Celebrating 76 years, the UN focuses on frontline heroes and partnerships

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I have been thinking a lot about peace recently, and my thoughts will be in a follow-up post – including the critical role that our young people can and will play. I particularly like the United Nations’ alliterative theme for UN Day this year – all those “P”s! In Jamaica, as almost everywhere else, climate change, crime and economic struggles are perpetually at the forefront of our minds (with COVID-19 the backdrop to it all, and affecting everything). So the theme really works.

Here is UN Jamaica’s release with details of their Virtual Partnership Forum (October 20 to 22), which has a great range of local panelists. Register today!

UN commemorates 76 years by paying tribute to Jamaica’s frontline heroes and bolstering partnerships to achieve Vision 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals 

United Nations Jamaica will mark this year’s UN Day through initiatives including a three-day Virtual Partnership Forum…

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YO SOY EL CLIMA – 2021 – NEMOURS

Barbara Crane Navarro

¡EL BOSQUE ESTÁ ARDIENDO!

Exposición del 31 de octubre al 12 de noviembre de 2021

«El bosque quemado»
Escultura – metal y madera – 50×197
Barbara Crane Navarro

He organizado una exposición de arte climático en la «Conferencia de las Partes de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático» todos los años desde 2015, pero como la COP 26 se ha cancelado para 2020 y tendrá lugar del 31 de octubre al 12 de noviembre de 2021, la exposición «YO SOY EL CLIMA – 2021» ahora tendrá lugar simultáneamente con la exposición «Pas de Cartier» del 31 de octubre al 12 de noviembre.

Más información en Español está aquí en «Eventos – Evénement – Eventos»: www.barbaranavarro.com

«Veterinarios de árboles »
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Angle & Dawn

«Estamos perdiendo nuestra guerra suicida contra la naturaleza», dijo en video el secretario general de la ONU, António Guterres, en la…

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Amazonía y expansión mercantil capitalista Nueva frontera de recursos en el siglo XXI — Asamblea Mundial por la Amazonía

Barbara Crane Navarro

La Amazonía es sujeto y objeto de múltiples y variados debates que transitan desde su diversidad biológica y cultural, pasando por su papel para conservar el efecto invernadero, hasta su potencial económico y la sostenibilidad de sus recursos naturales. Sin duda, la discusión está aquí para quedarse y tiene que ser enriquecida con conocimiento cierto[…]

Amazonía y expansión mercantil capitalista Nueva frontera de recursos en el siglo XXI — Asamblea Mundial por la Amazonía

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A floresta amazônica está perdendo 80.000 campos de futebol por dia. Logo será tarde demais —

Barbara Crane Navarro

Desde 1988, uma área de floresta tropical aproximadamente do tamanho do Texas e do Novo México combinados foi destruída ‘A Amazônia – historicamente um grande absorvedor de carbono – agora libera mais carbono do que armazena, o que aumenta, em vez ajuda a reduzir, nossa crise climática global.’Fotografia: Carl de Souza / AFP / Getty[…]

A floresta amazônica está perdendo 80.000 campos de futebol por dia. Logo será tarde demais —

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WSU football coach Nick Rolovich fired after refusing to take COVID-19 vaccine | The Seattle Times

Washington State announced Monday night that it had “initiated the separation process” with Rolovich and four of his assistant coaches for not complying with the state mandate that all state employees be fully vaccinated by Monday.

Defensive coordinator Jake Dickert has been named acting head coach.

“This is a disheartening day for our football program,” said WSU athletic director Pat Chun in a statement. “Our priority has been, and will continue to be, the health and well-being of the young men on our team.”

Defensive tackles coach Ricky Logo, cornerbacks coach John Richardson, quarterbacks coach Craig Stutzmann and offensive line coach Mark Weber are also being let go.

Source: WSU football coach Nick Rolovich fired after refusing to take COVID-19 vaccine | The Seattle Times

COVID-19 cases rise when schools open – but more so when teachers and students don’t wear masks – ABC News

More evidence to support masks in schools

One of the reasons it has been hard to see transmission in schools is because children generally have mild symptoms. This leads to infections going undetected. But the picture is very different when researchers actively look for cases.

Researchers in Belgium conducted a study where primary school children and their teachers were tested once per week for 15 weeks. They found many instances of transmission between children and adults that spread beyond the school to the children’s parents and to the teachers’ partners. Some mitigation measures were in place in the school, but not mask wearing.

Other measures help too

Perhaps the most dramatic example of failing to protect schools comes from England. Schools reopened this September without a mask mandate and with very little investment in ventilation.

Within one month, random testing showed that 8 per cent of secondary school children and 3 per cent of pre-primary and primary school children had an active infection.

Source: COVID-19 cases rise when schools open – but more so when teachers and students don’t wear masks – ABC News

Factory farms of disease: how industrial chicken production is breeding the next pandemic | Global health | The Guardian

The World Health Organization (WHO) was alerted but, this being at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, little attention was paid even when Anna Popova, chief consumer adviser to the Russian Federation, went on TV to warn “with a degree of probability” that human-to-human transmission of H5N8 would evolve soon and that work should start immediately on developing a vaccine.

Global attention is fixed on the origins of Covid-19, either in nature or from a laboratory, but eight or more variants of avian flu, all of which are able to infect and kill humans and are potentially more severe than Covid-19, now regularly rattle around the world’s factory farms barely noticed by governments.

There have been no further reports of human H5N8 infections in 2021, but concern last week turned to China, where another type of avian flu known as H5N6 has infected 48 people since it was first identified in 2014. Most cases have been linked to people working with farmed birds, but there has been a spike in recent weeks and more than half of all the people infected have died, suggesting that H5N6 is gathering pace, mutating and extremely dangerous.

WHO and Chinese virologists have been worried enough to call on governments to increase their vigilance. “The likelihood of human-to-human spread is low [but] wider geographical surveillance in the China affected areas and nearby areas is urgently required to better understand the risk and the recent increase of spillover to humans,” said a WHO Pacific-region spokesperson in a statement.

Source: Factory farms of disease: how industrial chicken production is breeding the next pandemic | Global health | The Guardian

Ein Dienstagslächeln … A Tuesday smile

Stella, oh, Stella

Dieses Mal eine kleine Serie über Phobien, gekonnt dargestellt von Simon und seinem Kater. Warum müssen Phobien eigentlich immer so merkwürdige, nicht zu erkennende Namen haben?

… Today a small series about phobia, skilfully impersonated by Simon and his cat. Why is it that phobia always have such strange, not recognizable names?

Ich mag den Igel … 😀 … Habt noch alle eine angenehme Woche!

… I like the hedgehog … 😀 … Have a nice week, everybody!

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CEO of Major Defense Contractor Charged with Bribery | OPA | Department of Justice

According to the affidavit in support of a criminal complaint filed in September, Frank S. Rafaraci, 68, a U.S. citizen who resides abroad, has been the CEO of MLS since at least 2005. MLS is a defense contractor that provides ship husbanding services, such as refueling and stocking provisions, to U.S. Navy ships at ports worldwide. From approximately 2010 to the present, the U.S. Navy, other U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) components, and U.S. government civilian agencies awarded husbanding services contracts to MLS worth approximately $1.3 billion. The affidavit further alleges that, beginning in 2011, Rafaraci was involved in a wide-ranging scheme to bribe U.S. Navy officials, defraud the U.S. Navy using falsely inflated invoices, and launder the proceeds of the scheme through shell companies Rafaraci had set up in the United Arab Emirates, all in an effort to benefit MLS. Rafaraci made his initial appearance earlier today before U.S. Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.Source: CEO of Major Defense Contractor Charged with Bribery | OPA | Department of Justice

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