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The Lazy Man’s organic permaculture

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John Douglas, the Lazy Man — El Perezoso in Spanish — teaching Peace Corps volunteers on his old farm. Here the magic circle technique is applied on a hillside. A pit is dug, at the bottom of which a banana stem is planted. The rocks get lined up below the pit, parallel to the slope, to slow any runoff. Into the pit, and on the upside of the rocks, will go plant debris. Along the top of the pit, soil dug out of the hole will form a circle and along that circle other things will be planted. Things will be planted between the stones. The pit will gather and conserve water. The reinforced line of stones, plants and compost will, too. Archive photo by Eric Jackson.

Stopping erosion

by John A. Douglas

Controlling erosion automatically gives us more water to use.

Neat. Huh?

Running water wider goes together with running it slower so it can soak in more.

Slow. Wide. Penetration.

Permaculture says the problem is the solutions. How about those problem rocks bothering you and the scraps you and your neighbor are burning? Put them in horizontal barricades. Plant those rows with vetiver and…

Harvest bananas and lay the trunks horizontal.

Contrary to the rancheros crying on TV every year that their cows have no water…. Maybe we could plant a tree or two.

And then….

Horizontal ditches with that dirt below and planted with the same trees.

We ARE onto something.

Let’s Go guys and gals.

See you in Sonadora.

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The new farm in La Sonadora, in Penonome district a few miles north of the town center. Plant close to your house and not only will you get privacy hedges of sorts, but the number of steps from harvest to your kitchen will be many fewer. Photo by Eric Jackson.

Small, intensive and close

Generally we do the opposite and don’t have the time and daily reminders and wind up weedy and unproductive. Neither really happy nor proud.

My workers always tell me that my single best advice is “close.” You will use less time, energy and resources. Weeds almost pull themselves while the goodies and favorite flavors happily fall into your kitchen pot.

Those are the gardens that please and grow.

Start SMALL, INTENSIVE and CLOSE.

End up happier.

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El discurso inaugural de Biden, traducido al español

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El día de la renovación

discurso inaugural de Joe Biden

Este es el día del Estados Unido de América. El día de la historia y la esperanza, de la renovación.

Estados Unidos ha sido puesto a prueba una vez más y Estados Unidos ha dicho “presente” ante este desafío. La voluntad del pueblo ha sido escuchada.

La democracia es preciosa, es frágil; pero en estos momentos, mis amigos, la democracia ha prevalecido.

En este sitio tan sagrado donde hace unos días la violencia quiso sacudir los cimientos de la democracia, nos unimos para la transferencia pacífica del poder, como hemos hecho desde hace más de dos siglos.

Ponemos la mira en la nación que podemos ser y que queremos ser. Sé de la resistencia de nuestra Constitución y la fortaleza de nuestra nación.

Acabo de tomar un juramento sagrado que han tomado cada uno de nuestros patriotas. Pero todo esto no depende de cada uno de nosotros, sino de todos nosotros, de nosotros, el pueblo. Con tormentas y guerras, hemos logrado tanto. Hay que reparar mucho, hay que restaurar mucho, hay que sanar mucho, y hay mucho que podemos lograr.

Pocos momentos han sido más desafiantes para nuestra nación. Y hablo del impacto de la pandemia del coronavirus, del grito de justicia racial. Tenemos que confrontar la supremacía blanca, el terrorismo doméstico. Para restaurar el alma de Estados Unidos se requiere más que palabras.

Pido a todos los estadounidenses que se unan a mí en esta causa. Unidos para luchar a los enemigos que encaramos: ira, extremismo, falta de empleos, de esperanza…

Con la unidad podemos hacer cosas importantes. Podemos hacer de Estados Unidos una fuerza que dirige el bien en todo el mundo.

Las fuerzas que nos dividen son profundas, reales, pero no es algo nuevo. Nuestra historia ha sido una lucha constante entre la idea de que todos somos iguales, y la realidad del racismo.

La historia, la fe, el raciocinio nos muestran el camino. Podemos vernos no como adversarios, sino como vecinos, tratarnos con respeto y bajar la temperatura

Sin unidad no hay paz, sólo furia y amargura. No hay progreso, sólo caos. Este es el momento histórico de enfrentar estos desafíos. Tenemos que enfrentarlos como los Estados Unidos de América.

Jamás hemos fracasado los Estados Unidos. En este sitio vamos a comenzar a escucharnos de nuevo, a vernos uno al otro, a mostrar respeto el uno por el otro

La política no tiene que ser fuego que destruye todo a su paso. Creo que Estados Unidos es mejor que eso”.


Esta turba pensó que podía usar la violencia para silenciar al pueblo. No ocurrió, nunca ocurrirá, ni mañana. Jamás ocurrirá. Para todos los que respaldaron la campaña, me siento humilde por la fe que pusieron en nosotros. A los que no, escúchenme. Si siguen en desacuerdo, está bien, pero escúchenme el desacuerdo no nos puede llevar a la desunión.

Yo seré el presidente de todos. Lucharé por aquellos que sí me respaldaron y los que no. Nos enseñaron en las últimas semanas una verdad dolorosa: hay verdades y hay mentiras. Y llama a defender la verdad y derrotar las mentiras.

Entiendo que muchos miran al futuro con temor, que se preocupan por sus empleos. Les prometo que entiendo. Pero la respuesta no es dejar de confiar en los que no son igual a ustedes. Tenemos que terminar con esta guerra civil que pone el rojo contra el azul, republicanos contra demócratas, conservadores contra liberales.

Podemos lograrlo si mostramos un poco de tolerancia y de libertad, podemos darnos una mano, ayudarnos unos a otro. Si lo hacemos, tendremos un país más fuerte y aún podemos estar en desacuerdo, pero necesitamos toda nuestra fuerza para prevalecer a este invierno oscuro.

Vamos a descartar la politiquería y encarar esta pandemia como una sola nación. El mundo nos está viendo.

Y este es el mensaje: Estados Unidos ha sido puesto a prueba y hemos salido más fuertes. Vamos a cumplir con el mundo. Vamos a salir a delante con el poder de nuestro ejemplo.

Mi primera acción como presidente es pedirles a todos unirnos en una oración silenciosa por todos aquellos que perdimos en esta pandemia: 400 mil personas

Vamos a honrarlos siendo el pueblo y la nación que debemos ser y les pide orar en silencio, amigos, este es un momento de prueba. Encaramos un ataque a nuestra democracia, un virus, el estigma de un racismo sistémico…

Son desafíos profundos, pero los encaramos de golpe ahora vamos a decir: presente, es momento de ser osados; prometo que nosotros los vamos a ayudar a ustedes y ustedes a mí. Vamos a controlar estos momentos tan difíciles y dar a nuestros hijos un mejor mundo, creo que sí lo lograremos y escribiremos un nuevo capítulo en la historia de Estados Unidos.

Y recuerda lo que dice el Himno Nacional de Estados Unidos: ‘Yo te di lo mejor de mí”’ que nuestros hijos, y los hijos de nuestros hijos digan: dieron lo mejor de ellos.

Les doy mi palabra de que siempre diré la verdad, defenderé la Constitución, defenderé a los Estados Unidos de América, y les daré lo mejor a ustedes. Vamos a escribir una historia de la esperanza, de dignidad, de decencia, de amor y sanamiento; la historia que dice que lo mejor está por venir se lo debemos a las generaciones pasadas y futura: que Dios bendiga a Estados Unidos y proteja a nuestras tropas.

Gracias, estadounidenses”.

 

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America’s Day

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An enduring symbol that our old friend France gave to us. Wikimedia photo by James Hertan.

Highlights of the Joe Biden Inaugural

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Tlaib et al, No need for new special powers after the Capitol attack

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Editorials: “Dialogue” won’t save Seguro Social; and Joe’s turn

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Colon street scene on the day the Seguro Social “dialogue” was set to start. At least five groups, with their assorted but mainly economic demands, were out in the streets. PRD politicians who had not spoken with them were on the news trying to spin psychological arguments. Yet more insults for the tally sheet of grievances. Unattributed photo widely featured on Twitter.

Few will want to hear it

The PRD president / legislative heavyweight / baseball czar who looted PANDEPORTES with ploys like the “purchase” of baseball bats for more than $350 each will head the ruling party’s delegation to the Social Security Fund “dialogue.” He just got a Supreme Court ruling that he can’t be investigated or charged with anything about that, so “of course” it never happened. His supporting cast of characters will include politicians who have close to their entire families on the public payroll. The banks that were the only winners in the last Seguro Social “reform,” and which got half a billion dollars in subsidies at the outset of the ongoing epidemic, will have their say.

We will be told that pensions and health care must be cut, that working people will have to pay more. Also, that it’s just not practical to cut the costs of all manner of corruption, nor to raise taxes for the rich.

It’s just going to increase public anger and disgust, and bring hunger to a lot of folks. That playbook is used up.

  

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The legitimately elected Joe Biden, about to assume his greatest challenge. Pixabay graphic by BarBay.

Joe’s turn

Joe Biden won the November election. Fact, not opinion. There is no alternative in any place that’s real.

He beat a lifelong con man, a president so irresponsible that without thinking he tore a hole in the US defenses against epidemics because they didn’t come from him. History will judge Donald Trump harshly, and very likely part of that judgment will be handed down in court cases against him.

But Biden urges the Congress not to concentrate too much on investigations and proceedings about what has gone on these past four years. There are multiple crises upon us urge the government’s immediate attention.

Impunity for Donald Trump would be a bad idea. Letting the State of New York pursue him for fraud as soon as his presidential immunity is gone would be a better one.

Some terrible legacies left over are among Biden’s immediate challenges. The armed wing of the far right needs to be put our of business. Families of asylum seekers that were cruelly and illegally divided need to be reunited. Many transactions of a transactional style of governance need to be voided. 

It’s a different country and a different world than it was in 2016, and back then the United States got Trump because notwithstanding all denials things were not going very well and there was a great yearning for change. Now we know, if we didn’t before, that all change is not necessarily for the better.

Trump harked back to a mythical greatness of a mythical past, something that never existed as describe that he said he wanted to restore. THAT ought to teach the country about “reality TV!” It’s time for nonfiction, and a president and congress who look forward.

The approximately one-third of the US electorate who believe in weird conspiracies need to be left behind. The many Americans who have been left behind for an economy not meant to work for them need to be brought into the fold, with economic development and a sense of justice that replace despair not only with hope, but with the actual improvements in living standards that have mostly not happened for most people for more than a generation now. The slogans and labels are not what matter. Meeting today’s and tomorrow’s challenges, building for needs to come rather than to imitate what’s gone, turning into a better educated and more just society — these are the things that will leave QAnon, End Times religion, the Proud Boys and so on as curious relics at the farthest fringes, far from any politics that matter.

Good people are going to argue and disagree with the new president, but he knows a thing or two about negotiating such situations. He knows even if what he steps into is unprecedented. It’s about democracy, something that the USA has seen degraded over many years, but which Americans rose up at the polls to defend when it was threatened with extinction. The republic endures.

 

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Bear in mind…

 

A word after a word after a word is power.

Margaret Atwood

 

Mob violence in the name of Christian faith is the most heretical thing I’ve ever seen.

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

 

If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth.

Julian Assange

 

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The Panama News blog links, January 17, 2021

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The Panama News blog links

a Panama-centric selection of other people’s work
una selección Panamá-céntrica de las obras de otras personas

Canal, Maritime & Transportation / Canal, Marítima & Transporte

Seatrade, Panama Registry closes 2020 with 230.5m gt on its books

MarineLog, “Panama Canal just made VLGC transits harder”

ANP, Rusia busca aprovechar en el negocio del transporte del GNL

Seatrade, LNG shipping market shaping up for a wild ride

Air Cargo News, New Latin American air cargo liberalization agreement

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Un ejemplo de por qué Nito evita los encuentros inesperados con el público en estos días. https://twitter.com/i/status/1349760681063673856

Economy / Economía

The Washington Post, Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic relief and health care package

Sawicky, How Biden’s budget can build back better

Richardson, Stagnation paved the way for Trump

Zhang & Shi, Why Biden should abandon Trump’s trade war with China

Science & Technology / Ciencia & Tecnología

STRI, Visualice lo invisible

The Guardian, Wikipedia at 20

The Intercept, MD who joined Capitol attack campaigns against COVID-19 vaccine

BBC, WhatsApp changes: Signal platform goes down as downloads surge

Bernardo & Iborra Martín, No más dudas sobre las vacunas: lo que debe saber

STRI, Scientists reduce uncertainty in forest carbon storage calculations

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The next school year will start, online, on March 1. One of the announcements posted on Twitter by the Ministry of Education – probably unwittingly – says a profound lot about the state of the Cortizo administration. With WHOM did they say they met? “Our authorities.” Not the teachers’ unions. Not the owners of the private schools. Not the parents’ groups. Neither the telecommunications companies nor various activists concerned about extending the reach of Internet services in rural areas. It’s an administration looking inward to a shrinking base rather than reaching out. MEDUCA tweet.

News / Noticias

La Estrella, Sala Tercera niega pretensiones del estado y favorece a Waked

FOCO, BNP denuncia que la Estrella publicó un fallo que no había sido notificado

La Prensa: Un extraño, un maletín y los comicios del Comité Olímpico

La Prensa, Proclaman a Damaris Young

Yahoo News, Large bitcoin payments to right-wing activists a month before Capitol riot

Daily Poster, The slush fund bankrolling the insurrectionist GOP

The Verge, The threats that made Amazon drop Parler

USA Today, Extremists hatch Inauguration Day violence in dark reaches of the web

ABC, NRA files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

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From out of the ranks of Panamanian television came Gaby Gnazzo, who in addition to her career as an entertainer and news commentator is now one of Panama’s more astute activists and social critics. Here she takes on both the government’s information control games and the mainstream journalists who put up with them to preserve their privileged access to ever less. Gaby Gnazzo Twitter tweet.

Opinion / Opiniones

Hightower, Timeless truths for these trying times

Stiglitz, Whither America?

Akehurst, The public should regulate Silicon Valley – not the other way around

Guerrero & Norris, We must name and confront the threat of the white mob

Torres-Spelliscy, How the Capitol riot is affecting corporate political spending

AI / ICJ / WOLA / HRW / Conectas, End Venezuela’s attacks on free expression

López, Preparan ‘Pacto de Gamboa II’

Bernal, Respeto al debido proceso

Guillén, Rumbo al Bicentenario

Blades, Una opinión

Turner, La privacidad es poder

Culture / Cultura

El Siglo: Tras cuestionamientos, José Ricardo Muñoz se despide de la televisión

The Guardian, Marianne Faithfull: ‘I was in a dark place. Presumably it was death’

Patrimonio Cultural, Descubriendo La Antigua Costa Atlantica de Panamá

 

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¿Wappin? A child was born / Nació un niño

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Born in 1929, he didn’t live to be 40. Trump’s thugs were still trying to kill him at the Capitol.
Nacido en 1929, no vivió hasta los 40. Los maleantes de Trump todavía estaban tratando de matarlo en el Capitolio.

The Eternal Flame / La Antorcha Eterna

Mahalia Jackson – How I Got Over
https://youtu.be/l49N8U3d0Bw

Séptima Raíz – De frente con Jah
https://youtu.be/qfEZeC77mcI

Tracy Chapman – Talking About a Revolution
https://youtu.be/fQuJXWTUa3k

Mercedes Sosa – Solo le pido a Dios
https://youtu.be/5Mp8W_-gtcg

The Fighting Men from Crossmaglen – Sniper’s Promise
https://youtu.be/dSnWTDFzgrg

Kafu Banton – No me hablen de bala
https://youtu.be/QdMWMGxA1v8

Avril Lavigne – Knocking on Heaven’s Door
https://youtu.be/o_5-Kf2CrLc

Alison Krauss & The Cox Family – I Know Who Holds Tomorrow
https://youtu.be/4GKNbmYOAow

Atahualpa Yupanqui – Preguntitas Sobre Dios
https://youtu.be/YoauQ8Cqv8s

Peter Tosh – Equal Rights / Downpressor Man
https://youtu.be/pqyRWVSFvS4

Mary Travers – There Is A Ship
https://youtu.be/zTEdhMwXiM4

Elton John – Sacrifice
https://youtu.be/NrLkTZrPZA4

Joan Osborne – One of Us
https://youtu.be/8lBuqscNe6o

Rubén Blades – El Padre Antonio y su Monaguillo Andrés
https://youtu.be/cSgiTwd0Zbg

Stevie Wonder – Happy Birthday
https://youtu.be/inS9gAgSENE

 

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Fundación Libertad, Cannabis legal

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Una deuda con la libertad de los pacientes

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Esta semana la Asamblea Nacional tenía programado para discusión en segundo debate el proyecto de ley 153 que dicta las medidas para regular el uso medicinal y terapéutico del Cannabis y sus derivados, y otras disposiciones. Hablamos de una ley que viene discutiéndose desde octubre de 2017 y a pesar de los mitos y prejuicios propios de una sociedad hipócritamente puritana, sigue viva, aunque agarrada de un hilo.

En nuestro continente, ya países como Canadá, Colombia, Uruguay y los Estados Unidos han legalizado el uso del Cannabis de alguna forma. En 2019, la Organización Mundial de la Salud recomendó reclasificar la marihuana y sus componentes clave sacándola de la Lista IV, designada para sustancias peligrosas, e incluso, hace unas pocas semanas la ONU reconoció públicamente sus propiedades medicinales. Ahora México se convierte en el último país en aprobar la regulación en el uso medicinal del Cannabis, siendo este un paso decisivo en una amplia reforma que permitirá a compañías farmacéuticas realizar investigación y crear lo que sería el mayor mercado legal para esta planta, en términos de población.

De aprobarse el proyecto de ley 153, este representaría un paso importante en el respeto a los derechos individuales de pacientes con dolencias crónicas como cáncer, esclerosis múltiple, o epilepsia, quienes buscan en el Cannabis soluciones que no han podido encontrar en la medicina moderna. Así mismo, a través de las licencias de investigación científica, se amplían las libertades a los sectores industriales y científicos, abriéndonos como país a oportunidades industriales, agrícolas, académicas e incluso tributarias. Según previsto en el proyecto, para este fin se designarían competencias a los ministerios de Salud, Desarrollo Agropecuario, Seguridad Pública y otras entidades que puedan tener un rol en el control del Cannabis y sus derivados.

Esperamos que esta ley sea acogida con objetividad, sensatez y criterio científico. De lo contrario, solo seguimos privando a pacientes de los beneficios terapéuticos de estos productos y perpetuando el flagelo social de la clandestinidad.

 

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Ministerio de Salud, Cambios en la normativa sanitaria para COVID-19

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La epidemia no se va, pero está cambiando y también las medidas de salud.

Las nuevas restricciones sanitarias

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Labor unrest over suspended contracts and projects, scant food relief

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SUNTRACS, the militant construction workers’ union, staged brief road blockages, picketing and leafletting events around the country on January 13. The union and its close affiliates — the CONUSI labor confederation and the FRENADESO alliance of leftist and labor groups — is ratcheting up protests over the economic situation. An immediate trigger was the government’s decision to extend last year’s decree suspending labor contracts through at least the end of February. Some business groups to whom the president usually listens would just abolish labor contracts forever but there are too many legal and social consequences for the Mr. Cortizo to risk that. So far, however, other segments of the labor movement have not weighed in — the important ones being the been and soft drink, ports and banana workers in the private sector and teachers, PanCanal and government workers on the public side. SUNTRACS photo on the road from Chiriqui to Bocas del Toro.

Labor unrest with push yet to come to shove

by Eric Jackson

Everybody knows that the health situation won’t permit a lot of economic activities as usual. Those who demand the immediate and full reopening of the economy are generally business owners who would make their workers report to their jobs and risk contagion while they themselves are sheltered from all of that. Labor has been more supportive of the health decrees but insistent on more generous benefits for those put out of work by those measures.

But what was happening on the road from Gualaca to Chiriqui Grande was a bit different than that. The road was damaged in the hurricanes, but was slated for improvements before that. The COVID-19 virus is everywhere but in that area not so bad that it’s unsafe to proceed with the job. However, the Panamanian government is deeply in debt, more or less broke and juggling late payments to all of its creditors. Get the whole country vaccinated and the economic problems will remain. However, people are likely to expect and demand an end to the austere economic measures that have been passed during the epidemic.

SUNTRACS is demanding a restart on public works projects that can be done in relative safety. The government mostly doesn’t answer anybody’s questions or demands. However, its delay here is about difficulty paying for it.

 

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“Down with the miserable policy that kills people of hunger.” For those laid-off working people who receive the benefits — and many get nothing at all — it’s $120 per month per family in food relief. SUNTRACS and FRENADESO are demanding $500 a month. There is widespread public support for a major increase in the benefit. Photo of an overpass banner in Penonome by Eric Jackson.

 

 

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