#Mogens Lykketoft

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Mogens Lykketoft gav en hånd med i valgkampen

Mogens Lykketoft gav en hånd med i valgkampen

Mogens Lykketoft er efterhånden blevet 76 år, men han tager stadig en tørn i valgkampen for Socialdemokratiet. Lørdag var han til stede i Fredericia, hvor han bakkede op om kandidaten Jens Jonatan Steen. Lykketoft gjorde ved den lejlighed opmærksom på, at de personlige stemmer på kandidaten er vigtig. Humøret var højt, og roserne og ballonerne var fundet frem i de røde farver. Socialdemokratiet…

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#01 #02 #Danmarksgade #Dkpol #Folketingsvalg #Gothersgade #Jens Jonatan Steen #Jyllandsgade #Mogens Lykketoft

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Supporting Israel 'becoming unbearable', says ex-UN chair

Israel’s “revenge” on Gaza was so “unbearable” that Western leaders letting it go on risked losing the Global South and their own voters, a Danish former president of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has warned. “We have never seen such a ruthless campaign, military campaign against the civilians in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Never. Never. Never,” said Mogens Lykketoft, the Danish…

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[genocidepreventionday]

Contribute to genocide prevention!

Remarks by H.E. Mr. Mogens Lykketoft, President of the United Nations General Assembly.

Our efforts to contribute to genocide prevention have been persistent. Following the founding of the UN, AJC worked with Raphael Lemkin, the Polish Jewish legal scholar who coined the term “genocide” and drafted much of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, changing the landscape of international law by not only establishing that genocide is an international crime, but obliging ratifying states to take measures to prevent as well as punish it. AJC collaborated with Lemkin, supporting his efforts to bring about the ratification of the Convention, making space in its national office available to him, and even, when it became necessary much later, providing the memorial stone for his grave. Following the adoption by the UN of the Genocide Convention, AJC and JBI advocated diligently for the United States and other countries to ratify it. In 2001, on the eve of the centenary of his birth and fifty years after the entry into force of the Genocide Convention, JBI published An Epitaph for Raphael Lemkin, a monograph by Dr. William F. Korey. At a launch event held at the United Nations, Secretary-General Kofi Annan acknowledged Lemkin, who had never been previously recognized by the UN, as “one of the unsung heroes of the international human rights movement.” Through its grants program, JBI commissioned studies on enhancing enforcement of the obligations to prevent and punish genocide articulated in the Genocide Convention and supported the production of one of the first textbooks to instruct undergraduate students on international human rights issues including genocide prevention. JBI and AJC advocated for and strongly support the UN’s Holocaust Remembrance Program and the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day activities carried out at the UN General Assembly, and JBI has called for genocide prevention to be a central component of Holocaust education. We have also championed efforts to promote accountability for the perpetrators of genocide. JBI and AJC advocated intensely for UN action in response to allegations of genocide in BosniaHerzegovina, Darfur and elsewhere. JBI engaged with the prosecutor of the international criminal tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and encouraged the development of investigative viii Preface and witness protection capacity, with a particular focus on the prosecution of sexual violence including rape. JBI has engaged with prosecutors and judges of the International Criminal Tribunal on the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Court in The Hague. JBI also worked to ensure adequate funding of the tribunals, including by convening an in-depth expert consultation with members of the UN’s Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions to press for adequate funding for the ICTY. A key focus of JBI’s efforts has been supporting the work of the Special Adviser to the UN SecretaryGeneral on the Prevention of Genocide, the first UN post to explicitly address and advise UN leadership on genocide-related issues. JBI strongly supported the establishment of the post and in 2008, at the request of the Special Adviser, JBI began its Genocide Prevention Project (GPP) of which this Manual is the most recent product, aimed at the central goal of deepening the world’s understanding of what it means to “prevent genocide” and when the presence of patterns of human rights violations triggers States’ responsibility to engage in preventive action.

#genocide-related issues #special adviser #Genocide prevention #Manual #International Day for the Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and for the Prevention of This Crime #9 december #GenocidePreventionDay #Genocide Prevention Project (GPP)

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Danimarka’yı fethetti

Tülin Şahin, Kopenhag’da ‘Sürdürülebilir Moda’ temalı iki ayrı defilede ‘Onur Konuğu’ olarak podyuma çıktı. Tülin Şahin, Danimarka’nın başkenti Kopenhag’da ‘Sürdürülebilir Moda’ temalı defilelerde; Danimarka Başbakanı Mette Frederiksen, eski başbakanlardan Mogens Lykketoft, Göçmenlik ve Entegrasyon Bakanı Kaare Dybvad ve eski Çevre Bakanı ve parlamenter Ida Auken ile podyumda yürüdü. Model, ilk…

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#Danimarka’yı fethetti

[toiletday]

Panel discussion: Toilets and Health: Better Sanitation for Better Nutrition.

Opening remarks by H.E. Mr. Mogens Lykketoft, President of the United Nations General Assembly at the opening of the panel discussion: Toilets and Health: Better Sanitation for Better Nuitrition, in observance of World Toilet Day 2015.

Opening remarks by UN Deputy Secretary-General, Mr. Jan Eliasson, at the opening of the panel discussion.

#Toilets and Health #World Toilet Day #Better Sanitation #19 november

[onthisday-gado]

JULY 10, #onthisday in 2016 (1 years ago): Portrait of Mogens Lykketoft, President of the United Nations' 70th Session of the General Assembly on the debate of the nominees for Secretary General, July 11, 2016. (Photo via EuropaNewswire/Gado/Getty Images).. @gettyimagesarchive More photos at http://www.projectgado.org/depthoffield

#History #Historical Photo #Mogens Lykketoft #70th Session #Horizontal #New York City #USA #One Person #Debate #People #Secretary-General #United Nations General Assembly #United Nations #United Nations Building #President #Portrait #Nominee #Human Interest #Event #Photography #Headquarters

[lesbiskammerat]

Har næsten lyst til at læse Mogens Lykketofts nye bog bare for at se hvad for en kritik det er, der gør Helle Thorning og de andre socialdemokrater så mopsede

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Mogens Lykketoft om CEPOS

Af Mogens Lykketoft CEPOS er en velhavende pengetank, der er fyldt op af velhavere, der ønsker at forblive uændret eller merevelhavende. Dér samles eller opfindes alle argumenter, der kan opfindes mod forslag, der kan mindsker dén ulighed, der er vokset grotesk både i de seneste årtier og i det seneste år. CEPOS’s hovedaktivitet er som bekendt altid at argumentere for lavere topskat, og derfor…

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[sbahour]

What an exciting conversation tonight with the 'Pieces for Peace in Palestine' project in Denmark!

I was honored to share the virtual stage with Mogens Lykketoft, former Foreign Minister of Denmark and chair of the Danish Parliament and President of the UN General Assembly.

This young group of Danes was on the mark in their questions and excitement to act in the struggle for Palestinian freedom and independence.

Many thanks to Mahmoud Ismail for giving an excellent historic context presentation to launch the discussion.

Onward and upward, my friends...

#Palestine #Israel #Denmark #EU #Europe

#Palestine #Israel #Denmark #EU #Europe

[rapture-forums]

Mogens Lykketoft, Denmark’s former Foreign Minister, sometime President of the U.N. General Assembly and a Social Democrat, is a good man to listen to, if one wants to gauge Europe’s reaction to the recent American elections.

[abatelunare]

Truffatori di buona volontà

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Una cosa bisogna ammetterla. L'hanno studiata benino. Vien quasi da preoccuparsi e prestargli fede. Solo che io non mi fido. Quindi vaffanculo, Arif. E non riprovarci. Non sarai più fortunato.

[jamesgierach]

UNGASS2016 CAME AND WENT BUT PROHIBITION SEEMED FOREVER

by James E. Gierach

UNGASS2016, the much anticipated special session of the United Nations General Assembly regarding the world drug problem, came and went much like Christmas. It came with great expectation and fanfare, but left with only one “gift” for the world: a worn, tarnished and antiquated 1961 UN drug convention that served as foundation for a 55-year-old World War on Drugs (WWD) (1961-2016…).

The last special session of the General Assembly regarding drugs was held in 2009, and the next such session is not scheduled to happen until 2019.

Instead, this rare 2016 call to special session regarding drugs came at the behest of Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico, because world drug policy and its consequences were so awful. Drugs poured over the world like so much spilled paint, and the war’s collateral damage took the lives of neighbors and family members by bullet, disease, addiction, incarceration and stigmatization, wholesale.

The call to special session was not only to put people first, but also to help people routinely victimized by the many toxic tentacles of prohibition drug policy. To some optimists, it was called to revitalize individual freedom and human rights trampled by drug-war maneuvers, law-enforcement soldiers, criminal-justice injustices and coercive treatment strategies.

To other reformers, the call to special session was seen as an opportunity to reduce the harms caused by the War on Drugs, or to reschedule cannabis, or to eliminate the death penalty for drug offenders.

The call to special session in my mind was an opportunity for world leaders to stop talking and to start doing. It was a time to set aside good-sounding rhetoric and to actually propose, draft, debate and adopt amendments to UN drug treaties. I wanted world leaders at UNGASS to be considering, debating, revising and voting on specific, written, proposed amendments of UN drug conventions. I wanted an “Outcome Document” to take the form of an approved, signed, sealed and delivered UN drug treaty (convention) amendment or amendments.

Action was necessary, essential for a better world, but it did not come. It did not come to the nations calling for UNGASS2016; and betterment did not come to any nation in its wake.

Mexicans suffered from drug-prohibition law enforcement, cartel blood-bath competition, and hundreds of millions of US drug-war dollars that helped take well over a 100,000 lives in the last decade, even as Mexico’s top-honcho, drug entrepreneur and billionaire “El Chapo” Guzman tunneled and bribed his way to freedom, repeatedly, in and out of two Mexican maximum security prisons. In the same timeframe, Mexico reportedly produced, according to a U.S. Department of Justice, Intelligence Center report, an estimated 21,500 tons of marijuana annually, in 2008, the world’s favorite illicit drug and palliative medicine.

Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador suffered such violence in consequence of drug enforcement and cartel competition that 60,000 drug war refugees, mostly children, were stopped at the U.S. southern border, fleeing the violence and terror spawned by UN “Just Say No” drug conventions.

In Europe, Asia, Indonesia, Africa, Australia, and North, South and Central America, everywhere in the world, an assortment of drug-prohibition problems screamed for relief at the door of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, from April 19-21, 2016, at its special session regarding drug policy.

Though billed as a special session regarding “the world drug problem,” in reality, the session concerned the world drug POLICY problem, because the same United Nations drug treaties that devastated Mexico, Central and South America also struck hard at the basic health, safety and welfare of mankind in the United States and around the world.

The oldest and most pernicious of UN drug conventions is the 1961 Single Commission on Narcotic Drugs. This treaty proclaims that the only legal use of roughly 119 mind-altering substances scheduled therein is for medical and scientific purpose, and mandates national legislative and administrative action to criminalize any deviation therefrom. The drugs listed in the onerous Schedule 1 are said to have no medicinal value and a high potential for abuse. The Schedule 1 list includes both heroin and cannabis, patently, a senseless, uninformed and arbitrary classification, having no medicinal credibility and a high potential for mischief and law-enforcement abuse.

But the treaties were not self-executing which meant individual nations had to pass laws criminalizing the 1961 scheduled “bad” drugs. In consequence of 186 nations executing their treaty mandate, the world amassed approximately 10 million prisoners, including, of course, many, many drug criminals.

Putting “the world drug problem” into meaningful perspective, according to the World Drug Report 2015, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that a total of 246 million people, or 1 out of 20 people between the ages of 15 and 64 years, used an illicit drug in 2013. That represented an increase of 3 million more illicit drug users over the previous year.

After and during 55 years of UN-nurtured prohibition, on all counts, the problems of drug use, drug trafficking and drug invention have steadily and dramatically worsened, despite dramatic increases in world prison populations.

For example, draconian prison sentences accompanying drug intolerance is reflected in substantial increases in the 1990s: “Prison populations grew during the 1990s in many parts of the world. In Europe, they grew by over 20 per cent in almost all countries and by at least 40 per cent in one half of the countries; in the Netherlands, the prison population grew by 89 per cent. The prison population also grew in the six most populous countries in the Americas: the prison population growth was only 12 per cent in Canada, but between 60 and 85 per cent in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and the United States. Countries in other regions followed a similar growth pattern: 50 per cent in Australia, 38 per cent in New Zealand, 33 per cent in South Africa and 10 per cent in Japan. The general trend during the 1990s, at least in many developed countries, was for the prison population to increase, often by 40 per cent.”

Global Incarceration and Prison Terms; by Roy Walmsley, (Dec.2003), http://www.unodc.org/pdf/crime/forum/forum3_Art3.pdf

The enormous cost of a prison-filled world, again, boasting 10 million inhabitants, is unsustainable even with robust prison research and development, given, as noted above by UN authority, a world filled with 246 million illicit drug users, annually.

These facts made UNGASS2016 so necessary, so important. But UNGASS swung and missed, its opportunity to save the world passing in New York with a strike out.

World leaders assembled at UNGASS should have called for an end to drug prohibition and an to the World War on Drugs. They should have called for the amendment, or complete repeal, of UN drug conventions. They should have discarded their intolerant and myopic view of the proper purpose of drug use and accepted the reality that people of the world predominantly use drugs for rest, relaxation and recreation (RRR).

Instead, world leaders at UNGASS did nothing. Accomplished nothing. Learned nothing.

Instead national representatives talked and talked, herded by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) paid wranglers, parroted rote, rehearsed UNODC/CND jargon, to-wit: we must speak with a “single-voice;” we need a “balanced approach,” one advancing human rights, health and “evidence-based” approaches; and we have a “common and shared responsibility.” In time of World Drug War crisis, robotic world players offered only shallow, mindless, useless, meaningless palaver. Shamefully, they did nothing, accomplished nothing and learned nothing.

From Day One of the three-day Special Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGASS2016), the UN General Assembly forsook its responsibility and opportunity. Indeed, within an hour of the Special Session opening bell, and before any substantive discussion, the body adopted and excreted, by acclamation, a spiked Outcome Document like so much dung.

The Special Session, under the leadership of heavy-handed UN General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft, hammered home the Outcome Document prepared at the recently adjourned 59th Session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs. In that same moment and with that same blow, all hope for UNGASS2016 drug policy reform and progress was extinguished.

Next stop UNGASS2019. Let us, now, all bow our heads in hope and prayer that 2019 will be as unlike 2016 as night and day, as war and peace, as intolerance and tolerance, as evil and good.

#drugprohibition #drug legalization #gierach #ungass2016 #harm reduction

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Random moment at Christiansborg where Primeminister Lars Løkke Rasmussen bumped in to former President of the United Nations General Assembly Mogens Lykketoft. #mogenslykketoft #larsløkkerasmussen #llr #dkpol #christiansborg #pågangene #randommoment #scanpix #danskpolitik (her: Christiansborg Palace)

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Race Is On To find a Successor To U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Enlarge this imageUnited Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits the Smara refugees camp in Algeria on Saturday. His time period will expire in December.Toufik Doudou/APhide captiontoggle captionToufik Doudou/APUnited Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits the Smara refugees camp in Algeria on Saturday. His expre sion will expire in December.Toufik Doudou/APU.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s phrase expires https://www.jetsshine.com/Connor-Hellebuyck-Jersey at the conclusion of this calendar year. The election system to locate a succe sor usually performs out guiding closed doors. This calendar year, neverthele s, the U.N. is attempting a little something new providing candidates an opportunity to make their situation in general public. And, you can find a major thrust by activists to acquire a lady within the helm. Longtime U.N. watcher Jean Krasno is on the mi sion. The U.N. has experienced eight secretaries-general in its 70-year heritage all of them males. Krasno, who teaches with the Metropolis School of recent York and Columbia College, desires the ninth secretary-general being a woman. “When we glance on the crises throughout the world no matter if it is civil wars in Africa along with the Center East or the substantial migration into Europe it truly is usually gals that bear the brunt of this,” Krasno suggests. “They require a voice, and what improved technique to give girls a voice than have the major put up within the U.N. certainly be a woman?” Krasno runs a website that gives several strategies, and she’s arranging public situations for many in the woman candidates presently during the functioning.Enlarge this imagePresident in the U.N. Normal A sembly Mogens Lykketoft is encouraging nations to nominate candidates for secretary-general. In the past, the 5 long term Protection Council users quietly talked about their choices and nominated 1 to become approved by all U.N. member states.Sam McNeil/APhide captiontoggle captionSam McNeil/APPresident from the U.N. Normal A sembly Mogens Lykketoft is encouraging international locations to appoint candidates for secretary-general. Prior to now, the 5 long lasting Security Council members quietly mentioned their selections and nominated a person for being accredited by all U.N. member states.Sam McNeil/AP”There are a great number of amazing, outstanding women of all ages throughout the world,” Krasno suggests. “So the argument that there aren’t adequate experienced ladies from which to choose isn’t any for a longer period legitimate.” Previously, the 5 long term U.N. Safety Council customers quietly discu sed their po sibilities for secretary-general and nominated one to generally be approved by all U.N. member states that make up the general Keith Tkachuk Jersey a sembly. A sembly President Mogens Lykketoft is attempting one thing new, encouraging international locations to nominate candidates them selves. He’s also planning general public hearings. “What we’ve been embarking on now could be an unparalleled transparency within the technique of picking another secretary-general with the United Nations,” Lykketoft says. There is never been a secretary-general from Central or Jap Europe and Ru sia is urgent for that. To date, almost all of the formal nominees are from that location, together with three females from Bulgaria, Moldova and Croatia. A previous U.S. diplomat who served with the U.N., Elizabeth Cousens, says the regional rotation is not really established in stone, while. “Western Europe has had a few turns for the wheel, Latin The usa has had only one change, under Perez de Cuellar from Peru as you may po sibly recall,” Cousens Mathieu Perreault Jersey says. “Africa has had two secretary-generals, Boutros-Ghali and after that Kofi Annan, and the Asian location has had U Thant and afterwards Ban Ki-moon, of course.” Cousens now runs the U.N. Foundation, which advocates for U.N. causes while in the U.S. She states Americans should really want an effective United Nations plus a able individual with the helm. “A voice for that voicele s,” Cousens states. “Someone who will advocate for the human rights of your abused, for humanitarian values and rules and who will even be a good diplomat in certain in the most tough geopolitical cases is one area that is definitely a great deal in American interests and a thing that every single American must have a stake in following.” The subsequent secretary-general ought to be in place just prior to a fresh U.S. president moves to the White Property.

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Ecotheology

« Science and religion, with their distinctive approaches to understanding reality, can enter into an intense dialogue fruitful for both. »

Pope Francis, Enclyclical Letter, Laudato Si’, On Care For Our Common Home

Every day, media and scientists present new figures revealing the growing impact of Human Beings on our planet Earth. These informations inexorably add to the long procession of data accumulated over the last decades. The prospect of a global warming to 4 ° by 2100 and a massive erosion of biodiversity are their main recent signals. With the acceleration and combination of threats, our governments strive to respond mechanically with solutions that are usually devoid of environmental ethics, mainly technicists, supported by technology, engineering and other innovations in the commodification of nature, such as payments for environmental services.

The common denominator of these initiatives lies in their multi-secular anthropocentrism. They are driven by the same desire to preserve a nature, property of Man, by Man and for Man. And this, with the ultimate goal of maintaining an economic system that we know is largely responsible for the degradation of ecosystems.

Nonetheless, because man has no future in an exsanguine environment, what our reality henceforth demands and that our reason still cannot conceive or refuses to recognize appears more and more clearly. To guarantee our future, it is no longer just a matter of tempering the human impact on the living, with a great deal of innovation and sustainable development strategies in this or that sector. A true paradigm shift, the challenge is to found a new relationship with Nature and to establish a governance of the Earth.

This ambition requires first of all to break with the idea rooted in the West, particularly with Descartes, of the separation of Human Being from Nature. Over the centuries, it unfairly validated the hegemony of a human subject and exclusive owner of an object Nature, which he can freely dispose of beyond its limits and cycles. Convoked by this necessary philosophical and cultural transition, we must no longer think of ourselves as sovereigns but as accompanying and interdependent entities of the entire living world.

In this perspective, Human Being becomes a member of the Earth Community and the latter, and the ecosystems that compose it, are no longer considered as a collection of resources but a set of living organisms with interdependent functions and roles. By gradually adopting a more biocentric approach, we will be able to establish systemic rules no longer dictated solely by human reason but guided by the fundamental laws of Nature, a doctrine that the American eco-theologist Thomas Berry has theorized under the name of Earth Jurisprudence.

According to this philosophy, the Earth and the Universe are the primary sources of the natural laws that govern life. Earth Jurisprudence provides the philosophical basis for its governance. And this begins with our common pact. The social contract of Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau linking men to each other, excluding the Nature of the world, is transformed into a natural contract that binds human society to the natural world to which it belongs.

The climate issue in a globalized world has thus become a central issue. For Christianity, the climate issue is not a novelty but the way to approach it does not cease to change. From the Creation, the climate is closely linked to the divine plan. Between nostalgia for Paradise, moment of balance and harmony interrupted by the original sin, and fear of the Flood, expression of the divine wrath, the believer sought to trace a path that protects him and to make sense of the disturbances of nature. But in the course of socio-cultural changes, the reference to the religious evolves and the discourse follows, as evidenced by the encyclical Laudato si 'of Pope Francis (2015). The explanation by divine sanction gives way to the will to scientifically identify the causes and to contribute to a universal ethic in an ecological perspective. In this commitment, religion finds new energies.

In fact, it becomes difficult to present the Human Being as the center and summit of earthly creation, to whom everything on earth must be ordained, as Vatican Council II could still do. Biologists are, to say the least, reluctant to say that evolution is human- oriented, even though they may recognize that the human individual enjoys autonomy from his environment that is not shared by others animals. Moreover, if one realizes the perverse effects of human action, endangering the future of the planet, one feels little inclination to exalt humanity as the accomplishment of creation. Would it not be wiser to trust the earth, to learn more about the workings of nature, to listen to it and renounce all violence against it? Repeating stoic theses, it is asserted that nature, the earth in particular, would be a self-regulating system, according to, for example, The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock.

The teaching and writings of Thomas Berry inspired a renewal in the way that an entire generation sees the role of humanity in the planetary and cosmic community.

For Thomas Berry, the universe is « a communion of subjects and not a collection of object » and our first allegiance should not be to the human community, but to the biosphere as a unique but diverse « planetary community » with which we must move from a domineering relationship to a participatory relationship framed juridically and legally by explicit charters of rights covering minerals and plants as well as animals and humans.

Revealing of a continuous cosmogenesis, the physical sciences are for him a tool of introspection generating fascinosum and tremendum, two inseparable facets of spiritual experience. Far from invalidating the religious attitude or opposing it, science is for Thomas Berry a precious source of renewal of our obsolete cosmologies. He sees there a true and new Revelation. Threatened by the accelerated collapse of the branches of biodiversity on which we are seated, we are invited to consciously inaugurate the Ecozoic Era characterized by a global community whose emergence will have to go through a metamorphosis of the global village governed by the laws of industry and the market. The mission to which we are called to participate is for Thomas Berry a resacralization of the world and a celebration of our belonging to the living organism, polymorphous and without exclusion that must be the « community of the Earth ».

While sounding the alarm, Thomas Berry invites us to recover our role of depositories of the conscience and to start a true partnership with the planetary community. How can man rediscover himself in the image of God and how can he understand his vocation to the domination of Creation? Thomas Berry proposes to make the project of humanity that of the Earth, and thus that of the universe. That is to say to have a behavior compatible with the requirements of ecological balance.

The interreligious statement to world leaders was officially delivered to UN General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft (right) on April 18, 2016.

After COP21 and before the signing of the Paris Agreement on Climate at the United Nations on April 22, 2016, international religious communities called on world leaders to take action on climate change by issuing a signed joint declaration by 270 senior religious leaders, 4970 people and 176 religious groups. « In our contemplation of how tragic moments of disintegration over the course of the centuries were followed by immensely creative moments of renewal, we receive our great hope for the future. To initiate and guide this next creative moment of the story of the Earth is the Great Work of the religions of the world as we move on into the future. » (Thomas Berry, “Religion in the Twenty-first Century,” in The Sacred Universe, 87).

Questions 

In the United States, a country where the separation between church and state is still porous, a productive relationship between religion and politics may seem possible. In what extent does it apply to countries like France, where the separation of these entities is clearly inscribed in the collective imagination and the laws of the Republic?

Do religious leaders nowadays consider the ecology as a new, lucrative medium to conquer new believers?

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[crimedude]

How to gets arrested on your lunch break?

There’s a lot you can do during your lunch break. You can run some errands, take a walk in the park, or if you are Nigeria native Abdullahi Shuaibu, 53, you can go on robbing banks in the Upper East Side as casually as eating a sandwich.

Via Facebook -Shuaibu with UN General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft According to the authorities, he would show bank tellers a note which reads, “Give me $5,000, Thank you,” while keeping his hands in his pocket to simulate a gun. Shuaibu, a United Nations (UN) employee, allegedly got $10,000 from robbing banks “politely”. All the banks that he robbed are located near the UN headquarters on First Ave. near E. 42nd St. But Shuaibu’s crime spree ended when a retired policeman who works as a guard at an office across the street from the UN headquarters made a positive identification of the thief.

You Tube screenshot - Abdullahi Shuaibu “It wasn’t hard,” the guard said. “He comes in and out of here every day,” he added. According to reports, Shuaibu has a valid visa but does not have diplomatic immunity. The polite robber is now awaiting trial after being charged with robbery and attempted robbery.   Click to Post

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