GLOBAL AWARENESS 101 - Let your VOICE be heard and get involved. OUR future depends on it!
We can do the right thing to create positive change within ourselves and the world around us! I have created this blog with the intention of keeping you informed of news that is affecting humanity and nature throughout the world! There is no better time than the present to become a global participant and not just an innocent bystander. I have provided you with several websites to help empower yourself and a list of global organizations that you can choose from to make a difference.
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KTVB published November 28, 2025: Death toll rises to 128 in Hong Kong residential fire as 8 more arrested over towers' renovation.
Hong Kong firefighters have found dozens more bodies in a high-rise complex after a massive fire engulfed seven buildings.
ABC News, Australia In-depth published November 28, 2025: How Hong Kong's deadly apartment fire unfolded.
At least 93 people have been killed by a deadly inferno in a Hong Kong apartment complex. ABC North Asia Correspondent James Oaten explains how the disaster unfolded over the first 24 hours.
Truth Decoding published November 28, 2025: Tower of Fire: How a renovation killed 128 people.
On November 26, 2025, a simple renovation project in Tai Po turned eight residential towers into a vertical furnace. It was Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in 80 years, but the most terrifying part isn't how it started. It’s why it was mathematically impossible to stop.
HONG KONG — Hong Kong firefighters made a final push to try and find victims and any possible survivors from the city’s worst fire in memory, going apartment-to-apartment in the high-rise complex in an exhaustive search.
At least 128 people were known to have died in the blaze that started Wednesday at Wang Fuk Court in the suburban Tai Po district. Dozens more were injured, and about 900 of the 4,800 residents were evacuated to temporary shelters.
Seven of the eight 32-story towers in the building complex were engulfed in flames after construction materials and bamboo scaffolding spread the fire. Officials said extreme heat was hampering rescue efforts.
The fire was deadlier than a 1996 blaze in a commercial building in Kowloon that killed 41 people. A warehouse fire in 1948 killed 176 people, according to the South China Morning Post.
Here’s what to know about the fire:
How the buildings burst into flames
Officials are investigating why construction materials, netting and bamboo scaffolding being used in renovations to the exterior of the buildings caught fire.
Secretary for Security Chris Tang said Friday initial information suggested that the blaze started around the scaffolding net encasing the lower floors of one tower, then spread rapidly inside aided by highly flammable plastic foam panels fitted to the windows of the apartments.
The foam panels were believed to have been installed by the construction company but the purpose was not clear.
“The blaze ignited the foam panels, causing the glass to shatter and leading to a swift intensification of the fire and its spread into the interior spaces,” Tang said.
Falling bamboo poles that caught fire also spread the blaze to other floors of the towers, he added. Officials previously said high winds aided the rapid spread of the fire to multiple towers.
The type of buildings affected
About a third of Hong Kong residents live in the government’s Housing Authority dwellings. Wang Fuk Court is privately owned but subsidized housing built in the 1980s.
The apartments in the complex measure 40-45 square meters (430-485 square feet), according to online real estate listings. Like most Hong Kong mass market housing, they appear to lack smoke detectors or sprinkler systems. Authorities said some fire alarms in the complex did not sound when tested.
The buildings were constructed before revisions to Hong Kong’s fire codes required mandatory fire refuge floors.
Hong Kong’s 7.5 million residents mostly live in cramped apartments crammed on scarce flat lands or perched on the slopes of steep mountainsides. Many of those high-rise buildings are crowded closely together.
How Hong Kong’s authorities have responded
Firefighters struggled to bring the blaze under control as their ladders and hoses could only reach just over halfway up the 32-story buildings, or about 53 meters (174 feet) — under 20 stories.
High winds and extremely high heat may have prevented use of aerial equipment such as helicopters. The high temperatures also deterred firefighters from entering the buildings to fight the blaze and rescue survivors, said Derek Armstrong Chan, a deputy director of Hong Kong’s Fire Services.
In total, 2,300 firefighters and medical personnel were involved in the operation, and 12 firefighters were among the dozens injured.
The city’s anti-corruption agency said Friday it arrested eight people involved in the towers’ renovation, including scaffolding subcontractors, directors of an engineering consultant company and project managers supervising the renovation. Police on Thursday arrested three people, also connected to the renovation, on suspicion of manslaughter.
Hong Kong leader John Lee said the government would set up a task force to investigate the fire and the case would be submitted to the Coroner’s Court, which conducts inquiries into the causes and circumstances of certain deaths.
Lee said the government planned to inspect all housing estates undergoing major repairs to review the safety of scaffolding and construction materials.
Helping the survivors
The hundreds of survivors who were evacuated or were outside the buildings at the time the fire started were staying in temporary shelters, including a nearby school.
There, workers were distributing bottled water, food and other necessities. Volunteers were bringing supplies like water and snacks.
Officials said affected residents are receiving some 60,000 Hong Kong dollars ($7,710) in financial assistance. Families of those who were killed will also receive 200,000 Hong Kong dollars ($25,693) each.
For the seventh year in a row, I was shocked when I found out that no network was having a Twilight Zone marathon this Thanksgiving day. Shocked I tell you. ๐ฑ It's been an American tradition for as long as I can remember. I really need to buy my very own Twilight Zone complete original series DVD box set. Because you never know this series has too many truths and the Commies of the world would love to get it banned. I'm also buying Golden Girls complete series DVD box set to own because Blanche was a Southern Belle and well you know the hyper-sensitive outrage community Commies on the Left will get this series banned too. For those of you who don't know, this is called CENSORSHIP.
But do not despair my fellow Twilight Zone lovers! You can watch all 5 seasons of Twilight Zone episodes streaming on Paramount Plus for a small fee to have your own TZ marathon today! If you have a Walmart+ membership, Paramount Plus subscription is free with that membership. PlutoTV has all 5 seasons available to watch for free. I just checked and it looks like Amazon Prime offers all 5 seasons of Twilight Zone episodes for free with ads. Yay. THIS IS NOT A PAID ADVERTISEMENT. I'm just sharing what is available to us. I'm creating my own Twilight Zone HEAVEN this Thanksgiving holiday weekend. :D Hope you're all doing whatever it is that puts a smile on your face and makes you happy. Sending you lots and lots of love and a big hug. ❤
I have shared my top three favorite episodes: The Obsolete Man, To Serve Man, and Time Enough at Last. Although, I have to say that ALL of the Twilight Zone episodes are AMAZING and sublime! Rod Serling was a prophetic storytelling/writing genius! I would also like to point out that the acting was SUPERB! They had GREAT producers and directors! It's like they all shared the same vision. :D
Twilight Zone - The Obsolete Man (1961) video above.
Rod Serling intro: "You walk into this room at your own risk. Because it leads to the future. Not a future that will be, but one that might be. This is not a new world. It is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super States that preceded it, it has one iron rule, LOGIC is an enemy and TRUTH is a menace."
Rod Serling closing statement: "The Chancellor, the late Chancellor was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so was the State, the Entity he worshipped. Any State, any Entity, any Ideology that FAILS to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that State is obsolete. A case to be filed under M for MANKIND in the Twilight Zone."
I took this screenshot above from TVguide.com showing where you can stream Twilight Zone episodes.
This United Nations quote I shared with you above is an example of what Rod Serling was describing. This is what the Communist Globalist Depopulation Eugenics Agenda Monsters are imposing upon us now with, The Great Reset.
Now this Twilight Zone episode titled, To Serve Man, reminds me of the Global Warming/Climate Change scam perpetrated by the United Nations. I too was hoodwinked by the Global Warming campaign years ago. They used my love for nature and humankind to make me believe their garbage scientific data was meant to "save the planet". It wasn't until I took the time to do some digging of my own and found out who Maurice Strong is and was led to UN Agenda 21. I went to the United Nations website and read up on their UN Agenda 21 and I couldn't believe what I was reading directly from the source. My eyes were opened wide from that point on and left me feeling violated and betrayed by those people in positions of power who knowing better still pushed this scam upon the global human population for their own personal gain AND depopulation agenda! They want to control everything, how we live, what we eat, how we farm, how you raise your children, what your children are taught. Watch Soylent Green (1973) to get an idea of how disgusted "they" are with human beings and what they have planned for us all. Based on the Georgia Guidestones they blew up and had removed not restored, they want to keep 500 million human beings on this planet. There are currently 8 BILLION human beings on this planet. I want you to think about this for a moment. These people who are disgusted with human beings, who call us useless meat eaters, and see us as parasites will have no problem exterminating us without a second thought. They have already been using several methods to control the global human population growth.
I felt like the lady at the end of this Twilight Zone episode shouting, "Mr. Chamber's, Mr. Chamber's, don't get on that ship. The rest of the book, To Serve Man.... It's... It' cookbook."
GlobalAwareness101 published: Club of Rome NWO depopulation agenda. I customized this background, description and added the captions that I proofread for you.
These are the globalist Climate Change Luciferian (aka Satan) worshipping psychopaths censoring us who oppose their diabolical scheme to depopulate human beings and keep those still living under totalitarian rule.
It is not a theory. It's an actual conspiracy against humanity.
I typed a transcript for you:
HE SAID: "I can speak honestly. So usually speaking something which happened in the past could happen again, generally. That could happen or epidemics. I don't know what it will be. But in one way or another we are so far, globally, we are so far above the population and the consumption levels which can be supported by this planet. But I know one way or another it's going to come back down. I DON'T HOPE TO AVOID THAT.
I hope that it can occur in a civil way. And I mean civil in a special way, peaceful. Peaceful doesn't mean that everyone is happy. The planet can support something like a billion people. Maybe 2 billion DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH LIBERTY, AND HOW MUCH MATERIAL CONSUMPTION YOU WANT TO HAVE.
If you want more liberty and more consumption, you have to have fewer people. Conversely, you can have more people, I mean we can even have 8 or 9 billion probably IF WE HAVE A VERY STRONG DICTATORSHIP which is smart. But if you have a very strong dictatorship and A LOW STANDARD OF LIVING.
But we want to have freedom and we want to have a high standard of living, SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE ONE BILLION PEOPLE and we're now at 7 billion. SO WE HAVE TO GET BACK DOWN. I hope that this can be slow. Relatively slow. And that it can be done in a way which is relatively equal. So that people share the experience. But THAT'S WHAT LIES AHEAD."
๐จ๐๐ข I'M STILL IN SHOCK ROSA KOIRE IS DEAD. ๐ข๐๐จ
Rosa Koire died May 31, 2021.
JUNE 2020: Spiro Skouras and Rosa Koire discuss and break down how the United Nations' long standing global governance agendas are materializing before our eyes hidden just beneath the veil of global crisis and social injustice.
Behind the Green Mask - UN Commie Agenda 21 - Rosa Koire
Robert Exter published December 17, 2011: SOUNDS LIKE SCIENCE FICTION...OR SOME CONSPIRACY THEORY...BUT IT ISN'T.
Have you wondered where these terms 'sustainability' and 'smart growth' and 'high density urban mixed use development' came from?
Happy Thanksgiving Day everybody! May your day be filled with tons of love, joy and laughter! Look around you and you will find many many things to be thankful for... the most basic is thanking God for the mere fact you wake up every day and have been blessed with the gift of LIFE.
I would like to publicly thank God almighty first and foremost for loving me unconditionally, for never giving up on me, for always believing in me and for taking care of all of my needs. I also thank God for blessing me with a great mom, great meow's, great friends, a creative mind, a free spirit and a loving heart. I can't forget to thank all of my readers from all around the world for all of your love and support. You are greatly appreciated. ❤❤❤
This may be a national holiday for giving thanks, a day of reflecting. Nevertheless, we must make it a point to give thanks to God every day of our lives for even the most basic needs fulfilled daily. Here are a few examples of what we could be thankful for daily: a roof over our head, a warm comfy bed to sleep in, clean running water, a toilet that flushes, electricity, a refrigerator to store food, a stove to cook, a microwave, a television, a radio, a computer, the internet, a phone to communicate with others, paved roads, traffic lights, the kindness of others, smiles, laughter, music, entertainment, the Twilight Zone... you get the picture, don't you? We can get really deep if you want and we can thank God for our sight, our hearing, our sense of smell, our sense of taste, our sense of touch. Thank Him that we are in good health or how about thanking God for giving us another day to enjoy.
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DW News published November 22, 2025: Wealthier nations should triple funding against effects of climate crisis, COP30 agrees.
Delegates at the United Nations climate talks in Brazil have reached a compromise deal - though it doesn't detail how the world will move away from fossil fuels.
The hosts acknowledged that some countries had greater ambitions for the COP30 summit and said a fossil fuel transition plan would come in a separate proposal, published later. Delegates did, however, reach agreement over funding. Wealthier nations should at least triple the amount given to developing countries to cope with the effects of climate change.
BELรM, Brazil — Brazil’s big climate finance bet, the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF), attracted $6.7 billion in sponsor capital at COP30, below the $25 billion initially required to roll out the initiative at full scale. Global North countries have been hesitant to commit funds, often alleging domestic budget constraints. Yet, Brazilian officials insist the fund can begin operating on a smaller scale and a prolonged timeline.
TFFF, led by the Brazilian government and hosted by the World Bank, offers an innovative proposal to finance the conservation of tropical forests. The idea is to raise $125 billion in public and private capital to invest in capital markets — primarily in long-term sustainable bonds issued by developing countries.
The plan initially requires $25 billion in junior “sponsor” capital, mostly from Global North governments. These funds would function as a safety net to attract an additional $100 billion from private investors. Profits generated by the fund would first pay dividends to investors, then reimburse sponsors, and the remaining balance would be distributed to eligible forest nations.
The goal is to pay tropical forest countries $4 per hectare (2.5 acres) of preserved forest each year, based on satellite monitoring — an amount that could be reduced based on degradation or deforestation. Of that total, 20% would go to Indigenous peoples and local communities, although how those funds would be distributed locally is still unclear.
Brazil pitched TFFF as one of its flagship contributions to COP30, held in the Amazonian city of Belรฉm at the end of November. At the initiative’s launch on Nov. 6, during the summit, Brazilian ministers described the sponsor capital pledged so far as a success, despite it representing less than a quarter of what is needed for a full rollout. “We are very excited,” Marina Silva, Brazil’s environment minister, said at a press conference. “TFFF has already started very well even before it officially began.”
However, local officials also acknowledged the fund is shaping up for a more timid rollout. In a shift from the widely publicized $25 billion sponsor target, government representatives focused on the more modest goal of raising $10 billion by the end of Brazil’s COP presidency in late 2026.
“If we reach $10 billion [in sponsor capital], that would leverage $40 billion [in private investments],” Ambassador Mauricio Carvalho Lyrio, Brazil’s secretary for climate, energy and environment, said at the press conference. “The fund would then operate with $50 billion.”
“We already have more than half of those resources we set out to raise,” Silva said optimistically. “President Lula told me he is willing to get on the phone with global leaders to secure the rest of the funding we need,” he said, referring to Brazil’s President Luiz Inรกcio Lula da Silva.
The government has since announced that the first payments — which could be smaller than originally anticipated — could reach qualifying countries in 2028.
Hesitancy to commit funds
The TFFF initiative received strong political support in Belรฉm. Fifty-two countries and the EU signed the TFFF Launch Declaration, of which 34 were tropical forest nations set to receive funds.
The initiative also secured some surprising donor contributions. Portugal’s prime minister, Luรญs Montenegro, announced an unexpected $1 million investment. Indonesia, a developing country that will benefit from the fund, confirmed a $1 billion pledge to help kick-start the initiative. A few days later, Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest promised $10 million to the sponsor capital pool. Forrest is the founder of Fortescue Metals Group, one of the world’s largest iron-ore producers.
However, other financial commitments fell short or came with strings attached.
Norway made a celebrated $3 billion pledge, subject to multiple conditions. The amount is contingent on refinements to the financial model and would be made available only if additional sponsor capital reaches $10 billion by the end of 2026 — a target still unmet. What’s more, the contribution would be dispersed over the course of 10 years.
France’s $577 million investment was also tied to certain requirements. Those include regular evaluation of the TFFF mechanism, independent scientific analysis of the fund, and a commitment to transparency. If conditions are met, the country has promised to disperse the funds by 2030.
Meanwhile, Germany announced its contribution at the tail end of COP30, after withholding a figure for weeks, even during a one-on-one meeting between Brazil’s President Lula and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. The country finally announced a $1.15 billion grant to be disbursed over 10 years in $110 million yearly installments. The format of a “grant” differs from other countries’ contributions because the fund would not need to make interest payments to Germany. However, there’s a risk that it could constrain additional commitments to climate funding.
German federal parliament member Charlotte Neuhรคuser, of Die Linke (Left Party), who was attending COP30, told Mongabay the government is facing budget cuts driven by a stagnating economy. “In this environment, the government has shifted its strategy when it comes to developmental aid,” she said. “When it comes to these projects, they first ask what the value is for Germany. They are finding it hard to justify these investments.”
As a member of the opposition and the Left Party’s speaker for global justice, Neuhรคuser supports the channeling of funds to the Global South, but through different mechanisms. “I do not support TFFF because it reinforces new colonial structures,” she said. “I would like to see Indigenous people and affected groups come to the table, express what is needed and the money going directly to them.”
The U.K. is in a similar bind. In a bilateral meeting in Belรฉm, Prince William and Prime Minister Keir Starmer praised TFFF, a finalist in the Royal Earthshot Prize. The British government has long supported the initiative and even helped shape its design. But officials declined to announce a financial contribution during the summit, citing domestic economic pressures.
“The U.K. is just about to have its annual budget, and there is a lot of questioning amongst the British public about whether the new government is spending money well,” explained Michael Jacob, a visiting senior fellow at the British think tank ODI Global. “I think an announcement of spending a very large sum of money on rainforests in other countries was regarded as politically not very appropriate.”
Jacob, who moderated a panel at the U.K. pavilion at COP30, also said he believes the country would need to see changes in the fund’s setup. “The sad truth is that the U.K. government didn’t feel quite comfortable enough at a technical level to invest in the fund,” he said. “This is a bit chicken-and-egg because if developed countries are not absolutely sure that this financial model is sound, it would be much sounder if they all put in some investment of their own.”
John Nordbo, head of climate advocacy for the nonprofit CARE Denmark, sees a broader trend in Europe scaling back development assistance, in part due to increased military spending. “There are new NATO obligations in Ukraine, and we are seeing the consequences in climate finance,” he told Mongabay at COP30’s Blue Zone. Although Nordbo has reservations about TFFF, he said Global North countries have a responsibility to contribute to the Global South. “It’s difficult for the EU to show leadership at this COP, but there are real issues that need funding.”
China, which signaled support and possible contributions to the TFFF, also held back on making an official announcement.
In a Climate Summit address, Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang appeared to shift the responsibility to developed countries, urging them to “take the lead in cutting emissions.” Brazilian officials have since shut down rumors that the Asian nation has closed the door on committing to the fund and are hopeful the country will announce an investment in the near future.
Indonesian Environment Minister Hanif Faisol Nurofiq told Mongabay at COP30 he hopes other countries will step up contributions and realize the opportunities the fund offers. “I think it is a very important mechanism,” Nurofiq said. “Indonesia sees it as a way to develop the independence of developing countries in the handling of climate change via tropical forest protection.”
What a smaller TFFF could look like
German policy analyst Max Alexander Matthey has raised concerns about the possibility of a “Mini-TFFF” with donor investments significantly below $25 billion.
He argued that a smaller sponsor cushion would reduce private capital investments and weaken what he already sees as a “volatile financial model” based on emerging-market bonds. “If markets turn the wrong way, donor funds could be gone in an instant, wiping out billions that were initially paid for forest protection,” he told Mongabay on a video call.
Matthey, a co-initiator of the Climate Impact Auctions initiative, also warned that TFFF’s cost structure would stay around $300 million per year, even with a smaller rollout. The cost could absorb a large amount of the profits. “If returns shrink, TFFF could end up reliably financing only its own fees, not meaningful rainforest payments,” he said. “At that point, incentives for forest protection simply lose to deforestation drivers.”
As an alternative, he supports a more predictable, long-term funded TFFF. “If five donor countries directly contributed $500 million each, you’d have $2.5 billion a year in stable forest rewards,” he said. “No leverage, no speculation, no risk. Just dependable payments for a mechanism that could actually set the right incentives.”
However, Felix Finkbeiner, founder of the Plant-for-the-Planet organization in Germany, argued that a gradual ramp-up of the mechanism is not necessarily problematic. His nonprofit has set up a website to track TFFF pledges, investments and rewards. “The $25 billion is somewhat arbitrary,” he said. “Nothing magical happens with this number. We have something really exciting here. We will keep pushing for the full $25 billion, but it could kick off even now.”
He points to several alternatives to making the mechanism work with less upfront capital. “TFFF could initially not pay out the full $4 per hectare, or it could pay the $4 but adjust the deforestation threshold for countries to qualify,” he said. “You could play around with these numbers to pay a reasonable number of dollars to a smaller number of countries and adjust payout rules as you gather more investments.”
Another idea is to delay payouts to forest nations while the fund grows. “There’s the possibility of not paying countries right away, but keeping the profits for another year or two,” he said. “The goal would be to add those funds to the donor pool as a larger buffer to attract additional private investors.”
Forest investments are slow to take off
A study published during COP30 revealed that TFFF is not the only tropical forest fund struggling to raise resources.
Climate Policy Initiative and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro mapped 30 active financial mechanisms for forests around the world, from the U.N. REDD program to the Amazon Fund. Researchers found that these mechanisms have raised a total of $25.9 billion, but nearly one-third of that amount (31%) has yet to be issued or disbursed.
“There is a wide variety of mechanisms operating in different ways across many countries,” co-author Juliano Assunรงรฃo told Mongabay at COP30. “But despite this diversity, the overall scale is still very timid, especially when you consider the crucial role that forests play in climate change.”
Assunรงรฃo added that, in this landscape, TFFF stands out from other restoration and carbon credit initiatives. “The TFFF payment is tied to the hectare of standing forest. That gives conceptually a broader view for forest protection,” he said. “But it is just one mechanism. Many others are needed to keep forests standing.”
According to the publication, the world has roughly 1.3 billion hectares (3.2 billion acres) of tropical forests that store nearly one-third of historical global emissions. Researchers argue that not only protecting, but restoring, forests is needed to curb climate change. The study reveals that restoring more than 180 million hectares (445 million acres) lost since 2001 could sequester more than 49 gigatons of CO2 equivalent, more than global energy-related emissions in 2024, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
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Sabine Hossenfelder published January 8, 2024: Solar arrays better than trees for climate, study finds.
What is better, planting trees or covering the same area of land with solar panels? A group of geoscientists from Israel just looked at this, and they say that solar panels come out way ahead. Let's have a look at what the paper says.
The paper is here https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/11/pgad352/7429362?login=false
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RTร News published November 11, 2025: Catherine Connolly declared tenth President of Ireland.
Catherine Connolly has been declared the tenth president of Ireland following an inauguration ceremony at Dublin Castle.
The ceremony took place in St Patrick's Hall, where all presidents have been inaugurated since 1938. It began with a service of prayer and reflection.
Former president Michael D Higgins received a round of applause as he arrived in the hall.
Guardian News published October 26, 2025: Catherine Connolly: who is Ireland's new president?
The leftwing independent candidate Catherine Connolly won a landslide election victory and was declared Ireland’s next president, vowing to advocate for those who had no voice. We take a look at her career to date and what kind of president she plans to be
Catherine Connolly has vowed to make Ireland a “republic worthy of its name” by using her presidency to champion diversity, the Irish language and the legacy of decolonisation.
Connolly spelled out a leftwing alternative to centre-right orthodoxy in her inauguration speech after being sworn in to office on Tuesday.
“We were led to believe that it was too great a leap, that our ideas were too far out, too left – at odds with the prevailing narrative,” she said, referencing her landslide victory in last month’s election.
“In shared conversations all over the country, however, it became evident that the dominant narrative did not reflect or represent people’s values and concerns. Time and time again, people spoke of how it served to silence, to other, to label, to exclude and to stifle critical thinking.”
On a day of pomp and celebration at Dublin Castle, formerly the seat of British rule, the 68-year-old former barrister said that as Ireland’s 10th president she would ensure “all voices” were heard and would promote climate action, tolerance and a Gaelic revival.
“The people have spoken and have given their president a powerful mandate to articulate their vision for a new republic, a republic worthy of its name where everyone is valued and diversity is cherished, where sustainable solutions are urgently implemented, and where a home is a fundamental human right.”
Connolly’s election shocked the political establishment. The independent leftwing legislator united opposition leftwing parties, energised young voters and trounced the ruling Fine Gael party’s candidate, Heather Humphreys, by winning 64% of the vote.
The presidency is a largely ceremonial post but the outgoing president, Michael D Higgins, stretched the constraints and turned it into a platform for domestic and international issues, a practice Connolly is expected to continue.
In a ballroom packed with government figures, ambassadors and other dignitaries, including former presidents Mary Robinson and Mary McAleese, Connolly lamented “the normalisation of war and genocide”.
Lauding Ireland’s neutrality – a potential source of friction with the government, which wants to cooperate with EU security initiatives, she said: “Our experience of colonisation and resistance of a catastrophic man-made famine and forced emigration gives us a lived understanding of dispossession, hunger and war and a mandate for Ireland to lead.”
Connolly also hailed the Good Friday agreement and referenced article 3 of Ireland’s constitution, which espouses a united Ireland with consent. The Democratic Unionist party (DUP) declined to send a representative to the inauguration but said no snub was intended.
Switching to Irish, Connolly repeated a commitment to prioritise the language in รras an Uachtarรกin, the presidential office and residence. “Irish will not be spoken in a low voice in the รras, it will have first place as a working language.”
No country can express its desires or values if the native language spoken by ancestors was extinguished, she said. “It has been put in second place without sufficient respect or recognition. The hearts of our people were quenched when they were made to stop using their own language. It’s a language that expresses feelings and sentiment with every word.”
A 21-gun salute was fired as the new president received the seal of office.
DRM News published November 12, 2025: Former U.S. VP Al Gore Reveals Shocking Data on Global Warming and Extreme Climate Events.
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the Climate Trace Coalition present a groundbreaking briefing at COP30 in Belem, Brazil, revealing the latest data on global warming, extreme weather events, and ocean heat accumulation. Using satellites and AI, Climate Trace tracks man-made emissions across the globe, providing an independent source of climate information.
Al Gore highlights the devastating impacts of climate change: record droughts, wildfires, floods, ice melt in Greenland and Antarctica, coral reef degradation, and the emerging threat of climate refugees. The briefing underscores the urgent need for global cooperation, data transparency, and rapid climate action.
This COP30 session calls attention to how current policies and fossil fuel subsidies are worsening the climate crisis and emphasizes the importance of independent climate monitoring to hold governments accountable, particularly in light of actions by the Trump administration to stop EPA climate data collection.
BELEM – Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore joined UN Climate Chief Simon Stiell at COP30 to emphasize the critical role of data in driving climate action. Speaking at the Amazon city of Belem, Gore and Stiell highlighted how accurate climate information, tracking emissions, and monitoring progress on national and global targets are essential to achieving Paris Agreement goals. The discussion focused on actionable insights, transparency, and the need for timely international cooperation to tackle global warming.
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Amanpour and Company published November 12, 2025: Al Gore on America's Noticeable Absence at COP30 Climate Conference.
Indigenous protesters against deforestation are making their voices heard in Belรฉm, Brazil where the U.N.'s major climate summit is being held. Dozens of demonstrators forced their way into the COP30 venue and clashed with security guards — carrying signs and shouting that their land is not for sale. The protests are a further signal that tackling climate change and protecting the planet is an enormous emotional and logistical challenge that requires real leadership. But the world's most powerful people aren't even at COP30. President Trump, China's Xi and India's Modi are all no-shows despite being national leaders of the world's biggest polluters. Meanwhile the White House is doubling down on fossil fuels. One well-known American trying to fill the leadership gap is former U.S. Vice President Al Gore. One of the first politicians to sound the alarm on climate change, Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in part for his prescient documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."
๐จ๐๐ข I'M STILL IN SHOCK ROSA KOIRE IS DEAD. ๐ข๐๐จ
Rosa Koire died May 31, 2021.
JUNE 2020: Spiro Skouras and Rosa Koire discuss and break down how the United Nations' long standing global governance agendas are materializing before our eyes hidden just beneath the veil of global crisis and social injustice.
Behind the Green Mask - UN Commie Agenda 21 - Rosa Koire
Robert Exter published December 17, 2011: SOUNDS LIKE SCIENCE FICTION...OR SOME CONSPIRACY THEORY...BUT IT ISN'T.
Have you wondered where these terms 'sustainability' and 'smart growth' and 'high density urban mixed use development' came from?
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WION published October 4, 2025: Czech Republic: Billionaire Populist Andrej Babis' Party Wins Parliamentary Election.
Populist billionaire Andrej Babiลก is set to return as the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, his party Action of Dissatisfied Citizens or ANO won the election in early October 2025, with 35.7 per cent of the vote and is far ahead of the centre-right party Spolu in second on 22.5 per cent, but falling short of a majority. ANO promised stronger social security and increased pensions, affordable energy prices, tougher stance on immigration and criticised 'blank cheques' to Ukraine.
FRANCE 24 English published October 3, 2025: Elections in Czech Republic could end the country's solidarity towards Ukrainians.
Parliamentary elections are taking place in Czechia - the EU country that has taken in the largest number of Ukrainian refugees relative to its population. Nearly 400,000 have been granted residence and work permits there. The opposition is challenging this solidarity and has made the aid provided to Ukrainian nationals one of the main themes of the election campaign. Report by Alexis Rosenzweig, Jan Gerbert and Ian Willoughby.
PRAGUE - Czech election winner, billionaire Andrej Babis, must tell the public how he will eliminate conflicts of interest stemming from his business activities before he is appointed prime minister, President Petr Pavel said on Wednesday.
Babis' populist ANO party won the October 3-4 election and is forming a government with two fringe right-wing partners.
Babis, 71, has said he would comply with a law regulating business interests of government members but has not said how.
The issue is becoming a hurdle in Babis' return to power after four years in opposition.
Appointing Babis without a clear declaration on the issue could risk violating the constitution and could eventually lead to a loss of EU subsidies, the presidential office said in a statement.
"The president continues to demand that Andrej Babis, by the time of appointment as prime minister, publicly announces how he intends to resolve his conflict of interest," the statement said.
After meeting Pavel on Wednesday, Babis said he would study materials on the matter given to him by the president but did not reveal how he would proceed.
Babis is the owner of hundreds of companies, most of them in the Agrofert group, in farming, food processing, chemicals, health and other sectors in the Czech Republic and other central European countries.
Many of his businesses receive local and EU subsidies given to farmers according to the size of their land or the number of animals they keep. They have also received subsidies for modernisation, and money from public contracts.
The corruption watchdog Transparency International has said that to make a clean break with his firms, Babis should either sell them, stop taking any public contracts, or stay out of government.
During his first term as prime minister from 2017 to 2021, Babis faced legal battles and a European probe over potential conflicts of interest. Then, he temporarily moved his assets to trust funds but a court and the European Commission found that to be insufficient.
Billionaire businessman Andrej Babis has won parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic, although his populist ANO party fell short of an overall majority.
ANO received just under 35% of the vote, earning them 80 seats in the 200-seat lower house – up from 72 seats four years ago, according to preliminary results.
Babis – who served as prime minister from 2017 to 2021 – is expected to be invited to lead talks on forming a new coalition.
"This is a historic success," Andrej Babis announced to cheering supporters at the ANO headquarters in the suburbs of Prague.
He'd entered the building holding aloft a Bluetooth speaker blasting a remix of the 1981 hit 'Sarร perchรฉ ti amo' by the Italian pop trio Ricchi e Poveri.
The same song resounded across the stage as he accepted the applause. Some colleagues – including the former finance minister Alena Schillerova – danced along to the beat.
"It's the pinnacle of my political career!" he said, adding that he and his team would now work to make the Czech Republic "the best place to live in the European Union".
But while this election has thrown up no great surprises – few had any doubt he would emerge in first place - there are still plenty of questions.
Babis has already begun talks with the two small right-wing eurosceptic parties that managed to pass the 5% threshold: the anti-Green Deal Motorists for Themselves, and the anti-immigrant Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) party, led by the Czech-Japanese entrepreneur Tomio Okamura.
Parliamentary maths means he will need an alliance with both to form a government that enjoys a majority in parliament - none of the other parties are likely to work with him.
After giving his acceptance speech he said he wanted ANO to govern alone, rather than create a formal coalition.
ANO will have the most in common with the Motorists. The two already sit in the same European Parliament group – the "pro-sovereignty" Patriots for Europe, which Babis founded alongside Hungary's Viktor Orban and Austria's Herbert Kickl last year.
ANO shares the Motorists' misgivings about the EU's emissions targets, and vows to modify or reject them outright.
Both parties are firmly against Czech households carrying a greater financial burden for cleaner energy, and both oppose the EU's ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars after 2035.
Relations with the SPD could be more fraught.
For a start, SPD fought this election in a formal alliance with a number of fringe parties on the far-right, meaning they will have to yield some of their seats to them. Okamura may not have full control of the MPs in his caucus – always a recipe for disaster in coalition politics.
Babis has also categorically ruled out allowing a referendum on either EU or NATO membership – a key policy priority for the SPD.
The ANO leader might have leaned heavily into anti-Ukrainian rhetoric in the final days of the campaign, lambasting the centre-right government for giving "Czech mothers nothing, and Ukrainians everything".
But Okamura's call for Ukrainian refugees to be deported en masse will likely fall on deaf ears.
Czech military support for Ukraine's war effort however is likely to change significantly under a Babis administration.
He has already vowed to scrap the successful Czech ammunition initiative – which has delivered 3.5 million shells to Ukraine since 2022.
Babis claims it lacks transparency, but Czech government officials who created the scheme say it works precisely because it is not transparent.
Under the initiative, Czech arms dealers use their international contacts to procure shells for Ukraine on the global market, with the bulk of the money coming from EU and NATO partners. Some of the producers are in countries that have relationships with Russia but as the deal is arranged with Czech dealers their involvement remains private.
The ANO leader wants it moved under the umbrella of NATO instead, and again on Saturday accused Czech arms dealers of making enormous profits from the scheme.
However, he said he would have no problem negotiating the matter with President Zelensky.
Babis also laughed off claims Western allies were worried the Czech Republic would no longer be a reliable partner in the EU and NATO under his administration, and that was why he now appeared to be distancing himself from extremist parties.
"Your problem is you just copy lies from Czech journalists," he replied, answering a reporter from the New York Times in English.
"I spoke with Trump five times! I was in the Pentagon. I was in the FBI. I talked to the head of the CIA," Babis said, speaking of his first term, which overlapped with President Trump's first term in office.
"We were a very reliable partner," he went on.
"I have been prime minister. We have been in government before. And we had excellent results."
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DW News published November 1, 2025: Tanzania's Hassan declared winner in disputed vote.
Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan won the country's presidential election with nearly 97.66% of the votes, according to the electoral commission's results released on Sarturday.
Firstpost published November 5, 2025: Tanzania Election Violence: Authorities "Secretly Dumping Protesters Bodies".
Tanzania faces global outrage after the opposition accuses security forces of "secretly dumping the bodies" of protesters killed during post-election violence. Following the disputed presidential polls on October 29, demonstrations erupted across Dar es Salaam and other cities over alleged vote rigging. Opposition party CHADEMA claims more than 800 people were killed, while President Samia Suluhu Hassan blames foreign interference. Human Rights Watch condemned the deaths during protests after reported excessive use of force and internet blackouts, urging accountability. Observers from the Southern African Development Community also stated the election fell short of democratic standards, intensifying pressure on the Tanzanian government.
Firstpost published November 11, 2025: Tanzania Election Violence Sparks Outrage as Church, Aid Groups Speak Out.
Tanzania is reeling from deadly post-election violence that has left hundreds, possibly thousands, dead. At a prayer service in Dar es Salaam, Archbishop Jude Thaddaeus Ruwa’ichi condemned the killings, calling them a “disgrace before God” and warning that the punishment for protest cannot be death. President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s landslide 98% victory has been dismissed by the opposition as a “sham,” amid reports of ballot tampering and intimidation. Rights groups accuse security forces of firing on peaceful demonstrators, while internet blackouts have obscured the true scale of the crackdown. The African Union says the polls failed democratic standards. With opposition leaders facing treason charges and the Church demanding justice, Tanzania now stands at a critical crossroads between accountability and repression.
The Kenyan Historian published November 3, 2025: “The Making of a Dictator: How Samia Suluhu Took Control of Tanzania”.
When Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan became president in 2021, she was hailed as a reformer — soft-spoken, calm, and promising change after Magufuli’s hardline rule.
But four years later, her government stands accused of tightening control over elections, the media, and opposition parties.
In this episode of I, The Kenyan Historian, breaksdown the playbook behind her rise — and how power in Tanzania has become more concentrated than ever.
Gruesome images of dead Tanzanians have flooded the internet in the wake of the October 29 elections that triggered widespread protests over government repression.
President Samia Suluhu Hassan officially won with 98 percent of the vote, but key opposition leaders were jailed or disqualified.
The opposition says more than 1,000 were killed as security forces crushed the protests under cover of a five-day internet blackout.
Two weeks on, the government has yet to give any casualty numbers.
"There are... disturbing reports that security forces have been seen removing bodies from streets and hospitals and taking them to undisclosed locations in an apparent attempt to conceal evidence," UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday.
A senior official in the Tanzanian government who said they were horrified by the events of the past fortnight, agreed to talk to AFP.
The official said they would end up dead if their name was published, but provided AFP with coordinates for two suspected sites of mass graves near Dar es Salaam -- at Kondo and Mabwepande. These could not be independently verified, however.
"People in the government are in shock... there's disbelief," said the official.
"Nobody has the guts to talk... that's the sad part of it. But people do whisper," they said.
AFP has spoken to multiple eye-witnesses who describe seeing people shot at point-blank range by police and unidentified armed men.
Prior to the election, the Tanganyika Law Society had confirmed 83 abductions under Hassan's rule, but said reported disappearances increased significantly in the final days of the campaign.
Some were high-profile, like former government spokesman and ambassador Humphrey Polepole, reported missing from his blood-stained home on October 6 after resigning in a letter that criticised Hassan's government.
Others were unknown individuals in small villages, seemingly targeted for minor online posts.
"Why are you abducting a 20-year-old kid just because they criticised you? You're the president, for crying out loud!" said the government official.
written by Rodney Muhumuza, Associated Press reported from Kampala, Uganda.
Friday October 31, 2025
DODOMA, Tanzania -- Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan won the country’s disputed election with more than 97% of the vote, according to official results announced early Saturday, in a rare landslide victory in the region.
The result is likely to amplify the concerns of critics, opposition groups and others who said the election in Tanzania was not a contest but a coronation after Hassan's two main rivals were barred or prevented from running. She faced 16 candidates from smaller parties.
The Oct. 29 election was marred by violence as demonstrators took to the streets of major cities to protest the vote and stop the counting of votes. The military has been deployed to help police quell riots. Internet connectivity has been on and off in the East African nation, disrupting travel and other activities.
The protests have spread across Tanzania, and the government has postponed the reopening of universities, which had been set for Oct. 3.
Tanzanian authorities have not said how many people have been killed or injured in the violence. A spokesman for the U.N. human rights office, Seif Magango, on Friday told a U.N. briefing in Geneva by video from Kenya that credible reports of 10 deaths were reported in the commercial capital of Dar es Salaam, alongside Shinyanga and Morogoro towns.
Tundu Lissu, leader of the Chadema opposition group, has been jailed for months, charged with treason after he called for electoral reforms that he said were a prerequisite for free and fair elections. Another opposition figure, Luhaga Mpina of the ACT-Wazalendo group, was barred from running.
At stake for the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi, or CCM, party was its decades-long grip on power amid the rise of charismatic opposition figures who hoped to lead the country toward political change.
Still, a landslide victory is unheard of in the region. Only President Paul Kagame, the authoritarian leader of Rwanda, regularly wins by a landslide.
Rights groups including Amnesty International cited a pattern of enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests and extrajudicial killings in Tanzania ahead of the polls.
In June, a United Nations panel of human rights experts cited more than 200 cases of enforced disappearance since 2019, saying they were “alarmed by reports of a pattern of repression” ahead of elections.
Hassan oversaw "an unprecedented crackdown on political opponents,” the International Crisis Group said in its most recent analysis. “The government has curbed freedom of expression, ranging from a ban on X and restrictions on the Tanzanian digital platform JamiiForums to silencing critical voices through intimidation or arrest.”
The political maneuvering by Tanzanian authorities is remarkable even in a country where single-party rule has been the norm since the advent of multi-party politics in 1992.
Government critics point out that previous leaders tolerated opposition while maintaining a firm grip on power, whereas Hassan is accused of leading with an authoritarian style that defies youth-led democracy movements elsewhere in the region.
But Tanzania is different, an outlier in the region.
A version of the governing CCM party, which maintains ties with the Communist Party of China, has ruled Tanzania since its independence from Britain in 1961, a streak that Hassan extends with her victory.
CCM is fused with the state, effectively in charge of the security apparatus and structured in such a way that new leaders emerge every five or 10 years. Hassan herself was able to rise to the presidency as vice president without incident when her predecessor, John Pombe Magufuli, died suddenly not long after the start of his second term.
The orderly transition sustained Tanzania’s reputation as an oasis of political stability and relative peace, a major reason for CCM’s considerable support across the country, especially among rural voters.
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