By Theara Coleman, The Week US,  24 September 2024

With artificial intelligence putting a damper on its clean energy goals, Microsoft is turning to nuclear power in a first-of-its-kind exclusive deal with a nuclear plant. The massive amount of energy needed to power artificial intelligence has contributed to a resurgence of interest in nuclear power, a turn for an industry on its way out over the last decade. But with Big Tech closing in on nuclear plants, some wonder what will be left for everyone else.

The symbolism of the deal

Three Mile Island, the dormant Pennsylvania nuclear plant at the center of the Microsoft deal, became “shorthand for the risks posed by nuclear energy after one of the plant’s two reactors partly melted down in 1979,” said The New York Times. The other reactor operated safely for years before ultimately closing down for economic reasons five years ago. With the Microsoft deal, a “revival is at hand.” Because of artificial intelligence, the tech giant needs massive amounts of electricity for its growing number of data centers, and the company has agreed to use as much power as possible from the plant over the next 20 years. The plant’s owner, Constellation Energy, promises to spend $1.6 billion refurbishing the reactor, hoping to restart it by 2028 with regulatory approval. The deal marks the first time “Microsoft has secured a dedicated, 100% nuclear facility for its use,” the Times said.

“The symbolism is enormous,” Joseph Dominguez, the chief executive of Constellation, said to the Times. Even though Three Mile Island “was the site of the industry’s greatest failure,” it can now be a “place of rebirth.”

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Unfortunately, tech’s bullish approach to securing nuclear power has some experts worried there will not be enough to go around. The owners of nearly a third of the country’s nuclear power plants were in talks with tech companies to meet the demands of the AI boom, The Wall Street Journal said. These deliberations could potentially “remove stable power generation from the grid while reliability concerns are rising across much of the U.S,” and the electricity demand is driven up by new tech like AI, the outlet said. Instead of helping to add new green energy solutions to meet their “soaring power needs,” tech companies would be “effectively diverting existing electricity resources.” That could raise prices for other customers and “hold back emission-cutting goals,” said the Journal.

Amazon Web Services closed a similar deal earlier this year, acquiring a data center campus connected to Talen Energy Corp.’s nuclear power plant on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania for $650 million. The arrangement raised concerns among clean energy advocates and regulators, specifically the the state’s consumer advocate, Patrick Cicero, who said he was worried about cost and reliability if big companies snatch up all the plants. “Never before could anyone say to a nuclear-power plant, we’ll take all the energy you can give us,” Cicero said to the Journal.

https://theweek.com/tech/microsoft-three-mile-island-nuclear-power-big-tech

Fluoride Action Network

History has been made. After 7 years of pursuing legal action against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the risk posed to the developing brain by the practice of water fluoridation, the United States District Court of the Northern District of California has just ruled on behalf of the Fluoride Action Network and the plaintiffs in our precedent-setting court case. A U.S. federal court has now deemed fluoridation an “unreasonable risk” to the health of children, and the EPA will be forced to regulate it as such. The decision is written very strongly in our favor.

Below is an excerpt from the introduction of the ruling:

“The issue before this Court is whether the Plaintiffs have established by a preponderance of the evidence that the fluoridation of drinking water at levels typical in the United States poses an unreasonable risk of injury to health of the public within the meaning of Amended TSCA. For the reasons set forth below, the Court so finds. Specifically, the Court finds that fluoridation of water at 0.7 milligrams per liter (“mg/L”) – the level presently considered “optimal” in the United States – poses an unreasonable risk of reduced IQ in children..the Court finds there is an unreasonable risk of such injury, a risk sufficient to require the EPA to engage with a regulatory response…One thing the EPA cannot do, however, in the face of this Court’s finding, is to ignore that risk.”

In this moment we want to recognize attorney Michael Connett for pursuing this case and leading the effort every step of the way. He’s a true superhero to all of us here at FAN. Many other amazing team members were also involved in making this a reality and deserve great appreciation and thanks, including our co-plaintiffs and all of you who donated and spread the word about our case. Take a moment to celebrate this momentous occasion, wherever you are. After 7 years, we all deserve it.

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Via https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/fluoride-drinking-water-poses-risk-merit-new-epa-114106787#:~:text=U.S.%20District%20Judge%20Edward%20Chen,risk%20that%20it%20could%20be.

Episode 9 The Crusades Clash of Cultures 1095-1271

The Middle Ages Around the World

Dr Joyce E Salisbury

Film Review

People’s Crusade (1096) – responding to Byzantine emperor Alexius’s request for European mercenaries to defend Byzantium against the Seljek Turks, in 1095 Pope Urban II called for a European crusade to seize Jerusalem from Arabs who had ruled it for centuries. In 1096, thousands of poor people with no military training or weapons set out for Constantinople, raiding villages for food and persecuting Jews along the way. When they arrived in Constantinople, Emperor Alexius transported them across the Bosporus Sea to Asia Minor, where they were killed by Turks.

First Crusade (1096-1099 – The European knights who embarked on crusade a few months later were more successful. After conquering Edessa (a city in southwest Turkey) and Antioch (formerly part of Syria, now part of Turkey), they triumphantly (after a five-week siege) triumphantly entered Jerusalem. After they established four Christian states in the Middle East: the county of Edessa, the Principality of Antioch, the County of Tripoli (in modern day Lebanon) and the Kingdom of Jerusalem. With the advent of Christian control of Jerusalem, the Holy Land became a common destination for European pilgrims. This would lead to the formation of the Knights Templar in 1120, a new religious order in which so-called Christian monks were allowed to carry arms and kill people. The Knights Templar mainly protected pilgrims from bandits and safeguarded their money by allowing them to deposit money prior to departure and withdraw it on reaching Jerusalem (making the Knights Templar fabulously wealthy because many pilgrims died of hunger or disease before reaching Jerusalem.

Second Crusade (1147-1149) – After Zengi from Aleppo attacked Edessa, Pope Eugenius III called for a second crusade led by the European kings. Although Conrad III of Germany, Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine all made preparations, the effort was abandoned in 1149.

Third Crusade (1189-1192) – called after the Kurdish leader Saladin reconquered Jerusalem in 1187. Frederick Barbosa (the Holy Roman Emperor) set out on crusade but drowned and King Richard (the Lionhearted of England) was forced to retreat after losing too many knights. On reaching Jerusalem, Phillip II of France negotiated with Saladin that the Muslims controlling Jerusalem would allow Christian pilgrims to continue to visit holy shrines there.

Fourth Crusade (1202-1204) – was a strange expedition, in which the crusaders, instead of heading for Jerusalem, sacked the cities of Zara and Constantinople at the behest of the doge of Venice. Venice would rule Zara and Constantinople as new colonies for 50 years before the Byzantine empire won them back.

Territory controlled by the city-state of Venice

Children’s Crusade (1212) – consisted of 1000 children age 7-14, who were sold into slavery by unscrupulous ship captains.

Fifth Crusade (1217-1221) – Called by Pope Honorius III to attack Egypt. Capturing one significant city, the Europeans ultimately abandoned it due to heat intolerance and disease.

Sixth Crusade (1228-29) – Led by Emperor Frederick II after the pope communicated him, who successfully negotiated with Sultan al Kalam that Jerusalem, Nazareth and Bethlehem would be free unfortified city open to all religions

Seventh Crusade (1248-1254) – The first of two unsuccessful crusades led by Louis XIX (St Louis) of France, who aimed to reconquer Jerusalem by attacking Egypt, now the eat of Muslim power. He was defeated by the Sultan’s armies.

Eighth Crusade (1270) – The French king Louis XIX’s attempt to besiege Tunisia ended with his death.

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In an interview with Sky News Arabia on September 20, 2024, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed skepticism, but was straight to the point about strategic expansion of BRICS, an association comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Under Russia’s BRICS presidency which began January 2024, Ethiopia, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates became the second wave of the newest members to join BRICS. South Africa ascended in 2011 under China’s initiative.

Tracking down the history, operations and achievements, Lavrov acknowledged in his interview that the BRICS association is consolidating its positions and cooperating with a number of countries. At the same time, this association is facing certain challenges. It is necessary to promote collaboration based on a balance of interests, and most importantly, BRICS functions on the basis of consensus. The consensus principle primarily aims at finding agreements that reflect the mutual accord of all participants. This is not easy. The more partners, the harder it is to search for accord. It takes more time to finalise any consensus-based agreement than a vote-based solution.

Accrding to Lavrov, this provides a solid foundation for developing a strategic partnership within the association. Currently, BRICS comprises 10 countries; their number has doubled compared to last year. More than 30 countries have already submitted applications for interaction or membership in the association. At the summit to be held in Kazan in October, one of the main items on the agenda will be the consideration of applications from states that wish to interact and partner with BRICS.

BRICS expansion has sparked debates and discussion these several years, long before Ethiopia, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were finally accepted on the condition of “concensus” by BRICS members during the South African summit in August 2023. Lavrov has already indicated and repeated explained the “suspension” of membership into BRICS+. Instead of membership, Lavrov mentioned that potentical countries can only only be accepted as a “partner group” with simple consideration to support and interact with BRICS association. The prescription is very simple – BRICS is an association based on a respectful attitude towards each other and on mutual consideration to promote collaboration based on a balance of interests and strictly adhere to the principle of the sovereign equality of states and non-interference in each other’s domestic affairs.

In practical terms, Russia has suspended BRICS+ expansion, in other words BRICS+ flagship policy of boosting its numerical strength, with unique reports indicating that there were more than 30 countries worldwide – Latin America, Asia and Africa. At South Africa’s 15th Summit held under President Cyril Ramaphosa, several countries had expressed interest in ascending the BRICS association, but only five (5) finally joined. The official documents, as stipulated by the guidelines, set no concrete criteria or rules for admission except using the flexible term “consensus” – a general agreement at the summit which was utilized in the selection process. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin have described (designated) this circle of BRICS+ friends into … what is now referred popularly to as “partner members” which starkly reflected in official documents.

At the Primakov Readings held in June 2024, the extraordinary key point was an announcement by Sergey Lavrov over ‘suspension’ of BRICS new membership. In mid-June 2024, Lavrov hosted the BRICS Foreign Ministers Council in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod. The BRICS Foreign Ministers decided to suspend admission of new members and this step reflected in the final documents.

Local and foreign media reported Lavrov’s statement:

“By the overwhelming majority, the ten members decided to ‘take a pause’ with new members, to ‘take in’ the new members who have doubled the association. At the same time, we are working of categories of partner countries as stages ahead of a full-fledged membership.”

Lavrov said BRICS would use the pause to draw up a list of categories for BRICS partner countries that would serve as stepping stones toward full membership. Understandably, BRICS+ has decided to “take a pause’ in terms of admitting new members. The partner-country model in line with paragraph 92 of the Johannesburg II Declaration.

In a media release after June 10-11, BRICS foreign ministers meeting, noted prospects for promoting strategic partnership within BRICS, including the establishment of a new category of “partner countries”  and suspension of new members from the Global South and Global East. As per the agreements reached at the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg in 2023, the ministers reviewed the efforts to coordinate the modalities of the new category, BRICS partner countries.

Within the stipulated guidelines, Russia took over the BRICS one-year-long presidency on January 1, 2024. The initial four BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) met in New York City in September 2006 at the margins of the UN Assembly, but held its first full-scale meeting in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on 16 June 2009. BRICS has experienced two phases of expansion. In 2011, South Africa joined the association, which included Brazil, Russia, India, and China.

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/brics-expansion-debates/5868547

Al-Ahed News

The “Israeli” media confirmed, commenting on the missile fire executed by the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon on Sunday, September 22, 2024, that Hezbollah has effectively “paralyzed the north”.

Israeli media acknowledged the death of a settler in a “traffic accident” while fleeing from a missile fired by Hezbollah in one of the northern settlements. Four other settlers were reported injured due to Hezbollah’s fire, and “Rambam” Hospital in occupied Haifa announced the arrival of five casualties.

Additionally, two buildings in “Kiryat Bialik” were damaged, and an “Israeli” media platform reported that entire homes in the settlement and surrounding areas were ablaze. The enemy also admitted that a missile fell in the “Krayot” region, north of Haifa, resulting in fires breaking out in the city and its surroundings due to the missile barrages launched by Hezbollah.

“Israeli” media reported that Hezbollah launched over 120 missiles toward the north in recent hours, with approximately 30 of those aimed at the “Krayot” region since morning. Sirens were continuously sounding across the north, particularly in several industrial areas.

“Israeli” Army Radio emphasized that Hezbollah “carefully chose the targets it aimed at and the counter-message it intended to convey.”

Hezbollah Expands Missile Launch Range

In light of recent developments, “Israeli” media confirmed that Hezbollah has “expanded the range of missile launches to 60 km,” putting two million settlers within the range of Resistance fire. “Israeli” Channel 13 noted that areas targeted by Hezbollah missiles, such as Nasiriyah, Afula and “Migdal HaEmek”, were not included in the guidelines provided to settlers as a precaution against Hezbollah strikes. This indicates that “Israel’s” estimates had ruled out those areas as potential targets.

“Israeli” media also reported that the occupation military may impose tighter restrictions on Haifa and its surroundings due to the expanded range of missile barrages from Lebanon. It was announced that school sessions would be suspended in Akka [“Akko”], Tabariyya [“Tiberias”], “Nahariya”, and Safad [“Safed”] following the missile strikes on the north.

These reports followed the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon’s operation, which targeted the “Ramat David” base and airport twice early on Sunday, firing dozens of Fadi 1 and Fadi 2 missiles in support of Gaza and in response to the “Israeli” recurring attacks on various Lebanese regions, which resulted in civilian casualties.

The Resistance also targeted the “Israeli” Rafael military-industrial complex, known for its electronic means and equipment, located in the “Zvolen” region north of the occupied city of Haifa, using dozens of Fadi 1, Fadi 2 and Katyusha rockets.

The Resistance emphasized that this operation was conducted in support of Gaza and as an initial response to the brutal massacre committed by the occupation in various Lebanese regions on Tuesday and Wednesday, targeting pagers and wireless devices.

Field sources confirmed that the “Fadi 1 and Fadi 2 missiles are being used for the first time” since the onset of confrontations on October 8, 2023. Notably, the support front that “Israeli” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks to halt “is expanding in terms of range and targets”.

Yemen Warns of “Surprises” Deep Inside Zionist “Settlers’ Den”

Yemen’s Defense Minister, Mohammed Nasser Al-Atafi, announced that the country’s armed forces have prepared surprises for enemy forces, affirming that they will persist in striking targets within “Israeli”-occupied territories using various types of weaponry.

“Military institutions responsible for the preparation, training and renovation of our military-industrial systems in order to create new readiness for changing developments are speedily underway,” he said, speaking on Sunday at the graduation ceremony at officers’ college.

“We are aiming to train a military-defense force capable of imposing its political and military equations [on the enemy] and defend the sovereignty of the Republic of Yemen all across its realm,” He added.

“We are aiming to continuously strike painful blows deep inside the Zionist enemy’s [military formations].”

“This way, before the enemy conducts more strikes, it will think about the many repercussions of its stupidity,” Al-Atafi noted.

He went on to say that Yemenis were monitoring the details of the political, military and geopolitical variables in the region, adding that the armed forces of the country were now ready to face all challenges.

The Yemeni defense minister said the country’s armed forces had already “knocked on the doors of occupied ‘Jaffa’ [Yafa] and Umm al-Rashrash [port of ‘Eilat’]” and were now ready to destroy the Zionists’ “den.”

He also said, “We will not hesitate to attack the enemy with ballistic, hypersonic and cruise missiles, in addition to drones. We are prepared for any sort of confrontation.”

Al-Atafi said, “We vow that more surprises are in store for the criminal Zionist enemy that will cool the hearts of the true believers.”

The minister concluded by warning that “those who have kept the [Yemeni] nation under siege for the 10^th year, and are hostile towards them” that they “must understand that our strategic patience has decreased and this is dangerous for them.”

He called on the enemy aggressors and attackers in Yemen to make plans to exit Yemen without more ado. “We warn them that they will taste the bitterness of our military forces preparations.”

In similar remarks, the head of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council, Field Marshal Mahdi Mohammad Al-Mashat said on Friday that Yemen’s enemies are to be shocked in coming days.

Al-Mashat praised the Yemeni armed forces’ success in striking “Israeli” military targets inside “Tel Aviv”.

He noted the recently launched Palestine 2 hypersonic missile had bypassed and penetrated all layers of American, British and “Israeli” aerial systems.

“Our operations will continue as long as the aggression and siege on Gaza persist,” he said.

Al-Mashat also reiterated Yemen’s unwavering and principled stance in support of the oppressed Palestinian people until the occupied land is liberated from “Israeli” occupation.

“No power in the world will deter us from this decision, regardless of the cost or the challenges,” he added.

Al-Mashat also emphasized Yemen’s full commitment to achieving a just and honorable peace.

“The only solution is to approach peace with sincere intentions,” he concluded.

Yemeni Ansarullah resistance movement’s leader, Sayyed Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, blamed the United States on Saturday for “Israeli” crimes in Palestine.

He said Washington offers its full support to the “Israeli” entity and is willing to act against any Arab country.

The Yemeni nation has voiced its full support for Palestine’s struggle against the “Israeli” occupation.

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Via https://libya360.wordpress.com/2024/09/24/hezbollah-paralyzes-the-north-two-million-israeli-settlers-in-firing-zone/

The Cradle

Israeli warplanes continued heavy attacks against civilians in southern and eastern Lebanon on 24 September.

Airstrikes pounded Kfar Kila, Khiam, and Qabrikha early evening on Monday, as well as several other towns in south Lebanon.

“Enemy aircraft launched a raid on the town of Mansouri in the western sector,” as well as the town of Taybeh in the south, the Lebanese National News Agency’s (NNA) correspondents in Marjayoun and Tyre reported.

Israeli artillery also pounded the Marjayoun plain, sparking fires in the area.

The Iqlim al-Tuffah heights and outskirts of the towns of Sajd, Ansar, and Jbaa were also hit, NNA reported.

A paramedic was killed when his ambulance team was targeted in an airstrike in south Lebanon’s Upper Nabatiyeh area.

Several people were also killed by Israeli airstrikes on eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa region.

“The death toll from the enemy raid on a residential building in the town of Nabi Aila in the Bekaa, until now, has reached five martyrs and six wounded,” the Lebanese Civil Defense said.

The fresh wave of attacks came shortly after an Israeli drone strike targeted a residential building in Beirut’s southern suburb, killing and injuring several people.

The Israeli military “has now begun an extensive wave of attacks on terrorist targets in Lebanon,” the army said in a statement at around 6:00 PM on 24 September.

Over 500 people have been killed and nearly 2,000 wounded by Israeli attacks across Lebanon in less than two days.

Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets at Israeli sites in the Haifa and Safad areas on Tuesday afternoon and early evening, also targeting several bases in the Galilee.

“In support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, in support of their valiant and honorable resistance, and in defense of Lebanon and its people, the Islamic Resistance fighters bombed the Dado base on Tuesday 09-24-2024 with 50 rockets,” Hezbollah said Tuesday evening, marking its 16th operation of the day.

Message for the people of Lebanon: pic.twitter.com/gNVNLUlvjm

— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) September 23, 2024

Like the Palestinians, the Lebanese know that you are lying. Like the Palestininas, the Lebanese know that Israel’s leadership is as unscrupulous as eager to expand its genocidal violence to the region in order to maintain power and advance its settler-colonial agenda. Like the Palestinians, the Lebanese know that most of the Israeli society may simply be too hurt, traumatised or indoctrinated to see any alternatives beyond living in a perpetual state of war. Like the Palestinians, the Lebanese may be wondering why you are not in the #Hague yet.
https://t.co/0e8rDEIugg

— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) September 23, 2024

The Israeli regime and its Western allies have lost the genocidal war against Gaza. They’re now trying to escape defeat and humiliation by launching another genocidal war against Lebanon. However, this defeat will be much more devastating, both for Zionists and for their allies. pic.twitter.com/mJNg6DPBJX

— Seyed Mohammad Marandi (@s_m_marandi) September 23, 2024

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Via https://libya360.wordpress.com/2024/09/24/will-israels-bloody-rampage-in-lebanon-deter-hezbollah/

By Michael Snyder

While everyone was distracted, the global elite got exactly what they wanted.  The UN adopted the “Pact for the Future” on September 22nd, and the mainstream media in the Western world almost entirely ignored what was happening.  Instead, the headlines urged us to just keep focusing on Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.  Sadly, the vast majority of the population has never ever heard about the “Pact for the Future”, and so there was very little public debate about whether or not we should be adopting a document which lays the foundation for a new “global order”.  The text of the “Pact for the Future” is available online, but hardly anyone will ever read it and many of the most important provisions are buried toward the end of the 56 page document.  Of course everyone should take the time to actually read this document, because our leaders just committed us to an extremely insidious global agenda that literally covers just about every conceivable area of human activity.

September 22nd, 2024 is a day that will go down in infamy.

Once the “Pact for the Future” was formally adopted, the following was posted on the official UN website…

World leaders today adopted a Pact for the Future that includes a Global Digital Compact and a Declaration on Future Generations. This Pact is the culmination of an inclusive, years-long process to adapt international cooperation to the realities of today and the challenges of tomorrow. The most wide-ranging international agreement in many years, covering entirely new areas as well as issues on which agreement has not been possible in decades, the Pact aims above all to ensure that international institutions can deliver in the face of a world that has changed dramatically since they were created. As the Secretary-General has said, “we cannot create a future fit for our grandchildren with a system built by our grandparents.”

You would think that the “most wide-ranging international agreement in many years” would make headlines all over the planet.

But that didn’t happen.

The UN press release also boldly declares that the “Pact for the Future” will “lay the foundations” for a new “global order”…

“The Pact for the Future, the Global Digital Compact, and the Declaration on Future Generations open the door to new opportunities and untapped possibilities,” said the Secretary-General during his remarks at the opening of the Summit of the Future. The President of the General Assembly noted that the Pact would “lay the foundations for a sustainable, just, and peaceful global order – for all peoples and nations.”

The Pact covers a broad range of issues including peace and security, sustainable development, climate change, digital cooperation, human rights, gender, youth and future generations, and the transformation of global governance.

I don’t want to live in a new “global order” that includes “all peoples and all nations”.

I am sure that most of you feel the exact same way.

Another page on the official UN website tells us that “UN 2.0” is all about creating a “modern UN family”…

Halfway through the 2030 Agenda, the world is not on track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. It is not too late to change course, if we all rethink, refocus, and recharge. “UN 2.0” encapsulates the Secretary-General’s vision of a modern UN family, rejuvenated by a forward-thinking culture and empowered by cutting-edge skills for the twenty-first century – to turbocharge our support to people and planet.

We will strive towards this vision with a powerful fusion of innovation, data, digital, foresight and behavioural science skills and culture – a dynamic combination that we call the “Quintet of Change”. It is about evolution towards more agile, diverse, responsive, and impactful UN organizations.

That sounds so cozy, doesn’t it?

Who wouldn’t want to be a part of a “family”, right?

But the truth is that the agenda that they intend to impose on all of us will not be pleasant at all.

Over the years, much has been written about how insidious the UN’s “Sustainable Development Goals” are.

Well, the UN is openly admitting that the “Pact for the Future” was specifically designed “to turbo-charge implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals”…

• The entire Pact is designed to turbo-charge implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
• The most detailed agreement ever at the United Nations on the need for reform of the international financial architecture so that it better represents and serves developing countries, including:
  • Giving developing countries a greater say in how decisions are taken at international financial institutions;
  • Mobilizing more financing from multilateral development banks to help developing countries meet their development needs;
  • Reviewing the sovereign debt architecture to ensure that developing countries can borrow sustainably to invest in their future, with the IMF, UN, G20 and other key players working together;
  • Strengthening the global financial safety net to protect the poorest in the event of financial and economic shocks, through concrete actions by the IMF and Member States;
  • and accelerating measures to address the challenge of climate change, including through delivering more finance to help countries adapt to climate change and invest in renewable energy.
• Improving how we measure human progress, going beyond GDP to capturing human and planetary wellbeing and sustainability.
• A commitment to consider ways to introduce a global minimum level of taxation on high-net-worth individuals.
• On climate change, confirmation of the need to keep global temperature rise to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and to transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

In one way or another, all forms of human activity contribute to “climate change”.

And so they intend to strictly regulate all forms of human activity in order to meet their twisted goals.

The “Pact for the Future” also recognizes a “central role” for the UN and a “coordinated and multidimensional international response” whenever future “global shocks” arise…

We recognize the need for a more coherent, cooperative, coordinated and multidimensional international response to complex global shocks and the central role of the United Nations in this regard. Complex global shocks are events that have severely disruptive and adverse consequences for a significant proportion of countries and the global population, and that lead to impacts across multiple sectors, requiring a multidimensional and whole-of-government, whole-of-society response.

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Via https://www.activistpost.com/2024/09/the-un-just-adopted-the-pact-for-the-future-which-lays-the-foundation-for-a-new-global-order.html

Jay Valentine

This week, a group of citizens, attorneys, investigators, writers, former elected officials, tech entrepreneurs unveiled a powerful technology platform to even up the fight with liberal NGOs stealing U.S. elections.

Their site, StopBogusBallots.com is an initiative of Common Sense Elections, a PAC applying quantum speed technology, innovative, successful legal strategies, top flight investigative talent – to exposing mail-ballots from nonsensical addresses BEFORE the votes get counted.

2024 will be decided by mail-in ballots, from 7 swing states, each of which is currently too close to call.

NGOs are active in each swing state, operating ballot mills registering illegal aliens and other migrants – capturing their ballots – and voting them.

The Common Sense Elections Dark Money Tracking System tracks every NGO influencing U.S. elections – dollars they spend, dollars they receive.

There is no organization in America, who can, with 3 clicks from a phone, expose every connection between the Chinese Progressive Association, Tides Advocacy, down to Leftist street-level GET-OUT-THE-VOTE organizations impacting the 2024 election.

Now there is – and the Common Sense Elections team is publishing the roadmap of influence, from foreign and domestic actors secretly impacting the 2024 election – using Fractal quantum technology.

The first Fractal analysis of Dark Money groups is available today at StopBogusBallots.com.

Common Sense Elections identified over 500,000 ineligible addresses – each – in Michigan, Georgia and Wisconsin, over 1.4 million in Pennsylvania.

These addresses may receive a mail-in ballot which could be intercepted by a Leftist NGO to vote for their candidate.

StopBogusBallots.com does not simply find an anomaly; they cross-search it with property tax records, real-time U.S. postal change of address records, and other databases to challenge a mail-in ballot before it is counted rather than litigate afterward.

The product is a ballot challenge – with full documentation – from an official government document – like a property tax entry – and a street level photo – delivered weeks or days BEFORE the ballots are counted.

Let’s say Phineas votes from 135 Elmont Street.

The voter roll reveals nothing about the address.

Common Sense Elections cross-searches property tax rolls, which informs us that the address is a vacant lot in an abandoned mall with no bedrooms.

Phineas may well vote in person.

Common Sense Elections is not about stopping anyone from voting – they just don’t think it is OK to send a mail-in ballot to a vacant lot – because an NGO may intercept it and vote it.

Phineas is NOT going to receive a mail-in ballot because mail, particularly a ballot, is not delivered to a vacant lot.

Should a ballot come from that address, Common Sense Elections, or affiliated groups can challenge it, consistent with Wisconsin procedure, before it is counted.

How could Phineas get a mail-in ballot where a mail-in ballot cannot be delivered?

But he did get that ballot!  He cannot get it in the mail!  The ballot is then cast!

Multiply such examples by the thousands, with different details, yielding the same result.

The Common Sense Elections team worked with Fractal quantum speed technology for the last 3 years perfecting how to successfully apply such a strategy.

In 2022, that strategy impacted enough bogus ballots – saving the U.S. Senate seat for Senator Ron Johnson.

Before Common Sense Elections built its site, citizens across America, reading a Substack article mulling this action – pledged over $350,000.  More is flowing in every day.

Citizens can now donate to a group of legal street fighters, using advanced technology, who rang the bell in Wisconsin impacting a U.S. Senate race – and bring the fight to those who are undermining U.S. elections – IN PLAIN SIGHT.

The StopBogusBallots.com SCOREBOARD shows how many ballots in Wisconsin – to start – followed by Michigan and Pennsylvania as funding continues – come from ineligible addresses.

Here’s how the 2024 game may change:

It’s November 1.

Wisconsin polling shows a close race.

The Wisconsin StopBogusBallots.com scoreboard shows 75,000 ballots flagged from ineligible addresses.  These are cast, not yet counted.

Wisconsin will likely be won by 25,000 ballots – and before the first vote is counted, citizens know who won – nobody – because the ineligible ballots outnumber the winner’s margin – by a lot.

For the first time, documented evidence is in place before the steal.

Every flagged ballot has a property tax record showing it is a coffee shop or a U.S.P.S. entry showing it to be undeliverable.

Records from Marriott and Days Inn websites show ballots from hotels—by the thousands—and time series quantum speed analysis shows 30 people sending in ballots from one hotel for 15 years.

Colleges and university dorms are outed for the first time.

Students sending in ballots from a frat house, some 105 years old, voting from the same frat house for 20 years – may determine the next President and Congress.

Americans will not be OK with this!

The preposterousness of the voter rolls is being outed – and in some states, like Arizona, its citizens may well see hundreds to thousands of ballots coming from LEGALLY UNDELIVERABLE ADDRESSES LIKE A STREET CORNER which is legal in that ridiculous state.

Every American can see – in plain sight – the scoreboard – and 75,000 ballots, perhaps more, came in from laughable places – like a Walmart or gas station – in a state decided by 25,000!.

What happens next is anyone’s guess – but it’s sure better than getting screwed with no evidence and nothing to show a court.

Common Sense Elections is just getting started – the Red states are next.

In January, CSE is raising the funding to do two dozen states—building parallel systems with their current official government voter system, running them constantly, cross-searching with other databases, and showing the wildly inaccurate voter rolls in Texas, Ohio, Alabama, Virginia, Missouri, Florida, Mississippi, and several more.

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Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/citizen-platform-take-ngos-big-steal/