World News – CA – Biden’s First 100 Days: Student Loan Debt Going Nowhere

As college students across the country shift between online and in-person classrooms, rethink and navigate the way the college landscape beneath the face of a pandemic of more than 320. 000 Americans killed and another 18 million infected, a tradition persists: high tuition fees and ever-increasing student loan debt.

This year the US broke records and exceeded $ 1. 7 trillion student debt for the first time, up 4% year over year. Over the past decade, student loan debt has increased about 102%, according to the Federal Reserve.

The previous COVID-19 stimulus plan temporarily put interest-free payment hiatus for federal student loan borrowers, but the extension package passed on Monday evening doesn’t offer such relief, so as of next month more than 43 million American borrowers will have to start paying their loans , this time with 10 million fewer jobs than before the pandemic began in March. Before the financial straits of COVID-19, only three in ten young college graduates with student loans (32%) say they live comfortably. This compares to 51% of similar ages college graduates with no outstanding loans.

But Democratic lawmakers and advocacy organizations see a way out through President-elect Joe Biden. More than 200 organizations, including the American Federation of Teachers and the NAACP, signed an open letter to Biden last month asking him to take action on his first day in office to use his executive power to use all student debts to cancel. Progressive lawmakers have asked him to pay $ 50 in debt on his first day. Mining $ 000 per borrower.

Biden himself has drawn up a more conservative plan; During his campaign, he said he would like to see student debt equal to $ 10. $ 000 per borrower would be canceled by legislative action. Student borrowers are in « real trouble, » Biden said, to push in November. « You have to make a choice between paying your student loan or paying your rent. Those kinds of decisions. « But if the Republicans keep holding the Senate, it’s unlikely that the Democrats will be able to pass laws and leave the students where they are. « .

Education has been the largest lender and consumer bank in the country for 10 years. it currently owns nearly $ 1. 5 trillion student loan debt. Democratic lawmakers argue that if forgiven, some of this debt would stimulate home buying and spending and could also help put money in the pockets of those dealing with the effects of the COVID-19 economy.

There is also uncertainty as to whether Biden could actually pass debt relief through an Executive Order (EO). . If he did that, he would surely face legal challenges. Some argue that he has authority to do so under the College Act of 1965, which created the current federal student loan program. The law allows Biden’s education secretary to « compromise, waive or release » loans. Some legal scholars say this means the president can issue an EO while others argue that it doesn’t.

During a recent Instagram live chat, progressive Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that student debt relief was « not a pipe dream » and that « most of all … this could be done by executive order, which means that Biden can do this. » I would not need Mitch McConnell or the Republican Senate to loan the students. The key is that we have to push him. ”

Still, it appears that Biden is unlikely to fall into legally demanding laws on his first day in office and will likely leave it to Congress to crack down on student loan debt relief during his first 100 days.

The former federal judge and professor of law joined the court amid a pandemic, hotly contested election, and avalanche of high-profile cases.

George Charlet witnessed a disaster first hand – and learned to prepare for the worst. As a funeral director in Zachary, Louisiana, your neighbor sometimes calls when he sees cars in the parking lot to ask, “Who died? “Zachary, a suburb of Baton Rouge, has around 18. 000 inhabitants. George Joseph « GJ » Charlet III and his three siblings own one of the two funeral homes in Zachary. During the coronavirus pandemic, they found that their business – like many other small town funeral homes across America – saw the disaster firsthand. The business has been in the Charlet family since their grandfather and brother opened it in the 1940s. Charlet is one of three funeral directors in the Charlet family’s funeral home. He grew up 20 miles north of Zachary behind another funeral home owned by his family in Clinton, Louisiana, which was damaged in the historic August 2016 floods. Because he grew up in a funeral home, Charlet knows how to prepare for the worst. At a young age, he was taught to fill up the gasoline tank on the hearse before the local high school prom in case there were deaths from drunk driver accidents. But even Charlet was not prepared for the Covid-19 pandemic. « It was really scary for the first few months because there wasn’t a lot of guidance on what to do, » he said. A shortage of body bags meant that some bodies had to be wrapped in sheets. This worried Charlet because he wasn’t sure whether Covid-19 could be caught on a corpse. Charlet and other staff went out of their way to protect themselves by wearing surgical gowns everywhere. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have since stated that the risk of infection from a corpse is small because they do not exhale. In the beginning, the Charlet funeral home did not allow services inside and only hosted funerals at the grave, which should be limited to 10 people. However, getting grieving family members to follow the rules has not been easy. « Without a doubt folks, you know . . . they did what they wanted, « he said. “We couldn’t keep people away from funerals. “The funeral home now enables indoor services for 75 people or less. Charlet fears getting the virus from a funeral goer who may have been in close contact with the deceased before he died. « It’s rare that we have a memorial service at which we don’t know or have any connection with anyone in the family. It’s a very social atmosphere, ”he said. “These days I’ve let people into the building and then I go back to my office and close the door. And I try not to interact with people as much as I used to. According to the Louisiana Department of Health, there have been 552 deaths from Covid in the East Baton Rouge community where Zachary is located. The church had an average positivity rate of 10% for the past six weeks. Over the same period, an average of 13% of those who tested for Covid-19 in the two census areas that make up Zachary were positive for it. There have been more deaths in the community from Covid, but it hasn’t overwhelmed the funeral home, Charlet said. They usually do about five jobs a week. But the number of Covid deaths has increased since Thanksgiving, he said. The funeral home is serving for some of the deaths at Louisiana State Prison in Angola. There have been 16 deaths of prisoners from Covid-19 in prison. Charlet has a printout of an essay by Deirdre Sullivan entitled Always Go to the Funeral in a folder of newspaper clippings that he would like to read at his funeral. « People need the ritual to say goodbye, » he said. « You have to acknowledge someone’s death. But his 80-year-old uncle recently caught Covid and is very sick. If he dies, Charlet doesn’t want his mother to go to the funeral. « I just wish people would be more careful and write a letter of condolence, » he said. « It’s a strange place for me. It’s not intuitive for a living. ”

A wave of COVID-19 has engulfed prisons in Belarus containing people who have demonstrated against the country’s authoritarian president and some of the protesters who contracted the coronavirus while in detention , accuse the authorities of neglecting or even promoting infections. Activists who spoke to The Associated Press after their release described massively overcrowded cells without adequate ventilation or basic equipment and inadequate medical treatment. Kastus Lisetsky, 35, a musician who was sentenced to 15 days’ imprisonment for participating in a protest, said he was hospitalized after eight days in a prison in eastern Belarus with a high fever and had bilateral pneumonia COVID-19 diagnosed.

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Serving in the White House is usually a passport to a lucrative job in business or lobbying, but little is normal about the Trump presidency. In normal times, it would be high on everyone’s résumé or résumé. Service in the White House was typically a passport to a lucrative job on a corporate board, in the lobbying industry, or in a respected Washington think tank. But Donald Trump’s administration alumni may experience a rude awakening. The outgoing president proved so disruptive and divisive that those perceived as his enablers may get the cold shoulder when looking for alternative employment. « These people will carry this stain with them for the rest of their lives, » said Moe Vela, a former senior adviser to Vice President Joe Biden. “The further we get from his tenure, the more historians, political scientists, political activists, and just history itself will expose, expose, and continue to demonstrate how corrupt this was. And as this goes on, the stain just gets darker and bigger. Presidential transitions can be brutal affairs. Officials who have grown accustomed to working at America’s most famous address, dealing with economic and national security issues looming around the world, are suddenly displaced into the cold of Washington after the inauguration of the new elected president on a bleak January Day. There is usually a support network, however, including nearby K Street, home to political lobbying firms, and a number of think tanks in the capital and beyond. Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State under President George W.. Bush, is now the director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, which also provided a safe haven for Trump alumni Jim Mattis and HR McMaster. White House press officers can be successful in the media or corporate world. Jay Carney, Barack Obama’s spokesman from 2011 to 2014, is Senior Vice President and Head of Public Relations at Amazon. His successor, Josh Earnest, who served as NBC News and MSNBC analyst, is now Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer at United Airlines. But Kayleigh McEnany, who is currently on the podium, might find such work harder. She has been an apologetic defender of Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and false claims of election fraud, as well as heavy criticism from the press. Oliver Darcy, a senior media reporter at CNN, recently wondered, “Has McEnany ever provided the press with useful information at one of these alleged briefings? It is hard to remember any real news that was broken or offered at these events. « McEnany could try to follow in the footsteps of Trump’s first press secretary, Sean Spicer, who is now the presenter of conservative newsmax television. She already appears regularly on Fox News and could formalize the arrangement. (Spicer’s successor, Sarah Sanders, published a memoir and is said to be planning a run for the governor of her home state of Arkansas. ) But for others, the future is harder to see. The President’s daughter and senior advisor, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, also a senior advisor, are believed to be a persona non grata in New York where they may have hoped to resume their old lives. As an alternative, Ivanka should consider running for a seat in the Florida Senate. Ben Carson, the housing secretary, has told confidants that he wants to start a think tank, the Axios website reported. Carson « wants to found an organization that will promote Trump’s politics and encourage bipartisan dialogue, a source in his inner circle told Axios ». Stephen Miller, a senior adviser who pushed Trump’s tough immigration policies and election overthrow efforts, is unlikely to thrive in Joe Biden’s Washington, a strictly democratic city. The then home minister Kirstjen Nielsen was booed, molested and greeted with « shameful songs ». and « Ending Family Separation » at a Mexican restaurant in 2018. Vela commented, “I don’t think there will be anywhere in the United States or around the world that the better known, more recognizable can ever go where they don’t appear to be resisting, at least for the foreseeable future. Vela, entrepreneur, LGBTQ and Latino activist, expressed hostility towards Miller, adding: “Honestly, he’s so mean that I don’t understand what he’s doing unless he’s rehabilitated or has a redeeming situation the human family. There are a few potential hideaways in Washington. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that held speeches by Trump officials and supporters, and the Federalist Society, which had a major impact on the president’s appointment of more than 200 Conservative judges, could positively rate those who did remained true to the bitter end. But Rick Wilson, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, which campaigned for Trump’s election defeat, warned that his aides and accomplices are now being stigmatized far and wide. « It will be a very unique difference from the traditional idea that you worked in the White House and ended up with a fabulous array of jobs ahead of you, » he said. “Getting into an administration for credentials and experience as well as a career boost has always been a compromise. This will likely be the exact opposite of what others expected. Nobody came out full of glory. They came out looking defeated and corrupt and humiliated and ashamed. So this is a very different scenario than any previous administration. Wilson added, « No board of directors will say, ‘Oh, hey, I need a Trump administrator on the board,’ unless it’s MyPillow type [Mike Lindell, a passionate Trump supporter]. I really don’t see it as a career benefit that it has traditionally been perceived as. In the past, retiring officials may have had a previous career. After serving in the Bill Clinton White House from 1993 to 1997, Elaine Kamarck returned to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. « I suspect Donald Trump will create some kind of political organization that will use all of the money he raised by claiming the election was stolen and that the operation will keep some of the people busy, » she said. “I think the kids will probably try again to save the business empire. « Some of them may have political aspirations themselves, but I don’t see many of the Trump people close to them becoming lobbyists because Trump never had good relations with Congress and they certainly don’t. « . I don’t see them walking into think tanks because there are no scholars among them. Kamarck, senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington, added, « You see, Donald Trump didn’t have a normal presidency, so there won’t be a normal post-presidency presidency. « . ”

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A federal judge said the Justice Department illegally postponed the execution of the only woman on federal death row and possibly set up the Trump administration to schedule the execution after President-elect Joe Biden took office. U. . S.. . District Court Judge Randolph Moss also cleared up an order from the director of the Bureau of Prisons that set the date of Lisa Montgomery’s execution for Jan. 12. Montgomery was slated to be killed at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana this month, but Moss delayed execution after her lawyers contracted coronavirus and asked him to extend the deadline for filing a clemency petition.

In an unusual year that has kept most of us away from live music venues, Guardian writers are choosing the songs that deserve to make more impact. Lily Kershaw ft Goody Grace – Now & Then I Heard Now Now & Then she performed at a piano in a living room on a hot evening in the summer of 2019 when the world was open and life seemed plentiful. Even in comparatively liberated times, when LA-raised singer-songwriter Lily Kershaw pulled her fist to her chest, clung to fading memories, and sang over the grief of an unfair Tryste, her voice and melodies were both comforting and foreboding. « Remember the rooftop parties, remember the friends . . . « she sang, pondering past meetings while in the presence of a new scene. a reminder that moments are precious and fleeting. In 2020, Kershaw released the song as a guitar-based duet with Canadian emo rocker Goody Grace, and its acoustic melancholy inherited a deeper grief amid the intense isolation of a pandemic where a story of unrequited love felt cruel and unnecessary. However, the way Kershaw affirms past love with such a rich and full-bodied melody ensures that her precious time has never been wasted. Eve Barlow Grace Potter of Marcus King, Jackson Browne and Lucius – EachotherGiven, well, everything this year, my appetite for content that was even remotely referenced has been basically zero (no, thanks, love in the Time of corona). . But Grace Potters Eachother, written five days after the lockdown and released in mid-May, is one of the few pandemic songs that pushes the boundaries of fast-reacting art and the only one that made me lean into the pain of isolation rather than escape or muscle through. Led by Potter’s sung alto, a prismatic ensemble of blues rock singer and guitarist Marcus King, rock legend Jackson Browne, and country pop quartet Lucius pulls the last syllable of each choral line into a cascade of uncertainty that still takes to heaven looks. « I don’t know where we’re going / but when it gets tough, » they chant – a temporary fix, both balm and bruise, fused together from voices that, like the rest of us, were isolated at home. « We have each other, and at the moment that’s enough. The shock of the early quarantine is over, but at least for me, the hymn book will last this cursed year. Adrian Horton Hayley Williams – Dead Horse (Hot Chip Remix) The most lizard-brained reaction I’ve ever had to a song I like is: good, but it would be a lot better if I went a little faster. Imagine my delight as the UK National Treasures Hot Chip raised the temperature to a stellar result of Paramore icon Hayley Williams’ stellar solo debut, Petals for Armor. Her dazzling funk reggae meanders through the infidelity that booked her first marriage, turning into a tachycardic shimmy in hyper-saturated UKG tones and happy hardcore. It’s bright, diamond-hard and addicting. Laura Snapes Tayla Parx – Dancing Alone It’s a song that illustrates our lonely year of quarantine. Given the clubs we couldn’t go to and the parties that couldn’t take place, Tayla Parx kind of makes everything all right. Parx is a formidable songwriter known for helping pen hits like « Thank You ». Next for Ariana Grande, she gave the world her solo single, Dance Alone, amid an era where that was all we could really do, like it or not. With its themes today, memorable melody, and infectious boast, it’s a mystery worthy of our very strange year why it never became a major hit when it was released last summer. Listen to the funky bass and hooky chorus and it’s just impossible not to join in. We hope it’ll be steaming by 2021, regardless of whether we’re all still alone or not. Rob LeDonne Carl Stone – BojukLike a retired dad genuinely interested in the new PlayStation 5 he bought in Lockdown, veteran American experimentalist Carl Stone made some of the funnest pieces of music of his career in the late 1960s. His plunderphonic method of shredding and chopping samples resulted in exquisitely beautiful work in the 80s and 90s: check out pieces like Mae Yao, Shing Kee and the Motown Meltdown by Shibucho, thankfully recently reissued by Unseen Worlds were. But wherever these were arrhythmic or drifting, he developed an infectiously funky sense of rhythm on 2020 LP Stolen Car, where Bojuk is the highlight. I’m not going to say who the A-list chart topper is tossed into Stone’s sonic centrifuge to keep the sample cops from watching, but their gorgeous vocals are turned into amazing via euphoric fanfare and a huge implied 4/4 beat intricate ribbons cut. This is a masterful study of the recombinant and plastic nature of pop music, and it’s a lot more fun than it sounds. Ben Beaumont-Thomas Y. . Ö. G. A – Your Devotion (SebastiAn-Remix) When Lady Gaga dropped her Twitter-crashing Ariana Grande duet Rain on Me during the long pandemic summer, the usual (read: overused) reaction was that it made her listeners sorry, it wasn’t being able to hear In a club, frenzied dancing together is the only natural reaction one should have. To me, it was an amazingly mild reminder of why I don’t miss any clubs, and it wasn’t until recently when I came across this diabolical SebastiAn remix that I began to understand the same pain. It’s a rework of a song by Y.. . Ö. G. A, a side project started this year by Peking Duks Reuben Styles, and it’s a seductive, dangerous little number that takes us back to the French producer’s best work and whirls us around in our chairs listening to it and turns us into a far more flamboyant one instead Environment. There is something almost cinematic about it, as if it were supposed to accompany a dark, seductive horror film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, which takes us to an excitingly unknown place, galaxies away from the children’s party where Gaga and Grande left us. Benjamin Lee Suuns – FictionThis Year of Fear was inspired by a song of Parallel Fear by the art noise group Suuns. The track they called Fiction – like the six song EP that contains it and whose name it bears – was created during the lockdown. No wonder this Montreal-based band went darker than ever this time around, an achievement given their decades-long history of cutting shady kraut rock, disruptive dance music and punk. While Suuns has often squeezed and blurred frontman Ben Shemie’s vocals into the mix, this time it sounds like they drove a truck over them, capturing a fitting sense of suffocation and confinement in the process. But that’s hardly the only tone of the song. The synthesizers that shudder and oscillate around Shemie’s voice and the beats that rumble and rumble underneath have a richness that envelops them. If fiction offers a suitable soundtrack for isolation, then it also offers refuge. Jim Farber Henry Pope – NgeneHenry Pope – a Los Angeles-based record producer, DJ, and founder of Genius Loci Fest in Baja California – wrote this chakra-shaking house track while basking in the diametrical ecosystems of Ecuador and Joshua Tree. Pope exudes the pounding energy that home lovers appreciate and creates complex layers of sound by playing the melodies himself on a kalimba (or African finger harp) and guitar. Although lively and bass-heavy, Ngene possesses both euphoria and tragedy, as the title is dedicated to the Pope’s close friend and the late Kenyan visual artist Ngene Mwaura (AKA Sheepgoat), who was 38 years old in a mysterious Nairobi traffic accident was killed last December. Since then, his brother Moses Mwaura has been collecting donations to build a museum in Kenya that honors the work of Ngene. An acoustic and visual homage to a radiant soul has gone too early. All sales of the song and its EP of the same name – which includes Ngene’s artwork on the cover – will be donated to Moses’ fundraiser. Morena Duwe

Almost two years after the overthrow of the autocrat Omar al-Bashir, Sudan is taking steps to rejoin the international community that has long shunned it. For the first time in its history Sudan has a submission for the Academy Awards. « You Will Die at Twenty » is produced by a consortium of European and Egyptian companies, but with a Sudanese director and a Sudanese cast in the « Best International Feature Film » category.

A series of explosions struck the Afghan capital on Saturday morning, killing at least two police officers and injuring two others and a civilian. The officers died and one civilian was injured when a magnetic bomb exploded on a police vehicle in western Kabul, police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz said. Two other police officers were wounded when a bomb attached to their car exploded in southern Kabul on Saturday, Faramarz said.

COLONIA DEL SACRAMENTO, Uruguay – The Uruguayan government has been hailed as one of the world’s best COVID-19 crisis relief workers. Although Uruguay is sandwiched between two of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic – Argentina and Brazil, where cases seem never to end – Uruguay has had one of the smallest outbreaks in the region and authorities have avoided a mandatory quarantine. In September the British Medical Journal published an article under the headline: “Uruguay Wins Against COVID-19. The miracle didn’t last. A few months later, cases are growing by the hundreds every day, and experts fear it won’t be long before Uruguay, once feeling prepared, realizes the pandemic is out of control. At 13th. On March 23rd, when the first four cases of COVID-19 were discovered in the country, the Uruguayan government assured the population that no mandatory quarantine would be used in Uruguay. They said it is the responsibility of the population to respect detention, which, although recommended, is never compulsory. The government has taken steps to encourage people to stay home, such as:. B.. the closure of schools, the interruption of shows and the restriction of public transport. You have proven successful in those crucial first few months. Britain’s Supercharged Mutant Coronavirus is expected to be deployed globally in September. 20, in Uruguay only 1. 917 cases of the disease were discovered and only 40 people had died. The number of deaths has now doubled, reaching 98 on December. 16 and active cases in the country are up to 3. 500. Natalia Venturini, a psychologist from the Defense Ministry’s military school, told The Daily Beast that the population was not necessarily obedient, but that terrifying images of the pandemic in Europe initially put Uruguayans under protection. « Although the restriction wasn’t mandatory, companies chose to close and people stayed in their homes . . . I think all of this was a product of fear and uncertainty, « she said. For many citizens, preventing what would happen in other countries was reason enough to stick to the government’s proposals and take the necessary precautions to prevent the virus from spreading. Emilia Margor, who lives in the capital, Montevideo, was one of those who stopped socializing and took the measures extremely seriously. « On top of it all, I’d say the March to July grooming was pretty extreme, » she said. But things changed very quickly. Given the relative success of its actions, the government grew overconfident. A vision began called « the new normal » – it was a gradual process, but one that suggested to people that the worst threat was over. In May, they opened the bars and restaurants that had decided to close with a new protocol and reduced opening hours, and in early July the schools completed the final phase of the plan earmarked for their opening and remained open to this day. DR. Ricardo Bernardi, who advises the Uruguayan government on its pandemic response, admitted to The Daily Beast that the path in the tiny Latin American nation was not clear. « At this point there is great uncertainty and expectation as to whether the measures taken are sufficient, » he said. Bernardi – a psychiatric specialist who is part of the Honorary Scientific Advisory Group – said people had started to lose patience with the restrictions. « The attention of the population decreased over time because fear decreased and people got a little tired and needed contact and activity, » he said. After months of emphasizing ownership, Uruguay is now facing a large segment of the population who have decided that the situation in Uruguay is not that bad – so they should get on with their lives. In Montevideo alone, 195 secret parties were broken up by the police on a weekend in November. Many of the outbreaks in different regions of the country can be traced back to young people partying. Alfonsina Devicenti, an 18-year-old student from the Colonia department, said that at their age, people went back to their old habits and there were constant parties. There was a large hangout recently at Los Fogones, a hangout in town, where young people openly ignore the guidelines. « A lot of teenagers here spend a lot of time outside with other teenagers in very large groups, » she said. It’s time to monitor social gatherings for COVID Rule-BreakersDr. Néstor Campos, former president of the Uruguayan Medical Association, told The Daily Beast that the government’s messaging campaign among younger citizens had failed. « So much emphasis has been placed on ensuring that COVID does not have a serious impact [on the younger age groups] that young people are losing respect for it, » he said. “We need to keep communicating and engaging with young people more, and taking tough action even when they’re unpopular. « Venturini, the Department of Defense school’s psychologist, admitted that the population was following the government’s lead and began to relax too soon. « The fact that the government never ordered foreclosure undoubtedly impacts the fact that we have » relaxed « and given up on the voluntary quarantine that we conducted, » she said. “Perhaps the situation would have been different with a stricter legal framework than in other countries. “This sudden surge in cases, which continues to grow, worries health professionals and threatens to overwhelm hospitals in some areas, but it also has important economic implications. Tourism in Uruguay is enormous with more than 3 million visitors per year, which is the same as the total population. With the borders closed, many companies had hoped that domestic tourism would make up some of the deficit next summer, but the surge in COVID-19 cases has dashed those hopes. Not everyone is panicking yet, Dr. . Jorge Mota, a former department head of the Department of Health in the Colonia division, told The Daily Beast that rates around the world are still relatively low. « I think something like this was to be expected because with the virus being spread across the community, it makes sense that more and more people would come into contact with it, » he said. For most experts, however, there is a risk that the situation could get out of hand. As the pandemic goes up, the ruling National Party is still popular. At the moment it is largely seen as the public, not the government’s fault, that cases are skyrocketing. But there are more and more voices saying that tougher measures would improve the situation. At the moment, Uruguay is stepping back, putting limits on the opening of restaurants and threatening to “end the new normal. The question remains: does the government still have the power to convince the country to listen to its warnings? Read more at The Daily Beast. Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now! Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside delves deeper into the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

This is the latest in our bi-monthly series on Underrated Destinations. It’s still a big world. If you ask a well-traveled friend where to go on vacation in Spain after the pandemic, you will likely learn about Barcelona’s gorgeous architecture, San Sebastián’s epic pintxo crawlies, and Seville’s foot-pounding flamenco tablaos. But here’s my hot tip for a six-year Spain transplant traveling to pay the bills: Some of the most exciting news in the Spanish trip for 2021 comes from Cáceres, a sleepy medieval town 180 miles west of Madrid. I visited Cáceres for the first time in 2017, attracted by the promise of pork delights (acorn-fed ham! Spicy patatera sausage!), Orange tree-shaded squares, and one of the best-preserved medieval enclaves in Europe. As I neared the city, I remember gasping at the skyline, at right angles, with its low whitewashed houses and 30 towers that are almost 1. 000 years old. Brick towers and domes shot up between them, giving the place an aristocratic grandeur. Storks hovered over them. My first stroll through the Ciudad Monumental, or the old town, revealed winding streets lined with mansions, churches, and monasteries built of stone. I read through the posters on each historical facade like I was touring a museum, trying to find a single building newer than the 16th. Century was. Ornate coats of arms that hovered over the doors bore the seals of fairytale surnames that could be said aloud: Godoy, Saavedra, Golfín and Ovando-Mogollón. Everything was preserved as if in amber. The only signs of modernity were film scans and extension cords: the old town was used as a filming location for Game of Thrones. Cáceres peaked early and then somehow calcified. Although the Romans, Jews and Moors laid the foundation stone for the city, erected towers and installed cisterns (the one under the Museum of Cáceres is worth a visit), the city’s heyday was between the late 15th and 17th centuries. and the middle of the 17th. Century. During this time, explorers from the area such as Hernán Cortés, Francisco de Orellana and Francisco Pizarro brought shiploads of looted riches back from the so-called New World to finance the city’s opulent structures. But then, due to the royals’ financial mismanagement, the money dried up. At the same time, Cáceres got caught in the crossfire of a protracted war for Portugal and forced many residents to flee. At the turn of the 20th. By the mid-19th century, the city was an impoverished, sparsely populated backwater that was plagued by centuries of latifundism and neglect. People didn’t start giving Cáceres a second look until 1967 when the Council of Europe declared it the continent’s third largest monumental ensemble, defeated only by Tallinn and Prague. UNESCO declared it a World Heritage Site in 1986. The irony of Cáceres’ dark chapter is that it may have saved the Ciudad Monumental from ruin. Had the city remained prosperous over the centuries, its old town would have been destroyed to make way for newer buildings. Over the weekend, I was impressed with how well Cáceres was for excursions from Madrid. It had it all: stunning churches (I’ll never forget the view from the bell tower of the Iglesia de San Francisco Javier), delicious tapas with enthusiasm and hotels for every budget. Toledo and Segovia are the most popular excursions from the Spanish capital, but while fascinating on their own, they are touristy (think of magnets and postcards in every corner shop). . By comparison, Cáceres felt like a real vacation – it was bursting with Spanish history and culture with no tour bus in sight. After that trip, I approached Cáceres with everyone who listened, but I had no pressing reason to return until earlier this month winded of a flurry of news developments: a hotel opening, a museum expansion, revised official tours, and a new restaurant that Run by one of the best Spanish chefs. After all, I thought Cáceres was getting the international buzz it deserved. But then I realized: with vacation travel stalling and foreigners not being allowed to visit Spain for the most part, Cáceres’ biggest year abroad in over a decade could possibly go unnoticed, another blow to the already ailing tourism industry. Determined to share the gospel, I bought a ticket, grabbed some masks, and went to see what to look forward to in Cáceres in the After Times. After leaving my suitcase in the NH Collection Cáceres Palacio de Oquendo, a reliable middle-class hotel in a stone palace from the 16th. In the 18th century, I zigzagged my way up the old town. It was absolutely quiet – no cars, no people, just the squeak of my shoes on the wet cobblestone. My first stop was the Helga Alvear Museum for Contemporary Art. When I came here in 2017, I scratched my head: the medieval building with low ceilings was home to confusing conceptual art (a pyramid of brightly colored spheres, pieces of clothing attached to a folded rug), and the collection felt clunky and out of place at. The German art collector has since put 10 million euros into the problem. Tuñón Architects (from MUSAC) are behind the renovation of the existing 32. 000 square meters enlarged. From outside the building I could see Tuñón’s characteristic wooden slats sticking out over the scaffolding. « It will feel like a whole new museum, » a representative told me on the phone, adding that it would open « sometime » in 2021. “With the new room, we can finally present large-format pieces from the collection that we were previously unable to show. The Helga Alvear is a five-minute walk from the heart of the Old Judería, or Jewish Quarter, a tangle of narrow streets and white one-story houses that surround the Ermita de San Antonio, originally the main synagogue. « Jewish Cáceres » is one of several new niche tours that the local tourist office will launch in 2021, along with other routes such as « Muslim Cáceres », « Roman Cáceres » and a route that reaches the most scenic viewpoints in the city. (Visit the tourist office in Plaza Mayor to inquire about tour schedules. ) But perhaps the most exciting developments of all are in the hospitality sector of Cáceres. To be fair, there has already been a lot to rave about: the city is home to one of Spain’s most exclusive design hotels, Atrio, run by Cáceres-born partners (both for business and love) Toño Pérez and José Polo. Atrio’s rooms are dramatically lit and feature original works by Warhol, Tapiès, Ruff and Saura. Downstairs, Pérez runs a two-Michelin-starred kitchen where Extremaduran delicacies such as lomo doblao (Ibérico pork loin with lard) and torta del Casar (creamy, grassy ewe’s milk cheese) are woven into tasting menus that make you crispy tapioca Butterfly filled with salmon mousse one minute and braised partridge with black truffles the next. The duo’s latest passion project, slated to open in the second half of 2021, is a Catty corner with 11 suites by Atrio called Casa Palacio Paredes Saavedra. « It’s developing phenomenally, » Polo told me over coffee and meringue. “The accommodations will be huge. One of the suites has a 21 square meter bathroom – for me that is real luxury. Obviously, Tuñón Arquitectos had a busy year. In addition to Helga Alvear, they take on the intestinal renovation and redesign of this mansion from the 16th. century. When it’s done, guests paying more than € 800 a night can enjoy amenities like his and hers showers, underfloor heating, butler service, and deep sinks made from individual slabs of Italian marble. There are plans to convert the original underground cistern into a sauna and a candlelit hammam. Pérez’s food is unique in Cáceres, but it’s not cheap. When the couple announced they would take over Torre de Sande, the mediocre casual restaurant next door, and open an informal extremaduran asador (grill) in its place, the locals jumped for joy. The space that opened this month is absolutely stunning. Torre de Sande is named after the 14th century tower. Century that it occupies. So you can imagine the bones: stone pillars, vaulted ceilings, roughly hewn stone walls. In fact, Pérez and Polo rent the place from a Viscount (!) Who gave them his blessing to look at the place with strange eyes – hola, deliciously subdued track lights and black marble tabletops. If you feel like it, Pérez’s smoky roast meat and locavore tapas can be enjoyed outside on the ivy-lined terrace in summer. But whether a trip to Spain is planned in the next year or in 10, Cáceres will undoubtedly still be there and be proud. Atrio is one of the best hotels in Spain with prices to match. Cheaper launch pads include the NH Collection Cáceres Palacio de Oquendo, 100 meters from the bustling Plaza Mayor, and the Gran Hotel Don Manuel, a few blocks north of the old town. Both hotels are characterized by friendly service and a hearty breakfast, but are a bit frayed around the edges (chipped paint and thin towels – something like that). . Where to eat at Atrio and Torre de Sande there are few really great restaurants in the old town. Take a six-minute cab ride to Javier Martín, in the Nuevo Cáceres neighborhood, and you’ll be rewarded with shockingly affordable tasting menus and rich a la carte options, ranging from Ibérico pork carpaccio to creamy lobster rice to almadraba tuna tataki. Far more casual and best possible is La Marina, a third-generation bar that produces unapologetically old-school breeds such as white gazpacho, eggs messed up with lamb’s brain, and zarangollo, a lively Extremaduran salad made from smoky roasted peppers and good Spanish tuna with a garlicky vinaigrette and a few strips of parsley. Read more at The Daily Beast. Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now! Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside delves deeper into the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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The Maasai warrior Kamunu Saitoti had been hunting for almost a day when he finally came across lion tracks in the dusty ground. It was in 2007 in the Maasai-owned area of ​​Donkey Egg in southern Kenya, the light was fading, and Kamunu’s two younger warriors said they should perhaps return to their village because it is dangerous to be around lions at night. But Kamunu was determined to find the lion that had eaten his father’s cow. A severe drought hit the region. Wildebeest and zebras died by the thousands, so the lions – who had starved to death of their natural prey – decided to attack Maasai cattle in greater numbers. Cattle are the Maasai’s livelihoods, and warriors like Kamunu were responsible for protecting them. The three warriors reached for tall spears and wore the traditional colorful panels, bracelets and earrings of the Maasai that stretched their earlobes. They trudged across the savannah with sandal feet until Kamunu spotted three lions under a tree. One – a woman – had a bloated stomach which led Kamunu to suspect that she was the culprit. Kenya’s worst rhino massacre was the work of people trying to save the species. As an experienced lion killer, he secretly led the warriors through the chaparral and waited behind a tree for the lions to fall asleep. With adrenaline they jumped out of the bush, sprinted towards the lions and attacked them with their spears. The frightened lions fought back, growled, rushed and roared at the warriors. But when they roared, Kamunu’s hunting party knew that they stabbed the animals in their open mouths, pierced their organs, and made them bleed internally. The lions hissed, gagged and coughed blood until they finally collapsed. Kamunu waited for the beasts to die – because a wounded lion is a terrible thing – before pulling his steel knife from its sheath and slicing open the lioness’s belly. He had expected to find his father’s cow in it, but to his great surprise he found that her stomach was empty. His bad luck continued when he was arrested for murder by Kenya Wildlife Service rangers. He was imprisoned for 10 days and his father had to sell three cows to pay his bail. Lion hunting was an ancient tradition among the Maasai, the semi-nomadic tribe who herd cattle in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. Throughout the tribe’s 2,000-year history, its warriors hunted lions to defend their livestock and as part of a ritual of growing up. Lion hunts increased as the human population in the area increased. Villages and pastures buried themselves deeper in the wildlife habitat and brought the Maasai cattle closer to the lions. Between 2001 and 2011, Maasai warriors killed more than 200 lions in southern Kenya, which is 40 percent of the population per year. These hunts, combined with habitat loss, poaching and disease, caused the lion population across Africa to drop from half a million in 1950 to less than 30. 000 in 2013. A decade ago, scientists feared the lion in Kenya could be extinct by 2020. Instead, the lion population has recovered in the Maasai countries of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania known as Maasailand. « We are now having discussions about what to do with so many lions, » said Egyptian-American conservationist Dr. . Leela Hazzah. She is the founder of Lion Guardians, a nonprofit that gives Maasai warriors who once killed lions the responsibility to protect them. Building on their traditional tracking skills, the warriors learn to equip lions with chase collars. They then use radio telemetry antennas and GPS receivers to track their movements and warn villagers and shepherds if a lion is nearby in order to thwart conflict. Leela founded the organization in 2006 and studied Kenya’s declining lion population for her master’s thesis. She interviewed Maasai lion killers and found an article about Kamunu who was arrested for the murder of a lioness. The article had a grainy picture of him in the caption, his deep-set eyes twinkling at the camera. Leela asked about Kamunu and almost every warrior knew about him. He came from a family of lion killers and had five kills to his name. Determined to speak to him, Leela visited his rugged mountain village in the Maasai community of Eselenkei, known for its many massive birds of prey. After a few hours of searching, she spotted a man riding his bike down the hill. Leela recognized him by his picture and his boasting. « I could tell that he was a lion killer just because he rode a bicycle, » recalls Leela. Leela waved to him and he stopped his bike. « Where are you from? » asked Leela, who looks youthful and is petite. « I have just been released from prison, » said Kamunu, a tall, non-smiling man. « What happened? » Asked Leela. Kamunu shook his head, then told the story of his father’s missing cow, the lion he thought was his killer, and his subsequent arrest. Kamunu was angry and confused about his prison sentence, and Leela could understand why. Once, killing lions earned him respect and prestige in the community. But the ways of the Maasai warrior faded. The Maasai became more and more western – they carried cell phones and rode motorcycles. Education instead of lion killing was the new path to status. Kamunu, who could neither read nor write, struggled to adapt to the changing times. Leela pondered the seeds of an idea that would become Lion Guardians. « If you happen to get a job, will you stop killing lions? » she asked Kamunu. Kamunu fixed her with a hardened look. « I will only stop killing lions when they stop killing our cattle, » he said firmly. Leela saw something in Kamunu. He had an integrity and pride and respect from his community. He was a die-hard lion killer for sure. But if she could change his heart, she thought, others would follow. * * * On a trip to East Africa last year, I met with Leela in the Lion Guardians’ hill camp near Amboseli National Park in Kenya. I had read an article about the conservation group years ago and was intrigued by the picture of Leela – an American college student in her twenties – recruiting a team of traditional Maasai warriors to swap their spears for radio telemetry antennas and save the lions who do them ‘I was so proud of the hunt once. Leela gave me a tour of the camp, then we sat in the shade in front of her tent office and she told me the story of the Lion Guardians – her life’s work. It began 15 years ago and a world away on the redwood-shaded campus of UC Berkeley in Northern California. Leela had studied elephants as a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin, but after reading about the decline in the lion population in East Africa, she was drawn to the challenge of saving them. She had Berkeley Professor Dr. . Laurence Frank, a renowned carnivore researcher, was impressed with her command of the Swahili language and invited her to Berkeley for an interview for a research fellow. Known as an eccentric in the conservation community, Laurence was nicknamed « Laurence of the Hyenas » and used infrared night vision goggles to chase the cats through Kenya’s Maasai Mara at night. In Berkeley he ran the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, which houses the second largest collection of hyena skulls in the world, some of which he personally removed from the bodies of sick corpses. He had also established a colony of live hyenas, housed in stalls in the wooded hills above campus, that could be heard cackling and screaming at night by students walking home from class. In her interview, Leela tried to follow Laurence’s questions, which centered more on anthropology than on her chosen subject, biology. « We don’t need to know any more about lion biology, » said Laurence. “What we need to know is about the Maasai and why they kill lions. Leela, then 26 years old, hesitated. « But I don’t know how to work with communities, » she said. “Maybe you should find an anthropologist. Laurence laughed. « You just have to live there, » he said encouragingly. « Don’t ask too many questions. Just hang out and be useful. A few months later, Leela was in a commercial airplane over the moonlit Atlantic towards Maasailand. Africa can be a dangerous place for foreign benefactors. Around 2006, when Leela arrived in Maasailand, a British filmmaker, reminiscent of the famous gorilla researcher Dian Fossey, was murdered in the Rift Valley while fighting poachers. An Italian writer was recently attacked by poachers on her ranch in northern Kenya. As a precaution, Leela wore an identification tag that her father had given her in case something should happen. Laurence lent her his beaten up Land Cruiser, formerly a Canadian postal vehicle (Leela has no idea how he got it to Africa) in 1974, and she found a house on a cliff overlooking Mbirikani in the Chyulu Hills, a wooded ridge of lava through the Kilimanjaro explosion before 200. 000 years. The house belonged to an Irish missionary couple. They were never around, so Leela cleverly moved in. From Leela’s seat on the hill, she could see Maasai warriors gathering in the village to hunt lions, jump in circles with their spears, and shout a battle cry before running into the hills. It is illegal to hunt lions and warriors can be arrested and imprisoned for it. But Leela never called the authorities. It was only there to learn and observe. It was painful to take care of Leela, an animal lover to the core. Grew up in Washington, D. . C.. . Leela had always felt more comfortable with animals than with people. As the daughter of Egyptian immigrants, she felt too Egyptian for America and too American for Egypt, like a right and a left shoe on the wrong foot. The National Zoo was their refuge. Leela spent hours in peace watching the monkeys, lions or their favorite, the elephants. Her parents did not allow pets, so she and her identical twin sister found frogs, turtles and snakes and hid the animals in the house, her mother eventually finding them with a scream. During the summer they visited the family home in Cairo, Egypt, where Leela’s father said he used to hear lions roar from the roof. Leela stayed up late at night, listening to the lions. Her father never had the heart to tell her that all the lions in Egypt were now gone and critically endangered. The Maasai tend to be wary of outsiders as they have a long history of British colonization, and many were Leela cold at first. But over time, people got used to looking around them. They usually only see white tourists in their Land Rovers speeding to and from safaris, but Laurence’s truck collapsed so often that Leela had to travel long distances between Maasai villages. « I didn’t know foreigners could walk! » said a Maasai woman to Leela. One evening, some villagers knocked desperately on Leela’s door. They said there was a baby in the village with a serious and mysterious illness and the doctor was completely drunk. They asked if Leela could help and Leela raced to the sick child’s hut in her vehicle. She secured the baby in the Land Cruiser, but when she tried the ignition, it didn’t start! She cranked and cranked. Finally the engine coughed. Leela sped three hours down the muddy road to the nearest clinic, where another doctor managed to save the baby’s life. Weeks later, Leela fell ill with malaria. She developed a dangerous fever, could not get out of bed or open her eyes. The news of Leela’s good deed towards the infant had got around the community, and a Maasai medicine man known as Muganga came to Leela’s house with the bark of a local tree. He ground the rind to a fine powder and mixed it into a cup of hot tea, which tasted terrible. The medicine man gestured for Leela to “keep drinking, keep drinking. She forced herself to swallow the strange liquid cup by cup until she fell into a deep sleep. When she miraculously woke up, she was healed. A short time later, an old Maasai elder invited Leela to a local celebration, which she accepted with honor. She wore modest long skirts among the Maasai and was careful never to dress promiscuously or to imitate Maasai fashion. When she came to the celebration, some villagers eyed her with suspicion, others greeted her with warm smiles and welcomed her to the circle of dancing Maasai warriors. A group of Maasai women who laughed at the young foreigner said: « If she wants to live here, we should give her a Maasai name. The ladies quarreled for a while, what to call them, until an old woman who was considered very wise in the village stepped forward. « I see something in her, » said the woman, looking Leela deep in the eyes. “We should call her Nasera. « It was the name of the old woman and in Maasai it means » woman of leadership « . « * * * As the Maasai slowly warmed up on Leela, she managed to arrange interviews with lion killers in the area for her master’s thesis. With the help of a local interpreter who spoke the Maasai language Ma, Leela invited the warriors to the missionary’s house. They drank tea under the pavilion in the courtyard, from which one had a breathtaking view of the snow-capped Kilimanjaro, known by the Maasai as the « White Mountain ». « In the male-dominated Maasai culture, the warriors did not see Leela as a threat and spoke openly about killing lions. In addition to ritual and retaliation, Leela discovered that a simmering anger against the government fueled the murder. « These foxes have taken all our fertile land . . . for wildlife, « one angry warrior told the government. He was referring to how Amboseli National Park once belonged to the Maasai people until the government evicted them in 1974 to create the safari park and banished them to the dusty volcanic areas on the edge of the park. « Now these wild animals are killing people, » he said, « eating our cattle, damaging our crops . . . They only get money from wildlife and forget about the problems humans face from wildlife. « . In 2006, after a year in the Maasai and talking to numerous lion killers, Leela felt that she had gathered enough information to complete her master’s thesis, which she wrote at Dr. . Laurence Frank’s house on the Laikipia plateau in northern Kenya. Leela shared a room there with Laurence’s new research fellow, Stephanie Dolrenry, a Missouri biologist who conducts hyena research, and the two students who bonded out of a passion for carnivores and their eagerness to save the lions. They would speak to Laurence about protecting the lions around the fireplace. Laurence was a Jewish American, but fascinated by Scotland. He regularly quoted Scottish verses and Celtic songs, and drank Highlands Scotch whiskey while pondering conservation tactics. Leela had a plan that arose from her conversations with the Maasai. One of the warriors (known as Murrans) had told her, “Let’s help Murran conservationists watch over lions. Our tradition and culture make us the best and most experienced people to save lions. We can pursue lions in the dark with our eyes closed, and we will never fail. What if – Leela posed – we gave the Maasai warriors who kill the lions the responsibility of saving them? Pay the warriors a salary and train them in wildlife radio telemetry. You combine the traditional tracking skills of warriors with modern technology. Stephanie feared the plan could backfire. After all, they were lion killers. What if they used the GPS equipment to find and kill more lions ?! But, argued Leela, what do we have to lose? During her time in Maasailand, she had seen more dead than live lions. She felt like she was just documenting the extinction and it was heartbreaking. The lions were running out of time, she said, and courageous action was required. In 2008, Kamunu received a call from Leela saying she was looking for trackers for her new conservation group – Lion Guardians – and invited him for an interview. Kamunu knew Leela from her regular visits to ask about killing lions, and he was intrigued by the offer. Due to the drought, Maasai cows became too emaciated to be sold, so a salary could supplement his herding income and help him support his family. Kamunu agreed to the interview and traveled on foot to the Lion Guardian Camp, which is located in a private game reserve in Donkeyenkei where elephants, zebras, giraffes and big cats frolic. The camp was a tree house built in an acacia tree by a Lion Guardians donor, a California eco-builder. Leela and Stephanie had requested something: “Robinson Crusoe. « The green canvas tent tree house consisted of three stories with an office on the ground floor around the trunk of the acacia and the separate rooms of Leela and Stephanie in the branches above. With beds half-made and New Yorkers on the floor, the rooms were typical of two working women in their twenties, except for being in a tree house. The bathroom was a separate structure, outdoors, and solar panels supplied the camp. In the tree house camp in the animal-rich nature reserve you can hear bush babies howling at night, find snakes in the office and watch elephants having coffee in the morning. Leela and Stephanie had already hired five Lion Guardians in Mbirikani, and Kamunu was one of 27 warrior candidates interviewed for four positions in Donkey. Leela and Stephanie looked for warriors with lion tracking skills, an enthusiasm for the opportunity, leadership potential, and a commitment to protecting the lions. Kamunu repeated his vow in his interview to continue killing lions if they attacked his cattle. Stephanie spoke to Leela afterward and said, « I’m not sure about this guy. « But Leela didn’t give up on Kamunu; she was just as stubborn as he was. In round two of the hiring process, Leela and Stephanie gave each applicant the phone number of the camp and said, “Call if you find lions. Kamunu was the first to answer. Instead of calling, he showed up at the tree house one night. « I found lions, » he announced. Stephanie drove him around to check it out and actually found a young lioness resting in the mugwort brush. It was about six feet long with dark spots on the side and no black tip on the tail. Stephanie had heard stories from this « tipless » lioness and was excited to find her. With Kamunu beside her, Stephanie shot the lioness with an air pistol to calm her down. The lioness was pregnant, Stephanie noticed and pointed to her swollen belly and breasts. Kamunu knelt beside the lioness and put his hands on her side. She felt her breath rise and fall. He had never touched a live lion before. Kamunu fastened the GPS tracking collar around the lioness’s neck when Stephanie watched him closely and noticed that he was not showing any emotion. She wasn’t convinced he’d established a connection with the lion until Kamunu picked up his cell phone in the Land Cruiser, called a friend, and excitedly shared his experience with the lioness. * * * After a one-month probationary period, Kamunu and three other warriors were hired as Lion Guardians for the Donkey Region in early 2009. Their main role was to track down the area’s lions and alert local shepherds and villagers if a lion was nearby. Kamunu, who worked from home, woke up before dawn, shouldered his high-tech backpack, and set off across donkey ice rocky mountainous terrain. He stopped periodically to lift his telemetry receiver, which consists of an antenna attached to a receiver. The receiver is programmed to the frequency of the transmitter on the lion’s collar and produces a tone that gets louder as you approach the lion’s collar. Kamunu rotated the antenna until the sound got the loudest and then followed in that direction. When he got close enough and the sound boomed at full volume, Kamunu could switch to traditional tracking and look for broken branches, trampled vegetation, droppings, carcasses, and paw prints. If he found a lion near a herd of cows, Kamunu warned the shepherd to take a different route. When the lion approached a village or a cattle pen, Kamunu called Leela and Stephanie, who would speed by in their Land Cruiser and bring the lion to safety by turning the engine, honking the horn or making loud crackers-like devices called thunderbolts , threw. Kamunu’s job was also to collect scientific data on lion movements. He would use a handheld GPS device to pinpoint a lion’s location and then handwrite the latitude and longitude on a data sheet. When Kamunu first held a pen, he grabbed it like a spear. Thanks to Lion Guardians, however, he learned basic reading and writing and was now able to fill out the data sheet himself. He kept it in the cleanest and safest place in his thatched hut, and proudly gave it to Leela at the end of each month. Co-guardians had told Leela that Maasai warriors would never compete with professional researchers when it comes to data quality, but when they checked the Guardians’ data, Leela found that it was remarkably accurate. Kamunu’s « tipless » lioness was the first to be tied up in the area. The warriors took the name of the first lion they killed, but now they gave the lions names. Whoever found the lion had to name it, and Kamunu named his tipless lioness « Nosieki » after a bush with beautiful red berries. Quiet and meek, Nosieki was considered a “good lion” by the guards because she never attacked Maasai cattle. Nosieki was also comfortable around the Lion Guardians’ vehicle, which allowed Kamunu and Leela to spend hours watching them up close. Kamunu felt a special bond with Nosieki. Not only was she the first lion he had tied up, he believed Nosieki was the daughter of the last lion he killed – the one whose stomach he cut open. Kamunu insisted that her stomach was swollen from recently giving birth to a litter of boys that included Nosieki. Leela said there was no data to prove a relationship, but Kamunu was sure. The Guardians called Nosieki’s lion pride « The Tara Pride » and talked about its members like characters in a soap opera. There was Nasieku – which means « first come first » – for bringing charges against her vehicle; Mognac – which means « luck » – because Kamunu had tried many times in the past to kill him but always missed; and Selenkay – meaning « a young girl who has reached adulthood » – who had a reputation as an « evil lion » for repeatedly killing Maasai cattle to feed their young. Whenever local warriors started hunting parties to take revenge on the lions for killing cattle, Kamunu and his fellow guards had to intercept the hunters and defuse the situation, always through non-violence. One tactic was to share the lion’s story. « This is Selenkay, » they would say. “She is a mother and only attacks cattle because her young are hungry in the drought. « They would remind the hunters that lions are revered for their strength in the Maasai tradition and are vital to job creation tourism in the area. « You kill yourself by spoiling the food you will depend on, » they would argue. The guards’ work also included finding lost cattle and fortifying cattle enclosures to earn the gratitude and respect of the villagers. When a guard was taken to Oxford to study conservation, the community raised $ 700 to help him on his way, despite the bad luck of the Maasai due to the drought. The Maasai women also took note of the guards, impressed with their high-tech things and their courage to work closely with lions. The cynical attitude is that this is Leela and Stephanie, two foreign outsiders, telling the Maasai how to do things the “western way”. But the brilliance of her model was twofold. First, the organization was composed almost entirely of Maasai men and women, and relied on the participation and input of the Maasai community. Second, the Lion Guardians project preserved the prestige and pride of the Maasai warrior, even as it erased the Maasai tradition of killing lions. While a warrior’s pride once came from bloody hand-to-hand combat with lions, it now came down to having a job, learning to read and writing, helping the community, and bravely defending their lions. It was a selfless and more enduring pride. A steady stream of small donations flowed through her blog from all over the world: money from a cake sale in primary school in England, a box of raincoats from Patagonia in Ventura, a new computer, used cell phones for the guards and a new backpack for Kamunu. Reporters also walked through the treehouse camp – like Bob Simon of 60 Minutes, who was investigating lion poisoning, and Sir David Attenborough of the BBC. The guards proudly told reporters that not a single lion had been killed in the area since the project started two years earlier. In fact, the number of lions grew. One morning Kamunu was excited to find Nosieki with two newborn boys, a boy and a girl. With wobbly legs and deep blue eyes, the boys rolled in the grass and playfully nibbled on their mother’s tipless tail. Whenever they found a lioness with new cubs, Kamunu and his fellow Guardians had a special dance. With excitement and pride they swayed in circles, held hands and sang. They called it the « young dance ». ”* * * In the meantime the drought continued. By 2009, after two years of insufficient rain, clouds of dust covered the sky and the wells ran dry. The vegetation died, then the herbivores. In Amboseli National Park, which is dry even in good weather, the wildebeest populations fell by 83 percent from 18 million to just 3. 000 back. Ten thousand zebras died, as did over 300 of 1. 500 known elephants of the park, mainly matriarchs and calves. Their carcasses lay around the park, their chests sticking out of the ashy volcanic soil like bare trees. The Maasai lost more than 80 percent of their livestock, making wealthy families poor and poor families losing everything. The price of livestock fell, causing a catastrophic food crisis. The Kenyan government declared this a national disaster. Some Maasai herders traveled hundreds of kilometers in search of water, either south to Lake Manyara in Tanzania, north towards Nairobi, or east to the sea. The Maasai elders who practice oral history told Leela this was the worst drought in a century. They accused God of swallowing the rain. Some slaughtered their few remaining sheep and goats in order to appease the Almighty, a desperate prayer to an empty sky. Leela, meanwhile, recognized another reason for the drought: climate change. And the most tragic thing was that it wasn’t the Maasai’s fault. They are a pastoral people whose carbon footprint is negligible. They took on the burden of a problem that was largely caused by the first world. Amboseli’s lions became weak as their wild prey waned or migrated to greener pastures. Lean and thirsty, the lions could hardly fight their prey, so they pursued the easier goal of Maasai cattle. Desperate Maasai warriors, in turn, fought to defend their few remaining cattle, hunt lions with spears or poison the carcasses of killed cows. The lion guards had to work around the clock to stop the lion hunt. Despite her reputation as a « good lion, » Kamunus Nosieki became so weak that she resorted to killing livestock and joined the Tara Pride lioness Selenkay. After an attack on a Maasai cattle pen known as a boma, the hunters set off in search of the lionesses over the drought-scorched land, shielding their eyes from swirling tornadoes of dirt known as dust devils. When they cornered Selenkay, separated from their cubs, the lioness attacked a hunter and sank her dagger-like teeth into his leg. When his companions approached the growling lioness with spears, the Lion Guardian vehicle arrived, took the bleeding hunter to safety and calmed the situation. In another emergency, Leela and Wildlife Ranger had to use vehicles after an old male lion jumped into a boma and impaled by a Maasai warrior before disappearing near an elementary school. Leela and the armed rangers set out to find the lion when they heard screams from a Maasai elder bitten by the lion in his side. Leela found the elder bleeding on the ground as his little dog bravely fought the lion. A group of Maasai warriors from the nearby village came running through the trees to rescue their elder and speared the lion around it. Leela had never seen a lion hunt in real life and was struck by the fear in the animal’s eyes as the Maasai took turns to spear the wounded animal. « Shoot the lion, » Leela said to the armed ranger, who hesitated for a moment. « You have to shoot him! » The ranger fired, struck, and killed the old lion. In Eselenkei a young lion guard named Sitonik was patrolling the densely wooded northern border when he came across a disgusting scene. It was Nosieki and her young female who were lying next to six carcasses of sheep that had been laced with poison by hunters. Nosieki was still alive, kicking and panting when her little daughter lay dead beside her. Two poisoned vultures had fallen dead from a tree, as had hundreds of flies. Nosieki’s young male was alive – hiding in a thicket – but ran away when he saw Sitonik. The boy was barely a year old, and Sitonik knew his chances of survival were slim on his own. Sitonik knelt in awe when Nosieki took her last breath and collapsed in a lifeless heap next to her dead boy. Later, several guards helped Sitonik to assemble the corpses of lions, sheep and vultures into a heap and set them on fire to prevent other animals from eating the corpses and dying of poisoning. Bright flames enveloped the bodies like a pyre, releasing the foul odor of poison in the flat, dry air. When Kamunu learned that Nosieki and her cub had been killed, he cried. * * * Finally, at the end of 2009, the rain drained from the sky in a deluge. Water poured down the slopes of Kilimanjaro, feeding the streams to Amboseli, and patches of hard grass protruded through the dry, cracked ground. The zebras and wildebeest returned and flocked to Amboseli’s swamps to fatten themselves on marsh grass. The Maasai shepherds also returned. Her cows got healthier day by day and were soon milking again. The Maasai community had survived the blistering drought but suffered badly, some losing 95 percent of their livestock. And the trust of the tribe was shaken. The Maasai people are terrified of the unknown and the drought has left many questions. Would similar droughts follow? Could the ancient Maasai pastoralism practice continue? Or should they pay off their land and sell it to wealthy Western investors, farmers and tour operators, as many school-age sons of the elders have been demanding? Leela sometimes felt overwhelmed by the myriad of threats not only to lions but to the Maasai way of life, from climate change to subdivision to westernization. She could understand the wrath of many Maasai warriors and watch their way of life dissolve. But nothing prepared them for the tragedy of July 2012. It started when a buffalo killed a young Maasai shepherd in a village outside Amboseli National Park. The Maasai leaders first tried diplomacy and demanded compensation from the government for the boy’s death. Compensation is required if the Maasai or their cattle are killed by wildlife, up to 10. $ 000 per person or market price for cattle. However, an official with the government-run Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) denied the Maasai leaders’ request for compensation, insisting that the child’s death was the Maasai’s fault. The local Maasai leaders furiously demanded a meeting with the KWS director, which was scheduled for a week later. Not only did the Maasai leaders want to talk about the boy’s death, they also wanted to talk about a longstanding argument between the Maasai and the government: the unfair revenues from Amboseli National Park were shared with the Maasai. Amboseli is at 300. 000 acres small for a national park, and animals often migrate to Maasai land outside of its protected borders. For example, most of the park’s elephants spend their nights outside the park trampling Maasai pastures, while the park’s lions and other predators hunt Maasai cattle. The Maasai support about 85 percent of the park’s total wildlife population on their land and bear the cost of living for the animals. Still, the tribe received only 3 percent of the park’s tourism revenue. The Maasai leadership wanted to demand a fairer separation from the KWS director, but when the day of the meeting came, the KWS director sent a community leader and two board members in his place. The Maasai leaders stormed out of the meeting. They knew that the government only cared about the animals and the wealthy tourists who visited them. To get the government to listen, Maasai leaders gathered 40 hunting parties of over 400 angry Maasai warriors and instructed them to target the tourists’ favorite animals: « Kill all elephants, lions, buffalo, » they ordered. Like rioters, the hunters fanned themselves across the border areas of the park, wading through the swamps with their spears and jumping over volcanic boulders in search of their targets. Near the village of Elarai, a group of 150 warriors found a herd of elephants that were making their morning march towards Amboseli Lake in the park. The hunters surrounded the herd and hurled spears into their bodies. A gentle 46-year-old elephant named Ezra, famous for being one of the park’s oldest bulls, was hit by several Maasai spears, including one in his forehead. He walked torturously several miles before collapsing dead. Within a few hours, KWS reported ten killed and ten more injured elephants and ten buffalo. There was nothing the rangers and conservationists could do about it, as they were outnumbered by the Maasai warriors. KWS asked for assistance from neighboring Tsavo – including ranger teams from the Elite Special Unit and air support – but the reinforcement would take some time. Local Maasai guides warned rangers and conservation guides in the area, including Leela, that anyone who stayed on duty or tried to stop the hunting parties would be beaten. A scientist, who ignored the warning, was monitoring the situation from his plane as Maasai spears came toward the low-flying plane. From her tent office, Leela called her guards near the park to warn them about the raiding hunters. « Dig a hole and bury your equipment! » Leela told them worries that the equipment would expose them as conservationists if they were discovered by the hunters. « They will beat you and try to kill you if you get in their way! » Said Leela. But their guards didn’t listen. The lion guards were anxious to protect “their” lions and the other animals, and gallantly set out to stop the hunting parties. The guards evaded elephant stamps and attacked buffalo. They communicated by cell phone and reported on the positions of the hunting parties. After slaughtering many elephants and buffalo, the hunters turned their target on their third and final target: lions. They looked in areas where lions congregate, such as the Lava Forest, a thick black field of frozen lava at the base of the Chyulu Hills. Lions go there to hide in their deep crevices and burrows and drink the water that gathers in their craters. Each guard when they found a hunting party used their most trusted technique to stop the slaughter. A shy guard wound his way into a hunting party and led the group – as if he were one of them – in the opposite direction of a lion’s pride. Another shrewd guard convinced a hunter that the lion collars were equipped with a camera that could be used to photograph the hunters and send them to the authorities. A team of five guards intercepted a hunting party and simply spoke to the young men with their training. Whether struck by the words of the guards or simply tired of killing innocent animals, the hunting party returned for their villages. It was the lion watchers’ finest hour, and despite the other tragic animal deaths, not a single lion was killed that day. « The guards really did put themselves at risk, » said Leela as the lights dimmed and my visit to her camp neared the end. Kamunu joined us, now a senior Lion Guardians leader who now has projects in Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Mozambique and even India to protect tigers. Kamunu proudly told me that his Lion Guardian salary enabled him to send all of his children to school. Leela’s co-founder Stephanie introduced me to her young daughter, who led our group to a pair of lion paw prints near the tent. « The lions know that they are safe here, » said Leela. I asked Leela, in her early forties, if she had a family in Kenya too. « Besides these guys? » she said and nodded to Kamunu and another guard. I remembered the little girl – too Egyptian for America, too American for Egypt – who now stood on a hill above Maasailand with her warriors and was finally home. Kamunu told me he regretted the many lions he killed in his youth, but Leela is quick to remind him of the many he saved – like Selenkay. Thanks to Kamunu and his co-guardians, the wild rancher became one of the oldest lions in the region and gave birth to over 40 cubs. When she went missing a few years ago, Kamunu wondered if she had finally come to an end at the tip of a Maasai spear. Then one afternoon he picked up her radio signal on his receiver and ventured into the bush alone to chase the lioness. In a clearing he found Selenkay with her grown daughters and their eight chubby boys who were devouring a zebra death. Kamunu sat and quietly watched in the setting sun as the boys fell and fell, and Grandma Selenkay was enjoying their dinner. Kamunu could also recognize a young man traveling in the group. It was Nosieki’s son who survived the poisoning. The young boy had found his way back to pride. Read more at The Daily Beast. Get our top stories in your inbox every day. 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In the days since coronavirus vaccines began in the United States, many Americans have been searching for information on when, where, and how they and their loved ones can get a sting. The question of who comes first and why is inevitable. But a small, vocal minority has been desperate to find something grimmer and non-existent: evidence that these vaccines for COVID-19 killed people. « Comprehensive List of COVID Vaccine-Related Deaths? » A Reddit user recently posted on a forum focusing on conspiracy theory. « Has anyone put one together yet? » « Pick a date and time that the first death of someone who had the vaccine was recorded, » wrote another user. « As a bonus, which news site will it be announcing? » The anti-Vaxxer rhetoric has led some Americans for many months to mistakenly believe that COVID-19 vaccines will kill people, that the powers that be, and that they must hunt and share evidence of this alleged outrage. Experts on anti-Vaxxer rhetoric and conspiracy theories fear that this savage hunt for death and disaster could lead sensible but concerned people into conspiratorial rabbit holes and ultimately hamper efforts to contain this nightmare pandemic. The current search for deaths has gotten so out of hand that even some vaccine skeptics of the old guard are distancing themselves from the frenzy. Neo-Nazi ‘Terrorgram’ Conspiracy to Seduce Anti-Vaxxers « I have heard reports of anaphylaxis in England with two deaths [resulting], » said a Reddit user who refused to share hers Providing actual names, The Daily Beast explained why they had issued a call to update alleged vaccine deaths. The user who posted debunked discussion points about how vaccines that require cold storage contain antifreeze said he saw other people on social media saying the few cases of anaphylaxis related to COVID-19 vaccine doses treated quickly and effectively. resulting in zero deaths. This is true. But « these are the rumors I’m trying to avoid » by issuing a call for more death stories, the Phantom Death Hunters added. Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, the only ones currently approved in the U.S. for emergency use, can have some side effects, such as pain at the site of the sting and mild tiredness and fever symptoms that can last a day or two. They have also, as Peter Hotez, a vaccinologist at Baylor College of Medicine, told The Daily Beast, “produced an unexpectedly high number of allergic reactions. The CDC recently reported that as of December. In 18, six people had experienced anaphylactic episodes shortly after receiving a dose, an allergic reaction that can be fatal if left untreated. However, health authorities are aware of this low risk and are ready to address it. No official body – or anyone removed from the world of radical disinformation against Vaxxer – has yet recorded a single case of death from, or related to, a COVID-19 vaccine. « The vaccines appear to have a good overall safety profile, » said Hotez. Of course, it was virtually inevitable that anti-Vaxxers, which have a long track record of falsely associating vaccines with death, would go on the hunt for deaths from COVID-19 vaccines. Some seem to have started looking for and promoting big stories once the vaccination trials started. As early as April, posts appeared on social media claiming that one of the first participants in vaccination trials by AstraZeneca and Oxford University had died after a dose. She did not. It was also not even clear whether she, as a random participant in the study, had received a dose of the vaccine or the placebo. Clearly false claims surfaced in the spring and summer of COVID-19 vaccines, killing people in Guinea, children in Senegal and four children in an unspecified part of the world. Anti-Vaxxers tend to engage in hand presses that rely on cores of established truth. That spring and summer, completely unsubstantiated deaths took a back seat to ponder Moderna and Pfizer’s use of novel mRNA vaccination techniques that were indeed unproven technologies. Some anti-Vaxxers claimed they could somehow mutate people. That shifted last month to the fear of paralysis risks associated with the Pfizer vaccine, which was triggered when some people developed Bell’s palsy after the bite. (Bell’s palsy is usually a temporary condition, and these cases weren’t really firmly linked to vaccinations. However, in the run-up to FDA approval of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, stories of allergic reactions in study subjects and of study deaths sparked a new wave of highly concentrated scare tactics. The Facts: Two people who received Pfizer’s vaccine and six people who received Moderna’s vaccine died during their respective trials. However, they all seemed to die of completely unrelated causes. In the past few days, Anti-Vaxxers have also pounced on the CDC report mentioned above which found that over 110. 000 Pfizer vaccine doses they had examined by December. 18, over 3. 000 people had reactions that they “were unable to perform normal daily activities. Anti-Vaxxers have suggested that this proves the reaction risks associated with the vaccines are incredibly dangerous – and will cause more deaths than COVID-19, which has at least 326. 000 Americans were killed. The CDC did not respond to requests for comment on this report or anti-Vaxxer readings. However, Hotez found that these over 3. 000 reactions probably consisted mainly of mild fever symptoms and other mild and normal vaccination reactions. Jonathan Berman, a physician at the New York Institute of Technology who has studied anti-Vaxxer communities, told The Daily Beast that once anti-Vaxxers begin to engage in a theory, they begin to “preoccupy with what I call anomaly hunting. “Like most other conspiracy theorists, instead of questioning and testing a hypothesis, they just look for facts and narratives that support their idea and begin promoting it. Once people began to raise specific concerns about vaccine deaths, the search for cases was on. In the third week of December, anti-Vaxxers found screenshots of a Facebook chat from someone who claimed their aunt, an Alabama nurse, died within a day of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. These posts did not contain any verifiable details. Anthony Fauci explains: The vaccine will be released by SpringStill on December. On 16, the Alabama Public Health Department called every hospital in the state and confirmed that this story was not true. But this only caused the story to mutate in circles hungry for evidence of their doubts and beliefs. New narratives argued that the nurse in question was only from Alabama and was actually working in South Carolina when she died. Or that the story was actually about a nurse in Arizona and someone made a typo in a message. They insisted that their hunt had produced rich, red meat. Health officials in Arizona and South Carolina told The Daily Beast that they have not registered anyone who has died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccination. « When you’re not busy, try to hold on to a little narrative support that you can, » Hotez explained of the persistence of the rumor. “You blow it up. In the past few days, in search of evidence to support their suspicions, several other rumors along the same lines have surfaced anti-vaxxers. Especially on Dec. . 17, Nurse Tiffany Dover of CHI Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was given a dose of vaccine at work and passed out 17 minutes later – all on camera. She explained that she sometimes faints in response to pain, a vasovagal syncope reaction that isn’t unusual or dangerous. « But it was a dramatic video, » noted Berman, which anti-Vaxxers, starving for evidence of the danger, could point out, claiming they lied and indeed had a dangerous reaction. “People tend to believe their eyes and it is scary to see someone faint. It gives you a gut visceral response, ”said Berman. For anti-vaxxers selling a point, this is a powerful tool. So anti-Vaxxers followed Dover online looking for possible evidence that something bad had actually happened to her. They claimed no one who passes out when they are shot can become a nurse, which is absurd. They claimed the fact that she did not post on social media in the days after it was recorded was suspect – while tracking her accounts for some kind of testimony. Finally, on a record-finding website, they found a death certificate for someone with their name and age who lived in Higdon, Alabama, 28 miles from Chattanooga. Dover is not dead. On Saturday, her employer tweeted that she was home and healthy but wanted to keep her privacy. On Monday, they discovered she was working one shift and showed a video of her and other employees. A Tennessee public health official told The Daily Beast that there is no record of anyone receiving a COVID-19 vaccine in the state who has died for any vaccine-related reason. Hardcore anti-Vaxxer conspiracy theorists looking for evidence to back their beliefs « aren’t about to take this tool away, » Berman noted. Instead of resorting to Dover, the first named death that they have tried with some persistence to claim, they have instead said that they will not believe she is alive until she makes a statement of her own with a time and date proof. They have also said that if she says she is okay, they will not believe her and they suspect she was paid. And many of them firmly believe that the video of her at work is either a deep fake add-in or a body double. « Tiffany Dover’s hair is a different shade and thickness, is folded differently on the head, has her mouth covered and you can’t see her ice-blue eyes, » argued a post on Telegram that criticized the Monday video. “You also pushed the crisis actor to the fore [the group of nurses in the video]. « This is further evidence of the cover-up on Tiffany Dover’s death . . . The vaccinations kill. « . « Anthony Fauci Reveals His Greatest Fear of COVID Vaccines None of the experts The Daily Beast questioned could trace the origins of these claims, and established vaccine-skeptical groups say they don’t know where they are from. Some of these groups appear to be actively planning social media campaigns to exaggerate the side effects of vaccines and keep people away from them, according to a recent report. But even they haven’t registered or advertised obituaries for vaccines, despite being open to the idea that those shocks could prove fatal. Rita Shreffler from Robert F. . Kennedy Jr. . For one, Helmed Children’s Health Defense told The Daily Beast that they « believe the rumor of Tiffany’s death is disinformation. We don’t know where it came from. We suppress it whenever we see it. Gorski believes the search for and spread of death stories from COVID-19 vaccines has only just begun and will heat up as the vaccine reaches the broader population. This is deeply worrying because even people who normally rely on vaccines are currently frightened, thanks to the rapid and heavily politicized development of Moderna and Pfizer products. This fear and instability, Berman argued, leaves millions of Americans vulnerable to conspiracy theories that they might otherwise ignore. Because of this, Berman says, we need to do more to acknowledge this growing type of misinformation and to provide it with compelling messages that reflect and reinforce real reality and “reach people before they go into conspiratorial rabbit holes. « It’s much more difficult to convince them of the vaccine’s safety once they take the plunge. Read more at The Daily Beast. Do you have a tip? Submit it to The Daily Beast here. Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now! Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside delves deeper into the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

One thing even the most feverish critics of President Donald Trump agree on is that he has left a deep mark on the federal courts that will outlast his tenure for decades to come. Then, as president, he relied on outside conservative legal organizations and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell to use an assembly line-like precision to install more than 230 judges on the Bundesbank, including the three newest justices on the Supreme Court. Trump never tired of boasting about it.

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