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Maya communities respond to Land Predation and FPIC Violation in Belize   Even after the Maya’s watershed 2015 Caribbean Court of Justice land rights victory, the Government of Belize continues to condone land grabs in Indigenous territory.     Maya villages in Toledo District, Belize reported that during October speculators illegally opened survey lines in an attempted land grab.  The lines were established without Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC), cut through forests and corn an...

December 15, 2020 Maya villages in Toledo District, Belize reported that during October speculators illegally opened survey lines in an attempted land grab.  The lines were established without Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC), cut through forests and corn and cacao fields, and the living spaces and homes of Maya families. The survey activity was reported in a press release issued by the Maya Leaders Alliance (MLA) and Toledo Alcaldes Association (TAA). State-sanctioned FPIC violations ...

Oregon Pediatrician Publishes Study Comparing His Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Children Then Has His Medical License Suspended Comments by Brian Shilhavy Editor, Health Impact News Dr. Paul Thomas, M.D. was born in Portland, Oregon, and grew up in Southern Africa. He has a masters degree in biology, an M.D. from Dartmouth Medical School, and completed his pediatric residency at the University of California, San Diego. He is a board-certified fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and al...

Rolling Stone ‘Pastel QAnon’ Is Infiltrating the Natural Parenting Community There’s long been a link between those who distrust hospital births and those who distrust vaccines — but Covid-19 and QAnon are making it worse By LoloStock/Adobe Stock Yolande Norris-Clark gazes placidly into the camera, speaking in her best ASMR voice, honey-colored bangs lying flat against her forehead as if stuck there by glue. She is, she says, with her five youngest children (she has e...

Teri Tuxson White sandy beach at Oinafa, Rotuma. Picture: SUPPLIED ON November 28, as the last Fiji Link flight of day trip tourists departed the island of Rotuma, one set of residents were saddened to see them go, another group were elated and relieved, and yet another group of island residents were still wondering what these “tourists” were doing on their island home for four hours every weekend and how they had ended up there in the first place. And this is where the problem lies. When a...

The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), written by Slaoui and Dr. Matthew Hepburn. 12 Hepburn is a former program manager for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where he oversaw the development of ProfusA, 13 an implantable biosensor that allows a persons physiology to be examined at a distance via smartphone connectivity. ProfusA is also backed by Google, the largest data mining company in the world. Writing in NEJM, the duo writes, "Because some technologies have ...

By: Borneo Post Hajiji with Darrel, Dr Rebecca Jumin and Cynthia Ong during the meeting. Kota Kinabalu: Sabah should continue to implement good environment policies and initiatives such as the Sabah Biodiversity Strategy and the Jurisdictional Certification of palm oil to Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) standards for the wellbeing of the State and its people. Steadfast continuation of over 20 policies, including those related to wildlife action plans, water resources, forestry and en...

The federal government recently introduced Bill C-15: An Act respecting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Bill) in the House of Commons. If it becomes law in its current form, the Bill will require the federal government to take all measures necessary to ensure Canadas federal laws are consistent with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP). This is the second UNDRIP implementation bill that has been placed before the federal...

Rainier in washington, and alaskas redoubt volcano, californias mount shasta is there as well. up next, the year of the woman in the midterm elections, we will take a look. first beyond the border tonight, british regulators have had facebook with a fine of $644,000 for failing to protect the privacy of 87 million users. that is the maximum penalty available. the regulators say that facebook process the personal information of users on unfairly by giving them apps data without informed consent. ...

Zuck and sheryl have come out of the bunker and started to engage on the issues. this is not small issue. this is democracy and the privacy of -- in their case, more than 2 billion users. the problem with what theyre saying right now is that in 2011, the company signed a consent decree with the federal trade commission which required it to protect users profiles and explicitly required informed consent before sharing user data and informed consent before anyone else could, say, scrape data. and ...