History is littered with stories of the psychoactive properties of deli bal, still produced today in the Kaçkar mountains
Source: Creating a buzz: Turkish beekeepers risk life and limb to make mad honey | World news | The Guardian
Of course, the Sanskrit word for honey, madhu, like mead (the ancient drink made with honey) and mad (which is Sanskrit for hilarity, rapture) all come from the same Indo-European root.
“A British Indian author and journalist has been stripped of his Indian overseas citizenship after he wrote an article criticising the regime of the country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi.” The Guardian
It’s an interesting alternative to Gecko, KHTML and WebKit and a semi-alternative to Chromium (though based, like Chromium on Blink)
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Life on the breadline: ‘I am sick and tired of trying to be a cheerful poor person’
by Nijole Naujokas. She’s a talented writer!
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/01/jd-salingers-unseen-writings-to-be-published-family-confirms
‘My father was writing for 50 years without publishing. That’s a lot of material’
USAID, US NGOs leave Gaza, West Bank over terrorism law
‘It really hurts’: US aid cuts hit most vulnerable Palestinians
The Demise of USAID Efforts in the West Bank and Gaza
Trump admin to end all USAID projects in West Bank and Gaza by January 31
USAID to end all Palestinian projects on Jan. 31st
‘USAID to end all Palestinian projects on Jan. 31,’ former director says
After 25 years, USAID Palestinian mission set to close at end of month
The change even means the stoppage of funding to ongoing Israeli – Palestinian peace projects like the change agents courses of the School for Peace and its Palestinian partners.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Thousands of Belgian students skipped classes for the fourth week in a row on Thursday to protest against global warming, part of a growing youth protest around the world.
A hopeful sign.
“technique developed by a Jesuit priest is producing bigger harvests – and reducing emissions of a crop responsible for 1.5% of greenhouse gases”
In The One Straw Revolution, Fukuoka too championed his method of growing rice with much less water, which was similarly ignored.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/benevolent-bureaucrats-military-occupation
“Israeli occupation bureaucrats shamelessly exploit Palestinian patients from Gaza to present their military rule over a besieged people as benign or even benevolent.”
thanks to Richard M. Stallman for sharing.
The British government is already flouting its own rules, allowing scrap tyres to be sent abroad for burning – what will happen post-Brexit?
Amazing, shocking article
