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where does the day go
A map
A group of United Nations researchers has published this map which is trying to begin to identify the damage in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, where Russia is baiting without even opening humanitarian corridors.
Location of the Destroyed or severely damaged buildings and buildings with moderate damage
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Source: Unitar/Unosat
as it counts this report, the city is full of burnt-out blocks of flats, corpses in the streets, and civilians afraid to leave. The only two international journalists left in Mariupol they had to go. Before they have published images like this:
The negotiations do not advance much. The Ukrainian president assures that will submit any peace agreement to a referendum.
An army. Perhaps we are seeing the birth of something of historical consequence. The 27 countries that make up the European Union have agreed to form a military intervention force with 5,000 European soldiers from different countries. Josep Borrell is the architect of the idea and makes various rhetorical tricks to define these “forces” making it clear that “it is not an Army” or even a “military union”. These are sensitive issues, with legal and ideological complications in each country, but no matter how much it is denied, this is what it is and it is the first obvious step towards European armed forces. “Europe is in danger,” says Borrell.
A desert
don’t miss it
- the plan is turned off. It seems that he has not convinced the rest of Europe of Pedro Sánchez’s plan to put a limit on the price of electricity in the wholesale market. The government has left it parked.
- Hate. A chief commissioner of the Police takes the floor at an act in tribute to a colleague injured in the procés riots in Catalonia: “Some of them would like to be raped by a riot police officer.” hear it yourself.
- judges > politics. Sometimes the left is intimidated when it reaches the institutions. But it is that when it does not, it ends up running into judicial interpretations that basically eliminate any margin for in-depth changes. The last: Justice overthrows the veto to the polluting car in Barcelona.
- china borders. Ă“micron is doing the same thing in China as in the rest of the world, but China is not following the same pattern: its strategy of eradicating the virus at all costs maintains unsustainable harsh measures.
everything is politics
- pink. I love that Jordi Évole has decided to interview a character so out of his usual menu as Rosa López, the winner of the first edition of Operación Triunfo. She has had a lot of repercussion. Worth listen to what he says about how fatphobia, machismo and the exploitation of a clearly vulnerable person were normalized.
- Rosalia. RosalĂa’s new album is the most listened to and commented on these days. ‘Motomami’ talks a lot about fame and money (and that bores me) but it also leaves some feminist clues about desire (me, in favor of Hentai) and delves into the tension between the classic and the viral. More perspective here and a song by song analysis.
- Dua Lipa. It is very interesting how TikTok is conditioning the debates about the copyright of songs. The artists popularize small fragments of their songs on social networks, which raises blisters in the use of melodies similar to others used before. And in that universe we suddenly find a meeting point between Dua Lipa and Miguel Bosé.
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