- Digging Through the Dump -
“President Ali Bongo Ondimba called on people to “make noise” to support him. But crowds instead took to the streets of the capital and sang the national anthem.
They are celebrating a coup attempt against a dynasty accused of getting rich on the country’s resource wealth while many of its citizens struggle to scrape by.”
“It took most of human history for our population to reach 1 billion–and just over 200 years to reach 8 billion. But growth has begun slowing, as women have fewer babies on average.”
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“China was believed to have led the way in the grisly ranking, ahead of Iran (576 executions), Saudi Arabia (196 – its highest number in 30 years), Egypt (24) and the United States (18).”
“The advice proposes that four-to-six year olds should be taught to ‘talk about sexual matters’ and ‘consolidate their gender identity’.”
“But now with the economic strength of China, Japan and so on, I think this proposal should be negotiated at least about the Asian Monetary Fund and can utilise the ringgit and the country’s currency accordingly.”
“‘I cannot say that this doesn’t exist. It exists,’ said Xavier Gonzalez, who led the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) from 2004 to 2019.”
“The forecasts in the report are in contrast to UN predictions which show the population reaching 9.7 billion in 2050 and peaking at 10.4 billion in the 2080s.”
“Speaking of the timetable for Sweden’s possible accession, Billström told lawmakers during the debate that ‘it goes without saying that we will be able to become members in Vilnius,’ the Lithuanian capital, where a NATO summit is to be held in July”
“Lahore’s air quality worsened to 97.4 micrograms of PM2.5 particles per cubic meter from 86.5 in 2021, making it the most polluted city globally.”
“The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a maximum PM2.5 concentration of 5 micrograms per cubic meter.”
“Unhealthy diets are a leading cause of death and disease globally, and excessive sodium intake is one of the main culprits,”
“In a new study of daily ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) across the globe, a new study has found that only 0.18% of the global land area and 0.001% of the global population are exposed to levels of PM2.5 — the world’s leading environmental health risk factor — below levels of safety recommended by Word Health Organization (WHO).”
“In the latest salvo in the battle over the Chinese-owned video sharing app, Beijing says a ban on the use of TikTok by official European Union institutions will harm business confidence in Europe.”
“Their review found there were at least 83 perpetrators of abuse who worked for WHO and partners, including complaints of rape, forced abortions and the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl, in the biggest known sex abuse scandal in the U.N. health agency’s history.”
“Japanese scientist Shinji Kasai and his team examined mosquitos from several countries in Asia as well as Ghana and found a series of mutations had made some virtually impervious to popular pyrethroid-based chemicals like permethrin”.
“This World Toilet Day, let’s make the the invisible visible. World Toilet Day is held every year on 19 November. It has been an annual United Nations Observance since 2013.”
“Sperm counts worldwide have halved over the past five decades, and the pace of the decline has more than doubled since the turn of the century, new research shows. The international team behind it says the data is alarming and points to a fertility crisis threatening the survival of humanity.”
“Most plastic simply cannot be recycled, a new Greenpeace USA report concludes. Circular Claims Fall Flat Again, released today, finds that U.S. households generated an estimated 51 million tons of plastic waste in 2021, only 2.4 million tons of which was recycled.”
“In response to government requests, Facebook states that it may produce any of the following data: Basic subscriber information such as name, length of service, payment information and email addresses; records pertaining to account activity such as message headers and IP addresses’; and the stored contents of an account such as messages, photos, videos, timeline posts and location information.”
“They have pinned the blame on the nerve agent sarin, which was released into the air when caches of Iraqi chemical weapons were bombed.”
“Even when Hitler’s real body was found on the very next day, orders immediately came from the Kremlin that nobody was to breathe a word about it to anybody. Stalin’s strategy, quite evidently, was to associate the West with Nazism by pretending that the British or Americans must be hiding him.”
“Seale Hayne Military Hospital in Devon takes in World War 1 soldiers suffering from shell shock and helps them recover through various methods. Traumatised soldiers symptoms included staggering, shuffling, twitching, dancing, and shaking. After treatment the men’s symptoms are alleviated.”
“Fifty brand new top-of-the-line Taliban fighters, all kitted out in the latest in American military gear including weapons were congratulated on having completed their military and ideological training.”
“Life, religion, and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for ‘artist’ or ‘art.’ Everyone is an artist.” – Anais Nin
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