The new coronavirus outbreak is a major news story that has grabbed international headlines and had everyone glued to their phones for updates. Online, the virus has mutated amid bogus claims and far-fetched fabrications that make it seem as if Resident Evil is playing out in real life. In this episode of Facts Tell, we debunk some of the viral myths about the origin of the 2019-nCoV.
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Leaders and diplomats from Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North America gathered in Germany on Saturday for this year’s Munich Security Conference
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This footage is from a documentary in production on spiritual narcissism. The Wesburn Independent Baptist Church is located in Victoria Australia and are part of the Christian cult infecting people with their belief in sin, otherwise known as spiritual propaganda. Subscribe to http://www.unitednaturesmedia.com
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The UK has been lashed by storm force winds and rain for a second weekend in a row. Storm Dennis has caused widespread disruption to air and rail travel, with a number of high profile sporting fixtures cancelled.
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Apocalypse Now? Climate and Security
Jennifer Morgan (Executive Director, Greenpeace International), John Kerry (Distinguished Fellow for Global Affairs, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University; former Secretary of State of the United States of America), Ban Ki-moon (Former Secretary General of the United Nations; Deputy Chairman, The Elders Foundation), Helga Maria Schmid (Secretary General, European External Action Service, European Union), General (Ret) Tom Middendorp (Chair, International Military Council on Climate and Security, former Chief of Defence of the Netherlands), Moderator: Edith Kimani (News Anchor, Deutsche Welle).
Includes announcement of the release of the Expert Group of the International Military Council on Climate and Security’s (IMCCS) “World Climate and Security Report 2020” by General (Ret) Tom Middendorp, Chair, IMCCS, published by the Center for Climate and Security: https://imccs.org/report2020/
Source: MSC: https://securityconference.org/en/med…
See particularly climate change and security discussion:
See related report:
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Scene Setter: Jennifer Morgan (Executive Director, Greenpeace International), Introduction: Kent Walker (Senior Vice President Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer, Google), Patricia Espinosa Cantellano (Ambassador; Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), Lindsey O. Graham (Senator, Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, United States of America), General (Ret) Tom Middendorp (Chair, International Military Council on Climate and Security; Former Chief of Defence of the Armed Forces of the Kingdom of the Netherlands), Sheldon Whitehouse (Senator, Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States of America), Moderator: Melinda Crane-Röhrs (Chief Political Correspondent, Deutsche Welle)
Includes announcement of the release of the Expert Group of the International Military Council on Climate and Security’s (IMCCS) “World Climate and Security Report 2020” by General (Ret) Tom Middendorp, Chair, IMCCS, published by the Center for Climate and Security: https://imccs.org/report2020/
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Andrea Dutton PhD is a Paleo Oceanographer at the University of Wisconsin, and a winner of the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” award in 2019.
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24 January 2017
Mr Nott was a key figure in the Rhodes Must Fall movement at the University of Cape Town.
The campaigners called the British mining magnate a backward-looking symbol of racist colonialism.
Following a Twitter outcry in Spring 2015, they succeeded in their bid to have the Cape Town statue removed.
Students at Oxford University then mounted an unsuccessful campaign to remove a Rhodes statue at Oriel College, where the businessman was educated.
Oriel resisted the pressure after a consultation showed “overwhelming” support for keeping it.
Mr Nott, who compared the Cape Town statue to “a swastika in Jerusalem”, will now receive tens of thousands from Rhodes’ legacy.
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From her home – a single bedroom in a house shared by four families – she could hear the sound of drones landing not far from Peshawar, in northwest Pakistan, where her family had fled in the 1990s to escape the Taliban’s rise.
“I was just living in this violence, but it was a given, so I couldn’t do anything about it,” Summia says. Sometimes there were bombings once or twice a week. “At some point, people stopped talking about it. It would happen, and everyone would move on.”
But life there was a privilege compared to Afghanistan, she tells the BBC. At least she got to go to school.
On a visit to Kabul in 2002, just after the US invasion, a girl not much older described only being able to attend school by pretending to be a boy. Summia was six, but she remembers it clearly. She vowed then that she would to take learning seriously.
It would be hard to dispute that she has. In October, Summia, now 22, will become the first Rhodes Scholar to hail from Afghanistan, one of 102 students to earn a place in the 2020 class of the world’s oldest postgraduate scholarship.
Now finishing her last term at Earlham College, a liberal arts university in the US state of Indiana, her outlook is bright and she laughs with ease, the fluent torrent of her words belying the traumas of the journey that has taken her from refugee to Rhodes Scholar.
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It is a view that contradicts a legacy of imperialism linked to the Rhodes, one of the world’s best-known and most competitive scholarships.
Endowed by Cecil Rhodes through his will in 1902, it was initially intended to encourage closer ties between the US and Britain through funding postgraduate study at Oxford. For most of its history, it was only open to men from the US, Germany and the Commonwealth.
Rhodes supported a vision that saw “the bringing of the whole world under British rule”.
“He was an imperialist who believed in white supremacy and did not want people of colour or women to be part of the Rhodes Scholarship,” Summia says. Initially, she did not want to apply.
She had a change of heart when it struck her that it would be easy to say no, she says, “but it’s harder to accept it, take the burden of the legacy of it, and actually do something to change it – that’s a real responsibility.”
“I realised I shouldn’t run away from admitting the colonial history,” she adds. “It’s people like us who need to change [the
Rhodes legacy].”
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Feb 15, 2020
What you are about to witness in this video is all about modern fish farming system that is at another level. So, if you are fond of fish lives and fishing, this video is for you.
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Transition Studies 