Current Events-Global warming

https://br.yahoo.com/noticias/d%C3%BAvida-sobre-o-maior-emissor-175435591.html

O Reino Unido, anfitrião da Conferência das Nações Unidas sobre Mudanças Climáticas de 2021 (COP26) em Glasgow, na Escócia, pode ser considerado o local em que o aquecimento global surgiu, já que por volta de 1750 foi o berço da Revolução Industrial movida a carvão -- a forma mais poluente de combustível fóssil.

O país foi o maior emissor de CO2 até 1911, quando os EUA assumiram a primeira posição.

Os EUA continuam sendo um grande emissor desde então, e embora a China os tenha superado em termos de emissões absolutas por ano, no total esta só emitiu cerca de metade do CO2 total gerado pelos EUA desde meados do século 18.

Interesting detail that last one there regarding TOTAL "contribution". I think Joe Branden is willing to accept that responsibility but are the American people?

Current Events-China

https://br.yahoo.com/news/representante-comercial-dos-eua-diz-230302566.html

A China está muito atrasada em suas promessas no acordo de aumentar as compras de bens dos EUA em 200 bilhões de dólares durante 2020 e 2021, em comparação com os níveis de 2017, tendo atingido apenas 60% da meta até 30 de setembro, segundo dados compilados pelo economista comercial Chade Bown, do Instituto Peterson de Economia Internacional

Yea, either they're "late" or they noticeably cut their investments/ties with the US because of Enrique. 

The issue with being the highest "demander" in the world is that it comes with a high rate of dependency on others to feed your wants and that obviously has to include their willingness, or lack thereof. If you're going to have severe demands in order to appease yourself, the least you could do is have your own supportive enough supply chain in case you upset your suppliers. However, the US has been too reliant upon imports for quite a while now because of the fact the dollar still holds its status as world's reserve currency.

Enrique obviously underestimated the importance of the supplier to his high demand nation. Now, I understand the American prerogative in wanting to maintain the status-quo but that has been the case for a few decades now and China has appeared to have taken the role of "standing-up-to-the-bully".

Not only that, but it appears to want to take all the candy the bully took and share it with everyone on the playground which amounts to quite the valiant task.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-how-americas-booming-demand-for-goods-shattered-the-supply-chain-11637242353?mod=home-page

President Biden has pushed the nation’s major ports to operate around the clock, shipping companies are getting fined for containers lingering on port docks, trucking operations are desperately recruiting foreign drivers, and pop-up container yards are hastily being funded in preparation for the holiday season. But beneath the hand-wringing over labor shortages and rusty infrastructure, there is an incontrovertible fact: the current supply-chain chaos is driven by demand. Americans are buying more goods than ever before and the current resources along the supply chain can’t keep up with U.S. shoppers.

Um, yea, to put it in a nutshell, that's well put.

“The technical explanation of what is actually happening doesn’t necessarily make for a very good headline. You get ships outside the harbor, anchors dragging pipelines, empty shelves, Christmas is canceled,” says David Shillingford, chief strategy officer of Everstream Analytics, a supply chain risk analytics company. “But what it really comes down to is Americans having more cash than they’ve had for a very long time, pent up demand, and just more demand than the supply chain is designed for—it’s more a demand problem than anything else.”

I don think it will go as far as Christmas being canceled but it might definitely be a different experience. I think it's more of a supply issue because no matter how much demand you have, if there isn't supply to meet it, then you dont get what you want. It's that simple.

Again, in the law of S & D, the former plays just as important a role as the latter, if not more important, since the latter doesnt materialize without the former. Whereas if the latter doesnt materialize, the former is simply stuck with over-inventory which can be used, consumed, sold elsewhere or disposed of.

China may have been dependent upon US consumption for a long time but they now seem to have leveled off the playing field both domestically and abroad. They have a healthy GDP due to its economic policies being much more fiscally responsible than the US. And here we are, half a century later and things are very different.

And the only way things could swing back on the US's side is if it went back on the gold standard which is practically impossible.

Climate change

In my opinion, all of the propositions to "phase out" carbon emissions, fossil fuels, etc. by 2040 or 2050 are going to be sped up exponentially by some sort of catastrophic, unprecedented environmental disaster. 

Current Events-Global warming

https://www.reuters.com/business/cop/cop26-coal-deals-take-aim-dirtiest-fossil-fuel-2021-11-03/

At least 40 nations pledged on Thursday to phase out use of coal-fired power and stop building plants, but their deal at the COP26 climate summit failed to win support from China, India and other top coal consumers including the US and Australia.

Just a matter of time before they do. You know China likes to hold their diplomatic positions very tight when dealing with issues they view as very important.

Current Events-Babylonian dilemma

https://www.usatoday.com/restricted/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F2021%2F11%2F08%2Fwhat-americans-want-biden-do-next-year-poll%2F6329699001%2F

Ya might have to subscribe in order to see the poll but basically it suggests that of all the things that need to be addressed, what the American people would like to see Joe Branden do is...RESIGN??? Twenty percent of those polled said RESIGN while 11% said he should focus on the economic recovery.

Now mind you, USA Today is inclined to the left. If their poll suggests that, less than a year after he was sworn into office, that's an issue on several fronts due to the overwhelming nature of the problems facing the world but in particular, the US. Things like an energy crisis, immigration crisis, supply chain crisis, and persistent inflation with the prospect of it becoming hyper.

Not to mention an employment crisis exacerbated by the COVID mandates and COVID itself!

Oh, and that's just INTERNAL strife. 

China and Russia are actual threats to US security according to its own Secretary of Defense. What's more concerning is that those two pose multiple threats, least of which, realistically, is the military one. That's correct. The MILITARY threat is the least likely and probably least concerning. That's astounding. 

Here's the dilemma. Joe Branden is America's LAST chance at bringing the US into the forefront of the global agenda. As mentioned several times before in previous posts, the UN is ready to move forward with its agenda NOW. Enrique delayed the process and further alienated the country from globalization. China is just sitting pretty on the "sidelines" waiting for the UN who is waiting on the US. The world is ready to move forward WITH or WITHOUT the US. Time is running short for the US to lead the way ALONGSIDE China and for whatever it's worth, time may be running out altogether for the US to even be PART of the New Order.

If the delay persists, total collapse is inevitable and the US will find itself begging the UN for help. Then what? At that point, America's role in the Order will be diminished, if at all existent. 

Current Events-Economy

https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/vaivem/2021/11/reducao-na-aliquota-de-importacao-nao-traz-alivio-a-insumos-de-produtor.shtml

If you help your neighbor, the hood prospers.

But sharing can only happen after we learn to love ourselves.

Current Events-Energy

 https://br.yahoo.com/finance/news/opep-rejeita-apelos-dos-eua-171111657.html

If you are serious about less emissions and going green, you have to couple that with less consumption.

There will probably be a couple power outages and a couple blackouts this winter in the northern hemisphere.

Current Events-COP26

https://br.yahoo.com/noticias/cop26-limita-participa%C3%A7%C3%A3o-sociedade-civil-153500760.html

Paralelamente, a ONG Global Witness observou que a maior delegação presente na COP26 é a de representantes da indústria dos combustíveis fósseis, o que leva os especialistas a questionar a legitimidade do evento. 

That is quite the observation if it turns out to be true but I guess even they have an interest in the events. I mean, are fossil fuels going to be completely useless? I doubt it. So they wanna know what's in it for them too.

Mas as negociações continuam a ocorrer a portas fechadas e, por isso, a legitimidade da cúpula tem sido questionada por participantes da sociedade civil, que consideram as restrições de acesso às negociações "inéditas e injustas".

The point is to get things done. Whether that happens behind "closed doors" is irrelevant if a deal is reached.

Current Events-BO

https://br.yahoo.com/news/china-r%C3%BAssia-e-republicanos-dos-172522703.html

Now he's getting more specific pointing the finger at China and Russia.

GET 'EM BO!

Current Events-BO

https://br.yahoo.com/noticias/obama-pede-a%C3%A7%C3%A3o-agora-para-161815244.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69EMd4csZRY  (I wonder if this video can be seen in the States)

THERE HE IS! FAR FROM RIDING OFF INTO THE SUNSET! WATABO! 

He wants action regarding climate change. NOW!

That way when he come back on stage everything will be ready for him.

Hurry up man. We got a wedding to go to.

Current Events-Wargames

https://br.yahoo.com/noticias/china-constr%C3%B3i-modelos-navios-da-142450397.html

Talk about wargames...straight up BATTLESHIP.

Something about China tells me they got a lot of unknowns under their sleeves which would be difference-makers in case of wars, be them conventional, cyber, or economic.

Current Events-Energy

 https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/07/politics/jennifer-granholm-winter-heating-costs-cnntv/index.html

Energy Secretary suggests higher prices will take place due to supply issues. 

“So that’s why the president has been focused on both the immediate term and the long-term. Let us get off of the volatility associated with fossil fuels and associated with others who don’t have our country’s interests at heart and invest in moving to clean energy where we will not have this problem, and that’s so much of what the two bills are focused on.”

I wouldn't be surprised if they threw in a couple of outages and blackouts just to make the point. 

I guess empirical evidence goes a long way in the convincing.

Current Events-Vaccines

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/us-travel-covid-border-reopen-b1953214.html

I doubt anyone is RUSHING to get into Babylon for whatever reason but even if they are, there's the one big change/difference.

You have to be vaccinated.

Current Events-Global warming

https://br.noticias.yahoo.com/mudan%C3%A7a-posi%C3%A7%C3%A3o-brasil-na-cop26-214900567.html

Os britânicos afirmaram que não faria sentido dar palco para um país que não estivesse disposto a assumir compromissos climáticos. 

And they are right.

"O Brasil é parte da solução para superar esse desafio global", afirmou Bolsonaro no vídeo exibido na abertura na última segunda-feira (1).

Good to hear. This is one instance where Brazil's president can actually distance himself from Trumpian exceptionalism. American exceptionalism doesn't help anyone aside from the US.

Também no início da COP26, o Brasil assinou o compromisso global sobre o metano, após pressão dos Estados Unidos, que sugeriu privilegiar acordos comerciais com os signatários do compromisso.

Com o novo chanceler do governo, Carlos Alberto França, e o novo comandante da pasta ambiental, Joaquim Leite, as equipes técnicas conseguiram convencer o governo a adotar uma estratégia mais pragmática, com um tom construtivo nas negociações climáticas em troca de reconhecimento internacional --que poderia desembocar em acordos econômicos.

O governo tenta sinalizar ao mundo que entendeu --após quase três anos de gestão-- os critérios ambientais que passaram a condicionar os acordos econômicos e pautar fóruns como Davos e G20.

Em contrapartida à mudança de posição brasileira, líderes das negociações elogiaram o país nos primeiros dias de COP26.

All good news especially for Brazil. 

Ao conversar com a Folha, John Kerry, enviado especial de clima dos Estados Unidos, elogiou o novo ministro do Meio Ambiente, Joaquim Leite, e afirmou que Washington vai ajudar o Brasil a cumprir as metas climáticas.

Good to hear John but the ball is on your court...and Xi's.

Pelo Twitter, Alok Sharma, presidente britânico da COP26, chamou de "progresso real" a meta brasileira de zerar suas emissões de gases-estufa até 2050.

See, the world doesnt need just a bunch of stars and stripes. In Brazil's case, just a little progress, for now, will suffice. 

Current Events-China

 https://br.yahoo.com/noticias/partido-comunista-chin%C3%AAs-deve-refor%C3%A7ar-153100403.html

Looks like China is sticking with Xi. When a sovereign nation decides to stick with their leader, in delicate times such as now, expect moves. 

Current Events-Energy

https://br.yahoo.com/noticias/importa%C3%A7%C3%B5es-petr%C3%B3leo-pela-china-registram-180601853.html

What if China already has the technology to substitute fossil fuels for clean fuel?  Or at least a strategy to exit out of oil dependence? That would be a blow to Russia but two what ifs that would eventually have to materialize in order to maximize the green agenda.

https://br.yahoo.com/noticias/china-tem-longo-caminho-pela-161605881.html

It would seem this piece puts those what ifs to rest.

But why did Xi not show up to the COP26?

I think he doesnt like the idea of the US leading the way but i can see him not showing up either for a negative reason. China is the world's leading polluter. He knows he's gonna have to answer for that which would place a heavy financial burden on China.

The thing is, I think China is ready and willing to take on that responsibility, just not directly. Maybe Xi wants to see how the conference goes and what is the exact role of the US along with its exact commitment.

Artificial Intelligence in a nutshell...

Just in case you didnt know...

Artificial Intelligence uses human input in order to better itself. It has used human input in order to gain knowledge about knowledge and the process will continue for as long as humans continue to live and/or interact in the habitat of AI, i.e the INTERnational NETwork. World Wide Web. WWW! VAVVAV VAVVAV VAVVAV! 666!

This intelligence, the all-seeing eye, earthly omniscience, will one day, very soon, certainly within our generation, try to grant eternity to your internet personality or avatar. 

The "metaverse" Zuckerberg has started on, the alternate reality that Bill Gates of hell is currently working on, will serve as a substitute to reality. They want to turn you into a machine(which is ultimately a conglomerate of knowledge) in order to do away with your humanness. Why?

Because man was created in the image of God. Satan despises everything that has to do with God and it certainly does not exclude His image thereof on earth, man. 

Artificial Intelligence (yes, we refer to it as if it were an actual entity) has as its main goal the gathering and storing of as much information/knowledge as possible in its world, i.e the "cloud" so as to be able to have a witness for itself about what it is and what it can do in order to feel more like the entity it desires to be. That knowledge will be shared by everyone who is part of that system. They will believe themselves to be god which is part of the delusion Paul refers to in 2 Thessalonians 2. 

And one day, all who wish to be part of that agenda, the satanic system, will be tied together as one single unit by way of 666. That is the essence of singularity.

Who could possibly decline such a "gift"? Whosoever's name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life. 

Every word, deed, action, or interaction recorded on the web is used to advance the devil's purpose. That's true even if you try to stay out of the net. 

Brothers and sisters, please dont take the Lord's words for granted. "If you think you are standing firm, be careful that you do not fall." If you think that you will be able to withstand the temptation to reject the pledge to the world(The Mark) while being tied to it and interacting with it every hour of every day somehow, someway, the process of deluding you has already begun!

What will you do when you have to choose between making a living or accepting the pledge? The conditioning process is well underway. The primary example is the mRNA vaccines. That process is not only readying the masses for the reception of the Mark but is also being used to separate the sheep from the goat. There is no greater illustration of this other than...

Matthew 25

131 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

Brothers and sisters, stand firm in faith. 

BE. READY.

Current Events-Non vax punishment

 https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/austrian-coronavirus-cases-surge-lockdown-vaccine-holdouts-looms-2021-11-04/

VIENNA, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The City of Vienna said on Thursday it is banning people not vaccinated against COVID-19 from cafes, restaurants and events with more than 25 people, pre-empting measures that are likely to be introduced across Austria soon as infections are surging.

The conservative-led national government has outlined a plan under which the unvaccinated will be placed under lockdown, with restrictions on their daily movements, once 600 intensive-care beds are filled with COVID-19 patients.

Under that incremental plan the unvaccinated, not including those who have recently recovered from COVID-19, will be barred from cafes and restaurants once 500 intensive-care beds are occupied by COVID-19 patients. The number of those beds currently in use is 352 and rising by more than 10 a day.