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  • Climate protesters lose legal battle over right to cause damage

    03/18/2024 11:08:20 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 6 replies
    The Telegraph UK ^ | March 18, 2024 | By Charles Hymas
    Eco-activists’ claims that they have a right to cause damage as part of their protests have been rejected by Court of Appeal judges. Victoria Prentis, the Attorney General, asked the Court to rule on whether eco-protesters could use a defence of “lawful excuse” to cause criminal damage to banks, businesses and private property and avoid conviction at trial. It follows the acquittal of a protester from a climate action group known as Burning Pink who threw paint at the offices of Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Christian Aid, Friends of the Earth, plus the Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem and Green parties, causing...
  • A New Surge in Power Use Is Threatening U.S. Climate Goals

    03/18/2024 6:16:10 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 56 replies
    The Seattle Times ^ | March 17, 2024 | By Brad Plumer |The New York Times
    Something unusual is happening in America. Demand for electricity, which has stayed largely flat for two decades, has begun to surge. Over the past year, electric utilities have nearly doubled their forecasts of how much additional power they’ll need by 2028 as they confront an unexpected explosion in the number of data centers, an abrupt resurgence in manufacturing driven by new federal laws, and millions of electric vehicles being plugged in. Many power companies were already struggling to keep the lights on, especially during extreme weather, and say the strain on the grid will only increase. Peak demand in the...
  • You Can Start Applying For The American Climate Corps Next Month

    03/18/2024 5:27:50 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 46 replies
    LAist ^ | March 18, 2024
    The long-awaited jobs board for the American Climate Corps, promised early in the Biden administration, will open next month, according to details shared exclusively with Grist. The White House plans to officially launch an online platform in April. At first, only a couple of hundred jobs will be posted, but eventually up to 20,000 young people are expected to be hired in the program’s first year. “The American Climate Corps is a story of hope and possibilities,” said Maggie Thomas, a special assistant to the president for climate change. “There’s an incredible demand signal from young people who we see...
  • Opinion: Biden wants 50,000 new climate activists and the consequences will be devastating

    03/16/2024 7:00:06 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 51 replies
    FOX News ^ | March 16, 2024 | By Daniel Turner
    With the national debt racing toward a record $35 trillion, President Joe Biden released his budget proposal Monday, including an eye-popping $8 billion for a "Climate Corps" program. Enthusiastically supported by Green New Deal architects,Biden’s Climate Corps would hire 50,000 government workers annually by 2031 with the explicit yet vague mission of "tackling climate change." Any guesses which political party these workers will be supporting? The Climate Corps has been likened to President Franklin Roosevelt’s Depression Era jobs program, but there has never been legislation nor appropriation of such an expansive government program without congressional approval. For context, the National...
  • Ukrainian Drones Hit Russia's Syzran Oil Refinery, Regional Governor Says

    03/16/2024 12:20:49 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 62 replies
    Times of India ^ | 3/16/2024 | Reuters
    The governor of Russia's Samara region said on Saturday that Ukrainian drones had struck two Rosneft oil refineries in the region, causing no casualties but leaving one facility on fire. Governor Dmitry Azarov said in a statement posted on the Telegram messaging app that the Volga river region's Syzran refinery was on fire, but that an attack on the Novokubyshev refinery had been thwarted. He said workers at both plants had been evacuated, and that there were no casualties. Unverified footage published online showed what appeared to be a major fire at the Syzran refinery, with emergency services working at...
  • Vladimir Putin breaks silence as angry Russians burn down ballot boxes ahead of election

    03/15/2024 4:00:30 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 41 replies
    Express UK ^ | 3/15/2024 | Aurora Bosotti
    Vladimir Putin has weighed in on multiple reports alleging Russian citizens have burned down ballot boxes in protest as the Russian election is underway. -snip- Putin slammed the reports as he accused Ukraine of waging a "terrorist" campaign against Russia in an effort to thwart the election. He also accused Kyiv of intensifying military strikes on Russian territory to "intimidate" voters – a goal he claimed Ukraine will not achieve. According to the TASS news agency, Putin said: "These attacks, pointless from the military point of view and criminal from the humanitarian point of view, as has been said, are...
  • Climate change is important for GA’s young voters in choice between Trump, Biden | Opinion

    03/15/2024 11:48:56 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 30 replies
    Yahoo! ^ | March 15, 2024 | By Marrow Woods (they/them)
    Last weekend, former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden both visited Georgia ahead of this week’s primary. The rallies felt like more of a preview for the general election and the choice that young people like me will have this November—which isn’t much of a choice at all. Trump’s speech included him saying “drill, baby, drill,” repeating his claims that the 2020 election was rigged, and talking about wanting to ban “critical race theory” in schools. His vision of the future couldn’t be further from the one I want. As a student organizer with the Georgia Youth Justice Coalition,...
  • Snake Steak Could Be a Climate-Friendly Source of Protein

    03/14/2024 1:50:30 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 69 replies
    Scientific American ^ | March 14, 2024 | BY MEGHAN BARTELS
    Pythons turn their food into meat pretty efficiently, a study finds, making them an intriguing alternative to climate-unfriendly cows. Put aside your chicken cutlets and meatloaf and say hello to python curries and satay skewers. Some snake scientists think eating these reptiles—already customary or at least acceptable in parts of the world—might help lessen the damage our food choices have on the environment. With some eight billion people on the planet today, all of whom require protein to stay healthy, finding new sources of these nutrients is a crucial issue. But how do you get from the challenge of providing...
  • Ukrainians living under Russian occupation are coerced to vote for Putin

    03/14/2024 10:37:32 AM PDT · by Chad C. Mulligan · 37 replies
    ABC news ^ | March 14, 2024, 12:18 PM | YURAS KARMANAU and EMMA BURROWS
    Ukrainians living in regions illegally annexed by Russia are being coerced to vote in the presidential election of their wartime occupier, Vladimir Putin — an exercise denounced by Ukraine as an illegitimate effort by Moscow to tighten control over its neighbor. Polls don't open in Russia until Friday, but they are open in four annexed regions of Ukraine close to the front line, some of which are not fully in Putin’s control. *snip* In the Donetsk region, the Ukrainian mayor of Mariupol, Vadym Boychenko, said his city was a symbol of Russia’s “military nightmare” and of an “electoral process in...
  • Russia election: Stage-managed vote will give Putin another term

    03/13/2024 11:13:07 PM PDT · by Chad C. Mulligan · 63 replies
    BBC ^ | 14 Mar 2024 | Steve Rosenberg
    As I walk around Borovsk, two things strike me about this town 60 miles (100km) from Moscow. First, there is almost no sign of the presidential election coming up this weekend. I see few election banners or billboards and no political flyers being handed out. Not surprising, really. The absence of election preparations mirrors the absence of drama surrounding a stage-managed event that will hand Vladimir Putin a fifth term in the Kremlin. The other thing you can't help noticing in Borovsk is the street art. It's everywhere. Much of it has been created by street artist Vladimir Ovchinnikov. All...
  • Our Fake, Fake, Fake World

    03/14/2024 6:25:26 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 17 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 14 Mar, 2024 | J.B. Shurk
    Will our historical era be remembered as the “Age of Fakes”? We have fake news, fake meat, fake elections, fake genders, fake vaccines, fake budgets, fake democracy, fake truths, fake hate, fake Russian collusion, fake insurrections, fake climate emergencies, fake freedoms, fake outrage, fake speech crimes, fake money, fake justice, fake intellects, fake women, fake borders, fake wars, and even a fake president. In some ways, it is a very silly time to be alive. So much of our fake world has been built on two monstrously fake foundations: fake progress and fake liberalism. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson...
  • Ukraine’s losses after attack on Russian border amount to 7 tanks, 3 Bradleys, 234 troops

    03/13/2024 1:53:24 PM PDT · by hardspunned · 47 replies
    Tass ^ | 3/12/24 | Tass
    MOSCOW, March 12. /TASS/. Ukraine lost 234 troops, seven tanks, and three Bradley combat vehicles during an attack on the Russian border in the Belgorod and Kursk Regions, the Russian defense ministry said. As Russia’s Defense Ministry reported earlier on Tuesday, Russian troops jointly with the Federal Security Service (FSB) thwarted an attempt by the Kiev regime to break through into the borderline territory in the Belgorod and Kursk Regions. "As a result of active actions by border units of the Battlegroup West and the Border Service of the Russian Federal Security Service, terrorist units of the Kiev regime were...
  • Ukraine Missiles Blow Up Russia's Floating 'Command Center': Video

    03/13/2024 8:02:16 AM PDT · by UMCRevMom@aol.com · 197 replies
    newsweek.com ^ | Mar 13, 2024 at 6:50 AM EDT | Ellie Cook
    Ukraine destroyed a Russian tanker that Moscow used for surveillance and for deploying first-person-view (FPV) drones in southern Ukraine, according to Kyiv's military. Ukraine's air force conducted a "successful strike" on the Russian-flagged Mechanik Pogodin on Tuesday, Kyiv's navy said in a statement. Ukraine said Russia's military was using the vessel as a command center, with the ship serving to launch FPV drones and to carry electronic warfare (EW) equipment. Kyiv said the use of the vessel for surveillance and control made the tanker a legitimate military target. A brief video posted by Ukraine's armed forces appeared to show the...
  • Legacy of Deception: Democrat-led, taxpayer-funded machine exposed anew for misleading Americans

    03/13/2024 5:34:18 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 11 replies
    Just the News ^ | 12 Mar, 2024 | John Solomon
    FBI agents took allegations from Hillary Clinton’s campaign in the midst of the 2016 presidential election and provably misled a court by omitting key information, in one case even doctoring evidence. Fifty-one intelligence experts who derived their credentials from American taxpayers signed a letter cheered on by Joe Biden’s campaign to falsely portray Hunter Biden's laptop as Russian disinformation when the FBI had already corroborated it as authentic. An official congressional select committee concluded a White House aide’s third-party hearsay account that Donald Trump tried to violently commandeer his presidential SUV on Jan. 6 was more credible than the Secret...
  • Putin axes head of Russia’s navy after string of humiliating Black Sea losses to Ukraine: reports

    03/12/2024 3:49:49 PM PDT · by Apparatchik · 43 replies
    MSN ^ | 10 March 2024 | Snejana Farberov
    Russian President Vladimir Putin has ousted the country’s navy chief after a series of humiliating Ukrainian attacks decimated Moscow’s Black Sea Fleet, according to multiple reports. Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov, 61, Russia’s navy commander-in-chief since May 2019, has been replaced by Northern Fleet Cmdr. Alexander Moiseyev, reported several Russian outlets, including the St. Petersburg news service Fontanka and the pro-Putin Izvestia newspaper. Moiseyev, 61 — who holds the country’s highest honorary title, “Hero of Russia” — was said to have been tapped as acting navy commander-in-chief and will soon be appointed on a permanent basis. The Russian navy’s rank-and-file have reportedly...
  • ‘Blood Money’: How Stephen Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Other Hollywood Big Shots Bow to Beijing and Allow Their Films to Be Used for Pro-China Propaganda

    03/10/2024 12:21:14 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 13 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 10 March 2024 | David Ng
    How deep are Hollywood’s ties to China? Beijing’s tentacles have ensnared most major studios — and many smaller ones — as well as a raft of A-list names: Steven Spielberg, Michael Bay, Jeffrey Katzenberg, the Russo brothers. Even Tyler Perry isn’t immune to China’s power.In his new book Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn Many of the most recognizable blockbuster titles in recent years were made with Chinese money — the Transformers, Kung Fu Panda, and even some of the Mission: Impossible movies.Dune and its upcoming sequel were both financed by Legendary Pictures, which is majority owned by China’s Wanda...
  • Biden welcomes TikTokers and influencers to cover his State of the Union and push his support to Gen Z'rs as polls show him underwater with young voters. By Charlie Spiering, Senior Political Reporter, Washington, Dc

    03/08/2024 1:53:24 PM PST · by Conservat1 · 11 replies
    DailyMail ^ | 08 Mar 2024
    -Joe Biden welcomed TikTok stars and social media influencers to the White House for a special briefing. -Kamala Harris hosted a special luncheon for Democratic digital operatives and social media personalities. -The White House is struggling to communicate with young people ahead of the 2024 election. -President Joe Biden hosted a young group of social media influencers at the White House this week as part of his State of the Union address.
  • Spate of Mock News Sites With Russian Ties Pop Up in U.S.

    03/08/2024 5:21:13 AM PST · by Timber Rattler · 53 replies
    The New York Times ^ | March 7, 2024 | Steven Lee Myers
    Into the depleted field of journalism in America, a handful of websites have appeared in recent weeks with names suggesting a focus on news close to home: D.C. Weekly, the New York News Daily, the Chicago Chronicle and a newer sister publication, the Miami Chronicle. In fact, they are not local news organizations at all. They are Russian creations, researchers and government officials say, meant to mimic actual news organizations to push Kremlin propaganda by interspersing it among an at-times odd mix of stories about crime, politics and culture. While Russia has long sought ways to influence public discourse in...
  • Biden's State of the Union comes at key moment for climate and energy policy

    03/07/2024 3:57:03 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 44 replies
    CBS “News” ^ | March 7, 2024 | By Tracy J. Wholf
    President Biden will touch on a wide range of issues and policy priorities in his State of the Union address Thursday night, and he will need to thread the needle on his track record of climate change legislation, environmental protection and energy policy. The stakes for climate change couldn't be higher than they are in the 2024 presidential election, and Mr. Biden and former President Donald Trump couldn't stand farther apart on the issue if they tried. While climate change may not be the most pressing concern for voters, research has found that the issue can influence the outcome of...
  • Doritos "Finger Lick" Super Bowl 45 Commercial 2011 Video— 1 min

    03/06/2024 5:56:28 AM PST · by Phoenix8 · 2 replies
    YouTube ^ | 2011 | Mrgoodington
    None—-it’s a commercial flashback to 2011.