Chủ nhật, Chủ nhật Đẫm máu – Sunday, Bloody Sunday

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Đây là bài hát của ban nhạc rock Ireland U2, phát hành vào ngày 21-3-1983, là một trong những bài hát mang tính chính trị công khai nhất của U2 và được biểu diễn nhiều nhất của ban nhạc. 

Lời bài hát mô tả nỗi kinh hoàng của một người quan sát cuộc xung đột Rắc rối (The Troubles) ở Bắc Ireland, chủ yếu tập trung vào sự kiện Chủ nhật Đẫm máu năm 1972 ở Derry, nơi quân đội Anh bắn chết những người biểu tình dân quyền không vũ trang. Continue reading Chủ nhật, Chủ nhật Đẫm máu – Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Don’t get pulled against your will

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We may get pulled against our will by money, property, career, business, job, big ambition, love relationship, jealousy, anger… Almost anything in life, be it money, power, or anything else, can pull us so powerfully that we may have to run after it with all our might, all our life, never stop.

Of course, if you get pulled like that, as we can see in many people, you will constantly be in extreme stress and will succumb to all kinds of fatal illnesses, such as stroke, heart attack, cancer, and many other diseases due to the collapse of the immune system. Continue reading Don’t get pulled against your will

Opposition mounts in Arab countries that normalized relations with Israel

FILE - Thousands of Moroccans take part in a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and against normalisation with Israel, in Casablanca, Morocco, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. Countries in the Middle East that have normalized or are considering normalizing relations with Israel are coming under growing public pressure to cut those ties because of Israel's war with Hamas. The protesters' demands present an uncomfortable dilemma for governments that have enjoyed the benefits of closer military and economic ties with Israel in recent years. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy, File)

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FILE – Thousands of Moroccans take part in a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and against normalisation with Israel, in Casablanca, Morocco, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. Countries in the Middle East that have normalized or are considering normalizing relations with Israel are coming under growing public pressure to cut those ties because of Israel’s war with Hamas. The protesters’ demands present an uncomfortable dilemma for governments that have enjoyed the benefits of closer military and economic ties with Israel in recent years. (AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy, File)Read More

FILE - Thousands of Moroccans take part in a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and against normalisation with Israel, in Casablanca, Morocco, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. Countries in the Middle East that have normalized or are considering normalizing relations with Israel are coming under growing public pressure to cut those ties because of Israel's war with Hamas. The protesters' demands present an uncomfortable dilemma for governments that have enjoyed the benefits of closer military and economic ties with Israel in recent years. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

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FILE – Thousands of Moroccans take part in a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and against normalisation with Israel, in Casablanca, Morocco, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. Countries in the Middle East that have normalized or are considering normalizing relations with Israel are coming under growing public pressure to cut those ties because of Israel’s war with Hamas. The protesters’ demands present an uncomfortable dilemma for governments that have enjoyed the benefits of closer military and economic ties with Israel in recent years. (AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy)Read More

FILE - Protesters shout anti-Israel slogans during a rally to show solidarity with the people of Gaza after Friday prayers at Azhar mosque, the Sunni Muslim world's premier Islamic institution, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. Countries in the Middle East that have normalized or are considering normalizing relations with Israel are coming under growing public pressure to cut those ties because of Israel's war with Hamas. The protesters' demands present an uncomfortable dilemma for governments that have enjoyed the benefits of closer military and economic ties with Israel in recent years. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

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FILE – Protesters shout anti-Israel slogans during a rally to show solidarity with the people of Gaza after Friday prayers at Azhar mosque, the Sunni Muslim world’s premier Islamic institution, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. Countries in the Middle East that have normalized or are considering normalizing relations with Israel are coming under growing public pressure to cut those ties because of Israel’s war with Hamas. The protesters’ demands present an uncomfortable dilemma for governments that have enjoyed the benefits of closer military and economic ties with Israel in recent years. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)Read More

FILE - Protesters shout anti-Israel slogans during a rally to show solidarity with the people of Gaza after Friday prayers at Azhar mosque, the Sunni Muslim world's premier Islamic institution, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. Countries in the Middle East that have normalized or are considering normalizing relations with Israel are coming under growing public pressure to cut those ties because of Israel's war with Hamas. The protesters' demands present an uncomfortable dilemma for governments that have enjoyed the benefits of closer military and economic ties with Israel in recent years. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

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FILE – Protesters shout anti-Israel slogans during a rally to show solidarity with the people of Gaza after Friday prayers at Azhar mosque, the Sunni Muslim world’s premier Islamic institution, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. Countries in the Middle East that have normalized or are considering normalizing relations with Israel are coming under growing public pressure to cut those ties because of Israel’s war with Hamas. The protesters’ demands present an uncomfortable dilemma for governments that have enjoyed the benefits of closer military and economic ties with Israel in recent years. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)Read More

 Thursday, July 13, 2023, in      .The latest battle over Western public lands and fossil fuels is simmering in the Rockies where a proposed multi-billion dollar, 88-mile railway would cut through Utah wilderness and streamline the movement of crude oil to Colorado and throughout the country. Initial approvals for the project by the U.S. Department of Transportation are raising questions about the Biden administration’s stated commitment to wean the country off fossil fuels and could become a campaign issue in next year’s election. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

BY SAM METZUpdated 4:49 AM GMT+7, November 2, 2023 AP

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Arab nations that have normalized or are considering improving relations with Israel are coming under growing public pressure to cut those ties because of Israel’s war with Hamas.

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Rabat and other Moroccan cities in support of the Palestinians. In Bahrain — a country that almost never allows protest — police stood by as hundreds of people marched last month, waving flags and gathering in front of the Israeli Embassy in Manama.

The demonstrations, which mirror protests across the Middle East, present an uncomfortable dilemma for governments that have enjoyed the benefits of closer military and economic ties with Israel in recent years.

Continue reading Opposition mounts in Arab countries that normalized relations with Israel

Why 70 countries in debt could spark the biggest global economic crisis since 1929

CNA Insider – 26-10-2023

Some 70 countries are in or at risk of debt distress – a record number that has the World Bank sounding the alarm. Debt defaults by these emerging and developing countries could lead the world into a global financial crisis perhaps even on par with the Great Depression of 1929. The pattern is clear from three previous debt waves: the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s, Asian financial crisis of the 1990s, and the global financial crisis triggered by the 2007 US subprime crisis.

00:00 Intro & three previous debt waves
01:16 The fourth debt wave
02:07 Countries in debt: Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Egypt, Lebanon, Laos
03:40 Impact on education, healthcare
04:21 How did the debt crisis start?
05:19 China’s Belt & Road Initiative
06:12 Climate change and debt