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NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) - Funds adhering to environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) principles have been hit by unprecedented outflows in the market downturn, as investors prioritize capital preservation over goals such as tackling climate change. ESG, a classification applied to fund assets currently worth an estimated $6.5 trillion, is being tested by a drop in market values fuelled by concerns that central banks hiking interest rates to fight rampant inflation will trigger an economic recession. Investors souring on ESG funds could pose a challenge to governments seeking to enlist them in the fight against climate change. Policymakers at the...

Jon Ralston @RalstonReports · Follow This means turnout in one of Nevada's reddest counties was sky-high compared to other places. Will add a few thousand votes to GOP statewide leads. Sean Golonka @s_golonka It appears rural, Republican-heavy Douglas County has a sizable batch of mail ballots still to be counted/reported: 12:47 PM · Nov 10, 2022 419 Reply Share *************************************************************************** The ballots were never lost, but media vote counters were not aware they were outstanding until the last few hours. This is another boost for republicans in Nevada. Republican-heavy Douglas County has at least 6,000 mail ballots still to be...

Former Vice President Al Gore and Google’s nonprofit arm are funding Climate TRACE, an environmentalist nonprofit coalition that uses a satellite database to track “individual emitters” of greenhouse gases around the world. Climate TRACE aims to track emissions from energy producers and other large sources of CO2 to fill “critical knowledge gaps” for governments and international bodies that rely on a “patchwork system” to monitor carbon emissions, according to its website. The nonprofit coalition uses satellite imaging remote sensing and artificial intelligence to track greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation, manufacturing and road traffic. “This is a way for climate...

Trump goes after Gov. Youngkin, saying his name sounds "Chinese."

11 November 2022Saint Martin of Tours, Bishop on Friday of week 32 in Ordinary Time St. Martin of Tours Parish, Louisville, KY Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading2 John 4-9 ©The commandment which you have heard since the beginning is to live a life of loveIt has given me great joy to find that your children have been living the life of truth as we were commanded by the Father. I am writing now, dear lady, not to give you any new commandment, but the one...

The Center Square) — Tuesday's election could prove pivotal for abortion restrictions, voting rights, redistricting and other important issues in North Carolina after Republicans won two state Supreme Court seats to secure a 5-2 majority.

Support among Republican primary voters for former President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential bid has fallen by nine percentage points since August, a new Morning Consult poll finds—while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ popularity has grown—as many Republicans blame Trump and question his presidential run after a “red wave” failed to materialize in Tuesday’s midterm elections. (snip) “This was the end of the Trump era and the dawn of the DeSantis era,” a Republican operative close to Trump and his team told ABC News Wednesday after the midterms. “Like every other Trump catastrophe, he did this to himself with stupid and reckless...

ELLABELL, Ga. (AP) — An Italian-owned company will invest $60 million in coastal Georgia to build a plant to make and distribute ammunition, with plans to hire 600 people. Norma Precision will build its facility near the site of the new Hyundai electric vehicle plant in Bryan County, just northwest of the Georgia coastal city of Savannah. In July, Italian gun maker Beretta bought Norma Precision and other ammunition makers from RUAG International, a company owned by the Swiss government, for an undisclosed price. Norma Precision had already announced that it was moving its headquarters to Georgia, setting up a...

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The Pope and Synod: Hangmen of the Great CommissionI will not follow this new synodal listening blueprint, and I will not oblige Pope Francis’ reproach of Catholic proselytization. I will listen to God. And I will hold fast to Christ’s words of the Great Commission.While I buckled into my window seat before departing Mexico City, the passenger beside me was conducting business from her phone. A new marketing strategy, at a cost in the upper hundreds of thousands of dollars, was being chewed over. The 40-year-old female I would be rubbing elbows with for the next three hours, I quickly...

TOKYO -- Conditions for an economic storm, including monetary tightening, inflation and the war in Ukraine, have all fallen into place, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told Nikkei, warning that the world could see more "surprises" like the near meltdown of U.K. pension funds. Dimon had previously predicted an economic "hurricane" in June, challenging the more bullish outlook held by other Wall Street executives at the time. "The storm I was talking about, or the potential storm, includes inflation, higher rates, global tightening, quantitative tightening and the effect of the war on the global economy -- particularly oil prices, food...

Folks, relax. We’ve seen enough, and we’ve seen this exact playbook before. The delayed “official results” from Colorado, Arizona and Nevada are all part of the organized narrative engineering from SoS offices, party officials (local and state) and corporate media. It’s transparent now. There were key “target races”, not defined for political outcomes per se’ but rather …. they were identified for official media targeting; for script writing and narrative engineering; under the guise of being identified as “key races” to sense, gauge and create a storyline for election distribution by corporate media. In the big picture, the goal was...

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The Biden administration is ramping up efforts to reduce methane emissions, targeting the oil and gas industry for its role in global warming even as President Joe Biden has pressed energy producers for more oil drilling to lower prices at the gasoline pump. The new rule by the Environmental Protection Agency follows up on a methane rule Biden announced last year at a United Nations climate summit in Scotland. The 2021 rule targets emissions from existing oil and gas wells nationwide, rather than focusing only on new wells as previous EPA regulations have done. The...

Iowa was one of only six states without a provision in the state constitution to offer protection of the right to keep and bear arms. In the last part of a long, complicated process to amend the Iowa State Constitution, Iowa voters approved of Iowa Amendment 1, Right to Keep and Bear Arms (2022) by nearly a 2-1 margin. From ballotpedia:A “yes” vote supported adding a right to own and bear firearms to the Iowa Constitution and require strict scrutiny for any alleged violations of the right brought before a court.A “no” vote opposed adding a right to own and...

The country may have experienced a red wave after all. It just didn't translate into the electoral outcomes that have historically accompanied major political shifts — and after the initial wave of instant narratives extemporized by pundits on election night, close observers are now just beginning to dig for the reasons underlying the model-shattering disconnect. Republicans are currently winning the national popular vote for the House in Tuesday's midterm elections by a large margin, according to the latest data from the Cook Political Report. Specifically, GOP candidates have so far received 50,672,592 votes, or 52.3% of the total ballots cast...

A tsunami warning has been issued following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake near the Pacific island of Tonga. The government has warned residents to seek high ground. A magnitude 7.5 earthquake was recorded in the sea off the Pacific island of Tonga late Friday, according to the US-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center "A hazardous tsunami may have been generated by this nearby earthquake that could soon impact nearby coasts," the center said. It adding that the tsunami threat was being monitored for evaluation. The center warned of a threat of sea level fluctuations and strong ocean to American Samoa that could...

For America’s cultural elites, it is now almost obligatory to hate Elon Musk. It is not difficult to see why they feel this way. After all, Musk is one of the very few high-profile businessmen who is prepared to publicly distance himself from the woke values that the elites hold dear. For several years now, the man who made electric cars cool has shown a rare willingness to question social-justice orthodoxies. He has frequently referred to himself as a ‘free-speech absolutist’. And now, after buying Twitter, he has promised to make the popular social-media platform a ‘haven for free speech’....

But this predictable attempt to make Donald Trump the scapegoat for closer-than-expected midterm election results is highly misleading, and an oversimplification in the extreme.The results of Tuesday night’s elections do not tell an easy story for those looking to pin the blame on Trump. Many Trump candidates—including J. D. Vance, Ted Budd, almost certainly Kari Lake and Adam Laxalt, potentially Blake Masters, and possibly (after the runoff) Herschel Walker—will have won their races in highly competitive swing states despite most being outspent by tens of millions of dollars.Where Republican candidates faltered, it was not just those who were chosen by...

Sen. Ron Johnson (Wis.), who was the Democrats’ biggest Republican target in the Senate, was projected to defeat Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes (D) and win reelection to a third term. NBC News and CNN both called the race for Johnson. Johnson and allied outside groups spent the last several months of the race defining Barnes as soft on crime in a barrage of attack ads, which some Democratic critics say were intended to sow racial divisions and play on the fears of suburban voters Johnson and Republican allied groups repeatedly hit Barnes for supporting the end of cash bail,...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.