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Not eating meat will create an economic and nutritional disaster

The conspiracy theory that eating meat destroys the planet contrasts with the reality of the nutritional imbalance that would result from limiting humans in the consumption of products of animal origin. It is not eating meat that causes damage to the environment, but rather, how it is produced, transported and sold. But meat has become a public target as more and more people advocate eating less meat to save ...Read full article...

UN Migration Accord: Behold the Collapse of Western Civilization

The invasion of millions of immigrants via the so-called U.N. Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration is the latest effort to collapse western civilization. Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, and Bulgaria will not sign the pact. Neither will the United States of America, whose President Donald Trump, took the country out of a preliminary version last year. Mr. Trump explained that many provisions in the accord are ...Read full article...

When you want to sanction States, you call them “terrorists”

The new unilateral sanctions by the United States against Iran, Russia and Syria add to the previous actions concerning the same three targets. They now form the most unforgiving embargo in History. The way in which they have been organised is illegal according to the definition of the Charter of the United Nations – these are weapons of war, designed for killing. or his visit to Moscow on 8 ...Read full article...

Obesity epidemic hits children as young as 3 years old

The US Department of Health has published its new recommendations on physical exercise and for the first time in history it includes the youngest members. The new document advises that children between three and six years do at least three hours of daily physical activity. It is not the first time that these recommendations are issued in the world. Although it is the first time they are issued as ...Read full article...

African status as the world’s technological dump threatens human health

One of the largest open-air dumps for technology products is located in Ghana, where people’s blood is contaminated with poisonous residues. There are people, including minors, who work there burning trash all the time to recover valuable materials or objects that could be reused. That high tech dump is not the only one that exists in developing countries, as reports and journalistic works claim. Most of the waste that ...Read full article...

China poised to control Israël’s agro-food and high tech industries

A free trade agreement should follow, and the geopolitics of the whole region will be turned upside down. Beijing continues unceasingly to develop its « Silk Road » project. China’s vice-President, Wang Qishan, has undertaken a tour of the Near East which took him to Israël for four days. According to the agreements which have already been signed, within two years China will control the major part of Israël’s ...Read full article...

The formidable coalition to defeat old colonial powers

The administration of the UNO had been hoping for a clash between the pro- and anti-Trump factions during the General Assembly. What actually happened was very different. While several States, including France, denounced the methods of the resident of the White House, Russia undertook an analysis of the Western alliance. According to Moscow, most of our current problems are due to the desire of the old colonial powers to ...Read full article...

Corruption is the worst enemy of Social Equity

It is tempting to blame the rich for social injustice. It is common to hear that the 1% richest people in the world attained their wealth at the expense of the 99% poorer. In reality, things are much more complicated than that, but can be simplified into one sentence: The filthy rich are so rich because the conditions that exist allow them to become so rich. In turn, such ...Read full article...

World hunger increases for the third year in a row

In 2017, 821 million people did not consume the minimum amount of calories for their daily activity. The number of people in a situation of famine increased with respect to 2016 by at least 15 million. The data collected by the UN Food and Nutrition in the World report confirm that the increase is not an isolated situation, because it is the third year in which the number of ...Read full article...

Global Poverty Index shows number of poor reaches 1.3 billion

The number of poor people equals the total population of China. According to the United Nations, of the 7.4 billion people that live on Earth, 1.3 billion live in poverty. The definition of poverty used by a recent UN study is not limited to not having food, or water or clothes to wear, but a generalized lack of the minimum conditions to remain alive. The study conducted by the ...Read full article...

Uncivil Behaviour Is Praised Now and This Is How Civil Wars Start

There’s something brewing in America since the last election and that is a complete lack of civility on all sides of the political spectrum. Uncivil behavior isn’t just widely accepted – it’s praised and cheered on. Hatred of one another is becoming the norm and this is how civil wars begin. A girl in California knocked someone’s MAGA hat off and slapped her teacher The examples are many. Just ...Read full article...

What about the dark side of being microchipped?

After a company in Wisconsin fitted each of their employees a microchip and claimed they absolutely loved it, many people were adamant that nope, no way, they’d never get chipped like a dog. Some people claimed religious objections (mark of the Beast) while others feel that their privacy has been already been invaded quite enough with the advent of “smart” technology and advertising cookies on the internet. If you swear to ...Read full article...

We’re Running Out of Resources Needed to Sustain Life on Earth

24 million to 700 million people will be displaced because of water shortages. 33% of the food produced worldwide is wasted, and a whopping 50% of the food in the US is lost. Have you ever heard of Earth Overshoot Day? No? Neither had I. It’s the day each year that we use up the resources that can be renewed within that year. This year, it was on August ...Read full article...

The imminent end of hostilities in Syria marks the defeat of Globalization

The people who have not understood this, particularly in Western Europe, are defining their own exclusion from the rest of the world. World wars do not only end with a winner and a loser. Their termination defines the contours of a new world. The First World War ended with the defeat of the German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires. The cessation of hostilities was marked by the elaboration of ...Read full article...