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~~Scolopendra subspinipes~~ ~~…the species is known by many common names, including jungle centipede, orange-legged centipede, Hawaiian centipede, and Vietnamese centipede.~~ ~~…it is also found on virtually all land areas around and within the Indian Ocean, all of tropical and subtropical Asia from Russia to the islands of Malaysia and Indonesia, Australia, South and Central America, the Caribbean islands, and possibly parts of the southern United States…~~ I think it’s actually Scolopendra alternans because the one pictured has only 4 segments on it’s antennae, but subspinipes has many. Scolopendra alternans is a species group found in the whole Caribbean island and northern South America, with the Florida population reevaluated as a distinct species Scolopendra longipes.[1] They have also been reported as far north as Georgia.
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Context: in 1980 Indonesia wanted to buy ex-Israeli A-4 Skyhawk, but Indonesia didn’t have formal diplomatic relationship with Israel so the purchase was conducted discreetly. This involves sending pilots and maintainers to Israel to learn how to fly and maintain A-4. The whole thing was called Operation Alpha Indonesian Air Force never officially acknowledge this. And the whole thing was unveiled in a book written by Air Vice-Marshal (Ret) Djoko Poerwoko, one of the pilot sent to Israel. Arizona also what the pilots refers to the base where they’re trained, it was rumoured to be somewhere near Eilat. The pilots also after completing their training were brought to United States and told to take photos of America. They also take A-4 training at MCAS Yuma
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Three UNIFIL peacekeepers were killed in two separate incidents yesterday by IOF strikes on their positions. They were all from the Indonesian UNIFIL mission. The Indonesian MFA issued a statement condemning the attacks on peacekeepers and isreali attacks in southern Lebanon.
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Asian here and rice eater here. Language doesn’t work in absolute way, it could change its meaning all the time. It’s better to regain is neutral meaning instead of letting the racist weaponize neutral word. Also, this mindset is also Western centric, go to Asia and people in Linux and car community simply use the word without any negative connotation. Edit: By doing this, you’re no different from imperial government who tries to make one standard of morality, which in fact further hurts Asian living in Asia. And as Indonesian, I’m hurt with your statement. Let me regain the neutral meaning. Don’t speak for us.
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Prabowo condemns ‘heinous act’ killing Indonesian peacekeepers President Prabowo Subianto condemned the “heinous act” that led to the deaths of three Indonesian peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). In a post on his official Instagram account on Saturday (April 4), he said the nation is mourning the loss of its personnel who died while carrying out a “noble mission” to maintain peace. “We strongly condemn every heinous act that undermines peace and leads to the loss of the nation’s finest personnel,” he said. … The fallen personnel — Captain Zulmi Aditya Iskandar, First Sergeant Muhammad Nur Ichwan, and Private First Class Farizal Rhomadhon — were posthumously promoted, and their families received compensation.
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How exposed is Southeast Asia’s energy supply to the Iran war - who is most vulnerable and what’s next? Long article but jist of it is: The Philippines sources 96 per cent of its oil from the Persian Gulf, while Vietnam and Thailand buy roughly 87 per cent and 74 per cent from that region, respectively. Thailand has more than 60 days of cover, Indonesia has no more than 21 to 25 days while Vietnam has less than 20 days of supply. …Malaysia, meanwhile, remains a net exporter of oil and gas, providing some buffer against physical supply disruptions. …Meanwhile, about 42.5 per cent of Singapore’s LNG imports came from Qatar last year, compared to 20.5 per cent of Thailand’s, according to data from Rystad. Both nations heavily rely on gas to keep their economies powered. …The Philippines and Vietnam are “potentially staring down the barrel of unaffordable LNG supplies”, given that they are almost entirely dependent on spot markets, Reynolds said. …When gas prices rise sharply, power utilities look for the cheapest available fuel to keep electricity flowing. In parts of Southeast Asia, coal remains that fallback option, especially in Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia. …Currently though, power development plans in the region still envision a continued expansion of LNG-to-power facilities, sold by the global gas industry as a “bridge fuel” from coal to renewables, Reynolds said. Given the exposure to two major global conflicts in just the last four years, and the soaring gas prices as a result, such expansion is “fundamentally antithetical to energy security and resilience”, he said.
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and Keanu Reeves Unfortunately, not him either. He’s such a big fan of the bigot Graham Hancock that he’s involved in Hancock’s Netflix series. And you don’t have to believe me about Hancock. There are indigenous Americans that are happy to tell you all about it. The description for the Secrets of the Ancients program listed on the Chaco filming permit application said the program would explore “one of archaeology’s biggest mysteries: the peopling of the Americas”. It went on to state: “We’ll uncover the latest findings about the earliest inhabitants of the Americas and reveal remarkable scientific knowledge that’s been handed down for generations. Where did humans settle first in the Americas, and what do we know about them?” Hancock, who is not an archeologist, has attracted the ire of those in the profession, as well as Native groups, for pushing a theory that an advanced ice age society, responsible for modern understandings of maths, architecture and agriculture, was wiped out by floods triggered by comet strikes nearly 12,000 years ago. Evidence of this is found at ancient sites around the world, Hancock claims, with the writer visiting such places in countries including Turkey, Mexico and Indonesia in the first season of the Netflix show, aired in 2022. During the show, which Netflix promoted with the tagline “What if everything we know about prehistoric humans is wrong?”, Hancock railed against “mainstream archaeology” for not accepting his theories. “[Hancock] presents his theories as being superior to what the first inhabitants of the area say about their own history,” said Stewart Koyiyumptewa, tribal historic preservation officer for the Hopi Nation. The Hopi people have lived in or near the Grand Canyon for at least 2,000 years and claim a sacred site inside the canyon as their place of emergence. They also have strong ties to Chaco Canyon. A Grand Canyon national park staff member who is Native American also pushed back against issuing a permit to ITN. “This is embarrassing and a discredit to our agency when we have been working hard to respect Indigenous people and right many historical wrongs,” wrote the staff member in an email to Grand Canyon park management. “This is just degrading.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/01/netflix-ancient-apocalypse-canceled
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Has Indonesia still blocked Reddit as well?
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US reputation hits record low as China surges, Ipsos survey finds In the poll conducted between March 20 and April 3 this year, Malaysia recorded a 16-percentage-point drop in positive views of the United States, the steepest fall among the Southeast Asian nations surveyed. Only 34 per cent of Malaysians now view the US as having an overall positive influence on world affairs over the next decade. By contrast, China’s positive influence rating stands at 83 per cent in Malaysia — the highest of any country surveyed and up seven percentage points from October 2025. Iran’s reputation has also risen among Malaysians, gaining four percentage points to reach 50 per cent positive perception since October last year. I found the official survey presentation slides and only 3 countries break the 50% mark in terms of thinking Iran as a positive influence: Indonesia: 69% | Malaysia: 64% | India: 61% China’s Top 3 - Malaysia: 83% | Indonesia: 81% | South Africa: 79%
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Bullets: China imports 85% of their natural rubber consumption, and enjoys strong trading relationships with the top rubber producers. But the war in the Persian Gulf is driving oil prices higher, which in turn is making natural rubber substitutes far more expensive. China is limited in its capacity to expand natural rubber production. Domestic sources are mostly from Hainan Island, and Southern Yunnan, which are two areas slated for massive expansions in high-end tourism and industry. Scientists are now growing natural rubber in the Gobi Desert, and are quickly scaling up production. Inside China / Business is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Report: Good morning. This headline was mystifying to us; it made no sense at all. Rubber prices are shooting higher because of the war on Iran, which is “boosting Asian suppliers.” This is a map of rubber-producing countries, and there’s no supply coming out of the Persian Gulf in the first place. By volume, almost all the rubber in the world comes from here, in Southeast Asia. These 10 countries are 90% of total rubber exports—and there is only one country in the top 7—the Ivory Coast—that isn’t in this part of the world: But the war in the Persian Gulf is blowing up oil prices, which in turn is pushing up the cost to make synthetic rubber. Tire manufacturers are also building inventories, in case they can’t get supplied at all. And since natural rubber can replace synthetic rubber, prices are going up. The natural rubber industry is very labor- and land-intensive, and we can tell from the long-term price chart that there is little motivation to clear hundreds of thousands of new hectares of land to build out new natural rubber capacity, considering oil-based synthetics are widely available: But now the prices are rising, and China in particular is exposed here. China accounts for 45% of global natural rubber demand, and is the world’s largest buyer, because China is now the world’s largest automobile market, and largest car manufacturer. Foreign tire manufacturers have set up here, and the industry is growing fast. The boom in China’s electric vehicle industry is also putting pressure on natural rubber supplies. Battery packs are heavy, and EV’s accelerate faster, so the tires for these cars need to be stronger, with a higher proportion of top-grade natural rubber. So on first glance, this chart doesn’t seem like a big problem. China, India, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam are about 80% of global natural rubber demand, and most of the world’s natural rubber does actually come from these countries, who happen to be generally friendly. But the strikes on Iran, and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has pushed oil prices sharply higher, which means higher costs for synthetic rubber, and thus higher demand for natural rubber. The Singapore exchange is the benchmark for rubber in Asian markets, and prices are up over 37% since the start of the year. In China, the price has not moved as much—up about 14% year to date—but even here that is the highest level in over two years. China does have a strong recycling industry for tires; in terms of volume, China recycles more than any other country. But demand for new rubber in China is outstripping what is coming off the roads. And here is another challenge for China, in developing new domestic sources of supply: most of its production comes from Hainan, and from an area just south of here in Yunnan province. The Chinese have other, major development plans for those areas. Hainan is being transformed right now into the world’s largest free-trade zone, and will also be the world’s largest center for medical tourism: It already attracts hundreds of thousands of patients a year, who receive medical care, with treatments and therapies that are not yet approved even in Mainland China, let alone in North America or in Europe. Xishuangbanna is in the Mekong River Delta. Natural rubber farming is an important industry there, especially at the small-village level. Again, the natural rubber industry is labor- and land-intensive. And the areas that are developed for rubber plantations aren’t good for much else. Over two decades, forest cover in Xishuangbanna dropped from over 70% to about half, which corresponded with the growth in rubber and tea plantations. And that’s the tension: Authorities in Yunnan, and in Beijing, understand that the growth of natural rubber plantations is at odds with their plans for the tourism industries. Here is a famous local example which illustrates the problem: Yunnan is a wildlife sanctuary for Asian elephants, who migrate between Xishuangbanna and Pu’er, which is the center of Yunnan’s tea industry. 70% of the protected animals in all of China are here in Yunnan, and the elephants in particular are being squeezed by the rubber plantations. Elephant populations in China are recovering, but only in the areas that are off-limits to the rubber industries. By the way, if you want to see them, best time is November-February. All of this puts China in a strange spot. Their demands for natural rubber are higher than for any other country, and the only places they’ve got available to scale up production are slated for development of other industries that are far more lucrative. Eco-tourists fly in from all over the world to see the elephants and the other wildlife in Yunnan. Medical tourism in Hainan will be a multi-trillion-dollar industry, which will boom long after the war ends and oil prices stabilize, at which time tire manufacturers will be comfortable with their raw materials inventories, and natural rubber prices revert to the norm. Beijing is probably somewhat relaxed about sourcing their rubber imports from friendly countries next door, and in the Ivory Coast, which is a strong trade partner. And so there’s yet another headline, that is also mystifying. These Chinese researchers are building plantations for natural rubber in the Gobi, and again we’re left to wonder right away if this is something they did on purpose, or just discovered by accident. China consumes seven million tons per year of rubber, and imports over six million tons. Duzhong is a plant, used in Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is also a key source of natural rubber, and is China’s only source of natural rubber. Rubber derived from Duzhong has applications in the defense sector. China strongly prefers to not rely on supply chains running through foreign countries—friendly or not. And given that China’s import dependency in rubber is 85%, rubber is a poster child for a raw material that they’ve got their scientists nationwide hard at work on. The Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University is one of the top unis in the world. It’s in Shaanxi, and this group headed out to Xinjiang to see if Duzhong could grow in the desert. First, they had to solve the genetics problem, then had to figure out how to scale up production in the desert, and to do so economically. They discovered a new extraction process for the rubber that dramatically improves the yield, while doing so more cleanly than before. Fast-forward ten years to now, and today there is a Dezhong forest of 300,000 hectares, in the Gobi Desert, which will grow eleven times larger in the next five years. At 3.3 million hectares, China by 2030 will be the world’s top producer of natural rubber. Be Good. Resources and links: China’s Hainan free trade port: what the world’s largest FTZ means for global trade https://www.mic-cust.com/mic-blog/posts/detail/ad/chinas-hainan-free-trade-port-what-the-worlds-largest-ftz-means-for-global-trade/ China grows military-grade rubber in Gobi Desert as war reshapes supply chains https://interestingengineering.com/military/china-gobi-desert-military-grade-rubber Mapping China’s rubber metabolism: tires and beyond https://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/info/1245/14737.htm It is ‘flourishing’: China’s man-made forest in Gobi produces good rubber for military use https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3341641/it-flourishing-chinas-man-made-forest-gobi-produces-good-rubber-military-use 10 Countries Control 90% of Natural Rubber Export Value https://www.kontango.com/blog/10-countries-control-90-of-natural-rubber-export-value Tire Recycling Industry Statistics: Global Market Data https://gradeall.com/tire-recycling-industry-statistics-global-market/ After the rubber boom: good news and bad news for biodiversity in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10113-019-01509-4 Improving sustainable livelihoods for smallholder rubber farmers in Xishuangbanna https://www.preferredbynature.org/projects/improving-sustainable-livelihoods-smallholder-rubber-farmers-xishuangbanna Rubber Boom, Land Use Change and the Implications for Carbon Balances in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800918301289 Navigating between Tea and Rubber in Xishuangbanna, China: When New Crops Fail and Old Ones Work https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/9/1/22 SunSirs: Natural Rubber Prices Continue to Rise; Supply-Demand Gap Sustains High-Level Performance https://www.anrpc.org/news/sunsirs%3A-natural-rubber-prices-continue-to-rise%3B-supply-demand-gap-sustains-high-level-performance Natural rubber prices soar on Iran tensions, boosting Asian suppliers https://asia.nikkei.com/business/markets/trading-asia/natural-rubber-prices-soar-on-iran-tensions-boosting-asian-suppliers 25-year natural rubber prices https://jmkintl.com/rubber-price-trend Which Country Produces the Most Natural Rubber? https://www.helgilibrary.com/charts/which-country-produces-the-most-natural-rubber/ In Search of Giants: Tracking Rare Wild Elephants in China https://www.fabionodariphoto.com/en/where-see-elephants-china-yunnan/ Inside China / Business is a reader-supported publication. 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Berita kehancuran rupiah sudah jadi breaking news di media luar negeri. @[email protected] @[email protected]
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Inilah jadinya ketika tidak ada hukum dan penegakan hukum yang tegas melarang perzinaan di Indonesia, kita menjadi bahan olok-olokan.
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The ex-chief of Indonesia’s free school meals program linked to food poisoning cases has been arrested after a corruption probe.
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Nurse holding Cuba’s VAXIRA vaccine [Social media] Last week, the Cuban Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM) announced a major health breakthrough with VAXIRA, a vaccine treatment for lung cancer. This is a remarkable achievement, made only more impressive by the fact this is Cuba’s second lung cancer vaccine. Subscribe now The vaccine stops the progression of cancer by developing the patient’s immune system to fight off cancer cells. This has proven to significantly prolong people’s survival. Since 2013, the vaccine has been monitored, trialled, and tested on more than 1,300 patients. Over a ten-year period, patients survived a median of 76.6 months with 20% of all patients who were given VAXIRA experienced unexpected long-term survival. Last year, VAXIRA was awarded the Technological Innovation Prize in Cuba for its contribution to healthcare in Cuba. This is an incredible feat for humanity and the battle against cancer - and it is being done by a country facing the longest and most severe blockade in history. In 2011, Cuba developed CIMAvax, which remains the world’s only approved lung cancer vaccine. This vaccine works to induce the immune system to stop the growth of cancer cells to slow the progression of a tumors. This vaccine has already treated more than 5,000 people across the world and many more thousands in Cuba itself. Given the immense significance of the vaccine, the United States agreed to a special arrangement to trial the vaccine in the US. The Roswell Park Cancer Institute in New York has been running clinical trials with CIM since 2018. They have run the first clinical trials of CIMAvax in the United States. The very same nation that is imposing a genocidal blockade on Cuba is also benefiting from the historic breakthroughs in healthcare. These major developments in medicine to treat cancer are not Cuba’s only awe-inspiring health achievements. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Cuba produced five vaccines: Ablada, Soberana 01, Soberana 02, Soberana Plus, and Mambisa. Cuba had one of the lowest COVID deaths in the Western Hemisphere - and by 2021, Cuba’s fatality rate was just 0.59% compared to the 2.2% worldwide average. The vaccines were produced without need for specialist refrigeration which meant they could be easily transported and also distributed across the world to places where accessing such infrastructure would be impossible. Quickly, Venezuela, Iran, Vietnam, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Mexico all picked up the vaccine to protect their population. By 2023, Cuba had the third highest rate of vaccinations per 100,000 people. Despite the fact the U.S. banned the country from importing the syringes necessary to immunize their own population. In this context, Cuba was the first country in the world to vaccinate toddlers and children, as part of their push to re-open schools safely. Cuba, like the United States, offered its COVID vaccines to the world. While Cuba donated vaccines to St Vincent and the Grenadines and sold them as cheap as they could, the U.S. bullied countries into putting up their assets, like embassy buildings and military bases, in order access vaccines. This was to “protect” against future legal challenges that vaccine recipients might file against the manufacturer of the vaccine. This profit-motive was a major cause for the vaccine apartheid in the distribution of COVID protection across the world. As of August 2024 in high-income countries, more than 222 doses had been distributed per 100 people. While in low-income countries, this was less than 46. In 2021, US pharmaceutical companies that produced COVID vaccines (Moderna, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson) collected an eye-watering revenue of $31 billion. The concept that companies and shareholders should make money from a pandemic should be utterly outrageous. Photo Credit Biotechnology Cuba leads the world in its vaccine breakthroughs. But, how is this all possible? It is not by accident that Cuba is able to develop world-leading health breakthroughs in medicine. Cuba has developed a world-class biotechnological sector that is state-owned and operates in the interests of the people, not profit. There are no profit motives to producing vaccines, research and development is for collective benefit, and resources are shared to better the process of scientific development. This is quite the opposite situation in capitalist countries where biotechnology is a major competition dominated by pharmaceutical companies motivated entirely by profits, which often means that when there are major developments in health - they are not accessible for people. In 1981, Cuba opened the Biological Research Center, despite the blockade stopping entry of equipment, materials, access to research journals, and medicines. In the first 9 years, the Center produced three products. Between 1990-2000, it produced 18, and 2001-2010 it produced more than 40. Today, that figure continues to grow. The Center flourished into a world-class biotechnological sector that has made major health breakthroughs. Cuba produced the world’s first human vaccine to contain a synthetic antigen, for Haemophilus influenzae type B. In 1989, Cuba produced the world’s first Meningitis B vaccine during a severe breakout of the disease in the country. This was the first ever vaccine produced to protect against Meningitis B and was exported to protect people in countries across Latin America. The U.S. approved its first vaccine for Meningitis B in 2014. The following year, Cuba produced a vaccine for Hepatitis B. They joined just five other countries as a manufacturer of Hep B vaccines: France, South Korea, United States, Indonesia, and Britain. As the US blockade made it virtually impossible and far too expensive to import the vaccine, Cuba produced their own and eliminated Hepatitis B under 15. In 2006, Cuba developed Heberprot-P, the only medicine in the world to reduce the amputation rate of patients with diabetic foot ulcers by 75%. Within 10 years, it was used in 23 countries. It has treated more than 400,000 people with foot ulcers. In 2024, the United States even broke their own blockade and approved it for trials and use. The very thought that Americans who suffer from diabetes might be treated by Cuban medicine while being fed propaganda against Cuba and funding a war against the very Cuban researchers and scientists helping them reveals how inhumane this blockade is. AFP 2020/ADALBERTO ROQUE. Scientists work at the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnological Centre in Havana, Cuba. By 2015, Cuba became the first country in the world to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis. Cuba managed this because of its socialist model, which is the same reason why it is not celebrated in mainstream media and looked to as a center for health advances in the U.S. This world historical achievement came as a result of Cuba’s universal health system that integrated maternal and child health programs with HIV and STI treatment. Cuba has one of the lowest rates of AIDS in the world and the lowest in the Americas, thanks to the free provision of antiretroviral treatment it has been distributing since 2001. Its vaccination programs have eradicated diseases that continue to cause death and suffering around the world including diphtheria in 1979, measles in 1993, whooping cough in 1994, and rubella in 1995. Cuba has also developed the highest control on blood pressure in the world. The same principles that lead Cuba to produce world-leading medical breakthroughs is similar to its success in eliminating diseases. Cuba’s vaccination model is motivated by protecting its people. The National Immunization Program, which began in 1962, has saved the lives of at least 560,000 children who would have otherwise contracted diseases if it weren’t for the program. This is motivated by four directives: equity of vaccine distribution; integration of vaccination in primary healthcare; the inclusion of active community participation; and to provide vaccines free of charge. These guiding principles indicate how central the health of all society is, not corporate interests or greed. Cuba’s approach to providing healthcare is indicative of the nature of the revolution: to serve Cubans and the oppressed across the world. Before the revolution in 1959, 300 children were paralyzed by polio each year. One of the first measured by the revolutionary government was immunization for Cuban society. In 1962, the polio campaign launched through mobilizing 100,000 members of newly founded revolutionary committees to conduct a population census and vaccinate all children. Within months, polio was eradicated in Cuba making it one of the first countries in the world to do so. Polio is still a leading cause of paralysis and death across the world. These health achievements have massively benefited people across the world through access to new treatments and cures, affordable and accessible vaccines and medicines, and models for healthcare. But, another awe-inspiring element of Cuba’s healthcare is its international solidarity. Cuba has restored the eyesight for more than four million people with its joint program with Venezuela, Operation Miracle. They have sent more than 600,000 health workers on medical missions to 160 countries in response to pandemics, epidemics, natural disasters, and other crises where no other country would act. They have and continue to train doctors from the Global South for free so they go back to their home countries to practice medicine. Cuba makes these miraculous achievements for humanity while facing a blockade that causes shortages of medicines in pharmacies across Cuba, blocks researchers from accessing health journals, and prevents the entry of equipment, spare parts, and laboratory materials that could make it easier and faster to conduct research. The U.S. blockade should be seen as an attack on humanity itself. This is a genocidal act of war against a population that exports doctors across the world by an empire that exports bombs, fighter jets, and invading soldiers. Cuba once had amongst the lowest rates of infant mortality in the world. But since 2019, with the increase of more than 250 additional sanctions on Cuba, the rates of infant mortality have risen by 148%. It is estimated this has cost 1,800 lives of infants. This is the material result of a blockade that intends to kill, punish, and destroy a country for asserting its own sovereignty. Yet, even still, Cuba’s infant mortality rate is lower than that in the United States. The U.S. enforces its blockade on Cuba so that it can try to claim Cuba is a “failed state”, which also means its universal, free healthcare system “fails”; all so it can maintain its abysmal healthcare system that operates purely for profit, despite the level of death, bankruptcy, and suffering it causes to poor Americans. The truth is that even with this genocidal blockade, Cuba maintains the principles of its revolution and the motivation to better the world. Like Fidel Castro said in 2003: “Our country does not drop bombs on other peoples, nor does it send thousands of planes to bomb cities; our country does not possess nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, or biological weapons. Our country’s tens of thousands of scientists and doctors have been educated in the idea of saving lives. It would absolutely contradict this concept to put a scientist or a doctor to work to produce substances, bacteria or viruses to kill other human beings.” Join our next Cuba Community Call on June 16! Nuvpreet Kalra is CODEPINK’s Digital Content Producer and co-ordinator for the international Bases off Cyprus campaign. CODEPINK Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. From CODEPINK Substack via This RSS Feed.
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944 words 4–6 minutes Happy Pride! And Happy Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month! I know that’s right. It’s around this month that I usually fought misogynists and bigots on the internet, who unsurprisingly were both men… and some women, for some patriarchal reasons. And usually around this month, I had inner turmoil about whether or not I should channel my inner murabiyyah to remind fellow Muslims about the moral lessons behind the story of people of Luth (Prophet Lot), which always ended up forgotten and I got distracted by more pressing matters like doxxing and death threats for instance. But those were my Threads days, which also allegedly contributed to my getting permanently banned. Your girl was deranged, and positively unsafe for the harmful. What they all had in common, every single adversary across every single conflict, was that at some point they found their way to my profile, saw the survival request pinned there or linked in my bio, and decided that settled it. Either I was a beggar, which meant my politics could be dismissed — I was essentially just an influencer, after all — or I was a scammer, which meant I could be reported to the authorities of their choice, or they thought doxxing me or telling me to die would be cute. The visible need was always the weapon. It still is. The idea that you hold a strong principle on certain things while simultaneously needing mutual aid to survive makes whatever your principle is illegitimate and makes you an easy target to dismiss. That’s how you know your presence, with your principles and visible needs in all wholeness, disrupts something. Below are people whose visible need I am asking you to meet, or to carry further than my feed alone can reach. The rest of the requests can be found under last week’s mutual aid checkpoint. ✨Mutual Aid Roundup✨ @Ricardus @AutumnWyvern @nat @thereaders @sparkshocker @broodcoffee @crystalgrace @QuyetPawz @ashleyyrain @Toadlyturtle ✨Palestinian Campaign Spotlight✨ Save my family from hunger and homelessness in Gaza… We have no place in this world. Hiyam is a mother in Gaza with a tent too torn to shelter her family. She needs $700 for a tent and food. [View original post] @[email protected] Donate Save Ratiba and her family from war and live safely Standing over a fire in pain just to feed her children. Reta is keeping her family going one meal at a time. [View original post] @[email protected] Donate Gaza Verified Archive Verified Palestinian campaigns under $200 These are verified Palestinian accounts whose campaigns received less than $200 in the past 7 days. Open the archive, find the campaign link on each account, give directly where possible, and share the campaign links that need movement. @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] View underfunded campaign list About Gaza Verified Campaigns This space is held together by a disabled Indonesian Muslim woman. Monthly support keeps me fed, medicated, and connected, and helps me keep resisting through my writing and mutual aid projects. It is also my birthday month and I need your help. Want the weekly roundup, plus occasional updates from yours truly, in your inbox? Subscribe to WRZKY Weekly Dispatch. Follow this site on a Mastodon app or the Fediverse to get updates in your feed! @mutualaid @mutualaid @disability @autistics @actuallyadhd @wrzky @nillerus @khurry @theleftistlawyer @Kristenzeta @[email protected] @[email protected] @frugalcoffee @frugalcoffee @sassycassyshenanigans @aral @fabio #mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #mutualaidspace #disabilitymutualaid #disability #advocacy #press #activism #politics #neurodivergence #anarchism #socialmedia #writer #disabilityjustice #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AuDHD #womensrights #feminism #transmutualaid #poverty #healthcare #mentalhealth #books #Palestine #Gaza #genocide #anticapitalism #antiimperialism #communism #Islam
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In the remote, over-the-water village of Muara Enggelam in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, the introduction of reliable solar energy has become a catalyst for female entrepreneurship and economic stability. Historically cut off from basic services and reliant on expensive, noisy diesel generators that ran only from dusk to dawn, the village underwent a transformation starting in 2015 following a solar power allocation from Indonesia’s energy ministry, reports Mongabay Indonesia contributor Yuda Almerio. For women like Asniah, a mother of three, 24-hour electricity thanks to a solar array meant the ability to scale a home business. She began using electric blenders to produce amplang (fish crackers), a task that was previously difficult due to the high cost and unreliability of diesel fuel. “Using a blender was a bit of a worry, because the fuel would run out quickly,” Asniah told Mongabay Indonesia. “A liter [of diesel] wouldn’t last an hour — now it’s much more convenient.” Asniah has since expanded her ventures to include a food stall and a digital boutique, utilizing social media for marketing. Muara Enggelam’s solar infrastructure is managed by a village-owned enterprise, BUMDes, led by Jam’ah, a mother of one. This makes it a rare example of female leadership in the energy sector; the United Nations Development Program estimates that women make up less than 5% of energy managers in Indonesia. “Using a generator was expensive, that’s why so few people started businesses,” Jam’ah said. “The solar energy has been a relief for people.” While Muara Enggelam serves…This article was originally published on Mongabay From Conservation news via This RSS Feed.
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Foreign ministers of Turkey, UAE, Indonesia, Qatar, Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Jordan call for immediate cessation of illegal, provocative Israeli actions. From Presstv via This RSS Feed.
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This is an article about how veteran news man Wolf Blitzer found such logic disgusting. You think swooping in and doubling down is helping disprove that? “My three kids are gone, my kids, no one is alive,” one despondent man named Jabar could be heard saying as his friends tried to console him. Dr. Atef Al-Kahlot, director of the nearby Indonesian Hospital, said the total number of people wounded and killed is about 400. What a just and noble war the brave bombs of Israel wage. We can all learn a lot from this I think.
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Selamat datang di Thread Obrolan Umum c/Indonesia. Bicarakan apa saja bersama sesama pengguna Lemmy Indonesia di sini! Obrolan, inspirasi, humor, dan keceriaan 24 jam sehari, 7 hari seminggu! Ada yang ingin dibicarakan atau dibagikan? Ini tempat yang tepat! Selamat bersenang-senang mengobrol di thread ini.