📣 Some Home Truths on Real Motive Behind Net Zero from Greenpeace Founder Patrick Moore - Create Fear

Follow the money. 💲

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❗️China’s President Xi to Attend BRICS Leaders’ Meeting in South Africa – 🇨🇳 Foreign Ministry

The Chinese leader will attend the meeting in person as part of his visit to 🇿🇦 on Aug 21-24, the ministry said in a statement Friday.

Expansion is expected to be high on the agenda of the leaders’ meeting as some 40 nations have expressed interest - either formally or informally – in joining the bloc.

Beijing has previously said it "welcomes more like-minded partners to join the 'BRICS family' at an early date."

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Former 🇬🇧 Govt Medical Chief Lands Senior Role at Vaccine Maker Moderna 👀

Professor Sir Jonathan Van Tam – who became one of the faces of Westminster’s Covid pandemic response during lockdown – has taken a job as senior medical consultant at vax giant Moderna.

Is Van Tam getting his reward for “services” to Moderna? Or just yet more normalizing of the relations between Big Pharma and its “regulators”?

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🔥 Wildfire Ravages Spanish Island of Tenerife - Burning Through More Than 2,600 Hectares of Land

The blaze is the "most complex" to hit the Canary Islands in decades, authorities said.

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🤑 Brazil Snaps Up Record Amounts of Russian Fuel

Imports of 🇷🇺 petroleum products is set to rise 25% from July to about 235k bpd, data from energy analytics firm Kpler show – far outstripping the US, which used to be Brazil’s top foreign fuel supplier.

🇧🇷 started ramping up the purchases sharply in February, the month the EU banned imports and joined other Group of Seven nations in imposing a cap on Russian fuel prices.

Since the cap came into effect, 🇧🇷 became the second-largest buyer of 🇷🇺 diesel globally, lagging only 🇹🇷, according to Kpler.

Has the G7 cap backfired as Moscow builds new markets in Asia and Latin America?

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🔴 Africa on the Brink? ECOWAS Defence Chiefs Declare Readiness to Invade 🇳🇪

The West African bloc is ready to intervene militarily in Niger should diplomatic efforts to reverse a coup there fail, a senior official told army chiefs who were meeting in Ghana Thursday.

The Accra meeting of top army commanders, which continues Friday, comes after fresh violence in 🇳🇪, with jihadists killing at least 17 soldiers in an ambush.

Twenty more soldiers were wounded, six seriously, in the heaviest losses since the July 26 coup, when the presidential guard ousted President Mohamed Bazoum and detained him and his family.

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