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12/03/2018

A Stream of Consciousness about Stream of Time

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By Johan Galtung*

12 March 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service 

  1. Time as Change – “Time”is an abstraction imposed upon us by physicists, bureaucrats and others to create order. As when loud church bells, or minaret chanting, created shared community time.
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Johan Galtung

“Change” is concrete, empirical, inter-subjectively communicable.

Some changes, like positions of fingers on clocks or ringing of bells, particularly Big Ben, and subatomic processes, are chosen as representing “time”, carrying “time”, even as being “time”.

“No change” means no time.  But clocks continue, marking “time”.

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12/03/2018

Courageous Girls Change Attitudes about FGM in Ethiopia

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Durame, ETHIOPIA  (UNFPA)* – Genet Girma, 31, was a trailblazer in her community. Fifteen years ago, she ran away from home when she learned that her mother planned to have her undergo female genital mutilation (FGM).

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Uncut_girls_club_members_._2 Uncut girls club members come together to change attitudes about FGM in the community. © UNFPA Ethiopia/Meron Negash

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11/03/2018

‘Reforming Migrant Domestic Work in Arab Region Vital to Welfare of Both Workers and Employers’

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BEIRUT, 8 March 2018 (ILO)* — A new ILO report covering the Arab States region demonstrates the importance of reform in the domestic work sector for both workers and employers.

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The ILO white paper Domestic workers and employers in the Arab States: Promising practices and innovative models for a productive working relationship  outlines several policy recommendations for consideration by the governments in the region.

The recommendations touch on both reforming the migrant domestic work sector, and developing the care economy , of which migrant labour and domestic work form an essential part.

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11/03/2018

Marine Plastic: A New and Growing Threat to Coral Reefs

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By UN Enviromment*

5 March 2018 – New evidence is emerging that shows that the human population’s obsession with all things plastic is poisoning one of the world’s natural wonders: coral reefs.

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Pixabay | Source: UNEP

Much more than simply an object of beauty, coral reefs are living, breathing ecosystems, teeming with life.

Although they occupy less than 0.1 per cent of the world’s ocean surface, they provide an essential home for 25 per cent of all marine life; they are also vital for protecting coastal communities, acting as natural barriers from cyclones and rising seas; and 275 million people depend directly on them for their food and livelihoods.

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11/03/2018

‘No Winners’: China-US Trade War Will Be ‘Disastrous’ for Global Economy – Beijing

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“There are no winners in a trade war,” minister Zhong Shan said on Sunday, warning that a trade war between the two economic superpowers will leave the global economy in ruins.

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11/03/2018

The Great Conspiracy

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By Uri Avnery*

10 March 2018

IN THE Autumn of 1948, after some eight months of continuous fighting, I was promoted to the lofty rank of corporal. After taking part in a crash course for squad leaders, I was allowed to choose my new soldiers – new immigrants from Poland or Morocco.

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Uri Avnery

(Everybody wanted Bulgarians, but the Bulgarians were already taken. They were known to be excellent fighters, disciplined and stoical.)

I chose the Moroccans. I also got two Tunisians and five Turks, altogether 15 men.

All of them had just arrived by ship and not one spoke Hebrew. So how does one explain to them that a hand grenade has a high course of flight and a sharp angle of descent?

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10/03/2018

Telephones and T-Shirts

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By Ellyn Kaschak*

11 March 2018 (Wall Street International)* — Many before me have noted the problems with a rapidly spreading contemporary global disorder that is caused entirely by that most modern technology, the cell phone. Users have been admonished not to drive or to walk in the streets while texting, a practice that has resulted in injuries and even death.
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10/03/2018

‘Toxic, Damaging and Shameful’: Fury as UK and Saudi Arabia Sign Huge Arms Deal

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OCHA/Ahmed ben Lassoued Two unrelated children, one eight and the other ten, share a bed at a cholera treatment centre in Sana’a, Yemen, due to lack of resources.

British firm BAE Systems will sell 48 Typhoon fighter jets to the Saudis after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited Prime Minister Theresa May for talks.

A preliminary deal has been signed, according to reports, for the Kingdom to buy from the UK, as part of a multi-billion-pound deal.

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10/03/2018

Nuclear Weapons: Playing with Fire

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By Paul Rogers*

9 March 2018 (openDemocracy)* — An earlier column in this series looked at the unknown or neglected history of accidents involving nuclear weapons. Much of the secrecy that shrouds nuclear issues, above all their actual targeting, is the result of deliberate supprerssion by governments with the collusion of the media.

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HMS Illustrious in Portsmouth Harbour Aircraft Carrier, April 2009. Wikicommons/Peter Trimming. Some rights reserved.

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10/03/2018

‘Seven Years of Brutal Conflict in Syria Has Left ‘Colossal Human Tragedy’ in Its Wake’

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After seven years of brutal conflict in Syria, there are no clear winners, “but the losers are plain to see,” the United Nations refugee agency chief on 9 March 2018 said, describing the “colossal human tragedy” that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives, driven 6.1 million people from their homes and forced 5.6 million others to seek safety in neighbouring countries.

UNHCR/Susan Schulman | Displaced by fighting, famalies try to make a life among badly damaged buildings in Syria’s war-torn Aleppo.
“This seven-year war has left a colossal human tragedy in its wake. For the sake of the living, it is high time to end this devastating conflict,” the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi underscored.

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