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The Equal Earth projection is an equal-area, pseudocylindrical world map projection created in 2018 by Bojan Šavrič, Bernhard Jenny, and Tom Patterson.

Key Features

• True relative sizes: It shows continents and oceans at their actual sizes compared to one another, unlike the traditional Mercator map.

• Balanced appearance: It is inspired by the Robinson projection but fixes its size distortions while keeping a visually pleasing, globe-like shape.

• Straight parallels: Lines of latitude are straight, making it easy to see how far north or south a place is from the equator. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Recent Developments

The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa's size.

This global shift promotes the Equal Earth projection to correct historical size biases that enlarged northern regions like Europe and North America while shrinking Africa and other tropical areas.

If you'd like, I can share more details on how the mathematical equations work or compare it specifically to the Mercator and Gall-Peters projections.

Yes, I am certainly in agreement that occupying a foreign country is never going to work out over the longer term, most especially a country that has a different religion and cultural standard.

If I recall correctly, the Americans went to Afghanistan for no other reason than to teach the rest of the World all about wrongdoing, crime and arrogant subversion, all the Americans did in Afghanistan was cause damage and strut around the place serving their psychological addiction to TV News.

It is the way of the corrupt Democrat/Republican political machine, two political parties that have been ruling the American populace for many years. Neither Republican nor Democrat party believes in anything at all, has no political philosophy, has no naturally existing true paradigm of international friendships, and has no conceptual understanding of International Law nor the binding mechanisms of International Solidarity. In short the American people are governed by nothing more than a Federalist ideology that believes only in militarism and economic fundamentalism.

We currently support the various Socialist parties which are currently making their presense felt all over America because we believe, as many Americans believe, that what America is lacking is true emotional intelligence and adaquate social and political linkage with the average American living in the average American community. In truth the American Republican/Democrat parties have never represented the American people in any coherent way.

Away from self interested private sector media organisations and their tedious 'transatlantic' philosophy, America has been underperforming for many years now because there is no true political representation of the people, and the peoples needs. Go and talk to the American political establishment, any discussion about 'the people' usually induces fear and/or loathing of some kind. One of the greatest political narratives in existence throughout the World, the entitlements of the people, in America, only creates hate/fear and disillusionment in the American political classes.

And that is the reason there must be fundamental change in America, not a re-enactment of old-world dilemnas nor the empowerment of the corrupt monied classes.

DALIAN /China/, August 28. /TASS/. Western countries are demonstrating growing interest in resuming economic ties with Russia, a Russian diplomat said.

"We are receiving a growing number of signals from countries of the Western world that demonstrate a certain level of common sense, indicating that they would like to resume economic ties with Russia, for example, through taking part in the operation of the Northern Sea Route," Russian foreign ministry’s ambassador at large, Marat Berdyev, told TASS after the third meeting of senior officials from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) countries in China’s Dalian.

The diplomat recalled that along with Russia, APEC members are such "global heavy-weights" as China and the United States, as are leading representatives of the Global South that are members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, and a "number of Latin Americans." "We engage in meaningful and active collaboration with everyone and exchange support for various initiatives," Berdyev added.

Courtesy TASS, the Russian Agency

We are going to say the U.S. isn't particularly relevant these days, because the World is fundamentally more inclusive in its philosophy, and thereofore doesn't wish to be guided by a backwards political model that belongs in the stone age.

And if the U.S. Government is truthful with itself, and the wider World, it will understand that the World is simply far more talented and forward looking than the U.S. Government is capable of representing.

So we'll leave the hype and the stage managed Nationalism as it is, ultimately, the U.S. is being overtaken on the World stage and that to me is a good thing. The U.S. Government has already decided it will be taking a back-seat.