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The Tatmadaw Iron Heel begins its work
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56265962
The hoped for defection of the police and army has yet to materialise in effective numbers…perhaps soon
The Archdiocese of New Orleans has issued a statement condemning the coronavirus vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson as “morally compromised” because it was developed using cells that derived from abortions.
I can’t say i fully comprehend the technical financial aspects of carbon trading but this article does go into it a bit more.
https://countercurrents.org/2021/03/big-companies-find-profit-in-carbon-offsets-market/
Biden’s version of the Green New Deal comes under fire.
Friends of the Earth, called the bill’s introduction “a monumental failure of climate leadership.”
Food & Water Watch, said in a statement that “The bill’s clean energy standard includes provisions that essentially greenwash dirty energy sources—including rebranding fracked gas as ‘clean’ by pairing it with unproven, non-existent carbon capture methods. It also relies on a dubious emissions trading scheme to achieve its goals, which serves fossil fuel industry interests while pretending to curb climate pollution. The bill also promotes factory farm biogas as a clean energy source.”
Biden is yet to rescind Trump’s recognition of Morocco sovereignty over the Western Sahara.
OPINION: Western Sahara, Africa’s Last Colony, Resumes Liberation Struggle
An article that concentrates upon Prince Andrew’s commercial dealings with the sheiks
Prince Andrew Helped Deepen UK Relations with Gulf Regimes for 8 Years After Epstein Scandal
The topic thread may have been premature and perhaps a post-pandemic bounce might be expected but the warning signs are still there.
Guo Shuqing, head of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, said markets in the US and Europe were trading at high levels which “runs counter to the real economy”. Guo said: “I’m worried the bubble problem in foreign financial markets will one day go pop.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/ftse-100-stock-market-latest-china-bubble-b1810219.html
Signs emerged over the weekend that China’s economic surge may be running out of steam. The country is one of few to have avoided recession during the pandemic but the latest data showed factory growth slowed in February.
While the UK promotes the new coalmine in Cumbria, the UN secretary-general António Guterres said all planned coal projects around the world must be cancelled to end the “deadly addiction” to the most polluting fossil fuel.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/02/cancel-all-planned-coal-projects-globally-to-end-deadly-addiction-says-un-chief
“Today, I am calling on all governments, private companies and local authorities to take three steps,” said Guterres. “First, cancel all global coal projects in the pipeline and end the deadly addiction to coal. Second, end the international financing of coal plants and … third, jump-start a global effort to finally organise a just transition [for coal industry workers], going plant by plant if necessary.”Another report on the healthy risk of our diet.
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-021-01922-9
Eating meat regularly increases someone’s risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, pneumonia and other serious illnesses…consumption of red meat, processed meat and poultry meat such as chicken and turkey, either alone or together, at least three times a week was linked to a greater risk of nine different illnesses.
Most from Scotland views schools as an unpleasant form of segregation.
The preponderance of Catholic schools in Scotland is said to have been a deal made by John Wheatley with the Catholic Church to end its anti-Labour Party stance and end its support for the Liberal Party based on its Irish Home Rule policy, promising a future Labour government would introduce state financing of Catholic schools.
I was educated at a state school in Scotland, and that was not a secular education, having school assemblies with prayers and hymns and a term outing to local C of S church. The religious studies class was however more a social studies class, incorporating lessons on sex and drugs.
As for the Reformation, i admit an interest into the many heresies preceding and accompanying it such as the Taborites.
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2013/05/sunday-sermon-taborites.html
And also the cults such as the Ranters of the English Revolution.
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-ranters-religious-libertines.html
Our blog had early access to his obituary and used a cropped photo which accompanied it
https://socialistbanner.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-comrade-falls.html
To think, the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize was given to the Ethiopian prime minister.
James, Our blog has been reporting on the Syrian situation since its genesis when it was a genuine part of the Arab Spring back in 2011.
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2011/08/revolution-without-leaders.html
And then SOYMB has followed its evolution into a militarised revolt, the gradual sectarianism and the eventual intervention of foreign interests.
The media appears to be incapable of presenting any historical perspective.
Our last post on Syria’s civil war offered an insight into a less often explanation of the crisis – climate change and the effect it had on Syria
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2021/02/what-caused-syrian-civil-war.html
Tens of thousands of civilians are still missing after being detained arbitrarily during 10 years of civil war in Syria, UN investigators say. Thousands more have been tortured or killed in custody, according to a new report detailing alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity by all parties.
“The government forces’ arbitrary detention of political opponents, journalists, human rights activists and demonstrators were both a root cause and a trigger of the conflict,” the commission’s chairman, Paulo Pinheiro, said.
The cure could be worse than the disease
https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-myanmar-sanctions-will-not-stop-the-bloodshed/a-56736649
The first response of the West to the coup was targeted sanctions on leading Tatmadaw generals. However, most of Myanmar’s generals had already been under sanctions because of the Rohingya crisis in 2018.
But this doesn’t mean the West should return to the broad sanctions that were imposed on Myanmar in 1990s and 2000s. Those sanctions only hurt Myanmar’s citizens — already the victims of military rule — while military leadership itself was largely unaffected.
