Over 120 countries signed the UAE Climate and Health Declaration on the last day of the World Climate Action Summit. The political phase of the Global Stocktake concluded the high-level engagement with leaders discussing mitigation and support to developing countries. The Global Climate Action high-level event brought together world leaders and non-state actors with a […]
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from thefreeonline on 2nd Decenber 2023 Today in Pictures from Al Jazeera
Israel’s attacks on Gaza have stretched into a second day after a seven-day truce with Hamas ended as Qatar and Egypt mediate talks to renew a pause in hostilities.
The United Nations said on Saturday that the fighting would worsen the extreme humanitarian emergency in Gaza.
“Hell on Earth has returned to Gaza,” said Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN humanitarian office in Geneva.
“Today, in a matter of hours, scores were reportedly killed and injured. Families were told to evacuate, again. Hopes were dashed,” UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said, adding that children, women and men of Gaza had “nowhere safe to go and very little to survive on”.
Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza said Israeli tanks have not stopped shelling the enclave and gunboats are attacking its coastline.
“Houses have been targeted. At least three mosques were hit. Areas across the Gaza Strip – the north, south and centre – have all been targeted.”
The Israeli army said on Saturday that it hit more than 400 targets overnight, including in the Khan Younis area in the south, to which tens of thousands of civilians evacuated over the past month.
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from thefreeonline on 2nd Dec 2023 by Becky Fury at SO IT GOES John Fleming’s blog
Here, award-wining stand-up Becky Fury pays tribute to her long-time friend Tony Allen, who died yesterday morning, in London… (Photos from Becky’s collection)
Becky Fury with Tony Allen
Tony Allen was born like most people but, unlike most people, he was born on March 4th 1945, in the last months of WW2 in Hayes, Middlesex, to working-class parents.
Tony attributed much of the anarchic politicization that informed his whole potent life and oeuvre, to his upbringing.
Tony’s mum had flourished as a result of the unprecedented freedom women (on the home front) experienced during the war and after she had struggled to readjust when these freedoms were redacted. As a child Mrs Allen regaled young Tony with tales from her gilded age and also expressed her sense of injustice to him regarding its passing.
Mrs Allen was unknowingly talking to Tony about women’s liberation, (a cause he would later champion) but it would be another 20 years or so, before the experience of Mrs Allen and women like her could really be put into words because, until the counter cultural kick back of the 1960s, the language to describe the experience she was trying to describe didn’t exist.
Young Tony with his parents
Tony’s dad had also had a good war. According to Mr Allen, his time as an artilleryman in North Africa had been something of a holiday. According to Mr Allen, it had mainly involved getting a suntan or “lying by a gunner and staring at the stars” so, unintentionally Mr & Mrs Allen indoctrinated young Tony into becoming a utopian. Into a belief that other, better worlds are possible… A belief that underpinned everything Tony strived for in his art and life – as an authentic anarchist and as an authentic revolutionary, comic thinker.
Continue reading “A tribute to Tony Allen, oft-called The Godfather of UK Alternative Comedy “from thefreeonline on 2nd December 2023 main text by Naveena Sadasivam at Grist.Org
comment: What a joke! Anyway we have to support this minimal step forward that Trump may cancel AGAIN on his 1st day if reelected. We demanded methane emissions controls 20 years ago, followed by years of US blocking by the ‘Texas Cowboy’ oil lobby, even when a little investment could have profited them, using the gas instead of venting and flaring it for quicker profits.
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Methane concentrations in the atmosphere are rising, and the oil and gas industry is responsible for nearly a third of global methane emissions. The greenhouse gas is 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over its first 20 years in the atmosphere, and it’s responsible for a quarter of the temperature increase that has already taken place.
At COP28, the annual United Nations climate conference taking place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the United States announced that it has finalized regulations to tackle this pressing problem.
On Saturday, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule to reduce methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas industry, which is responsible for about 12 percent of global methane emissions from the sector.
Even as world temperatures go through the roof, and climate influenced droughts, floods and heat waves destroy millions of livelihoods and the ecosphere, the self entitled US billionaire corporations continue to promote new waves of Climate Deniers for short term profit. – Cop28 still largely ignores cutting fossil fuel subsidies that could generate trillions of dollars to tackle climate change
Methane is the main component of natural gas, and it leaks from every phase of oil and gas production, from extraction to transport to refining. The new rule requires oil field companies to monitor for leaks, fix them promptly, and phase out the practice of burning off natural gas into the atmosphere — a process called flaring.
More proof Methane spike due to US ecocidal Frackers.. Stopping it could delay Climate Catastrophe—The US led the world in multiplying levels of climate lethal methane emissions due also to the sponsored discontrol of the Fracking Revolution. With free loans and immunity from environmental laws ongoing fracking has left devastation of over one million abandoned methane leaking frack wells and toxic tailings ponds in the US, which will have to be cleaned up with our taxes. The industry has now morphed into the suicidal world plastics and LNG export boom in Texas and Louisiana….
They must also minimize venting, the deliberate release of natural gas, during certain processes. The new rule allows third parties, including environmental and watchdog groups, to monitor oil and gas sites and report violations.
Continue reading “20 years later, COP28 to ‘reduce methane emissions’ by criminal subsidized fossil fuel profiteers”via thefreeonline from Steve Kirsch on December 2nd, 2023 234 more comments...
It’s over. They’ve lost. The vaccines are unsafe. This data is the nail in the coffin. Gold standard, official records. There is no better ground truth than this. There is no comparable ground-truth data showing the vaccines are safe. Zero. There can be only one right answer.
It’s time for criminal charges to be filed against the NZ Ministry .. 21 hours ago — Thanks to the efforts of a courageous whistleblower, the entire world now knows, and can download, the data proving the COVID vaccines have killed over 10,000 people in New Zealand.
Today you will get to see the data that nobody wants you to see. FINALLY.
No State or country has ever released record-level public health data on any vaccine.
Privacy is not the reason for this; the data can be easily obfuscated (which we did on this data) so that no record entry would match that of any person, living or dead.
The reason the data is kept secret is simple: it would expose the fact that the COVID vaccines are unsafe, as well as all the vaccines that I have been able to get record-level data on.
Today, thanks to a courageous whistleblower who works at the New Zealand Ministry of Health, we have record-level information from a large population of all ages and are making it public for the first time in history.
Here is the Rumble video announcing the leak:
Just as you suspected, the COVID vaccines have killed millions of people worldwide, an estimated 1 death per 1,000 doses on average in a standard population.
And now we have the data to prove it.
I highly recommend reading the slides and/or watching the livestream. I tried to make the slides self-standing, but the livestream can be helpful in explaining some of the slides.
The PDF version is searchable and you can copy/paste text from it (such as the access keys for the Wasabi server so you can download all the goodies).
Here is the Twitter livestream.
Here is the Rumble livestream.
Continue reading “Google forced to include this Gold Standard Proof that Covid Vaccines killing MILLIONS of us”
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