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Thank you KC Studio Magazine for the expanded reach of our art installations and the concerns that drive us to create them. Let's all SPEAK OUT! Rusty & Paula
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The chemical industry has known for decades that ingested microplastics can infiltrate vital organs, an investigation has found.
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"We estimate 430,365 heat-related deaths in Europe over the study period 2000-2025, with just over half of the modelled burden attributable to human-induced warming." nature.com/articles/s44360-0…
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There were reports on efforts to deal with the aftermath of Russian attacks on our cities and communities.
Overnight, Russia used, among other weapons, three ballistic missiles with cluster warheads against Kyiv. These missiles are designed to detonate in the air as they approach their targets, spreading damage across an area 400 meters in diameter.
One of them struck Pechersk, Kyiv's historic center, hitting the area between the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and the Holy Presentation Monastery.
Monastery buildings, homes, shops, cafés, and other civilian infrastructure were damaged.
This is another extraordinarily revealing strike – revealing because it was no accident. The choice of weapon was deliberate, the choice of target area was deliberate, and so was the intent to inflict as much loss and damage on civilians as possible. There was no military target nearby, not even in theory, and the weapon was designed to cause widespread destruction. Russia has not changed the way it wages this war, and it is taking no steps that would signal a genuine desire to end it.
Throughout the day, air raid alerts have continued in Kyiv and many other cities. So have the strikes. In Kharkiv, a regular commuter train was hit. Dnipro, Marhanets, Mykolaiv, and Kherson, as well as cities and villages in the Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, and Rivne regions, came under attack.
Russia keeps targeting our energy infrastructure. Since October 11, there have been more than 170 strikes on critical energy facilities, even though we are shooting down a significant number of “shaheds” and some of the missiles. I thank all our friends around the world who are helping us restore our energy system.
Our intelligence services report that Russia has set priorities for further terror against Ukrainians in the coming weeks. Russia is clearly taking advantage of the slowdown in air defense supplies from our partners. It is equally clear that when some partners ease the pressure on Russia, it only reinforces Putin's belief that his goals are within reach. We need different signals and different steps – stronger ones.
I have instructed the Ministry of Defense, together with the military command and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to brief our partners on every aspect of the real situation and the threats we face, based on intelligence data. It is important to speed up deliveries of defense packages that have already been approved. I thank all the leaders and countries that are helping!
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Beyond irresponsible. What part of enforcing a law passed 86-11 by the Senate does the President and his advisors not understand? It’s unconscionable that this administration is capitulating to a Russian dictator who illegally invaded Ukraine and butchers innocent civilians every single day. If the President wants to actually bring down energy prices, he can do it by solving the Iran problem, not by doing a solid for Vladimir Putin.
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13 OCT, CENTRAL U.S. TEMPERATURE RECORDS SMASHED, + 9-13°C
Daily high-temperature records in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Illinois on October 13, reaching 32.8–33.9°C (91–93°F), and 9.4–13.3°C (17–24°F) above normal.
This followed the warmest September on record for the contiguous United States. #climatechange #globalwarming
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Yesterday on fallow land I saw plants that once buzzed with bees & insects before 2000… now silent.
Pesticides didn’t just kill pests. They wiped out the pollinators that keep us alive.
No bees = no food security.
This is environmental terrorism by design. Hold the chemical corporations accountable.
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The Alarming Decline of Flying Insects.
Did you know that there has been a 63% decline in flying insects in just 3 years? This is a catastrophic loss of biodiversity that threatens the very foundation of our ecosystem. Insects are a crucial part of our food chain and play a vital role in pollination, decomposition, and pest control. We MUST take action to reverse this trend and protect our planet's precious biodiversity. Share this post to raise awareness and let's work together to create a more sustainable future! #insectdecline #biodiversitymatters #sustainability
HAVE A CLIMATE PLAN?
We plan:
-School
-Work
-Church
-Where to live
-Budgets
-Insurance
-Estate
……A LIFE PLAN.
Will you Include Climate Change in your LIFE PLAN?
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The horn of Africa is grieving because their
-Their farms are no longer yielding
-Advancement of desert is alarming
-Our major rivers are drying
-Proliferation of pest and pathogens
-Development of tropical diseases.
-Our crop are dieing out.
Climate change is a reality.
“We need to ask ourselves who we have become as a nation when senior officials decide to make a spectacle of state-sponsored violence.”
—-The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal church, the Most Rev. Sean Rowe
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US COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS (USCCB) President Condemns Plans for Livestream of Fort Hood Shooter's Execution as ‘a Barbaric Promotion of a Culture of Death’ usccb.org/news/2026/usccb-pr…
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This tiny baby's hand wrapped in a blanket. I am completely broken and devastated.
I don't know what else the 'free world' needs to see. And I don't know how much of that 'freedom' is even left anymore.
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GLOBAL FLOODING INTENSIFIES… ARE WE LIVING IN THE DAYS OF NOAH?
Something is happening with the amount of water moving through the atmosphere.
In just 30 days, major flooding has hit multiple continents while rainfall and river records that stood for decades, and even more than a century, have fallen.
Nebraska. Charleston. India. Nepal. Spain. Thailand. Japan. Australia. And the list keeps growing.
Now a potential Super El Niño is building across the Pacific, capable of shifting storm tracks and redirecting enormous amounts of moisture around the planet.
30 days. Multiple continents. Historic records falling.
And El Niño hasn’t peaked yet.
What are you seeing where you live?
#MrMBB333 #Flooding #ElNiño
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We were warned. For decades, scientists told us where this was heading, but we chose delay, denial, and fossil-fuel profits instead.
Now, the consequences are here. There is no reset button. We are officially out of time.
📍 Bellvitge, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona in Spain tonight.
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😺 Six cats have been evacuated from Russian-occupied Oleshky by drone.
Soldiers from the Perun unit had delivered special pet carriers to the area in advance, then used heavy-lift drones to bring the animals across the Dnipro River.
The cats are now safe and receiving veterinary care. ❤️
Military personnel from Ukraine’s 11th National Guard Brigade and 34th Regiment also delivered nearly four tons of humanitarian aid to occupied Oleshky using drones.
The delivery included around 400 packages of food, medicine, and essential items for children.
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The refinery strikes were never about gas prices.
That was cover.
Now we know why Trump keeps demanding Ukraine stop hitting Russian energy infrastructure. A multibillion-dollar Lukoil deal is on the table.
Witkoff and Kushner are tied to the middlemen.
The scheme is simple. A Trump proxy buys sanctioned Russian oil assets.
Sanctions get lifted on those specific assets. Putin sells more oil through them.
The family collects hundreds of millions a year.
Ukraine's strikes on refineries threaten the payout.
So the White House protects the loot. It pressures Kyiv to stop hitting the one target that actually works.




























