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The World Bank promotes expansion of private land ownership and title to improve efficient land use and recently announced billions of dollars to support these policies, claiming it will also facilitate carbon projects including offsets and afforestation. But analysis by the Oakland Institute (OI) argues those investments overwhelmingly benefit big business at the expense of local and Indigenous communities.

“The Bank is hijacking the climate crisis to pursue an agenda that is not about climate but about catering for the financial and corporate interests fueling the crisis,” [...]

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/26908581

There’s no such thing as an “alpha male.” It’s a false myth with no bases in biology or science. That fact, however, hasn’t stopped the pseudoscience behind a natural dominance hierarchy among men from spreading like a virus through our media culture.

Since bell hooks' book is mentionned, I thought of adding a link to listen and/or download it.

 

Οι προπηλακισμοί από Ισραηλινούς τουρίστες στην Ελλάδα πληθαίνουν. Απειλές, ρατσιστικά σχόλια, συλλήψεις. Και είμαστε μόνο στην αρχή του καλοκαιριού.

 

Είχε εστιακό βάθος 10 χιλιομέτρων

 

Making a discovery with the potential for innovative applications in pharmaceutical development, a West Virginia University microbiology student has found a long sought-after fungus that produces effects similar to the semisynthetic drug LSD, which is used to treat conditions like depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction.

 

Undermining vital legislation will harm people, the environment and the economy — not to mention citizens’ confidence in the bloc.

The main reason behind this revision is an intense lobbying campaign for European “competitiveness.”

 

Survey says fewer than a fifth of respondents in six countries hold a favourable opinion of the country

 

More than a million EU citizens are pressuring the Commission to ban conversion therapies – but the path to a ban is anything but straight.

Conversion therapy, condemned by UN experts as a form of “torture,” encompasses practices that aim to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity – typically from non-heterosexual to heterosexual – through psychoanalysis or other methods. A 2024 study by the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) found that 2% of LGBTQ individuals had been subjected to conversion attempts, and 5% had been offered such “therapies.”

Currently, only seven EU countries – including France, Germany, and Belgium – have enacted partial or complete bans. Elsewhere, the practice remains legal or poorly regulated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

For more on this, I suppose we have to wait for part 3 of this three-part series articles

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yes, you are right. In Oct 2023 they said they won't do military business with Israel. But in 2025:

However, on April 17 as Spaniards geared up for the Easter holiday weekend, the government filed paperwork confirming the deal on the government tenders website. The purchase, worth 6.6 million euros ($7.53 million), includes the acquisition of more than 15 million 9-mm rounds from Israel's IMI Systems, owned by Elbit Systems (ESLT.TA), opens new tab and represented in Spain by Guardian LTD Israel.

It's only only after ~~pressure~~ threats that the government decided to do as they had pledged in 2023:

The decision drew a sharp rebuke on Wednesday from coalition partner Sumar, with one of the groups within Sumar, Izquierda Unida, threatening to withdraw from the minority coalition government.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

This is not exactly what you asked for, but it's the closest thing I can think of. The Forensic Architecture site has some accurate info for Gaza, Palestine but they date back to 2024. Still, I think it's worth keeping an eye out for any new investigation they might do.

A Cartography of a Genocide

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not too sure how effective this is tho, as a solution.

It seems to me like a diplomatic escalation in the sense that banning the Russian ambassador from attending this commemoration event gives Putin something to instrumentalise anyways, at least for internal consumption. In the same time this move does not apply any kind of actual pressure on Russia. So I honestly don't know what good can come out of this move.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Well, the extreme weather events are already taking place. The point for me is that we should stop them before they do more damage. And they should pay to mitigate the damage they already caused.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What you said reminded me of an argument that I recently heard and found quite interesting, as well as accurate.

It was saying that the developing countries are actually the colonising ones because they got prosperous from ferociously extracting the resources from the places they colonised. In the so-called "post colonial era", theses western countries kept their development through economic exploitation of the same areas and people.

Edit: So the developed countries, should actually be called developing instead. And what we call now developing countries should be called exploited, abused or something similar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

ενώ το ακαθάριστο ενοποιημένο χρέος της Γενικής Κυβέρνησης σε ονομαστικές τιμές στο τέλος του 2024 εκτιμάται στα 364,9 δισ. ευρώ (153,6% επί του Ακαθάριστου Εγχώριου Προϊόντος)

Με αφορμή αυτό το σημείο του άρθρου, είπα να προσθέσω κι αυτό το λινκ με τους στατιστικούς πίνακες του χρέους από wiki.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ανάλογα. Πιστεύω μερικές εταιρίες κάνουν ακριβώς αυτό που λες. Κάποιες άλλες έχουν συγκεκριμένη θέση. Πχ Palantir: The New Deep State.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Κ μένα κάπως έτσι μου φαίνονται τα πράγματα. Απλά πιστεύω τελικά, με άξονα το κέρδος όπως είπες, κάποιον υποστηρίζουν.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I believe your comment was clearly about the outlet. I just took the opportunity to say where I stand on this topic, as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think I just understood our main point of difference. Maybe.

For me, the problems in the middle-east / West Asia for example, have been created due to colonialism. More specifically, because eurpean colonisers carved up the area when the Ottoman Empire started to crumble. In a way, I look further back in time to find the root cause, which is not that long ago, if you think about it. Btw, I also consider the US power-house as a problem that derived from european colonialism. Similarly, Australia and Canada even if they don't seem to have the US power ambitions on global geopolitics.

This is why I also see migration as such a difficult issue, but as you might have noticed I didn't talk about solutions. The prosperity of western societies was created and is maintained due to the exhaustive exploitation of other parts of the world. I believe before the west addresses that, there can be no solutions, and and-aid legislation (best case scenario that is) cannot help the healing of such deep wounds.

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