USA - Ten percent of the Mosquito Creek fire has been contained, but more than 5,800 structures remain under threat in Placer and El Dorado counties. Approximately 11,200 people have been evacuated out of the communities of Forest Hill and Georgetown, the Associated Press(AP) reported. Numerous homes have been destroyed by the fires, but officials have not released an estimated number as of yet, according to ABC 10. Fire officials expect to be aided by favorable weather conditions as hot, dry, and windy weather are not expected to “materialize” this week. However, officials are concerned that dry vegetation – such as grass and big trees – may fuel and prolong the fire. The fire, which started on September 6 outside east of Sacramento, near Mosquito Road and Oxbow river, currently covers 46,587 acres (73 square miles), according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection on Monday.
UK - A near-universal refrain in the commemorations for the late Queen Elizabeth II, who died Thursday at the age of 96, has been her role as a symbol of stability in Britain as well as a constant in an increasingly inconstant world. She was “a changeless human reference point in British life,” former Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in his tribute to the monarch on Friday. More than just a symbolic face of the nation, the Queen was also Britain’s lodestar and a source of comfort at a time of seemingly unending turbulence. The challenge now facing the country is how to move on without her.
USA - US President Joe Biden has renewed the national emergency declared by former president George W Bush in the days following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 for another year. The “terrorist threat” behind the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people “continues,” Biden wrote in a Thursday memo published in the Federal Register, adding that the “powers and authorities adopted to deal with” the attacks “must continue in effect beyond September 14, 2022.”
EUROPE - Protests are starting all across Europe due to rising energy costs, and this is probably just the tip of the iceberg as leaders all across Europe are warning that a total economic collapse may be imminent, as they prepare for massive social unrest in the weeks ahead. Belgium Prime Minister Alexander De Croo is one of the latest leaders to sound the warning, as he stated in an interview with Bloomberg News:
GERMANY - German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht has rejected demands to supply Kiev with Leopard 2 main battle tanks during a keynote speech at a German Society on Foreign Relations event on Monday. The minister noted that no other countries have delivered Western-built infantry fighting vehicles or main battle tanks so far to Kiev, and insisted that Germany “will not take such action unilaterally,” as quoted by Reuters.
GERMANY - Majority of German regions have no more room for asylum seekers. Of the 16 German regional states, just four still have room to accommodate incoming asylum seekers, as the country struggles to deal with new influxes of migrants coming by the Balkan route. The 12 German states which have reached their capacity to accommodate asylum seekers have become full due to the large numbers of Ukrainian refugees fleeing the conflict with Russia on top of asylum seekers from other countries. They have been forced to suspend their distribution system, according to a spokeswoman from the Interior Ministry. The spokeswoman added that the German federal government was looking to aid the states by making 318 federally-owned properties available to house asylum seekers and refugees, the European Union-funded website InfoMigrants reports. Baden-Württemberg’s Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann, meanwhile, claimed that there are more refugees in Germany today than during the 2015 migrant crisis.
USA - One of Greenpeace’s founding members, Patrick Moore, said in an email why he had quit the organisation: “Greenpeace was ‘hijacked’ by the political left when they realised there was money and power in the environmental movement. [Left-leaning] political activists in North America and Europe changed Greenpeace from a science-based organisation to a political fundraising organization,” Moore said. 15 years after he co-founded Greenpeace, Moore left the organisation in 1986. “The ‘environmental’ movement has become more of a political movement than an environmental movement,” he said. “They are primarily focused on creating narratives, stories, that are designed to instil fear and guilt into the public so the public will send them money.” He claimed that they typically carry out their political operations behind closed doors with other operatives at the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, and other organisations of a similar kind.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA - A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck Papua New Guinea on Sunday morning, with tremors felt widely in the Pacific nation of 9 million. The epicenter was at a depth of 90km (around 56 miles), not far from the town of Kainantu in the eastern part of the country, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. It initially issued a tsunami warning along the coasts of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, but soon announced that the threat “has now passed.” Casualty numbers are so far unclear, with unconfirmed reports of homes buried and destroyed. Residents reported buildings shaking across the country, including the capital Port Moresby, some 480km away. Papua New Guinea experiences around a hundred earthquakes every year due to its location in one the world’s most tectonically active areas known as the Pacific's Ring of Fire.
GERMANY - In some ways, it was a perfectly ordinary conversation — a trio of bright, ambitious German high school kids thinking out loud about what they might do after graduation. But their discussion reflected a sea change in social attitudes: They were considering joining the military. A decades-old aversion to serving in the German armed forces — the scourge of Europe during World War II, underfunded and neglected after the Cold War’s end — is swiftly reversing itself as a result of the war in Ukraine.
NORTH KOREA - North Korea has issued a document outlining its approach to nuclear warfare, warning it will not hesitate to use the bomb if it perceives threats to its senior leadership or “important strategic targets,” state media has reported. A statement on the “nuclear force policy of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” was carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Friday, noting that while the government considers nuclear weapons a “last resort,” it would deploy them to prevent “aggression that seriously threatens the security of the state and people.” The policy document went on to note that Pyongyang would launch a pre-emptive strike “automatically and immediately” if officials believe “the command and control system for the national nuclear force is in danger due to an attack by hostile forces.”
JAPAN - Japan is upping the ante in its longstanding simmering tensions with China, given Tokyo leaders have over the past year much more overtly sided with Taiwan amid the crisis which has seen a series of US delegations visit Taipei, most especially Nancy Pelosi's August 2nd visit. "'Japan will expand fuel and ammunition storage facilities on the Nansei Islands in the East China Sea,' Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada told Nikkei on Tuesday, as Tokyo seeks to better prepare for a Taiwan Strait crisis," Nikkei reports. This is significant given that most of Japan's ammunition is stored on faraway Hokkaido, in the complete opposite direction in the north. Thus this latest announcement marks a major strategic refocusing on placing ammo depots and military accessible ports much closer to Taiwan. "To protect Japan, it's important for us to have not only hardware such as aircraft and ships, but also enough ammunition for them," Defense Minister Hamada said. "We will radically strengthen the defense capabilities we need, including our capacity for sustained and flexible deployment."
UK - Astrophysicist and meteorologist weather expert Piers Corbyn was recently interviewed by a reporter in RT.com’s Moscow studio about the unusually hot weather seen in many parts of the world this year, with the reporter stating the standard corporate media line that this is a clear example of “climate change.” But Piers Corbyn replied: "Well climate has always been changing, but this has nothing to do with man".
USA - No, not the weeks-long 100-degree-plus temperatures blanketing the state. Heat waves come and go. I'm talking about something far more insidious. The state is being strangled to death in the clench of a 'climate cult.' All week every Californian with a cellphone has been receiving desperate text messages pleading with them to 'turn off your appliances' and turn down their air conditioning. Governor Gavin Newsom has been sending plaintive pleas thanking us for complying and urging us to continue with the rationing measures. You see - California's electricity grid cannot cope with the additional demands put upon it by the hot weather. Newsom assures us our compliance will ensure that 'we can get through this together.'
USA - US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday the United States must look to “the wind, sun, and other clean sources of energy” instead of relying on oil and gas. Yellen’s remarks came during a trip to Detroit, Michigan, where she boasted about the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act. “Our plan — powered by the Inflation Reduction Act — represents the largest investment in fighting climate change in our country’s history,” Yellen told the crowd. “It will put us well on our way toward a future where we depend on the wind, sun, and other clean sources of energy.” “We will rid ourselves from our current dependence on fossil fuels and the whims of autocrats like [Russian President Vladimir] Putin,” Yellen added.
UKRAINE - Researchers at the University of Adelaide have published a landmark paper on the activities of bot accounts on Twitter related to the conflict in Ukraine. These Australian findings are truly staggering – of 5.2 million tweets on the social media network from February 23 to March 8, between 60 to 80% were shared by fake accounts. What’s more, 90% of those posts were pro-Ukraine.
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