WNU Editor: It's all a show.And, some more…mask outdoors then take off mask indoors. Science! pic.twitter.com/8eS00LZIgf
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) November 1, 2021
Monday, November 1, 2021
G20 Leaders Remove Masks After Posing For Cameras
COP26 Climate Change Summit In Glasgow: 'Do What We Say Not What We Do'
* MailOnline watched as plane after plane of dignitaries landed in Glasgow and Edinburgh for COP26 meeting
* Prince Albert of Monaco was among those choosing to fly private - according to an analysis of flight records
* Bank of America, which in PR documents boasts of its 'commitment to sustainability', owned two of the jets
* Prince Charles is among those travelling by non-commercial plane from G20 in Rome, MailOnline can reveal
* Boris Johnson is kicking off COP26 summit today exhorting world leaders to back up their talk with action
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' £48million Gulf Stream has led a 400-strong parade of private jets into COP25 including Prince Albert of Monaco, scores of royals and dozens of 'green' CEOs - as an extraordinary traffic jam forced empty planes to fly 30 miles to find space to park.
Some environmental activists at the COP26 climate conference will be urging others to cut down on air travel and eat less meat, but apparently it is fine for billionaires to fly in on their own planes on routes already served by commercial airlines.
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WNU Editor: All of this could have been done by a Zoom call.
Elon Musk Responds To The UN World Food Program Director That He Can Solve World Hunger
WNU Editor: The CNN article is here .... 2% of Elon Musk's wealth could help solve world hunger, says director of UN food scarcity organization (CNN).
Elon Musk responds .... The UN says $6B from the world's billionaires could solve a hunger crisis. Elon Musk says he will sell Tesla stock and donate proceeds if the UN can prove that (Business Insider).
David Beasley, the director of the UN's World Food Program, has yet to respond.
US-Trained Afghan Spies & Special Forces Are Now Joining ISIS For 'Protection' Against The Taliban
Hunted by the Taliban and lacking income, members of Afghanistan’s disbanded security forces are enlisting in ISIS, the only resistance movement fighting the new rulers - not unlike Iraq’s disbanded security forces when the US put their enemies in charge. https://t.co/Hb9KZUmlmx
— Joshua Landis (@joshua_landis) October 31, 2021
Zero Hedge: US-Trained Afghan Spies & Special Forces Are Joining ISIS For 'Protection' Against Taliban
Many former national Afghan forces who are now being hunted by the Taliban after their US military backers withdrew from the country in August are turning to the Islamic State for protection, a new investigative Wall Street Journal report finds.
Also among those joining the ranks of ISIS in Afghanistan, or ISIS-K, are members of Afghanistan's US-trained intelligence service. "The number of defectors joining the terrorist group is relatively small, but growing, according to people who know these men, to former Afghan security officials and to the Taliban," The Wall Street Journal writes.
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WNU Editor: The fall-out from President Biden's decision to abandon Afghanistan keeps on growing.
Detailed Images Of Sensitive Israeli Sites Are Now Online
We can finally provide 50 cm imagery over Israel and Palestine. Read about the new imagery from @Maxar in our latest blog post: https://t.co/bmFEJv5Yia pic.twitter.com/ZGgrzZYQm7
— Mapbox (@Mapbox) October 26, 2021
Times of Israel: Detailed images of sensitive Israeli sites, including nuclear plant, now online
Trump-era change in US law means high-quality commercial images available; security experts warn it could make Israel more vulnerable
Detailed images of sensitive sites in Israel, such as the Dimona nuclear reactor, are now widely available online due to a Trump-era change in regulations that previously effectively censored satellite images produced by private US companies.
The Kyl–Bingaman Amendment had regulated the resolution of publicly available satellite images for Israel since 1997, until the surprise change in legislation last year. The amendment had effectively imposed US government censorship on commercial images of Israel, an example of which is the fact that Israeli images on Google Maps often appear blurred in a way that they are not in other countries.
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WNU Editor: It is hard to believe that a few decades ago these satellite images would be classified as ultra top secret. No more now. You can get these images for free on your cell phone.
Is A War Brewing In The South China Sea?
OilPrice.com: Is There A War Brewing In The South China Sea?
Tensions in the South China Sea have been percolating for years now. Even in relatively calm times when the battling claimants of the contested waters manage to stay out of the headlines, the reality out on the sea is rarely tranquil. In fact, a recent report from the South China Morning Post has revealed that Chinese boats have been harassing Civilian vessels in the Malaysian and Vietnamese portions of the South China Sea “on a daily basis” for years.
Extending from Singapore and the Strait of Malacca in the southwest to the Strait of Taiwan in the northeast, the South China Sea is a geopolitical hotspot as one of the most important trade routes in the world, not to mention the home of valuable oil and gas reserves as well as lucrative fishing grounds. The United States Energy Information Agency (EIA) estimates that the South China Sea “contains approximately 11 billion barrels of oil and 190 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in proved and probable reserves.”
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WNU Editor: I do not see a war exploding in the Sout China Sea. But China is certainly testing everyone's boundaries.
Tweets Of The Day
BREAKING: U.S. President Joe Biden says it's "disappointing" that Russia and China "basically didn’t show up" with commitments to address the scourge of climate change ahead of this week’s United Nations climate conference. https://t.co/HCpaLmwTUF
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 31, 2021
Secretary of State Antony Blinken won't rule out military action in Iran if its leaders fail to resume nuclear deal talks https://t.co/N02Wx8i5cE
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) November 1, 2021
Tigrayan rebels on Sunday said they have captured the northern Ethiopian town of Kombolcha, marking a rapid advance by the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) as federal forces mounted a fresh battle to retake the strategic city of Dessie.https://t.co/GBFZ1WtDIL
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) October 31, 2021
Thousands of people are on the streets after fleeing overcrowded detention centres in Libya's capital https://t.co/MIlDuIC9ma
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 1, 2021
Aukus: French president says Australian PM lied over submarine deal https://t.co/w59Pm3b0Jw
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 31, 2021
Voters head to the polls to cast ballots for mayor in key American cities on Tuesday. Here are five races to watch out for: https://t.co/qttZavrJrm
— CNN (@CNN) October 31, 2021
This $680,000 hoverbike is now for sale. The "XTURISMO Limited Edition" uses a combustion engine and four battery-powered motors to hover at speeds of around 60 miles per hour. https://t.co/aa7maB4peI pic.twitter.com/e3iauNgvPj
— CNN (@CNN) October 31, 2021
THEIR LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF BASIC ECONOMICS IS TAXINGhttps://t.co/FsQQ5tE2hp
— Michael Ramirez (@Ramireztoons) October 29, 2021
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Slo-Mo Video Of A F-22 Raptor
Phantom of the Raptor from Dustin Farrell (www.dfvc.com) on Vimeo.
KSL.com: Have You Seen This? Slo-mo video of a F-22 Raptor is the coolest thing you'll see today
THE SKIES — I'm not sure why pretty much all humans are fascinated by flight, but we are.
Ever since we were little kids. we'd get excited when we'd see a plane fly overhead. Pretty much every person on the planet wanted to be a pilot at some point in their life.
A lot of us also have those dreams we can fly, and we envy Superman's power of flight. Maybe it's the freedom of shooting across the sky and taking a dive through the clouds. Whatever it is, there is something about the sky that calls to us all, even when you have a fear of heights.
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WNU Editor: Cool!
Picture Of The Day
Indigo Defender A sailor fires a .50-caliber machine gun aboard the USS O’Kane in the Red Sea, Oct. 25, 2021, during Indigo Defender, a bilateral maritime exercise.
WNU Editor: The above picture is from U.S. Department of Defense Photo-Gallery Page (link here).
OPEC+ Ignores President President Biden's Demands For More Oil Production
Zero Hedge: OPEC+ Balks At Biden's Demands For More Oil Production
With oil prices rising to levels last seen during the OPEC Thanksgiving massacre of 2014, developed nations - having realized they made an epic blunder by pushing the Net Zero lunacy far too hard, leaving the oil and gas industry with not nearly enough growth spending to keep the price of oil from surging (as we discussed in "One Bank Crunches The Numbers On Oil Supply/Demand Dynamics, Reaches A Shocking Conclusion") ... are now stuck begging OPEC+ to produce more, as the alternative is even higher oil prices and attendant social unrest as even ESG posterchild Larry Fink admits.
Speaking to reporters in Rome, a senior US official said that the U.S. is talking to other energy-consuming nations about how to press OPEC+ to boost output to address the current supply crunch. That such pleas aimed at OPEC+ come from the same admin which ended the Keystone XL pipeline on its first day, and has done everything to crush shale capex in the US, is hardly a surprise.
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WNU Editor: It looks like the Biden administration does not really have a plan .... Biden ‘Reluctant’ to Detail Response If OPEC Won’t Boost Output (Bloomberg).
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