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Let's pray all of rain make drones just blow up

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How to Write Geopolitical Relationships Between Kingdoms in Any Fictional Story

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Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com Introduction Geopolitical relationships are the intricate connections and dynamics that exist between kingdoms in a fictional world. These relationships play a crucial role in shaping the political, social, and economic landscape of your story. By understanding and effectively portraying these relationships, you can add depth and intrigue to your…

[drdamiang]

SLAM DUNK

SLAM DUNK

mindset to mindset

not yielding an inch

not conceding

a point

leaves me confused

as to whether this is

chess or all-in

-wrestling

we find ourselves

confronted with

with chess no rips and

tears and broken bones

deadly

serious this game

hardly spectacle: so

poorly choreographed

posture and

bluster

in the same league hardly

[ohgodmyeyes]

a long time ago i started an xReader thing about spending a night with kim jong-un; i still haven't finished it, but the whole idea is that Reader is captured by kim's guys while she's skulking around his train yard trying to get a peek inside one of the trains

WELL HERE'S THE INSIDE OF THE TRAIN

there you go, Reader :)

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Waqf Amendment Bill Sparks Outrage:

The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, introduced in the Lok Sabha, has led to widespread protests across India, particularly within Muslim communities. The Bill seeks to amend the Waqf Act, 1995, and is accused of centralizing control of Islamic endowments under government authority. Muslim leaders argue this threatens the autonomy of religious institutions, sparking public dissent.

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Egypt – The Latest Wedge Exacerbating Somalia's Divisions

#Somalia's govt is fuelling divisions by centralizing power & confronting opposition. Foreign support (#Egypt) against #Somaliland & #Ethiopia is amplifying this trend, with some regions preferring Ethiopian protection from #AlShabaab.

Continue reading Egypt – The Latest Wedge Exacerbating Somalia’s Divisions

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Genocide experts warn that India is about to genocide the Shompen people

Who are the Shompen?

The Shompen are an indigenous culture that lives in the Great Nicobar Island, which is nowadays owned by India. The Shompen and their ancestors are believed to have been living in this island for around 10,000 years. Like other tribes in the nearby islands, the Shompen are isolated from the rest of the world, as they chose to be left alone, with the exception of a few members who occasionally take part in exchanges with foreigners and go on quarantine before returning to their tribe. There are between 100 and 400 Shompen people, who are hunter-gatherers and nomadic agricultors and rely on their island's rainforest for survival.

Why is there risk of genocide?

India has announced a huge construction mega-project that will completely change the Great Nicobar Island to turn it into "the Hong Kong of India".

Nowadays, the island has 8,500 inhabitants, and over 95% of its surface is made up of national parks, protected forests and tribal reserve areas. Much of the island is covered by the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, described by UNESCO as covering “unique and threatened tropical evergreen forest ecosystems. It is home to very rich ecosystems, including 650 species of angiosperms, ferns, gymnosperms, and bryophytes, among others. In terms of fauna, there are over 1800 species, some of which are endemic to this area. It has one of the best-preserved tropical rain forests in the world.”

The Indian project aims to destroy this natural environment to create an international shipping terminal with the capacity to handle 14.2 million TEUs (unit of cargo capacity), an international airport that will handle a peak hour traffic of 4,000 passengers and that will be used as a joint civilian-military airport under the control of the Indian Navy, a gas and solar power plant, a military base, an industrial park, and townships aimed at bringing in tourism, including commercial, industrial and residential zones as well as other tourism-related activities.

This project means the destruction of the island's pristine rainforests, as it involves cutting down over 852,000 trees and endangers the local fauna such as leatherback turtles, saltwater crocodiles, Nicobar crab-eating macaque and migratory birds. The erosion resulting from deforestation will be huge in this highly-seismic area. Experts also warn about the effects that this project will have on local flora and fauna as a result of pollution from the terminal project, coastal surface runoff, ballasts from ships, physical collisions with ships, coastal construction, oil spills, etc.

The indigenous people are not only affected because their environment and food source will be destroyed. On top of this, the demographic change will be a catastrophe for them. After the creation of this project, the Great Nicobar Island -which now has 8,500 inhabitants- will receive a population of 650,000 settlers. Remember that the Shompen and Nicobarese people who live on this island are isolated, which means they do not have an immune system that can resist outsider illnesses. Academics believe they could die of disease if they come in contact with outsiders (think of the arrival of Europeans to the Americas after Christopher Columbus and the way that common European illnesses were lethal for indigenous Americans with no immunization against them).

And on top of all of this, the project might destroy the environment and the indigenous people just to turn out to be useless and sooner or later be abandoned. The naturalist Uday Mondal explains that “after all the destruction, the financial viability of the project remains questionable as all the construction material will have to be shipped to this remote island and it will have to compete with already well-established ports.” However, this project is important to India because they want to use the island as a military and commercial post to stop China's expansion in the region, since the Nicobar islands are located on one of the world's busiest sea routes.

Last year, 70 former government officials and ambassadors wrote to the Indian president saying the project would “virtually destroy the unique ecology of this island and the habitat of vulnerable tribal groups”. India's response has been to say that the indigenous tribes will be relocated "if needed", but that doesn't solve the problem. As a spokesperson for human rights group Survival International said: “The Shompen are nomadic and have clearly defined territories. Four of their semi-permanent settlements are set to be directly devastated by the project, along with their southern hunting and foraging territories. The Shompen will undoubtedly try to move away from the area destroyed, but there will be little space for them to go. To avoid a genocide, this deadly mega-project must be scrapped.”

On 7 February 2024, 39 scholars from 13 countries published an open letter to the Indian president warning that “If the project goes ahead, even in a limited form, we believe it will be a death sentence for the Shompen, tantamount to the international crime of genocide.”

How to help

The NGO Survival International has launched this campaign:

From this site, you just need to add your name and email and you will send an email to India's Tribal Affairs Minister and to the companies currently vying to build the first stage of the project.

Share it with your friends and acquittances and on social media.

Sources:

India’s plan for untouched Nicobar isles will be ‘death sentence’ for isolated tribe, 7 Feb 2024. The Guardian.

‘It will destroy them’: Indian mega-development could cause ‘genocide’ and ‘ecocide’, says charity, 8 Feb 2024. Geographical.

Genocide experts call on India's government to scrap the Great Nicobar mega-project, Feb 2024. Survival International.

The container terminal that could sink the Great Nicobar Island, 20 July 2022. Mongabay.

[Maps] Environmental path cleared for Great Nicobar mega project, 10 Oct 2022. Mongabay.

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InvestTalk - 6-28-2023 – Will China Be the Next Japan?

Renowned economists and geopolitical strategists predict that China's economic woes will mirror those of Japan in the early 1990s.

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Review: The Underhanded

Synopsis: Europe’ s last line of defense against neofascism— a history professor? Professor William Dresden has found solitude in the south of France to grapple with his troubled past— a neglected upbringing, failed romances, the recent demolition of his life’ s work in academia, and even witnessing genocide, among other secrets. But he soon learns that he has much larger problems when an…

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So apparently some Swiss company found out that Brazilian blood has more immunoglobulin (which is used in some medications made by pharma companies) than European blood, and now international pharma companies are lobbying to change Brazilian law to allow them to use our blood as a resource

There is no current evidence that those things are related, but it just so happens that at the same time there is also another law being discussed that would get rid of "bureaucracy" when it comes to ethics analyses of trials on humans. It would also remove the right, which all brazilians currently have, to access to the medication resulting from the trials they participated in

Both sources are in Portuguese because both news have been recently broke by a Brazilian investigative news agency, but if you don't speak it, you can always use automatic translation

I know there's a lot of fucked up shit happening in the world right now, but please pay attention to medical rights in Brasil right now. Especially if you're European, because virtually every company related to this is from your continent and plans to benefit you above all

ETA: using blood as a resource for these medications is not new; however, current law in brasil only allows that use to come from donated blood (because it comes from the plasma and apparently not all of it is used in blood transfusion; I'm not a doctor so I'm not clear on the details but that's the gist of it) and to be processed and used by Hemobrás, the State-owned company that handles this type of medical technology. The new law would allow for private companies to buy our blood from blood banks for their use. It is worth noting that at least one company has already explicitly stated that they won't be making the resulting medication available in the Brazilian market, so, essentially, they will be taking blood Brazilians donated to help other Brazilians and using it to treat immunocompromised Europeans, to the detriment of immunocompromised Brazilians that need the medicine. In the process, they will be making it harder for our State-owned company to use that same blood, forcing us to import from them and therefore making the medication more expensive. They also want to make it possible for Brazilians to sell their own blood - a deeply ethically questionable practice that is discouraged by the WHO and that has led to HIV outbreaks in Brasil in the past

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Israel Zionists seems like collection of sinners

1. Pedophiles (you can google yourself how Israel trying to legalize pedophilia and 60% sex offenders there had sexually offended under 13 years old)

2. Murderers (IOF, Government)

3. Manipulator Self Centric (IOF, Government)

4. Wrath in Racism (like how citizens shouting kill them all, saying death to Arabs, etc)

5. Lust (IOF raping women in Palestine)

6. Greed (Israel Govt keep wanting more and more lands)

Yeah all of them who done this are definitely sinners, I hope they die in vain in most humiliating way and they won't be forgiven.

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JIMS Technical Campus Rohini is organising the International Symposium on Geo-Political Environment: Health Care Industry on 11 March 2024. Discover insights from top professionals in the United States on how geopolitical factors shape the landscape of the healthcare industry. We welcome our esteemed panelists Prof. Ashish Chandra, Professor of Healthcare Administration, University of Houston, Clear Lake, Prof. Michael McMullen, Professor of Sociology, College of Human Sciences & Humanities, Dr. Bill Stroube, Professor of Health Services Administration & Director of Health Services Administration Program and Dr. Erik Brown, Assistant Professor of Health Sciences.

Explore current and future trends in this era of disruptive threats. Collaborate, network, and ignite your passion for knowledge. know more about jims:- https://bit.ly/3UVo3Dm

[drdamiang]

PARTY PIECE

PARTY PIECE

Russki

go fianchetto

got you

thinking tippy-.

toe

though

them playing chess

you

the tic tac game

we call

noughts and crosses

somehow

you can't get

just

can't get

your three

fat ducks

aligned

in a row

their pieces

controlling

the centre

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India's Economy to Remain Fastest Growing Among G-20 Economies

In summary, Moody's optimistic outlook for India's economy underscores the country's resilience and potential for sustained growth amid evolving geopolitical and economic dynamics.

India’s Economy to Remain Fastest Growing Among G-20 Economies Introduction Moody’s recent Global Macroeconomic Outlook for 2024 paints an optimistic picture for India’s economy. The report forecasts that India will maintain its position as the fastest-growing economy among the G-20 nations. With stronger-than-expected performance in 2023, Moody’s has revised its growth estimate for 2024 to 6.8…

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Geopolitical Tensions Rise as Eritrea Rejects Djibouti’s Claims Over Somaliland and Port Dispute

Escalating tensions in the #HoA: #Eritrea rejects #Djibouti's claims over #Somaliland & port dispute, signaling a shift in regional alliances & power dynamics. Will this lead to conflict or cooperation in the strategically significant Red Sea region?

Continue reading Geopolitical Tensions Rise as Eritrea Rejects Djibouti’s Claims Over Somaliland and Port Dispute