22/12/2019
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.
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22/12/2019
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.
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22/12/2019
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).
IOM/Gregoire Gosset | Still of Isaiah Bahati (left) and Jean-Pierre Ntegyeye, from One Way Ticket, a documentary about two Congolese refugees resettling in the US.
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22/12/2019
More important than the ranking of any one individual year is the long-term warming trend. Average temperatures for the five-year (2015-2019) and ten-year (2010-2019) periods are almost certain to be the highest on record.
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21/12/2019
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.
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21/12/2019
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.
Image from UN Environment.
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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.
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21/12/2019
Twin presence of obesity and undernutrition reflects shifts in food systems
© UNICEF/Jacqueline Labrador | Rice porridge is served to children at an EU supported health outreach centre in Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR.
GENEVA, 16 December 2019 (WHO)* — A new approach is needed to help reduce undernutrition and obesity at the same time, as the issues become increasingly connected due to rapid changes in countries’ food systems.
This is especially important in low- and middle-income countries, according to a new four-paper report published in The Lancet.
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20/12/2019
FAO says demand driven by economic growth in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific
A worker inspects a load of timber at Chetumal in Quintana Roo in Mexico.ROME, 19 December 2019 (FAO)* – The global production and trade of major wood products such as industrial roundwood, sawnwood and wood-based panels have surged to their highest level since the Food and Agriculture Organization began recording forest statistics in 1947.
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20/12/2019
19 December 2019 (UN News)* — The Vatican must take action to ensure justice for people who were sexually abused by priests during childhood, a UN independent human rights expert said on Thursday [19 December 2019].
FAO/Giuseppe Carotenuto | Address by His Holiness Pope Francis. World Food Day Ceremony, FAO Headquarters (file photo).
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Maud de Boer-Buquicchio issued the charge in a statement welcoming the decision by Pope Francis to abolish a Roman Catholic Church policy which maintains secrecy in child abuse cases.
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20/12/2019
Alternative Livelihoods
18 December 2019 (UN Environment)* — “This year, we’ve seen the worst drought ever,” says Julliette Machona. “Usually the rivers run dry here in this southern part of Zambia by July, but this year, they were empty already in May. The little water we have left is just enough for us, the people and the cattle. We have no water left to raise any crops.”
Photo by UN-REDD Programme
Machona is 35 years old, with four kids. When she finished secondary school in Zambia, her parents couldn’t afford to send her to university at a cost of about US$2,000 per year, particularly given minimum wage is about a US$100 a month.
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