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Unless the world faces its “social, economic and environmental challenges head-on”, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday [9 April 2019], the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), will not be met.*
An imminent UN-led Libyan conference seeking to set up elections for the war-ravaged, oil-rich country has been postponed because of ongoing clashes near the capital, the top United Nations official in the country said on Tuesday [9 April 2019].
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In a heartfelt briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday [9 April 2019], Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, has said that, during his three and a half decades as an international civil servant, he has “never seen such toxicity, such poisonous language in politics, media and social media,” directed towards refugees, migrants and foreigners.
Extremely Dangerous Times!
The Godfathers of Russiagate:
James Clapper
Former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper are key figures, along with mainstream media parrots, in fueling the new demonization of Russia on behalf of the U.S. Military Industrial Complex.
UNICEF’s first-ever global report dedicated to early childhood education highlights a lack of investment in pre-primary by the majority of governments worldwide.
Maybe my everyday life would have been a lot easier if I had been born male – but I wasn’t.
Mette Schak Dahlmann,Danish Confederation of Trade Unions
My name is Mette, I’m a woman, a trained bricklayer, and I’m gay.
Growing up playing soccer, wearing clothes that weren’t ‘girly’, educated in the ‘wrong’ profession, walking and talking the ‘wrong’ way, and constantly being told what I can and what I can’t do.
The standards of what is normal and what is acceptable always restricted me. I felt different and left out!
I always thought about becoming a bricklayer, but I didn’t dare to tell anyone, because how could I explain my choice and direction in life? They’d say; “why on earth do you want to work in a men’s world and job? It’s not something for you, you are a girl”.
Peace Journalism: Our task is to promote inclusion in negotiations held in good faith.
Peace journalism has two primary tasks: to make creative proposals for the settlement of conflicts and to work for broad inclusion of parties for negotiations held in good faith.
Our first task is creativity because those involved in armed conflicts usually focus on narrow possibilities and options.
In practice “all options are not on the table”. There is usually in the minds of the chief protagonists a rather narrow set of options, of which “kill them” is high on the list.
As George Russell writing under the pen name of A.E. wrote in The Peacemakers:
More than 3,400 people have fled fighting near the Libyan capital Tripoli in recent days, the UN warned on Monday [8 April 2019], in a call to warring parties to halt military activities so that emergency services can rescue trapped civilians.
The UN chief António Guterres, in a short statement issued to reporters at UN Headquarters in New York, by his Spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, said that he was continuing to follow the situation in Libya “with grave concern”, after urging an end to troop movements last week during a visit to the country.
“If you invest your tuppence wisely in the bank, safe and sound,
Soon that tuppence safely invested in the bank will compound,“And you’ll achieve that sense of conquest as your affluence expands
In the hands of the directors who invest as propriety demands.”— Mary Poppins, 1964
Ellen Brown
When Mary Poppins was made into a movie in 1964, Mr. Banks’ advice to his son was sound. Banks were then paying more than 5% interest on deposits, enough to double young Michael’s investment every 14 years.
Now, however, the average savings account pays only 0.10% annually – that’s 1/10th of 1% – and many of the country’s biggest banks pay less than that. If you were to put $5,000 in a regular Bank of America savings account (paying 0.01%) today, in a year you would have collected only 50 cents in interest.
3 April 2019 (UN Environment)* — George Monbiot, a correspondent for Britain’s The Guardian newspaper and known for his environmental and political activism, has made a surprising call for people in the United Kingdom to cut the use of cars by 90 per cent over the next decade.
Photo by Wikimedia Commons
Many will balk at this idea but it is perhaps sounding somewhat less bizarre after the release by the United Nations of a new report which paints a scary picture of the rate at which we are gobbling up the Earth’s resources.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 