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Blog Post: IS VLADIMIR PUTIN MAD, BRILLIANT OR ...: Added by Michael Grove at 9:50 on March 2, 2022

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Comment on: Blog Post 'What does designing Light mean for an architect today?': off-grid areas to produce light. The gadget is an affordable, reliable and safe alternative to kerosene lamps, used by the 1.3bn people around the world living without access to electricity. The GravityLight, created by UK industrial designer Martin Riddiford and developed by Deciwatt, uses a 12kg bag, which can be filled with rocks or earth, threaded through a patented electricity-generating device to power a small light. It takes the device three seconds to lift the weight that powers it to create up to 30 minutes of light on its descent. “It has no batteries to run out, replace or dispose of,” said Jim Reeves, technical director of Deciwatt. It is hoped that the GravityLight could help users in the developing world to break out of the poverty trap by reducing their dependence on kerosene. The lamps will have different prices across different markets, but the aim is that the GravityLight will pay for itself once the switch from kerosene is made. …; Added by Michael Grove at 10:50 on April 7, 2015

Comment on: Blog Post 'Yalta Conference': already known that Dresden would be part of Soviet-occupied zone of post-war Germany. After the bombing of February 13 the Russians entered a city of burnt ruins and piles of corpses resembling, according to the memoirs of witnesses, fallen timber. So it seems the motive of frightening the Russians also played a role. . Just like Hiroshima, Dresden was supposed to serve as a demonstration to the Soviet Union of the power of the West. And in addition to power, a readiness to ignore all principles of humanity to achieve their aims. “Today it’s Dresden and Hiroshima, tomorrow it will be Gorky, Kuibyshev and Sverdlovsk – you understand, Mister Stalin?” Today we see this same cynicism manifested through the rocket attacks on cities of Eastern Ukraine. . Of course, everything was perfectly clear to the Soviet Union. Following the Great Patriotic War we had to not only rebuild destroyed cities and razed villages but also create a defensive shield. One of the most important lessons of the war was the commitment of our country and its people to humanism. The orders coming from the front-line commanders and supreme command were to not take revenge on the Germans. Not long before the bombing of Dresden our soldiers saved another ancient city from such a fate – the city of Krakow. . A very symbolic act was the saving of the collection of Dresden’s famous Grünes Gewölbe (Green Vault) museum by Soviet soldiers. The pictures were meticulously restored in the USSR and returned to Dresden after the city was rebuilt with the active participation of Soviet specialists and in part on our money. . People of the 21st century cannot forget about the ashes of Khatyn and tens of thousands of other Russian, Ukrainian and Belarussian villages, nor about Coventry, Dresden and Hiroshima. Their ashes continue to beat in our hearts. As long as humankind remembers, it will not allow new wars. . Source: The Russian Military Historical Society http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/remembering-dresden…; Added by Michael Grove at 11:07 on March 11, 2024

Video: Everybody talks about capitalism • but what is it? | Kajsa Ekis Ekman | TEDxAthens: ed. So what is this system? It has the power to transform rural societies into bustling urban metropoles in only a decade, foster innovation and new technologies - but one thing the system lacks is a plan. And as we face not only economic crisis, but a much bigger climate crisis, a plan is exactly what is needed. Kajsa Ekis Ekman was born in Stockholm 1980. She is a journalist and author of two books, "Being and being bought" about trafficking in women, and "Stolen Spring" about the eurocrisis and its consequences for Greece. Her books have been translated into several languages and she lectures around the world about crisis theory, women's rights and Latin American politics. She is a critic at Sweden's major daily Dagens Nyheter and an op-ed writer for the newspaper ETC. She is the founder of the climate action movement Klimax and the solidarity network NFG.…; Added by Michael Grove at 16:07 on October 28, 2019

Comment on: Blog Post 'ADDING the 'A' s to STEM ...': THAT IS indeed SO Heather - all power to The Metropolitan Museum of ART initiative.; Added by Michael Grove at 23:05 on December 9, 2014

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Comment on: Blog Post 'THE TREE AND HUMANKIND AS ONE': ts without the transparent accountability of proof against their promises has run its course. Now, the paradigm of power we’ve accepted as permanent is putting the people and the planet’s capacity to produce living systems in peril. Yet, the very roots of this economic reality of owners and the owned is challenged by the new technical realities of friction free transactions. Yes, the very transactions that cost us everything to pay back those who create economic instruments that cost them nothing are in question. What happens when we’re fully equipped to control both our means of production, distribution and exchange? When our sovereign identities are our global credit lines, our data is our own money, and our decentralised communication instruments are our own banks and governments? Does the paradigm of 300 owning more than the billions of the rest of us combined still hold? What power can owners hold over people who are free? #FreeYourLife Maybe what gets us through the confusion of this century shifts the story of us forward for the next millennia and beyond. So we’re working on making that next story of us real. Support us and learn more as we deliver new eyes and ears to see another world of possibilities within this #ONE. Ray Podder …; Added by Michael Grove at 10:33 on September 10, 2021

Comment on: Blog Post 'SUMMARY OF THE UKRAINE SITUATION TODAY': , officials have suggested that Vladimir Putin may use the May 9 holiday to repackage the war in Ukraine. Dramatic options include escalation through a formal declaration of war or general mobilisation – or de-escalating by proclaiming victory. Alternatively, Putin could offer up a “sandwich”, as one analyst put it, that praises the Russian army’s “victory” while preparing the population for a grinding and painful conflict as status quo. Ukrainian officials in particular have warned that Putin is planning to announce a mass mobilisation, or even to declare war against Ukraine, calling up personnel and resources that were untapped under Russia’s so-called “special operation” that began on 24 February.“Russia has already moved to covert mobilisation and is preparing to announce open mobilisation in the near future,” said Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, in an interview this week with the Ukrainian news outlet New Times. “I’m quite curious: how will they explain this to their own people?” Andrew Roth THE OBSERVER for THE GUARDIAN Since the beginning of the millennium, when Vladimir Putin took power in Russia, authoritarian leaders have come to dominate global politics. Self-styled strongmen have risen to power in Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Brasilia, Budapest, Ankara, Riyadh and Washington. …; Added by Michael Grove at 9:36 on May 8, 2022

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