The unprecedented World Health Organization orchestrated lockdown and public health measures in response to the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic were enacted by virtually every government worldwide. In many countries, but especially United States, long-standing political animosities congealed into a discourse of dehumanization between liberal establishment adherents anti-state revolutionaries. Left...

The financial crisis in the Fall of 1998 was the first post-World War II crisis in which events in emerging market economies seriously threatened the financial stability of the West, and where the origins of the crisis was clearly to be found in the workings of liberalised markets and private sector institutions. The spark was the financial crisis that overwhelmed many of the Asian economies in...

In the present study, we use various spatial fuels data within a coupled atmospherewildfire model to compare the simulated fire behavior for a small portion of the16,000 acre Calabasas fire that occurred on 21-22 October 1996 in the Santa Monica Mountains of Los Angeles County (Bamattre et al., 1997). The fire simulation investigates an intense fire that occurred in an isolated canyon around no...

Leaders in Russia and China are openly discussing a “strategic relationship” based on self-interest desire for leverage over other countries. The warming of relations between had already begun the final phase Soviet period, when eastern border was defined entire demarcated. Their post-Cold War strategic relationship is five main determinants. These include transformation, force reductions, conf...

The upsurge of spiritual energies encircling our planet at this present time, has resulted in an awakening in humanity of the existence of higher realities. Whatever the cause of this spiritual conflagration in the hearts and minds of humanity may be, the effects of its pulsation are readily apparent in the interest taken by the general public in the many metaphysical arts and sciences that wer...

As instability from Afghanistan increasingly escalates into Pakistan, can improved India-China relations be a primer for security in the region? Acts of terrorism and destabilisation are now daily occurrences in Pakistan, against the country‟s population, army, police and intelligence services. Given Pakistan‟s political-military basis this appears to be a growing existential threat not only to...

The wildfires of summer 2021 in Greece were among the most severe forest fire events that have occurred country over past decade. conflagration period lasted for 20 days (i.e., from 27 July to 16 August 2021) and resulted devastation an area more than 3600 Km2. Forest similar severity also struck other Mediterranean countries during this period. Apart their direct impacts, fires render suscepti...