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Stories and News No. 1230 Once upon a time the distribution of vaccines against Covid-19. Indeed, no. I start over. I never particularly liked the word against . I prefer for . So, once upon a time the distribution of vaccines for... Well, reasoning with a minimum criterion of reality, the things become difficult. Extremely easy with a bit of imagination, but the human kind, according to the most natural of meanings. Thus, we could complete the opening words as follows: once upon a time the distribution of vaccines for every human being. We are talking about this, right? Of our fellow people. About that, I recall what that smart guy on zoom said the other day... no, quite the contrary, she was a wise lady during a face to face meeting in the last century, since it is such an atavistic and trite concept: a global problem can only be solved with a global answer . Otherwise, it would be like hiding the classic dust under the carpet, out the border, over the ocean, on the other side of...

Stories and News No. 1225 A dream for the International Migrants Day … I would have a dream. I don't say I do , because I don't dare that much. But, being a dream, within the latter I can hope for incredible wonders and pursue absolute joy. You know what? I can't , but I must. We all do, more than ever these days. Therefore, I would like. I don't say I want , because there has never been arrogance in my intentions, despite the raving allusions of some. Only, simple necessity. Because I would like to be the vaccine you are waiting for. That is my dream. I would like to be the best answer to the disease that has poisoned the body and time, the mind and above all heart. I would like to be the solution to all your problems, to be honest, but it would be enough to dress up as a miracle drug even for a moment, one of those that save people and protect them in the days to come. So that people will not forget the importance of my presence in their life. In short, so that...

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Stories and News No. 341 The Story: Dear Good guys , dear French, US and British governments, permanent members of UN Security Council , and dear leaders of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Gabon, Lebanon, Nigeria, Portugal and South Africa, non-permanent members, who have voted in favor of Resolution 1973 . Dear all of you who have decided to ask the Bad guys – reading the Resolution - the immediate establishment of a ceasefire and a complete end to violence and all attacks against, and abuses of, civilians . I am here to say thank you. Thank you for choosing to protect us from the Bad guys . Thank you for risking your own lives to save us from them. Thanks, in short, to be the Good ones. I am one of those civilians. Here, to be honest… not just those civilians. I am one of the others . I speak from one of the many countries where civilians, at this very moment, are suffering attacks, violence and abuse, just like the Libyans. Well, not just like… For many* of us are even worse… Ex...

Stories and News No. 271 2010 was a bloody year for Haiti. In January there was the earthquake that killed more than 200 thousand people and at least one and a half million are homeless. In late October, about 100 to Port-au-Prince an epidemic of cholera began to spread in the country. The dead are now over a thousand. And if all this were not enough, in early November Thomas hurricane strikes Haiti, provoking also a flood. To make things even more dramatic, there are news of clashes between peacekeepers and residents. Apparently, most of them are convinced that cholera was imported by the soldiers of the United Nations, in this case from Nepal. What evidences there would be against them? First, the latrines of UN peacekeepers camp are near a river, whose waters would then spread the disease. Second, one UN peacekeeper has the cholera. The United Nations rejected the accusations. Apart from that, the clashes have provoked the death of two people, including a twenty years o...

Stories and News No. 235 When I read it I thought it was a joke and I still have doubts whether it is a true story or not. Apparently, the UN is about to appoint an ambassador for relations with the aliens. The person that seems to be chosen is the Malaysian astrophysicist Mazlan Binti Othman , director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, UNOOSA . Well, it is a strange fact, but never as Berlusconi's reaction to the striking United Nations initiative. You may not believe it, but the Italian Prime Minister was surprised that he was still not consulted in the choice of the ambassador. You see, a man like him, is ever surrounded by people who are alien to all that, on the contrary, should be unquestionable: democracy, equality before the law and respect for human rights, just to name three at random. So, as soon as he read the news, Silvio has made a meeting and after a long huddle he proposed the perfect candidate for this delicate role. The latter is the worthy r...

Original post Today is the World Food Day , an event established by FAO to raise awareness of the issues behind poverty and hunger. The 14th of October the UN organization presented the 2009 Report on the hunger situation in the world. It tells that more than one billion people , one sixth of world population , lives in a condition of intolerable undernourishment : I could write an easy post denouncing the shame of our political leaders, because no one has found time to pay public attention to the news… However, I prefer to propose you a simple consideration, just comparing the numbers of two categories which, admittedly, are poles apart in the scale of priorities of our world: human beings and money . On the one hand, one billion people , more than 600 million in Asia and the Pacific, 265 million in Sub-Saharan Africa, 53 million in Latin America and the Caribbean, 42 in the Near East and North Africa and 15 in developed countries suffer from hunger . On the other ...

Original post Yesterday the United Nations Development Program , UNDP , presented the 2009 Report . The results are very interesting, especially for those who try to pay more attention to the truth of numbers, rather than gossip. Reading the report on the web, especially the interactive section , you can find a clever quiz, which I believe can be considered a good test to measure our level of understanding migration issues. We all know that ignorance on this subject is one of the first reason of intolerance towards immigrants. Here are some questions from the United Nations Quiz (Answers are at the bottom of post): Question 1 : How many internal and international migrants are there in the world? 1 Over 168 million internal and 45 million international migrants 2 740 million internal and 214 million international migrants 3 2.5 billion internal and 835 million international migrants Question 2 : Relative to the total world population, when was there the highest propor...