Archive for ‘War Lords’

11/06/2020

Beyond the US: Police Brutality, Structural Racism Are a Problem in Europe Too

11/06/2020

Human Rights Experts Condemn Use of Force against Journalists Covering US Protests

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Journalists covering ongoing protests denouncing systemic racism and police brutality in the United States must be able to do their job in peace, two experts on the right to freedom of expression said on Wednesday [10 June 2020].

UN News/Shirin Yaseen | Protesters in Brooklyn, New York, show the names of African Americans who have been killed in incidents involving the police.
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10/06/2020

‘The Climate Crisis Stretches Well Beyond Just Climate; Tackling It Requires Responses that Address the Links Between Gender, Climate and Security’

Human Wrongs Watch

9 June 2020 (UN News)* — Even as countries buckle under the devastating social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, they must consider the links between gender inequality and crisis, particularly in communities affected by climate change and conflict.

UNICEF/DE WET | Esther next to a tent she lives in at a camp set up for displaced people at the Jehovas Witness Centre in Dondo, Mozambique. Cyclone Idai displaced thousands of people.

That’s the premise of a new UN report which argues that understanding these connections can help policymakers and donors to mitigate risks of violence and support the building of resilient, inclusive and peaceful societies.

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10/06/2020

COVID-19: World Bank Confirms Deepest Recession Since World War II, Triggering a Dramatic Rise in Extreme Poverty

UNDP Eurasia/Karen Cirillo | The coronavirus outbreak has had a severe impact on economies across the world.

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In rich countries, economic activity is expected to decline by seven per cent as the coronavirus outbreak severely disrupts domestic demand and supply, trade and finance activities, it said.

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10/06/2020

New York Protesters Jailed in Crowded, Filthy Conditions

10/06/2020

The Elite’s COVID-19 Coup to Destroy Humanity that Is also Fast-Tracking Four Paths to Human Extinction

Human Wrongs Watch

By Robert J. Burrowes*

10 June 2020 — The global elite is conducting a coup that is designed to destroy all of the key elements of human society. It is doing this by destroying the essence of what it means to be human, by destroying the nature of existing human relationships, and by destroying the political, economic and social institutions of nation states.

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Robert J. Burrowes

Intentionally or otherwise, the elite coup is also fast-tracking four paths to human extinction.

If this coup succeeds, the human individual will have been reduced to a digitized identity who lives in a ‘techno tyranny’ serving the global elite or Homo Sapiens will be extinct.

There is no third option unless we can defeat the coup and stop key structures and processes being put into place.

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10/06/2020

UN Chiefs Silenced by Big Powers with Vetoes

Human Wrongs Watch

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 9 2020 (IPS)* – The massive protests in more than 120 US cities over racial injustice and police brutality went global last week– amidst presidential threats of military force on demonstrators in Washington DC.

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Protests in cities across the United States including in New York city. Credit: UN News/Shirin Yaseen

At the same time, there were continued political demonstrations against the imposition of authoritarianism in Hong Kong by the current dominating military power there: China.

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09/06/2020

The Path beyond Extinction and Escape: Return to Earth, Regenerate and Share

Human Wrongs Watch

By Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service*

On 31st May, while people were dying during the Corona Pandemic, while millions had lost their livelihoods and were going hungry during the “lockdown”, while millions were marching in city after city in the USA to protest against police brutality and police violence after the killing of George Floyd by the police in Minneapolis, billionaire Elon Musk launched Space X.

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Prof. Vandana Shiva

For me this was a brutal display of the hubris, indifference and power of the 1% who have pushed ecosystems, communities, countries and humanity to the brink.

Musk wants to create a “self sustaining” Space X city on Mars over the next century for a privileged faction of humanity.  He ignores the fact that there is no Planet B, that the Earth is our only living planet, she is Gaia, she is alive.

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08/06/2020

Climate Crisis, Pandemics, and Bad Governance: Humanity’s Existential Threats

Will this blow in the face of the billionaire class and their political enablers? Time will tell. It always does.

Our future is under multiple threats, dark clouds are gathering, and many storms are on their way. Our future is under multiple threats, dark clouds are gathering, and many storms are on their way. | Photo: Gilbert Mercier

6 June 2020 (teleSUR)* — Since I started News Junkie Post, eleven years ago, I have, as a rule, avoided the first person narrative. In my mind, there is a simple reason for an aversion for the “me, myself, and I” type of storytelling so widespread in our culture. The first person is fine for a journal, an autobiography of course, or if you have the immense literary talent of Marcel Proust.

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07/06/2020

What Is Food Safety?

7 June 2020 (United Nations)*Food safety is the absence — or safe, acceptable levels — of hazards in food that may harm the health of consumers. Food-borne hazards can be microbiological, chemical or physical in nature and are often invisible to the plain eye: bacteria, viruses, or pesticide residues are some examples.
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Fruit and vegetables farmers’ market in Budapest, Hungary. ©FAO/G.Agostinucci

Food safety has a critical role in assuring that food stays safe at every stage of the food chain – from production to harvest, processing, storage, distribution, all the way to preparation and consumption.

With an estimated 600 million cases of foodborne illnesses annually, unsafe food is a threat to human health and economies, disproportionally affecting vulnerable and marginalized people, especially women and children, populations affected by conflict, and migrants.

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