2024-03-29: News Headlines

Evaggelos Vallianatos (2024-03-29). Time to Choose. counterpunch.org The Sierra Madre and trees of Claremont March is ending after a number of days of rain, cool evenings, sunshine, and life-giving breeze. So far, the Sierra Madre mountains seem to protect Claremont from floods and fires and, possibly, other harmful effects of climate change. Claremont is an affluent town of about 40,000 people in

Staff (2024-03-29). ESG Funds Under Attack: Why Republicans Are Targeting Socially Responsible Investing. democracynow.org Republicans are on a "crusade" against responsible investing, says Andrew Behar, CEO of the nonprofit group As You Sow that promotes corporate responsibility through shareholder advocacy. His group was subpoenaed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee this week as Republicans probe whether investments that take into account environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns violate antitrust laws. Republicans have introduced bills in dozens of states across the U.S. to limit state bodies from working with banks and other financial firms that take things like climate change into consideration…

Regeneración (2024-03-29). Wednesday 4/3: Climate of Hope: Building Climate Resilient Communities. indybay.org Ecology Action, 877 Cedar St. Suite 240, Santa Cruz…

Binoy Kampmark (2024-03-29). Imperial Fruit: Bananas, Costs and Climate Change. dissidentvoice.org The curved course of the ubiquitous banana has often been the peel of empire, its sweetness masking a sharp, bitter legacy. Arab conquerors introduced it to the African continent as they cultivated a slave market. European imperialism did the same to the Americas via the Canary Islands, insinuating the luscious fruit into markets of solid …

Sam Davis (2024-03-29). What's So Green About Burning Trees? The False Promise of Biomass Energy. counterpunch.org Renewable energy comes from matter that nature produces and replenishes constantly. The power generated through this source does not significantly threaten the environment, especially in comparison with fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas, which take more than millions of years to developand cause severe harm to our planet and climate when burned—fossil

newarab (2024-03-29). This Easter, Gaza's Christian community faces extinction. newarab.com For the first time in its history, Gaza is home to one of the But now, ex…

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2024-03-27: News Headlines

infobrics (2024-03-27). Why is NATO's, Neo-Nazi junta's cover-up for terrorist attacks in Russia so sloppy. infobrics.org Washington DC insists that it has "undeniable evidence" that ISIS is behind it. Rather interesting how the US could claim this mere hours after the terrorist attack, when not even Russian services who were on the ground had all the details, but it "doesn't really know" who destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines, except that it was a "mysterious deep-diving Ukrainian group".

Peter Koenig (2024-03-27). Geoengineering Is a Weapon of Mass Destruction. Solving the 'Climate Crisis' Is Bad for Business and Worse for Politics. globalresearch.ca

Abigail Dillen (2024-03-27). Our Survival Depends on the Endangered Species Act. progressive.org Biodiversity is our strongest natural defense against climate change. The ESA is our best tool to protect it, writes Earthjustice President Abigail Dillen.

Sam Davis (2024-03-27). What's so green about burning trees? The false promise of biomass energy. nationofchange.org Bioenergy companies are clear-cutting American forests to heat and electrify Europe. This broken system harms public health, the environment, and the climate.

Robert Hunziker (2024-03-27). Climate Agreements Suck. pressenza.com Climate agreements suck. There are no real enforcement provisions. Many signatories cheat. Some don't rep0rt at all. Moreover, reported data is highly suspect. It's a worldwide scandal recently exposed by YaleEnvironment360. | Evidence of cheating is found in the atmosphere: Global CO2 is on a rampage, skyrocketing upwards like never before, double-to-triple rates of only one year ago, see: CO2 Bursting into the Atmosphere, March 22nd . This is not supposed to be happening. It is twisting the planet's climate system into a pretzel that doesn't know which way to turn next. There are plenty of reasons to believe it…

channelnewsasia (2024-03-27). CNA Correspondent Podcast: Megaproject in Thailand – A bridge too far? channelnewsasia.com The plan for a land bridge between the Indian and Pacific Oceans will cut across rich ecosystems and farmland in Thailand.

The Independent (2024-03-27). Farmers actively welcome micro- scale irrigation program. independent.co.ug Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The production department in Kwania district is actively promoting the adoption of small-scale irrigation systems among farmers to mitigate the adverse impacts of climate change. This initiative, known as Micro-scale irrigation, is a government program aimed at supporting farmers in acquiring and utilizing individual irrigation equipment. Through this program, farmers …

Editor (2024-03-27). Politicians discussing climate change. mronline.org Isaac Cordal is sympathetic toward his little people and you can empathize with their situations, their leisure time, their waiting for buses and even their more tragic moments such as accidental death, suicide or family funerals. The sculptures can be found in gutters, on top of buildings, on top of bus shelters; in many unusual and unlikely places.

John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead (2024-03-27). Rule by Criminals: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State. dissidentvoice.org When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals. In the current governmental climate, obeying one's conscience and speaking truth to the power of the police state can easily render you an "enemy of the state." The government's list of so-called "enemies of the state" is growing by …

greenleft.org.au (2024-03-27). Climate activists Violet Coco, Brad Homewood are heroes, not criminals. greenleft.org.au

The Exposé (2024-03-27). Experts Discover Over 200Billion DNA Fragments in a Single Dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine. expose-news.com Cancer genomics expert Dr. Phillip Buckhaults recently testified to the South Carolina Senate about the DNA contamination found in Pfizer's mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. There are an estimated 200 billion pieces of plasmid …

presstv.ir (2024-03-27). Gaza children go to sleep hungry, they are being 'wasted': WFP. presstv.ir The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that famine is imminent in the northern Gaza Strip.

csmonitor.com (2024-03-27). NBC sought a conservative voice. But its employees didn't want Ronna McDanielNBC News cut ties March 26 with former Republican National Committee chief Ronna McDaniel less than a week after hiring her as an on-air political contributor, a decision that followed a furious protest by some of its journalists and commentators.

Comment: This story shows how American MSM that only serves both Dems and Repubs has gotten stupider from year-to-year.

aa.com.tr (2024-03-27). Top UN court likely to issue tough decision against Israel for ongoing attacks on Gaza The world court will rule on the requested additional measures in the coming days, which may include criticism of Israel as well as requests for additional monitoring reports, according to the KAN broadcaster report.

newcoldwar.org (2024-03-27). Hezbollah retaliates against Israeli atrocities in Gaza with strikes on military bases Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement has conducted multiple operations against Israeli military outposts in the northern part of the 1948 occupied territories, expressing its unwavering support for Palestinians in Gaza amid a genocidal war.

ca.news.yahoo.com (2024-03-27). Palestinians drown trying to reach Gaza aid air-dropped by US into seaThe Pentagon confirmed that three of the 18 packages it air-dropped on Monday had parachute malfunctions and fell into the water just off the coast of the Strip. However, US officials did not confirm if any Gazans were killed while trying to reach the aid.

firstpost.com (2024-03-27). Teens in Gaza hoping to be killed to end their "nightmare" : UN – Firstpost A spokesman for the UN children's agency said on Tuesday that the situation in the war-torn Gaza is so bad that teens are increasingly expressing their desire to be quickly murdered in order to end the "nightmare".
  "The unspeakable is regularly said in Gaza," said James Elder, spokesman for the United Nations children's agency UNICEF.

presstv.ir (2024-03-27). Pakistan says Iran's gas project 'need of the hour', pushes for US sanctions waiver. presstv.ir Pakistan says Islamabad's position on the gas transfer project with the Islamic Republic is not merely an expression of desire but "the need of the hour."

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