The Organization of the Indigenous Peoples of the Colombian Amazon said in a statement that their survival is a sign of a “knowledge and relationship with the natural environment of life,” which is “learned from the mother’s womb and practiced from a very early age.”
That makes sense. It seems unlikely you'd survive in the jungle unless you already know the basics.
Thanks for gifting the WaPo article. Interesting stuff. Will he choose the scorched earth defense or the "flip one jurist" strategy. My guess is the former. He can't help himself.
I disagree with the trump trials. They are politically charged and set a precedent of arresting your political opponents. I'm not saying he's innocent or guilty but we should consider the bias
1)Read the indictment. There is a tape where he breaks the law and then acknowledges that’s it’s illegal and proceeds to break the law more. That single law has a sentencing guideline of 10 years.
I think it would set an extremely bad precedent if we made it that you can never arrest or try former presidents. Being able to try and hold the president to justice brings us closer to the national ideal of the president being a servant of the people, allowing them to act with legal impunity would bring us closer to the president being a dictator or a king.
Well no but I am concerned that is will become a pattern. Trump has already stated that he will prosecute biden if he is reelected. I doubt he is going to be reelected but its possible a republican controlled Congress should decide to take biden to court.
I obviously don't support policially charged trials but some conservatives do
Idk, from my point of view this looks like a result of the DOJ noticing they were missing classified documents and, after attempting to get them back via the usual means aking official requests, they had no choice but to initiate legal action in order to get them back.
Honestly, I doubt the current government had much involvement of at all in this case. Every previous president after receiving official requests for documents in their possession has returned said documents, trump is the first to not do so, and to actively (according to evidence) obstruct the DOJ from regaining said documents.
More likely the politically charged situation, and the current widening political divide has actually made it harder to prosecute this case - One wrong or hasty move at the wrong time and you've got the potential for a even worse repeat of Jan 6th on your hands.
Trying to prosecute a case where the defendant has built a cult of personality around himself is incredibly difficult and infuriatingly so, as the people that make up that cult believes everything said defendant says, and refuses to look at the facts even if they're right in front of them with blaring sirens and flashing lights, doing an Irish jig.
What would unbiased accountability look like to you? If the roles were reversed, Trump would be shouting "Lock him up!" in front of crowds every day. No one is doing this to him now (except in jest), because it's expected that his trial be fair.
Read the full indictment. It's clear he understood what he was doing was illegal and he didn't care, and it's clear he was aware it was not in the country's best interest. He was given many chances to make it right and failed to do so. He's been treated more fairly than he'd have done to his political opponents.
He needs to be held accountable. He put himself above the country, and it can't happen like this again. If a federal trial in front of a red state jury isn't fair, I don't know what would satisfy you.
Laws don't care about biases. He didn't break the law because he was Republican, he broke the law because he's a moron. And then he said it on tape. And also on that tape, he said he was breaking the law, and explained how he was doing it.
The simple solution for not getting arrested by political opponents is...don't break the law. I do it every day and I'm yet to be arrested.
lol. I mean yeah I get what you are saying, but I know these people exist already because our own politicians are saying the same thing… Completely ignoring the indictment and that this is just an attack blah blah… Yet they wont comment on the actual charges. Sad really. Good chance for everyone to talk about how justice will prevail one way or the other through our justice system and that no one is above the law. Instead they are literally saying that the ex president is literally above the law. Need a RL downvote button
Informative and unfortunate. Economic growth is the single goal of the CPV and guarantees its power. Climate and ecological claims endanger the social order, so 👨⚖️
Monsanto has in the past planted and ghostwrit articles alleging positive assertions about the cancer-causeing herbicide glyphosate.
While I can't prove it is happening in this case, it does seem serving the end of sewing skepticism, and it was published by a paper Bayer (maker of Roundup) buys ads in.
And also buys articles in.
you will thence gather I was saying no such thing.
I insinuated the author might be on the take.
I'll go ahead and state outright here The Washington Post absolutely is on the take.
Jeff Bezos (the paper's owner) is "the take", even if there hadn't been links in my post showing financial ties between the paper and the manufacturer.
It doesn't matter if the rangers are on the take or not, as they did not write the story. Neither did they propagate it.
Some people did write and publish this and they had a reason to.
I merely proffered some info one might consider as they ponder who those people are and what those reasons might be.
It's might be because RoundUp tastes like lemonade and Bezos really wants we should know.
It is absolutely to make The Washington Post profit.
It may well be to shape public opinion a certain way.
All things a reader of the article should attempt suss.
Also, try reading it.
I thank you for your concern but I assure you I did prior to commenting on it. Reading it, in fact, was how I was able to assert it, "serv[ed] the end of skewing skepticism" with such confidence.
Further, it's how I know it's odd a man who doesn't appear to be operating an industrial nor agricultural tree growing operation is singing the praises of residential-use RoundUp that won't even be obtainable legally in six months.
Please take your conspiracy theories elsewhere. And if you have issues with the science of conservation--and think you are more qualified than the park service folks who actually do this for a living, you can take it up with them.
I'm sorry you are so troubled with bogey men. It must make your life very difficult.
You are coming off quite adversarial. I question why that is.
Were I to guess, I'd say the article gives moral license to use a product you have unexamined doubts about and you are channeling the cognitive dissonance impugning its impartiality causes into combativeness.
If I were to guess. As I've no desire to get into this with someone I believe to be engaging in less-than-perfect faith, I won't presume to guess.
I am certain your propensity to post positively about Monsanto products is down to something as innocuous as a special interest.
The abrasive way you address others I will chalk to not sleeping well, or perhaps a personality quirk.
Regardless, I hope you have a fantastic rest of your day.
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