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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #71060 on: 05/09/2025 11:13:59 »
Think you can eat it?

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/golds-rise-central-bank-reserves-appears-unstoppable-2025-09-04/
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #71061 on: 05/09/2025 11:15:47 »
Way to go Mr Trump

" Trump to rebrand Pentagon as the Department of War "

https://news.sky.com/story/trump-to-rebrand-the-pentagon-as-the-department-of-war-13425267



Not 'Peace' then?
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #71062 on: 05/09/2025 11:18:56 »
" Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that any foreign military troops deployed to Ukraine would be considered targets, in a sharp rebuke to ongoing U.S. and European discussions over providing forces to guarantee a future peace agreement. "


Ursula?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/05/ukraine-russia-europe-troops-security-guarantees/
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #71063 on: 05/09/2025 11:19:23 »
So, we're going to war
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #71064 on: 05/09/2025 11:20:47 »
How does it feel, leaving your decisions to political clowns, fighting nail and tooth to get reelected, by any means.
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« Reply #71065 on: 05/09/2025 11:21:21 »
Yeah, the kind of clowns you don't want to meet in a dark alley
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« Reply #71066 on: 05/09/2025 11:22:43 »
We need a real democracy, but what we're getting are wars.
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« Reply #71067 on: 05/09/2025 11:24:18 »
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/5/has-india-weaponised-water-to-deliberately-flood-pakistan
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #71068 on: 05/09/2025 11:25:48 »
The UN getting more and more demoralized, and yeah, me too

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1165774
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« Reply #71069 on: 05/09/2025 11:26:17 »
I keep telling you


Your odds stinks
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« Reply #71070 on: 05/09/2025 11:35:02 »
Well, wouldn't bet on nuclear power plants as it looks today.

https://bisi.org.uk/reports/uranium-supply-shortages-new-demand-and-geopolitical-uncertainty

USA    https://lilepiphany.com/how-old-is-old-aging-nuclear-power-plants-in-the-usa/

https://thebulletin.org/2019/08/aging-nuclear-plants-industry-cost-cutting-and-reduced-safety-oversight-a-dangerous-mix/

Europe

https://kleanindustries.com/insights/market-analysis-reports/aging-nuclear-power-plants-in-europe-pose-increased-risk/

and then those grids, not only Europe's

https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/05/13/europes-electricity-grid-is-outdated-and-risks-derailing-fossil-fuel-phase-out-report-find


Finally you just need to look at Russia - Ukraine to see how dangerous a war will become for them.
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« Reply #71071 on: 05/09/2025 11:35:43 »
They are prime targets for an all out war.
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« Reply #71072 on: 05/09/2025 11:37:03 »
On the whole you're doing a admirable work for getting us there, aren't you?


To an extinction event
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« Reply #71073 on: 06/09/2025 11:32:41 »
Iran, on Western Europe and  'snapback'

https://iranfocus.com/nuclear/55269-is-the-iranian-regime-ready-to-reduce-uranium-enrichment-levels-to-3-67/
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« Reply #71074 on: 06/09/2025 11:44:01 »
Upstream downstream. damming and global warming

Iran    https://iranfocus.com/economy/55282-three-dams-in-iran-dried-up-eight-more-near-collapse/

Iraq      https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/19/iraq-is-facing-a-water-crisis-hit-by-one-of-its-worst-droughts-in-century

Israel    https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/bkoeuyndxl


Turkey   https://www.turkishminute.com/2025/07/08/un-warns-88-percent-of-turkey-at-high-risk-of-desertification-amid-growing-water-crisis/

Afghanistan     https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2025/09/afghanistan-water-supply-central-asia?lang=en

India    https://abirmaheshwari.medium.com/will-water-scarcity-and-rising-temperatures-threaten-india-in-2025-72588f2b29ea

Pakistan   https://www.dawn.com/news/1913435

Bangladesh     https://en.somoynews.tv/news/2025-05-27/xJDOu45w

and China    https://asiaunveiled.blogspot.com/2025/02/chinas-water-crisis-and-its.html
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« Reply #71075 on: 06/09/2025 11:46:44 »
It's not much better here in Europe

https://www.dw.com/en/why-is-europe-running-out-of-water/video-73815421

Neither USA

https://climatecompass247.com/climate/the-secret-water-crisis-why-the-us-is-running-dry-faster-than-you-think/
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« Reply #71076 on: 06/09/2025 11:49:18 »
You have heavy rains instead of the rains we used to have. With it flooding, and topsoil flushed away into streams and oceans. Connected to droughts blowing that topsoil away, and making the rest act as if it was made of concrete, not sucking up that rain.






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« Reply #71077 on: 06/09/2025 11:51:51 »
Then you have damming, also connected to things like desalination plants. Our 'solutions', building on business as usual, and infrastructures as usual. Creating blackmails and even more of those energy needs.
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« Reply #71078 on: 06/09/2025 11:54:20 »
Then you have our too old nuclear plants, and things like this

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ygkxlmg41o

Jellyfish, our new winners. And that will be a problem for those desalination plants too.
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« Reply #71079 on: 06/09/2025 11:59:30 »
Together with rising seas and temperatures hitting those power plants cooling systems, going to force us to relocate
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