The Kleptocrats: Confronting the Kleptocrats? Contain Their Western(!) Financial Managers - by Frank Vogl

The crimes perpetrated by the kleptocrats governing Russia, China, Iran, Egypt, Hungary, Nigeria and many more nations not only impoverish their own citizens. They ultimately impoverish all of us.

More gallingly, we are assisting them in their greed and their corruption. Even more worrying, Western governments, as well as major multinational corporations headquartered across Western Europe and North America, are complicit in their quest.

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African Continent: Coronavirus - updated figures : Africa sees average 8% rise in new virus cases but doing better than US or EU in combatting the virus

Africa’s top public health official says the continent has seen an average 8 percent rise in new coronavirus cases over the past month as infections creep up again in parts of the continent of 1.3 billion people.

John Nkengasong says “we expected it to happen” and warns that when the virus comes back for a second wave, “it seems to come back with a lot of full force.”

The African continent is approaching 2 million confirmed cases, with just over 1.9 million now including more than 45,000 deaths.

Note EU-Digest - however with a population of 1.3 billion people on the African countinent and a total of 4500 deaths, Africa is doing far better at combatting the coronavirus than either the US or the EU.

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EU Combatting Global Warming A fossil fuel-free future is close at hand ... if the EU wills it – by Patrick ten Brink and Jonathan Bonadio

This is good news for our overheating planet. Accelerating climate action in this way would bring the EU in line with its commitments under the Paris Agreement and recommendations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which emphasises the urgent need to halt climate change at 1.5C or lower to avoid catastrophic consequences for humanity, nature and the planet.

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A fossil fuel-free future is close at hand ... if the EU wills it – Patrick ten Brink and Jonathan Bonadio