The Daily Populous

Wednesday October 19th, 2022 evening edition

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The world’s second richest man has sold his private jet after being tracked by Twitter climate activists.

Bernard Arnault - the CEO of luxury goods company LVMH and co-founder of Louis Vuitton - is worth an eye-watering €140 billion.

The billionaire’s company has sold its private jet after a social media account started tracing his flights and tallying his carbon emissions.

“Indeed, with all these stories, the group had a plane and we sold it," Arnault told France’s Radio Classique.

"The result now is that no one can see where I go because I rent planes when I use private planes.".

In 2021, a teenager set up a twitter account to track Elon Musk’s jet movements.

Because they generally carry small numbers of passengers, they are up to 14 times more polluting than commercial planes. »

The Thaw on Russia’s Periphery Has Already Started

Authored by foreignpolicy.com

The Russian military’s failures and resort to widespread atrocities have exposed Moscow’s conventional military capabilities as a Potemkin force.

If Putin were to follow through on his threat to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, it would only compound his strategic defeat.

We don’t know how exactly this war will end, but we do know that Russia will not win. »

Putin declares martial law in occupied parts of Ukraine, boosts Russia's war footing

Authored by reuters.com
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LONDON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he was introducing martial law in four Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine that Moscow claimed last month as its own territory but is struggling to defend from Ukrainian advances.

The published Kremlin decree ordered an "economic mobilisation" in eight regions adjoining Ukraine, including Crimea, which Russia invaded and annexed in 2014.

It placed them in a special regime one step below martial law and allowed for the restriction of people's movements. »

Estonia declares Russia a terrorist state, 'biggest danger to world peace'

Authored by jpost.com
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Russian President Vladimir Putin's threats of nuclear attacks "have turned Russia into the biggest danger to peace both in Europe and the world," the Estonian parliament continued.

"The Riigikogu declares Russia a terrorist regime and the Russian Federation a country that supports terrorism, whose actions we must confront together.".

"The Riigikogu declares Russia a terrorist regime and the Russian Federation a country that supports terrorism, whose actions we must confront together." »