Daily Archives: March 9, 2023

2023-03-09: News Headlines

Editor (2023-03-09). Behind California's extreme weather emergency. mronline.org While the giant U.S. energy corporations and banks seek out every way to profit from the climate change emergency that they inflicted on the world, extreme weather events are becoming the new normal.

Adam Mahoney (2023-03-08). Calls for Climate Reparations Have Grown Following Recent Severe Weather Events. truthout.org Originally published by Capital B. America is finally joining the global movement of wealthy nations agreeing to pay poorer countries for the damage they've endured because of climate change. To the dismay of many Republican legislators, last year the Biden administration agreed to participate in the United Nations' fund for "loss and damage," also known as climate reparations. |

Nick Cunningham (2023-03-08). Major gas utility is pouring money into reversing an Oregon city's electric-only mandate. nationofchange.org Climate advocates who see this strategy playing out in Eugene are concerned that NW Natural and its affiliates may spend enormous sums to convince the public to overturn the mandate.

Tomdispatch (2023-03-08). Two Mothers: Dying with Dignity and What Makes that Possible. juancole.com By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox | — ( Tomdispatch.com) — So many crises — from war to mass species die-offs to climate meltdown — afflict our world that we often don't take time to draw insights from what generally passes for the small stuff, the things that happen all too close to home, …

Editor (2023-03-09). Behind California's extreme weather emergency. mronline.org While the giant U.S. energy corporations and banks seek out every way to profit from the climate change emergency that they inflicted on the world, extreme weather events are becoming the new normal.

Adam Mahoney (2023-03-08). Calls for Climate Reparations Have Grown Following Recent Severe Weather Events. truthout.org Originally published by Capital B. America is finally joining the global movement of wealthy nations agreeing to pay poorer countries for the damage they've endured because of climate change. To the dismay of many Republican legislators, last year the Biden administration agreed to participate in the United Nations' fund for "loss and damage," also known as climate reparations. |

Nick Cunningham (2023-03-08). Major gas utility is pouring money into reversing an Oregon city's electric-only mandate. nationofchange.org Climate advocates who see this strategy playing out in Eugene are concerned that NW Natural and its affiliates may spend enormous sums to convince the public to overturn the mandate.

Tomdispatch (2023-03-08). Two Mothers: Dying with Dignity and What Makes that Possible. juancole.com By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox | — ( Tomdispatch.com) — So many crises — from war to mass species die-offs to climate meltdown — afflict our world that we often don't take time to draw insights from what generally passes for the small stuff, the things that happen all too close to home, …

WSWS (2023-03-08). The way forward after collapse of School Strike for Climate movement in Australia. wsws.org The perspective of appealing to governments has failed. The alternative is a turn to the growing struggles of the working class to overturn the profit system, the root cause of the climate crisis.

Karsten Riise (2023-03-09). Pathetic: New York Times "Twisted Fairy Tale": Ukraine Bombed the North Stream Pipeline. globalresearch.ca

Canadian Tire Fire (2023-03-09). Canadian Tire Fire #55: CGL and TMX Updates, Immigration Policy, and Fighting Encampment Evictions. itsgoingdown.org This week we bring you a series of updates about Coastal Gaslink Pipeline, including recent acts of sabotage against the project and actions against RBC. We've also got repression updates about Trans Mountain Expansion project arrestees. Another migrant has died crossing the Canada-US border, raising attention again to the Safe Third Country Agreement that forces…

Larry Johnson (2023-03-09). When It comes to Nordstream and F-16s The U.S. Opts For Ham Handed Political Gestures. sonar21.com In theory, a covert operation is supposed to be elegant, sophisticated and smart. But that is not the case with the United States these days. Ham-fisted and clumsy are more…

Brittani Banks (2023-03-08). Why Sabotage Is a Growing Form of Warfare in Ukraine. independentmediainstitute.org On February 8, Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. journalist Seymour Hersh published an article detailing the role of the U.S. and Norway in the September 26, 2022, Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions. U.S. officials denied the findings, while Russia, which previously blamed the UK for the attack, hailed the article as proof of Western involvement. There remains …

Diego Ramos, Scheer Post. (2023-03-08). Officials Point Finger At Pro-Ukraine Group For Nord Stream Attack. popularresistance.org In a report Tuesday morning, the New York Times claims new intelligence from anonymous U.S. officials puts Nord Stream pipeline sabotage blame on a pro-Ukrainian group. | The information released from the intelligence report offers little detail but asserts the group involved in last year's terrorist attack in the Baltic Sea "were opponents of President Vladimir V. Putin, but does not specify the members of the group, or who directed or paid for the operation." | The Times also alleges that, "U.S. officials said that they had no evidence President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine or his top lieutenants were involved…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-08). Environmental –°atastrophe at Nord Stream. libya360.wordpress.com Orienrtal Review Baltic harbour porpoise According to European scientists, the undermining of the Nord Stream gas pipeline led to an ecological disaster in the Baltic Sea. The consequences of this sabotage vary, but the cumulative damage to nature is enormous. An immediate consequence of the pipelines' explosion was the death of marine animals. According to Research…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-08). Why is Norway the Glove that Fits the USA's Hand? libya360.wordpress.com Pà•l Steigan Stoltenberg visits Obama at the White House 21/10/2011. Muammar Gadaffi was liquidated the day before 20/10/2011 in Libya. In the sequel to his revelation of Norway's and USA's role in blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, Seymour Hersh addresses the long standing tradition of Norway's secret and illegal collaboration with USA. He shows that Norway…

Moon Of Alabama. (2023-03-08). White House Counters Hersh's Reputation With Weak 'Intelligence'. popularresistance.org On September 28 2022, a day after the Nord Stream pipelines were blown up, I published the available open source evidence which strongly suggested that the U.S. had done it. On February 8 the legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh published a remarkable similar tale of the story based on insider witnesses. While Hersh's story found an echo in Europe's newspapers, U.S. mainstream media did all they could to avoid it: Scores of hits from publications across the globe pop up from an internet search for veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh's claim that the US destroyed Russia's Nord Stream gas pipelin…

Staff (2023-03-08). Headlines for March 8, 2023. democracynow.org Israeli Forces Kill 6 Palestinians in Jenin Raid, as Settlers Attack Palestinian Family in Huwara, Wagner Group Says It Seized Eastern Bakhmut; NYT Reports Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines, Russia Jails Blogger Dmitry Ivanov over Criticism of War on Ukraine, Georgians Take to the Streets over Proposed "Foreign Agents" Law, 3 Mada Masr Journalists on Trial Amid Ongoing Egyptian Crackdown on Press, Spain Advances Gender Parity Bill, Malnutrition in Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women and Girls on the Rise, 5 Women Sue Texas for Denying Them Abortions, Gigi Sohn Withdraws FCC Nomination After Vicious…

Labor Video Project (2023-03-09). The Fukushima Catastrophe Continues 12 Years After The Meltdowns. indybay.org March 11 is the 12th anniversary of the Fukushima earthquake and meltdown of three reactors. The disaster continues and the melted nuclear rods still remain in the broken reactors and have to be cooled by water which then becomes radiated. Two activists talk about the present situation after 12 years.

ecns.cn (2023-03-08). Japan told not to dump nuclear-contaminated water. ecns.cn China on Monday urged Japan again not to arbitrarily start discharging nuclear-contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station into the Pacific Ocean.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-03-09). Consumer Health: What's the difference between kidney cysts and polycystic kidney disease? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org March is National Kidney Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about the difference between two kidney disorders — kidney cysts and polycystic kidney disease. Your kidneys are situated in the back of your abdomen under your lower ribs, one on each side of your spine. One of the important jobs of the kidneys is to clean the blood. As blood moves through the body, it picks up extra fluid, chemicals and waste….

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