In 2008-9, Coal was supposedly on the verge of a huge new buildout. It all went belly up much faster than anyone imagined.
I had lunch with a major utility executive around that time, who was planning a big new coal plant near me.
I told him I saw no need to oppose it, mainly because they had missed their window of opportunity, and if they did build it, the market was going to leave it a stranded asset very soon.
A few months later they cancelled. They’re now committed to solar, wind and efficiency.
Under flimsy pretexts and excuses, the army of the Turkish occupation and its affiliated mercenaries go on kidnapping the civilians in Afrin.
NEWS 19 Oct 2020, Mon – 19:25 2020-10-19T19:25:00 AL—SHAHBA
According to a source in Bulbula District,a group of settlers loyal to the mercenaries of the Sultan Murad faction of the Turkish occupation, who were resettled in the village of Qara Guli in the Bulbul district, attacked the Kurdish citizen Zakaria Hussein, on the ground of his son Zakaria quarrel with the children of settlers, with the support of the Sultan Murad faction of the Turkish occupation.
It is stated the same group that attacked and insulted the Kurds in the village previously.
The same source confirmed that village inhabitants’ numbers before the Turkish occupation was about 650 families, but only about 70 families left in the village afterwards.
On the other hand, on October 8, Turkish intelligence kidnapped a young man, Haitham Haidar, from the village of Hammam in the Jindersse district, whose fate is unknown until now, and that the young was an English teacher.
Also, on October 14, Turkish intelligence arrested the citizen Walid Mustafa Dike, from the Shia district in the Turkish city of Istanbul, under the pretext of dealing with the Autonomous Administration in the past, without knowing anything about his fate so far.
Two agonizing lives have come to an agonizing end: Mambo, who was born around 1983in the wild and has been abused as a circus clown since his capture, suffocated miserably in a van about 2 weeks ago together with a fellow sufferer whose name was not yet known to us.
This can be seen from current entries in the Elephant database.
Mambo and the elephant cows Tonga, Nanda, Betty, and Kimba (also caught in the wild) have been at the “mercy” of the Casselly family of tamers for years, who force them to perform disgusting tricks in the arena: unforgettable the unspeakable pictures, taken in 2017 in the Karlsruhe Christmas Circus when Mambo pulled a carriage through the ring in which a pony was sitting.
Furthermore, he and his fellow sufferers were repeatedly abused during the breaks as mounts and also as springboards.
Chile rebelde: desacato popular, una opción política para la coyuntura
Chile: No votar, una opción política válida
por Guillermo Correa Camiroaga
desde Valparaíso
Construir un camino propio, por complejo y prolongado que este sea, requiere en determinadas circunstancias asumir -como en esta coyuntura marcada por el Acuerdo por la Paz y la Nueva Constitución- posiciones claras, sin ambigüedades, tomar una OPCIÓN POLÍTICA diferente a la fijada por las clases dominantes.
Los sectores que se identifican con la rebeldía popular, que cuestionan la institucionalidad neoliberal sobre la que se sustenta el modelo económico, político, social y cultural chileno, pero que participarán votando en el Plebiscito del 25 de octubre y en la posterior elección de convencionales constituyentes- aún cuando plantean de manera clara y tajante rechazar el “fraudulento” Acuerdo por la Paz y el proceso constituyente elaborado por las élites y la clase política institucional- utilizan los más variados argumentos para justificar dicha opción, resaltando eso sí que se enmarca en una “opción política táctica que la coyuntura no permite obviar.”
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States is ‘urging’ countries that have ratified a U.N. treaty to ban nuclear weapons to withdraw their support as the pact nears the 50 ratifications needed to trigger its entry into force, which 122 countries hope could happen this week.
This image taken with a slow shutter speed on Oct. 2, 2019, and provided by the U.S. Air Force shows an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile test launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
The U.S. letter to signatories, obtained by The Associated Press, says the five original nuclear powers — the U.S., Russia, China, Britain and France — and America’s NATO allies “stand unified in our opposition to the potential repercussions” of the treaty.
It says the treaty “turns back the clock on verification and disarmament and is dangerous” to the half-century-old Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, considered the cornerstone of global nonproliferation efforts.
Fihn dismissed the nuclear powers’ claim that the treaty interferes with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty as “straightforward lies, to be frank.”
“Although we recognize your sovereign right to ratify or accede to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), we believe that you have made a strategic error and should withdraw your instrument of ratification or accession,” the letter says.
Fihn said there are about 10 countries that are trying very hard to ratify to get to 50, “and we know that there are a few governments that are working towards Friday as the date. … We’re not 100 percent it will happen, but hopefully it will.”
Protestors celebrated but don’t believe Regime promises to disband brutal Special Police killers. As demos continued a 24 hour curfew was declared ..The governor of Lagos state said the curfew would cover the entire city of some 14 million people and surrounding areas. The announcement came after a police station was burned down in the city and two people were shot dead by police. ……………….see report further down.
As protesters demand police reform, they also mourn ..Posted 20 October 2020 2:10 GMT
Festival of lights to honor those killed by the SARS police unit, Lagos, Nigeria, October 17, 2020. Photo shared widely on Twitter under #EndSARS movement..
As #EndSARS protests continue to erupt across Nigeria, so does police brutality.
The #EndSARS movement began on Twitter as an outcry against the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigerian police force, which later spilled onto the streets as Nigerian youth-led protests now enter their 10th day.
The Free 