Greta Thunberg Has Sailed Back to Europe for Climate Talks
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-03
From Stockholm, Sweden, we're covering the 40th Anniversary of the Right Livelihood Awards, widely known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize." This year's recipients include 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who arrived Tuesday in Lisbon, Portugal, after traveling for three weeks across the Atlantic in the 48-foot catamaran La Vagabonde, refusing to fly because of the high carbon footprint of air travel. Thunberg was on her way to attend COP25 in Santiago, Chile, when the conference was abruptly re…
truthout.org/video/greta-thunberg-has-sailed-back-to-europe-for-climate-talks/

'Not Halting Climate Change Means Punishing Millions' XR Says
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-03
Environmental activists from around the world on Tuesday remain gathered and protesting in Madrid to demand that the 2019 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP25) take concrete and effective actions to halt global climate change. | RELATED: | There Can Be No Climate Justice Without Social Justice: Maduro | "We're a global movement trying to raise the climate emergency through direct action. We have to get people to pause and understand, especially our leader…
telesurenglish.net/news/Not-Halting-Climate-Change-Means-Punishing-Millions-XR-Says-20191203-0003.html

National Climate Strike in Livermore
Student Activists | indybay.org | 2019-12-03
Las Positas College, 3000 Campus Hill Drive, Livermore, CA 94551…
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Tohono O'odham Ofelia Rivas with Extinction Rebellion in New York
Brenda Norrell | indybay.org | 2019-12-03
Tohono O'odham Ofelia Rivas spoke as Extinction Rebellion protested consumerism in New York City, urging protection of Mother Earth. Rivas also spoke at the 20 Million Women Strong gathering and offered a prayer at an event for Bolivians in New York. Rivas is the founder of O'odham Voice against the Wall and lives in her homeland, the Tohono O'odham Nation.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/02/18828556.php

Failed Action on the Climate Crisis Makes Resistance Imperative. Worldwide Protest against Neoliberalism
Margaret Flowers | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-03
On December 2, the 25th two-week long United Nations climate conference begins in Madrid, Spain. The stated task of the conference, referred to as COP 25 (Conference Of Parties), is to make sure there are plans to meet the goals …
globalresearch.ca/failed-action-climate-crisis-makes-resistance-imperative/5696602

California Freezes New Fracking Permits — But All Oil Drilling Permits Still Outpace 2018
Dan Bacher | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-03
The FracTracker Alliance and Consumer Watchdog unveiled a new website on November 19 to continually map and update the number of oil and gas wells permitted by the Newsom Administration: http: //www.NewsomWellWatch.com.
counterpunch.org/2019/12/03/california-freezes-new-fracking-permits-but-all-oil-drilling-permits-still-outpace-2018/

Humanity Is Riding Delusion to Extinction
Maj. Danny Sjursen | truthdig.com | 2019-12-03
Horses sporting gas masks. That, of all things, has been on my mind lately. Bear with me, now. Gaze at the ever-so-cockamamie photo. A horse, wearing a gas mask. Nothing so illustrates the rank absurdity and irrationality of the human condition. It was during World War I–which killed an unheard-of nine million soldiers in just four years–that the armies of Europe still employed horses in an age of machine guns, airplanes (eventually), tanks and poison gas attacks. Rather than call a halt to the inane slaughter in the trenches, the world's great powers fought that wildly nationalistic war to its macabr…
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Humanity Is Riding Delusion to Extinction
Danny Sjursen | commondreams.org | 2019-12-03
World War I-era photo of a mounted lance corporal of the Household Cavalry wearing a gas mask, Windsor, United Kingdom. His horse is also wearing a gas mask. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screenshot.png …
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Our Vanishing World: Wildlife
Robert J. Burrowes | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-03
Throughout its history, Earth has experienced five mass extinction events. See, for example, 'Timeline Of Mass Extinction Events On Earth'. It is now experiencing the sixth. | The Ordovician-Silurian Extinction, which occurred about 439 million years ago, wiped out 86% | …
globalresearch.ca/our-vanishing-world-wildlife/5696513

Climate change forces 20 million people to flee each year, Oxfam finds
Deutsche Welle | nationofchange.org | 2019-12-03
At the U.N. climate talks in Madrid, environmental and development groups are pushing to establish a fund to help countries already reeling from climate change.
nationofchange.org/2019/12/03/climate-change-forces-20-million-people-to-flee-each-year-oxfam-finds/

Decade ending 2019 likely to be hottest on record
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-12-03
Exceptional global heat driven by greenhouse gas emissions mean this decade will most likely go down as the warmest on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) which released its provisional statement on the State of the Global Climate on Tuesday.
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WMO says this decade has been the hottest ever recorded
Amanda Mills | nationofchange.org | 2019-12-03
The world's top climate scientists have praised WMO for communicating the urgency of the crisis and encourages lawmakers to take the report seriously.
nationofchange.org/2019/12/03/wmo-says-this-decade-has-been-the-hottest-ever-recorded/

The Hottest Years
Emily Beament | commondreams.org | 2019-12-03
"On a day-to-day basis, the impacts of climate change play out through extreme and "abnormal" weather. (Photo: U.S. Forest Service) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/forestfire_0.jpeg …
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Conservatives' complaint over Channel 4 ice sculpture stunt rejected by Ofcom
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-12-03
Channel 4 has been cleared over its use of an ice sculpture to stand in for Boris Johnson during a debate on climate change, regulator Ofcom has said.The watchdog's election committee said the prop "was not a representation of the Prime Minister personally", and that "little editorial focus was given to it, either visually or in references made by the presenter or debate participants".The Conservatives complained that the broadcaster failed to allow the former environment secretary Michael Gove to be its representative for the debate, which saw party leaders face questions over how they would tackle climate chang…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/12/03/conservatives-complaint-over-channel-4-ice-sculpture-stunt-rejected-by-ofcom/

Meet the Big Polluters Sponsoring COP25
Erika Gonz√°lez | commondreams.org | 2019-12-03
The result of this corporate omnipresence is clear—the negotiations move at a snail's pace and more often than not reflect the interests of global corporations, not people and the planet. (Photo: UN Climate Change/Twitter) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/eky37vsxsambbki.jpeg …
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Only one in five countries has a healthcare strategy to deal with climate change
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-12-03
Protecting people's health from climate change dangers such as heat stress, storms and tsunamis has never been more important, yet most countries are doing too little about it, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
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Middle America: The Danger for Democrats
Ruth Conniff | commondreams.org | 2019-12-03
It's too late to turn back the page to the soft, centrist, consensus politics of the era before Trump. (Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/biden-climate-draft-policy-panned_0.jpg …
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My Generation Needs to Say "Enough": A Swedish Climate Striker Speaks Out About Fridays For Future
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-12-03
From Stockholm, Sweden, we're covering the 40th Anniversary of the Right Livelihood Awards, widely known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize." This year's recipients include 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, whose school strike for climate started in Stockholm when she began standing outside the Parliament building every school day to demand bold climate action more than a year ago. Her act of resistance soon became a global movement, with millions of youth around the world leaving school and taking to the streets to demand swift action to halt the climate crisis. Greta has just arrived in Lisbon,…
www.democracynow.org/2019/12/3/fridays_for_future

"We Are Facing a Global Emergency": Greta Thunberg Arrives Back in Europe to Attend Climate Talks
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-12-03
From Stockholm, Sweden, we're covering the 40th Anniversary of the Right Livelihood Awards, widely known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize." This year's recipients include 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who arrived Tuesday in Lisbon, Portugal, after traveling for three weeks across the Atlantic in the 48-foot catamaran La Vagabonde, refusing to fly because of the high carbon footprint of air travel. Thunberg was on her way to attend COP25 in Santiago, Chile, when the conference was abruptly relocated due to mass demonstrations against a proposed subway fare hike. She sounded a rallying cry to…
www.democracynow.org/2019/12/3/greta

Climate commando Schwarzenegger prevented from attending COP25 climate summit due to US storms
rt.com | 2019-12-03
Actor and former Republican governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger was scheduled to attend the COP25 summit on climate change in Madrid, but couldn't make it because of rampant storms across the US. | The news was broken by Sebastián Navarro, secretary-general of Capital Cities to Combat Climate Change (CC35), who said the 'Terminator' star could not attend for "personal reasons," adding that the US was experiencing a high number of storms which have precluded the Last Action Hero from flying to Madrid. | Schwarzenegger is a founding member of the World War Zero group established by former US Secr…
rt.com/news/474939-arnold-schwarzenegger-climate-conference/

'People Are Underestimating the Force of Angry Kids': Greta Thunberg Returns to Europe for Climate Summit
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-12-03
After three weeks of sailing across the Atlantic Ocean to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Spain, teen climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived Tuesday in neighboring Portugal, where she was welcomed by an enthusiastic crowd of supporters. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-11916808391.jpg …
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US Navy Places $22 Billion Cyber Monday Order for Nuclear Submarines, But Who Is Asking How We Gonna Pay For It?
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-12-03
"$22 billion could fund a lot of kids learning," said Albert Lee, a Democrat running for Congress in Oregon. "We need an education race; not a wasted arms race." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/how_you_gonna_pay_for_it.jpg …
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After Hottest Decade Since Records Began, WMO Warns World May Face 5 ∞C Rise by Century's End
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-12-03
As the decade comes to a close, the world's top climate scientists warned Tuesday that policymakers' continued failure to curb the warming of the planet could lead to a global temperature increase of 5 ∞ Celsius by the end of the century, putting the world "nowhere near on track" to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/vrijryctt45e7byw4ju62j736i_0.jpg …
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Medea Benjamin: Donald Trump Was Right, NATO Should Be Obsolete
Medea Benjamin | mintpressnews.com | 2019-12-02
In an age where people around the world want to avoid war and to focus instead on the climate chaos that threatens future life on earth, NATO is an anachronism. It now accounts for about three-quarters of military spending and weapons dealing around the globe.
mintpressnews.com/medea-benjamin-donald-trump-nato-obsolete/263116/

UN chief urges nations to take 'transformative' action and 'not to fiddle while planet burns'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-12-02
UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres urged countries not to lose hope in the fight against climate change, as representatives from nearly 200 countries gathered in Madrid for a two-week meeting on tackling global warming.In his opening speech to delegates, Guterres cited recent scientific data showing that levels of heat-trapping gases have hit a record high, reaching levels not seen for at least three million years when sea levels were 10-20 metres higher than today.Unless emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are sharply cut, temperatures could rise to twice the threshold set in the 2015 Paris…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2019/12/02/un-chief-urges-nations-to-take-transformative-action-and-not-to-fiddle-while-planet-burns/

FROM THE FIELD: India's plastic waste revolution
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-12-02
The recycling of plastic waste in India is boosting the incomes of impoverished women and helping build roads and fire cement furnaces, thanks to support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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Don't be on wrong side of history, delegates at climate summit warned
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-12-02
The chair of a two-week climate summit attended by nearly 200 countries has warned that those refusing to adjust to the planet's rising temperatures "will be on the wrong side of history".Chile's environment minister, Carolina Schmidt, opened the summit in Madrid by saying the meeting needs to lay the groundwork for moving towards carbon neutral economies while being sensitive to the poorest and those most vulnerable to rising temperatures — something that policymakers have termed "just transition"."Those who don't want to see it will be on the wrong side of history," said Schmidt as she called on government…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2019/12/02/dont-be-on-wrong-side-of-history-delegates-at-climate-summit-warned/

Green economy 'not to be feared, but an opportunity to be embraced' says UN chief as COP25 gets underway
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-12-02
A green economy is "not one to be feared but an opportunity to be embraced", UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday, in a keynote speech to delegates at the opening of the COP25 UN climate conference in Madrid on Monday.
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Morales Vows To Do What's Best for Bolivia, Not Afraid of Jail
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-02
The democratically elected President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, said Sunday that he would value the option of being imprisoned in Bolivia, if that action helps the Bolivian people, who suffer from a climate of anxiety and instability after the coup d'etat driven by the right of the South American country. | RELATED: | The Pro-Evo Upheaval in Bolivia: How is it Affecting the Canadian Political Scene? | "For the Bolivian people, for the political instrument, for t…
telesurenglish.net/news/Morales-Vows-To-Do-Whats-Best-for-Bolivia-Not-Afraid-of-Jail-20191202-0002.html

There Can Be No Climate Justice Without Social Justice: Maduro
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-02
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro issued on Sunday a letter addressed to the heads of state and government meeting in Spain as they participate in the 25th conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP25). | RELATED: | Morales Vows To Do What's Best for Bolivia, Not Afraid of Jail | In the letter, the Venezuelan leader stressed that "there can be no climate justice without social justice", and mentioned that problems such as defores…
telesurenglish.net/news/There-Can-Be-No-Climate-Justice-Without-Social-Justice-Maduro-20191202-0003.html

Russia, Venezuela Have An Exemplary Relationship: Maduro
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-02
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro bestowed the Russian Ambassador in Venezuela Vladimir Zaemsky with the Order Francisco de Miranda, the country's highest honor, and bequeathed a replica of Simon Bolivar's sword from the victorious battle of Carabobo, for a decade of work in the Latin American country. | RELATED: | There Can Be No Climate Justice Without Social Justice: Maduro | From the Simon Bolivar room at the presidential Miraflores Palace, Maduro expressed that "it is a d…
telesurenglish.net/news/russia-and-venezuela-have-an-exemplary-relationship-maduro–20191202-0015.html

COP25: 'Signals of hope' multiplying in face of global climate crisis, insists UN's Guterres
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-12-01
The UN Secretary-General has outlined the "increased ambition and commitment" that the world needs from governments during the coming days of the COP25 UN climate change conference which opens in Madrid on Monday, calling for "accountability, responsibility and leadership" to end the global climate crisis.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/12/1052491

Friday's Daily Brief: violence in DR Congo, protester deaths in Iraq, human rights in Colombia, climate change conference, 'high human cost' of Ecuador unrest
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-11-29
A recap of Friday's stories in brief: attacks on communities in an Ebola outbreak hotspot in eastern DRC sparks a humanitarian crisis; Guterres expresses concerns at continued protester deaths in Iraq; UN-appointed panel raises concerns about violence against indigenous rights defenders in Colombia; 5 things you need to know about COP25; UN rights chief urges dialogue to ease Ecuador unrest.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/11/1052471

COP25: UN climate change conference, 5 things you need to know
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-11-29
Climate change is happening–the world is already 1.1 ∞C warmer than it was at the onset of the industrial revolution, and it is already having a significant impact on the world, and on people's lives. And if current trends persist, then global temperatures can be expected to rise by 3.4 to 3.9 ∞C this century, which would bring wide-ranging and destructive climate impacts.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/11/1052251

Alternative Media promotes Canadian Foreign Policy
Yves Engler | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-29
Why would an alternative media website that questions government and corporate policies about climate change and the environment have so much trouble understanding that the same sort of skepticism is necessary regarding Canadian foreign policy? Imagine a self-declared progressive media outlet saying they don't cover racism, patriarchy or the dispossession of First Nations because they …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/alternative-media-promotes-canadian-foreign-policy/

David Byrne on His Broadway Show "American Utopia," Talking Heads, Reasons to Be Cheerful & More
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-11-29
An hour with David Byrne, the celebrated musician, artist, writer, cycling enthusiast, filmmaker and now Broadway star. He has a new hit Broadway show called "American Utopia." The show grew out of Byrne's recent world tour, which the British music publication NME said "may just be the best live show of all time." Byrne talks about the production, his time in the groundbreaking band Talking Heads, his website Reasons to Be Cheerful, Greta Thunberg and…
www.democracynow.org/2019/11/29/david_byrne_on_his_broadway_show

The answer to the climate crisis is obvious: ban climate protests
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-29
environment Carlo SandsIssue 1247 Australia Carlo's CornerNovember 29, 2019As Australia burns amid record-breaking temperatures and ongoing drought, and report a…
greenleft.org.au/content/answer-climate-crisis-obvious-ban-climate-protests

School climate strikers sit down outside Liberal HQ
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-29
Climate Zebedee ParkesIssue 1247 Australia School Strike 4 Climate SydneyNovember 29, 2019School climate strikers sat down in front of the Liberal Party's Sydney headquarters on November 29, as par…
greenleft.org.au/content/school-climate-strikers-sit-down-outside-liberal-hq

China's contribution to climate change
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-28
Climate change Chris SleeIssue 1247 China greenhouse gas emissionsNovember 28, 2019China is the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2). It surpassed the Un…
greenleft.org.au/content/china-road-climate-change

We're Still Waiting for 'Early and Often' Climate Debate Questions
Julie Hollar | fair.org | 2019-11-27
As the Democratic Party prepared for its first presidential primary debates in June, climate activists pushed the DNC to schedule a single-issue debate on the climate crisis, given the urgency of the problem and the lack of attention given to it in previous debates. DNC chair Tom Perez refused, saying he had "the utmost confidence" that climate disruption would be discussed in the debates "early and often" (FAIR.org, 6/18/19). | Now that seven nights of debates have passed, and multiple…
fair.org/home/were-still-waiting-for-early-and-often-climate-debate-questions/

School Strike 4 Climate WA: 'We are heading for a cliff and fossil fuel companies want to put their foot on the gas'
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-27
Climate School Strike 4 Climate WAIssue 1247 Australia School Strike 4 Climate PerthNovember 27, 2019School Strike 4 Climate WA sent the following letter to Western Australia Premier Mar…
greenleft.org.au/content/school-strike-4-climate-wa-we-are-heading-cliff-and-fossil-fuel-companies-want-put-their

Headlines for November 26, 2019
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-11-26
Judge Rules Trump Can't Stop Officials from Testifying in Impeachment Inquiry, Supreme Court Temporarily Halts Disclosure of Trump's Financial Records, U.S. Troops Resume Combat Mission Against ISIS, U.N.: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Surged to Record-High Levels in 2018, 56 Killed in Landslides in Kenya, Leaked Documents Reveal China's "Brainwashing" of Uyghur Muslims, Duque Calls for "National Dialogue" as Protests Continue to Rock Colombia, Global Protests Mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Argentine Catholic Priests Sentenced to Prison for Raping Students, Water Protectors Block…
www.democracynow.org/2019/11/26/headlines

Firefighters union leader: 'There are no climate sceptics on the end of a fire hose'
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-26
Climate Greg McConvilleIssue 1247 Australia bushfires United Firefighters Union (UFU) CanberraNovember 26, 2019United Firef…
greenleft.org.au/content/firefighters-union-leader-there-are-no-climate-sceptics-end-fire-hose

We're Grateful for the Constitution
David Cole | aclu.org | 2019-11-26
Thanksgiving is here: that time of year when we pause to take stock of all we're grateful for. At the ACLU, we're saying thanks for all the crucial wins from our legal teams — and for the Constitution. | In just the last few months, we've racked up many essential victories in the ongoing battle to protect civil liberties and civil rights. The scope of these victories is breathtaking: they span criminal justice, privacy, religious freedom, reproductive rights, due process for immigrants, racial justice, LGBTQ rights, and the right to protest the Keystone pipeline, among others. We've won crucial victories…
aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/were-grateful-for-the-constitution

Police Raid Egypt's Last Independent News Outlet Mada Masr Amid "Increasingly Hostile" Media Climate
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-11-25
Egyptian security forces raided the office of Mada Masr, the country's last independent media outlet, and arrested three of its journalists this weekend. The raid began Sunday afternoon, when nine plainclothes security officers entered the Mada Masr office in Cairo, seizing phones and laptops and holding the staff in the building for more than three hours. They then arrested editor-in-chief Lina Attalah, managing editor Mohamed Hamama and reporter Rana Mamdouh. It came just a day after security forces arrested senior editor Shady Zalat at his home. All four journalists were released from detention Sunday night. T…
www.democracynow.org/2019/11/25/mada_masr_egypt_media_sharif_kouddous

Palestine is a climate justice issue – Israeli apartheid is not "green"
patrick | bdsmovement.net | 2019-11-20
Palestine is a climate justice issue – Israeli apartheid is not "green": Update Click to download and print this Fact Sheet.November 21, 2019 | By: | | Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) …
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Take Action — Some actual, SANE legislation
Jon Rainwater | peaceaction.org | 2019-11-07
Trump has plans to spend nearly $2 TRILLION over the next 30 years on unneeded and unnecessary nuclear weapons and delivery systems. This makes no sense. This is insane. That's nearly $100 million wasted every day for thirty years on weapons we are supposed to be getting rid of. To put that amount in perspective, …
peaceaction.org/2019/11/07/take-action-some-actual-sane-legislation/