'Unseen' News and Views
By Bunny Mcdiarmid and Jennifer Morgan*
Greenpeace* – What do you do when you’re confronted with the darkness of powerful, but single-minded and ignorant institutions which continue to destroy our planet with impunity?
You shine a light so strong it cuts through the grey clamour of that greedy power and reveals a single word:
.
28 December 2017 (Wall Street International) — “They thought we’d just roll over and have our tummies tickled and they’ve suddenly discovered that the British bulldog doesn’t behave like that.”[1]
A Question of Control | Photo reposted here from Wall Street International.
27 December 2017 – By 2030, there could be 1.8 billion tourists – just over one in five persons in the world – travelling around the globe, the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has said.
This photograph, “East West Jubilation” by Rabin Chakrabarti, was a runner-up in UNWTO’s 2011 World Tourism Day photo contest| Source: UN News Centre
Speaking with UN News, Taleb Rifai, the Secretary-General of UNWTO, highlighted the role of travel and tourism in impacting global developments and making the world a better place.
26 December 2017 – Concluding the main part of its 72nd session, the United Nations General Assembly on Sunday took a number of key actions, including approving a nearly $5.4 billion programme budget for the Organization for the biennium 2018-2019.
United Nations Headquarters in New York City. UN Photo/Mark Garten
A Review of a New Book by P. Carter, E. Woodworth and J. Hansen
27/12/2017
“We’re simply talking about the very life support system of this planet.”(Professor Joachim Schellnhuber, Director of the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impacts).
“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.” Winston Churchill[1]
Team Black Power | Photo reposted here from Wall Street International.
Rome, Dec (Other News) – On 20 December, Europe’s 28 Ministers of Environment met in Brussels, to discuss the plan for reducing emissions prepared by the Commission, to comply with the Paris Agreement on climate change. Well, it is now clear that we have lost the battle in keeping the planet as we have known it. Now, of course, this can be considered a personal opinion of mine, devoid of objectivity.
Roberto Savio
Therefore, I will bring a lot of data, history and facts, to make it concrete. Data and facts have good value: they focus any debate, while ideas do not.
So those who do not like facts, please stop reading here. You will escape a boring article, as probably all of mine are, because I am not looking to entertain, but to create awareness. If you stop reading, you will also lose a chance to know our sad destiny.
With close to three-fourths of all people in Yemen in need of humanitarian assistance, the United Nations top relief official has underscored the need to keep all ports open to both aid and commercial vessels so that life-saving assistance reaches those in desperate need.
A settlement of internally displaced persons in Amran governorate, Yemen. (file) Photo: Giles Clarke for UNOCHA
“I remain deeply concerned about the ongoing crisis in Yemen, where more than 22 million people need humanitarian assistance – 8.4 million of whom are already on the edge of starvation,” on 24 December 2017 said Mark Lowcock, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, in a statement.
The total number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen has crossed one million, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) on 22 December 2017 reported, urging greater efforts to tackle the outbreak and deal with the deteriorating health situation in the war-torn nation.
At the Al Sab’een Hospital in Sana’a, Yemen, a doctor checks on a girl suffering from cholera. Photo: UNICEF/UN066510/Fuad
The Paraguaná oil refinery complex in northwestern Venezuela, one of the world’s largest, can process a million barrels a day, and is working at just a third of its installed capacity. Credit: Pdvsa
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