#guardian
Doubleplusgood Prolefeed from The #Fifa Teledep: War is Peace, Football is Love
Fifa announced on Saturday it was partnering with three United Nations agencies – the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the World Food Programme and the World Health Organization – to run social campaigns throughout the tournament.
The campaigns are as follows: [all tags untagged]
Group stage, round one: FootballUnitesTheWorld
Group stage, round two: SaveThePlanet
Group stage, round three: ProtectChildren ShareTheMeal
Round of 16: EducationForAll FootballForSchools
Quarter-finals: NoDiscrimination
Semi-finals: BeActive BringTheMoves
Third-place and Final: Football Is Joy, Passion, Hope, Love and Peace – FootballUnitesTheWorld
‘These are conditions ripe for political violence’: how close is the US to civil war?
"Elections have consequences, right up until the point when they don’t. On a superficial level, the 2022 midterms couldn’t matter more; American democracy itself is at stake. On a deeper level, the 2022 midterms don’t matter all that much; they will inform us, if anything, of the schedule and the manner of the fall of the republic. The results might delay the decline, or accelerate it, but at this point, no merely political outcome can prevent the downfall. America has passed the point at which the triumph of one party or another can fix what’s wrong with it, and the kind of structural change that’s necessary isn’t on the table. This is a moment between two American politics. The wind has been sown. The whirlwind is yet to be reaped."
"Either way, I’ll wager that a civil war featuring terrorism, guerrilla war and ethnic cleansing will be waged from sea to shining sea. In the end, race and racism will lead to another very American conflagration."
"But there is a potentially easy fix. Regulate social media, and in particular the algorithms that disproportionately push the more incendiary, extreme, threatening and fear-inducing information into people’s feeds. Take away the social media bullhorn and you turn down the volume on bullies, conspiracy theorists, bots, trolls, disinformation machines, hate-mongers and enemies of democracy. The result would be a drop in everyone’s collective anger, distrust and feelings of threat, giving us all time to rebuild."
#Guardian #USA #Democracy #CivilWar #BarbaraWalter #StephenMarche #ChristopherSebastianParker
Musk has floated the idea of splitting Twitter into different strands of content. He suggested that users select which version of Twitter they want, in the style of choosing a film based on its content rating. He also backed a user’s suggestion that the service splits into different video game-style modes, including a “player versus player” version, where verified accounts can hold Twitter spats. A user could assign a rating to their posts, which would then be modified by “user feedback”, which sounds like a Wikipedia-style approach to moderation.
Whatever.
Europe’s climate warming at twice rate of global average, says report
Finally the #FDP has been proven right! A speed limit on autobahns would no longer change a thing. Free speed for free people! They've made it.
Six years after Margaret Thatcher became prime minister, I got a job as a writer at a strangely dysfunctional government department called the Central Office Of Information.
By the time I left, seven years later, the COI was no longer the sole arbiter of what was and what wasn’t “objective information”. During the years they employed me, Thatcher had eroded this notion so effectively that we COI writers had little or no authority left. Advertising and public relations and lobbying agencies now clustered around Number 10 like flies over treacle, and the idea of truth had evaporated. Something got lost in those years. It is difficult to imagine the administrations of Tony Blair, David Cameron, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss without the preparatory demolition of the foundations that Thatcher carried out. Never again would our governments allow us the dignity of knowing the facts and drawing our own conclusions from them.
The local mob is showing aspirations: Putin loyalist Kadyrov criticises Russian army’s performance over Ukraine retreat
“If today or tomorrow no changes in strategy are made, I will be forced to speak with the leadership of the defence ministry and the leadership of the country to explain the real situation on the ground to them.
#ukraine
it seems that the #Guardian is restricting its policy about commentaries... anyway you can send a commentary which will then be checked and published (? where ?)
about #Ukraine #Taiwan #Nato #EU I recommend lostineu.eu ... always critical about this pathetic European response to the crisis ... and the commentaries are also worth while (use deepl ;)
someone in the commentaries linked to this article
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/03/taiwan-nancy-pelosi-visit-ukraine-us
another one sent a commentary to the Guardian saying this below... this is also my „feeling“...
and now back to the second series of #In_Therapy on #Arte ... (I can't stand this Lacan blabla ...but the rest....)
Yes, we are flirting with disaster – but not only for fun.
A I assume, future historians – if there will be any – will look back at the current sequence of events in a psycho-analytical way: “Western civilization, subconsciously knowing that it will not be able to agree on the measures needed to prevent global overheating, depending on a economical system that can only be kept alive by infusions of cheap credits, challenged with recurrent waves of pandemic diseases, decided to rather perish with a big bang than in a long decline.”
This thesis may read cynical. However being surrounded by multiple crises has always been harder to endure than discharging the tension in an act of violence. Hence the enthusiasm with which most Western media embrace the Ukraine war – making the audience feel on the correct side of history: Us or Them corresponding to Good or Evil. Pushing the past sins of Us into oblivion. Forgetting the other serious problems we face.
I hope the psychiatrist will interfere before this will become Purgatory.
At least some good things still occur, surprising as that may seem:
‘Incredibly promising‘ bubble barrier extracts plastic from Netherlands river
#Guardian #Pollution #Plastic #Environment #Oceans #Netherlands
Ukraine app captures thousands of videos that could help prosecute Putin
eyeWitness to Atrocities enables timed and dated recordings that cannot be edited, enhancing their evidential value