Daily Archives: January 9, 2020

Mary Robinson on Upholding the United Nations Charter – Security Council, 8699th meeting

United Nations



Published on Jan 9, 2020

Remarks by Mary Robinson (Chair of The Elders) at the Security Council Open Debate on “Upholding the United Nations Charter” to Maintain International Peace and Security.

Concept note of the Security Council meeting: http://bit.ly/2N8NWMc

Presidential Statement adopted at the beginning of the Security Council meeting: http://bit.ly/2T9mPVo

Tardigrades – Solving big problems with Earth’s tiniest creatures | Dr. Thomas Boothby | TEDxBermuda

TEDx Talks



Published on Jan 9, 2020

Heading a research program out of the University of Wyoming’s Department of Molecular Biology, he focuses on how organisms survive in extreme environments. Using tardigrades that can survive many extremes, including being completely desiccated (dried out), his team are developing technologies from these organisms that will allow life-saving medicines to be stored dry. DR. THOMAS BOOTHBY Heading a research program out of the University of Wyoming’s Department of Molecular Biology, he focuses on how organisms survive in extreme environments. Using tardigrades that can survive many extremes, including being completely desiccated (dried out), his team are developing technologies from these organisms that will allow life-saving medicines to be stored dry. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Trump makes national environmental policy announcement

PBS NewsHour



Andrew Bacevich: The U.S. Needs to Abandon “Militarized Approach” to Middle East and Build P eace

Democracy Now!

Published on Jan 9, 2020

We continue our conversation with Andrew Bacevich, president and co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is a retired colonel, Vietnam War veteran and author of, most recently, of “The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory.” Bacevich says the crisis with Iran, sparked by President Trump’s assassination of top general Qassem Soleimani, is just the latest in a long series of ill-advised American actions in the Middle East. “The only conceivable way for us to begin to extricate ourselves from this terrible mess in the region … is to abandon this militarized approach and to take a more balanced position with regard to the rivalries in the region,” Bacevich says.

Andrew Bacevich: Trump Sparked “Unnecessary Crisis” by Killing Soleimani, Barely Avoiding War

Democracy Now!

Published on Jan 9, 2020

President Trump vowed on Wednesday to hit Iran with new sanctions but appeared to pull back from taking any new military action. Tension between the two countries soared after the U.S. assassinated Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani at the Baghdad International Airport last week. Early on Wednesday, Iran retaliated by firing 22 ballistic missiles at military bases in Iraq housing U.S. forces, but no one was injured in the attack. Iran had warned the Iraqi government about the strike in advance. Two small rockets also later hit the Green Zone near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. During a televised address on Wednesday, Trump urged NATO to become more involved in the Middle East and called for countries to pull away from the Iran nuclear deal. We speak with Andrew Bacevich, president and co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is a retired colonel and Vietnam War veteran and author of, most recently, “The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory.”

IT IS COMING. СЕ ГРЯДЁТ. English version

AllatRa TV English
Mar 12, 2018
Igor Mikhailovich Danilov, Igor Vladimirovich Naumets, Anna Dubrovskaya, Andrei Kovtunov

Inevitability of the serious upcoming climate changes, the global nature and magnitude of which one can see today over the whole planet, makes everyone face the necessity of the personal choice. Already in the nearest future, THIS will concern everyone.

The unknown history of the past, knowledge of which gives an understanding of the tomorrow (the cycle is repeating itself). International initiatives of the “ALLATRA” Public Movement. “THE UNIVERSAL GRAIN” project is a common cause, which continues to unite a lot of people on the planet, regardless of their nationality and religion.

Informing people about those upcoming catastrophic natural processes which in the nearest future will become a reality for certain countries and continents.

What have you done today so that you and your near and dear ones have a chance to survive tomorrow?

The report “On the Problems and Consequences of Global Climate Change on Earth. Effective Ways to Solve These Problems”
https://allatra-science.org/en/pages/

International public movement “ALLATRA”
allatra.org
info

Official website of the international social research project “THE UNIVERSAL GRAIN”: https://edinoezerno.allatra.org/en

Official email address of the project “THE UNIVERSAL GRAIN”:
edinoezerno

E-mail: info
Telegram News Channel: t.me/@allatra_en

Official web-site of ALLATRA TV: allatra.tv/en
Official web-site of ALLATRA International Public Movement: allatra.org

CLIMATE. THE FUTURE IS NOW

AllatRa TV English

May 11, 20

How to survive tomorrow? The programme, which acutely raises vital topics of climate change on the planet and warns about the upcoming events. Cataclysms. Causes and effects. Why are natural disasters increasing in number and strength? The report “On the Problems and Consequences of Global Climate Change on Earth. Effective Ways to Solve These Problems” – the events which are coming true right before our eyes.

The point of no return, how much time is left? Are you confident that tomorrow your life will not change dramatically, and your family will not join the ranks of millions of climate refugees? What should everyone do today so that tomorrow he or she does not become a victim of consumer society and egoistic thinking? What should everyone do now to avoid a sad fate? A lot depends on you. How to change the course of events?

Society. Choice and freedom. How to stop being silent? Together people can do a lot! How to attain unity? What is the negativity of consciousness and what is the freedom of Personality?

How eschatology, climatology, and cosmic processes are connected with the vector of development of the entire humanity? What are people actually capable of and what do religions keep silent about? Real examples of people’s unity based on the common inner spiritual basis, humanity, and mutual assistance in modern society.

Programmes with Igor Mikhailovich Danilov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xDdq

Anastasia Novykh. The book “AllatRa”
https://allatra.tv/en/book/anastasia-…

The report “On the Problems and Consequences of Global Climate Change on Earth. Effective Ways to Solve These Problems.”
https://allatra.org/report/problems-a

The report “PRIMORDIAL ALLATRA PHYSICS” https://allatra.org/report/primordial

IT IS COMING. СЕ ГРЯДЁТ
https://allatra.tv/en/video/it-is-coming

THE UNIVERSAL GRAIN. First Film “THE CHOICE”
https://allatra.tv/en/universal-grain
THE SERVICE
https://allatra.tv/en/video/the-service

“CONSCIOUSNESS AND PERSONALITY. From the inevitably dead to the eternally Alive.”
https://allatra.tv/en/video/soznanie-…

E-mail: info
Telegram News Channel: t.me/@allatra_en

IMHO: Climate Change Villain

WGBH News

Jan 6, 2020

Jim Braude shares his thoughts on how the Prime Minister of Australia has failed his country, now engulfed in flames.

AFTER SPIRITUALISM: Loss and Transcendence in Contemporary Art

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“The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.”

George Santayana

AFTER SPIRITUALISM:
Loss and Transcendence in Contemporary Art

February 8–June 7, 2020

The group exhibition After Spiritualism offers an occasion to reflect on personal and shared losses through varied contemporary art practices. The works on view materialize trauma and mourning, at times confronting historical conflicts and seeking to overcome long-standing divisions. The exhibition is inspired by Spiritualism’s aim to connect the living with the dead for comfort, guidance, and enlightenment.

Fitchburg Art Museum
185 Elm Street
Fitchburg, MA 01420

“Masterpiece in a Mill Town”

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[This figure of a Baule “blolo bian” — a male spiritual-spouse — is part of a group exhibit at the Fitchburg Art Museum from 8 February to 7 June 2020, depicting loss and transcendence in contemporary art.  For further information on the history and social context of this form of Baule art see: ‘Loss and Transcendence in African Art: Toward an Understanding of the “blolo bian” figure in Baule “colonial art.”’ ]