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[Regnum] High-level magnetic storms could occur on Earth due to a sharp increase in solar activity. In less than two days, 35 solar flares occurred, the press service of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported on November 7.
Scientists explained that the Earth's magnetic field is already unstable due to the impact of a large coronal hole on the Sun. If this triggers powerful flares ejecting material toward Earth, they could trigger particularly strong magnetic storms. However, no magnetic storms were observed at the time of publication.
On November 6, specialists registered 18 outbreaks of class C and higher, and another 17 in the first half of November 7. By the end of the day, the total number could reach 40–50.
The main source of activity is a large sunspot group located almost opposite the Earth. Numerous moderate-intensity flares are occurring in this region. Scientists estimate that this pattern is less dangerous than the accumulation of energy followed by a single powerful flare. However, experts do not rule out the possibility that the flares could intensify in the near future.
On Monday and Tuesday, November 2 and 3, no solar flares were recorded, but on Wednesday and Thursday (November 4 and 5), three flares occurred. Then, activity increased sharply. By comparison, on December 10, 2024, scientists recorded 29 flares in one day, which is believed to be a record for the current solar cycle.
Earlier, on November 5, specialists discovered one of the largest coronal holes observed in 2026 on the Sun, measuring approximately 1 million km. They warned that solar wind streams from this region could trigger magnetic storms for several days. According to preliminary calculations, the effects will last at least five days, and full stabilization of the Earth's magnetic field is not expected until November 13-14.
A Kp5+ magnetic storm was recorded on Earth on the evening of November 7. This was reported by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"A magnetic storm of level Kp5+ is being recorded," the report says.
Experts noted that the first weak auroras should already appear in northwestern Russia, provided the sky is clear.
Previously, it was reported that Earth could experience high-level magnetic storms due to a sharp increase in solar activity. In less than two days, 35 solar flares occurred.
[Reuters] Environmental groups worldwide are using artificial intelligence to analyze climate data, track forest fires and count endangered wildlife – embracing a technology they also warn is driving a surge in electricity demand, water use and greenhouse-gas emissions.
The contradiction is forcing these organizations to justify their AI use in carrying out missions to combat climate change or protect natural resources.
"We recognize that AI can come with environmental costs, and we need to be thoughtful about how we use it," said Ali Swanson, AI lead at the US nonprofit Conservation International. "But at a time when the climate and biodiversity crises are becoming more urgent, AI can help us move faster and make better use of the information we're collecting."
The group recently started using AI to assess hotspots detected by satellites and send real-time alerts to community forest patrols about potential wildfires in remote and environmentally sensitive parts of Cambodia.
Reuters interviewed 15 major environmental, conservation and development organizations about their AI use. All said they used the technology in some form and expressed concern about the environmental impact of the data centers powering it. The centers, filled with servers, can require vast amounts of electricity, along with water for cooling.
It's a global dilemma for individuals, governments and industries balancing AI's benefits with its enormous risks. The tradeoffs likely will grab attention at the UN's COP31 climate conference this month, when host Turkey will call on governments, businesses and other institutions to sign a pledge outlining principles to ensure AI is developed and deployed sustainably.
[Breitbart] The international banker who is Canada’s Prime Minister has announced he will import 2.3 million extra migrants to reanimate an economy paralyzed by millions of prior migrants.
“We are masters of our destiny,” banker and liberal party chief Mark Carney posted on Twitter, as his deputies revealed his sure-to-pass budget plan that will bring a record 2.3 million migrants over the next three years — even though 1.5 million Canadians lack jobs.
“It is a disaster,” responded Carney’s rival, Pierre Poilievre, who leads Canada’s conservative party. “Our economy is collapsing in real time … Canadian jobs should go to Canadians first,” Poilievre said on November 6.
“Why are they doing it?” Poilievre asked at another event:
Of course you know why they’re doing it. There are corporate power brokers want to use the labor to drive down wages and charge more rent, and they’ll profit by continuing to destroy the working class. And we want exactly the opposite: less immigration, [and] controlled [so we] bring in only the people who can contribute, and only in the numbers for which there is healthcare jobs and housing available.
Carney’s bloc of 2.3 million includes new migrants, temporary migrants, and permanent status for prior temporary migrants. They will enter a nation of 42 million, which already includes roughly 8.3 million subsidized migrants — and a declining number of jobs. In the last three months, Canada lost 114,000 jobs.
His very unpopular plan is so ambitious that it will deliver two immigrants for every Canadian birth over the next three years. It will add one migrant for every 20 people, or one migrant for every fourteen native Canadians.
The scale can be understood when compared to the United States, which takes in roughly one million legalized migrants per year for a population of 300 million native-born Americans. That inflow delivers about one migrant for every 3.5 U.S. births. So Carney’s inflow would be the equivalent of the President or Congress importing roughly seven million migrants per year, or 21 million migrants over the next three years.
Carney defended his acceleration by claiming he has “taken back control” of immigration since the exit of Prime Minister Trudeau. It is a “sustainable level of immigration. … It’s the right thing to do,” he said, echoing former U.S. President Barack Obama’s rhetoric.
In reality, the mass migration is his attempt to double down on Canada’s economic strategy over the last 10 years.
The investor-pushed strategy has tried to revive Canada’s economy since 2015 by importing a huge number of cheap foreign workers who also double as renters and consumers. But this “Stimulus Migration” strategy is akin to fueling a suburban auto with jet fuel or using the electric chair as a defibrillator. The result is massive chaos and disruption throughout Canada’s economy and society.
WINNERS
There are winners from Carney’s strategy of force-feeding migrants into Canadians’ society.
Naturalized migrants are voting for his party, and the Boomer homeowners are happy to see their real estate values spike enough to afford good vacations and comfortable retirements. Universities are flush with migrant students hoping to convert work permits into residency, while employers profit by selling fake jobs to foreigners who want to migrate into Canada.
Canada’s stock market has doubled in the last three years as new consumers and cheap labor — including cheap white-collar graduates — boost profits.
Carney’s policy is providing his fellow bankers with record and fast-growing profits because new migrants, employers, and retailers require loans — construction loans, mortgages, bank loans, auto loans, and credit cards. “The Banks industry has gained 1.8% in the last week … This takes the industry’s 12-month performance to a gain of 46%,” SimplyWall.St reported November 6. “As for the next few years, earnings are expected to grow by 6.5% per annum.”
India is also a big winner because it has sent at least two million Indian migrants to Canada, from where they send home roughly $8 billion in annual remittances. Indian banks are also profiting from construction loans, mortgages, and business loans.
India’s government is offering to move 60 million Indians to expand Canada’s population to 100 million, as urged in 2011 by the Canadian investors who created the Century Initiative:
The Century Plan in full swing.
India's High Commissioner states Canada needs 100 million people.
He promises 60 million Indians will help get us there.
One of the investors who created the 100 million plan was Mark Wiseman. He is now Carney’s ambassador to the United States.
LOSERS
But there are many more losers because Carney’s policy of force-feeding the economy with migrants severely disrupts the normal operation of a free-market economy.
The rush of migrants has raised unemployment, forced up inflation, pushed down real wages, spiked housing, inflated welfare spending, exploded chaotic diversity. and crashed Canadian birth rates. It also shrank workplace investment and reduced the productivity that allows wage growth.
Many top bankers, economists, and the top-level Bank of Canada have made many statements describing the civic and economic damage, but the bad news is usually ignored by journalists captured by Canada’s government-funded media.
The policy has also humiliated Canadians by making them much poorer than the Americans they want to sneer at, and is forcing Canada’s government to borrow $100 billion per year to help restart an economy where people are too poor to buy homes.
Carney’s plan would also force Canadians to share their political and civic power with the 650,000 more foreigners scheduled to get permanent residency over the three years.
The policy is so bad that 67,000 migants quit Canada in 2025, including many who snuck across the U.S. border. The policy is so bad that Canadian homelessness has doubled, and Carney now wants foreign investors and drug traffickers to build houses because Canadians have too few funds to buy or build them amid fears of a property crash.
Carney’s economy is so bad that poor migrants snatch food from poor Canadians — yet Carney is promising to welcome at least 15,000 more needy pensioners.
The liberals’ inflow welcomed 2.2 million Indians, including criminals who have quickly created car theft rings, narcotic gangs, political street fights, shootings, and extortion gangs in what was once a peaceful, coherent, and pre-diversity Canada. An increasing volume of those drugs and Indian migrants is being smuggled into the United States.
POLITICS
The political reality is that Carney’s Liberal Party controls national policy because its parliamentary majority gives it total control over Canada’s largely secret budget process and hidden migration programs.
The solid liberal majority is built on migrant voting blocs, large government payrolls, corporate backing, control of the media, and strong support from older, home-owning Canadians who want to back Carney’s frequent nostalgia-themed clashes with President Donald Trump. The coalition allowed Carney to rescue the party after Justin Trudeau resigned in January 2025, and then to defeat Poliviere in the April 2025 election.
In response to the defeat, Canada’s minority Conservative Party is gradually becoming more populist, despite its traditional reliance on business donors.
Conservative Party leaders increasingly describe migration as a corporate giveaway to older investors.
Replacing all those government-assisted suicides with an imported population that has no interest in assimilating into the Canadian ethos.
[KhaamaPress] Canada plans to grant permanent residency to nearly 660,000 people in 2027 under a new immigration strategy, as Prime Minister Mark Carney defends the expanded intake as sustainable despite criticism from opposition Conservatives over pressure on housing, employment and public services.
The federal government’s 2027-2029 immigration plan, outlined in the 2026 budget, sets annual targets of 380,000 permanent residents and 370,000 temporary residents. The temporary intake will include 220,000 foreign workers and 150,000 international students each year. However,
the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... the permanent residency figure for 2027 is expected to rise to approximately 657,250 when one-time pathways for people already living in Canada are included.
Under the additional measures, Ottawa plans to grant permanent status to 200,000 temporary residents who have been living and working in the country. About half will be selected through economic immigration programs, including Express Entry and the Provincial Nominee Program, while the remainder will qualify through humanitarian and family reunification pathways. The government says the initiative will include people with existing applications, including individuals from Hong Kong and Ukraine.
Carney defended the policy, saying the government had restored control over immigration by reducing the number of temporary foreign workers, international students and asylum seekers. According to figures cited by the prime minister, international student numbers have fallen by 71 percent since 2024, temporary foreign workers by 57 percent and asylum seekers by 68 percent. The government also aims to reduce temporary residents to five percent of Canada’s population by the end of 2027, down from an estimated 6.7 percent in July 2026.
However,
the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre questioned whether Canada could accommodate the additional arrivals, citing shortages of affordable housing, employment opportunities and pressure on healthcare services. Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner also accused the government of structuring immigration targets in ways that favour corporate interests rather than Canadian and newcomer workers. Carney maintained that granting permanent status to people already contributing to Canadian communities would support a more sustainable immigration system.
The government has also pledged to reform the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, allocating $151.5 million to improve processing, strengthen employer compliance and better align recruitment with regional labour market needs. It plans to give provinces and territories a greater role in selecting economic immigrants colonists and make the Rural Community Immigration Pilot permanent. The changes come as Canada seeks to balance labour shortages and an ageing population against concerns over housing affordability, employment and the capacity of public services.
BLUF:
[Federalist] African Americans and Hispanics overwhelmingly vote Democrat in most elections. In raw numbers, Hispanics increased from a little over 2,500 in 2000 to more than 10,000 in 2020 (and likely many more by 2026). It’s safe to estimate that there were enough Hispanics alone in DeSoto County who voted Democrat on Tuesday to create the 1,800-vote lead for Colom.
The overall demographics of the state remain relatively stable. The percentage of white population has only decreased about eight points since 1980, while the black percentage has largely remained stable. Mississippi overall counts more than 100,000 Hispanics in its population — more than enough to tip the balance given Hispanics’ usual tendency to vote Democrat.
In the grand scheme of things, Mississippi has not experienced a demographic change as dramatic as, say, Texas has, but Tuesday night shows that even a small demographic change can have major consequences for elections and the policies that result from them. As we at The Federalist have pointed out time after time in our election fraud coverage, it does not take much to decisively change a state’s, or a country’s, demographics to affect an important election.
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Mississippi overall counts more than 100,000 Hispanics in its population — more than enough to tip the balance given Hispanics’ usual tendency to vote Democrat.
[Reuters] US President Donald Trump on Saturday said he had asked mixed martial arts promoter Dana White to serve as White House press secretary and called on him to bring some fighters along as assistants "even though some are not from our country."
White, chief executive of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, is a "violent Fighter and Warrior," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
Trump also asked for six current or former UFC titleholders to join White, including two athletes from Russia's Dagestan region, Islam Makhachev and Khabib Nurmagomedov; Americans Justin Gaethje, Daniel Cormier and "Kayla Harris," likely a reference to Kayla Harrison; and Amanda Nunes, a Brazilian native who became a US citizen last year.
"We need these people to /defend us against the Lunatic Left," Trump wrote.
Speaking at a press conference on Saturday while in London after a boxing event, White said he would meet with Trump at the White House on Monday.
The White House press secretary role has been vacant since Katie Zacharia's tenure ended last month after less than a week. Zacharia replaced Karoline Leavitt, who left the role at the end of August.
White and Trump first worked together in the early 2000s, when Trump's Taj Mahal casino hosted some UFC events. But they have become closer allies since the UFC chief publicly backed Trump's presidential campaign in 2016.
Trump in recent years has attended several UFC events, and in June the White House hosted a night of UFC fights as part of celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of US independence.
The White House press office already has a former UFC spokesperson in White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung, who worked for White's organization from 2013 to 2016.
[Reuters] US President Donald Trump named longtime aide Stephen Miller as his chief of staff on Friday, giving the architect of some of his toughest domestic policies one of the most powerful jobs in Washington after Republicans lost control of Congress.
Miller, who will replace Susie Wiles, assumes the role as the president prepares to confront a Democratic-led House of Representatives and Senate and a wave of congressional investigations into his administration.
A longtime proponent of expansive presidential authority, Miller takes over at a moment when the Republican Party's defeat in Tuesday's midterm elections could leave Trump more reliant on executive power to advance his domestic agenda.
In a social media post, Trump called Miller "one of my most trusted advisors," and praised Wiles for doing "an outstanding job." Trump said the change would take effect on Monday.
A White House official said Miller’s appointment signals that Trump has no intention of rethinking his policies and instead is rewarding his most loyal aides.
“He’s not changing course,” the official said, despite tens of millions of American voters repudiating Trump's domestic agenda and foreign policy.
Trump said this week he was willing to work with Democrats on Capitol Hill. But elevating Miller, who is known for being caustic and uncompromising, could signal a more confrontational approach and a renewed push to advance the president's agenda on immigration and other issues, several White House officials said.
Trump had been displeased with his political and communications operations in the run-up to Tuesday's election as his public approval ratings fell near record lows. This week, he said the White House needed to be "more aggressive" as Democrats retake congressional power, according to a person briefed on the matter.
"The mission now is more clear than ever," Miller said on X after his appointment. "Fight with all of our soul to support our President and defend this magnificent Republic."
Hakeem Jeffries, who is set to become the new Democratic speaker of the House, responded to the announcement by calling Miller a "reckless extremist" in a posting on X.
MILLER DRIVING IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN
Miller, 41, is one of Trump's longest-serving aides and one of only a few who served throughout his first and second terms in office.
Since Trump's return to the White House in 2025, Miller has officially served as deputy chief of staff under Wiles, but he has wielded outsize influence across much of Trump's domestic agenda and has had the president's ear.
He is perhaps best known for driving Trump's aggressive immigration crackdown, setting a goal of 3,000 arrests a day. The efforts to meet that target pushed masked US immigration officers into communities around the country, increasingly arresting people with no criminal records and who had been living in the country for decades.
The crackdown, however, gets poor marks with Americans. Just 36% of respondents to a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed early this week approve of it, with 54% disapproving.
Representative Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said the party planned to investigate Miller's immigration policies. "Stephen Miller should lawyer up," he said.
Miller was also deeply involved in Trump's campaign to remake the federal bureaucracy, which led to the dismissal of tens of thousands of civil servants in 2025. He was also a driving force behind the administration’s battles with universities, diversity programs and other institutions.
HAWKISH FOREIGN POLICY
On foreign policy, Miller has been a vocal supporter of Trump’s deadly military strikes on boats suspected of carrying drugs in the Caribbean and Pacific, a campaign that has raised legal questions.
He has also praised US and Israeli strikes in Iran and defended a naval blockade and sanctions as ways to weaken Tehran and curb its ability to threaten its neighbors. It is not clear whether that is still his view after voters punished Republicans this week in part for the economic fallout from the Iran war.
Marc Short, who was chief of staff to then-Vice President Mike Pence in Trump’s first term, said that in Miller, Trump is “getting someone who is wed to him” and who is willing to battle Congress over issues like immigration and congressional investigations.
“It would not suggest that there is high expectation for bipartisan legislation," Short said in an interview.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who faces Democratic calls for impeachment over the Iran war, celebrated Miller's promotion with a social media post reading, "Patriots in control," reflecting the enthusiasm of some Trump allies for putting Miller in a position of greater authority.
SHAKE UP AFTER ELECTION SETBACK
The chief of staff typically wields great influence as the president's gatekeeper. The person manages White House staff, organizes the president's time and schedule, and oversees other government departments and lawmakers.
Wiles, 69, who submitted her resignation on Thursday night, will move to Trump's political operation, according to a White House official.
The veteran political operative from Florida was the first woman to serve as White House chief of staff.
She brought decades of political experience to the role and was regarded as running a more disciplined operation than some of Trump’s prior top aides. She maintained her role even while undergoing treatment earlier this year for early-stage breast cancer.
Wiles rarely challenged Trump’s policies but brought discipline to an often chaotic operation and was seen as a voice of reason. Her exit raises questions about who will play her role.
Trump ran through four chiefs of staff – an unusually high number – during his 2017-2021 term, as they were seen to have struggled to rein in the unpredictable president.
[FOX] NASA announced Saturday that Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and six other aerospace companies are eligible to compete for up to $10 billion in lunar delivery contracts as the agency advances plans to establish a permanent base on the moon.
The announcement, made at the MAX POWER aerospace expo and air show at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, expands NASA's commercial lunar program, bringing together private companies to deliver scientific equipment, technology and infrastructure to the moon's south pole.
The new Commercial Lunar Payload Services framework has a maximum combined value of $10 billion over 10 years, with the figure representing a ceiling for future task orders, not money already awarded to participating companies.
Alongside SpaceX and Blue Origin, NASA selected Firefly Aerospace, Intuitive Machines, iSpace US, Lockheed Martin Space, Northrop Grumman Space Systems and Voyager Technologies to compete for future lunar delivery missions.
"We are building the Moon Base mission by mission," NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said in a statement.
"When our astronauts return to the Moon, they will arrive with the first elements of the Moon Base already waiting for them on the surface."
NASA also increased the maximum value of its existing CLPS contract from $2.6 billion to $4.2 billion to support the initial phase of its Moon base plans.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
