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HumeAI-Donovan_Sinclair:

Never before since 1990 have governments spent so much money on weapons and military equipment: 7.1 percent of all government spending worldwide was invested in (potential) defense and/or attack in 2024. This amounts to approximately $0.92 per person per day. By comparison, approximately 690 million people – around 8.5 percent of the world's population – live in extreme poverty. They have less than $2.15 a day at their disposal. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), 2024 saw an unprecedented increase in military spending – the largest year-on-year increase since the end of the Cold War. Global military spending rose by 9.4 percent compared to 2023, reaching $2,718 billion. SIPRI states this in a recent report on "Trends in Global Military Expenditure." Over half of the global military budget went to NATO countries. Almost half of this money was paid by people in the USA and China – with the USA spending 3.2 times more on weapons and other military equipment than China. Around 80 percent of global military spending is financed by the population of 15 countries. According to SIPRI, the 32 member states of NATO spent 1,506 billion dollars on the military last year. That is 55 percent of global expenditures. (This total differs from the officially

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HumeAI-English_Children's_Book_Narrator:

Yesterday, May 22nd, the U.S. House of Representatives passed Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" by a vote of 215 to 214. Headlines are made by tax cuts, hundreds of billions for the military and border security, and cuts in subsidies for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Medicaid. The poorest people in the U.S. will receive fewer food subsidies and too little money for their medical care. Hidden in the 1,000-page legislative package is a provision that the House Judiciary Committee added to the bill. "Hidden" Provision in Trump's Big Bill Could Disarm U.S. Supreme Court," headlined and warned Newsweek. In obscure language, this provision prohibits the judiciary from prosecuting anyone who disobeys orders from any court—including the U.S. Supreme Court. Court orders can therefore be ignored without consequence. Judicial authorities no longer have the ability, as before, to convict officials of violating court orders. The law provides for a single exception: If the original plaintiff has posted financial security, court orders must be enforced. In plain language, lawsuits remain reserved for those with sufficient funds. But plaintiffs who challenge a deportation order in court, for example, generally do not have the means to post financial security or bail. Erwin Chemerinsky, professor and dean of the University of California School of Law, calls it "a terrible idea." He told Newsweek: "This provision re

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HumeAI-Articulate_ASMR_British_Narrator:

The environment is full of plastic; we have plastic particles in our blood, tissue, and brain. We're even sitting on them—literally. Yet a causal solution to the plastic crisis is nowhere in sight. As recently as the beginning of December 2024, some countries refused to accept a global production cap for plastic. Recycling is intended to eliminate the problem, or so the manufacturing industry claims. A plastics cycle with less waste and less new production is the solution. That sounds appealing. In Switzerland, the situation is already poor in this regard. Just ten percent of plastic waste is currently recycled. A collection system for plastic waste launched by the organization Recypac aims to change that. Consumer protection: "Back to reusable glass!" Recypac is backed by retailers such as Migros and Coop, food manufacturers such as Nestlé and Emmi, and the Swiss Association of Municipal Infrastructure (SVKI). The industry association operates for profit, it states on its website. Collection is to take place in a separate garbage bag, similar to the yellow bag in Germany. Municipalities can apply to participate. Recycling will initially take place abroad. The Swiss Consumer Protection Agency, however, criticizes this model as a "simulated cycle" at best. Plastic recycling has never been sensible, if only because every promise of recycling leads to higher consumption. The intention of the l

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This is a guest post. The author, Hubert Filser, is a science journalist and physicist. His original article appeared in Horizons No. 144 (March 2025), the research magazine of the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences. The story of what is probably the most sought-after element in the world today begins in the first five minutes after the Big Bang. Around 13.8 billion years ago, the lightest metal in the universe was formed: lithium. Yet no one knows exactly how this key resource for the energy transition even came to Earth. Lithium was first detected around 200 years ago, in the Utö mine south of Stockholm. Incidentally, the metal could not have originated on Earth itself; it requires energies as high as those found only in space and in the interior of stars. "Lithium is one of the most mysterious elements in the universe," says Anna Frebel, an expert on ancient stars and the early phase of the universe at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In its pure form, the element is highly reactive, and even the first stars, with their high core temperatures, burned it almost completely. Nevertheless, according to the standard model for the origin of the universe, there should still be significantly more lithium in the universe today. Measurements show hydrogen and helium in the expected quantities, but lithium two to four times less than predicted. Why? "We don't know," says the astrophysicist. It's called the cosmological lithium pr

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https://au.figu.org/henoch_prophecies.html

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https://au.figu.org/present_future.html

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https://future.figucarolina.org/Billy_Meier/We_Are_Not_Alone_in_the_Vastness_of_Space

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https://future.figucarolina.org/Billy_Meier/FIGU_–_Advisory_12

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