Monthly Archives: September 2022

2022-09-30: News Headlines

Infobrics (2022-09-30). Trump warns sabotage of Nord Stream pipelines could lead to war. infobrics.org Biden will never accept Trump's offers to mediate peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

Alex Lantier (2022-09-30). The Bombing of the Nord Stream Pipeline: Who Benefits? globalresearch.ca

Infobrics (2022-09-30). Western economic warfare backfired, new depression likely to come. infobrics.org What awaits Europe with Nord Stream pipelines possibly gone forever?>

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-30). NATO Formally Labels Nord Stream Leaks as 'Sabotage'. news.antiwar.com NATO on Thursday formally labeled the leaks in the Nord Stream pipelines as "sabotage" and warned that attacks on an ally's "critical infrastructure" could be met with a response, although the pipelines are owned mainly by Russia. "All currently available information indicates that this is the result of deliberate, reckless, and irresponsible acts of sabotage," …

Paul Joseph Watson (2022-09-30). "No Evidence" US Involved in Nord Stream Pipeline Attack Because Pentagon Says So. globalresearch.ca

Larry Johnson (2022-09-30). What a Coincidence! Poland Inaugurates New Gas Pipeline Amid Nord Stream Leaks. globalresearch.ca

Pepe Escobar (2022-09-30). Who Profits from Pipeline Terror? "A NATO on NATO Attack" globalresearch.ca

Staff (2022-09-30). Headlines for September 30, 2022. democracynow.org Hurricane Ian Bears Down on South Carolina After Carving Path of Destruction Across Florida, Putin Announces Plans to Annex Ukrainian Territory Seized by Russia, Sweden Discovers Fourth Leak in Nord Stream Pipeline as NATO Cites Sabotage , Senate Approves $12.3 Billion in New Aid to Ukraine in Stopgap Spending Bill, White House Pledges Renewed Push for Passage of Sen. Manchin's Permitting Reform Bill, Polls Show Brazil's Lula with Wide Lead Over Bolsonaro Ahead of Presidential Election, Suicide Bomb Attack on Kabul School Kills 19, Mostly Young Women , India Expands Abortion Access to Single Women and…

Michael Snyder (2022-09-30). 14 Things We Know About the Mysterious "Explosions" That Severely Damaged the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 Pipelines. globalresearch.ca

Peter Koenig (2022-09-30). Fake Reporting on the Blown-up Pipelines and Russia's "Annexation" of Donbas. globalresearch.ca

Infobrics (2022-09-30). BRICS Nations Call for More Cooperation on Disaster Management. infobrics.org The BRICS nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — have pledged to boost cooperation on disaster management against the backdrop of exacerbating climate change, increasingly frequent natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic…

Stan Cox (2022-09-30). The urgent climate case for defunding the Pentagon. nationofchange.org Is it finally time to defund war?>

Paul Anthony Taylor (2022-09-30). Fracking: The Scientific Evidence of Adverse Health Effects That Governments Aren't Telling You About. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2022-09-30). Devastation from Hurricane Ian: Another disaster inflicted by American capitalism. wsws.org The death toll and destruction in Florida are of immense dimensions and demonstrate the failure of capitalist society. Such disasters are not "natural," but the predictable result of the inability of the profit system to address climate change and its environmental consequences.

____ (2022-09-29). Work on west-east gas pipeline underway. ecns.cn China Oil &Gas Pipeline Network Corp, China's largest energy infrastructure owner also known as PipeChina, announced on Wednesday the official launch of construction on West-East Gas Pipeline 4.

_____ (2022-09-29). Facts Related To The Sabotage Attack On The Nord Stream Pipelines. popularresistance.org For decades the U.S. opposed European projects to receive energy from Russia. It wants Europe to buy more expensive U.S. oil and gas. | Europe's, and especially Germany's industry, depends on cheap energy from Russia. Without it Europe will be de-industrialized and go broke. | The U.S. had threatened to disable the pipelines connecting Europe to Russia. Currently the U.S. is winning its war on Europe's, mainly Germany's, industries and people. Yesterday's sabotage attack on the Nord Stream I and II pipelines, which are supposed to bring Russian natural gas to Germany, mean that the the war on Germany has entered…

____ (2022-09-29). Gas leaks from Nord Stream pipelines not to cease until Sunday: DEA. ecns.cn The director of the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) Kristoffer Bottzauw said on Wednesday that the gas leaks from the Nord Stream pipelines will continue until the end of the week.

Staff (2022-09-29). US rejects being involved in Nord Stream sabotage. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 29 (MNA) — The idea that the United States was somehow involved in the apparent sabotage attacks against the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines is preposterous, US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Wednesday.

Editor (2022-09-29). The Timing of the Pipeline Attack. scheerpost.com Biden calling for overthrow of Putin in Warsaw in March. (Office of the President) | By Joe Lauria / President Joe Biden, with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz by his side, promised a White House press conference in early February that the U.S. was "able" to shut down the German-Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea if Russia invaded Ukraine. | A reporter asked Biden, "But how will you do that, exactly, since…the project is in Germany's control?" Biden said: "I promise you, we will be able to…

Lee Camp (2022-09-29). Fossil Fuels Subsidized at Rate of $11 Million Per Minute. mintpressnews.com A study by none other than the IMF found that the planet collectively spends $11 million per minute on subsidies for fossil fuels, all while the world barrels towards an impending climate catastrophe.

Eric Zuesse (2022-09-29). Record Methane Leaks in Baltic Sea: U.S. Government Likely Perpetrated Biggest-Ever Catastrophic "Global Warming Event" globalresearch.ca

Ariel Gold (2022-09-29). What South Sudan Needs and Doesn't Need. commondreams.org South Sudan is the embodiment of so many ills that affect the world—colonialism, militarization, civil war, climate change, famine, and sexual violence.

Kathy Durkin (2022-09-29). Youth join global strike for climate justice. workers.org Climate strikers in Bengaluru, India, Sept. 23. Climate strikers in Bengaluru, India, one of 450 global locations, were among hundreds of thousands demanding "climate reparations and justice" Sept. 23. Young people in Asia, Africa and Europe joined a coordinated Global Climate Strike that called for wealthy countries to pay reparations . . . |

_____ (2022-09-29). From Crisis To Transformation: What Is Just Transition? A Primer. popularresistance.org We Are Living Through An Age Of Profound Transition. Political Upheaval Is The Order Of The Day. Economic Inequality Is Rising. People Around The Globe Are Being Displaced By Conflict And Climate Emergencies. Racism, Xenophobia, And Religious Intolerance Are On The Rise. The COVID-19 Pandemic Cast New Light On The Injustices And Irrationality Of Our Current Economic And Social Systems. | The Crises We Face Today Are Social And Political, But They Go Deeper. The Life Gi- Ving Systems Of The Earth Are Under Threat As A Result Of The System Of Production Which Has Been Foisted Upon The World Over The Last 250 Years.

Brett Wilkins (2022-09-29). Environmental Defender Killed Every Two Days Over Last Decade, Report Finds. commondreams.org "All over the world, Indigenous peoples and environmental defenders risk their lives for the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss," said the head of Global Witness.

Brett Wilkins (2022-09-29). Activists Call Fed Pilot Program to Assess Banks' Climate Risk a 'Welcome First Step'. commondreams.org "To truly safeguard financial stability," said one campaigner, "the Fed must further introduce policies that reflect the high risk of fossil fuel investments."

Tamara Pearson (2022-09-29). Eight Reasons Why There Hasn't Been a Global Climate Revolt Yet. commondreams.org We are marching and meeting, but our levels of organization and resistance are vastly disproportionate to the anger and concern we feel, and the urgency of the situation.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-28). Attack on Nord Stream Kills Prospects for Dialogue in Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com M. K. BHADRAKUMAR The three leaks that were discovered on Monday at the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines connecting Russia with Germany — one after another within hours of each other in the exclusive economic zones of Sweden and Denmark — were caused by blasts. Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde tweeted that the…

_____ (2022-09-28). Russia Shifts to a Zero-waste Nuclear Cycle in its NPPs. journal-neo.org The global energy crisis, arguably the worst since 1973, is forcing adjustments in nuclear energy policy in the European Union and many other parts of the world. Washington's policy of squeezing Russia out of the European energy market, decommissioning European NPPs and forcing a "green agenda," for the express purpose of strangling its main economic …

Imperial.ac.uk (2022-09-28). Podcast: Feeling like a scientist, wastewater disease tests, and summer droughts. imperial.ac.uk In this edition: When a scientist begins to feel like one, monitoring wastewater for diseases like COVID-19, and how droughts led to hosepipe bans.

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2022-09-29: News Headlines

____ (2022-09-29). Gas leaks from Nord Stream pipelines not to cease until Sunday: DEA. ecns.cn The director of the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) Kristoffer Bottzauw said on Wednesday that the gas leaks from the Nord Stream pipelines will continue until the end of the week.

WSWS (2022-09-29). The bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline: Who benefits? wsws.org Attempts by NATO officials to pin the blame on Russia and rule out US responsibility in the bombing of the pipeline, which Washington has called to be destroyed, have no credibility.

Staff (2022-09-29). US rejects being involved in Nord Stream sabotage. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 29 (MNA) — The idea that the United States was somehow involved in the apparent sabotage attacks against the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines is preposterous, US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Wednesday.

____ (2022-09-29). Work on west-east gas pipeline underway. ecns.cn China Oil &Gas Pipeline Network Corp, China's largest energy infrastructure owner also known as PipeChina, announced on Wednesday the official launch of construction on West-East Gas Pipeline 4.

Editor (2022-09-29). The Timing of the Pipeline Attack. scheerpost.com Biden calling for overthrow of Putin in Warsaw in March. (Office of the President) | By Joe Lauria / President Joe Biden, with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz by his side, promised a White House press conference in early February that the U.S. was "able" to shut down the German-Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea if Russia invaded Ukraine. | A reporter asked Biden, "But how will you do that, exactly, since…the project is in Germany's control?" Biden said: "I promise you, we will be able to…

_____ (2022-09-29). Facts Related To The Sabotage Attack On The Nord Stream Pipelines. popularresistance.org For decades the U.S. opposed European projects to receive energy from Russia. It wants Europe to buy more expensive U.S. oil and gas. | Europe's, and especially Germany's industry, depends on cheap energy from Russia. Without it Europe will be de-industrialized and go broke. | The U.S. had threatened to disable the pipelines connecting Europe to Russia. Currently the U.S. is winning its war on Europe's, mainly Germany's, industries and people. Yesterday's sabotage attack on the Nord Stream I and II pipelines, which are supposed to bring Russian natural gas to Germany, mean that the the war on Germany has entered…

Lee Camp (2022-09-29). Fossil Fuels Subsidized at Rate of $11 Million Per Minute. mintpressnews.com A study by none other than the IMF found that the planet collectively spends $11 million per minute on subsidies for fossil fuels, all while the world barrels towards an impending climate catastrophe.

Eric Zuesse (2022-09-29). Record Methane Leaks in Baltic Sea: U.S. Government Likely Perpetrated Biggest-Ever Catastrophic "Global Warming Event" globalresearch.ca

_____ (2022-09-29). From Crisis To Transformation: What Is Just Transition? A Primer. popularresistance.org We Are Living Through An Age Of Profound Transition. Political Upheaval Is The Order Of The Day. Economic Inequality Is Rising. People Around The Globe Are Being Displaced By Conflict And Climate Emergencies. Racism, Xenophobia, And Religious Intolerance Are On The Rise. The COVID-19 Pandemic Cast New Light On The Injustices And Irrationality Of Our Current Economic And Social Systems. | The Crises We Face Today Are Social And Political, But They Go Deeper. The Life Gi- Ving Systems Of The Earth Are Under Threat As A Result Of The System Of Production Which Has Been Foisted Upon The World Over The Last 250 Years.

Kathy Durkin (2022-09-29). Youth join global strike for climate justice. workers.org Climate strikers in Bengaluru, India, Sept. 23. Climate strikers in Bengaluru, India, one of 450 global locations, were among hundreds of thousands demanding "climate reparations and justice" Sept. 23. Young people in Asia, Africa and Europe joined a coordinated Global Climate Strike that called for wealthy countries to pay reparations . . . |

Tamara Pearson (2022-09-29). The urgent global climate revolt that isn't happening. greenleft.org.au Climate change is disrupting and harming our lives, writes Tamara Pearson, so we need to disrupt and force change.

Larry Chin (2022-09-28). What Spearheaded 21 Years of War and Atrocities? Unocal and the Coveted Trans-Afghan Pipeline Route. globalresearch.ca

Michael Shellenberger (2022-09-28). U.S. Blew Up Russian Gas Pipelines Nord Stream 1 & 2, Says Former Polish Defense Minister. globalresearch.ca

Infobrics (2022-09-28). US might have sabotaged European energy security. infobrics.org The US and Poland would be the most suspect countries in the case of sabotage against Russian-European gas pipelines.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-28). Russia to Summon UN Security Council Over Pipeline Sabotage. libya360.wordpress.com Moscow wishes to call an emergency UN Security Council session over the "provocations" at the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday in a Telegram post. Both pipelines were severely damaged earlier this week in what many suspect was a deliberate attack. Russia requested an urgent UN Security Council meeting on…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-28). Attack on Nord Stream Kills Prospects for Dialogue in Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com M. K. BHADRAKUMAR The three leaks that were discovered on Monday at the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines connecting Russia with Germany — one after another within hours of each other in the exclusive economic zones of Sweden and Denmark — were caused by blasts. Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde tweeted that the…

_____ (2022-09-28). The War On Germany Just Entered Its Hot Phase. popularresistance.org Just yesterday I laid out how the U.S. is winning its war on Europe's industries and people. | That war, hidden behind the U.S. created Ukraine crisis, is designed to destroy Europe's manufacturing advantage compared to the U.S. It is more likely though to strengthen the economic position of China and other Asian economies. | I have argued that Germany must open the Nord Stream II pipeline which can bring Russian natural gas to Germany without crossing other countries' territory. It must also allow Siemens to repair the defect Nord Stream I compressors. It is in fact inevitable if German's industry is to survive.

Editor (2022-09-28). Explosions Cause Major Damage to Both Nord Stream Pipelines. scheerpost.com

Staff (2022-09-28). EU says Nord Stream incidents result from deliberate acts. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 28 (MNA) — EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell stated on Wednesday that the incidents with gas leaks in the Nord Stream gas pipelines were the result of a deliberate act.

____ (2022-09-28). China begins construction on new gas transmission pipeline. ecns.cn Construction work on the fourth pipeline of a mega power transmission project that transports natural gas from China's western regions to the country's east kicked off Wednesday.

TeleSUR (2022-09-28). Russia Denies Involvement in Nord Stream Gas Leaks. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called it "stupid and absurd" to allege that Russia was involved in leaks in the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines. | RELATED: | "Is this in our interests? No, we will lose gas supply routes to Europe. Is it in Europe's interests? No, it is also in a very difficult situation," he said. | Dialogue and prompt cooperation of all parties are needed to find out what happened as soon…

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2022-09-28). Has the CIA Blown Up the Nord Stream Gas Pipeline to Prevent Russia Coming to Europe's Rescue this Winter? globalresearch.ca

____ (2022-09-28). Dalian taps nuclear energy for heating. ecns.cn An 8.8-kilometer main heating pipeline stretches from the Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Station to local residents' houses in Wafangdian of Dalian, Liaoning province.

_____ (2022-09-28). Russia Shifts to a Zero-waste Nuclear Cycle in its NPPs. journal-neo.org The global energy crisis, arguably the worst since 1973, is forcing adjustments in nuclear energy policy in the European Union and many other parts of the world. Washington's policy of squeezing Russia out of the European energy market, decommissioning European NPPs and forcing a "green agenda," for the express purpose of strangling its main economic …

Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt (2022-09-28). Video: Geoengineering-induced Global Warming and Polar Melting. Corona Investigative Committee with Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt. globalresearch.ca

Brett Wilkins (2022-09-28). Alarming Report Warns 1 in 8 Bird Species Now Facing Extinction. commondreams.org "We have already lost over 160 bird species in the last 500 years," the report's lead author warned, "and the rate of extinction is accelerating."

Gustavo A. Maranges (2022-09-28). Alignments of Latin America Reflected Through Its Leaders in the UN. orinocotribune.com By Gustavo A. Maranges Sep 22, 2022 | The 77th high-level segment of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) began on September 13 and, so far, 16 Latin America countries have spoken. The differences in the tone and topics of the speeches reflects the complex political situation in the region. | The ultra right-wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was the first one to address the Assembly. His highly politicized and speech did not surprise anyone, except for the hypocrisy he showed when speaking about climate change, since his government is responsible for the dramatic increase in deforestation and th…

Imperial.ac.uk (2022-09-28). Podcast: Feeling like a scientist, wastewater disease tests, and summer droughts. imperial.ac.uk In this edition: When a scientist begins to feel like one, monitoring wastewater for diseases like COVID-19, and how droughts led to hosepipe bans.

David Sirota (2022-09-28). Before Hurricane, Florida Republicans Helped Oil Donors Fight Climate Rules. levernews.com

Peter Certo (2022-09-28). The Climate Legacy of the British Empire. ips-dc.org When Queen Elizabeth passed away, much of the Western establishment's reaction was one of uncritical mourning. Likewise, her successor King Charles' ascent to the throne was greeted with celebration. | It's one thing for world leaders to send formal condolences for a loss or congratulations for an ascendance. But in the United States, President Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Laalitha Surapaneni (2022-09-28). Defeat of Manchin's Dirty Deal Is a Win for Environmental Justice and Health Equity. commondreams.org While we celebrate this victory for the health of our climate and the well-being of our communities, it is critical that we stay vigilant.

Julia Conley (2022-09-28). Fresh Demands for 'Climate Emergency Declaration' as Monster Hurricane Ian Comes Ashore. commondreams.org "How can we call this anything but what it is—a climate emergency?" asked the Sunrise Movement.

David Sirota (2022-09-27). Study: Manchin's Pipeline Bill Would Be A Climate Nightmare. levernews.com

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