the globe after the impact 66m years ago.
“This layer contains traces of the remnants of the asteroid” said Fischer-Gödde.
The team chose to look at #ruthenium because the metal is very rare in the Earth’s crust.
“The ruthenium that we find in this layer, therefore, is almost 100% derived from the asteroid,”
said Fischer-Gödde, adding that offers scientists a way to determine the makeup, and hence type, of the impactor itself.The team found samples of the layer from Denmark, Italy and Spain all showed the same ruthenium isotope composition.
Crucially, said Fischer-Gödde, the result is different to the composition generally found on Earth, ruling out a theory that the presence of ruthenium and other metals such as osmium and platinum, are down to past eruptions of the Deccan Traps volcanoes.
The team also cast doubt on the possibility that the impactor was a comet, saying the ruthenium isotope composition of the samples is different to that of meteorites thought to be fragments of comets that have lost their ice.
Instead the ruthenium isotope findings tally with the average composition of meteorites from carbonaceous
(C-type) asteroids
– carbon-rich space rocks that would have formed at the beginning of the solar system, beyond the orbit of Jupiter. -
Crater formed from Dinosaur extinction event produced by carbon-rich ‘C-type’ asteroid, scientists suggest
Experts studying material from event 66m years ago find signs to show how Chicxulub impact crater was formed
When a massive space rock slammed into Earth 66m years ago, it wiped out huge swathes of life and ended the reign of the dinosaurs.
Now scientists say they have new insights into what it was made from.
Experts studying material laid down at the time of the event say they have found tell-tale signs to support the idea the Chicxulub impact crater was produced by a carbon-rich,
“C-type”, asteroid that originally formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter.Mario Fischer-Gödde, co-author of the research from the University of Cologne, said the team are now keen to look at deposits associated with an impact some suggest was behind a large extinction about 215m years ago.
“Maybe this way we could find out if
C-type asteroid impacts would have a higher probability for causing mass extinction events on Earth,” he said.Writing in the journal Science, the researchers report how they studied different types, or isotopes, of ruthenium within a layer of material that settled over the globe after the impact 66m years ago.
“This layer contains traces of the remnants of the asteroid” said Fischer-Gödde.
The team chose to look at #ruthenium because the metal is very rare in the Earth’s crust.
“The ruthenium that we find in this layer, therefore, is almost 100% derived from the asteroid,”
said Fischer-Gödde, adding that offers scientists a way to determine the makeup, and hence type, of the impactor itself.The team found samples of the layer from Denmark, Italy and Spain all showed the same ruthenium isotope composition.
Crucially, said Fischer-Gödde, the result is different to the composition generally found on Earth, ruling out a theory that the presence of ruthenium and other metals such as osmium and platinum, are down to past eruptions of the Deccan Traps volcanoes.
The team also cast doubt on the possibility that the impactor was a comet, saying the ruthenium isotope composition of the samples is different to that of meteorites thought to be fragments of comets that have lost their ice.
Instead the ruthenium isotope findings tally with the average composition of meteorites from carbonaceous
(C-type) asteroids
– carbon-rich space rocks that would have formed at the beginning of the solar system, beyond the orbit of Jupiter. -
Crater formed from Dinosaur extinction event produced by carbon-rich ‘C-type’ asteroid, scientists suggest
Experts studying material from event 66m years ago find signs to show how Chicxulub impact crater was formed
When a massive space rock slammed into Earth 66m years ago, it wiped out huge swathes of life and ended the reign of the dinosaurs.
Now scientists say they have new insights into what it was made from.
Experts studying material laid down at the time of the event say they have found tell-tale signs to support the idea the Chicxulub impact crater was produced by a carbon-rich,
“C-type”, asteroid that originally formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter.Mario Fischer-Gödde, co-author of the research from the University of Cologne, said the team are now keen to look at deposits associated with an impact some suggest was behind a large extinction about 215m years ago.
“Maybe this way we could find out if
C-type asteroid impacts would have a higher probability for causing mass extinction events on Earth,” he said.Writing in the journal Science, the researchers report how they studied different types, or isotopes, of ruthenium within a layer of material that settled over the globe after the impact 66m years ago.
“This layer contains traces of the remnants of the asteroid” said Fischer-Gödde.
The team chose to look at #ruthenium because the metal is very rare in the Earth’s crust.
“The ruthenium that we find in this layer, therefore, is almost 100% derived from the asteroid,”
said Fischer-Gödde, adding that offers scientists a way to determine the makeup, and hence type, of the impactor itself.The team found samples of the layer from Denmark, Italy and Spain all showed the same ruthenium isotope composition.
Crucially, said Fischer-Gödde, the result is different to the composition generally found on Earth, ruling out a theory that the presence of ruthenium and other metals such as osmium and platinum, are down to past eruptions of the Deccan Traps volcanoes.
The team also cast doubt on the possibility that the impactor was a comet, saying the ruthenium isotope composition of the samples is different to that of meteorites thought to be fragments of comets that have lost their ice.
Instead the ruthenium isotope findings tally with the average composition of meteorites from carbonaceous
(C-type) asteroids
– carbon-rich space rocks that would have formed at the beginning of the solar system, beyond the orbit of Jupiter. -
Crater formed from Dinosaur extinction event produced by carbon-rich ‘C-type’ asteroid, scientists suggest
Experts studying material from event 66m years ago find signs to show how Chicxulub impact crater was formed
When a massive space rock slammed into Earth 66m years ago, it wiped out huge swathes of life and ended the reign of the dinosaurs.
Now scientists say they have new insights into what it was made from.
Experts studying material laid down at the time of the event say they have found tell-tale signs to support the idea the Chicxulub impact crater was produced by a carbon-rich,
“C-type”, asteroid that originally formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter.Mario Fischer-Gödde, co-author of the research from the University of Cologne, said the team are now keen to look at deposits associated with an impact some suggest was behind a large extinction about 215m years ago.
“Maybe this way we could find out if
C-type asteroid impacts would have a higher probability for causing mass extinction events on Earth,” he said.Writing in the journal Science, the researchers report how they studied different types, or isotopes, of ruthenium within a layer of material that settled over the globe after the impact 66m years ago.
“This layer contains traces of the remnants of the asteroid” said Fischer-Gödde.
The team chose to look at #ruthenium because the metal is very rare in the Earth’s crust.
“The ruthenium that we find in this layer, therefore, is almost 100% derived from the asteroid,”
said Fischer-Gödde, adding that offers scientists a way to determine the makeup, and hence type, of the impactor itself.The team found samples of the layer from Denmark, Italy and Spain all showed the same ruthenium isotope composition.
Crucially, said Fischer-Gödde, the result is different to the composition generally found on Earth, ruling out a theory that the presence of ruthenium and other metals such as osmium and platinum, are down to past eruptions of the Deccan Traps volcanoes.
The team also cast doubt on the possibility that the impactor was a comet, saying the ruthenium isotope composition of the samples is different to that of meteorites thought to be fragments of comets that have lost their ice.
Instead the ruthenium isotope findings tally with the average composition of meteorites from carbonaceous
(C-type) asteroids
– carbon-rich space rocks that would have formed at the beginning of the solar system, beyond the orbit of Jupiter. -
Crater formed from Dinosaur extinction event produced by carbon-rich ‘C-type’ asteroid, scientists suggest
Experts studying material from event 66m years ago find signs to show how Chicxulub impact crater was formed
When a massive space rock slammed into Earth 66m years ago, it wiped out huge swathes of life and ended the reign of the dinosaurs.
Now scientists say they have new insights into what it was made from.
Experts studying material laid down at the time of the event say they have found tell-tale signs to support the idea the Chicxulub impact crater was produced by a carbon-rich,
“C-type”, asteroid that originally formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter.Mario Fischer-Gödde, co-author of the research from the University of Cologne, said the team are now keen to look at deposits associated with an impact some suggest was behind a large extinction about 215m years ago.
“Maybe this way we could find out if
C-type asteroid impacts would have a higher probability for causing mass extinction events on Earth,” he said.Writing in the journal Science, the researchers report how they studied different types, or isotopes, of ruthenium within a layer of material that settled over the globe after the impact 66m years ago.
“This layer contains traces of the remnants of the asteroid” said Fischer-Gödde.
The team chose to look at #ruthenium because the metal is very rare in the Earth’s crust.
“The ruthenium that we find in this layer, therefore, is almost 100% derived from the asteroid,”
said Fischer-Gödde, adding that offers scientists a way to determine the makeup, and hence type, of the impactor itself.The team found samples of the layer from Denmark, Italy and Spain all showed the same ruthenium isotope composition.
Crucially, said Fischer-Gödde, the result is different to the composition generally found on Earth, ruling out a theory that the presence of ruthenium and other metals such as osmium and platinum, are down to past eruptions of the Deccan Traps volcanoes.
The team also cast doubt on the possibility that the impactor was a comet, saying the ruthenium isotope composition of the samples is different to that of meteorites thought to be fragments of comets that have lost their ice.
Instead the ruthenium isotope findings tally with the average composition of meteorites from carbonaceous
(C-type) asteroids
– carbon-rich space rocks that would have formed at the beginning of the solar system, beyond the orbit of Jupiter. -
Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse
The identity of the commander of Israel’s Unit 8200 is a closely guarded secret. He occupies one of the most sensitive roles in the military, leading one of the world’s most powerful surveillance agencies, comparable to the US National Security Agency.
Yet after spending more than two decades operating in the shadows, the Guardian can reveal how the controversial spy chief – whose name is #Yossi #Sariel – has left his identity exposed online.
The embarrassing security lapse is linked to a book he published on Amazon, which left a digital trail to a private Google account created in his name, along with his unique ID and links to the account’s maps and calendar profiles.
The Guardian has confirmed with multiple sources that Sariel is the secret author of 🔸The Human Machine Team, 🔸a book in which he offers a radical vision for how artificial intelligence can transform the relationship between military personnel and machines
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/top-israeli-spy-chief-exposes-his-true-identity-in-online-security-lapse?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse
The identity of the commander of Israel’s Unit 8200 is a closely guarded secret. He occupies one of the most sensitive roles in the military, leading one of the world’s most powerful surveillance agencies, comparable to the US National Security Agency.
Yet after spending more than two decades operating in the shadows, the Guardian can reveal how the controversial spy chief – whose name is #Yossi #Sariel – has left his identity exposed online.
The embarrassing security lapse is linked to a book he published on Amazon, which left a digital trail to a private Google account created in his name, along with his unique ID and links to the account’s maps and calendar profiles.
The Guardian has confirmed with multiple sources that Sariel is the secret author of 🔸The Human Machine Team, 🔸a book in which he offers a radical vision for how artificial intelligence can transform the relationship between military personnel and machines
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/top-israeli-spy-chief-exposes-his-true-identity-in-online-security-lapse?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse
The identity of the commander of Israel’s Unit 8200 is a closely guarded secret. He occupies one of the most sensitive roles in the military, leading one of the world’s most powerful surveillance agencies, comparable to the US National Security Agency.
Yet after spending more than two decades operating in the shadows, the Guardian can reveal how the controversial spy chief – whose name is #Yossi #Sariel – has left his identity exposed online.
The embarrassing security lapse is linked to a book he published on Amazon, which left a digital trail to a private Google account created in his name, along with his unique ID and links to the account’s maps and calendar profiles.
The Guardian has confirmed with multiple sources that Sariel is the secret author of 🔸The Human Machine Team, 🔸a book in which he offers a radical vision for how artificial intelligence can transform the relationship between military personnel and machines
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/top-israeli-spy-chief-exposes-his-true-identity-in-online-security-lapse?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse
The identity of the commander of Israel’s Unit 8200 is a closely guarded secret. He occupies one of the most sensitive roles in the military, leading one of the world’s most powerful surveillance agencies, comparable to the US National Security Agency.
Yet after spending more than two decades operating in the shadows, the Guardian can reveal how the controversial spy chief – whose name is #Yossi #Sariel – has left his identity exposed online.
The embarrassing security lapse is linked to a book he published on Amazon, which left a digital trail to a private Google account created in his name, along with his unique ID and links to the account’s maps and calendar profiles.
The Guardian has confirmed with multiple sources that Sariel is the secret author of 🔸The Human Machine Team, 🔸a book in which he offers a radical vision for how artificial intelligence can transform the relationship between military personnel and machines
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/top-israeli-spy-chief-exposes-his-true-identity-in-online-security-lapse?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse
The identity of the commander of Israel’s Unit 8200 is a closely guarded secret. He occupies one of the most sensitive roles in the military, leading one of the world’s most powerful surveillance agencies, comparable to the US National Security Agency.
Yet after spending more than two decades operating in the shadows, the Guardian can reveal how the controversial spy chief – whose name is #Yossi #Sariel – has left his identity exposed online.
The embarrassing security lapse is linked to a book he published on Amazon, which left a digital trail to a private Google account created in his name, along with his unique ID and links to the account’s maps and calendar profiles.
The Guardian has confirmed with multiple sources that Sariel is the secret author of 🔸The Human Machine Team, 🔸a book in which he offers a radical vision for how artificial intelligence can transform the relationship between military personnel and machines
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/top-israeli-spy-chief-exposes-his-true-identity-in-online-security-lapse?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
‘This river is doomed’:
Peru’s gold rush threatens waterways and the people who depend on them | Global developmentLoreto used to be considered a peaceful region in Peru, but not any more.
José Manuyama Ahuite was born at the confluence of the Ucayali and Tapiche rivers in Requena, 100 miles (160km) south of Iquitos, a port city and the gateway to the Indigenous peoples of the northern Amazon.He moved to the town in 2004, before the miners brought pollution to the Nanay River and destruction to surrounding forests.
“The river forms part of our spirit and culture. If the river dies, so does our human dignity,” he says.
“Now this river is doomed.
The colour of the water is changing, and the same devastation in other mining areas is beginning to be reproduced here in the Nanay.”As president of the Water Defence Committee in Iquitos, created to address threats to the region’s rivers, he says their goal is to end pollution in the Nanay.
“Many leaders and neighbours who live in the basin live threatened and afraid in their own communities,” Manuyama says. “We hope we don’t go through the same thing.”In recent years, illegal mining has expanded rapidly throughout Peru’s Loreto region as miners have become emboldened by the absence of authorities and rising gold prices.
The activity has affected the quality of water, bringing the threat of pollution and disease to more than 170,000 Indigenous inhabitants across the Peruvian Amazon.
Dredgers have been found in several rivers across the region, including the Marañón, Napo, Putumayo and Nanay rivers, says Abel Chiroque Becerra, head of Loreto’s ombudsman’s office.
The current situation has been exacerbated by a lack of opportunities for residents and neglect by the Peruvian state, he says.
Protected areas and Indigenous reserves have been heavily affected.
“It is a great concern because of the pressure on our rivers,” says one Kichwa Indigenous leader who wishes to remain anonymous. “As they continue to pollute the rivers, they bring diseases because people consume the fish.”
A recent report from the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project ( #MAAP ) has exposed the scale and impact of illegal gold mining in Peru’s Loreto region.
More than 11 large rivers are affected by illegal mining, it found, covering three protected natural areas and 31 Indigenous territories.
Communities have learned to employ technology to identify threats and report environmental crimes in collaboration with #Orpio, the organisation of Indigenous people of Peru’s eastern Amazon, an ecological monitoring programme.
“We monitor not only the rivers but also illegal logging, burning, invasions and drug trafficking,” the Kichwa leader says. “We see where people are causing an impact on communities, such as the presence of mining, and we try to control it.”
But those fighting the criminals face considerable danger.
The forest is already mortally wounded. Illegal mining will destroy the fragile ecosystem, which is serious for the world
José Manuyama Ahuite, river defender
The Kichwa leader is one of many environmental defenders to have faced intimidation and threats from illegal miners while patrolling the region.“When we filed complaints, I received threats from the miners because they could no longer work freely or easily enter communities,” they say. “They told me I had to withdraw the complaints from the prosecutor’s office.
“Other colleagues have been threatened by weapons, and that presented a real fear for me and my family.”
The Loreto region, which covers almost a third of Peru’s territory and borders Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil, is considered one of the world’s most biologically diverse regions.
It accounts for only 5% of the Amazon basin by area but harbours up to 40% of its terrestrial vertebrate species and has the largest peat deposits in the basin.Manuyama says: “The mining has had a devastating impact on our environment. The forest is already depredated and mortally wounded. Illegal mining will destroy the Amazon’s fragile ecosystem, which is serious for the world.”
The mining in the region is artisanal, an intensive operation that studies show worsens water quality, disrupts the natural flow of water, and pollutes rivers and streams with high concentrations of mercury. Environmentalists and biologists fear this activity will damage aquatic ecosystems and threaten the food security of Indigenous communities who depend on these rivers.
Andrea Buitrago, director of the Foundation for Conservation and Sustainable Development ( #FCDS ) in Peru, says the toxic metal leaches into the Amazon’s watercourses, “poisoning Indigenous communities in the region and local populations that consume the contaminated fish”.(1/2)
#indigenousrights #amazonia #peru #equidor #brazil
#oilpollution #riverpolution -
‘This river is doomed’:
Peru’s gold rush threatens waterways and the people who depend on them | Global developmentLoreto used to be considered a peaceful region in Peru, but not any more.
José Manuyama Ahuite was born at the confluence of the Ucayali and Tapiche rivers in Requena, 100 miles (160km) south of Iquitos, a port city and the gateway to the Indigenous peoples of the northern Amazon.He moved to the town in 2004, before the miners brought pollution to the Nanay River and destruction to surrounding forests.
“The river forms part of our spirit and culture. If the river dies, so does our human dignity,” he says.
“Now this river is doomed.
The colour of the water is changing, and the same devastation in other mining areas is beginning to be reproduced here in the Nanay.”As president of the Water Defence Committee in Iquitos, created to address threats to the region’s rivers, he says their goal is to end pollution in the Nanay.
“Many leaders and neighbours who live in the basin live threatened and afraid in their own communities,” Manuyama says. “We hope we don’t go through the same thing.”In recent years, illegal mining has expanded rapidly throughout Peru’s Loreto region as miners have become emboldened by the absence of authorities and rising gold prices.
The activity has affected the quality of water, bringing the threat of pollution and disease to more than 170,000 Indigenous inhabitants across the Peruvian Amazon.
Dredgers have been found in several rivers across the region, including the Marañón, Napo, Putumayo and Nanay rivers, says Abel Chiroque Becerra, head of Loreto’s ombudsman’s office.
The current situation has been exacerbated by a lack of opportunities for residents and neglect by the Peruvian state, he says.
Protected areas and Indigenous reserves have been heavily affected.
“It is a great concern because of the pressure on our rivers,” says one Kichwa Indigenous leader who wishes to remain anonymous. “As they continue to pollute the rivers, they bring diseases because people consume the fish.”
A recent report from the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project ( #MAAP ) has exposed the scale and impact of illegal gold mining in Peru’s Loreto region.
More than 11 large rivers are affected by illegal mining, it found, covering three protected natural areas and 31 Indigenous territories.
Communities have learned to employ technology to identify threats and report environmental crimes in collaboration with #Orpio, the organisation of Indigenous people of Peru’s eastern Amazon, an ecological monitoring programme.
“We monitor not only the rivers but also illegal logging, burning, invasions and drug trafficking,” the Kichwa leader says. “We see where people are causing an impact on communities, such as the presence of mining, and we try to control it.”
But those fighting the criminals face considerable danger.
The forest is already mortally wounded. Illegal mining will destroy the fragile ecosystem, which is serious for the world
José Manuyama Ahuite, river defender
The Kichwa leader is one of many environmental defenders to have faced intimidation and threats from illegal miners while patrolling the region.“When we filed complaints, I received threats from the miners because they could no longer work freely or easily enter communities,” they say. “They told me I had to withdraw the complaints from the prosecutor’s office.
“Other colleagues have been threatened by weapons, and that presented a real fear for me and my family.”
The Loreto region, which covers almost a third of Peru’s territory and borders Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil, is considered one of the world’s most biologically diverse regions.
It accounts for only 5% of the Amazon basin by area but harbours up to 40% of its terrestrial vertebrate species and has the largest peat deposits in the basin.Manuyama says: “The mining has had a devastating impact on our environment. The forest is already depredated and mortally wounded. Illegal mining will destroy the Amazon’s fragile ecosystem, which is serious for the world.”
The mining in the region is artisanal, an intensive operation that studies show worsens water quality, disrupts the natural flow of water, and pollutes rivers and streams with high concentrations of mercury. Environmentalists and biologists fear this activity will damage aquatic ecosystems and threaten the food security of Indigenous communities who depend on these rivers.
Andrea Buitrago, director of the Foundation for Conservation and Sustainable Development ( #FCDS ) in Peru, says the toxic metal leaches into the Amazon’s watercourses, “poisoning Indigenous communities in the region and local populations that consume the contaminated fish”.(1/2)
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#oilpollution #riverpolution -
‘This river is doomed’:
Peru’s gold rush threatens waterways and the people who depend on them | Global developmentLoreto used to be considered a peaceful region in Peru, but not any more.
José Manuyama Ahuite was born at the confluence of the Ucayali and Tapiche rivers in Requena, 100 miles (160km) south of Iquitos, a port city and the gateway to the Indigenous peoples of the northern Amazon.He moved to the town in 2004, before the miners brought pollution to the Nanay River and destruction to surrounding forests.
“The river forms part of our spirit and culture. If the river dies, so does our human dignity,” he says.
“Now this river is doomed.
The colour of the water is changing, and the same devastation in other mining areas is beginning to be reproduced here in the Nanay.”As president of the Water Defence Committee in Iquitos, created to address threats to the region’s rivers, he says their goal is to end pollution in the Nanay.
“Many leaders and neighbours who live in the basin live threatened and afraid in their own communities,” Manuyama says. “We hope we don’t go through the same thing.”In recent years, illegal mining has expanded rapidly throughout Peru’s Loreto region as miners have become emboldened by the absence of authorities and rising gold prices.
The activity has affected the quality of water, bringing the threat of pollution and disease to more than 170,000 Indigenous inhabitants across the Peruvian Amazon.
Dredgers have been found in several rivers across the region, including the Marañón, Napo, Putumayo and Nanay rivers, says Abel Chiroque Becerra, head of Loreto’s ombudsman’s office.
The current situation has been exacerbated by a lack of opportunities for residents and neglect by the Peruvian state, he says.
Protected areas and Indigenous reserves have been heavily affected.
“It is a great concern because of the pressure on our rivers,” says one Kichwa Indigenous leader who wishes to remain anonymous. “As they continue to pollute the rivers, they bring diseases because people consume the fish.”
A recent report from the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project ( #MAAP ) has exposed the scale and impact of illegal gold mining in Peru’s Loreto region.
More than 11 large rivers are affected by illegal mining, it found, covering three protected natural areas and 31 Indigenous territories.
Communities have learned to employ technology to identify threats and report environmental crimes in collaboration with #Orpio, the organisation of Indigenous people of Peru’s eastern Amazon, an ecological monitoring programme.
“We monitor not only the rivers but also illegal logging, burning, invasions and drug trafficking,” the Kichwa leader says. “We see where people are causing an impact on communities, such as the presence of mining, and we try to control it.”
But those fighting the criminals face considerable danger.
The forest is already mortally wounded. Illegal mining will destroy the fragile ecosystem, which is serious for the world
José Manuyama Ahuite, river defender
The Kichwa leader is one of many environmental defenders to have faced intimidation and threats from illegal miners while patrolling the region.“When we filed complaints, I received threats from the miners because they could no longer work freely or easily enter communities,” they say. “They told me I had to withdraw the complaints from the prosecutor’s office.
“Other colleagues have been threatened by weapons, and that presented a real fear for me and my family.”
The Loreto region, which covers almost a third of Peru’s territory and borders Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil, is considered one of the world’s most biologically diverse regions.
It accounts for only 5% of the Amazon basin by area but harbours up to 40% of its terrestrial vertebrate species and has the largest peat deposits in the basin.Manuyama says: “The mining has had a devastating impact on our environment. The forest is already depredated and mortally wounded. Illegal mining will destroy the Amazon’s fragile ecosystem, which is serious for the world.”
The mining in the region is artisanal, an intensive operation that studies show worsens water quality, disrupts the natural flow of water, and pollutes rivers and streams with high concentrations of mercury. Environmentalists and biologists fear this activity will damage aquatic ecosystems and threaten the food security of Indigenous communities who depend on these rivers.
Andrea Buitrago, director of the Foundation for Conservation and Sustainable Development ( #FCDS ) in Peru, says the toxic metal leaches into the Amazon’s watercourses, “poisoning Indigenous communities in the region and local populations that consume the contaminated fish”.(1/2)
#indigenousrights #amazonia #peru #equidor #brazil
#oilpollution #riverpolution -
‘This river is doomed’:
Peru’s gold rush threatens waterways and the people who depend on them | Global developmentLoreto used to be considered a peaceful region in Peru, but not any more.
José Manuyama Ahuite was born at the confluence of the Ucayali and Tapiche rivers in Requena, 100 miles (160km) south of Iquitos, a port city and the gateway to the Indigenous peoples of the northern Amazon.He moved to the town in 2004, before the miners brought pollution to the Nanay River and destruction to surrounding forests.
“The river forms part of our spirit and culture. If the river dies, so does our human dignity,” he says.
“Now this river is doomed.
The colour of the water is changing, and the same devastation in other mining areas is beginning to be reproduced here in the Nanay.”As president of the Water Defence Committee in Iquitos, created to address threats to the region’s rivers, he says their goal is to end pollution in the Nanay.
“Many leaders and neighbours who live in the basin live threatened and afraid in their own communities,” Manuyama says. “We hope we don’t go through the same thing.”In recent years, illegal mining has expanded rapidly throughout Peru’s Loreto region as miners have become emboldened by the absence of authorities and rising gold prices.
The activity has affected the quality of water, bringing the threat of pollution and disease to more than 170,000 Indigenous inhabitants across the Peruvian Amazon.
Dredgers have been found in several rivers across the region, including the Marañón, Napo, Putumayo and Nanay rivers, says Abel Chiroque Becerra, head of Loreto’s ombudsman’s office.
The current situation has been exacerbated by a lack of opportunities for residents and neglect by the Peruvian state, he says.
Protected areas and Indigenous reserves have been heavily affected.
“It is a great concern because of the pressure on our rivers,” says one Kichwa Indigenous leader who wishes to remain anonymous. “As they continue to pollute the rivers, they bring diseases because people consume the fish.”
A recent report from the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project ( #MAAP ) has exposed the scale and impact of illegal gold mining in Peru’s Loreto region.
More than 11 large rivers are affected by illegal mining, it found, covering three protected natural areas and 31 Indigenous territories.
Communities have learned to employ technology to identify threats and report environmental crimes in collaboration with #Orpio, the organisation of Indigenous people of Peru’s eastern Amazon, an ecological monitoring programme.
“We monitor not only the rivers but also illegal logging, burning, invasions and drug trafficking,” the Kichwa leader says. “We see where people are causing an impact on communities, such as the presence of mining, and we try to control it.”
But those fighting the criminals face considerable danger.
The forest is already mortally wounded. Illegal mining will destroy the fragile ecosystem, which is serious for the world
José Manuyama Ahuite, river defender
The Kichwa leader is one of many environmental defenders to have faced intimidation and threats from illegal miners while patrolling the region.“When we filed complaints, I received threats from the miners because they could no longer work freely or easily enter communities,” they say. “They told me I had to withdraw the complaints from the prosecutor’s office.
“Other colleagues have been threatened by weapons, and that presented a real fear for me and my family.”
The Loreto region, which covers almost a third of Peru’s territory and borders Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil, is considered one of the world’s most biologically diverse regions.
It accounts for only 5% of the Amazon basin by area but harbours up to 40% of its terrestrial vertebrate species and has the largest peat deposits in the basin.Manuyama says: “The mining has had a devastating impact on our environment. The forest is already depredated and mortally wounded. Illegal mining will destroy the Amazon’s fragile ecosystem, which is serious for the world.”
The mining in the region is artisanal, an intensive operation that studies show worsens water quality, disrupts the natural flow of water, and pollutes rivers and streams with high concentrations of mercury. Environmentalists and biologists fear this activity will damage aquatic ecosystems and threaten the food security of Indigenous communities who depend on these rivers.
Andrea Buitrago, director of the Foundation for Conservation and Sustainable Development ( #FCDS ) in Peru, says the toxic metal leaches into the Amazon’s watercourses, “poisoning Indigenous communities in the region and local populations that consume the contaminated fish”.(1/2)
#indigenousrights #amazonia #peru #equidor #brazil
#oilpollution #riverpolution -
‘This river is doomed’:
Peru’s gold rush threatens waterways and the people who depend on them | Global developmentLoreto used to be considered a peaceful region in Peru, but not any more.
José Manuyama Ahuite was born at the confluence of the Ucayali and Tapiche rivers in Requena, 100 miles (160km) south of Iquitos, a port city and the gateway to the Indigenous peoples of the northern Amazon.He moved to the town in 2004, before the miners brought pollution to the Nanay River and destruction to surrounding forests.
“The river forms part of our spirit and culture. If the river dies, so does our human dignity,” he says.
“Now this river is doomed.
The colour of the water is changing, and the same devastation in other mining areas is beginning to be reproduced here in the Nanay.”As president of the Water Defence Committee in Iquitos, created to address threats to the region’s rivers, he says their goal is to end pollution in the Nanay.
“Many leaders and neighbours who live in the basin live threatened and afraid in their own communities,” Manuyama says. “We hope we don’t go through the same thing.”In recent years, illegal mining has expanded rapidly throughout Peru’s Loreto region as miners have become emboldened by the absence of authorities and rising gold prices.
The activity has affected the quality of water, bringing the threat of pollution and disease to more than 170,000 Indigenous inhabitants across the Peruvian Amazon.
Dredgers have been found in several rivers across the region, including the Marañón, Napo, Putumayo and Nanay rivers, says Abel Chiroque Becerra, head of Loreto’s ombudsman’s office.
The current situation has been exacerbated by a lack of opportunities for residents and neglect by the Peruvian state, he says.
Protected areas and Indigenous reserves have been heavily affected.
“It is a great concern because of the pressure on our rivers,” says one Kichwa Indigenous leader who wishes to remain anonymous. “As they continue to pollute the rivers, they bring diseases because people consume the fish.”
A recent report from the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project ( #MAAP ) has exposed the scale and impact of illegal gold mining in Peru’s Loreto region.
More than 11 large rivers are affected by illegal mining, it found, covering three protected natural areas and 31 Indigenous territories.
Communities have learned to employ technology to identify threats and report environmental crimes in collaboration with #Orpio, the organisation of Indigenous people of Peru’s eastern Amazon, an ecological monitoring programme.
“We monitor not only the rivers but also illegal logging, burning, invasions and drug trafficking,” the Kichwa leader says. “We see where people are causing an impact on communities, such as the presence of mining, and we try to control it.”
But those fighting the criminals face considerable danger.
The forest is already mortally wounded. Illegal mining will destroy the fragile ecosystem, which is serious for the world
José Manuyama Ahuite, river defender
The Kichwa leader is one of many environmental defenders to have faced intimidation and threats from illegal miners while patrolling the region.“When we filed complaints, I received threats from the miners because they could no longer work freely or easily enter communities,” they say. “They told me I had to withdraw the complaints from the prosecutor’s office.
“Other colleagues have been threatened by weapons, and that presented a real fear for me and my family.”
The Loreto region, which covers almost a third of Peru’s territory and borders Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil, is considered one of the world’s most biologically diverse regions.
It accounts for only 5% of the Amazon basin by area but harbours up to 40% of its terrestrial vertebrate species and has the largest peat deposits in the basin.Manuyama says: “The mining has had a devastating impact on our environment. The forest is already depredated and mortally wounded. Illegal mining will destroy the Amazon’s fragile ecosystem, which is serious for the world.”
The mining in the region is artisanal, an intensive operation that studies show worsens water quality, disrupts the natural flow of water, and pollutes rivers and streams with high concentrations of mercury. Environmentalists and biologists fear this activity will damage aquatic ecosystems and threaten the food security of Indigenous communities who depend on these rivers.
Andrea Buitrago, director of the Foundation for Conservation and Sustainable Development ( #FCDS ) in Peru, says the toxic metal leaches into the Amazon’s watercourses, “poisoning Indigenous communities in the region and local populations that consume the contaminated fish”.(1/2)
#indigenousrights #amazonia #peru #equidor #brazil
#oilpollution #riverpolution -
Ukrainian hacktivist team #Cyber #Resistance hacked the email of Lieutenant Colonel #Sergey #Alexandrovich #Morgachev, an officer of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Army (#GRU), leader of the Russian hacker group #APT 28, consisting of officers of the 85th Main Special Service Center of the GRU, military unit #26165.
Dumps of his private correspondence were exclusively provided by the hacktivists to the volunteers of #InformNapalm volunteer intelligence community for analysis.
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Ukrainian hacktivist team #Cyber #Resistance hacked the email of Lieutenant Colonel #Sergey #Alexandrovich #Morgachev, an officer of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Army (#GRU), leader of the Russian hacker group #APT 28, consisting of officers of the 85th Main Special Service Center of the GRU, military unit #26165.
Dumps of his private correspondence were exclusively provided by the hacktivists to the volunteers of #InformNapalm volunteer intelligence community for analysis.
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Ukrainian hacktivist team #Cyber #Resistance hacked the email of Lieutenant Colonel #Sergey #Alexandrovich #Morgachev, an officer of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Army (#GRU), leader of the Russian hacker group #APT 28, consisting of officers of the 85th Main Special Service Center of the GRU, military unit #26165.
Dumps of his private correspondence were exclusively provided by the hacktivists to the volunteers of #InformNapalm volunteer intelligence community for analysis.
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Ukrainian hacktivist team #Cyber #Resistance hacked the email of Lieutenant Colonel #Sergey #Alexandrovich #Morgachev, an officer of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Army (#GRU), leader of the Russian hacker group #APT 28, consisting of officers of the 85th Main Special Service Center of the GRU, military unit #26165.
Dumps of his private correspondence were exclusively provided by the hacktivists to the volunteers of #InformNapalm volunteer intelligence community for analysis.