Monthly Archives: January 2024

2024-01-25: News Headlines

greenleft.org.au (2024-01-25). Climate activists call on SA gov't to dump Santos from cycling race. greenleft.org.au

Rhoda Wilson (2024-01-25). Is NASA's 'Temperatures Are Rising' graph evidence of global warming or evidence of widespread fraud? expose-news.com "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." — Upton Sinclair This statement holds particularly true in the field of climate …

Candice Bernd (2024-01-24). Biden's Base Revolts: Climate Activists Ramp Up Pressure Ahead of Super Tuesday. truthout.org "Trump, are you for ordinary people or are you for oil millionaires? Why are you letting my generation's future burn? Why aren't you fighting for people like me? You are taking millions and millions from the fossil fuel industry," 17-year-old Sunrise Movement activist Adah Crandall shouted at former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Laconia, New Hampshire, Monday night. |

greenleft.org.au (2024-01-24). Climate activists call on SA gov't to dump Santos from cycling race. greenleft.org.au

John Mecklin, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. (2024-01-24). A Moment Of Historic Danger: It Is Still 90 Seconds To Midnight. popularresistance.org Ominous trends continue to point the world toward global catastrophe. The war in Ukraine and the widespread and growing reliance on nuclear weapons increase the risk of nuclear escalation. China, Russia, and the United States are all spending huge sums to expand or modernize their nuclear arsenals, adding to the ever-present danger of nuclear war through mistake or miscalculation. | In 2023, Earth experienced its hottest year on record, and massive floods, wildfires, and other climate-related disasters affected millions of people around the world. Meanwhile, rapid and worrisome developments in the life sciences a…

infobrics (2024-01-25). BRICS Members Call for Greater Global Uptake in Renewable Energy. infobrics.org Members of the BRICS alliance have called for greater global uptake in renewable energy as a means to not only tackle climate change but global economic inequalities…

krish-rad_ind (2024-01-25). Biden's Base Revolts: Climate Activists Ramp Up Pressure Ahead of Super Tuesday. truthout.org

Anna Pha (2024-01-24). Climate crisis: Island nations being drowned by a rising sea. peoplesworld.org SYDNEY—"The window for 1.5 degrees is rapidly closing. Every fraction of a degree matters. Every ton of carbon dioxide counts. We need immediate and drastic action, not just promises and platitudes." This was the message to the COP28 climate meeting in Dubai from delegates belonging to the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). AOSIS is …

Jeff Shantz (2024-01-24). Canada: Hearing reveals police racism and abuse of Indigenous land defenders. greenleft.org.au An abuse of process hearing started last week against the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and their infamous Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG), for violence inflicted on Indigenous land defenders opposing construction of the Coastal GasLink fracked gas pipeline across unceded Wet'suwet'en territory, reports Jeff Shantz.

The Independent (2024-01-24). EACOP costs push to $5 billion due to 'Covid-19, other factors'. independent.co.ug Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Investors in the East African Crude Oil Pipeline will require five billion dollars to construct it. The cost of constructing the longest heated crude oil pipeline from Hoima to Tanga in Tanzania had been estimated to cost $3.5 billion. At the time, the shareholders were required to raise $2.5 billion …

Eve Andrews, Grist. (2024-01-24). Is East Palestine Safe One Year After The Ohio Train Derailment? popularresistance.org If there hadn't been construction planned for the bridge that crosses over Leslie Run, one of the creeks that runs through the middle of East Palestine, Ohio, Rick Tsai and Randy DeHaven might not have noticed the worst contamination they'd seen in the creek in weeks. | A backhoe had hoisted a chunk of earth from the bank of the creek, leaving a pool about eight feet across and deep enough to come up to the knees of Tsai's rubber fishing waders. What it also left, in Tsai's words, was an opportunity for a sort of "geological sample" — evidence that oil and chemicals still lingered in the soil and in the cre…

Dave DeCamp (2024-01-25). Israeli Forces Flatten Gaza Border Areas to Create Militarized Zone. news.antiwar.com Israel is destroying buildings and flattening areas of Gaza on the Israeli border to create a so-called "buffer zone" that Israel will militarize, demonstrating its long-term plans to occupy the Strip. According to The Wall Street Journal, Israeli soldiers began working in November in an area in northern Gaza to create a wasteland roughly 1 …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-01-25). UTI: This common infection can be serious. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A urinary tract infection (UTI) is common, but it can be serious. "Simple urinary tract infections can be managed by your primary care provider, but when they become complex leading to other issues or problems, you should seek the care of a specialist," says Dr. Mitchell Humphreys, a urologist at Mayo Clinic. What is a UTI? The urinary system helps the body eliminate waste, excess water and salt. It encompasses the kidneys, ureters, bladder and…

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2024-01-24: News Headlines

Candice Bernd (2024-01-24). Biden's Base Revolts: Climate Activists Ramp Up Pressure Ahead of Super Tuesday. truthout.org "Trump, are you for ordinary people or are you for oil millionaires? Why are you letting my generation's future burn? Why aren't you fighting for people like me? You are taking millions and millions from the fossil fuel industry," 17-year-old Sunrise Movement activist Adah Crandall shouted at former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Laconia, New Hampshire, Monday night. |

greenleft.org.au (2024-01-24). Climate activists call on SA gov't to dump Santos from cycling race. greenleft.org.au

Sharon Zhang (2024-01-23). Naomi Klein: If Biden Wants to Stop Trump, He Should Step Down. truthout.org One of the most effective routes that President Joe Biden could take to prevent Donald Trump from taking office again is for Biden to step down, according to Naomi Klein, author and Professor of Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia. As Gaza has been decimated by Israel's U.S.-funded genocidal campaign in the past months, droves of progressive voters have vowed not to vote for… |

greenleft.org.au (2024-01-23). Climate activists call on SA gov't to dump Santos from cycling race. greenleft.org.au

Jeff Shantz (2024-01-24). Canada: Hearing reveals police racism and abuse of Indigenous land defenders. greenleft.org.au An abuse of process hearing started last week against the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and their infamous Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG), for violence inflicted on Indigenous land defenders opposing construction of the Coastal GasLink fracked gas pipeline across unceded Wet'suwet'en territory, reports Jeff Shantz.

Eve Andrews, Grist. (2024-01-24). Is East Palestine Safe One Year After The Ohio Train Derailment? popularresistance.org If there hadn't been construction planned for the bridge that crosses over Leslie Run, one of the creeks that runs through the middle of East Palestine, Ohio, Rick Tsai and Randy DeHaven might not have noticed the worst contamination they'd seen in the creek in weeks. | A backhoe had hoisted a chunk of earth from the bank of the creek, leaving a pool about eight feet across and deep enough to come up to the knees of Tsai's rubber fishing waders. What it also left, in Tsai's words, was an opportunity for a sort of "geological sample" — evidence that oil and chemicals still lingered in the soil and in the cre…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-01-23). The Houthis Are Not a Group That Can Be Bombed into Extinction. libya360.wordpress.com Amal Saad Houthi supporters protesting against US airstrikes near Sana'a, Yemen, 14 January 2024. Photograph: Khaled Abdullah/Reuters The 'axis of resistance' is more than a band of Iranian-backed militias. It's an ideological alliance. The war launched by the "axis of resistance" against Israel and the US marks the first time in history that a coalition…

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