8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (83)
#24468308 at 2026-04-05 22:22:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #29837: HAPPY EASTER Thank You For Your Prayers. Night [2] Q - 5:5 Q+ Edition
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Bhutan
Iraq
Eswatini
Tajikistan
Tuvalu
India
Bangladesh
El Salvador
Palestine
Equatorial
Guinea
Cape Verde
Namibia
Guatemala
Republic of
the Congo
Honduras
Kiribati
Sao Tome and
Principe
Timor-Leste
Kenya
Ghana
Nepal
Vanuatu
Laos
Angola
Micronesia
Myanmar
Cambodia
Comoros
Zimbabwe
Zambia
Cameroon
Solomon Islands
Uganda
Ivory Coast
Rwanda
Papua New
Guinea
Togo
Syria
Mauritania
Nigeria
Tanzania
Haiti
Lesotho
Pakistan
Senegal
Gambia
DR Congo
Malawi
Benin
Guinea-Bissa
Djibouti
Sudan
Liberia
Eritrea
Guinea
Ethiopia
Afghanistan
Mozambique
Madagascar
Yemen
Sierra Leone
Burkina Faso
Burundi
#24174859 at 2026-01-26 06:47:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #29459: Follow the Penguin Watch the Water Winter is Coming Edition
I think the Trump card is coming. Why would trump joke about buying Greenland or Canada if they are not owned by Monarchs. Time to pay the bills.
Commonwealth realms. King Charles III is the monarch of fifteen Commonwealth realms (Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and the United Kingdom). They evolved out of the British Empire into fully independent states within the Commonwealth of Nations that retain the same King as head of state, unlike other Commonwealth countries that are either dependencies, republics or have a different royal house. All fifteen realms are constitutional monarchies and full democracies, where the King (or his representative) legally possesses vast prerogatives, but fulfills a largely ceremonial role.
Other European constitutional monarchies. Andorra, Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and Sweden are fully democratic states in which the monarch has a limited, largely, or entirely ceremonial role.
#24089338 at 2026-01-08 01:35:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #29353: Coming Soon! To A Theater Near (you) The Insurrection Act of 1807 Edition
US Expands List Of Countries Subject To Visa Bonds Of Up To $15,000
The U.S. State Department has expanded its list of nations whose citizens will be subject to visa bonds of up to $15,000 to enter the United States, adding 25 more nations, according to its website.
The latest additions will bring the total number of nations to 38, according to the department's website, with visa bonds for the newly listed countries set to take effect on Jan. 21.
The newly added countries include Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Benin, Burundi, Cabo Verde, C?te D'Ivorie, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Fiji, Gabon, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Nigeria, Senegal, Tajikistan, Togo, Tonga, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.
The expansion came just a week after the department added Bhutan, Botswana, the Central African Republic, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Namibia, and Turkmenistan to the list, with visa bonds going into effect on Jan. 1.
Mauritania, Sao Tome and Principe, Tanzania, Gambia, Malawi, and Zambia were placed on the list in August and October of last year.
Citizens of those nations who are deemed eligible for B1/B2 visas, which are used for short-term tourism and business travel, are required to post a bond ranging from $5,000 to $15,000, with the amount being determined during the visa interview.
The department said that the visa bond policy is intended to deter visa overstays by citizens of the listed nations.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-expands-list-countries-subject-visa-bonds-15000
#23511035 at 2025-08-26 16:18:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28642: President Trump Holds A Cabinet Meeting Edition
https://www.space.com/science/climate-change/the-world-court-just-ruled-countries-can-be-held-liable-for-climate-change-damage-what-does-that-mean-for-the-us
https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/187/187-20250723-adv-01-00-en.pdf
The World Court just ruled countries can be held liable for climate change damage - what does that mean for the US?
August 25, 2025
The International Court of Justice issued a landmark advisory opinion in July 2025 declaring that all countries have a legal obligation to protect and prevent harm to the climate.
The court, created as part of the United Nations in 1945, affirmed that countries must uphold existing international laws related to climate change and, if they fail to act, could be held responsible for damage to communities and the environment.
The opinion opens a door for future claims by countries seeking reparations for climate - related harm.
But while the ruling is a big global story, its legal effect on the U.S. is less clear. We study climate policies, law and solutions. Here's what you need to know about the ruling and its implications.
Why island nations called for a formal opinion
The ruling resulted from years of grassroots and youth-led organizing by Pacific Islanders. Supporters have called it "a turning point for frontline communities everywhere."
Small island states like Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Barbados and others across the Pacific and Caribbean are among the most vulnerable to climate change, yet they have contributed little to global emissions.
For many of them, sea-level rise poses an existential threat. Some Pacific atolls sit just 1 to 2 meters above sea level and are slowly disappearing as waters rise. Saltwater intrusion threatens drinking water supplies and crops.
Their economies depend on tourism, agriculture and fishing, all sectors easily disrupted by climate change. For example, coral reefs are bleaching more often and dying due to ocean warming and acidification, undermining fisheries, marine biodiversity and economic sectors such as tourism.
When disasters hit, the cost of recovery often forces these countries to take on debt. Climate change also undermines their credit ratings and investor confidence, making it harder to get the money to finance adaptive measures.
Tuvalu and Kiribati have discussed digital nationhood and leasing land from other countries so their people can relocate while still retaining citizenship.
Some projections suggest nations like the Maldives or Marshall Islands could become largely uninhabitable within decades.
For these countries, sea-level rise is taking more than their land - they're losing their history and identity in the process.
The idea of becoming climate refugees and separating people from their homelands can be culturally destructive, emotionally painful and politically fraught as they move to new countries.
More than a nonbinding opinion
The International Court of Justice, commonly referred to as the ICJ or World Court, can help settle disputes between states when requested, or it can issue advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by authorized U.N. bodies such as the General Assembly or Security Council.
The advisory opinion process allows its 15 judges to weigh in on abstract legal issues - such as nuclear weapons or the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories - without a formal dispute between states.
While the court's advisory opinions are nonbinding, they can still have a powerful impact, both legally and politically.
The rulings are considered authoritative statements regarding questions of international law. They often clarify or otherwise confirm existing legal obligations that are binding.
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#23458006 at 2025-08-12 15:48:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28581: Patiots in Control #SecureElections Edition
>>23457614, >>23457622 Former Vatican Auditor Alleges System Enabled Money Laundering
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Bad Omen
Biblical…
The Holy See and Oman have established full diplomatic relations, leaving only six countries worldwide without any diplomatic connection to the Vatican.
The announcement on Feb. 23 did not come as a surprise because in November, during Pope Francis' trip to Bahrain, there had been contact between the Vatican and Oman's Foreign Ministry.
The agreement was signed on behalf of the Holy See by Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, Holy See Permanent Observer to the United Nations in New York, and for the Sultanate of Oman by H.E. Dr. Mohammed Al-Hassan, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Sultanate of Oman to the United Nations.
The signing ceremony took place at the Permanent Mission of the Sultanate of Oman to the United Nations in New York City.
Oman is a sultanate in the Arabian Peninsula. The sultan is both head of state and the absolute ruler of the government. There are no official figures about the religious composition of the population,though an estimated 75% of its people are Muslim.There are four Catholic parishes and a dozen priests in the country, according to Vatican News.
Including Oman, the Holy See now has diplomatic relations with 184 nations worldwide. The latest to be added to the list was Myanmar in 2017, a move that made Pope Francis' trip to the nation possible that same year.
After the phone call, Oman's foreign ministry announced that the archbishop and the foreign minister had "agreed to establish diplomatic relations between the Sultanate of Oman and the Holy See."
With this decision, there remain six states without any official ties to the Holy See: Saudi Arabia, Bhutan, China, North Korea, the Maldives, and Tuvalu. There are apostolic delegates in four countries: Comoros and Somalia in Africa and Brunei and Laos in Asia.
moar
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/253722/holy-see-and-the-sultanate-of-oman-establish-diplomatic-ties#:~:text=After%20the%20phone%20call%2C%20Oman's,year%20and%20now%20in%20Lisbon).
#23399091 at 2025-07-29 17:12:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28513: ? Stay The Course ? Message Sent Edition
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Here are the top 10 countries with the highest obesity rates among adults (BMI ? 30 kg/m?), based on the most recent World Health Organization data (2022):American Samoa: 75.21%
Tonga: 71.65%
Nauru: 69.92%
Cook Islands: 68.92%
Niue: 66.58%
Tuvalu: 64.20%
Samoa: 62.43%
Tokelau: 61.20%
Kiribati: 46.30%
Bahamas: 45.90%
#23192701 at 2025-06-17 13:25:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28280: A Decade in Motion Edition
17 Jun, 2025 09:20
More African countries face US visa ban - media
The State Department has reportedly cited weak identity document systems, government fraud, and overstays as reasons for their inclusion
The United States plans toexpand its controversial travel restrictions to citizens from 36 additional countries, including 25 African nations, The Washington Post reported over the weekend, citing an internal State Department memo.
The move would expand restrictions announced earlier this month by US President Donald Trump, whoframed the policy as a necessary step to enhance national security and prevent potential threats.
The proposed entry ban could affect a wide geographic swath of the African continent, including nations which have maintained longstanding diplomatic and economic ties with Washington. West African countries named in the draft list include Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal.
The list includes the Central African nations of Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are reportedly included, along with the island nation of Sao Tome and Principe. The East African countries of Djibouti, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda are included, as well as Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe in Southern Africa. Mauritania, located in Northwest Africa, and Egypt, a key US ally in North Africa, are also reportedly named.
Non-African states flagged for restrictions include Antigua and Barbuda, Bhutan, Cambodia, Dominica, Kyrgyzstan, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Syria, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.
The alleged document cites several reasons for the proposed bans.Some countries are said to have "no competent or cooperative central government authority to produce reliable identity documents or other civil documents," while others reportedly suffer from "widespread government fraud." It also claims that several have "large numbers" of citizens who have overstayed their visas in the US.
According to The Washington Post, "the memo, which was signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and sent Saturday to US diplomats who work with the countries, saidthe governments of listed nations were being given 60 days to meet new benchmarks and requirements established by the State Department."
Earlier, on June 4, President Trump signed an executive order blacklisting nationals of 12 countries, including Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, Somalia, and Sudan.He cited concerns over terrorism, lack of security cooperation, visa overstays, and the refusal of some governments to accept deported nationals.
In retaliation, Chad suspended visa issuance to American citizens, while some of its neighbors said they would pursue dialogue with Washington to address the issues raised.
(It has seemed for quite a while, Trump and Admin knows about very serious events that could be coming, with the order of updated nuclear and many other military ready actions.)
https://www.rt.com/africa/619512-more-african-countries-face-us-visa-ban/
#22916368 at 2025-04-15 22:28:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27974: #ARMORUP ~ The war is real, and we are in it. II Edition
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CALLING ALL PLANE FAGS
seen any private jets flying to Tuvalu lately?
#22916357 at 2025-04-15 22:25:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27974: #ARMORUP ~ The war is real, and we are in it. II Edition
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>Tuvaluan
Tuvalu is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Australia. It lies east-northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands, northeast of Vanuatu, southeast of Nauru, south of Kiribati, west of Tokelau, northwest of Samoa and Wallis and Futuna, and north of Fiji.
#22916350 at 2025-04-15 22:24:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27974: #ARMORUP ~ The war is real, and we are in it. II Edition
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>Tuvalu
The current Tuvaluan monarch and head of state, since 8 September 2022, is King Charles III. As sovereign, he is the personal embodiment of the Tuvaluan Crown
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Tuvalu
UK protect?
#22916324 at 2025-04-15 22:19:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27974: #ARMORUP ~ The war is real, and we are in it. II Edition
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Australia.
Tuvalu is just off the coast, it doesn't have an extradition treaty with the USA.
PM Ardern gave them $160million in "aid" for the passports (((they))) need.
#22889327 at 2025-04-09 18:29:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27943: BE COOL ALL DOWNHILL FROM HERE Edition
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BREAKING: World wide US tariffs start in 30 minutes.
Afghanistan - 10
Albania - 10
Andorra - 10
Anguilla - 10
Antigua and Barbuda - 10
Argentina - 10
Armenia - 10
Aruba - 10
Australia - 10
Azerbaijan - 10
Bahamas - 10
Bahrain - 10
Barbados - 10
Belize - 10
Benin - 10
Bermuda - 10
Bhutan - 10
Bolivia - 10
Brazil - 10
British Indian Ocean Territory - 10
British Virgin Islands - 10
Burundi - 10
Cabo Verde - 10
Cayman Islands - 10
Central African Republic - 10
Chile - 10
Christmas Island - 10
Cocos (Keeling) Islands - 10
Colombia - 10
Comoros - 10
Cook Islands - 10
Costa Rica - 10
Cura?ao - 10
Djibouti - 10
Dominica - 10
Dominican Republic - 10
Ecuador - 10
Egypt - 10
El Salvador - 10
Eritrea - 10
Eswatini - 10
Ethiopia - 10
French Guiana - 10
French Polynesia - 10
Gabon - 10
Gambia - 10
Georgia - 10
Ghana - 10
Gibraltar - 10
Grenada - 10
Guadeloupe - 10
Guatemala - 10
Guinea - 10
Guinea-Bissau - 10
Haiti - 10
Heard and McDonald Islands - 10
Honduras - 10
Iceland - 10
Iran - 10
Jamaica - 10
Kenya - 10
Kiribati - 10
Kosovo - 10
Kuwait - 10
Kyrgyzstan - 10
Lebanon - 10
Liberia - 10
Maldives - 10
Mali - 10
Marshall Islands - 10
Martinique - 10
Mauritania - 10
Mayotte - 10
Micronesia - 10
Monaco - 10
Mongolia - 10
Montenegro - 10
Montserrat - 10
Morocco - 10
Nepal - 10
New Zealand - 10
Niger - 10
Norfolk Island - 10
Oman - 10
Panama - 10
Papua New Guinea - 10
Paraguay - 10
Peru - 10
Qatar - 10
Republic of the Congo - 10
R?union - 10
Rwanda - 10
Saint Helena - 10
Saint Kitts and Nevis - 10
Saint Lucia - 10
Saint Pierre and Miquelon - 10
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - 10
Samoa - 10
San Marino - 10
S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe - 10
Saudi Arabia - 10
Senegal - 10
Sierra Leone - 10
Singapore - 10
Sint Maarten - 10
Solomon Islands - 10
South Sudan - 10
Sudan - 10
Suriname - 10
Svalbard and Jan Mayen - 10
Tajikistan - 10
Tanzania - 10
Timor-Leste - 10
Togo - 10
Tokelau - 10
Tonga - 10
Trinidad and Tobago - 10
Turkey - 10
Turkmenistan - 10
Turks and Caicos Islands - 10
Tuvalu - 10
Uganda - 10
Ukraine - 10
United Arab Emirates - 10
United Kingdom - 10
Uruguay - 10
Uzbekistan - 10
Yemen - 10
#22713095 at 2025-03-06 14:02:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27748: It's Another Great Day with Donald J. Trump as President Edition
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March 6, 2025
"The First 100 Days: How Conservatives Can Help President Trump Accomplish His Agenda"
Rescuing the American Dream
https://www.rescuingtheamericandream.org/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/see-star-studded-list-trump-allies-descending-dc-chart-further-100-day-wins
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TBD
Sen. Rick Scott & Others at "Rescuing the American Dream" Summit
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) and others deliver remarks at the "Rescuing the American Dream" summit in Washington, DC.
https://www.c-span.org/event/public-affairs-event/sen-rick-scott-others-at-rescuing-the-american-dream-summit/431480
March 6, 2025
3:30 AM EST
18th Meeting - 58th Session of Human Rights Council - 58th regular session of the Human Rights Council (24 February - 04 April 2025)
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1x/k1xkfkx33w
4:00 AM EST
7th Meeting - 1st Session Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems 2025 - Group of Governmental Experts on Emerging Technologies in the Area of Lethal autonomous Weapons System Geneva, 3-7 March and 1-5 September 2025
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1t/k1t48lttgq
4:00 AM EST
4190th Meeting, 143rd Session, Human Rights Committee (CCPR) - Consideration of Burkina Faso (continued)
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1q/k1qtmxppnl
4:00 AM EST
763rd Meeting, 32nd Session, Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) - Consideration of Tuvalu (cont'd)
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k15/k1563qwcyx
6:00 AM EST
Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing on current foreign policy issues at 2:00 p.m. MSK (approximately) on March 6, 2025.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
https://mid.ru/en/press_service/announcements/
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1mrGmPdOkwdKy
6:00 AM EST
The Steve Gruber Show
Real America's Voice
https://rumble.com/v6q7v0o-the-steve-gruber-show.html
6:30 AM EST
Empowering women in the economy across generations - This year, the ILO will mark International Women's Day by celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action with a special event reflecting on three decades of progress, challenges, and the future of women in the world of work.
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1n/k1naicqcdr
7:00 AM EST
Washington Journal 03/06/2025
Reps. Tim Burchett (R-TN) and Gabe Amo (D-RI) discuss President Trump's legislative agenda and next week's government funding deadline.
https://www.c-span.org/event/washington-journal/03-06-2025/431415
7:00 AM EST
The American Sunrise Show
Real America's Voice
https://rumble.com/v6q7tr0-the-american-sunrise-show.html
7:15 AM EST
Coffee Series featuring SMA Weimer | AUSA
Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA)
https://www.ausa.org/events/coffee-series/sma-weimer
8:00 AM EST
Build Your Small Business Profile for Government Contracts - Online
Veterans Affairs
https://www.sba.gov/event/63568
https://www.va.gov/outreach-and-events/events/76991/
8:30 AM EST
19th Meeting - 58th Session of Human Rights Council - 58th regular session of the Human Rights Council (24 February - 04 April 2025)
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1h/k1ho1o0zva
8:30 AM EST
Tackling Washington's Tax and Spend Priorities
Semafor
https://events.semafor.com/tacklingwashingtonstaxandspendpriorities/7761218?ref=MAIN
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8:00 PM EST
Sen. Warren & Rep. Barr on Tax Cuts and the Federal Deficit
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) are featured speakers at a discussion, hosted by Semafor, on potential tax cuts being pushed by the Trump administration.
https://www.c-span.org/event/public-affairs-event/sen-warren-rep-barr-on-tax-cuts-and-the-federal-deficit/431470
8:30 AM EST
Weekly Export Sales
Foreign Agricultural Service, Department of Agriculture
https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/reports-and-data/agency-reports
https://www.fas.usda.gov/programs/export-sales-reporting-program
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#22706916 at 2025-03-05 14:23:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27741: STAND TALL, don't sit small You Have To Show Them Edition
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MARCH 5, 1946
1946 Churchill "Iron Curtain" Speech
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
https://archive.org/details/19460305WinstonChurchill-nsia
March 5, 2025 - April 17, 2025
Lent 2025: The Complete Guide to the Catholic Season of Lent
https://hallow.com/blog/when-is-lent/
March 5, 2025
Ash Wednesday 2025 - The First Day of Lent
https://hallow.com/blog/ash-wednesday/
March 5, 2025
The Pray More Lenten Retreat: An Online Retreat: Inspiring talks to help you grow closer to Christ!
https://praymoreretreat.org/2025-lent-retreat/
March 5, 2025
Sousa's March Mania - 32 Marches. 4 Weeks. 1 Champion. #SousasMarchMania
youtube playlist here
https://www.marineband.marines.mil/portals/175/Docs/March%20Mania/2025/2025_bracket.jpg
Voting starts each day at 9 a.m. (ET) and ends at 8 a.m. (ET) the next day. Scroll down to listen and vote for today's match.
https://www.marineband.marines.mil/Educational/Sousas-March-Mania/
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March 5 - Game 5
MEACHAM - "American Patrol"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP0uQzZk-ug
VS
ALFORD H.M. Jollies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU6GmfOFqrk
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March 5 - Game 6
SOUSA Bullets and Bayonets (1918)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkIMUQAbwc4
VS
SOUSA National Fencibles (1888)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yolyT-jq8cg
March 5, 2025
The President has no public events scheduled.
March 5, 2025
3:30 AM EST
16th Meeting - 58th Session of Human Rights Council - 58th regular session of the Human Rights Council (24 February - 04 April 2025)
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1y/k1yfacop1p
March 5, 2025
4:00 AM EST
761st Meeting, 32nd Session, Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) - Consideration of Tuvalu (cont'd)
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k12/k12w50o139
4:00 AM EST
5th Meeting - 1st Session Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems 2025 - Group of Governmental Experts on Emerging Technologies in the Area of Lethal autonomous Weapons System Geneva, 3-7 March and 1-5 September 2025
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1x/k1x7892d81
4:00 AM EST
4188th Meeting, 143rd Session, Human Rights Committee (CCPR) - Consideration of Montenegro (continued)
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1g/k1g8zyujep
7:00 AM EST
The American Sunrise Show
Real America's Voice
https://rumble.com/v6q5yb2-the-american-sunrise-show.html
7:00 AM EST
House of Commons
parliamentlive.tv
https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/886bd3e1-5529-4afc-8843-7899a73092b6
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Prime Minister's Question Time
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer fields questions from members of the House of Commons during the weekly Prime Minister's Question Time.
https://www.c-span.org/event/prime-ministers-questions/prime-ministers-question-time/431345
7:00 AM EST
Hot Topic - Holistic Health and the Resilient Soldier
Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA)
https://www.ausa.org/events/hot-topic/holistic-health-and-resilient-soldier
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Army Lt. Gen. David J. Francis, deputy commanding general, Army Training and Doctrine Command, discusses "Holistic Health and the Resilient Soldier" at 7 a.m. EST at an Association of the U.S. Army "Hot Topic" event, Arlington, Virginia.
Department of Defense
https://www.defense.gov/News/Today-in-DOD/Date/2025-03-05/
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#22698483 at 2025-03-04 14:11:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27731: Melania Tuesday March Forth Edition
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March 2025
Respect Life Prayer Guide: March 2025
USCCB Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities
https://www.usccb.org/resources/respect-life-prayer-guide-march-2025
March 3, 2025 - March 4, 2025
World's Largest Summit on Antisemitism and Hate
Anti-Defamation League
https://support.adl.org/event/2025-never-is-now-virtual/e665442
March 4, 2025 - March 5, 2025
Bicentennial of Lafayette's Farewell Tour Visits Fayetteville, NC
Lafayette 200
https://lafayette200.org/event/bicentennial-of-lafayettes-farewell-tour-visits-fayetteville-nc-2/
MARCH 4, 1789
On This Day, Government Begins Under Our Constitution
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/march-4-a-forgotten-huge-day-in-american-politics-2
MARCH 4, 1789
The Significance of March 4
At New York City's Federal Hall (pictured), on March 4, 1789, the Senate convened for the first time. From 1789 until 1933, when the Constitution's Twentieth Amendment changed the convening time to 12 noon on January 3, the date of March 4 would rank among the most important on the congressional calendar.
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Significance_of_March_4.htm
March 4, 2025
World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
https://www.unesco.org/en/days/mother-language
March 4, 2025
Fat Tuesday / Mardi Gras 2025
https://www.neworleans.com/events/holidays-seasonal/mardi-gras/the-ultimate-mardi-gras-guide/
March 4, 2025
Sousa's March Mania - 32 Marches. 4 Weeks. 1 Champion. #SousasMarchMania
https://www.marineband.marines.mil/portals/175/Docs/March%20Mania/2025/2025_bracket.jpg
Voting starts each day at 9 a.m. (ET) and ends at 8 a.m. (ET) the next day. Scroll down to listen and vote for today's match.
https://www.marineband.marines.mil/Educational/Sousas-March-Mania/
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March 4 - Game 3
ALFORD Colonel Bogey March
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR_iEW3SqBU
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SOUSA "The Black Horse Troop" (1924) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv7XqtH7Vas
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March 4 - Game 4
LEEMANS March of the Belgian Parachutists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKZHytUM-DI
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GOULD March of the Leathernecks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNvmiJhLGRU
March 4, 2025
TBD
Senate Democratic Agenda
https://www.c-span.org/program/news-conference/senate-democratic-agenda/656536
March 4, 2025
TBD
Senate Republican Agenda
https://www.c-span.org/event/news-conference/senate-republican-agenda/431412
March 4, 2025
3:30 AM EST
14th Meeting - 58th Session of Human Rights Council - 58th regular session of the Human Rights Council (24 February - 04 April 2025)
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1x/k1xj0d4opy
4:00 AM EST
759th Meeting, 32nd Session, Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) - Consideration of Tuvalu
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1y/k1yyle6wgn
4:00 AM EST
3rd Meeting - 1st Session Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems 2025 - Group of Governmental Experts on Emerging Technologies in the Area of Lethal autonomous Weapons System Geneva, 3-7 March and 1-5 September 2025
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1p/k1p67k0mxo
5:00 AM EST
Press briefing for the global launch of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Annual Report 2024, Vienna, Austria - This year the Report has a special focus on the threat to public health from the deadly proliferation of synthetic drugs. The International Narcotics Control Board is calling for a comprehensive, coordinated strategy to counter the illicit manufacture, trafficking and consumption of synthetic drugs.
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1r/k1rth7mae7
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#22594996 at 2025-02-16 18:47:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27609: For the love of God III Edition
No, BBC, A Small Panamanian Island Is Not Drowning Due To Climate Change
The BBC's recent article "Climate change: The Panama community that fled its drowning island," claims that the island of Cart? Sugdupu in Panama is being swallowed by rising sea levels due to climate change. This is false. The reality is that the island's inhabitants are not being forced to relocate because of rising oceans, but due to overcrowding, poor infrastructure, and a lack of resources-issues that have nothing to do with climate change. Furthermore, real-world examples and peer-reviewed research contradict the idea that small islands are disappearing due to rising seas. Instead, many islands are growing, adapting, and naturally shifting over time. The BBC's report is misleading at best, deliberately deceptive at worst.
Cart? Sugdupu is one of Panama's San Blas Islands, home to the indigenous Guna people. The BBC's article, painting a picture of climate-induced displacement, completely ignores the fact that the island is severely overcrowded, with more than 1,000 people packed into a tiny space of just 0.028 square miles. That's a population density higher than New York City! The primary reason the residents are moving is not rising sea levels, but poor living conditions, lack of fresh water, and a shortage of space-issues that have been pressing for decades.
Instead of addressing these fundamental concerns, the BBC presents the relocation as a direct result of climate change, despite the absence of evidence that rising seas are responsible. The sea level around Panama has been rising at an average of about 1 to 3 mm per year, a rate consistent with natural post-Little Ice Age trends, a rate that has not increased during the recent period of climate change. As such, there is no indication of an impending climate catastrophe as described in Climate at a Glance. At this pace, it would take centuries before Cart? Sugdupu would face submersion.
Some new islands are even emerging. For example in the article San Blas Reborn: New Islands Emerge Amidst Climate Change Hysteria it has been reported:
Off the coast of Maoqui in the Dutch Cays, a new island is gradually taking shape. What started as a mere speck of land, approximately 5 meters by 8 meters, has grown over the past decade to a remarkable 40 meters by 80 meters.
The BBC article implies that small islands like Cart? Sugdupu are being swallowed by the ocean, yet fails to mention peer-reviewed research demonstrating that most islands are stable or even expanding. A 2018 study published in Nature Communications examined 101 Pacific and Indian Ocean islands and found that 88 percent were either stable or increasing in size (Kench, Ford, and Owen, 2018). The processes that shape islands-sediment accumulation, reef growth, and dynamic land movement-mean that atolls and low-lying islands are not passive victims of sea level rise.
Tuvalu is a perfect example. Despite years of claims that the country would disappear, its total land area has actually grown by 2.9 percent over four decades. Similar observations have been made for islands in Kiribati, the Maldives, and the Marshall Islands. If these islands are growing or maintaining their size despite sea level rise, why would Cart? Sugdupu be uniquely doomed? The BBC refuses to acknowledge this inconvenient reality.
The real reason for the relocation of Cart? Sugdupu's residents has nothing to do with climate change. Instead, it comes down to basic infrastructure challenges:
Overpopulation - As seen in the head photograph, the island is overcrowded, with nowhere to expand. Unlike coral atolls that naturally grow, Cart? Sugdupu is an isolated, heavily inhabited island with no room for additional housing or development.
Lack of Freshwater and Sanitation - Many small islands struggle with freshwater availability. The BBC ignores this and instead attributes all hardships to climate change.
Economic and Government Decisions - Panama's government is relocating the residents as part of a planned move, not an emergency evacuation due to rising waters.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/13/no-bbc-a-small-panamanian-island-is-not-drowning-due-to-climate-change/
#22179099 at 2024-12-17 05:39:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27144: Kun Edition
>>22178902
>Port Vila, Vanuatu (South Pacific Ocean island) HAS COLLAPSED following 7.4 earthquake.
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20241217-quake-vanuatu
Powerful earthquake hits Pacific island of Vanuatu, bodies seen in street
Asia / Pacific
A devastating 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Vanuatu's main island, Efate, severely damaging Port Vila and crushing the ground floor of a building containing US and French embassies. Casualties and extensive destruction were reported, including visible bodies in the streets, as per the US Geological Survey and eyewitness accounts.
Issued on: 17/12/2024 - 06:13
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NEWS WIRES
Vanuatu quake
Vanuatu quake ? John Saeki, AFP
A powerful earthquake hit the Pacific island of Vanuatu on Tuesday, severely damaging buildings in the capital Port Vila including one housing foreign embassies, with a witness telling AFP of bodies lying in the street.
The 7.3-magnitude quake struck at a depth of 57 kilometres (35 miles), some 30 kilometres off the coast of Efate, Vanuatu's main island, at 12:47 pm (0147 GMT), according to the US Geological Survey.
The ground floor of a building housing the US and French embassies had been crushed under higher floors, resident Michael Thompson told AFP by satellite phone after posting images of the destruction on social media.
"There's people in the buildings in town. There were bodies there when we walked past," Thompson said.
A landslide on one road had covered a bus, he said, "so there's obviously some deaths there".
The quake also collapsed at least two bridges, said Thompson, who runs a zipline business in Vanuatu, and the ground floor of a concrete building housing diplomatic missions had been flattened.
"That no longer exists. It is just completely flat. The top three floors are still holding but they have dropped," he said.
"If there was anyone in there at the time, then they're gone," he said.
Most mobile networks had been cut off, Thompson said.
"They're just cracking on with a rescue operation. The support we need from overseas is medical evacuation and skilled rescue, kind of people that can operate in earthquakes," he said.
Video footage posted by Thompson and verified by AFP showed uniformed rescuers and emergency vehicles working on a building where an external roof had collapsed onto a number of parked cars and trucks.
The streets of the city were strewn with broken glass and other debris from damaged buildings, the footage showed.
A tsunami warning was issued after the quake, with waves of up to one metre (three feet) forecast for some areas of Vanuatu, but soon lifted by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
Waves of less than 30 centimetres (one foot) above the tidal level were predicted for other Pacific island nations including Fiji, Kiribati, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu.
Earthquakes are common in Vanuatu, a low-lying archipelago of 320,000 people that straddles the seismic Ring of Fire, an arc of intense tectonic activity that stretches through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin.
Vanuatu is ranked as one of the countries most susceptible to natural disasters such as earthquakes, storm damage, flooding and tsunamis, according to the annual World Risk Report.
(AFP)
#22178357 at 2024-12-17 02:59:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27143: Keep The Guns & Save Our Children Edition
Tsunami threat after magnitude-7.4 earthquake recorded at Vanuatu
Authorities say tsunami waves have been observed after a magnitude-7.4 earthquake struck Vanuatu.
The quake struck 37km from the capital, Port Vila at 12:53pm AEDT.
It struck at a depth of 10km, the United States Geological Survey said.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said tsunami waves had been observed, and predicted waves of up to 1 metre along some parts of Vanuatu's coastline.
Tsunami waves of less than 30 centimetres above the tidal level were predicted for Pacific island nations including Fiji, Kiribati, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu.
The Bureau of Meteorology said there was no tsunami threat to Australia.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-17/tsunami-threat-earthquake-vanuatu/104736282
#21661502 at 2024-09-26 16:02:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26527: Reverse The Perverse Edition
>>21661500
"I am living the reality of climate change," said Malie. "Everyone (in Tuvalu) lives by the coast or along the coastline, so everyone gets heavily affected by this."
Flooding on island nations can come from the ocean inundating land during storms or during exceptionally high tides, called king tides.
But it can also result when saltwater intrudes into underground areas and pushes the water table to the surface.
"There are points on the island where we will see seawater bubbling from beneath the surface and heavily flooding the area," Malie added.
Sea level rise doesn't occur uniformly around the world. A combination of global and local conditions, such as the topography of a coastline and how glacial meltwater is distributed in the ocean, affects the amount of rise a particular region will experience.
"We're always focused on the differences in sea level rise from one region to another, but in the Pacific, the numbers are surprisingly consistent," said Ben Hamlington, a sea level researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and the agency's sea level change science team lead.
The impacts of 8 inches (15 centimeters) of sea level rise will vary from country to country.
For instance, some nations could experience nuisance flooding several times a year at their airport, while others might face frequent neighborhood flooding equivalent to being inundated for nearly half the year.
Researchers would like to combine satellite data on ocean levels with ground-based measurements of sea levels at specific points, as well as with better land elevation information.
"But there's a real lack of on-the-ground data in these countries," said Hamlington.
The combination of space-based and ground-based measurements can yield more precise sea level rise projections and improved understanding of the impacts to countries in the Pacific.
"The future of the young people of Tuvalu is already at stake," said Malie. "Climate change is more than an environmental crisis. It is about justice, survival for nations like Tuvalu, and global responsibility."
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#21661500 at 2024-09-26 16:02:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26527: Reverse The Perverse Edition
https://www.nasa.gov/earth/climate-change/nasa-analysis-shows-irreversible-sea-level-rise-for-pacific-islands/
https://sealevel.nasa.gov/flooding-analysis-tool-pacific-islands/projected-flooding?units=meters
NASA Analysis Shows Irreversible Sea Level Rise for Pacific Islands
Sep 25, 2024
Climate change is rapidly reshaping a region of the world that's home to millions of people.
In the next 30 years, Pacific Island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Fiji will experience at least 8 inches (15 centimeters) of sea level rise, according to an analysis by NASA's sea level change science team.
This amount of rise will occur regardless of whether greenhouse gas emissions change in the coming years.
The sea level change team undertook the analysis of this region at the request of several Pacific Island nations, including Tuvalu and Kiribati, and in close coordination with the U.S. Department of State.
In addition to the overall analysis, the agency's sea level team produced high-resolution maps showing which areas of different Pacific Island nations will be vulnerable to high-tide flooding - otherwise known as nuisance flooding or sunny day flooding - by the 2050s.
Released on Sept. 23, the maps outline flooding potential in a range of emissions scenarios, from best-case to business-as-usual to worst-case.
"Sea level will continue to rise for centuries, causing more frequent flooding," said Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer, who directs ocean physics programs for NASA's Earth Science Division.
"NASA's new flood tool tells you what the potential increase in flooding frequency and severity look like in the next decades for the coastal communities of the Pacific Island nations."
Team members, led by researchers at the University of Hawaii and in collaboration with scientists at the University of Colorado and Virginia Tech, started with flood maps of Kiribati, Tuvalu, Fiji, Nauru, and Niue.
They plan to build high-resolution maps for other Pacific Island nations in the near future. The maps can assist Pacific Island nations in deciding where to focus mitigation efforts.
"Science and data can help the community of Tuvalu in relaying accurate sea level rise projections," said Grace Malie, a youth leader from Tuvalu who is involved with the Rising Nations Initiative, a United Nations-supported program led by Pacific Island nations to help preserve their statehood and protect the rights and heritage of populations affected by climate change.
"This will also help with early warning systems, which is something that our country is focusing on at the moment."
The analysis by the sea level change team also found that the number of high-tide flooding days in an average year will increase by an order of magnitude for nearly all Pacific Island nations by the 2050s.
Portions of the NASA team's analysis were included in a sea level rise report published by the United Nations in August 2024.
Areas of Tuvalu that currently see less than five high-tide flood days a year could average 25 flood days annually by the 2050s.
Regions of Kiribati that see fewer than five flood days a year today will experience an average of 65 flood days annually by the 2050s.
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#21653937 at 2024-09-25 10:25:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26519: EBAKE Edition
>>21653923
Must be nice
Andorra Euro
Kiribati Kiribati dollar
Marshall Islands United States dollar
Micronesia United States dollar
Monaco Euro
Nauru Australian dollar
Palau United States dollar
Panama United States dollar
Tuvalu Tuvaluan dolla
>The Rothschild banking empire: The predecessors (but not secret controllers) of central banks
>In the 1760s, a Jewish banker from Frankfurt, Germany named Mayer Amschel Rothschild founded what would eventually become a banking dynasty. From humble beginnings in the Jewish slums of Frankfurt, Rothschild would eventually establish banks in Frankfurt, Germany; London, England; Paris, France; Vienna, Austria; and Naples, Italy, with each bank headed by one of Rothschild's five sons. The family became known as pioneers and trendsetters in the realm of international finance, and were instrumental in aiding England and its allies during the Napoleonic wars of 1803-1815. At one point in the 1800s, the Rothschild family possessed the largest private fortune in the history of the modern world. For example, between 1895 and 1907, they loaned more than $450,000,000 USD (more than $13 trillion USD by 2022 standards) to various European governments.
>Given their immense wealth and power, it's unsurprising that the Rothschild family was the subject of many conspiracy theories. One such claim maintained that the family secretly controlled the world's wealth and financial institutions, including the central banks of various countries. No evidence exists to support this claim, although significant evidence exists that it is a myth rooted in and fueled by anti-Semitism.
>In reality, central banks are essentially a government function. As such, they would not be subject to control from a private family-even one as influential as the Rothschilds. In the 18th and 19th centuries, however, many countries had not yet established central banks, so the Rothschild banks fulfilled many of the functions that a central bank now carries out. Today, the Rothschild family is involved in financial services, real estate, nonprofit organizations, winemaking, and other fields.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-without-central-banks
#21649694 at 2024-09-24 15:38:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26514: Get The Popcorn Ready! Edition
Fourteen countries oppose UN resolution to end Israel's occupation of Palestine
A total of 124 states voted for Israel to withdraw forces and cease settlement activity in the occupied West Bank
Apart from the US, Argentina, Hungary and Paraguay also voted against the resolution. Other opposers were: Oceania's Palau, Micronesia, Nauru, Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu and Papua New Guinea, East Africa's Malawi and Europe's Czechia.
Notably, South America's Argentina has had a long-standing pro-Palestine policy, which it broke off from in a May vote on recognising Palestinian as a state, before designating Hamas a terrorist group two months later.
Argentina's President Javier Milei had been aligning his country closer with Israel and the US in recent months, even visiting Jerusalem in February and making more public his religious views after converting to Judaism three years ago.
Hungary's position on Israel remained unchanged. It has long been a supporter and ally of Israel, and is the only EU member state to not have called on Israel to stop its incursion into Rafah in May, in the continuing war in Gaza, as part of a joint declaration among other EU member states.
More than 41,200 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's war in Gaza, and 95,550 were wounded with at least 10,000 more missing and believed to be under rubble.
Paraguay has strong trade ties with Israel but a complicated relationship with it.
In 2018, President Horacio Cartes said he would relocate his country's embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem - effectively recognising the city as Israel's capital, following the footsteps of Donald Trump, who made the same controversial move.
Paraguay's decision was eventually reversed under new president Mario Abdo Benitez and the embassy was moved back to Tel Aviv, prompting anger from Israel, which closed its embassy in Paraguay.
Six years later, Paraguay's current President Santiago Pe?a expressed his support for Israel, saying he will move his embassy to Jerusalem and in turn attended the inauguration of Israel's embassy in the capital Asuncion on Wednesday - the day of the UN vote - where his envoy voted against the resolution to show further support to Israel.
Ahead of the vote, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the kingdom condemns "the crimes of the Israeli occupation authority against the Palestinian people". The Crown Prince said the kingdom will not establish diplomatic ties with Israel without an independent Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital.
https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2024/09/19/fourteen-countries-oppose-un-resolution-to-end-israels-occupation-of-palestine/
#21626906 at 2024-09-20 08:01:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26487: Fighter Edition
>>21626900
Why is it that many Oceania island states also opposed it, Palau, Micronesia, Nauru, Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu and Papua New Guinea.
#21496141 at 2024-08-28 17:31:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26338: This Is Not About Another 4 Year Election NCSWIC Edition
https://www.earth.com/news/dark-oxygen-in-the-deep-sea-may-hold-clues-about-alien-life/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01480-8
"Dark oxygen" in Earth's deep seas may hold clues about alien life
08-27-2024
Over 12,000 feet beneath the Pacific Ocean's surface, in a region called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), ancient rocks blanket the deep seafloor.
While these rocks might seem devoid of life, they actually host a variety of tiny sea creatures and microbes, many of which are specially adapted to survive in the dark.
These deep-sea rocks, known as polymetallic nodules, not only provide a habitat for numerous marine organisms but also, surprisingly, generate oxygen on the ocean floor.
This discovery, made by a team of scientists including experts from Boston University, challenges the conventional understanding that oxygen production requires sunlight and typically occurs near the ocean's surface, where phytoplankton photosynthesize.
The presence of oxygen at such depths, in complete darkness, was so unexpected that the researchers initially suspected an error.
"This was really weird, because no one had ever seen it before," said Jeffrey Marlow, an assistant professor of biology at Boston University's College of Arts & Sciences and co-author of the study.
Marlow, who specializes in studying microbes in extreme environments like hardened lava and deep-sea hydrothermal vents, initially thought that microbial activity might be responsible for the oxygen production.
To investigate, the research team used deep-sea chambers that land on the seafloor, encapsulating seawater, sediment, polymetallic nodules, and living organisms.
The team then measured oxygen levels within these chambers over a 48-hour period.
Typically, if organisms are consuming oxygen, the levels would drop based on the amount of activity in the chamber. However, in this case, oxygen levels were rising.
"We did a lot of troubleshooting and found that the oxygen levels increased many more times following that initial measurement," Marlow explained. "So we're now convinced it's a real signal."
Marlow and his colleagues conducted their research aboard a vessel dedicated to exploring the CCZ's ecology.
This area, spanning 1.7 million square miles between Hawaii and Mexico, was the focus of an environmental survey sponsored by The Metals Company, a deep-sea mining firm interested in harvesting these rocks for their valuable metals.
After conducting various experiments, the team, led by Andrew Sweetman from the Scottish Association for Marine Science, concluded that the oxygen production was not primarily driven by microbial activity, despite the presence of many microbes on and inside the rocks.
Polymetallic nodules are rich in rare metals such as copper, nickel, cobalt, iron, and manganese, which makes them attractive for mining.
The study suggests that the dense concentration of these metals likely triggers a process called "seawater electrolysis."
This process involves the uneven distribution of metal ions within the rock layers, creating a separation of electrical charges similar to a battery.
The energy is sufficient to split water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen, a process the researchers have termed "dark oxygen" because it occurs without sunlight.
However, the exact mechanism remains unclear, as do questions about whether oxygen levels vary across the CCZ and the role this oxygen plays in sustaining local ecosystems.
The Metals Company describes polymetallic nodules as a "battery in a rock" and claims on its website that mining these nodules could speed up the transition to battery-powered electric vehicles, potentially reducing the need for land-based mining.
Currently, mining in the CCZ is still in the exploratory phase, but the United Nations International Seabed Authority, which oversees this area, may start making decisions about mining as early as next year.
The Metals Company is collaborating with Pacific nations like Nauru, Tonga, and Kiribati to secure mining licenses, though several other South Pacific countries, including Palau, Fiji, and Tuvalu, have expressed strong opposition, advocating for a moratorium or a pause on mining activities.
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#21017197 at 2024-06-13 16:48:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25772: Thorsday Wake Up Call Edition
>>21017126
Fiji's New Patrol Boat Evacuated After Grounding on First Patrol
Published Jun 12, 2024 5:11 PM by The Maritime Executive
The Government of Fiji and the Fiji Navy are working to manage a major embarrassment after the country's new patrol boat, a gift from Australia, grounded halfway through its maiden deployment. The sailors were safely evacuated while a crisis management team is working to save the vessel which is reported to be on a reef and flooding.
RFNS Puamau built by Australian shipbuilder Austal was delivered in March 2024 as part of an ongoing program of goodwill and mutual security between Australia and the neighboring island nations. The vessel, valued at approximately US$10.6 million, had just completed days of safety and survival at sea training. It had embarked on a two-week maiden patrol.
The Fiji Navy confirmed that the vessel grounded on Monday in the southeastern reaches of the island nation. Reports indicate it is in the remote Lau group of islands, with ABC News Australia calling it a "treacherous area" with difficult sea passages.
There were reports of strong winds in the area, but the Navy will only say that the cause of the cause of the incident will be investigated. Learning of the grounding, the Navy dispatched another Austal-built patrol boat, RFNS Savenaca to the scene. They report without specifying a number that the crew was safely evacuated and surveys do not show any pollution coming from the patrol boat.
Media reports are indicating that the engine room of the patrol boat is flooding and efforts are underway to pump out the water and stabilize the vessel. The Australian Defence Force is also providing aerial assistance.
"Damage control teams, comprised of Navy divers and Navy engineers, are effecting temporary fixes and devising strategies for the removal of all fuel and the patrol boat's de-storing, with aerial and surface assessments confirming the absence of any spills," the Fiji Navy wrote in an update from earlier today. "The crisis management team continues to oversee the operation from HQ Navy in collaboration with key stakeholders."
The vessel was the first of four Guardian-class Patrol Boats scheduled for delivery by Austal's Western Australian shipyards in 2024 and the nineteenth delivered as part of the Pacific Patrol Boat Replacement Project initially awarded to Austal Australia in May 2016. The shipbuilder is receiving more than A$350 million (US$233 million), and delivering patrol boats being gifted by Australia to Papua New Guinea, Fiji, the Federated States of Micronesia, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Palau, Samoa, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Timor-Leste.
The vessels are approximately 130-foot (39.5-meter) steel monohull patrol boats designed, constructed, and sustained by Austal Australia. According to the shipbuilder, they are faster than the previous Pacific-class patrol boats, with improved seakeeping, better amenities, and an enhanced mission capability. They have an integrated RHIB stern launch and recovery system and were designed to carry out border patrols, regional policing, search and rescue, and other operations domestically and internationally.
The media is saying that the vessels however received criticism with reports of defects including with the exhaust system. The Australian Department of Defence reportedly issued an advisory to the various nations on how to operate the vessels to reduce risks.
Concerns are being raised for the new vessel because of its exposed position and challenging sea conditions which could delay salvage efforts. The Fiji Navy said after the safe recovery of the crew and assisting their families, its focus is on safely recovering the vessel.
https://maritime-executive.com/article/fiji-s-new-patrol-boat-evacuated-after-grounding-on-first-patrol
#21014741 at 2024-06-13 05:24:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25770: QR Ahead of Schedule & Under Budget Edition
Ooops
Fiji's New Patrol Boat Evacuated After Grounding on First Patrol
Published Jun 12, 2024 5:11 PM by The Maritime Executive
The Government of Fiji and the Fiji Navy are working to manage a major embarrassment after the country's new patrol boat, a gift from Australia, grounded halfway through its maiden deployment. The sailors were safely evacuated while a crisis management team is working to save the vessel which is reported to be on a reef and flooding.
RFNS Puamau built by Australian shipbuilder Austal was delivered in March 2024 as part of an ongoing program of goodwill and mutual security between Australia and the neighboring island nations. The vessel, valued at approximately US$10.6 million, had just completed days of safety and survival at sea training. It had embarked on a two-week maiden patrol.
The Fiji Navy confirmed that the vessel grounded on Monday in the southeastern reaches of the island nation. Reports indicate it is in the remote Lau group of islands, with ABC News Australia calling it a "treacherous area" with difficult sea passages.
There were reports of strong winds in the area, but the Navy will only say that the cause of the cause of the incident will be investigated. Learning of the grounding, the Navy dispatched another Austal-built patrol boat, RFNS Savenaca to the scene. They report without specifying a number that the crew was safely evacuated and surveys do not show any pollution coming from the patrol boat.
Media reports are indicating that the engine room of the patrol boat is flooding and efforts are underway to pump out the water and stabilize the vessel. The Australian Defence Force is also providing aerial assistance.
"Damage control teams, comprised of Navy divers and Navy engineers, are effecting temporary fixes and devising strategies for the removal of all fuel and the patrol boat's de-storing, with aerial and surface assessments confirming the absence of any spills," the Fiji Navy wrote in an update from earlier today. "The crisis management team continues to oversee the operation from HQ Navy in collaboration with key stakeholders."
The vessel was the first of four Guardian-class Patrol Boats scheduled for delivery by Austal's Western Australian shipyards in 2024 and the nineteenth delivered as part of the Pacific Patrol Boat Replacement Project initially awarded to Austal Australia in May 2016. The shipbuilder is receiving more than A$350 million (US$233 million), and delivering patrol boats being gifted by Australia to Papua New Guinea, Fiji, the Federated States of Micronesia, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Palau, Samoa, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Timor-Leste.
The vessels are approximately 130-foot (39.5-meter) steel monohull patrol boats designed, constructed, and sustained by Austal Australia. According to the shipbuilder, they are faster than the previous Pacific-class patrol boats, with improved seakeeping, better amenities, and an enhanced mission capability. They have an integrated RHIB stern launch and recovery system and were designed to carry out border patrols, regional policing, search and rescue, and other operations domestically and internationally.
The media is saying that the vessels however received criticism with reports of defects including with the exhaust system. The Australian Department of Defence reportedly issued an advisory to the various nations on how to operate the vessels to reduce risks.
Concerns are being raised for the new vessel because of its exposed position and challenging sea conditions which could delay salvage efforts. The Fiji Navy said after the safe recovery of the crew and assisting their families, its focus is on safely recovering the vessel.
https://maritime-executive.com/article/fiji-s-new-patrol-boat-evacuated-after-grounding-on-first-patrol
#20690214 at 2024-04-07 02:28:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25376: Frog-X Parachute Team back to @trumpdoral: SHOTGUN Edition
>>20690082
Relatively small land masses/Island such as Tuvalu, are known to "move". Meaning the ocean causes the sands of the Island to shift in the prevailing direction of current, with the ocean facing side appearing overcome by sea, while the opposite side grows. It's a slow process, but can be observed with small atolls on a yearly basis.
#20690096 at 2024-04-07 01:54:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25376: Frog-X Parachute Team back to @trumpdoral: SHOTGUN Edition
>>20690082
>2024-04-05-18_26_25-Tuvalu_1304035815.jpg-1200?675-750x375
Tuvalu.
Some decent sized structure on that little strip.
I'd love to visit Polynesia some day.
#20690082 at 2024-04-07 01:49:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25376: Frog-X Parachute Team back to @trumpdoral: SHOTGUN Edition
Islands That Climate Alarmists Said Would Soon "Disappear" Due to Rising Sea Found to Have Grown in Size
BY CHRIS MORRISON 6 APRIL 2024 7:00 AM
An amount of land equivalent to the Isle of Wight has been added to the shorelines of 13,000 islands around the world in just the last 20 years. This fascinating fact of a 369.67 square kilometre increase has recently been discovered by a group of Chinese scientists analysing both surface and satellite records. Overall, land was lost during the 1990s, but the scientists found that in the study period of three decades to 2020 there was a net increase of 157.21 km2. The study observed considerable natural variation in both erosion and accretion. Of course, thefindings blow holes in the poster scare run by alarmistssuggesting that rising sea levels caused by humansusing hydrocarbons will condemn many islands to disappear shortly beneath rising sea levels. By means of such flimsy scare tactics, as we have seen in many other cases, desperate attempts are made to terrify global populations to accept the insanity of the Net Zero collectivisation.
The scientists said their data suggested that sea-level rise has not been a widespread cause of erosion for island shorelines in the studied regions. "Presently, it is considered one of the contributing factors to shoreline erosion but not the predominant one," they explained. Needless to say, none of this will detain the attention of climate hysterics in both mainstream media and politics.The Guardian was in fine form last June stating that rising oceans will extinguish more than land. "It will kill entire languages," it added, noting the effect on Pacific islands such as Tuvalu. Those areas of the Earth that were most hospitable to people and languages are now becoming the "least hospitable".
Silly emotional Guardianista guff of course,but happily it does not seem to apply to Tuvalu. A recent study found that the 101 islands of Tuvalu had grown in land mass by 2.9%. The scientists observed that despite rising sea levels, many shorelines in Tuvalu and neighbouring Pacific atolls have maintained relative stability, "without significant alteration". A comprehensive re-examination of data on 30 Pacific and Indian Ocean atolls with 709 islands found that none of them had lost any land. Furthermore, the scientists added, there are data that indicate 47 reef islands expanded in size or remained stable over the last 50 years, "despite experiencing a rate of sea-level rise that exceeds the global average".
The Maldives is also a poster scare for rising sea levels, with the attention-seeking activist Mark Lynas- he of thenonsense claim that 99.9% of scientists agree humans cause all or most climate change- organising an underwater Cabinet meeting of the local Government in 2009. As it happens, the Maldives is one of a number of areas that have seen recent increases in land mass. Other areas include the Indonesian Archipelago, islands along the Indochinese Peninsula coast, and islands in the Red and Mediterranean Seas.Notably, the coastal waters of the Indochinese Peninsula had the most substantial gain, with an increase of 106.28 km2 over the 30-year period.. Of the 13,000 islands examined, the researchers found that only around 12% had experienced a significant shoreline shift, with almost equal numbers experiencing either landward (loss) or seaward (gain) movement.
The scientists identify many reasons why islands can grow in size despite the small annual rises in sea level seen in many parts of the world. It is noted that island shorelines are constantly changing due to factors such tides, winds, nearshore hydrodynamics and the transport of sediment. On inhabited islands, human action such as fish farming and land reclamation can be important.
Of course, humans action can have a number of unintended consequences, notably the mining of coral and the breakdown of natural water barriers.
The Chinese findings are important in helping destroy the claim that many low-lying islands will simply disappear beneath the waves in the near future due to human-induced climate change. They show how shoreline changes are a persistent and ongoing process that is subject to many natural and human influences. Most of the poster islands used for climate scares such as Tuvalu and the Maldives have increased in size of late, and are hardly suitable to whip up fear of a claimed climate 'emergency'. Sea level rise is not a "predominant" cause of the changing coasts, the scientists note.
Al Gore Wrong Again, mostly always
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/06/islands-that-climate-alarmists-said-would-soon-disappear-due-to-rising-sea-found-to-have-grown-in-size/
#20612591 at 2024-03-23 13:11:51 (UTC+1)
Q research General #25280 Emergency Ebake Edition
>>20612584
>As of 2024, there are 15 Commonwealth realms: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and the United Kingdom.
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#20612584 at 2024-03-23 13:10:35 (UTC+1)
Q research General #25280 Emergency Ebake Edition
>>20612554
>King of "England"
>Commonwealth Realm (Communist)
>Current members Dark Blue
A Commonwealth realm is a sovereign state that has Charles III as its monarch and head of state. All the realms are equal with and independent of the others, though one person, resident in the United Kingdom, acts as monarch of each.[1][2][3] The phrase Commonwealth realm is an informal description not used in any law.
As of 2024, there are 15 Commonwealth realms: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and the United Kingdom. All are members of the Commonwealth of Nations, an intergovernmental organisation of 56 independent member states. Charles III is also Head of the Commonwealth, a non-constitutional role.
The Commonwealth realms are sovereign states. They are united only in their voluntary connection with the institution of the monarchy,[1] the succession, and the King himself; the person of the sovereign and the Crown were said in 1936 to be "the most important and vital link" between the dominions.[9] Political scientist Peter Boyce called this grouping of countries associated in this manner "an achievement without parallel in the history of international relations or constitutional law."[10] Terms such as personal union,[18] a form of personal union,[note 5][20] and shared monarchy,[21] among others,[note 6][24] have all been advanced as definitions since the beginning of the Commonwealth itself, though there has been no agreement on which term is most accurate.[26]
Under the Balfour Declaration of 1926, dominions were proclaimed to be "equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by a common allegiance to the Crown"[31] and the monarch is the leader "equally, officially, and explicitly of separate, autonomous realms".[33] Andrew Michie wrote in 1952 that "Elizabeth II embodies in her own person many monarchies: she is Queen of Great Britain, but she is equally Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, and Ceylon … It is now possible for Elizabeth II to be, in practice as well as theory, equally Queen in all her realms."[34] Still, Boyce holds the contrary opinion that the crowns of all the non-British realms are "derivative, if not subordinate" to the crown of the United Kingdom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_realm
#20494361 at 2024-02-29 14:22:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25138: Things That Go Kek In The Night Edition
>>20494354
>The COVID-19 Vaccine Counter-Misinformation Open Fund is aimed at supporting journalistic efforts to fact-check misinformation about the COVID-19 immunization process that specifically seek to support audiences that are underserved by fact-checking or targeted by misinformation.
>The Fund will make up to USD $3,000,000 available for projects
Application Process
The application window opens on January 12th, 2021 at 6:00 PT and closes on January 31, 2021 at 23:59 PT. You will be asked to provide descriptions, detailed project plans and budget information via our online application form. You will also have to accept the Terms and Conditions.
Application Eligibility Requirements
The COVID-19 Vaccine Counter-Misinformation Open Fund is open to news organizations of every size, both for profit and nonprofit, publishing on any medium (digital, print, video, etc) that aim to produce original journalistic content. Applicants can be individual organizations or coalitions of publishers, both formal and informal.
All applicants should have a proven track record in fact-checking and debunking activities or partner with an organisation with such recognition. Evidence that third parties recognize the organization as a fact-checker will be required in the application, with membership of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) being the most prominent.
Projects must be ready to launch as soon as possible andno later than April 15, 2021.They should be fully realized within 12 months of obtaining the funding.
Eligible Regions
Applicants must be incorporated in one of the eligible countries listed below.
Eligible Geographies are (in alphabetical order):
Asia Pacific
Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Cook Islands, East Timor, Easter Island, Fiji, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Macau SAR, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam
Europe
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Middle East and Africa
Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Brazzaville), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Israel, Ivory Coast, Jordan, KSA, Kenya, Kuwait, Lesotho, Libya, Lebanon, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Palestine, Oman, Qatar, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, UAE, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe
North America
Canada, United States, United States Overseas Territories
Latin America and the Caribbean
Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, The Bahamas, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay
#20159437 at 2023-12-31 18:47:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24738: 2024 - On Course On Glideslope Edition
>>20159435
81 Israel Asia 16
82 Italy Europe 14
83 Ivory Coast Africa 18
84 Jamaica North America 16
85 Japan Asia 13
86 Jordan Asia 16
87 Kazakhstan Asia 16
88 Kenya Africa 18
89 Kiribati Oceania 15
90 Kuwait Asia Must be married
91 Kyrgyzstan Asia 16
92 Laos Asia 15
93 Latvia Europe 16
94 Lebanon Asia 18
95 Lesotho Africa 16
96 Liberia Africa 18
97 Libya Africa Must be married
98 Liechtenstein Europe 14
99 Lithuania Europe 16
100 Luxembourg Europe 16
101 Macedonia Europe 14
102 Madagascar Africa 14
103 Malawi Africa 14
104 Malaysia Asia 16
105 Maldives Asia Must be married
106 Mali Africa 18
107 Malta Europe 18
108 Marshall Islands Oceania 16
109 Mauritania Africa 16
110 Mauritius Africa 14
111 Mexico North America 17
112 Micronesia Oceania 14
113 Moldova Europe 16
114 Monaco Europe 15
115 Mongolia Asia 16
116 Montenegro Europe 14
117 Morocco Africa 15
118 Mozambique Africa 16
119 Namibia Africa 16
120 Nauru Oceania 17
121 Nepal Asia 16
122 Netherlands Europe 16
123 New Zealand Oceania 16
124 Nicaragua North America 18
125 Niger Africa 13
126 Nigeria Africa 11
127 North Korea Asia 15
128 Norway Europe 16
129 Oman Asia Must be married
130 Pakistan Asia Must be married
131 Palau Oceania 16
132 Panama North America 18
133 Papua New Guinea Oceania 16
134 Paraguay South America 14
135 Peru South America 14
136 Philippines Asia 12
137 Poland Europe 15
138 Portugal Europe 14
139 Qatar Asia Must be married
140 Republic of the Congo Africa 18
141 Romania Europe 15
142 Russian Federation Asia 16
143 Rwanda Africa 18
144 Saint Kitts and Nevis North America 16
145 Saint Lucia North America 16
146 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines North America 15
147 Samoa Oceania 16
148 San Marino Europe 14
149 Sao Tome and Principe Africa 14
150 Saudi Arabia Asia Must be married
151 Senegal Africa 16
152 Serbia Europe 14
153 Seychelles Africa 18
154 Sierra Leone Africa 18
155 Singapore Asia 16
156 Slovakia Europe 15
157 Slovenia Europe 15
158 Solomon Islands Oceania 15
159 Somalia Africa 18
160 South Africa Africa 16
161 South Korea Asia 20
162 South Sudan Africa 18
163 Spain Europe 16
164 Sri Lanka Asia 16
165 Sudan Africa Must be married
166 Suriname South America 16
167 Swaziland Africa 16
168 Sweden Europe 15
169 Switzerland Europe 16
170 Syria Asia 15
171 Tajikistan Asia 16
172 Tanzania Africa 18
173 Thailand Asia 15
174 Togo Africa 16
175 Tonga Oceania 16
176 Trinidad and Tobago North America 16
177 Tunisia Africa 18
178 Turkey Asia 18
179 Turkmenistan Asia 16
180 Tuvalu Oceania 15
181 Uganda Africa 18
182 Ukraine Europe 16
183 United Arab Emirates Asia Must be married
184 United Kingdom Europe 16
185 United States North America 16
186 Uruguay South America 15
187 Uzbekistan Asia 16
188 Vanuatu Oceania 16
189 Vatican City Europe 18
190 Venezuela South America 16
191 Vietnam Asia 18
192 Yemen Asia Must be married
193 Zambia Africa 16
194 Zimbabwe Africa 16
#18869819 at 2023-05-19 03:54:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23163: Obama Urges Biden To Eradicate Independent Media Edition
>>18869781
>>18869760
TSUNAMI THREAT FORECAST
----—
* TSUNAMI WAVES REACHING 1 TO 3 METERS ABOVE THE TIDE LEVEL ARE
POSSIBLE ALONG SOME COASTS OF
VANUATU.
* TSUNAMI WAVES REACHING 0.3 TO 1 METERS ABOVE THE TIDE LEVEL
ARE POSSIBLE FOR SOME COASTS OF
NEW CALEDONIA… FIJI… KIRIBATI… AND NEW ZEALAND.
* TSUNAMI WAVES ARE FORECAST TO BE LESS THAN 0.3 METERS ABOVE
THE TIDE LEVEL FOR THE COASTS OF
AMERICAN SAMOA… AUSTRALIA… CHUUK… COOK ISLANDS…
FRENCH POLYNESIA… GUAM… HOWLAND AND BAKER…
INDONESIA… JARVIS ISLAND… JOHNSTON ATOLL… KERMADEC
ISLANDS… KOSRAE… MARSHALL ISLANDS… NAURU… NIUE…
NORTHERN MARIANAS… PALMYRA ISLAND… PAPUA NEW GUINEA…
POHNPEI… SAMOA… SOLOMON ISLANDS… TOKELAU… TONGA…
Tuvalu… AND WALLIS AND FUTUNA.
* ACTUAL AMPLITUDES AT THE COAST MAY VARY FROM FORECAST
AMPLITUDES DUE TO UNCERTAINTIES IN THE FORECAST AND LOCAL
FEATURES. IN PARTICULAR MAXIMUM TSUNAMI AMPLITUDES ON ATOLLS
AND AT LOCATIONS WITH FRINGING OR BARRIER REEFS WILL LIKELY
BE MUCH SMALLER THAN THE FORECAST INDICATES.
* FOR OTHER AREAS COVERED BY THIS PRODUCT A FORECAST HAS NOT
YET BEEN COMPUTED. THE FORECAST WILL BE EXPANDED IF
NECESSARY IN SUBSEQUENT PRODUCTS.
https://tsunami.gov/events/PHEB/2023/05/19/23139000/3/WEPA40/WEPA40.txt
#18790930 at 2023-05-03 16:57:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23061: Dindu Nuffin - Zelensky Edition
3 May, 2023 12:06
Almost half of British Commonwealth wants to ditch monarchy - poll
A survey has indicated that Canada and Australia would vote to become republics if referendums were held
Almost half of the overseas countries in which King Charles III is head of state would vote to become republics if given the opportunity, a new poll has found.
The survey conducted by former Conservative Party deputy chairman Michael Ashcroft suggests thatsix of the 14 overseas countries within Britain's Commonwealth realm- including Canada and Australia - would prefer to ditch the monarchy.
Among Australian respondents, 42% were in favor of becoming a republic, with 35% opposing the idea. Canada saw a greater disparity, according to Ashcroft's data, with 47% pushing to be a republic and just 23% objecting.
The Bahamas, Jamaica, the Solomon Islands, and Antigua and Barbuda would alsovote to remove King Charles as head of state, the poll suggests.
The reasoning for the results appears varied. Some respondents in Caribbean countries cited past colonialism as the motivation for their answers, while elsewhere people said that they believed becoming a republic would bring tangible benefits. Canada was among four countries in which polling supported the view that the monarchy is a "racist and colonialist institution and we should have nothing to do with it."
An Australian respondent told the survey: "Britain is just like a distant memory. If anything, we're just following in the footsteps of whatever the US is doing." A Canadian citizen argued that the monarchy is "no longer real to the modern day."
A separate poll conducted by Ashcroft ahead of Saturday's coronation of King Charles found that support for the monarchy in Britain remains high, but this appears to be in stark contrast to the sentiment beyond the UK's borders.
Of the other countries within the king's realm, almost all of them had only marginal support for the monarchy. These include New Zealand, Belize, and Papua New Guinea. Only two of the 14 countries surveyed - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Tuvalu - said that they would overwhelmingly vote to remain British crown subjects.
(That's why the ministers requested a vow of fealty to the King, which has not happened in recent history if at all. It's habbening!)
https://www.rt.com/news/575705-uk-britain-charles-monarchy/
#18591525 at 2023-03-27 22:26:22 (UTC+1)
Research General #22805: Long Train of Derailments Edition
>>18591387 pb
https://unicorn144.wordpress.com/2017/11/26/pedogate-women-operatives-in-very-high-places-part-ii-a-overt-and-covert-anglo-american-network-of-crown-agents-sisters-revealed-abel-danger-mischief-makers/
maybe Jane Fonda's statement RE: killing pro-lifers- was a command to her blackmailed followers? or some-such.
Some kind of command through public channels.
Then she said ~ to paraphrase " Well I was obviously being hyperbolic - it was hyperbole, or sarcastic - it was a joke"
After looking at her background I can write "No it wasn't"
More from the Woman operatives essays.
Didn't really buy it 100% but it's a data point?
Mentions the sister of the Military Man who kept complaining about her and warning of some Jade Helm event; then he was kidnapped from his jurisdiction under weak pretense and jailed in Florida; last I heard.
Kristine Marcy?
"d; used images of pedophile coat-hanger torture and snuff films to extort Ted Turner, her third man-in-the-middle husband (m. 1991), into converting CNN into a Matrix 5 .tv propaganda machine; organized CNN's virtual news network to camouflage contract killing and genocides coordinated by Tuvalu root authorities and top officials in the British and the Canadian Privy Councils; divorced in 2001, allegedly after Ted Turner saw Dino's Hannibal brain-food film derived from pig-farm script and learned of the TOPOFF conspiracy with Kristine Marcy and Lena Trudeau for a live broadcast of al-Qaeda 911 snuff film on cnn.tv; Fonda had a principal role in The China Syndrome (1979), about a cover-up of an accident in a nuclear power plant; nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of an alcoholic murder suspect in the 1986 thriller The Morning After; Supporter of Huey Newton and the Black Panthers in the early 1970s, stating "Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood."; called the Black Panthers "our revolutionary vanguard", and said "we must support them with love, money, [Matrix 5] propaganda and risk."; leader of the feminist and radical lesbian movement since the 1970s; major patron of the VVAW with 1970 speech at Michigan State University "I would think that if you understood what Communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communists"; in North Vietnam, she was photographed seated on an anti-aircraft battery; she made ten radio broadcasts in which she denounced American political and military leaders as "war criminals"; "
"Watch the Wives"
She claims she was celibate for some years between husbands.
doubt.
CNN was frontrunner with the fake planes videos
"Watch the Wives
https://unicorn144.wordpress.com/2017/11/26/pedogate-women-operatives-in-very-high-places-part-ii-a-overt-and-covert-anglo-american-network-of-crown-agents-sisters-revealed-abel-danger-mischief-makers/
from 2017 a rundown of alleged evil females.
Supposedly a clique
"Watch the Wives"
According to this they are a clique involved with putting woman into power; blackmailing the men = and pushing communism.
#18591387 at 2023-03-27 22:02:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22804: THEY must control local police / schools for false flags to work Edition
>>18591345
CNN was front and center for 9/11 TV Fakery
Fonda and Turner broke up soon after. Or near the same time. 2001?
Jane Fonda (nee Fonda) "[Born 1937; a Vassar student who went to Paris for two years where she was allegedly recruited as a Crown Agents Sister to produce Matrix 5 tv propaganda; first phase was to become bilingual expert in sexual entrapment and extortion as in Barbarella with simulated (?) use of organ-like instrument that delivers pleasure in doses that could be lethal; daughter of Henry Fonda who began tracking JFK after WWII as prospective puppet president for Matrix 5; used images of violent group and lesbian sex to extort Roger Vadim, her first man-in-the-middle husband (m. 1965); used images of sexual torture and snuff films to extort Tom Hayden, her second man-in-the-middle husband (m. 1973), as agent-provocateur leader of Students for a Democratic Society and Weather Underground; used images of pedophile coat-hanger torture and snuff films to extort Ted Turner, her third man-in-the-middle husband (m. 1991), into converting CNN into a Matrix 5 .tv propaganda machine; organized CNN's virtual news network to camouflage contract killing and genocides coordinated by Tuvalu root authorities and top officials in the British and the Canadian Privy Councils; divorced in 2001, allegedly after Ted Turner saw Dino's Hannibal brain-food film derived from pig-farm script and learned of the TOPOFF conspiracy with Kristine Marcy and Lena Trudeau for a live broadcast of al-Qaeda 911 snuff film on cnn.tv;
#17545112 at 2022-09-19 19:30:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21509: Shall We Play A Nice Game of Chess, Queen Down King Exposed Edition
NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER HONOLULU HI
1843 UTC MON SEP 19 2022
…PTWC TSUNAMI THREAT MESSAGE…
** NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE ***
THIS MESSAGE IS ISSUED FOR INFORMATION ONLY IN SUPPORT OF THE
UNESCO/IOC PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING AND MITIGATION SYSTEM AND IS
MEANT FOR NATIONAL AUTHORITIES IN EACH COUNTRY OF THAT SYSTEM.
NATIONAL AUTHORITIES WILL DETERMINE THE APPROPRIATE LEVEL OF
ALERT FOR EACH COUNTRY AND MAY ISSUE ADDITIONAL OR MORE REFINED
INFORMATION.
** NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE ***
THE TSUNAMI FORECAST IS UPDATED IN THIS MESSAGE.
NOTE UPGRADED EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE.
PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS
------—
* MAGNITUDE 7.6
* ORIGIN TIME 1805 UTC SEP 19 2022
* COORDINATES 18.2 NORTH 103.4 WEST
* DEPTH 10 KM / 6 MILES
* LOCATION NEAR THE COAST OF MICHOACAN MEXICO
EVALUATION
--
* AN EARTHQUAKE WITH A PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE OF 7.6 OCCURRED
NEAR THE COAST OF MICHOACAN, MEXICO AT 1805 UTC ON MONDAY
SEPTEMBER 19 2022.
* BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA… HAZARDOUS TSUNAMI WAVES ARE
FORECAST FOR SOME COASTS.
TSUNAMI THREAT FORECAST…UPDATED
------—
* TSUNAMI WAVES REACHING 1 TO 3 METERS ABOVE THE TIDE LEVEL ARE
POSSIBLE ALONG SOME COASTS OF MEXICO.
* TSUNAMI WAVES ARE FORECAST TO BE LESS THAN 0.3 METERS ABOVE
THE TIDE LEVEL FOR THE COASTS OF COLOMBIA… COSTA RICA… ECUADOR… EL SALVADOR…
GUATEMALA… HONDURAS… NICARAGUA… PANAMA… AND PERU.
https://www.tsunami.gov/events/PHEB/2022/09/19/22262001/2/WEPA40/WEPA40.txt
TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 3
NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER HONOLULU HI
1907 UTC MON SEP 19 2022
…PTWC TSUNAMI THREAT MESSAGE…
** NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE ***
THIS MESSAGE IS ISSUED FOR INFORMATION ONLY IN SUPPORT OF THE
UNESCO/IOC PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING AND MITIGATION SYSTEM AND IS
MEANT FOR NATIONAL AUTHORITIES IN EACH COUNTRY OF THAT SYSTEM.
NATIONAL AUTHORITIES WILL DETERMINE THE APPROPRIATE LEVEL OF
ALERT FOR EACH COUNTRY AND MAY ISSUE ADDITIONAL OR MORE REFINED
INFORMATION.
** NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE ***
THE TSUNAMI FORECAST IS UPDATED IN THIS MESSAGE.
PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS
------—
* MAGNITUDE 7.6
* ORIGIN TIME 1805 UTC SEP 19 2022
* COORDINATES 18.2 NORTH 103.4 WEST
* DEPTH 10 KM / 6 MILES
* LOCATION NEAR THE COAST OF MICHOACAN MEXICO
EVALUATION
--
* AN EARTHQUAKE WITH A PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE OF 7.6 OCCURRED
NEAR THE COAST OF MICHOACAN, MEXICO AT 1805 UTC ON MONDAY
SEPTEMBER 19 2022.
* TSUNAMI WAVES HAVE BEEN OBSERVED.
* BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA… HAZARDOUS TSUNAMI WAVES ARE
FORECAST FOR SOME COASTS.
TSUNAMI THREAT FORECAST…UPDATED
------—
* TSUNAMI WAVES REACHING 1 TO 3 METERS ABOVE THE TIDE LEVEL ARE
POSSIBLE ALONG SOME COASTS OF MEXICO.
* TSUNAMI WAVES ARE FORECAST TO BE LESS THAN 0.3 METERS ABOVE
THE TIDE LEVEL FOR THE COASTS OF AMERICAN SAMOA… ANTARCTICA… AUSTRALIA… CHILE…
CHUUK… COLOMBIA… COOK ISLANDS… COSTA RICA…
ECUADOR… EL SALVADOR… FIJI… FRENCH POLYNESIA…
GUAM… GUATEMALA… HAWAII… HONDURAS… HOWLAND AND
BAKER… INDONESIA… JAPAN… JARVIS ISLAND… JOHNSTON
ATOLL… KERMADEC ISLANDS… KIRIBATI… KOSRAE…
MARSHALL ISLANDS… MIDWAY ISLAND… NAURU… NEW
CALEDONIA… NEW ZEALAND… NICARAGUA… NIUE… NORTHERN
MARIANAS… NORTHWESTERN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS… PALAU…
PALMYRA ISLAND… PANAMA… PAPUA NEW GUINEA… PERU…
PHILIPPINES… PITCAIRN ISLANDS… POHNPEI… RUSSIA…
SAMOA… SOLOMON ISLANDS… TAIWAN… TOKELAU… TONGA…
Tuvalu… VANUATU… WAKE ISLAND… WALLIS AND FUTUNA…
AND YAP.
https://www.tsunami.gov/events/PHEB/2022/09/19/22262001/3/WEPA40/WEPA40.txt
#16750961 at 2022-07-17 16:50:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21129: Roger, Ball Edition
July 15, 2022
Vice President Harris Announces Commitments to Strengthen U.S. Partnership with the Pacific Islands
U.S. Embassy in Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu –
…
With this foundation, the Vice President is announcing the following actions. The Biden-Harris Administration will:
Establish New U.S. Embassies in Kiribati and Tonga:
…
Progress Toward Re-establishing a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Regional Mission for the Pacific in Suva, Fiji
https://www.pacom.mil/Media/News/News-Article-View/Article/3095215/vice-president-harris-announces-commitments-to-strengthen-us-partnership-with-t/
#16725592 at 2022-07-13 14:31:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21096: EBake Edition
>>16725588
10:00 AM EDT
Closed Briefing on the Global Engagement Center
House Foreign Affairs Committee
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearings?ContentRecord_id=2F6D78DE-3458-4B21-B7EE-61B8E3A1EEE1
10:00 AM EDT
The Impact of the Supreme Court's Dobbs Decision on Abortion Rights and Access Across the United States
House Oversight and Reform Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114986
https://oversight.house.gov/legislation/hearings/the-impact-of-the-supreme-court-s-dobbs-decision-on-abortion-rights-and-access
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIhcUCh1d5M
10:00 AM EDT
Hearings to Examine Reproductive Care in a Post-Roe America, Focusing on Barriers, Challenges, and Threats to Women's Health
Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/senate-event/332850
https://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/reproductive-care-in-a-post-roe-america-barriers-challenges-and-threats-to-womens-health
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIhcUCh1d5M
10:00 AM EDT
A Legislative Hearing to Examine S. 1345, the Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Act; S. 2476, the Environmental Justice Air Quality Monitoring Act of 2021; and S. ___, the Public Health Air Quality Act
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/senate-event/332856
https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings?ID=36FFE88D-DAA5-458B-9AB7-B1BEBCCA849C
10:00 AM EDT
Hearings To Examine Certain Pending Nominations
Senate Judiciary Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/senate-event/332849
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/07/13/2022/nominations
10:00 AM EDT
Hearings to examine the nominations of Dean R. Thompson, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to Nepal, Robert F. Godec, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand, Yohannes Abraham, of Virginia, to be Representative of the United States of America to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador, Richard Lee Buangan, of California, to be Ambassador to Mongolia, and Marie C. Damour, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Fiji, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of Kiribati, the Republic of Nauru, the Kingdom of Tonga, and Tuvalu, all of the Department of State
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/senate-event/332848
https://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/nominations071322
10:00 AM EDT
Hearings To Examine Certain Pending Nominations
Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/senate-event/332854
https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2022/7/nomination-hearing
10:00 AM EDT
Full Committee Business Meeting: Reauthorization of the Women Veterans Task Force and Subcommittee Assignments
House Veterans' Affairs Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/115001
10:00 AM EDT
Full Committee Markup
House Veterans' Affairs Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114996
https://veterans.house.gov/events/hearings/07/11/2022/full-committee-markup
10:00 AM EDT
Markup: H.R. 8227, the "Speak Out Act"; H.R. 7566, the "Stop Human Trafficking in School Zones Act"; H.R. 6878, the "Protecting the Health and Wellness of Babies and Pregnant Women Act of 2022"
House Committee On The Judiciary
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/115000
https://judiciary.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=4977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfc9fz_BCBY
10:00 AM EDT
Fintech and Transparency in Small Business Lending
House Small Business Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114979
https://smallbusiness.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=4325
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajTVWynB_5E
10:00 AM EDT
A 2022 Review of the Farm Bill: Forestry
House Committee on Agriculture
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114980
https://agriculture.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=2557
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pPhdEX4tIQ
10:00 AM EDT
Nowhere to Live: Profits, Disinvestment, and the American Housing Crisis
House Ways and Means Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114982
https://waysandmeans.house.gov/legislation/hearings/nowhere-live-profits-disinvestment-and-american-housing-crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPhZuI5ctxo
10:00 AM EDT
The State of General Aviation
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114984
https://transportation.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/the-state-of-general-aviation
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#16339412 at 2022-05-25 16:56:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20670: BOOST IN TRANSIT
>>16339409
Part 2 of 2
She also highlighted Taiwan's use of smart technology in combating COVID-19, saying, "Taiwan's successful anti-pandemic efforts have been considered to be one of the best approaches in the world, having leveraged and integrated smart technologies into their National Health Insurance database to develop innovative anti-pandemic measures to enable efficient monitoring and control of domestic outbreaks."
"The WHO commits to safeguarding the rights to health, and it would not be acting in the world's best interests by continuing to exclude Taiwan. Taiwan can help, and Taiwan has been helping. Please, let Taiwan help," concluded Byron-Nisbett.
Meanwhile, Nauru Health Minister Isabella Dageago called for Taiwan to be recognized "as a full participating member of the WHA." She said Taiwan's success in dealing with the pandemic "cannot be ignored and demonstrates the need to harness inclusivity and global cooperation at this level more than ever if we are to succeed in this pandemic."
Isaia Taape, Tuvalu Minister for Health, Social Welfare and Gender, said the country values Taiwan's support in all its health developments. Belize Minister of Health Kevin Bernard reiterated its government's "firm position on Taiwan being invited to take part in all WHO activities."
Moses Jean Baptiste, Saint Lucia's Minister for Health and Wellness, told the assembly that "Taiwan continues to be an indispensable partner on the path to global post-pandemic recovery and hopes to work with the WHO and other nations worldwide." He added that Saint Lucia continues to "call on the WHO to seek appropriate methods for Taiwan's institutionalized participation in WHO meetings, mechanisms, and activities, and invite Taiwan to the WHA as an observer."
Palau Minister of Health and Human Services Gaafar J. Uherbelau thanked Taiwan for its help during the pandemic, and reiterated Palau's appeal to the WHO "for the immediate inclusion of Taiwan as an observer in the World Health Assembly and to further consider its full participation in all WHO activities" as the international community envisions "a global approach to health that is free from political and ideological infringement."
Additionally, though the pre-recorded video message from the Marshall Islands was cut short due to time constraints, Health Minister Bruce Bilimon joined other nations in calling for Taiwan's inclusion in the WHA and WHO, thereby providing an opportunity for all countries "to voice their people's needs for healthy living without disposition of injustice and discrimination."
Aside from Taiwan's diplomatic allies, the Czech Republic and Japan also spoke in support of Taiwan. Czech Representative to the United Nations Vaclav Balek said, "The principle of equity must be respected; no one can be left behind. In the fight against COVID-19, all of us have to be on board. This is the reason why the Czech Republic fully supports Taiwan to be granted observer status of the World Health Assembly."
Japan Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Goto Shigeyuki emphasized that the world should "refer to good examples of regions that successfully tackled COVID-19 in terms of public health response, such as Taiwan." He added, "We should not make any geographical vacuums created by leaving specific regions behind in addressing global health issues such as infection control."
The Military Order of Malta also mentioned Taiwan as an example of inclusive medical cooperation, saying that activities seeking to generate trust around emergency health concerns and thus promote peace must "include all sectors of society and countries without discrimination of any kind."
#16315947 at 2022-05-21 13:32:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20639: The Darkest Night is Just Before the Dawn Edition
WHO Wants To Censor Infodemic "Misinformation" With Pandemic Treaty - 132 Member States Promise To Assist
https://www.naturalblaze.com/2022/05/who-wants-to-censor-infodemic-misinformation-with-pandemic-treaty-132-member-states-promise-to-assist.html
Under the guise of "Community protection," the WHO writes, "Infodemic of COVID-19 misinformation - often combined with ineffective and inconsistent risk communication and public health messaging - eroded public trust in public health authorities and science and undermined the effectiveness of public health and social measures and the demand for countermeasures such as vaccines."
"... New techniques for infodemic management can counteract some of the corrosive effects of misinformation on public trust in science and authorities, but enduring trust and resilience must be built through effective engagement with communities before, during, and after health emergencies."
According to the WHO, national governments should receive support to "coordinate risk communication and infodemic management policies and strategies that ensure health and wellbeing at all times" to build "misinformation" resilience.
The WHO further states that public health institutes should work with "influential private companies" to communicate the risk of misinformation and that social media should "develop infodemic management and community engagement tools."
In other words, the WHO expects social media companies to continue doing what they've done throughout the pandemic: censor people and media organizations who go against the mainstream narrative.
But what's an infodemic?
According to the WHO's website, "An infodemic is too much information including false or misleading information in digital and physical environments during a disease outbreak. It causes confusion and risk-taking behaviours that can harm health."
The WHO has further condemned infodemics for supposedly fomenting "conflict, violence, human rights violations and mass atrocities." These are pretty serious assertions. Clearly, something must be done.
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To this end, 132 Member States have signed a cross-regional statement to increase "societal resistance to disinformation" caused by infodemics.
As per the statement, "... We call on everybody to immediately cease spreading misinformation and to observe UN recommendations to tackle this issue, including the United Nations Guidance Note on Addressing and Countering COVID-19 related Hate Speech (11 May 2020)."
The statement continues, saying that the Member States should change their policies to align with the United Nation's policies.
Despite the clear risk to freedom of expression posed by the WHO and UN's recommendation, they say that their efforts are based "on freedom of expression, freedom of the press and promotion of highest ethics and standards of the press, the protection of journalists and other media workers, as well as promoting information and media literacy, public trust in science, facts, independent media, state and international institutions."
The following Member States have signed the statement calling for a coordinated effort to end infodemics:
ALBANIA, ALGERIA, ANDORRA, ANGOLA, ARGENTINA, ARMENIA, AUSTRALIA, AUSTRIA, AZERBAIJAN, BANGLADESH, BARBADOS, BELARUS, BELGIUM, BHUTAN, BOLIVIA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, BULGARIA, BURKINA FASO, CANADA, CHILE, COLOMBIA, COSTA RICA, C?TE D'IVOIRE, CROATIA, CYPRUS, CZECH REPUBLIC, DENMARK, DJIBOUTI, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, ECUADOR, EGYPT, EL SALVADOR, EQUATORIAL GUINEA, ERITREA, ESTONIA, ETHIOPIA, FIJI, FINLAND, FRANCE, GAMBIA, GEORGIA, GERMANY, GREECE, GUATEMALA, GUINEA, HONDURAS, HUNGARY, ICELAND, INDIA, INDONESIA, IRAQ, IRELAND, ISRAEL, ITALY, JAPAN, JORDAN, KENYA, LATVIA, LEBANON, LESOTHO, LIECHTENSTEIN, LITHUANIA, LUXEMBOURG, MADAGASCAR, MALAYSIA, MALDIVES, MALTA, MARSHALL ISLANDS, MAURITIUS, MEXICO, MOLDOVA, MONACO, MONGOLIA, MONTENEGRO, MOROCCO, MOZAMBIQUE, MYANMAR, NAMIBIA, NEPAL, NETHERLANDS, NEW ZEALAND, NIGERIA, NORTH MACEDONIA, NORWAY, PAKISTAN, PALAU, PANAMA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, PARAGUAY, PERU, POLAND, PORTUGAL, QATAR, REPUBLIC OF KOREA, ROMANIA, RWANDA, SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS, SAINT LUCIA, SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES, SAN MARINO, SAUDI ARABIA, SENEGAL, SERBIA, SEYCHELLES, SIERRA LEONE, SLOVAKIA, SLOVENIA, SOUTH AFRICA, SOUTH SUDAN, SPAIN, SRI LANKA, SURINAME, SWEDEN, SWITZERLAND, THAILAND, TIMOR LESTE, TOGO, TONGA, TUNISIA, TURKEY, TURKMENISTAN, Tuvalu, UGANDA, UKRAINE, UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, URUGUAY, UZBEKISTAN, VENEZUELA (BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF), YEMEN, STATE OF PALESTINE, and the EUROPEAN UNION.
#16092108 at 2022-04-17 12:01:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20355: Easter Ebake Edition
Why those from Tuvalu, have national money, dolar?!?!?!?!
#16039708 at 2022-04-09 02:30:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20287: Sick Fucks Abound Edition
>>16039644
=Dubs chek'ed==
I.M.F (interternation monetary fund) and its role with N.G.O'S
https://wangohandbook.org/index.php?title=International_Monetary_Fund_%28IMF%29_and_NGOs
The red cross is a ngo
They move between borders without resistance under the guise of humanitarian relief.
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and NGOs
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an intergovernmental body that plays a key role in the global financial system through its concern with stabilizing international exchange rates and other aspects of global monetary cooperation. The IMF works to secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and facilitate development through temporary financial assistance to nations, thus easing the balance of payments.
With 186 Member States (as of July 2009), the IMF is composed of most of the Member States that are also part of the United Nations, with the notable exceptions of Taiwan, North Korea, Cuba, Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Tuvalu, and Nauru. When the IMF was created in July 1944 together with the World Bank, it originally had 45 Member States, which contributed to a pool that could be borrowed from on a short-term basis by countries with payment imbalances, helping to stabilize the global economic system. The five largest current shareholders are the United States, Japan, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom.
The supreme governing body of the IMF is the Board of Governors with the Executive Board having many of the executive powers not assumed by the Board of Governors, including the day-to-day work of the body. The International Monetary and Finance Committee and the Development Committee are two key committees.
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#15861715 at 2022-03-14 17:03:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20058: The Don Quixote Tilting At Windmills Edition
>>15861709
>>15861711
Libya 24 December 1951 Libya had been under the rule of the Ottoman Empire since the middle of the sixteenth century. Following the Italo-Turkish war of 1912, Libya became an Italian colony. With their defeat in World War II, the Italians lost control of Libya. The country came under UN administration. Control was split between France and Britain, with France administering the province Fezzan while the British administered the provinces of Cyrenaica and Tripolitania. In 1949, the UN General Assembly declared that Libya should become an independent country by 1 January 1952. On 24 December 1951, Libya declared its independence from France and Britain becoming the United Kingdom of Libya, a constitutional and hereditary monarchy under King Idris.
Malawi Nyasaland 6 July 1964
Malaya 31 August 1957 As the Federation of Malaya (Federation of Malaya Independence Act 1957). North Borneo (now Sabah), Sarawak and Singapore joined with the Federation of Malaya to form Malaysia on 16 September 1963 under the Malaysia Agreement (Malaysia Act 1963).
Singapore gained independence from Malaysia on 9 August 1965.
Maldives 26 July 1965
Malta 21 September 1964 This occurred in spite of the 1956 Maltese United Kingdom integration referendum, but in accordance with 1964 Maltese constitutional referendum.
Mauritius 12 March 1968
Myanmar 4 January 1948 Gained independence as Burma. Renamed Myanmar in 1989, but still officially known by the United Kingdom government as Burma.
Nauru 31 January 1968 Independence from the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand on 31 January 1968.
Nigeria 1 October 1960 Took in Northern Cameroons
Oman Sultanate of Muscat and Oman 20 December 1951
Pakistan British India 14 August 1947 Partition of India
Bangladesh gained independence from Pakistan on 26 March 1971.
Qatar British Qatari Protectorate 3 September 1971
Saint Lucia St Lucia, Windward Islands; UK-West Indies Associated State (WIAS) 22 February 1979
Saint Kitts and Nevis St Kitts-Nevis and Anguilla, Leeward Islands; UK-West Indies Associated State (WIAS) 19 September 1983
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines St Vincent, Windward Islands; UK-West Indies Associated State (WIAS) 27 October 1979
Seychelles 29 June 1976
Sierra Leone 27 April 1961
Solomon Islands British Solomon Islands 7 July 1978
Somaliland British Somaliland Protectorate 26 June 1960 The British Somaliland Protectorate gained independence on 26 June 1960 then united with the Trust Territory of Somalia on 1 July 1960 to form the Somali Republic, but later broke away and unilaterally declared independence, which is internationally unrecognised.
South Yemen Protectorate of South Arabia
Federation of South Arabia 30 November 1967 Merged with North Yemen to form Yemen in 1990
Sri Lanka Ceylon 4 February 1948 Gained independence as the Dominion of Ceylon. Renamed Sri Lanka in 1972.
Sudan 1 January 1956 South Sudan gained independence from Sudan on 9 July 2011.
Tanganyika 9 December 1961 Tanganyika became independent on 9 December 1961. It joined with Zanzibar on 25 April 1964 to form Tanzania.
Tonga 4 June 1970
Trinidad and Tobago 31 August 1962 Independence Day (August 31st)
Tuvalu Gilbert and Ellice Islands 1 October 1978
Uganda 9 October 1962
United Arab Emirates Trucial States 2 December 1971 National Day (United Arab Emirates)
United States Thirteen American Colonies 4 July 1776 Fourth of July. Declaration of Independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1776. Last major battle of the American Revolutionary War fought in 1781. British government recognized independence in 1783.
Liberia gained independence from the United States on 26 July 1847.
Cuba gained independence from the United States on 20 May 1902.[2]
The Philippines gained independence from the United States on 4 July 1946.
The United States has responsibilities for three freely associated states:
The Marshall Islands (from 21 October 1986)
Micronesia (from 3 November 1986)
Palau (from 1 October 1994)
The United States maintained an Occupation zone in Germany which became part of West Germany on 23 May 1949 (see #Territories which were relinquished to another sovereign state).
The United States maintained a Military Government in Korea which became the sovereign state of South Korea on 15 August 1948.
The United States led the Coalition Provisional Authority as part of the Occupation of Iraq between 2003 and 2004.
#15842339 at 2022-03-11 22:43:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20033: TRUMP Rally In GEORGIA Edition
64 is in the drops
NOVEMBER 25, 2014
64 countries have religious symbols on their national flags
A third of the world's 196 countries currently have national flags that include religious symbols, according to a new Pew Research analysis. Of the 64 countries in this category, about half have Christian symbols (48%) and about a third include Islamic religious symbols (33%), with imagery on flags from the world's two largest religious groups appearing across several regions.
Christian symbols are found on 31 national flags from Europe, Asia and the Pacific and the Americas. The United Kingdom's "Union Jack," for example, includes the crosses of St. George, St. Patrick and St. Andrew. Some Commonwealth countries continue to incorporate the Union Jack as a part of their own flags, including Fiji, Tuvalu, Australia and New Zealand. Spain, Greece, Norway and the Dominican Republic are among the other countries with Christian national symbols.
Islamic symbols are found on the flags of 21 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the Asia-Pacific region and the Middle East and North Africa. In Bahrain, the national flag features five white triangles, symbolizing the Five Pillars of Islam. Algeria, Turkey, Brunei and Uzbekistan are some of the many countries that include an Islamic star and crescent on their national flag.
Although Singapore has a crescent and stars on its flag, they do not have religious significance. The crescent moon "represents a young nation on the ascendant, and the five stars depict Singapore's ideals of democracy, peace, progress, justice and equality," according to the Singapore government.
Buddhist or Hindu religious symbols appear on five national flags; in three of those cases, the symbols apply to both religions. The Cambodian flag depicts Angkor Wat, a temple historically associated with both Hinduism and Buddhism, while in Nepal, the flag features both Buddhist and Hindu symbols to represent the two predominant religious groups in the country. And in India, the blue chakra at the center of the flag holds symbolic meaning for both Hindus and Buddhists.
Israel is the lone country with Jewish symbols on its national flag, including the Star of David and a white and blue striped background representative of a traditional Jewish prayer shawl.
Six countries have symbols associated with various other religions on their flags. The Japanese flag, for example, includes a hinomaru, or rising sun - representative of Shinto spiritual roots within the former Japanese empire. In Uruguay and Argentina, both national flags include shining golden suns believed to be representative of the Incan sun god Inti. And the Aztec god Huitzilopochtli can be seen on the Mexican flag as an eagle perched atop a cactus with a snake in its beak - a legendary image that was believed to have appeared to the Aztec people, instructing them to build the ancient city of Tenochtitlan.
Although the U.S. flag does not include any religious symbols, several states have religious imagery on their flags. For instance, the state flag of New Mexico includes a red sun with its rays extending outward, representing the spiritual history of the Zia Pueblo. Some U.S. states, including Alabama and Florida, continue to feature adaptations of the St. Andrew's cross.
Sources for this data include constituteproject.org, the CIA World Factbook and official country-specific government websites. Download the data used in this analysis here.
Correction: An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that India only had a Hindu symbol on its flag. Imagery on India's flag has symbolism for both Hindus and Buddhists.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/11/25/64-countries-have-religious-symbols-on-their-national-flags/
#15390209 at 2022-01-16 14:59:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19467: Day After Rally Sunshine Edition
The South Sea Slave Trade
Blackbirding involves the coercion of people through deception or kidnapping to work as slaves or poorly paid laborers in countries distant to their native land. The term has been most commonly applied to the large-scale taking of people indigenous to the numerous islands in the Pacific Ocean during the 19th and 20th centuries. These blackbirded people were called Kanakas or South Sea Islanders. They were taken from places such as the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Niue, Easter Island, Gilbert Islands, Tuvalu, the Cook Islands and the islands of the Bismarck Archipelago amongst others.
New Zealand and the Pacific slave trade
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/201825485/new-zealand-and-the-pacific-slave-trade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbirding
"[But] this was all destroyed in the first week of June 1863 when a man named Thomas McGrath brought a ship up from New Zealand with a mixed Tasmanian/New Zealand crew."
McGrath had had some previous successes as a whaler, although he had wrecked several boats, and had decided that taking slaves would be more profitable than whaling - which was in decline because of over-exploitation.
About 150 'Atan men, women and children had swum out to greet the ship, and they had been invited below deck to either view merchandise for trading, or to share a meal - the accounts vary.
"And they don't get back on the deck. He battens down the hatches and the ship sails away," Dr Hamilton says.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/201825485/new-zealand-and-the-pacific-slave-trade
#15088021 at 2021-11-27 12:49:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19087: E-Bake (n) Edition
UPDATED: NOVEMBER 25TH 2021
The spread of the coronavirus took us all by surprise, and the speed at which it has spread all over the world is alarming. So much so, that it is almost hard to believe that some countries still have no reported cases of the Coronavirus/COVID-19.
Well, there are in fact countries without coronavirus!
The UN officially recognises 193 countries.
As of NOVEMBER 25 2021, only 4 countries have not confirmed any cases of COVID-19. Many of these countries without COVID-19 are Pacific Island countries in Oceania.
1. North Korea 🇰🇵
2. Turkmenistan 🇹🇲
3. Tuvalu 🇹🇻
4. Nauru 🇳🇷
https://koryogroup.com/blog/are-there-countries-without-coronavirus
#14994982 at 2021-11-14 05:27:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18970: Trump tonight “Murkowski must go “almost” nobody worst” Edition
False Imagery & Foggy Data Hallmarks of COP26
Mainstream media is infamous for its exaggeration of everyday events. When it comes to the issue of climate change, it rarely misses an opportunity to promote fear. True to form, during the ongoing COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, media promoted incorrect information spewed by politicians and famous personalities.
Special attention was drawn to the assertion that rising sea levels are threatening island nations by none other than Barack Obama, who incongruously has purchased a multi-million-dollar ocean front property on the New England coast.
Catching the attention of millions was the image of a Tuvalu minister standing in knee-high sea water. But there is a problem with this: Most islands in the South Pacific nation of Tuvalu have gained surface area and are in no danger of being inundated.
Despite sea-level rise that has been underway since the end of the last ice age, Tuvalu's land area has increased recently by 2.9 percent. A peer-reviewed research paper which studied four decades of shoreline change in all 101 islands in the Tuvalu atolls categorically proves this.
The paper notes that "...change is analyzed over the past four decades, a period when local sea level has risen at twice the global average (~3.90???0.4?mm.yr?1). Results highlight a net increase in land area in Tuvalu of 73.5?hectares (2.9%) despite sea-level rise and land area increase in eight of nine atolls."
The case of Tuvalu is not unique. Various island nations have gained landmass in recent decades, including Maldives which increased by 37 square kilometers since 2000.
The climate doomsday machine has been using this image-based propaganda for a while now. National Geographic circulated an image of a starving polar bear and claimed that the bear's condition was a direct result of man-made climate change.
However, polar bear populations are relatively healthy and have increased in recent decades. When exposed, the famous media channel issued a statement saying that the reason for the dismal condition of the bear is unknown and that it had exaggerated the climate impact.
https://cnsnews.com/commentary/vijay-jayaraj/false-imagery-and-foggy-data-hallmarks-cop26
#14993675 at 2021-11-14 01:24:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18968: Comfy is as Comfy does Edition
>>14993227
Oh. This is on that one island chain (which is mostly sand in a coral reef) which they say is sinking.
It's fucking sinking because it's made of sand.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tuvalu/@-2.0964428,153.3128729,4348675m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x6fc19cb959b1a04d:0x8f6754680707122e!8m2!3d-7.109535!4d177.64933
#14734330 at 2021-10-06 19:47:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18638: TY Bakers, Note Takers, Memers, Diggers Edition
Report: Human Trafficking is World's No 1 Criminal Economy
People are the most traded commodity in the world of organized crime, but whatever the criminals choose to make profit from, in most cases they have the blessing of state actors, a Swiss-based civil-society organization said in its first Global Organized Crime Index, which attempts to quantify criminal activity across the 193 U.N. member states.
"The results, which draw from a comprehensive dataset informed by experts worldwide, paint a worrying picture of the reach, scale and impact of organized crime," the The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) report said.
"It is a sobering thought, for instance, that nearly 80% of the world's population today live in countries with high levels of criminality," it added.
The first index of this kind the organization released, ranked the Democratic Republic of the Congo highest in the world for it's rates of criminality, followed closely by Colombia, Myanmar and Mexico. The least crime ridden societies were the Oceanic islands of Tuvalu and Nauru.
On average, organized criminal activity does not happen in the shadows but with the knowledge and approval of state actors, the report found.
"State officials and clientelist networks who hold influence over state authorities are now the most dominant brokers of organized crime, and not cartel leaders or mafia bosses, as one might be forgiven for thinking," it said.
A nation's vulnerability to corruption directly influences its resiliency to organized crime, it concluded.
While bribery and corruption are widespread, GI-TOC found that "the exploitation of people, in the form of human trafficking, has become the most pervasive criminal economy in the world," and the largest proportion of its victims are women and girls.
This was "alarming" and serves "as a dark reminder of the dehumanizing impact of organized crime," the organization said.
It added that human trafficking is closely followed by the cannabis trade, arms trafficking and illicit wildlife trades.
To address this global scourge, one of the most important things is to first acknowledge its existence, then work on building up resilience measures, including democratic institutions, according to GI-TOC.
With such a high percentage of the world's population living in countries plagued with high levels of criminality, "it is irrefutable that the threat posed by organized crime is among the world's most pressing security issues," the organization warned.
However, "good governance, characterized as states that are participatory, accountable, effective and founded on the rule of law, sets the foundation on which to build and strengthen institutional and non-state frameworks to better society and counter organized crime," it concluded.
https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/15287-report-human-trafficking-is-world-s-no-1-criminal-economy
https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/15287-report-human-trafficking-is-world-s-no-1-criminal-economy
https://ocindex.net/
https://ocindex.net/assets/downloads/global-ocindex-report.pdf
#14008251 at 2021-06-28 21:14:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17728: God Wins Edition
Hudson Institute
A Conversation with Ambassador Joseph Cella
Join Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Miles Yu and former U.S. Ambassador of Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu, Joseph Cella, to discuss American diplomacy and the great power competition with China in the South Pacific. This region is fast becoming a new frontier of a global fight against the autocratic model of governance that the Chinese Communist Party is endeavoring to spread worldwide.
These experts will also discuss: the strategic value of the South Pacific islands to both China and the U.S.; pandemic diplomacy; the Five Eyes alliance in the Southern Hemisphere; Taiwan's international space in the region; and the People's Republic of China's ambition and strategic moves in the Pacific islands. Please join Hudson Institute for this important discussion.
Jun 1, 2021 56:43
https://youtu.be/nhcT-pRvO-Q
#13750187 at 2021-05-25 15:05:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17408: Ebake For Victory
>>13750181
was thinking maybe one of these…
Samoa, Tonga, Kiribati, Palau, Micronesia, Tuvalu, Nauru, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands
#13632741 at 2021-05-11 03:12:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17263: I REALLY DON'T CARE. DO YOU? Edition
>>13632558
Conspiracy?
Top 10 Richest Freemasons in the World 2020
Freemasons are considered to be controlling the whole world's economy and holding the maximum powers in their hands according to the recent facts and figures. They rule the banks, all financial sectors, help each other and make sure all the power and wealth remain with them. Therefore, today, we have a list of the richest freemasons in the world in 2020.
Let's have a look at who those big names are!
1) Bill Gates
Net Worth: $85.7 Billion
Born: 28th October 1955
Age: 60 years
Occupation: Investor, Author, Philanthropist
Bill Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the computer revolution and one of the world's wealthiest people. He is an American investor, author, business magnate and a philanthropist. While at Microsoft (his co-founded company), he served the roles of a chairman, CEO and chief software architect.
2) Warren Buffett
Net Worth: $78.7 Billion
Born: 30th August 1930
Age: 86 years
Occupation: Investor, Philanthropist
Warren Buffet is the second wealthiest person of United States and is considered to be one of the most successful investors. He is an investor, philanthropist, business magnate and one of the richest freemason.
3) Evelyn Robert de Rothschild
Net Worth: $20 Billion
Born: 29th August 1931
Age: 84 years
Occupation: Banker, Financier
Sir Evelyn Robert Adrian de Rothschild is a famous member of Rothschild family and a famous British financier. Being born in great wealth, he was known to be the most eligible bachelors of England who spent most of his youth in socializing, travelling, playing piano and enjoying life to the fullest. Later, when he turned 26, he decided to be a part of his family business.
4) David René de Rothschild
Net Worth: $10 Billion
Born: 15th December 1942
Age: 73 years
Occupation: Financier
Baron David René James de Rothschild is a French banker, richest and famous freemason and a member of the French branch of the Rothschild family. He is a currently a chairman of various organizations such as Rothschild Continuation Holdings, a Swiss holding company and the Governing Board of the World Jewish Congress which represents Jewish communities in around 100 countries.
5) Jacob Rothschild
Net Worth: $5 Billion
Born: 29 April 1936
Age: 80 years
Occupation: Banker
Jacob Rothschild (whose full name is Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild) is the eldest son of Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild. He is an eminent part of the Rothschild banking family and also Honorary President of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research. He is one of the richest freemason who is also an investment banker.
6) David Rockefeller
Net Worth: $3.3 Billion
Born: 12th June 1915
Age: 101 years
Occupation: Banker, Statesman
David Rockefeller is the oldest living member of the Rockefeller family, one of the richest freemason and the only surviving grandchild of John D. Rockefeller and Laura Spelman Rockefeller. He is a former American banker who was a chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation.
7) David Rockefeller Jr.
Net Worth: $3.1 Billion
Born: 24th July 1941
Age: 75 years
Occupation: Philanthropist, Sailor
David Rockefeller Jr. is a leading fourth generation member of the eminent Rockefeller family who is serving on some very important family institutions. He is an American philanthropist, sailor and participates very actively in non-profit and environmental areas.
8) Nathaniel Philip Rothschild
Net Worth: $1 Billion
Born: 2nd July 1971
Age: 45 years
Occupation: Financier
Nathaniel Philip Victor James "Nat" Rothschild is a British born member of the very famous Rothschild family. He is also known to be one of the richest freemason. He is a financier and a chairman of JNR limited.
9) Queen Elizabeth II
Net Worth: $500 million
Born: 12th April 1926
Age: 90 years
Occupation: Queen of United Kingdom
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary (more commonly known as Elizabeth II) has been ruling United Kingdom since 6th February 1952. She is also the Head of Commonwealth and Queen of the following countries: Jamaica, Barbados, Grenada, the Bahamas, Papua New Guinea, Saint Lucia, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis.
10) George H. W. Bush
Net Worth: $25 Million
Born: 12th June 1924
Age: 92 years
Occupation: Politician
SEM - George H. W. Bush richest freemasons
George Herbert Walker Bush (more commonly known as George Bush) is an American politician who has worked as a congressman, ambassador and a Director of Central Intelligence. He has served as the President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 and also as the 43rd Vice President of the United States. He is also considered to be one of the richest freemasons.
https://www.smartearningmethods.com/richest-freemasons-world-2017/
#13107497 at 2021-03-05 07:58:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16682: The 'Ghosts of Shadilay!' Edition
>>13107475
Tuvalu, Galapagos, Washington, and MA plots are more like what it should look like…you cannot even make out the actual events….it's HIGHLY unusual for the plots to be ALL black so long after the main event…then there's the troublesome Wyoming plot. NOTHING? Hopefully it's malfunctioning. Otherwise there's a block keeping the energy from transferring through there….which means IF that plot is not malfunctioning….Yellowstone might be "in the way".See how the events are clearly seen? Hell the other plots look like some kid went at them with a black crayon…all day.
#12997550 at 2021-02-19 10:19:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16555: The 'All The Liars Are On The Hypocrisy Train for Real' Edition
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#12992634 at 2021-02-18 23:58:53 (UTC+1)
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#11136059 at 2020-10-18 15:24:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14241:They Have No Power Unless You Give It To Them Edition
>>11135988
Is that who is carrying Prince William and Princess Kate in Tuvalu?
https://hrhduchesskate.blogspot.com/2012/09/william-and-kate-carried-in-multi.html
#11122144 at 2020-10-17 19:57:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14224: Biden is a National Security Threat! Edition
>>11122079
There are 195 countries in the world, including 193 United Nations members and 2 observing states. These countries have their unique names which are symbolic to their respective citizens. Of these countries, only 32 country names have 6 letters in them.
6 Letter Countries
Angola
Angola is an independent state situated on the southern parts of Africa. It is the twenty-third biggest state on earth which occupies an area of about 481,400 sq miles. Angola is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Namibia, Zambia, and the DRC (the Democratic Republic of the Congo). The Portuguese established their power in the country from the fifteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Angola gained their independence on November 11, 1975. It is split into eight provinces with Luanda being its capital city. Angola has a population of over 18,498,000.
Belize
Belize is a Central American state that occupies an area of about 8,867 sq miles. The Caribbean Sea surrounds it, Peten and Izabal departments in Guatemala, and Quintana Roo (Mexico). Belize changed their name from British Honduras in 1973. Belize was colonized by the British, while its neighbors were Spanish colonies; therefore, many people can converse in Spanish even though their official language is English.
Bhutan
Bhutan is a small South Asian state in the Himalaya Mountains. The country is surrounded by Tibet to the north and the Republic of China to the south. Sikkim (India) separates Nepal and Bhutan. Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyel founded the country in 1644. Bhutan is a landlocked state which has no air force or navy. The state occupies an area of about 14,824 sq miles and has a population of about 708,427 people. Over 97% of the locals are Buddhists.
Brazil
Brazil is the fifth biggest state in the world and South America and occupies an area of about 3,287,612 sq miles. The country was named after a tree known as Brazilwood which once thrived on the Brazilian coast. Brazil became a republic in 1889. It's the only South American state that speaks Portuguese. It has the biggest rainforest on earth known as the Amazon Rainforest which occupies about 40% of the state's land.
Brunei
Brunei is a landlocked state in Southeast Asia. Brunei is surrounded by Malaysia, and it occupies an area of about 2,226 sq miles. Brunei has a population of approximately 401,890 individuals. Islam is the main religion of the state. The indigenous dialect of the country is Malay while English is their second language. Bandar Seri Begawan is the capital city of Brunei.
How Do Countries Get Their Names?
Most countries are named after a person who in one way or another played a crucial role in their history. For example, China is named after Emperor Qin, Bolivia after Simon Bolivar and Colombia after Christopher Columbus. Other nations get their name from an ancient group of people, and this includes countries like Italy named after Vitali tribe, and France after the Franks. Some states like Algeria were named after its capital city Algiers. Countries like Russia and Norway are named after legendary figures.
6 Letter Countries
?6 Letter Countries
Angola
Belize
Bhutan
Brazil
Brunei
Canada
Cyprus
France
Gambia
Greece
Guinea
Guyana
Israel
Jordan
Kosovo
Kuwait
Latvia
Malawi
Mexico
Monaco
Norway
Panama
Poland
Russia
Rwanda
Serbia
Sweden
Taiwan
Turkey
Tuvalu
Uganda
Zambia
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/6-letter-countries.html
#10484801 at 2020-08-31 18:33:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13418: Kayleigh Presser: Democraps KEK Edition
>>10484708
My opinion is this was motive, not sure about Nepal pedo connection
Richard Morris (diplomat) He was due to become the next British High Commissioner to Fiji in July 2020.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Morris_(diplomat)
High Commissioners to the Republic of Fiji
2016-present: Melanie Hopkins, also to Kiribati, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu
#9682584 at 2020-06-20 16:30:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12393: POTUS Made Juneteenth Famous ~ Echo From the Center of Universe Edition
>>9682484
A visible reminder that Tuvalu is still under the "protection" of the Crown.
#9682484 at 2020-06-20 16:18:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12393: POTUS Made Juneteenth Famous ~ Echo From the Center of Universe Edition
>>9682132
>Prince William was carried on an elevated chair in Tuvalu.
Symbolism for what?
Satan don't take a dump, son, without a plan.
#9682132 at 2020-06-20 15:39:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12393: POTUS Made Juneteenth Famous ~ Echo From the Center of Universe Edition
>>9682024
Prince William was carried on an elevated chair in Tuvalu.
https://www.popsugar.com/celebrity/photo-gallery/25015522/image/25015781/Prince-William-carried-elevated-chair-Tuvalu
#9243865 at 2020-05-19 22:11:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11831: It's ALL ABOUT the MISSION! Edition
Referring to Obama as the KING in Chess in the recent Q drop.?
Double meaning perhaps?
Do you think maybe Obama is actually a real bloodline KING of some other country and we never knew it?
Fuck, that would be jawdropping especially when the masses find, exposed thoroughly, he is deTHRONED (put to death).
WE WERE ALL DUPED ROYALLY from WITHIN OUR OWN COUNTRY?
https://www.infoplease.com/world/political-statistics/kingdoms-and-monarchs-world
Current world (which my be a factor? Non - current kingdoms/monarchs? could be a clue as well?)
Kingdoms and Monarchs of the World
Here is a list of all the monarchies in the world, listed by country with type of monarchy. See also: Current World Leaders
Country Monarch Type of monarchy
Bahrain King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa Constitutional
Belgium King Philippe (2013) Constitutional
Bhutan Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchukin Constitutional
Brunei Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Constitutional
Cambodia King Norodom Sihamoni Constitutional
Denmark Queen Margrethe II Constitutional
Japan Emperor Akihito Constitutional
Jordan King Abdullah II Constitutional
Kuwait Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (2006) Constitutional
Lesotho King Letsie III Constitutional
Liechtenstein Prince Hans Adam II Constitutional
Luxembourg Grand Duke Henri Constitutional
Malaysia Almu'tasimu Billahi Muhibbuddin Tuanku Alhaj Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah Constitutional
Monaco Prince Albert II Constitutional
Morocco King Muhammad VI Constitutional
Netherlands King Willem-Alexander Constitutional
Norway King Harald V Constitutional
Oman Sultan Qabus ibn Sa'id Absolute
Qatar Emir Sheik Tamim ibn Hamad Al Thani Constitutional
Samoa Tuiatua Tupua Tamasese Efi Constitutional
Saudi Arabia King Salman Absolute
Spain Felipe VI Parliamentary
Swaziland King Mswati III Absolute
Sweden King Carl XVI Gustaf Constitutional
Thailand Prem Tinsulanonda, regent Constitutional
Tonga King Tupou VI Constitutional
United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth II1 Constitutional2
1. Queen Elizabeth II is also the Sovereign of 15 countries in the Commonwealth of Nations: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu.
2. Also parliamentary democracy.
https://www.infoplease.com/world/political-statistics/kingdoms-and-monarchs-world
See also World Rulers.
10 countries where royalty still rules
From a billionaire sultan and a movie star's son to a polygamist and the pope, meet the monarchs who still wield considerable power.
https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/politics/stories/10-countries-where-royalty-still-rules
#9157645 at 2020-05-13 20:21:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11721: [They] Can Knock Us Down, But Not Out! Edition
WHO Says Its Director-General Has No Mandate To Include Taiwan At Assembly
On Monday, the World Health Organization's leading attorney stated that WHO's director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has "no mandate" to invite Taiwan to participate in its World Health Assembly (WHA) next week. WHO principal legal officer Steven Solomon said member states have to make the decision, and their opinions were "divergent."
The Hill reported that Solomon stated at a briefing with reporters, "To put it crisply, director-generals only extend invitations when it's clear that member states support doing so, that director-generals have a mandate, a basis to do so. Today however, the situation is not the same. Instead of clear support there are divergent views among member states and no basis there for - no mandate for the DG to extend an invitation."
Solomon acknowledged a proposal had been made "to the assembly itself to make a decision on an invitation ... That is procedurally how it is supposed to work under the Constitution. All 194 Member States can consider the issue collectively, in accordance with the rules of procedure. Success depends on political will and political engagement, which underscores the point that this is a political issue that is properly in the hands of Member States," Health Policy Watch reported.
Yahoo News reported, "China berated New Zealand on Monday for its support for Taiwan's participation at the WHO, saying the country should 'stop making wrong statements' on the issue to avoid damaging bilateral ties."
On May 6, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Taiwan should be allowed to participate at the WHA, adding that Ghebreyesus had the power to invite them. He asserted, "I also call upon WHO Director-General Tedros to invite Taiwan to observe this month's WHA, as he has the power to do, and as his predecessors have done on multiple occasions."
"On the same day, a proposal for a vote on the issue by member states at the upcoming Assembly was submitted to WHO by the Central American country of Belize. A swelling list of other sponsors have now formally added their names to the call, including the central American countries of Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and Paraguay; the Caribbean islands of Haiti, St. Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis; Eswatini in southern Africa; and the Pacific small island states of The Marshall Islands, Palau, Republic of Nauru, and Tuvalu," Health Policy Watch noted.
http://www.cuzzblue.com/2020/05/china-wins-again-who-says-its-director.html
#8998291 at 2020-05-02 12:29:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11517: OG Graveyard Edition
>>8998278
KCMG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George
1 Zanzibar Sayyid Sir Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar GCMG Sultan of Zanzibar 1963
2 The Duke of Kent KG GCMG GCVO Royal family 1967
3 Belize Dame Elmira Minita Gordon GCMG GCVO Governor General of Belize 1984
4 United Kingdom Sir Antony Acland KG GCMG GCVO British diplomat 1986
5 United Kingdom Sir Crispin Tickell GCMG KCVO British diplomat 1989
6 Guyana Sir Shridath Ramphal GCMG AC ONZ OE OM OCC QC Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations 1990
7 Papua New Guinea Sir Michael Somare GCL GCMG CH CF KStJ SSI KSG PC Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea 1990
8 New Zealand Dame Catherine Tizard GCMG GCVO DBE QSO ONZ Governor General of New Zealand 1990
9 United Kingdom The Lord Wilson of Tillyorn KT GCMG Governor of Hong Kong 1991
10 Papua New Guinea Sir Wiwa Korowi GCMG Governor General of Papua New Guinea 1992
11 Antigua and Barbuda Sir James Carlisle GCMG Governor General of Antigua and Barbuda 1993
12 United Kingdom Sir Rodric Braithwaite GCMG British diplomat 1994
13 Papua New Guinea Sir Julius Chan GCL GCMG KBE Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea 1994
14 Belize Sir Colville Young GCMG MBE Governor General of Belize 1994
15 United Kingdom The Lord Hannay of Chiswick GCMG CH British diplomat 1995
16 The Bahamas Sir Orville Turnquest GCMG QC Governor General of the Bahamas 1995
17 New Zealand Sir Michael Hardie Boys GNZM GCMG QSO Governor General of New Zealand 1996
18 United Kingdom Sir Christopher Mallaby GCMG GCVO British diplomat 1996
19 Tuvalu Sir Tulaga Manuella GCMG Governor General of Tuvalu 1996
20 Grenada Sir Daniel Williams GCMG Governor General of Grenada 1996
21 United Kingdom Sir John Coles GCMG British diplomat 1997
22 Papua New Guinea Sir Silas Atopare GCL GCMG Governor General of Papua New Guinea 1998
23 Solomon Islands Sir John Lapli GCMG Governor General of the Solomon Islands 1999
24 Saint Lucia Dame Pearlette Louisy GCMG Governor General of Saint Lucia 1999
25 United Kingdom Sir Andrew Wood GCMG British diplomat 2001
26 United Kingdom Sir John Goulden GCMG British diplomat 2001
27 United Kingdom The Lord Kerr of Kinlochard GCMG British diplomat 2001
28 Tuvalu Sir Tomasi Puapua GCMG KBE PC Governor General of Tuvalu 2002
29 United Kingdom Sir David Wright GCMG LVO British diplomat 2002
30 United Kingdom Sir Jeremy Greenstock GCMG British diplomat 2003
31 United Kingdom Sir Rob Young GCMG British diplomat 2003
32 United Kingdom The Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KT GCMG PC Secretary General of NATO 2004
33 United Kingdom Sir Stephen Wall GCMG LVO British diplomat 2004
34 Papua New Guinea Sir Paulias Matane GCL GCMG OBE Governor General of Papua New Guinea 2005
35 Solomon Islands Sir Nathaniel Waena GCMG CSI KStJ Governor General of Solomon Islands 2005
36 United Kingdom The Lord Jay of Ewelme GCMG British diplomat 2006
37 United Kingdom Sir Emyr Jones Parry GCMG British diplomat 2007
38 Jamaica Sir Kenneth O. Hall GCMG OJ Governor General of Jamaica 2007
39 Antigua and Barbuda Dame Louise Lake-Tack GCMG Governor General of Antigua and Barbuda 2007
40 United Kingdom Sir David Manning GCMG KCVO British diplomat 2008
41 Grenada Sir Carlyle Glean GCMG Governor General of Grenada 2008
42 Jamaica Sir Patrick Allen ON GCMG CD Governor General of Jamaica 2009
43 Solomon Islands Sir Frank Kabui GCMG OBE CSI Governor General of Solomon Islands 2009
44 The Bahamas Sir Arthur Foulkes GCMG Governor General of the Bahamas 2010
45 Tuvalu Sir Iakoba Italeli GCMG Governor General of Tuvalu 2010
46 United Kingdom The Lord Ricketts GCMG GCVO British diplomat 2011
47 United Kingdom Sir Nigel Sheinwald GCMG British diplomat 2011
48 Barbados Sir Elliott Belgrave GCMG QC Governor General of Barbados 2012
49 Grenada Dame Cécile La Grenade GCMG OBE Governor General of Grenada 2013
50 Saint Kitts and Nevis Sir Edmund Lawrence GCMG OBE Governor General of Saint Kitts and Nevis 2013
#8919304 at 2020-04-25 16:24:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11415: Thank You Muh Collectuhs! Edition
Why has Amazon had outbreaks at 6 different fulfillment centers while UPS, DHL, FEDEX have had none?
Why are there no Covid-19 cases in countries Amazon doesn't deliver to?
North Korea
Turkmenistan
Tajikistan
Yemen
South Sudan
Botswana
Lesotho
Burundi
Malawi
Sierra Leone
Comoros
Sao Tome
Principe
Cook Islands
Nauru
Palau
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
https://www amazon com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201910800
https://www newsweek com/these-countries-still-no-coronavirus-cases-1494738
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#8911990 at 2020-04-24 22:15:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11407: Covid Won Edition
North Korea
Turkmenistan
Tajikistan
Yemen
South Sudan
Botswana
Lesotho
Burundi
Malawi
Sierra Leone
Comoros
Sao Tome
Principe
Cook Islands
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Nauru
Palau
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
https://www.newsweek.com/these-countries-still-no-coronavirus-cases-1494738
With the exception of Tajikistan and Principe, all are WHO members.
https://www.who.int/choice/demography/by_country/en/
Less than half are HIPC (highly Indebted Poor Countries. https://www.imf.org/en/About/Factsheets/Sheets/2016/08/01/16/11/Debt-Relief-Under-the-Heavily-Indebted-Poor-Countries-Initiative
Only 2 are serviced by Amazon.
https://www amazon com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201910800
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What else do we look at?
#8708440 at 2020-04-07 00:49:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11150: Freddy has coronavirus (allegedly) Edition
Danielfaggot is a national treasure.
That nation being Tuvalu.
The air tastes like hotdog water.
#7897591 at 2020-01-24 10:15:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10106: Late Nite Corn Pop Keks Edition
https://tibet.net/climate-refugees-cant-be-returned-home-says-landmark-un-human-rights-ruling/
Climate refugees can't be returned home, says landmark UN human rights ruling
It is unlawful for governments to return people to countries where their lives might be threatened by the climate crisis, a landmark ruling by the United Nations human rights committee has found.
The judgment - which is the first of its kind - represents a legal "tipping point" and a moment that "opens the doorway" to future protection claims for people whose lives and wellbeing have been threatened due to global heating, experts say.
Tens of millions of people are expected to be displaced by global heating in the next decade.
Waiting for the tide to turn: Kiribati's fight for survival
The judgment relates to the case of Ioane Teitiota, a man from the Pacific nation of Kiribati, which is considered one of the countries most threatened by rising sea levels. He applied for protection in New Zealand in 2013, claiming his and his family's lives were at risk.
The committee heard evidence of overcrowding on the island of South Tarawa, where Teitiota lived, saying that the population there had increased from 1,641 in 1947 to 50,000 in 2010 due to sea level rising leading to other islands becoming uninhabitable, which had led to violence and social tensions.
He also spoke of the lack of fresh water and difficulty growing crops due to salinity of the water table causing serious health issues for his family. He said that as Kiribati was predicted to be uninhabitable in 10 to 15 years, his life was endangered by remaining there.
The New Zealand courts rejected Teitiota's claim for protection. The UN human rights committee upheld New Zealand's decision on the grounds that while "sea level rise is likely to render the republic of Kiribati uninhabitable ... the timeframe of 10 to 15 years, as suggested by [Teitiota], could allow for intervening acts by the republic of Kiribati, with the assistance of the international community, to take affirmative measures to protect and, where necessary, relocate its population".
However experts say the committee's ruling opens the way for other claims based on the threat to life posed by the climate crisis. The committee ruled that "the effects of climate change in receiving states may expose individuals to a violation of their rights ... thereby triggering the non-refoulement obligations of sending states".
"On a personal level for Ioane and his family it is bad news, because obviously it's decided that his claim that his right to life was threatened in Kiribati wasn't strong enough," said Kate Schuetze, Pacific researcher for Amnesty International. "But they said it wasn't strong enough based on his personal circumstances and the evidence they put before the court and then they made some very strong statements clarifying the roles and responsibilities of states to say ... there would be a trigger of international responsibility for other governments not to return people to places where their life is at risk because of climate-induced changes."
While the judgment is not formally binding on countries, it points to legal obligations that countries have under international law.
"What's really important here, and why it's quite a landmark case, is that the committee recognised that without robust action on climate at some point in the future it could well be that governments will, under international human rights law, be prohibited from sending people to places where their life is at risk or where they would face inhuman or degrading treatment," said Prof Jane McAdam, director of the Kaldor centre for international refugee law at the University of New South Wales.
"Even though in this particular case there was no violation found, it effectively put governments on notice.
"There have been cases brought in Australia and New Zealand since the mid-1990s about environmental harm and climate change and to date they've all been unsuccessful ... But now we've got a very clear, legal authoritative statement now that it's almost like: watch this space."
Schuetze said there were roughly a dozen cases in the New Zealand court system similar to Teitiota's, with people, mostly from Tuvalu and Kiribati, claiming the impacts of the climate crisis affected their right to life.
"The Pacific Islands will be the canary in the coalmines for climate-induced migrants," said Schuetze.
"The message in this case is clear: Pacific Island states don't need to be underwater before triggering those human rights obligations ... I think we will see those cases start to emerge."
Sure feels like precedent setting to me
#7584507 at 2019-12-22 00:04:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9702: Comfy before the Storm! Edition
>>7584480
Santa's elf: Tuvalu?
#6454780 at 2019-05-09 16:13:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8254: I Love the Smell of Self-Deportation in the Morning Edition
>>6454770
>>6454683 (lb)
>>6454576 (lb)
>The current head of the house is monarch of sixteen sovereign states. These are the United Kingdom (where they are based), Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. As well as these separate monarchies, there are also three Crown dependencies, fourteen British Overseas Territories and two associated states of New Zealand.
>The Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, is an anglophone intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
>UK
>AUS
>NZ
>CAN
Literally all of FVEY except the USA
HouseHold = House of Windsor on Hold?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Windsor
fucked that up, kek
#6454770 at 2019-05-09 16:11:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8254: I Love the Smell of Self-Deportation in the Morning Edition
>>6454683 (lb)
>>6454576 (lb)
>The current head of the house is monarch of sixteen sovereign states. These are the United Kingdom (where they are based), Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. As well as these separate monarchies, there are also three Crown dependencies, fourteen British Overseas Territories and two associated states of New Zealand.
>
Five Eyes
UKUSA Map.svg
Official languages English (de facto)
Type Intelligence alliance
Contributors Australia
Canada
New Zealand
United Kingdom
United States
Establishment
- Atlantic Charter
14 August 1941
- BRUSA Agreement
17 May 1943
The Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, is an anglophone intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Five Eyes
UKUSA Map.svg
Official languages English (de facto)
Type Intelligence alliance
Contributors Australia
Canada
New Zealand
United Kingdom
United States
Establishment
- Atlantic Charter
14 August 1941
- BRUSA Agreement
17 May 1943
The Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, is an anglophone intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
>UK
>AUS
>NZ
>CAN
Literally all of FVEY except the USA
HouseHold = House of Windsor on Hold?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Windsor
#4974019 at 2019-01-31 08:09:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6350: Bring The Thunder Edition
Blast from the past, 2015…
New Zealand's electronic eavesdropping agency is spying on its neighbors and sharing communications it intercepts in bulk with the National Security Agency through a controversial Internet mass surveillance system, according to newly revealed secret documents.
Government Communications Security Bureau, New Zealand's equivalent of the NSA, has been sweeping up the data from across the Asia-Pacific region, targeting island nations such as Tuvalu, Nauru, Kiribati, Samoa, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tonga and France's overseas territories New Caledonia and French Polynesia. Each of these small nations and territories maintains friendly relations with New Zealand.
The surveillance, reported Wednesday by the New Zealand Herald in collaboration with The Intercept, is being carried out by GCSB from an intelligence base in New Zealand's Waihopai Valley (pictured above). Intercepted data collected at the Waihopai site is being shared through an NSA surveillance system called XKEYSCORE, which is used to analyze vast amounts of emails, internet browsing sessions and online chats that are intercepted from some 150 different locations worldwide.
The documents on the spying, obtained by The Intercept from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, shine a light on New Zealand's role in the so-called Five Eyes, a surveillance alliance……..
http://archive.is/zYRP2
https://theintercept.com/2015/03/04/new-zealand-gcsb-surveillance-waihopai-xkeyscore/
2015
#4793515 at 2019-01-17 19:30:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6117: Opportunistic Pneumonia Knocks Edition
>>4793261
Brian J. Bulatao, of Texas, to be an Under Secretary of State (Management), vice Patrick Francis Kennedy.
Kate Marie Byrnes, of Florida, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Macedonia.
Sean Cairncross, of Minnesota, to be Chief Executive Officer, Millennium Challenge Corporation, vice Dana J. Hyde.
Keegan F. Callanan, of Vermont, to be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities for a term expiring January 26, 2024, vice Manfredi Piccolomini, resigned.
Mary Anne Carter, of Tennessee, to be Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts for a term of four years, vice R. Jane Chu, resigned.
Joseph Cella, of Michigan, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Fiji, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Kiribati, the Republic of Nauru, the Kingdom of Tonga, and Tuvalu.
Mina Chang, of Texas, to be an Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, vice Jonathan Nicholas Stivers.
Julia Akins Clark, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Merit Systems Protection Board for the term of seven years expiring March 1, 2021, vice Anne Marie Wagner, term expired.
Alan E. Cobb, of Kansas, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority for a term expiring November 22, 2023, vice William Shaw McDermott, term expired.
Susan Combs, of Texas, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior, vice Rhea S. Suh, resigned.
William Cooper, of Maryland, to be General Counsel of the Department of Energy, vice Steven Croley, resigned.
R. Clarke Cooper, of Florida, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Political-Military Affairs), vice Puneet Talwar, resigned.
Jane L. Corwin, of New York, to be Commissioner on the part of the United States on the International Joint Commission, United States and Canada, vice Lana Pollack.
Edward F. Crawford, of Ohio, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Ireland.
Alexander Crenshaw, of Florida, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Millennium Challenge Corporation for a term of three years, vice Mark Green, term expired.
Joseph V. Cuffari, of Arizona, to be Inspector General, Department of Homeland Security, vice John Roth.
Veronica Daigle, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense, vice Frederick Vollrath, resigned.
Elizabeth Darling, of Texas, to be Commissioner on Children, Youth, and Families, Department of Health and Human Services, vice Rafael J. Lopez.
Rick A. Dearborn, of Oklahoma, to be a Director of the Amtrak Board of Directors for a term of five years, vice Jeffrey R. Moreland, term expired.
Louis DeJoy, of North Carolina, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation for a term expiring December 17, 2020, vice James M. Demers, term expired.
#4623316 at 2019-01-06 07:10:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5898: 15:14:40 Edition
https://www.thegwpf.com/top-12-debunked-climate-scares-of-2018/
Top 12 Debunked Climate Scares of 2018
Date: 31/12/18
Global Warming Policy Forum
January 2018: Worst-case global warming scenarios not credible: Study
PARIS (AFP) - Earth's surface will almost certainly not warm up four or five degrees Celsius by 2100, according to a study released Wednesday (Jan 17) which, if correct, voids worst-case UN climate change predictions.
A revised calculation of how greenhouse gases drive up the planet's temperature reduces the range of possible end-of-century outcomes by more than half, researchers said in the report, published in the journal Nature.
February: 'Sinking' Pacific nation Tuvalu is actually getting bigger, new research reveals
The Pacific nation of Tuvalu - long seen as a prime candidate to disappear as climate change forces up sea levels - is actually growing in size, new research shows.
A University of Auckland study examined changes in the geography of Tuvalu's nine atolls and 101 reef islands between 1971 and 2014, using aerial photographs and satellite imagery.
It found eight of the atolls and almost three-quarters of the islands grew during the study period, lifting Tuvalu's total land area by 2.9 percent, even though sea levels in the country rose at twice the global average.
March: BBC forced to retract false claim about hurricanes
You may recall the above report by the BBC, which described how bad last year's Atlantic hurricane season was, before commenting at the end: "A warmer world is bringing us a greater number of hurricanes and a greater risk of a hurricane becoming the most powerful category 5." I fired off a complaint, which at first they did their best to dodge. After my refusal to accept their reply, they have now been forced to back down
April: Corals can withstand another 100-250 Years of climate change, new study
Heat-tolerant genes may spread through coral populations fast enough to give the marine creatures a tool to survive another 100-250 years of warming in our oceans.
May: Climate change causes beaches to grow by 3,660 square kilometers
Since 1984 humans have gushed forth 64% of our entire emissions from fossil fuels. (Fully 282,000 megatons of deplorable carbon "pollution".) During this time, satellite images show that 24% of our beaches shrank, while 28% grew. Thus we can say that thanks to the carbon apocalypse there are 3,660 sq kms more global beaches now than there were thirty years ago.
June: Antarctica not losing ice, NASA researcher finds
NASA glaciologist Jay Zwally says his new study will show, once again, the eastern Antarctic ice sheet is gaining enough ice to offset losses in the west.
July: National Geographic admits they were wrong about notorious starving polar bear-climate claims
The narrative behind the viral photo of a polar bear starving, reportedly thanks to climate change, has been called into question by the National Geographic photographer who took it in the first place.
August: New study shows declining risk and increasing resilience to extreme weather in France
This risk factor for French residents of cities stricken by a disaster has been falling with every passing decade.
September: Coral bleaching is a natural event that has gone on for centuries, new study
Coral bleaching has been a regular feature of the Great Barrier Reef for the past 400 years, with evidence of repeated mass events dating back to well before European settlement and the start of the industrial revolution.
October: Climate predictions could be wrong in UK and Europe
Current climate change predictions in the UK and parts of Europe may be inaccurate, a study conducted by researchers from the University of Lincoln, UK, and the University of Liège, Belgium, suggests.
November: Number and intensity of US hurricanes have remained constant since 1900
There's been "no trend" in the number and intensity of hurricanes hitting the continental U.S. and the normalized damages caused by such storms over the past 117 years, according to a new study.
December: Alarmist sea level rise scenarios unlikely, says climate scientist Judith Curry
A catastrophic rise in sea levels is unlikely this century, with recent experience falling within the range of natural variability over the past several thousand years, according to a report on peer-reviewed studies by US climate scientist Judith Curry.
#3574423 at 2018-10-23 16:12:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4535: Border Patrol Edition
What are "Matrix 5 root authorities", and how do these connect to Tuvalu, as suggested in the Jane Fonda entry of the Female Pedos notable?
Is there any sauce on this?
#3121847 at 2018-09-21 16:03:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3950: Feel Good Friday Edition
British Commonwealth Nations.
Antigua and Barbuda
Australia
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belize
Botswana
Brunei
Cameroon
Canada
Dominica
Fiji
The Gambia
Ghana
Grenada
Grenadines
Guyana
India
Jamaica
Kenya
Kiribati
Lesotho
Malawi
Malaysia
Malta*
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
Nauru
New Zealand
Nigeria
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Republic of Cyprus*
Rwanda
Samoa
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Sri Lanka
St Christopher and Nevis
St Lucia
St Vincent and the
Swaziland
The Bahamas
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tuvalu
Uganda
United Kingdom*
United Republic of Tanzania
Vanuatu
Zambia
Zimbabwe
British control extends far outside little island. This list doesn't include the proxies historically run by Britain(emancipated recently by D5 Q+). SA,Ir, China and others. The cult still ultimately controls them but GCHQ,MI6,Mossad,Swiss Guard,Vatican Knighthoods,Jesuits(think of them as the cults intel agencies) are used to manage everything for the Y cult("nimrod"). The Queen controls 1/6 of the worlds choicest land,the Vatican controls at least 177 million acres. These assets are now up for grabs if you ask me. Couple that with a worldwide debt jubilee due to the debt held by the cult being accumulated in corrupt ways and hid a global human trafficking empire. The world will inevitably be changing in extraordinary ways soon. Noone seems to be talking about it. D5 is able to divvy up these assets to those who flip and join our team. Much of this has already taken place. Think caves and caves full of gold in Indonesia ;) Have a good day anons.
#2605292 at 2018-08-15 02:35:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3288: Badge Of Honor Edition
Lin Dong
'Lord of Isles': Meet the mega-rich entrepreneur who's bought THIRTY private islands in just nine years
Chinese Lin Dong, 42, earned his fortune by playing stock market in 90s'
He bought his first island for family holidays in 2006 in southern China
The businessman has spent £3.16 million on buying islands for pleasure
Lin is now leading a group of millionaires to snap up islands worldwide
Their targets include islands on South Pacific near Fiji, Tuvalu and Tahiti
#1345558 at 2018-05-09 04:54:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1687: Right in our Hearts Edition
Q !2jsTvXXmXs 05/08/18 (Tue) 18:44:19 No.68
>Is NZ part of 5 Eyes?
Yes
>Why is that relevant?
Look at who GCSB spies on specifically. Iran, North Korea, Pakistan stand out to me
Suicide watch.
Q
GCSB targets
"Another document disclosed by The New Zealand Herald and The Intercept shows that GCSB also spies on China, Pakistan, India, Iran, South Pacific Island nations (like Tuvalu, Nauru, Kiribati and Samoa, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga and French Polynesia), the diplomatic communications of Japan, North Korea, Vietnam, and South America, as well as French police and nuclear testing activities in New Caledonia, and even on Antarctica."
https://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2015/03/new-zealand-and-xkeyscore-not-much.html
#1062620 at 2018-04-16 08:48:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1325: The WHERE & WHY Edition
The Queen holds the ability to fire the entire Australian government.
As the head of state in Australia, the Queen has certain powers over the government. In 1975, for example, the Queen's representative in the country at the time, Gov. Gen. Sir John Kerr, fired the prime minister in response to a government shutdown.In addition to the UK and Australia, the Queen is also the head of state in Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu.
http:// www.businessinsider.com/weirdest-powers-queen-elizabeth-ii-british-sovereign-prerogative-swans-dolphins-2015-5
#907233 at 2018-04-05 16:59:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1127: A Theater Near You Edition
>>907109
Remember /pol/ and Tuvalu?
#339100 at 2018-02-11 19:46:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #416: Think Magic Edition
I'd been at CBTS since the inception of Q almost & was waiting in hopes Q would return after all the disruption & consequential upheaval but seems there's nothing productive to be done there so if Q IS posting here, I can be of some use here perhaps! Definitely no harm! I've posted a small amount of research I'd like to add here like this info which ppl thought to be useful that should be more commonly known & asked me to put in MEMES but I'm research NOT graphics! If any here find that to be true, pls feel free to put in graphic! I've other research I've just recently been researching Axis (techno security company) also I'll post separate! As Q said we have more than we know, so I'll throw what I have on here!
In light of Q post regarding who AUS is really controlled by:
From 11/5/17 Q post 1st question was:
Who is the Queen of England?
A: Elizabeth II is Queen of the United Kingdom & reigns over Canada, Australia, and New Zealand as Head of State! Additionally, she is Head of the Commonwealth of 12 countries that have
become independent since her accession: Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis Other countries Queen Elizabeth II has reigned over include: Pakistan1952-1956 South Africa1952-1961 Ceylon1952-1972 Ghana1957-1960 Nigeria1960-1963 Sierra Leone1961-1971 Tanganyika1961-1962 Trinidad and Tobago1962-1976 Uganda1962-1963 Kenya1963-1964 Malawi1964-1966 Malta1964-1974 The Gambia1965-1970 Guyana1966-1970 Mauritius1968-1992 Fiji1970-1987
The Queen appoints a Governor General to act on her behalf in Australia! That same Governor General in turn appoints the Prime Minister! The Queen has the power to fire the entire Australian government!
People mistake the Queen for only being a figurehead in England quite often! In actuality, SHE is quite powerful! She's the only one with the power to declare war on another country! SHE can pardon people, she can have people arrested & seize their property, she however is immune to any prosecution, she doesn't need a passport to travel yet she controls the issuance & withdrawal of passports, she doesnt even need a license to drive & is exempt from FOIA requests! SHE is in charge of appointing & removing Prime Ministers & Ministers, a bill from parliament cannot even become a law without her approval, she has the power to suspend/summon parliament, she has the power to make someone a lord so that they can have a seat in the upper house of parliament, heck she could dissolve all of parliament, forcing current members out & calling for a new election! ALL of Britain's military forces are commanded by her, she is indeed the commander in chief & ALL swear an oath to serve her, ergo Her Majestys Service, SHE has the power to commission officers & remove commissions! She's the head of a religion, The Church of England, thus can appoint Bishops & Archbishops! She has the power to declare a state of emergency, that which the U.S. calls martial law & call up forces necessary for that purpose! She even controls the regulation of coinage via the Royal mint & it's design in the UK! I would say that's a far cry from just a figurehead!
Queen Elizabeth the second is not the most powerful woman in Britian but the World! She is the Commander in Chief of all her Realms, in NZ, Aus, Ca they swear allegiance to the Queen, not the Government or the people. So All armed forces, police, fireman, Air force, Navy and other government officials are under her command atop her reign in the UK! She may not have exercised this authority but she has the power.
8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (33)
#21755238 at 2024-10-13 04:01:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #37: EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE Edition
#36 - Part 93
Australia / China Tensions - Page 8
>>21510053 China condemns support for Taiwan at Pacific leaders' forum - China's special envoy for the Pacific, Qian Bo, on Friday slammed a joint communique by Pacific Islands Forum leaders that affirmed support for Taiwan's participation in PIF events, calling the reference to the self-governing island a "mistake" that should be "corrected." The joint communique states that PIF leaders "reaffirmed the 1992 Leaders decision on relations with Taiwan/Republic of China," a reference to when Taiwan became a PIF "development partner." Qian's remarks came on the final day of the 53rd PIF leaders' meeting in Tonga, following a closing news conference by PIF Secretary-General Baron Waqa and the leaders of Tonga, the Cook Islands and the Solomon Islands, who are the current, preceding and next chairs of the PIF. The Chinese envoy communicated his displeasure to Waqa immediately after the news conference in a contentious exchange that highlights how tensions over Taiwan, and China's role in the region, have simmered beneath the surface of the meeting and in the increasingly contested region. China has been pushing to strip Taiwan of its position as a PIF development partner and thwart its attendance at next year's meeting in the Solomon Islands, which has been accused of acting as a proxy for Beijing's efforts. With pledges of aid, Beijing has been making appeals to Taiwan's diplomatic partners in the region, with Kiribati and the Solomon Islands recognizing China in 2019 and Nauru switching its ties earlier this year. The Solomon Islands' Agovaka called into question Taiwan's participation with PIF but denied his country was acting as a proxy for China. "We are not working on behalf of China. As I said, this is about sovereignty. China is a sovereign state, Solomon Islands is a sovereign state, our friends from Taiwan are not a sovereign state," he told Nikkei on Friday. Three PIF members - Tuvalu, the Marshall Islands and Palau - have diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
>>21512355 Video: China wins a 'correction' against Taiwan after Pacific summit - A reference to Taiwan's ongoing role as a Pacific Islands Forum partner has been stripped from the final communique issued for the body's meeting in Tonga this week after a backlash by China. The communique from the PIF leaders' meeting was reissued by the forum's secretariat without explanation after China's envoy demanded a correction. The earlier version issued on Friday after the departure of regional including Anthony Albanese affirmed Taiwan's status as a PIF development partner since 1992. But the reference was erased from a subsequent version published on Saturday after China's ambassador to the Pacific nations, Qian Bo, told journalists there "must be a mistake". The Chinese envoy said there was language in the statement that should "not be the final communique", declaring: "There must be a correction on the text." Taiwan later accused China of "an arbitrary intervention" and "unreasonable actions" but said the communique did not undermine Taiwan's status with the PIF. The Lowy Institute's Pacific Islands Program director, Mihai Sora, said after the change was revealed that it looked like China had got its way, and "more surprises" could be expected when pro-China Solomon Islands hosted the next ' meeting. "This example of how China wields its increasing influence makes it crystal clear that it has interests in the Pacific beyond providing 'development assistance'," said Mr Sora, a former Australian diplomat whose postings included Solomon Islands. "Namely, China wants to eradicate all diplomatic support from Taiwan in the region, even through direct interference in the Pacific Islands Forum leaders' meeting," he said. "Given Qian Bo's apparent outrage at the original text, perhaps he expected different language. It looks like he got his way on the day, but at what cost to the integrity of the Forum, and to regional unity? "I'm sure we can expect more surprises the next time Forum leaders meet in 2025, when Honiara will be host," he said.
#21512357 at 2024-08-31 14:21:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #37: EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE Edition
>>21512355
2/2
A senior Pacific diplomat told The Australian that China had been "heavily lobbying" Pacific countries to support a change in Taiwan's access to the forum.
Solomon Islands Foreign Minister Peter Shanel Agovaka said this week a review would examine Taiwan's status as a PIF partner.
Solomon Islands' Manele government has maintained the country's close ties with China, underpinned by a controversial security pact signed by former prime minister Manasseh Sogavare.
Taiwan slams China 'intervention' after Pacific bloc alters statement
The Taiwanese foreign ministry on Saturday accused China of an "arbitrary intervention" after the joint declaration by Pacific leaders was altered to remove mentions of Taiwan, Agence France-Presse reported.
"Taiwan issued the strongest condemnation on China's arbitrary intervention and unreasonable actions that undermine regional peace and stability," the foreign ministry told AFP in a statement on Saturday night.
Self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own territory, also called on "all like-minded countries to closely monitor China's actions" to safeguard "the harmony and stable development of Pacific island countries".
Neither PIF nor Chinese officials replied to requests for comment on Saturday.
Palau, Marshall Islands and Tuvalu maintain diplomatic relations with Taipei but face constant pressure to change. Taiwan's foreign ministry said it had contacted its three Pacific allies "to actively communicate with the PIF Secretariat" in a bid to retain the clause.
"This communique did not undermine our country's status in the Pacific Islands Forum or exclude our rights to participate in the PIF in the future. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs thanked our allies and like-minded countries for their support for our continued participation in PIF."
New Zealand's foreign ministry confirmed to AFP that there had not been a consensus on the paragraph about Taiwan.
"There are a range of views among the 18 Pacific Islands Forum members and part of the 'Pacific Way' is respect for different views and the importance of consensus," a spokesperson said in a statement.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/china-wins-a-correction-against-taiwan-after-albaneses-pacific-summit/news-story/3ca328ae5cae0d7b6103e39936a8f16e
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFnlpcQTuPE
#21512355 at 2024-08-31 14:20:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #37: EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE Edition
>>21509573
>>21510024
>>21510053
China wins a 'correction' against Taiwan after Pacific summit
BEN PACKHAM - 31 August 2024
1/2
A reference to Taiwan's ongoing role as a Pacific Islands Forum partner has been stripped from the final communique issued for the body's meeting in Tonga this week after a backlash by China.
The communique from the PIF leaders' meeting was reissued by the forum's secretariat without explanation after China's envoy demanded a correction.
The earlier version issued on Friday after the departure of regional including Anthony Albanese affirmed Taiwan's status as a PIF development partner since 1992.
But the reference was erased from a subsequent version published on Saturday after China's ambassador to the Pacific nations, Qian Bo, told journalists there "must be a mistake".
The Chinese envoy said there was language in the statement that should "not be the final communique", declaring: "There must be a correction on the text."
Taiwan later accused China of "an arbitrary intervention" and "unreasonable actions" but said the communique did not undermine Taiwan's status with the PIF.
The Lowy Institute's Pacific Islands Program director, Mihai Sora, said after the change was revealed that it looked like China had got its way, and "more surprises" could be expected when pro-China Solomon Islands hosted the next ' meeting.
"This example of how China wields its increasing influence makes it crystal clear that it has interests in the Pacific beyond providing 'development assistance'," said Mr Sora, a former Australian diplomat whose postings included Solomon Islands.
"Namely, China wants to eradicate all diplomatic support from Taiwan in the region, even through direct interference in the Pacific Islands Forum leaders' meeting," he said.
"Given Qian Bo's apparent outrage at the original text, perhaps he expected different language. It looks like he got his way on the day, but at what cost to the integrity of the Forum, and to regional unity?
"I'm sure we can expect more surprises the next time Forum leaders meet in 2025, when Honiara will be host," he said.
Earlier Mr Qian told the ABC and Nikkei: "The situation is obvious. Among the 18 members of the PIF, 15 countries have diplomatic relations with China and 15 countries have categorically stated they stand by the One China principle."
Taiwan's Micronesian partners led the pushback against the Solomon Islands' plan, sparking concerns that forum consensus was under threat. Australia was opposed to any change in the status quo on the forum's relationship with Taiwan.
Mr Albanese returned from the PIF meeting on Thursday after winning agreement for a $400m regional policing partnership to set up a regional police response group and boost training in Brisbane and three other centres.
The Australian revealed earlier this week that Honiara - the host of next year's leaders' meeting and China's closest partner in the region - was leading the charge to have Taiwan stripped of its status as a PIF "development partner".
Taiwan's Deputy Foreign Minister Tien Chung-kwang attended the PIF leaders' meeting in the Tongan capital, Nuku'alofa, this week, but unlike "tier 1" partners like China and the US, he was unable to address the forum.
Taiwan has official ties with three Pacific Islands states - Marshall Islands, Palau and Tuvalu - despite a concerted push by China to dislodge it from the region's diplomatic landscape.
Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr had publicly rejected the Solomon Islands' proposal. "That would obviously be disrespectful of sovereignty," he said. "We came together as a forum. We have differences of opinion. We respect that."
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#21510053 at 2024-08-31 01:18:22 (UTC+1)
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China condemns support for Taiwan at Pacific leaders' forum
Envoy calls language in joint communique 'unacceptable' and a 'mistake'
SHAUN TURTON and RURIKA IMAHASHI - August 30, 2024
NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga - China's special envoy for the Pacific, Qian Bo, on Friday slammed a joint communique by Pacific Islands Forum leaders that affirmed support for Taiwan's participation in PIF events, calling the reference to the self-governing island a "mistake" that should be "corrected."
The joint communique states that PIF leaders "reaffirmed the 1992 Leaders decision on relations with Taiwan/Republic of China," a reference to when Taiwan became a PIF "development partner."
Qian's remarks came on the final day of the 53rd PIF leaders' meeting in Tonga, following a closing news conference by PIF Secretary-General Baron Waqa and the leaders of Tonga, the Cook Islands and the Solomon Islands, who are the current, preceding and next chairs of the PIF.
The Chinese envoy communicated his displeasure to Waqa immediately after the news conference in a contentious exchange that highlights how tensions over Taiwan, and China's role in the region, have simmered beneath the surface of the meeting and in the increasingly contested region.
China has been pushing to strip Taiwan of its position as a PIF development partner and thwart its attendance at next year's meeting in the Solomon Islands, which has been accused of acting as a proxy for Beijing's efforts.
After the news conference, Nikkei Asia witnessed a visibly angry Qian confront Waqa, the former president of Nauru, and call the statement "unacceptable." Qian then spoke with Solomon Islands Foreign Minister Peter Shanel Agovaka.
The Chinese envoy then spoke to journalists outside.
"Taiwan is part of China. Taiwan is not a dialogue partner of PIF, so China has the representation on behalf of the whole China, including Taiwan and the mainland," Qian said.
Asked about the clause related to Taiwan, he said "it must be a mistake," as 15 of the 18 PIF members "have categorically stated they abide by the 'One-China' principle."
"This is a surprising mistake made by someone, I'm not sure, but it must be corrected," he said. "What we learned is there are clear opposition by membership that the Taiwan issue should not be discussed at this point.
"This should not be a final communique, there must be a correction on the text. We have already talked to the secretariat, to the [secretary-general] and some other delegations. … We have received wide understanding and support."
With pledges of aid, Beijing has been making appeals to Taiwan's diplomatic partners in the region, with Kiribati and the Solomon Islands recognizing China in 2019 and Nauru switching its ties earlier this year.
The Solomon Islands' Agovaka called into question Taiwan's participation with PIF but denied his country was acting as a proxy for China.
"We are not working on behalf of China. As I said, this is about sovereignty. China is a sovereign state, Solomon Islands is a sovereign state, our friends from Taiwan are not a sovereign state," he told Nikkei on Friday.
Three PIF members - Tuvalu, the Marshall Islands and Palau - have diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
Speaking to Nikkei Asia on the sidelines, Tuvalu Prime Minister Feleti Teo said that while he wasn't aware of a specific push to exclude Taiwan, he was emphatically against any such move.
"Firstly I'm not aware of it, but if they do, we will seriously oppose such a proposal, and it's very surprising the Solomons would even think of raising it, because that will also disrespect the three countries that have relationships with Taiwan," he said.
The furor over Taiwan threatened to overshadow the leaders' meeting, where climate change topped the agenda. During a meeting on Wednesday between PIF members and the body's 21 dialogue partners, the U.S. and China struck a collaborative tone, with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell suggesting cooperating on climate change action in the Pacific.
"This is an initiative made by the United States, and this, in our view, is constructive because we have all along called for cooperation in the region," Qian said.
Other outcomes of the meeting included more pledges for the Pacific-led climate change adaptation fund, the Pacific Resilience Facility (PRF), as well as a promise by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to organize a fundraising event. The PRF has $137 million, but leaders want to reach $250 million by January.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/China-condemns-support-for-Taiwan-at-Pacific-leaders-forum
https://forumsec.org/sites/default/files/2024-08/53rd%20Pacific%20Islands%20Forum%20Communique.pdf
https://forumsec.org/sites/default/files/2024-08/53rd%20Pacific%20Islands%20Forum%20Communique_FINAL.pdf
#21510024 at 2024-08-31 01:12:10 (UTC+1)
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Pacific Islands Forum communique taken down after Chinese envoy calls Taiwan reference 'unacceptable'
'Visibly angry' Qian Bo demands correction of Taiwan's 'development partner' label despite its use for more than three decades
Daniel Hurst - 31 Aug 2024
A summit of Pacific leaders has ended in drama after China's regional envoy demanded the scrapping of language about Taiwan, with the communique later republished without the offending paragraph.
The Pacific Islands Forum (Pif) summit in Tonga this week brought together Australia, New Zealand and 16 Pacific island countries or territories, only three of which still have diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
China is not a member of the regional grouping, but - like the US and numerous other major countries - attends some of the Pif events as a "dialogue partner".
For more than 30 years, Taiwan has been afforded the lesser status of "development partner", a situation that irks Beijing, which claims the self-governed democracy as its territory.
Solomon Islands, which has fostered increasingly warm ties with Beijing since switching diplomatic recognition from Taiwan in 2019, had raised concerns in the lead-up to this week's summit about Taiwan's status.
But the final communique published on the Pif website on Friday rebuffed any push for change and stood by existing arrangements.
"Leaders reaffirmed the 1992 Leaders decision on relations with Taiwan/Republic of China," it said.
China's special envoy for the Pacific, Qian Bo, called for changes to the communique.
Nikkei Asia reported that it saw a "visibly angry" Qian confront the Pif secretary general, Baron Waqa, immediately after the closing news conference and that he called the statement "unacceptable".
Qian later told reporters in Tonga's capital, Nuku'alofa, that it was "a surprising mistake made by someone" and it "must be corrected".
He reiterated Beijing's position that China should be seen as the representative "on behalf of the whole China, including Taiwan and the mainland", Nikkei Asia reported.
The Guardian has seen and verified a copy of the final communique that appeared on the Pif website earlier on Friday. It included a line reaffirming the decades-long arrangements regarding Taiwan.
But as of Friday evening local time, this communique was no longer easily accessible on the website.
The communique was republished on the Pif website on Saturday morning local time, but with paragraph 66 about Taiwan no longer included.
A paragraph about Solomon Islands being the host of next year's Pif was moved up to become the new paragraph 66.
The Guardian has sought comment from the Pif secretariat.
Taiwan's deputy foreign minister, Tien Chung-kwang, also travelled to Nuku'alofa this week. Tien held talks with Taiwan's three remaining Pacific allies, Palau, Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands.
China's foreign ministry said on Friday: "Any attempt by the Taiwan authorities to brush up their sense of presence by rubbing shoulders with the forum can only be self-deceptive."
The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, had previously played down the prospect of any attempt to change Taiwan's status within Pif structures.
When asked about the matter on Thursday morning, prior to the leaders' retreat, Albanese said: "Well, that hasn't been discussed at all. We support all the existing arrangements."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/30/pacific-islands-forum-communique-taken-down-after-chinese-envoy-calls-taiwan-reference-unacceptable
https://forumsec.org/publications/reports-communique-53rd-pacific-islands-leaders-forum-2024
https://web.archive.org/web/20240830072518/https://forumsec.org/publications/reports-communique-53rd-pacific-islands-leaders-forum-2024
https://archive.vn/KzXlR
#21494423 at 2024-08-28 09:23:04 (UTC+1)
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The "Pacific family" plan is a response to China's attempt in 2022 to seal a region-wide security agreement with Pacific Island states, following its controversial security pact with Solomon Islands.
Australia also worked hard to prevent a China-PNG policing agreement earlier this year, before clinching a bilateral security agreement with Port Moresby.
Lowy Institute analyst and former diplomat in the region, Mihai Sora, said the agreement was a "massive achievement" at a time when regional unity was being tested and Pacific countries were facing a raft of threats from climate change and natural disasters to transnational crime.
"It's a huge step forward for Pacific regional security co-operation, and it couldn't have come soon enough, in terms of meeting regional needs," Mr Sora said.
"Pacific countries are still free to pursue individual policing activities with other partners, of course. Sovereignty is paramount. But this initiative aims to fill those gaps in policing to which China purports to be responding."
China's state-owned Global Times warned earlier this week that the policing pact was designed to serve US strategic interests.
"Such an exclusive policing pact not only violates general principles in international relations, but also infringes on (Pacific island countries') sovereignty to independently choose co-operation partners," the outlet's Australia analyst Chen Hong said.
There were suggestions at the forum that the regional policing group's first deployment could be to Samoa in October when it hosts the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
It follows the deployment of police from Australia, PNG, Fiji, and New Zealand to Solomon Islands for its national election this year, and in 2023 when it hosted the Pacific Games.
On the sidelines of the forum, Mr Albanese and Mr Teo marked the official commencement of the Falepili Union treaty between Australia and Tuvalu.
The agreement requires Australia to come to Tuvalu's aid in a crisis and offer 280 permanent visas to Tuvaluans each year, while giving Canberra a veto over any future security deals the micro-state wants to strike.
Mr Albanese said he had received "nothing but support" from regional counterparts for his climate policies, while defending his government's gas plan as vital to securing the nation's energy future.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/anthony-albanese-tries-his-hand-at-softtouch-diplomacy-at-pacific-islands-summit/news-story/1d89bb88bcf4a4083f6eace2c8a5a3fc
#21494421 at 2024-08-28 09:21:38 (UTC+1)
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Anthony Albanese tries his hand at soft-touch diplomacy at Pacific Islands Forum
BEN PACKHAM - 28 August 2024
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Anthony Albanese has sealed a major agreement with Pacific Island nations to create region-wide police response force, in a blow to China's ambitions to expand its security support for the region.
Australian taxpayers will foot the bill for the "Pacific-led" initiative, paying $400m over the next five years to stand up a multi-country Pacific Police Support Group and establish new police training centres across the region.
The Prime Minister secured the diplomatic win at the Pacific Islands Forum in Tonga on Wednesday, as one of the region's smallest states, Tuvalu, challenged Australia to abide by "the spirit" of the nations' landmark climate and migration treaty signed last year.
Amid grumbling on the forum's sidelines over the Albanese government's plans to expand natural gas production, Tuvalu's Prime Minister Feleti Teo urged Australia to "do what it has promised to the region in terms of its commitment to combat climate change".
At least four police training centres will be opened in Pacific countries under the new law and order partnership, starting with Papua New Guinea, while a new co-ordination hub will be established in Brisbane to prepare Pacific police force members for regional deployments.
Forum members will contribute members to the standing police response force, which will be deployed to respond to civil unrest, natural disasters and major regional events.
"This policing initiative continues a long history of Pacific police forces working together to strengthen regional peace and security, and to support each other in times of need," Mr Albanese said.
"The security of the Pacific is the shared responsibility of the Pacific region and this initiative benefits each of our nations."
Mr Albanese won the support of regional counterparts for the initiative despite a warning by Vanuatu - one of China's closest partner's in the region.
"We need to make sure this (initiative) is framed to fit our purposes and not developed to suit the geo-strategic interests and geo-strategic denial security postures of our big partners," Vanuatu's Prime Minister Charlot Salwai said on Tuesday night.
Mr Salwai, who has held up finalisation of a bilateral security agreement with Australia, was backed by Melanesian Spearhead Group secretary-general Leonard Louma, who warned aspects of the plan remained "cryptic".
PNG's Prime Minister James Marape, who stood alongside Mr Albanese to announce the initiative, said it was vital to bring law and order to "the biggest unpoliced space on planet Earth".
"It is a concept that is born from within. Security challenges are always present ... whether it's cyber security, high sea security or domestic security," Mr Marape said.
Asked whether the agreement would preclude policing co-operation with China, Mr Marape said Australia "remains our security partner of choice, especially for policing matters".
Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka said past police training had been a "godsend for us", and it was time for the region to step-up and deal with its own security challenges.
"Most of the problems we face are regional problems, and the rest of the world, we believe (is) targeting our region. So it's our responsibility to develop our own policing initiative," Mr Rabuka said.
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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka said it had been a "godsend" for Pacific police officers to receive training overseas, adding he was sure the new initiative would "succeed for our benefit".
A day earlier, Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai told fellow Pacific leaders that "we need to make sure that this [policing initiative] is framed to fit our purposes and not developed to suit the geostrategic interests and geostrategic denial security postures of our big partners".
Leonard Louma, director-general of the Melanesian Spearhead Group, described the pact as a worthy initiative but said many aspects of it remain "cryptic" and should benefit locals rather than "the geostrategic denial security doctrine of our big partners".
The Melanesian Spearhead Group includes Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
Mihai Sora, a Pacific expert at the Lowy Institute and former diplomat in the region, said: "Australia would be celebrating this as a win for the region, and an endorsement of Australia's role as the main security partner for Pacific Island countries".
"It's not an easy thing for so many diverse countries to come together to agree on something so complex and sensitive as regional security co-operation," he said.
While noting that Pacific countries could still pursue individual policing agreements with China, Sora said that "this initiative aims to fill those gaps in policing that China purports to be responding to".
One of the United States' most important foreign policing officials, Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, is in Tonga for the forum, reflecting the US's renewed attention on the region.
During his trip, Campbell will also open a new US embassy in Vanuatu.
Albanese and Tuvalu Prime Minister Feleti Teo on Wednesday celebrated the entry into force of the Falepili Union, a landmark climate resettlement treaty announced last year, with Albanese describing it as "groundbreaking".
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/pacific-leaders-wary-of-australia-s-cryptic-policing-pact-20240828-p5k5w5.html
#21483208 at 2024-08-26 09:47:55 (UTC+1)
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Australia looks to sideline China in 'far-reaching' Pacific policing deal
Matthew Knott - August 25, 2024
Australian officials are confident of locking in regional support this week for an ambitious Pacific-wide policing pact they hope will help stymie Beijing's energetic efforts to gain a security foothold in the region.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will travel on Tuesday to the Pacific Islands Forum in Tonga, with the Pacific Policing Initiative set to be one of the key agenda items alongside tackling climate change and the recent unrest in New Caledonia.
The initiative, to cost hundreds of millions of dollars, would see a regional training centre established in Brisbane, centres of law enforcement excellence set up across the Pacific and the formation of new multinational police units that could rapidly deploy across the region when trouble arises.
Pacific police chiefs have compared the initiative to bodies such as EUROPOL (the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation) and AMERIPOL (the Police Community of the Americas) that combat crime beyond national borders.
Tongan Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni will seek official endorsement from fellow leaders for the initiative at the forum and request that Pacific police chiefs develop an implementation plan to drive it forward, according to a statement agreed to by Pacific foreign ministers earlier this month.
Pacific police leaders met in Brisbane in July to discuss the initiative, which has the enthusiastic backing of Tonga's police commissioner Shane McLennan, the chairman of the Pacific Chiefs of Police.
The initiative has sensitivities and would require laws to be changed in many Pacific nations to allow foreign police officers to operate within their borders.
A former COVID-19 quarantine centre at Pinkenba, near Brisbane airport, is seen as an ideal location for a regional training facility when it is handed over to the Australian Federal Police.
Australian officials, who were not authorised to speak publicly, said they were confident the policing initiative would receive widespread support, despite the possibility of posturing from some Pacific leaders with close ties to Beijing.
Mihai Sora, a Lowy Institute expert on the Pacific and former diplomat in the region, said the "far-reaching" initiative was "about Australia playing a much bigger role in providing policing support in the Pacific".
"This is about closing the space for an external actor like China to become involved in regional security," he said.
"Australia will be at pains to demonstrate that this is a Pacific-led initiative, so it is important for Pacific leaders to endorse it and buy into it."
Pacific leaders are struggling with a lack of trained police officers despite rising crime rates and transnational drug syndicates setting up across the region, Sora said.
Chinese police have deployed in the Solomon Islands and Kiribati, despite Australian officials insisting that security and policing matters should be handled only by Pacific nations including Australia.
Albanese and Tuvalu's Prime Minister Feleti Teo will announce during the forum that a landmark climate resettlement treaty announced last year has officially entered into force.
The Falepili Union will create a special visa pathway for the Pacific nation's residents to escape the threat of climate change and give Australia effective veto power over any possible security pact between China.
This masthead revealed in May that Australian officials were forced to scramble to prevent China and Papua New Guinea from striking a policing pact on the eve of a visit by Albanese to PNG.
"The Chinese are unrelenting on this," an Australian official familiar with the negotiations but not authorised to speak publicly said at the time.
Albanese announced in June that Australia would help the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force increase its size from 1500 to 3000 officers, and the government is spending $200 million to boost PNG's policing and national security services.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australia-looks-to-sideline-china-in-far-reaching-pacific-policing-deal-20240821-p5k492.html
#20545571 at 2024-03-10 08:41:42 (UTC+1)
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#34 - Part 22
Australian Politics and Society - Part 15
>>20482515 Video: ABC's Q + A: Malcolm Turnbull reveals what he really thinks of Donald Trump - Malcolm Turnbull has labelled Donald Trump a 'tyrant', had a cheeky dig at Scott Morrison and questioned whether Israel's war in Gaza is actually what Hamas wants during his latest appearance on the ABC's Q+A. Mr Turnbull fears that a Trump victory in November will threaten to turn US into an autocracy without the rule of law. 'Donald Trump does not believe the law applies to him,' Mr Turnbull told the audience. 'Donald Trump lost the 2020 election and refused to accept it and ... encouraged a mob to try to overthrow the constitutional process in the Congress, tried to overthrow his own constitution.' When it was pointed out that Mr Trump was outpolling current President Joe Biden, Mr Turnbull replied: 'Tyrants are often popular.'
>>20488534 Controversial Israeli weapons company awarded $917 million Australian army contract - An Israeli company whose technology was stripped from Australian Army equipment over possible data security concerns three years ago has been awarded a fresh defence contract worth $917 million. Elbit Systems has confirmed it will provide "advanced protection, fighting capabilities and sensors" for new Korean-designed Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFVs) being constructed in the Victorian electorate of Defence Minister Richard Marles.
>>20488543 New Tuvalu govt reaffirms relationship with Taiwan - Tuvalu's new government has reaffirmed its relations with Taiwan after the election, Tuvalu's government says, adding it wants dialogue over a new security pact with Australia. "The new government wishes to reaffirm its commitment to the long-term and lasting special relationship between Tuvalu and the Republic of China, Taiwan," the statement said. "It intends to reassess options that would strengthen and lift it to a more durable, lasting, and mutually beneficial relationship."
>>20488547 Tuvalu's new prime minister indicates he will revisit deal that gives Australia control of island nation's security agreements - Tuvalu's new government has dealt a blow to Australia's signature foreign policy initiative in the Pacific, signalling it will seek revisions to the landmark Falepili Union in order to protect its sovereignty. Australian officials were relieved when former regional diplomat Feleti Teo, who was on a panel that helped craft the agreement, won the contest to become prime minister earlier this week. But, in a sign of the political sensitivities which still surround the pact, Mr Teo's new government has today acknowledged that Tuvalu's citizens were not sufficiently consulted on the agreement.
>>20493657 'Video: Your cover is blown': ASIO boss reveals politician betrayed Australia to foreign spies - ASIO boss Mike Burgess has blown the cover of a sophisticated foreign interference operation that involved a former politician betraying Australia and attempting to bring a prime minister's relative into the orbit of foreign spies. In his latest annual threat assessment, the nation's spy chief goes into remarkable detail about the so-called "A-team": a dedicated unit within a foreign intelligence service that made Australia its primary target and operated for several years until at least last year. "The team is aggressive and experienced, its tradecraft is good - but not good enough," Burgess said in a speech delivered in Canberra on Wednesday night. "ASIO and our partners have been able to map out its activities and identify its members."
>>20493671 Video: ASIO boss Mike Burgess won't bow to pressure to reveal which former politician 'sold out Australia' - The nation's top spy has called for calm, refusing to name names after dropping a bombshell that a former politician sold out Australia to foreign spies. Mike Burgess used his annual threat assessment address on Wednesday night to reveal an ex-politician was recruited by a foreign intelligence service "several years ago" but declined to name them. Former federal treasurer and ambassador to the US Joe Hockey said the claims had implicated hundreds of officials, and said Mr Burgess had a duty to every politician to reveal who it was. "You can't make an allegation or a statement about someone being a traitor and then expect that no one will ask questions," Mr Hockey said.
#20545555 at 2024-03-10 08:35:35 (UTC+1)
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#34 - Part 15
Australian Politics and Society - Part 8
>>20316869 Kevin Rudd's embarrassing Trump U-turn as Albo's US Ambassador is made to eat his own words - with President's shock re-election victory now looming - He's branded Donald Trump 'nuts' and labelled him the 'most destructive president in history'. But former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, now Australia's US ambassador, is desperately trying to build bridges with Trump's team ahead of the ex-President's possible re-election in November.
>>20322542 Video: PM Anthony Albanese booed at the Australian Open men's final - During the closing ceremony, as presenter Todd Woodbridge welcomed the Prime Minister on behalf of Tennis Australia, the atmosphere took an uncomfortable shift. The 15,000-strong audience erupted in vociferous boos, drowning out Woodbridge's speech and persisting through the introductions of other VIP attendees.
>>20322581 Anthony Albanese's security pact with Tuvalu 'at risk' - Anthony Albanese's much-vaunted "Falepili Union" security pact with Tuvalu is on shaky ground following the fall of the country's prime minister, Kausea Natano, who lost his seat in the country's general election over the weekend.
>>20322618 Army Taipan helicopters stripped, but Ukraine undeterred - Pictures have emerged online of the dismantled remains of some of the Australian Army's MRH-90 Taipan helicopters, in a further blow to Ukraine which had hoped to take the aircraft.
>>20328447 Accused Fijian torturer Colonel Penioni (Ben) Naliva to command ADF troops - A senior Fijian military officer allegedly responsible for human rights abuses and torture has been appointed as deputy commander of the Australian Army's 7th Brigade, amid claims the Australian government has turned a blind eye in its bid to counter Chinese influence in the Pacific.
>>20334181 Crisis talks over torture accused soldier Colonel Penioni (Ben) Naliva - The Albanese government is in crisis talks with the Fijian government on the future of a senior ?Fijian military officer allegedly responsible for human rights abuses and torture who has been appointed as deputy commander of the Australian Army's 7th Brigade.
>>20339499 Video: Former Fijian MP Sam Speight reveals torture by 7th Brigade Colonel Ben Naliva - Sam Speight has lived in exile from his country for more than a decade, having been forced to flee his beloved Fiji after being beaten and tortured, he claims, by the man the Albanese government has chosen to be deputy commander of 3500 Australian troops.
>>20339527 Ex-NSW premier's son Daniel Keneally guilty of fabricating evidence - The son of former NSW premier Kristina Keneally has broken down as he avoided prison after he was last year found guilty of fabricating a statement that wrongfully landed a man behind bars.
>>20339566 Players' passports, contracts exposed in Football Australia data leak - Australian soccer players have had their passports, contracts and other personal information leaked online in a cybersecurity incident that has potentially also affected every local customer or fan, researchers say. Football Australia leaked secret keys online, giving public access to more than 100 buckets of data including players' personal documents and contracts, according to Cybernews, an independent cybersecurity research publication. The researchers said the leak, which was likely due to human error and not a cyberattack, included players' passport details along with customers' ticket purchase information, and internal infrastructure details.
>>20339611 Video: 'You win, you run this city': Death threats force FriendlyJordies to remove video - Ongoing death threats have led to political commentator and YouTube satirist Jordan Shanks, known online as FriendlyJordies, taking down a YouTube video. "You win. We're taking down the video," said Shanks in a statement posted on his website. "Congratulations. You run this city."
>>20344843 White supremacist Jacob Hersant to involve nation's top lawmakers in Nazi salute case - A white supremacist who was first to be charged with performing a Nazi salute in Victoria plans to drag the nation's top lawmakers into his legal case. The Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Friday heard neo-Nazi Jacob Hersant, 24, required an adjournment of his matter due to a related "constitutional argument".
>>20344860 Australian crime fighters to get better access to social media accounts - Australian law enforcement agencies tackling terrorism, child sex abuse and other transnational crimes will get sweeping access to electronic data held in the US by the likes of Microsoft and Meta under a landmark deal between the Albanese government and the Biden administration.
#20488547 at 2024-02-28 08:29:15 (UTC+1)
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Tuvalu's new prime minister indicates he will revisit deal that gives Australia control of island nation's security agreements
Marian Faa and Stephen Dziedzic - 28 February 2024
Tuvalu's new government has dealt a blow to Australia's signature foreign policy initiative in the Pacific, signalling it will seek revisions to the landmark Falepili Union in order to protect its sovereignty.
Australian officials were relieved when former regional diplomat Feleti Teo - who was on a panel that helped craft the agreement - won the contest to become prime minister earlier this week.
But, in a sign of the political sensitivities which still surround the pact, Mr Teo's new government has today acknowledged that Tuvalu's citizens were not sufficiently consulted on the agreement.
A document outlining the new government's key priorities makes it clear that Tuvalu - while broadly supporting the pact - will seek changes to make it "workable".
"The new government intends to address those process issues and to work with the government of Australia towards a workable arrangement in advancing the objectives of the special union between Tuvalu and Australia, in particular safeguarding the integrity of the sovereignty of Tuvalu," the document reads.
The Falepili Union was negotiated last year, giving Australia effective veto power over Tuvalu's security arrangements with other countries in exchange for greater migration pathways.
It was criticised by some Tuvaluan citizens and MPs, who said it granted Australia powers that were too far-reaching.
Both countries are yet to pass legislation through their respective parliaments to give force to the treaty.
On Tuesday, Australia's Minister for the Pacific Pat Conroy said he was confident the deal would be implemented.
"I would make the point that the new Prime Minister of Tuvalu was one of the three eminent people who developed the proposal ... we stand ready to act on the priorities of the new Tuvalu government," he said.
"But I'm firmly of the view that the Falepili Treaty is in the interest of both nations."
A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade told the ABC that Australia was ready to engage with the new prime minister and his government on their priorities, including the Falepili Union.
"Australia welcomes Tuvalu reiterating its support for the broad principles and objectives of the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union," they said.
New PM to focus on climate issues
Tuvalu's new prime minister and cabinet ministers were sworn into their portfolios in the capital Funafuti this morning.
A congratulatory message from Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was read out during the ceremony, signalling the country's commitment to Tuvalu.
"This is a significant time in the relationship between Australia and Tuvalu," Mr Albanese's statement reads.
"As sovereign nations, it is more important than ever that we work together in the Pacific way to shape the kind of region and world we seek."
Tuvalu has also reaffirmed its commitment to maintaining the "long-term and lasting special relationship" with Taiwan, following calls by some MPs for the allegiance to be reviewed.
Outlining his government's key priorities, Mr Teo said climate change was his country's greatest challenge.
"Climate change and the impact of sea-level rise will remain the single greatest and existential threat to the security, livelihood and wellbeing of the people of Tuvalu," he said.
Mr Teo urged development partners to help the Pacific nation address the issue.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-28/new-Tuvalu-pm-to-revisit-falepili-union/103521850
#20488543 at 2024-02-28 08:26:06 (UTC+1)
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New Tuvalu govt reaffirms relationship with Taiwan
Alasdair Pal and Kirsty Needham - February 28 2024
Tuvalu's new government has reaffirmed its relations with Taiwan after the election, Tuvalu's government says, adding it wants dialogue over a new security pact with Australia.
"The new government wishes to reaffirm its commitment to the long-term and lasting special relationship between Tuvalu and the Republic of China, Taiwan," the statement said.
"It intends to reassess options that would strengthen and lift it to a more durable, lasting, and mutually beneficial relationship."
Former attorney-general and fisheries official Feleti Teo was elected prime minister on Monday after a general election in January closely watched by Taiwan, China, the United States and Australia, amid a geopolitical tussle for influence in the South Pacific.
Tuvalu, a Pacific Islands nation of about 11,200, is one of three remaining Pacific allies of Taiwan after Nauru cut ties in January and switched to Beijing, which had promised more development help.
The document, titled a "Statement of Priorities" for the new government, also supported the principles of a security and migration pact called the Falepili Union signed with Australia in November 2023, though it acknowledged transparency concerns around the deal.
The agreement allows for up to 280 people a year to migrate from Tuvalu.
It faced criticism for a section allowing Australia to vet the country's security arrangements; Simon Kofe, Tuvalu's minister of transport, energy, communication and innovation, called for it to be renegotiated in December.
"Australia stands ready to engage with Prime Minister Teo and his government on the priorities they have outlined," Australia's foreign ministry said.
"Australia welcomes Tuvalu reiterating its support for the broad principles and objectives of the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union."
Taiwan's embassy in Tuvalu said its ambassador Andrew Lin attended the swearing in ceremony of the new government on Wednesday.
Deputy Foreign Minister Tien Chung-kwang is also due to visit the country soon.
https://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/8538966/new-Tuvalu-govt-reaffirms-relationship-with-taiwan/
#20328464 at 2024-01-30 08:50:59 (UTC+1)
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PNG to 'stick with' Australia on security matters, Tkatchenko says
BEN PACKHAM - JANUARY 30, 2024
Papua New Guinea's Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko has hosed down reports the country is in talks with China on a new security agreement.
Mr Tkatchenko said Beijing had offered training and equipment for PNG's police force in September - well before recent rioting in the country - and there had been no discussions on the matter since.
"The offer is there and we will assess it," he said.
"But we are not going to duplicate at all any arrangements we have with other countries.
"We stick with our traditional partners."
Anthony Albanese signed a new security agreement with PNG Prime Minister James Marape in December.
The agreement will be at the top of the agenda during high-level talks next week, when Mr Marape visits Canberra to address the Australian parliament.
Prime Minister Albanese said on Tuesday that PNG was a sovereign government that had "no closer friend than Australia".
"We are the security partner of choice for Papua New Guinea, as we are for most of the countries in the Pacific," he said.
Mr Tkatchenko said PNG's primary security partners were Australia, New Zealand, and the US, and increasingly Indonesia.
"Our relationship with China we see completely differently. They are our economic partner; they are our trading partner," he said.
His comments will be reassuring to the Australian government, and especially Australia's new High Commissioner top PNG John Feakes, who was due to arrive in Port Moresby on Tuesday.
PNG also recently signed a sweeping security agreement with the US, and recently renewed its border security agreement with Indonesia.
The Australian government is facing fresh challenge in the Pacific amid signs Tuvalu will seek to renegotiate its "Falepili Union", and Nauru's recent decision to end diplomatic relations with Taiwan in favour of China.
The upcoming Solomon Islands election will also prove to be a test for the government, as China seeks to cement its influence through a re-elected Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/png-to-stick-with-australia-on-security-matters-tkatchenko-says/news-story/c3053afce2d787bd5b6ed8d540be2881
#20322585 at 2024-01-29 08:30:15 (UTC+1)
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>>20322581
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Former Tuvalu foreign minister Simon Kofe raised serious concerns over the pact, warning it was unwise for the country of just over 11,000 people to insert itself in the strategic contest ?between China and the West.
Eight newcomers will take their seats in the new parliament, including former governor-general Sir Iakoba Italeli Taeia.
Tuvalu has no political parties, and it will take a week or more for a new prime minister to be appointed.
Mihai Sora, a research fellow in the Lowy Institute's Pacific program, said "everything" would be up for renegotiation as the new government considered what it could leverage from its international partners.
"Tuvalu's political figures clearly know the value of this sort of arrangement, and for a country like Tuvalu, sovereignty is one of its assets," he said.
"Negotiating access to that for a country like Australia is a huge bargaining chip for Tuvalu.
"So, I would expect it would be reopened (for negotiation). It doesn't mean that it's going to be rebuilt from the ground up, or that the gains that the two sides made are totally thrown out the window. But you can imagine a new government looking to ?extract more benefits for Tuvalu."
Mr Sora said the situation underlined the difficulties in making such agreements in the increasingly contested Pacific.
He pointed to the Albanese government's unratified security agreement with Vanuatu, which was used as "political fodder" to topple the country's prime minister.
Australia's hoped-for security treaty with Papua New Guinea was also downgraded after its Prime Minister, James Marape, suffered political blowback over a similar deal with the US.
The fall of Tuvalu's pro-?Taiwan prime minister has sparked speculation that the country could follow Nauru in cutting ties with Taipei.
Mr Paeniu, who has declared himself a candidate for the prime ministership, said ahead of the election that the future of diplomatic relations with Taiwan should be examined.
"The Taiwan-China issue remains a debatable issue for any government, particularly following a general election. No doubt it will feature once again in the debates following the election and the new government will need to take a stance on it," Mr Paeniu said.
Taiwan said it was confident the next Tuvaluan government would maintain diplomatic relations.
A week before the election, Tuvalu's ambassador to Taiwan, Bikenibeu Paeniu, said that Beijing had been trying to influence the country's politicians since a failed attempt to secure a switch ahead of the 2019 election.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/anthony-albaneses-security-pact-with-Tuvalu-at-risk/news-story/ddd919d526f9d94ff0ba5cc3db39c5fc
https://twitter.com/PatConroy1/status/1751131940269506760
#20322581 at 2024-01-29 08:29:10 (UTC+1)
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Anthony Albanese's security pact with Tuvalu 'at risk'
BEN PACKHAM and WILL GLASGOW - JANUARY 28, 2024
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Anthony Albanese's much-vaunted "Falepili Union" security pact with Tuvalu is on shaky ground following the fall of the country's prime minister, and may not survive in its current form.
Kausea Natano, who negotiated the security and climate change treaty with Australia, lost his seat in counting over the weekend in the country's general election.
Those lining up to replace him want the agreement renegotiated or scrapped, while the country's diplomatic relationship with Taiwan also hangs in the balance.
The expected diplomatic blow to Australia comes amid uncertainty over the nation's ?security pact with Vanuatu, and Nauru's decision this month to switch diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China.
The Prime Minister framed the Falepili Union as a diplomatic coup, saying it was "without doubt the most significant agreement between Australia and a Pacific island nation".
The yet-to-be-ratified pact would allow Tuvalu's entire population to resettle in Australia if rising seas claim its islands, while handing Australia a veto over the country's future security relationships in a blow to Beijing.
Minister for the Pacific Pat Conroy congratulated Tuvalu on its successful election, declaring: "I look forward to deepening our partnership as we work ?together to implement the ?Falepili Union."
But California State University assistant professor Jess Marinaccio, who has worked for Tuvalu's government, said the agreement was likely to be re-?examined no matter who became prime minister.
Re-elected former prime minister Enele Sopoaga, who is eyeing a return to the post, has opposed the agreement, arguing it should be put to a referendum before it is ratified by Tuvalu.
Other returned MPs, including prime ministerial aspirant Seve Paeniu, were more supportive, but likely to require changes to the agreement's security provisions, Professor Marinaccio said.
"I don't think anybody really had read the agreement closely before it was brought up in ?parliament," she said.
The country's 16-member parliament debated the pact in a four-day session last November, focusing on a provision requiring Australia to consent to any ?future defence and security relationships between Tuvalu and another state.
"That was the article that most people were really worried about," Professor Marinaccio said. "It doesn't say 'in the event of an emergency'. It basically says that in any case, Tuvalu has to mutually agree with Australia on its defence and security ?arrangements, and that includes security over things like telecommunications.
"Most MPs were saying 'that needs to be changed'. It's even more extreme than some of the compacts of free associations that the United States has (with Micronesian countries)."
(continued)
#20272189 at 2024-01-20 11:28:24 (UTC+1)
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A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman in Beijing this week denied claims China had engaged in "dollar diplomacy".
China's ambassador to Australia, Xiao Qian, on Wednesday called on Canberra to work with Beijing in the Pacific, as part of his pitch to move the relations "beyond stabilisation".
Nauru is the 10th country to cut diplomatic ties with Taipei since Tsai Ing-wen, of the Democratic Progressive Party, was elected Taiwan's president in 2016. Taiwan now has only three diplomatic allies in the Pacific: Tuvalu, Palau and Marshall Islands.
The election of the DPP's Mr Lai to replace Dr Tsai as President means Beijing is expected to go to unprecedented lengths to try to reduce Taiwan's allies to single digits.
The DPP's proudly Taiwanese identity infuriates Beijing, whose Communist Party leaders believe it is working to formalise ?Taiwan's independence from China.
A retired senior Taiwanese Foreign Ministry official told The Weekend Australian he expected another "one or two" of Taiwan's allies to be poached by China in the coming months.
Taipei is now on high alert about China's efforts to switch Tuvalu after next Friday's election.
Taiwan's Foreign Minister welcomed Canberra's new Falepili Union agreement with Tuvalu, which allows the Pacific Island country's citizens to live, work and study in Australia.
He told The Weekend Australian there had been "a lot more co-ordination and co-operation" between Taipei and Canberra after Solomons Islands and Kiribati both switched recognition to Beijing in 2019.
"After Nauru, I think we should understand that Taiwan and Australia need to work with each other more," Mr Wu said.
There are no political parties in Tuvalu, whose parliament is made up of 16 independent MPs, making its post-election direction difficult to forecast.
Mr Paeniu said he hoped the next 16 members of parliament would be "leaders for the people and not for China".
The former prime minister said it was hard to know what Beijing was up to in the Pacific.
"A lot of its dealings are not transparent. Things are behind the doors," he said.
As the "third father" of his nation, Mr Paeniu said he was sad at the thought of proudly Christian Tuvalu aligning itself with a country, China, that restricts freedom of worship.
Mr Paeniu said that would be a breach of the nation's motto: "Tuvalu mo te Atua" ("Tuvalu for the Almighty").
He said he was working with Taiwan officials on "ESG and blue carbon" projects that allowed a "very dignified way" to develop the country. "If we pursue this platform, we don't need China," he said.
Mr Paeniu said he was concerned about reports of Beijing bribing political figures in the Pacific. "And this may be also happening in Tuvalu. But you know, God sees everything."
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/fears-of-Tuvalu-turning-to-recognition-of-china/news-story/3826b170d339eb63fa45b974cf9c37d1
#20272188 at 2024-01-20 11:27:24 (UTC+1)
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Fears of Tuvalu turning to recognition of China
WILL GLASGOW - JANUARY 20, 2024
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China has embarked on an extraordinary push into the Pacific after Taiwan's election, with Tuvalu's ambassador in Taipei telling The Weekend Australia there are fears that after its election next week his country could follow Nauru and switch recognition to Beijing.
The warning comes as Taiwan's Foreign Minister called for Canberra to step up co-operation with Taipei and gave The Weekend Australian his most detailed account of the promise of "unlimited assistance" Beijing made to secure Nauru.
Xi Jinping's government has intensified its global campaign to isolate Taiwan since its election last Saturday. China is smouldering after Taiwan's 23 million people defied warnings from Beijing and elected independence-leaning William Lai as its president.
Tuvalu ambassador Bikenibeu Paeniu told The Weekend Australian "sources from Tuvalu" had told him the micronation could follow Nauru and switch diplomatic recognition to Beijing after its election on January 26, next Friday.
"Rumours now are going that (Tuvalu) will follow suit," Mr Paeniu said in an interview at his office in Taipei.
The former Tuvalu prime minister called on Australia and its allies and partners to closely watch the situation and to step up their support of the island nation.
"They should be serious. They should be proactive. They should do their part," he said.
Mr Paeniu said Beijing had been highly active in Tuvalu since the Pacific country's last election in late 2019.
After that election, Tuvalu's then foreign minister revealed that Chinese companies had made approaches about working on a $600m ($US400m) artificial island project.
The Pacific Island nation of 11,000 people is at extreme risk of being submerged in the coming decades as sea levels rise.
The Chinese offer was rebuffed, but sources in Taipei have said a similar proposal has been made again in the lead-up to next week's election.
"China has not just been sitting around ... It's really sad how one nation and government try to impose their mindsets and way of life," Mr Paeniu said.
Nauru's sudden switch to Beijing was revealed on Monday, less than 48 hours after Taiwan's election.
It leaves Taiwan with just 12 formal diplomatic allies.
In his first media interview after the switch, Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu told The Weekend Australian the amount Beijing had promised to pay Nauru was higher than had been reported.
Mr Wu said Beijing had promised Nauru more than just the payment to cover a budget cut left by the reduced use of Australia's offshore immigration processing facility, worth around $125m a year.
"China has promised the difference of that financial income out of the refugee processing centre, and also told the Nauru elite, or Nauru leader, that they would give everything that the Nauruan government would request," Mr Wu said, in an interview in the Foreign Ministry's headquarters in Taipei.
"It's a promise of unlimited assistance to Nauru."
Funding for the Australian asylum-seeker processing centre on Nauru varies depending on how many people are detained. In recent years, around $350m a year has been budgeted for the centre, down from $485m when there were more asylum-seekers there.
Taiwan's top diplomat said Taipei, Canberra and Washington had been in discussions about how to address the funding fall, which had left a major hole in Nauru's budget.
"This is not the fault of Taiwan, Australia, or the United States - it's simply that China grabbed the opportunity," Mr Wu said.
He said Taipei was not aware of any bribes given to politicians in Nauru, but noted Beijing has a long track record of "elite capture".
"China is using those kinds of opportunities to influence elites through some not-so-legal means - business opportunities, or bribes, or things like that," Mr Wu said.
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#20261643 at 2024-01-18 08:44:28 (UTC+1)
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Anthony Albanese declares no detention link to Nauru switch
JESS MALCOLM - JANUARY 17, 2024
Anthony Albanese has rejected claims Australia's winding down of its detention facility in Nauru contributed to the island nation recognising the People's Republic of China instead of Taiwan.
The Prime Minister also signalled he did not intervene to try to stop Nauru's impending diplomatic switch, arguing the Pacific state was free to make decisions for itself as a sovereign nation.
The comments come after Taiwan's Deputy Foreign Minister claimed Nauru requested a large amount of economic aid before its diplomatic switch to recognise China to cover the financial gap left by the mothballing of Australia's offshore immigration processing facility in the country.
The federal opposition and security experts have urged Mr Albanese to reveal whether he had any interactions with the island nation, warning Australia must help immunise smaller states from China's cashbook diplomacy in the Pacific.
Mr Albanese on Wednesday said Australia's decision to wind down the facility was a good one for taxpayers. And on Nauru's switch to Beijing from Taipei, he said: "That's a decision for Nauru as a sovereign government. We respect decisions that they make."
The comments come after The Australian revealed Labor would spend up to $350m a year keeping the Nauru detention centre open even when it was empty so it could use Tony Abbott's Operation Sovereign Borders to deter people-smugglers from sending boats to Australia.
The last asylum-seeker at the offshore detention centre left the facility last June, but the government said it remained "committed to an enduring regional processing capability in Nauru".
Security experts have urged the Albanese government to establish a Tuvalu-style treaty with Nauru in order to prevent the ?island nation from being left vulnerable to Chinese coercion.
Mr Albanese would not commit to pursuing an economic and security pact with the Pacific country but pledged to continue discussions "respectfully".
He said Labor's ramped-up climate targets had given the government a foot in the door with Australia's Pacific partners.
"Well, what we do is when we talk to countries about international agreements, we talk to them directly, we don't talk at press conferences," he said.
But Strategic Analysis Australia director Michael Shoebridge said Mr Albanese should be upfront about Australia's policy direction in the Pacific rather than hide behind claims he did not want to reveal details of private conversations with leaders.
"I don't think saying you can't comment on what's going on behind closed doors helps anyone. Why not say something positive like saying Australia is open to an economic arrangement with smaller pacific states if they are interested," Mr Shoebridge said.
"It's not giving away secret conversations but is y saying Australia has a policy direction and is doing something about it. You've got to wonder whether he doesn't know what he is doing or thinks it's smart to say nothing."
Nauru's surprise diplomatic shift came just two days after Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party retained the presidency in national elections in a rebuff to China. It leaves Taiwan with just 12 countries that recognise it diplomatically.
A spokeswoman for China's Foreign Ministry refused to say how much money Beijing had agreed to give Nauru.
"As a sovereign country, the Republic of Nauru independently made the right choice," spokeswoman Mao Ning said.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/anthony-albanese-declares-no-detention-link-to-nauru-switch/news-story/1d282e8de5e08801d6a727f4ca9aca2d
#20256878 at 2024-01-17 08:49:03 (UTC+1)
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Nauru asked for cash help, Taiwan says
JESS MALCOLM, WILL GLASGOW and BEN PACKHAM - JANUARY 16, 2024
Taiwan says Nauru requested a large amount of economic aid ?before its diplomatic switch to recognise China to cover the ?financial gap left by the mothballing of Australia's offshore immigration processing facility.
Taiwan's Deputy Foreign Minister, Tien Chung-kwang, revealed the request as Australia's Pacific Minister Pat Conroy said the government learned of Nauru's impending diplomatic switch before it was announced.
Mr Conroy said on Tuesday that Nauru had given Australia "a heads-up that a decision had been made", but he said the Pacific ?microstate didn't ask for additional funds to prevent the ?diplomatic switch.
"This was a decision by the sovereign government of Nauru and we respect their decision," Mr Conroy said.
Security experts and the ?opposition have urged the Albanese government to reveal what interactions it had with the island nation before the decision was made, warning Australia needed to work harder to stamp out China's cashbook diplomacy in the Pacific.
Mr Tien confirmed Nauru had asked Taipei for a substantial economic aid package, reported to be worth $125m, to cover the funding shortfall following Australia's suspension of offshore processing.
He said Beijing had engaged in an "ambush" and suggested the Chinese government had agreed to Nauru's request.
Mr Tien said Nauru had also sought funding to deal with the upcoming departure of Australia's Bendigo Bank - the island's only financial institution - in ?December 2024.
The Australian government said at the time that it would support Nauru to find alternative providers of banking services.
Nauru's surprise diplomatic shift came just two days after Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party retained the presidency in national elections in a rebuff to China.
It leaves Taiwan with just 12 countries that recognise it diplomatically, including just three in the Pacific - Tuvalu, Palau and the Republic of the Marshall ?Islands.
Mr Conroy said Australia had improved its relationships with Pacific nations under the Albanese government, pointing to the landmark bilateral treaty between Australia and Tuvalu, and the recent Australia-Papua New Guinea security agreement.
He said the majority of Pacific Island Forum member states - including Australia - had diplomatic relations with China, "and we've got excellent relations with every Pacific island nation".
The US said Nauru's decision was "a disappointing one", and warned China's promises of financial aid might not eventuate.
"The PRC often makes promises in exchange for diplomatic relations that ultimately remain unfulfilled," the US State Department said.
A spokeswoman for China's Foreign Ministry refused to say how much money Beijing had agreed to give Nauru.
"As a sovereign country, the Republic of Nauru independently made the right choice," spokeswoman Mao Ning said.
China's propaganda outlet, The Global Times, editorialised Nauru's decision was a "slap in the face to some ill-intentioned moves made by very few US-led Western countries aiming to turn the Taiwan question into an international topic and to continue playing 'the Taiwan card' in containing the Chinese mainland".
Strategic Analysis Australia director Michael Shoebridge said the change was a strategic blow for Australia that left Nauru vulnerable to Chinese coercion.
He urged the Albanese government to establish a wide-ranging treaty with Nauru - similar to the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union. "The main question is what level of negotiation is going on with Nauru to make sure the country is in a sustainable economic future that removes it from being aid-dependent on Chinese cash or offshore processing," Mr Shoebridge said.
Lowy Institute Pacific Island program director Meg Keen said Australia's shift from offshore refugee processing "resulted in a large financial shortfall for Nauru that it was looking to fill".
Professor Keen warned Australia must now shore up its relationship with Nauru to ensure the change in recognition "does not create strategic surprises".
"China clearly made an attractive offer beyond what Taiwan was willing to give," Professor Keen said.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/nauru-asked-for-cash-help-taiwan-says/news-story/e16787a530b28660df3e519c27913d35
#20251127 at 2024-01-16 10:13:10 (UTC+1)
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Nauru severs ties with Taiwan, switches diplomatic allegiance to China
Eryk Bagshaw - January 15, 2024
Nauru has switched its diplomatic allegiance from Taiwan to China, securing a major diplomatic coup for Beijing just 48 hours after Taiwan elected its rival in a presidential election.
Nauru President David Adeang said on Monday evening (AEDT) that the Pacific island would no longer recognise Taiwan as a separate country and that it was an inalienable part of China's territory.
"The government of the Republic of Nauru today announces that, in the best interests of the Republic and people of Nauru, we will be moving to the One-China Principle," the Nauruan government said in a statement.
"This means [we] will sever 'diplomatic relations' with Taiwan as of this day and no longer develop any official relations or official exchanges with Taiwan."
Nauru was one of only a handful of countries to recognise Taiwan after years of diplomatic and economic pressure from Beijing that has whittled down its diplomatic partners, including some of Australia's closest neighbours.
The Solomon Islands switched its allegiance from Taiwan to Beijing in 2019 and has since signed a series of security, trade and infrastructure deals with the Chinese government.
Australia has not had official ties with Taiwan since 1972 when it established diplomatic relations with Beijing, but it only acknowledges rather than recognises China's claim to the democratic island. Nauru's decision leaves Taiwan with only a dozen official diplomatic partners including Tuvalu, Eswatini and Guatemala.
Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it deeply regretted the termination of diplomatic relations with Nauru. "This timing is not only China's retaliation against our democratic elections but also a direct challenge to the international order."
China's foreign ministry said it appreciated and welcomed the Nauru government's decision to sever diplomatic ties with Taiwan. "China is willing to open a new chapter in bilateral relations with Nauru on the basis of its one-China principle."
The decision was announced two days after Taiwan's presidential election where the Democratic People's Party was elected for an unprecedented third term. The DPP and its candidate Lai Ching-te campaigned heavily on resisting Chinese influence over the island, which the Chinese government claims as its own. The Chinese Communist Party has never governed the island but has maintained unification with its neighbour is inevitable and has not ruled out using force if necessary.
Nauru's shift to Beijing is likely to have an impact on diplomatic relations in the Pacific. The former president of Nauru, Baron Waqa, will become the Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum this year. Adeang was a cabinet minister in Waqa's government in 2013.
"This has implications which go beyond the bilateral relationship between Nauru and China and extend to the Pacific Islands Forum," Anna Powles, a Pacific security expert at Massey University in New Zealand said on X.
"The likelihood that Nauru would switch recognition from Taiwan to China has been on the cards for a while; the speed with which Australia pursued the Falepili agreement with Tuvalu last year reflected concerns that Tuvalu was under pressure to switch recognition to China."
In November, Australia and Tuvalu signed the Falepili climate and migration agreement that would allow 280 Tuvaluans to migrate to Australia each year to mitigate the risk of rising sea levels in the Pacific nation as well as a pledge to provide support during natural disasters and public health emergencies.
In exchange, Tuvalu gave Australia effective veto power on Tuvalu entering into security agreements with other countries in a deal widely seen as targeting China.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/nauru-severs-ties-with-taiwan-switches-diplomatic-allegiance-to-china-20240115-p5exh1.html
https://www.facebook.com/republicofnauru/posts/685822440380263
https://www.facebook.com/republicofnauru/videos/689137416732333/
#20092829 at 2023-12-18 09:54:31 (UTC+1)
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Australian Politics and Society - Part 7
>>19995456 'We are sorry': Prime Minister issues apology to thalidomide survivors - Anthony Albanese has delivered a national apology to survivors and their families impacted by the thalidomide tragedy, calling it "one of the darkest chapters in Australia's medical history". The Prime Minister on Wednesday offered a "full, unreserved and overdue" apology to all thalidomide survivors, their families, loved ones and careers and announced Labor would re-start financial support for affected people. Mr Albanese also unveiled a national site of recognition on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra chosen in collaboration with thalidomide survivors to represent the government's commitment to learn from the past
>>19995479 Video: PM apologises to thalidomide victims for 'one of the darkest chapters in Australia's medical history'
>>19995500 Video: Emotional scenes as Anthony Albanese offers a national apology to thalidomide survivors
>>20001913 Video: Dutton demands apology for O'Neil's claims he voted to protect paedophiles - Peter Dutton is demanding an apology from federal Labor ministers who claimed he had voted to protect paedophiles rather than children, even as the federal government scrambles to secure his support for new laws that would return to detention the worst criminal offenders released after the landmark High Court ruling. Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil and Sports Minister Anika Wells both made the claim against Dutton - a former Queensland police officer who had worked in the sex offenders squad - in parliament and during a television interview, prompting a fierce response from the federal opposition leader and his colleagues
>>20008367 'A bucket of dirt dropped on us': Backlash grows to Australia-Tuvalu treaty - Australia is facing an intense backlash to its landmark resettlement and security treaty with Tuvalu, as the island nation's opposition leader Enele Sopoaga vows to scrap the pact in its current form if elected
>>20013200 OPINION: The first Madam President? The woman Biden may fear more than Trump - "Nikki Haley is having a moment. Polling in the key primary state of New Hampshire suggests that the sole female Republican presidential candidate has surged ahead of the charisma-challenged Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has tried to position himself as the alternative to Donald Trump. More significantly, this week Haley received the backing of the political network founded by the Koch brothers, the right-wing businessmen whose vast wealth made them such mighty powerbrokers on the American right. Let us put to one side how the influence of elderly billionaires shows that US politics is not just a gerontocracy but also a plutocracy. David Koch died in 2019, aged 79, while 88-year-old Charles is still active. More germane is that Haley is solidifying her status as Trump's main rival." - Nick Bryant, author of 'When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present' - theage.com.au
>>20018188 Emmanuel Macron says Australia should lift its nuclear ban as Albanese government shuns 2050 nuclear pledge - French President Emmanuel Macron has urged Australia to lift its nuclear ban as the Albanese government shunned a declaration endorsed by more than 20 countries at the UN climate change conference to triple nuclear energy capacity globally by 2050.
>>20018229 Video: Neo-Nazi protest rocks Ballarat as community expresses outrage over march - A group of masked neo-Nazis has shocked a Victorian city after they paraded down a major street with strange demands for an "Australia for the white man"
>>20022688 Video: Long wait for anti-vilification laws as police grapple with neo-Nazis - Tougher anti-vilification laws will not be brought before the Victorian Parliament until the second half of next year as the state grapples with another neo-Nazi demonstration
>>20022713 Video: Masood Zakaria, alleged Alameddine crime figure, deported to Australia - Alleged Alameddine crime figure Masood Zakaria will face an Australian court two years after police allege he escaped the country on a fishing boat and entered Turkey
>>20022724 Australia and France sign military access agreement as post-Aukus tensions ease - Australia and France have promised to grant access to each other's military bases and training facilities in a clear break from their post-Aukus blues
>>20022733 Sub snub forgiven as Australia, France step up defence ties - Australian warships will get access to French naval bases in the Pacific under a new defence cooperation agreement that sweeps away lingering ill-will from the AUKUS pact and boosts Western efforts to counter China's influence in the region
#20092812 at 2023-12-18 09:47:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition
#33 - Part 9
Australian Politics and Society - Part 2
>>19880100 Video: Major Optus outage affects millions of customers
>>19880153 Australian Defence Force renames drones as it weeds out gender-specific language
>>19880192 Video: 'Kill Jews' hate preacher Wissam Haddad (Abu Ousayd) unmasked as Islamic State backer
>>19880211 Tech giant Meta is under fire for repartnering with RMIT FactLab despite complaints about its bias
>>19880247 Video: Former young Liberal turned neo-Nazi Stefan Eracleous accused of making violent Lidia Thorpe video
>>19885915 AFP refer hate-fuelled Al Madina Dawah sermon to terror squad
>>19885961 Pacific Islands Forum: Leaders to push Anthony Albanese for greater climate action
>>19885977 Anthony Albanese wages climate change offensive as Pacific leaders make fossil fuel demands during COP31 bid
>>19885997 Video: Cate Blanchett slams Australia in speech to the European Union
>>19886003 Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth by-passing Northern Territory leaders on Indigenous affairs
>>19886006 NSW Local Government Minister Ron Hoenig suspends Canada Bay mayor Angelo Tsirekas after state watchdog finds he engaged in "serious corrupt conduct"
>>19886046 Rapist's release after High Court decision triggers Senate debate - A Rohingya man convicted of raping a 10-year-old boy has been released on strict visa conditions after winning a High Court legal battle against the Commonwealth to overturn a 20-year-old legal precedent that could prompt the release of more than 90 people the government cannot deport. Immigration Minister Andrew Giles said the government would do everything possible to ensure community safety but couldn't act without the advice of the Solicitor General, who warned the High Court on Wednesday that the cohort featured convicted murderers, sex offenders and people smugglers. Giles said the government had given "quite some thought" to the outcome of the case but declined to outline any solutions, including legislation or special visas, after the Coalition called for an urgent, legislative fix. "The High Court has just handed down a decision which has substantially changed the operation of the law insofar as it relates to immigration detention," he said. "In order to ensure community safety for those who are affected by this, many of whom have committed serious criminal offences, we need to make sure that our response is consistent with the law as set out by the High Court yesterday."
>>19892466 Video: Anthony Albanese trips the light Pacific during delicate diplomatic dance
>>19892474 Anthony Albanese gets down for island fling over climate but declines Treaty of Rarotonga tango
>>19892511 Video: Anthony Albanese offers Tuvalu residents the right to resettle in Australia, as climate change 'threatens its existence'
>>19892530 Australia offers Tuvalu residents special visa in 'groundbreaking' treaty
>>19895452 Video: Australians to pause and reflect this Remembrance Day - Across the nation tomorrow, Australians will mark Remembrance Day with moments of silence and solemn ceremonies for those who died in war and in service of our country. - 9 News Australia
>>19895471 Video: Australians pay their respects on Remembrance Day - Australians are paying their respects today as the nation marks Remembrance Day. The sails of the Opera House were illuminated on Saturday morning with poppies to mark 105 years since the end of World War I. More than 100,000 Australians died in conflict and peacekeeping operations during the four-year battle. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will attend a service at Sydney's Martin Place later today, alongside New South Wales Premier Chris Minns. Meanwhile, Veterans' Affairs Minister Matt Keogh will spend Armistice Day in the UK with Australian soldiers training Ukrainian armed forces. - Sky News Australia
>>19895488 Video: Remembrance Day 2023 - This Remembrance Day, join the world in honouring those who gave their lives in service. Saturday 11 November 2023 marks the anniversary of the Armistice that ended fighting with Germany in World War I. Every year at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, millions around the globe pause in silence to remember the sacrifices many have made so we can enjoy life today. Attend a service, wear a poppy, or observe a minute's silence at 11am, and help keep the legacy of our service people alive. Lest we forget. - RSL Queensland
>>19895531 Australian War Memorial Tweet: Between 1914 - 18 Australia sent 414,000 of their citizens to face the horrors of modern industrialized war. By 1918, almost 62,000 Australians lay dead among the mud and destruction of the trenches in Europe, the sands of Sinai, Palestine and Syria. Lest We Forget.
#19581598 at 2023-09-20 10:47:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition
>>19581594
2/2
Australia 'behind the eight ball'
The climate summit has been convened by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to showcase leaders from across government, business, finance, and society who are making concrete actions to keep alive the Paris Agreement goal of curbing global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
In July, Mr Guterres said the Earth had transitioned from global warming to "the era of global boiling".
It is expected that some countries will use the summit to call on other nations to sign onto a first-of-its-kind fossil fuels non-proliferation treaty - a push from Pacific countries Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Tonga, Fiji, Niue and the Solomon Islands asking global leaders to phase out coal, gas and oil production.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Jenny McAllister, are in New York to attend the UN General Assembly and the climate summit. It is not clear whether they have been invited to address the summit.
Senator Wong, questioned by a reporter outside the summit, said Australia was trying to undertake "a big transition in a short space of time".
"We will be, by 2030, in excess of 80 per cent renewable energy - when we came to government, we were just over 30 per cent," Senator Wong said.
"We recognise our history and the nature of our economy … we are genuinely motivated to change that."
In a statement, Ms McAllister said Australia was part of the international fight against climate change.
"I look forward to promoting Australia's constructive role on climate change at home, in the Pacific and beyond as we build momentum towards this year's Conference of the Parties [COP] in Dubai," she said.
Dr Wesley Morgan, senior researcher at the Climate Council, is an expert in multilateral cooperation on climate change and said although Australia likes to think of itself as a leader on climate change, Pacific nations have been the real leaders for decades.
"Australia likes to claim it is a leader, but in contrast to the Pacific global climate leadership, Australia is a global climate laggard and unfortunately, is still behind the eight ball," he said.
"The Pacific Island countries are the reason why we have the Paris Agreement and [it] is the only means we have to cooperate globally to cut emissions."
Dr Morgan said that although the New York climate summit is a long way from the lived realities of Pacific communities, "the link is direct and it is crucial".
"It is global summits like these that are crucially important for setting an agenda for moving away from coal, oil and gas and shifting to a global clean energy economy and that will mean survival for Pacific Island communities," he said.
Dr Denniss said that Australia had the resources to be a Pacific leader on climate change, but it was yet to prove itself.
"Australia still spends around $11 billion a year on fossil fuel subsidies, yet when it comes to supporting Pacific nations with climate finance, and indeed disaster recovery, we spend a tiny percentage of that on our Pacific neighbours," he said.
"I don't blame them for wishing Australia would show leadership in this front, but to be clear, after decades, there's no sign that that's what Australia wants to become."
Dr Denniss said the United Nations climate summits could achieve better outcomes if grassroots organisations were better platformed.
"I think that they do a better job these days of including diverse opinions, particularly from grassroots organisations in smaller countries. But I don't think for a minute that those groups have anything like the access that the fossil fuel industry has, that big business has," he said.
"If leaders spent more time talking to community organisations that represent people that really are in the frontline of the climate catastrophe ... and less time listening to fossil fuel executives explaining the role that gas has to play in tackling climate change ... I think we'd get much better outcomes if we had much broader consultations."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-20/australia-called-to-ramp-up-climate-ambitions-nyt-ad/102876940
https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/nyt_open_letter
#18402299 at 2023-02-24 11:09:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #27: THEY ARE IN FULL BLOWN PANIC MODE Edition
Pacific Islands Forum 'one big family' as leaders meet and select new leader amid intense US-China competition
Stephen Dziedzic and Lice Movono - 24 February 2023
Former Nauru president Baron Waqa - who famously clashed with a Chinese diplomat and accused Beijing of bullying smaller countries - will take the reins of the Pacific's peak regional body next year, after a special Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Fiji.
Prime ministers and presidents from a host of Pacific nations gathered in Nadi on Friday to cement a deal that will see Kiribati formally return to the forum - known as the Suva Agreement - after a prolonged leadership dispute.
Kiribati signed the agreement on Friday night in Nadi - part of a compromise deal which will see the PIF secretary-general position handed to Mr Waqa next year.
Speaking to the ABC on the sidelines of the event, the president of the Federated States of Micronesia David Panuelo said the Pacific family would "never be fractured again".
"We have been extending the olive branch and they [Kiribati] accepted," he said.
Micronesian nations had agreed that Nauru would select the next secretary-general under the pact, and Mr Panuelo confirmed Mr Waqa would take the position from 2024.
"We've considered all the decisions and candidates that members brought in, and we all come in on the full decision," he said.
That decision is likely to stir unease in Beijing, which has been intent on establishing its own regional mechanisms to broaden security and economic ties with the region.
Nauru is one of the four Pacific Island nations which recognise Taiwan rather than China.
A colourful history
When Mr Waqa was Nauru's president and the forum chair in 2018 he had a spectacular confrontation with the head of China's delegation, Du Qiwen, who stormed out of the meeting after being stopped from speaking.
Mr Waqa later accused the Chinese diplomat of trying to speak over Pacific leaders.
"He disrespected the Pacific, the forum island leaders and other ministers who have come to join us in our territory. Are you kidding? Look at him, he's a nobody," he said at the time.
"He's not even a minister and he's demanding to be recognised and to speak before the prime minister of Tuvalu. Is he crazy?"
Mr Waqa even threatened to take the matter to the United Nations, saying that China was trying to bully and "dictate" to countries in the Pacific.
He created more headlines at the same meeting when he serenaded New Zealand's then-prime minister Jacinda Ardern with a song.
The former Nauru president has also been enveloped in multiple controversies surrounding Australia's deeply contentious offshore detention processing facility on the island.
Activists also accused Mr Waqa's government of undermining media freedoms and basic civil liberties in Nauru in the wake of the trial of the so-called Nauru 19 protest group.
'Please don't disrupt it again'
The meeting came against a backdrop of intensifying competition between the United States and China in the Pacific.
Both great powers have recently appointed special envoys for the region, while Micronesian leaders earlier this month flagged a likely visit to the region by US President Joe Biden.
Pacific leaders also discussed building stronger ties with Washington, potentially by establishing a new "Special Envoy" office in the US, which would give the Forum Secretariat better access to both the US government and the United Nations in New York.
Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka - who was instrumental in bringing Kiribati back into the organisation after travelling to the country in June to meet President Taneti Maamau - said he gave a clear message to fellow Pacific leaders during the meeting.
"Now we're back together, please don't disrupt it again," he said.
The next PIF leaders meeting will be held later this year in Cook Islands.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-24/pacific-islands-forum-elects-new-leader/102019112
#18046091 at 2022-12-31 08:48:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #27: THEY ARE IN FULL BLOWN PANIC MODE Edition
#26 - Part 16
Australia / China Tensions - Part 2
>>17481688 Foreign Minister Penny Wong calls for Beijing to address the damning findings in an authoritative UN investigation into China's widespread human rights atrocities in Xinjiang
>>17481704 Gathering of cardinals 'silent' on fate of fellow prelate Joseph Zen - Senior German Cardinal Gerhard Mueller has slammed Pope Francis and this week's consistory of cardinals at the Vatican for remaining silent about the plight of Hong Kong cardinal Joseph Zen, facing an "unfair trial'' in Hong Kong under Chinese law
>>17481719 Papua New Guinea has flagged expansion of the joint Manus Island naval base under a renewed Australia-PNG security partnership, and warned Solomon Islands to "really think carefully" about putting its China relationship ahead of its ties with Australia and the US
>>17481731 Analysis: Unpredictable Solomon Islands fuels U.S. concern as China's influence grows - Kirsty Needham - reuters.com
>>17481753 Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare fast-tracks bill to amend constitution and delay elections
>>17481780 U.S. Coast Guard Arrives for Planned Port Visit in Cairns, Australia - The Sentinel-class fast response cutter USCGC Oliver Henry (WPC 1140) crew arrived in Cairns on Aug. 31, for engagements with Australian Defence and Home Affairs partners and local representatives
>>17487755 'Severely jeopardises peace': US angers China with billion dollar arms sale to Taiwan - News of the potential sale came as it was also announced that US President Joe Biden would host leaders of Pacific Island nations at a September 28-29 gathering in Washington in the latest US effort to step up ties with the region increasingly courted by China
>>17487779 Beijing-backed autocracy in our backyard with 'Cuba in the Pacific - Dave Sharma, former Liberal MP for Wentworth and ambassador to Israel from 2013-2017 - theaustralian.com.au
>>17487831 'It's an honour': US Coast Guard ship makes historic stopover - Fresh from Torres Strait operations, US Coast Guard cutter Oliver Henry arrived in Cairns after being turned away from the Solomon Islands amid a new ban on warship visits. How Cairns welcomed the ship and crew.
>>17487990 Video: PLA, the People's Liberation Army of China, Peace-Loving Army. - "PLA, the People's Liberation Army of China. Peace-Loving Army, for the Chinese people and people of the world." - SpokespersonCHN, Sep 3 2022
>>17488001 Video: 1989: Tiananmen Square protests - Student protests in Tiananmen Square ended when Chinese troops fired on crowds, killing hundreds and wounding thousands. - CNN, Oct 7 2010
>>17488005 Video: Archive: Chinese troops fire on protesters in Tiananmen Square - First broadcast 4 June 1989. Chinese troops opened fire on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Saturday evening. The collection of students and labourers had been occupying the site for several weeks. - Despite the outbreak of "unremitting gunfire", the protesters refused to leave. The BBC's Kate Adie reports from the scene. - BBC News, Jun 5 2014
>>17488011 Tiananmen Square: Watch The 1989 Report On The Crackdown - It's 25 years since protests in Tiananmen Square, China, were brought to a bloody end by soldiers who killed hundreds of unarmed civilians. Sky News, Jun 4 2014
>>17494507 Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil orders her department to investigate harvesting of data by social media giant TikTok amid growing concern that staff in China can access the personal information of Australians
>>17499268 Hostage diplomacy in Xi's China - Two years after she was detained, Australian journalist Cheng Lei is still in prison in Beijing with no family contact.
>>17499288 Solomon Islands says Australia, New Zealand exempt from navy ship moratorium despite China security pact
>>17499296 Tiny Tuvalu to 'stand firm' with Taiwan as Pacific competition hots up - Tuvalu Prime Minister Kausea Natano pledged on a trip to Taiwan to "stand firm" on a commitment to lasting ties, drawing Taiwan's thanks at a time of growing competition as China expands its influence in the region
>>17499305 U.S. President Joe Biden will host leaders of Pacific Island nations at a Sept. 28-29 gathering in Washington, the latest U.S. effort to step up ties with the region increasingly courted by China
>>17504291 Honiara reacts angrily after Australia offers to help fund Solomon Islands election amid moves to postpone the poll - The Solomon Islands government has slammed an Australian offer to fund national elections next year, calling it an "assault" on its democracy and an attempt at foreign interference.
>>17504297 Kiribati suspends all Court of Appeal judges after row over attempts to deport High Court justice David Lambourne to Australia
#16704978 at 2022-07-10 09:51:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research Australia #25: My Koala Hates Spam Too Edition
>>16500004 (pb)
Exclusive: Pacific Islands Forum crisis as Kiribati withdraws
Barbara Dreaver - 10 July 2022
1News can reveal Kiribati has withdrawn from the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) with immediate effect, plunging the regional body in to crisis.
The news comes despite increased efforts by island leaders over the past few days to persuade the country to stay.
Kiribati was one of five Micronesian nations which announced it would be leaving the forum last year, after feeling sidelined by bigger countries.
In a leaked letter to Secretary General of the forum, Kiribati President, Taneti Maamau said the country had decided to leave due to four key reasons.
These included the regions "reluctance" to address concerns over the appointment of Cook Islander, Henry Puna to the secretary general role, despite it being promised to Micronesia.
Concerns were also raised over reform packages made under the Suva agreement last month, which aimed to restore political unity and encourage Micronesian countries to remain in the forum. The Kiribati President said his country did not sign the deal.
"There was never a Micronesian Presidents' Summit (MPS) caucus decision on the PIF reform packages that Kiribati was part of, and particularly an MPS collective decision to return to the PIF", he said.
The President also requested for the forum to be deferred, due to it coinciding with Kiribati National day, but said this request was never considered or acknowledged.
"Solidarity and unity as a region is dependent on how we treat each other with profound respect and understanding," Maamau said.
The news of the island nation's withdrawal has shocked other Pacific leaders.
1News revealed the departure to Niuean Premier, Dalton Tagelagi, who said he was "sad to hear" of its exit, and "can only pray for and comfort Kiribati".
Tuvalu's Foreign Minister, Simon Kofe said he hopes the country will reconsider its decision.
"I think it's critical because the way we operate in the forum is that we want to reach consensus on all issues and if one of our members is not happy with that we have to keep trying our hardest to get them on board".
Official sources told 1News Kiribati has become increasingly isolated and has refused to engage at a diplomatic level.
There are growing suspicions Beijing is behind the country's exit, with Kiribati strategically important to China due to nearby US Military installations and marine resources.
Massey University lecturer, Anna Powles said having an ally outside of the forum would benefit China.
"There are checks and balances that exist within regionalism that are incredibly important for ensuring the stability of the wider Pacific family. Now to be outside those mechanisms it would be a benefit for a country like China".
Nauru has also confirmed it will not attend due to a Covid-19 outbreak on the island, while the Marshall Islands will miss the forum due to legal issues.
The 51st Pacific Island Forum will begin tomorrow and run to July 15 in Fiji's capital, Suva.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/07/10/exclusive-pacific-islands-forum-crisis-as-kiribati-withdraws/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qjMIQuOpV8
#16543873 at 2022-06-28 10:05:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #23: HOUSE OF CARDS Edition
>>16534625
Australia commits to Pacific islands defence training as China plans rival meet
Kirsty Needham - June 28, 2022
SYDNEY, June 28 (Reuters) - Australia will set up a defence school to train Pacific island militaries, Canberra's new Pacific minister said, amid mounting competition for security ties in the region and as China lays plans for a rival meeting to next month's Pacific Islands Forum.
Australia will double its funding for aerial surveillance of the Pacific islands vast fishing zone, and provide financing for Pacific islands to build more resilient infrastructure as Pacific sea level rises are forecast to be four-times the global average, Minister for International Development and Pacific, Pat Conroy, told a Pacific conference on Tuesday.
"The Australian Government knows that the issue of security is inseparable from the issue of climate change," he said in a video address to the conference in Fiji's capital, Suva.
During the Pacific Islands Forum taking place in Suva next month, regional leaders are expected to discuss China's push to strike a trade and security deal with 10 Pacific island nations that hold diplomatic ties with China.
A leaked draft of the deal showed it covered fisheries and maritime security as well as police training.
The forum includes Australia and New Zealand, which have expressed concern at China's recent security deal struck with the Solomon Islands, as well as several nations that recognise Taiwan and not Beijing.
China, which is not a PIF member, is seeking to host a video meeting with the 10 nations it wants to sign to a multilateral pact on July 14, to coincide with the final day of the PIF leaders meeting, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
The political leadership dialogue planned by the Communist Party's international department also coincides with the day a communique would be expected to be issued by the forum leaders. It is unknown if the meeting with China will go ahead, after some nations were reported to be upset by the timing.
China's foreign ministry didn't immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment, but on Monday denied its foreign minister would host a meeting.
A similar event last year was hosted by the minister for the Communist Party's international department.
Tensions between China and the island states that hold diplomatic ties with Taiwan were highlighted when Tuvalu's foreign minister withdrew from a United Nations oceans conference on Monday after China blocked three Taiwanese members in the Tuvalu delegation from attending.
Conroy said the Pacific Islands Forum had brought the region together for 50 years, and it was "the heart of Pacific regionalism".
Ahead of the meeting, he outlined the new Australian government's commitments to support the region, including an Australia Pacific Defence School would provide training for defence and security forces.
The pledge, first made at the election, to double funding for aerial surveillance of the Pacific exclusive economic zones would increase maritime security and recoup US$150 million lost each year to illegal fishing, he said.
Australia worked with Pacific island nations on a break-through agreement at the World Trade Organisation this month to restrict fishing subsidies, used by China's high-seas fishing fleet, that had encouraged unsustainable over-fishing, he said.
"This will be good news for the Pacific Ocean environmentally - and it will be good news for Pacific countries economically," he said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australia-commits-pacific-islands-defence-training-china-seeks-rival-meeting-2022-06-28/
#16534625 at 2022-06-27 09:23:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #23: HOUSE OF CARDS Edition
China pushes for Pacific foreign ministers meeting at same time Pacific Islands Forum meets
Stephen Dziedzic - 27 June 2022
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China is making an audacious attempt to muscle in on the Pacific's most important high-level gathering, pushing for a meeting with the region's foreign ministers on the same day leaders come together in Fiji for the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF).
The ABC has been told that Beijing has invited ministers from all 10 Pacific Island states it has diplomatic relations with to a virtual meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on July 14.
The timing is deeply contentious because that is the same day Pacific leaders are due to hold their final retreat at the end of the Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Fiji's capital Suva.
The PIF leaders meeting is particularly crucial this year because it is their first in-person gathering since the pandemic hit in 2020.
They last met face-to-face in Tuvalu in 2019.
The forum is also hoping to use the meeting in Fiji to heal a damaging internal split over leadership after a small group of leaders struck an interim deal in Suva earlier this month.
It has already moved to postpone a formal in-person dialogue with PIF dialogue partners - including the United States and China - partly because some Pacific representatives do not want intensifying geo-strategic competition in the region to weigh too heavily on the meeting in Fiji.
Pacific leaders push back against China's meeting proposal
But Beijing's proposal to hold its own meeting with the Pacific leaders during the forum seems to signal that the Chinese Foreign Ministry remains determined to push forward its agenda during a crucial week of regional diplomacy.
One Western government official told the ABC that at least two Pacific Island states were pushing back against the proposal because they did not believe the timing was appropriate.
Pacific Island foreign ministers last met the Chinese minister just one month ago, when he hosted them for a virtual meeting from Fiji in the midst of a long Pacific tour.
Mr Wang was forced to shelve a sweeping regional economic and security pact with the Pacific in the wake of that meeting after some countries raised concerns.
Federated States of Micronesia President David Panuelo warned the deal could stoke geopolitical tensions and undermine the sovereignty of the Pacific, while Samoa's Prime Minister, Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, suggested the process had been rushed.
Pacific expert Anna Powles from Massey University told the ABC "very little" was currently known about the meeting but it seemed to be part of China's broader attempts to sideline the PIF.
"It appears to be an attempt to deliberately disrupt existing regional mechanisms which China is not a part of," she said.
"The proposed economic and security pact between China and the 10 Pacific countries reflected Beijing's interest in creating competing regional mechanisms.
"Scheduling a meeting to be held on the final day of the PIF leaders meeting could be seen in this light."
Dr Powles predicted the meeting was "unlikely" to go ahead given some Pacific nations were uncomfortable with the idea.
"This also suggests that Beijing hasn't learned any lessons from overplaying it's diplomatic hand in May," she said.
"Attempting to sideline the PIF is unlikely to be received well in the Pacific and will be regarded as disruptive."
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#15098172 at 2021-11-29 05:47:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #19 - THE ONLY WAY IS THE MILITARY Edition
>>15076199
Opinion: Solomon Islands intervention is always about the China factor
The competition between Beijing and Taipei that destabilises the region means we should maintain a presence in Honiara for quite a while.
Alexander Downer - Nov 28, 2021
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The Australian government has made a sensible decision to send troops and police to the Solomon Islands to quell the rioting in Honiara.
It's to the credit of Prime Minister Scott Morrison that he has acted without hesitation. Order will be restored quickly and the Solomon Islands public will be thankful for that.
The events of recent weeks should be a stark reminder that Australian foreign policy must always have a significant focus on the Pacific islands. We have to invest considerable time and resources in keeping the region stable. If we don't, no one will.
The recent crisis in the Solomon Islands also reminds us that in the diplomacy of the Pacific there's always a China factor. But it's not what many commentators think. It's not that Beijing is trying to exercise influence in the Pacific to threaten the security of Australia and its allies.
China's interest is to lever all the Pacific island countries away from Taiwan. It's had great success in recent years, leaving Taiwan with just Nauru, Palau, Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands as diplomatic partners.
Over the years, this competition between Taipei and Beijing has been an irritant to Australia. Both sides have been offering inducements and, to be frank, bribes to try to win Pacific island countries over to their side.
In my time as foreign minister, these inducements undermined much of the work we were doing through our aid program to try to improve governance in the Pacific.
Indeed, at one stage, the then prime minister of Papua New Guinea, Michael Somare, started toying with the idea of switching PNG's recognition from Beijing to Taipei. I could only guess why he thought that might be a good idea, and my guess didn't boil down to geopolitics!
So back to the Solomon Islands. Between 1998 and 2003, the Solomon Islands gradually descended into chaos as the people of the island of Malaita and those of the neighbouring island of Guadalcanal took up arms against each other.
It worried me. There was no outside power which could bring stability to the Solomon Islands other than Australia. Within the Australian government, particularly in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the Defence department, there was a lively debate about whether we should directly intervene to restore peace.
The prevailing view was that if we did send in troops and police at the invitation of the Solomon Islands government, we would not have an exit strategy. We would be stuck there.
For a long time, I accepted this advice. We would try to bring peace to the Solomon Islands using our aid budget and diplomacy. But by 2003 it became clear none of this was working. That year, the then Solomon Islands prime minister wrote to John Howard asking for Australia to intervene. I asked DFAT for its advice.
The advice was clear: we should not intervene. But days later, I was at the Aldgate Pump hotel in the Adelaide Hills with my family having dinner when John Howard rang on my mobile. What do you think we should say in response to this request from the Solomon Islands to intervene? he asked.
I told him of the DFAT advice and said my instinct was different. We had refused to do so for years and the situation was just getting worse. We may not have an exit strategy, but we could afford to stay there for a long time. Howard said he had been thinking exactly the same thing, and what became known as RAMSI - the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands - was born.
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#13884677 at 2021-06-12 08:21:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #16 - INFILTRATION NOT INVASION Edition
>>13884674
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It was not one of Ren's better-received posts. Most of China's nationalistic netizens were on Zhao's side. But the China-heavy agenda at this weekend's G7 summit in Cornwall suggests Ren had a point, as do the invitations given to Australia, India and South Korea - three countries that have been on the receiving end of Xi's assertive approach.
Scott Morrison is particularly keen to discuss matters with fellow "like-minded" countries after more than 12 months of Chinese trade attacks.
Even Xi seems to think it is time for some tinkering.
At a politburo study session last week, he told his senior colleagues that China needed to tell its story better and win the struggle to be more "loveable".
"It is necessary to make friends, unite and win over the majority, and constantly expand the circle of friends (when it comes to) international public opinion," he told the politburo, according to China's official news agency Xinhua.
Diplomacy vs the cult of personality
China's Paramount Leader is clearly frustrated with the country's image in the developed world. But there is no indication that his anxious diplomats - in Canberra and elsewhere - will be allowed to do their jobs in a less rigid, more flexible manner.
Creative diplomacy is the antithesis of a cult of personality or the "self-criticism" sessions that are the hallmarks of the Xi era.
Martin says that while people should be open to the possibility that Beijing will change its approach, the cause of tensions between China and the developed world go far beyond diplomatic niceties. There's Xi's abolition of term limits. There's his extraordinary crackdown on dissenting voices. And there's the obsession with Marxist ideology, Leninist control and Xi's own brilliance - including his hardline and "totally correct" approach to dealing with Uighurs in Xinjiang.
"I'm not sure there's any way even the most skilled Chinese diplomat could sell those policies to a Western audience in a way that would be persuasive," says Martin.
While the big picture is uncertain, the small stuff is much more clear: China's civilian army is going to keep sweating about it.
In recent years, China's diplomats have busied themselves defending the motherland's honour against claims by South Korea that it invented fermented cabbage, "so-called kimchi".
Others have demonstrated Beijing's might by storming out of a meeting when the President of Nauru (population 13,000) let the Prime Minister of Tuvalu (population 12,000) speak before the representative of China (population 1.4 billion).
Martin says one of the key lessons of his more than four years of research for the book - which draws on scores of never-before-translated autobiographies - is that for Chinese diplomats, there is no such thing as a low-stakes encounter.
"We have this image that Chinese statesmen think in decades, not years. They are strategic and not caught up in tactics," he says.
"But when you read these memoirs and you listen to accounts of these events, you realise, no, they are deep in the weeds - all the time."
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/wolves-in-the-weeds-as-beijings-harsh-diplomacy-backfires/news-story/bfedbc5526195cb3185693d3dcc10c96
#13562245 at 2021-05-02 07:08:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #15 - NEVER RETREAT FROM THE BATTLEFIELD Edition
>>13562235
2/2
With the paranoid foreign policy against China, Australia will inevitably ignore the real needs of Pacific island countries. During the Pacific Islands Forum in August 2019, Australia emphasized on China-related issues but could not give clear responses on climate change issues which Pacific island countries are most concerned about. Many Pacific island countries such as Tuvalu, Palau and Vanuatu accused Australia of not responding well to climate change. The forum, an important platform for Australia to exert regional influence, is facing a crisis since the election of the secretary general did not comply with rotation rules. In February, five countries including Palau, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, and Nauru pulled out of the Pacific Islands Forum.
Facing the severe challenges of order in the South Pacific region, Australia did not shoulder the responsibilities of a regional power at a critical moment. Instead, the focus of its foreign policy was to confront China.
Most Pacific island countries are still developing and underdeveloped countries. Due to historical and geographic reasons, these countries have faced many constraints in their development, and their economic and social development levels are still low. They will need cooperation and help from the international community for a long time in the future. Although Australia is the biggest donor in the South Pacific, it cannot meet the Pacific island countries' development needs all by itself.
China's huge advantages in infrastructure construction, clean energy development and digital economy are vital to the Pacific island countries' economic and social development. Facing the impact of the COVID-19, China's cooperation with Pacific island countries in public health is also strengthening. China has assisted the region with many urgently needed materials in the COVID-19 fight, and has offered to donate COVID-19 vaccines to countries such as Fiji and Solomon Islands. If Australia wants to win trust and respect from Pacific island countries, it should first focus on people's urgent needs and the practical difficulties faced by these countries.
Australia should become realistic and view China's relations with Pacific island countries from the perspective of a win-win cooperation rather than confrontation. If Australia pressures Pacific island countries to choose sides, it will not only intensify the rift in the South Pacific region, but will also further weaken its own reputation and influence in the region.
The author is executive research fellow at Center for Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. opinion@globaltimes.com.cn
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202105/1222551.shtml
#10563761 at 2020-09-08 08:07:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #9 - Welcome to the Digital Battlefield Edition
>>10563752
2/2
Second, unlike 114 countries around the world, Morrison remains hell-bent on ignoring the central promise of Paris: that all governments increase their 2030 targets by the time they get to Glasgow. That's because even if all those commitments were fully implemented, it would only give the planet one-third of what is necessary to keep average temperature increases within 1.5 degrees by 2100, as the Paris Agreement requires. This is why governments agreed to increase their ambition every five years as technologies improved, costs lowered and political momentum built.
In 2014, the Liberal government explained our existing Paris target on the basis that it was the same as what the Americans were doing. In reality, the Obama administration planned to achieve the same cut of 26 to 28 per cent on 2005 emissions by 2025 - not 2030 as we pledged and sought to disguise.
So based on the logic that what America does is this government's benchmark for its global climate change commitments, if the US is prepared to increase it's Paris target (as it will under Biden), so too should we. Biden himself has not just committed the US to the goal of net zero emissions by 2050, but has undertaken to embed it in legislation as countries such as Britain and New Zealand have done, and rally others to do the same.
Unsurprisingly, despite the decisions of 121 countries around the world, Morrison also refuses to even identify a timeline for achieving the Paris Agreement's long-term goal to reach net zero emissions. As the science tells us, this needs to be by 2050 to have any shot of protecting the world's most vulnerable populations - including in the Pacific - and saving Australia from a rolling apocalypse of weather-related disasters that will wreak havoc on our economy.
For our part, the government insists that it won't "set a target without a plan". But governments exist to do the hard work. And politically, it goes against the myriad of support domestically for a net zero by 2050 goal, including from the peak business, industry and union groups, the top bodies for energy and agriculture (two sectors that together account for almost half of our emissions), as well as our national airline, two largest mining companies, every state and territory government, and even a majority of conservative voters.
As Tuvalu's recent prime minister Enele Sopoaga reminded us recently, the fact that Morrison himself looked Pacific island leaders in the eye last year and promised to develop such a long-term plan - a promise he reiterated at the G20 - also shows we risk being a country that does not do what we say. For those in the Pacific, this just rubs salt into the wound of Morrison's decision to blindly follow Trump's lead in halting payments to the Green Climate Fund (something Biden would also reverse), requiring them to navigate a bureaucratic maze of individual aid programs as a result.
Finally, Biden has undertaken to also align trade and climate policy by imposing carbon tariffs against those countries that fail to do their fair share in global greenhouse gas reductions. The EU is in the process of embracing the same approach. So if Morrison doesn't act, he's going to put our entire export sector at risk of punitive tariffs because the Liberals have so consistently failed to take climate change seriously.
Under Trump, Morrison has been able to get one giant leave pass for doing nothing on climate. But under Biden, he'll be seen as nothing more than the climate change free-loader that he is. As he will by the rest of the world. And our economy will be punished as a result.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/scott-morrison-is-yearning-for-a-donald-trump-victory-20200906-p55sxe.html
8chan/8kun QResearch CANADA Posts (1)
#17774678 at 2022-11-15 16:34:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #38: Expose Them All Edition
The "green" agenda is all about depopulating the planet: United Nations considers trying to OUTLAW all fossil fuels on the planet, which would lead to the starvation and death of billions of people
https://www.truth11.com/untitled-650/
The COP27 globalist gathering that recently took place in Egypt came with open calls for a global phase-out of, and eventual ban on, all fossil fuels. Were this to actually happen, billions of people would die.
A tiny, failing island in the South Pacific called Tuvalu (ever heard of it?) made the proposition using the following quoted statement:
"We, therefore, unite with 100 Nobel Peace Prize laureates and 1000s of scientists worldwide to urge world leaders to join the fossil fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, to manage a just transition away from fossil fuels." Continue…
8chan/8kun QResearch FRANCE Posts (1)
#12999229 at 2021-02-19 12:30:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research France #3: Comme la fumée efface Edition
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8chan/8kun QResearch UK Posts (2)
#12992267 at 2021-02-18 23:49:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #32: "Jon's lost his meds" Edition
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#9682141 at 2020-06-20 15:40:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #17: Dragon Energy Activated, Q Posted Here Edition
>>9682097
https://www.popsugar.com/celebrity/photo-gallery/25015522/image/25015781/Prince-William-carried-elevated-chair-Tuvalu
8chan/8kun CBTS Posts (3)
#257934 at 2018-01-09 23:20:57 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #306: Can't Keep Us Down Edition
In light of Q post regarding who AUS is really controlled by:
From 11/5/17 Q post 1st question was:
Who is the Queen of England?
A: Elizabeth II is Queen of the United Kingdom & reigns over Canada, Australia, and New Zealand as Head of State! Additionally, she is Head of the Commonwealth of 12 countries that have become independent since her accession: Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis Other countries Queen Elizabeth II has reigned over include: Pakistan1952-1956 South Africa1952-1961 Ceylon1952-1972 Ghana1957-1960 Nigeria1960-1963 Sierra Leone1961-1971 Tanganyika1961-1962 Trinidad and Tobago1962-1976 Uganda1962-1963 Kenya1963-1964 Malawi1964-1966 Malta1964-1974 The Gambia1965-1970 Guyana1966-1970 Mauritius1968-1992 Fiji1970-1987
The Queen appoints a Governor General to act on her behalf in Australia! That same Governor General in turn appoints the Prime Minister! The Queen has the power to fire the entire Australian government!
People mistake the Queen for only being a figurehead in England quite often! In actuality, SHE is quite powerful! She's the only one with the power to declare war on another country! SHE can pardon people, she can have people arrested & seize their property, she however is immune to any prosecution, she doesn't need a passport to travel yet she controls the issuance & withdrawal of passports, she doesnt even need a license to drive & is exempt from FOIA requests! SHE is in charge of appointing & removing Prime Ministers & Ministers, a bill from parliament cannot even become a law without her approval, she has the power to suspend/summon parliament, she has the power to make someone a lord so that they can have a seat in the upper house of parliament, heck she could dissolve all of parliament, forcing current members out & calling for a new election! ALL of Britain's military forces are commanded by her, she is indeed the commander in chief & ALL swear an oath to serve her, ergo Her Majestys Service, SHE has the power to commission officers & remove commissions! She's the head of a religion, The Church of England, thus can appoint Bishops & Archbishops! She has the power to declare a state of emergency, that which the U.S. calls martial law & call up forces necessary for that purpose! She even controls the regulation of coinage via the Royal mint & it's design in the UK! I would say that's a far cry from just a figurehead!
Queen Elizabeth the second is not the most powerful woman in Britian but the World! She is the Commander in Chief of all her Realms, in NZ, Aus, Ca they swear allegiance to the Queen, not the Government or the people. So All armed forces, police, fireman, Air force, Navy and other government officials are under her command atop her reign in the UK! She may not have exercised this authority but she has the power.>>257932
#54326 at 2017-12-08 15:53:29 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #61 - Pensacola Edition
>>54303
>Consider the source
Yeah, on a Tuvalu Island underwater basketweaving forum.
#39915 at 2017-12-06 00:55:21 (UTC+1)
CBTS GENERAL #44: Be prepared for what you find.
Here's a list of countries w/out RED BANKS.
Relevant?
Also, for whatever reason Uruguay is the only country out of order. In between Libya & Lithuania.
Coincidence?
Relevant?
>Andorra
>Angola
>Antigua and Barbuda
>Burma
>Cabo Verde
>Cayman Islands
>Curacao
>Djibouti
>Dominica
>East Timor
>Eritrea
>Grenada
>Guinea
>Holy See
>Kiribati
>Kosovo
>Laos
>Liberia
>Liechtenstein
>Maldives
>Marshall Islands
>Mauritania
>Micronesia
>Monaco
>Nauru
>North Korea
>Palau
>Palestinian Territories
>Panama
>Saint Kitts and Nevis
>Saint Lucia
>Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
>Sao Tome and Principe
>Sint Maarten
>Somalia
>Syria
>Taiwan
>Timor-Leste
>Turkmenistan
>Tuvalu
>Uganda
endchan qanonresearch Posts (1)
#26137 at 2019-10-29 06:48:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9446: Lindsey and NoName Do Romania Edition
>>26035 /pb
>BOOM
>UN = [U]
>what politicians and countries are involved
'''countries'''
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
The Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cape Verde
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Republic of the Congo
Costa Rica
Ivory Coast
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
North Korea
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
The Gambia
Georgia (country)
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Republic of Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Federated States of Micronesia
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Kingdom of the Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
North Macedonia
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
South Korea
Moldova
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Tajikistan
Thailand
East Timor
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
Tanzania
United States
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe
endchan qrbunker Posts (11)
#148108 at 2024-12-12 13:52:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #468: Donie O' Edition
>>148101
>>148102
>>148103
>>148104
>>148105
>>148106
>>148107
DECEMBER 12, 2018
Judiciary, FBI and Homeland Officials Testify on Chinese Espionage
Top officials with the Homeland Security and Justice Departments as well as the FBI testified on China's non-traditional espionage efforts against the United States. Topics included concerns over China's 2025 industrial and technology strategy, criminal cases against Chinese employees accused of espionage and how the departments can share information more effectively. Later, a second panel of China experts gave policy recommendations and analysis of China's motivations
https://www.c-span.org/video/?455665-1/judiciary-fbi-homeland-officials-testify-chinese-espionage
DECEMBER 12, 2000
Bush Campaign Reaction
Former Secretary of State James Baker said Governor Bush and Secretary Cheney were pleased with the U.S. Supreme Court's 10:00 p.m. decision that there were constitutional problems with the vote recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court. He also expressed their thanks to all the persons who have worked so hard during the past month. He did not answer questions from the media.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?161257-1/bush-campaign-reaction
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Women for America First Rally
Women for America First held a rally in support of President Trump in Washington, D.C., concluding a nationwide bus tour. Speakers included Women for America First chair Amy Kremer, radio host Sebastian Gorka, Trump campaign senior advisor Katrina Pierson, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, and former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne. Also speaking at the rally was former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who was pardoned by President Trump after pleading guilty for lying to the FBI during the Russia investigation.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?507234-1/women-america-rally
December 12, 2024
12 December Is Universal Health Coverage Day
World Health Organization of the United Nations (WHO)
https://www.who.int/campaigns/universal-health-coverage-day
December 12, 2024
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Notre-Dame Cathedral of Paris
https://www.notredamedeparis.fr/en/reopening/octave-reopening/
December 12, 2024
2:00 AM EST
Committee on Science and Technology Plenary - UNCCD COP16 - Adoption of the report of the Committee on Science and Technology (item 7). (ICCD/COP(16)/CST/10).
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1e/k1erbj6als
2:15 AM EST
Committee on Statistics, Ninth Session, Day 2 - Afternoon - The Ninth Session of the Committee on Statistics will be convened in-person at the United Nations Conference Centre, Bangkok, from 11 to 13 December 2024.
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1s/k1so5t6a44
3:30 AM EST
THE HAGUE - The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings in the advisory proceedings on Climate Change - Syrian Arab Republic; Thailand; Timor-Leste; Tonga; Tuvalu and Comoros (Union of) - The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings on the request for an advisory opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change.
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1q/k1qldk3y0v
4:00 AM EST
11th Meeting, 5th Session of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the BWC - The fifth session of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Biological Weapons Convention will take place from 2 to 13 December 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland.
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1p/k1pk883a42
5:15 AM EST
Secretary Antony J. Blinken meets with Jordanian King Abdullah II
Aqaba, Jordan
https://www.state.gov/public-schedule-december-12-2024/
5:30 AM EST
Secretary Antony J. Blinken meets with Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi in Aqaba, Jordan.
Aqaba, Jordan
https://www.state.gov/public-schedule-december-12-2024/
== 8 ==
#142053 at 2024-06-25 22:42:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #444: Are You Refusing to Support Me in My Effort Edition
>>142052
>>141056, >>141057
>>141606
'''Clooney Foundation's Docket Project'''
> ...the names of journalists to be prosecuted are not disclosed, so a person may travel to said European country, unaware that there is an arrest warrant out for them.
'''What countries are under British rule today?'''
Commonwealth realm - Wikipedia
As of 2024, there are 15 Commonwealth realms: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Belize, '''Canada''', Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and the United Kingdom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_realm
#140750 at 2024-05-29 12:38:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #440: In Memory of Many, In Honor of All Edition
>>140746
>>140747
>>140748
>>140749
10:00 AM EDT
Launch of the Scoping Study on Independent Civil Society - UN Counterterrorism Engagement - In support of wider civil society efforts to demand more meaningful influence on and engagement with UN counterterrorism efforts, this report presents the results of a year-long consultation process undertaken by the Global Center on Cooperative Security and Rights & Security International in collaboration with a committee of 15 civil society advisors.
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k19/k19uol4eqb
10:00 AM EDT
Briefing by Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Marshall Islands on the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Initiative - SIDS4 (27-30 May 2024 - Antigua and Barbuda) - The fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) is held from 27 to 30 May 2024 in St John's, Antigua and Barbuda. Under the overarching theme of "Charting the course toward resilient prosperity", the Conference aims at assessing the ability of SIDS to achieve sustainable development, including the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals.
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1a/k1af57va2b
10:00 AM EDT
Global center launch event - scoping study UN CSO mechanism - In support of wider civil society efforts to demand more meaningful influence on and engagement with UN counterterrorism efforts, this report presents the results of a year-long consultation process undertaken by the Global Center on Cooperative Security and Rights & Security International in collaboration with a committee of 15 civil society advisors.
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k19/k19uol4eqb
10:00 AM EDT
Gut Microbiota and Kidney Disease Day 2
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
https://calendar.nih.gov/event/view/45332
10:00 AM EDT
NIH Transcription Interest Group Webinars
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
https://calendar.nih.gov/event/view/45798
10:00 AM EDT
Data Visualization in ggplot: Customizations
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
https://calendar.nih.gov/event/view/45637
10:00 AM EDT
Mobile Unit - Enrollment/Benefits Event - Hamilton Outpatient Clinic, Ohio
Veterans Administration
https://www.va.gov/cincinnati-health-care/events/68348/
10:00 AM EDT
Field Hearing, Grand Forks, North Dakota: The Biden Border Crisis - North Dakota Perspectives
House Judiciary Committee
^
WITNESSES:
The Honorable Drew H. Wrigley, North Dakota Attorney General
^
Jesse Jahner, Sheriff, Cass County, North Dakota
^
Rebecca Davis, Executive Director, Wahalla Area Chamber of Commerce
^
Roger Hutchinson, Sheriff, Renville County, North Dakota
^
https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/117373
https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/biden-border-crisis-north-dakota-perspectives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFGdnfon9pk
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House Judiciary Subcommittee Field Hearing on Impact of Border Crisis on North Dakota
A House Judiciary subcommittee holds a field hearing on the impact of the border crisis on North Dakota's residents and communities.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?535972-1/house-judiciary-subcommittee-field-hearing-impact-border-crisis-north-dakota
== 5 ==
#134372 at 2023-11-15 13:46:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #408: Run the Gauntlet Edition
>>134369
>>134370
>>134371
9:00 AM EST
Systematic Approaches for ESKAPE Bacteria Antigen Discovery - Day 2
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
https://calendar.nih.gov/event/view/44145
9:00 AM EST
Daily U.S. Agricultural Weather Highlights - Released No Later Than 9:00 a.m. ET Every Day
National Agricultural Statistics Service and World Agricultural Outlook Board, U.S. Department of Agriculture
https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/TODAYSWX.pdf
9:00 AM EST
U.S. House of Representatives: House Session
The House is expected to complete work on 2024 spending legislation funding the Labor, HHS and Education Departments for next year.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?531879-1/house-session
9:00 AM EST
Worldwide Threats to the Homeland
House Homeland Security Committee
^
WITNESSES:
The Honorable Alejandro Mayorkas
Secretary, Department of Homeland Security
^
The Honorable Christopher Wray
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
^
The Honorable Christine Abizaid
Director, National Counterterrorism Center
^
https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/116570
https://homeland.house.gov/hearing/worldwide-threats-to-the-homeland/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVjgdrpk_OE
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Sec. Mayorkas & FBI Dir. Wray Testify on Global Threats
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and National Counterterrorism Center Director Christine Abizaid testify on global threats to the U.S. before a House Homeland Security subcommittee.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?531784-1/sec-mayorkas-fbi-dir-wray-testify-global-threats
9:30 AM EST
Adoption of the Reports - 44th Session of Universal Periodic Review - Adoption of the Reports on Tuvalu, Germany, Djibouti, Canada and Bangladesh
United Nations
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k16/k164twf9ep
9:30 AM EST
ISS Expedition 70 in-flight educational event with the Creative Learning Academy in Pensacola, Florida and NASA flight engineer Jasmin Moghbeli
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
https://www.nasa.gov/nasatv/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg
9:30 AM EST
The Future of Nagorno-Karabakh
House Foreign Affairs Committee
^
WITNESSES:
The Honorable James O'Brien
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs
U.S. Department of State
^
Dr. Alexander Sokolowski
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Europe and Eurasia
U.S. Agency for International Development
^
https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/116574
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/the-future-of-nagorno-karabakh/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuEhHnwTlAg
9:30 AM EST
Oversight of Prudential Regulators
House Financial Services Committee
^
WITNESSES:
The Honorable Michael Barr, Vice Chairman for Supervision, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
^
The Honorable Martin Gruenberg, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
^
The Honorable Todd Harper, Chairman, National Credit Union Administration
^
Mr. Michael Hsu, Acting Comptroller, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
^
https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/116578
https://financialservices.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=409027
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnk7qgMCiTQ
9:30 AM EST
Committee Markup
House Science, Space, and Technology Committee
^
H.R.6213 - To reauthorize the National Quantum Initiative Act, and for other purposes
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6213
https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116525/documents/BILLS-118-ANStoHR6213-L000491-Amdt-ANS.pdf
^
H.R.6131 - Commercial Space Act of 2023
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6131
^
https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/116525
https://science.house.gov/2023/11/markup-h-r-6213-h-r-6131
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbyfKP5krqQ
== 4 ==
#134170 at 2023-11-08 13:38:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #407: la Pucelle Edition
>>134168
>>134169
November 8, 2023
7:00 AM EST
Washington Journal: Open Phones
Viewers commented on the results of the 2023 state elections, including Ohio voters' decision to allow abortion access and wins by Democrats in Virginia and Kentucky.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?531643-2/open-phones&playEvent
November 8, 2023
7:30 AM EST
Washington Journal: Open Phones
Join us with your calls and comments on social media as we review the latest news headlines out of Washington.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?531643-3/open-phones&playEvent
November 8, 2023
7:30 AM EST
WHO Health Dialogue: Plastics in Health Care
World Health Organization of the United Nations (WHO)
https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2023/11/08/default-calendar/who-health-dialogue--plastics-in-health-care
November 8, 2023
8:00 AM EST
American Sunrise Show M-F
Real America's Voice
https://americasvoice.news/
https://rumble.com/v3ug5g5-the-american-sunrise-show-11-8-23.html
November 8, 2023
8:00 AM EST
CMMC Ecosystem Summit
Government Media Executive Group
https://www.govexec.com/events
https://events.washingtontechnology.com/cmmc-summit/
November 8, 2023
8:00 AM EST
Press Briefing: Previewing the 5th U.S.-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
https://www.csis.org/events/press-briefing-previewing-5th-us-india-22-ministerial-dialogue
November 8, 2023
8:00 AM EST
Launch of Analysis and Use of Health Facility Data: Guidance for Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health Programme Managers and Accompanying WHO Capacity Strengthening Materials
World Health Organization of the United Nations (WHO)
https://who.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HFV0aR6eR32CelLs6wxeJA#/registration
https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2023/11/08/default-calendar/analysis-and-use-of-health-facility-data--guidance-for-maternal-newborn--child--and-adolescent-health-programme-managers
November 8, 2023
8:00 AM EST
Con Edison Veterans Meeting - New York, New York
Veterans Administration
https://www.va.gov/outreach-and-events/events/62980/
November 8, 2023
8:00 AM EST
Women as Leaders Series
The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF)
https://usgif.org/women-as-leaders/
November 8, 2023
8:30 AM EST
Tuvalu Review - 44th Session of Universal Periodic Review
United Nations
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k17/k17x512nv2
November 8, 2023
8:30 AM EST
Meeting with the Nuclear Energy Institute, the Nuclear Fuel Facility Industry, and Stakeholders to Discuss Fuel Cycle Regulatory Activities
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
https://www.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg
https://adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/webSearch2/main.jsp?AccessionNumber=ML23299A250
November 8, 2023
9:00 AM EST
2nd Meeting, Informal Open Consultations - Protocol V (CCW) Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War (ERW)
United Nations
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k19/k19nq47wwx
November 8, 2023
9:00 AM EST
How Individual Choices Can Add Up in the Fight Against Climate Change With Eileen Fisher CEO Lisa Williams, Oyster Oyster Chef Rob Rubba and Other Top Leaders
Washington Post Live
https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live/2023/11/08/how-individual-choices-can-add-up-fight-against-climate-change/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V03nwXhjiVI
November 8, 2023
9:00 AM EST
China's Demographic Challenges
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
https://www.csis.org/events/press-briefing-previewing-5th-us-india-22-ministerial-dialogue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-JgROruaBM
November 8, 2023
9:00 AM EST
A Half Decade of Indo-Pacific Strategies: Assessing US Outreach to Allies and Partners
Woodrow Wilson Center
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/half-decade-indo-pacific-strategies-assessing-us-outreach-allies-and-partners
== 3 ==
#131898 at 2023-09-20 12:36:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #396: Happy Lil' UFO Edition
>>131890
>>131891
>>131892
>>131893
>>131894
>>131895
>>131896
>>131897
1:00 PM EDT
Bringing Invisible Populations to Light: Methods for an Inclusive Population Health.
Boston University School of Public Health
https://www.bu.edu/sph/conversations/health-Inequities/bringing-Invisible-populations-to-light-methods-for-an-inclusive-population-health/
1:00 PM EDT
Transforming the Criminal Justice System with Peer Support
Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice
https://bja.ojp.gov/events/transforming-criminal-justice-system-peer-support
1:00 PM EDT
Virtual Hiring Fair: Transportation, Supply, and Logistics
Veterans Administration
https://www.va.gov/outreach-and-events/events/60732/
1:00 PM EDT
Talk Saves Lives
Veterans Administration
https://www.va.gov/outreach-and-events/events/53458/
1:00 PM EDT
The NINDS Topics in Clinical Research Seminar Series Lecture Presents: So, You Are Interested in Writing a K? Suggestions From a Successful Applicant
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
https://calendar.nih.gov/event/view/43931
1:00 PM EDT
MLP: Meritocracy in the Military Services: Accession, Promotion, and Command Selection
House Armed Services Committee
^
WITNESSES:
Panel 1
The Honorable Peter Levine
Former (Acting) Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness
Department of Defense
^
Robert Greenway
Director, Center for National Defense
The Heritage Foundation
^
Will Thibeau
Director, American Military Project at the Center for the American Way of Life
Claremont Institute
^
Panel 2
Lieutenant General Douglas Stitt, USA
Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1
^
Vice Admiral Richard Cheeseman Jr., USN
Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Personnel
^
Lieutenant General Caroline M. Miller, USAF
Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower, Personnel, & Services
^
Dr. Michael Strobl, SES
Assistant Deputy Commandant for Manpower & Reserve Affairs
^
Ms. Katharine Kelley, SES
Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Human Capital
^
https://www.defense.gov/News/Today-in-DOD/Date/2023-09-20/
https://armedservices.house.gov/hearings/mlp-hearing-meritocracy-military-services-accession-promotion-and-command-selection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p57SEFK7350
1:10 PM EDT
Press Conference: Vanuatu, Tuvalu and Others following the Opening Session of the Climate Ambition Summit
United Nations
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1o/k1ofr08qbx
1:15 PM EDT
(Special Meeting on Loss and Damage) Climate Ambition Summit - UNGA78 High-level Week
United Nations
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k17/k17kggiyei
1:15 PM EDT
Ministerial Meeting of GF of Victims of Terrorism
United Nations
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1g/k1g0b6derq
1:30 PM EDT
CCR FYI Seminar Series Dr. Philip Ryan
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services\n
https://calendar.nih.gov/event/view/43945
1:30 PM EDT
The U.S. Army Brass Quintet Masterclass - University of Memphis
University of Memphis
U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own"
https://www.usarmyband.com/calendar
https://usarmyband.com/events/brass-quintet-southern-university-fall-tour
1:50 PM EDT
DINFOS Live Episode 28 - DoD Media Awards Winners
Department of Defense
https://www.dvidshub.net/awards/dma
https://www.dvidshub.net/webcast/32614
2:00 PM EDT
(Thematic Sessions & Closing) Climate Ambition Summit - UNGA78 High-level Week
United Nations
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1b/k1b25j2pr0
2:00 PM EDT
Data at the Edge
Government Media Executive Group
https://www.govexec.com/events
https://events.govexec.com/data-at-the-edge/
2:00 PM EDT
CPTPP and the Future of Trade in the Indo-Pacific
Center for Strategic and International Studies
https://www.csis.org/events/cptpp-and-future-trade-indo-pacific
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH9CQu0iMq4
2:00 PM EDT
2023 Climate Justice and Energy Democracy
Government Media Executive Group
https://www.govexec.com/events
https://www.cityandstateny.com/feature/Climate-Justice-and-Energy-Democracy/?oref=ge-events-upcoming
== 9 ==
#111828 at 2022-11-25 09:37:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #298: Happy Turkey Day!!! Edition
>>111825
oops. wrong video, that's a Chinese vax protester.
This is the correct video
11-23-2022 Tuvalu Has Declared Itself the World's 'First Digital Nation' - WEF propaganda
Also, WTF is that, Fujian Province, China
#111825 at 2022-11-25 09:35:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #298: Happy Turkey Day!!! Edition
11-23-2022 Tuvalu Has Declared Itself the World's 'First Digital Nation' - WEF propaganda
#95206 at 2022-11-11 17:00:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #263: Fresh Q on The Kun, 'Silent Thieves' Edition
>>95195
weird there was just a tsunami exercise in that region yesterday:
Tonga joins first Pacific Wave 2022 Regional Exercise
Eighteen Pacific countries and territories conducted their first-ever regional exercise (PacWave22-PICT) to test new early warning procedures for a potential tsunami arising from volcanic activity in the Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai (HTHH) volcano.
Tonga Meteorological Services (TMS), Government of Tonga joined together with other Pacific Island countries and territories, including Fiji, France New Caledonia, Nauru, Samoa, and Tuvalu, on 10 November in the two-hour long live regional exercise.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre (PTWC) which carries out tsunami procedures and products, for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System, was immediately developed after the catastrophic volcanic eruption in Tonga on January 15 this year.
https://matangitonga.to/2022/11/11/tonga-joins-first-pacific-wave-2022-regional-exercise
https://archive.ph/EmssB
#91673 at 2022-11-08 13:26:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #253: The Swamp Today, ELECTION DAY Edition
US and Allies Vote for Nazism at the UN
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-allies-vote-nazism-un/5798350
Item 66(a) draft resolution A/C.3/77/L.5
Combating glorification of Nazism, Neo-Nazism, and ...
DATE: 4 November 2022
IN FAVOR (105): Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Dem. PR [N.] Korea, Djirbouti, El Salvador, Equatorial Gunea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lao PDR, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Rwanda, St. Kitts, St. Vincent, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Singapore, Solomon Islands, S. Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Surinam, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Trinidad, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uganda, UAR, United Rep. Tanza, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
AGAINST (52): Albania, Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kiribati, Latvia, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, N. Macedonia, Norway, Papua, Poland, Portugal, Rep. Moldova, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, UK, U.S.
ABSTAIN (15): Antigua, Congo, Dominican Rep., Ecuador, Egypt, Mexico, Myanmar, Palau, Panama, Rep. of Korea, Samoa, Serbia, Switzerland, Tonga, Turkiye
ABSENT: Afghanistan, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Comoros, D.R. Congo, Dominica, Eswatini, Gambia, Grenada, Iran, Morocco, St. Lucia, Sao Tome, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, S. Sudan, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Venezuela
#14344 at 2022-07-13 12:33:19 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #80: A Home Away from Home Edition:
10:00 AM EDT
The Impact of the Supreme Court's Dobbs Decision on Abortion Rights and Access Across the United States
House Oversight and Reform Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114986
https://oversight.house.gov/legislation/hearings/the-impact-of-the-supreme-court-s-dobbs-decision-on-abortion-rights-and-access
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIhcUCh1d5M
10:00 AM EDT
Hearings to Examine Reproductive Care in a Post-Roe America, Focusing on Barriers, Challenges, and Threats to Women's Health
Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/senate-event/332850
https://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/reproductive-care-in-a-post-roe-america-barriers-challenges-and-threats-to-womens-health
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIhcUCh1d5M
10:00 AM EDT
Hearings to Examine Proposed Budget Estimates and Justification for Fiscal Year 2023 for the Department of the Interior
Senate Appropriations Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/senate-event/332853
https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/a-review-of-the-fiscal-year-2023-presidents-budget-for-the-department-of-interior
10:00 AM EDT
A Legislative Hearing to Examine S. 1345, the Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Act; S. 2476, the Environmental Justice Air Quality Monitoring Act of 2021; and S. ___, the Public Health Air Quality Act
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/senate-event/332856
https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings?ID=36FFE88D-DAA5-458B-9AB7-B1BEBCCA849C
10:00 AM EDT
Hearings To Examine Certain Pending Nominations
Senate Judiciary Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/senate-event/332849
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/07/13/2022/nominations
10:00 AM EDT
Hearings to examine the nominations of Dean R. Thompson, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to Nepal, Robert F. Godec, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand, Yohannes Abraham, of Virginia, to be Representative of the United States of America to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador, Richard Lee Buangan, of California, to be Ambassador to Mongolia, and Marie C. Damour, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Fiji, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of Kiribati, the Republic of Nauru, the Kingdom of Tonga, and Tuvalu, all of the Department of State
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/senate-event/332848
https://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/nominations071322
10:00 AM EDT
Hearings To Examine Certain Pending Nominations
Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/senate-event/332854
https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2022/7/nomination-hearing
10:00 AM EDT
Full Committee Business Meeting: Reauthorization of the Women Veterans Task Force and Subcommittee Assignments
House Veterans' Affairs Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/115001
10:00 AM EDT
Full Committee Markup
House Veterans' Affairs Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114996
https://veterans.house.gov/events/hearings/07/11/2022/full-committee-markup
10:00 AM EDT
Markup: H.R. 8227, the "Speak Out Act"; H.R. 7566, the "Stop Human Trafficking in School Zones Act"; H.R. 6878, the "Protecting the Health and Wellness of Babies and Pregnant Women Act of 2022"
House Committee On The Judiciary
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/115000
https://judiciary.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=4977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfc9fz_BCBY
10:00 AM EDT
Fintech and Transparency in Small Business Lending
House Small Business Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114979
https://smallbusiness.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=4325
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajTVWynB_5E
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