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WILL BRAZIL RECEIVE JUSTICE FOR THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC'S POOR MANAGEMENT?

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President Jair Bolsonaro was charged with crimes against humanity by a Senate committee last month for the way he handled the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. On October 26, Brazil’s senate accepted the very last record of its research into President Jair Bolsonaro’s dealing with of the COVID-19 pandemic, exposing malign rules and substantial corruption. the primary conclusion of the six-month-long probe carried out by using the COVID-19 Parliamentary Inquiry commission (CPI) is apparent: The movements and screw ups of the Bolsonaro administration contributed to greater than six hundred,000 COVID-19-related deaths throughout Brazil to date, the second-highest general inside the global at the back of the united states. On average, 1 out of 347 Brazilians has died from the coronavirus. The fee heard extra than one hundred witnesses at some point of 66 sessions and tested a few 20 million gigabytes of digital statistics to hint the causes and effects of Bolsonaro’s decisions, which include hi...

BEYOND THE LOST DECADE IN SOUTH AMERICA

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The region is prepared to emerge from its lost decade, as seen by Xiomara Castro's triumph in Honduras. After the pink tide of innovative politics got here a brown tidal wave of reaction. The last few years of governance in Latin the usa have reeked of corruption, repression, and environmental degradation. they'll move down in records because the “Sewage Decade,” thanks to Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Ivan Duque of Colombia, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, Jeanine Anez of Bolivia and Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras. A number of these leaders are still in workplace. And Chileans may wade into the wastewater if they decide on right-wing populist Jose Antonio Kast, who acquired the most votes in the first spherical of presidential elections remaining month. however Chile notwithstanding, we'd sooner or later be seeing a few mild on the stop of this unique sewage tunnel. This week, Xiomara Castro scored a decisive victory within the presidential electio...

CAN PEOPLE POWER RESCUE THE PLANET AT COP26?

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 It's time for effective climate change action to quickly replace hollow talk. COP26! this is how commonly the UN has assembled international leaders for the conference of the events summit to try to address the weather crisis. however on the identical time, america is producing greater oil and herbal gasoline than ever. the amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) within the environment and worldwide temperatures also are nevertheless growing. to add to this, we're already experiencing the extreme weather and climate chaos that scientists have warned us about for 40 years, and with a purpose to simplest get worse and worse with out extreme climate motion. But the planet has, up to now, handiest warmed 1.2 stages Celsius due to the fact that pre-business instances. We already have the era we need to transform our electricity systems to clean, renewable power. Doing so would create millions of precise jobs for human beings all around the international. So, in sensible phrases, the stair...

FIJI'S WOMEN EXPERIENCE CLIMATE CHANGE FIRSTHAND

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 The COP26 debates are very far from the climatic reality that Fijian women are dealing with. On November 6, Brianna Fruean and other Pacific Islands representatives marched in Glasgow as all eyes are on the United Kingdom for the COP26 weather change summit happening this month. The cold streets of Scotland and its wintry weather are thus far removed from the truth of the Pacific that we, in the Southern Hemisphere, can neither fathom nor imagine the cold. unfortunately, the discussions at COP26 are similarly eliminated from the weather realities faced with the aid of Fijian ladies. The influences of climate exchange are now not simply an environmental or political trouble but additionally a complicated social hassle with colossal repercussions for the properly-being of girls, women and marginalized companies who already face injustices due to gendered electricity dynamics and a loss of control over using resources. studies have located that girls and women are 14 instances much m...

WHAT DEBT DOES THE NORTH OWE THE SOUTH REGARDING CLIMATE?

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Richer nations haven't kept their $100 billion promise to assist developing nations in moving away from fossil fuels. Where will the funding come from? To preserve the planet from overheating, there’s just so a whole lot greater carbon that humans can pump into the atmosphere. From the onset of the industrial Revolution until these days, humanity has used up about eighty three% of its “carbon budget”—the amount of carbon the environment can soak up and no longer exceed the Paris weather agreement’s aspirational goal of a 1.5C diploma growth in international temperatures since the pre-commercial generation. at the present day price of emissions, the budget will be used up within the subsequent decade. Equally troubling has been the distribution of those carbon emissions. “With just under 20% of the arena population, the global North has overconsumed 70% of the historical carbon budget,” notes Meena Raman, president of buddies of the Earth Malaysia and head of applications at 0.33 wo...

HISTORY IS ANNULLED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES' ANTI-RUSSIAN INQUISITION (AGAIN)

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When will New York Times readers start to protest the act of fabricating and disseminating news that is obviously inappropriate for publication? For as a minimum the beyond five years, The ny times has placed on show its overall dedication to highlighting and exaggerating any story that looks, in any manner, to implicate Russia in actual or imaginary crimes towards america, the Democratic party, CIA workforce, participants of outstanding American political families or selected strategic allies the kingdom branch unearths it handy to persuade, if not control. Russia’s very real and really illegal invasion of Ukraine has introduced about a huge intensification of this commitment. we have witnessed an impressive multiplication of articles meant to buttress Ronald Reagan’s 40 year-antique meme of “the evil empire.” it's miles an empire that was evil because it become a communist regime. Now it's miles evil in reality due to the fact it's far Russia. Like one of Lockheed’s su...

WITH A NEW YEAR, OLD NEWS

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We must evaluate both what needs to change and what is likely to change as we ring in the new year. It's probably too late to hold out hope that the media will alter its behaviour or develop the feeling of urgency required to properly address the genuine crises that need our attention as a whole, most notably climate change. As Father Time ticks off some other 12 months, it’s vital for everybody to understand that the inflation and deflation testimonies of our lifetime aren't the ones you watched!  let me begin 2023 with a glance back at a December news moment that caught my eye. To do so, but, I have to offer a bit of explanation. First, the obvious: I’m an old man and, although I spend huge components of any day scrolling thru endless web sites masking factors of our ever-changing global, i've a subscription — sure, it’s nevertheless feasible! — to The big apple instances. That’s the paper model of The ny instances. For those of you too young to recognize , as soon as ...