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El latrocinio institucionalizado e internacionalizado por la élite marital sociata.

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Rema | “HEIS” Album Release

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this is making me think about how gojo would absolutely be the one to force his students to make tiktoks w him. like can u imagine how excitedly yuuji would agree???? and megumi would just be in the corner plugging his ears or some shit bc he simply cannot listen to that 15 second clip of music any more lest he perish

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Women carry baskets of goods through the narrow streets of Kotaka, Mali. Mali, which spans an area between the Sahara Desert and the Niger River delta, has been a key trading center for many African civilizations.

Photo: JAMES L. STANFIELD

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Pangolins are amazing, bizarre, adorable creatures, but due to the demand for their scales on the illegal market, they’re also the most trafficked animal in the world. In order to turn the tide, wildlife veterinarian Elias Mubobo knows the solution rests in the hands of the local community — many of whom have never seen a pangolin in the wild.

Native to Central and Southern Africa, pangolins feed exclusively and voraciously on ants and termites, and they’re perfectly specialized for this type of hunt. They’re the only scaled mammal on Earth. To the local community, spotting a pangolin is a sign of a bountiful harvest and abundant rainfall. But it’s their most defining feature — their scales — that make them the target of illegal animal traders seeking the scales for use in traditional medicine. Hundreds of thousands of pangolins are illegally trafficked each year.

Wildlife veterinarian Elias Mubobo grew up near Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique — known as “nature’s living laboratory” and true haven for community-based conservation — but still, he had never seen a pangolin during his youth. Now, many years later, Elais works as a wildlife veterinarian in Gorongosa and helps rehabilitate pangolins to be reintroduced back into the surrounding Park. His work also includes outreach to local children to rally community support in protecting pangolins they spot in the wild — and the efforts are working. So far, Elias’s Pangolin Rehabilitation Center has received 101 pangolins, 80 of which came from the illegal poaching market, and 21 that we received voluntarily from the people who live around Gorongosa National Park.

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Sorry if this feels like pro Egypt propaganda she's just stuck in the past

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do other countries even have little shows about their police task forces ???

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Kenya gives EastAfrica earthquakes with these mega projects|2024 @Kimlud

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I love that John when he was drawing the world for Lord Yoshi, drew Africa first—at the center.

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it is very strange to hear the education of someone who was brought up in fundamentalist circles and its like... actually this is the same stuff we’re told in american public school education

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Wow. OC basically admitted that judging a nation or gov't character has fuck-all to do with their integrity or actions, just whether they're using "the RIGHT language."

As Ronald W. Dworkin pointed out in his article The New American Anarchists:

“Self-esteem,” “negative self-image,” and “self-improvement.”

All these words can exist without being connected to anything that does exist. They have no well-defined cognitive content. They lend themselves to illusion because a person can project his or her own desires, hate, and fears onto them. They can mean whatever the person says they mean...

Radicalized knowledge workers reveal a similar trend, spending a large amount of time, both at work and at home, on social media...

Rahman [a BLM supporter] spent much of her life amid abstract concepts. She spoke “the language of abolitionist Twitter,” one writer observed. She was “steeped in the language of social justice and racial politics.” Ill-defined terms such as “race,” “gender,” “LGBTQI,” and “environmentalism” seem to have shaped her crude perception of reality...

The old American students who celebrated the purposeful killing of innocent Israeli civilians revealed a similar obsession with abstract words, constantly referring to phrases such as “colonialism,” “apartheid,” “humanitarian,” and “identity.” The words reflect the same creepy simplicity of mind that chills the blood.

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Coca-Cola is now on the official BDS boycott list!

From the website:

November 2024

1) Why?

Because Coca-Cola is implicated in Israeli war crimes.

According to research by WhoProfits, the Central Beverage Company, known as Coca-Cola Israel, which is the exclusive franchisee of the Coca-Cola Company in Israel, “operates a regional distribution center and cooling houses in the [Israeli] Atarot Settlement Industrial Zone.” Furthermore, its subsidiary, Tabor Winery, “produces wines from grapes sourced from vineyards located on occupied land in settlements in the West Bank and Syrian Golan.” 

The International Court of Justice affirmed in July 2024 that Israel’s entire occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is illegal, as are all Israeli settlements built on occupied land. As Israeli settlements – on occupied Palestinian and Syrian land – are considered war crimes under international law, Coke is complicit in a war crime. 

Corporations that are implicated in the commission of international crimes connected to Israel’s unlawful occupation, racial segregation and apartheid regime - within or beyond the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967 - are all complicit and must be held accountable. Direct complicity includes military, logistical, intelligence, financial and infrastructure support. The corporations, as well as their boards of directors and executives, may face criminal liability for this complicity.

Local alternatives are popping up worldwide to substitute Coca-Cola, an unnecessary and replaceable beverage

Local alternatives to Coca-Cola have been gaining market share across the world, including in Palestine, China, Bangladesh, Sweden, Egypt, India, South Africa, Turkey, Lebanon and elsewhere.

2) Why NOW?

The BDS movement has always considered Coca-Cola boycottable but has not prioritized it as a target based on its careful and strategic target-selection criteria, so why endorse the Coke boycott now? 

Human rights and health activists, among many others, have been campaigning against Coca-Cola and similarly complicit corporations for decades, including grassroots drives targeting the company for its complicity in Israel’s gross violations of Palestinian human rights. 

During Israel’s ongoing, livestreamed genocide, Israeli soldiers have often been pictured with Coke cans, donated to them by various genocide-enabling groups. This has provoked even more anger against the company, particularly given that Israel is starving 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip, severely limiting their access to clean water and, as a result, inducing the mass spread of contagious diseases. 

Given this context, Palestinian activists in Gaza and many BDS activists in the Arab world, in many Muslim-majority countries, and in some European countries as well, have called on the BDS movement to add Coke to its priority targets.

The BDS movement had previously targeted General Mills for its manufacturing of Pillsbury products in the illegal Atarot Settlement Industrial Zone - the same Zone where the Coke facility operates. Thanks to effective BDS campaigning, we won the demand for General Mills to end its business in Atarot. We know a campaign against Coke is winnable too. 

Based on all the above, and given Coke’s large contribution (through business-as-usual and taxes) to Israel’s war chest during the genocide, the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest Palestinian coalition leading the global BDS movement, has endorsed the grassroots, organic #BoycottCoke campaigns to pressure the company to end its complicity in Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid and genocide. 

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