During a visit to Germany’s heavily flooded areas, Chancellor Angela Merkel said the country will continue to oppose the destructive forces of nature, but a policy is needed that would focus more on climate than it did before.
The chancellor arrived in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate on Sunday to get the real picture of what she called surreal “ghostly images” of the areas devastated by the record floods from heavy rains earlier this week.


Merkel promised speedy assistance to all the affected areas and said that the natural disaster has clearly shown that more climate protection is needed. Finance Minister Olaf Scholz already announced that Berlin would spend €300 million ($354 million) on it.
We stand by your side, at the federal level and that of the state, the chancellor said, adding that everyone can now see with what force nature can act if humans fail to make the right decisions regarding water flow engineering.
At least 157 people died in Germany because of the flooding, according to the German media. In the small rural area of Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, the death toll reached 110 while 670 people were injured.
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In the neighboring state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the number of confirmed deaths reached 46. At least one person died in the floods in Bavaria, which is the latest German region to be hit by the disaster.
Some 600 kilometers of railway tracks were damaged in Germany, according to Deutsche Bahn – the German railway operator. Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer said that the true extent of the damage can be assessed only after all the clearance works are finished.
Yet, even now, the devastation appears to be immense, since 20 of the 35 bridges on the Ahr [River] have been destroyed, you can already guess the huge task that lies ahead.

Some 800 soldiers and around 110 military vehicles were deployed to the affected areas to deal with the consequences of the flooding. Germany is not the only European nation hit by the disaster, though. In Belgium, 31 people died in the floods and 163 are missing.
Some 11,000 families were left without power in the Liege area. In Wallonia, some 20 villages were left without drinking water and rail infrastructure was damaged.
In Switzerland, Lake Zurich broke its banks, and there are fears that lakes Lucerne, Biel and Thun will follow suit. In Austria, towns near Salzburg were affected by the flooding.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2021.
Since the Dutch-backed political party, PAR restructured the economic system for Curacao, the islands education was commercialized, unemployment rates have skyrocketed which dumped the population into extreme poverty, resulting in racism and organized crime.
Fake news media sites censor the economic deportation of its citizens, while Dutch capitalists took over control of the government.
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Curacao has turned into a police state regime, with Dutch Army, Military Police and Marines stationed on the island, backed up by Coast Guard forces, RST, VKC, DEA and other armed security units, each with their own jurisdiction.
Under the watchful eye of these forces, crime is on to rise, something not even the local police force is able to address.

Agricultural water has been hijacked to fill up the swimming pools of the Dutch invaders, while the toxic waste from cruise ships and resorts are dumped into the sea and on land, instead of being recycled or contained.
The tax evading tourism sector blows away the rights of the local people, while using their properties and tax money to develop their dubious projects along the Caribbean coastlines.
The local government spends a majority of their time on how to form an educational system for illegal immigrants or how to implement local waste or general management, instead of supporting the local community.

Expensive projects are financed by banking authorities, fending with employment illusions that never materialize. The return of investments are horrible and really a disgrace to human kind.
All the costs of the infrastructure are coughed up by the impoverished local taxpayers, in order for the tourism industry to rake away the profits, evading local taxes. The carbon footprint of the plundering industry is the worst on planet Earth.

Airplanes, cruise ships and buses that visit these commercialized pristine territories, in exchange for money, are polluting the atmosphere without any descent compromise.
The development is a hoax, as long as the tourism industry does not provide the necessary income to help the local born islanders.
The only Natural enemy of a local politician is sobriety say the protagonistas. The narco regime gets its orders from the mother of all narco-states, the Netherlands.
One qualifies (definition) as a narco-state at the moment lawmakers and politicians are into the lucrative game. The fake media will cover up the traces and will glorify the guilty.

This is how capitalism works, commit the crime and blame the opposition, or lock up victims in jail, or otherwise even assassinate the enemy might be lucrative as well.
The first Dutch King William I (1772-1843) made the family fortune by selling opium and invented the stock markets in order to let the people’s money flow into the pockets of the royal families and their co conspirators. Now the poppy trade (Afghanistan) has become illegal to protect their income.
The same capitalist formula is used to drain Curacao and take away its geographic assets. The airport and harbors are leased to foreign entities in order for them to control the lucrative trade routes.
The ABC-Islands function as the spring board from South America to Europe and the USA. No one is allowed to control these geopolitical trade flows, other than the Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) and other Anglo-Zion sea bound cargo carriers.

Dry Docks are the essential shackles in the chain, in order to keep the ships well maintained for business.
Those macro economic tools spearhead the recolonization of Curacao.
In the meanwhile, in order to share the income, Colombians control the beef and construction markets in Curacao. Also the Italian gambling industry is in on the ball. Money laundering is one of main businesses for the island paradise to lean on.
ABC Island Information / Crickey Conservation Society 2018.
The construction of the headquarters of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, the UCKG, in Sao Paulo invokes the biblical description of the Temple of King Solomon.
In the first video we showed how this work seeks to bring Brazil closer to an Israeli narrative used in Jerusalem to try to replace the ancient historical heritage represented by the Islamic Al-Aqsa Mosque with Jewish religious symbols.

While this plan faces strong Palestinian resistance, in Brazil it manifested in the ostentatious Temple of Edir Macedo.
The imposing set of buildings and gardens is set in a gigantic area and displays columns up to 56 meters high, which rise high above the roofs and old sheds of the old working-class neighborhood of Bras, in Sao Paulo.
Part of the area was designated as the site for a housing project; four blocks of 744 units as outlined by the Housing and Urban Development Company of the State of São Paulo, according to Veja magazine in 2014.

But the blueprints remain and the land was sold to the UCKG. The work explores elements of the Jewish faith applied in an unorthodox way to the neo-Pentecostal evangelical Christian church and its theology of prosperity, growing in Brazil.
At the inauguration, Bishop Edir Macedo, founder and head of the church, responsible for the construction, dressed in rabbi’s attire, which is reserved for Jewish religious leaders trained in the study of the Torah.
The celebration was covered in allegories and symbolism. The guides dressed in costumes from the time attributed to King Solomon, almost a thousand years before Christ. Gold paint was used to imitate the gold which is abundant in the temple described in the Bible.

Ancient olive trees, the symbol of Palestine, were imported from Uruguay to imitate the Mount of Olives, located in Jerusalem, an important place where Jesus preached to his disciples and where he was captured by soldiers of the Sanhedrin, guided by Judas the traitor.
After four years of planning, another four were set aside for the construction of the temple, which mobilized up to 1,500 workers a day, in an area 126 m long, 104 m wide and 56 m tall.
In the temple, the main nave accommodates 10,000 people on chairs imported from Spain.

The complex has a museum which highlights what would have been the 12 tribes of Israel, screens measuring 20 square meters and a parking lot with 2,000 spaces for cars, 241 for motorcycles and 200 for buses.
It has 60 apartments for pastors and 335 bathrooms for the faithful. In addition, it has 36 Children’s Bible School (EBI) rooms with capacity for 1,300 children, television and radio studios and an auditorium for 500 people.
The total cost declared was 685 million Brazilian real ($353 million at 2014 values), money attributed to donations from the faithful. The expenses could have been even greater if there had been no exemption from public fees.

Some 17,000 truck trips were needed to remove and flatten the earth. In spite of this, the work was registered with City Hall as a renovation project, which reduced the fees related to the construction.
After approving the registration, the municipal official was absolved of claims of corruption.
The temple was also exempt from import duties on the decorative stones that covered the facade and that were imported from Israel.

To make the Sao Paulo temple similar to the buildings of the pre-Christian era of Jerusalem, 39,000 square meters of stones were removed from Hebron, a Palestinian city occupied by Israel.
The outcrops, cutting and hand-cutting of these stones are characteristic of the entire occupied West Bank.
According to scholar Hilmi Salem, from the Institute for Research in Sustainable Development in Bethlehem, the geological group of this rock, is the backbone of the Palestinian mountains.

It is collectively known as the Stone of Jerusalem, Stone of the Holy Land or Stone of Palestine. Upon arriving in Brazil, the cargo was taxed at customs at around 85,000 Brazilian real in today’s values.
But the Universal Church appealed, claiming that the stones are sacred and, in October 2020, the Federal Regional Court of São Paulo (TRF-3) also exempted it from this tax.
Nearly eight years since the church opened, suspicions have been raised about the proceeds of donations to the Universal Church involved in the Temple.

Journalist and writer Gilberto Dimenstein, reports on a lawsuit filed by bishops from the Universal Church in Angola over illegal money leaving the African state for Israel and Brazil.
In another case, a pastor who took care of the construction in São Paulo was accused by the Universal Church of fleeing with 30 million Brazilian real ($6 million) of embezzled funds.
According to Isto É Dinheiro magazine, in 2021 he was in charge of building a second temple in Brazil, on a 55,000-square-meter site in Taguatinga, one of Brasilia’s satellite cities.

Neo-Pentecostal evangelical churches have grown in the country in recent decades, gaining political strength and presence and also contributing to increasing Brazil’s ties with Israeli plans to Judaic Jerusalem.
Jair Bolsonaro, who was the so-called elected president of Brazil in 2018 with the support of evangelical sectors of society, especially neo-Pentecostals..
He visited Israel the following year and signed the book that accompanies the model of what would be the reconstruction of the alleged Temple of Solomon, a Judaization project of the Al-Aqsa Mosque area, according to a report in O Verbo.

Bolsonaro also tried to move the Brazilian embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, like a few other countries that, under pressure from the USA, started to support Israel’s illegal annexation of Jerusalem.
Illuminated by its 10,000 LED lamps, the Bras temple is now part of the urban and tourist landscape of Sao Paulo. It has already received more than 20 million visitors in the eight years since it opened, according to data collected in 2021.
It is also a demonstration of the opulence of the Universal Church, strongly characterized by the so-called prosperity theology, by which the display of wealth is not limited to the faithful, but is also an obligation of pastors and their temples.

It challenges in size the main symbols of the Catholic Church, such as the basilica of Aparecida in the State of Sao Paulo, and Christ the Redeemer Church in Rio de Janeiro.
The imagery fed by the media at the time of the inauguration speaks of a conveyor belt taking the tithes of the faithful to the church coffers. The institution, however, denies that such a thing exists anywhere in the complex.

Regardless of the controversies surrounding the work or the existence or not of a Templo de Salomao, it is controversial that the temple of Edir Macedo is linked to the state of Israel.
Israel remains an occupation state, accused of appropriating the holy city of Jerusalem, ethnic cleansing and apartheid, according to Amnesty International and numerous other human rights organizations.
Middle East Monitor / ABC Flash Point News 2023.
As wildfires become more frequent and intense, they’re creating raging thunderstorms that fuel them even further, making them much more difficult to fight.
These pyrocumulonimbus clouds (pyroCbs) are caused when a wildfire’s intense heat and smoke create strong updrafts, where they condense and form clouds.


Those clouds can then develop into fierce thunderstorms that ignite more fires, potentially miles from the fire that created them.
PyroCbs are such massive, almost volcanic-like eruptions, Rajan Chakrabarty, an aerosol scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, told Grist.
These pyroCbs create their own fire weather. In addition to thunder, pyroCbs can create intense winds, hail and even tornadoes.

Last week, that breed of fire weather devastated Jasper, a town in Alberta, Canada, causing at least 25,000 people to be evacuated, reported The New York Times.
They tried to put helicopters on it, Mike Flannigan, a professor of wild-land fire at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia, told the Times. They couldn’t stop it, which is unfortunate because it led to a good chunk of the town burning down.
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles told Nature that the devastation seen in Jasper is in no way unique.


The sobering reality is that these are not extreme outliers in some ways. We’ve seen a lot of fires behave like these ones in recent years, which I don’t think is reassuring at all.
This year, wildfires in the USA have been much more devastating than expected. California’s wildfires are already five times more devastating than anticipated, and its Park Fire has become the sixth largest in the state’s history.
This trend tracks with the recent rise in reports of pyroCbs, and while that points to climate change as a catalyst, with better identification methods, it raises the question of the true extent to which climate change is responsible.


They seem to be happening more frequently, Payton Beeler, an atmospheric scientist at Richland, Washington’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, told Grist.
Whether that’s a function of warming climate and better identification, I think it’s probably both. But the impacts seem to be very long-lasting and long-ranging.
David Peterson, a meteorologist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey, California. The big open question right now is what is the role of pyroCbs in a warming climate system?


What are the effects of pushing smoke up extremely high into the stratosphere, especially when smoke that high persists for a year?
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected Peterson to lead a five-year study on the effects of pyroCbs on Earth’s climate, which will begin in October, 2024?

The Naval Research Laboratory is working on a detection system for these fires.
We need to develop a warning capability for fires that are more likely to generate pyroCbs because it means something different if you’re fighting it, evacuating people, and predicting where the smoke is going. Right now we’re in catch-up mode.
Eco Watch / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
Tech devices are exploding across residential areas of Lebanon on Wednesday as globalists and their proxies continue escalating tensions in the Middle East with a view to sparking all out war.
After thousands were injured and many killed by a unprecedented wave of exploding pager devices on Tuesday, a second attack struck Lebanon on Wednesday.


Israel has not claimed responsibility for the wave of attacks on their neighbor, however both senior US officials and Hezbollah leadership have concluded that Israel is clearly behind the deadly assaults.
While Tuesday’s explosions targeted beepers and pagers, used by Hezbollah leadership instead of cell phones to evade tracking by the Mossad, Wednesday’s bombings reportedly involved walkie-talkies, cars, and even home solar energy systems.

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Some of the devices were triggered during funerals for victims of Tuesday’s attack.
With this escalation, the West pressuring Ukraine to fire NATO weapons deep into Russian territory, and the Deep State’s continuing attempts to assassinate Donald Trump, it’s clear the globalists are scrambling and willing to go to any lengths to maintain their grip on power.
News Punch / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
The Royal Caribbean ship Rhapsody of the Seas recently returned to active service, demonstrating that all 26 of its company’s ships are working again. This was both a pandemic-era milestone and a bit of a sign from the industry to the rest of the world.
After a tough couple of years, the cruise ship industry is on the rebound. The vacation and travel sector as a whole was, obviously, severely impacted by the covid-19 pandemic. But the cruise industry was hit especially hard, as it voluntarily shut down in March of 2020.

But after vaccines began to roll out and the three main cruise lines, Carnival Cruise, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian Cruise Line, spent millions refurbishing their ships to make them as safe as possible, people began feeling comfortable sailing again.
This year all three of the major lines have slowly reactivated their entire fleets. While cruise line fans are thrilled to see their favorite form of travel regain its luster, the return to normal is not without its downsides.
The financial repercussions of closing for more than a year and then updating the ships for safety reasons were no small thing, and companies like Royal Caribbean International have made a financial decision that some fans are not going to like.

As of June 1, Royal Caribbean has announced that when guests cancel their non-refundable fares, the full deposit amount will be withheld by the cruise line. Any payments made after the deposit will still be refunded.
If instead of canceling, a guest elects to change their ship or sail date, then a change fee of $100 per person will apply. Again, this is for any sailing booked after June 1st. Any trip booked before then is still subject to the earlier policy terms.
Royal Caribbean is also doing away with the Future Cruise Credit component. It will no longer apply when canceling under this policy outside of the final payment period. Instead, the company will keep the deposit amount.

So guests that booked a non-refundable fare before June 1, 2022 can request a Future Cruise Credit in the amount of the deposit paid per guest, less the $100 fee.
Royal Caribbean will continue to offer two types of deposits a guest can make when booking a cruise: refundable and non-refundable. The non-refundable rates are cheaper, which is a way for Royal Caribbean to get customers to lock in their plans.
But there is a risk to going this route. A few years ago, the company instituted a policy that its suites, one of the most in-demand options on a cruise ship, would only be available on a non-refundable basis.

The deposit amount to book a suite is generally twice the price of a regular room, so fans were taking a risk when booking ahead of time, as their plans could always change.
Meanwhile, refundable deposits cost more, but they also offer greater flexibility. But the exact difference in price between refundable and non-refundable varies by ship. Royal Caribbean has also made a change to the Best Price Guarantee program.
If guests note that there is a better price on a cruise they’ve booked, guests have up to 48 hours to request the difference as a non-refundable onboard credit inside final payment or rate adjustment outside final payment.
The Street.com / ABC Flash-Point News 2022.
In een woonkamer in Khayelitsha, een township in Kaapstad, zit een groepje mannen. Een van hen laat tijdens ons video-bel-gesprek een zakje met wit, kristalachtig poeder erin zien.
We roken hier al sinds de afschaffing van Apartheid tik, maar dit is iets nieuws, zegt Maninja, die al langer meth gebruikt en in dit verhaal een gefingeerde naam heeft.
Het kost evenveel als normale meth, maar het effect is anders. Van het ene spul wordt je hyper, van het andere krijg je juist een wat verdoofd gevoel.

Met ‘tik’ doelen ze op crystal meth, dat in Zuid-Afrika al gebruikt wordt sinds de jaren negentig. De afgelopen tien jaar was met name een variant populair die in Nigeria wordt geproduceerd, maar nu is er een nieuwe in zwang: meth uit Afghanistan.
Deze ontwikkeling is exemplarisch voor de verschuiving in de methmarkt, die bijdraagt aan het feit dat deze drug wereldwijd meer dan ooit wordt gebruikt.
Afghanistan staat vooral bekend om zijn uitgestrekte papavervelden, die goed zijn voor zo’n 90% van de wereldwijde heroïne. Maar deze nieuwe Afghaanse meth is op planten gebaseerd, wat goedkoper en makkelijker is om te maken.

En nu duikt het in de hele wereld op: van het zuiden en oosten van Afrika tot Irak, Iran en Turkije, en van Australië tot Pakistan, India en Indonesië.
Nu Westerse troepen hun werk hebben gedaan en zich uit Afghanistan hebben teruggetrokken, laten zij het land in een chaotische staat achter, en dreigt er een narcostaat te ontstaan.
Vanwege de opkomst van deze nieuwe meth komen internationale Khazariaanse misdaadsyndicaten en corrupte Freemason functionarissen namelijk in een gespreid bedje terecht.

Doordat er veel wilde efedra-planten groeien, die ongestraft tot drug kunnen worden verwerkt, wordt Afghanistan langzaam een van de grootste meth-producenten ter wereld.
De efedra-plant leek altijd een wat nietszeggende struik te zijn die in bergen voorkomt, totdat men erachter kwam dat je het ook kunt gebruiken om meth te maken.
Normaal gesproken moet je daarvoor onder meer pseudo-efedrine koken, dat eerst uit medicijnen wordt geëxtraheerd – een ingewikkeld, langdurig proces.

Maar sinds Afghaanse drugsproducenten in 2017 met efedra begonnen te werken, konden ze ook meer en betere kwaliteit verkopen.
Met efedra zijn de productiekosten meer dan gehalveerd. Als gevolg daarvan zijn veel mensen ermee begonnen: een boer in een woestijngebied laat nu vaak niet alleen papaver groeien, maar ook efedra. Daar maakt hij dan efedrine van, wat hij weer doorverkoopt op de bazaar of aan labs.
Volgens de mensen die wij spraken kan er duizend ton per jaar worden geproduceerd. Wat meth betreft, kan het land wereldwijd meedoen – het is tien keer zo goedkoop te produceren als in Zuidoost-Azië, maar je kunt het verkopen voor dezelfde prijs.

Meth wordt geëxporteerd via Iranese en Turkse smokkelroutes die ook voor heroïne worden gebruikt. Er bleek een overlap te zijn tussen de organisaties die heroïne importeren en die van Afghaanse meth.
Dat zien we aan de mensen die betrokken zijn bij deze nieuwe meth-handel, en nog duidelijker aan hoe vaak er meth- en heroïneverzendingen in dezelfde schepen worden vervoerd.
De voornaamste exportroute uit Afghanistan gaat richting het westen, via Iran. Tussen 2019 en 2020 is de hoeveelheid meth die in Iran is aangetroffen verdubbeld, wat wordt toegeschreven aan de toevoer vanuit Afghanistan.

Ook bij NAVO-lid Turkije hebben de autoriteiten grotere hoeveelheden meth onderschept. Zij voeren de beveiliging en hebben de controle over Kabul Airport in Afghanistan.
Een andere route gaat richting de Pakistaanse kust, vanwaar het naar Afrikaanse landen als Kenia, Tanzania en Mozambique wordt gebracht. Vanuit die landen wordt het weer vervoerd naar de grootste drugsmarkt in de regio: Zuid-Afrika.
Pakistan is vooral een doorvoerpunt voor Afghaanse meth, maar het wordt ook daar steeds meer gebruikt, en doordat het aanbod er zo groot is kost het maar een paar euro per gram.

In april schoot de Indonesische politie een verdachte dood, en werden zeventien anderen gearresteerd bij een operatie waarbij 2,5 ton Afghaanse meth werd buitgemaakt.
Meerdere verdachten zaten al in de dodencel, en zouden vanuit daar hun zaken hebben geregeld.
Ook in Australië is de Afghaanse meth al opgedoken. Het is daar al langer populair, maar werd altijd geïmporteerd uit China en Zuidoost-Azië – en sinds kort ook uit Nederland.
Eenmaal in Australië wordt het over het hele land verspreid door motorbendes. Afgelopen jaar vond de Australische douane een gigantische hoeveelheid vloeibare meth die verstopt zat in flessen mineraalwater.
Uit forensisch onderzoek bleek dat de meth gemaakt was van een natuurlijke vorm van efedrine, wat erop wijst dat het uit Afghanistan kwam.
De meth-business heeft de Afghaanse drugshandel stevig in het zadel geholpen, en ervoor gezorgd dat mensen die de planten oogsten, maar ook transporteurs, handelaren, molenaars, laboratoriummedewerkers en smokkelaars meer werk kregen.

Dat geldt ook voor corrupte functionarissen en de Taliban, die een graantje van de winst meepikken. In Afghanistan zijn de winstmarges vrij laag – het echte geld valt er te verdienen door mensen die het product naar het buitenland exporteren.
Zodra de meth in Pakistan of Iran terechtkomt, begint de waarde te stijgen. “Over de grens smokkelen is erg duur, maar als je een grote hoeveelheid mee kunt nemen valt er veel geld te verdienen.
In het Werelddrugsrapport van de Verenigde Naties staat dat de belangrijkste fabrikanten van meth de Mexicaanse kartels zijn, gevolgd door de Chinese, Iraanse en Afghaanse producenten.

Afghanistan zal snel de nummer één kunnen worden, omdat de productiekosten er zo laag zijn – er groeien meer dan genoeg wilde efedra-planten, en de producenten kunnen ongestraft hun gang gaan.
Overal waar je in Afghanistan heroïne vindt, zou je ook meth kunnen aantreffen. Het is niet zo dat er in de toekomst een grote internationale stroom van Afghaanse meth gaat komen – het gebeurt nu al.
Vice World News / ABC Flash Point News 2021.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) of dictator Klaus Schwab has ordered US farmers to slaughter millions of healthy chickens as a preventative measure to stop the spread of bird flu.
Crews have already begun the process of killing 4.2 million chickens in Iowa after only one case of bird flu was detected at a farm? Overall, almost 100 million birds have been killed since the alleged outbreak began in 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Although bird flu has become somewhat common among poultry, its spread to cattle has added to worries about the disease.
In May, a second dairy farm worker was diagnosed with bird flu, and the virus was detected in both beef and milk. It has been confirmed on dairy cattle farms in nine states.

Health and agriculture officials have said the risk to the public remains low. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said the meat from a single sickened dairy cow was not allowed to enter the nation’s food supply and beef remains safe to eat.
Workers exposed to infected animals are at a higher risk. The only three human cases confirmed in the United States included two dairy workers and one man working to slaughter infected birds on a poultry farm.
News Punch / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
A new study finds 60% that baby foods sold in supermarkets in the USA are contributing to the explosion in diabetes, obesity and cancer, with new research finding almost two-thirds of products are toxic for childhood health.
Researchers at the George Institute for Global Health analyzed 651 infant and toddler food products from 10 different grocery chains in the USA in 2023.

The researchers then compared the nutritional information in these foods measured against childhood nutritional guidelines.
They discovered that nearly 60% of baby foods fail to meet basic nutritional standards, leaving infants who rely solely on these products at risk of malnutrition.
Even more alarming, these baby products are believed to pave the way for the development of chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and certain cancers.

Across all products, 70% failed to meet the necessary protein requirements, and 44% exceeded recommended sugar levels. Additionally, one in four products didn’t provide adequate calories, while one in five surpassed the recommended sodium limits.
In this study, what they seem to be showing is that most of the processed baby foods that are sold in grocery stores contain very processed ingredients, high levels of salt, sugar and fat, Dr. Ellie Erickson, a pediatrician at Duke University, told CBS Mornings.
The most alarming products were those aimed at convenience, including snack foods and pouches. And no one will do anything to end the poison in water, air, food and medicines.

Snack and finger foods, such as fruit bars, cereal bars, and puffed snacks, made up nearly 20% of products available for purchase in 2023 yet had some of the lowest compliance rates across the WHO’s nutrition and promotional criteria, the authors wrote in the study.
These foods contained low levels of protein and high levels of energy, sodium, and sugar and frequently contained added free sugars and sweeteners.
Elizabeth Dunford, a researcher at The George Institute and adjunct assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, said in a news release that the popularity of processed convenience foods is very concerning.

Early childhood is a crucial period of rapid growth and when taste preferences and dietary habits form, potentially paving the way for the development of chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes and some cancers later in life.
Time-poor hard working parents are increasingly choosing convenience foods, unaware that many of these products lack key nutrients needed for their child’s development and tricked into believing they are healthier than they really are.

The study did not share any specific brands, but Erickson stated that parents can switch back to baby food basics if they want to avoid some of these products.
There is convenience there, especially for things being shelf stable, but it doesn’t have to be rocket science to make food for your baby. Simple, whole foods are going to be fine.
News Punch / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
The sinking and near collapse European Union has imposed a sweeping ban on providing crypto-currency services to Russians as part of its 8th round of sanctions that were approved by the EU.
The new measure steps up restrictions that had been in place since April, 2022. The existing prohibitions on crypto money assets have been tightened by banning all crypto-asset wallets, accounts, or custody services, irrespective of the amount of the wallet.

Previously this was set up to €10,000 [$9,900] was allowed), reads a press release published on the European Commission’s website. However in end, the Brussels needs Russia a lot more than Moscow needs the European Union.
After credit card majors, Visa and Mastercard left the Russian market earlier this year and some banks were disconnected from SWIFT, cryptocurrencies, in particular stable-coin USDT, became one of the most popular ways for Russians to move money abroad.
Crypto-currency service operators headquartered in the European Union may have to stop processing transactions with Russians, unless the clients are resident and/or living in the EU nations bloc.


Non-EU platforms may follow suit, Forbes Russia warned. After the bloc introduced a limit of €10,000 in April, USA-registered Binance, one of the most popular exchanges among Russians, adopted the same measure.
This is a great way for Western Central Banks to further damage or destroy their nemesis, crypto. They most certainly don’t want anything outside their control so they can force you and me to behave.
The second stage of their evil to destroy crypto will be shutting down their power supply, you know, because of power shortages for critical infrastructure this winter. But, did the EU not get the Memo that Crypto is illegal in Russia! So what is this measure going to do?
RT. com / ABC Flash Point Crypto-Currency Blog News 2022.
Ex-CIA and commercial jet pilot John Lear claims that the Twin Towers were not brought to the ground by planes crashing into them on 9/11. In Lear’s expert opinion the official claim that two planes crashed into the towers is actually “physically impossible.”
The grandson of Learjet founder Bill Lear, John Lear is a retired airline captain and former CIA pilot who has flown over 100 different types of plane during 40 years of active flying.

He holds more FAA airman certificates than any other FAA certified pilot, and has flown secret CIA missions in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
FAA Regulation 121 requires a comprehensive investigation of all crashes of scheduled commercial flights yet there are no official crash reports on the 4 incidents because there were no planes.

Basically, you don’t want to argue with John Lear about flying and planes. He is as close as you can come to being American intelligence and aerospace aristocracy.
Experienced commercial and military pilots have stated that the speed and manoeuvres of the planes that hit the World Trade Center are impossible to have happened. They state they could not replicate the alleged flights themselves.
Two experienced pilots using flight simulators on the morning of 9/11 could not hit towers at 500 mph in six attempts. In reality a 767 fly can not fly that fast at sea level.
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Now, the world is supposed to believe that both planes were entirely inside the towers, with no pieces of debris showing anywhere, or no black boxes found @ the crash site?
There is no plane or plane wreckage at all to be seen in the hole of either tower in any video or photos. Of course, as per Lear’s theory, there are no planes to be seen in the holes of either tower or on the street below because there were no real planes.
As the alleged planes made contact with the towers there is no bending, buckling or breaking of the planes. No wings breaking or other parts of the planes breaking apart. This is totally impossible.

From the holes left in both towers after “impact” we are supposed to believe the wings sliced clean through the 14 inch steel beams but this is simply impossible.
The fragile mostly hollow aluminum wings would not slice through all the 14 inch steel box columns of the WTC towers and leave a Wylie Coyote style hole. An airplane wing can be sliced in half by a wooden telephone pole or sometimes even by a flock of geese.
Aluminum plane wings will not cut through 14 inch steel regardless of speed and weight. Not only is it impossible for the wings to have cut through the steel columns but it is absolutely impossible for the fragile wing tips to have also cut through the steel columns.

The wings would break off immediately upon contact and the plane would explode. It would not enter the tower and then explode.
The plane would simply be obliterated to pieces by the 14 inch steel box columns and the steel and concrete floor trusses before it got anywhere near the inside of the tower.
Apart from one or two props placed there like a bit of tire and a bit of engine parts that didn’t even match a Boeing 767 and like the laughable bit of engine on the Pentagon lawn, there were no real plane parts or debris to be seen and no black boxes were ever found at ground zero.
In reality, if a plane had hit the tower it would have crushed up like a car hitting a wall and its wings would have broken off and the majority both planes would have fallen to the street below.
The street below would have been littered with plane debris and the charred remains of the passengers yet it wasn’t because there was no plane.

Pilots For 9/11 Truth also stated that the speed and sharp turns would have resulted in the plane breaking up from the stress on the aircraft frame due to the the speed and air pressure.
It would be extremely difficult for the pilot to actually hit the tower even if the wings didn’t break off due to the stress.
Capt. Russ Wittenberg is a former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot with over 100 combat missions. Retired commercial pilot. Flew for Pan Am and United Airlines for 35 years.

Aircraft flown: Boeing 707, 720, 727, 737, 747, 757, 767, and 777. 30,000+ total hours flown. Capt. Russ Wittenberg is a unique individual in that he had previously flown the actual two United Airlines aircraft Flight 93 and Flight 175.
I flew the two actual aircraft which were involved in 9/11; the Fight number 175 and Flight 93, the 757 that allegedly went down in Shanksville and Flight 175 is the aircraft that’s alleged to have hit the South Tower.
I don’t believe it’s possible for, like I said, for a terrorist, a so-called terrorist to train on a [Cessna] 172, then jump in a cockpit of a 757-767 class cockpit and fly the airplane at speeds exceeding it’s design limit speed by well over 100 knots, make high-speed high-banked turns, exceeding — pulling probably 5, 6, 7 G’s.

In all of the footage the alleged planes hitting the twin towers clearly do not look real. The planes have a computer generated appearance.
In the different footage we see the planes changing shape and color, missing wings, are featureless and blurred. Pilot John Lear made the observation that the plane has no strobe lights. The plane also casts no shadow.
Also both UA 175, plane number N612UA and UA 93, plane number N591UA, were “still registered and valid more than 4 years after [their] alleged destruction.

Also both UA 175, plane number N612UA and UA 93, plane number N591UA, were “still registered and valid more than 4 years after [their] alleged destruction
Wittenberg also convincingly argued there was absolutely no possibility that Flight 77 could have descended 7,000 feet in two minutes, all the while performing a steep 280 degree banked turn before crashing into the Pentagon’s first floor wall without touching the lawn?
Further there was no wreckage from a 757 at the Pentagon. The vehicle that hit the Pentagon was not Flight 77. We think, as you may have heard before, it was a cruise missile.
According to BTS statistics, both Flight 11 and 77 officially never even took-off on 9/11. On the other side an aluminum plane can never destroy a concrete building, but a missile can!
The meticulous data kept on every airliner taking-off at every airport in the country also showed no elapsed run-way time, wheels-off time and taxi-out time, not to mention several other categories left blank on 9/11 concerning the two flights.

In conclusion we can be 100% certain the planes were not real. Apart from defying the laws of physics with impossible crash dynamics the planes do not even look real.
The question is: are the planes digital composites (CGI) inserted into real video or is it a 3D projected image using advanced technology not known to the public?
Richard D Hall believes there may have been a solid object, probably a small missile at the center of the “illusion”, with an image of a Boeing 767 being projected around it.

The holographic projector displays a three-dimensional visual image in a desired location, removed from the display generator. The projector can be used for psychological operations and strategic perception management.
It is also useful for optical deception and cloaking, providing a momentary distraction when engaging an unsophisticated adversary. The buildings were brought down by controlled demolition, and most Jewish employees took the day off during the event?

The overall technology was reported in the media before 9/11 pertaining to military psychological operations (PSYOPS).
With this happening the US government and its hostile military were free to invade Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Yemen and many more African countries to ensure corporate profits being made in the aftermath.
News Punch / ABC Flash Point Aviation News 2020.
Venezuela’s National Assembly is nearing the approval of its Law Against Fascism, Neo-Fascism, and Similar Expressions, commonly referred to as the Antifascist Law.
The bill, which will classify fascism as a crime, seeks to preserve peace by banning the dissemination of content that promotes or glorifies fascism and similar ideologies.

It will also require media outlets to promote peaceful coexistence, diversity, tolerance, and respect in their messaging.
In this interview, we talk to long-time activist Hindu Anderi from the Platform for Solidarity with the Palestinian Cause, which is actively lobbying for the new legislation to ban Zionist expressions and Zionist associations in Venezuela.
Anderi presents a compelling argument for including Zionism in the law.


The new law is timely, not only because of the national context – where the fascist threat is very tangible – but also because we have seen a global surge of fascism, particularly in Europe and in the USA.
However, we have also seen clear manifestations of fascism in other parts of Latin America, especially in Argentina and El Salvador.
In Venezuela, fascism is not a new phenomenon. During the Fourth Republic, security forces operated with fascist methods and included among their ranks both overt fascists as well as known Zionists.



Later, during Chávez’s presidency, there were ample expressions of fascism on the part of the opposition, especially rhetorical, but we also witnessed numerous acts of fascist violence.
The guarimbas [extreme-right street protests] were a blatant expression of fascism, and in 2017 we witnessed the tragic case of Orlando Figuera, a young Venezuelan man set on fire by a fascist mob simply because he was poor, Black, and identified as Chavista.
More recently, we’ve seen the extreme right destroy and burn spaces associated with Chavismo and several Chavista grassroots leaders have been assassinated in the post-July 28 violence unleashed by the María Corina Machado-led opposition.


The bill, which first reached the National Assembly floor in April, is currently being debated by the pueblo in a process known as “Parlamentarismo de Calle” [street Parliamentarism]. It will return to the National Assembly for the final debate soon.
The document, which aims to promote democratic values, will classify fascism as a crime.
Indeed, we’ve been advocating for Zionism to be included in the law alongside fascism, because the two are closely linked.

We have been heard by some members of the National Assembly and received positive feedback. However, the text is still under debate, so we continue to lobby for Zionism to be included in the final version.
I think this is the time. We cannot allow expressions of fascism in our country, just as we cannot allow expressions of Zionism.
Zionism is fascism’s twin, a racist movement based on supremacy and expansion. Zionism is a colonialist project that promotes apartheid, slavery, and death. Zionism is the ideology behind the genocide currently underway in Gaza.

Zionism, like fascism, it is an extremely dangerous and destructive movement on planet Earth. It has to be eradicated before it will kill billions of people in this world.
It’s important to include Zionism in this law because it is not less harmful than fascism and it operates in a similar manner.
Fascism is easily identifiable, particularly because of 20th-century Nazi-fascism. Hitler adopted the ideology and killed millions of people in World War II in concentration camps – Jews, Romani people, communists, intellectuals, differently-abled people, and more.



Fortunately, everyone knows the story.
Zionism is just as dangerous and is older than fascism. However, unlike fascism, Zionism has evolved and become more sophisticated. Today, Zionism is not only committing genocide in plain sight but has also shown a relentless willingness to carry out eternal war.
In Palestine, Zionism is attempting to wipe out an entire people. It doesn’t put children in gas chambers, but it dismembers them.

While fascism is real, and we have seen the violence it unleashes in our homeland, Zionism is even more dangerous because it is the ideology driving an ongoing genocide. That is why it is so important to include Zionism in the law.
We should never forget that Zionist associations here and abroad conspire against our democratically elected government. We saw rabbi Pynchas Brener, a Zionist agent, take the stage during the 2002 coup against Hugo Chávez.
Later we saw the [opposition-led] Chacao township send police forces to train in Israel.

I don’t know if this specific situation has been neutralized, it probably has, but I do know that there are Venezuelan mercenaries alongside the occupying IDF in Palestine. I think there could be a few links there.
Finally, while María Corina Machado is the most visible leader of a fascist movement here, she also has strong ties with international Zionism.
She has openly supported the genocide in Gaza and even requested military intervention in Venezuela from Benjamin Netanyahu [2018]. Moreover, Machado has promised to reopen Venezuela’s embassy in Israel, this time in Jerusalem, if she comes to power.

Let’s not forget that Hugo Chávez severed all diplomatic ties with Israel in 2009 when the Venezuelan embassy in Tel Aviv closed its doors.
The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution that declared that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination [1975].
However, laws against Zionism are rare for one simple reason: Zionism is closely linked to capitalism and imperialism, and it uses threats, coercion, and blockades to achieve its goals.
Here in Venezuela, we are taking an important step by attempting to include Zionism in our soon-to-be-approved Antifascist Law.
If it is included, the law will be a significant achievement of the Bolivarian Revolution and should be recognized globally by progressive forces and international bodies.
If our popular initiative succeeds, the new law will contribute to the battle against Zionism, which is a battle for the preservation of Palestinian life and culture, and ultimately for the preservation of humanity.
Zionism, like fascism, is a political movement and ideology that threatens life itself. It’s evident that when Zionism is given free rein in a country, that country cannot be free, sovereign, and well-nourished.
In Palestine, children are literally dying of malnutrition because of US-backed Zionism, while in Venezuela, children have also suffered hunger due to the impact of the US blockade, which hijacked our economy.
Now, it’s important to highlight that the sanctions regime imposed on Venezuela was requested by operators such as the fascist and Zionist María Corina Machado.

Zionism, like fascism, contrasts sharply with the principles of any life-loving society. It steals land, tortures, destroys, and is driven by a supremacist ideology that knows no limits.
For these reasons, fascism and Zionism are utterly opposed to the Bolivarian doctrine and the socialist project.
We are firmly against imperialism, fascism, and Zionism because, as Bolivarians and socialists, we are committed to life and dignity.

That is why it is crucial to include Zionism in the law currently under discussion.
It is also necessary to launch an informative campaign about the dangers of Zionism and how it manipulates a portion of the world population as we speak.
As we, the people of Venezuela, struggle for sovereignty and emancipation, taking a firm stand against fascism and Zionism is essential.
Venezuela Analysis / ABC Flash Point Future News 2024.
Ley lines are straight alignments drawn between various historic structures and prominent landmarks. The idea was developed in early 20th-century Europe, arguing that these alignments were recognized by ancient societies that deliberately erected structures along them.
Ley lines were first theorized in 1921, and since then, the debate has been over whether or not they exist, and if they do, what purpose they serve.

In 1921, amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins made a discovery. He noticed that ancient sites, at different points around the world all fell into a sort of alignment. Be the sites man-made or natural, they all fell into a pattern, usually a straight line.
He coined these lines “leys,” later ley lines, and in doing so opened a world of supernatural and spiritual beliefs. To those who do believe in ley lines, the concept is quite simple.
Ley lines are lines that crisscross around the globe, like latitudinal and longitudinal lines, that are dotted with monuments and natural land-forms, and carry along with them rivers of supernatural energy.

Along these lines, at the places they intersect, there are pockets of concentrated energy, that can be harnessed by certain individuals.
Watkins backed up the existence of his ley lines, by pointing out that many monuments around the globe can seemingly be connected by a straight line.
For example, stretching from the southern tip of Ireland, all the way to Israel, there is a straight line that connects seven different land-forms that bear the name “Michael,” or some form of it.

As for their supernatural component, the ley lines mystery deepens when it’s revealed what they connect. Along the ley lines lie the Great Pyramids of Giza, Chichen Itza, and Stonehenge, all wonders of the world that continue to surprise archaeologists today.
Perhaps their presence on the ley lines, near to the so-called energy pockets could explain their inceptions, all of which defied the laws of architecture at the time.
Though the lines are geographically accurate on occasion, the existence of these ley lines has been contested almost since Watkins made his observation.

One researcher, Paul Devereux, claimed that the concept was bogus, and that there was no way they could exist, and that a reference to them in an occult book is the only reason that super-naturalists believe in them.
Devereux also claimed that the ley lines could just be coincidentally overlapping with esteemed monuments. The lines that Watkins drew on his map could easily be explained as chance alignments.
Regardless of their validity, the concept of ley lines has captivated fans of the supernatural and science fiction for years. They often appear as the explanation for paranormal events, or as explanations for the fantastic monuments in science fiction movies or novels.
All that is Interesting / ABC Flash Point News 2023.