Archive for March 10th, 2021

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10/03/2021

Will 2021 Be Public Banking’s Watershed Moment?

Human Wrongs Watch

By Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service*

Just over two months into the new year, 2021 has already seen a flurry of public banking activity. Sixteen new bills to form publicly-owned banks or facilitate their formation were introduced in eight U.S. states just in January and February.

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Ellen Brown

Two bills for a state-owned bank were introduced in New Mexico, two in Massachusetts, two in New York, one each in Oregon and Hawaii, and Washington State’s Public Bank Bill was re-introduced as a “Substitution.”

Bills for city-owned banks were introduced in Philadelphia and San Francisco, and bills facilitating the formation of public banks or for a feasibility study were introduced in New York, Oregon (three bills), and Hawaii.

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10/03/2021

Polar Vortex Responsible for Texas Deep Freeze, Warm Arctic Temperatures

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(UN News)* — A “polar vortex” was responsible for the freezing conditions in the US state of Texas last month, UN weather experts said on Tuesday 9 March 2021, before warning of a worrying increase in global carbon dioxide levels.

Unsplash/Thomas Park | The US state of Texas endured unseasonably freezing temperatures in February 2021.
 
Spokesperson Clare Nullis from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) told journalists during a regular briefing in Geneva that the United States shivered through its coldest February since 1989, thanks to the natural phenomenon:

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10/03/2021

Food Systems Account for More than One Third of Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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New data tool offers detailed insights covering role of land use, agriculture, refrigeration, packaging and more, providing critical guidance for holistic mitigation efforts

Photo: ©FAO/Carly Learson

Processing peppers in Turkey.

ROME, 9 March 2021 (FAO)* — The world’s food systems are responsible for more than one-third of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, according to a pioneering new study published in Nature Food.

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10/03/2021

Devastatingly Pervasive: 1 in 3 Women Globally Experience Violence

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Younger women among those most at risk

9 March 2021 (WHO)* — Violence against women remains devastatingly pervasive and starts alarmingly young, shows new data from WHO and partners. Across their lifetime, 1 in 3 women, around 736 million, are subjected to physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner or sexual violence from a non-partner – a number that has remained largely unchanged over the past decade.

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