Courtesy of HuffPo:As we begin 2018, I am issuing a red alert for our world. I call for unity – our future depends on it. pic.twitter.com/fWtTa1irM3
— António Guterres (@antonioguterres) December 31, 2017
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres issued a grim warning as 2017 drew to a close.
In a somber video address posted to Twitter on New Year’s Eve, he cautioned that the globe was on “red alert” following a year marked by deepening conflicts and “new dangers.”
“When I took office a year ago, I appealed for 2017 to be a year for peace,” Guterres said in the clip. “Unfortunately, in fundamental ways, the world has gone in reverse. ... Global anxieties over nuclear weapons are the highest since the Cold War, and climate change is moving faster than we are. Inequalities are growing, and we see horrific violations of human rights. Nationalism and xenophobia are on the rise.”
Facing such challenges, Guterres said he was “not issuing an appeal” but a “red alert for our world.” Only international unity and cooperation, he stressed, could now help solve these many crises.
“I truly believe we can make our world more safe and secure. We can settle conflicts, overcome hatred and defend shared values but we can only do that together,” the U.N. chief said. “I urge leaders everywhere to make this New Year’s resolution: Narrow the gaps. Bridge the divides. Rebuild trust by bringing people together around common goals. Unity is the path. Our future depends on it.”
As you can read Guterres does not mention the Russian military buildup, and the back and forth between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un outright, but clearly that is the subtext.
In decades past the United States was expected to be the voice of reason in working to make the world a safer place, but now that we have our own out of control oligarch in office, we are now seen as perhaps the number one threat to the people on this planet.
When they coined the term "elections have consequences" I am not sure they ever envisioned consequences of this magnitude.
We are in a state of greed. Donald is like the devil who has opened the gates so that the demons can feed on our system.
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump repeated that news is fake. Now he's saying that there is no collusion with Russia. Be expecting to hear that until he makes it true.
ReplyDeleteWhatever Donald repeats over and over gets transmitted into the absorbent brains of the average American. That's how Donald is making great for he and his by repeating the reality he wants.
Just listen and you will hear it.
And women from HOLLYWOOD put businesses on notice! WOW!
ReplyDelete300 top Hollywood women reveal sweeping anti-harassment action plan with a $13 million legal defense fund
Hundreds of top Hollywood actresses and female executives, directors, producers, writers, and agents have launched a sweeping initiative to combat sexual harassment in workplaces across the United States, with a focus on blue-collar industries.
The initiative, called Time's Up, includes a legal defense fund backed by $13 million in donations to assist women in low-wage industries, a campaign to advocate gender parity among corporate leadership, and proposed legislation to push companies to adopt policies on harassment and discourage the use of nondisclosure agreements.
The movement specifically addresses a common criticism that the national conversation around sexual misconduct in workplaces has frequently excluded blue-collar women, who typically have less public influence and fewer resources to take on systemic abuse than Hollywood stars.
http://www.businessinsider.com/times-up-hollywood-women-anti-harassment-action-plan-2018-1
The Yearly: Workplace Behavior
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n97VkHP_2IM&pbjreload=10
Now this is funny! Get's right to the 'point'!
Donald Trump kicks off 2018 by creating two international incidents in one morning
ReplyDelete...Trump desperately wants a destabilized Iran, both because he needs the distraction from his own scandals, and because his puppet masters in Saudi Arabia want their oil rival Iran to fall into disrepair. Trump isn’t rooting for the Iranian protesters. He’s trying to goad the Iranian government into murdering them, so he’ll have an excuse for his own further aggression.
http://www.palmerreport.com/politics/crappy-new-year-trump/7071/
'...There are two reasons for this, one political, the other financial. Donald Trump’s failed presidency is on his itsl last legs. He’d love to invade Iran as a distraction, but he knows he lacks the political muscle to get away with it. Instead he’s hoping to help plunge Iran into civil unrest so he can make moderate Americans too afraid of the Iranian regime to focus on his own crimes. Trump and his family are also deeply in bed financially with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, who wants Iran destabilized so he doesn’t have to compete with Iran in the oil market. Trump is trying to get those Iranian protesters killed, so he can profit from it.'
Deletehttp://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/iran-protesters-donald-trump/7076/
PAKISTAN JUST RESPONDED TO TRUMP’S ATTACKS AND IT’S BRUTAL; ANOTHER RELATIONSHIP RUINED
ReplyDeleteIt seems as though Donald Trump’s impromptu rant about Pakistan has already caused some fury in the country. Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khurram Dastgir-Khan has taken to Twitter to fire back at Trump. The retaliation tweet read, “(Pakistan) as anti-terror ally has given free to US: land & air communication, military base & intel cooperation that decimated Al-Qaeda over last 16yrs, but they have given us nothing but invective & mistrust.”
http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/news/pakistan-just-responded-to-trumps-attacks-and-its-brutal-another-relationship-ruined/
Israel Just Issued Some Swift Justice For Trump’s Jerusalem Decision & Pence Is Angry
ReplyDeletehttps://bipartisanreport.com/2018/01/01/israel-just-issued-some-swift-justice-for-trumps-jerusalem-decision-pence-is-angry/
Mitch McConnell Rocked By Financial Corruption Scandal
ReplyDelete...Elaine Chao is a very wealthy individual, and has financial ties to many companies. When she was appointed to the Trump administration, in accordance with federal ethics guidelines, she divested from those companies. Mostly.
There’s one she didn’t divest from: Vulcan Materials. Chao chose to retain hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock options at the company, which is poised to profit massively from any infrastructure deal, especially with Chao negotiating from the government side.
Marketplace has more:
http://bipartisanreport.com/2018/01/01/mitch-mcconnell-rocked-by-financial-corruption-scandal-that-could-end-in-prison/
Kentucky pensions have also been decimated by Hedge Funds.
DeleteIf Kentucky was smart, they'd purge themselves of the lying, hypocritical Republicans that do NOTHING for them, starting with Bitch McConnell.
Alaskan snowfall patterns are the most dramatic the region has seen in at least 1,000 years.
ReplyDeleteChelsea Harvey, on December 20, 2017, writes in Scientific American about a study that has found that snowfall in Alaska has increased over the past 150 years due to climate change. Chelsea notes that the study found summer snowfall rose 49% since the mid-19th century, and winter snowfall has increased by a whopping 117 percent.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/1/1728944/-Alaskan-snowfall-patterns-are-the-most-dramatic-the-region-has-seen-in-at-least-1-000-years
Women are stepping up to run for Congress like never before
ReplyDeletehttps://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/1/1726457/-Women-are-stepping-up-to-run-for-Congress-like-never-before
2017: A Year in Resistance and the Road Ahead
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Rlb-PcJ_k&feature=youtu.be
Also at the state and local level.
DeleteThis country would do a lot better with more women in charge.
Man, there's 'red alerts' in all sorts of arenas. This one is for the corrupt GOP, and is great news for the Dems.
ReplyDeleteWhy the Republicans' Tax Cut Won't Save Them from Political Disaster
http://prospect.org/article/why-republicans-tax-cut-wont-save-them-political-disaster
And this is from a very conservative entity!
ReplyDeleteAn American ally was busted trying to sell oil illegally to North Korea — and it wasn't the first time
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/an-american-ally-was-busted-trying-to-sell-oil-illegally-to-north-korea-and-it-wasnt-the-first-time/
FOR TRUMP, A YEAR OF REINVENTING THE PRESIDENCY
ReplyDeleteIn ways that were once unimaginable, President
Trump has discarded the conventions and
norms established by his predecessors. Will
that change the institution permanently?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/31/us/politics/trump-reinventing-presidency.html
Tribune news showed recent a photo of trump waving with left hand from his car. His inside left wrist has major scar, burn or something? Looks abit odd. What could it be? Did he damage it somehow? The skin looks deformed.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/kim-jong-un-north-korea-completed-nuclear-forces/
ReplyDelete""The U.S. should know that the button for nuclear weapons is on my table,""