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Mark Levin
Breitbart: U.N. Chief Guterres Warns ‘Era of Global Boiling’ Is Here
"It is seeing children swept away by monsoon rains Families running from the flames workers collapsing and scorching earth that is scorching in heat. The veteran Portuguese socialist painted his picture of a world in peril. During a stream speech from UN headquarters in New York returning once more to a theme of climate Doom that he's used almost without respite since he took office. The surest way to destroy our sovereignty and our economic system. He said short of a Many ice age over coming days. Some scientists eliminate estimate July 2023 with shatter records across the board. Climate change is here it's terrifying. It's just beginning. Gutierrez outlined the Arab global warming is ended the consequences are clear and they're tragically must get rid of these white bulbs. Just think of all the lives that will be saved. Oh yes for vast parts of North America Asia Africa and Europe it's cruel a summer. It's a heat wave. We're having a heat wave. Mr. producer. It's called a heat wave. Never never
Scientific Sense
"asia africa" Discussed on Scientific Sense
"The data come in eastern body is sort of a pandemic body who you know who would have to rt and and visibility to actually tackle the next one short of tackling the next one. I think we will need to. There's still a lot of learning to be done. And there's still a lot of stories which are unfolding across the world. so what is the things that we've learned. Is that if you take official time dynamic data at face value. You get a very skewed picture of what's happening in many parts of the world so you miss a lot of the. The kind of impact of the pandemic in asia and africa miss some part of it in latin america. Perhaps not quite as badly as you do in asia africa and you miss a smaller fraction of the impact in the united states north america in europe. So if you just try to construct stories based around official cova data you can sometimes end up with very incorrect stories. On the other hand if you look at quantities like excess mortality. You look at them kind of carefully so you also try to understand what what is baseline mortality ninety. What is normal times. By what percentage did it surged during the pandemic. Then you find that. The stories changed quite a lot. So as you mentioned earlier there were a lot of these narratives about how india had escaped relatively likely especially during the first wave but even when we look back to the first one if if we look at mortality data that isn't true and india's excess mortality by my calculations was still over one million during the last wave and it's not as dramatic as it might have been if the country had been an older country. If you had not population that number would undoubtedly have been higher. So there was some Protection afforded by a young population. But that was still a very high level of mortality and it was still roughly what you expect given the level of spread in the first wave in the country and so the.
KOMO
"asia africa" Discussed on KOMO
"Insurance after a week that saw the major indexes all lose at least 1.6% stocks attempted to rebound today, the Dow industrials recoup 261 points and the S and P 500 edged up 10. But the NASDAQ composite slipped nine Adjusted earnings out of Oracle Dollar three a share were better than expected by analysts. But revenue of nearly nine and three quarter billion dollars, though up from a year ago, was shy of estimates shares. The database software company are losing ground in after hours trading. To No one's surprise. Costco is set to sell wine and beer Advent calendars again this year that typically fly off the shelves. The $60 Brewers Advent calendar with 24 cans of German beer is already available in some clubs, while the $100 wine Advent calendar is expected to be on shelves by the first week of October. That's your money now. I'm Jim Tesco Coma knows UNICEF says the U. S. Is the largest owner of Covid 19 vaccines by far way ahead of China, Japan and the UK America has donated more than 114 million doses of covid vaccinations to almost 80 developing countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America. That's more than three times the amount China has donated. The FDA is put off making a decision on whether to allow e cigarettes to remain on the market. They appeal to a lot of underage smokers. Anheuser Busch is expanding its disaster relief and preparedness efforts to include our furry family members with four legs. The beer brewer teaming up with the American Humane and the Red Cross to launch its prepare your pets campaign that will run All this month. Dogs and cats need go backs to health updates. Sara Lee Kessler, NBC news radio. A new warning when it comes to the potential danger posed by the drug I ever met, in which some are using as a counter against Covid 19 in audio provided by UW medicine, clinical pharmacist Tripoli. Jane's says misinformation and desperation are creating a dangerous situation. Unfortunately, I think We're at a state where there's a lot of uncertainty, and I think people are grasping for anything that they think may be helpful in which is widely used in veterinary medicine can be safely used by humans and doses tailored for humans. Animal doses of the drug can be deadly. Researchers have been studying the drug's effectiveness against Covid 19. But a number of questions still remain. In Issaquah on westbound.
KTOK
"asia africa" Discussed on KTOK
"A good friend Rob Finnerty is with us with the Newsmax. He's the host of Wake up America, and there's been a lot that has been happening. But not a lot reported on the refugees in Afghanistan. Rob, Is there anything new about how they're being vetted and what the priorities be? Given for them to scatter across not only the United States but the planet. Well, the vetting process. 50,000 refugees are now spread across at least five military bases here in the US, the vetting process has been almost non existent. Um, Some of these people that are already at in particular Fort Bliss in Texas are on a terror watch list, so we welcome them into the country with With open arms were closing them, housing them feeding them and we'll make sure that they are able to live. There has been not a single bit of information. About any refugee that gets to the United States that is then vetted here in country and turned away. And if you're telling me 10 people came here, and that was the process. I might believe it. But with 50,000 people I find it hard to believe that all 50,000 are interpreters, their families or in some way, shape or form our allies that worked with us for the last 20 years. Yes. Is there any reason to worry as we get close to the anniversary this weekend about about some sort of attack or or is it too soon for some of these refugees if they are indeed? Uh, terrorists to organize themselves. Well, it's a very good question, and I don't necessarily think it has to be from a refugee that may have just gotten here as we've learned with Al Qaeda and the Taliban. And now certainly with Isis K in August, 26 what happened? The Kabul airport. Uh, these extremists Think very carefully about symbolism. They celebrated when Joe Biden first said We'd be out by 9 11. This being the 20th anniversary of that. Most tragic day. Uh, they are acutely aware of that, and there are many more bad actors and terrorist groups today than there were 20 years ago. The difference today there in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. So I think Anthony Blinken was right to say that the level of concern for Saturday is fairly high, especially given that it's the 20th anniversary. We're talking to Rob Finnerty, host of Wake Up America. He can find that on Newsmax Weekday mornings, it's on cable channel, 71, Cox Channel, 71 80 and dish and You can also download the app anytime and watch it any time. Robert shift gears a little bit and go to Fauci. It seems to me everything that comes out of this guy's mouth. It needs to be questioned..
A Desi Woman with Soniya Gokhale
"asia africa" Discussed on A Desi Woman with Soniya Gokhale
"A deep skepticism and there's a sense that not only has the nation messed up but it never was going to do anything good right. There's a sense of everything falling apart now. I'm not a nationalist. A nationalist might say. See the post nationalist. Don't love india or something like that. That's not my interest. I'm trying to trace. What are the different tendencies. These novels right so again. My problem with the post-national et cetera is not that it exists. I but rather to explain why that exists to an i kind of note that in the indian emergency that the travesty. That happens under under the gun. These emergency which was building since the one thousand nine hundred seventy s all of these post independence nations in asia and africa were given a really raw deal. They got independence and were hit immediately with economic crises that they weren't strong enough to withstand after being gutted for decades and decades by the europeans. And so you see again and again across asia africa. The return of a kind of authoritarianism in the seventies eighties and that happens in india within gandhi and so midnight's children explicitly refers to the emergency. It's in the same time period right and it kind of despairs about the nation so sulayman ida protagonist of nice. Children is is born at the hour of independence when the clock strikes twelve at midnight. Right that's when he's born but dumb you know he's falling apart because of the emergency so this is not a critique of rushdie in the sense of how dare you criticize the nation. Not at all. It's trying to historic size. It and saying that the shift after the emergency has everything to do with the post-national turn so just to kind of wrap this up a little bit in terms of an overview..
College Esports QuickTake
"asia africa" Discussed on College Esports QuickTake
"And if you're in the EU or the e, e t, a r e, e a region, there's no tuition fee. So proud, of course, Very a great benefit to those within those reason Regents. But even if you're coming from, we have many students from Asia Africa, North America, and Finland has some of the most affordable tuition fees in the world. So, of course, that's also amazing. But even if you're putting any money into your education, or even any time into pursuing a degree, you really need to know that you're getting value out of it. So from the beginning, that's sort of been our fundamentals that we really need to make sure that if you're coming to our degree, you're spending any of your personal time or money, to pursue any sports business name. Free that you're actually getting some benefit out of it. And I think with the business fundamentals that were giving ability through our organizations like G to sort of build up a practical experience that you can put on your resume saying that. Hey, I put on some events in the past. I know how to work stream production, everything like this. It's amazing for your resume. And then just getting the network connections in the industry both here in Europe. But also, we have many International talents coming in to network and speak to our students, on how they can pursue a career worldwide. So, of course that is a great benefit School know. It's it's great. And you brought up a great point that there's no real Collegiate scene, but for you know for Finland for a really Europe in general, there's a real Collegiate seen. The universities don't compete against each other and wage in America. It's just North America. Really the the Collegiate student came out of a need for for revenue for these schools cuz, you know, they needed to somehow enabled themselves to make more money off. The tuition fees that are charged against students, which is yes, astronomical here in the States, but you guys are doing it, right. I just want you to know that. I mean the need for urgency and I think is traditional outdated one, but you know, but that's neither here. That's what that's a topic for another 30 days. But you talked about some of the courses, you guys go over some, some topics you discuss, you know, the mental conditioning, the coaching and stuff, development of sports law, stuff like that. I know you mentioned you were bringing on or think you bring on stream production and and in other topics to kind of expand into what exactly leads you guys to offer. Expanded into those different topics. Is it just you see a need and you want to fulfill that need or is something a little bit more in-depth? Yeah. That's a good question. It's a few areas and some of what you just mentioned so long. If we see, there's a need for. So from our personal research, and and our knowledge of the space, if we see that we're currently missing something in our curriculum, that could be added. Of course, we can do that job. This from the bottom down, but a lot of the time something I think that's quite a great that we're doing here. At the university is there's constant student feedback. So throughout the year and especially at the end of the the students studies. We give them various surveys and in ways for them to give feedback on what they have been completed or completing other universities. So true that a lot of the time the students themselves are giving us some some valuable insight into what they would like to see in the future or a certain degrees or sort of courses that they really appreciated. So we know where to put a lot of our effort to in terms of adapting those and make sure making sure that they're able to offer the best content and also a lot of the time we're working with various Partners in the industry who block their own opinions in terms of what is valuable for the students to be learning. So, especially with this online platform, which we can discuss in a bit here. It's allowed us to work with some games. Amazing organizations. Like the Esports research Network who have access to of course, amazing academics in the in the Esports space and whenever people approach a girl ideas in terms of courses that can be added. We are all all ears are open. So we're very much open to adding new content throughout the year. So it's a short. It's a few different areas being in our own minds. That we see there's a current area lacking or from student feedback or finally from our industry Partners who have some ideas in terms of content. And so so talk to you about this. This online platform guys are developing, right? How how I guess, how do you review it? If things are succeeding or not? How are things working out in terms of, you know, our students really getting the material. I mean, how do you really should read yourself on the effectiveness of this online platform? Yeah. So right now we're still in the the development stages of the platform. So the general concept right now. Of course, especially with the where we are right now, with covid-19 thing. It's really highlighted. The fact that it's getting more and more appealing for for students and used to pursue a degree online,. It's getting, it's getting difficult to ask people to travel wide, especially if they could come from, for example, more developing regions or they don't have the financial resources to, to make the trip here, to pursue our full bachelor's degree or perhaps, they have full-time jobs and they don't have the time to pursue a full degree. So we really wanted to develop something that was truly accessible. So ridiculous of where you're located in the world, you don't have to be in Europe. You don't have to be in Finland and regardless of your financial background, you're able to pursue at least bring in your academic, career focusing on e-sports..
Future Cities Africa
Water Strategy and Future Thinking
"Michael waste is executive director for water and waste at the city of cape town will be discussing. The city's water strategy. They thinking and future plans but before we get into that mike. Welcome give us a briefing action to your role and background. Thanks a lot dan. it's great to be with you when free said he's africa. This is the topic. I care a lot about something. That i've with unprofessionally for most of my career i'm currently executive director and water and waste for city of town and i've had that johnson's December the twenty one thousand nine hundred prior to that. I was director warren sanitation. This makes me accountable. The which and sanitation department is whether the southern waste department in the city. It's a big department. We've got four million customers of cape capetown. Twenty thousand kilometers of pipeline of the four thousand stores seven ran budget a prior to this position. I worked for the world bank for sixteen years in Eastern europe saab asia. Africa have twenty five years experience in the sector But originally a civil engineer from uc team with a postgraduate qualifications from left brand the uk and princeton university. And the us.
VOICE Global 2021
"asia africa" Discussed on VOICE Global 2021
"So with regards to interfacing with customers out there <hes>. If i'm i'm looking for a flight or maybe i want a book light and i want to use my off. The shelf assistant <hes>. Let's talk a little bit about that interface and the the end customer. Okay <hes>. i would say like <hes>. What we kurt. We have a chat bot in sitting cafe. Kathy pacific talking musical variety. It is also <unk>. Mobile app so away. Business to ultimately like a frequently asked questions <unk>. Crushes related to check in change booking and baggage allowance even a even <unk>. Load the operations related question such as like sparring airline miles you name it and and but i think what i want to share or abou- easter i think it gives a chat bots strategy. I think this is something that could be useful. Awful other corporates absolutely definitely. Let's talk about that. Yeah yeah so we're talking about won't talk about how we occurred positioning chat bots coronation that you i and so what we is. What the chad does that objectives. First of all because we won't talk about automation white. So we wanna be able to lower operating costs of our contact centers right. How can we not talk about reducing agents. How can we juice the unnecessary contact with customers. So that the agent can handle more complicated cases malkani hacks case right right not to provide that to a satisfaction could agents so they're actually doing jobs and also provide a service quality and the second objective is how can we move on any obstacle in the customer journey at preflight and posts so that the customer can can get converted faster and <hes>. So though so in terms in terms of strategic planning we have created this servicing funnel concept. <hes> pham south surgeries the mobile app and also website. Where debate where people actually like a search for flights and do check in a managed at brookings two in the lowest dream <hes>. The human agents the actual call so imagine like before chat bot defunding goes from the south surfaces and live chat and the contact center agent <hes>. Handling the car right and the low what gets in the funnel the higher the cost of resolution so the outcome that we are looking at chief by placing a i in the middle of funnel is not about <hes> that we want to cannibalize our feature. I mean i mean kim busted features in our digital platforms each properties or to replace the agents the angle they were looking at. How can we create hominy liking the fundamental <hes>. That when we put a chat bot in the middle what what we want you to do that. Too at the edge point that determines would issue can be resolved effectively
VOICE Global 2021
"asia africa" Discussed on VOICE Global 2021
"Welcome back to voice global on your host erickson. This is part of our continuing chat series with leaders across the spectrum. Both globally and industry wise. That are playing a key role in a conversational design. Chat and voice technologies. My next guest is actually quite special. Because there's a little story a little back story when i founded mode of Back in the day. So i think we've founded in two thousand nine In twenty twelve we went on a trade mission With a bunch of developers to hong kong and china and It was a really really incredible trip where we shared information about the app developer market in the us and then learned a lot about the hong kong market and the chinese market and how to do business. in china. there was a young developer. That was part of the Hong kong contingent and his name. Is gordon chew well. We had such a good experience in hong kong. We started a chapter of moderna in hong kong and our chapter leader at that time Was gordon to here. All these years. Later gordon i reconnect. Because he happens to now be the assistant manager for digital product and technology focusing on conversational platforms and So i reached out to gordon. We had a great catch up. And i i asked him. I said you go. please come be a guest global. Let's talk about what you're doing at cathay. Pacific airlines Ladies and gentlemen please welcome to the stage. Might longtime friend gordon. Chew gordon how you doing. Hi awesome It's here and thanks for imputation pete's so About myself as ever kathy facific. And we a global airline headquartered hong cole on passengers and cargo flights they fly toward in the destinations in asia africa europe north america and the middle east so actually deliver commercials. Iosefo the audience in the us When the pandemic's over and you wanna come explore home call or check. oh this pump. The world fly. Kathy wave light. We operate lights on boston. Chicago new york san francisco..
AP News Radio
Bonjour! France Welcoming Back (Vaccinated) Tourists
"France is putting itself back on the menu as a destination for international visitors who had to cope with jobs Paris is announced it's removing the need for corona virus tests the vaccinated Europeans it's also allowing vaccinated Taurus but most of the rest of the world including the U. S. much of Asia Africa the Middle East and north and Central America to come on in if they've had a negative test to the relax rules will kick in for Wednesday offering a boost the front is valuable tourism sector that generated tens of billions of dollars and sustained more than one million jobs before the pandemic froze mass tourism I'm Charles the last one
Talking Politics
"asia africa" Discussed on Talking Politics
"Largely because of these huge war debts. It's accumulated in seven years. In the american revolutionary war on sound the impetus to rain in the monarchy. Even before you give it to. Him is very great intensified by wool. But also i saint antoine pain a wonderful example of this this desire to rein in the monocled the ruler. It's not just coming from the finances. The parliament saw the aristocracy judy gray. It's being voiced from below one of tom pains. Most recurrent arguments is that european. Monarchs or congenital wool mangas. And it's the people pay the price and the that's why he thinks festival shelters terribly important. He's very big on charges and for him. The cultic charters morphs relentlessly into a commitment to a written constitution. And he's very clear that if the constitution is not written it has no real existence. You must put down in words. On pap- three touches base with the most familiar pulse of the political history of this period. The american constitution the french revolution. So but it's a global history. I'm did for people who haven't read the book or hip again. Read the book. It goes from pitcairn to hawaii acoustic to mexico to japan. As he said asia africa south america variants on this theme are often global woes or close to being able with some of them and the people interact almost on a global scale. You start in corsica and interesting for two reasons. First of all because it's unusual place to start. And secondly because costa did produce a very important person in this story napoleon to tell about cool sokaia white cousquer mattis fuel story well small places on indeed small islands rate cuss through my story. And i think that's partly because smallness of course we tend to assume that means in significance but smallness could also make four experiment which would be much harder in a huge well established quality. And i wanted to start in corsica because you have the soldier hero. Pascal poli determined into fray corsica from genoa on sunday. And he establishes himself as rebel leader in seventeen fifty five and one of the amazing things he does is draft a written constitution based on his earlier plans and his manuscript hasn't survived because corsica is so under developed in the seventeenth fifties note printing engines. He can't even get any new heba so in order to rightists constitutions he has to scrape inc words of old letters and right is draft constitution. All this which is partly why we don't have the original version but it's it's very interesting constitution which makes this link explicit but tweed male commitments to fighting to defend the country and political rights. Again only full man and as a result of pallets initiative you do get very briefly in corsica before the french move in and occupy the most democratic society at least in siri in the eighteenth century world being created. So that's one of my island sites pitcairn which you mention is another of them differ part of the world south specific tiny place where hms bounties mutineers finally end up and in eighteen. Thirty eight the pitcairners acquire a constitution a written constitution which is the first in the world to give women voting rights for the executive on the same terms as men again these stray tiny places but really important in the story. It's not just a story about democracy. Is it because there's a. This is almost parallel story over this period. Which is the birth of modern democracy in some of these institutions and the tv just mentioned are radically democratic but they aren't all radically democratic. When i was reading your book i feel that the theme was inclusively. The seemed to be to be counted. This isn't included in some sense and particularly across religious divides or provides sometimes that king with democratic rights participatory rights. But sometimes it didn't so. How'd you understand that particular. Through the nineteenth century. The relationship between desire of the people have for written constitution. Establishing the rules of the game and the growth of democracy. One of the things. I wanted to stop. This was the historically an practice. These instruments could do very different sinks and to turn them into teleology of the widening reach of democracy and so forth misses a load of what they did in practice. Constitutions for example often used to determine or to claim geographical boundaries by emerging states. This is constantly happening in south america and very often people sort of see all these constitutions one after another in the same state in places like argentina in the nineteenth century and sometimes say we'll clears constitutions. Went very important because you they lost a long. But it depends what you think to do if these different constitutions are about constantly changing territorial boundaries or making new claims all extending rights to new people or not then a plurality of constitutions does not mean that ineffective it means said doing rather different sinks but yes constitutions can also be used to withdrawal rights or deliberately to exclude from rights and state constitutions in the united states constitution's in nineteenth century australia. You can see them becoming more strong. On white male democracy yes but explicitly at the same time being about exclusion saying no that land does not belong to mexicans. It belongs to us. Not native americans not going to pay taxes but death will of coast Have political rights which means that we could take that land. They have no redress oviously. Women will not have political rights it and sometimes it said well. This didn't really matter because after all women have had rights very much earlier but once you have something put down. in a mass-produce text in was in print. It becomes harder to change the constituencies that these instruments are being used to exclude an marginalized. This is as much apart off the story. As the spread of democracy. He like talking. Politics is brought to you in partnership with the london review of books until for that reason. It's also story about by empire and this is a great age of imperial expansion so to go back to that other corsican napoleon bonaparte so you have a section about napoleon a deeply ambivalent figuring this story both a spreader of constitutions establish a of constitutional rules unknowns and also in his way a tolerant up and we shouldn't be surprised by that. I'm again think it's an accident that he comes from cosa cut he about pilot. Who was desperate to impress. When he was a young man will make e sunniness about powerless. Seventeen fifty five constitution..
WGN Radio
"asia africa" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Certainly, Peter, you know we're reading the survey of approximate 2000 tripled customers in April of this year and learned that you know 97% are planning a trip in 2021, with the top reason being a vacation. And you know when we look at PS days, you know record airport screening. Both certainly are surprising to us based on the survey because more than half of respondents That they'd be ready to fly domestically by June, and one third of the travelers are planning to take a trip. They had to reschedule due to the pandemic and of those 8%, you know, plan to sail away on a reschedule cruise. Right. And then one of the other findings I thought was interesting is that 97%, you know, are trying to figure out how to cash in those vouchers. Those those like We talked about that earlier than the show with both senators from Connecticut and Massachusetts who've been writing the CEOs of the airlines saying that please refund their money. Mm. Because a lot of those vouchers is a limit to how long you can plan to catch him in because they have expiration dates. Absolutely. That's certainly something we're staying out. Well, you know in the marketplace is well in terms of how important it is to track and re utilize. You know, all those airline credits were for last year when comparables canceled trips. And do you see any transistor where they're going? You know, we actually did eight in a survey in regards to um you know, this survey specifically looked at, you know, domestic, You know, travel. And certainly domestically in the US on one of our previous surveys as well, we did this year. You know the top destinations within the U. S. Or Hawaii, Florida, You know, Arizona, Colorado and California. Um, you know, for for international destination, Certainly people's bucket list or, you know, Europe, Asia, Africa and, you know Australian Zeeland. And of the top destinations in Europe. Really? It's Italy, Greece, France, Spain and that Scotland. So no, the usual suspects. Absolutely right. Correct. They are the usual suspects. And then comes the gray area and the gray area, which is really, you know, put into the spotlight again. This week is vaccination versus no vaccination on by where that limits you or whether you're not going to go in all or whether you believe in it. What did you say they find on that? You know, there's certainly a lot of lots of factors on go out question. The vaccine rollout has been a driving force for many people wanting to travel. You know, our survey showed that 57% of travelers you no need to be personally vaccinated to feel comfortable flying. Which which outranks the 37% of travelers who need herd immunity to feel comfortable, And we also learned that 68% of vaccinated respondent. I have already booked a trip since getting their shot or plan to do so soon. Well, that tells you everything you need to know people were ready to go. Absolutely no without question. Yeah, I think for so long, you know, Peter be expected to say that you know, we've been zoomed in for so long that many of us want to zoom out, You know, part of the prime Well, I have. I have a personal survey that I'll share with you. And that is as we begin to travel again, and we stopped doing many of those zoom calls. If I were going to speculate on the buying commodities on the stock market, I'd be buying pants futures. Because people gonna get up and go away the minute I have to wear pants now, and they won't be able to fit into the pants They already had. Because they've gained so much weight sitting home on the zoom calls. They're gonna have to get a new wardrobe. I'm telling you. I mean, I have no insider information here, but it's an obvious choice. Here. We're gonna go get pants. That's a serving you didn't You didn't do that survey, Ralph. But I did that survey its pants. Well, thank goodness this is a no voice only, uh, podcast. Quite honestly, Rounds Go look a thought Leader of conquer And of course trip it. Thanks for sharing the survey results with us. And in the meantime, Ralph, be honest. Now go get some pants, okay? Absolute. There will be. No, thank you so much, Peter. Alright. Thanks, Ralph. Back with your calls and your e mails right after this..
Democracy Now! Audio
"asia africa" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"But because the country has been a place of repression in for the last years of these governments and these has led to the murder off the leaders and now we have this crisis where Up to yesterday we had one thousand seven hundred and more victims of police violence. Amelia can you give a sense. Why do you think the government has responded. The security forces have responded so brutally to these protests. Well we cannot be sure of why this is happening. There is obviously as some kind of often norm. That he's that he's going on inside the closed doors of the of the police force but we kinda sure that the government has said that. The that the borough dust is in the view the mets. We can't say that the government has been calling protesters terrorists and these has obviously a led to more violence. This is obviously these scores of violence coming from our government and these. We don't know if it has a direct consequence on the police vitamins but he's obviously is not helping. Stop it and tuesday. The colombian president yvonne duquet addressed the nation with an action is presented outside the framework of the constitution that affects people's rights. As i have always done. I will not accept it in any way corresponds to the rule of law. We will promote all investigations internal with the control bodies so we have to be clear to those who work for the security of colombians all our support and at the same time all our expectation i want to announce that we will create a space listen to citizens and truck solutions oriented towards those goals. Were most profound patriotism differences intercede. That's colombia's right wing. President event duquet manuel. Rosenthal is joining us as well in the central part of columbia. You've been out in the streets Can you talk about what it looks like. They're what happened on wednesday and how these protests have grown to include protests. A police brutality inequality poverty. Yes good morning. Amy and it's wonderful also to be here with a million from tim laura's they've been doing a fantastic job the most reliable job during the during these circumstances in the country i'll summarize these for people to understand colombians are fed-up seven thirty three percent of the people in this country approved the strike before it started and it has only grown since then and how it feels like it feels like there is a massive uprising in this country that nobody runs and nobody controls there's no vanguard leading this although many organizations and unions and organizations have all the strength into this this is contained massive national uprising against and. I'm not exaggerating. This is not a political rhetoric against the fascist mafia regime. It is a varies are assassin massacres. In colombia throughout the country after the peace agreement with baracuda sign counted by the thousands there are also a impoverishment of the people the hearst healthcare system doesn't work we didn't have a healthcare system prior to the pandemic the pandemic has only made this a lot worse. There is a direct attack against the four indigenous people afro colombians throughout the country. They they ongoing impoverishment. But here's what's happening. That explains everything on the one hand. The colombian elite and government linked with drug trafficking drug trade. That's way we say. Mafia the returns of money from drug trade columbia produces ninety two percent of the cocaine that he goes around the global market forty percents of which is not going to the us anymore but to euro-asia africa cetera. There returns so that are equate more or less amount to moralist. Five percent of the national product so there are millions and millions of dollars coming into this country that goal to the elites that permeate all the institutions that support not this government which is all right but state that has been privatizing excluding the four and using a policy of violence in war against people that has led to the army and the colombian police to become private institutions at the surveys of corporate interests. Both transnational extractive industries and drug trade. So this is what is happening. In the country the colombians foreign that is sixty percent of colombia's national product and growing and that amount of debt is actually has been created by these elites but when these elites can paid they channel a tax reform on the poorest that are already dying of starvation unemployment and policies of privatization and generalize violence so they have pushed colombians into the streets because most colombians have nothing to lose a meet. Today's after the strike began the colombian national statistics institution with well known to money. Pilate information to serve as the government couldn't cover up the fact that unemployment poverty have growing inequality have grown in such a way in columbia in cities like kali were. That's the center of the uprising. But it is held for most colombian so while the colombian government speaks of removing the tax reform. The minister that proposed it and actually opening for dialogue. This is just a cover up. In fact we have a fascist regime that has ordered the police to shoot and kill former president alvar waleed. Who's actually the president of colombia and the strong man of this country as stated based on the theory of alexis lopez in neo nazi from chile. That he's teaching military university in columbia. That there is a molecular revolution going on without leaders and so the population being manipulated by a global leftist conspiracy ease leading to the instability of the regime and they must be crushed by force so they have ordered the armed forces the police to shoot to kill but not only that worse from that they have ordered to shoot and kill anybody everybody everywhere so during the day you have a party here for stability of people marching peacefully singing chanting and one thing change because we're fed up with a regime and then at night the police the armed forces and then hit come out target people and kill the so what we're facing right now is the promise by the duca government the administration the police forces and the armed forces of assassinations out and finally just to give you an overview colombian president has used the constitution of columbia allows for a state of exception were the army can be called to assist the cities if needed but that is for a major earthquake in national catastrophe but he has used to call on the army to enter the major cities of these countries so impact bogota kelly marine are under the control of the armed forces. The mayors elected mayors have no power at the moment the cities are overrun by the armed forces. And the commander in chief of the armed forces involved in the past in false positives has promised the wealthy that it will crush the rebellion. The ones side people that want to change that one freedom that can't stand anymore poverty war terror for an elite that he's enriching itself beyond belief and on the other hand. You have if fascist regime that has promised to crush these until everybody in touch. Rosenthal if you talk about. You've just said that. Major cities in colombia have been a are now in a controlled by the military. Do you expect that more. Parts of the country will come under direct military control. Yes yes absolutely. I mean there has been unintentionally in the past in previous protests and mobilizations. These exact same script in november of two thousand nine hundred nineteen president a call for a dialogue and to him for him. Dialoguing is meeting with the far-right political parties. Then the liberal party's then colombian national government institutions and eventually after six eight ten months. He will meet with a popular movements. There was a national strike of students in this that lasted months. Just the protection for education as a right president Duke it met with my luma and singer. Rapper and he did not meet with the students. In the meantime he continued to murder them so we are absolutely convinced that we are advancing towards a military control of the entire country while he's rhetoric he's one of dialogue and he will remove one or two ministers etc and a piece of legislation that he will actually implement in another way. We do not believe in. We know we know. Fascism is advancing in columbia. And amy with your question if this is not stop in. Columbia album is admired by the newly elected. President of ecuador is admired by pena in chile admired by bolsonaro in brazil. You will have a fascist wave in this country so if president biden and his government are not just rhetoric. They have to show that they are not going to support. And the only the only force and power that this country response to is the united states and government in particular has always knelt down to us policy. So i can say openly and clearly to those listening to us if the us stops this. It will stop position. Fascism if it doesn't they are incompletely with what is happening.
A New Direction
"asia africa" Discussed on A New Direction
"Include. At microsoft ace hardware nfl network. Ea sports yuki activision jet blue anymore. He lives in florida with his wife and his his two sons. And his young son and to bernie. Doodles name pause and waylon jennings ladies and gentlemen. Please welcome to the show and welcome to new direction nearby. Schon welcome near. Thanks for having me man. Excellent intro by the way thank you thank you. I appreciate that. That's been something we started as the very beginning of the show three years ago and It's something that has caught on with a lot of guests that come onto the go. You know what. I actually had guests said. I'm stealing that. Put it on my show. Yeah it's food for thought it kind of sets up the table. If you will kneel you're about t- let's talk about this creator mindset because the creator mindset is not something that we think about and you know you talk about. You're going to talk about this. But we kind of have a misconception of what we think. Creativity and being creative is Because we talk about this in the book the creator mindset that You know so often we. We pair creativity with art which is just such a bad thing to do. But you start the book and the introduction that there's a crisis this is what you said you said there's a crisis occurring in most businesses. Chris today and that crisis is a stark lack of creativity. The fact remains that the vast majority of people today are operating at after half of their potential. Let's let's let's start there and let you kind of expand that a little bit further. Yeah definitely so. I feel and i've seen this. You know i've i've had my own businesses. I've run businesses for others That we are not really using our full potential as human beings especially in our businesses and our products and services. Were just not using our full god-given potential to evolve houston hannity to the next level. What ends up happening is. We don't have that cure for cancer. We don't have the woman landing on mars. We don't have the amazing potential that humanity has uae because we haven't taken creativity an elevated it to that same level of analytics and you know i forgot what the numbers were there in the book but you have most businesses failing within a few years of starting ryan. You have a lot of people unhappy in their career path. A lot of businesses. You know wondering how they can get to the next level. How can they make more sale and for me. All of this boils down to at some point. It all boils down to the fact that we need to become more creating. so let's talk. Let's talk about creativity with stuck about chapter one By the way the book is divided up into four sections folks. It's it's a fabulous book About chapter when it's called creativity for non creative people and you said the first and most important step in this process of believing everything about creativity can be learned. This is an interesting place to start with. That creativity can be learned. Why is that such an important part for the creator mindset. So i feel that everybody would born creative everyone every man woman and child and i've actually done research about it looked outside the us. Southeast asia africa Problem solving attributes of children are always creative.
BBC World Service
Extinction: Freshwater fish in 'catastrophic' decline
"$6 billion in Asia. Three major nature conservation organizations have warned that nearly a third of freshwater fish are risk of extinction. Freshwater fish provide the main source of protein for 200 million people across Asia, Africa and South America. Is Helen Greeks. More than half the world's Fisher found in lakes, rivers and wetlands from carbon Mino two giant catfish. They face a number of threats, including pollution on sustainable fishing on the damning and draining of rivers and wetlands. Conservation groups say 80 species and known to have become extinct 16 in the last year alone. According to the WWF, much of the declines driven by the poor state of rivers,
KCRW
"asia africa" Discussed on KCRW
"A culture we have to change. I mean, we have to change. These are things that really probably should have never existed in the first place in the world, maybe shoulders what he missed man and I'll be your skipper for the next 2.5 months as a brother, Jungle cruise Reminder, Biscuit ball, your hands hard steed and lights inside the boat at all times. The short guided riverboat ride takes guests on a winding cruise across Asia, Africa and South America. At the very end is one controversial part. An indigenous man holding up several shrunken heads. Rollins College English professor and Zimmerman says that's not the only one she studies. The story's Disney tells its guests on rides like the Jungle Cruise. They had the union Jack flying in the boat. Right. And you have these, um, colonizers getting attacked by a tribe of indigenous people. In part of the original narrative, updating rides based on evolving cultural norms isn't new, And it isn't new for Disney, Audie Millman teaches theme park and a traction management at the University of Central Florida. Several years ago, a show in the Pirates of the Caribbean or seen removed a scene. Depicting a woman being sold as a slave, Norman said. If anything, technology and a nationwide reckoning around race are speeding these changes in June, Disney announced a new theme for Splash Mountain after 20,000 people signed an online petition. The original ride is based on the movie The song of the South, which draws on caricatures of enslaved black people, and they want to stay. Contemporary. They want to stay current and not to offend anybody. And, as you probably know, social media is a very, very quick way to criticize any type of experience. Theme park is not a time capsule, says Rick Menorahs and economic analyst with the Motley Fool, he says, while Disney himself embrace progress and built it into his company's business model, Menorahs says Even if some fans are upset by these changes, they won't be for long. They succumb to it. You know, they could be angry about the change at the Pirates of the Caribbean ride a couple years ago, but they're on the right again. They're having fun. Back a Disney Springs. Corey Shining says he's excited to take his grandson on the jungle cruise when they return, even if it's different from how he remembers it as a kid, we should all be evolving and doing those.
90.3 KAZU
"asia africa" Discussed on 90.3 KAZU
"Storm and some of the stuff that he could ride for his first time, so they had to skip the jungle cruise at the Magic Kingdom because it was too crowded. He's heard about the changes to the right to make it more inclusive for guests, and it's something he welcomes. As a culture we have to change. I mean, we have to change. These are things that really probably should have never existed in the first place. That looks good. What do you want the world maybe shoulders what He missed man. And I'll be your skipper for the next 2.5 months as a brother took over his minor biscuit while your hands are still have legs inside the boat at all times. The short guided riverboat ride takes guests on a winding cruise across Asia, Africa and South America. At the very end is one controversial part. An indigenous man holding up several shrunken heads. Rollins College English professor and Zimmerman says that's not the only one she studies. The story's Disney tells its guests on rides like the Jungle Cruise. They had the union Jack flying in the boat. Right. And you have these, um, colonizers getting attacked by a tribe of indigenous people. In part of the original narrative, updating rides based on evolving cultural norms isn't new, and it isn't new for Disney. Andy Millman teaches theme park and a traction management at the University of Central Florida several years ago, a show in the Pirates of the Caribbean or seen removed a scene. Depicting a woman being sold as a slave, Norman said. If anything, technology and a nationwide reckoning around race are speeding these changes in June, Disney announced a new theme for Splash Mountain after 20,000 people signed an online petition. The original ride is based on the movie The song of the South, which draws on caricatures of enslaved black people, and they want to stay. Contemporary. They want to stay current and not to offend anybody. And, as you probably know, social media is a very, very quick way to criticize any type of experience. A theme park is not a time capsule, says Rick Menorahs and economic analyst with the Motley Fool, he says, while Disney himself embrace progress And built it into his company's business model, Menorahs says. Even if some fans are upset by these changes, they won't be for long. They succumb to it. You know, they could be angry about the change at the Pirates of the Caribbean ride a couple years ago, but they're on the right again. They're having fun. Back a Disney Springs. Corey Shining says he's excited to take his grandson on the jungle cruise when they return, even if it's different from how we remembers it as a kid, we should all be evolving and.
KCRW
"asia africa" Discussed on KCRW
"We have to change. I mean, we have to change. These are things that really probably should have never existed in the first place in the world, maybe shoulders. What mister and I'll be your skipper for the next 2.5 months has a brother who's a minor whiskey while your hands are still likes inside the boat at all times. The short guided riverboat ride takes guests on a winding cruise across Asia, Africa and South America. At the very end is one controversial part. An indigenous man holding up several shrunken heads. Rollins College English professor and Zimmerman says that's not the only one she studies. The story's Disney tells its guests on rides like the Jungle Cruise. They had the union Jack flying in the boat, right. And you have these, um, colonizers getting attacked, Um By a tribe of indigenous peoples. In part of the original narrative, updating rides based on evolving cultural norms isn't new, and it isn't new for Disney, Audie Millman teaches theme park and a traction management at the University of Central Florida several years ago. Show in the Pirates of the Caribbean or seen removed a scene. Depicting a woman being sold as a slave, Norman said. If anything, technology and a nationwide reckoning around race are speeding these changes in June, Disney announced a new theme for Splash Mountain after 20,000 people signed an online petition. Original ride is based on the movie The song of the South, which draws on caricatures of enslaved black people, and they want to stay. Contemporary. They want to stay current and not to offend anybody. And, as you probably know, social media is a very, very quick way to criticize any type of experience. The theme park is not a time capsule, says Rick Menorahs and economic analyst with the Motley Fool, he says, while Disney himself embrace progress and built it into his company's business model, Menorahs says Even if some fans are upset by these changes, they won't be for long. They succumb to it. You know, they could be angry about the change at the Pirates of the Caribbean ride a couple years ago, but they're on the right again. They're having fun. Back a Disney Springs. Corey Shining says he's excited to take his grandson on the jungle cruise when they return, even if it's different from how he remembers it as a kid, we should all be evolving and.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"asia africa" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Ones like that. On storm and some of the stuff he could ride for his first time, so they had to skip the jungle cruise at the Magic Kingdom because it was too crowded. He's heard about the changes to the right to make it more inclusive for guests, and it's something he welcomes. Um As a culture we have to change. I mean, we have to change. These are things that really probably should have never existed in the first place in the world, maybe shoulders what he missed me and I'll be your skipper for the next 2.5 months as a brother, Jungle cruise Reminder biscuit while your hands are speed and lights inside the boat at all times. The short guided riverboat ride takes guests on a winding cruise across Asia, Africa and South America. At the very end is one controversial part. An indigenous man holding up several shrunken heads. Rollins College English professor and Zimmerman says that's not the only one. She studies the story's Disney tells its guests on rides like the Jungle Cruise. They had the union Jack flying in the boat, Right. And you have these, um, colonizers getting attacked by a tribe of indigenous people. In part of the original narrative, updating rides based on evolving cultural norms isn't new, and it isn't new for Disney. Andy Millman teaches theme park and a traction management at the University of Central Florida several years ago, a show in the Pirates of the Caribbean or seen removed a scene. Depicting a woman being sold as a slave, Norman said. If anything, technology and a nationwide reckoning around race are speeding these changes In June, Disney announced a new theme for Splash Mountain after 20,000 People signed an online petition. The original ride is based on the movie The song of the South, which draws on caricatures of enslaved black people, and they want to stay. Contemporary. They want to stay current and not to offend anybody. And, as you probably know, social media is a very, very quick way to criticize any type of experience. The theme park is not a time capsule, says Rick Menorahs and economic analyst with the Motley Fool, he says, while Disney himself embrace progress and built it into his company's business model, Menorahs says Even if some fans are upset by these changes, they won't be for long. They succumb to it. You know, they could be angry about the change at the Pirates of the Caribbean ride a couple years ago, but they're on the right again. They're having fun. Back a Disney Springs. Corey Shining says he's excited to take his grandson on the jungle cruise when they return, even if it's different from how he remembers it as a kid, we should all be evolving and doing those.
Newsradio 700 WLW
"asia africa" Discussed on Newsradio 700 WLW
"Hi de Hey, Money News is on the way. Here it comes. The Bloomberg Market minute on 700 wlw. Here he is. Just Dillinger. All right, Jeff International Monetary Fund is raising their outlook on the world economy. Yep, they global economic growth forecasts for 2021 looking better. The organization says the worldwide recession caused by the pandemic was more shallow than previously estimated. The I M F is betting that vaccines and fiscal stimulus from governments will get things moving again, even though the rate of covert 19 infections is increasing at the moment. The new forecast is for the global gross domestic product to soar 5.5% this year the U. S. GDP is expected to grow 5.1% Everything's coming up Roses, Jeff everything Looking better? Certainly. All right. The pandemic has put more Americans, unfortunately, below the poverty level. Yet has economists from two university say the end of 2020 saw the sharpest rise in the nation's poverty rates since the 19 sixties. The study found that the poverty rate jumped 2.4% of the second half last year. That meant that another eight million Americans are now considered officially poor. All right, then Walt Disney is overhauling a couple of rides. What happened? Well, the jungle cruise rides that it's Florida and California theme parks are being changed. The ride's simulate a cruise down rivers in Asia, Africa and South America. Image is regarded as insensitive to racial or gender stereotypes will be replaced. And Splash Mountain, which was inspired by characters from Song of the South. Also getting a makeover at Disney. Oh, good joke where the future stand. They are mixed ahead of the Tuesday session. Lesson P Futures are up three points. NASDAQ futures are down seven. Dow futures are up 54 points from Bloomberg. I'm Jeff Hullinger, a news radio 700 wlw..
KOA 850 AM
"asia africa" Discussed on KOA 850 AM
"You. Black eyed peas most likely originated in Africa or possibly Asia. Probably. Africa. Probably still debated because they're taxonomic Name suggests they're from Asia. But records seem to indicate they were growing in the wild in Africa prior to their existence in Asia is always we know that the names of things Can always be trusted. Absolutely. Yes, but, yeah, different people at different times of thought. Asia Africa Mysteries history. They were domesticated in West Africa at least 5000 years ago, and they've been cultivated since prehistoric times and Tropical Asia and especially in what is now India. Ancient China grew them too. They are related to the monkey. Hmm. One of our interviewees from New Orleans. Dr Jessica be. Harris wrote an article over at The New York Times about the history of black eyed peas. That was super helpful for all of this totally go check it out. If you're interested. She also has a lot of books. Way highly recommend you about all kinds of this stuff, all kind of stuff that we're talking about, Um, ancient Greeks and Romans preferred the black eyed pea to the Czech B, apparently apparently Interestingly, black eyed peas have been considered a lucky food to eat on New Year's for a long time, at least as far back as 500 c E. When the Talmudic mentioned the eating of black eyed peas for Russia, Shauna the Jewish New Year, Some historians believe that Sephardic Jews brought this tradition with them when they immigrated to the United States and records but the first wave of Sephardic Jews in Georgia by the 17 thirties. This is around the same time records of black eyed pea suggest that they were plentiful in that area enough so people started going on field. These the name cow Peas also popped up around this time. Allegedly. They got their name because of their association as animal feed, particularly for cows. There you go, but That's one version these names, County and field he could have originated much earlier with the common practice in Africa of planting the peace along the border of fields to help manage the weed, population. 45 soil and stems and leaves gave cows something to second. Yeah, the leaves and pods are considered like a really good livestock sick. Hmm. Sounds good. E don't know why I believes I love even leaves so weird thing to say. But I love that every time we find out Oh, you could actually the leaves of this. Yeah, I'm like. Oh, right. Yeah, I know. Right? Yeah. Alright. Oh, and also some accounts suggest that Egyptian pharaohs eight black eyed peas to grant them Ability. Okay, so yeah. Who knows? The black Eyed pea arrive to the new world from West Africa as part of the slave trade, perhaps arriving to the West Indies first and then migrating through the American South, the first written records, But the Black Eyed Pea in the Americas by 16, 74 1 historian wrote, quoted from Dr Harris is article everywhere. African slaves arrived in substantial numbers. Cal Peas followed. Prior to the Revolutionary War, they became one of South Carolina's biggest cash crops. And while they were at first relegated as a food for the enslaved for white people, or as animal feed, they did start to make their way into the diets of middle and upper class Americans. Mary Randolph 18 24 version of the Virginia housewife featured a recipe of fried field pea Patties, huh? Yeah. As with most Southern food, several accounts of the traditional Southern New Year's meal, posit that it spread during the civil war after union soldiers plundered Confederate food supplies but left behind the pork and the peas, believing that they were animal feed, or in the case, the pork salted pork, they might not have really cared to have it. In popular retellings of this version of events, Confederate soldiers felt lucky to have access to these foods when provisions were scarce. Especially during the winter it. Another story posits that black eyed peas represent the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. The first New Year's after the Civil War ended was the date they were officially granted freedom. Some records suggest that some men even put black eyed peas in their wallets for prosperity. Keep the money next to the money. Of course. Sure. Why didn't I think of that? Yard radio is the number one destination for podcast Discovery. Find this show and more on the free I heart radio app when his radio time is 2 30, the US now at 20 Million Corona virus infections one year after the virus first appeared.
In The Thick
Cant Deport a Movement
"What's up. Welcome to the podcast about politics. Race and culture from a poc perspective money. Sam and i'm lorella joining us as a special guest. All the way from brooklyn is a daas. She's an immigrant rights lawyer professor at new york university school of law and co director of the. Oh so important. Nyu immigrant rights clinic alina. Welcome to in the thick. Thank you so much for having me. You are the author of the recent book. No justice in the shadows. Which is what we've been saying. You know people in the shadows is not a good thing for democracy and your book you write that. Roughly three hundred thousand people are formerly deported from the us every year with a million more turn back. Just you know. Within the border area you talk about how the immigration criminalization and deportation systems are intertwined desire to maintain the racial status quo in other words the white supremacy and white majority of this country. You talk about how the use of the terms like criminal alien one of our favorites. Yeah falsely separates immigrant communities into categories of good versus bad right. And we've also had this presidential election where one candidate didn't denounce white supremacists and in this mist of a nationwide protest for black lives and a pandemic that has disproportionately affected black and communities following the election right. it was declared that joe biden had one right. Donald trump who previously had said. He wouldn't commit to a peaceful. Transfer refuse to concede and his allies started referring to vote as what a surprise quote legal or illegal and they especially tried to discredit the vote counting in cities with large black populations detroit philadelphia atlanta. This idea of like even votes now becoming good and bad legal and illegal criminal or non-criminal. It just permeates throughout our entire electoral politics so alina. Can you talk about how the immigration system has been set up to protect a particular type of immigrant absolutely and this is one of the things i focus on in. The book is really a historical perspective. Because we're told that our country is a welcoming country in that people who face deportation must be facing this. Because they've broken the law. They violated the laws where the laws are actually written and the foundation of the laws are designed to treat immigrants a- suspects to exclude them and to exploit them and we know this from the very origins of this country right there first naturalisation law that congress row because the constitution required them to come up with a universal naturalization law was limited to free white persons that's the foundation of our rules about membership in belonging and we police migration in this country initially focused on black people an indigenous people right so for the first century when voluntary immigration was mostly why congress was focused on fugitive slave laws that allowed black people to be removed from free state's to slaveholding states and the indian removal act that allowed indigenous people to be removed from their ancestral lands to make room for property white man and those are the tools that congress picked up on when it decided to focus on immigrants because they had chinese immigrants arriving in large numbers but eventually that led to the national origins quotas where we explicitly used racism to decide who could get a visa a spot in this country and mexicans in particular were actually exempted in order for southern businesses to use them for cheap labor so instead of excluding them that's why in the nineteen twenties southern segregation has proposed criminalizing unlawful border crossings. So that when people's labor was no longer needed they could be easily police imprison than deported. And that's the legacy of our immigration laws and while we may have gotten rid of the national origins quotas in nineteen sixty five. We replaced it with a system that essentially perhaps immigration including mexican immigration for the first time to twenty thousand nieces when hundreds of thousands of people have been going back and forth and the laws created this kind of undocumented population at created this false sense of illegality and as a backlash to legal immigration suddenly coming from asia africa. The caribbean you saw this rise of law and order policies nineteen seventies eighties war on crime. The war on drugs suddenly treating immigrants as criminals. And that's really what's laid the foundations for the modern immigration system today where police have been taken over as essentially immigration agents to create a pipeline for deportation and that replicates all of the racism that we see in policing generally and combined so that immigrant communities kind of double ranked in their communities.
The Naked Scientists
Where Did COVID Come From?
"The story that we've been told is that the coronavirus cancer bats and jumped in humans sometime late last year at seafood market in the city of Wuhan. China. It's a neat tail, but the problem is nobody actually knows whether it's true and the evidence is mixed, which is why the World Health Organization said over the past few months there has been a lot of discussion about the origins of Covid nineteen. Or preparations have been finalized and experts will be traveling to China this weekend to prepare scientific plans with their Chinese counterparts for identifying the. Sources of the disease the WHO's director. General Federal. Gabriel's speaking there back in. July. The two people that the WHO, which just the advanced party for a much bigger group of scientists leaving soon for hand to start asking hard questions from the WHO Micron, the answers to these questions are sometimes elusive, and it is quite a detective story to find the source and the intermediate pathways by which the virus can breach that barrier to humans. We spent decades trying to do that any bola we spent years trying to do that with Merce and Sarah's it takes time and it does take meticulous multi sectoral approach to this and. We don't know where that species barrier was actually breached. This is very important because unless we understand like anything if the walls of your castle breached, you need to know where the breaches because you can fix and repair that breach. You can make sure that that is strengthened for the future. So we need to understand was the the track of this virus from the wild animal kingdom directly into humans directly through farmed animals directly into a marcus. When Mark Two hundred, we have to keep an open mind science must stay open to all possibilities. In. This program were exploring the. The evidence and the gaps in the evidence will I hear how the virus might have got from animals and into people will talk to scientists who are questioning the time and place it actually emerged and address whether the virus could have actually come from lap. On the very last day of Twenty nineteen China reported an outbreak of a strange pneumonia in cluster of people with links to the local who on live animal and seafood market two weeks. Later, the cause of the onus was identified as a new corona virus. Now named Saws Covy to the causes the syndrome known as COVID. Nineteen. Since. Then thousands of scientific papers have been published on the outbreak including the genetic sequence of the virus which confirms its close relationship to Corona viruses carried by bats, and therefore also gives us a clue as to where this vars came from Dennis. Carroll heads the Global Viral and project the Coruna viruses first and foremost are a family of viruses. We estimate there between four and five thousand different corona viruses and virtually all of the ones that we've discovered to date about two hundred we found in bats in different parts of the World Asia Africa, and in the Americas. Bats well, we don't know why bat except that bats are able to host viruses like corona viruses without themselves, having any adverse effects, and they will periodically shed these viruses in their feces or in their saliva. So they represent sort of an ideal host because a virus when it doesn't affect another animal, the last thing want to do is to kill the animal off its speaks to its own demise as well. So they've developed a very sympathetic relationship with bats over the Millennia. Are you saying that bats of the origin and when you get corona viruses and other species, it represents a jump from a bat into that species at least at some point in time. Well, I. Let's be very clear. We don't have a definitive answer as to how the COVID nineteen virus entered the human population but we've seen enough examples of the virus moving either directly or indirectly from bats that it's the most reasonable explanation. There was some initial speculation to be confirmed that Pangolin. Another wildlife animal that is a food source in China may have acted as a spillover agent, but more work needs to be done to really clarify exactly what the transmission route might've been. One other avenue to pursue is you read genetic code off of a virus and then you go looking in the database to see what is most closely related to because that can sometimes point you in the right direction of West something came from. Walt story emerges when we do that sort of analysis, many of the different corona viruses circulating in these geographic areas do in fact, have a strong genetic relatedness to the covid nineteen genetic profile. So it speaks to a pedigree shared pedigree. So if that's the case, then you make a case of the fact that these viruses are actually pretty common. You can find the across the very diverse patch of China. Why would they emerge in Wuhan? Well. The source is largely bats that are proximal to Wuhan City, and one of the things we know about bats first and foremost is that they have the ability to adapt and share. Living. Space with human populations and so what we've seen in Wuhan as an example, love high interactive dynamics between bat populations possibly again, secondary intermediary hosts with human populations. If we don't bring a human in close proximity to these infected animals, you will not get a spillover.
Morning Edition
Ethnic Studies: Born in the Bay Area From History's Biggest Student Strike
"Legislation earlier this summer that would require all incoming freshman at Cal State universities to taken ethnic studies class listener. Michael Variety asked our Bay curious team this question I've heard that there was actually a revolution in the Bay Area for an ethnic studies field. Is this true? And how did it happen? The short answer. Yes, it's true. Reporter assault A sonnet. Poor tells us how it went down during the longest student strike in US history. It was November of 1968. The US was 13 years into the Vietnam War. American soldiers hiking their way through the sweaty jungles of South Vietnam, searching for enemy Martin Luther King had been assassinated earlier that year, and the Black Panther Party demanded systemic change for black communities plagued by poverty and police brutality. That's what black students at San Francisco State wanted to bury. Proves to be a member ofthe last. This is Nesbitt Crutchfield. He started studying at San Francisco State in 1967 and soon joined the black student union. It was the very 1st 1 in the country. It was very clear to me that Black soon Union representative. Very progressive. Among black spoons at state among black students in the very but just a small percentage of black students went to SF State admission rates for minority students had dwindled down to just 4%. Even those 70% of students in the SF Unified School District for from minority backgrounds is a black person you expected for all intensive purposes. To be one of the very few black people in whatever classroom laboratory auditorium. The U. N was overwhelmingly white. Amidst that whiteness black students were hungry to study their own history. The black student union had been pushing the university to create a black studies department for nearly three years. But administrators resisted the idea. was an era of young people asking questions and want to transform their communities. Jason Ferreira is a professor in the Department of Race and Resistance at San Francisco State College of ethnic studies. And that impulse that That hunger to transform one's communities is actually what forms the basis of ethnic studies. It's around this time that Penny no. Okatsu was grappling with her own questions about race and identity. We want Asian Americans, then we were Orientals. An Oriental is a term that was imposed on us by the largest society, so starting to use the term Asian American was a way of taking back er. Our own destiny. Henny became a member of a student organization called the Asian American Political Alliance. It was just one of many ethnic student organizations popping up on campus and an early fall of 1968. These organizations banded together in formed a coalition, the Third World Liberation Front. And at that particular time, third world referred to the Non Aligned Countries are cultures in Asia, Africa and Latin America. It was synonymous with how we might use people of color today. English professor and Black Panther. George Murray was one of San Francisco state's most influential anti Vietnam organizers. Students loved Murray, but his outspoken politics didn't sit well with us of state administrators. The war in Vietnam is racist. That is the law that crackers like Johnson are using black soldiers and poor white soldiers of Mexican soldiers as dupes and fools to fight against people of color. In Vietnam. The board of trustees fired Murray over Comment like this one on November 1st 1968 5 days later, the black student union and the Third World Liberation Front joined together and went on strength in aspic, Crutchfield says Despite coming from different backgrounds, the strikers had a clear goal. I wanted to find out and be educated about ourselves, and we could not get that the nobody getting educated Initially, strikers did things like cherry bombs in toilets and check out tons of books at once in order to overwhelm the school's library system, But almost immediately, administrators invited police on campus. Jason Ferreira says they swarmed the school armed with five foot batons. Students responded by throwing rocks and cursing out the police. Police came down heavy hard, and they just began cracking skulls Strikers carried on anyway. Penny No. Okatsu was protesting on January 23rd 1969. In what many call the mass bust. Two lines of police came up and basically surrounded the over 500 people who were there for the rally and tracked all of the individuals who are part with that net police charged at students, Penny says it was one of the bloodiest and most frightening days of the entire strike. That was a military movement, literally a practice orchestrated military movement. Hundreds were arrested. Virtually all of the individuals arrested head Tio spend some jail time. There are real consequences to having participated in that event. It's up two more months. But eventually in March, administrators and strikers negotiated a deal after five months of protesting the school agreed to many striker demands. They promised to accept virtually all non white applicants for fall of 1969 and they agreed to establish a college of ethnic studies, the first in the country. Class is about communities of color. Ethnic studies is a way of embracing all of the cultures that make up not just this country, but with the world. And if we don't understand each other, how we're going to get along. I'm a solace on before the news For more details
BrainStuff
How Many Continents Are There?
"Two plus two equals four the world's Brown. There are seven continents on earth. But that last one isn't quite so cut and dried here. In the United States students learned that there are seven continents North, America. South America Europe Asia. Africa, Australia and Arctic. But that's hardly the last word on the matter and much of Europe students learn that there are six continents Africa. America Antarctica Asia Australia slash. And Europe. There's a five continent model which lists Africa. Europe Asia America and Oceana Slash Australia, and that's by the way why there are five rings on the Olympic, flag. And, some experts think that four is the way to go using as their criteria landmasses. Separated by water rather than manmade So Afro Eurasia America and Arca and. As recently as the eighteen hundreds, some people said there were just too. It's the old including Europe Africa and Asia and the new encompassing north and South America. So what really makes a continent continent? We spoke by email with Dan Montello. A geography professor at the University of California Santa Barbara he said nothing really determines a continent except historical convention, a bit of an overstatement, but mostly valid a certain factors make a landmass more or less likely to be called a continent at various times in history by various people, but nothing can be said to determine continent tally, a completely principled, non arbitrary way. Take for example, the vast country of Russia six point, six million square miles or seventeen million square kilometers a why has often been counted as part of Europe, rather than Asia Montello explained. The Euro Mountains are taken to separate Asia and Europe. But only because Russians wanted their great city of Moscow to be European, so the euros were a convenient marker for that arbitrary decision. Continents are mostly spatially contiguous collections of landmasses larger than countries, but smaller than hemispheres of course cotton's do not necessarily fit entirely within single earth hemispheres, and thus cannot be defined by ranges of latitude or longitude. Okay, so how about plate tectonics if certain landmasses are constrained to one of those massive shifting hulks? Can we safely call it? A continent Montello Says No. Quote Plate tectonics has nothing to do with it historically, and it certainly could not provide a principal basis for continents now. Nearly every continent includes parts of multiple plates. The. Same goes for climate after all continents contain multiple climates as evidenced by Alaska's Arctic. Chill compared with Florida's humid heat. They're both part of North, America. Mountain ranges and coastlines are useless to as our culture and politics. Montella said neither ethnicity race culture nor politics has ever defined continents except by conventional theories that were largely mythical such as old and fallacious ideas about correspondences between races and continents. Politically Hawaii is part of the US but is in Oceania rather than north. America Greenland is controlled by Denmark for now, but is considered part of the North American continent. So really it boils down to whom and when you ask Montello, said no one can say as a matter of principle fact, how many cotton's there are because the decisions are largely based on convention and convention that goes in and out of fashion over time, and is still debated today. He concedes these days. Many geographers would opt for a list of
Climate Connections
A horrific drought in the 1870s offers a warning
"In the eighteen seventies. A severe multi year drought caused widespread crop failures in Asia Africa and Brazil famine followed and resulting fatalities were comparable to a world war about fifty million people. Three percent of the global population at the time died deep deep Singh of Washington State University Vancouver studied the causes of this great drought. She says it was triggered by an unusual combination of events including an El Nino in the Pacific and natural variations in sea-surface temperatures in the Atlantic and Indian oceans which basically acted in concert to increase the severity of jobs in these regions. She warns that similar conditions could occur again and if they do human caused global warming is likely to intensify. The impacts of climate change is going to make that worse because temperatures Andraos are likely to continue to increase and become more severe even in today's modern economic system that poses a threat if multiple bread-baskets experienced droughts at the same time there could be food shortages especially in economically or politically vulnerable countries. And so it just has implications for local food security as well as global food security.
The Trader Cobb Crypto Podcast
Electroneum Is Alive And Well
"Okay? So we sell a couple years ago. Had Successful is CEO in that time when we started saying nobody renew quite how spicer is going to be waiting. Thought it was a very successful Huge community and we've had quite radically changing blockchain blockchain China. Unlike anybody else's don't use work we'd go to brought Janko proof of responsibility that we coined We have NGOs do all validation. Uh so that's interesting we partner with NGOs specifically because we some of the stuff we're doing on the ground in terms of twenty educate people to be able to through cryptocurrency. When they're on banked we enjoy to be perfect honest so it's really not sure or basically electronic? It's all about being a cryptocurrencies easy to use Barbara small five instant payments and Eight makes it easy to send value around the world very very quickly very low price point which gets the UN banked into a situation where they can earn money from Alice. Suppose that that such product really. It's not just about crypto. It's it's very empowering people that don't have it right now don't have the time abilities what you went on the viewers and listeners of watching this. I mean one the things I'm passionate about me and I was looking at a coconut coconut company in in the Philippines and what was happening with people paying the workers cash right. 'cause obviously there so that would have back then the word would go out there. And that would basically spend the money and whatever's left over the kids which would be significantly lower proportion of the actual income was with an bank system. I mean we're talking about bringing people to another level helping education as automated. Yeah yeah he has such wide ranging gene cut. Yeah well I know some people will dismiss cryptocurrency. But now you don't understand the doors unlock Ryan and once you get down that rabbit hole unexplained that they were really big use cryptocurrency from all perspective. What we said where is it really real pressing need and so we saw the unbagged has being that pressing need? I think that's been confirmed. Pretty much by FACEBOOK's Lieber project that's where we're going to talk and it's a massive massive mark one point seven billion people in the world but from our perspective but we don't really incentivize to learn any new scales if you've got nothing that you can use those skills to gain any extra money so it's a bit like when you're listening about calculus or whatever am I ever gonNA use your way. They'd be virtually anything if they're going to be subsistence bomb so actually if they can learn new skills fairly simple carry out just on their smartphone. Just start with a few quid building up enough money to perhaps boy a laptop that totally changes and any demographic so any countries that you sort of targeting the moment all the others we wrote down so so we go we go its data. You can buy directly from the electronic map a real time so you can buy a Duller top two dollars of your your your data directly an ATM. So we've voted out in South Africa Rodeo. In Brazil we got about ninety five percent coverage of the population in Brazil. So that's going really well. Wow we've goal will Turkey. We rolled out. And we've got loads of other countries that were just trying to get everything signed now and getting road out Lots of lots of places in Southeast Asia really interesting too often from the freelance economy Huge huge uses of that you mentioned the Philippines target for so in Brazil. Let's talk look through five percent coverage of ability to coach because I got a hundred million people and they say well I wouldn't say that I know electronially. Yeah we've got tens of thousands of new users a week coming in from From Brazil so we give away a little bit of electron you sort of reward for forgetting forget any voting the project. It's kind of all cost requisition for they come on a little bit like turn him off for maybe a month they could use a top at that point they realized actually this this has real value. Now that's pretty much the stage route but with furiously getting this piece of software finished Collini tasks which is the which is all platform for enabling enabling to sell a digital skill and we have another not for profit organization could task school. which is out there to to teach people at no cost some digital skills that they could selling incident and so what's revenue? How does it work what we're doing is we're pretty much in that twitter facebook page westbound just uses uses uses? Use It we. There are lots of different places we could add revenue stream in the future. And William tend to and we're not trying to do it so we've got a few BITs nonprofit. Yeah but that's so that we can work with NGOs without any hindrance the but the but they actually electric company can make money through Through the transport costs virtually free to send it around the world but we could very easily introduced a small fake. So that's that's one thing we could use and the second thing we could use these. The costs on the platform any tells so at the moment we are delivering one hundred percent of the value that straight through to the user so the person who does the job gets hundred percent most of the platforms out there around twenty percent plus so be very easy for us ten fifteen percent in the future and still be under the market so anytime has called right. Yeah yeah now. That's been ongoing. He's talked so you give them updates on that. Yeah sure sure so originally it was GONNA be Gig. GIG doesn't translate very well so we were out South East Asia. Africa GIG didn't work very well in terms of translation. Nice name. I liked it but we went off. More research ended up changing across to any tasks that is going to beat if not this month but so say certainly in Q.. Four twenty nine probably November. We'll get it into the first few hundred users on board at that stage and it's similar to sort of people our five or that type of freelancer platform. The enables people to list skill complete. And we've got some training courses this show people that actually there are quite a few skills you can do with fund don't you. You don't need to have a laptop you. Could you imagine access to meet you in from around the world and what we've done is really cool as well as we sell the company structure in a way that there's a ring fence company that doesn't do do we crypto and that enables its credit cards so the uses blanks digital agencies around. They can still buy your credit card could any other platform and then we go up a system where it goes off to a desk gets converted all kind of on the fly from pools a bit like transfer y so they were sitting there of posting of cash and he gets switch and route and then the person gets that. AT&T limits which they can cashier for various things at the other end interesting so I mean and the markets went up. A little tokens went a little treasury. Management didn't go on You guys still sitting pretty casualties. We've got We've now got maybe two and a half million euros in cash But we've got twenty five million dollars. Plus in in Treasury Rian Krypton so big more than doubled since the CEO and we kept it in exactly what we did and what we've we've raised in. bitcoin in a theory theory probably behalf of what it was but but largely we we might even have thirty million Treasury The account -posedly runs the scripture periodically. But it's Yeah we we didn't do anything on. Some people went off and did some fairly arcane fun of investments and try to make money out of it. We just thought you know what we raised in these things. We have a fight in cryptocurrency Stephen. bitcoin still ridiculously strong projects. Made sense to keep it in. Yeah look that make sense as well. Good he's the but some Some money leftover because we look we. We saw the music off court heavily. Has that affected the progress of electronic Moving the full of the actual total value having decrease so much as many of the other top. Yeah I think sentiment has been difficult. I think that's that's been the hardest thing from my point of view. I would like to have seen its value. Be At least where it was when people perched in the first ingest tips. So I'm not crazy crazy one point And and who knows what. We were very difficult because I thought lawyers are lawyers talk about price in any way but We we haven't really started spending those funds on promoting yet because we thought there's no point if we just started promoting two years ago. which is one of these guys? Have done tokens go promoting their money promoting to the cryptocurrency world specifically because they just want people to buy more of it but making the project project was nothing so we got all of our technology stack in place and we'll very very near to the completion. At which point advertising those projects out to people. We've got some. We've spoken number times about really big deals when we've got some really big deals but best so difficult to pull together but one of those will drop especially once we get one of the bigger NGOs come out to say. Hey Look we support. We've had three NGOs already come out saying we're in. I support the electronic project and running invalidates in those so. We're still seeing to edge into that sort of Much more Commercial Commotion Wishes. We're much much more valuable. Suppose something legitimate yeah. People people are starting to understand. Actually these guys are doing something different. And they're doing something something's GonNa Bring Change
Todd and Don
Global climate protests begin in Australia before UN summit
"A wave of worldwide protests is under way to many governments do more to fight climate change boxes Simoneau and live in London Chris the rallies began in Australia. tens of thousands of people many of them students coating full reforms. who denies the simple global climate strikes are planned in a hundred and fifty countries heading west through Asia Africa and Europe the full culminating make to a New York had a climate summit to the
Monocle 24: The Menu
A Culinary Tour of Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis
"Hello and welcome to food neighborhoods on monocle twenty four. I am articles hippie all various the local salah for their food and drink offerings and in this series we get these places this week we had two hutu faubourg santoni in the heart of paris's tenths out of this more more nicholson suggest phil mccord's takes on a coronary tour of a street that has long been a door to buy parachutes. Anthony wants to kings passageway back into paris falling trips to the basilica of santa. Ni foster would a few hundred years and blow t might not be the first thing that springs to mind when it comes to the area slightly rough around the edges malone different coaches a microcosm of paris itself. If you will combining influences insist from asia africa and of course france the area's unique mixture of people is brought exciting food and drink businesses by the bucket load making it a popular antidote antidote to some of paris's more well known addresses phobic santoni just below gardiner your point venture to the city from charlotte goal airport and the eurostar falling your travels. You probably have what i saw. It is worth taking a quick detour till the point grow an ivy. Don't bretagne style tavern. That's just a short walk away from the busy street surrounding the station. If the weather is pleasant i would advise ordering a traditional bretagne sida applause of shocker trio so let's take a seat outside. He can enjoy with views of the nineteenth century san culture. Now you're refute you can take the ten minute strode onto rufo books anthony. You are on holiday though the way you may get distracted if you do it advice being distracted by the masha couvert santa power says managed to protect his indoor food markets and as a result they remained relatively untouched trans- don't really hold any sway in these establishments mean. You won't find any watering the price south tattooed street food here in its place stews from all over the world the ninety brilliant role produce but cook it to as a result is a place you could easily visit just cheese and lee four hours later alarmingly before beautiful books anthony's no particularly long road however has a numerous passages that branch off housing a wealth of hidden gems one such place the coup depite jackie is a perfect place to stop far from the fast paced buzzer the surrounding area. This tiny cobbled street laundry relaxed bars restaurants else if you're trying to imagine it pitching delic postcard image of paris and you're probably be quite close. It's attracted slightly. More family orientated crowd than the rest of the road eight so it's a lovely place to have relaxing drink. Oh two and just soak in the surroundings. It's about time for more food now. Though for a classic french bistro with a modern twist fifty two folks anthony is a real neighborhood favourite the food menus typical of a french bistro in that there are just a few choices of dish per course a positive for the parentally indecisive vice amongst us. The restaurant doesn't take reservations however it says continuously from eight a._m. Until midnight so finding a place for you shouldn't be a problem now the community institutions is you less. They have a row of shops from number fifty four to sixty that showcases the best in french food and drink freshly baguettes temporary breast to french wine chocolate and cheese. It's the kind of business you dream of having on your doorstep but some way your wallet and waistline is probably very thankful that you don't after gazing show for punch chef of wine at drink might be on the agenda next progressive something to eat than changing. It is definitely worth a visit. It's an archetypal neighborhood that has been given another lease of life with new onus making the most of the beautiful interior and rubber impressive full mccann talk bar. It's definitely a place to be seen very popular in the evenings with powers young and fashionable now if you enjoy evening as the locals do then a visit to earth durham durham is a must. It's a kurdish sandwich shop that specializes endure. It is a flat bread. This is road and baked right in front of you and is then filled with freshly grilled meats and salad. Don't just take my word for it though the keys out the door say more than i ever could. If you'd like to combine your cuisine with culture and get your durham to take away a short strove to the bottom of the road will allow to admire the towering put sentani older sibling of the auditorium and the grant waite andrew colin retail even even though royalty may not frequent vodafone books under knee anymore. It remains true that in this part of paris it is still possible to enjoy feast fit for a king for monaco. Oh i'm charlie film core.
UN News
News in Brief 19 July 2019
"This is the news in brief from the United Nations. Let's start with the weather because we've just had the hottest June on record according to the World Meteorological Organization or W._M._o.. Both land and sea surface temperatures were the highest yet recorded last month. One point seven one degrees Fahrenheit or not point nine five degrees Celsius above the global average these unprecedented temperatures which surpassed previous highs in June twenty sixteen happened across central and eastern Europe northern. Northern Russia Asia Africa South America the north Indian Ocean and parts of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans using global data w also says that nine of the ten warmest Junes have occurred since twenty ten the impacts of these high temperature's include wildfires in the Arctic Circle and unprecedented shrinking sea ice the U._n.. Agency says while also pointing out that the northernmost permanent settlement on earth which is called alert in Canada reached seventy degrees Fahrenheit. That's twenty one degrees Celsius for the first time in recorded history this week to the Democratic Republic of the Congo now or d._r._C. where the World Health Organization said on Friday that the Ebola virus is just one challenge among many facing in communities there it has reiterated an appeal for the international community to show support and solidarity for its people speaking in Geneva spokesperson. Dr Margaret Harris noted that measles has already killed more people this year than the Ebola outbreak. Outbreak which began last August it's not top of their agenda. They'd like could Rhodes. They'd like clean water. They'd like to know that their children can reach their fifth. Birthday are not die from measles according to W._H._O.. More than two thousand people have died from measles in two thousand nine hundred while the Ebola outbreak in Ituri and North Kivu provinces in the country's northeast has claimed at one thousand seven hundred and five lives in addition to measles and malaria and a lack of basic services since early June will the. Three hundred thousand in the resource which will hit provinces have been displaced by violence linked to armed groups according to U N Humanitarian Coordination Agency Archer and finally more than half of Venezuelan families who've left their country amid economic economic and political turmoil face what the refugee agency U._N._H._C._R. Calls specific risks while they're on the move after speaking to nearly eight thousand people this year in Latin American countries and the Carribean the agency says that more than six and ten. Unemployed or working informally while four in ten faced problems finding accommodation more than three in ten also said they had no permit to stay in the country where they are sheltering while U._N._H._C._R. Spokesperson Liz Russell noted that the region's asylum application application system remains overwhelmed it is clear that we have seen in some places increased border restrictions more rigorous requirements for Venezuela to enter a particular country that as we frequently underscored does increase the risk of.
Fierce and Flawless: The Female Project
Can We Finally Solve World Hunger?
"Put you know, a label on it. You're fighting to solve world hunger. Yes. I mean, but also how we can actually impacts maybe over consumption of food is an issue to try to hear people's awards more sustainable more sustainable dies that are both good for the planet and good in goods the human bodies. And and it's quite exciting. Because I think it's it's really the time has come to kind of sea food and use food as and lens to view big issues that are affecting the world and so much attention on this issue right now. So I'm really really happy that I followed my intuition. And I I knew that I had to gather experiences from around the world in order to get here. So I didn't stay in Canada. But I I've been living working researching in Asia Africa Europe, Nelson North America. And that is being also part of my passion. Into to learn from other cultures to learn from other systems in order to understand the complexity associated with food food systems now, which is say that another cultures that you have seen people have a different attitude towards attrition that. We see North America are pretty similar across the planet. And how if you food. Oh, that's not always very shocking for me to come home to come back Canada. And And the relationships food is really dangerous in many ways that people get auction view who to energy and fuel, but it's so much more than that. And and I and I believe that the culture aspect and the enjoyment around food. There's a lot more attention on that. Now, of course. But still I think that people are rushing in the way they're eating eating poorly. They're getting the wrong kinds of foods. They're you know, impr- inappropriate for their bodies. All these kinds of things that I that I can see in in North America food was away. That people were connected. It was community it extended just beyond the, you know, the Neal dinnertime it was a way that people socialize in and told stories and connected with other human. Beings. That's something that I'm definitely on a mission to to mos- and have people kind of go back to to the days where we were actually able to enjoy food without pressure of time and stress and all these kinds of things the funny thing is that it's really a lot of the kind of the fitness industry in all of this kind of stuff that's pushing the, you know, food is just fueled food is just he'll because they're trying they're trying to break people's enjoyment from food to try to get out change their eating patterns, but it's so much more than that our personalities are in great to have so many experiences in our childhood and social interaction, certainly, you know, this from all of your traveling. But I think the biggest difference that I've noticed is actually in France. Anyway, you go the restaurant takes forever bring the food out. But it's meant to be like that there's lots of time between the courses free to have a chance to sit down and enjoy your meal, and it's you look around and people are shotting having time you little bites really. Bulging because a lot of French food. It's it's quite rich, but has enjoyed a nice nice good setting slowly. Instead of just kind of cramming down as you're running between business meetings. If you are the way to eat French people eat in North America. But with North American attitude you packing on the pounds. Pretty. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's that's one thing that I think were were now coming to realize the importance of the social social aspect around food, and there's a new body research that actually looking at that. And it's quite exciting to kind of understand that this is a parts of culture that we can't afford to lose. I think that we can learn a lot from other cultures end. I think why I I'm so excited with the work that I do is because I'm so naturally curious, and that, you know, you're constantly
The World
Is Climate Change Draining Nutrients From Crops?
"Looking at another few ninety plus degree days here in Boston and before the end. Of August more, carbon dioxide. In the atmosphere will fuel climate change for decades to come. As if. That's not enough here's another downside it's going to make the food we eat less nutritious there's a direct effect. Of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere on plants that's reducing crop nutrients that's Harvard. Scientists Sam Myers he co wrote a study published today in the journal nature climate change it found that hundreds, of millions of people could suffer from. Iron zinc, and protein deficiencies in? The, coming. Decades and that's because more carbon means fewer nutrients in staple crops around the world we're seeing on the order. Of roughly five to fifteen percent reductions in these very important, nutrients from colluding iron zinc and protein five to fifteen percent. You said is that a lot. Well yeah it turns out that It is but the only way to answer that question in a rigorous way is to ask how many people in the world. Are living relatively close to a threshold of nutrient deficiency and are also depending on these kinds of food crops for significant portions of the. Nutrients that they're. Getting and what we found is. Somewhere on the order. Of one hundred to two hundred million people around the world would be expected to fall. Into new risk, of zinc. And protein deficiency and that there'd be large large numbers of. People that. Would lose important amounts of their dietary iron as well which crops are we talking about here the crops that. Provide most of the calories in the human diet I mean things like wheat. And rice and soy and just about every crop that falls into what's called a c. three crop which essentially, is every single food crop that we. Eat except, for maize or corn? Sorghum, and. Some of the millet And I know you kind of separate the effect of. CO two on plants and CO two in the atmosphere but it is striking the people who are going to feel these effects, the most are the same people who are going to be most impacted overall by climate change people in the Asian subcontinent southeast Asia Africa the Middle. East why is that there's no question that the most vulnerable people in the world tend to be the poorest people in lower income countries will have the fewest sort of insulating layers, to protect them from these effects whether we're talking about more extreme storms or we're talking about increased exposure to infectious disease or we're talking about less, nutritional foods in this case the greatest risk is in India's South. Asia much, of Africa and the reason for that, is that those are places where diets are less diverse eighty percent of calories, in India's diet come from cereals and relatively low income people tend to have much lower, intake of animal source foods Which are rich in iron zinc in protein and can protect. Those people to some degree from these effects so it's it's not very diverse diet not very much animal source foods heavy reliance on cereals and then those cereals. Are losing key nutrients Sam did this study personally worry you Yeah I mean it worries me that hundreds of. Millions of people are going to be. Pushed into new risk of some pretty serious nutritional deficits but I also think there's an awful lot we can do so I think we. Need to, step, up our commitment, to doing research to reduce our vulnerability to these. Kinds of affects Sam give us a bit of. Hope here are there fixes, for this problem that crop researchers are public health officials are already thinking about another a variety of things we can do I mean obviously first and foremost. We need to start reducing our carbon dioxide emissions that's the most direct thing that we can do but in addition to that. There are all kinds of other areas for, research that could be engaged in one is breeding crops, that are actually less sensitive to this carbon dioxide effect there's work being done in bio fortification of crops. Meeting that you enrich those crops with, respect to certain nutrients are supplementing, diets there's an enormous, amount that can be done particularly in, the, most, vulnerable countries to encouraging increased, consumption Of foods like fruits and vegetables and nuts and seeds and legumes that would provide. Additional amounts of these nutrients so there are all kinds of. Promising and interesting areas for research but I think we really need to step up our commitment to doing that research where right. Now I think the global commitment is. Relatively tepid Sam Myers head of the planetary health alliance and a research at Harvard School of public health thanks for being with us all. Right thank, you, so much
Democracy Now
Chinese Goods May Face 25% Tariffs, Not 10%, as Trump's Anger Grows
"Dot or the warrant piece report I'm Amy Goodman President Donald Trump. Called Wednesday for his attorney general to immediately end special counsel. Robert Muller's investigation into Russian interference in the two thousand sixteen election prompting critics to charge the president is guilty of obstructing Justice, and a Wednesday morning tweets, storm Trump, wrote this, is a terrible situation in Terni general Jeff Sessions should stop this rigged. Witch hunt right now before it continues to stay in, our country, any further. Congressman Adam Schiff the ranking. Democrat on the house intelligence committee responded this. Is an attempt to obstruct Justice hiding in plain sight America must never accept it At the White House senior administration officials. Claimed Trump was merely expressing an opinion this is White House. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders Look the president is not obstructing he's fighting back the president is stating his opinion. He stating at. Clearly and he's certainly expressing the frustration that he has with the level of, corruption that we've seen from people like Jim Komi Peter Struck Andrew McCabe, President. Trump's call for an end, to the Muller, probe came on the second. Day of his former campaign manager's trial in Alexandria Virginia Paul Manafort. Faces eighteen charges including tax fraud Bank fraud and money laundering prosecutors told the jury Manafort hid much of the sixty million dollars. He earned from lobbying as an unregistered foreign agent on behalf, of pro, Russian Ukrainian, officials by stashing it in undisclosed overseas accounts witnesses, describe Manafort is spending lavishly from the accounts on cars, luxury goods home renovations even at fifteen thousand dollar ostrich skin leather jacket President Trump. Weighed in on the trial and a tweet suggesting Manafort. Is being treated worse, in jail, than the. Notorious Lobster Al Capone in south Texas the American immigration lawyers. Association says a. Migrant toddler who is separated from her family is part of the President Trump, zero tolerance border policy died shortly after being released from the Dili family, detention. Center he Houston-based lawyer Gani, tweeted the child, died following her stay at. An ice detention center as a result of possible negligent care and. A respiratory illness she contracted from one of the other children unquote last year lawyers with the ACO you and several other groups. Sued ice alleging it have been violating its own policy by, locking up, pregnant women, at Delhi and four other immigration jails the death, came as about seven hundred children forcibly separated from their, parents at the border have still not been reunited with them A federal court has declared. President Trump's executive order withholding funds from sanctuary cities in California unconstitutional however Wednesday's ruling by a three judge panel. On the ninth US circuit. Quarter of appeals will lift a nationwide injunction against Trump's crackdown on sanctuary cities a lower court is now slated to consider reimposing. That in Changcheng cities across California and then me and the other states, have passed sanctuary. City policies, barring local police from cooperating, with federal immigration agencies the New York Times reports that Trump. Administration's considering a plan to sharply. Reduce the number of refugees allowed to settle in the United States the plan which has the support of Trump's anti-immigrant senior policy. Adviser Stephen Miller would cap the number of refugees resettled next year to twenty five thousand forty percent drop. From the current cap the number of refugees allowed into the US by the Trump administration has slowed to a near trickle with The country already on pace to allow in the, fewest number of refugees since the federal refugee resettlement. Program was created in one thousand nine hundred eighty in Zimbabwe's capital Harare soldiers and police used tear gas water cannons and live ammunition Wednesday, to clear protesters who taken to the streets to allege Monday's presidential. And parliamentary vote was rigged at least three people were shot dead scores more left injured many of them film being beaten. By soldiers a spokesperson for the opposition party movement for democratic change called the violence and attack on democracy Deployment of tanks and fighting a fly munition on civilians porno apart in Greece Civilians are allowed to demand the specs of their rights, in an awful manner This order, may be dealt with by the police who are best trained for public quote Soldiers are trained to kill during war We. Are seriously to wonder what, this means are we in. War civilians the enemy of the state the deadly crackdown on protests came after election. Returns showed president Emmerson mnangagwa's ruling Zanu PF party. Is heading for a large parliamentary majority there's been no announcement, of a winner in the presidential race prompting international election observers to question the credibility of the vote in the Democratic Republic of Congo and new investigation by vice news bolsters evidence of. Ethnic cleansing of the. Haleema ethnic minority in the eastern province the violence began last December is hundreds of machete-wielding. Militiamen swept through areas west of lake Albert on Congo's border with Uganda about one hundred twenty communities were attacked with hundreds killed thousands. Of homes destroyed and. Some, three, hundred fifty thousand. People displaced investigative journalists Nick terse reports. The violence came after the US abruptly Support for peacekeeping. Efforts last year as part of President Trump's America first policies President Trump doubled down and his growing trade war with China Wednesday threatening. To increase tariffs on. A, range, of Chinese products. From ten percent to twenty five percent The tariffs would target some two hundred billion dollars of Chinese goods Trump launched a tit for tat series, of, tariffs, after talks with. Beijing broke down in may prompting what Chinese officials have called the largest trade war in economic history Google is preparing to launch a service in China that allow Chinese sensors to block. Search terms, about human rights democracy religion and peaceful protests that's, according to the intercept which reports the. Project codename Dragonfly was launched in the spring of last year and. Accelerated after Google CEO met with a top Chinese government official in December. In response Patrick, Poon of, Amnesty International told the intercept quote the biggest search engine in the world obeying the censorship in China is a victory for the Chinese government it sends. A signal that nobody, will bother to challenge the censorship anymore he said Amnesty International, says, hackers recently targeted one of its staffers and a sophisticated surveillance effort by a hostile government to Spy on the group's work the staffer who was working on a campaign calling for the release of jailed women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia received an anonymous message and our Beck and. WhatsApp smartphone, application the message was found to contain a link, that would install the malware program Pegasus. Developed by an Israeli cyber intelligence firm which allows a third party. To spy extensively on an encrypted phones calls photos and messages amnesty warns. The attack was, likely part, of a much broader effort to spy on activists in several countries across Asia Africa and Europe The Trump administration's. Cleared the way for insurance companies to expand their sales.
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Typhoid fever case reported at Quincy, MA daycare center
"Zero cd is so massachusetts daycare a daycare center north quincy massachusetts had to be closed the last couple of days because the child can out with a case of typhoid fever now identified but he had traveled recently sorry had not traveled recently and had not been believed will contract the illness at the daycare we'll talk about typhoid fever it's a salmonella bacteria but the massachusetts part of public health is working with bright horizons and the quincy public health department to help prevent the spread of the z so meanwhile teachers and other children attended the daycare are being tested children ages six weeks to five years here's all the tech center and typhoid could cost high fevers weakness stomach pain headache loss appetite and you usually get typhoid from contaminated food and water and it could be serious so especially when you have little kids now those travel to asia africa latin america are considered to be most at risk we have a lot of scoop on it here in the time that we have but it's caused by the salmonella in america serious types hi fi bacteria so there's also salmonella paradisea and the salmonella now there's a whole variety different salmonella this is not the same salmonella that we're concerned about what the aig salmonella outbreak apparently we've heard more issues with the aiglon trying to now i guess twelve more illnesses have been reported and it's it's a outbreak affecting now nine different states but there's a salmonella typhi and it's been really decreased markedly since the early nineteen hundreds back then tens of thousands of cases and now.