Daily Archives: February 15, 2023

2023-02-15: News Headlines

americanthinker (2023-02-15). Winter Games: A Climate Change Thriller that Skeptics Will Love. americanthinker.com This story begs to be told on the screen; the drama would certainly be a good vengeance movie… and who doesn't like vengeance movies?>

Climate Nexus (2023-02-14). Enbridge paid millions to Minnesota police and government agencies to quell Line 3 pipeline protesters. nationofchange.org "Law enforcement is supposed to protect and serve the people. They work for Enbridge."

Editor (2023-02-14). Big Oil's Trade Group Allies Outspent Clean Energy Groups by a Whopping 27x, With Billions in Ads and Lobbying To Keep Fossil Fuels Flowing. scheerpost.com By Christian Downie, Australian National University and Robert Brulle, Brown University / The Conversation You've probably seen ads promoting gas and oil companies as the solutions to climate change. They're meant to be inspiring and hopeful, with scenes of a green, clean future. But shiny ads are not all these companies do to protect their commercial interests in the …

imperial.ac.uk (2023-02-14). Microbes that co-operate contribute more carbon emissions. imperial.ac.uk Communities of microbes that work together release more carbon dioxide than competitive communities, contributing more to climate change.

jamanetwork (2023-02-14). Plan Calls for Global Collaboration to Address Child Undernutrition. jamanetwork.com Conflict, climate events, the COVID-19 pandemic, and climbing costs of living have contributed to a severe form of undernutrition among an increasing number of children, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

jamanetwork (2023-02-14). Wildfire Exposure Linked to Changes in Cognition and Brain Activity. jamanetwork.com Researchers found that experiencing a wildfire is associated with worse performance on a cognitive test as well as heightened activity in the frontal part of the brain 6 to 12 months after the event. The recent findings are among the first to tie trauma from a climate event to long-term changes in the brain, the authors of the study wrote in PLOS Climate.




Sarah Jaffe, In These Times. (2023-02-14). Valentine's Day: Look To Marxists To Reimagine Love, Romance And Sex. popularresistance.org Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci has been quoted quite a lot in recent years amid our various political catastrophes from Trump to Covid-19 to climate collapse and the political center's seeming inability to resist any of the above. The most famous line from his Prison Notebooks, written between 1929 and 1935 while a political prisoner of the Mussolini regime, is probably: "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." This is sometimes more loosely translated as ‚Ä&atilde…

Staff (2023-02-15). Reporter Seymour Hersh on "How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline": Exclusive TV Interview. democracynow.org When the Nord Stream pipelines carrying natural gas from Russia to Germany were damaged last September, U.S. officials were quick to suggest Russia had bombed its own pipelines. But according to a new report by the legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, it was the U.S. Navy that carried out the sabotage, with help from Norway. Citing a source "with direct knowledge of the operational planning," Hersh writes on his Substack blog that planning for the mission began in December of 2021. The White House and the Norwegian government have since denied the claims. Hersh joins us for an in-depth in…

Dave DeCamp (2023-02-14). Russia Says NATO Should Hold Emergency Summit Over Nord Stream Sabotage. news.antiwar.com Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said over the weekend that NATO countries should hold an emergency summit over the sabotage of the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines after a report from journalist Seymour Hersh said US Navy divers planted explosives on the pipelines. "There have been plenty of facts: pipeline explosions, motives and indirect evidence obtained …

Jill Clark-Gollub, Popular Resistance. (2023-02-14). Ukraine: It's All About Fossil Fuels. popularresistance.org Seymour Hersh, considered one of the United States' most accomplished investigative journalists, has just published a story giving forensic details about how the U.S. government blew up the Nordstream 1 and 2 pipelines. It is an indictment of the Biden administration at the highest level and confirms growing suspicions that the tens of billions of dollars our government has been sending to prolong the conflict in Ukraine has been about bolstering the American fracked gas industry all along. The American public must condemn this act of terrorism that caused a "reckless release" of methane and other greenhouse gase…

Staff (2023-02-15). Pierde el PSG en su primer partido de octavos de la Champions. cubadebate.cu Milan como local y Bayern Munich como visitante arrancaron ganando por la mínima diferencia los octavos de final de la Champions League. El equipo italiano batió por 1 a 0 en el estadio Giuseppe Meazza a Tottenham Hotspur que tuvo entre sus titulares al zaguero campeón del mundo Cristian Romero. En tanto que en el Parque de los Principes de la capital francesa.

Pip Hinman (2023-02-15). Take action against AUKUS, militarisation. greenleft.org.au Anti-war and peace networks are organising a national protest outside federal MPs' offices, demanding an end to AUKUS and the billions being wasted on a new arms race. Pip Hinman reports.

Sarah Jaffe, In These Times. (2023-02-14). Valentine's Day: Look To Marxists To Reimagine Love, Romance And Sex. popularresistance.org Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci has been quoted quite a lot in recent years amid our various political catastrophes from Trump to Covid-19 to climate collapse and the political center's seeming inability to resist any of the above. The most famous line from his Prison Notebooks, written between 1929 and 1935 while a political prisoner of the Mussolini regime, is probably: "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." This is sometimes more loosely translated as ‚Ä&atilde…

Staff (2023-02-15). Reporter Seymour Hersh on "How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline": Exclusive TV Interview. democracynow.org When the Nord Stream pipelines carrying natural gas from Russia to Germany were damaged last September, U.S. officials were quick to suggest Russia had bombed its own pipelines. But according to a new report by the legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, it was the U.S. Navy that carried out the sabotage, with help from Norway. Citing a source "with direct knowledge of the operational planning," Hersh writes on his Substack blog that planning for the mission began in December of 2021. The White House and the Norwegian government have since denied the claims. Hersh joins us for an in-depth in…

Dave DeCamp (2023-02-14). Russia Says NATO Should Hold Emergency Summit Over Nord Stream Sabotage. news.antiwar.com Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said over the weekend that NATO countries should hold an emergency summit over the sabotage of the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines after a report from journalist Seymour Hersh said US Navy divers planted explosives on the pipelines. "There have been plenty of facts: pipeline explosions, motives and indirect evidence obtained …

Jill Clark-Gollub, Popular Resistance. (2023-02-14). Ukraine: It's All About Fossil Fuels. popularresistance.org Seymour Hersh, considered one of the United States' most accomplished investigative journalists, has just published a story giving forensic details about how the U.S. government blew up the Nordstream 1 and 2 pipelines. It is an indictment of the Biden administration at the highest level and confirms growing suspicions that the tens of billions of dollars our government has been sending to prolong the conflict in Ukraine has been about bolstering the American fracked gas industry all along. The American public must condemn this act of terrorism that caused a "reckless release" of methane and other greenhouse gase…

Staff (2023-02-15). Pierde el PSG en su primer partido de octavos de la Champions. cubadebate.cu Milan como local y Bayern Munich como visitante arrancaron ganando por la mínima diferencia los octavos de final de la Champions League. El equipo italiano batió por 1 a 0 en el estadio Giuseppe Meazza a Tottenham Hotspur que tuvo entre sus titulares al zaguero campeón del mundo Cristian Romero. En tanto que en el Parque de los Principes de la capital francesa.

Pip Hinman (2023-02-15). Take action against AUKUS, militarisation. greenleft.org.au Anti-war and peace networks are organising a national protest outside federal MPs' offices, demanding an end to AUKUS and the billions being wasted on a new arms race. Pip Hinman reports.

Tomdispatch (2023-02-15). Merger Mania in the Military-Industrial Complex: Tackling Pentagon Waste Means Battling the Big Weapons Makers and Asking More of Congress. juancole.com By Julia Gledhill and William D. Hartung | — ( Tomdispatch.com ) — It's early in the new Congress, but lawmakers are already hotly debating spending and debt levels. As they do so, they risk losing track of an important issue hiding in plain sight: massive Pentagon waste. At least in theory, combating such excess …

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