01/12/2020
Briefing on the state of the empire, ending on a positive note.
Mazin Qumsiyeh
First, the bad news: unemployment in Gaza now at 82%, economy of Palestinians de-developed by Israeli apartheid, Netanyahu visiting the Kleptocracy known as “Saudi Arabia”, weapon sales to human rights abusers accelerating, millions infected daily by the COVID19, rich got richer, poor got poorer, rich people get healthcare and the rest suffers and much more.
Things will get worse under Biden as is clear from the appointment of elite war mongering Zionists for key positions like his Chief of Staff, his Secretary of State or his Secretary of the Treasury (unfortunately few people will look into their background).
This bodes ill for the USA and the world. Not one single progressive was appointed to any key position in the Biden “team”. The change is merely to go back to plain vanilla US empire in its classic (less Trumpian) form.
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01/12/2020
Conservation Agriculture advocates leaving crop residues on fields, creating an organic cover that gives nutrients back to the soil. Lal believes that “people are a mirror image of the soil they live upon.” For us to be healthy, soils need to be healthy. ©Ohio State University/K. Chamberlain
1 December 2020 (FAO)* — Growing up on a small farm in India, Dr. Rattan Lal experienced much of the hardship faced by today’s smallholder farmers. His family didn’t have running water or electricity, but he explains, “We never missed it because that was the way everybody lived.”
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01/12/2020
People in the United States continue to pretend that the despair and futility we’ve caused isn’t our fault.
Late last week, I learned from young Afghan Peace Volunteer friends in Kabul that an insurgent group firing rockets into the city center hit the home of one volunteer’s relatives. Everyone inside was killed. Today, word arrived of two bomb blasts in the marketplace city of Bamiyan, in central Afghanistan, killing at least fourteen people and wounding forty-five.
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01/12/2020
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Nov 30 2020 (IPS)* – A world free from hunger is possible but only if we change how we grow and eat food. And resetting the food system — including all aspects of production, processing, marketing, distribution and the consumption and nutrition of food — is key to securing a sustainable food future post COVID-19.
Transforming food systems means farmers producing adequate and nutritious food for consumers. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS
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30/11/2020
Global malaria gains threatened by access gaps, COVID-19 and funding shortfalls
UNICEF/Colfs |A child sleeps under an insecticide treated mosquito net for protection against malaria
30 November 2020 (WHO)* — The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on countries and global health partners to step up the fight against malaria, a preventable and treatable disease that continues to claim hundreds of thousands of lives each year.
A better targeting of interventions, new tools and increased funding are needed to change the global trajectory of the disease and reach internationally-agreed targets.
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30/11/2020
PROMOTE HEALTH, KEEP THE WORLD SAFE, SERVE THE VULNERABLE | WHO
30 November 2020 (WHO)* — Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites. The parasites are spread to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes, called “malaria vectors.” There are 5 parasite species that cause malaria in humans, and 2 of these species – P. falciparum and P. vivax – pose the greatest threat.
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30/11/2020
Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare, 30 November
By António Guterres, United Nations Secretary General
More than one hundred years after the first large-scale use of chemical weapons in battle, they continue to inflict terror, suffering and death.
Recent years have seen the erosion of the taboo against chemical weapons, threatening the disarmament and non-proliferation regimes.
UNSCOM inspectors take mustard agent samples from 155-mm mustard agent artillery projectiles, which have been wrapped in plastic to minimize contamination, Iraq, 1991. PHOTO:UN Photo/Shankar Kunhambu
The use of chemical weapons anywhere, by anyone, under any circumstances, is intolerable and a serious violation of international law.
Impunity for their use is unacceptable.
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30/11/2020
30 November 2020 (UN News)* — A host of countries have recently announced major commitments to significantly cut their carbon emissions, promising to reach “net zero” in the coming years. The term is becoming a global rallying cry, frequently cited as a necessary step to successfully beat back climate change, and the devastation it is causing.
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Maxime Pontoire | A person carrying a red sun brolly walks through a solar panel farm in France.
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What is net zero and why is it important?
Put simply, net zero means we are not adding new emissions to the atmosphere. Emissions will continue, but will be balanced by absorbing an equivalent amount from the atmosphere.
Practically every country has joined the Paris Agreement on climate change, which calls for keeping the global temperature to 1.5°C above pre-industrial era levels. If we continue to pump out the emissions that cause climate change, however, temperatures will continue to rise well beyond 1.5, to levels that threaten the lives and livelihoods of people everywhere.
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30/11/2020
(UN News)* — Hunger is on the rise in southern Madagascar due to consecutive years of drought, affecting half the region’s population, or 1.5 million people, and forcing most families to eat insects, the World Food Programme (WFP) reported on Friday [27 November 2020].
WFP/Tsiory Andriantsoarana | The combined effects of the drought, COVID-19 and the insecurity upsurge have undermined the already fragile food security and nutrition situation of the population of southern Madagascar.
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The figure is three times the number projected mid-year, with women and children comprising most of those experiencing “crisis” or “emergency” hunger conditions.
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29/11/2020
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The environment is key component to antimicrobial resistance and according to the World Health Organization, we may be entering a post-antibiotic era when simple and previously treatable, bacterial infections will no longer be possible.
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