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Ukraine's Danilov said: "If somebody thinks that it [the conflict in Ukraine] is about settling the scores between Kyiv and Moscow then it’s a mistake
Head of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, Aleksey Danilov, on Wednesday said that World War III "is already underway," as the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict has dragged the other countries into the conflict. Speaking at the Kyiv Security Forum on September 5, Danilov said that the Western military alliance NATO would need Ukraine as a member amid the global turbulence which is in its full momentum. Kyiv "will strengthen the NATO further," said the head of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council.
Defence minister Angel Tilvar told local news channel Antena 3 CNN that parts of what was most likely a drone were discovered in the eastern Tulcea county, an area of the Danube that forms a natural border between Romania and war-torn Ukraine.
“I confirm that in this area, pieces that may be of a drone were found,” he said, adding that the pieces didn’t pose a threat.
NATO could be downplaying strikes on its own territory 'out of fear of escalation', a security expert has warned following Romania's U-turn on whether a Russian drone came down on its territory earlier this week.
Vlad Şutea, founder and lead analyst at early warning and threatcasting group T-Intelligence, exclusively told MailOnline that Romania 'either failed to effectively investigate the impact site or aimed to cover it up' after officials today confirmed parts of a Russian drone had landed in Romania on 3 September - after saying they did not.
The Polish government today rolled out a new armed, unmanned aerial vehicle concept aimed at countering smaller drones, known as the HAASTA, to kick off the annual MSPO defense trade show.
In the announcement, the government stated the design draws on “insights gained from recent years of combat operations” — a not-so-veiled reference to the Ukraine conflict, which Poland has been studying intensely. Design of the system follow a new standard, STANAG 4703, which sets airworthiness requirements for fixed-wing light unmanned aircraft.
The U.S. military on Wednesday launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile from California in a display of the U.S. nuclear forces' readiness.
The Air Force Global Strike Command launch was successfully carried out at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 1:26 a.m. PDT.
The Airmen and Guardians who perform this vital mission are some of the most skilfully trained and dedicated personnel in America's Air Force," said Col. Bryan Titus, Space Launch Delta 30 vice commander. "These test launches demonstrate the readiness of U.S. nuclear forces and provide confidence in the lethality and effectiveness of the nation's nuclear deterrent."
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originally posted by: Thoughtful2
a reply to: Guyfriday
I found myself believing the government figures about the number missing from the Lahaina fire but we were told to question everything.
The Numbers Do Lie
I'm finding evidence in the strangest of places- Linked In.
The number of children missing is more like 2000! Even one was too many.
The number is probably higher because who knows how many were being home schooled and so are not part of the school enrollment numbers.
Global debt has hit unprecedented levels, weighing down a system still shaken by the pandemic. A shadow banking system of “non-bank financial intermediaries” emerged following the financial crisis of 2008, and now dominates about half of global financing. The unregulated financing attributable to NBFIs is about $240tn.
Meanwhile, the IMF and the World Bank struggle with their capacity to simultaneously tackle pandemic-induced deprivation and escalating climate change-triggered needs. Other risks, such as Russia’s war in Ukraine, add to the burden on the system. It is in this context that a worse-than-predicted climate crisis could bring the global financial system to its knees.
The 16 climatic tipping points, identified by a group of researchers in an article in Science, are triggers for a possible collapse in highly leveraged global financial markets. The markets, including regulators and central banks, have failed to integrate the physical, transition and liability risks from climate change into the observable market data.
The world just experienced its hottest three months on record by a substantial margin, according to the UN weather agency, prompting the UN chief to call for world leaders to take urgent climate action.
The UN's World Meteorological Organization and European climate service Copernicus on Wednesday announced that the June to August season of 2023 was the warmest such period in records that began in 1940.
"Climate breakdown has begun," UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement.
Scientists have long warned what our fossil fuel addiction will unleash," Guterres said, adding that "surging temperatures demand a surge in action."
The UN chief said that this latest global heat record must coincide with world leaders urgently pursuing climate solutions. "We can still avoid the worst of climate chaos – and we don't have a moment to lose," Guterres said.
The burning of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and gas, is the chief driver of the climate crisis.
Two questions have been trending all summer: Why is it so hot outside? And when is the student loan pause ending?
Climate change experts and student loan abolitionists believe the Biden administration can address both questions with one solution: declaring a national emergency for climate change.
Under the National Emergencies Act, enacted in 1976, President Biden could issue a declaration to address and combat climate change. This same act was used in 2020 by former President Trump to declare a national emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Biden could take immediate action on student debt relief by issuing a climate emergency,” the Debt Collective’s, the nation’s first debtor’s union, Thomas Gokey wrote in a perspectives piece for Reckon.
Gokey went on to explain: “This emergency declaration would allow state and local governments to take immediate action on climate change by limiting fossil fuel production and releasing government funds to be used on renewable energy. It also includes the ability to issue a new student loan payment pause, freeing up resources for millions of Americans grappling with the devastation of climate change.”
UN chief Antonio Guterres joined African leaders on Tuesday in demanding urgent reforms to the "outdated and unfair" global financial system, speaking at a landmark climate summit in Kenya aimed at showcasing the continent's green potential.
The Nairobi summit hopes to boost investment in renewables, with the UAE on Tuesday pledging $4.5 billion to accelerate Africa's clean energy transition as the continent's leaders look to reshape its economic narrative.
The three-day conference, which began Monday, has attracted heads of state, government and industry leaders from across Africa, as well as EU chief Ursula von der Leyen and US climate envoy John Kerry.
It is billed as an effort to define a shared African vision for green development on the diverse continent of 1.4 billion people ahead of the COP28 meeting in Dubai later this year.
Speakers at the Africa Climate Summit have doubled down on calls to reform global financial structures to align with climate goals, with leaders also urging more investment to support a push towards clean energy.
UN Secretary-General Guterres drew attention to Africa's unequal access to economic opportunities even as the continent bears the brunt of climate-related disasters despite contributing the least to global warming.
originally posted by: RelSciHistItSufi
Is this why SOROS was allowed to become the 3rd family; alongside Rothschilds and Rockerfellers?
As I was scrolling the Q drops to potentially relate any significance outside of 10 days of darkness and Red October I noticed Q post 2458 (November 7th 2018, which in Russian Calendars would be October 25th O.S. (Old style/julian) )
States: “red line on the anniversary of red October, now what are the odds of that. Q”
As late as the early 1890s, the Kingdom of Hawaii's claim to Necker Island remained in dispute, and the United Kingdom was considering the island as a potential waypoint location for a submarine communications cable between Canada and Australia[27] as part of the British Empire telegraph network known informally as the ALL RED LINE.
According to the oral traditions of the people of Kauai, which lies to the southeast, Necker Island was the last known refuge for a race of mythical "little people" called the Menehune. According to the legend, the Menehune settled on Necker Island after being chased off Kauai by the stronger Polynesians and subsequently built the various stone structures there.
Hawaiians visited from Nihoa and other nearby islands to worship at religious sites without establishing any permanent settlements.
Necker has 55 currently known sites including 33 ritual sites called heiau
The Hawaiian-language name Lānaʻi is of uncertain origin, but the island has historically been called Lānaʻi o Kauluāʻau, which can be rendered in English as "day of the conquest of Kauluāʻau". This epithet refers to a legend about a Mauian prince who was banished to Lanai because of his wild pranks at his father's court in Lāhainā. The island was said to be haunted by Akua-ino, ghosts and goblins that Kauluāʻau chased away, bringing peace and order to the island and regaining his father's favor as a consequence.
It is colloquially known as the Pineapple Island because of its past as an island-wide pineapple plantation.
Moy, a local politician who is now Fairfield’s mayor, was told that the mysterious organisation was raising hackles by secretly buying up tens of thousands of acres of rural land.
After some digging, she found that the firm, a Delaware-incorporated corporation whose registration means it does not disclose its backers, had offered sellers several times the market rate for purchases, spending $800m (£630m) on property and becoming the largest landowner in the local county.
Last week, the New York Times revealed that some of Silicon Valley’s most famous investors were behind the company, which aims to build at least one and as many as three new cities in the region.
Michael Moritz, the Welsh-born billionaire who invested in Google and Yahoo; Marc Andreessen, the Netscape founder and Facebook investor; Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs; and Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, are reportedly among the venture’s financiers. Sir Michael has been deeply involved, sounding out co-investors as early as 2017 for a vision of a walkable metropolis powered by renewable energy.
Jeffrey Berns, a cryptocurrency millionaire, has bought up thousands of acres of Nevada desert as part of plans to build a smart city named Painted Rock that would run on blockchain technology. A spokesman for the county told Bloomberg that there had been no updates on the project since local commissioners voted against a proposal for a new government.
The Californian company recently went public and announced the launch of a new solar-based community from scratch that stretches across 55,000 acres of land in Solano County.
California Forever's new website depicts Mediterranean-styled homes and solar-based-agricultural activities. The people living in the county were illustrated cycling instead of driving.
The company is collaborating with Solano residents, elected officials, and other Solano stakeholders, including Travis Air Force Base, businesses, the agriculture sector, educators, police, the fire department, conservation agencies, and many others.
This announcement comes after The New York Times on Friday reported that Jan Sramek, a 36-year-old former Goldman Sachs trader, utilized $800 million in funding from prominent tech industry investors. The investors acquired more than 100 unexplained parcels of land through an entity known as Flannery Associates LLC.
The Times named the partners – Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn co-founder; venture capitalist Michael Moritz; Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder of the philanthropic group Emerson Collective and wife of the late Steve Jobs; Marc Andreessen, the investor and software developer; Patrick and John Collison, the sibling co-founders of the payment processor Stripe; and the entrepreneurs Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman.
The project plans to establish a new sustainable city with architectural homes of various sizes and costs in walkable neighborhoods near shops, schools, and open spaces around the community. They added that it could bring “thousands of permanent, good-paying local jobs” and a large solar farm.
Brian Brokaw, the spokesperson for California Forever, stated: “We are grateful to our elected officials for allowing us the chance to discuss our vision to deliver good-paying jobs, affordable housing, walkable communities, clean energy, sustainable infrastructure, open space and a healthy environment.”
Energy, transportation, water, and wildfire protection is the undertaking’s responsibility. The company emphasized that Eastern Solano benefits from existing transmission lines that could make it possible to build a large solar farm. This would initiate hundreds of jobs and accelerate California’s transition to clean energy.
1 often capitalized : a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions
2: an impractical scheme for social improvement
3: an imaginary and indefinitely remote place
: a country of ideal felicity and perfection
Q !UW.yye1fxo ID: 8696f9 No.172761 📁
Dec 25 2017 14:40:34 (EST)
Anonymous ID: a3a6a3 No.172726 📁
Dec 25 2017 14:34:01 (EST)
Merry Christmas Q!
>>172726
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Celebrate this SPECIAL day in a BIG way.
God bless you all.
Q