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a MAD WORLD in loose verses and mad CAPs — and a tree….Over twenty-five hundred Migrants Died or Went Missing While Trying to Reach Europe via the Mediterranean this Year, also Conservative and Labour governments supported Baghdad's attacking The Kurds 60 years ago Knowing it may have constituted genociding Declassified files show. The new wave of violence of Israel on the Gaza bubble Enters its second month with More than 10,000 dead people The Associated Press has been reporting Forty percent of them children. Where is this catastrophe going What are the limits of Israel’s inhumanity Ukraine Suffers up to 235 Casualties in its military In Donetsk Direction says Russian Ministry Russia Repels eight Attacks in South Donetsk Direction Ukraine Loses another 145 Soldiers in the same mad action Geopolitical analyst Brian Berletic, a former US Marine Said Israel had made its intention to depopulate with blaring tambourine The enclave clear from all things Palestine In September and October, a series of online meetings Of Swiss and Austrian activists for the defence of neutralititioning Had been prompted by the joint declaration Of the Swiss and Austrian governments to join The NATO missile “Sky Shield” system As joining a central NATO weapons item Is incompatible with the central neutrality of the two nations In her first report in October 2022, UN Special Rapporteur on the situations Of human rights in the territories, since nineteen sixty seven occupied Francesca Albanese recommended that UN nations Develop a plan to end the Israeli settler-colonial occupations and apartheid regime What message will she now bring to us ALL An old man, grey-haired but firm in his manner sanguine To the ABC TV reporter by Palestine’s West Bank told He was Israeli, and claimed the building site as his because God gave him this land with the chosen people clause China and America are not destined for war No matter how much silly they are Americans are Getting all Wrong About China and Taiwan Getting ready for simultaneous wars for the Heartland Freaking Out About a Potential War With the Chinese Because America might lose alone, with ease Putin says US war talks against Russia and China Are nonsense. Already engaging in irregular war with US In the grey zone of effortlessness Experts say a China war is already well under progression With the United States, so Australia needs to take awareness Of the crazy situation Should the US pursue a new Cold War with China silk road For the past decade, it has been clear that the peace delusion Between Israelis and Palestinians long ago devolved into ebullition An extended exercise of kicking the can down the road The absence of sustained large-scale violence eruption Produced an illusion of stability. Even those who had not Been lulled into complacency were shocked however hot The outbreak of the devastating war that has now been raging Since Hamas attacked southern Israel on October seven morning It is the biggest theft in the world, tax dodging by billionaires And multinational companies with or without heirs Something like $US30 trillion is parked in a tax havens Every year, Some $US450 billion is siphoned out to the heavens Most of it from wealthier, developed countries like Australia And America, America, America, now drowning in its own caca Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has revealed his lack of decency As utterly cynical in his claimed commitment to democracy And free and fair elections by ruling these out for the foreseeable future An Israeli minister in charge of Legacy impure Proposed using the atomic bomb in Gaza in a fix Where a government formed by crazed extremists Living in their illusions leads unfortunately To massacring the Palestinians, while Israel needs to kill history Xi Jinping may have reached a sobering conclusion By picking a fight with the West he wasn’t ready for, says the Clyde Russia reportedly using Ukrainian POWs to fight on Moscow’s side Experts say such actions would be an apparent violation of the Geneva Conventions relating to the treatment of prisoners of war by Minerva Israel agrees to daily pauses in Gaza to allow people to flee Hamas leaders reveal motive behind October Seven attack Israelis in other places used to chide Tel Avivians, With their hip boutiques and cafes, for living in a bubble pack Of naive tranquillity that has now exploded. Genocide in Gaza Would Not Be Possible Without Western Complicity The attack came at a critical time, in a critical location. As world leaders congregated at the UN General Assembly in New Yorkation, A Ukrainian missile struck Russia's navy headquarters in occupied Crimea. Supposedly… It was a devastating blow to Vladimir's navy Presence on the peninsula it has illegally occupied since whenever. Kyiv claimed the strike killed some naval officers and soon after Russia moved the majority of its Black Sea fleet out of Sevastopol. A group of partisans (terrorists) claims it played an important role in the attack Telling the ABC it provided critical intelligence to Ukraine's armed flack About Russia's Black Sea Navy Headquarters shore The strike on the Russian Navy base was a direct strike at the core Of the occupying military structure, a partisan, who requested anonymity For their (woke) identity, said in a video sent exclusively to the ABC We believe that this destruction served as irreversible aims For the Russian occupiers to realise their impending collapse The ABC can't independently verify the partisan's SILLY claims The world has experienced its hottest 12 months on record And El Niño is set to drive temperatures higher than one can afford The international order has lapsed UN Rights Chief Says Israel’s Collective Punishment in Gaza Is a War Crime Young Men in Parts of Philadelphia and Chicago Die From Guns slime At a Higher Rate Than US Troops in the Heat of Battle Blockade on Cuba Opposed by ninety seven per cent of Countries We’re a War Machine as a Nation: The American Political pastries IS TIME REALLY BEING CALLED ON AMERICAS LONGEST WAR IN AFGHANISTAN as US aircraft, drones and disregard With special forces continuing warfare remotely NATO’s summit meeting in Wales twenty fourteen was a vital opportunity In the alliance’s sixty five year history of being When the global security environment was becoming Increasingly unpredictable and unstable because of NATO Preparing to complete its longest combat mission NATO To open a new chapter with a definite Afghanistan action. Trump’s lawyers mount bid to toss out fraud lawsuits The Gaza War Threaten Jewish Power in the U.S. and The Status Occupying the Moral High Ground of Catholics There can’t be globalism and colonial war; one aspires to malice, Both to fascism. Meanwhile once welcomed mavericks Heretics now are in an underground of journalism Amid a landscape of mendacious news conformity. Illegal Settlers Reign of Terror in the West Bank fire Black faces are being used by the failing empire To sell racist, rules-based neocolonial military Failure of the world to stop Massacre after massacre Shows the brokenness of our international System traitorous Broken and rooted in the United Nations Bringing the conflict in Ukraine and now egging on a dangerous Confrontation in Northeast Asia, with flashpoints Around the Korean peninsula and Taiwan portions There are indications the U.S. and China will restart the military joints Suspended in August twenty twenty-two When Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan to annoy China with her poo In an act of reckless adventurism, and delusions too Does not indicate lowered tensions in the waters around Northeast Asian Charles de Gaulle's last living child, Philippe, is one hundred and one His succession is worrying the loyal followers of the General Founder of the Fifth Republic dawn Who can be the new standard-bearer of the glorious heritage Dividing his descendants, as one of them on the frontage Pierre, has shown a loud support for Putin's hide. Zionist think tank publishes blueprint for Palestinian genocide Source of dubious Beheaded Babies claim is Israeli settler Who incited riots to wipe out a Palestinian village Craig Murray, Assange advocate and Former ambassador Has been detained under UK terror adage Hamas denies agreement on humanitarian pauses Her Genocide fuels Israel’s economic wows Netanyahu led Israel to worst historical catastrophe Kiev Goes On Offensive In Europe Rush To Offensive On Ukrainian Frontlines Russian Army Pounds Ukrainian Rear Loosing In fear, Kiev Attempts Offensive Across Dniepr As Skies Turn Orange, Media Still Hesitate to Mention What’s Changing Climate. On US TV news, viewers were likely more To hear climate denial than the connection Between fossil fuel consumption and worsening wildfires The New York Times used its front-page coverage primarily To wonder whether trans people’s rights and access to healthcares have gone too far in ugly surgical ops and ires To US Papers, Iranian bombs Far more Newsworthy Than Those Made in USA. If newspapers were concerned about human life There wouldn’t be such a gap in coverage of strife Between Iranian and US-made weapons NPR Devotes Two Hours over two weeks to Afghanistan With 30 Seconds about Starving Afghans Failing to call attention to the US policy of starving Afghanistan By restricting its trade activity and seizing its banking reserves Dollar Hegemony Fuelling America's Foreign Crusades The treasury of virtue, American exceptionalism Being the moral cover for all of this greed, Racism, barbarianism, and worserism The good news today is that it is hard to think of anyone-ism With a sound mind who would sincerely believe this any longer Trump Wins Again with smiling anger Joe is a crooked robber Is the Biden Administration’s inability to provide Congress With an accurate total of aid sent to Ukraine progress UK SHAME: OVER 500 MPS BACK ISRAEL’S BOMBING OF GAZA With MPs in Westminster supporting a parliamentary motion Calling for a ceasefire as of nine November in Gaza China's renewed commitment to take forward the building of a community With a shared future in cyberspace will propel greater global cooperation And exchanges in the internet sector and help narrow the global digitality Analysts and industry insiders said in a pack US doublespeak threatens Mideast peace alive After witnessing years of war, internal strife and terrorism in Iraq Barham Salih, the former Iraqi president, today aspires for peace And stability in the whole of the Middle East. He called for instance To the ongoing Palestine-Israel conflict and praised China's stance On the Palestinian situation Entry, exit procedures streamlined for Taiwan population Ten measures will come into effect to boost travel Between the mainland and Taiwan and to deepen well Integrated cross-Strait development access. Snow leopard conservation efforts breed Success U.S. Strikes Iran-Linked Facility in Syria This Is Not Freedom, America, America, America Profit Incentives Drive the American Police State As Washington Hawks Created the New Axis of Evil update The European Commission cannot complain about discrimination Against the ethnic Russian minority in Ukraine Because there is no such Rusky section of the population Kiev’s deputy prime minister for European integration Olga Stefanishina, has claimed without an ounce of shame.
That’s not all, folks…. That’s not all, folks…. That’s not all, folks….
ROBERT URBANOSKI — 13 November 2023….
Picture at top by Gus Leonisky: The Wollemi pine is one of the world’s oldest and rarest trees. Only 46 adult trees and 43 juveniles remain in the wild. Belonging to a 200 million year-old plant family, this critically endangered Australian species is considered a global treasure.
A great survival story The Wollemi pine is an ancient conifer that’s sometimes called a living fossil, or the ‘dinosaur tree’. Fossil evidence of the species dates back 91 million years. It was thought to have gone extinct around 2 million years ago, until the chance discovery in 1994 of small grove of living trees in a remote rainforest canyon of the Greater Blue Mountains. In this microclimate Wollemi pines can grow up to 40m tall. Mature trees typically have more than one trunk and can produce up to 40 trunks on a single tree. A single trunk may reach up to 450 years old. Some of the larger trees could be hundreds, if not thousands, of years old. The species has distinctive, deep-red, bubbly bark and fern-like foliage. Male and female cones are produced on the same tree, and the seeds have a single wing to help them disperse in wind.
Under threat With so few adult trees remaining in the wild the species is at risk of extinction. The biggest threats to its existence include catastrophic fire events and, in particular, human disturbance. Unauthorised visits to the site risk compromising the fragile wild population and ecosystem. Trampling seedlings, damaging exposed roots and fragile soils, and introducing invasive weeds and pathogens like deadly Phytophthora cinnamomi or ‘root rot’ all have a devastating impact.
Visit our Wollemi pine conservation project page to learn more about what NSW National Parks and our partners are doing to safeguard the future of the Wollemi pine.
https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/plants-and-animals/wollemi-pine
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