Greta Thunberg tells Australia to ‘wake up and treat the climate emergency like an emergency’ – ABC News

Black and white photo of Greta Thunberg with her hand shielding her eyes.

Ms Thunberg routinely distances herself from any political affiliation, and argued that all sides of politics had failed to honestly confront the climate emergency.

“I have never supported any party,” she told 7.30

“People sometimes assume that I’m supporting Green parties and so on, which is of course not true. All the current ideologies and party politics have failed to create the necessary changes.”

According to Ms Thunberg, climate summits “serve as an opportunity for big polluters to greenwash themselves … using PR tactics and communication strategies disguised as politics”…

Source: Greta Thunberg tells Australia to ‘wake up and treat the climate emergency like an emergency’ – ABC News

La idea

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La idea, al escribir, es transformar las letras en flores y las palabras en jardines para regalar perfumes deliciosos y colores encantadores y cautivantes. La idea, al escribir, es componer música, aliarme con el lenguaje del viento y las voces del océano, simplemente con el propósito de repartir historias, diseñar rutas y caminar juntos. La idea, al escribir, es decirle a alguien, en especial, que mi amor es fiel e inextinguible porque viene del alma y va al infinito, donde pertenecen los sentimientos más bellos. La idea, al escribir, es cultivar sentimientos, dulzura y pensamientos. La idea, al escribir, es demostrar que las guerras no se ganan con armas que destruyen y matan, sino con amor, justicia, bien, conocimiento, tolerancia, libertad, armonía y respeto. La idea, al escribir, es hilvanar letras en las páginas del cuaderno y dejar huellas…

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Full Transcript of President Biden’s Speech on Democracy – The New York Times

In this moment, we have to confront those lies with the truth. The very future of our nation depends on it. My fellow Americans, we’re facing a defining moment, an inflection point. We must with one overwhelming unified voice speak as a country and say there’s no place, no place for voter intimidation or political violence in America. Whether it’s directed at Democrats or Republicans. No place, period. No place ever.

I speak today near Capitol Hill, near the U.S. Capitol, the citadel of our democracy. I know there’s a lot at stake in these midterm elections, from our economy, to the safety of our streets, to our personal freedoms, to the future of health care and Social Security, Medicare. It’s all important. But we’ll have our differences, we’ll have our difference of opinion. And that’s what it’s supposed to be.

But there’s something else at stake, democracy itself. I’m not the only one who sees it. Recent polls have shown an overwhelming majority of Americans believe our democracy is at risk, that our democracy is under threat. They too see that democracy is on the ballot this year, and they’re deeply concerned about it.

Can the US live in Xi Jinping’s world? – BBC News

One senior manager for a US multinational household-products brand with large investments in China told me that “Chinese people don’t want freedom” in the way people in the West do.

He’d spoken to workers in his factories, he insisted, and he’d concluded they had no interest in politics at all. “They’re happier earning money,” he said.

Somewhere along the way many of the traders and engagers – corporations and governments alike – seemed to have simply dropped the lofty promise of bringing political freedom to China.

Increasing prosperity now seemed to be enough on its own.

So, what changed?

Breaking the mould

Firstly, public opinion. From 2018 onwards, the Uyghur diaspora began to speak out about the disappearance of their family members into Xinjiang’s giant prison camps, despite the clear risk that doing so might bring further costs and punishments for those relatives back home.

China at first seemed shocked by the international reaction.

After all, Western governments had long tolerated many facets of Beijing’s repression while continuing to trade and engage.

Even before Mr Xi took office, the targeting of religious belief, the jailing of dissidents and the brutal enforcement of the one-child policy were an integral part of the political system, not a mere side effect.

But the mass incarceration of an entire people – designated a threat solely on the basis of their culture and identity – had a big impact on global public opinion because of its historic resonances in Europe and beyond.

Corporations with supply chains in Xinjiang were facing the mounting concern of consumers, and governments were coming under increasing political pressure to act.

There were other issues too – including the swiftness with which Beijing has crushed dissent in Hong Kong, its militarisation of the South China Sea and the growing threats over Taiwan…

 

Source: Can the US live in Xi Jinping’s world? – BBC News

Me: Xi Jinping is trying to keep CCP as a force, a means to keep China unified by purpose and core beliefs that support that purpose. Free wheeling ‘capitalism,’ has, he believes, no core… nothing to unify the nation and to keep its government honest. The risk was to let China be run by oligarchs for their benefit or a China unified and led by a party of principles and a vision of the future unified China. China has several thousand years of governments that became corrupt and led to chaos… They are still struggling with a well founded fear of chaos.

JOYOUS POEM BY FELIX

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I’m so glad friend Felix Gagliano shared his upbeat poem with us:

LOUCHE CHANGE

With more yesterdays behind me

than tomorrows before me,

I fancy myself in other times and places.

Today I imagine myself in the Art Deco era.

My life has been mostly long and calm,

nothing like Bohemians such as Modigliani

who lived wildly and recklessly choosing:

une vie breve mais intense.

I want to rejuvenate like a Rose of Jericho,

and to try being rakish, wicked and louche.

I want to embellish the music of my life

with grace notes and stirring glissandi.

I like talking with Picasso and Hemmingway

in the salon of Gertrude and her loyal Alice.

Perhaps I shall have a torrid love affair or two,

one with the enigmatic Tamara de Lempika.

I yearn to stretch beyond being banal

Let the finale of my life crescendo.

May it be like a glorious…

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Pregnancy Centers In LA Could Face 10k Fine For Misleading Patients | LAist

Feuer told the city council that some anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers target low-income people and use deceptive tactics such as false advertising to make pregnant people believe they provide abortion services when they do not, Once inside, pregnant people are instead dissuaded from getting an abortion.

The ordinance sites the delay caused by misleading medical information as detrimental to a woman’s health, stating “…she loses time crucial to accessing emergency contraception, obtaining an abortion, or beginning prenatal care. Under these circumstances a woman might also lose the option to choose a particular procedure, or to terminate the pregnancy at all.”

Source: Pregnancy Centers In LA Could Face 10k Fine For Misleading Patients | LAist

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