"As world leaders gather for the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York this week, the charity Oxfam says they are being undermined by what it calls a “global oligarchy” of the super-rich who exert considerable control over the global economy – and who it blames for exacerbating problems like extreme inequality and climate change."
"Speaking to the press Wednesday in front of a crowd of his supporters in North Carolina, J.D. Vance escalated his attacks on immigrants, claiming that even those here legally are in fact “illegal” and subject to deportation."
"Asia’s strongest storm this year is also forcing tens of thousands of people to hunker down in neighbouring #Vietnam, where it is expected to hit over the weekend.
Vietnam’s Civil Aviation Authority said four airports in the north, including Hanoi’s Noi Bai International, would be closed on Saturday.
"Hong Kong ground to a halt on Thursday as #SuperTyphoonYagi edged closer to the city and prompted the first No 8 storm warning of the year, forcing class suspensions, flight cancellations and the scaling back of public transport services to the bare minimum."
With super typhoon winds, Yagi whirls towards Southern China
"Southern Chinese provinces and cities braced for the arrival of super TyphoonYagi, shutting schools and postponing flights ahead of its expected landfall along Hainan's subtropical coast in what could be the most powerful storm to hit China in years.
It has more than doubled its strength since devastating northern Philippines earlier this week."
"At least 20 people are thought to have been killed in the Philippines and four more in southern China. Dozens are still missing amid destroyed bridges, landslides and flooding. Millions across the region were left without power and many have been forced to flee their homes. "
"#TyphoonYagi's impact has been severe. In northern #Vietnam, the storm caused widespread destruction, including significant flooding and infrastructure damage. In total, Vietnam has reported 14 deaths, with more than 150 people injured."
"Industrial production in several northern provinces [of #Vietnam] was halted, 235,000 houses were damaged and more than 300,000 hectares of rice and cash crops were inundated."
And a possible new typhoon is forming.
"The possible new storm would approach the central city of Danang late on Thursday or early Friday, according to the weather agency."
"About a third of Myanmar’s 55 million people are already in need of humanitarian aid amid a conflict triggered by a coup in February 2021 in which the military unseated the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi."
"Scientists say that typhoons, hurricanes and cyclones in general have become stronger due to #ClimateChange. This is because warmer ocean waters allow storms to pick up more energy leading to higher wind speeds.
A study published in July this year also revealed that tropical cyclones in Southeast Asia are now forming closer to coastlines, intensifying more rapidly, and lingering longer over land."
"#Floods in #Chad’s northeastern province of Tibesti have claimed the lives of at least 54 people, authorities have said. The heavy rains are also causing devastation in neighbouring #Niger and #Sudan, with more rainfall expected across central Africa due to #ClimateChange.
The excess rainfall ranges from 50 to 400 millimetres above normal levels, in areas where it usually rains between 100 and 600 millimetres per year."
"Surging waters have burst through a #dam in eastern #Sudan, wiping out at least 20 villages and leaving at least 30 people dead but probably many more, the UN has said, devastating a region already reeling from months of civil war."
"1,000 dead, million homeless as #floods devastate west and central #Africa
Just two months into the 2024 rainy season, severe flooding has impacted 716,473 people across nine countries in West and Central Africa, including Chad, Nigeria, and the Central African Republic.
Africa is paying the price for the crime it didn’t do."
"Enormous #floods have once again engulfed much of #SouthSudan, as record water levels in Lake Victoria flow downstream through the Nile. More than 700,000 people have been affected. Hundreds of thousands of people there were already forced from their homes by huge floods a few years ago and were yet to return before this new threat emerged.
Now, there are concerns that these displaced communities may never be able to return to their lands."
"Floodwater surged into homes, stranded vehicles and forced water rescues in coastal #NorthCarolina on Monday after a tropical storm-like system dumped historic amounts of rain in a matter of hours.
[In Carolina Beach] 18 inches of rain fell in 12 hours"
A Quarter of America's Bridges May Collapse Within 26 Years.
"#Bridges are facing unprecedented pressures from #climate events, including large temperature swings, increased flooding, and troublesome soil erosion."
Sometimes when we talk about current events he will say things that make me go, "Where have you BEEN?"
One glaring example is the way Biden has been portrayed in the for-profit news, the incessant aggressive scrutiny, while Trump gets a free pass on similar things.
And #Project2025. The for-profit news only started covering it after Taraji P. Henson talked about #Project2025 at the BET awards, in July 2024.
The 900-page manifesto was published in April 2023.