Podcasts about haitis

12 januari 2010. Den 10-åriga Bethlie Paul är på väg till skolan en typisk varm eftermiddag i Haitis huvudstad Port-au-Prince.Under lektionen börjar hon och hennes klasskamrater höra ett lågt mullrande som bara växer i styrka och utan att riktigt förstå vad som händer ligger snart Bethlie fastklämd under rasmassorna efter den största jordbävningen landet sett på 200 år.Detta är berättelsen om jordbävningen på Haiti 2010, kampen för överlevnad och de katastrofala efterföljder för landet som det än idag inte riktigt återhämtat sig ifrån.Hör alla avsnitt av Kod: Katastrof en dag tidigare helt gratis på Podplay.se eller i appen Podplay.Inläsare: Tind SonebyManus: Carl HaegerRedaktör: Alex HaegerProducent: Oliver BergmanProduktionskoordinator: Victoria Rinkous Källor:https://generalambassadorpodcast.org/007https://www.britannica.com/event/2010-Haiti-earthquakehttps://www.dec.org.uk/article/2010-haiti-earthquake-facts-and-figureshttps://escweb.wr.usgs.gov/share/mooney/142.pdfhttps://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SLEMPTOTLSPZSHThttps://www.npr.org/2010/01/18/122702659/haiti-before-and-after-the-earthquakehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Haiti_earthquake#/media/File:Haiti_2010_history.svghttps://www.ksat.com/news/local/2021/08/16/2010-haiti-earthquake-survivor-urges-home-country-to-stay-strong-after-devastating-earthquake/https://www.ksat.com/news/2012/01/14/an-earthquake-a-family-and-a-stamp/

Seit der Ermordung von Präsident Moïse 2021 versinkt Haiti in Gewalt und Chaos. Bewaffnete Banden kontrollieren große Teile der Hauptstadt, eine internationale Polizeimission wirkt kaum. Manche jungen Menschen finden Halt in einem Theaterprojekt. Von Anne Demmer, Katja Bigalke www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Weltzeit

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Få lande har gennemgået så mange lidelser som Haiti. Naturkatastofer, sygdom og så selvfølgelig Papa Doc og Baby Docs rædselsregimer. Men det stopper ikke der! Vidste du fx, at en stor amerikansk tv kanal har forsøgt at invadere landet med hjælp fra en fyr, der går under navnet 'Tigeren'? Hør hele den historie, og lær hvorfor Haiti er et slags 'omvendt Las Vegas', når Emil og Oskar nørder Haitis historie igennem og får vendt nogle af de vanvittige fortællering, der ikke kom med i serien. I studiet: Emil Rothstein-Christensen & Oskar Bundgaard. Produceret for P3 af MonoMono.

We are back from our little Haitis from podcasting! We talk about what we have been up to in this time away, what our lives look like now, and how we have gotten through this whole thing. We go into our philosophy on how to handle difficult times, and how to beat your own self doubt.

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"Kriminelle haben das Land übernommen. Es gibt keine Regierung", so fasste der Vizepräsident Guyanas, Bharrat Jagdeo, bereits am Sonntag die Situation in Haiti zusammen. Der haitianische Regierungschef Ariel Henry hatte sich Ende Februar eigentlich mit der Opposition darauf geeinigt, bis zu den nächsten Neuwahlen gemeinsam zu regieren. Jetzt ist er zurückgetreten. Wie es nach dem Rückzug Henrys weitergehen kann, was das für die Einwohner des Inselstaates bedeutet und welche Rolle dabei den USA zukommt, erklärt Günther Maihold. Er ist Professor der Politikwissenschaft am Lateinamerika-Institut der FU Berlin. Die Debatte um die Gefahr KI-generierter Bilder und ihren Einfluss auf politische Meinungsbildung ist nicht neu. Doch dass ein vom Buckingham Palace veröffentlichtes Bild in diese Diskussion hineinspielt, überrascht. Seit Prinzessin Kate im Januar operiert wurde, ist sie nicht mehr öffentlich aufgetreten. Über ihre Abwesenheit wurde viel spekuliert. Am Sonntag postete der Palast dann ein offizielles Foto von ihr und ihren Kindern auf X, das zu sagen schien: Alles okay, Kate geht's super. Doch das Foto war an einigen Stellen retuschiert. Wie gefährlich ist es, wenn Institutionen wie das britische Königshaus bearbeitete Bilder veröffentlichen?  Wie kann man unterscheiden, was echt ist und was nicht und welche Folgen hat das auf das globale Superwahljahr? Das erklärt Lisa Hegemann im Podcast. Sie ist Leiterin des Digitalressorts bei ZEIT ONLINE. Und sonst so: Nürnberger Bratwürste aus Niederbayern? Kann es gar nicht geben.  Moderation und Produktion: Fabian Scheler Redaktion: Jannis Carmesin Mitarbeit: Sophia Boddenberg und Lea Schüler Fragen, Kritik, Anregungen? Sie erreichen uns unter wasjetzt@zeit.de Weitere Links zur Folge: Prinzessin Kate: Vertrauen wegretuschiert Kate Middleton: Krank? Ich doch nicht, niemals Krisenstaat: Haitis Premierminister Ariel Henry tritt zurück Karibikstaat: Haiti verlängert Ausnahmezustand wegen Bandengewalt [ANZEIGE] Mehr über die Angebote unserer Werbepartnerinnen und -partner finden Sie HIER. [ANZEIGE] Falls Sie uns nicht nur hören, sondern auch lesen möchten, testen Sie jetzt 4 Wochen kostenlos DIE ZEIT. Hier geht's zum Angebot.

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Kassedame, pølsedame, og millionrig reklameboss. Mona Juul har haft mange hatte på i sin karriere, og nu ligner hun det bedste bud på en ny konservativ formand. Midt i bandeuroligheder med gangsteren "Barbecue" i spidsen træder Haitis premierminister tilbage. Hvem er den her bandeleder? En 13-årig pige fra Hjallerup er blevet dræbt. Vi ser på, hvad der er sket. Vært: Adrian Busk. Medvirkende: Benny Damsgaard tidl. Pressechef Konservative. Lasse Yde Hegnet, antropolog og journalist, vært på de to podcasts 'Det Andet Amerika' og 'Latinamerika i Dag'.

Im Karibikstaat Haiti haben kriminelle Banden die Macht übernommen. Seit der Ermordung des Präsidenten Jovenel Moïse 2021 hat die Gewalt im Land massiv zugenommen. Viele Polizisten fürchten um ihr Leben und verweigern den Dienst. Haitis Übergangsregierungschef Ariel Henry hat seinen Rücktritt angekündigt. Seit Tagen kann er nicht ins Land, weil die Banden den Flughafen blockieren. Henry weilte im Ausland, um eine internationale Mission vorzubereiten, die Recht und Ordnung in Haiti wiederherstellen sollte.  Wie geht es nun weiter? Wie kann es gelingen, die Gewaltspirale zu stoppen? Und was braucht es, damit Haiti zur Ruhe kommt?  Der freie Journalist Toni Keppeler ordnet die aktuellen Ereignisse in dieser Folge ein.  Habt ihr einen Themenvorschlag für uns? Dann meldet euch gerne per Mail an newsplus@srf.ch oder per Sprachnachricht an 076 320 10 37.

Uppföljaren till Vem gillar du mest? är här! Vem är djävulen och ängeln mellan Christopher Garplind och Hanna Hellquist? Vi frågar dig när du har gjort fel men ägt det! Vendela Lundberg från P3 ID har släppt ett dubbelavsnitt om Aleksej Navalnyjs politiska liv och död. Skådespelaren Filip Berg om Melodifestivalens pausunderhållning som fick Sverige att jubla. P3 Nyheters Lana Zand om Haitis avgående premiärminister - mitt i ett laglöst kaos. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Programledare: Christopher Garplind och Hanna Hellquist.

Fanny Wijk pratar om att USA kan vara på väg att helt förbjuda Tiktok. Otur för president Joe Biden som precis skaffat appen.Linnea Rönnqvist pratar om att det kaotiska läget på Haiti fortsätter. Nu har landets premiärminister avgått och diskussioner förs om man ska skicka in en multinationell säkerhetsstyrka i landet.Vi ringer upp reporter Mattias Balkander som befinner sig i Brunssum i Nederländerna, där också Natos operativa högkvarter finns.Vi pratar också med journalisten och hovexperten Ebba Kleberg von Sydow om turerna kring Kate Middletons manipulerade familjebild och varför man inte sett henne på två månader.Dessutom: Bianca Ingrosso öppnar butik i Göteborg, Linneas fågelkurs och konstnärsgrisen Pigcasso är död. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Die aktuellen Wirtschaftsnachrichten mit Michael Weyland   Thema heute:    Schulspeisung in Haiti   Frauen, die Angst haben müssen, entführt oder vergewaltigt zu werden. Männer, die ihre Familien weder beschützen noch ausreichend ernähren können: Was nach schrecklichen Schilderungen eines Kriegsschauplatzes klingt, ist mittlerweile Alltag auf Haiti.  Auf dem Inselstaat herrscht eine grausame Krise, die droht, weltweit in Vergessenheit zu geraten. Bandengewalt, Krankheitsausbrüche, Ernährungsunsicherheit: Wie immer sind es unschuldige Menschen, die unter dem Chaos leiden – auf Haiti aber vor allem auch Kinder. Nadine Fissl, Pressesprecherin der nph Kinderhilfe Lateinamerika e.V. Eine der Hilfsorganisationen auf Haiti, von denen es immer weniger gibt. Nadine Fissl:   Mittlerweile ist jedes dritte Kind, das im nph-Kinderkrankenhaus auf Haiti behandelt wird, mangelernährt. Die Familien können sich einfach nicht mehr ausreichend versorgen. Vor allem, seit die Preise der Grundnahrungsmittel so rasant angestiegen sind. Neben Kinderdörfern, dem landesweit einzigen Kinderkrankenhaus und mehreren Betreuungseinrichtungen betreibt nph Haiti gemeinsam mit dem lokalen Partner Fondation St. Luc mehrere Schulen im Land. Die sind nicht nur für die Bildung der Kinder von enormer Bedeutung. Nadine Fissl: Die Schüler erhalten täglich ein ausgewogenes Mittagessen. Für viele ist es die einzige warme Mahlzeit am Tag. Einige Kinder bringen sogar Vorratsdosen mit, damit sie ihre Portion mit ihren kleinen Geschwistern zuhause teilen können. Man muss sich das einmal bewusst machen: Fast die Hälfte der gesamten Bevölkerung Haitis ist mangelernährt. Verantwortlich dafür sind vor allem die bewaffneten Banden, die regelmäßig Kontrolle über die Verteilungswege übernehmen. Das führt zu Engpässen bei der Versorgung mit Lebensmitteln und Treibstoff. Die Inflation treibt zusätzlich die Preise für Grundnahrungsmittel in die Höhe. Dabei ist eine ausgewogene Ernährung gerade für die körperliche und auch geistige Entwicklung von Kindern enorm wichtig. Mit Hunger im Klassenzimmer kann man sich kaum konzentrieren. Die Schulspeisung von nph steigert nicht nur die Leistungsfähigkeit, sondern auch die allgemeine Gesundheit. Außerdem verhindert sie, dass die Kinder arbeiten müssen, um den Lebensunterhalt der Familie zu sichern, anstatt zur Schule zu gehen.   Nadine Fissl:   Unsere Kollegen vor Ort wissen genau, was die Familien in der Region brauchen. Und sie versuchen alles, um das möglich zu machen. Das ist wirklich bemerkenswert. Während der Schulschließungen im Land verteilte nph Lebensmittelpakete, während der Schulferien haben sie ein Ferienprogramm auf die Beine gestellt. Sie finden immer einen Weg, um die Kinder weiter mit Essen versorgen zu können. Die Schulspeisung ist nur ein kleiner Teil der Programme von nph auf Haiti, aber ein besonders wichtiger. Sie wird größtenteils durch Spenden finanziert.  Infos dazu finden sich auf: www.nph-kinderhilfe.org. Diesen Beitrag können Sie nachhören oder downloaden unter:

Im 18. Jahrhundert führt der befreite Sklave Toussaint, auch Black Spartakus genannt, die Rebellion gegen die französischen Kolonialherren an. Aber wie war sein Weg aus der Sklaverei? Welchen Anteil hat er an der Unabhängigkeit Haitis? **********Ihr hört in dieser "Eine Stunde History":00:09:40 - Isabel Krieger beschreibt Toussaint Louverture alias Black Spartakus00:17:40 - Flavio Eichmann erläutert die Ziele der Revolution auf Haiti00:28:30 - Mirjam Franchina schildert die Bedeutung von Toussaint Louverture auf Haiti heute**********Mehr zum Thema bei Deutschlandfunk Nova:Kolonialzeit: Niederländisches Königshaus lässt eigene Geschichte aufarbeitenSpenden - worauf wir achten solltenRassismus und Kolonialismus: Umstrittene Denkmäler**********Den Artikel zum Stück findet ihr hier.**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: Tiktok und Instagram.

Knap hundrede bander begår vold, voldtægter, kidnapninger og drab i Haitis hovedstad, Port-au-Prince. Og dét i en sådan grad, at myndighederne ikke kan følge med. Heller ikke landets ledelse har de helt store muligheder, efter at den tidligere præsident blev skudt. Vi dykker ned i bandekonflikten og spørger, hvad konsekvensen bliver for landets befolkning. Medvirkende:Lasse Yde Hegnet, antropolog og journalist, vært på "Latinamerika i dag" på 24syv.Vært: David Trads.

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Författaren Torbjörn Elensky berättar zombiens fascinerande och grymma historia och analyserar deras mångfacetterade betydelse idag. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna.1. Ursprunget på HaitiDen 24 oktober 1936 vandrade en äldre kvinna av svårbestämd ålder in i byn Ennery i Haiti. Hon var lam i vänstra benet, hade inga ögonfransar och bar en smutsig gammal tygtrasa virad runt huvudet, men i övrigt var hon naken. Hon identifierades efter ett tag som Felicia Felix-Mentor. Problemet var bara att Felicia Felix-Mentor hade dött och begravits redan 29 år tidigare, 1907. Det fanns bara en förklaring till att hon återvände hem igen efter så många år: Byborna och hennes egen familj kom fram till att hon gjorts till en zombie, och det var som ett bevis på att sådana existerade som hon blev känd för världen.Författaren Zora Neale Hurston mötte Felicia Felix-Mentor och tog en bild av henne. Den publicerades i Life magazine den 13 december 1937 i anslutning till Hurstons artikel Black Haiti: Africa, America, Voodooism. Vid denna tid hade zombier varit kända ett tag, de hade börjat erövra sin plats i filmvärlden och därmed i den vidare populärkulturen. Men till skillnad från de flesta tog Hurston den haitiska folktron på fullt allvar. Fotot av Felicia och bybornas vittnesbörd togs till intäkt för att zombier var ett reellt faktum, och inte någon myt till skillnad från de traditionella berättelserna om varulvar, vampyrer och gengångare, väsen som hade inspirerat 1930-talets stora våg av skräckfilmer och som alla kunde avfärdas som fantasifoster. Hurstons förklaring av zombiefenomenet var tidstypiskt rationell: det var givetvis inte magi som gjorde en till zombie, utan någon form av drog, en kemikalie som stängde av ens medvetande, samtidigt som man kunde fortsätta att röra sig, arbeta, göra allt en levande människa gör, men utan medvetande om det, utan egen vilja och utan ett levande själv. Troligen fanns det gammal kunskap om vilka växter och djur som kunde användas, och som förts över från Afrika på slavskeppen.Det sägs ibland att zombien är det unikt amerikanska bidraget till världens stora monsterkatalog. Men det är alltså inte från USA, utan från Haiti, som den ursprungligen härstammar. Sina rötter har den i afrikanska föreställningar och den västafrikanska religionen voudun som kom att blandas upp med katolicismens riter och helgon i den synkretistiska religion som utvecklades av slavarna i den franska kolonin Saint Domingue till voodoo. Saint Domingue var ett av världens mest vinstbringande företag, tack vare den intensiva odlingen av sockerrör, som bidrog substantiellt till den franska statskassan under lång tid. Men det var också ett av de allra hårdaste slavregementena under ett par hundra år, tills slavarna år 1791 gjorde uppror mot de franska herrarna och skapade den självständiga staten Haiti. Namnet var en hyllning till Taíno, den karibiska ursprungsbefolkning som i princip helt utrotats av kolonisatörerna under 1500-talet. Haiti betyder land av berg på deras språk.Haiti var faktiskt det andra landet i Amerika, efter USA, som vann sin självständighet. Men att det var huvudsakligen svarta slavar som gjort uppror i namn av den franska revolutionens universella ideal var svårt att svälja för de förment upplysta människor som inte riktigt kunde acceptera de svartas förmåga till självständigt tänkande. Säkert har den oro slavrevolutionen väckt också bidragit till den starka exotiseringen i de flesta skildringarna av Haiti - och inte minst av voodoo, som alltså inte är någon form av magi, utan en religion.Zora Neale Hurston var en av de drivande krafterna i the Harlem renaissance, Harlemrenässansen, den väldiga blomstringen av svart kultur i 1930-talets New York. Hon var intellektuell, författare, disputerad och när hon ville åka till Haiti för att studera traditionerna på ön fick hon 2000 dollar av Guggenheims stiftelse, för att täcka alla sina omkostnader. En summa som motsvarade en anständig årslön, så hon kunde genomföra sin expedition i lugn och ro. Syftet var att fortsätta sina studier av de svartas magi. I tidigare böcker hade hon bland annat skildrat hur hon själv deltagit i hoodoo-ceremonier i trakterna kring New Orleans, en folktro som har mycket gemensamt med voodoo. Hon var närmast antropolog, och hennes ideal var att delta som likvärdig i de ceremonier och föreställningar som hon kom i kontakt med. Det betyder inte att hon nödvändigtvis själv måste tro på dem, men hon menade att man för att förstå en annan människas föreställningsvärld måste begripa hur den själv faktiskt anser att världen är ordnad.I Haiti deltog hon i ceremonier, mötte flera av landets främsta houngans, voodoopräster och såg med egna ögon hur deltagare i riterna blev besatta av andar, loa, som red dem som om de vore hästar. Det som är så speciellt med Hurstons syn på dessa upplevelser är alltså att hon satte sig i sinnet att se dem som helt naturliga, utslag av mänsklig aktivitet, möjligen en sorts psykologiska gåtor, men inte konstigare än tungomålstal och religiös extas i någon baptistkyrka i USA. Och hon insåg också att medan man i USA och övriga Västvärlden betraktade en människa som antingen levande eller död, så fanns det här i Haiti fler andra grader av existens, mellan död och liv, av vilka zombiens är den mest fruktansvärda. Hon hörde zombiehistorier överallt, vart hon än reste berättades det om döda som kommit tillbaka, om hur zombier utnyttjades i arbetet på sockerfält och på sockerbruken. Men den enda hon själv träffade var den arma Felicia. Zora Neale Hurstons foto av henne är det första av en person som faktiskt påstås ha varit en zombie.Hurston deltog visserligen i de religiösa ceremonierna, men hon var en modern kvinna och hennes slutsats var densamma som läkarnas: Felicia hade drogats för att utnyttjas som arbetskraft. Hon hade alltså aldrig dött på riktigt. Hennes egen bror identifierade henne, liksom hennes tidigare make. Denne var sedan länge omgift och hade en ny familj - han ville inte ha tillbaka sin första hustru. Felicia hade således ingenting att återvända till, den enda lösningen för dem alla var att stänga in henne på mentalsjukhus. Och det var där Hurston mötte henne: en oönskad kvinna, utstött ur sin familj och samhället. Kanske hade hon råkat äta något giftigt, kanske hade hon avsiktligt förgiftats, kanske hade hon hållits fången mot sin vilja, kanske hade hon på något märkligt sätt faktiskt levt som en zombie, men vaknat upp igen och återvänt hem. Hurston ville veta vad det var för gift hon fått i sig, men det skulle dröja många år innan någon på allvar började analysera möjligheterna på den fronten. Nu blev Felicia Felix-Mentor istället passiviserad av psykofarmaka. Om hon inte varit en zombie tidigare förvandlades hon till det nu, av den moderna läkarvetenskapen. 2. Zombien på skärmenMitt första intryck av de tre förmenta zombier, som stumma fortsatte med sitt arbete, var, att det låg något onaturligt och besynnerligt över dem. De slavade som djur, som automater. Deras ansikten, som uttryckslösa voro böjda över arbetet, kunde jag inte tydligt se utan att böja mig ned. Polynice rörde en av dem vid axeln och gav honom tecken att resa sig. Lydigt som ett djur ställde han sig långsamt upprätt och vad jag då såg, gav mig, på grund av eller trots vad jag förut hört, en chock, som gjorde mig riktigt illamående. Ögonen var det värsta. Det var inte inbillning av mig. De voro verkligen som ögonen på en död människa, inte blinda, utan stirrande; de saknade brännpunkt och sågo ingenting.Citatet är hämtat ur The magic island, äventyraren William Seabrooks Haiti-skildring från 1929. Boken kom på svenska redan samma år, under titeln Mysteriernas ö, och gjorde stor skandal. Seabrook beskrev hur han själv deltagit i ceremonier och druckit getblod och skulle senare göra ännu större skandal med sina skildringar av kannibalism i Västafrika. Mycket av det han skrev var lögn och överdrifter. Men det är alltså genom denna bok den ursprungligen lokala företeelsen zombier blir känd i världen.Strax därefter når de Hollywood. I White zombie, från 1932, som bygger på Seabrooks beskrivning, är zombier själlösa arbetare som drar runt sockerbrukets maskineri långsamt, viljelöst och ostoppbart. Inte ens då någon av dem ramlar ner i anläggningen och krossas till döds rör de en min. Men själva skräckhistorien centreras kring den vita societetskvinnan Madeline Short Parker, spelad av stumfilmsstjärnan Madge Bellamy, i en av sina få talroller. På sin resa mot Haiti stöter Parker och hennes fästman på plantageägaren Charles Beaumont, som bjuder dem till sin egendom. Han är förstås förälskad i Madeline, men avvisas och vänder sig då till en voodoomästare spelad av Bela Lugosi, sedermera mera känd i rollen som Dracula. Denne onde magiker ja, för här är voodoo likställt med svart magi gör Madeline till en zombie som går att styra rakt in i Beaumonts famn. Denne upptäcker emellertid att det är helt värdelöst att äga hennes viljelösa kropp. Det var hennes själ, hennes personlighet han förälskat sig i. Nå, till slut dör voodoomästaren såväl som plantageägaren, Madeline frias från sin förtrollning, återförenas med sin fästman och så levde de lyckliga i alla sina dar.Som antyds redan i titeln präglas filmen av en tydlig dikotomi mellan svart och vitt. Ljudet av de svartas trummor som genljuder i den tropiska natten spelar en central roll. De symboliserar något primitivt, ursprungligt, men också sex och hotfull magi.I Jacques Torneurs sevärda I walked with a zombie, från 1943, fungerar de svarta personerna i filmen inte bara som anonym bakgrund, de deltar i handlingen, framställs som hyggliga människor, voodoo framhävs som religion, inte svart magi och i en nyckelscen alldeles i början sägs det rent ut att landet är vuxet ur slaveriet och revolutionen mot slavägarna. Varför denna förändring i tilltalet? Jo, mellan White zombie och I walked with a zombie hade Zora Neale Hurstons nyfikna och mindre exotiserande voodoo-reportage publicerats i Life magazine. Det är uppenbart att de gjorde skillnad i synen på haitierna.När zombier senare återvänder till populärkulturen är det först via skräckserietidningar under 1950-talet. Sådana som regissören George A Romero läste under sin uppväxt. Men den moderna zombiefilmen är helt och hållet hans skapelse. De här vandrande liken vars enda mål är att äta de levande föds i hans film Night of the living dead, från 1968. I den etableras grundpremissen för i stort sett alla kommande zombiefilmer: en grupp människor barrikaderar sig i en byggnad, vilken anfalls i våg efter våg av långsamt men ostoppbart vandrande zombier. I Romeros första film i en bondgård. Och i den andra, Dawn of the dead, från 1978, i ett stort köpcentrum.Om man i de tidiga filmatiseringarna kunde läsa in en medveten eller omedveten kritik mot omänskliga arbetsförhållanden och slaveri, så är det lockande att se hur den kritiska blicken nu istället vänts mot konsumismen och dess slavar, som levande döda håglöst vandrar mot the mall. Men Romero vänder slutligen också upp och ner på den svartvita dynamiken i White zombie. Huvudrollen i Night of the living dead spelas av Duane Jones och hans rollfigur Ben är en både handlingskraftig och samlad svart protagonist i en värld av kaos. Något som vid denna tid i praktiken inte existerade i amerikansk film.Under lång tid dominerade Romero zombiefilmvärlden, även om inte minst de italienska spagettizombiefilmerna öppnade för nya skikt av ohöljt blodig våldsamhet. Men hur kom vi därifrån till 2000-talets explosion, där zombier blev vardagsmat? Naturligtvis var det inte längre serietidningar, film eller tv som satte agendan och därmed inte heller längre USA. Det japanska tv-spelet Resident evil tog världen med storm när det började säljas 1996. Och här finns flera av de motiv som utvecklat genren, som att zombierna uppstår på ett stort företag som sysslar med hemlig forskning. Det finns zombiedjur och muterade monster. Det handlar inte längre om vanliga människor som barrikaderar sig tillsammans, utan det är elitfighters som slåss med allt mer spektakulära vapen. Spelet har lett till en lång filmserie och för varje ny film blir zombierna allt mer groteska och kampen mot dem allt mer bombastisk. Ska man förklara varför just zombier blivit så extremt populära under 2000-talet så är nog det en av de enklaste förklaringarna: de funkar så bra som spel man får springa, man får skjuta, man får under tidspress hitta kreativa lösningar på livshotande utmaningar. Allt i en trygg miljö och utan att behöva resa sig ur soffan.Men med detta var också alla gränser sprängda. Vi fick zombiekomedin Shaun of the dead, den globala zombiekollapsen World war Z. Samtidigt vändes blicken mot det mer jordnära, det sociala samspelet mellan dem som barrikaderar sig tillsammans. Det gäller inte minst den tv-serie som för en tid skulle bli störst av alla och få zombiegenren att nå ut till den riktigt breda allmänheten. The walking dead började sändas 2010 och gav upphov till spin off-serien Fear the walking dead, båda riktiga långkörare. Här var mediegången den omvända. Först kom Robert Kirkmans och Tony Moores tecknade serie, sedan tv-serien och sist kom spelet. The Walking dead utspelar sig i hög grad i sydstaterna, vars stora svarta befolkning speglas i antalet viktiga roller med svarta skådespelare. I och med slaveriets forna utbredning i detta område, knyter serien också an till zombiens ursprung på Haiti, nationen som byggdes av revolterande slavar och där zombien blev en hotfull påminnelse om denna historia.3. Den första ateistiska mytologinI zombiefilmen Dawn of the dead från 1978 tar Robert A Romero tillvara på alla de satiriska möjligheter som ges av att den lilla gruppen överlevande barrikaderat sig i ett stort köpcentrum. This was an important place in their lives, detta var en viktig plats i deras liv, anges som förklaring till varför de odöda söker sig just till the mall.Om zombiens föddes som en mardrömsversion av slavens liv på Haiti en viljelös, levande död som arbetade utan ett uns av mening har den här blivit en spegelbild av den konsumerande västerländska samtidsmänniskan. De överlevande frossar då de plötsligt har fri tillgång till allt, medan zombier åker rulltrappa och vandrar mållöst mellan skyltfönster, lika uttryckslösa som skyltdockorna de passerar.Sedan 1978 har konsumismen förstås expanderat över alla bräddar. Det finns knappast något fredat område. Vi konsumerar vila och vi konsumerar sex. Vi gör rentav varor av våra personligheter, bygger upp vår image som om vi vore produkter, för att vi inte längre orkar göra arbetet att utveckla oss själva som människor. Zombielivet är en utmärkt symbol för denna den absoluta materialismens triumf.Andra klassiska monster har alltid något individuellt drag. En vampyr är både offer och förövare, den har personlighet. Dessutom sex appeal, vilket knappast är något zombier kan anklagas för att ha. Till och med varulvar är monster som lider och reflekterar över sin situation, också de erotiskt laddade, vilket framhävts inte minst av den engelska författaren Angela Carter. Frankensteins monster, modernitetens ursymbol, är på sätt och vis också en zombie en odöd som stapplar fram genom tillvaron men som reflekterar över sin roll, vill förstå vem han är och varför Dr Frankenstein skapat honom till ett liv av lidande. Zombien däremot vill bara äta människokött. Den har ingen personlighet, inget öde, inget djup. Den tänker inte, kommunicerar inte, har inte ens insektssamhällets kollektiva intelligens och förmåga till samhällsbyggande. Den är ruttnande kött bara, som sakta men obönhörligt närmar sig för att äta upp dig eller göra dig till en i zombiehorden. Vilket öde som är värst är upp till var och en, men ingen kan i längden undgå det ena eller det andra.Zombier är nihilistiska monster som gestaltar ett liv helt utan värde. Det är därför de passar så bra i skjutspel också. När du skjuter sönder en av de vandrande odöda utför du en ren hygienåtgärd, de är inte längre människor och absolut inte några personer. Till och med när det kommer till att skjuta nazister finns det en liten moralisk spärr, men inte om de förvandlats till zombier först vilket sker i allt fler filmer och spel. De absolut onda förvandlas till absolut främmande. Men frågan ställs faktiskt i en del filmer och naturligtvis även i tv-serierna, om det verkligen är rätt att döda dem urskillningslöst. Tänk om någon skulle hitta ett botemedel? Upprepade skräckeffekter bygger på att det är en närstående som kommer fram till en, någon man älskar, men som blivit en zombie och då måste man välja: döda den eller låta sig själv dödas av den. I dessa scener stegras obehaget, men de kan även laddas av en viss sorg, som då centrala huvudpersoner efter att ha varit med oss flera säsonger, dör även de, i armarna på vänner och familj, vilka tvingas krossa deras skallar för att förhindra att de omvandlas. Det obönhörliga hos zombien, att det är totalt omöjligt att resonera med den, speglar väl den växande känslan som många känner inför samtidens hot, inte minst klimatförändringarna.Hellre än att tala om nihilism kan det formuleras som att zombier befinner sig bortom ont och gott. Eftersom de är utan vilja har de heller inte ansvar för sina handlingar. De personifierar, ironiskt nog helt utan att längre vara personer, naturens absoluta likgiltighet inför oss och våra behov vilken i vår tid ersatt Guds tystnad som källa till existentiell fasa.Ja, zombievärlden kan betraktas som den första rent ateistiska mytologin. I de flesta sammanhang ges inte ens någon egentlig förklaring till varför de här själlösa vandrarna plötsligt uppträder ibland oss. De är en miasma bara, en massa som växer och växer av odifferentierade, avindividualiserade konsumerande, dödande, ätande kroppar. Inte ens onda, utan alla lika mycket offer som vi själva. Och detta påpekas gärna i filmerna: de är vi. Lite som i devisen som sitter över den groteska samlingen av skelett i kapucinerklostrets krypta i Rom: Ni är det vi var, vi är det ni blir.Och någonstans där, i dödens oförklarliga väldighet och oundviklighet ligger naturligtvis också skräcken för zombier. När de väller fram i ostoppbara massor åskådliggör de en dödens barock. Estetiken har rötter långt tillbaka, till exempel i den katolska kyrkans kult kring helgonens kroppar, som inte sällan går att se mumifierade i glaskistor i de stora katedralerna. Den för också tankarna till de döda som kan beskådas i Palermo, mumifierade och iklädda sina bästa finkläder. Tydligare än så kan inte döden göras. I en tid då teknologin, vården, hygienen avlägsnat oss så mycket det bara går från döden, är denna typ av fysiskt närvarande döda kroppar mera skrämmande än under den tid då det ännu var vanligt att ta avsked på dödsbädden, vaka vid liket och kanske även fotografera sig tillsammans med det, som på 1800-talet.Den ursprungliga, haitiska zombien släpar med fötterna för att den är en slav. Slavens enda form av protest är att maska, att sabotera eller i värsta fall att stympa sig själv för att inte längre kunna jobba. Det är dess motvilligt mekaniska rörelsemönster som överförts till zombier. Men det finns andra fasor som går igen i zombieestetiken och de två mest uppenbara, som ligger mellan 1930-talets blonda kvinnozombier och vår tids sönderfallande döda kroppar, är andra världskrigets fasor. För den som slentrianmässigt skrattar åt zombier som massakreras i populärkulturen är denna tanke smått hotfull. Den förvandlar den avslappnade känslan till ångest, men det måste sägas: Vad i sinnevärlden liknar zombier mest om inte lägerfångar i Auschwitz eller de irrande överlevande strax efter atombombsexplosionerna i Hiroshima och Nagasaki? Dessa tomma, själlösa, mekaniserade före detta levande människor är också en bearbetning av människans djupaste mörker och det moderna krigets yttersta fasor: dödslägret och atombomben.En modern mytologi alltså, men samtidigt en förening av närmast eviga motiv. Grekernas dödsrike där de döda svävar runt utan att riktigt veta vilka de är. Och dödsdansen, där hög och låg, rik och fattig dansar tillsammans mot det oundvikliga slutet, i kyrkomålningar från pestens 1300-tal. Helvetesskildringar i ord och bild från många århundraden av religiösa försök att skrämma oss till ordning. Frågan är bara om vi förmår att lyssna på vad den vill säga oss idag, den jämrande uttryckslösa folkhopen, som släpar sig fram mot köpcentret medan världen står i brand. 4. Monster i livets tjänstDet finns något glädjande, nästan rörande, i hur vi människor kan ta det vi fruktar mest, kondensera det till någon sorts fungerande symboler och ritualer, och göra det till ett sätt att vara tillsammans, fira och njuta av livet, samtidigt som vi besvärjer faran.Som att ta på oss sönderrivna kläder, groteskt smink och vandra tillsammans längs gatorna som en hord av odöda. Så kallade zombie walks, zombiepromenader, är en av de mest fascinerande utlöparna av zombiekulturen, och tog form kring millennieskiftet. En av de första, som hölls som ett pr-jippo för en skräckfilmsfestival i Kalifornien 2001, blev en årlig tradition och promenaderna har sedan dess blivit en global företeelse. En folkfest i likdelarnas tecken, som det hette om en parad i Stockholm. När zombiepromenaderna nådde Brasilien blev det naturligtvis en folkfest med tiotusentals deltagare. För detta är förstås i grunden en ny sorts karneval, som riktigt gottar sig i det motbjudande och groteska, vilket som sagt alltid har varit ett av mänsklighetens sätt att fira livet och besvärja de verkliga farorna.Det är naturligtvis inte zombier vi egentligen fruktar. Men som vår tids monster lyckas de åskådliggöra alla våra rädslor för krig och utrotning, atomvintern, det konsumerande livets meningslöshet, och såklart döden i sig. De kan uppfattas som symboler för både pandemier och klimathotet. Samtida, som sagt. Och på ett sätt sträcker sig zombiekulturen rakt in två skarpt åtskilda men ändå besläktade rörelser i vår tid. Du behöver inte pengar eller avancerad teknik för att klä ut dig till en zombie och delta i rörelsen, med tid och tålamod kan du fixa det själv och bli en del av gemenskapen. DIY, do it yourself, som devisen lyder på engelska. Men zombieran påminner också om en helt annan gör-det-självkultur, där det gemensamma brutit ihop och varje man måste klara sig själv.I filmer och tv-serier om zombier är det naturligtvis denna överlevnad som är det centrala temat: hur klarar man av att samhället kollapsar runt en, hur kan man överleva utan att själv smittas av zombier, då varken polis och sjukvård, militär eller elförsörjning och vatten och avlopp längre fungerar? Det är inte så konstigt att zombier ofta används som fiktivt hot i diskussioner kring preppning, om att förbereda sig för det allra värsta: ett krig, en väldig naturkatastrof, en samhällskollaps av något slag. Litteraturen som lär ut hur man bör göra är stor och växande. Redan 2003 kom Max Brooks The zombie survival guide, som är en komplett handbok om hur man skyddar sig från de levande döda. Den börjar i beskrivningar av vilka vapen man kan använda och hur man bäst tar kål på attackerande zombier, om de kommer enskilda eller i stora grupper. Men också om vilken sorts byggnad det är bäst att barrikadera sig i, vilka fordon som är lämpligast i olika typer av terräng och den ger rådet att man ska organisera sig, samarbeta och läs på, läs på, läs på!. Även om få fruktar en verklig zombiekollaps så kan man lära sig en hel del, dessutom med fiktionens lite avdramatiserande fernissa. Herman Geijer är en svensk ledstjärna i undergångsförberedelsen, han har skrivit böcker och hållit kurser i Zombieöverlevnad. I både dessa praktiska guider med fiktiva förtecken och i de rena fantasierna är det lätt att se hur zombiegenren förnyar och utvecklar två klassiska koloniala genrer: Vilda västern och Robinson Kruse-berättelsen. Kampen för att erövra och försvara nytt territorium mot ett hotfullt folkslag, samt försöken att överleva med det lilla som står till buds. Precis som under karnevaler och zombiepromenader används monstren för att tjäna livet och överlevnaden.Med alla dessa bottnar i människans grundläggande instinkter och fasor, såväl som i samtidens specifika bekymmer, är det lätt att förstå zombiens starka roll i dag. Ändå är det inte utan fascination jag scrollar genom de långa zombietrådarna på Mumsnet, ett brittiskt nätforum i stil med svenska Familjeliv, där föräldrar vanligen diskuterar recept, nappavvänjning och annat fredligt. Nu för tiden blandas det med diskussioner om hur zombier troligen attackerar, var de biter, vilka vapen som är lämpligast, och vad man bör ha i skafferiet om man ska klara en längre belägring.Det verkar onekligen som att distinktionen mellan fiktion och verklighet blivit suddig för flera personer. De kanske inte tror att det finns zombier här och nu, men kan mycket väl tänka sig att de kan uppstå. Ett virus eller någon drog skulle kanske på riktigt kunna göra så att de döda vaknar. Eller för all del en förbannelse av något slag. Den ursprungliga verkliga zombien från Haiti, har möjligen sina lokala anhängare. Men den är numera alltmer olik populärkulturens samtida dito. När William Seabrook och Zora Neale Hurston reste runt Haiti och skrev sina zombieskildringar på 1920- och 30-talen, var berättelserna om levande döda som slavade på fälten vitt spridda. Och så sent som 1983 tog antropologen och etnobotanisten Wade Davis Hurstons berättelse om sitt möte med zombien Felicia Felix-Mentor på största allvar. Han satte sig i sinnet att undersöka hur en zombie hade kunnat skapas med någon drog, och presenterade olika förslag på receptet i en numera klassisk uppsats: The ethnobiology of the Haitian zombi. Han rapporterade om nya zombiefynd på Haiti och fick med sig olika misstänkta blandningar, som vid laboratoriestudier alla visade sig innehålla gift från blåsfisken. Den är världens näst giftigaste ryggradsdjur, men även känd som en japansk delikatess. Sushi gjord på blåsfisken fugu lär döda omkring 50 personer per år i Japan. Ingen har emellertid rapporterats bli en zombie.Troligen har zombier på Haiti alltid varit en myt, ett sätt att möta och hantera slaveriets fasor. Precis som vår tids levande döda främst är ett sätt att bearbeta vår tids fruktan. Men vem vet säkert? Seabrook såväl som Hurston och Davis, rapporterar alla om Haitis lagbok, Code pénal, från 1883, i vilken det uttryckligen förbjuds att göra någon till en zombie med hjälp av droger. Kanske användes faktiskt gift för att göra slavarna fogliga. Och kanske kommer det en dag ett virus som verkligen förvandlar oss till zombier. Prepparna har nog rätt. Det är säkrast att vara förberedd på allt.Torbjörn Elensky, författare

Hva gjør du egentlig dersom en av de politiske rivalene dine forvandler seg til en hund? Dette er selvfølgelig ikke et spørsmål de fleste av oss støter på i hverdagen. Men som vi skal høre, ble det en meget aktuell problemstilling for Haitis diktator, François “Papa Doc” Duvalier. Merkelige ting kan tross alt skje når man blander diktatur og voodoo…

11102021 Litteratur på Blå inviterer til samtale med den haitiske forfatteren Yanick Lahens! Hun er første internasjonale gjest til Litteratur på Blå etter koronapandemien. Lahens er aktuell i Norge med nyoversatt bok fra fransk til norsk av Synneve Sundby. «Månebad» kommer ut på Solum Bokvennen i høst, og handler om en bondefamilie i en liten landsby på Haiti. Via fortellinger med overtro og voodoo, romantikk og vold, gjenfortelles historien til fire generasjoner av kvinner og deres utfordringer med å holde familien samlet i et landskap av politisk kaos og økonomiske lidelser. Velkommen til Blå for et innblikk i haitisk kultur, samfunn og historie! Vi hører stadig om Haiti på nyhetene. Senest i høst kom meldingen om enda et kraftig og ødeleggende jordskjelv på øya som har vært rammet av så mange naturkatastrofer, fattigdom og politiske tumulter. Men hva kommer egentlig fram om alt det andre som foregår på Haiti? Om litteratur, kunst og kultur, og om Haitis befolknings egne skildringer og kulturuttrykk? Det er på tide å bli mer kjent med den litterære kulturen fra Haiti i Norge! Yanick Lahens (f. 1953) fra Port-au-Prince, er en av Haitis mest sentrale samtidsforfattere. Hun publiserte sin første roman i 2000 og ble tildelt Prix Femina for romanen «Månebad» i 2014. Lahens er en ledende kulturpersonlighet på Haiti. I tillegg til sitt litterære virke har hun også undervist på Universitetet i Port-au-Prince, drevet radioprogram og mye mer. Synneve Sundby (f. 1959) har oversatt et stort og bredt utvalg franskspråklig litteratur til norsk. Sundby står bak oversettelser av forfattere som Kamel Daoud, Albert Camus, Marie N'Diaye og mange fler. I tillegg til å ha oversatt «Månebad» er Sundby dessuten aktuell i høst med enda en oversettelse av en haitisk forfatter, nemlig James Noëls «Vakre vinduer» (Camino forlag). Samtalen ledes av Andrea Regine Meyer fra redaksjonen. Etter samtalen vil det være mulig å stille spørsmål, og det vil bli salg av «Månebad». Camino forlag kommer også til Blå for å selge «Vakre vinduer». Det er stor stas at det kommer ut hele to haitiske romaner på norsk denne høsten!

Von Mr. Pinguin (www.subversive-theorie.de) Auf längst vergessenen Pfaden einer transatlantischen Erfahrungsgemeinschaft folgen wir der haitianischen Revolution und Okkupation zur Kritik des „Schicksals“ der lebendigen Toten.  In der Figur des zombis, die bis heute fest im kulturellen Gedächtnis Haitis verankert ist, kondensiert sich sowohl die koloniale als auch die revolutionäre Geschichte Haitis. Die Hörreise untersucht die Furcht vor […] Der Beitrag Monster of the Capital – Part III: Vodou, Haiti – oder der Zombie als Figur der Unterwerfung und Rebellion erschien zuerst auf radio nordpol.

Vyriausybė siūlo tikslinti procedūras dėl migrantų po pusmečio sulaikymo, teisiškai atskirti prieglobs-čio prašytojus ir neteisėtus migrantus.Moksleivių rudens atostogas ilginamos dviem dienomis, planuojamas nuotolinis neformalus ugdymas.Kontrabandines cigaretes vilkikuose galintis aptikti rentgenas Raigardo poste netikėtai sugedo, o ši sienos kirtimo vieta yra mėgstama kontrabandininkų.Nacionalinio saugumo konferencijoje Vilniuje tiek Lietuvos, tiek Lenkijos vadovai pabrėžia šalių bendradarbiavimo svarbą. Ko reikėtų imtis tebesitęsiant migracijos krizei?Prieš gerą mėnesį Ispanijos saloje La Palmoje išsiveržė ugnikalnis , o šiomis dienomis išsiveržimo pasekmes gali pajusti dalis žemyninės Europos, taip pat ir Lietuva.Karibuose esantis Haitis vėl dėmesio centre: neseniai čia buvo pagrobta grupė amerikiečių krikščionių, o už jų išlaisvinimą reikalaujama milijoninės sumos.Ved. Liuda Kudinova

Wer liess den Präsidenten ermorden? Drei Monate nachdem Jovenel Moïse im Kugelhagel starb, rätselt man in Haiti noch immer über die Hintergründe der Tat. Wird das Verbrechen am Ende gar mit Absicht nicht aufgeklärt? Heutiger Gast: Thomas Milz Weitere Informationen zum Thema: https://www.nzz.ch/international/haiti-warum-musste-praesident-jovenel-moise-sterben-ld.1649065 Hörerinnen und Hörer von «NZZ Akzent» lesen die NZZ online oder in gedruckter Form drei Monate lang zum Preis von einem Monat. Zum Angebot: nzz.ch/akzentabo

Welcome to Sojourner Truth. Thank you for staying with us. This is your host, Margaret Prescod. Today: Poetry for Haiti, the worlds first Black republic, which is struggling to overcome neo-colonialism, imposed poverty, state violence, and natural disasters produced by climate change. In the early morning hours of August 14, 2021, a powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck southern Haiti, killing at least 2,200 people and injuring over 12,000 others, according to France 24. These figures, however, are expected to be much higher and many people remain unaccounted for. The Associated Press reported that at least 136,800 buildings were damaged or destroyed. The August 2021 earthquake that struck Haiti was the deadliest natural disaster of 2021; and it was the worst natural disaster to strike Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Just two days later, on August 16, 2021, Haiti experienced a direct hit from Hurricane Grace, which poured over 10 inches of rain on the nation. There was further damage from flash flooding and landslides that led to more casualties, especially among those hundreds of thousands of Haitians left homeless by the earthquake. According to the United Nations, at least 1.2 million people, including 540,000 children, had been impacted by the twin devastations of the earthquake and the hurricane. Meanwhile, all of this took place within the context of COVID-19, state violence, political instability, and attacks on the poor. In the Summer of 2021, a benefit for the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund (known as HERF) was organized by longtime Haiti solidarity campaigners. HERF provides concrete material aid directly to the people of Haiti, such as water, food, shelter, medicine, housing, and more. The benefit, dubbed Poetry for Haiti, was an afternoon of soul-nourishing poetry and an opportunity to support Haitis movement for democracy. The event featured Devorah Major, San Franciscos Third Poet Laureate, Tongo Eisen-Martin, San Franciscos current Poet Laureate, and Shanga Labossiere. It also featured a heart-warming tribute by longtime Haiti human rights activist Pierre Labossiere, to beloved elders of the Haiti solidarity movement. They include: Mrs. Solange Aristide, mother of President Jean Bertrand Aristide; Terry Collins, a community leader and co-founder of KPOO-FM; and Jacques Antoine Gwo Lobo, a Haitian DJ, community leader, and activist with the Lavalas movement. The Sojourner Truth Team, myself and Assistant Producer Ramiro Funez, had the honor of meeting Gwo Lobo in 2019, when we traveled to Haiti to cover the grassroots uprising. We bid farewell to these beloved and highly revered elders. Today on Sojourner Truth, we bring you exclusive audio from this historic event, Poetry for Haiti. The event was co-sponsored by the Haiti Action Committee, the Ecumenical Peace Institute, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, and St. Johns Presbyterian Church Mission and Justice Commission.

Welcome to Sojourner Truth. Thank you for staying with us. This is your host, Margaret Prescod. Today: Poetry for Haiti, the worlds first Black republic, which is struggling to overcome neo-colonialism, imposed poverty, state violence, and natural disasters produced by climate change. In the early morning hours of August 14, 2021, a powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck southern Haiti, killing at least 2,200 people and injuring over 12,000 others, according to France 24. These figures, however, are expected to be much higher and many people remain unaccounted for. The Associated Press reported that at least 136,800 buildings were damaged or destroyed. The August 2021 earthquake that struck Haiti was the deadliest natural disaster of 2021; and it was the worst natural disaster to strike Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Just two days later, on August 16, 2021, Haiti experienced a direct hit from Hurricane Grace, which poured over 10 inches of rain on the nation. There was further damage from flash flooding and landslides that led to more casualties, especially among those hundreds of thousands of Haitians left homeless by the earthquake. According to the United Nations, at least 1.2 million people, including 540,000 children, had been impacted by the twin devastations of the earthquake and the hurricane. Meanwhile, all of this took place within the context of COVID-19, state violence, political instability, and attacks on the poor. In the Summer of 2021, a benefit for the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund (known as HERF) was organized by longtime Haiti solidarity campaigners. HERF provides concrete material aid directly to the people of Haiti, such as water, food, shelter, medicine, housing, and more. The benefit, dubbed Poetry for Haiti, was an afternoon of soul-nourishing poetry and an opportunity to support Haitis movement for democracy. The event featured Devorah Major, San Franciscos Third Poet Laureate, Tongo Eisen-Martin, San Franciscos current Poet Laureate, and Shanga Labossiere. It also featured a heart-warming tribute by longtime Haiti human rights activist Pierre Labossiere, to beloved elders of the Haiti solidarity movement. They include: Mrs. Solange Aristide, mother of President Jean Bertrand Aristide; Terry Collins, a community leader and co-founder of KPOO-FM; and Jacques Antoine Gwo Lobo, a Haitian DJ, community leader, and activist with the Lavalas movement. The Sojourner Truth Team, myself and Assistant Producer Ramiro Funez, had the honor of meeting Gwo Lobo in 2019, when we traveled to Haiti to cover the grassroots uprising. We bid farewell to these beloved and highly revered elders. Today on Sojourner Truth, we bring you exclusive audio from this historic event, Poetry for Haiti. The event was co-sponsored by the Haiti Action Committee, the Ecumenical Peace Institute, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, and St. Johns Presbyterian Church Mission and Justice Commission.

Welcome to Sojourner Truth. Thank you for staying with us. This is your host, Margaret Prescod. Today: Poetry for Haiti, the worlds first Black republic, which is struggling to overcome neo-colonialism, imposed poverty, state violence, and natural disasters produced by climate change. In the early morning hours of August 14, 2021, a powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck southern Haiti, killing at least 2,200 people and injuring over 12,000 others, according to France 24. These figures, however, are expected to be much higher and many people remain unaccounted for. The Associated Press reported that at least 136,800 buildings were damaged or destroyed. The August 2021 earthquake that struck Haiti was the deadliest natural disaster of 2021; and it was the worst natural disaster to strike Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Just two days later, on August 16, 2021, Haiti experienced a direct hit from Hurricane Grace, which poured over 10 inches of rain on the nation. There was further damage from flash flooding and landslides that led to more casualties, especially among those hundreds of thousands of Haitians left homeless by the earthquake. According to the United Nations, at least 1.2 million people, including 540,000 children, had been impacted by the twin devastations of the earthquake and the hurricane. Meanwhile, all of this took place within the context of COVID-19, state violence, political instability, and attacks on the poor. In the Summer of 2021, a benefit for the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund (known as HERF) was organized by longtime Haiti solidarity campaigners. HERF provides concrete material aid directly to the people of Haiti, such as water, food, shelter, medicine, housing, and more. The benefit, dubbed Poetry for Haiti, was an afternoon of soul-nourishing poetry and an opportunity to support Haitis movement for democracy. The event featured Devorah Major, San Franciscos Third Poet Laureate, Tongo Eisen-Martin, San Franciscos current Poet Laureate, and Shanga Labossiere. It also featured a heart-warming tribute by longtime Haiti human rights activist Pierre Labossiere, to beloved elders of the Haiti solidarity movement. They include: Mrs. Solange Aristide, mother of President Jean Bertrand Aristide; Terry Collins, a community leader and co-founder of KPOO-FM; and Jacques Antoine Gwo Lobo, a Haitian DJ, community leader, and activist with the Lavalas movement. The Sojourner Truth Team, myself and Assistant Producer Ramiro Funez, had the honor of meeting Gwo Lobo in 2019, when we traveled to Haiti to cover the grassroots uprising. We bid farewell to these beloved and highly revered elders. Today on Sojourner Truth, we bring you exclusive audio from this historic event, Poetry for Haiti. The event was co-sponsored by the Haiti Action Committee, the Ecumenical Peace Institute, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, and St. Johns Presbyterian Church Mission and Justice Commission.

Welcome to Sojourner Truth. Thank you for staying with us. This is your host, Margaret Prescod. Today: Poetry for Haiti, the worlds first Black republic, which is struggling to overcome neo-colonialism, imposed poverty, state violence, and natural disasters produced by climate change. In the early morning hours of August 14, 2021, a powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck southern Haiti, killing at least 2,200 people and injuring over 12,000 others, according to France 24. These figures, however, are expected to be much higher and many people remain unaccounted for. The Associated Press reported that at least 136,800 buildings were damaged or destroyed. The August 2021 earthquake that struck Haiti was the deadliest natural disaster of 2021; and it was the worst natural disaster to strike Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Just two days later, on August 16, 2021, Haiti experienced a direct hit from Hurricane Grace, which poured over 10 inches of rain on the nation. There was further damage from flash flooding and landslides that led to more casualties, especially among those hundreds of thousands of Haitians left homeless by the earthquake. According to the United Nations, at least 1.2 million people, including 540,000 children, had been impacted by the twin devastations of the earthquake and the hurricane. Meanwhile, all of this took place within the context of COVID-19, state violence, political instability, and attacks on the poor. In the Summer of 2021, a benefit for the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund (known as HERF) was organized by longtime Haiti solidarity campaigners. HERF provides concrete material aid directly to the people of Haiti, such as water, food, shelter, medicine, housing, and more. The benefit, dubbed Poetry for Haiti, was an afternoon of soul-nourishing poetry and an opportunity to support Haitis movement for democracy. The event featured Devorah Major, San Franciscos Third Poet Laureate, Tongo Eisen-Martin, San Franciscos current Poet Laureate, and Shanga Labossiere. It also featured a heart-warming tribute by longtime Haiti human rights activist Pierre Labossiere, to beloved elders of the Haiti solidarity movement. They include: Mrs. Solange Aristide, mother of President Jean Bertrand Aristide; Terry Collins, a community leader and co-founder of KPOO-FM; and Jacques Antoine Gwo Lobo, a Haitian DJ, community leader, and activist with the Lavalas movement. The Sojourner Truth Team, myself and Assistant Producer Ramiro Funez, had the honor of meeting Gwo Lobo in 2019, when we traveled to Haiti to cover the grassroots uprising. We bid farewell to these beloved and highly revered elders. Today on Sojourner Truth, we bring you exclusive audio from this historic event, Poetry for Haiti. The event was co-sponsored by the Haiti Action Committee, the Ecumenical Peace Institute, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, and St. Johns Presbyterian Church Mission and Justice Commission.

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Programtekst: Byer forvandles til murbrokker, da et jordskælv af bibelske dimensioner rammer Haiti i midten af august. Få dage efter smadrer en tropisk storm det, der ikke allerede er ødelagt. Og det er bare 11 år efter, Haiti sidst blev lagt ned af et historisk ødelæggende jordskælv. En begivenhed, der sendte det lille land ned i en sump af korruption, bandekriminalitet og fattigdom. Filminstruktør Asger Leth har fulgt forfaldet og fortæller om haitianernes forsøg på at vriste sig fri af forbandelsen. Vært: Knud Brix.

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Trainiere dein Hörverstehen mit den Nachrichten der Deutschen Welle von Montag – als Text und als verständlich gesprochene Audio-Datei.Taliban besetzen Kabul und sprechen von Sieg Die radikal-islamischen Taliban haben nach einem schnellen Eroberungsfeldzug in Afghanistan ihren Sieg erklärt. Nur gut ein Vierteljahr nach Beginn des internationalen Truppenabzugs rückten die Extremisten in die Hauptstadt Kabul ein. Sie besetzten nach eigenen Angaben den Palast von Präsident Aschraf Ghani, der ins Ausland floh. Die USA, Deutschland und andere westliche Staaten bemühen sich derweil darum, ihr Botschaftspersonal und Ortskräfte in Sicherheit zu bringen. Scharfe Kritik an Bundesregierung wegen Afghanistan Angesichts der dramatischen Entwicklung in Afghanistan wächst die Kritik am Vorgehen der Bundesregierung bei der Evakuierung von deutschen Staatsangehörigen und ehemaligen Ortskräften. Die Opposition hielt Schwarz-Rot vor, viel zu spät reagiert zu haben. Der FDP-Außenexperte Alexander Graf Lambsdorff sagte der Zeitung "Die Welt", die zuständigen Minister hätten "auf ganzer Linie versagt". Grünen-Fraktionschef Anton Hofreiter sagte der Deutschen Presse-Agentur, man müsse sich fragen, warum die Bundesregierung so überrascht wirke vom schnellen Vorstoß der Taliban. Weit mehr als 1000 Tote nach Erdbeben in Haiti Bei dem schweren Erdbeben im Süden Haitis ist die Zahl der registrierten Todesopfer auf 1297 gestiegen. Dies gab der Zivilschutz des Landes auf Twitter bekannt. Zudem seien 2800 Menschen verletzt worden, heißt es. Das Beben, dessen Stärke die US-Behörde USGS mit 7,2 angab, ereignete sich am Samstagmorgen rund zwölf Kilometer von der Gemeinde Saint-Louis-du-Sud entfernt in einer Tiefe von etwa zehn Kilometern. Viele Häuser wurden völlig zerstört. Oppositionsführer Hichilema gewinnt Wahl in Sambia Im südafrikanischen Sambia hat der Oppositionskandidat Hakainde Hichilema die Präsidentschaftswahl gewonnen. Die Wahlkommission erklärte den 59-jährigen Geschäftsmann zum Wahlsieger. Er setzte sich demnach mit mehr als 2,8 Millionen Stimmen gegen den seit 2015 amtierenden Amtsinhaber Edgar Lungu durch, der nur gut 1,8 Millionen Stimmen bekam. Hichilema war bereits zum sechsten Mal zur Wahl angetreten und wurde von einem Bündnis aus zehn Parteien unterstützt. Bei der letzten Wahl 2016 hatte Lungu noch knapp vor Hichilema gewonnen. Vorgezogene Neuwahlen in Kanada im September Kanadas Premier Justin Trudeau hat vorgezogene Neuwahlen für den 20. September angekündigt. Die Generalgouverneurin habe seinen Antrag auf Auflösung des Parlaments angenommen, sagte der Regierungschef. Seine Liberalen hatten bei der Wahl vor knapp zwei Jahren ihre absolute Mehrheit verloren und sind als Minderheitsregierung stets auf Stimmen der Opposition angewiesen. Trudeau war zuletzt unter Druck geraten - etwa wegen der Vergabe eines millionenschweren Regierungsauftrags an eine Wohltätigkeitsorganisation, zu der er enge familiäre Kontakte hat. Südkorea und USA beginnen Militärübungen Trotz Drohungen Nordkoreas halten die Streitkräfte der USA und Südkoreas wieder ihre jährlichen Sommerübungen ab. Das neuntägige Manöver hat nach Medienberichten wie geplant begonnen. Nach Angaben des südkoreanischen Militärs soll es allerdings nur in reduziertem Umfang durchgeführt werden. Als Grund dafür wurden unter anderem die Bemühungen um eine Denuklearisierung der koreanischen Halbinsel genannt. Gemeint ist damit die atomare Abrüstung Nordkoreas. Die Führung in Pjöngjang hatte mit Konsequenzen gedroht, falls die Übungen stattfinden.

I dagens udgave af Dagens Nyheder kigger vi først og fremmest på OL. Faklen bliver tændt i dag og legene går for alvor i gang, men har Danmark muligheder for at hive medaljer med hjem?Så handler det også lidt om Haiti, for de skal i dag begrave deres præsident, der blev myrdet i starten af juli, men hvad er det lige, der er op og ned i den sag?Til slut skal vi selvfølgelig kigge på avisforsider.Vært: Razan el-NakiebTilrettelægger: Jonas Emil JakobsenRedaktør: Charlotte Bjerrekær

Nach der Ermordung des haitianischen Präsidenten Jovonel Moise scheint es ruhiger um den Inselstaat zu werden. Der Journalist und Karibik-Kenner Toni Keppeler erläuterte im Dlf, welchen Einfluss das Radio auf die Kulturlandschaft des Staates hat – aber auch auf die Demonstrationen der vergangenen Jahre. Toni Keppeler im Gespräch mit Mascha Drost www.deutschlandfunk.de, Kultur heute Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14 Direkter Link zur Audiodatei

Säsongsavslutning med fokus på mordet på Haitis president och den politiska utvecklingen i Mexiko. Vi presenterar också våra första sommargäster. Missa inte! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kalle Berg och Babs Drougge, men idag Erik Glaad, på P3 Nyheter förklarar morgonens stora nyheter, alltid tillsammans med programledarna för Morgonpasset i P3: Anis Don Demina, Ison Glasgow och Margret Atladottir. Två nya sprickor har hittats i skrovet efter Estonia. Vi benar ut om det går att dra några slutsatser alls av det. Dessutom innehåller utredningen av mordet på Haitis president detaljer som hade platsat i en klassisk actionrulle. Vad är senaste nytt? Och hur är läget i Haiti?

Today World news In Tamil - 12-7-2021 || tamil world news today live || International Malala Day A total of 36,197 new cases of corona have been confirmed in Indonesia in the last 24 hours. Corona 3 dose vaccine will soonly needed for american. Haitis interim prime minister says about the late president. Blast at a 'sports club' in Sudan. today is a international malala day.

I dagens avsnitt bland annat: Haitis president Jovenel Moïse skjuts ihjäl under nattlig stormning av hans hem, författarinnan Enid Blyton utdömd som rasist och xenofob av engelsk myndighet, kretsen kring Donald Trump lanserar Twitter-liknande internettjänsten Gettr, journalister i strejk efter att miljardären Vincent Bolloré blir ny majoritetsägare i franska radiokanalen Europe 1, chefsdomaren Ebrahim Raisi vinner iranska presidentvalet efter rekordlågt valdeltagande samt Vitryssland tackar nej till svenskt bistånd https://radio.bubb.la/sondag-11-juli-2021/ Länkar som diskuterades i dagens sändning: Haitis president Jovenel Moïse skjuts ihjäl och hans fru skadas när deras hem stormas nattetid av grupp beväpnade män som påstår sig vara DEA-agenter och talar spanska samt engelska med amerikansk accent Enid Blyton näste bästsäljare att hamna i de vaknas sikte, författarinnan bakom Fem-böckerna hann sälja 600 miljoner böcker på 90 språk innan English Heritage konstaterar att hon är rasist och xenofob, Blytons brott att hon använt ordet golliwog och skrivit berättelse om lilla fula svarta dockan Sambo som enkom älskas när ansiktet tvättas rent Kretsen kring Donald Trump lanserar Twitter-liknande internettjänsten Gettr, ses som reaktion på att Trump och andra konservativa bannlysts från de största plattformarna Donald Trump stämmer Facebook, Twitter och YouTube för att de avplattformat honom, menar att deras agerande bryter mot första tillägget i konstitutionen och kräver att Trump återigen tillåts använda tjänsterna Franske miljardären Vincent Bolloré förvärvar dominant position i den franska radiokanalen Europe 1, journalister i bolaget går som svar ut i strejk då de fruktar att radiokanalen ska slås samman med CNews, som Bolloré förvärvade 2016, och förvandlas till ett franskspråkigt Fox News Radio Hårdföre chefsdomaren Ebrahim Raisi vinner iranska presidentvalet i överlägsen stil efter rekordlågt valdeltagande i den islamiska republiken, sedan panel under ayatolla Ali Khamenei vakande öga diskvalificerat Raisi's tuffaste motståndare Vitryssland tackar nej till svenskt bistånd vilket Janine Alm Ericson, statssekreterare hos biståndsminister Per Olsson Fridh (MP), finner mycket allvarligt och olyckligt, Sveriges bistånd till landet uppgår för närvarande till hundra miljoner SEK om året och syftar till att förändra landets styrelseskick, införa jämställdhet, miljöarbete samt mänskliga rättigheter

- Økokrim er nå ute med en ny rapport, og den skal vi snakke mer om straks her i Nyhetsmorgen. Tina Søreide, professor ved Norges Handelshøyskole i Bergen Politiet i Haiti mener flere titalls utlendinger står bak drapet på Haitis president - 28 mistenkte skal være arrestert. Og verdens yngste land feirer 10 år i dag - men er det egentlig så mye å glede seg over der?

Endlich schmeckt der Kaffee: Die 0630 Tassen sind verschickt. Oder ihr nutzt sie beim Vorglühen für die Impfparty, von der euch Minh Thu und Robert heute erzählen. Und darum geht's sonst: Wie die Situation in Haiti nach der Ermordung des Präsidenten ist. (01:18) Was sich Städte und Kommunen alles ausdenken, um Menschen zum Impfen zu bewegen. (06:17) Warum es bei Olympia in Japan meist keine Zuschauer gibt, beim EM-Finale aber schon. (10:19) Tassenfotos, Glücksbekundungen und Ideen gerne an 0151 150 71635. Über Mails freuen wir uns auch: 0630@wdr.de

Ronie Berggren om det senaste i USA: Trump stämmer tech-jättarna; Twitter censurerar Kina-kritiker; Joe Biden börjar sin Build Back Better-turné; Biden diskuterar cyberhoten; Haitis president Jovenel Moïse mördad; USAs största lärar-fack stöder Critical Race Theory; John Kerry utan ansiktsmask; Man från Cleveland åtalas för dödshot mot Nancy Pelosi. ------- STÖD AMERIKANSKA NYHETSANALYSER: http://usapol.blogspot.com/p/stod-oss-support-us.html

On this Episode of The Kasabian Lavoe Show . Diddy better stop with the nonsense 15 was just chillin on your face . Haitis president Jovenel Moïse was assassinated . Tesla falling from grace in China . Akademiks was on Flagrant 2 and found him self on some beef with Weezy after comments about Rory and Mal . Uber Eats carjacking update . Well cover the weather and how its effecting you in the world . linktr.ee/kasabianlavoe www.klavoe.com ** Like ** Subscribe ** Follow

Haitis president har mördats. I landet som brukar kallas ett av dom fattigaste i världen. Hör vår korrenspondent Ivan Garcia om läget i landet nu. Efter veckor av politisk kris är Stefan Löfven återigen statsminister. Per T Ohlsson är journalist och författare till flera böcker om svensk politik och politisk historia - nu också krönikör på oberoende liberala Sydsvenskan. Han berättar om tidigare politiska kriser i Sverige.

VG Nyheter: Haitis president skutt og drept, minst én person død etter togulykke i Sverige, og politiet oppfordrer folk til å krysse svenskegrensa etter midnatt.

Unbekannte haben den haitianischen Präsidenten Jovenel Moïse ermordet, das meldet die haitianische Regierung. Moïse hatte das Land seit eineinhalb Jahren per Dekret regiert, nachdem die letzte Parlamentswahl – unter anderem wegen heftiger Proteste gegen ihn – abgesagt worden war. Bundesgesundheitsminister Jens Spahn (CDU) hat die Forderungen zurückgewiesen, alle Corona-Beschränkungen zeitnah aufzuheben. Damit widersprach er Außenminister Heiko Maas (SPD). Außerdem warb Spahn – entgegen der Empfehlung der Ständigen Impfkommission – dafür, auch Jugendliche zwischen 12 und 17 Jahren zu impfen. Außerdem im Nachrichtenpodcast: Der Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband hat im Diesel-Abgasskandal eine Musterfeststellungsklage gegen die Daimler AG eingereicht. Die Verbraucherschützer wollen Entschädigungszahlungen für betroffene Käuferinnen erreichen. Was noch? Zischen bleibt Gemeingut. Moderation und Produktion: Simone Gaul Redaktion: Jannis Carmesin Fragen, Kritik, Anregungen? Sie erreichen uns unter wasjetzt@zeit.de. Weitere Links zur Folge: - Jovenel Moïse: Haitis Präsident von Unbekannten erschossen https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2021-07/jovenel-moise-haiti-praesident-erschossen-unbekannte-taeter - Corona-Impfungen in Deutschland: So viele Menschen wurden bereits geimpft https://www.zeit.de/wissen/gesundheit/corona-impfungen-deutschland-impffortschritt-aktuelle-zahlen-karte - Dieselskandal: Verbraucherschützer reichen Klage gegen Daimler ein https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2021-07/diesel-skandal-verbraucherzentrale-klage-daimler-mercedes - Legal Tribune Online: Kein Mar­ken­schutz für's Zischen einer Geträn­k­e­dose https://www.lto.de//recht/nachrichten/n/eug-t668-19-geraeusch-oeffnung-getraenkedose-kein-markenschutz/

Auf der Karibikinsel Haiti ist Präsident Jovenel Moïse einem Mordanschlag zum Opfer gefallen. Offenbar sind in der Nacht Unbekannte ins Haus des Präsidenten eingedrungen und haben das Feuer eröffnet. Der Mord steht sinnbildlich für die tiefe Krise, in der das Land steckt. Weitere Themen: (01:28) Haitis Präsident Moïse ermordet (09:51) Angriffe auf Journalisten: «Ein grosses Problem ist die Straffreiheit» (16:21) Ex-Stadtschreiber der Wahlfälschung schuldig gesprochen (20:36) Sind junge Erwachsene grundsätzlich Politmuffel? (24:39) Schweden: Der alte Ministerpräsident ist auch der neue (28:18) Libanon: Das Erbe von Lokman Slim

Landsbylegen som ble diktator og massemorder. I dag er det 50 år siden Haitis tidligere diktator François Duvalier, kjent som Papa Doc, døde.

Der langjährige Präsident des haitianischen Fußballverbandes Yves Jean-Bart soll Spielerinnen sexuell missbraucht haben. Behörden und die FIFA Ethikkommission ermitteln. Spielerinnen berichten von Drohungen, damit sie ihre Anschuldigungen gegen Jean-Bart fallen lassen. Von Robert Kempe www.deutschlandfunk.de, Sport Aktuell Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14 Direkter Link zur Audiodatei

Jimi Wollumbin joins Mason on the show today to wax lyrical on all things microbe and virus related, very fitting considering the current climate and international lock down. Jimi is true renaissance man, who, over the last 20 years has had the opportunity to research and practice some of the most respected traditional medical systems on the planet, including the Chinese, Tibetan, Indian, Mongolian and Persian traditions. Jimi has also worked extensively in community health and international aid initiatives. These days Jimi's passion lays in the death and birth cycle of transformation. Jimi believes this is what the world needs on both an individual and global level. Jimi supports his clients through this transformational process at his Artemisia, his clinic based out of Northern NSW. "viruses are the medium of evolution, and they're distributed intelligent networks inside a massive big biosphere, which is Gaia, which is a huge supercomputer, single living organism that thinks, and responds, and computes really significantly. So we have to think of viruses in that context if we've got any hope of starting to approach what's happening at the moment, right?" - Jimi Wollumbin.   Mason and Jimi discuss: Crises as a part of the universal order. Disease as a factor driven by your individual belief system and lifestyle. Corona Virus. The role microbes play in the web of life. Drug resistant bacteria. Viruses as a distributed intelligence. Viral replication and eco harmony. The use of reductionist linear thinking in a nonlinear universe. The value of exploring ancient mythology when transforming your personal health culture. Traditional medicine and integrative thinking vs evidence based medicine. Using herbs as allies in healing vs using herbal medicine within the "pills for ills" ideology. Healing and the death/birth cycle of transformation. Who is Jimi Wollumbin ? Jimi Wollumbin is Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Jimi is one of those rare individuals that is an expert in his field that also knows how to teach others. He has spoken at the United Nations, opened for Deepak Chopra and has even been personally insulted by the Dalai Lama. He teaches integrative doctors across America, sits on the faculty of the America Integrative Health and Medicine Association and is a lifetime member of the Tibetan Medical Institute's 'Friends of Tibetan Medicine'. After completing his internship in Chinese Medicine in TCM in Beijing hospital he has since completed 3 research exchanges at Ayurvedic hospitals in India, 2 with the Lama-physicians at the Tibetan Medical Institute, 1 with the Persian Hakims of the Unani Tibb Hippocratic tradition, 2 at the Trad-Med Department of the Mongolian National University in Ulaan Bataar and a 2019 trip through Siberia to research Shamanic medicine. Jimi’s original degree at the ANU was in philosophy and eastern religion which is why Dr Seroya Crouch describes him as ‘a philosopher of medicine’. He has written several books, none of which have been published, acclaimed or even read... yet. Jimi is the CEO and founder of One Health Organisation, a wellness-based charity that has distributed over 10 metric tonnes of herbs and supplements to 100 locations across 13 countries since 2005. Jimi brings passion and enthusiastic hand gestures to every conversation he is a part of.   Resources: Jimi's Website Jimi's Blog Jimi's Instagram   Q: How Can I Support The SuperFeast Podcast? A: Tell all your friends and family and share online! We’d also love it if you could subscribe and review this podcast on iTunes. Or  check us out on Stitcher :)! Plus  we're on Spotify!   Check Out The Transcript Here:   Mason:   (00:00) Jimi, thanks so much man.   Jimi Wollumbin:  (00:01) It's a pleasure.   Mason:  (00:02) Round two for us, first round for Superfeast podcast.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (00:05) Yeah, great. I'm looking forward to it. The last round was really exciting, and we went to all sorts of magnificent places.   Mason:  (00:11) Oh, and your inspiring clinic as well, which you're full time in now.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (00:15) That's right.   Mason:  (00:15)                    Okay.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (00:15) Yeah. At the base of Mount Warning in UK.   Mason:  (00:18) I've been following along. I mean, just before we kick on, I mean, there's not too many people anymore that I follow on Facebook, but I love every one of your posts.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (00:29) I'm very touched.   Mason:  (00:31) Got a lot of them saved. [crosstalk 00:00:32] a lot of them saved. So just go and find Jimi Wollumbin and follow him. We were talking about, you've gone and you've got a clinic, can you just tell everyone the nature of what you're offering there?   Jimi Wollumbin:   (00:48) What am I offering? I previously used to offer alternative and traditional medical services around acupuncture, and herbal medicine, and body work, and helping people get well, and now I help people die and be reborn. And so, if people are just looking to mitigate their symptoms, then I'm not necessarily the best practitioner anymore because I found that those symptoms, whatever it is that they're struggling with, are always an invitation into a larger process of transformation.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (01:25) And at an individual level and a global level what we require, in my book, is transformation. And so, yeah, the dying and reborn process of transformation is what I'm really passionate about out at Artemisia.   Mason:  (01:36) Well, I mean, because coming in off the bat, especially if you're coming in from a Western model, you're like, all right, well that's some pretty heavy language that's going on there. But when you get into a clinical process and when you get into the fact that, how many little deaths are going on within the body at every moment and just the transformation cycles that need to occur with your energy at all times, I mean, these are the things that, the bed of basically all energetic medicine and Taoist medicine that is just... Qi is just.. Energy is just transforming and changing as you go along.   Mason:  (02:11) And in order to really be reborn through those processes, you need to deal with it a very multidimensional level, and I think that's why the only appropriate thing to talk about is to die and be reborn. Right?   Jimi Wollumbin:   (02:24) Yeah. And just to make that understandable to the average person that might not have been engaging in this, is that 90% of our deaths and illnesses, 92-95 are chronic degenerative illnesses, right? And so that means they're lifestyle mediated. So you lived your way into your illness, but the lifestyle that you had is determined upon your beliefs. Right? And so you've got all these particular beliefs, I'm not lovable unless I work my ass off, I'm not safe unless I earn lots of money, something like this. So your belief structures determine your lifestyle and your lifestyle determines your diseases.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (03:01) And so those belief structures are really the viral memes, just to segue us towards the next conversation, that are giving rise to your symptoms. And it doesn't matter whether the symptom is a rash, or a joint problem, or indigestion, underneath that are these core ideas that you have that have driven you to behave and live in an unsustainable manner. And that then crystallizes into your lifestyle, which crystallizes into your diseases. And so it makes no difference what your disease is, if it's, you've lived your way into it, and overwhelmingly we do, it's going to require personal transformation.   Mason:  (03:39) So the personal transformation, especially to go back, because you used the word, you've been living in an unsustainable manner. And that's, I mean, that's where I personally feel that little deaths and reborn processes need to occur for myself, because to have to realize that what you're doing isn't sustainable and generally opens you up to the possibility of degenerating in one way or another.   Mason:  (04:04) As much as you might be doing all this other healthy shit and rocking it, but if you've really got something that's coming from, whether it's a belief pattern, whatever it is that's tweaking year towards unsustainability, then you're going to keep on being caught in that cycle and the only way is to really consistently let a part of you go, just like pass away. Right?   Jimi Wollumbin:   (04:30) Yes, absolutely. And it's not a failure if you find yourself in there, because crisis is woven into the very heart of life, into the fabric of the universe itself, that crisis is what facilitates evolution and change, phase shifts. And so biology, any complex system generates crises, because it's complex. And then as that crisis emerges, then it facilitates the emergence to another level of hierarchy, another level of complexity. So evolution and change has crisis and chaos as a core part of it.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (05:05) And so if you find yourself sinking and swimming and being engulfed in crisis and chaos in your life, then it's not because you're a failure as a human being, it's your living out to the process of the evolution of matter itself. All life passes through that, and all species pass through that, and the earth itself is passing through that. And so I think it's really important not to have some ideal that if you don't have vibrant wellness you're spiritually failing yourself in some way, which is a terrible thing to be putting forth to people because-   Mason:  (05:37) But it's something that hangs on in the background. [crosstalk 00:05:39].   Jimi Wollumbin:   (05:39) It hangs on a lot. It's very, very common in the new age, and it's toxic. It's a toxic meme. But we're going to talk about viruses today, and just to link those two ideas together is, what I was saying there is if somebody comes to me with a viral infection, then I don't... It's somewhat relevant what virus they have. I have to pay attention to that. Is it herpes, is it genital, is it this, where is it, what are the symptoms?   Jimi Wollumbin:   (06:08) But because they're opportunistic overwhelmingly, then I'm just going to go through that process of saying, well, what else is going on, how have you driven yourself to this particular point, and what are the beliefs underneath that? So what are the ideas or memes, if we use that language, right, these, what are the ideas that you've been infected with, the memes, that have driven the behavior that have now made you susceptible to this particular virus?   Jimi Wollumbin:   (06:35) And so that's what the work looks like at an individual level as well as the pragmatic stuff of these are the medicines and treatments that are useful in viral infections that sort of, the day to day bits of medicine. But the personal level goes like that. And I actually think that whilst everyone's got coronavirus on the brain at the moment, it's a perfect time to have the same conversation for us as a culture that needs to happen at an individual level about, wow, you've got a viral infection, so what does this mean? What does this mean to America? What does this mean to the global culture right now?   Mason:  (07:10) What does it mean in Australia when every single pharmacy and supermarket is literally sold out of face masks over this outbreak of the coronavirus. There's obviously a lot of worry and fear, and when you have, let's just say novel virus, if emerging and it's coming into public knowledge, at least, for the first time. It's been the first advertised outbreak. But I don't exactly know. I'm just talking between the lines, because I don't know exactly what's going on with coronavirus. I haven't been looking too much into it.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (07:44) Okay. Well that makes both of us really, I just have to flag my general ignorance as well about, I have an oral only policy on news, so I don't have any Facebook feeds or any social media feeds that I look, and I don't look at any websites.   Mason:  (07:56) Or conspiracy feeds.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (07:57) No feeds at all. The only way I get news about the world is filtered through other human beings that I trust, and so it that makes me the most ignorant and ill-informed person that I know.   Mason:  (08:07) And what it brings up, it's this interesting pattern. We can see with swine flu, bird flu, SARS, corona, it's this new ambiguity of us being susceptible and infected, not understanding quite what viruses are, which, that's where I feel like I'd like to jump into.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (08:26) Let's go there.   Mason:  (08:26) Let's go there, so-   Jimi Wollumbin:   (08:27) It'd be really, really interesting.   Mason:  (08:27) Yeah. Or, you want to just take the bat there and run with what we mean by that.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (08:31) So, just before we go into viruses, there needs to... I think, just a context of microbes. Right? And so just to see the larger context is that the web of life and the idea of a tree of life has been cut down by biologists. It's a bad metaphor, and it didn't work out. It's really officially a web of life.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (08:52) The web of life is microbial. And so that means that of the 23 kingdoms, we've got animals, plants, and fungi being macro, and the other 20 are all micro, right? And those macro ones, they're like the fungi, the fruiting body on top of this vast web of life. So life is overwhelmingly on this planet, microscopic and invisible to us. And the only reason that those microbes account for 90% of the species on this planet rather than 99.8985 or something, is because insects are in the animal category with us.   Mason:  (09:33) Right.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (09:34) Because of insects-   Mason:  (09:37) We bumped up.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (09:37) We bump it up to 10%.   Mason:  (09:38) They bump the mean up.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (09:39) Yeah. They bump it up, but you take them out and it's this microbes, so the web of life is microbial. And it's a web, right?   Mason:  (09:46) That's like cells are most bacteria in the human body kind of ratio.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (09:49) Just that sort of thing. So if you dehydrate me, I'm 19% microbial protein, it's like, wow, okay. And it's like that across the whole planet, the macro and micro thing. And the other important thing to see is that the bacteria are, we think of them as all these different species and that's helpful in a way, but they're all changing DNA, all changing DNA, like microbial lions changing DNA with microbial zebras, with microbial praying mantises, just swapping DNA. And so-   Mason:  (10:27) And many ways to swap as well.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (10:28) So many ways.   Mason:  (10:29) Directly to a different species, I'm randomly just going to leave this information here so that some other life form can come and get this-   Jimi Wollumbin:   (10:38) Here's the app.   Mason:  (10:38) ... and learn how to evolve.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (10:39) That right. Here's the piece.   Mason:  (10:40) It's insane.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (10:40) Grow wings like that.   Mason:  (10:42) [inaudible 00:10:42].   Jimi Wollumbin:   (10:42) You know?   Mason:  (10:43) Yeah.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (10:44) And it's, they're downloading large pieces like that. And so there's this huge subterranean, I mean that figuratively, but actually literally, microbes go kilometers under the earth, and if we would pile them up it's like four stories of microbial protein covering us right now across all of the oceans and all of the land, right? So this vast subterranean network, that's a single organism, that's a single network, because it's all swapping DNA and information around, right?   Jimi Wollumbin:   (11:16) And so it's this vast system of information processing that makes our technology and our internet look like a 1980s space invader machine compared to a quantum computer. The numbers, I mean, if I've got 35 trillion bacteria, and there's 7 billion of us humans, and we're a fraction of this... It's just...   Mason:  (11:36) Yeah, it boggles the mind.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (11:38) Vast, right? And so we have to see this huge web of life that is microbial, that fruits up in towards us and the other cute macro species where we're at, and profoundly intelligent. They invented sex. I mean, hallelujah, thank goodness, they have their own language, quorum sensing, all of these things, they have strategies, they hunt, they flee, they're intelligent, they solve mazes and all sorts of things, and they evolve at a staggering pace. And so, first off, that they evolve at a staggering pace is, we know that...   Jimi Wollumbin:   (12:17) Penicillin came out in '45 and 10 years later 80% of bacteria were already immune to it. Right?   Mason:  (12:25) Mm-hmm (affirmative)-.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (12:26) 10 years later. And Fleming had warned in the late 20s of the way in which they were getting immunity really quickly, before it was even available broadly, right? And so they just...   Mason:  (12:35) How was he onto that? Just working in the field?   Jimi Wollumbin:   (12:38) Yeah, in his own experiments. It's like things get immune really fast.   Mason:  (12:41) Right.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (12:41) He figured out in 1929 and he made a public announcement in 1945, the same year it all came out, right? 1954, nine years later, we got 65% to 80% immunity, right? And so because they're this huge smart network of everything trading genes, you put anything in and it passes all around. And so we throw our finest next generation bacteria antibiotic inside that, and then resistance forms, antibiotic resistance that is spread potentially through everything. Right? But not just resistance to that, but resistance to the next six drugs we haven't yet developed.   Mason:  (13:20) I love this world and it's floored me over the years, and at this point, a lot of it, I'm just like, yep, that's the reality. There's this huge web of life that's communicating and it's a whole kingdom upon itself, but when I think about the fact that they've become resistant to the antibiotic that hasn't been released yet, when I saw that data, I think it's like a Stephen Buhner first had data, is that fact they're living in the antibacterial soaps in the hospitals, you'd learn-   Jimi Wollumbin:   (14:02) Absolute zero, in nuclear reactors-   Mason:  (14:05) [inaudible 00:14:05].   Jimi Wollumbin:   (14:05) ... Out in space affecting them also.   Mason:  (14:06) You learn the reality of just, well, yeah, what we're... And then you watch the traditional mindset go, look what we're up against.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (14:17) Yeah. Wow. Okay. So that's the viral meme that we'll come back to, that pace then. Let's put that one to the side.. At the moment.   Mason:  (14:24) All right.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (14:26) So we've got that vast network of really intelligent super processing that is the web of life, right, that we are a part of. It's not us and them, we're a part of it. And then inside of that then we've got viruses. And not very long ago we were like, viruses, do they even get categorized as being alive, because they're just dumb self replicating chunks of DNA. It's like we don't even give them status as living beings. Right?   Mason:  (14:58) Yeah.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (14:58) That's where it was at. Right?   Mason:  (15:00) Yeah.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (15:00) And since then, thanks, I believe, to computer programming and together with systems biology, we found that viruses have to be understood as a swarm. And so looking at the individual, of course this is one of the things we were looking at in a reductionist way and you can't see the forest for the trees, so we look at an individual virus, it's like an alien coming down and looking at one of our brain cells and saying, these guys are morons.   Mason:  (15:25) Good point.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (15:25) Right? It's like that. So you're looking at one bee rather than a swarm of bees. Right? And then I found that when I look at that they behave in ecosystems like top predators, and they move through large whole areas, right, and inhabit that inside macro species like monkeys. And then they will do that, and they want to maintain, like farmers, say, of animals, equilibrium so that they can have their own going home that's stable.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (15:55) But then if something happens, like a rival troop comes in, then those viruses will become virulent. And when they infect the rival troop, then the rival triple die or get sick and unpleasant and have to run away so that ecostasis is maintained. Right?   Jimi Wollumbin:   (16:12) So we've got viruses as these large a-cellular, not having their own body, distributed intelligences, ecological demon, spirits of place that exist across multiple different beings and yet behave as a system in coordinated ways with all these different mutant mutations, right, all these different cells that have slightly different tweaks that will up-regulate one of those expressions and down-regulate another in order to maintain eco harmony so that they can continue. Right?   Jimi Wollumbin:   (16:49) So it's like viruses are doing this. Wow. So viruses are clever distributed intelligences. And on top of it, the other thing is that the reason why we don't have a tree of life anymore and we've got a web of life, is that the idea of a species doesn't make any sense anymore because we see that species are all changing DNA as well. And that's thanks to viruses. So viruses through horizontal gene transfer are taking DNA out of a zebra and putting it into a rattlesnake.   Mason:  (17:17) That's the best [inaudible 00:17:18]. It's always the best. It's like you're part virus, you're part so many things.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (17:24) We're like 40% viral in origin that we can identify, or something like this, right?   Mason:  (17:28) 40%.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (17:28) Something really, really high.   Mason:  (17:30) I didn't think it was that high.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (17:31) So viruses are the medium of evolution, or at least one of the mediums of evolution on this planet, right? And it creates, that's the tension of micro evolutionary changes in a Darwinian model of random mutation, it's like the fossil record doesn't support it, and it's just like, how do we get these leaps that the fossil record shows? It can be through viruses taking chunks, can be one of the mediums, right? Either way, horizontal gene transfer is taking place.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (17:58) So viruses are the medium of evolution, and they're distributed intelligent networks inside a massive big biosphere, which is Gaia, which is a huge supercomputer, single living organism that thinks, and responds, and computes really significantly. So we have to think of viruses in that context if we've got any hope of starting to approach what's happening at the moment, right?   Mason:  (18:25) Yeah. Well, it brings on a bit of a dichotomy when you have a viral infection and you go... I think because it's like we needed to have started the conversation back a little bit further. It's like, right now you're like, what am I supposed to do? Am I grateful for this? Am I letting it... It's maybe not the time to be have any huge conversations, just go and get yourself dealt with, but what is the conversation that we have then?   Jimi Wollumbin:   (18:53) Well, the conversation is... Let me give a couple more missing pieces of the puzzle before we get to the conversation I think.   Mason:  (19:00) Great. And go into that virus, just clipping parts of DNA of the puzzle and putting them all into one perfect string.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (19:07) So we've got the viruses moving around like this, we've got the vast, huge network of microbes that is the web of life that we are a part of, and we're just little fruiting bodies. And we have, on the planet at the moment, technological evolution like we've never seen before. Right? We've never seen, you're just staggering at the change that has happened in my life.   Mason:  (19:31) Yeah. Staggering.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (19:33) No one can keep up with it, right? But that technological evolution from the industrial revolution or wherever you want to take it, has produced significant changes in the biosphere, and parallel to the technological revolution that we can see in the big clunky things at our big clunky multicellular level, which is not the majority of life, where we are, we see all this technological change because our phones are smarter. Parallel to that is massive microbial evolution, massive change, maybe not like we've never seen before, but like has not been witnessed in a long time I assume.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (20:10) And so this is because we've significantly changed the environment, and we've been pumping out tons and tons and tons and tons of antimicrobial agents like antibiotics through our beef and all of these different things that are all putting pressure on the web of life. And let me say the web of life is fine, the microbial kingdom, fine. Microbes, like we just said, they can exist in nuclear reactors. The first evidence of microbes on this planet is during the Hadean era named after Haitis when the earth is essentially just a slightly cool ball of lava with meteorites exploding on it, the microbes are all right. Right?   Mason:  (20:51) And it's same with the Gaia, same with Gaia.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (20:54) That whole piece, right? Gaia microbes, microbes Gaia, they're sort of cells of Gaia in a way.   Mason:  (20:59) It's fine.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (20:59) Yeah, so that's fine, but it is changing because we have changed the environment so radically. It's having to adapt, so it's adapting. But those adaptions of the microbial kingdom to create ecostasis or harmony like the... You know the viral monkey story? Or you know when microbes first learn how to take in carbon and shit out oxygen they almost killed themselves by producing this noxious gas of oxygen that drowned the whole planet in corrosive, oxidizing, nasty acidic oxygen. And the mass extinction happened because of that.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (21:40) And then they figured out, oh, we can just use that intense, intense gas called oxygen, which is like sulfuric acid, and we can breathe it. And so they adapted to that. And then we got the respiration processes that plants and that we now take a breath, take for granted. And so they evolve underneath those things ecological crisis and adapt. And at the moment we've got this massive bio shift. And so this is massive change in what's happening with the microbes, right?   Jimi Wollumbin:   (22:10) And so we see the extinction of some of the macro species, which is heart rendering, right, for us, but what we don't see is this tsunami of roiling rippling change that's happening at the microbial level that reflects what's happening at the macro level of just like, whoa, okay, there's so much more carbon, whoa, there's tons and tons and tons of antibiotics, whoa, there's less of these species, whoa, there's pesticides, and heavy metals, and whatever else, and-   Mason:  (22:39) And radiation and all the [crosstalk 00:22:39].   Jimi Wollumbin:   (22:39) ... changing temperatures and radiation, gray spaces. And so it's like the web of life, that vast thing that would bury us four stories deep if we put this, the protein, the bacteria on top of us, is going through bacteria and viruses. And so over the last 25 years we've had like 30 brand new diseases emerge predominantly through ecological change and environmental change, and then through damning, through deforestation, through gray space, all that sort of stuff.   Mason:  (23:07) What's the gray space?   Jimi Wollumbin:   (23:09) Gray spaces where you've got huge environments that are manmade. And so-   Mason:  (23:14) Oh, and all that.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (23:15) Yeah, like concrete and all these sorts of things. Bacteria are thriving here, but they have to change to thrive inside plastic, concrete, EMF environments, right?   Mason:  (23:27) No real soil or ground-   Jimi Wollumbin:   (23:30) No, that's right.   Mason:  (23:30) ... just a little bit of [crosstalk 00:23:31].   Jimi Wollumbin:   (23:31) So it's a different culture, right?   Mason:  (23:32) Yeah.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (23:33) So it's a different microbial culture that-   Mason:  (23:34) Literally a different culture.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (23:35) ... thrives inside this culture that's here, right? And so all of those things are producing changes, right, so microbial changes, microbial cultural that reflect our cultural changes and our technological evolution, biological evolution that affects our technological evolution. And so then when we see coronavirus, then we have to have this conversation that we started off with like the person that comes to me with some other virus and say, well, you know what else is going on? I'm really exhausted, and I've been drinking too much, and I just had a divorce. And why was that?   Jimi Wollumbin:   (24:10) So I go, I guess I got a divorce because I was just never available, because I got the idea when I was a kid that I was unlovable. So I just had to work my ass off and all blah blah blah, and I drive people away like that, and now I'm exhausted, and my immune system is crashing, and I've got a virus. It's like, oh wow, good, it's time to take a good long hard look in the mirror.   Mason:  (24:25) Take this.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (24:26) Take a mirror home. That's the main thing, right?   Mason:  (24:31) Yeah.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (24:31) It's like, wow, you lived your way into this.   Mason:  (24:33) Well, then you're asking them to take home a lifelong practice as well.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (24:37) Absolutely.   Mason:  (24:37) Which is interesting.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (24:38) But that's what's being asked of us as a species.   Mason:  (24:41) For sure.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (24:42) That process, right, of, what's coronavirus about, and all these other new diseases about, and what can we learn from it, and in what way do we need to change and adapt? Because at the moment we are on this thing of just like, let's just keep changing the environment to us rather than us changing to our environment, adapted to an environment. So there's a larger conversation of like, wow, okay, things are shifting really fast and we can see some of these diseases coming up.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (25:11) And not to fear monger, because people have pointed out that there's a large amount of fear out in the world at the moment about these viruses, but as somebody that's studied the history of epidemics, then we know that when we've mismanaged our environment really significantly, like in the middle ages or through the industrial revolution, that those diseases that come up, those microbial changes that have to adapt to that really significantly different environment, there's nothing medicine does and can do then or today, and just like, yeah, a third of the population just disappears.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (25:46) And this just comes for a period of time and then disappears like this English sweating sicknesses and you just, you'd be alive and then 24 hours later you'd be dead. And then when it's all done, the sweating, sickness, bacteria and virus have just disappeared. They come for a period and then they go after that. Right? And so there's due course for us as a species to have a degree of alarm about how we're mismanaging our environment and what the biosphere is going to do, not in a punitive sense because we are the biosphere, but just in terms of maintaining equilibrium and balance. Right?   Jimi Wollumbin:   (26:19) And so coronavirus by itself doesn't frighten me, but the rippling and roiling of the microbial underworld is, that's what homeostasis can look like in the process of these mass macro ecological changes. We see the forests, we see the glaciers, we don't see what's happening in the web of life below that because it's too small for us. But it's moving like plate tectonics. Right? And coronavirus is one of those ones that's like this, but coronavirus looks all right. But the epidemiologists and my microbiologists that are alarmist, they have a good reason, because they've seen-   Mason:  (27:06) They've seen what can happen.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (27:08) They know what can happen. They do know what happens. So as a species, not as an individual, as an individual you shouldn't worry. And I just want to repeat that. Anyone that's really worried, I don't think as an individual you should worry at all right now, but as a species I really think we should worry because we terribly mismanaged our environment. And the changes that can come as a result of that can be frightening for us, not for life, not for the web of life, but for us as an individual species.   Mason:  (27:34) Yeah. And it's confronting, I mean, none more than when you go into the healing space of a hospital, and it's, you continue... Last decade I've been around lots of more nurses and doctors and become much more sympathetic of the human element, but I'm not sympathetic towards my own ignorance and nor for general ignorance as well, and also not an asshole when I try and point it out and think I'm a know it al.   Mason:  (28:08) But that environment is literally a storehouse of bacterial and viral infection because we keep on kicking the can down the road with antimicrobials, and antivirals, and antibiotics when it's a virus, just to be safe, so on and so forth, just chopping the organ out, sterile, no plants, no sunlight, none of that. It gets very significant when you take a-   Jimi Wollumbin:   (28:33) Oh, yeah.   Mason:  (28:33) ... back look or look back at, this is where we're doing our healing?   Jimi Wollumbin:   (28:37) It radicalizes and virializes the web of life. And so there's no good metaphors for this, but you could think of it as terrorist training camps, except it's not terrorist, it's just life. You could think of it as-   Mason:  (28:53) The way that we relate to it it is.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (28:54) Yeah. From our perspective, we're radicalizing, it's like that because they're still not terrorists, they're still interested just in harmony, but from our perspective they invoke terror so we think we think of them as terrorists.   Mason:  (29:05) For sure.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (29:06) We radicalize them in the hospital through those particular processes, but we don't just radicalize them, we evolve them.   Mason:  (29:13) We evolve them massively, right?   Jimi Wollumbin:   (29:14) Really quickly. And there's been more microbial generate... How does this go? Because they go through a generation in every two minutes or something like that, so there's more... What we see over the last 300 years of human existence in terms of technological evolution, we say, wow, look at that, that's happening every five minutes in the bacterial world. It's just, it happens so quickly. It's happened so quickly. Like one bacteria listed left to divide uninhibited would produce more cells than there are protons in the known universe in like two years or something like that.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (29:54) And they are evolving through that process constantly. So the process is really, really fast. And compared to our macro evolution, which is quite slow, the micro evolution is really, really fast.   Mason:  (30:06) So then if we start looking at, all right, if we are susceptible to illness and viral infections, say, in a treatment perspective, you've talked to our need to get to the root as well as then personalized treatment. Ongoingly, do you see the fact that we need to be working on that level to come into harmony within ourselves, in lifestyle and state of mind? In that essence, then what? Is it so that our immune system can be strong so we can be a part of nature?   Mason:  (30:38) Do we need to almost practice the little deaths because we've got this inevitable moving back to when we're going to die and be absorbed by this huge microbial kingdom? What's the point? Where do we fit with our health and our relatedness?   Jimi Wollumbin:   (30:54) Okay. So, I hear the invitation to speak in a clinical and individual level, and I promise I will, but first I want to say, if I just have a conversation like that and then said, and for yourself, make sure you do this and this and this so you're strong, I will be perpetuating the problem. And so the problem is this as I see it, right, is that we've been talking about genes and the way in which they move around, but we spoke previously about memes, like the viral infection of an idea that drove that particular man to destroy his marriage and his health. Right?   Jimi Wollumbin:   (31:34) And so memes in evolutionary biology are ideas that spread through culture. So Christianity is a meme, catholicism is a meme, feminism is a meme, capitalism is a meme. All our isms are memes. They're ideologies that affect us, right? And so there's this continuity between microbial culture and human culture, between genes and memes, that goes around and around and around.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (32:02) And so on the one hand we can see, just imagine that there's a gene for selfishness and violence, which there isn't, and genes don't work that way, but imagine there is because it's easier to think about. And then we've got someone that's got that gene and then they create a tribe around them that's all got that gene, and then they create a country and an empire like the Roman empire that's based upon this particular gene spreading, every stage of that. Then they create culture around that, they creates stories around that, they create images, they create are practices that all have a meme involved of violence and selfishness.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (32:37) Now as that meme spreads to other cultures, their stories, their religions, and their religion is, it's survival of the fittest, that's their religion, say, as that idea gets out, then that idea changes those other people in the same way that that gene could change other people. Right? So genes can give rise to meme and then memes come down and change our biology culture. The meta emergent culture changes our biology as a species in the same way that your ideas change your biology and your biology changes your ideas.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (33:12) So we've got this movement of there's unhealthy ideas, cultural memes that are spreading across the planet behind the globalization of the world, and that fundamental... It's hard to put a word to what is that meme, because it's really complex, right? So there's no satisfying single quip. Right? But for the purposes of your question, I'm going to say the meme that is spreading is the meme of the fallacy of separation, that our economy is separate from our fine arts, that human culture is separate from the environment, that the icebergs is separate from your gut health.   Mason:  (33:54) I mean, even in the body strength is separate from flexibility.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (33:58) All of those.   Mason:  (33:58) Yeah. All of those. Yeah.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (33:59) All of those using reductionist linear thinking in a nonlinear universe overwhelming.   Mason:  (34:07) A universe-   Jimi Wollumbin:   (34:07) Right?   Mason:  (34:07) ... that literally doesn't have such thing as a straight line.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (34:09) Right. That's right. So that's the meme that I would say, the fallacy of separation, right? And that that is spreading across lots of different cultures. And as it spreads, they create technology and practices that then alter the environment that then virializes bacteria in particular ways, right? And then those bacteria will then spread genes and do things like that. So we've got this movement up and down in a complex system from its parts and the emergent holes that come out of them like this.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (34:39) And so when you say, well, what should I do? If I say, well, you know what you should do, Mason, is you should make sure that you get all the proper nutrition and you do this and this and this and this and this, I would be potentially spreading the fallacy of separation.   Mason:  (34:55) Well, what I'm thinking, well, yeah, what I was thinking there, what we do in terms of a mindset going forth, is it... Because I've thought about this and meditated on this for so long, and in the end it's just something to do to keep on coming back to yourself I imagine, but is there a surrenderedness, is there you're not in control? Is it, while you are a part of that web of life and so then the context of you becoming healthy isn't in, don't let that opportunistic organism come and kill me you bastard, I'm going to beat you. Is it something bad? I just want hear your insights of that core.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (35:38) Yeah. Good. So I definitely think that our own personal healing and our own personal journey is one of the most profound ways that we can affect the macro level as well.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (35:48) And there's this ancient connection between the micro and macro, right? That by getting healthy, by getting well, by engaging deeply in your process, your addictions, and the viral memes that you have in your family line and your own story, by starting to become conscious of those and healing those, by seeing the cultural ones that you've inherited of separation and fragmentation of who you are and how you see the world, then you're in a better place to be that little meme sharing bacteria in the web of life that says in moments like this, hey, have this little download. That's what I'm doing now. You and I are doing this now.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (36:33) We are virally spreading an idea. Well, we caught it from other people as well, it's not that we came up with it, but we're spreading this idea. And as it spreads that idea, then it changes the culture, and as we change the culture, then we change the way we do things, which is changing the environment, which is giving rise to those bacteria as well. Right?   Mason:  (36:52) Yeah.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (36:52) So I definitely think that people engaging with their own health is really, really important, but it's how you do that and why you do that that makes all the difference. Because a lot of people have still the viruses Osama Bin Laden must be killed and protected against and I'm taking all these super herbs to kill the bug, must kill bug.   Mason:  (37:13) And now the water fast, like more skin scrubbing, more oregano oil all over me. Like it's-   Jimi Wollumbin:   (37:20) It's herbal antibiotics against life, antibiotic, against the web of life. And it's the fallacy of separation that underpins that. And so there can be no health in an unhealthy culture. There can't be. And so our deepest yearnings for self-preservation have to get married to the transformation of our unhealthy culture and the preservation of the environment that we live in. It has to be that. And also along the way, yes, we need to take care of ourselves and we can... Once I've said this piece, I can move on, and then we can talk about antiviral herbs and things like that as well.   Mason:  (37:59) Yeah. I guess it's got a context.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (38:00) It does. Then it has the context. Right? But the larger piece is that we can not isolate ourselves with adaptogenic, immunological, super extracted herbs from the vast biological upheavals of the microbial kingdom. We cannot, our best... We can't do that. Right? Human beings will survive, but there's no guarantees about any individual.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (38:29) And so the idea is, I think, folly to just try and lock ourselves away, and the idea is, I believe, to get whole and healthy, and to become a wellbeing so that we can participate in the process of healing our fractured culture and vanquishing those unhealthy memes that have changed our environment, that are giving rise to those virulent genes, viruses, and microbes. Yeah.   Mason:  (38:59) Then we become, funilly, the micro in the macro of the microbials at that point. Right. Which is a trip. They are our ancestors. Right?   Jimi Wollumbin:   (39:09) Absolutely.   Mason:  (39:10) It's the bacteria that created, and viruses, that created a cell structure that then enabled us to come about that. I like that because it doesn't change us. We're not expecting all of a sudden to put on completely new glasses and see the world in a completely different way, but you can feel the world in a different way. You can trust the course that you're on already. You're trying to become more loving, more healthy, less of an asshole, try and get as much information as possible.   Mason:  (39:36) The internet is connected, but humans aren't connected, so you can't get, as you say, because you have all these memes, and this bias, and these institutional official stories of what reality is. It's hard sometimes to know what's truth and what's not, therefore, it's hard to take action like a microbe would that is going to lead us towards a personalized evolution. And you can see this quagmire happening. I think it's going to pass. I think there's a lot of extremism. I also see a splitting of the chains.   Mason:  (40:13) When you said those gray areas, I always think sometimes you just see... And you can feel the pull, you can feel the pull of modernity and domestication at times, and then as well you can feel that pull of nature. And if you're going to be getting involved in one direction or the other, to an extent, this is all speculation, but this is something I think about a lot, there's various splits in the genes where, not that you have different speices necessarily, but along that line of a conversation. So, because that leads to there had not been a right or a wrong because we have many different paths as well.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (40:52) Yeah, there are. One of the things I was thinking when you were saying that is about the modernity piece, is I think that one of the most radical things that we can do is to not just consume ancient grains, but to consume ancient memes, and to preserve ancient meme. And so ancient memes are contained in the world's mythologies in these ancient, ancient stories because they hold wisdom, they hold huge chunks of information, like the bacterial chunks that say, this is how you fly, or this is how you get camouflaged, right?   Jimi Wollumbin:   (41:34) They contain this in this myth or poetic language. And when we take them in they're like a ferment or something that you introduce into your kombucha. It changes everything. You change the culture within through consuming these leavens of these ancient memes. And so I think when you it's hard to know, it's confusing. There's all these things going on, all that sort of stuff, in the world. It's like, personally, that's one of the reasons why I'm ignorant of a lot of things in the modern world, is because I'm cautious about the information that I consume. I'm cautious about the imagery that I consume.   Mason:  (42:16) Well, that's huge as a health piece.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (42:19) Yeah. Because it changes... They're memes. They're all memes. Right. And you're not immune to it. They're going to become a part of you.   Mason:  (42:25) Discernment is massive.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (42:27) Yeah. Far out, so anyway, so. So that's that piece. I think that it's in terms of saying, well, how do I navigate through this environment? Is the how do I live, is not what science has ever excelled at. Right. Because mythology is not bad science, it is a completely different piece. It's a guide on the nature of being and how to navigate through crisis and change. That's what's in those stories. So that's one of my prescriptions, right.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (43:04) To our culture and to anyone living, read and immerse yourself in ancient mythology, because there's this life saving memes inside there that go in like viruses and change your state of consciousness. And they change it profoundly by giving you different metaphors, different images, and different lenses so that you can see the world in a different way, you can see opportunities and crises in a different way. And if I've arrived at a different perspective in my journey as a practitioner, it's through that. It's through the regular consumption of ancient memes.   Mason:  (43:39) Is that what draw you back to Mongolia?   Jimi Wollumbin:   (43:42) Yes, that's what drew me back to Mongolia. Yes. Speaking of ancient meme, it's a place rich in, and Siberia as well, the shamanism there, a place very rich in ancient memes indeed.   Mason:  (43:55) You've got some of those stories on your Facebook page. I think I'll-   Jimi Wollumbin:   (43:57) I do indeed.   Mason:  (43:58) ... just tell people to stay there rather than going, give us your top 10 mentions.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (44:03) That's right. And so then, I feel like I've dodged your previous question of what are people to do in response at an individual level to viral illness.   Mason:  (44:18) No. You answered it. I mean, clinically it's always interesting. I'm quite over getting a checklist of things to do and the Western approach of having reliance. I think a 20% of your energy in towards knowing the practicality, if you go down there are certain actions that you can take upon infection feeling, whether it's... What is it? Is it hot, is it cold, or is it... And you can take appropriate action to get yourself back into harmony.   Mason:  (44:44) You really answered the beginning of it. Being a part of that web of life, first of all, it means you get infected and, I mean, part of it's a big thing. It's like something's going to get yet you, something's going to get you.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (44:55) But do you not want to be gotten is the question.   Mason:  (44:57) Exactly.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (44:58) Do you not want to be gotten?   Mason:  (44:59) Well, that's what drove me in health, I think, in the very beginning, was a subtle fear of death. And that's why I got a little bit orthorexic and parasites. And now I'm at the point where I feel like I can go back into that conversation of cleansing, knowing that cleansing isn't a separate conversation from my general, it is my general lifestyle and everything that I'm doing anyway. I've got a little bit more of that. What you're saying, it takes a long time to feel that unity and that connectiveness.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (45:30) Purify me of the idea that I need to be purified.   Mason:  (45:34) It's massive. And it's interesting as well, because part of you needs to go forth at times. All you've got is your mind to hang on to protocols to get healthier. But then the transition of when you're rejuvenated to an extent that you can stand in your own sovereignty and start, you start feeling these mythical stories inside of yourself. You don't even have to... all that wisdom inside of yourself, and that capacity to realize, whether you like it or not, on a very practical level, you're not separated. There are microbials in you that have connected...   Jimi Wollumbin:   (46:07) You can't live without.   Mason:  (46:08) You can't live without.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (46:09) You die if they go. We know this.   Mason:  (46:11) But then from there you go, okay, I'm not having a knee jerk response to an official story or a meme anymore. From there, I mean, we don't even have to talk about anti-microbials and antivirals.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (46:28) Well, the best thing you can do is very simple, is to maximize your own wellbeing. And so the goal of health is health, it's not fighting disease, and health is not the absence of disease.   Mason:  (46:38) Well, that's an interesting piece-   Jimi Wollumbin:   (46:40) Right?   Mason:  (46:40) ... because it's a good-   Jimi Wollumbin:   (46:40) We notice. The world health organization agrees, right? And yet again and again, it's same with herbalists, they get suckered into fighting disease and treating disease. And so then you'll see a famous herbalist circulating their coronavirus formula, which just shows disappointingly their absence of education in the foundations of traditional medicine and integrative thinking.   Mason:  (47:04) Do you mean that even, just to bring some context, do you mean that in regards to what we've talked about or even more basically the fact that there are going to be absolutely individualized reasons as [inaudible 00:47:17] the coronavirus in the first place.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (47:19) No. If five people have influenza virus, and let's say they had the same strain, when they come to a good therapist, then they get five different treatments. One of those people is a 85 year old woman, and how she's feeling is really exhausted. The next person is a 45 year old robust man who's got fevers. The next person is a seven year old child who's sweating a lot and vomiting, right? What we treat is we enhance the resistance and the wellbeing of those individuals.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (48:00) Yes, we have an awareness of herbs that are anti-microbial, but that's only one of a whole range of things that go in to improve the way the system is responding. We're trying to harmonize that ecology of that particular person, and so some of the medicines could be diaphoretics that open up the pores and help release, some of the medicines could be heating, some of them could be cooling, some of them could be focused upon reducing nervous tension because that's what's keeping them in a fight or flight response and has switched off their immune system at the mains.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (48:34) And they all require, so evidence based medicine and integrative medicine, and I teach integrative doctors in the States about how to get integrative and to think in an integrative manner, evidence based medicine is giving way to individualized medicine.   Mason:  (48:47) It has to.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (48:48) It has to, right?   Mason:  (48:49) Otherwise it's not medicine.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (48:50) There's no evidence. It's like when you average it out, it's like across 50,000 people, well then it becomes nonsensical because then there's one who is average, right? It's like the matchbox factory that puts 49 matches in every box and the other one that puts 51 they say the average matchbox has 50 matches, but there's no match box that has 50 matches. It doesn't exist. There's no average.   Mason:  (49:12) It's an interesting thing that happened. TCM is the classic example that went extremely Western, and went, even just the categorization of disease based on the symptoms. Which you kind of, you have some sympathy for the Western mind needing to go to an institution and get a piece of paper, and we need a regulatory body because we're not patient enough to have it be like a real teacher student download, and then most people just don't have the patients or...   Mason:  (49:38) I hardly think I've got the skill and patience to sit there in a clinic and do that individual assessment again and again, not at this point in my life anyway. That's tough. It's a special skill.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (49:50) The opposite is really tough actually, I would say, having been a practitioner for 20 years.   Mason:  (49:54) Being ineffective.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (49:56) And also, no one wants to be making burgers. People come, I give you my this protocol, the next person comes, I give you my that protocol. That's why you said, what do you do? And I said, well, I'm interested in helping people transform. I mean, interested in people, helping them die and be reborn, because that's what your ill health is an invitation for always. And that's what globally we require.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (50:23) We require each one of those individuals to be transformed, to die to themselves and to emerge as well-beings having vanquished some of the unhealthy cultural memes that they've had inside them so that then they can be the leaven for a healthy culture, because there can be no health and an unhealthy culture. And so we desperately require well-beings, but that happens individual by individual, and as it happens is a very personal process, and it's gutsy, and it's raw, and it's got sweat, and tears, and snort, and it's hard, and it's terrifying a whole bunch of the time.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (50:59) As you go through it, that's what transformation looks like. Just ask the caterpillar, I used to think the caterpillar crawled into its chrysalis and it was really cozy in there, and mood lighting and all that sort of stuff, and then it elongated and sprouted wings, but it doesn't, it turns to mush, and every single cell in that bacteria just dissolves into a Caterpillar smoothie, right? It's just like, except for these-   Mason:  (51:25) Sexy.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (51:25) ... small cells, the imaginal cells that hold the vision of flying, right? And that's like the soul, right, the imaginal realm, the imaginal cells in us. And so the process of healing is a process of alchemical transformation, and it's tough, and it's hard, and it is scary, but more scary than that is staying where you are. When it feels more scary to lose your soul and to stay in the little cage that you're at rather than to take this risk, and to go through, and to change, that's when I want to see you. I want them to book in with me then.   Mason:  (52:02) Yeah, I mean, and that process, it's, it can be harrowing and can take time.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (52:08) It is always harrowing. I've just been through one myself. It was incredible, but harrowing definitely. I had my own midlife crisis last year, and health things, and all this sort of stuff. It was definitely harrowing, but it's also profoundly liberating. And I'm not in a hurry to go back to it, but I'm so grateful. I would rather go back to that then go back to where I was and just continue indefinitely in the way that I was being, because I was possessed by particular ideas, particular selves, particular memes.   Mason:  (52:42) Identities, and yeah.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (52:43) Yes. All of those things, right, that were way too limiting, way too small for the vast pantheon of gods that inhabits every human being. And so I'm grateful for it, but yes, it was harrowing.   Mason:  (52:55) Yeah. It can be especially harrowing when you are enmeshed in the community where you've got yourselves and your identity tied up, yet it doesn't let you-   Jimi Wollumbin:   (53:04) Families, relationships, all of those.   Mason:  (53:07) Yeah. Cliques, social cliques, all that kind of stuff. It can't not be a part of medicine. You're right. And then these manifestations come up, that's when it becomes less of a mindset of just like this sickness is an opportunity just as an idea and you can actually start dropping into the reality of it. It becomes far more annoying being told that. What a great opportunity. It's like, shut up.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (53:27) Yeah. That's right.   Mason:  (53:30) I'm super sick right now. But it's like-   Jimi Wollumbin:   (53:35) Because there's no sense of what that is. It's just then it's a platitude, right? It's just thrown around, but there's no real understanding of what that is. But again, to come back to the macro, I think that this is required for us as a species, that individuals are willing to go on that journey, that they're willing to go right down that rabbit hole, that they're willing to go on a harrowing journey of initiation of descent into the underworld, like Persephone, of transformation and transmutation, is that, that's the hero's quest.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (54:11) Every one of us has that invitation. And the only way that our culture can be whole is if we have a certain number of imaginal cells, a certain number of initiated individuals that have been down to the underworld, that have died, that have drunk from those sacred waters and have re-emerged with gifts for those around them. And then they share those, those memes, those stories, those songs, right? They share them like that.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (54:36) That's the only way our culture is refreshed. Otherwise, a culture inevitably become stagnant, and ossified, and unhealthy, whatever it was at the start, it ends up, it used to be a signpost that pointed towards heaven, that pointed towards the moon, that pointed towards something worthwhile, and people used to use that signpost where their gaze was directed towards something, something truly worthwhile.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (54:58) And then after a while, people just start worshiping the signpost, and climb up on top of the sign post that pointed to Rome, or to heaven, or the moon and say, I'm at my destination and they get dogmatic and then they fight to defend the signpost, right? And that happens to every culture unless they're those people that go down, and when they go down, they go down crying and screaming, and hurting, and bleeding, and shaking, and terrified, into the underworld. But they emerge renewed.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (55:24) And so there's a lot of people that are hurting that will be listening to this. And there's a lot of people that will be scared and feel like they're not coping and that there are finally because of it, and again, I just want to say that that does not make you a failure. That makes you a hero on a quest, and to have the courage that it takes to keep going through that process, right, that's actually what healing looks like. It's a breakdown, a breakdown of those memes, it's a breakdown of those other identities, right? And that's what creates a well-being. That's what creates a resilient being.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (55:58) And if you want to be resilient, it's not really the goal, how can I be resilient so the bacteria can't get me? Wrong goal, wrong goal entirely.   Mason:  (56:07) Well, it's just a little bit misdirected, and with that reality that you've just been talking about, inclusive in the letting go, is as you move along.. The hardest thing is sometimes you find a community, or a person, or a practice, or diet, or whatever it is that was been super healing, and now a part of your process is to let that go as you go along. It's why it can be so harrowing and confusing.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (56:32) Absolutely.   Mason:  (56:33) However, then when you start talking about hydration, and herbalism, and sun exposure, if you're embedded in the process of the simplicity and enormity of what you're doing in this life and what you're going through, and in that context of I'm connected to all of this, and I don't know where I'm going, but I'm going, I'm doing it for me, and I'm doing it for others, and you're like, there's a focus on that sharing, all of a sudden it takes the charge away from the adaptogenic herbs. It takes the charge away from having to have the right water and diet, because it pulls it into context. Right? And that's what I like.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (57:13) Into a different context.   Mason:  (57:15) A hugely different context.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (57:17) A deeper, and a wider, and a broader context.   Mason:  (57:19) One that has reality. It's why, Superfeast, it's a weird thing, is why I don't go out and say like adaptogens, adaptogens, adaptogens, I talk about, in this instance I have the opportunity to talk about tonic herbalism in a Taoist philosophy. And so it's got this bed of, it's not really about the herbs, they fit in, and then they just fit into the flow, and they support something.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (57:40) They're a means towards an end, not an end unto themselves. Right?   Mason:  (57:44) And that's, it's not effective for longterm cruisy flowing, finding what for you, finding your own sovereign lifestyle and culture as you move along anyway if you create a health trend to everyone's got to be doing these things, it's not effective long term. I think it's a bad business model. Well, I think it is.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (58:09) Probably is, but it reflects a deeper understanding of what health really is as well. Because otherwise, we have this profoundly unhealthy culture with these profoundly unhealthy individuals infected by these cultural memes that rob them of happiness in a deep and fundamental way, that separate us from one another increasingly fragmenting us from parts of ourselves, our left brain from our right brain, our inner child from... All of these different parts of fragmenting and fragmenting and fragmenting. And there can be no health in that. It doesn't matter how many super foods you consume and how...   Mason:  (58:45) Except cacao and [crosstalk 00:58:45].   Jimi Wollumbin:   (58:46) Except cacao. Right. Except chocolate. Okay, chocolate's an exception.   Mason:  (58:48) And then the thing is, it's not. It definitely isn't. So, yeah... That fragmentation.   Jimi Wollumbin:   (58:58)

George Washington, Simon Bolivar, even Pancho Villa; the names of the great North and South American revolutionaries remain globally famous centuries on. But there’s one great New World rebel many have forgotten. He was a nobody who became a somebody only after fifty years’ obscurity. A freed slave who wound up leading the only successful large-scale slave revolt in history. The general who made Haiti the second free colony in the whole of the Americas. His name was Toussaint L’Ouverture, AKA The Black Napoleon.

Today on Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod: Yesterday, in his speech before the U.N. General Assembly, Donald Trump boasted that his administration had achieved more than almost any other president in U.S. history, causing world leaders to break out in laughter. Clips from that moment were shown around the world. But not so fast. Trump used his speech to underscore his America First foreign policy, including trade and support for Israel. He praised Kim Jong Un and Poland, while attacking Iran, China, Germany, the U.N. Human Rights Council, OPEC, Venezuela and immigrants. Today, he is expected to continue his attacks especially on Iran as he chairs the U.N. Security Council. To discuss all this, we welcome Dr. Gerald Horne. And an update on Haiti. A new Prime Minister has been announced following the reshuffling of the government following a nation-wide uprising against the government by the Haitian grassroots this past July. Who is Jean Henry Ceant, now Haitis new PM? Our guest is journalist and Haiti expert Kevin Pina. Also, A New Way of Life (ANWOL) will have its annual film festival this weekend. Susan Burton, author of Call me Ms. Burton and founder of ANWOL, joins us. For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, Akili joins us to weigh in on a new ordinance proposed by the Los Angeles City Council that would criminalize protest. Finally, Sojourner Truth Election Watch with Dorothy Reik.

Veckomagasinet om motionens inverkan på kroppen. Vi pratar också om svensk kärnkraft utomlands, svensk genkartläggning och bävrarnas antal i Sverige. Motion är bra för huvudet. Lite ökad puls både ger skydd mot demens och kan behandla demens, depression och stressrelaterade sjukdomar, ofta lika bra som medicin. Svensk kärnkraft får mångmiljonfinansiering från Indien. Forskare presenterar karta över svensk genvariation. Haitis koleradrama fortsätter. Hedrande pallplacering för handprotes från Göteborg. Och har vi verkligen ingen aning om hur många bävrar som finns i Sverige? Programledare är Lena Nordlund.

Varför drabbar allt Haiti, bör kvinnojourer vara för män, varför struntar vi att rädda liv och andra delen i succéskolan Word Up Medverkande: Elinor Svensson, Johannes Finnlaugsson, Petrina Solange och Martin Lagos. 

Toussaint Louverture wurde 1743 in der französischen Kolonie Saint-Domingue, heute Haiti, als Sklave geboren. Seinen Truppen gelang es, die Kolonialherren von der Insel zu vertreiben.

Der Präsident Haitis bei der Kanzlerin, eine Erinnerung an die erste Flandernschlacht und das Pflanzen eines "lebendigen Denkmals" - das alles sehen Sie in der neuen Folge der "Woche der Kanzlerin".

Temaet i dag er Haiti. Lektor Jørgen Yri er med i studio, og gir oss et innblikk i Haitis dramatiske historie. Fokuset rettes først mot hvorfor forholdene var så ille i forkant av katastrofen, før vi ser på veien videre; hvordan kan kunnskap om Haitis historie danne et grunnlag for bedre å kunne hjelpe Haiti med gjennoppbyggingen.

Anno nuovo vita vecchia: Al Gore dice che moriremo tutti per il caldo, la NASA dice di no. Il mondo dice che Israele deve piantarla di fare la guerra a Gaza, gli USA dicono di no. L'ONU dice che la fame nel mondo è un crimine, gli USA dicono ancora di no. Ma noi, che siamo uomini, noi difenderemo la libertà. Buon 2009 :) I link: Global Warming Disproved IDEAcarbon: There's Gold in Green Dalla NASA una visione alternativa sui cambiamenti climatici Il ruolo degli USA nella crisi alimentare ad Haiti La musica: In This Moment (Beautyful Tragedy) Lacuna Coil (Our Truth) Trey Green (Smooth Breakdancing Guy) In This Moment (Forever) Sunglasses After Dark (Short Distance Shotgun Fight)