“Raise your voice, not the level of the sea” is the title of a podcast yesterday from Radio des Nations Unies. It is about World Environment Day, June 5. News of this has been “censored” in Duluth. I cannot easily find it in the Duluth News Tribune. My top find in the New York Times was a picture of a worker in India wading through recycled plastic bottles.
Is this “censorship” or lack of interest. I can certainly find many other references in English to World Environment Day.
My translation of the text that iTunes shows me for this seven-minute podcast is:
“Each year on June 5 millions of people across the planet celebrate World Environment Day, at the levels of community, nation, and region to promote a positive action on the most pressing environmental challenges. The host of World Environment Day this year is Barbados, …”
The top Google search item I found was http://www.unep.org/wed/, UNEP stands for United Nations Environmental Programme.
Barbados was chosen as the host for this year’s WED because it is considered a leader in solar power. See http://www.unep.org/newscentre/Default.aspx?DocumentID=2788&ArticleID=10851&l=en
BTW, WED is not going totally ignored in the U.S. I did see an item that Secretary of State John Kerry did make a statement about WED.
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Friday, June 06, 2014
Monday, January 27, 2014
Let's you and him fight!
“There are people who would love to see America fight their war for them,” Kerry said. “But that is not their choice.”
– "U.S. coming under fire from Mideast allies, who see retrenchment", Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times, 2014-01-24.
Finally, the U.S. is recognizing that it is not the world's policeman and it cannot stop every "bad guy" from harming the "good guys". Generally when we fight the "bad guys", many of the "good guys" resent the U.S. coming in and disrupting their country.
I often wonder why the U.S. has to "train" a government's soldiers and police in counter-insurgency or whatever. It seems the ragtag bad guys do quite well with AK-47s and IEDs than the government does with it more powerful weapons. Could it be that the soldiers and police are in it only because it is a job, they can extort people, and they really don't have much faith in the government?
I often wonder why we don't say to corrupt or ineffective leaders "Shape up or we ship out!"
– "U.S. coming under fire from Mideast allies, who see retrenchment", Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times, 2014-01-24.
Finally, the U.S. is recognizing that it is not the world's policeman and it cannot stop every "bad guy" from harming the "good guys". Generally when we fight the "bad guys", many of the "good guys" resent the U.S. coming in and disrupting their country.
I often wonder why the U.S. has to "train" a government's soldiers and police in counter-insurgency or whatever. It seems the ragtag bad guys do quite well with AK-47s and IEDs than the government does with it more powerful weapons. Could it be that the soldiers and police are in it only because it is a job, they can extort people, and they really don't have much faith in the government?
I often wonder why we don't say to corrupt or ineffective leaders "Shape up or we ship out!"
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