Daily Archives: March 7, 2022

2022-03-07: News Headlines

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-07). Toxic Nostalgia, from Putin to Trump to the Trucker Convoys. transcend.org 1 Mar 2022 – War is reshaping our world. Will we harness that urgency for climate action or succumb to a final, deadly oil and gas boom?>

Sharon Kelly (2022-03-07). Energy Transfer continued work after telling investors Mariner East Pipeline was completed. nationofchange.org Documents show the company continued "tie ins" for the pipeline project after a February 16 earnings call announcement, and photographs and videos showed pipeline work underway into March.

_____ (2022-03-06). Workers Say They Breathe Polluted Air At 'Green' Insulation Facility. popularresistance.org As the acceptance of climate change becomes increasingly commonplace, more and more companies will be created or adapted to "fight" or "solve" it — or, at the very least, minimize its effects. Kingspan Group, which began as an engineering and contracting business in 1965 in Ireland, has since grown into a global company with more than 15,000 employees focused on green insulation and other sustainable building materials. Its mission is to "accelerate a zero emissions future with the wellbeing of people and planet at its heart." | But workers at the Kingspan Light + Air factory in Santa Ana, Calif. don't feel…

Roselena Ramirez (2022-03-06). Mechatronic Reforestation could be a Weapon to Fight Climate Change. america.cgtn.com Brazilian entrepreneur, Marcelo Guimaraes, has invented what he claims is the fastest tree-planting machine on earth. Fast enough, he says, to realistically address climate change. His third-generation version of the planting machine, called Forest Bot, can plant multiple species of trees at a speed of up …

_____ (2022-03-06). Putin, Lenin, Imperialism And The (Real) History Of Ukraine. popularresistance.org The people of this country suffer, I've always thought, from a general ignorance of history. This is because with vast oceans for borders, and ever-friendly neighbors, and no experience of being invaded, living in a country that has always urged assimilation including the acceptance of "American exceptionalism," schooled through an educational system that avoids teaching U.S. history with any degree of credibility so as not to upset anybody, they've never been encouraged to think critically about the past. To ask questions. To raise objections—not necessarily about what happened, but about how to interpret…

Staff (2022-03-06). EU comments on warplanes for Kiev. rt.com Ukraine insists it needs jet fighters to repel the Russian attack | European Council President Charles Michel has said that the bloc's military aid to Ukraine will not include jet fighters, which Kiev has insisted it badly needs to fend off the ongoing Russian invasion. | "The European Union is definitely not at war with Russia. A war is what Russia has launched against Ukraine, a country very friendly and very close to the EU. That is why we support Ukraine on all levels," Michel said in an interview with several European newspapers on Saturday. | The chief of the EU's top political body confirmed that the EU…

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