The institution of religion even preys on believers. The Catholic church is the biggest predator of all in this regard. A church with a big bank attached where Vatican bankers are dressed in brightly colored ornamental clerical clothing wearing hats that look like fish heads. The pharmaceutical cartels that ultimately run these human created systems want you either dead or incapacitated. Death is a huge part of GNPs. Militaries exploit the natural instinct in young men to protect their tribe only to have them kill others on an industrial scale under the banner of a flag. The entire Earth ecosphere we live in is dictated and controlled by military conquest through war. Our entire existence is parasitical with the most dangerous parasite of all being central banks.
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27 million tons of plastic piles up in Atlantic Ocean, and it can't be cleaned up
The missing plastic puzzle just got its darkest piece: 27 million tons now adrift in the North Atlantic.
July 23, 2025 | By Neetika Walter
Asilent crisis is unfolding beneath the surface of our oceans, and it's worse than feared.
This is the first real estimate of how much plastic pollution exists in the form of nanoparticles, tiny fragments smaller than one micrometer.
Until now, their presence had been confirmed in trace amounts, but the full scale remained unknown.
Tiny trash, massive threat
“This estimate shows that there is more plastic in the form of nanoparticles floating in this part of the ocean than there is in larger micro- or macroplastics floating in the Atlantic—or even in all the world’s oceans,” said Helge Niemann, researcher at NIOZ and professor of geochemistry at Utrecht University.
The team gathered water samples from 12 sites during a four-week expedition aboard the research vessel 'RV Pelagia'.
They filtered out anything larger than one micrometer and analyzed the remaining material using mass spectrometry to detect plastic molecules too small to be captured by traditional ocean surveys.
"By drying and heating the remaining material, we were able to measure the characteristic molecules of different types of plastics in the Utrecht laboratory," said master's student Sophie ten Hietbrink, who led the sampling effort at sea.
Fallout from the skies
The nanoplastics can enter ocean waters through multiple routes. Larger plastic debris breaks down under sunlight, while river runoff carries particles from land.
Nanoplastics can also travel through the air, settling onto the ocean surface with rain or via dry atmospheric deposition.
These tiny plastics are far from harmless.
Scientists warn that they are already infiltrating the marine food web, affecting everything ranging from bacteria and plankton to fish and top predators, including humans.
Nanoplastics are known to breach biological barriers and have even been detected in human brain tissue, raising urgent concerns about their impact on ecosystems and health.
Please go to Interesting Engineering to continue reading.
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The US military is about to become a world class polluter
Surging to a trillion dollar budget will put this industrial behemoth's emissions on par with those of entire countries
By Ian Davis | July 24, 2025
According to new analysis by the Climate and Community Institute (CCI), recent increases in Pentagon spending alone will produce an additional 26 megatons (Mt) of planet-heating gases — on a par with the annual carbon equivalent (CO2e) emissions generated by 68 gas power plants or the entire country of Croatia.
With the Pentagon's 2026 budget set to surge to $1 trillion (a 17% or $150 billion increase from 2023), its total greenhouse emissions will also increase to a staggering 178 Mt of CO2e. This will make the U.S. military and its industrial apparatus the 38th largest emitter in the world if it were its own nation. It will also result in an estimated $47 billion in economic damages globally, including impacts on agriculture, human health, and property from extreme weather, according to the EPA's social cost of carbon calculator.
Yet the Pentagon's true climate impact will almost certainly be much worse than estimated by the CCI, as the calculation does not include emissions generated from separate supplementary U.S. military funding, such as for arms transfers to Israel and Ukraine in recent years. It also does not include the emissions from armed conflict, which are considerable when it happens.
And the CCI study only covers U.S. military spending. Military spending in European NATO countries is also surging. At the Hague Summit in June, the 32 NATO member states pledged to increase their military and security spending from 2% to 5% of GDP by 2035. As a result, NATO military spending in Europe and Canada could increase from around $500 million today to $1.1 trillion in 2035, when the combined defense budgets of the other 31 allies will essentially equal the Pentagon's. Every dollar or euro of this military spending in preparation for NATO to fight hypothetical wars with China, Russia or anyone else has a climate and opportunity cost.
Meanwhile, U.S. military leaders want to spend more justified largely on threat inflation. During a recent meeting of military industrial leaders in Wiesbaden, Germany, for example, NATO's recently appointed Supreme Allied Commander, U.S. Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich, restated the flawed case for increased military spending. He called on member states to prepare for the possibility that Russia and China could launch wars in Europe and the Pacific simultaneously, with 2027 being a potential, though highly speculative, flashpoint year.
Grynkewich, who is also head of the U.S. European Command, argued that the situation meant that allies have little time to prepare. "We're going to need every bit of kit and equipment and munitions that we can in order to beat that," he said.
Please go to Responsible Statecraft to continue reading.
27 million tons of plastic piles up in Atlantic Ocean, and it can't be cleaned up
The missing plastic puzzle just got its darkest piece: 27 million tons now adrift in the North Atlantic.
July 23, 2025 | By Neetika Walter
Asilent crisis is unfolding beneath the surface of our oceans, and it's worse than feared.
Scientists from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and Utrecht University have uncovered a staggering 27 million tons of near-invisible nanoplastics drifting through the North Atlantic Ocean, posing a threat that can no longer be ignored.
This is the first real estimate of how much plastic pollution exists in the form of nanoparticles, tiny fragments smaller than one micrometer.
Until now, their presence had been confirmed in trace amounts, but the full scale remained unknown.
Tiny trash, massive threat
“This estimate shows that there is more plastic in the form of nanoparticles floating in this part of the ocean than there is in larger micro- or macroplastics floating in the Atlantic—or even in all the world’s oceans,” said Helge Niemann, researcher at NIOZ and professor of geochemistry at Utrecht University.
The team gathered water samples from 12 sites during a four-week expedition aboard the research vessel 'RV Pelagia'.
They filtered out anything larger than one micrometer and analyzed the remaining material using mass spectrometry to detect plastic molecules too small to be captured by traditional ocean surveys.
"By drying and heating the remaining material, we were able to measure the characteristic molecules of different types of plastics in the Utrecht laboratory," said master's student Sophie ten Hietbrink, who led the sampling effort at sea.
Fallout from the skies
The nanoplastics can enter ocean waters through multiple routes. Larger plastic debris breaks down under sunlight, while river runoff carries particles from land.
Nanoplastics can also travel through the air, settling onto the ocean surface with rain or via dry atmospheric deposition.
These tiny plastics are far from harmless.
Scientists warn that they are already infiltrating the marine food web, affecting everything ranging from bacteria and plankton to fish and top predators, including humans.
Nanoplastics are known to breach biological barriers and have even been detected in human brain tissue, raising urgent concerns about their impact on ecosystems and health.
Please go to Interesting Engineering to continue reading.
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The US military is about to become a world class polluter
Surging to a trillion dollar budget will put this industrial behemoth's emissions on par with those of entire countries
By Ian Davis | July 24, 2025
According to new analysis by the Climate and Community Institute (CCI), recent increases in Pentagon spending alone will produce an additional 26 megatons (Mt) of planet-heating gases — on a par with the annual carbon equivalent (CO2e) emissions generated by 68 gas power plants or the entire country of Croatia.
With the Pentagon's 2026 budget set to surge to $1 trillion (a 17% or $150 billion increase from 2023), its total greenhouse emissions will also increase to a staggering 178 Mt of CO2e. This will make the U.S. military and its industrial apparatus the 38th largest emitter in the world if it were its own nation. It will also result in an estimated $47 billion in economic damages globally, including impacts on agriculture, human health, and property from extreme weather, according to the EPA's social cost of carbon calculator.
Yet the Pentagon's true climate impact will almost certainly be much worse than estimated by the CCI, as the calculation does not include emissions generated from separate supplementary U.S. military funding, such as for arms transfers to Israel and Ukraine in recent years. It also does not include the emissions from armed conflict, which are considerable when it happens.
And the CCI study only covers U.S. military spending. Military spending in European NATO countries is also surging. At the Hague Summit in June, the 32 NATO member states pledged to increase their military and security spending from 2% to 5% of GDP by 2035. As a result, NATO military spending in Europe and Canada could increase from around $500 million today to $1.1 trillion in 2035, when the combined defense budgets of the other 31 allies will essentially equal the Pentagon's. Every dollar or euro of this military spending in preparation for NATO to fight hypothetical wars with China, Russia or anyone else has a climate and opportunity cost.
Meanwhile, U.S. military leaders want to spend more justified largely on threat inflation. During a recent meeting of military industrial leaders in Wiesbaden, Germany, for example, NATO's recently appointed Supreme Allied Commander, U.S. Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich, restated the flawed case for increased military spending. He called on member states to prepare for the possibility that Russia and China could launch wars in Europe and the Pacific simultaneously, with 2027 being a potential, though highly speculative, flashpoint year.
Grynkewich, who is also head of the U.S. European Command, argued that the situation meant that allies have little time to prepare. "We're going to need every bit of kit and equipment and munitions that we can in order to beat that," he said.
Please go to Responsible Statecraft to continue reading.
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Killing Palestinians with advanced technologically sophisticated weaponry is very robust for business. A Palestinian life has no value in the overall scheme for those who plan and expedite the killing:
Israel's Genocide Is Big Business – and the Face of the Future
Killing Palestinians with advanced technologically sophisticated weaponry is very robust for business. A Palestinian life has no value in the overall scheme for those who plan and expedite the killing:
Israel's Genocide Is Big Business – and the Face of the Future
The Russians have killed or maimed an estimated 1.5 million Ukrainian men and Russia is a Christian orthodox nation:
The central bankers have another big one planned:
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