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Nature-based solutions offer the best way to achieve human well-being, address climate change and protect the planet. Yet nature is in crisis, as we are losing species at a rate 1,000 times greater than at any other time in recorded human history.
In the 1920s, the influential American intellectual Walter Lippan argued that the average person was incapable of seeing or understanding the world clearly and needed to be guided by experts behind the social curtain. 
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In a number of books he laid out the theoretical foundations for the practical work of Edward Bernays, who developed “public relations” (aka propaganda) to carry out this task for the ruling elites.
Political earthquake and great boost for the progressive space of the continent.
21 December 2019 (Wall Street International)* — After 19 months in prison, former Brazilian president Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva was released in the city of Curitiba, where he was serving a sentence of 8 years and 10 months for passive corruption, without the judicial process being concluded.
21 December 2019 (UN News)* — Although they spent 20 years living in a refugee camp in Uganda, Jean-Pierre Ntegyeye and Isaiah Bahati never gave up hope of leaving for a better life. Today, with help from the UN migration agency, IOM, their dream has come true, but they haven’t forgotten the plight of those left behind. Their story is told in a new movie, One Way Ticket, screened as part of the Global Migration Film Festival (GMFF).
MOSCOW, 17 December 2019 (FAO)* – Hunger in Europe and Central Asia is low, but a high number of people are affected by moderate food insecurity, such as limited food and access to nutritious food, as well as overweight and obesity, revealed a new FAO report.
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21 December 2019 (Wall Street International)* — Corporate bullying is a repeated, health-harming mistreatment of one or more persons by one or more perpetrators including verbal abuse, offensive behaviour, with nonverbal conducts which are threatening, humiliating or intimidating. We all know what this is about, mangers that abuse power, yell, harass and breed resentment, sabotage and costly turnovers without even caring.
Workplace bullying | Image fromWall Street International.16 December 2019 (UN Environment)* — The word “Mottainai” in Japanese literally translates to “it is a shame to waste.” It stems from Buddhist philosophy on living minimally and appreciating nature’s gifts. The practice has been in place for generations.
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Japan is often heralded as having one of the most sophisticated recycling systems in the world, with detailed separation of everything from radios to cat litter.
Devastating drought in the southern African nation of Lesotho has left more than half a million people facing severe food shortages and tens of thousands “one step away from famine”, UN humanitarians said on Friday [20 December 2019], in an appeal for funds. (*).
20 December 2019 (UN News)* — Following a “thorough, independent and objective assessment”, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced on Friday [20 December 2019] that she plans to open a formal investigation into alleged war crimes in Palestine, but asked the Court for a further ruling over territorial jurisdiction.
ICC | International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda.
Maintaining that “war crimes have been or are being committed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip”, she believes that “potential cases arising from the situation would be admissible” and that there were “no substantial reasons to believe that an investigation would not serve justice”.
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