rainpizza

Translation:

First box -> Hi Argentinian friend, how is it going?

Second Box-> The Argentine government decided to put up for sale four dams that concentrate 30% of the country's hydroelectric generation. In an interview with Sputnik, expert Nicolás Malinovsky assured that the measure will make tariffs more expensive and will harm the Argentine industry by supplying it with less competitive prices.

Third box- > Silence

Fourth box -> ¡Jesus Christ! (similar expression )

Source to the story-> https://www.today.com/parents/girl-7-sells-lemonade-help-pay-brain-surgery-t210529

The energy giant Shell has quietly backed away from a pledge to rapidly increase its use of “advanced recycling”, a practice oil and petrochemical producers have promoted as a solution to the plastics pollution crisis.

“Advanced” or “chemical” recycling involves breaking down plastic polymers into tiny molecules that can be made into synthetic fuels or new plastics. The most common form, pyrolysis, does so using heat.

Shell has invested in pyrolysis since 2019, touting it as a way to slash waste. That year, the company used oil made via pyrolysis in one of its Louisiana chemical plants for the first time. And it began publicizing a new goal for the technology: “Our ambition is to use 1m tonnes of plastic waste a year in our global chemicals plants by 2025.”

But recently, the company rolled back that promise with little fanfare: “[I]n 2023 we concluded that the scale of our ambition to turn 1m tonnes of plastic waste a year into pyrolysis oil by 2025 is unfeasible,” it said in its 2023 sustainability report, published in March.

I thought this was an onion article but guess what? It is real.

They are blaming literally anyone except the true culprits: capitalism...

More than 90 percent of the world’s 2,000 most influential companies, including Amazon, BMW, Nestle, Rio Tinto, Pfizer, Shein, and Standard Chartered, are failing to meet societal expectations towards human rights, working conditions and corporate ethics, a first-of-its-kind assessment has found.

Despite commanding revenues equal to 45 percent of the global economy, the world’s top companies are missing the opportunity to positively affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people, the nonprofit World Benchmarking Alliance said in a report released on Tuesday.

“The companies have resources and influence equivalent to some of the biggest countries, impacting more people than the populations of many nations. The fact that 90 percent of these companies are failing to act on fundamental social expectations shows the state of play of the private sector,” said Namit Agarwal, social transformation lead at the WBA, which tracks companies’ commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates joined the BRICS bloc at the start of this year, with 44 other nations such as Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam having reportedly expressed interest in joining the bloc.

BRICS currently has a combined population of about 3.5 billion people, with a combined economy worth over $28.5 trillion or about 28 percent of the global economy.

Putin slammed the United States saying Washington had undermined the reliability of US monopolized global market and financial payments system and the world is ready for an economic shift to a multi-polar system.

"The dollar is one of a few tools of the United States' greatness today. They are driving global economic players away from the dollar," he said.

Spain says it will join the case filed by South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which accuses Israel of violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention in its war on the Gaza Strip.

Making the announcement on Thursday, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said, “We made this decision in light of the continuation of the military operation in Gaza.”

UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory Francesca Albanese has called on the international community to immediately impose oil sanctions and an arms embargo against Israel.

"At this point, Israel has reneged on its international obligations to a degree that warrants an imperative implementation of immediate and unconditional sanctions which should entail first and foremost an arms and oil embargo," Francesca Albanese said during a press conference on Thursday.