The Hudak Report 11/28/24
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Amazon: The whitewater Madeira, however, faces a different scenario. With many more communities along its banks than the Negro, the Madeira shows higher levels of fecal coliforms and ammoniacal nitrogen, according to initial results from the expedition, although still way below the maximum limits established by authorities. All points also exceeded the safe levels of total phosphorus, probably resulting from agricultural fertilizers.
And then there’s the mercury issue.
The river has been an illegal mining hub for many years. Miners use quicksilver mercury to extract gold from the riverbed sediments, which is usually discarded directly into the river. Although this type of mercury is not highly soluble in water and tends to deposit on the riverbed, over time, it can mix with the sediments, be released into the atmosphere and enter the food chain through fish.
Canadian indigenous women: Indigenous children at Catholic-run Good Shepherd Homes had experiences similar to children at residential schools and the homes need further investigation for potential missing children, according to the final report of the Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites Associated with Indian Residential Schools.
It was common practice to transfer girls who were deemed "troubled" or "delinquent" from residential schools to the homes, the report said.
"I wanted to deliver the message clear to Canada that it's not enough that you're funding these searches to find missing and disappeared children from Indian Residential Schools because we know they've … disappeared from all these other institutions," said Kimberly Murray, the special interlocutor.
Competition Bureau: Since early September, Canada’s corporate law enforcement agency has been investigating landlords over high-tech rental price-fixing, The Breach has learned.
The investigation by the Competition Bureau was sparked by an article published in The Breach, which exposed how Canadian real estate developer Dream Unlimited and its property managers were using an artificial intelligence software known as YieldStar.
The makers of YieldStar, who are being sued by the U.S. government, are accused of helping landlords collude to form a “housing cartel” that allowed them to raise rents in a coordinated fashion.
Myanmar: The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) says it has requested an arrest warrant for Myanmar's military leader Min Aung Hlaing for crimes against humanity committed against the Rohingya Muslims.
Karim Khan said there were reasonable grounds to believe Min Aung Hlaing bore criminal responsibility for the persecution and deportation of Rohingyas to neighbouring Bangladesh.
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled Myanmar in 2017 to escape a campaign of what the UN has described as genocide launched by the Burmese military.
Nigeria: At least three Nigerian soldiers and twelve members of the jihadist group Boko Haram were killed on Monday after the army tried to repel an attack in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state, military sources reported Tuesday.
Oregon: For the last 47 years, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians have held an annual powwow to celebrate regaining federal recognition. This month’s event, however, was especially significant: It came just two weeks after a federal court lifted restrictions on the tribe’s rights to hunt, fish and gather — restrictions tribal leaders had opposed for decades.
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The Siletz is a confederation of over two dozen bands and tribes whose traditional homelands spanned a large swath of what is now western Oregon. The federal government in the 1850s forced them onto a reservation on the Oregon coast, where they were confederated together as a single, federally recognized tribe despite their different backgrounds and languages.
In the 1950s and ‘60s, Congress revoked recognition of over 100 tribes, including the Siletz, under a policy known as “termination.” Affected tribes lost millions of acres of land as well as federal funding and services.
(Read more at Associated Press)
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