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FOMO 22 Full Exposure

It's News, Bitch

Chloe Smith

You may have noticed from last week's issue that Jareds left – well im the new news bitch. Originally from the middle of nowhere (Ruawai/ Two-waters baby), I picked the tron to be my home while I finish my law degree. Anyway – enjoy this weeks news filled with a fast as fuck earth, big tiddy bar staff, free money and nuclear woes.

Scientists believe that this increase in the rate of spinning may be due to ice caps melting and refreezing on the world’s tallest mountains, and warn that if the trend of speeding up continues then we will have to remove a second from our atomic clocks. This would mean introducing a negative-leapsecond to keep civil time,(according to Astrophysicist Graham Jones), which would result in problems for IT systems. Civil time, based on atomic clocks, keeps in time with solar time/ the movement of the sun across the sky.

Space junk nearly takes out some Aussie sheep

Sheep in a NSW paddock found themselves face to face with chunks of debris up to 3m high from a rocket. The rocket was meant to land in the sea between New Zealand and Australia. It is believed the debris are from a SpaceX aircraft, however, SpaceX have not responded to media requests.

UN chief warns we are a step away from nuclear annihilation

Antonio Guterres stated that “...humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation…”, at a meeting/review of the 50-year-old Nuclear proliferation treaty (NPT). The NPT focuses on how to prevent the spread of nuclear-based weaponry and its aim is for there to be a nuclear-free world. This meeting was intended to focus on future steps for this treaty’s implementation. This warning came in relation to the Ukraine-Russia war and nuclear threats in Asia and the Middle East.

Waikato and Waipa river cleanup program faces setbacks

The program has cost around $23 million so far, however issues such as legal appeals and technical issues setback the progress of Plan Change 1/ PC1 which aims to improve water quality through environmental requirements for farmers within the area.

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