NEWS: China rising

Two recent articles looking at the bigger picture of China's growing world-power ambitions:

- Mark Almond, director of the Crisis Research Institute, Oxford, writing in the UK's Daily Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5014375/Why-West-tremble-crowning-new-Mao.html

- and distinguished documentary film-maker and financial/political writer David Malone:

http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2017/10/chinas-rise-americas-fall/

NEWS: Pacific major earthquake prediction - Dutchinse

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ORIGINS: Homo Sapiens: Was the first wave out of Africa much earlier?

The New York Times has reported (July 4, 2017) research to suggest that homo sapiens evolved 300,000 years ago in Africa and left the continent around 30,000 years later - far earlier than had been thought previously.

400,000 years ago, Neanderthals developed separately in Africa and it had been supposed that there was some interbreeding with homo sapiens there around 100,000 years ago, as well as outside North Africa some 50,000 - 60,000 years ago.(2) But if modern humans had already started migrating long before, perhaps for the northern and eastern emigrants the interbreeding happened after the African exodus.

(1) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/04/science/neanderthals-dna-homo-sapiens-human-evolution.html
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal

VANUATU VOLCANO: latest news

Volcanic activity is notched up as lava bombs rain from the sky:

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2017/10/vanuatu-volcano-sends-lava-bombs-into-the-sky.html

A close shave:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2894031/That-closest-call-Watch-cameraman-gets-metres-lava-bombs-explode-raging-volcano.html

News in brief:



... with a little more detail:



A geologist shows how the region spawns volcanoes:



The island of Ambae is completely evacuated -

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/pacific/340571/vanuatu-s-mass-evacuation-swings-into-action

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/648814/Vanuatu-volcano-Monaro-eruption-Ambae-island-Pacific-Ocean-acid-rain-lava

- with the assistance of the Australian Navy:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-30/australian-navy-to-aid-vanuatu-ambae-island-volcano-evacuation/9004338

- and Maewo prepares to receive the refugees:

http://dailypost.vu/news/maewo-intensifies-preparation-to-accommodate-ambae-evacuees/article_72979f84-21b9-5d46-84e2-85582ff44e3d.html