How European Banks are linked to Deforestation and Slavery
Environmental campaigners have dragged controversial investments into the spotlight, claiming that major European banks are linked to businesses that harm threatened species, deforestation in Brazil and other questionable environmental practices.
European banks, including Switzerland’s UBS, Britain’s HSBC and Spain’s Santander, have been thrown into the spotlight after two recent reports linked them to significant environmental damage, while green washing bonds in Brazil.
The revelations come as these green investments, so called because they were made to fund environmentally friendly activities, are increasingly falling under scrutiny:
The British Financial Conduct Authority is investigating the sustainability-linked loans market, while a new European Green Bond Regulation is coming into effect next year – a gold standard that aims to eliminate any green-washing from the bond market.
At the center of the allegations is the green bond market in Brazil, which environmental campaigner Greenpeace says UBS and Santander, among other non-European banks, have acted as intermediaries in.
The banks helped investors to purchase green investment assets, according to a report by Greenpeace’s investigative journalism project Unearthed, which generated funds that were ultimately used to finance controversial companies including de foresters, land grabbers and ranchers accused of slave labor in Brazil.
The banks orchestrating these bond transactions define the price of the bonds and sell them to investors in exchange for a fee, which is usually 3% to 5% of the total offer.
The allegations focus on so-called Agribusiness Receivables Certificates (CRA) – an asset backed security which represents investment in agribusiness, financing those on the ground in the hope of a hefty return on investment.
These are referred to as green bonds and they were initially created to support small-scale, sustainable farmers’ practices in Brazil?
But in reality, the market has swollen by around €8 billion and the bonds often finance large companies and their suppliers. It’s these bonds that have linked European banks to claims of deforestation and even slave-like working conditions.
According to Unearthed, UBS helped Brazilian grain trader Caramaru to raise funds worth of €66.5 million in CRA’s in October 2021.
Part of the money ended up in the hands of Caramuru’s soy suppliers, Unearthed said, some of whom have a history of illegal deforestation and land grabbing. Another has even been sued for alleged slave-like labor.
Caramuru denies wrongdoing, claiming that it monitors the environmental compliance of all its suppliers and that the company hasn’t done business with all of the suppliers.
As such, it is possible to state that soy was not acquired from places with issues of illegal deforestation or land grabbing, nor from farms with work similar to slavery, the company said.
For its part, UBS said it does not knowingly provide financial or advisory services to clients associated with damages to high conservation value forests, child labor and forced labor, among other practices.
UBS isn’t the only European bank caught in the crosshairs. Spain’s Santander was involved in raising funds to the tune of €280 million in CRA’s for JBS, the largest meat processing enterprise in the world, in August 2023, according to Unearthed.
JBS admitted in 2022 to buying cattle from a farmer that prosecutors dubbed one of the biggest de-foresters in Brazil, despite saying it has strict, self-imposed rules on who it does business with.
Santander also helped Uisa, one of the largest ethanol and sugar producers in the world, to issue a R$150 million green CRA, for a fee of roughly €710,000.
Uisa has received a dozen environmental fines for illegal deforestation, and was also responsible for leaking toxic material into a river that is vital to the Umatina Indigenous people in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.
Aside from the Unearthed report, a new study from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has linked 62 banks and financial institutions, including some in Europe, to harming threatened animal species.
The report states that the banks have invested in three companies that produce traditional Chinese medicine, using leopard and pangolin parts. Both animals are classified as highly threatened species – a stone’s throw from being considered endangered.
UBS is once again named as having invested in the companies, but so are British lender HSBC and Germany’s Deutsche Bank.
All three are members of The Royal Foundation’s United for Wildlife (UfW) Financial Taskforce, which was launched in 2018 to stop the trafficking of wildlife, according to the report.
Both the EIA and Unearthed reports are just two of many which claim to shed light on the impact that major banks’ business practices have on the environment.
The worsening dangers of climate change have prompted investors and companies across the globe to increasingly turn towards green financial products, including green bonds, and present themselves as sustainable businesses that care about the environment.
The number of instances of greenwashing by banks and financial service companies around the world has risen by 70% in the past 12 months, according to RepRisk, a Swiss environmental, social and corporate governance data provider.
The European Union is hoping to stem the flow of green-washing with its new European Green Bond Regulation, which is due to come online in 2024.
It will introduce legal sanctions for any misleading business practices related to sustainability and the environment.
The newly-approved rules against green-washing in the bond market include a registration system and supervisory framework, but who will control these entities?
Under the new regulations, companies issuing green bonds will have to disclose more information about their practices with special regards to show how these investments feed into the companies’ plans to transition to a net zero carbon emissions economy.
The new law also specifies that at least 85% of funds raised would have to be allocated to activities that are sustainable according to EU law.
At the same time, the European Banking Authority will require banks to publish their so-called green asset ratio, a percentage of environmentally sustainable assets, in their books.
A common classification system, the EU’s taxonomy will define what makes a green asset.
The EU isn’t alone in wanting to regulate greenwashing: Reuters reports that the Swiss government will consider the matter as part of a plan to introduce overall state regulation on sustainable finance in the country.
Switzerland, a huge center for asset and wealth management, accounted for sustainable investments totaling around 1.6 trillion Swiss francs (€1.69 trillion) in 2022, according to industry association Swiss Sustainable Finance.
The Swiss Bankers Association, which represents lenders like UBS and Julius Baer as well as Switzerland’s smaller banks, wants to continue with self-regulation rather than be subject to tighter government rules, according to Reuters.
UBS, the country’s biggest bank with $5.5 trillion in invested assets, also supports self-regulation, saying it sets a minimum standard. There is a wave of regulation coming to Swiss banks…it will really hit (them),” said Daniel Schmid Perez of banking consultancy ZEB.
He estimates the total cost for lenders to adjust their processes would be around 100 million to 200 million francs. Yet many consider the cost worth it to boost sustainability in the effort to avoid climate disaster.
Euro Green News / ABC Flash Point News 2023.
The 6 Alien Species that are Fighting for Control @ Planet Earth
Hundreds of sightings, abductions and first-hand accounts have made it possible to distinguish several distinct alien species that have been in cahoots with military forces, deciding our future without ever consulting us.
All these assumptions were taken from historical texts, myths, abduction experiencers, and other sources. Below are the least obscure ones we could find ;
1. The Short Grays
Also known as the Zeta Reticulums, the Grays are some of the most well-known aliens and commonly depicted throughout alien pop culture. They are the authors of most alien abductions.
According to most descriptions, they stand 3 to 5 feet tall, have bulbous heads and over-sized black eyes. Although they possess a mouth, they seldom speak, as most communication is carried out telepathically.
The short Grays are said to be a genetically-engineered worker race that are controlled by their superiors, the Tall Grays. Their telepathic abilities allow them to constitute a type of hive mind consciousness.
Being genetically-designed to carried out scientific missions, the short Grays are emotionless and cruel. They are also responsible for creating a human-gray hybrid race.
2. The Sirians
Hailing from the Sirius B star system, the Sirians are as advanced as they are ancient. Throughout history, they have imparted their knowledge to human civilizations of their choosing.
They gifted the ancient Egyptians with medical and astronomical information and the great pyramids and temples are said to have been built with their help.
The Mayans also had a special relationship with the Sirians, who shared information with this enigmatic South American civilization. The extraterrestrial originating from Sirius B are believed to have played a part in the disappearance of the Mayan culture.
Another earthly civilization that benefited from the Sirian presence were the Atlanteans; it is believed that during the cataclysmic event that sunk Atlantis, the Sirians were instrumental in leading the rescue operations.
Other civilizations have been influenced by the Sirians, the most notable case being that of the Dogon tribe of West Africa. Although they were more involved during our planet’s past, nowadays the Sirians play a more subtle part: technology exchange programs.
They are often mentioned in connection with covert or exotic weapons research as well as time travel experimentation.
3. The Tall Grays
Standing 7 to 8 feet tall, the Gray Masters are the ambassadors of most meetings between human and alien forces. They are always present at any diplomatic agreements with the global shadow government.
Sources claim they originate from a star system in the Orion constellation. The Tall Grays supervise all abductions and human experiments but are seldom present during these events.
They prefer to employ the services of their minions, the Short Grays. As it would seem, they are keen on developing a stable human-gray hybrid race, one worthy of inheriting Earth.
An advanced, self-centered race, they place little value on human life. They consider us their property.
4. The Native Reptilians
Often confused with the warrior caste of the Alpha Draconians, these reptilians are said to be native to Earth. The little information available for this species states that they were originally left behind by the Alpha-Draconians to colonize Earth.
Their interaction with mankind goes back thousands of years, sometimes offering assistance but more often than not using us as a commodity. They have infiltrated almost all aspects of human life and hold positions of power.
Reptilians manipulate our elites and rule our institutions and organizations. They built the financial system and influence all religions.
The underground reptilian race is also said to control the media and all corporations. They are behind most crimes against humanity.
5. The Anunnaki
According to scientists, there is a 12th planet in our solar system (known as the possible ‘Planet X’). They refer to this planet as Nibiru, which is located somewhere beyond Pluto.
This planet, unlike any other planet in our solar system, has an elliptical orbit and moves clockwise rather than counterclockwise. It is said that the collision of Nibiru and another planet in our solar system (Maldek) was what created Earth.
This planet is inhabited by the Anunnaki, who landed on Earth, and originally colonized it. They first came with the intention of mining Earth for gold and other minerals, and live a kind of idealistic society in a small colony. Before heading to Earth, the Anunnaki colonized the planets in the Orion star system.
In need of a workforce, they are said to have created mankind. Through genetic manipulation and in vitro fertilization, they upgraded the genus Homo to sapiens quality.
Present on Earth since our inception, the Anunnaki have influenced every aspect of human life. We’ve inherited their patriarchal culture of violence and vengeance, it’s in our engineered DNA.
The Anunnaki are in direct competition with the Draconians for control over mankind.
6. The Alpha-Draconians
Corrupt and vicious, the Alpha-Draconians infiltrated human society thousands of years ago, and are the oldest known reptilian race in our galaxy. Although they came to Earth from their colonies on Alpha Draconis, their original home world is unknown.
They lay eggs and use a “battle hormone” to accelerate the birthing process. They are a duality. This is why ancestral females do not participate in war, because if they did, there wouldn’t be anybody there to help with the eggs. They also have to be there to secrete their hormone.
A decidedly giant reptilian species, they measure anywhere from 14 to 22 feet tall and weigh an estimated 1,800 pounds of mostly muscle. They can be compared to the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
These Alpha-Draconians have black leathery brown scale bellies, whiskers along their chin and jaw line and have multiple abdomens. They are an intelligent race with large heads and reptilian eyes.
Some accounts describe them as having tails or even wings and they are, in fact, the only genetic line of their ancestry that is not extinct.
Contactee Alex Collier says he was allowed to share some details about these extraterrestrials:
The Draconians are the force behind the repression of human populations everywhere in this galaxy, instilling fear-based belief systems and restrictive hierarchies. They’re extremely clairvoyant and extremely clever, and they can also be extremely sinister.
The Draconians view themselves as the first intelligent species to evolve in the Milky Way galaxy. Competitive and expansive, they have populated many worlds. Their immense egos allows them to see themselves as the rightful rulers of lesser evolved worlds such as Earth.
Their continuous exploitation of the human race proves they consider us an inferior species.
Reports say there are actually two types of Alpha-Draconians divided into two castes: the giant ones are part of a royal caste called the Ciakar while the smaller ones (8 feet tall) form a well-trained warrior class.
Anomalien / ABC Flash Point News 2020.
Greed is Winning & Humanity is Losing
The one thing upon which the world’s major religions and most schools of philosophy are agreed is the perils and evil of human greed, driven by ego, lust and envy.
Unfortunately, there are some people who didn’t get the memo on greed. Take the Waltons, for example, the family behind the Walmart retail empire.
According to the financial and money website, Bloomberg, they get richer by $4 million every hour while at the same time paying their ‘associates’ (workers/slaves) a paltry $11 an hour.
There is no human being on this Earth who can justify getting $4 million an hour, and there is no justification for paying any worker a wage as low as $11 an hour?
Only the most psychologically dysfunctional or morally empty could conceivably consider such a scenario and wealth gap compatible with progress.
And yes, we’ve heard it all before about human enterprise and dynamism and hard work and entrepreneurship. But these are merely words used to legitimize greed and avarice.
Words thrown into the faces of the masses like so much dust to blind them as to the reality of the world and their true place in it.
That place is as human drones, consigned to a life spent working their fingers to the bone for a pittance while being programmed to believe that they’re actually free.
If they are free it’s free to be poor, to be homeless, to go hungry, and to suffer.
The Walton family, whose fortune now sits at an outrageous $191 billion, aren’t the only reprobates at the apex of this world grown sick with greed.
Hark the Mars family, the confectionery giants, with a fortune of $127 billion. That’s a lot of Mars Bars.
Or how about the Kochs, notorious for bankrolling numerous politicians in Washington? They’re currently sitting on a mountain of assets to the tune of $125 billion.
One cannot exist without the other.
It takes neither a PhD in economics nor any grounding in Marxist theory to grasp the fact that a world that allows for such obscene amounts of wealth to be so concentrated in the coffers of so few, is also a world that allows for obscene levels of poverty to be endured by so many.
In America today, the number of victims of poverty is legion. Some 40 million to be precise. And victims they are, to be sure. Because let us have none of this silly talk about poverty being self-inflicted.
This is just the propaganda endlessly churned out by the super rich and their flunks in positions of influence in the media and politics.
There’s an argument to be made that early Christianity was the communism of its time and that communism is the early Christianity of ours.
Because in its earliest incarnation, Christianity like communism was a revolutionary creed, emerging in response to the crippling oppression and poverty being suffered by the many in the name of a Roman Empire that was less a monument to human progress and more its impediment.
Today, it’s the plundering and corrupted American empire that is an impediment to progress; sick with greed for money, for power and for hegemony.
But who can argue that the cultural values that predominate in that world are American cultural values – and that those values are specifically the values of the super rich?
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
The next time you find yourself in Walmart, spare a thought for the Waltons. Four million bucks an hour doesn’t go as far as it used to.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2019.
Swarms of Drones appeared in the Colorado and Nebraska Night Sky
Since the week of Christmas, giant drones measuring up to 6 feet across have been spotted in the sky at night, sometimes in swarms as large as 30.
The Denver Post first reported these mysterious drone sightings in northeastern Colorado on December 23. Since then, sightings have spanned six counties across Colorado and Nebraska.
Local and federal government authorities say they have no idea where the drones are coming from. So far, they do not appear to be malicious, however, and a drone expert says they appear to be searching or mapping out the area for some reason.
The drones, estimated to have 6-foot wingspans, have been flying over Phillips and Yuma counties every night for about the past week.
Each night, at least 17 drones appear at about 7 o’clock and disappear at about 10 o’clock, staying 200 to 300 feet in the air.
As the airspace where the drones are flying is relatively ungoverned, there are no regulations requiring the drone operators to identify themselves.
Drone pilot Vic Moss urges residents not to shoot down the drones, as they are highly flammable. It becomes a self-generating fire that burns until it burns itself out.
If you shoot a drone down over your house and it lands on your house, you might not have a house in the next 45 minutes.
Yahoo / ABC Flash Point News 2019.
Euro Zone edging towards Recession
According to data released this week, the Euro zone hovers over the prospect of a recession, and there is no policy consensus over how to react.
Europe’s biggest economy, Germany, narrowly escaped recession, technically defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth. The French economy, which outperforms German, is also decelerating, with an immediate impact on the labor market.
The two biggest economies are slowing down as Europe’s export-driven economy is particularly exposed to the Sino-American trade war.
Given historically low levels of unemployment, domestic consumption provides some resilience, but growth is decelerating rapidly across the 19-member currency area.
German unemployment currently stands at 3,1%, with GDP per capita having recovered the shock of the financial crisis. The French unemployment nudged to 8,6% in the second quarter.
Exports account for 47% of the German GDP, with manufactured goods weighing heavily in the “Made in Germany” basket. The Sino-America trade war is costing Germany, as China is a significant importer of German vehicles and industrial equipment.
At the same time, US tariffs on aluminum, Airbus, food and drink are also taking their toll on the French economy, not to mention the Spanish and the Italian.
While business and consumer confidence are weakening and exports cannot drive the economy forward, European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde faces resistance in implementing the second wave of quantitative easing announced by her predecessor, Mario Draghi.
New Europe / ABC Flash Point Economy News 2019.
Shambhala will rise and Vanquish all Evil on planet Earth
When mankind succumbs to greed, materialism and war, a force for good will rise in the east from a mystical land and vanquish the evil.
Though numerous mystics and explorers have not managed to locate the mythical land of Shamballa, we hope it will materialize in humanity’s time of need, as ancient texts decree.
Shamballa (also spelled Shambhala or Shambala) refers to a mystical kingdom in both Hindu and Buddhist mythology, where the most sacred spiritual teachings are preserved. It is said to exist on both a spiritual and physical plane.
The Vishnu Purana, from the early 4th century AD, mentions Shamballa as the birth place of Kalki, the final incarnation or avatar of Vishnu. Shamballa is also mentioned in the Kalachakra Tantra, as well the ancient Tibetan texts, the Zhangzhung.
Though the present Dalai Lama alleges Shamballa is not a physical place, its location is speculated as being in the North, perhaps near Mount Kailash in Tibet.
Or in Kashmir, in the higher regions of the Himalayas, in the Sutlej Valley in Punjab, or more generally in the mountainous regions of Eurasia.
The Kalachakra tantra or texts are a collection of material in Buddhist literature containing advanced spiritual and esoteric teachings.
Kalachakra means wheel of time or cycles of time and the Kalachakra teachings reference an external, internal and alternative cycle, referring to spiritual cycles. Everything mentioned in the teachings occurs on the three levels, including Shamballa.
The external level of Shamballa is the physical place in the North where the teachings were kept and took place. The external cycles deal with astronomy as well as kaliyuga (the last stage the world will go through) and a war to overcome destructive forces.
Shamballa is said to be the origin of those that will overcome the invaders. Sources say Shamballa is a pure realm, though contained within the domain of humans. It is believed to be a physical place, yet no one who ever attempted to get there actually succeeded.
On an internal level, Shamballa represents the heart chakra. It concerns the cycles of breathing and the movement of energy through the body. The heart chakra is the most important chakra, sources indicate.
The alternative level deals with the degree of spiritual practice, specifically in Buddhism. The internal and external forces are driven by karma.
The texts cite that when people are confused about reality, they develop negative emotions such as greed, anger and jealousy and become more and more selfish.
They build up karma on account of the way they deal with others and this becomes a cycle, both internally (with sickness in the body) and externally (in the world), putting the world out of balance.
The winds of karma thus drive these internal and external cycles and the practice of Buddhism aims to overcome these winds or energies of karma.
The way to create peace begins as an internal process which then manifests externally as well, the ancient texts claim.
The ultimate level of Shamballa is the ability to bring all three levels together in the heart chakra and dissolve them, bringing out the state of the clear light mind. The clear light mind is said to be the ultimate representation of Shamballa.
Kalachakra tantra tells of an ancient king called Kalki, who united the castes. Kalki, whose name means the unifier, predicted there would be an invasion and realized he needed to prepare his people.
He lived in a kingdom where numerous religions were practiced, including Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam. According to sources, the area may have been in the vicinity of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Kashmir.
The king warned the people of their imminent destruction if they were not able to band together against the destructive forces.
In order to unify them, Kalki performed a spiritual ritual called an initiation or empowerment, making all his people one family of Vajra brothers and sisters.
Since the invasion wasn’t meant to come for another 25 generations, however, the spiritual teachings flourished within the unified group. Twenty-five kings would follow after Kalki until the time of the predicted war with the dark forces, which sources claim is yet to come.
Then, when the gradual degradation and deterioration of mankind has led to ubiquitous materialism, a king will rise from Shamballa to vanquish the evil and usher in a new, golden era of peace in the world.
Many explorers sought out the mythical Shamballa, but none brought home proof of its existence. In 1833, Hungarian scholar Csoma de Körös was the first to introduce the concept of Shamballa to the European community.
He also compiled the first Tibetan-English dictionary. In 1856, the great theosophist and occultist Madame Blavatsky ventured to India with sparse information available on the mystical realm.
She tried to explain the teachings she learned during her years spent in India to Europeans in concepts they could understand. Since the study of the occult was very popular at the time, she used that as the basis for her explanations.
The European concept of Shamballa began to form two schools of thought. The first emphasized Shamballa as a spiritual paradise.
The second viewpoint was a more destructive one, focusing on the forces that got rid of the invaders trying to destroy spiritual growth. Blavatsky was a proponent of the first viewpoint.
She connected Shamballa with the four types of births in Buddhism: from a womb, from an egg, from heat and moisture, and by some kind of emanation. She eventually linked Shamballa with the mystical island of Lumeria and Atlantis.
Though the knowledge of the illusive Shamballa reached across the world through explorers and mystics before and after Blavatsky, the mythological realm still remained hidden from human eyes.
Some may wish to connect the mythical land to other realms and other worlds. In Kongka La, one of the possible locations of Shamballa, many UFO sightings have been reported.
In the 1920’s, Russian explorer and theosophist, NIKOLAI Roerich, in his search for Shamballa, allegedly spotted a UFO while camped near the Altai Mountains between Mongolia and Tibet.
UFO’s hadn’t even been heard of back then, but he described it as something.
Mythology Network / ABC Flash Point News 2023.
Australia may have been home for half a million humans 70,000 years ago
About 70,000 years ago, a vast swathe of land that’s now submerged off the coast of Australia could once have supported a population of half a million people.
The undersea territory was so large it could have functioned as a stepping stone for migration from modern-day Indonesia to Australia, finds a new study published Dec. 15 in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews.
We’re talking about a landscape that’s quite submerged, over 100 meters [330 feet] below sea level today, Kasih Norman, an archeologist at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, and lead author on the new study, told Live Science.
This Australian “Atlantis” comprised a large stretch of continental shelf that, when above sea level, would have connected the regions of Kimberley and Arnhem Land, which today are separated by a large ocean bay.
This ancient expanded Australian landmass once formed part of a palaeocontinent that connected modern-day Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania into a single unit known as Sahul.
A habitable, populated landscape?
Despite its scale, until now there’s been little research into whether humans could have inhabited the now-sunken shelf.
There’s been an underlying assumption in Australia that our continental margins were probably unproductive and weren’t really used by people, despite the fact that we have evidence from many parts of the world that people were definitely out on these continental shelves in the past.
However, a new study turns that assumption on its head. It brings regional data on sea levels between 70,000 and 9,000 years ago, together with detailed maps of seafloor features from the submerged continental shelf, provided by sonar mapping from ships.
This combination painted a picture of dramatically changing conditions on that shelf over the studied period.
Firstly, the data showed that between 71,000 and 59,000 years ago, sea levels were roughly 130 feet (40 m) lower than they are today, a dip that exposed a curving necklace of islands at the Australian continent’s outer northwestern edge.
This archipelago lay within reaching distance, by voyaging boats, of the Southeast Asian island of Timor, which itself is not far from Indonesia.
Then, between 29,000 and 14,000 years ago, there was another more precipitous dip in sea levels, coinciding with the peak of the last ice age.
This was a time when large amounts of water became suspended in ice, which further lowered sea levels.
These plummeting levels exposed a large swathe of continental shelf right beside modern-day Australia. We’re really looking at a landmass that was about 1.6 times the size of the United Kingdom.
This, combined with the previously exposed ring of islands, would have meant that there was basically a contiguous archipelago environment to move from the Indonesian archipelago, across to Sahul, and then from that archipelago into the supercontinent itself.
This could have enabled what she called a staged migration between modern-day Indonesia and Australia.
Meanwhile, the sonar mapping revealed a landscape where humans could well have thrived: a tall, sheltering escarpment, containing an inland sea adjacent to a large freshwater lake. There was also evidence of winding river beds carved across the land.
Norman calculated that the large shelf, with these life-supporting features, could have harbored anywhere between 50,000 and half a million people.
It’s important to bear in mind these aren’t real population numbers we’re talking about, it’s just a matter of projecting the carrying capacity of our landscape. We’re basically saying it could have had that many people.
Retreat and migration
However, there are clues from other research that this once exposed plateau was indeed home to hundreds of thousands of people.
Ironically, these come from a time when the potential inhabitants of this Atlantis would have been forced away by rising tides from their new found land.
As the last ice age began to taper off, melting ice caps shed water into a rising sea.
Between roughly 14,000 and 14,500 years ago, sea level rose at an accelerating rate, going from about 3.2 feet (1m) per year to a meter [3.2 feet] over the course of 100 years, to 16 feet.
In this 400 year period, over 100,000 square kilometers of land go underwater. Between 12,000 and 9,000 years ago, that pattern repeated, and another 100,000 square kilometers were swallowed up by the sea.
People would have really seen the landscape change in front of them, and been pushed back ahead of that encroaching coastline quite rapidly.
This hypothesis is supported by other research. A recent study published in the journal Nature analyzed the genetics of people living in the Tiwi Islands, which sit on the edge of the shelf today.
It revealed that at the end of the last glacial period, there was change in genetic signatures indicating an influx of new populations there.
What’s more, about 14,000 years ago, and then again between 12,000 and 9,000 years ago, the archaeological record at edge regions of modern-day Australia shows an increase in the deposit of stone tools — which is normally interpreted to mean that there’s a lot more people suddenly in that area.
Around this time in Kimberly and Arnhem Land, cave art also changed to incorporate new styles and subjects, including more human figures in the mix. This may have been from new people arriving in the area.
She hopes her research will motivate others to pay closer attention to the archeological importance of Australia’s sunken continental shelf.
It’s quite fascinating to look at how people dynamically responded to events in the past and obviously survived them and thrived.
I would hope that there might be something we can take from that, that we can apply to future climate change and sea level rise in the next few hundred years.
Live Science / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
The Brain is the Battlefield of the Future
The WEF’s stated objective is altering the Human being. Directed energy is being weaponized. Individual brains will be targeted by microwaves.
Dr. Giordano talks about how Directed Energy can be and is being weaponized. Individuals’ brains can be targeted by microwaves, the type of 5G and soon to come 6G, of which you see antennas growing like mushrooms all over the word.
They tell you, it is to make your internet, and ever more sophisticated computers and smart phones faster, with more outreach capacity – and to help advance digitization.
This may all be true to some extent, but the real reason behind these microwave towers is to target YOU, the individual. DARPA stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a Pentagon think-tank.
Why? From other sources we know that the Fourth Industrial Revolution is in full implementation. Klaus Schwab, eternal CEO of the World Economic Forum (WEF), published his book, Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution, already in 2018.
In it he writes about such significant topics as Embedding Values in Technologies; The Internet of Things; Data Ethics; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics; and a special chapter on Altering the Human Being.
In this chapter, Schwab addresses biotechnologies, and neuro-technologies, trans-humanism – precisely the science that Dr. Giordano was talking about in 2018 at the West Point Military Academy, and which is in full implementation.
If we connect the dots, we realize that the “Brain as the Battlefield of the Future” is NOW and that we were warned way ahead. A
According to Dr. Giordano, the science of neurotechnologies has started some 40 years ago and he, Giordano, has been part of it for at least 35 years. Therefore, warnings have been all over the place, at the latest by Klaus Schwab’s Fourth Industrial Revolution.
The Death Cult has again given people warnings, according to its rules – way ahead of time, so, They may be successful. Why is it, that we never take note of such warnings?
Because we do not believe in so much built-in evil in humanity? Or, because we do not want to leave our comfort zone, our dystopian view of a safe world? They know it. And we MUST break that boundary between comfort and reality. If not, we are doomed.
If you are targeted there is virtually nothing you can do, says William Binney, ex-NSA Technical Director and whistleblower. The NSA is the US National Security Agency, one of 15 US Intelligence Agencies.
We by now know them as 5G. You make them depressed, so they do not want to demonstrate anymore; you make them suicidal and the problem is resolved. You do this as many times as you want and create an ambiance of depression.
These are paraphrased words of Barry Trower, ex-Mi5 Microwave whistleblower and scientist.
Mr. Trower adds, that low-level micro-waves can cause all sorts of cancers and leukemia’s and further elaborates that for the past 40 years or so the British Government, plus basically all the Anglosaxon governments, have been lying to their people.
This, to protect not only the high-flying profits of these industries of death, but perhaps more importantly for not divulging the evil objective of total surveillance and enslavement that they have planned.
Today, we gradually see what this plan entails.
Through “Electronic Telepathy”, Trower adds, we are able to monitor the brain.
If at one point, technology foresaw that tiny, hardly visible chip-implants were necessary in the brain to be able to electronically access individuals’ thinking – hence the highly magnetic graphene oxide in many of the covid vaxx-injections – this may no longer be necessary.
In other words, we are all vulnerable – vaxxed or unvaxxed – to mind interference through the worldwide coverage of 5G shortwaves. And the worst is, we may not even notice when it “hits” us.
Mind manipulations may take many forms. One of them is that people physically hear voices – it is not that people are imagining voices, but they can physically hear voices… it can be anything, anything you want to hear, or you are scared to hear, angelic voices or diabolical voices; to repeat the words of neuroscientists.
This technology may have been applied to the US Embassy personnel in Havana, first reported by USA and Canadian Embassy staff in Havana, Cuba.
The so-called Havana Syndrome, of 2016. This may be a cluster of idiopathic symptoms experienced mostly abroad by U.S. government officials and military personnel. The symptoms range in severity from pain and ringing in the ears to cognitive dysfunction.
The Havana Syndrome has apparently now also been reported by US Embassy staff in China.
DARPA let a couple of contracts in 2011 / 2012 with the University of California for what is called electronic telepathy, to be able to monitor the brains of people at distance and to determine what they are thinking.
Under a separate contract the university was to investigate sending in signals to the brain of a person, literally sending them messages saying what they must think – and do. This is where the technology is today.
This could be used in your private life, as well as your professional life. It means, already today, they could make you do and behave as whatever they would like. They could make you a murderer, a cheater or just simply obedient to orders that may follow.
To repeat: “What you must know is that the brain is and will be the 21st Century’s battlefield”, says Dr. James Giordano, DARPA neurologist, during his talk at the Modern War Institute at West Point NY.
It is important to remember, especially since we should pay more attention to our surroundings, to people’s behavior, than what we are used to. We may deduct many lessons. So, that we may continue and expanding the field of connecting the dots.
In the video below, you will see a chart, indicating that Neuroscience, Neurotechnology in the Narcotics and Special Investigation Division (NSID), part of DARPA, has been “Valid, valuable and already in NSID use since 2014.
The technology could be used to prompt you to commit mass murder. Are some of the sudden and unexpected school and shopping mall mass shootings are triggered by such mechanisms?
This is a distinct possibility, because in most cases the shooter is not apprehended and brought to justice, but immediately killed on the scene by the police, lest he might recall what happened to him and divulge the secret in court, the NSID use of the brain as a battlefield.
In most cases the police simply say the “culprit” was know to the police, and / or had already a police record. This is to disguise you from thinking further.
Why are they doing it? They, being the “monsters”, which cannot easily be called humans.
To create terror, constant fear, to keep you on your toes. To get you used to terror and violence, as worse, much worse is to come, if they have their way.
And we just comply, become depressed and passive, instead of rebelling in unison and Peace, but strongly rejecting the dominion of a few over us, the many.
Curiously, the Fourth Industrial Revolution does not give one single valid reason why all digitization, transhumanism, total control of humanity is good for humanity and for Mother Earth; nor does the Great Reset, nor does UN Agenda 2030.
We must stop this abuse of humanity, the human enslavement for the benefit of a few. For example, we can do so, among other actions, by collectively and in solidarity disabling the 5G / 6G antennas.
Also by staying away as much as possible from vaxxes, from medication altering your brain activities, like causing depression, and extreme cheerfulness. Stay away from mainstream medication and especially from short-wave antennas.
Remember, scared people are easier manipulated. And that is one of the end goals, to manipulate you according to their will.
The DARPA expert, Giordano, who is also a prominent scientist in the US Health and Human Service Department that speaks for itself also talks about non-invasive technologies, such as the so-called “N3 Program”, the neurosurgical, neuromodulation and narcotics program.
The idea is to put minimal size electrodes in your brain, for only minimal intervention to be able to read and write into the brain function. In real time.
Remotely….. influencing in ways that are kinetic and non-kinetic the attitudes, believes, thoughts, emotions, activities; look at the power and tools that brain sciences afford.
Intelligence communities, even those within governments, with the help of their algorithm-assisted surveillance tools, become so powerful that they escape the boundaries of the state for which they are working, become independent, and control the state that should control them.
We are moving in warp speed towards a Nazi-Stasi State which we see coming, but are incapable of doing anything against it, because we are not connected with each other, we are kept apart as individuals, with our little individual advantages and special treats – keeping us on individual leashes, purposefully away from uniting with others.
Stasi – for those, too young to remember, is a colloquial term to describe the East-German Ministry of State Security.
This affects not only the United States, but countries all around the world, especially the western world, which is still intent to remain THE Empire, emerging into a One World Order (OWO).
This can happen only with (i) a massively reduced population, to reduce resistance; (ii) with a scared-to-death population; and eventually, (iii) with the survivors transformed into easily manipulable trans humans.
Maybe as many as 99.999% of the people, have no clue, and are totally vulnerable but, as such, perfect guinea pigs for trials, to perfect their “brain battlefield”, so to speak.
This is not a life worth living. But suicide is not the answer.
To the contrary, stepping out from under this diabolical system, being openly promoted by the World Economic Forum (WEF) with “The Great Reset”; WHO, with the international QR code-based vaxx and travel certificate enslavement; and the UN Agenda 2030, that may be read at par with The Great Reset.
The UN, what you may least believe, the UN with their Agenda 2030, with targets and goals virtually identical with the WEF’s Reset, has ceased to be what we all believe it is and what it was supposedly created for – supporting and enabling World Peace.
This cessation of “Peace Maker” of the UN system has started gradually, already decades ago. In fact, as far back as the Club of Rome’s “Limits of Growth” (1972), when inspired by the Rockefeller Brothers, the UN was to gradually follow the Limits of Growth agenda which had to do with massive depopulation and – yes, climate change.
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A corner stone of change was the first United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the ‘Earth Summit’, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 1992.
From then on followed almost on an annual basis the infamous UN sponsored COP conferences (COP – Conference of the Parties).
The last one, COP27, took place in November 2022 in Egypt. The annual repetition of COPs is a well-studied method of social brainwashing, manipulation à la Tavistock – has worked wonders.
It is today hard to find anybody under the common people, who does not believe in the CO2-emitting man-made climate change. No matter what evidence to the contrary is produced.
The UN sell-out to a corrupt elite has taken a visible and giant step forward with the beginning of the Decade 2020, i.e., with the UN Agenda 2030.
All of this must first sink into the brain of most people, before we can even start resisting and move into another sphere of vibration.
However, like with everything spiritual and dynamic, once a critical mass has started with critical thinking the move into the Light may be fast.
Moving into the Light is what is predicted for 2023 / 2024. In no ways should this prediction be taken as a “lean-back” and watch-what-happens encouragement. To be FREE is only a right, if we defend it and fight for it. Let us not leave cracks for diabolical seduction.
Before we can step out, we must recognize these diabolical “Illuminati” methods and stand up in unison against them.
This writing is about spreading this information on the brain as the ongoing and next battlefield.
Many will find it so off their current-thinking matrix, they will just shake their heads in disbelief, or calling such facts and news misinformation. Many of us, have been there. It does not matter. We must continue the offense with the truth.
The field of those who start thinking on their own, is growing; of those who come to the same conclusions, that we are being enslaved by a small but powerful elite, and the evidence that it is high time to escape this enslavement, is overwhelming.
Indeed, the era where our brain is the next battlefield needs to be fought against with all our vigor.
Global Research / ABC Flash Point News 2023.
Shape-Shifting Voyagers from Space
In mythology, folklore and speculative fiction, shape-shifting is the ability to physically transform through an inherently superhuman ability, divine intervention, demonic manipulation, sorcery, spells or having inherited the ability.
The idea of shape-shifting is in the oldest forms of totemism and shamanism, as well as the oldest existent literature and epic poems such as the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Iliad.
The concept remains a common trope in modern fantasy, children’s literature and popular culture. So, shape-shifting is the perceived ability to transform from one being or thing into another, whether physically or mentally.
When the term shape-shifter comes to mind, many of us will think of the classical Lycanthrope, who changes from man to wolf under the light of a full moon.
While, that is indeed true, we will not cover that here, due to the large list of shape-shifters that are out there. Instead, this page will focus on specific examples of shape-shifters from across the globe.
Spirits – Many gods or goddess are known for their shape-shifting abilities, and even demons from time to time are known to change form. However, there are also lesser spirits that can change shape. Such as the elemental spirits like the faeries, djinns, and yokai.
- Encantado – A river spirit, which name means “enchanted”, that can assume the form of a river dolphin (boto) and that of a human. These spirits are known for their musical talents, charm, curiosity, and love for parties. Encantados are also known for abducting humans, particularly those that they are fond of.
- Puca – Also known as Pooka, is an Irish shape-shifting goblin that can take the form of many animals and occasionally a human. The puca commonly appears as a horse, a goat, a giant bunny, a dog, a bull, and sometimes as humans. No matter what the form though, the puca is always dark black with glowing golden or red eyes. The puca if respected was a kind and helpful creature, but also mischievous.
- Leshy – A Slavic forest spirit that takes care of the forest and causes mischief with humans. It is said that the Leshy can imitate voices, lure people away, leave people astray, and making people sick. This spirit is also capable of changing it’s size and can assume the form of any animal, such as a wolf, bear, hare, horse, birds, or even things like a flaming fir tree and a talking mushroom.
- Selkies – Seal shapeshifters from the Orkeney and Shetland folklore. The beings are regarded as gentle and kindly creatures. Many stories tell of selkies coming to land and shedding their seal skin. If any person manages to steal the selkies skin then the selkie could no longer return to the sea and would be forced to marry that person. In many cases though the selkie would eventually find her skin and return to sea.
- Kitsune – As well as their Korean (Kumiho) and Chinese (Huli Jing) counterparts, are shapeshifting fox spirits from Japanese mythologies. Depending on the foxes age, wisdom, or power, they can have up to nine tails. It is said at a certain age the kitsune will gain the ability to take on human form. They can take on either male or female form, but most stories depict them as beautiful women, or older men. Kitsunes are also known for duplicating others. Kitsunes also have a range of powers from possession and invisibility to illusions and “fox-fire”.
- Tanuki – A raccoon dog with the ability to shapeshift, known for it’s love of sake and it’s overly large testicles. However, like the kitsune, the tanuki has incredible shapeshifting ability. The tanuki can take the shape of anything, including inanimate objects.
Vampires :
European – The classical bloodsucking un-dead creature that we all know and love. At some point of it’s existence it was known for it shape-shifting ability, particularly that of a bat.
They were also known to take the forms of wolves, and even turn into mist or clouds of dust. They could change their size, and control animals like owls, wolves, rats, foxes, bats, and moths.
Aswang – A fearsome vampire creature from the Philippines, the Aswang was described as a flying upper torso of a woman with bloodshot eyes. They are said to take the form of human women during the day, and have jobs relating to meats (ie. butcher).
At night, they can assume their monstrous form or that of pigs, dogs, cats, and birds, and go out to feast on human remains. Other simular creatures are the manananggals, amalanhig, the Ekek or Wakwak, and sigbin.
Others :
- Beserkers – Ancient norse warriors who donned animal skin and fought with the fury equivalent to that of a beast. While they are not known to physical change shape, many report that they have the mentality of an animal.
- Skinwalkers – Evil shamans from Navajo lore, that can assume the shape of any animal by donning its skin.
- Reptilians – According to modern accounts, some people believe that there is an alien race of intelligent bipedal reptilian creatures take on the human form. There are many conspiracies on whether or not some of these beings hold power within our civilization.
Weebky / ABC Flash Point News 2020.
Jews living in F-UK-US states afraid of being Investigated & Unmasked
According to a report by the Community Security Trust, the number of Jewish incidents in Great Britain rose in the first half of this year.
In the other F-UK-US countries like France and the US(A) the sentimental differences are also on the rise. Nearly half of the 400 million French Jewish population are migrating towards other destinies, like to the “settlements” of the Promised Land itself.
In the USA, new laws provide to punish freedom of speech for citizens who dare to talk about the Zionist society in a way that does not serve the “common” good. A one million dollar penalty and extreme jail time is the answer to modern democracy?
The Community Security Trust, which protects the Jewish community in the UK, has said that the rise of cultural incidents dominated the news in the Labour Party.
Generally, the Labor Party in the United Kingdomhas been supported by a lot of the Jewish community. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown was a friend of the Jewish people. And before that the PM, Tony Blair, was a good friend of the Jewish community.
It is just since Jeremy Corbyn has stepped forward. He had a very strong reputation of being extremely anti-Israel; his attitude towards Israel was extreme, if I may say so. As a result, this attracted a lot of people who were never Labour Party supporters.
They were communists, they were Marxists; they were the far-left Socialist Party who joined the Labor Party because Jeremy Corbyn was head of it.
And these are the new Labor Party members felt comfortable by noting Jewish things, like for example: the Jews control the media; the Jews control the banks. David Cameron and Theresa May were Jewish leaders in Britain for many years, and so on.
The names of the $500 trillion Rothschild’s as the owners of all central banks in the world is mentioned many times. The Jewish people are the ones who have influence money flows or governments; they are the ones who start the wars.
And this is what its called classic antisemitism, for hundreds and hundreds of years. One of the main reasons today, we believe, is the internet.
The internet, and the emergence and the creativity of this World Wide Web, has done amazing things for many different people: knowledge and information is right at your fingertips, right in front of your eyes.
But it has also got a disadvantage because some of the people in the world are now able to link up and unite with each other much greater than they were beforehand.
So, for example, in USA there has always been a very small, but prominent American Nazi Party; there have been specifically Neo-Nazis across places in Latin America or Europe: in Germany, in France, in Poland, in Hungary, among other places around the world.
But the good thing about this is that the home secretary, who Prime Minister Boris Johnson appointed, is somebody known as a good friend of the Jewish community and a good friend of Israel, her name is Priti Patel; she has a lot of sympathy with the situation.
The money that runs the Community Security Trust (CST) came from David Cameron (married to a Rothschild) when he became British prime minister.
Theresa May took over, I think it is 13.5 million pounds per year that the government gives to the Jewish community through the CST, so that each synagogue on a Saturday will have one guard outside.
So that applies to every Jewish institution, schools, and other Jewish buildings, they have one guard outside once a week, sometimes twice a week. To the best of my knowledge, no other ethnic minority in Britain has this type of security.
ABC Flash Point Zionist News 2019.
Global Banks made $3 billion in profits from Green Loans in 2023
The world’s largest banks made $3 billion in profits from bond underwriting and loan provisions in the environmentally friendly category in 2023.
This amount could be compared with the $2.7 billion that banks made from bonds and loans provided to the oil industry. Some would hail this as an achievement for transition-focused industries. But is it?
One reason for the increase in transition financing was stricter EU regulation. With that regulation, the European Union essentially obligated banks to give more loans and underwrite more bonds for companies in, for example, the wind and solar energy sectors.
In other words, it was not fully by these banks’ own choice that they provided more loans and underwrote more bonds for the industries classified as environmentally responsible. It was by a Brussels mandate.
However, several banks had pledged to shrink their lending exposure to the oil and gas industry, with French Credit Agricole the latest to declare an end to the financing of new oil and gas projects last December 2023.
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Yet the effect of stricter EU regulation should not be underestimated: it puts banks at risk of higher capital requirements and even fines unless they provide more loans to the industries related to the transition and reduce the financing of the oil and gas industry.
In this context, it is hardly a surprise that European banks led the increase in green financing—even though the biggest issuer of such financing was Japan’s MUFG. In contrast, U.S. banks were less inclined to fund projects labeled environmentally friendly.
The reason was mostly political: there has been a backlash against what some states call discriminatory investment policies by some of the world’s largest banks as they try to shun the oil and gas industry in favor of wind, solar, hydrogen, and dangerous proven EV’s.
This backlash continues and has already forced some financial industry majors to make declarations that they are not, in fact, against oil and gas.
It all began back in 2022 when Texas accused BlackRock and nine European investment mammoths of boycotting the oil and gas industry and threatened to divest its own money from them in response.
The asset manager responded by assuring Texas authorities that it does not boycott oil and gas and is very much in favor of energy investments in the sector.
In a letter to the Texas comptroller, BlackRock reported that it has investments of some $310 billion in the oil and gas industry, of which $115 billion is in Texas.
In the USA, then, so-called sustainable financing goes slower in the direction the government wants it to go.
But it does go there: Bank of America last year had $32.3 billion in financing exposure to low-carbon energy supply, while its exposure to oil and gas stood at $32 billion.
Wells Fargo, on the other hand, was more than twice as invested in oil and gas than it was in wind, solar, EV’s, and hydrogen. Its low-carbon exposure last year was $14.3 billion versus $35.7 billion for oil and gas.
Government policies and regulations, then, are vital for the switch from financing oil and gas, considered an industry with no long-term future, to financing the energy industries that are believed to have that long-term future. But there is another critical factor, too.
Last year, wind and solar companies suffered a massive stock rout. The S&P Clean Energy Index dropped by over 20% in two months. To support rapid growth, you need to keep leveraging the balance sheet or issue equity.
The reason behind the rout was the series of interest rate hikes that both the European Central Bank and the Fed implemented over the past two years in a bid to combat inflation.
And the reason that wind and solar were more susceptible to the effects of inflation-fighting monetary policy was that they are a lot more dependent on loan financing than oil and gas producers.
In a zero-rate environment, this formula worked. In a higher-rate environment, it falls apart, David Souccar, portfolio manager at Vontobel Asset Management, explained to the Financial Times.
In other words, low-carbon energy companies are extra vulnerable to higher rate hikes because they lack the resources to weather the effects of such policies.
The reason they are so vulnerable is that they simply do not make as much money as the oil and gas industry.
The market they operate on is quite different, with set long-term prices for the electricity they produce and equally set subsidies.
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Banks, then, made more money from lending to wind and solar—and other industries classified as green—because these industries rely more on loan finance to function and grow.
And they also made more money from lending to these industries because many of them were essentially forced to lend more to these industries.
Oil Price.com / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
Nederland overgeleverd aan het World Economic Forum
In een plan uit 2016 wordt Nederland voorgesteld als een grote, groene wereldstad met 40 miljoen inwoners. Critici zeggen dat de stikstofplannen van het kabinet bedoeld zijn om boeren van hun grond te jagen zodat er huizen gebouwd kunnen worden.
De omstreden plannen hebben geleid tot grootschalige protesten. Demonstranten werden keihard aangepakt door de politie en er werden zelfs schoten gelost, bericht de Oostenrijkse tv-zender AUF1.
Daarnaast wordt het eten van insecten steeds vaker gepusht. Het moge duidelijk zijn dat in Nederland de agenda van het World Economic Forum wordt uitgewerkt.
AUF1-nieuwslezer Bernhard Riegler wijst erop dat minister van Financiën Kaag zich sterk heeft gemaakt voor een digitale euro en ook wil ze alle betalingen vanaf 100 euro monitoren.
Hij voegt toe dat Nederland de WEF-propaganda zelf moet betalen. FVD-Kamerlid Gideon van Meijeren stelde Kamervragen waaruit is gebleken dat het WEF een subsidie heeft gekregen voor de oprichting en ontwikkeling van het zogeheten Global Coordinating Secretariat (GCS) in Nederland.
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Kamerlid Pepijn van Houwelingen haalde een aantal stukken boven water die laten zien dat de sekte van Klaus Schwab nauw samenwerkt met de Nederlandse overheid, aldus Riegler.
Dankzij onderzoeksjournalist Marc van der Vegt zijn documenten gepubliceerd over projecten van het WEF in ons land. Het gaat om meer dan 1000 paginameer ’s.
We zien ministers Kaag en Hoekstra in de vrijgegeven stukken terug in diverse clubjes van het WEF. Ook koningin Maxima duikt op.
Politici van de regeringspartijen stonden twee jaar lang te liegen in de Kamer over betrokkenheid bij het WEF, citeert Riegler data-analist Cees van den Bos.
De Britse Daily Telegraph meldt dat de Nederlandse regering voornemens is om tot 3000 boerenbedrijven in de buurt van natuurgebieden te sluiten en op te kopen om te voldoen aan Europese regelgeving.
Het bericht leidt op social media tot een storm van protest, maar in Nederland blijft het vooralsnog stil. Ze vernietigen de op één na grootste exporteur van landbouwproducten ter wereld vanwege een agenda, schrijft de Schotse politiek commentator James Melville.
De Canadese journalist Keean Bexte voegt toe: De Great Reset is in Nederland in volle gang nu de overheid op het punt staat duizenden boerderijen te liquideren als straf voor het protest tegen het hongerbeleid.
Dit klinkt gestoord. De EU gedraagt zich als een dictatuur. Eén van de vele redenen waarom landen uiteindelijk net als Groot-Brittannië de Europese Unie zullen verlaten, twittert de Britse analist Nile Gardine.
Dit is een oorlogsverklaring aan boeren, stelt Paul Joseph Watson. Het Australische congreslid Craig Kelly klaagt dat er maar geen einde komt aan de klimaatgekte.
Volgend jaar kunnen ‘vervuilende’ veehouders kiezen voor een eenmalige stikstofregeling om te stoppen. In het najaar moet blijken of de doelen daarmee worden gehaald.
Zo niet, dan zal met pijn in het hart overgegaan moeten worden tot dwang, en gedwongen uitkoop van piekbelasters, zei stikstofminister Christianne van der Wal (VVD).
Nine for News / ABC Flash-Point News 2022.
Space Telescope’s stunning mosaic of Orion Nebula uncovers rogue Planets
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured two stunning wide-field mosaics of the grandiose Orion Nebula, a large region of star formation that’s one of the closest stellar nurseries to the solar system. It sits just 1,344 light-years away.
The huge mosaics, made of over 3,000 individual images, have also been added to the European Space Agency’s ESASky app, which is an interactive all-sky map.
This sky map with a user-friendly interface enables members of the public to view amazing images of the Universe taken by the likes of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Hubble Space Telescope.
The Orion Nebula is rife with budding stars located inside its billowing clouds of molecular gas. Some 2,800 young stars are known to exist inside the nebula, with many more stellar embryos cocooned within the area’s dense veil of gas and dust.
And the JWST’s Near Infrared Camera, known as NIRCam for short, is able to peer through much of this gas and dust — doing so has revealed proto-stellar disks, outflows from burgeoning stars, and even free-floating planets.
On a winter’s night, the nebula is visible to the unaided eye as a fuzzy object just below the three stars that make up the Belt of the Orion constellation.
The nebula is illuminated by the Trapezium Cluster, which is a grouping of young stars so-named after the pattern of their four most prominent members.
Each star in this quartet is massive, with between 15 and 30 times the mass of our Sun. Their short lives, spanning just a few millions of years rather than billions, will end in supernova explosions.
Up to a thousand fainter stars lurk in the Trapezium Cluster as well, some with evaporating circum-stellar disks — these are disks of gas and dust that sprouted planets.
Now, residual gas from such planet formation is being blown away by the newly awoken stars’ stellar winds.
Not all of the planets born in the Trapezium have parent stars, however; the JWST has detected about 40 pairs of free-floating gas-giant planets, or Jupiter Mass Binary Objects (JuMBO’s).
Free-floating planets have been found in the Orion Nebula before, but the JuMBO’s are surprising because they seem to come as couples.
The question astronomers are still unable to answer is, did the JuMBO’s (and other free-floating planets) form directly out of the gas of the Orion Nebula as failed stars, or were they snatched from a planetary system, perhaps by the gravity of a close-passing star that wrenched them from their orbits?
The new mosaics are split between longer and shorter wavelengths.
NIRCam’s short wavelength channel, which covers an infrared waveband between 0.6 and 2.3 microns, is closest to the visible red end of the spectrum and achieves the greatest angular resolution the JWST can accomplish.
The short-wavelength mosaic shows all the fine details of the nebula’s star-forming activity.
Meanwhile, NIRCam’s longer wavelength channel, covering 2.4 to 5.0 microns, has recorded the network of dust and organic compound filaments, known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, that abound in the Orion Nebula.
PAH’s are carbon-based molecules that make up a good proportion of dust found everywhere in the universe, and observations such as those of the Orion Nebula are teaching astronomers how these ubiquitous molecules form.
Given how interstellar dust is recycled into the next generation of stars, PAH abundance has a role to play that the infrared vision of the JWST can reveal.
In particular, the JWST’s greater spectral resolution can reveal PAH’s on smaller spatial scales than ever before, helping to determine how they accumulate depending upon their molecular size, shape and electric charge.
The Orion Nebula is one of those rare objects that is accessible for inspection by everyone, from stargazers with the most basic observing kit to the most advanced space telescopes.
As Orion rises this winter, what can you see in the greatest nebula in the sky?
Space.com / ABC Flash Point News 2023.
Crickey Amigu di Natura 