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11 Jun 2018 | The Growing Club – TRANSCEND Media Service
Seed saving is one of the important skills that has been lost of the last century, and Dr. Shiva’s work to preserve heirloom seed varieties, encourage organic farming, and create food sovereignty is some of the most important work of our time. We hope you enjoy this video and will start saving seeds at home yourself.
11 June, 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service
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What Are the Connections?
What are the connections between right-wing politics and climate change?
Noam Chomsky recently stated that he considered the US Republican Party to be the most dangerous organization in the history of the world. What did he mean by that?
In the 2016 US presidential election, which disastrously brought Donald Trump to power, every single Republican candidate with a chance for party nomination was a climate change denier.
Donald Trump has withdrawn the United States from the Paris Agreement.
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, 11 June 2018 (IOM)* – Heavy monsoon rains that began on Saturday (9/6) have caused severe structural damage to Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar Rohingya refugee camps. Over 31,000 of the camps’ one million refugees, who fled Myanmar, are still living in areas considered to be at high risk of deadly flooding and landslides.
Flash flooding has damaged key infrastructure including this bridge in Balukhali camp. Photo: IOM 2018
Photo from Greenpeace International.
**Photo: Salvini with League’s delegation at the Quirinal Palacein April 2018. | Presidenza della Repubblica | Wikimedia
Yet that’s the thing. None of us knows whether we have a minute or years left. She could not know about or prevent a sudden aneurism and from one moment to the next, she was gone, her brain flooded and dissolving. There was too much damage to even begin repair.
She was gone. Where to depends on religious and spiritual beliefs. Her material remains are already in the ground. Is there any more to her and, if so, where is that?
**Image: Hell – detail from a fresco in the medieval church of St Nicholas in Raduil, Bulgaria |Edal Anton Lefterov | Creative CommonsAttribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unportedlicense.
It’s open season on Justin Trudeau in the Trump administration, with the White House trade council chief launching an attack on the Canadian PM, saying there is a “special place in hell” for anyone who double-crosses his boss.
(Wall Street International)* — The world’s population now stands at approximately 7 billion people spread among 7 continents. The United Nations is comprised of 194 States. There are more ethnicities than the world’s countries. It is estimated that there are more than 6,500 languages worldwide.
The Earth’s population is divided among major world religions and civilizations that have contributed to the world’s evolution since time immemorial.
The Earth is a cultural mosaic and an arena of dynamic interchange between cultures and civilizations.
Despite the fact that the world has a long history of multi-culturalism and our individual and collective experiences have been enriched accordingly, current trends invoke concern for the future.
After four consecutive poor rainy seasons that brought Somalia to the brink of famine, the country is now seeing near-record rainfall, and with it, flooding that has already displaced hundreds of thousands of people, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 8 June 2018 said.
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