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BE ABOUT IT presents: FESTINY 2025
toscadura, Friday, August 22 at 05:00 PM EDT
BE ABOUT IT PROUDLY PRESENTS…
Be About It Fest Vol 01. August 22nd and 23rd. All Ages. For the youth and the keepers of the faith.CONTENTION
RAW BRIGADE
NAYSAYER
BAD BEAT
CASINO
CESSPOOL
CHAIN BLOCK
CUTDOWN
DIE ALONE
FREEZERBURN
HEADLESS WORLD
HEAVENSCOLDHANDS
IRON CRUSADERS
KING'S COMMAND
THE NEXT LEVEL
REPOSSESSED
RUFF PUFF
SOLD SHORT
SQUARE ONE
STATEMENT OF PRIDE
UNMOVED
WILL TO SPEAK
Early bird tickets are up now…first 50 tickets available at a discount. Limited capacity so act fast and don’t come crying about it later.https://beaboutitzine.bigcartel.com/product/be-about-it-fest
https://montreal.askapunk.net/event/be-about-it-presents-festiny-2025
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BE ABOUT IT presents: FESTINY 2025
toscadura, Friday, August 22 at 05:00 PM EDT
BE ABOUT IT PROUDLY PRESENTS…
Be About It Fest Vol 01. August 22nd and 23rd. All Ages. For the youth and the keepers of the faith.CONTENTION
RAW BRIGADE
NAYSAYER
BAD BEAT
CASINO
CESSPOOL
CHAIN BLOCK
CUTDOWN
DIE ALONE
FREEZERBURN
HEADLESS WORLD
HEAVENSCOLDHANDS
IRON CRUSADERS
KING'S COMMAND
THE NEXT LEVEL
REPOSSESSED
RUFF PUFF
SOLD SHORT
SQUARE ONE
STATEMENT OF PRIDE
UNMOVED
WILL TO SPEAK
Early bird tickets are up now…first 50 tickets available at a discount. Limited capacity so act fast and don’t come crying about it later.https://beaboutitzine.bigcartel.com/product/be-about-it-fest
https://montreal.askapunk.net/event/be-about-it-presents-festiny-2025
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BE ABOUT IT presents: FESTINY 2025
toscadura, Friday, August 22 at 05:00 PM EDT
BE ABOUT IT PROUDLY PRESENTS…
Be About It Fest Vol 01. August 22nd and 23rd. All Ages. For the youth and the keepers of the faith.CONTENTION
RAW BRIGADE
NAYSAYER
BAD BEAT
CASINO
CESSPOOL
CHAIN BLOCK
CUTDOWN
DIE ALONE
FREEZERBURN
HEADLESS WORLD
HEAVENSCOLDHANDS
IRON CRUSADERS
KING'S COMMAND
THE NEXT LEVEL
REPOSSESSED
RUFF PUFF
SOLD SHORT
SQUARE ONE
STATEMENT OF PRIDE
UNMOVED
WILL TO SPEAK
Early bird tickets are up now…first 50 tickets available at a discount. Limited capacity so act fast and don’t come crying about it later.https://beaboutitzine.bigcartel.com/product/be-about-it-fest
https://montreal.askapunk.net/event/be-about-it-presents-festiny-2025
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Private equity ‘manager’ (day trader) Grant Cardone tells #FoxNews viewers (#MAGA #cult members) to “relax”. He says the #POTUS , who was described by his #Economics professor at UPenn as “the dumbest goddam student I ever had!”, and who has driven at least six companies into bankruptcy, is going to “Make #America Great Again” with #tariffs aka #TrumpTaxes. Pay no attention to the naysayers on #WallStreet. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-guest-grant-cardone-defends-trump-berates-viewers-401k-retirement-funds-life-savings_n_6807661ce4b00edf27f4aef1
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The discovery of #Chicxulub, which supports the dino-killing asteroid theory is a fun read. A non-academic and a journalist announced a result, but all the leading academics were not paying attention. Eventually their validation was accepted but took a decade to be heard.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater#Discovery
> Penfield also recalled that part of the motivation for the name was "to give the academics and NASA naysayers a challenging time pronouncing it" after years of dismissing its existence.[
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By Dolphin Whisperer
Despite the coverage in these halls referencing 2016’s King of Everything as “…so inessential, so boring, and so forgettable…,” Jinjer has persisted through almost ten years, from then, of rising notoriety. With hundreds of thousands of listeners on streaming services, and a touring schedule loaded with international dates and festival appearances, it’s safe to say that the Ukrainian nu-prog-groove outfit has earned some sort of place at the metal table. Of course, their alternative rock bend and penchant for half-time at a stuttering, deathcore crawl ensure that that place is not at the table of any traditional heavy metal sound. A seat hardly matters, though, when the crowd stands ready to jumpdafuckup with a drop and down-tuned chug. Can Jinjer’s fifth full-length Duél even hope to conquer the naysayers?
Yo, yo, yo, that’s a no, no, no—Jinjer hangs around, groove to the bone, unapologetic in dedication to their drop A riffcraft and tough guy build-ups. At the center of Duél—in case you’re not one of the ninety-million views of Jinjer’s breakout “Pisces” live performance—sits vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk’s one-woman alt croon to howling demon performance, both full in nasally rock control and bellowing in shredded throat prowess. Whether slathered with a Staley-tinged (Alice in Chains), Kittie-indebted sneer (“Tumbleweed,” “Someone’s Daughter”) or cranked with a scraggly, Otep-ian fervor (“Green Serpent,” “Dark Bile”), Shmayluk dominates the draw of memorability that Jinjer, and Duél, have to offer.
The reliance on Shmayluk’s charisma, however, has never felt quite as strong on other Jinjer outings as it does on Duél. While sliding scale riffs and heavy kit syncopation, particularly in well-placed chiming cymbal chatter, skew progressive in a brooding, fugal fashion (just about every melodic layer feels Baroque in inspiration), it’s the well-worn path of verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus that spells the battlefield on which Duél places its every piece. On older releases, Shmayluk and Jinjer have been a little more experimental in approach, both letting their native tongue provide an additional melancholy and allowing left-field influences (like reggae). But in an unwavering contrapuntal aggro-shuffle, Eugene Abdukhanov ensures that his bass prancing core propels each track forward. This Meshuggah-cadence, Tool-tricky possession shows in beautiful tapping runs scattered across slow-burn bridges and fading light outros. And while his fancy finger talents inspire routine closed-eye head bobs, they also too fall into service of a framing djentrified guitar drag or deathcore-leaning breakdown.
In an album as uniform as Duél, the details in production and pacing make or break the effectiveness of the hypnotic groove for which it aims. On the one hand, drummer Vladislav Ulasevich’s rhythmic choices—his dry and dampened snare, quick clanging cymbal accents—all live in service to frame Jinjer’s low-end stomp and swagger. However, in that same low-impact, woody plonk, no other sounds exist to compliment its unsatisfying tat-tat-tat, with only certain tracks that live in relentlessly driving mosh grooves or thrash-speed breaks (“Rogue,” “Fast Draw,” “Duél”) finding sufficient speed and brightness to feel like a fulfilling sonic mold. All too often, Jinjer leans on a droning, mid-paced lurch that has to work overtime to overcome auditory inertia. And though Shmayluk spends a higher percentage of Duél in a cleaner mode than past works, which is a mode that suits her and Jinjer well, the incessant urge for every song to force a hammy aggression—a classic death metal “BLEGH” even finding its way into “Hedonist”—into every other verse or bridge to comply to the Jinjer formula wears on the lesser tracks that slog about.
Familiarity can be frustrating. And for a band like Jinjer, the frequent trips down big riff lanes that sound a lot like their other work widens the gap between rippers and skippers. Duél sounds like Jinjer, which is an accomplishment in a genre amalgamation that boasts many more ill-advised backward hats than it does influential, legacy acts. However, good bands don’t necessarily always need to make good albums. Jinjer is a good band, and their own dramatic and skillful identity shines through in full force on a number of tracks that Duél hosts. But with eleven tracks that run in a narrow pool of lengths, a curated scope of execution, and at varying levels of quality within each iteration, it’s hard to call Duél a good album.
Rating: 2.5/5.0
DR: N/A | Format Reviewed: Stream1
Label: Napalm Records | Bandcamp
Websites: jinjer-metal.com | jinjer-jinjer.bandcamp.com
Releases Worldwide: February 7th, 2025#25 #2025 #AlternativeRock #Duel #Feb25 #GrooveMetal #Jinjer #Kittie #Meshuggah #Metalcore #NapalmRecords #NuMetal #Otep #ProgressiveGrooveMetal #Review #Reviews #Tool #UkrainianMetal
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By Dolphin Whisperer
Despite the coverage in these halls referencing 2016’s King of Everything as “…so inessential, so boring, and so forgettable…,” Jinjer has persisted through almost ten years, from then, of rising notoriety. With hundreds of thousands of listeners on streaming services, and a touring schedule loaded with international dates and festival appearances, it’s safe to say that the Ukrainian nu-prog-groove outfit has earned some sort of place at the metal table. Of course, their alternative rock bend and penchant for half-time at a stuttering, deathcore crawl ensure that that place is not at the table of any traditional heavy metal sound. A seat hardly matters, though, when the crowd stands ready to jumpdafuckup with a drop and down-tuned chug. Can Jinjer’s fifth full-length Duél even hope to conquer the naysayers?
Yo, yo, yo, that’s a no, no, no—Jinjer hangs around, groove to the bone, unapologetic in dedication to their drop A riffcraft and tough guy build-ups. At the center of Duél—in case you’re not one of the ninety-million views of Jinjer’s breakout “Pisces” live performance—sits vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk’s one-woman alt croon to howling demon performance, both full in nasally rock control and bellowing in shredded throat prowess. Whether slathered with a Staley-tinged (Alice in Chains), Kittie-indebted sneer (“Tumbleweed,” “Someone’s Daughter”) or cranked with a scraggly, Otep-ian fervor (“Green Serpent,” “Dark Bile”), Shmayluk dominates the draw of memorability that Jinjer, and Duél, have to offer.
The reliance on Shmayluk’s charisma, however, has never felt quite as strong on other Jinjer outings as it does on Duél. While sliding scale riffs and heavy kit syncopation, particularly in well-placed chiming cymbal chatter, skew progressive in a brooding, fugal fashion (just about every melodic layer feels Baroque in inspiration), it’s the well-worn path of verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus that spells the battlefield on which Duél places its every piece. On older releases, Shmayluk and Jinjer have been a little more experimental in approach, both letting their native tongue provide an additional melancholy and allowing left-field influences (like reggae). But in an unwavering contrapuntal aggro-shuffle, Eugene Abdukhanov ensures that his bass prancing core propels each track forward. This Meshuggah-cadence, Tool-tricky possession shows in beautiful tapping runs scattered across slow-burn bridges and fading light outros. And while his fancy finger talents inspire routine closed-eye head bobs, they also too fall into service of a framing djentrified guitar drag or deathcore-leaning breakdown.
In an album as uniform as Duél, the details in production and pacing make or break the effectiveness of the hypnotic groove for which it aims. On the one hand, drummer Vladislav Ulasevich’s rhythmic choices—his dry and dampened snare, quick clanging cymbal accents—all live in service to frame Jinjer’s low-end stomp and swagger. However, in that same low-impact, woody plonk, no other sounds exist to compliment its unsatisfying tat-tat-tat, with only certain tracks that live in relentlessly driving mosh grooves or thrash-speed breaks (“Rogue,” “Fast Draw,” “Duél”) finding sufficient speed and brightness to feel like a fulfilling sonic mold. All too often, Jinjer leans on a droning, mid-paced lurch that has to work overtime to overcome auditory inertia. And though Shmayluk spends a higher percentage of Duél in a cleaner mode than past works, which is a mode that suits her and Jinjer well, the incessant urge for every song to force a hammy aggression—a classic death metal “BLEGH” even finding its way into “Hedonist”—into every other verse or bridge to comply to the Jinjer formula wears on the lesser tracks that slog about.
Familiarity can be frustrating. And for a band like Jinjer, the frequent trips down big riff lanes that sound a lot like their other work widens the gap between rippers and skippers. Duél sounds like Jinjer, which is an accomplishment in a genre amalgamation that boasts many more ill-advised backward hats than it does influential, legacy acts. However, good bands don’t necessarily always need to make good albums. Jinjer is a good band, and their own dramatic and skillful identity shines through in full force on a number of tracks that Duél hosts. But with eleven tracks that run in a narrow pool of lengths, a curated scope of execution, and at varying levels of quality within each iteration, it’s hard to call Duél a good album.
Rating: 2.5/5.0
DR: N/A | Format Reviewed: Stream1
Label: Napalm Records | Bandcamp
Websites: jinjer-metal.com | jinjer-jinjer.bandcamp.com
Releases Worldwide: February 7th, 2025#25 #2025 #AlternativeRock #Duel #Feb25 #GrooveMetal #Jinjer #Kittie #Meshuggah #Metalcore #NapalmRecords #NuMetal #Otep #ProgressiveGrooveMetal #Review #Reviews #Tool #UkrainianMetal
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By Dolphin Whisperer
Despite the coverage in these halls referencing 2016’s King of Everything as “…so inessential, so boring, and so forgettable…,” Jinjer has persisted through almost ten years, from then, of rising notoriety. With hundreds of thousands of listeners on streaming services, and a touring schedule loaded with international dates and festival appearances, it’s safe to say that the Ukrainian nu-prog-groove outfit has earned some sort of place at the metal table. Of course, their alternative rock bend and penchant for half-time at a stuttering, deathcore crawl ensure that that place is not at the table of any traditional heavy metal sound. A seat hardly matters, though, when the crowd stands ready to jumpdafuckup with a drop and down-tuned chug. Can Jinjer’s fifth full-length Duél even hope to conquer the naysayers?
Yo, yo, yo, that’s a no, no, no—Jinjer hangs around, groove to the bone, unapologetic in dedication to their drop A riffcraft and tough guy build-ups. At the center of Duél—in case you’re not one of the ninety-million views of Jinjer’s breakout “Pisces” live performance—sits vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk’s one-woman alt croon to howling demon performance, both full in nasally rock control and bellowing in shredded throat prowess. Whether slathered with a Staley-tinged (Alice in Chains), Kittie-indebted sneer (“Tumbleweed,” “Someone’s Daughter”) or cranked with a scraggly, Otep-ian fervor (“Green Serpent,” “Dark Bile”), Shmayluk dominates the draw of memorability that Jinjer, and Duél, have to offer.
The reliance on Shmayluk’s charisma, however, has never felt quite as strong on other Jinjer outings as it does on Duél. While sliding scale riffs and heavy kit syncopation, particularly in well-placed chiming cymbal chatter, skew progressive in a brooding, fugal fashion (just about every melodic layer feels Baroque in inspiration), it’s the well-worn path of verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus that spells the battlefield on which Duél places its every piece. On older releases, Shmayluk and Jinjer have been a little more experimental in approach, both letting their native tongue provide an additional melancholy and allowing left-field influences (like reggae). But in an unwavering contrapuntal aggro-shuffle, Eugene Abdukhanov ensures that his bass prancing core propels each track forward. This Meshuggah-cadence, Tool-tricky possession shows in beautiful tapping runs scattered across slow-burn bridges and fading light outros. And while his fancy finger talents inspire routine closed-eye head bobs, they also too fall into service of a framing djentrified guitar drag or deathcore-leaning breakdown.
In an album as uniform as Duél, the details in production and pacing make or break the effectiveness of the hypnotic groove for which it aims. On the one hand, drummer Vladislav Ulasevich’s rhythmic choices—his dry and dampened snare, quick clanging cymbal accents—all live in service to frame Jinjer’s low-end stomp and swagger. However, in that same low-impact, woody plonk, no other sounds exist to compliment its unsatisfying tat-tat-tat, with only certain tracks that live in relentlessly driving mosh grooves or thrash-speed breaks (“Rogue,” “Fast Draw,” “Duél”) finding sufficient speed and brightness to feel like a fulfilling sonic mold. All too often, Jinjer leans on a droning, mid-paced lurch that has to work overtime to overcome auditory inertia. And though Shmayluk spends a higher percentage of Duél in a cleaner mode than past works, which is a mode that suits her and Jinjer well, the incessant urge for every song to force a hammy aggression—a classic death metal “BLEGH” even finding its way into “Hedonist”—into every other verse or bridge to comply to the Jinjer formula wears on the lesser tracks that slog about.
Familiarity can be frustrating. And for a band like Jinjer, the frequent trips down big riff lanes that sound a lot like their other work widens the gap between rippers and skippers. Duél sounds like Jinjer, which is an accomplishment in a genre amalgamation that boasts many more ill-advised backward hats than it does influential, legacy acts. However, good bands don’t necessarily always need to make good albums. Jinjer is a good band, and their own dramatic and skillful identity shines through in full force on a number of tracks that Duél hosts. But with eleven tracks that run in a narrow pool of lengths, a curated scope of execution, and at varying levels of quality within each iteration, it’s hard to call Duél a good album.
Rating: 2.5/5.0
DR: N/A | Format Reviewed: Stream1
Label: Napalm Records | Bandcamp
Websites: jinjer-metal.com | jinjer-jinjer.bandcamp.com
Releases Worldwide: February 7th, 2025#25 #2025 #AlternativeRock #Duel #Feb25 #GrooveMetal #Jinjer #Kittie #Meshuggah #Metalcore #NapalmRecords #NuMetal #Otep #ProgressiveGrooveMetal #Review #Reviews #Tool #UkrainianMetal
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By Dolphin Whisperer
Despite the coverage in these halls referencing 2016’s King of Everything as “…so inessential, so boring, and so forgettable…,” Jinjer has persisted through almost ten years, from then, of rising notoriety. With hundreds of thousands of listeners on streaming services, and a touring schedule loaded with international dates and festival appearances, it’s safe to say that the Ukrainian nu-prog-groove outfit has earned some sort of place at the metal table. Of course, their alternative rock bend and penchant for half-time at a stuttering, deathcore crawl ensure that that place is not at the table of any traditional heavy metal sound. A seat hardly matters, though, when the crowd stands ready to jumpdafuckup with a drop and down-tuned chug. Can Jinjer’s fifth full-length Duél even hope to conquer the naysayers?
Yo, yo, yo, that’s a no, no, no—Jinjer hangs around, groove to the bone, unapologetic in dedication to their drop A riffcraft and tough guy build-ups. At the center of Duél—in case you’re not one of the ninety-million views of Jinjer’s breakout “Pisces” live performance—sits vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk’s one-woman alt croon to howling demon performance, both full in nasally rock control and bellowing in shredded throat prowess. Whether slathered with a Staley-tinged (Alice in Chains), Kittie-indebted sneer (“Tumbleweed,” “Someone’s Daughter”) or cranked with a scraggly, Otep-ian fervor (“Green Serpent,” “Dark Bile”), Shmayluk dominates the draw of memorability that Jinjer, and Duél, have to offer.
The reliance on Shmayluk’s charisma, however, has never felt quite as strong on other Jinjer outings as it does on Duél. While sliding scale riffs and heavy kit syncopation, particularly in well-placed chiming cymbal chatter, skew progressive in a brooding, fugal fashion (just about every melodic layer feels Baroque in inspiration), it’s the well-worn path of verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus that spells the battlefield on which Duél places its every piece. On older releases, Shmayluk and Jinjer have been a little more experimental in approach, both letting their native tongue provide an additional melancholy and allowing left-field influences (like reggae). But in an unwavering contrapuntal aggro-shuffle, Eugene Abdukhanov ensures that his bass prancing core propels each track forward. This Meshuggah-cadence, Tool-tricky possession shows in beautiful tapping runs scattered across slow-burn bridges and fading light outros. And while his fancy finger talents inspire routine closed-eye head bobs, they also too fall into service of a framing djentrified guitar drag or deathcore-leaning breakdown.
In an album as uniform as Duél, the details in production and pacing make or break the effectiveness of the hypnotic groove for which it aims. On the one hand, drummer Vladislav Ulasevich’s rhythmic choices—his dry and dampened snare, quick clanging cymbal accents—all live in service to frame Jinjer’s low-end stomp and swagger. However, in that same low-impact, woody plonk, no other sounds exist to compliment its unsatisfying tat-tat-tat, with only certain tracks that live in relentlessly driving mosh grooves or thrash-speed breaks (“Rogue,” “Fast Draw,” “Duél”) finding sufficient speed and brightness to feel like a fulfilling sonic mold. All too often, Jinjer leans on a droning, mid-paced lurch that has to work overtime to overcome auditory inertia. And though Shmayluk spends a higher percentage of Duél in a cleaner mode than past works, which is a mode that suits her and Jinjer well, the incessant urge for every song to force a hammy aggression—a classic death metal “BLEGH” even finding its way into “Hedonist”—into every other verse or bridge to comply to the Jinjer formula wears on the lesser tracks that slog about.
Familiarity can be frustrating. And for a band like Jinjer, the frequent trips down big riff lanes that sound a lot like their other work widens the gap between rippers and skippers. Duél sounds like Jinjer, which is an accomplishment in a genre amalgamation that boasts many more ill-advised backward hats than it does influential, legacy acts. However, good bands don’t necessarily always need to make good albums. Jinjer is a good band, and their own dramatic and skillful identity shines through in full force on a number of tracks that Duél hosts. But with eleven tracks that run in a narrow pool of lengths, a curated scope of execution, and at varying levels of quality within each iteration, it’s hard to call Duél a good album.
Rating: 2.5/5.0
DR: N/A | Format Reviewed: Stream1
Label: Napalm Records | Bandcamp
Websites: jinjer-metal.com | jinjer-jinjer.bandcamp.com
Releases Worldwide: February 7th, 2025Show 1 footnote
- Please, Napalm, stop doing this. It’s really unbecoming of you. ↩
#25 #2025 #AlternativeRock #Duel #Feb25 #GrooveMetal #Jinjer #Kittie #Meshuggah #Metalcore #NapalmRecords #NuMetal #Otep #ProgressiveGrooveMetal #Review #Reviews #Tool #UkrainianMetal
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CW: Tsukihime · Kohaku's route
Is... is Arihiko implied to be the other killer who SHIKI Tohno sends away in one of the first days?
He is very mysteriously absent from school in the following days, but the game never ends up exploring that.
Arihiko himself never appears later, only being mentioned by Shiki Nanaya in the epilogue to try to hide the fact he's going to visit Kohaku for a week...
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Happy Anniversary to AresMUSH! 🎂🎉
AresMUSH is a modern platform for creating and running multiplayer, collaborative writing games. It's free and open-source, too.
Learn more in this interview with Faraday, the developer behind AresMUSH:
https://writing-games.org/aresmush-next-gen-server/One of the things I like most about Faraday's story is that she persevered despite some early naysayers of the project. Glad she did!
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:headache:
Jesus H Fucking Christ on a pogo stick! The ignorance about Catherine's appearance is, indeed, appalling.
I got 8 rounds of methotrexate that went straight to my brain. This treatment was so hard on my body that I had to be hospitalized with every round. I puked. I shat my diapers.
Did I lose my hair?
Heck no!
Even when I had my stem cell transplant, I did not really "lose" my hair. I experienced a very partial loss, and then my hair merely stopped growing for a while.
Good for her if her treatment allows her to be in public, and to have a full head of hair.
The naysayers are worms, pure and simple! This is bullshit of the highest order.
:why:
#cancer #CancerSurvivor #chemo #StemCellTransplant #worms #bullshit
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Had anyone asked at the start of the year if I would find myself sharing a stage with the legendary Arthur Brown, let alone sharing a record label, then I would have laughed heartily at such a suggestion.
But it’s been a very strange year for SOLSTICE, one with too little laughter for my liking. Weathering a co-ordinated trial of malicious defamation and weaponised grudges, my bandmates and I have endured. Endeavours outside the band have also withstood associated sabotage, and my own work continues unabashed.
To that end, I want to thank all those who stand by us in private and in public; and especially Martin at Prophecy for his trust and support of the band despite the naysayers. Such a statement is proof itself that the accusations have no base in reality.
I shall also ‘thank’ those who joined in the dogpile, spewing petty online allegations in failed attempts to smear, then deleting their weasel words after the truth of things came to light. Their pseudo-pious virtue signalling, mewled from behind the cowardice of keyboards, has proved we are still very much a band worth talking about!
Both Solstice and WOLCENSMEN will play this year’s Prophecy Festival, and I look forward to what may come within the cave and without.
After many decades in and out of a handful of projects, it feels strange to be formally signed to a label as prestigious as Prophecy.
Does this mean I’m now a “professional” musician?
Solstice sign to Prophecy Productions
Prophecy Fest – Balver Höhle, Germany. September 5-7 2024
https://heathenstorm.com/2024/06/20/the-right-time-has-come/
#heavymetal #label #metal #music #prophecyproductions #signing #solstice #wolcensmen
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CW: #ukpol #nationalService
Dear candidates
I have become concerned that many members of a modern generation are becoming radicalized.
There are forces trying to divide our society in this increasingly uncertain world. Many of them have not had the opportunity to experience things outside their own blinded culturally impoverished tiny small minded horizons.
They need an opportunity that many of them have never had the chance at before.
Would you consider a policy to send this generation into national service?
It could just be one weekend a month, they could both give the nation a valuable service in return for their continued citizenship, and have experiences that would broaden their horizons and offer life changing opportunities to learn real world skills, and contribute to their community and our country.
Think of the renewed sense of national pride these people would feel knowing they belong to a country that can forcibly take time from their limited lives, and that they owe that country for it allowing them to live.
Naysayers may neigh that enforced service is a time-share enslavement of a whole generation but I say that these people are in danger of being radicalized and only putting them into enforced servitude for their country can possibly stop them hating it so much they destroy it's institutions in their incoherent rage.
So candidates, what do you say: Will you support a compulsory national service for all Baby Boomers, doing a few hours a week working at a gay-bar, or helping out at a gender dysphoria clinic, just something to broaden their narrow cynical view and prevent them being radicalized by extremists like the Conservative party spreading hate propaganda.
I'm not saying anyone would go to jail for refusing of course, they could just be transported to a safe third country. Or one that we define as safe at least.
Who will support an inquiry into the possibility of such a plan, at least just to get some headlines before the inquiry finds it's infeasible, unethical, appalling and legally indefensible.
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CW: #ukpol #nationalService
Dear candidates
I have become concerned that many members of a modern generation are becoming radicalized.
There are forces trying to divide our society in this increasingly uncertain world. Many of them have not had the opportunity to experience things outside their own blinded culturally impoverished tiny small minded horizons.
They need an opportunity that many of them have never had the chance at before.
Would you consider a policy to send this generation into national service?
It could just be one weekend a month, they could both give the nation a valuable service in return for their continued citizenship, and have experiences that would broaden their horizons and offer life changing opportunities to learn real world skills, and contribute to their community and our country.
Think of the renewed sense of national pride these people would feel knowing they belong to a country that can forcibly take time from their limited lives, and that they owe that country for it allowing them to live.
Naysayers may neigh that enforced service is a time-share enslavement of a whole generation but I say that these people are in danger of being radicalized and only putting them into enforced servitude for their country can possibly stop them hating it so much they destroy it's institutions in their incoherent rage.
So candidates, what do you say: Will you support a compulsory national service for all Baby Boomers, doing a few hours a week working at a gay-bar, or helping out at a gender dysphoria clinic, just something to broaden their narrow cynical view and prevent them being radicalized by extremists like the Conservative party spreading hate propaganda.
I'm not saying anyone would go to jail for refusing of course, they could just be transported to a safe third country. Or one that we define as safe at least.
Who will support an inquiry into the possibility of such a plan, at least just to get some headlines before the inquiry finds it's infeasible, unethical, appalling and legally indefensible.
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CW: #ukpol #nationalService
Dear candidates
I have become concerned that many members of a modern generation are becoming radicalized.
There are forces trying to divide our society in this increasingly uncertain world. Many of them have not had the opportunity to experience things outside their own blinded culturally impoverished tiny small minded horizons.
They need an opportunity that many of them have never had the chance at before.
Would you consider a policy to send this generation into national service?
It could just be one weekend a month, they could both give the nation a valuable service in return for their continued citizenship, and have experiences that would broaden their horizons and offer life changing opportunities to learn real world skills, and contribute to their community and our country.
Think of the renewed sense of national pride these people would feel knowing they belong to a country that can forcibly take time from their limited lives, and that they owe that country for it allowing them to live.
Naysayers may neigh that enforced service is a time-share enslavement of a whole generation but I say that these people are in danger of being radicalized and only putting them into enforced servitude for their country can possibly stop them hating it so much they destroy it's institutions in their incoherent rage.
So candidates, what do you say: Will you support a compulsory national service for all Baby Boomers, doing a few hours a week working at a gay-bar, or helping out at a gender dysphoria clinic, just something to broaden their narrow cynical view and prevent them being radicalized by extremists like the Conservative party spreading hate propaganda.
I'm not saying anyone would go to jail for refusing of course, they could just be transported to a safe third country. Or one that we define as safe at least.
Who will support an inquiry into the possibility of such a plan, at least just to get some headlines before the inquiry finds it's infeasible, unethical, appalling and legally indefensible.
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CW: #ukpol #nationalService
Dear candidates
I have become concerned that many members of a modern generation are becoming radicalized.
There are forces trying to divide our society in this increasingly uncertain world. Many of them have not had the opportunity to experience things outside their own blinded culturally impoverished tiny small minded horizons.
They need an opportunity that many of them have never had the chance at before.
Would you consider a policy to send this generation into national service?
It could just be one weekend a month, they could both give the nation a valuable service in return for their continued citizenship, and have experiences that would broaden their horizons and offer life changing opportunities to learn real world skills, and contribute to their community and our country.
Think of the renewed sense of national pride these people would feel knowing they belong to a country that can forcibly take time from their limited lives, and that they owe that country for it allowing them to live.
Naysayers may neigh that enforced service is a time-share enslavement of a whole generation but I say that these people are in danger of being radicalized and only putting them into enforced servitude for their country can possibly stop them hating it so much they destroy it's institutions in their incoherent rage.
So candidates, what do you say: Will you support a compulsory national service for all Baby Boomers, doing a few hours a week working at a gay-bar, or helping out at a gender dysphoria clinic, just something to broaden their narrow cynical view and prevent them being radicalized by extremists like the Conservative party spreading hate propaganda.
I'm not saying anyone would go to jail for refusing of course, they could just be transported to a safe third country. Or one that we define as safe at least.
Who will support an inquiry into the possibility of such a plan, at least just to get some headlines before the inquiry finds it's infeasible, unethical, appalling and legally indefensible.
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CW: #ukpol #nationalService
Dear candidates
I have become concerned that many members of a modern generation are becoming radicalized.
There are forces trying to divide our society in this increasingly uncertain world. Many of them have not had the opportunity to experience things outside their own blinded culturally impoverished tiny small minded horizons.
They need an opportunity that many of them have never had the chance at before.
Would you consider a policy to send this generation into national service?
It could just be one weekend a month, they could both give the nation a valuable service in return for their continued citizenship, and have experiences that would broaden their horizons and offer life changing opportunities to learn real world skills, and contribute to their community and our country.
Think of the renewed sense of national pride these people would feel knowing they belong to a country that can forcibly take time from their limited lives, and that they owe that country for it allowing them to live.
Naysayers may neigh that enforced service is a time-share enslavement of a whole generation but I say that these people are in danger of being radicalized and only putting them into enforced servitude for their country can possibly stop them hating it so much they destroy it's institutions in their incoherent rage.
So candidates, what do you say: Will you support a compulsory national service for all Baby Boomers, doing a few hours a week working at a gay-bar, or helping out at a gender dysphoria clinic, just something to broaden their narrow cynical view and prevent them being radicalized by extremists like the Conservative party spreading hate propaganda.
I'm not saying anyone would go to jail for refusing of course, they could just be transported to a safe third country. Or one that we define as safe at least.
Who will support an inquiry into the possibility of such a plan, at least just to get some headlines before the inquiry finds it's infeasible, unethical, appalling and legally indefensible.
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@6G @escarpment @rameshgupta @benroyce lifelong Democrat here, #Biden2024 , and I would've said that, generally, the left *includes* the views of the right. At least in a #dialectic sense.
But I no longer have that view.
If Trump has done one thing, he's upended what the GOP is and stands for. If anything at all.
At this point, I'd say that my party is decidedly illeberal and that the GOP is totally lost and can only naysay.
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"And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock." (Matthew 7:25 ESV)
But these rich naysayers heeded not the good word, so their money has been washed away.
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #BibleStudy #BibleVerseOfTheDay
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Indigenous communities lead fight to stop illicit mining in Loreto that is poisoning the water and destroying its forests
Although there have been few studies on levels of contamination in Loreto’s waters, researchers farther south in Peru’s Madre de Dios region have been able to document the widespread and severe impacts of artisanal mining on local livelihoods and the environment.
Corine Vriesendorp, an ecologist at the Field Museum in Chicago and director of its Andes-Amazon programme, says: “Mercury is showing up in the leaves of canopy trees and the bodies of howler monkeys,” adding that the metal “quickly becomes pervasive and has real human-health impacts.”
Vriesendorp believes the proliferation of illegal mining in Nanay shows how complex the situation has become.
“It is in the back yard of Iquitos, which is where the regional government is, and the fact that they have not been able to control it, recognising that it is fundamental for the wellbeing of everyone who lives there, suggests this is a massive challenge,” she says.In Allpahuayo-Mishana national reserve, which MAAP says has also been affected by illegal mining, #Sernanp, Peru’s authority for protected natural areas, has trained park rangers in surveillance and other conservation strategies to prevent illegal mining.
Herman Ruíz Abecasis, the reserve’s director, says:
“We have been supporting joint actions to fight against illegal mining on the Nanay River, providing the necessary support within our institutional reach.”Peru’s melting glaciers bring new harvests – and fears for the future
During an environmental summit in August, Peru’s president, Dina Boluarte, and the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, agreed to protect the Amazon and its Indigenous inhabitants from the climate crisis, ecological devastation and crime.
At the end of the two-day meeting, Amazonian leaders signed the 🔸 Belém Declaration🔸, which includes a commitment to combat illegal mining and strengthen regional and international cooperation. However, critics said the declaration was much weaker than hoped.
“This is a force that is totally beyond what governments are capable of taking on and what local people are taking on,” Vriesendorp says.
“Drugs, arms, timber and other illegal economies in the Amazon tend to be quite connected, and they are run by armed groups and actors. It’s very hard as an individual, whether you are a park guard or community president, to take those things on. We have to attack the root drivers of this demand.”
(2/2)
#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 -
‘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 -
Victoria's container deposit scheme offers 10 cent refund on eligible containers
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-01/container-deposit-scheme-launches-in-victoria-bottles-cans/103044050Finally, Victoria is falling into line with most other states in Australia, after years of delays and naysayers.
#AusPol #VicPol #Recycling #Environment #ContainerDepositScheme
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Victoria's container deposit scheme offers 10 cent refund on eligible containers
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-01/container-deposit-scheme-launches-in-victoria-bottles-cans/103044050Finally, Victoria is falling into line with most other states in Australia, after years of delays and naysayers.
#AusPol #VicPol #Recycling #Environment #ContainerDepositScheme
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Victoria's container deposit scheme offers 10 cent refund on eligible containers
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-01/container-deposit-scheme-launches-in-victoria-bottles-cans/103044050Finally, Victoria is falling into line with most other states in Australia, after years of delays and naysayers.
#AusPol #VicPol #Recycling #Environment #ContainerDepositScheme
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Victoria's container deposit scheme offers 10 cent refund on eligible containers
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-01/container-deposit-scheme-launches-in-victoria-bottles-cans/103044050Finally, Victoria is falling into line with most other states in Australia, after years of delays and naysayers.
#AusPol #VicPol #Recycling #Environment #ContainerDepositScheme