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BERLIN (AP) — The world needs to take “radical action” to shift away from fossil fuels and ensure global warming doesn’t pass dangerous thresholds, the head of the International Renewable Energy Agency said Tuesday. The agency’s 348-page report concluded that investments of $5.7 trillion in renewable energy are needed globally each year until 2030 to reduce emissions and meet the goals of the Paris climate accord. Currently those emissions are going up, not down. “The energy transition is far from being on track and anything short of radical action in the coming years will diminish, even eliminate chances to meet...

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FDA and CDC pharmacists, physicians, and nurses have violated sacrosanct academic oaths and state licensure obligations to protect their patients’ safety. Will they try the Nuremberg defense of “just following orders?” Today, unquestionably serious cardiovascular, thrombotic and neurologic adverse events related to the vaccine have occurred around the world. The FDA’s own vaccine adverse event tracking system (the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System or VAERS) shows substantial and serious risks from the vaccine, even though the FDA only collects an estimated 10% of all adverse events. Still, federal agencies and manufacturers aren’t officially warning the American public about these risks,...

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Jan. 6 Riot Defendant Alleges ‘Coercion’ By FBI, Wants Confession Thrown Out WASHINGTON (WUSA) — The attorney for a Pennsylvania man accused of pepper spraying three police officers defending the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6 wants his client’s on-camera confession thrown out of court.

A global agreement to reverse the loss of nature and halt extinctions is inching closer, as talks in Geneva enter their final day. International negotiators are working on the text of a UN framework to safeguard nature ahead of a high-level summit in China later this year. Divisions remain, including over financing the plans. The draft text contains the aim to increase finance to at least US $200bn a year by 2030, with funding from developed to developing countries to increase by at least US $10bn a year. "Resource mobilisation at this meeting has become a thorny issue," Ghanaian academic...

All scientist Erin Pettit could see when she looked at the satellite photos of the ice shelf in front of the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica was the giant crack that stretched across most of the image. Two years before, when she and her colleagues were deciding where to put their research camp, the entire floating ice shelf—a tongue of ice poking out from the enormous glacier behind it—was solid. It was plenty safe to plan a camp there, they thought...... The size of Florida, the Thwaites Glacier holds enough ice to raise global sea levels two feet. It’s also...

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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Thousands of American and Filipino forces began on Monday one of their largest combat exercises in years that will include live-fire maneuvers, aircraft assaults, urban warfare and beach landings in a showcase of U.S. firepower in the northern Philippines near its sea border with Taiwan. The annual exercises, called Balikatan — Tagalog for shoulder-to-shoulder — will run up to April 8 with nearly 9,000 navy, marines, air force and army troops, including 5,100 American military personnel...

The Hunter Biden tax probe is picking up speed, with prosecutors interviewing associates and witnesses about the first son's foreign business dealings. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that prosecutors from the U.S. attorney's office in Delaware are interested in funds the first son received from the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma and how he used that money to pay debts. A source also told the Journal that one person was extensively questioned in front of the grand jury in February on Biden's drug and alcohol use, spending habits and mental state. **SNIP** Prosecutors are looking into whether Biden violated...

The People’s Convoy trucker protest group on Sunday announced that it would head to California in the coming weeks to protest COVID-19 mandates there following daily excursions in and around the Washington, D.C., area....

Chalk up another for an Indian-American – and for the IIT brand. The Thiruvananthapuram-born, IIT-Mumbai-educated Raj Subramaniam has been named CEO of FedEx, the storied American transportation services company, taking over from the company’s founder Fred Smith. This makes him one of half a dozen PIOs to have crashed through the global corporate glass ceiling in recent months, joining the likes of Arvind Krishna at IBM, Parag Agrawal at Twitter, and Leena Nair at Chanel. Any report about a person of Indian origin becoming CEO of a global company produces two extreme reactions from readers. One is an over-the-top, rah...

Some say it's sad that the flowers wither. I say it's a good thing. Flowers are a kind of reminder, a timer for our love. By the time they fade it's a reminder it's time to say "I love you" again.

At one recent rally, some of Trump's supporters said Putin should have free rein, while others advocated sending in U.S. troops. ...COMMERCE, Ga. — As former President Donald Trump tries to refine his message about Russia's war against Ukraine, his base is splintered over the question of America's engagement in Eastern Europe. "It's not our business," Peggy Bright, 57, said shortly before Trump spoke to an unusually restless and muted crowd here Saturday night... ...Alina Roberts, a Trump voter who was born in Latvia and lives in Atlanta, said at Saturday's rally that Putin cannot be stopped without direct U.S....

WANTED BY NYPD: 73-year-old victim shoved to the ground, assaulted during robbery attempt in Midtown Manhattan Sunday. pic.twitter.com/ri7GwrI1JW— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 29, 2022

'The Democratic Party gets a lot of mileage out of blaming problems in the Black community on White people,' says the Manhattan Institute's Jason Riley ..."There's a racial spoil system in place... It's very lucrative..." ...But now, the tide appears to be turning as President Biden loses support among Blacks and Hispanics, which gives Democrats incentive to change their messaging. "Joe Biden's numbers among blacks and Hispanics have really fallen off considerably. To a point where Democrats can't win elections if they're only getting 65 70% of the black vote," Riley said....

Canada needs wartime #censorship of internet, @MelanieJoly tells MPs: "My mandate as @CanadaFP Minister is really to counter propaganda online" mindingottawa TwitterMélanie Joly (Canada government official) Twitter

An examination of forced-reset triggers shows they enable the weapon to fire a second round without having to release the trigger, which, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, subjects them to more restrictions under the National Firearms Act and the Gun Control Act. Guns that use forced-reset triggers are subject to GCA prohibitions regarding the possession, transfer, and transport of machine guns and NFA restrictions on registration, transfer, taxation, and possession. Anyone who violates the GCA's and NFA's rules can be fined up to $250,000 and sentenced to up to 10 years in prison, the letter...

[…]Furthermore, the secretary of defense himself told every service member, in his Aug 24, 2021, memo, that the only vaccines for use will "receive full licensure from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in accordance with FDA-approved labeling and guidance."To date, however, there are no FDA-approved, fully licensed vaccines available to the military on any military installation in the U.S. or overseas.Yet even in 2022, service members are still being punished for refusing vaccines that are not FDA-approved, but only available under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA).Army Command Policy is outlined in Army Regulation 600-20. This regulation is backed by U.S....

“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance” (Proverbs 29:2-3).