#Chile and central china too

[sweet-potato-42]

cool fun fact for sunday

East Asia and South of South America are Antipodes meaning that they are in completely opposite points on the globe.

This means that when Acau joins we will have ccs in oppolise places playing together. People who physically could not be further away from each other.

The ones in buenos aires would be the furthest but i doubt Carre will play so I think cellbit or bagi are next. (idk where exactly they live but I'm pretty sure they come from the south of brazil)

Here is a map of the world showing antipodes. The areas in orange are perfectly opposite to each other.

[milfstalin]

By 1965, the PKI had three million party members – adding a million members in the year. It had emerged as a serious political force in Indonesia, despite the anti-communist military’s attempts to squelch its growth. Membership in its mass organizations went up to 18 million. A strange incident – the killing of three generals in Jakarta – set off a massive campaign, helped along by the CIA and Australian intelligence, to excise the communists from Indonesia. Mass murder was the order of the day. The worst killings were in East Java and in Bali. Colonel Sarwo Edhie’s forces, for instance, trained militia squads to kill communists. ‘We gave them two or three days’ training,’ Sarwo Edhie told journalist John Hughes, ‘then sent them out to kill the communists.’ In East Java, one eyewitness recounted, the prisoners were forced to dig a grave, then ‘one by one, they were beaten with bamboo clubs, their throats slit, and they were pushed into the mass grave’. By the end of the massacre, a million Indonesian men and women of the left were sent to these graves. Many millions more were isolated, without work and friends. Aidit was arrested by Colonel Yasir Hadibroto, brought to Boyolali (in Central Java) and executed. He was 42. There was no way for the world communist movement to protect their Indonesian comrades. The USSR’s reaction was tepid. The Chinese called it a ‘heinous and diabolical’ crime. But neither the USSR nor China could do anything. The United Nations stayed silent. The PKI had decided to take a path that was without the guns. Its cadre could not defend themselves. They were not able to fight the military and the anti-communist gangs. It was a bloodbath.

Red Star Over the Third World Vijay Prashad, November 2017

The fourth way that anticommunist extermination programs shaped the world is that they deformed the world socialist movement. Many of the global left-wing groups that did survive the twentieth century decided that they had to employ violence and jealously guard power or face annihilation. When they saw the mass murders taking place in these countries, it changed them. Maybe US citizens weren’t paying close attention to what happened in Guatemala, or Indonesia. But other leftists around the world definitely were watching. When the world’s largest Communist Party without an army or dictatorial control of a country was massacred, one by one, with no consequences for the murderers, many people around the world drew lessons from this, with serious consequences. This was another very difficult question I had to ask my interview subjects, especially the leftists from Southeast Asia and Latin America. When we would get to discussing the old debates between peaceful and armed revolution; between hardline Marxism and democratic socialism, I would ask: “Who was right?” In Guatemala, was it Árbenz or Che who had the right approach? Or in Indonesia, when Mao warned Aidit that the PKI should arm themselves, and they did not? In Chile, was it the young revolutionaries in the MIR who were right in those college debates, or the more disciplined, moderate Chilean Communist Party? Most of the people I spoke with who were politically involved back then believed fervently in a nonviolent approach, in gradual, peaceful, democratic change. They often had no love for the systems set up by people like Mao. But they knew that their side had lost the debate, because so many of their friends were dead. They often admitted, without hesitation or pleasure, that the hardliners had been right. Aidit’s unarmed party didn’t survive. Allende’s democratic socialism was not allowed, regardless of the détente between the Soviets and Washington. Looking at it this way, the major losers of the twentieth century were those who believed too sincerely in the existence a liberal international order, those who trusted too much in democracy, or too much in what the United States said it supported, rather than what it really supported—what the rich countries said, rather than what they did. That group was annihilated.

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade & The Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World Vincent Bevins, 2020

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If I missed your country, I don’t care. I’m too tired to care.

[articalextraordinaire]

hi guys, sorry for dying lmao. anyways... do you guys want some ninjago ethnic and cultural headcanons??? (theyre almost all east/south/southeast asian btw // srry if u wanted more central/western asian rep.. caucasus dont count theyre too european /hj)

Arin: y'know the fact that there's like a ton of different tribes in papua new guinea? yeah, maybe one of those but i don't wanna be disrespectful so i'll do more research first before fully commiting. other thoughts are timorese or other indigenous groups from/near eastern indonesia.

Sora: look at those cat ears and try to tell me that she is NOT japanese. just- cmon man. plus, imperium is like a futuristic imperial japan or a futuristic version of that time the tokugawa family was in charge and locked down the country.

Lloyd (as well as the entire FSM bloodline): either tibetian or bhutanese. FSM just gives some budhist vibes so yeah. this isnt going to be about religion but religion does kind of affect ethnicity and culture so it does have a very minor role in making these headcanons. nepali works too but nepal is kinda nore hindu so yeah..

Kai and Nya: indomalay. mostly the indo part.. like- cmon, fire and water, indonesia is an archipelago with a shit ton of volcanoes (philippines too but we'll get there, sandali lang muna ;) ) i cant get into specifics cuz im not too well-researched but yeah. also, vibes 👌

Zane: siberian or he's from one of the islands extremely north of japan that japan and russia keep on disputing over. purely because of geography and ✨vibes✨

Cole: mixed black latino-filipino. as a filipino myself i wanted to make someone filipino =). since a lotta people were making cole black, i thought that i might as well make him mixed <3. plus, the philippines is also a former spanish colony so it just makes sense. if you want a more specific country, either colombia or the dominican republic are cool. not very well-researched on the different latin american countries so if anyone wants to tell me the most appropriate country for cole pls let me know 🥰.

Jay: umm, i sorta have a dillema over this. im thinking either korean or he's from somewhere in the gobi desert like mongolia or inner mongolia (its a province in china btw). korean bc the entertainment and beauty industry as well as the student and work culture kinda fit him. but somewhere in the gobi desert is nice bc the desert is where he grew up. maybe he's korean but grew up in a mongolian-chinese environment but yeah, im not too sure about him 🤷‍♀️. im leaning more towards korean but yeah, not sure.

Wyldfyre: i um... this was very hard. first of all, she's not gonna be asian since i couldn't find a good enough area in asia and well, im pretty sure she's not from ninjago so she doesn't have to be asian. so, i got maori in northern new zealand but 1. i know nothing about the maori people 2. it might be disrespectful to portray them like that. and 3. er, the geography is kinda off. where she grew up looks very desert-y and volcanic. i think a more suitable reigon is in south america towards the coast like peru or chile but um i know even less about the those reigions than new zealand. plus, it has the same first 2 problems i listed earlier. (yes im ignoring her clothes for these headcanons srry guys my brain loves topography too much) TLDR; idk man shes too hard to sort out lol. it adds more to her mystery and chaotic energy anyway so yeah.

if u know more abt latin american countries, pls give me pointers so that i can have more accurate headcanons for cole and wyldfyre. i can do my own research for kai, nya, and arin but any help with that is also very much appreciated 👍. peace ✌️

(this is what happens when u become a geography nerd... im not at my full potential yet bc my latin american knowledge and all of africa knowledge sucks. but yeah. bye fr this timeee)

[actualbird]

John Milton is an entry in Big Data Lab and it explicitly notes that he wrote Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, two works specifically about the Bible. This means that not only is Christianity a religion that exists in the TOT universe, the Roman Empire also existed in the TOT universe.

Likewise, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is also on BDL, which means Brad Pitt exists in the TOT universe :)

irt adam sandler-san in tot ask response

oh this tickled my fancy because not only does christianity and the roman empire exist in tot, but also SPANISH COLONIZATION. because of the existence of Pablo Neruda, luke and mc's favorite poet, this implies Chile exists which implies Spanish Colonization happened. Neruda works also have sprinklings of colonialism awareness and connection so theres that too

also, to add onto the bible existing in tot, luke specifically recognizes a quote from the bible in his blossom chapter personal 2 story, towards the end, where they go to a church to look for another one of his belongings from his special box

with so much of the real world present in tot it really just gives off the impression that stellis is an extra country in the real world. what, with how many Real World countries have also been mentioned to exist in tot, like Egypt, France, and China among them. but theyre also existing along with all the FICTIONAL places like Central, Svart, Bakerlon, Skadi....just.......

THERES A LOT GOING ON. many if not all things that exist irl are tangentially shown to exist in tot too

tot has a 6D theatre btw. what the hell are the other 2Ds????????

[sinisterspinsteralights]

Reading Around the World

So I'm attempting to read a book from every country, and this is where I'm currently up to. I'll try and update it as I go along, and maybe write a few reviews. Would love any recommendations too, as you can see I have a very long way to go!

(Note: I'm aiming for a book written by someone who was born in each country, but where that proves difficult - suspect Vatican City might cause issues! - I'll go with books about a country. Similarly, if borders have changed, so far I've generally been going with the country that the town or city where the person was born is currently in. I'm aware that's very arbitrary, but it's just so I have some parameters to follow really. I might not always get it right or be super strict.)

(Also, if some of the choices seem a bit odd, it's because I'm kinda cheating and including a couple of books I read before starting the challenge, going back way too many years to uni, various book clubs etc.)

Afghanistan: 40 Names, by Parwana Fayyaz (poetry)

Albania:

Algeria: The Stranger, by Albert Camus (fiction)

Andorra:

Angola:

Antigua and Barbuda: A Small Place, by Jamaica Kincaid (non-fiction)

Argentina: Mouthful of Birds, by Samanta Schweblin; Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (both fiction)

Armenia:

Australia: Black Juice, by Margo Lanagan (fiction)

Austria: Franz Kafka and Prague, by Harald Salfellner (non-fiction)

Azerbaijan:

Bahamas:

Bahrain:

Bangladesh:

Barbados: Rituals for Life, by Isla Macleod (non-fiction); The Island of Forgetting, by Jasmine Sealy (fiction)

Belarus:

Belgium:

Belize:

Benin:

Bhutan: Bhutanese Tales of the Yeti, by Künzang Choden (folk tales)

Bolivia:

Bosnia and Herzegovina:

Botswana: The Careless Seamstress, by Tjawangwa Dema (poetry)

Brazil: Multitudinous Heart by Carlos Drummond de Andrade (poetry)

Brunei: I Am Not Your Eve, by Devika Ponnambalam (fiction)

Bulgaria: Everything Happens As It Does, by Albena Stambolova (fiction)

Burkina Faso:

Burundi:

Cabo Verde:

Cambodia:

Cameroon:

Canada: Lady Oracle, by Margaret Atwood (fiction)

Central African Republic:

Chad:

Chile: Nazi Literature in the Americas, by Robert Bolaño (fiction)

China: Soul Mountain, by Gao Xingjian (fiction)

Colombia: Strange Pilgrims, by Gabriel Garcia Márquez (fiction)

Comoros:

Congo (Cong-Brazzaville): Broken Glass, by Alain Mabanckou (fiction)

Costa Rica:

Côte d'Ivoire:

Croatia: Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, by Dubravka Ugrešić (fiction)

Cuba:

Cyprus: The Maidens, by Alex Michaelides (fiction)

Czechia (Czech Republic): The Castle, by Franz Kafka (fiction)

Democratic Republic of Congo:

Denmark: Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow, by Peter Hoeg (fiction)

Djibouti:

Dominica: Good Morning, Midnight, by Jean Rhys (fiction)

Dominican Republic:

Ecuador: Jawbone, by Mónica Ojeda (fiction)

Eygpt:

El Salvador:

Equatorial Guinea:

Eritrea: Nomenclatures of Invisibility, by Mahtem Shiferraw (poetry)

Estonia: Walker on Water, by Kristiina Ehim (fiction)

Eswatini:

Ethiopia:

Fiji:

Finland: Moominland Midwinter, by Tove Jansson (fiction)

France: The Practice of Everyday Life, by Michel de Certeau (non-fiction), Bonjour Tristesse, by François Sagan (fiction)

Gabon:

Gambia: Reading the Ceiling, by Dayo Forster (fiction)

Georgia:

Germany: Vertigo, by W. G. Sebald (fiction)

Ghana:

Greece:

Grenada:

Guatemala: A Mayan Life, by Gaspar Pedro González (fiction)

Guinea:

Guinea-Bissau:

Guyana: My Bones and My Flute, by Edgar Mittelholzer (fiction)

Haiti:

Holy See:

Honduras:

Hungary:

Iceland: I Remember You, by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (fiction)

India: Capitalism: A Ghost Story, by Arundhati Roy (non-fiction)

Indonesia: Apple and Knife, by Intan Paramaditha (fiction)

Iran: Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi (graphic novel / memoir)

Iraq:

Ireland: Dubliners, by James Joyce; The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen (both fiction)

Israel: Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World, by Iddo Landau (non-fiction)

Italy: Adam, One Afternoon, by Italo Calvino (fiction)

Jamaica: Skin Folk, by Nalo Hopkinson (fiction)

Japan: The Diving Pool, by Yoko Ogawa (fiction)

Jordan:

Kazakhstan: Amanat - Women's Writing from Kazakhstan, editors Zaure Batayeva and Shelley Fairweather-Vega (mostly fiction)

Kenya: We Are the Water People, by Troy Onyango (fiction)

Kiribati:

Kuwait:

Kyrgyzstan: The Railway, by Hamid Ismailov (fiction)

Laos: Mother's Beloved, by Outhine Bounyavong (fiction)

Latvia: Insomnia, by Alberts Bels (fiction)

Lebanon: The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran (fiction)

Lesotho:

Liberia:

Libya:

Liechtenstein:

Lithuania:

Luxembourg:

Madagascar:

Malawi:

Malaysia:

Maldives:

Mali:

Malta:

Marshall Islands: Iep Jāltok - Poems from a Marshallese Daughter, by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner (poetry)

Mauritania:

Mauritius: Riambel, by Priya Hein (fiction)

Mexico:

Micronesia:

Moldova: Set in Stone, by Stela Brinzeanu (fiction)

Monaco:

Mongolia:

Montenegro: The Red Cockerel, by Miodrag Bulatovia (fiction)

Morrocco:

Mozambique:

Myanmar (former Burma):

Namibia:

Nauru:

Nepal: Mad Country, by Samrat Upadhyay (fiction)

Netherlands:

New Zealand: Potiki, by Patricia Grace (fiction)

Nicaragua:

Niger:

Nigeria: The Thing Around Your Neck, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (fiction)

North Korea:

North Macedonia:

Norway: The Christmas Mystery, by Jostein Gaarder (fiction)

Oman: Bitter Orange Tree, by Jokha Alharthi (fiction)

Pakistan: Best of Friends, by Kamila Shamsie (fiction)

Palau:

Palastine:

Panama:

Papau New Guinea: Cultural Refugees, by Julie Mota (poetry)

Paraguay:

Peru: Death in the Andes, by Mario Vargas Llosa (fiction)

Phillippines:

Poland:

Portugal: I Have More Souls Than One, Fernando Pessoa (poetry)

Qatar:

Romania:

Russia: The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov (fiction)

Rwanda: Our Lady of the Nile, by Scholastique Mukasonga (fiction)

Saint Kitts and Nevis:

Saint Lucia:

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:

Samoa:

San Marino:

Sao Tome and Principe:

Saudi Arabia:

Senegal:

Serbia: The Cyclist Conspiracy, by Svetislav Basara (fiction)

Seychelles:

Sierra Leone:

Singapore: Ponti, by Sharlene Tao (fiction)

Slovakia: The Equestrienne, by Ursula Kovalyk (fiction)

Slovenia: Violence, by Slavoj Žižek (non fiction)

Solomon Islands:

Somalia:

South Africa: The Good Doctor, by Damon Galgut (fiction)

South Korea: Flowers of Mold & Other Stories, by Seong-nan Ha (fiction)

South Sudan:

Spain: Nada, by Carmen Laforet (fiction)

Sri Lanka: Chinaman, by Shehan Karuntilaka (fiction)

Sudan: Seasons of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih (fiction)

Suriname:

Sweden: Swedish Christmas, by Ewert Cagner et al (mostly non fiction)

Switzerland: The Undiscovered Self, by Carl Jung (non-fiction)

Syria:

Tajikistan:

Tanzania:

Thailand:

Timor-Leste:

Togo:

Tonga:

Trinidad and Tobago:

Tunisia:

Turkey: Snow, by Orhan Pamuk (fiction)

Turkmenistan:

Tuvalu:

Uganda: Manchester Happened, by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (fiction)

Ukraine: The Overcoat, by Nikolai Gogol; Daydreams and Drunkeness of a Young Lady, Clarice Lispector (both fiction)

United Arab Emirates:

United Kingdom: Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen (fiction)

United States of America: We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson (fiction)

Uruguay: The Decapitated Chicken, by Horacio Quiroga (fiction)

Uzbekistan:

Vanuatu:

Venezuela:

Vietnam: Reconciliation, by Thich Nhat Hanh (non-fiction)

Yemen:

Zambia: Will Williams, by Namwali Serpell (fiction)

Zimbabwe: Nervous Conditions, by Tsitsi Dangarembga (fiction)

[ama2024]

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[indiejones]

INDIES TOP 250 MOST SPIRITUAL NATIONS/REGIONS ON EARTH !

(NOTE: Apart from the 196 officially recognized independent nations on earth, this list also includes the recognized ‘dependant areas’ of the world too, officially controlled by other nations not geographically connected).

(In short, at a collective level, this is seen as a combination of 'divine feminine power' & 'wise man power' meter!)

.Tibet

.Israel

.Bhutan

.Saudi Arabia

.Russia

.Romania

.Greenland

.Turkey

.Thailand

.Austria

.North Korea

.Afghanistan

.China

.Belgium

.Belarus

.Lebanon

.Iran

.Japan

.Turkmenistan

.Bosnia and Herzegovina

.Germany

.Georgia

.Vietnam

.Argentina

.Poland

.Finland

.Greece

.Saint Helena

.Iceland

.Monaco

.Seychelles

.Iraq

.Maldives

.Libya

.Brazil

.Singapore

.Ukraine

.El Salvador

.San Marino

.Syria

.Indonesia

.Uruguay

.Bermuda

.Sierra Leone

.Belize

.Pakistan

.Northern Mariana Islands

.Lesotho

.Benin

.Dominica

.Venezuela

.Suriname

.Lithuania

.Pitcairn Islands

.Serbia

.Curacao

.Palau

.Guinea-Bissau

.Croatia

.Equatorial Guinea

.Cuba

.Niue

.Nigeria

.Netherlands Antilles

.East Timor

.Ecuador

.Estonia

.Paraguay

.Portugal

.Kiribati

.Denmark

.Tajikistan

.Ivory Coast

.Kyrgyzstan

.Samoa

.Yemen

.France

.Falkland Islands

.Burundi

.Swaziland

.Gabon

.Cameroon

.Western Sahara

.Sao Tome and Principe

.Oman

.Eritrea

.French Guiana

.Anguilla

.Reunion Island

.Costa Rica

.Czech Republic

.Honduras

.Niger

.Guyana

.French Polynesia

.Jordan

.Fiji

.Cook Islands

.Bahamas

.Italy

.Nicaragua

.Cyprus

.Grenada

.Uzbekistan

.Puerto Rico

.Kazakhstan

.Guatemala

.Guinea

.Holy See/ Vatican City State

.Palestine

.West Bank

.US Virgin Islands

.Antarctica

.Guam

.Peru

.Ashmore and Cartier Islands

.Kosovo

.Tonga

.Switzerland

.Luxembourg

.French Southern Territories

.British Virgin Islands

.Saint Kitts and Nevis

.Netherlands

.Lao

.Hungary

.Jan Mayen

.South Korea

.Trinidad and Tobago

.Zimbabwe

.Saint Lucia

.Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

.Cocos (Keeling) Islands

.Sweden

.Congo (Brazzaville)

.Slovakia

.Antigua & Barbuda

.Nepal

.Combodia

.Wallis and Futuna Islands

.Aruba

.England

.Scotland

.Jamaica

.Macau

.Bouvet Island

.Uganda

.Madagascar

.Chile

.Slovenia

.Ireland

.Algeria

.Bassas da India

.Qatar

.Cayman Islands

.Papua New Guinea

.Haiti

.Hong Kong

.Rwanda

.Norway

.Dominican Republic

.Kenya

.Liechtenstein

.Guadeloupe

.Gibraltar

.Azerbaijan

.Faroe Islands

.Barbados

.South Africa

.Philippines

.Akrotiri

.Tokelau

.South Sudan

.Sudan

.Djibouti

.Solomon Islands

.Christmas Island

.Zambia

.Bolivia

.Congo (Kinshasa)

.Bahrain

.Tunisia

.Togo

.San Marino

.New Caledonia

.Malawi

.Spratly Islands

.Albania

.Central African Republic

.Colombia

.Bulgaria

.Armenia

.Spain

.The Gambia

.Tanzania

.Ghana

.Cape Verde

.Senegal

.Burkina Faso

.Vanuatu

.North Macedonia

.Egypt

.Angola

.Bangladesh

.Latvia

.American Samoa

.Andorra

.Turks & Caicos Islands

.Comoros

.Tokelau

.Brunei Darussalam

.Coral Sea Islands

.Panama

.Botswana

.Sri Lanka

.Tuvalu

.Montserrat

.Baker Island

.South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

.Isle Of Man

.Malaysia

.Heard and McDonald Islands

.Guernsey

.Johnson Atoll

.Sint Maarten

.Svalbard

.Norfolk Island

.Kuwait

.Australia

.Paracel Islands

.Palmyra Atoll

.Taiwan

.Ethiopia

.Midway Islands

.Navassa Island

.New Zealand

.Jersey (Channel) Island

.Wake Island

.Jarvis Island

.Howland Island

.Montserrat

.Liberia

.Northern Mariana Islands

.India (Was No. 1 - 2200 yrs ago, & No. 12- 1000 yrs ago! But from 1000 AD-1100 AD, India slided ~230 places to reach & consistently thereon stay in & around, the bottom 10 nations, incl tiny to v.tiny island-nations, of this world, in spirituality!)

.British Indian Ocean Territory

.United States of America (USA)

.Kingman Reef

.Canada

.United Arab Emirates (UAE) .

[twf2020]

Agro-biodiversity for food security in vulnerable landscapes: a case of Western Himalaya

The term biodiversity usually brings to mind a vivacious collage of animals in the backdrop of pristine wildernesses such as a courtship display by the birds of paradise in Papa New Guinea; the epic migration in the Serengeti; the boisterous howling of new world monkeys inhabiting Latin American rainforests; darting schools of iridescent fish in the Great Barrier Reefs and so on. However, most people are unaware of the role of agro-biodiversity.

Biodiversity doesn’t often bring to mind agricultural farms fielding an assortment of food crops, grains, vegetables, cereals and fruits. If it does, then you may pat yourself on the back because that is absolutely spot on! Variety amongst crops and vegetables also constitutes biodiversity and it plays a crucial role in sustaining farming livelihoods and supporting the food demands of the growing populace across the world.

Throughout history, the development of most food crops can be credited to ethnic communities who have carefully selected and cultivated diverse plant variants for consumption from wild plants over several generations. These wild plants have been gradually domesticated keeping in mind their suitability for cultivation across different soil types, climate patterns, nutritional benefits, and tastes.

Ethnobotanists studying the origin of crops have thus identified centres of agricultural diversity across the world namely, Central America; Latin America, mainly Ecuador, Peru and Chile; North Africa and the Mediterranean; Ethiopia and surrounding parts of East Africa; the Middle East; Eastern China; Southeast Asia; Penisular regions of the Indian subcontinent; and the Western Himalaya 1,2. These hotspots of agro-biodiversity have quite literally acted as gardens of Eden for humans to identify, isolate and breed cultivars of food crops throughout history.

Industrial Farming is reducing agro-biodiversity

However in the last century, to prioritize yield and generate surplus food to promote industrialization and rapid economic growth, food production systems have undergone a tremendous change towards intensive monocropping systems using genetically modified high-yielding varieties on large swathes of land that require capital-intensive inputs such as irrigation channels; mechanised tillage and harvesting; and fertiliser and pesticidal inputs.

This is reflected in the fact that although over 2,400 varieties of edible plants are known; about 20 or so dominate current agricultural land use and form the majority of human diet across the globe today 3. Such a tumultuous advancement in agricultural systems has been adopted throughout the world save for some remote regions such as the Western Ghats of India, the Satoyama landscapes in Japan, the Milpa cultivation systems in Mexico, traditional village systems in Eastern Europe and South-western China’s terrace landscapes 4. Here, traditional farming practices have remained the same or changed comparatively little over a long time.

Traditional agriculture in the Western Himalaya

Farming in the Western Himalaya too has been mostly shielded from such trends of agricultural modernization. This is because mountainous terrains are characterised by topographic constraints such as small landholdings, the unfeasibility of irrigational infrastructure, poor transport networks and lower soil productivity. Due to contiguous undulations, elevation changes rapidly over short aerial distances leading to greater variability in climate, edaphic profiles and the resultant vegetation.

Traditional farmers cultivating wheat and barley in Pithoragarh district, Uttarakhand.

Challenges of Mountainous Communities

Mountainous communities have long since adapted to these limitations by developing traditional agricultural systems and appropriate farming behaviours such as terrace/step cultivation of a diverse group of rain-fed, multipurpose, and native varieties aimed at sustenance-based livelihoods. Farmers here do not cultivate two or three crops aimed for commercial sale; rather they grow a diverse assortment of crops in mixed and inter-cropping systems.

This is due to poor access to markets which makes commerce difficult and so, farmers have to source different components of their diet from their farms directly. Another crucial adaptation is that they not only cultivate different native crops, but also diverse varieties of the same crop called landrace6.

Landraces are native varieties of a crop that have beneficial morphological and physiological traits such as crop height, inflorescence length, grain size, grain per inflorescence, maturation period, and taste. These landraces have been reared by the farmers through meticulous selective breeding of indigenous crops facilitated by proximity to their wild counterparts. They often have superior qualities such as resistance to disease; tolerance toward pests; resilience to environmental stresses; additional nutritional benefits; better taste; higher water use efficiency; and many more. They are also cultivated to be multipurpose such as supplementing fodder requirements for livestock in addition to providing grain.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5xCrONxpCYs7c0jKk6RCZu?si=tBmVnPUKQx2E3DIINeo1OQ

The Agro-Biodiversity of the Western Himalayas

The Western Himalayan region is an agro-biodiversity hotspot and a vast diversity of crops are cultivated here, from standard cereals like wheat, rice, maize and barley; to pulses such as black gram, horse gram, lentil, black-eyes peas (no, it’s not just the name of a band); oilseeds such as sesame and mustard; pseudocereals such as amaranth, naked barley and buckwheat; an array of millets such as foxtail, barnyard, pearl and hog millets; and many more 7. This is in addition to numerous vegetables and fruits and one could go on listing them endlessly.

Even within crops, the diversity is bewildering from hundreds of landrace varieties amongst paddy (rice) alone! Similarly, there are dozens of landraces amongst wheat, finger millet, and maize recorded at present and there could be many more that have remained undocumented. The hundreds of varieties of paddy in the Western Himalayan region show diversity in land use such as variants suited to rain-fed or irrigated land.

Such variants could be of use in building climate-resilient varieties in water-stressed regions such as Marathwada in Central India. Variations amongst landraces also exist in scent, husk, kernel length, grain length, colour, and taste which could have important commercial implications. Some varieties also hold religious value being used as offerings while others have been bred by farmers to maximize fodder biomass by selecting varieties with longer shoots.

Variety is crucial

Similarly, there are paddy varieties with stalks containing high cellulose and protein but low lignin content to enrich the nutrient value and ease the digestibility of the dry stalk for use as fodder 7. Such adaptations are pivotal in a region where seasonal feed availability for livestock is limited and could alleviate such issues elsewhere.

Crop depredation by Rhesus macaques in Himalaya is a frequent source of conflict.

The Role of Millet Based Diets

The Himalayan region also has a rich history of traditional millet-based diets, both greater and small millets including foxtail, barnyard, hog and pearl millets. Millet crops cover a wider base of nutrition having relatively higher profiles of protein, Vitamin A, minerals, and fibre as compared to other cereals whilst also being resilient to climate variability as they have meagre water requirements 8.

They are more suited to organic farming and can give modest yet sustainable yields even during sustained dry periods or delayed rains. Their importance in addressing hidden hunger (micronutrient deficiency) amongst women and children has been greatly stressed by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) 9. The above examples underline the significance of crop and landrace diversification as a crucial strategy to sustain food security and self-sufficiency in resource-limited regions, particularly in the context of climate-influenced yield unpredictability.

Reasons for concern and the way forward

Unfortunately, traditional agricultural systems both in the Himalaya and elsewhere in the world are on a decline. The influence of globalisation and the allure of cash income has permeated into these remote regions as well. Concerns regarding the rising popularity of cash crops loom as they seem to have a direct consequence on the decline in native crop diversity and landraces.

A shift towards cash crop cultivation comprising of monocropping of potato, soybean and high-yielding varieties of rice and wheat will gradually dilute traditional crop diversity and their landraces. Unlike modern varieties, seeds for traditional landraces are borne out of previous years’ produce. Therefore, years of successful cultivation of modern varieties contribute towards the permanent extinction of landraces as farmers no longer have access to their viable seeds and there is a dearth of markets catering to their preservation.

Unpredictable Climates prove chaotic

High-yielding varieties also render the farmers more vulnerable to climate risk as hybrid varieties are at the mercy of climate predictability such as the cyclical onset of rains. Asynchrony between farm activities and weather either due to prolonged drought, excessive rainfall or change in their temporality often proves catastrophic to harvest.

And since the initial investment is higher, the consequences of crop failure are more devastating. Monocropping trends also put farmers’ food security at risk since they now have to depend on markets to fulfil their nutritional requirements. Declining agrobiodiversity also endangers the vigour of the overall crop genetic pool and leaves them at risk of new pest and pathogen attacks i.e. if the base gene pool of a crop is limited then there are fewer genetic mutations possible in turn leading to fewer new varieties that could potentially harbour resistances and tolerances.

Traditional step farms are being abandoned as people lose interest in agriculture.

We at Think Wildlife Foundation recently launched our Livelihoods for Conservation project to provide alternative, sustainable livelihoods to the communities living with wildlife. This is with the aim to incentivize conservation while uplifting these communities economically. You can purchase merchandise from these communities here!

Written by: Rishabh Srikar

Originally published at https://thinkwildlifefoundation.com on June 5, 2023.

[kritikapatil]

DJ Software Market Will Hit Big Revenues In Future | Biggest Opportunity Of 2022

Advance Market Analytics released a new market study on Global DJ Software Market Research report which presents a complete assessment of the Market and contains a future trend, current growth factors, attentive opinions, facts, and industry validated market data. The research study provides estimates for Global DJ Software Forecast till 2027*.

DJ Software in its simplest form, it is a program (or application) which allows taking the individual music tracks and then combine them to create a totally new (remixed) track. Essentially this kind of music making software copy the 'old-style' way that DJs used to make it in the past to remix tracks, that is, in short, a physical DJ mixing deck and vinyl records. However, with the changing dawn of the digital age, anyone can also now do this with the help of the computer, or even with the portable device like a phone (via an application). And, such a virtual way of mixing the music has a lot more other possibilities too compared to an 'old-school' way

Key Players included in the Research Coverage of DJ Software Market are

Serato (New Zealand)

Pioneer (Japan)

Atomix VirtualDJ (United States)

Native Instruments (Germany)

Mixvibes (France)

Algoriddim (Germany)

PCDJ (United States)

Ableton (Germany)

Stanton (United States)

Mixxx (United States) What's Trending in Market: Increased demand for live events and EDM

Challenges: The high cost associated with the product

Opportunities: Passion for music among the younger generation has contributed to the growing opportunities

Market Growth Drivers: Increased use of software by DJs for song mixing

The Global DJ Software Market segments and Market Data Break Down by Type (Controllers, Mixers, Media Players, Turntables and Related Accessories), Application (Hotels and restaurants, Social gatherings, Shopping malls, Others), End user (Personal, Commercial) To comprehend Global DJ Software market dynamics in the world mainly, the worldwide DJ Software market is analyzed across major global regions. AMA also provides customized specific regional and country-level reports for the following areas. • North America: United States, Canada, and Mexico. • South & Central America: Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Brazil. • Middle East & Africa: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Turkey, Egypt and South Africa. • Europe: United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands and Russia. • Asia-Pacific: India, China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia. Presented By

AMA Research & Media LLP

[erasamuel]

Virtual Pipeline System Market Growing Popularity and Emerging Trends in the Industry

Advance Market Analytics released a new market study on Global Virtual Pipeline System Market Research report which presents a complete assessment of the Market and contains a future trend, current growth factors, attentive opinions, facts, and industry validated market data. The research study provides estimates for Global Virtual Pipeline System Forecast till 2027*.

Virtual pipeline systems are the systems that involve shipments of gas that are transported either overland in holders by rail or road, or by water in maritime or seaside tankers and canal boats. These systems can supply natural gas to businesses, power age plants and private clients that fail to gain a stake in pipeline development due to geological constraints or too small for typical LNG substantial scale carriers. However, these are accessible by road, rail or sea. Over the coming years, the demand for virtual pipeline system is expected to increase significantly in the transportation sector, owing to growing government regulations for emission control.

Key Players included in the Research Coverage of Virtual Pipeline System Market are General Electric (United States), Hexagon Composites ASA (Norway), Luxfer Holdings PLC (United Kingdom), Galileo Technologies S.A.(Argentina), Pentagon Energy LLC (United States), LightSail Energy (United States), Cimarron Composites (United States), Xpress Natural Gas LLC (United States), NG Advantage LLC (United States), Compass Natural Gas (United States) What's Trending in Market: Aging Natural Gas Infrastructure

Utilizing Cleaner Options over Non-Renewable Energy Sources Forming a Vital Part of the Development of the Territorial Market

Challenges: Cost Factor Associated in Setting up Virtual Pipeline System

Opportunities: Growing Production of Natural Gas and its Wide Variety of Applications

Extensive Demand for Virtual Pipeline Systems in the Fertilizer and Power Generation Industries

Market Growth Drivers: Strict Regulations Regarding Environmental Emission

Expansion of the Pipeline Industry

Escalating Demand for Transportation of Energy Resources

The Global Virtual Pipeline System Market segments and Market Data Break Down by Type (Ordinary Type, Special Type), Application (Industrial, Transportation, Commercial, Residential), Container Size (Type I, Type II, Type III, Type IV), Marketing Channel (Direct, Indirect) To comprehend Global Virtual Pipeline System market dynamics in the world mainly, the worldwide Virtual Pipeline System market is analyzed across major global regions. AMA also provides customized specific regional and country-level reports for the following areas. • North America: United States, Canada, and Mexico. • South & Central America: Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Brazil. • Middle East & Africa: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Turkey, Egypt and South Africa. • Europe: United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands and Russia. • Asia-Pacific: India, China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia. Presented By

AMA Research & Media LLP

[korasonata]

Hello! It is like 11:00, but I’ve found more!

Bouvet Island, Christmas Island, and Cocos (Keeling) Island, also say refer to Australia. What is this, when did we make Australia the poster child for shipping. When did we make Australia the model country for reference.

In Cambodia you can’t ship personal effects or original works of art. Actually I think it specified that any ARTIST cannot ship their own original works of art. I wonder if you could actually cheat the system on this and get someone else to ship it for you? Like it’s VERY specific that the ARTIST cannot ship their own work, but like what are they gonna say if you get someone else to ship it for you? Like the post office might fight it, but I feel like it’s a valid point if someone actually brought it to court.

I know I’ve done Canada before, but another interesting note that I found is that we apparently have something against fake butter. I would also like to point out that most countries have a restriction on dairy products; including milk, butter, and also eggs, but Canada actually doesn’t have this restriction, unlike most. So we’re allowed to ship real butter, but apparently we have something against fake butter.

Cayman Islands has banned caravans, conch or conch meat, and “charms or other items relating to witchcraft”

You can’t ship condoms in Central African Republic

Chile (including Easter Island) has a point specifically dedicated to used tires

China has a LONG list, including a point which says “documents, files, and other articles that involve state secrets”. Also all live animals cannot be shipped except for cats and dogs, strangely, and like there’s a LOT of grey area in that. Would like to point out that they don’t specify “house” cats. Just “cats” so like we about to ship a bunch of lions to China. I knew this point already too, but another specific item on the list for China is also “Tiger Bones” so I guess live tigers are also excluded from the “cats accepted” portion.

Also, this one is not a prohibited item, but every country also has a list of Import restrictions, and the first point for China is a restriction of “1 electronic pocket calculator per year”, which is a point I just thought was interesting.

In Colombia you cannot ship books of a communist or atheist character

Croatia can ship medicine just not ones with an expiry date

Cuba has chewing gum like 1 point away from blood which just made me laugh.

Curacao has exactly 2 things listed, including Weapons and “publications that infringe authors rights”

Cyprus has clothing listed in their restricted section, and also handcuffs and cheese puffs. Bees are also restricted but not outright banned.

Czech Republic has banned gelatin

Denmark apparently doesn’t like Danish customs forms

Dominica also lists infringement on authors rights, but the point is listed like “authors rights, infringement of” and the first time I read the list I was functioning on like 2 hours of sleep and only saw the first half that said “authors rights” and thought they were banning authors rights and I had to do a double take.

So I work at a post office and somebody called me today and asked if they could ship fish to the US, and I wasn’t 100% sure, so obviously I went “let me just check the prohibited goods section of my shipping binder real quick”. Flipped all the way to the US section, found what I was looking for and sent them on their way. But of course naturally after they’d left I’d still had the book open, so naturally I was curious and decided to check it out, and let me tell you, there is some WILD stuff in this book.

•You’re not allowed to ship playing cards to Italy.

•Antarctica simply says refer to Australia. The epitome of logic.

•Andorra is just sad. You’re not allowed to ship artwork, drawings, books or toys of any kind, musical instruments, sheet music, cutlery, furniture, several types of paper, shoes??? It has the longest list of restrictions I’ve come across so far and it’s a country that has a total population of less people than my local college.

•Apparently you aren’t allowed to ship clothing to Ireland, but it only specifies men’s or women’s clothing, so like non-binary people stay winning.

•Only a handful of countries specifically mention that you aren’t allowed to ship asbestos, so like RIP to the rest of the world I guess.

•The US has some very specific things prohibited, including “a knife, gaff, or any other sharp object attached or intended to be attached to the leg of a bird for use in animal fighting ventures” ????

•Canada is the only country I have found so far that specifically states that you cannot ship hate propaganda, which I thought was nice. But then again, it also specifies that you cannot ship any beekeeping apparatuses, but do you know what you CAN ship? LIVE FUCKING BEES.

•There are several countries which seem to be in direct competition with one another, ie pairings of countries that have specifically stated they will not accept anything made in the other country and vice versa.

•You can’t ship things to China that were made in China.

I’m having the time of my life right now.

[fatehbaz]

aw i swear i reblogged a post of yours with a reading rec and now i can't find it. :( but i was interested in learning more about indigenous vs colonial/imperial relationships with nature (especially in terms of nature as a food source) and was wondering if you had any books (or other resources) you could recommend? thank you for all the resources and information you share!

Thank you for the kind message. :)

Are you thinking about the new book on how the US, despite formally occupying the islands at the time, also simultaneously flexed some so-called “Soft Power” (which is, of course, violent and never actually “soft”) and asserted itself in the Philippines by messing around with food culture and changing food traditions? Taste of Control: Food and the Filipino Colonial Mentality Under American Rule. From 2020, by R. Alexander D. Orquiza. (The book focuses on the period between 1898 and 1940s.)

Maybe you’d be interested in these? These are some posts from me. Each post contains short excerpts. (Like, the juicy bits and short enough to not be overwhelming, y’know? Then, if the subject seems cool, the author names and full citation are included. Some of the posts contain maps, photos of plants/animals, other visual aid, and direct links to read the longer full articles for free.) These are posts about local food sovereignty; differences between worldviews of traditional food systems and settler-colonial food systems; difference between traditional and imperial relationships to plants; Empire’s use of food, plants, botany, and scientific institutions to undermine Indigenous autonomy; and contrasts between imperial and traditional human-plant-animal relationships.

-- Manoomin, the imperial plot to domesticate wild rice, “cottage colonialism” in Canada, imaginative control, the power of names and naming plants, different understanding of food contrasted between Empire and Indigenous knowledge. (Covers 1880s to Present.)

-- Pineapple, domestication of breadfruit, and plantations “doing the work of Empire” in Hawaii. Difference between Indigenous Polynesian respect for plants/food, and imperial/industrial food extraction.

-- Leslie Marmon Silko: Gardens. Food sovereignty and imperialist use of food to gain control. Settler-colonial theft of Indigenous plant knowledge. She says: “It wasn’t too long before I realized how very political gardens are. I had actually stumbled into the most political thing of all – how you grow your food, whether you eat, the fact that the plant collectors followed the Conquistadors.”

-- “We don’t need to know what starfish know”: Aboriginal knowledge-holders of Bawaka Country discuss contrast between traditional and settler-colonial understandings of food harvest and multispecies communities.

-- Anna Boswell’s discussion of endemic longfin eels of Aotearoa as example of contrast between Maori worldviews and settler-colonial understanding of ecology; and the problem with making “land-water” distinctions in Euro-American agriculture and land management.

-- Robin Wall Kimmerer speaking frankly about paying attention to plants, and the differences between kinds of inquiry, difference between settler-colonial institutionalized knowledge compared to Indigenous/land-based “ways of knowing”.

-- Native food and imperial appropriation of food/plants: “The Nineteenth-Century Garden: Imperialism, Subsistence, and Subversion in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes.”  

-- Mapuche cultural autonomy, Valdivian temperate rainforest, and European  plots to dismantle the rainforest to create “Swiss or German pastoral farm landscape” in Chile.

-- The debris and ruins of imperial sugar plantations in the Caribbean, and modern Caribbean art

-- Easy-to-access compilation of audio recordings and oral histories of bioregional foodsheds, from 13 Native food autonomy advocates. (New England maple syrup. New Mexico. Louisiana’s Gulf Coast. Abalone/acorns in California. Salmon in PNW, etc.)

-- “Ghostly non-places; settler-colonial hallucinations and fantasy visions; monstrous plants and animals; hiding, destroying, re-making ecological worlds; permanent cataclysm; the horror of settlement”: Anna Boswell on settler-colonial agriculture and ecology.

-- Some fresh annoying OC from me. Vegetation as a weapon: On soil degradation and the use of non-native plants to change landscapes and sever cultural relationships to land; extinction of megafauna; and on the dramatically under-reported but massive scale of anthropogenic environmental change wrought by early empires and “civilizations” in the Bronze Age, Iron Age, and ancient world (including the Fertile Crescent, Rome, and early China)

-- Indigenous Sami reindeer herding contrasted with colonial/industrial resource extraction; “eternal catastrophe”; power over death; “disaster as a form of governance”; apocalypse. From the great writing of Hugo Reinert.

-- Anna Boswell on stoats; native plants/animals of Aotearoa; and how settler-colonial environmental management targets species (and humans) for persecution or sacrifice.

--- Calcutta Botanic Gardens abduction and use of Chinese slaves; Kew Gardens (successfully) plotting to steal cinchona from people of Bolivia to service their staff in India; botanic gardens’ role in large-scale dispossession to create plantations in Assam and Ooty (1790s - 1870s).

-- The role of grasslands, deforestation, and English grasses in ecological imperialism in Aotearoa, early 20th century.

-- “Forage wars” between Native food harvesters and California legal institutions: Abalone, native foodsheds, and food harvesting in Pomo, Yurok, Coast Yuki, and other Klamath Mountains and coastal Northern California communities.

-- Zoe Todd discussing connection to local place, traditional ecological knowledge, and knowledge appropriation: “Not all knowledge is for your consumption.”

-- The grand tale of breadfruit domestication, the mutiny on the Bounty,  and plantation owners plotting with Kew Gardens to domesticate crops to  undermine slave gardens in the Caribbean. (Also includes comments on the under-reported central role of media/PR manipulation and slavery in the “mutiny on the Bounty” story.)

-- Conflating women with “bloodthirsty” and “flesh-eating” plants, and the  dehumanization of Indigenous cultures through scientific illustrations of imperial scientific agents and artistic depictions of plants from  colonized ecosystems (Euro-American art and science of botany in1700s to early 1900s),

-- Robin Wall Kimmerer: Paying attention to plants and her love for strawberries, from Braiding Sweetgrass.

-- “Coyote’s biota”: Comcaac (Seri) and O’Odaham food, plant knowledge, and the ascribing of special names to native plants and Euro-American plants to distinguish between types of food.

-- In the Falkland Islands: Intersections of extinction; the “Antarctic wolf”; colonialism, whiteness, racism, “invasion,” indigeneity; environmental history; decline of penguins; introduction of non-native European sheep, cats, cattle, pigs and ecological reinforcement of settler-colonial culture, etc.

-- Bogong moths and ethics of killing insects in settler-colonial Australian imaginary

-- “The British Museum was built on coral, butterflies, and slavery”: Hans Sloane, Caribbean ecology, museums and curiosity cabinets, and how plantation money and slavery built British scientific institutions

-- Human relationship with bees; use of insects in imperialism

-- Racism in depictions Melanesia; the mapping and naming of Polynesia and Melanesia

-- Records and details of extreme deforestation in ancient Eastern Mediterranean and Mesopotamia around 4500 BC; extreme landscape modification in Asiatic steppes in first millennium AD.

-- Zoe Todd on human-fish relationships in Alberta, prairie, and boreal forest.

-- Dandelions, other non-native plants, and settler gardens changing soil of the Canadian Arctic. (Late 1800s and early 1900s.) From Broken Frontier: Ecological Imperialism in the Canadian North.

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And some of the so-called “classic” authors:

-- Zoe Todd: Might be most famous in popular media for her criticism of the Eurocentrism of the  “Anthropocene concept; for writing about racism and anti-Indigenous prejudice in academia; and for her 2014 essay, a retort to Euroamerican anthropologists. But aside from her advocacy, her academic research is often concerned with fish, food, plants, and traditional ecological knowledge of Indigenous communities in Canada (she is Metis, from Alberta). You’d be able to find many of her articles online, though I linked some above.

-- Neel Ahuja: Pretty famous scholar, “leading” author on biopolitics. References foodsheds and contrasts local and imperial food production, but also more broadly addresses interspecies/multispecies relationships; entanglements of race, gender, speciesism; health, medicine, and control of disease; control of food and personal bodies as sites of colonization.

-- Robin Wall Kimmerer: Wonderful. She’s a botanist, she loves moss, and she’s concerned with traditional ecological knowledge. (She is Potawatomi.) She does explicitly contrast imaginaries, like the difference between Settler-colonial/imperial perceptions of plants/ecosystems, and Indigenous/local/”attentive” perceptions of plants/ecosystems.

-- Vandana Shiva: She has many, many lectures and publications available. Her politics aren’t always great, but she might be most famous for advocating food sovereignty and resistance to corporate agriculture and food giants. Often speaks of development, industrialization, and gender hierarchies. But one influential text was Biopiracy: the plunder of nature and knowledge from 1997.

-- Anna Boswell: Perhaps most famous for writing about the plight of the endemic Aotearoa longfin eel, she specifically focuses on the contrast between, on the one hand, Indigenous/local perceptions and Maori knowledge of landscape/living creatures, and, on the other hand, settler-colonial and industrial/extractivist perceptions of land. She uses some certain animals/plants of Aotearoa as case studies to clearly demonstrate different treatment/perception of land, to criticize settler-colonial “world reordering” (landscaping, pasture, plantation, etc.) as a form of “deathwork.”

(1) Aotearoa longfin eel and devaluing species; (2) tuatara and colonial environmental change; (3) non-native stoats and persecution; (4) settler-colonial landscapes, fantasy-visions, and ecological apocalypse.

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Something I mentioned in the tags on that post about food in the Philippines was that an early formative learning experience for Young Me was when I met a teacher who had worked with ecology and horticulture in Southeast Asia, who stressed that, even after Euro-American imperial powers formally end their colonial occupation of a place, we have to ask: What avenues of food sovereignty are available, if plantation monoculture has destroyed the soil microorganism lifeforms and traditional knowledge systems have been deliberately dismantled or subjugated? Soil is dead, local traditional knowledge has been appropriated and undermined (and traditional knowledge is deliberately targeted during campaigns of erasure and overt violence). And so, even “liberated” places might be forced to drink corporate soda products. There might not be a military occupation, but corporate entities and financial institutions can now act as de facto occupiers. Destroy somebody’s food garden, and you force them to shop at your supermarket. Words like “independence” and “post-colonial” are haunted, because Empire continues, reasserts, finds “new” ways to dominate. But are these tactics really “new”? Just like in earlier historical periods of power consolidation, Empire seems to achieve great power by disturbing, changing, or severing connection between people and their local landscape/environment.

And food is at the center of that human-environment relationship.

If soils are damaged and people are dispossessed, no longer with access to a backyard garden; people of a Caribbean island might no longer be able to grow staple tubers, and instead the US-owned grocer franchise becomes the food source, entangling people involuntarily. Instead of eating Louisiana’s gumbo or the Pacific Northwest’s huckleberries, you can instead eat the same standardized meal at a fast food restaurant in New Orleans and in Seattle, at opposite edges of a continent, which has the effect of undermining potential regional cultural practices situated in local landscape, local plants, local food.

You know what I mean? Anyway.

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Hope these are interesting. Sorry for all of this, an overwhelming amount of text. :)

[thepotentialof2007]

When the irrigation motor woke me up, I knew I’d been gone too long. The unmuffled Case engine sits a mile-and-a-cornfield from the Little Rock House. The big motor pumps 1,400 gallons of crystalline groundwater per minute nearly every day from early spring to late fall straight into the desiccating wind. Its steady drone was the backdrop to my childhood summers on the farm, as ordinary as the heat and flies and storms.

Groundwater extraction is draining aquifers across the globe, including those under the North China Plain, the Arabian peninsula, northern India, central Australia, California, parts of Chile, and many others. Most of this groundwater eventually makes its way to the sea. So much groundwater is pumped to the surface and drained into the oceans that it is now a major contributor to sea level rise, roughly on par with melting glaciers.

_ Lucas Bessire, Running Out, Princeton University Press, 2021

Water level change in the Ogallala Aquifer from pre-extraction to 2015

[tinyshe]

Story at-a-glance

There are 10 steps that every tyrannical government has followed. We are now at step 10. Once the 10th step locks into place, there will be no going back

The 10 steps toward tyranny start with the invocation of a terrifying internal and/or external threat. From 2001 onward, that threat was terrorism, which was used as the justification for stripping us of our liberties

With the declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic, we entered step 10, where emergency powers and laws are used to strip remaining freedoms from the people, censorship is enacted and certain kinds of speech is criminalized

We must get involved and fight to enact state legislation that protects against continued erosion of freedom and reestablishes rights and liberties

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Naomi Wolf, a former adviser to  the Clinton administration, is a prolific author and Yale University graduate.  She also received a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship that allowed her to complete  her Ph.D. in English and literature at Oxford University in 2015. Eight years  before that, she wrote a book called “The End  of America,” which is the topic of this interview. “The End of America” was published  in 2007. At the end of this article, you will find a playlist of three videos  in which she reads select chapters of the book. You can also download  the first and last chapters for free on the publisher’s website,  chelseagreen.com.1A Prescient Warning Already in 2007, Wolf warned us of  where we were headed. In her book, she points out that would-be tyrants are  found on both sides of the political spectrum. We must not get locked into  generalizations about political affiliations, because they simply do not give  us a truthful picture of who the enemy is. While Wolf and I could be said to  be on opposite sides of the political spectrum, Wolf being a long-time  progressive while many would view me as a conservative, our views are in  perfect alignment when it comes to the issues of protecting American freedom  and liberty.We are [now] at Step 10. I've been trying to warn people,  tirelessly, as much as I can, that we are at Step 10 and that once Step 10  locks in, there is no going back. ~ Naomi WolfIn “The End of America,” Wolf lays  out the 10 steps toward tyranny. These steps have been followed by virtually  all would-be tyrants, be they on the political left or right. They were  followed in Italy in the '20s, Germany in '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Chile  in the '70s and China in the '80s. “They all took the same 10 steps, and they always work,” Wolf says. “I warned people  that when you start to see these 10 steps, you have to take action, because  there is no way to recover once things go too far without a bloody revolution  or a civil war. We are [now] at Step 10. People have said, since I wrote that book   in 2007, ‘Tell us when we're at Step 10.’ I've always said, ‘Things are bad,  they're getting worse, but there's still hope.’ We're literally at Step 10 now.  I've been trying to warn people, tirelessly, as much as I can, that we are at Step  10 and that once Step 10 locks in, there is no going back.”We’re in the Final Step of  the Implementation of Tyranny.The 10 steps toward tyranny start  with the invocation of a terrifying internal and/or external threat. It may be  a real threat or an imagined one, but in all cases, it’s a hyped-up threat.  From 2001 onward, that threat was terrorism, which was used as the  justification for stripping us of our liberties. Ultimately, that wasn’t effective   enough.“There was still freedom in the world. People were not saying, ‘ISIS  exists; therefore, I'm going to give up my First Amendment liberties, my Fourth  Amendment liberties, my Second Amendment liberties and so on.’ Sadly, this  medical crisis — which is now not a pandemic in many states and countries, it's  an endemic; it doesn't meet the formal definition of a pandemic — was the  perfect excuse for leaders to usher in Step 10,” Wolf says. The last and final step in the  implementation of tyranny, Step 10, involves the creation of a surveillance  state where citizens are spied upon, and critique of the government is  reclassified as dissent and subversive activity. Step 10 The surveillance state is now  being rolled out in the form of vaccine passports, while certain kinds of  speech are said to be dangerous and freedom of speech is being criminalized. Needless  to say, the mainstream press is an important part of this scheme. “The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have essentially bought up  the western press and coerce them, bribe them, into following the party line,  brought up by the CDC and so on,” Wolf says.“Toward the end of the steps, which is Step 10, is emergency law,  [which is a] subversion of the rule of law, also called martial law. We're  here. I'm [in] New York State. We're under emergency law. Every 30 days, I get  an email saying that tyrannical Governor Cuomo has extended emergency powers,  even though in Columbia County where I live, there are only eight deaths a  month with COVID, average age 85, which is older than the average American life  span. It's not a pandemic where I live, but I'm living under emergency   law, which means the legislature has no power. The governor can do whatever he  wants. It’s the same in Massachusetts, same in California — 49 states, all  states except Alaska, are technically under emergency law. This is terrifying. You get what you're seeing, which is governors   deciding, or the federal government deciding, that you can't assemble, you  can't worship, you have no medical choice, the coercion of vaccine passports,  your child can't go to school, your young adult can't get a college education  if they don't agree to an experimental vaccination. You get suspension of the right to property. You can't run your   business — 110,000 restaurants have closed. You get a suspension of freedoms of  speech. People are being deplatformed left and right and there are movements in  Congress to criminalize what had been First Amendment protected speech. You get the invocation of martial powers and there's no end to it.   Literally, with Massachusetts emergency law, I have no rights. I have no  ability to lobby the governor. With New York’s emergency law, I have no  representative with the power to end emergency measures. The governor has to  end emergency measures, [and] he's the one who benefits from them. It's  catastrophic. We're seeing a complete takeover of American rights, freedoms and   bodies by Big Tech, which is up double digits to triple-digit billions since  the pandemic began. China has moved in to … establish its role as the global  superpower under the guise of this pandemic, buying up community groups,  elected officials and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which are flooding  K through 12 education … community groups [and] universities with money to  engage in COVID education — which means a strict party line [narrative] that is  aimed at destroying what's human about us and what's free. That's it in a  nutshell. It's unbelievably terrifying.”What the COVID-19 Passports  Are Really AboutWolf was recently interviewed by Fox News’ Steve Hilton  (above), in which she warned that mandatory COVID-19 passports will spell  the “end of human  liberty in the West”:2,3 In essence, they’re a  precursor to the social credit system that has already been implemented in  China. The vaccine passes have already been  rolled out in New York, where Wolf lives. Surveillance is nothing new, of  course. We’ve been digitally surveilled for years, through social media  platforms, Google and all manner of “smart” technology. Since the early 2000s, Google and  Facebook in particular have been data mining online users. These data, then,  have been applied to deep learning computers, giving them unprecedented ability  to predict the type of messaging triggers that will create the maximum amount  of fear — and thus compliance. There’s also every reason to  assume that this information has also been shared with people like Bill Gates,  who largely controls the World Health Organization. If it wasn’t for the WHO,  we would not be in this situation, because it was the central organization with  the authority to declare a global pandemic, and keep it in place long past its   natural expiration date. They actually changed the  definition of “pandemic,” removing the requirement of mass casualties, and if  it wasn’t for that, COVID-19 simply would not qualify as a pandemic. The Pandemic Is Hypothetical  at BestWolf points out that COVID-19  dashboards, such as Johns Hopkins’ COVID-19 tracking project that mainstream  media keep citing, cannot tell us anything about who’s actually getting  infected, or who’s dying. We don’t even know if they are showing real or made  up data.Wolf, being the CEO of a tech  company, builds digital dashboards based on government data, so she knows what  she’s talking about. You have to have the raw datasets. Since none of the  dashboards provide the raw data, nothing can be verified. “Basically, they can  dial up cases, which are positive PCR tests, or dial them down,” she says. So,  the entire pandemic narrative is unverified.We do know, however, that the CDC  has shifted influenza and pneumonia deaths to COVID-19 deaths, and tens of  thousands of Americans die from these conditions every year. When lawmakers in  Minnesota audited death records, for example, they found a 40% over-attribution   of deaths to COVID-19. Then there’s the PCR test scandal.  Not only have laboratories everywhere been using excessively high amplification  cycles resulting in staggeringly high false positive rates, but they also do  not account for duplicate tests. If you get a positive test, and test once a  week until you test negative, each positive test result you obtain is counted  as a separate “case.”“We literally can't know if there's been a pandemic, there's so  much faulty attribution, inflation of numbers, and so on,” Wolf says. “Those numbers, I  can't stress enough, have never been audited ... We have to do a freedom of information request in Britain to take  a look at the raw data sets that are being fed into the Office for National  Statistics, COVID dashboard. We looked at where the data were flowing from for  the Johns Hopkins dashboard, which again, was used by every major university,  every major news outlet. One of the data providers was a hedge fund! … I know something else about APIs. It is virtually impossible to,  in real time, get hundreds of thousands of reports from hundreds of thousands  of doctors, hospitals, CVS and Rite Aid, feeding into a live digital dashboard.  I keep asking the developers to show me, ‘How did you do this? It's virtually  impossible.’ There's no answer, there's crickets. Literally, we don't know if the dashboards are just dialing up and   dialing down infection rates. Everyone's taking for granted that these must be  real numbers, but there's no evidence that they are real numbers. I'm willing  to stand corrected if there's a FOIA and we see the raw data sets. But right  now, it is a hypothetical pandemic.”Collusion by Tech CompaniesTech companies have also engaged  in what Wolf likens to criminal collusion. She explains:“In March of last year, for the COVID-19 response project, Zoom, NASDAQ, Nintendo, Microsoft, Amazon — all the people who benefited from the lockdown  — coordinated so that wherever you go on the internet, across platform to  platform, you see these alerts about COVID-19, warnings about COVID,  instructions about COVID, and of course, censorship … if you run afoul of the  narrative about COVID. I run a tech company. The question, when you run a tech company, is how do you get people to not do things in the real world, and do things on your  platform? That's the business model. If people are gathering in churches, gathering in real school   rooms, if they're going for walks together, go on picnics, having dinner  parties, going to clubs, that's an opportunity lost to Microsoft and Google and  so on. But if they can drive you indoors, terrify you from being around other  people, or make it unlawful to be around other people through these emergency  powers that restrict assembly [then they can profit] … Digital learning curriculum were turnkey, ready to go. Suddenly,  it was like, ‘Oh, kids have to be at home and do distance learning.’ That's a  $300 million industry for just one company that creates digital curriculums.  They're not going to let go of that. I think we are in a small loop of six tech companies [and] the  Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, having bought legislators in China, who's  up 32% while the economies of the West have crashed, and that's the fight that  we have to fight.”The Legalization of Tyranny. Few people realize that dictators  such as Mussolini and Hitler came to power in legal working democracies. They  became subverted and rules of law were rewritten in such a way as to allow  these leaders to legally take over. That's one of the primary dangers we now face  in the U.S., because at the end of step 10, the leader obtains the legal   authority to become a tyrant.“This is especially true of the National Socialists,” Wolf says. “They kept  passing a set of laws called the Enabling Acts that are very much like the laws  that are being passed now. They criminalized certain speech, created a  surveillance apparatus for citizens … and they did this lawfully. They were  elected, and they passed restrictive law after restrictive law. Then, once democracy was fragile enough, it really only took six   months for thugs to beat up opposition leaders, union leaders, the outspoken  and clergy. After that, everyone was too scared to speak. We're seeing the same  thing happen now, but faster. It's very scary that China has created a white paper — the World   Economic Forum has it on its website — that maps how biofascism, as I call it —  vaccinations, the managing of people's bodies, biometrics and health — is being  launched as a way to control civic engagement, governance, private life,  assembly and every other aspect of human life, to bring about super-fast  totalitarianism. That's why focusing on legislation is something I've been doing   with my company DailyClout, very seriously, because if we don't pass laws  immediately to make unlawful some of the things we're seeing, there will be no  more hope for us.”Using the Legal System to  Save the Law. One strategy of totalitarianism  that must be fought through legislation is the requirement of vaccine  passports. “Once these are launched … people like you and I, Dr. Mercola,  will be switched off of society. ‘Oops, my vaccine passport is positive. I   guess I can't go food shopping for my family.’ ‘I said something critical of  biofascism on Dr. Mercola's show, so now my child can't get into school.’ Just  as in Israel, people who are critics are being surveilled [and] marginalized  from society. It has turned into a two-tier society. If you choose not to get   vaccinated, then you're really in a marginalized minority in an apartheid  state. The more we know about these vaccines, the scarier it is to have  coercion that is social. It's also illegal. In America, we have the Americans  with Disabilities Act. It means it's illegal to even ask me anything about my  medical status. You can't ask me if I'm pregnant. You can't ask me if I'm  disabled. You can't ask me if I have diabetes or HIV. You cannot ask me   anything. By definition, these intrusive measures are unlawful. We have to use  the law to save the law, basically. In Michigan, there's an edict from the  governor that 2- to 4-year-old children have to be masked. This is child abuse.  Science doesn't support it. Unlawful, tyrannical laws are being passed across the country  under the guise of emergency measures, and stupid people going along with it,  like in Congress, I'm embarrassed to say, because I voted for Biden. We have to  fight before we are living in fascist regime where every move is tracked and  we're marginalized from society.”The Courts Are Our Last Hope,  And They’re Now Under AttackOne area in which “The End of  America” excels is helping you understand is that the United States was founded  by people who had repressive societies. Their goal was to prevent such a  repressive society from emerging again. The founders had to personally reckon  with criminalized speech, arbitrary arrest, state sanctioned torture and even  murder.So, at great personal sacrifice,  they signed the Constitution. Had they lost the Revolutionary War, they would  all have been executed, so the stakes could not have been higher. As a result,  our founding fathers constructed a carefully balanced system to make sure no  tyrant could ever come to power. We’re now facing a scenario that  could obliterate that delicate balance, namely the Biden administration’s call  to “pack the court,” i.e., add, in this case four, additional Justices to the  Supreme Court. We’re now facing a shift in our  legal structure that will allow for the legalization of tyrannical reign and  “legally” override the carefully constructed governmental balance between the  legislative, executive and judicial branched that has previously served to  prevent tyranny in the U.S.This three-tier branch, constructed to safeguard  our freedoms, is under direct attack, and this is NOT a partisan issue. Not by  a longshot, and everyone needs to wake up to this fact. It’s an issue of  freedom versus tyranny.“Absolutely,” Wolf says. “Sadly, this is clear. That's why I'm saying progressives have to  wake up … I worry very much about the role of China in this, because I think  we've seen that some people connected to the Democratic Party have close ties  with members of the Chinese Communist Party. That is just established fact. I'm not saying that the tyrants are on the left. In Britain, it's   Tories cracking down on liberty, holding the country under house arrest. In  Australia it's conservatives, in Canada it's Trudeau, a liberal. This isn't  partisan. But in America, we do have to face the fact that this administration  is drunk on power and has some bad actors aligned with it, including Silicon  Valley. They are crushing conservative voices, kicking them off of public   platforms in addition to voices critical of the COVID narrative. They're also  moving at warp speed to use their own phrasing about something else to lock in  power in a way that is against everything our founders set in place — the most  beautiful, delicate system of checks and balances any human beings have ever  created; an ideal of people all over the world who want freedom and balanced  accountable government. Yeah, packing the Supreme Court is a horrific tampering with some   of the last checks and balances that we have … I can't believe I keep saying  thank God for the conservatives on the bench. But these days, I have to say it,  and I'm ashamed. But thank God, because they were the ones who in California  said ‘No, you cannot keep people from assembling to worship. That is a  violation of the Constitution.’ They're our last hope. The courts are our last hope. It is   catastrophic, and I see other scary movements against accountable democracy  that are being put forward by this administration. Among them, President Biden is not saying to the blue states: ‘You   have to give up your emergency powers. You have to open up. You can't control  people in their homes, you can't force people to have vaccinations and you  can't keep people from assembling and worshipping.’ These are all violations of their constitutional liberties. He's   not saying that. That's a complete failure of leadership, if not worse. My  people have to rise up and face it. Conservatives have to face cleaning up  their own houses … What's at stake is everything, and we all have to unite  across party lines and save our Constitution and make these people accountable,  whatever their party [affiliation].”Urgent Call to Action The good news is, the would-be tyrants have not won yet. That said, we have no  time to spare. We have no time to remain idle, hoping it will all just go back  to normal on its own. The answer is peaceful mass civil disobedience.“There's hope in mass peaceful civil disobedience … when things  are really dire,” Wolf says. “My favorite story is about the singing revolution of Latvia,   Lithuania and Estonia, in which they were under the grip of the Soviet Union, a  massive tyrannical monolith. They all decided to just peacefully gather on a  highway that extended the length of their three countries and sing. They kept peacefully disrupting business as usual in their cities,   making it impossible for work to continue, for traffic to go on. They sat down,  they linked arms and they sang. Over time, they just wore down the Soviet Union.  That's a beautiful model. Same thing with Dr. Martin Luther King. His was a  peaceful revolution of civil disobedience.”This strategy is time-consuming,  however, so be prepared to stand your ground for as long as it takes. It can  take months, years even, when you have nothing else in your arsenal. Peaceful disobedience  is the primary strategy in armed countries as well. As mentioned, we must also  rally behind legislation that prevents the alteration of laws that safeguard  our freedoms.Join the Five Freedoms  Campaign!To that end, Wolf has started the Five Freedoms Campaign, which you can find on her Daily Clout website. The campaign focuses on creating legislation to preserve key  freedoms and prevent emergency laws from infringing on our freedom to assembly,   worship, protest and engage in business. Legislation is also being crafted to  open schools, remove mask mandates and eliminate requirements for vaccine  passports.“We've had overwhelmingly high levels of support,” Wolf says. “I hope your  followers will also join us. We hired a really distinguished lawyer who is drafting  model legislation. She has finished the new vaccine passport bill and we've  gotten state legislators in Maine, New Hampshire and Michigan to sponsor to  pass that legislation. I'm sending out the request for 47 other state legislatures to   adopt this model legislation. Contact me, I'll come out, I'll speak to your  legislature. We'll do a rally, we'll do a press conference, as we're doing in  Maine on April 27. We've got to pass these bills. Then she's going to work on an omnibus bill to make all five   freedoms inviolable so that no one can pass mask mandates as they did in  Michigan today. No one can force vaccine passports as they're doing in New York,  so that we can get our freedoms back.”Wolf and her team are making this  interactive process as easy as possible by posting good model bills on  dailyclout.io, and proactively drafting much-needed bills. Many state  legislators are not lawyers, and they don't have lawyers at their beck and  call. Citizens can now send these model bills to their legislators, knowing  that they’ve undergone legal review and are ready to be passed. You can also go  even further than that:“You can tell us the bill you want. We can upload a campaign for that bill. We can hire our lawyer to draft a model bill and then you can pass  it. What we've been doing is gathering names and zip codes, so that we can add  real voters to this piece of model legislation in real states and send it to  real state legislators and say, ‘Look, the supporters are all there. All you  have to do is pass this.’ It's a fantastic intervention in the political process, restoring   real democracy. It's why we founded Daily Clout, but it's beautiful to see  hundreds and hundreds of people from all walks of life rushing to give us  support and resources, to become members and give us donations, which we  appreciate, so that we can keep our lawyer busy creating these draft bills.  It's not just for this issue. Once we get our rights and freedoms back,  whatever [citizens] want, we can draft a bill for you, and you can [call on  your legislators to] pass it.”Limiting Emergency PowersAnother facet  that needs to be addressed is governors’ emergency powers. Some states have  been locked down under emergency power for more than a year, which is insane,  considering we’re not in an emergency and haven’t been for many months. These  emergency powers need to be limited in some way, as they are at the heart of  all this unlawful behavior. As explained by Wolf: “Emergency law basically suspends  the Constitution of the United States. As I've said elsewhere, the Constitution  doesn't say all this can be suspended if there's disease. We've been through  typhus, cholera, smallpox, HIV, Spanish flu, polio, tuberculosis — disease   after disease, without ever having emergency law extended without review month  after month. We've had world wars fought  without emergency laws. We were attacked on our soil without emergency law  being declared in New York state after 9/11. There's no justification for it. It's  against everything we believe in. It's unconstitutional.” So, one of the  five freedoms Wolf’s campaign focuses on is the restriction of emergency laws.  New Hampshire has become the first state to pass a bill that accomplishes this.  It reforms emergency law such that the Governor’s emergency powers cannot be  indefinitely extended without review by the legislature. They also passed a  bill that guarantees freedom of worship, and another bill that ensures  emergency law cannot be invoked indefinitely in any future crisis.4“We've now passed along our model ‘No vaccine passport’ bill to   the New Hampshire legislators,” Wolf says. “If they can do it in New Hampshire,  with our help, with your help, they can do it across the country. But we need  to get that model legislation out to every legislature and mobilize that  grassroots movement to pass the end of emergency law. I mean, look what's happening in New York State. It's insane. Fourteen  state legislators are trying to get Governor Cuomo to end emergency law. But as  our laws are written, Governor Cuomo has to be the one to end his own emergency  law. There're a huge amount of lobbying that has to happen for these   legislators to understand that there are eyes on them, that they're accountable.  I'm going to be reporting and … hopefully millions of people will be following  and helping to pass these laws to get back our rights.”Daily Clout Empowers Citizens  to Lobby for Freedom. To be clear, the Daily Clout is  not a lobbying group. YOU are the ones lobbying your legislators. Daily Clout  simply provides the needed assistance so that you can do that easily and  effectively. “It's such a beautiful effort, because you'd have to come out and  say, ‘The people of New Hampshire have no right to pass their own legislation’  in order to oppose an effort like this,” Wolf says. “We're not a special interest. It's just the  people. It's the people of New Hampshire, people of Maine, passing their own  legislation. I do hear, consistently, that Democrats won't help, that in many   states with their democratic majorities, it's going to be difficult if   Democrats don't reach across the aisle and add their names. I'm sending out the  call to Democrats to support this legislation. I'm going to warn everyone, speaking as a former political   consultant, that the party that embraces the restoration of freedom is going to  be the party that wins in 2022 and 2024. There's no question about that. This  is going to be a winning issue. People know something is terribly wrong, but they don't know what   to do. This is a completely unprecedented assault on liberty. With my many  years in national politics, I know what to do. This is why we developed Daily  Clout. If you show up with a turnkey piece of legislation and some turnkey  supporters, that's a very quick fix for a really catastrophic crisis that has a  legislative solution. As long as there's still legislatures, we can pass good  legislation at the state level. At the federal level, it's going to be harder,   because there isn't any balance right now. I'm very inspired there's so many people serving at the state   legislature level who are really decent citizens, who are not partisan hacks. People  who really ran to help their neighbors and help their communities and who are  not wholly owned by China, Big Tech or whatever, and who want to do the right  thing. I could be wrong, but in two weeks [since we launched the Daily   Clout site] we've already been invited to address state legislators and draft  legislation for three, and that's without any marketing budget or anything but  platforms like this, where I say it's available. We started Daily Clout because citizens didn't have a platform to   be effective at lobbying for their own issues. This is a turnkey platform that  does that for them. I designed it that way. I designed it, as a former  political consultant, knowing that the way things are set up, ordinary citizens  don't have a seat at the table. There is no easy way to engage in civic action.  

This makes it easy, makes it digital and people are using it.”How to Use the Daily Clout Site.So, how do you get involved?  First, go to  dailyclout.io and sign up to become a paying member or free subscriber. You will then receive an email explaining how to use the Five  Freedoms Campaign.

Presently, there is a model “no vaccination passports” bill   that you can send to your state legislator.There’s also a feature called  BillCam, where you can see who your state legislator is by entering your zip  code. Daily Clout will also email you links and explain how to find your state  legislator. If you provide your name and zip code, which will remain  confidential, your state legislator’s contact information will be included in  the email.“We're creating a widget right now to attach your name and zip   code to the model bills so it goes right to your state legislator, showing that  the bill already has support,” Wolf explains. “But in the meantime, you can look up any bill on BillCam. Those are  bills that have already been introduced or passed. There are ‘No vaccine passport’ bills, for instance. We're   showcasing them on BillCam. It's already set up, so you can just tweet it to  the sponsor, tweet it to representative. You can Facebook it to your community.  It already goes through social media and you can show support by ‘voting on it’  in the widget on BillCam as you share legislation with your community.”Once you’re a subscriber or  member, you’ll get regular updates about happenings around the U.S. and  community events. They’re also installing a widget that will allow you to meet  with like-minded people in your state who want this legislation passed. Lastly,  you can write to Daily Clout and ask them to draft a bill. A lawyer will then  be assigned to draft it for you.“Right now, we're focused on the Five Freedoms Campaign, but there  is that functionality. You can write a blog and explain the bill that you want.  You can send us a video and explain what your issue is, and all of this goes to  shining a light on the legislators. They're not used to having a light shone on  them. That really does drive outcomes. Those are the steps that you can take,” Wolf says. We’ve already seen how effective  this strategy can be, with New Hampshire passing three bills to protect  citizens’ freedoms. “I never want to take credit away from legislators working hard to  pass bills, but I know that we helped,” Wolf says. “I know that our lawyer has been in close  touch with some of those state legislators in New Hampshire and provided  language that we pay for, so that those legislators would have a turnkey bill  to act on.”Hundreds of people also wrote to  New Hampshire’s Governor Christopher Sununu, urging him to lift the mask  mandate, which he recently did. Knowing that the Daily Clout would report on  the outcome of that campaign, he not only felt the political pressure, but he  also knew he had support from his constituents. So, please, use this unprecedented  opportunity to get involved, in any capacity that you can. Your freedom, and that of future generations, hinge on  our getting involved and fighting for it. Last but not least, to understand  where we are and how we got here, I strongly recommend reading “The End  of America.” In the video below, Wolf reads select  chapters from the book. You can also download  the first and last chapters for free on the publisher’s website,  chelseagreen.com.5 

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Is Kids Smart Watches Market Growing too big, too fast?

Advance Market Analytics released a new market study on Global Kids Smart Watches Market Research report which presents a complete assessment of the Market and contains a future trend, current growth factors, attentive opinions, facts, and industry validated market data. The research study provides estimates for Global Kids Smart Watches Forecast till 2029*.

In the present world kids are growing up by surrounding with computers, tablets and Youtube. Technology has always been an important part of their life, just a quite different from just a couple of decades ago. Smart watch helps kids in teaching of how to tell time by letting them to choose between a number of analog displays and 3D digital. In addition with the alarm, timer and stopwatch, there is also a calendar feature and calculator so that child can work out with the simple addition, multiplication, subtraction and division problems

Key Players included in the Research Coverage of Kids Smart Watches Market are:

Doki Technologies (China), LG Electronics (South Korea), VTech Holdings (China), Huawei Technologies (China), Omate (China), Pebble (Taiwan), Precise Innovation (United States)

What's Trending in Market: Increase in the user experienced due to design and technological features in the displays of smartwatches and smart wearable

Challenges: High cost associated with the product Low awareness in small cities about the smart watches

Opportunities: Development and designs in the gender-specific smartwatches by numerous market players

Market Growth Drivers: Kids safety due to the availability of smart notification features Increase in the urbanisation

The Global Kids Smart Watches Market segments and Market Data Break Down by Type (Classic Children’s Smartwatch, Entertainment Children’s Smartwatch, Sporty Children’s Smartwatch, Educational Children’s Smartwatch, Others), Application (Household, School, Outdoor Activities, Others), Operating system (IOS, Android, Others (Include Tizen)

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To comprehend Global Kids Smart Watches market dynamics in the world mainly, the worldwide Kids Smart Watches market is analyzed across major global regions. AMA also provides customized specific regional and country-level reports for the following areas.

• North America: United States, Canada, and Mexico.

• South & Central America: Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Brazil.

• Middle East & Africa: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Turkey, Egypt and South Africa.

• Europe: United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands and Russia.

• Asia-Pacific: India, China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia.