25/07/2021
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, Jul 23 2021 (IPS)* – Twenty-seven years after South Africa’s first democratic elections, the country finds itself reflecting on the catalysts of a week of looting and destruction of property resulting in more than 200 deaths and US$ 1.3 billion in damage.
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Alex residents queued for hours to buy basic foodstuff after shops were looted. The unrest has caused a humanitarian crisis, as has not been seen since the dawn of democracy in South Africa. Credit: Dan Ingham
President Cyril Ramaphosa described the week-long riots earlier this month as a failed insurrection.
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24/07/2021
The coronavirus pandemic is not yet over — despite our most optimistic thinking — and this year’s Defense News Top 100 list offers hints of how the broader international defense market has coped.
The answer appears to be that national security firms have fared well. Very well.
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Consider that six of the 10 largest U.S. defense companies had revenues jump by 6 percent or more — a total of about $11 billion — from fiscal 2019. And all seven Chinese firms on the list grew during the last year as well.
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24/07/2021
The rise of space junk and the fall of reason
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Astronauts in the International Space Station regularly have to avoid catastrophic collisions with space debris | Image from Wall Street International.
23 July 2021 (Wall Street International)* — Above our heads, man-made satellites wage war against the stars.
On Earth, a handful of CEOs plan to put hundreds of thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit—in addition to the 5,0001 satellites already launched.
Altogether, these satellites will outnumber the stars visible to the naked eye tenfold.
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24/07/2021
New Global Dashboard on COVID-19 Vaccine Equity finds low-income countries would add $38 billion to their GDP forecast for 2021 if they had the same vaccination rate as high-income countries. Global economic recovery at risk if vaccines are not equitably manufactured, scaled up and distributed.
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23/07/2021
22 July 2021 (UNEP)* — For the last half-century, money and meat have been a package deal: Across the globe, as wealth increases, so does consumption of animal-based foods. And by 2050, the demand for animal-based foods could increase by as much as 70 per cent.
Unsplash/Scott Warman / 21 Jul 2021
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23/07/2021
Supposedly increased social protections may just be new words for old policies.
22 July 2021 (Wall Street International)* —
John Williamson passed away on 21 April 2021. He was the economist who neatly outlined and named the ‘Washington Consensus’, the policies the World Bank, the IMF, the US Federal Reserve Board and the US Treasury agreed to impose on debt-ridden countries of Latin America.
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23/07/2021
23 July 2021 (UNEP)* — Don’t be fooled by their modest appearance: mangroves are important players in some of the greatest challenges facing the world today. They provide a defense between land and sea, absorb carbon, contribute to economic and food security, and are home to some of the most rare and colourful species.
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22/07/2021
The Keeling Curve continues to rise steadily
Charles David Keeling started the monitoring of the carbon dioxide content of the earth’s atmosphere | Image from Wall Street International.
20 July 2021 (Wall Street International)* — Measurements of the carbon dioxide content of the earth’s atmosphere as a function of time have been made ever since 1958 at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.
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