Category: The Americas,

Gov Orders Police To Cut Water Supply To Native Americans As Pipeline Protesters Skyrocket In Number 

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Counter Currents, August 23, 2016 Thousands join protest camp as supporters are holding a rally in Washington D.C. on Wednesday outside of Army Corps hearing.

Gov Orders Police To Cut Water Supply To Native Americans As Pipeline Protesters Skyrocket In Number | Warrior Publications

Wait….whaaaa?

Canada is super nice to 1500 drunk Americans who, carrying no ID, illegally entered the country. Because, Canada. 

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An estimated 1,500 Americans illegally and unexpectedly washed up in Canada late Sunday after strong winds blew them across the St. Clair River near Sarnia, Ont.

“..There were Americans everywhere,” Peter Garapick of the Canadian Coast Guard said. 

…”They don’t have a mariner’s sense. These are people who think they’re going for a dip in the pool,” he said. “We had 1,500 people who were in complete need of help, and everyone walked away alive.”

U.S. partiers wash up in Canada, blown across St. Clair River – Windsor – CBC News

Canada… Really, does it get more accommodating and polite?

Everyone Ignored The White Man In This Famous Photo. 48 Years Later, The Real Story Emerges

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Everyone Ignored The White Man In This Famous Photo. 48 Years Later, The Real Story Emerges

Amazing. Especially the last few paragraphs.

Ahhh, Olympics. One of the reason I love you so is that I firmly believe sport is one of the few reliable ways to highlight the common threads among us and weave us together with shared humanity.

Rio 2016: Police crackdown raises rights concerns – News from Al Jazeera

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Brazilian police accused of applying a heavy hand in targeting security threats one month ahead of the Olympic Games.

Rio 2016: Police crackdown raises rights concerns – News from Al Jazeera

One the one hand I know a big event like the Olympics involves a lot of money and invites both injustice and corruption….

…On the other hand, how did a peaceful international celebration of sportmanship and amateur athletes come to this?

Sigh….

Conan O’Brien accidentally exposed the culture gap between Koreans and Korean-Americans 

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In the context of the K-drama, the heroine is [put off] by Conan’s familiarity, exaggerated bravado, and awkwardness. The white guy is never the hero.

You might think that a Korean-American star visiting Korea might get a hero’s welcome. But this is rarely the case.

..Going through the Korean media coverage of [Steven] Yeun, it’s clear to me that Koreans don’t know what to do with him, even though his Korean is quite good. To Koreans, he is in that awkward Korean-American category—neither fish nor fowl, inherently somewhat untrustworthy.

…In one scene from the Conan special, Yeun is comically unable to identify any of the side dishes at a Seoul restaurant, leading Conan to comment, “You’re sort of like Anthony Bourdain if he knew absolutely nothing.”

Conan O’Brien accidentally exposed the culture gap between Koreans and Korean-Americans — Quartz

Amazonian Tribes Are Being Poisoned 

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Some of the world’s most vulnerable communities are currently experiencing high rates of mercury poisoning as a result of the activities of illegal miners. A recent study (in Portuguese) involving 19 communities of indigenous Yanomami and Yekuana people in the Brazilian Amazon revealed that 90 percent have been severely affected by mercury poisoning.

Amazonian Tribes Are Being Poisoned By Illegal Miners | IFLScience

No words…