🇨🇳 🇺🇸 Chinese company's purchase of North Dakota farmland raises national security concerns in Washington
🔴Chinese food manufacturer Fufeng Group bought 300 acres of land near Grand Forks, North Dakota, to set up a milling plant.
🔴The project is located about 20 minutes from the Grand Forks Air Force Base, raising national security concerns.
🔴Both the Democratic chairman and the Republican ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee told CNBC they are opposed to the project.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/01/chinese-purchase-of-north-dakota-farmland-raises-national-security-concerns-in-washington.html
🔴Chinese food manufacturer Fufeng Group bought 300 acres of land near Grand Forks, North Dakota, to set up a milling plant.
🔴The project is located about 20 minutes from the Grand Forks Air Force Base, raising national security concerns.
🔴Both the Democratic chairman and the Republican ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee told CNBC they are opposed to the project.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/01/chinese-purchase-of-north-dakota-farmland-raises-national-security-concerns-in-washington.html
CNBC
Chinese company's purchase of North Dakota farmland raises national security concerns in Washington
The purchase of 300 acres of bucolic farmland in North Dakota is raising national security concerns over the buyer: Chinese food ingredient maker Fufeng Group.
🇺🇸 Utah's Great Salt Lake Dwindles to New Record Low
As that lake bed dries up, the possibility of toxic dust storms intensifies. Decades of mining surrounding Great Salt Lake means heavy metals, arsenic, and other bad-to-breathe compounds have been piling up below the surface. Even when the water recedes, most of that harmful dust is held back by a hardened crust, but wind wares down that crust over time, and it’s already cracking.
Thousands of miles away, there’s a vision of what Utah’s future could look like. The Aral Sea in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan was diverted down to near-nothing for agricultural irrigation starting in the 1940s. What remains is a toxic desert with dust that poisons nearby inhabitants. The communities that remain surrounding the lake suffer from unusually high rates of cancer, kidney diseases, and infant mortality.
https://gizmodo.com/utah-great-salt-lake-drought-climate-change-1849147535
As that lake bed dries up, the possibility of toxic dust storms intensifies. Decades of mining surrounding Great Salt Lake means heavy metals, arsenic, and other bad-to-breathe compounds have been piling up below the surface. Even when the water recedes, most of that harmful dust is held back by a hardened crust, but wind wares down that crust over time, and it’s already cracking.
Thousands of miles away, there’s a vision of what Utah’s future could look like. The Aral Sea in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan was diverted down to near-nothing for agricultural irrigation starting in the 1940s. What remains is a toxic desert with dust that poisons nearby inhabitants. The communities that remain surrounding the lake suffer from unusually high rates of cancer, kidney diseases, and infant mortality.
https://gizmodo.com/utah-great-salt-lake-drought-climate-change-1849147535
Gizmodo
Utah's Great Salt Lake Dwindles to New Record Low
The massive saltwater lake keeps shrinking. It's fallen below the historic level reached less than a year ago and things are only set to get worse.
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🇺🇸 One of the more regionally specific illnesses, is Valley fever, or coccidiodomycosis (Cocci for short)
Valley fever is a potentially deadly fungal infection contracted by inhaling spores from soil and dirt. Currently in the U.S., the disease is found in parts of California and the Southwest. The fungus thrives in warm, wet conditions. But the spores are believed to be most easily spread around via dust, when the ground is dry. The most dangerous combination for Cocci are wet conditions followed by drought.
The present drought has put some experts on alert. Valley fever cases have risen in recent years. The number of diagnoses climbed about 800%, according to one study, between 2000 and 2018—one of California’s driest periods on record. The exact cause of the rise isn’t known, but there are lots of overlapping hypotheses. For instance, increasing development and construction put people in direct contact with soil, and there’s more diagnostic awareness of the illness.
Valley fever is a potentially deadly fungal infection contracted by inhaling spores from soil and dirt. Currently in the U.S., the disease is found in parts of California and the Southwest. The fungus thrives in warm, wet conditions. But the spores are believed to be most easily spread around via dust, when the ground is dry. The most dangerous combination for Cocci are wet conditions followed by drought.
The present drought has put some experts on alert. Valley fever cases have risen in recent years. The number of diagnoses climbed about 800%, according to one study, between 2000 and 2018—one of California’s driest periods on record. The exact cause of the rise isn’t known, but there are lots of overlapping hypotheses. For instance, increasing development and construction put people in direct contact with soil, and there’s more diagnostic awareness of the illness.
🇺🇸 Rescue Great Salt Lake with seawater from the Pacific? Utah lawmakers consider it
Utah lawmakers are giving serious thought to building a pipeline to the Pacific to move seawater to the shrinking Great Salt Lake
As drought reduces surface water reserves, people and farms are forced to shift over to groundwater to meet their needs. And as more water is pumped out of the ground, the land itself starts to sink, in a process known as land subsidence. More than 80% of land subsidence in the U.S. is the result of water over-pumping, according to the USGS.
In California, satellite data revealed that some towns in the Central Valley sunk almost a foot in just a single year (2020-2021), according to a report from the San Francisco Chronicle. The USGS tracks land subsidence, and wide swathes of the state are experiencing it. It’s also happening in other states, like Texas and across the Southwest.
As the ground beneath our feet gets lower, human infrastructure is often damaged. Buildings can weaken and even collapse. Sewage, power, and rail lines are busted. And if land sinks enough, future flood risk is amplified.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2022/05/19/utah-legislature-consider/
Utah lawmakers are giving serious thought to building a pipeline to the Pacific to move seawater to the shrinking Great Salt Lake
As drought reduces surface water reserves, people and farms are forced to shift over to groundwater to meet their needs. And as more water is pumped out of the ground, the land itself starts to sink, in a process known as land subsidence. More than 80% of land subsidence in the U.S. is the result of water over-pumping, according to the USGS.
In California, satellite data revealed that some towns in the Central Valley sunk almost a foot in just a single year (2020-2021), according to a report from the San Francisco Chronicle. The USGS tracks land subsidence, and wide swathes of the state are experiencing it. It’s also happening in other states, like Texas and across the Southwest.
As the ground beneath our feet gets lower, human infrastructure is often damaged. Buildings can weaken and even collapse. Sewage, power, and rail lines are busted. And if land sinks enough, future flood risk is amplified.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2022/05/19/utah-legislature-consider/
The Salt Lake Tribune
Rescue Great Salt Lake with seawater from the Pacific? Utah lawmakers consider it
Utah lawmakers are giving serious thought to building a pipeline to the Pacific to move seawater to the shrinking Great Salt Lake.
🏳 Use Of Solar Power Wells For Agriculture Sparks Concerns
(MENAFN- Pajhwok Afghan News)
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok):
⬛️ Farmers in northern Balkh province say it is easy drawing water from wells for agricultural purposes using solar energy. Experts, however, warn the practice lowers the groundwater level and poses a serious threat to human life.
⬛️ In several parts of the country, especially in Balkh province, water shortages have forced growers to dig up deep wells and draw water from them through solar power.
⬛️ Mohammad Nazim Samoon, a water expert, noted a spike in demand for groundwater across the globe due to population growth.
⬛️ He said many countries used groundwater only for drinking.“But contrarily, groundwater in Afghanistan is used for industry, agriculture and other sectors. This could lead to a major humanitarian catastrophe in the future, he cautioned.”
⬛️ According to the expert, the water level in Afghanistan has been going down by two metres annually. The government must impose restrictions to ensure better water management, he stressed.
https://menafn.com/1104400253/Use-Of-Solar-Power-Wells-For-Agriculture-Sparks-Concerns
(MENAFN- Pajhwok Afghan News)
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok):
⬛️ Farmers in northern Balkh province say it is easy drawing water from wells for agricultural purposes using solar energy. Experts, however, warn the practice lowers the groundwater level and poses a serious threat to human life.
⬛️ In several parts of the country, especially in Balkh province, water shortages have forced growers to dig up deep wells and draw water from them through solar power.
⬛️ Mohammad Nazim Samoon, a water expert, noted a spike in demand for groundwater across the globe due to population growth.
⬛️ He said many countries used groundwater only for drinking.“But contrarily, groundwater in Afghanistan is used for industry, agriculture and other sectors. This could lead to a major humanitarian catastrophe in the future, he cautioned.”
⬛️ According to the expert, the water level in Afghanistan has been going down by two metres annually. The government must impose restrictions to ensure better water management, he stressed.
https://menafn.com/1104400253/Use-Of-Solar-Power-Wells-For-Agriculture-Sparks-Concerns
MENAFN
Use Of Solar Power Wells For Agriculture Sparks Concerns
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Farmers in northern Balkh province say it is easy drawing water from wells for agricultural purposes using solar energy
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🏳 🇺🇿 Taliban delegation led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs arrived in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Tashkent will host an international conference on Afghanistan with the participation of foreign delegations representing more than 20 countries and international organizations.
The main goal of the conference is to develop a set of measures and proposals for the approaches of the world community to promote stability, security, post-conflict reconstruction in Afghanistan.
Tashkent will host an international conference on Afghanistan with the participation of foreign delegations representing more than 20 countries and international organizations.
The main goal of the conference is to develop a set of measures and proposals for the approaches of the world community to promote stability, security, post-conflict reconstruction in Afghanistan.
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🇧🇷🐆🗳 — Video: During the Liberal Party (PL; Right wing/NatCon convention, convention, to announce his candidacy for re-election to the Brazilian Presidency, the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro called his supporters in a fervent tone tocalls for an act on September 7, 2022, vowing "Take to the streets for The Last Time"
During the speech, in yet another attack on the legitimacy of the country’s Left-leaning Supreme Court, the president stated that “These deaf people in black capes (referring to the judges of the court) have to understand what the voice of the people is.”
Worth noting that September 7, 2022 is an extremely symbolic date not only for Bolsonarists, but for all Brazilians, as the day marks the 200th anniversary of the country's Declaration of Independence by Emperor Dom Pedro I against the revolutionary Portuguese government in 1822, when a "massive military parade" is expected to take place
🔗 Metrópoles (@Metropoles)
During the speech, in yet another attack on the legitimacy of the country’s Left-leaning Supreme Court, the president stated that “These deaf people in black capes (referring to the judges of the court) have to understand what the voice of the people is.”
Worth noting that September 7, 2022 is an extremely symbolic date not only for Bolsonarists, but for all Brazilians, as the day marks the 200th anniversary of the country's Declaration of Independence by Emperor Dom Pedro I against the revolutionary Portuguese government in 1822, when a "massive military parade" is expected to take place
🔗 Metrópoles (@Metropoles)
Forwarded from Tupi Report 🇧🇷 • #FreeVenezuela (Antonio Pires)
🇺🇸🇧🇷 US Defence Secretary travels to Brazil to affirm military's role in democracy
US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin will travel to Brazil next week to attend the 15th Conference of Ministers of Defence of the Americas (CDMA).
The trip was announced by the Pentagon in a statement released on Friday (22). Lloyd leaves on Monday (25) for the US Southern Command in Florida, where he will meet with Commander Laura Richardson.
The Defence Secretary's visit comes a week after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) hosted a meeting with ambassadors to voice his criticism of the electoral system and reaffirm an alleged role for the Armed Forces in overseeing the process.
US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin will travel to Brazil next week to attend the 15th Conference of Ministers of Defence of the Americas (CDMA).
The trip was announced by the Pentagon in a statement released on Friday (22). Lloyd leaves on Monday (25) for the US Southern Command in Florida, where he will meet with Commander Laura Richardson.
The Defence Secretary's visit comes a week after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) hosted a meeting with ambassadors to voice his criticism of the electoral system and reaffirm an alleged role for the Armed Forces in overseeing the process.
🌍 Fertilizer crisis delivers profits and pain as Ukraine fallout broadens | https://archive.ph/RUzd3
⚪ “There is a lot of tension in the market. … It has really wreaked havoc in the fertilizer market,” said P.J. Juvekar, a Citigroup stock analyst. “The fertilizer business has fundamentally changed.”
⚪ It’s also become vital for the global economy, as the world copes with a worsening shortage of food. Developing nations this year confront a “real risk” of multiple famines and 2023 could be even worse if fertilizer proves unaffordable, according to U.N. Secretary General António Guterres.
⚪ Russia and neighboring Belarus are major sources of nitrogen fertilizers, like those produced by CF Industries, as well as phosphate and potassium products that use minerals from surface and underground mines. Ukraine is a relatively minor fertilizer producer. But it relied on Russia and Belarus for much of its needs and future deliveries are now in jeopardy, casting a cloud over next year’s harvest.
⚪ Numerous countries in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, meanwhile, rely on Russia for more than 30 percent of their imported fertilizer, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
⚪ Future harvests are at risk in sub-Saharan Africa, where before the war farmers applied much less fertilizer than the global average. Now, short supplies and near-record high prices mean they use even less, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
⚪ “The global outlook for 2023 may be even more dire. As the Russia-Ukraine war continues and the supply of fertilizer remains limited, high prices are likely to have a more profound impact on 2023 planting decisions,” the department’s Foreign Agricultural Service concluded in a report last month.
⚪ In the West African nation of Ghana, which buys half of its fertilizer from Russia, retail prices are more than five times higher than they were last year, prompting some corn and yam farmers to abandon chemicals in favor of cow dung and chicken droppings, even though that means lower crop yields and the risk of hunger.
⚪ The smaller harvests of corn, wheat, rice and soybeans that are likely to result from reduced fertilizer use would represent enough food to feed 92 million people for one year, according to Gro Intelligence, which this month introduced an online tool for modeling the impact of fertilizer shortages on individual nations.
⚪ “The fertilizer crisis is just beginning,” said Sara Menker, Gro’s CEO. “This is going to be a multiyear crisis. It’s not one-and-done.”
⚪ “There is a lot of tension in the market. … It has really wreaked havoc in the fertilizer market,” said P.J. Juvekar, a Citigroup stock analyst. “The fertilizer business has fundamentally changed.”
⚪ It’s also become vital for the global economy, as the world copes with a worsening shortage of food. Developing nations this year confront a “real risk” of multiple famines and 2023 could be even worse if fertilizer proves unaffordable, according to U.N. Secretary General António Guterres.
⚪ Russia and neighboring Belarus are major sources of nitrogen fertilizers, like those produced by CF Industries, as well as phosphate and potassium products that use minerals from surface and underground mines. Ukraine is a relatively minor fertilizer producer. But it relied on Russia and Belarus for much of its needs and future deliveries are now in jeopardy, casting a cloud over next year’s harvest.
⚪ Numerous countries in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, meanwhile, rely on Russia for more than 30 percent of their imported fertilizer, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
⚪ Future harvests are at risk in sub-Saharan Africa, where before the war farmers applied much less fertilizer than the global average. Now, short supplies and near-record high prices mean they use even less, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
⚪ “The global outlook for 2023 may be even more dire. As the Russia-Ukraine war continues and the supply of fertilizer remains limited, high prices are likely to have a more profound impact on 2023 planting decisions,” the department’s Foreign Agricultural Service concluded in a report last month.
⚪ In the West African nation of Ghana, which buys half of its fertilizer from Russia, retail prices are more than five times higher than they were last year, prompting some corn and yam farmers to abandon chemicals in favor of cow dung and chicken droppings, even though that means lower crop yields and the risk of hunger.
⚪ The smaller harvests of corn, wheat, rice and soybeans that are likely to result from reduced fertilizer use would represent enough food to feed 92 million people for one year, according to Gro Intelligence, which this month introduced an online tool for modeling the impact of fertilizer shortages on individual nations.
⚪ “The fertilizer crisis is just beginning,” said Sara Menker, Gro’s CEO. “This is going to be a multiyear crisis. It’s not one-and-done.”
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🇺🇳🔥 United Nations Human Rights Council on twitter:
— "UN Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet condemns execution of 4 democracy activists by the military.
She calls for immediate release of political prisoners & others arbitrarily detained, & urges the country to reinstate its death penalty moratorium."
https://archive.is/YfCyD
— "UN Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet condemns execution of 4 democracy activists by the military.
She calls for immediate release of political prisoners & others arbitrarily detained, & urges the country to reinstate its death penalty moratorium."
https://archive.is/YfCyD
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🇺🇳🔥 United Nations Human Rights Council on twitter: — "UN Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet condemns execution of 4 democracy activists by the military. She calls for immediate release of political prisoners & others arbitrarily detained, & urges the country…
🇺🇸❌🇲🇲📃 — 🇺🇸🗽 United States State Department Spokesman, Ned Price on twitter:
— "The United States condemns the Burma military regime’s execution of pro-democracy leaders for exercising their fundamental freedoms.
We call on the regime to cease its violence and release all those unjustly detained."
— "The United States condemns the Burma military regime’s execution of pro-democracy leaders for exercising their fundamental freedoms.
We call on the regime to cease its violence and release all those unjustly detained."
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🇺🇸🗽 US State Department | Execution of Burma’s Pro-Democracy Leaders | 25-07-22
— "The United States condemns in the strongest terms the Burma military regime’s executions of pro-democracy activists and elected leaders Ko Jimmy, Phyo Zeya Thaw, Hla Myo Aung, and Aung Thura Zaw for the exercise of their fundamental freedoms.
These reprehensible acts of violence further exemplify the regime’s complete disregard for human rights and the rule of law.
Since the February 2021 coup, the regime has perpetuated violence against its own people, killing more than 2,100, displacing more than 700,000, and detaining thousands of innocent people, including members of civil society and journalists."
https://archive.is/La375
— "The United States condemns in the strongest terms the Burma military regime’s executions of pro-democracy activists and elected leaders Ko Jimmy, Phyo Zeya Thaw, Hla Myo Aung, and Aung Thura Zaw for the exercise of their fundamental freedoms.
These reprehensible acts of violence further exemplify the regime’s complete disregard for human rights and the rule of law.
Since the February 2021 coup, the regime has perpetuated violence against its own people, killing more than 2,100, displacing more than 700,000, and detaining thousands of innocent people, including members of civil society and journalists."
https://archive.is/La375
🇺🇸 Nearly one in three Americans say it may soon be necessary to take up arms against the government
🔵 A majority of Americans say the U.S. government is corrupt and almost a third say it may soon be necessary to take up arms against it, according to a new poll from the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.
Two-thirds of Republicans and independents say the government is “corrupt and rigged against everyday people like me,” according to the poll, compared to 51 percent of liberal voters.
🔵 Twenty-eight percent of all voters, including 37 percent of gun owners, agreed “it may be necessary at some point soon for citizens to take up arms against the government,” a view held by around 35 percent of Republicans and around 35 percent of Independents. One in five Democrats concurred.
🔵 The findings come after a House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol wrapped up its final hearing for the summer, seeking to place former President Trump at the heart of efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
🔵 The panel also said Trump readily accepted and even encouraged the attack from his supporters, watching violence play out on television for nearly three hours before finally making a statement telling them to go home.
🔵 The division between conservatives and liberals across the country is only growing, the poll shows, and a quarter of Americans say they have lost friends over politics.
https://thehill.com/homenews/3572278-nearly-one-in-three-americans-say-it-may-soon-be-necessary-to-take-up-arms-against-the-government/
🔵 A majority of Americans say the U.S. government is corrupt and almost a third say it may soon be necessary to take up arms against it, according to a new poll from the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.
Two-thirds of Republicans and independents say the government is “corrupt and rigged against everyday people like me,” according to the poll, compared to 51 percent of liberal voters.
🔵 Twenty-eight percent of all voters, including 37 percent of gun owners, agreed “it may be necessary at some point soon for citizens to take up arms against the government,” a view held by around 35 percent of Republicans and around 35 percent of Independents. One in five Democrats concurred.
🔵 The findings come after a House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol wrapped up its final hearing for the summer, seeking to place former President Trump at the heart of efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
🔵 The panel also said Trump readily accepted and even encouraged the attack from his supporters, watching violence play out on television for nearly three hours before finally making a statement telling them to go home.
🔵 The division between conservatives and liberals across the country is only growing, the poll shows, and a quarter of Americans say they have lost friends over politics.
https://thehill.com/homenews/3572278-nearly-one-in-three-americans-say-it-may-soon-be-necessary-to-take-up-arms-against-the-government/
The Hill
Nearly one in three Americans say it may soon be necessary to take up arms against the government
A majority of Americans say the U.S. government is corrupt and almost a third say it may soon be necessary to take up arms against it, according to a new poll from the University of Chicago’s…
🇺🇸 🇱🇰 Johnstone: Our Entire Civilization Is Structured Around Keeping Us From Realizing We Can Do This
Thousands of protesters outraged by the deteriorating material conditions of the nation’s economic meltdown have stormed the presidential palace of Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and I guarantee you the aerial footage as they poured into the building en masse has made every government leader and plutocrat a little uncomfortable today.
Just look at that. Look at all those people flooding in there. That is some truly awe-inspiring power. Imagine how terrifying it would be to find yourself on the receiving end of it.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/johnstone-our-entire-civilization-structured-around-keeping-us-realizing-we-can-do
Thousands of protesters outraged by the deteriorating material conditions of the nation’s economic meltdown have stormed the presidential palace of Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and I guarantee you the aerial footage as they poured into the building en masse has made every government leader and plutocrat a little uncomfortable today.
Just look at that. Look at all those people flooding in there. That is some truly awe-inspiring power. Imagine how terrifying it would be to find yourself on the receiving end of it.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/johnstone-our-entire-civilization-structured-around-keeping-us-realizing-we-can-do