Saving the Ozone Layer Prevented Even More Intense Global Warming
This story by Malavika Vyawahare originally appeared in Mongabay and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.
Asie centrale : Les États-Unis souhaitent l’aide de la Russie pour contenir les talibans
Malgré des années de politique et de rhétorique visant à faire des reproches à Moscou, Washington a désormais besoin d’aide pour contenir les talibans.
Research Resources You Should Know About – #SolutionsWatch (video)
Did you know there's a searchable archive of the last 12 years of tv news? Or that every moment of all of the major news network's broadcasts from the week of 9/11 are available for free online? Well, you do now! Go forth and research!
Two Top FDA Officials Resign Over Reported Disagreements With White House on COVID-19 Vaccines
Two of the FDA’s senior vaccine officials are leaving their positions as the agency mulls new rules and regulations over booster shots and Covid-19 vaccinations for children, according to Bloomberg and Endpoints News.
In today’s video, we break down the latest astonishing developments surrounding the Biden Administration and we also give you a big update on economic news.
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From state capitals, to Capitol Hill, to the Supreme Court, the new champions of “election integrity” cast themselves as defenders of an old American tradition.
Research Resources You Should Know About – #SolutionsWatch
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Texas Leads in Voting Legislation and Gerrymandering
Texas is in political chaos. The fastest growing state in the union is completely ruled by Republicans in all branches of state government, and as such, the Democrats of the state have been pulling every trick in the book to delay and deny legislation designed to cement GOP power there.
Severity of Hurricane Ida Reflects Threat From Global Warming: Reports
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“Unprecedented” Power Outage Quietly Crippled Half of New York City’s Subway Last Night
Late Sunday into the early hours of Monday morning, half the New York City subway system went dark and stranded hundreds, if not thousands of passengers.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul told reporters outside the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Headquarters in Lower Manhattan about the incident. She called it an “unprecedented system breakdown” that led to half of the nation’s largest subway system losing power around 2100 ET Sunday and restored around 0130 ET Monday.
Chase Bank Cancels General Michael Flynn’s Credit Cards
Chase Bank has canceled General Michael Flynn’s personal credit card, citing “possible reputational risk to our company.”
??BREAKING: Chase Bank cancels its credit card accounts with General Flynn citing possible “reputational risk” to their company. In case there was any doubt what is happening in this country. @TracyBeanzOfficial pic.twitter.com/GIyQHXgW9l
Israel Warns COVID ‘Green Pass’ Will Expire If Residents Don’t Get Third Jab
After being confronted with the fact that widespread vaccination isn’t enough to stop COVID (just look at Israel’s case numbers), public health authorities in the tiny Mediterranean country have decided that the best solution is to double-down on the jabs by defying the WHO and demanding all citizens must get a third jab. Talk about moving the goalposts…
Will post-US Afghanistan turn into the world’s first super terrorist narco-state? It’s a possibility that both President Joe Biden and Pentagon planners need to think about.
Estimates are that Afghanistan currently produces 80-90 percent of the world’s illicit opium that is eventually refined into heroin. It’s also one of the world’s largest sources of hashish. Besides that, it has recently become a significant exporter of crystal meth, currently the US’s fastest growing drug.
Interdiction des nouveaux forages : l’Italie risque de verser des dommages et intérêts à une société pétrolière britannique
Des tribunaux secrets permettent aux entreprises de combustibles fossiles de poursuivre les gouvernements qui adoptent des lois pour protéger l’environnement.
“Reacts to Magnets”: Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Halted in Japan Due to Contamination From “Black Substances”
Three days after the Japanese Ministry of Health announced that they were pulling 1.6 million doses of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine due to contamination in some vials that ‘reacts to magnets’ and which led to the deaths of at least two men in their 30s who died after receiving their second dose of the Mode
Warmongers Keep Raging About the Phrase “Ending the Forever Wars” and We Should Laugh at Them
In the wake of the Afghanistan withdrawal influential promoters of western militarism have been absolutely fuming about the popular idea of ending the forever wars, and their tantrums are not even trying to disguise it as something else. They’re literally using that phrase, “ending the forever wars”, and then saying it’s a bad thing.
Twitter Permanently Bans Science Journalist Alex Berenson After Viral Tweets
It was never a matter of if, but when.
Science journalist Alex Berenson has been permanently suspended from Twitter, just one day after a viral series of tweets spotlighting an Israeli preprint study which showed that natural immunity from a prior COVID-19 infection is 13 times more effective than vaccines against the delta variant.
Comirnaty Approval, Funder Pressure, Truckies Blockade – New World Next Week
This week on the New World Next Week: the FDA approves Comirnaty; even Nature is reporting how health research funders are suppressing inconvenient results; and Aussie truckies are preparing to block every highway in anti-lockdown strike.
Those who are profiting from death, suffering, and injustice have learned a valuable lesson as the world deals with various emergencies — many of which they helped create or made worse: No matter what they do, nobody is going to hold them accountable for their actions in a meaningful way.
This Week in Pandemic: Masks, Mandates, and Multiple Realities
With the CDC’s recent change in masking guidelines and its director, Rochelle Walensky,
making rounds on networks talking about the deadliness of the Delta variant, states around the US have taken to updating or reinstating their mask mandates. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R), for example, is attempting to reverse a law he signed months ago against mask mandates in schools.
Révolution française #05 : La grande peur bourgeoise – par Henri Guillemin
La prise de la Bastille va susciter une peur considérable dans la bourgeoisie.
II faut bien comprendre la signification du 14 juillet, de la prise de la Bastille. Elle va susciter une peur considérable dans la bourgeoisie. La terreur de la populace devient panique.
Can Russia Make More Than Short-Term Gains in Afghanistan?
It’s not easy to shake hands with the people who declared a jihad on your country, helped turn it into the world’s largest heroin consumer, hosted your archenemies, and sicced a motley crew of Islamist militants on your allies.
But Moscow’s pragmatic approach to the Taliban’s stunning victories in Afghanistan bears testimony to its obsession with reclaiming its Soviet-era clout in the Middle East by any means necessary.
Walk This Way: Why Pedestrians Hold the Key to Sustainable Cities
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Have our misadventures in Vietnam, Iraq, and now Afghanistan finally shattered the myth of American exceptionalism? Where once that belief was the projection of a nation trying to lead by example, it morphed into the self-delusion of leading by having a bigger gun.
Opération Condor : Les assassins d’extrême droite devraient être en prison
Les tribunaux italiens ont récemment emprisonné quatorze hommes pour leur rôle dans l’Opération Condor, la campagne de terreur latino-américaine soutenue par les États-Unis [dans les années 1970, NdT]. Mais de nombreux autres tortionnaires vivent une retraite paisible — refusant que justice soit rendue aux gauchistes qu’ils ont brutalisés et assassinés.
Interview 1658 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
[audio mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2021-08-26_James_Evan_Pilato.mp3"][/audio]This week on the New World Next Week: the FDA approves Comirnaty; even Nature is reporting how health research funders are suppressing inconvenient results; and Aussie truckies are preparing to block every highway in anti-lockdown strike.
Tech Titans Pledge Billions to Strengthen US Cybersecurity Defenses
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Profiting on Police Reform: Can The Feds Break up Axon’s Body Camera Monopoly?
Along with a badge and a gun, more and more American police are issued body cameras as standard equipment.
Cameras have emerged as a solution to meet demands for better policing since a series of high-profile killings of unarmed Black civilians beginning in 2014 triggered a re-evaluation of law enforcement tactics and transparency.
Afghanistan’s ‘Businesswoman of the Year’ Escapes From Kabul
Like a Horror Movie
It is Monday, August 16, 2021. Hassina Syed, who is 41, is in central Kabul when her mobile phone rings. Her friend screams, shouting into the receiver: “Take your bag and run! They are here and they will kill you.”
Hassina Syed acts quickly.
“I ran as fast as I could.”
She sees people around her doing the same, dressed in business suits, dresses, and office uniforms. The air is filled with fear and confusion.
Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies, with real life dialogue, were a staple of the Village Voice in its heyday. Now he’s back with his unique take on the 21st century
Les menaces d’Israël contre Ben&Jerry’s : Une surréaction aussi absurde qu’instructive
La réaction excessive des politiciens israéliens et de leurs soutiens transatlantiques à la décision de Ben&Jerry’s de mettre fin à ses ventes dans les territoires palestiniens (illégalement) occupés est aussi absurde qu’instructive.
Entreprises, un peu de sérieux ! – par Jean-Marc Jancovici
Lorsque Papin puis Watt ont mis la machine à vapeur à disposition de l’humanité, l’atmosphère comportait 280 millilitres de CO2 par mètre cube d’air, soit 0,028% en volume, ou encore 280 ppm. Cette valeur n’avait quasiment pas varié depuis 10.000 ans, stabilité qui est allée de pair avec celle du climat, permettant ainsi l’émergence des civilisations sédentaires dont nous sommes les lointains descendants.
Genetic Mapping Boosts Hopes for Restoring Prized Lake Trout
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Engineer Pitches Cloud Brightening to Stem Arctic Melting
Stephen Salter was working on an eggbeater-shaped wind turbine in his machine shop in Edinburgh, Scotland, when he got a curious call. On the other end of the line was the cloud physicist John Latham with an unusual observation: If seawater were injected into stratocumulus clouds — the low-level, puffy, often gray ones that can look like cauliflower — to make them just 2 percent brighter, they would reflect enough sunlight to keep the Earth’s temperature from rising. Latham had christened the concept marine cloud brightening.
Do you think the world is overpopulated? Are you worried that having a baby would contribute to climate change? Deep down, do you hate humanity? If so, then it's time to stop swallowing the propaganda of the anti-human death cult and to realize that creation is our ultimate act of rebellion agains the elitists and eugenicists.
Guerre des drones : Le lanceur d’alerte Daniel Hale explique sa crise de conscience
L’ancien analyste des renseignements de l’armée de l’Air américaine est la première personne à être condamnée pour une infraction selon l’Espionage Act de l’administration du président Joe Biden.
Israël-Palestine : escalade d’indigence au 20h de France 2
Du 7 mai au 8 juillet, nous avons étudié de manière exhaustive les reportages et les directs que le 20h de France 2 a consacrés à la situation en Israël et dans les territoires palestiniens. De dépolitisation en désinformation, on y observe une couverture au rabais, usant quasi méthodiquement des biais traditionnels en la matière (auxquels nous avons consacré notre première émission sur Radio Cause Commune).
Fossil Leaves May Reveal Climate in Last Era of Dinosaurs
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“Biden’s Betrayal of Afghans Will Live in Infamy.” That isn’t a line from Lindsey Graham, but a headline from The Atlantic. What about the infamy of not accepting the Taliban’s surrender in 2001 before all the death and destruction?
Révolution française #04 : Juillet 1789 – par Henri Guillemin
La prise de la Bastille, un épisode sanglant de la Révolution française.
Il était huit heures du matin à Versailles, le 15 juillet 1789 lorsque le duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt annonçait à Louis XVI que, la veille, les Parisiens avaient pris la Bastille. Surpris que l’on s’attaque à une prison qui n’avait plus que sept détenus (deux fous, quatre faussaires et un fils de famille enfermé à la demande de ses parents), Louis XVI, on le sait avait demandé si c’était une révolte. « Non, sire, lui répondit le duc, c’est une révolution. »
Dear Prof. Finkelstein,
Since you asked about myself, I am from Pakistan and currently live in the Hague the Netherlands, (which is where I believe your good friend Mouin Rabbani lives?)
My parents were both leftist journalists. My father (Ahfaz-ur-Rahman: you can click on his name for details) went to China as a young man in 1969 to work in the Foreign languages press in Beijing. This was before he had met my mother. He saw first hand many of the injustices of the cultural revolution and came back disillusioned.
B. Michael | Jul. 27, 2021 | 11:51 PM | 6
Everyone condemned it, competing with one another in volume, flashing angry looks and going overboard with their castigation.
A correspondent comment on the state of American Jewry
[The correspondent prefers to remain anonymous)
After reading your What Gandhi Says I bought and read Knowing Too Much, which I also found to be illuminating. I must confess I read the book looking more for insight into domestic American politics than in American policy toward Israel and Palestine. Jews in late 20th and early 21st century America have played an outsized role in politics, and changes in their political outlook and identification will have great influence on national affairs.
You note on page 12 that “American Jews have been weaned on, and bene
Break The Siege: Medical Relief for GazaWorld Premiere Saturday June 26Restream Sunday June 27, 2021 7pm CST Via HotHouseGlobal online streaming platforms
An ad-hoc committee of artists and activists have convened for the purpose of raising money for medical relief for Gaza as well as to call for an end of the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
The organize
What We Can Do – Break The Siege: Medical Relief for Gaza
Break The Siege: Medical Relief for Gaza
World Premiere Saturday June 26 and Re-Stream Sunday June 27, 2021
The same program will be shown two times
7pm CST
Via HotHouseGlobal online streaming platforms
An an-hoc committee of artists and activists have convened for the purpose of raising money for medical relief for Gaza as well as to c
05/06/2021 Updates from our reporter in Jerusalem, Y.C. – Sheikh Jarrah Protest
Most readers have probably heard about the Israeli attempts to Judaize Sheikh Jarrah.For the past few months, the Palestinians residents of the East Jerusalem have been protesting against the impending supreme court order to expel them from their homes, which would be given to Jewish settlers.
Bari Bovine’s Second Tweet
The other day I went downstairs to purchase a package of Twinkies. But the grocer asked: Are you a Zionist? Then my toilet backed up and I called the plumber. But he asked: Are you a Zionist? Then I tried to board a bus. But the driver asked: Are you a Zionist?
EXCLUSIVE: Norman Finkelstein requests apology from DePaul
Rebecca Meluch, News Editor|May 23, 2021
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Former professor Norman Finkelstein is demanding DePaul issue him an apology, alleging the university ruined his academic career.
In 2007, former DePaul political science professor Norman Finkelstein was denied tenure.