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A group of institutional investors are suing energy and gas giant Shell for allegedly not properly preparing to shift away from fossil fuels, as reported by Reuters. Client Earth, investors and activist group in Shell, are taking the board of directors to court over allegations that they are harming the company's future by not properly shifting toward green energy. The environmentalists say it is the company's duty to shift away from fossil fuels and pivot in order to fight the "climate crisis." "Shell’s Board is legally required to manage risks to the company that could harm its future success, and...

SANTA FE – Lawmakers are evaluating a wide-ranging package of proposals to impose new firearms restrictions in New Mexico.Democrats hold large majorities in both chambers and have made gun legislation a priority this year.Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, also called on lawmakers to take action during her State of the State address.One proposal – a restriction on a straw purchase for a felon – has bipartisan sponsorship.House Bill 9: Unlawful access to firearm by minor Where it stands: Awaiting action by full House. Approval there would send it to the Senate and Senate committees.Senate Bill 44: Ban firearms at...

For the first time since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, a draft resolution has been submitted to the US Congress, in which a group of American lawmakers demands that the administration of President Biden complete the process of allocating military assistance to Ukraine. The draft resolution is registered in the US House of Representatives, which, as you know, has been under the control of the Republican Party since the beginning of the year.The sponsor of the draft resolution is Congressman Matt Goetz, representing the above-mentioned party. He is elected from Florida. Goetz, by the way,...

Twitter executives being beholden to so-called experts’ tweets is hardly better than doing the FBI’s bidding. When the New York Post dropped its bombshell reporting on documents recovered from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop in October of 2020, Twitter did not reach out to the FBI to ask whether the reporting was Russian disinformation — despite extensive coordination with the FBI to prepare to combat foreign election interference. Instead, according to testimony at Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing, Twitter relied on the tweets of supposed experts, making the tech giant’s decision to censor the Post’s story even more outrageous. The House...

Alyssa Farah Griffin told her co-host Thursday on ABC’s “The View” that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) was “overhyped” as a potential 2024 presidential candidate. Griffin said, “On DeSantis, I think he is so overhyped. I’m just going, to be honest, I’ve seen Trump take out every mini version of Trump for the last five years. I think right now, the party wants something other than Trump. They want Trump light, so they are boosting and hyping DeSantis. He doesn’t do national interviews. He does nothing on the national stage. I think he will implode once Trump goes after him and...

Hunter Biden said he was 'fine' with Rosemont Seneca helping provide office space, obtain visas for BHR employees FIRST ON FOX: Hunter Biden proposed hiring a full-time employee in 2015 who could work in the Washington, D.C., office space "directly connected to the Rosemont Seneca offices" with a "separate entrance" and serve as the communications liaison with the Beijing team on behalf of the U.S partners of BHR Partners, according to a review of emails from Hunter’s infamous abandoned laptop that have been verified by Fox News Digital. BHR Partners, a Beijing-backed private equity firm controlled by Bank of China...

A billionaire venture capitalist and partner at Sequoia Capital has blasted San Francisco’s seedy, drug-addled downtown — lambasting the city’s Democrat leadership for leaving them “zombie zones.” “It’s a strange city that bans plastic straws but permits plastic needles. Yet that’s San Francisco today,” Michael Moritz, 68, seethed in a fiery op-ed published in the Financial Times on Wednesday. “Between 2020 and 2022, 1,985 people here have died from drug overdoses compared to 1,143 from Covid-19,” he added. The former journalist-turned-investor said rampant and unchecked drug use has turned the City by the Bay into a “zombie” land. “Fentanyl, the...

VIDEOJames O'Keefe is one of the few real journalists left in an America full of "Solidarity Journalism" talking heads reciting the approved narrative. For that reason the Deep State, the Swamp, the liberals, the Big Media fake news frauds, and Big Pharma, especially Pfizer, want him OUT at Project Veritas. Despite all that opposition the great mass of thinking people have his back as you can hear in these voices of SUPPORT for James O'Keefe.

Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota was assaulted in the elevator of her apartment building in Washington, D.C., her office said. Craig, a Democrat who has served in Congress since 2019, “defended herself from the attacker and suffered bruising, but is otherwise physically okay,” her chief of staff said. Her office said there is currently “no evidence” that the incident against Craig, the first openly LGBT member of Congress from her state, was “politically motivated.”

Despite disagreements between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev, the prelude to the transit of power continues. Personnel changes in the Security Council are one of the manifestations. If the transit scenario is implemented, simultaneously with the appointment of Dmitry Patrushev as prime minister, his father Nikolai Patrushev leaves the Security Council, and Rashid Nurgaliev takes his place. Averyanov was sent to "look after" the Medvedev, just in case.

On Wednesday night lines of monster missiles rolled through the North Korean capital Pyongang. But it was not just his weapons that Kim Jong-un was parading. On show too, was his daughter. As the North Korean leader took up his usual parade position, at the centre of the balcony, he was joined, unusually, by the young girl dressed in black. She is thought to be his second oldest child, called Kim Ju-ae, aged around 10 years of age. This is the fifth public appearance she has made, and all in less than three months. During this short time she has...

A new study published on Wednesday suggested that a deep-space umbrella of lunar dust could help slow the effects of climate change. The study, published in the PLoS science journal, explains how a cloud of lunar dust launched between the Earth and the sun could block some of the solar radiation that warms the Earth. This research offers new support for a lesser-known corner of solar geoengineering, a field that seeks to scatter or reflect solar rays before they hit the Earth. The European Union is actively studying this idea, and the Biden administration has also started looking into it....

The House of Representatives on Thursday unanimously voted to condemn China’s incursion into American airspace AFTER REPUBLICANS SCRAPPED language criticizing the Biden administration’s response.

Curanderismo is a traditional healing practice with many forms and applications. Its acceptance is growing in some corners of the medical community.Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. Grace Sesma works methodically to set up her home office, lighting candles and cutting thorns from seven stemmed red roses for the day’s first session as her client chatters nearby. The man, 47, is talking fast — about the nice view of the area from Sesma’s backyard, his connection to the San Diego area, and how he got the supplies at...

The Oscars have been in shocking decline for years—from plummeting ratings, representation issues, the irrelevance of Old Hollywood in the face of streamers (not to mention the Andrea Riseborough controversy, Envelopegate and Will Smith’s handsy tantrum). Recently, Former Paramount CEO Barry Diller offered his own prognosis of the beleaguered industry showcase. Spoiler alert: The situation’s terminal. “It’s an antiquity,” the current IAC and Expedia chairman told Firing Line‘s Margaret Hoover of the awards process. Citing the Riseborough Affair, Diller noted the internal collapse the movie and awards-show industry have long been suffering. “All awards ceremonies were based on this hierarchical...

Around the world, the climate crisis is worsening the inequities surrounding who gets to have a healthy pregnancy and baby. Esther McCant, who works as a doula in the US state of Florida, knows that pregnant people need more than a birth plan. They also need information to plan for heat waves, especially for families that can’t afford running their air conditioning, and for extreme weather events such as hurricanes, storms, and floods, that are increasingly likely due to climate change. So McCant, a mother of four and a Black maternal health activist, includes climate health education and activism in...

In this thread, Billboard Chris shares what a whistleblower from St. Louis Children’s Hospital Gender Clinic leaked about the clinic, and holy cow, you guys. It’s SUPER long but super worth the time and effort to read through. This is happening in a CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL. Grab a snack (maybe two, it’s that long) and take a gander: Huge news. Whistleblower from the gender clinic at St. Louis Children's Hospital breaks her silence. This is a devastating exposé, and total confirmation of everything people like myself have been saying.https://t.co/vvTsT2xPwV — Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@BillboardChris) February 9, 2023 If this content shows...

… “Students who are here and those who are thinking about their role in this: You are going to come out and just leapfrog over all of us,” Harris said on Wednesday. “Because, you know, especially for our younger leaders, the benefit that you have is you’re not burdened by any question about, ‘Is this real?’” she said. That’s not currently the case, Harris said. “That is great because we’ve been having to deal with some folks who just literally ... we’re kind of like, ‘Have you looked out the window?’” “Let’s all stay active in this and understand ......

<p>His party doesn't want the West Virginia centrist frustrated for any number of reasons — but electric vehicles in particular are fueling a big row.</p><p>President Joe Biden and Joe Manchin met at the White House about a month ago on a topic that’s critically important to the West Virginia senator: implementing the sweeping tax, climate and health care law that both men shaped.</p>

The mayor and all four council members in New Jersey's East Hanover township are switching from the Democrat to Republican Party, in a move they say is in the "best interest of the community."The township has a population of about 11,100."Municipal leaders have a responsibility to best represent their constituents, and it is our belief this change of party is in the best interest of the community," Mayor Joseph Pannullo said Tuesday, according to The New Jersey Globe."As the nastiness, rhetoric, and social media vitriol of national politics continues to infiltrate local governance, we collectively determined this was the best...