"Iceland’s frozen, inhospitable winters have long protected it from mosquitoes, but that may be changing. This week, scientists announced the discovery of three mosquitoes — marking the country’s first confirmed finding of these insects in the wild" edition.cnn.com/2025/10/21/c...
"Last year, 698,000 Swedes lived in some form of poverty" "Social welfare support, for example, has become more complicated to obtain and the payments are very low" nordictimes.com/the-nordics/...
"Framed by colonial narratives that dehumanize the Palestinians, this live-streamed atrocity has been facilitated through Third States’ direct support, material aid, diplomatic protection and, in some cases, active participation." www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
Melissa continues to strengthen and is now the strongest storm to roam Earth in 2025. Its maximum sustained winds are 175 mph with stronger gusts as of 2 p.m ET, according to the National Hurricane Center. That’s a 10 mph increase in winds from the 11 a.m. ET advisory www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAR4...
"In Sweden 70 car mechanics are continuing to take on one of the world's richest companies – Tesla. The strike at the US carmaker's 10 Swedish service centres has now reached its second anniversary, and there is little prospect of a resolution." www.bbc.com/news/article...
Putin will be pleased to know Trump will not punish China for buying Russian oil paying for, and providing mercenaries and drones... to, the war in Ukraine! A deal will also strengthen the Chinese economy so that China can afford to invade and illegally occupy Taiwan! www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
"major actions like punitive tariffs on specific companies, the ownership of TikTok, and even the presence of federal troops on the street come down not to predictable law or policy… but to whether you’ve got a Trump-flattering tech billionaire on your side" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
"is refusing to negotiate... because he likes the fact that the government is closed, because he thinks he can exercise king-like powers, he can open up the parts of the government that he wants, he can pay the employees who are loyal to him" www.alternet.org/trump-shutdo...
"maps of the city show no military targets in the immediate vicinity of the kindergarten" "There is no justification for an attack on a kindergarten" "Russia has turned to civilian targets in desperation over its inability to make significant gains on the battlefield" www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Before resigning in January, Smith argued in his report to Garland that he had enough evidence to convict the former president had voters not sent him back to the White House in 2024." abcnews.go.com/Politics/you...
"concluded that forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience has been practiced for a substantial period of time involving a very substantial number of victims" "targeting minorities, Falun Gong, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims and Christians" humanrightscommission.house.gov/events/heari...
"Cheng Pei Ming’s testimony offered a rare and disturbing glimpse into the horrors faced by prisoners of conscience in China" "segments of his liver and a portion of his left lung had been surgically removed" thediplomat.com/2024/08/firs...
"The four most lucrative crimes in the world are the trafficking in drugs; in weapons; in stolen art; and in human beings. People are trafficked and used for their labor, for sex, and for the illegal harvesting of their body organs." worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-an...
"forced organ harvesting on an industrial scale in China" "The numbers of those executed for their organs—some even before they are brain dead—is staggering…state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting in China amounts to crimes against humanity" www.cecc.gov/media-center...
"subjected to forced blood tests, ultrasounds, and organ-focused medical scans. These procedures align with organ compatibility testing, raising fears that Uyghurs are being prepped for organ harvesting while in detention" thediplomat.com/2025/07/xinj...
"Nearly one million Tibetan children are now in Chinese-run boarding schools—many taken from their families at ages as young as four." "UN human rights experts condemned these schools as instruments of cultural erasure" www.tibetanreview.net/october-7-19...
"The Chinese government forcibly disappeared the then 6-year-old on May 17, 1995, three days after the Dalai Lama recognized him as the 11th Panchen Lama. Even pictures of Gendun Choki Nyima, along with those of the Dalai Lama, are prohibited in Tibet" www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
"Reagan did not, in fact, love tariffs. He often criticized government policies – including protectionist measures such as tariffs – that interfered with free commerce and he spent much of 1987 radio address spelling out the case against tariffs." apnews.com/article/trum...
These TERRORISTS, illegal settlers, must be forced to leave the West Bank, Palestine! "Israeli settlers have attacked several Palestinian villages across the occupied West Bank, as a wave of violence targeting residents harvesting their olive trees intensifies." www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
"The demolition of the East Wing is only one example of Trump's indifference to the views of others." "'We the People' is quaint. Now, we are governed by the whims of one person" "can indulge any crazy impulse, and nobody is able to check him" www.alternet.org/ump-maureen-...
"The vast majority of cocaine is produced and smuggled elsewhere in Latin America" "Venezuela does not supply fentanyl at all" archive.ph/wMoI7#select...
"they want regime change, and why is that? So they can install a puppet government to take control of Venezuela’s oil" www.ft.com/content/03cb...
