#turningthetide — Public Fediverse posts
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> Construction of Naval Air Station Cubi Point began during the Korean War. The town of Banicain was demolished to build the airfield, and its residents were relocated to Olongapo. As Olongapo's population grew to 60,000, Filipinos requested control of the town...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Naval_Base_Subic_Bay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zambales#Luzon #CentralLuzon #SubicBase #SubicNavalBase
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> A Republican Congressman who visited the Philippines wrote[:]..“You never hear of.. disturbances in Northern Luzon...because there isn’t anybody.. to rebel...our soldiers took no prisoners; they kept no records; they simply swept the country and wherever or however they could get hold of a Filipino they killed him. The women and children were spared and may now be noticed in disproportionate numbers in that part of the island.”
#TurningTheTide #ChomskyOnPhilippines
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> .. human rights groups.. referred to the Reagan Administration as “an apologist for some of the worst horrors of our time.” #HumanRightsSecretaryAbrams ... particularly notorious for his denials of human rights violations or apologetics for them, in #CentralAmerica and Turkey particularly, and for his attacks, in the familiar style of his Stalinist models, on human rights advocates. In recognition.. Abrams was placed in charge of #LatinAmerican affairs... #TurningTheTide #ElliotAbrams
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> [grandchildren in 2025] will learn that “those who do not know the mistakes of history [namely, ignoring hideous atrocities while they are in progress] are condemned to repeat them.” Loftus also states that he knows from his investigations of Nazi war criminals brought to the US after the war that there are connections between them “and US operations in Central America”—a matter to which we return..
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Global Fresh Water Demand Will Outstrip Supply By 40% By 2030, Say Experts
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/17/global-fresh-water-demand-outstrip-supply-by-2030 <-- shared news article
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http://turningthetide.watercommission.org/ <-- report, Turning the Tide, A Call to Collective Action By the Global Commission the Economics of Water
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #water #hydrology #global #resources #waterconservation #watermanagement #watersecurity #management #mining #global #finance #partnerships #economics #impacts #waterresources #waterusage #projects #research #watercrisis #waterindustry #waterefficiency #spatialanalysis #model #modeling #future #climate #climatechange #TurningTheTide
#GlobalCommissionontheEconomicsofWater