____ (2022-10-07). Sweden's Svante Paabo wins 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. ecns.cn Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo won 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries "concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution," the Nobel committee announced here on Monday.

Jonathan Cook (2022-10-06). Can Europe Afford to Turn a Blind Eye to Evidence of a US Role in Pipeline Blasts? mintpressnews.com If Washington was involved, it would mark a dangerous new stage not only in the Ukraine war but in Europe's acceptance of vassal status.

Alan Macleod (2022-10-06). The BBC-to-NATO Pipeline: How the British State Broadcaster Serves the Powerful. mintpressnews.com While the BBC still maintains a good reputation in the United Kingdom and abroad, it is all too close to key centers of British state power, including the military, government, and the Conservative Party.

Nabila Feroz (2022-10-06). Deep-Rooted Gender Inequities Make Women More Vulnerable During Climate Disasters. commondreams.org Women continue to pay the price even in disaster situations.

WSWS (2022-10-06). New York Times acknowledges Ukraine behind assassination of Darya Dugina. wsws.org Can it be that the Times report indicates US concern over the political fallout from a more recent operation that is of far greater international consequence than the Moscow assassination? The unexplained bombing of the Nordstream pipeline comes to mind.

Benjamin Norton (2022-10-06). Who sabotaged Nord Stream pipelines? US boasts 'tremendous opportunity' to weaken Russia. CIA knew. multipolarista.com Russia's Nord Stream pipelines with Germany were sabotaged mere hours before the EU opened its own Baltic Sea pipeline from Norway to Poland. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken gloated that the attacks were a "tremendous opportunity" to weaken Moscow.

TeleSUR (2022-10-06). Hungary Secures Exemption From Crude Oil, Energy Sanctions. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Hungarian Foreign Affairs Minister Peter Szijjarto said that his country has secured exemptions from crude oil and nuclear energy sanctions at an European Union (EU) Heads of Missions meeting in Brussels. | RELATED: | "As a result of difficult negotiations, a price cap on crude oil will not be applied to pipeline deliveries or to emergency replacement seaborne deliveries," he said. | The Hungarian exemption a…

Gary Wilson (2022-10-06). An act of war: U.S. bombs pipelines. struggle-la-lucha.org

Dave DeCamp (2022-10-06). Swedish Probe of Nord Stream Leaks Points to 'Serious Sabotage'. news.antiwar.com Sweden's domestic security agency said Thursday that its initial probe into the leaks in the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines has "strengthened the suspicions of serious sabotage." A Swedish prosecutor said that evidence had been seized from the area in the Baltic Sea where the leaks took place and that it will now be examined. …

UnitedEditor (2022-10-06). Is the Turk Stream threatened by sabotage? unitedworldint.com US media reports that up to hundreds of pounds of TNT equivalent explosives were used to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline. The actual destruction of Europe's critical energy infrastructure raises more and more questions. On September 26, damages to the gas pipelines Nord Stream and Nord Stream-2 became public. The pipeline was shut down …

Andy Rowell (2022-10-06). Experts Say Climate Crisis Made Hurricane Ian $10 Billion More Destructive. commondreams.org A preliminary analysis has revealed that climate change likely made Hurricane Ian wetter and more intense than in a non-warming world. This is climate change in action.

Brett Wilkins (2022-10-06). After Dumping $15 Billion Into Fossil Fuels, World Bank Urged to Stop 'Investing in Climate Disaster'. commondreams.org "If the World Bank wants to be a part of the solution rather than the problem, it needs to stop funding fossil fuels and unlock billions in order to support the transition to renewable energy across the globe and end poverty and inequality," said one campaigner.

TeleSUR (2022-10-06). Prague Hosts Inaugural Meeting of European Political Community. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the European Political Community (EPC) began a meeting in Prague with the presence of some 40 European leaders who will discuss issues related to security, peace, energy, climate, and economy. | RELATED: | "Europe has many difficult problems right now, and we meet here to discuss solutions. We want to have this group as a forum for informal exchanges of views on current events in Europe and beyond," Czech Prime Minister Pet…

Julia Conley (2022-10-06). 'Flying Blind': Analysis Shows World's Biggest Polluters Hide Climate-Related Financial Risks. commondreams.org "When companies don't take climate-related matters into account, their financial statements may include overstated assets, understated liabilities, and overstated profits," said one expert at analysis firm Carbon Tracker.

Jonathan Cook (2022-10-06). Can Europe Afford to Turn a Blind Eye to Evidence of a US Role in Pipeline Blasts? mintpressnews.com If Washington was involved, it would mark a dangerous new stage not only in the Ukraine war but in Europe's acceptance of vassal status.

Alan Macleod (2022-10-06). The BBC-to-NATO Pipeline: How the British State Broadcaster Serves the Powerful. mintpressnews.com While the BBC still maintains a good reputation in the United Kingdom and abroad, it is all too close to key centers of British state power, including the military, government, and the Conservative Party.

Nabila Feroz (2022-10-06). Deep-Rooted Gender Inequities Make Women More Vulnerable During Climate Disasters. commondreams.org Women continue to pay the price even in disaster situations.

WSWS (2022-10-06). New York Times acknowledges Ukraine behind assassination of Darya Dugina. wsws.org Can it be that the Times report indicates US concern over the political fallout from a more recent operation that is of far greater international consequence than the Moscow assassination? The unexplained bombing of the Nordstream pipeline comes to mind.

Gary Wilson (2022-10-06). An act of war: U.S. bombs pipelines. struggle-la-lucha.org

Staff (2022-10-06). Headlines for October 6, 2022. democracynow.org Biden Blames Climate Change for Hurricane Ian's Path of Destruction in Florida, Ethiopia and Tigray Rebels Agree to Peace Talks as Airstrike Kills More Than , Putin Asserts Russian Control Over Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant, NYT: U.S. Believes Ukrainians Were Behind Assassination of Darya Dugina in Russia , Antiwar Protester Who Interrupted Russian TV News Broadcast Flees House Arrest, OPEC and Russia Agree to Slash Crude Output, Boosting Oil Prices , Rep. Ro Khanna Calls on Biden Administration to End Saudi Arms Sales, U.S. Prepares to Ease Sanctions on Venezuela to Allow Chevron Oil Drilling…

Richard Heinberg (2022-10-06). United States: Is the energy transition taking off — or hitting a wall? greenleft.org.au The passage of the Inflation Reduction Act constitutes the boldest climate action so far by the US government, writes Richard Heinberg. However, this doesn't mean the US or the world is on track to a safe climate future.

____ (2022-10-06). Sweden's Svante Paabo wins 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. ecns.cn Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo won 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries "concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution," the Nobel committee announced here on Monday.

Anna Langford (2022-10-06). Record emissions cut sets Victoria up for bold 2035 climate target. greenleft.org.au A more climate-friendly federal government does not give Victoria an excuse to become complacent, argues Anna Langford.

_____ (2022-10-05). Thousands Protest Climate And Cost of Living Crises In The UK. popularresistance.org Thousands of people across the UK took to the streets Saturday and Sunday to protest the climate and cost-of-living crises, which demonstrators linked to the country's dependence on fossil fuels. | Saturday's protests were joined by thousands of people in major cities from London to Glasgow to Belfast, as the Press Association reported. On Sunday, 250 demonstrators from the group Just Stop Oil marched through London and blocked its Waterloo Bridge for the second day in a row, the group said. | "I'm doing this for my son," one demonstrator said as she was arrested Sunday. "The government's inaction on climate chan…

_____ (2022-10-05). Land Change, Failures Of Omission, And The Renaturing Of Climate. popularresistance.org Land change is a scientific term you're not likely to hear in mainstream climate conversation, which is a shame, because what it refers to, the climatic effects of human damage to living landscapes, is a big part of the climate crisis. I talk in greater detail about land change and how it got left out of the climate narrative in an earlier Resilience piece, called Putting the Land Back in Climate. Here, I want to consider the effects of this omission, not only in the practical terms of climate policy, but in terms less definitive. What does it mean to our treatment of the land that it's gotten left out of our pic…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-10-05). American Pravda: Of Pipelines and Plagues. libya360.wordpress.com Ron Unz Europe is facing its worst energy crisis in generations, with numerous factories shutting down and severe hardship expected during the approaching winter. Heavily-industrialized Germany has been especially hard hit, with more than half of all small- and mid-sized businesses fearful that they might be forced to close, an economic catastrophe of Great Depression proportions. The only…

Pepe Escobar (2022-10-05). Pipeline Terror Is the 9/11 of the Raging Twenties. globalresearch.ca

Dave DeCamp (2022-10-05). Gazprom Says Undamaged Nord Stream 2 Line Could Ship Gas to Europe. news.antiwar.com Russia's Gazprom said Monday that it could potentially ship gas to Europe via an undamaged line on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which has never made deliveries after Berlin paused the project around the time Russia invaded Ukraine. Both Nord Stream pipelines came under attack last week, and explosions caused major leaks that Gazprom said …

Julia Conley (2022-10-05). Permian Basin Leaking 14 Times More Methane Than EPA Estimates: Study. commondreams.org "Applying this estimate to all gas gathering pipelines nationwide for illustrative purposes would increase the EPA inventory estimate for the entire natural gas system by 27%," noted co-authors of a new study.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-10-05). Climate Instability Worldwide: Does the US Military "Own the Weather"? "Weaponizing the Weather" as an Instrument of Modern Warfare? globalresearch.ca Weather-modification, according to the US Air Force document AF 2025 Final Report, "offers the war fighter a wide range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary", capabilities, it says, extend to the triggering of floods, hurricanes, droughts and earthquakes…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-10-05). COP27 and the Imperatives for a Renewed African Security Framework. libya360.wordpress.com Abayomi Azikiwe United Nations Climate Conference will be hosted by Egypt amid growing uncertainties on the continent related to military interventions and the continuing economic dependency on the West Note: These remarks were prepared and delivered in part for a webinar sponsored by the Canadian section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom…

Jon Lamson (2022-10-05). In Massachusetts, An Undercover Climate Foe. levernews.com

Andreas Karelas (2022-10-05). The Climate Emergency Is Very Much Here. Now We Must Act. commondreams.org Climate impacts are here today so we need to double down on climate adaptation now.

SP Editor (2022-10-05). Pakistan Flooding 'Calamity' Prompts Call for Reparations. scheerpost.com "I have seen many humanitarian disasters in the world, but I have never seen climate carnage on this scale," says UN Secretary General António Guterres of the recent floods in Pakistan.

Julia Conley (2022-10-05). 'Who Voted for This?': Campaigners Disrupt Truss Speech Over Fracking Ban 'U-Turn'. commondreams.org "Nobody voted for fracking, nobody voted to cut benefits, nobody voted to trash nature, nobody voted to scrap workers' rights," said one Greenpeace organizer.