(UN News)* — An independent UN human rights expert is calling for greater scrutiny of emerging digital technologies which she said are being used to uphold racial inequality, discrimination and intolerance.
ITU/D. Procofieff | Humanitarians and global leaders in Artificial Intelligence (AI) attended the AI for Good Global Summit held in Geneva in May 2018 (file photo).
Special Rapporteur on racism, Tendayi Achiume, presented her concerns in a report delivered on Wednesday [15 July 2020] to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
13 July 2020 (Wall Street International)* — Over the last couple of months, India’s prime minister Narendra Modi has repeatedly emphasized the need for the country to move towards atmanirbharta, or self-reliance.
13 July 2020 (Human Rights Watch)* — German chemical company Bayer will pay up to $10.9 billion to settle tens of thousands of cancer claims linked to one of its herbicides, Roundup, in one of the largest-ever settlements in United States civil ligation. The weed-killer Roundup is glyphosate-based and, despite international concerns over the health risks of glyphosate, still used widely in the US.
Food is not only a matter of eating. Long before it reaches grocery store shelves, the process of production unleashes a multiplicity of factors affecting the length and quality of life on earth.
Forests are cleared to create agricultural space, the atmosphere becomes warmer, diversity is systematically decreased, buffers that protect humans from animal-borne viruses–like COVID-19–are removed, soil and water is contaminated, and plants and animals are infused with substances with precarious effect.
With a global population projected to reach 10 billion by 2050, it is not unreasonable to ask: how are we going to feed all these people?
More to the point: how are we going to feed all these people, without causing more damage?
KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Jul 14 2020 (IPS)* – The recent explosion of private finance has nursed the hope, dream or illusion that it can be mobilized for the public good, e.g., to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, associated with Agenda 2030. However, such hopes ignore how changes in financial investing have deeply transformed corporations, national economies and prospects for the world economy and social progress.
Private finance boom
Private capital has exploded with financial deregulation from the late 20th century.
Global finance increased 53% from 2000 to 2010, reaching some US$600 trillion (ten times annual world output), and was projected to reach US$900 trillion by the end of this year.
Any serious study of the relevant scholarly literature reveals at least four possible paths to imminent human extinction, that is, human extinction within five years: nuclear war, the climate catastrophe, the deployment of 5G, and biodiversity collapse.
Robert Burrowes
Moreover, as I have documented previously, under cover of the non-existent ‘virus’ labeled COVID-19, the global elite is conducting a coup against humanity.
A senior World Health Organization (WHO) official on 13 July 2020 called for the question of school re-openings to be included as part of comprehensive, data-driven COVID-19 public health strategies, and not a politically-driven decision-making process. *
Responding to questions from reporters at the regular WHO press briefing in Geneva, Dr. Michael Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, said “we can’t play Whack-a-mole. We need to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time”.
(UN News)* — In much of the world, “hunger remains deeply entrenched and is rising”, the UN chief said on 13 July 2020, launching this year’s major UN food security update, highlighting that over the past five years, tens of millions of people have joined the ranks of the chronically undernourished.
FAO/Nozim Kalandarov | Women farmers harvest grains in Gisar, Tajikstan.
10 July 2020 (Wall Street International)* — Attempting to prevent police racism and violence is a worthy and overdue reform. However, to adequately address racism, we need to take a step back and understand the ‘me’ generations. Then perhaps we may begin to move away from the me-culture towards a we-culture.
A Green-Brown-Black New Deal could be the first step to help America heal | Image from Wall Street International.
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We might even consider completing the French revolution, giving equality and fraternity the same priority as individual freedom (Prilleltensky 2020). We may find our lost morality and build community (Brooks 2020). Let us try to understand how the me generations evolved over the last 60 years.
A new movement of time rebels is challenging the myopia of conventional politics.
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Flickr/Dominic Alves. CC BY 2.0.
12 July 2020 (openDemocracy)* — Democracy has a blind spot so enormous that almost nobody notices it – myself included. In the decade I spent as a political scientist researching democratic governance, it simply never occurred to me that we systematically disenfranchise future generations in the same way that women and slaves have been disenfranchised in the past. Yet that is the reality.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 