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• American Indian Airwaves (Apple Podcasts)
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• Larry Smith American Indian AIAirwaves (Myspace)

At COP30 to save our environment

(APT) "Culture is being erased" | Leaders protect Amazon lands from "invaders"

NOTE: While we agree the environment and climate need saving, we oppose the nonsense capitalist pseudo-solutions that make it obvious that the reason "climate change" is promoted is to sneak in more of the same: Pollution credits, blaming consumers while exempting the corporations that are profiting from polluting, incentivizing bad (biased) science that finds results its looking for (the promote the mainstream narrative) and dismissing results that contradict it. Stop polluters -- national and multinational actors actively promoting toxins (pesticides), deforestation, unsustainable practices...

• Indigenous leaders Converge in Belém, Brazil, demanding greater role at U.N. climate talks | Democracy Now!

Talking to Indigenous Americans in Amazon

Democracy Now! speaks with Indigenous leaders at U.N. climate summit in Belém for climate negotiations, in greater numbers than ever before, taking center stage at COP30. 

These Indigenous leaders are calling “to end the persecution of our land defenders,” says Diana Chávez, member of the Pastaza Kichwa Nation, with Pakkiru, an Indigenous organization based in Ecuador’s Amazon. “We’re fighting to keep our territories.”

• What is the Amazon rainforest?
• Native Kichwa (Quechua) languages
• Pakkiru (Kichwa) | Cultural Survival

(Democracy Now!) Protect the land, tax polluters: Activists demand climate action: COP30

TRANSCRIPT

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.

HOST AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. We’re broadcasting from Belém, Brazil, the gateway to the Amazon, where the U.N. climate summit is taking place.

“The answer is us.” That was the slogan as hundreds of Indigenous leaders from the Amazon and across the region gathered in the streets of Belém Monday (Nov. 17) outside the U.N. climate summit venue, where delegates from over 190 countries continue negotiations. These are some of the voices from the streets of Belém.

INDIGENOUS LEADER 1: [Translated] We are here fighting for our land, for our wildlife, for our birds that are facing extinction. We are here at this COP for results. We ask that Brazilian President Lula come and demarcate the land so that the illegal miners don’t enter our land and our river.

INDIGENOUS LEADER 2: [Translated] We are here claiming our rights, defending our forests, defending our animals, where we have survived all these years. We need to be recognized by the world as great guardians of the forest.

AMY GOODMAN: As Indigenous protests continue here in Belém, the government of Brazil has announced the creation of 10 new Indigenous territories in response to demands from protesters. There are more than 900 Indigenous delegates accredited here at [COP30], the highest number at any U.N. climate summit.

We’re joined now by Diana Chávez. She is a member of the Pastaza Kichwa Nation, head of international affairs and organizations for Pakkiru, which is based in Ecuador’s Amazon, arrived in Belém three weeks ago. Can you talk about where you’re from in Ecuador? More

• Indigenous protesters STORM climate conference COP30 in Brazil to demand forest protection (NY Post)
• Brazil’s contradictory climate policies: Lula gov’t reduces deforestation, boosts oil and gas production
• Indigenous leaders converge in Belém, Brazil, demanding greater role at U.N. climate talks
• Kumi Naidoo on U.S. skipping COP30, why rich nations must pay a climate debt, Gaza, Sudan, and more
• Report from COP30: Thousands march in Indigenous-led protest at Brazil climate talks “in defense of life”
• Protect the Amazon, tax the polluters: Climate activists demand action at COP30 in Belém, Brazil

American Holocaust: Amazonian Apocalypse

Nossas histórias | Na floresta amazônica, um povo indígena luta pela sobrevivência (ACNUDH)

The Amazonian Apocalypse

Untamed Beauty of the Amazon (freepik.com)

(Lost in Context) For some 10,000 years the world was split into two isolated spheres, each unaware of the other's existence.

Then in 1492 the so-called "Old World" collided with the new, unleashing a cascade of devastation unlike anything humanity had ever witnessed. What followed was without parallel the darkest chapter in human history.

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:19 European arrival
• 02:21 Orellana's expedition
• 06:15 Portuguese take control
• 09:26 Manaus to Santarem
• 13:16 Destruction of the Amazonians
• 21:46 The holocaust of disease
• 25:55 The rubber boom

It didn't stop in the Amazon. It ruined pre-USA

This video tells the tragic story of the destruction of the people of the Amazon rainforest and, through its lens, the holocaust of the entire Western Hemisphere.

Sources (for the Amazon series)

• John Hemming, Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon, 2008
• Chris Feliciano Arnold, The Third Bank of the River, 2018
• Charles C. Mann, 1491: The Americas Before Columbus, 2005
• Charles C. Mann, 1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World, 2011
• McNeill, J. R, Mosquito Empires; Ecology and War in the Greater Carribean, 2010
• Grandin, Greg, Fordlandia, 2009
• Lost in Context, Dec. 9, 2024; Pfc. Sandoval, Crystal Quintero, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Giant Amazonian cities (Graham Hancock)

Plenty of records exist. Terra preta is a living tradition in the Americas. See my books.

How ancient Amazon fed 20 million people (Graham Hancock)

Joe Rogan, are you surprised? The ancients had biochar tech

Amazonian terra preta or biochar "dark earth," "black earth," nutrient-rich composted dirt and natural fertilizer full of minerals (micronutrients) and colonies of microbes. It is manmade. It is thousands of years old. And one can take the "Amazon rainforest" with them from one place to another, as the jungle expanded to become the lungs of the planet (along with the plankton of the ocean and snowy forest of Siberia). What does research Graham Hancock know? He has written books on what was lost in the Americas most of us have never heard. Just as what the European conquerors found when they arrived in ancient Mexico City and could not believe their eyes (clean streets, canals, markets, cosmopolitan traders, pyramids, trash collection, boats, channels, foods of all kinds), a city bigger than anything in Europe.

Did ETs bring techn, or did plant spirits give it?
Extraterrestrials and trans-dimensionals both

Kaddafi wanted a Pan-Africa, so CIA killed him

Musk brings internet porn to Amazon tribe

Our natural beauty has lost. Now we have to compete with a new standard brought from outside.

The shaman warned us this would happen, foretold from a dream of a handheld device.

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In the dense Amazon rainforest (Valley of Javari, Brazil), the remote Marubo tribe has preserved its unique culture and language for millennia.

• Indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon jungle

PARADISE LOST

The First Nations had a paradise in U.S.

However, advanced technology brings danger, as Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service [which floats satellites aloft on balloons in low earth atmosphere not weightless in space as we are led to believe], has recently breached the tribe's blissful isolation.

This connection to the outside world brings both challenges and opportunities for the tribe [on the one hand they may all die of modern sedentary diseases and for-profit allopathic "treatments," never cures, but on the other hand, they won't miss the latest episode of Game of Thrones and its fan-fiction porn offshoots].

STARLINK INTERNET IN AMAZON

I cut my own hair because I'm a teen now.

The Marubos, a 2,000-member tribe, connected with the world through the internet for the first time last September when Starlink launched its services in Brazil.

Billionaire Elon Musk's Starlink aims to provide internet to remote locations using low-Earth orbit satellites.

"When it arrived, everyone was happy," said 73-year-old Tsainama Marubo to The New York Times.

X needs full spectrum dominance for CIA

The internet has brought clear benefits [um, we can check stock prices, the weather, get futbol scores, and, um, check commodity exports on Amazonian goods to see if they'll be burning our block down anytime soon to make room for more cow pasture], including video chats with faraway loved ones and emergency calls for help. "But now, things have gotten worse," she added.

CULTURAL IMPACTS AND CONCERNS

I have a hack. Imma gonna vanlife down to the Amazon and intro myself to this Marubo tribe and become their Goddess, and I may even honeymoon the boys if nexesscary to prove I from the Western sky of El Norte. What could go wrong, unless I watch too much content, repeat the slang, and say 'Eat me' and then they literally do. They're not cannibals, right? Worse comes to worse, I'll convert my van into a delivery truck and pick up some packages. - Goddess, where do you think 'there' is? - Amazon, right? - That's right, and where's that? - South of TJ, for sure. Near Rosarito?

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'Hack'? My gosh these Millennials are dum.

The tribe faces a fundamental dilemma regarding the internet's use and its impact on their culture. "Young people have gotten lazy because of the internet," Tsainama said.

"They're learning the ways of the white people." Despite this, she pleaded, "But please don't take our internet away." The youth are now frequently on their phones, chatting with friends, glued to screens, and accessing inappropriate content. Alfredo Marubo, leader of a Marubo association of villages, expressed his concerns to The New York Times. He is particularly troubled by the spread of pornography. "We're worried young people are going to want to try it," he said, noting that some leaders have observed more aggressive sexual behavior among young men.

• SOURCE: (Elon Musk brings internet porn to Amazon tribe isolated for 1,000 years; Now they face porn addiction (The Economic Times)
• Pfc. Sandoval, Crystal Quintero, Seth Auberon (eds.) Wisdom Quarterly

Science maps NEW Amazonian lost cities

Christina Larson, AP Science Writer, The Associated Press (apnews.com, 1/11/24); Xochitl, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Mexico's archeolocal ruins in Chichen Itza, Cenote, Valladolid (tripadvisor.com)

What if Mexico and the rest of the Americas are full of pyramids and mounds? (Tripadvisor)

Red heads: Sacred burials were being performed thousands of years ago in the Americas.

Fall of Incan Empire brought by whites, say historians (Factinate Media Group via MSN)

Lost cities of Amazon jungle in Meso-, Central, and South America found by LiDAR (AP)

Archeologists map lost cities in Ecuadorian Amazon, settlements that lasted 1,000 years

Recent headline: Archeologists discover ancient Mayan city hidden in forest for 2K years

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Ecuador flag, Latin America

WASHINGTON, DC [outside of USA, in "Columbia," and reigning over it] — Archeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that was home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago.

A series of earthen mounds [like Buddhist stupas, tepes (tels), kurgans, and barrows (tumulus)] buried roads in Ecuador was first noticed more than two decades ago by archaeologist Stéphen Rostain.

Map of Ecuador with Amazon (wiki)

But at the time, " I wasn’t sure how it all fit together,” said Rostain, one of the researchers who reported on the finding Thursday [1/11/24] in the journal Science.

Recent mapping by laser-sensor technology [LiDAR] revealed those sites to be part of a dense network of settlements and connecting roadways, tucked into the forested foothills of the Andes [most of which are in Peru], that lasted about 1,000 years.

Meso-, S. America were advanced places on earth

“It was a lost valley of cities," said Rostain, who directs investigations at France’s National Center for Scientific Research. “It's incredible.”

The settlements were occupied by the Upano people between around 500 B.C. and 300 to 600 A.D. — a period roughly contemporaneous with the Roman Empire in Europe, the researchers found.

Residential and ceremonial buildings erected on more than 6,000 earthen mounds were surrounded by agricultural fields with drainage canals. The largest roads were 33 feet (10 meters) wide and stretched for 6 to 12 miles (10 to 20 kilometers).

LiDAR scans reveal topographical features like X-rays reveal bones: This LiDAR image provided by researchers in Jan. 2024 shows a main street crossing an urban area, creating an axis along which complexes of rectangular platforms are arranged around low squares at the Copueno site, Upano Valley in Ecuador. Archeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that was home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago, according to a paper published Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, in the journal Science (Antoine Dorison, Stéphen Rostain via AP/MSN). 

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While it’s difficult to estimate populations, the site was home to at least 10,000 inhabitants — and perhaps as many as 15,000 or 30,000 at its peak, said archaeologist Antoine Dorison, a study co-author at the same French institute. That's comparable to the estimated population of Roman-era London, then Britain’s largest city.

“This shows a very dense occupation and an extremely complicated society,” said University of Florida archeologist Michael Heckenberger, who was not involved in the study. “For the region, it’s really in a class of its own in terms of how early it is.”

• VIDEO: Archaeologists discover a vast network of Amazon villages: Live Science
• VIDEO: Archaeologists discover a vast network of Amazon villages: (MSN.com)
• Brazil fights wildcat gold mining in Amazon
• Bolivia's amazing site Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco)
• Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula is near US, Cuba!

It looks like an ancient Afghan (Gandharan) Buddhist stupa like Swat: Five Best Incan Ruins

Recent discovery in Peru, where new art was found, Moche, Inca (Lisa Trever via MSN)

The Amazon jungle is alive and conscious

José Iriarte, a University of Exeter archaeologist, said it would have required an elaborate system of organized labor to build the roads and thousands of earthen mounds.

“The Incas and Mayans built with stone, but people in Amazonia didn’t usually have stone available to build — they built with mud. It’s still an immense amount of labor,” said Iriarte, who had no role in the research.

Neighboring Guatemala, just below Mexico, has Tikal, Mayan ruins in the jungle (2009)

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The star people helped us build these marvels.

The Amazon is often thought of as a "pristine wilderness with only small groups of people. But recent discoveries have shown us how much more complex the past really is,” he said.

Scientists have recently also found evidence of intricate rainforest societies that predated European contact elsewhere in the Amazon, including in Bolivia and in Brazil.

“There’s always been an incredible diversity of people and settlements in the Amazon, not only one way to live,” said Rostain. “We’re just learning more about them.”

There was more to the Inca of Peru besides the amazing Machu Picchu (Reuters via jpost.com)

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The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group [and therefore may be biased and willing to cave in to corporate pressure for all of its reporting.].

Ayahuasca w/ Chelsea & Aubrey (video)

Chelsea Handler, Late Show, 2/20/16; Aubrey Marcus; Pat Macpherson (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Chelsea Handler's Ayahuasca Journey

(The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) Thanks to some potent ayahuasca tea, Chelsea Handler remembered that she loved her sister. There was a shaman present in the context of an indigenous ritual, or the proper set and setting. There was purging. There were insights. And there was time for integration of the experience, but Colbert makes a joke of it for mainstream consumption. It's all a joke, sipping tea to trip balls.

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Ayahuasca: Drink the Jungle

(Aubrey Marcus) Ayahuasca is a full documentary from Aubrey Marcus and Mitch Schultz, Nov. 23, 2020. This documentary follows Aubrey Marcus and Company through a powerful ayahuasca ceremony at SpiritQuest Sanctuary in Peru.

Under the guidance of Don Howard and his team of ayahuasca shamans, Marcus and his tribe experience deeply vulnerable transformational experiences. This beautifully cinematic journey is directed by Mitch Schultz, the director of DMT: The Spirit Molecule, with an original soundtrack by Poranguí.

Marcus first began speaking about ayahuasca on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast in 2011. Since then he has appeared in dozens of other documentaries and media outlets commenting on ayahuasca.

This documentary seeks to help viewers answer the following questions for themselves:

• What is ayahuasca?
• What is it like to take ayahuasca?
• What visions do you have while on ayahuasca?
• What emotional breakthroughs occur during an ayahuasca ceremony?
• Should I take ayahuasca?

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20+ million lived in Amazon (Joe Rogan)

JRE Clips from The Joe Rogan Experience #1284 with Graham Hancock, author of America Before, and #1293 with Andrew Santino, 2019; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Xochitl (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

One of thousands of Amazon "Stonehenges," amazing archeology Europeans wiped out.

The Amazon jungle is a colossal mystery with Graham Hancock

J. Rogan Experience

(JRE Clips) Host Joe Rogan has hind mind blown by researcher Graham Hancock, author of America Before. The White man wiped out the New World with his European diseases like smallpox, greed, and war and domination mentality, developed it would seem from centuries of fighting each other all over Europe.

America Before: Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

Smallpox seems to have killed an estimated former population of 20 million people in the Amazon basin, a massive garden fed by the use of terra preta ("dark earth"), a uniquely rich biochar soil containing a unique mix of microbes not found in adjacent soils. The basin is an area the size of India or 5.5 million square kilometers.

It is full of henges (like Stonehenge), sophisticated manmade earthworks, deep ditches with embankments and sometimes stone pillars, used by astronomers. There are thousands of them in the Amazon. LIDAR (light imaging and detecting radar).

The Maya, Aztec, Toltec, and other civilizations were unimaginably grand and sophisticated. Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #1293 w/Andrew Santino and #1284 w/Graham Hancock.

(JRE Clips) Joe Rogan Experience #1284, The Amazon is a Colossal Mystery w/Graham Hancock, April 23, 2019).