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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (173897)	6/28/2021 11:39:42 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217632

Re <<covid ...sars, H5N1, swine flu, HxNy viruses>> what about h1n1, specifically? :0) yes, am stirring the pot for a lighter moment it is down pouring in Hong Kong and has been for the past 10 days

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (173897)	6/29/2021 8:21:28 AM
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News item … bbc.com UN human rights chief calls for reparations over racism 12 hours ago Getty Images Michelle Bachelet launched the report after George Floyd's killing in the US The United Nations Human Rights Council has urged global action including reparations to "make amends" for racism against people of African descent. Its new report also urges educational reform and apologies to address discrimination. The findings cite concerns in about 60 countries including the UK, Belgium, France, Canada, Brazil and Colombia. The study began after the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, in US police custody in 2020. The findings say protests over the Minnesota man's death and the conviction of a white policeman were a "seminal point in the fight against racism". In a statement on Monday, UN high commissioner for human rights Michelle Bachelet called "on all states to stop denying - and start dismantling - racism" and to "listen to the voices of people of African descent". The UN's report is based on discussions with more than 300 experts and people of African descent and seeks to push nations to take actions to end racial injustices. It found that police use of racial profiling and excessive force was systemic in much of North America, Europe and Latin America. The report said racism was the biggest problem in countries associated with the former trade of many millions of Africans for slavery. The findings conclude that in order to achieve racial justice countries should "make amends for centuries of violence and discrimination... including through formal acknowledgment and apologies, truth-telling processes, and reparations in various forms". It praises Black Lives Matter and says the group should "receive funding, public recognition and support". Floyd family and Chauvin speak at sentencing Ms Bachelet, a former president of Chile, said reparations must not only be financial in nature, but include other "guarantees" to prevent future injustices. She said: "States must show stronger political will to accelerate action for racial justice, redress and equality through specific, time-bound commitments to achieve results. "This will involve reimagining policing, and reforming the criminal justice system, which have consistently produced discriminatory outcomes for people of African descent." Ms Bachelet welcomed a "promising initiative" by US President Joe Biden to address racial inequity, which involves attempting to level the playing field by treating racial groups differently based on perceived need. Sent from my iPad

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (173897)	9/12/2021 6:52:20 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217632

Re <<grief>> etc etc bloomberg.com Lukashenko Wants Putin to Send S-400 Missile Defense and Jets Ilya Arkhipov 12 September 2021, 23:49 GMT+8 Belorussian President Alexander Lukashenko said that he focused on military cooperation during eight hours of talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin last week. The meetings in Moscow included discussions of advanced S-400 missile defense systems, according to a statement posted Sunday on Lukashenko’s website. “Big volumes show how seriously we and Russian Federation take this Western direction, where we are very close to NATO troops,” Lukashenko told reporters after he attended Zapad-2021 joint war games. Lukashenko said S-300 systems were currently deployed to protect Belarus from the West, but he needed a more advanced system to secure his country’s southern border with Ukraine. Planned purchases could exceed $1 billion, according to the Belorussian state news agency Belta. Alexander Lukashenko Photographer: Evgeny Maloletka/Bloomberg Lukashenko said that by 2025 he wants dozens of new warplanes and helicopters from Russia. One problem: Belarus lacks the funds to pay for such deliveries. The Belorussian leader said that he explained to Putin where he wants to deploy S-400 systems, and that Putin ordered his defense ministry to initiate discussions with Minsk. The leaders touted the week-long joint war games that kicked off Thursday. The Zapad-2021 maneuvers are taking place in both Russia and Belarus, and involve as many as 200,000 troops, as well as 80 warplanes and helicopters, 760 of armored vehicles and 15 ships, according to Russia’s defense ministry. Military PresencePutin will oversee the effort on Monday by visiting the Mulino shooting range in Nizhny Novgorod, about 400 kilometers (249 miles) east of Moscow, according to the Kremlin. Other participants will include India, Mongolia, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Russia is stepping up its military presence in Belarus by deploying Su-30SM fighter jets for joint patrols. Anti-aircraft missile forces also began joint missions along Belarus’s western edge, which borders the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, according to the Defense Ministry in Minsk. Vladimir Putin Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg While Belarus has so far resisted requests to host a Russian base on its territory, the drills come amid heightened tensions in the region. Poland declared a state of emergency after accusing Belarus of using asylum seekers as a weapon following increased traffic across the border of migrants from Iraq and Afghanistan. Fellow NATO allies Latvia and Lithuania are locked in a similar stand-off with Belarus over migrant flows into the EU states. Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal. LEARN MORE

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (173897)	9/12/2021 6:53:45 PM
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Let's see who chips in how much and guess at why bloomberg.com Germany Urges $12 Billion Crisis Fund Ahead of Afghan Conference Birgit Jennen 13 September 2021, 02:38 GMT+8 Germany called for a 10 billion-euro ($12 billion) United Nations fund to address humanitarian emergencies, a day before a UN conference to rally aid for Afghanistan. Development Minister Gerd Mueller said international aid should be shifted to focus on crisis prevention, according to an interview with Funke Media Group. A humanitarian crisis is building up in Afghanistan with half of the country’s population in need of aid, he said. “With a UN emergency aid and crisis fund of 10 billion euros, we could look ahead and prevent deaths worldwide from hunger and lack of medicines,” Mueller was quoted as saying. “What’s needed are precautionary investments.” Afghans are suffering from the Taliban’s violent rise to power, severe drought and the coronavirus pandemic, he said. He called for quick international action to maintain basic services in Afghanistan. Europe is eager to avoid a repeat of the 2015 refugee crisis caused by the Syrian war when more than 1 million migrants entered the European Union. The EU has floated a 300 million-euro plan to resettle about 30,000 refugees inside the bloc, including from Afghanistan. Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal. LEARN MORE

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (173897)	9/12/2021 6:55:38 PM
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more <<grief>> bloomberg.com North Korea Says It Test Fired New Long-Range Cruise Missile Yueqi Yang 13 September 2021, 06:34 GMT+8 North Korea said it successfully test-fired “new-type, long-range” cruise missiles on Sept. 11 and 12, ratcheting up tensions on the Korean Peninsula. They flew for more than two hours over land and waters off North Korea in “pattern-8 flight orbits” and hit targets 1,500 kilometers (932 miles) away, the state-run media Korea Central News Agency reported. The missiles are a “strategic weapon of great significance,” it said. If the missiles flew as far as the report said, they would have a range to hit most of Japan. Last week, North Korea staged its first military parade since Joe Biden became U.S. president, with leader Kim Jong Un presiding over an event where displays of his state’s weaponry were scaled down from previous exhibitions and did not contain any missiles. North Korea has been building up its arsenal of ballistic missiles. This type of missiles typically flies in an arched trajectory and is unpowered on descent. Cruise missiles are powered through the entire flights that are typically at lower altitudes -- and they can be launched from ground sea or air, according to the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. South Korea’s defense ministry declined to comment on the KCNA report. The test comes as Biden’s nuclear envoy, Sung Kim, was in Asia for talks with his counterparts from Japan and South Korea. The report on the cruise missile launches, which KCNA said included tests of a “newly developed turbine-blast engine,” came just hours before Biden’s representative for North Korea, Sung Kim, was scheduled to meet with South Korean and Japanese counterparts in Tokyo. Also, last month the United Nations atomic watchdog said Pyongyang may have resumed operations at its plutonium producing reactor at Yongbyon. “It’s North Korea’s way of yet again reminding us that pandemic and all notwithstanding, the regime will continue to hold on to its weapons capabilities for provocation and coercive purposes,” said Soo Kim, a Rand Corp. policy analyst who previously worked at the Central Intelligence Agency. — With assistance by Jihye Lee, and Jon Herskovitz (Updates with more details from KCNA report.) Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal. LEARN MORE