November 2025

Nature, Last At-Bat

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SAN FRANCISCO, 14 November – Our planetary life support systems are under siege, especially the bees, trees and seas.

Bees are food. Trees are freshwater. Seas are oxygen.

So, why are the bees, trees and seas and everything else within Nature getting destroyed?

The three underlying root causes of our ruinous civilisation: legal, economic and political systems, are all based on the assumption of Man’s supremacy.

The economy is built on human productivity, human inventiveness and plundering Mother Earth’s finite living and non-living jewels. This is why Amazon, Jeff Bezos’s company, is backed by bankers and valued by the economy at >$2tn.

{What’s the difference between a million, billion and trillion in relatable terms? One million seconds is about 12 days. One billion seconds is about 32 years. One trillion seconds is about 32,000 years.}

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North Korea, Crime and Cryptocurrencies

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On August 8, 2008, Bitcoin (a cryptocurrency) emerged. Cryptocurrencies are a form of money that can be used in online exchanges. Some would say it was inevitable, in that more and more business is done online, and there needed to be some kind of currency for online transactions other than the currencies of the various nations that issued currencies. A little history is in order. The Eurocurrency was created to have a common currency for nineteen countries of Europe, so that they would have one currency no matter what country you were in. Banking would be easier, and transactions would be easier, without having to switch from one currency to another while traveling in Europe, or exchanges from one nation to another. England decided not to join the European Union, so England still used the pound for transactions. Nineteen countries took the Euro as their currency. Banking and transactions became much easier.

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COP30: Amazon Rainforest Destroyers

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SAN FRANCISCO, 2 November – For thirty-three years the world’s leaders have postponed action despite incontrovertible scientific evidence and images proving that mankind is rapidly razing and scorching our only home.

The upcoming 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) is a hijacked cash-cow. This year, a four-lane highway has carved up tens of thousands of acres of old-growth Amazon Rainforest, NE Brazil, so that 60,000 foreign participants, including world leaders can grandstand.

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