Fossil gas subsidies within EU Just Transition Fund set to lock-in emissions
16 September 2020
The allowance for fossil gas subsidies within the EU’s Just Transition Fund will lock-in polluting emissions over the coming decades, a coalition of European NGOs has warned.
The European Parliament voted to allow the inclusion yesterday and Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe stressed that it is not in line with earlier statements from the electoral body.
The Parliament has previously called for the phase out of fossil fuel subsidies.
In January, within its resolution on a European Green Deal, the European Parliament said it “insists on a rapid phase-out of direct and indirect fossil fuel subsidies by 2020” across the EU and for each of the 27 Member States.
Just last week the European Parliament’s Environment Committee endorsed a greenhouse emissions reduction target of 60 per cent for the bloc by the end of the decade.
A trove of leaked documents exposes the propaganda network.
Western government-funded intelligence cutouts>
trained Syrian opposition leaders
planted stories in media outlets from BBC to Al Jazeera, and
ran a cadre of journalists.
By Ben Norton
Leaked documents show how UK government contractors developed an advanced infrastructure of propaganda to stimulate support in the West for Syria’s political and armed opposition.
Virtually every aspect of the Syrian opposition was cultivated and marketed by Western government-backed public relations firms, from their political narratives to their branding, from what they said to where they said it.
The leaked files reveal how Western intelligence cutouts played the media like a fiddle, carefully crafting English- and Arabic-language media coverage of the war on Syria to churn out a constant stream of pro-opposition coverage….
Citizens of the United Kingdom! This message is for you. Back in 2018 we exposed Integrity Initiative, a criminal network of influencers working across entire Europe under the guidance from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Yet, Her Majesty’s Government failed to draw any conclusions. Law-abiding British taxpayers continue to sponsor dozens of military crimes committed all over the world and veiled by the government’s lies. Today we release the result of teamwork of the Anonymous legion from all corners of the world. We have all got united in an effort to show that the FCO and HMG special services are not simply rats’ nests but truly criminal organisations while the government officials who sanction their work are accomplices.
Only small particles of information about covert operations of British intelligence in Syria have leaked into the Media until today. Well, here and now we reveal a detailed map of their presence in that country since 2011. We have everything: from criminal programmes and tenders to bidders’ complete proposals.……………. ”Anon OP report continues here
”At the moment the future is up for grabs, but can only be seized with a strategy capable of winning the allegiance of the broader public and stunting the growth of a now-toddling fascism”.
Portland entered the 100th straight day of protests connected to the Black Lives Matter movement this month, and finally Portland’s mayor joined hands with the governor to solve the crisis. Not by taking action to address the widely-shared grievances against law enforcement, but to deliver a movement deathblow aimed at protestors.
The quietly coordinated move allowed Oregon State Troopers to be federally deputized, essentially making them Trump’s Troopers. Such a bold move by Oregon’s liberal executives—in arguably one of the bluest states in the country—is comparable to treason.
Weeks earlier, when thousands of protestors confronted Trump’s feds at the ‘Battle of Portland’, the mayor and governor won much public acclaim by decrying Trump’s tactics. And when a “ceasefire” was negotiated between Oregon’s politicians and the president, the public wasn’t told of a key provision— the bait and switch that substituted Trump’s feds for Oregon’s federally deputized state troopers.
In Latin America, indigenous people are at higher risk of COVID-19 infection due to lack of data and historical political neglect, according to indigenous communities and human rights organizations.
Malnutrition, anemia, and obesity rates are high and resources to build nearby hospitals are low. In Bolivia, for example, the Bolivian Center for Legal Studies and Social Research (CEJIS for its initials in Spanish) also warned about the risk of the “ethnocide” of indigenous groups in the context of COVID-19. Similar concerns have spread throughout the continent.
This map outlines all indigenous territories in the South American Amazon and highlights communities featured in this story. The shapes were created by Global Voices based on a database compiled by Amazonia Socioambiental, filtered using QGIS and edited on Photoshop and Illustrator.
There is no better way to get ready to power up your garden next year than by building a great fall compost pile now. And with so many incredible materials at the ready throughout autumn, it couldn’t be easier!
Whether it’s grass clippings, garden waste or leaves – fall has an abundance of compostable materials at the ready.
Having ready-made compost in the spring is the key to getting vegetable plants and flowers off to a fast start. Compost really is the perfect all-purpose fertilizer.
It provides a balanced set of nutrients to plants, all while adding valuable structure to your soil. That structure aids in retaining moisture, helping plant’s roots to grow quick and strong.
Boris Johnson wants to make British Armed Forces untouchable by offering them immunity for war crimes
A controversial bill is passing through the House of Commons which will make it virtually impossible to prosecute soldiers but, at the same time, will strip away their own legal rights and health benefits.
–The government knows what it’s doing, this is the first step in refashioning the armed forces into a rabble-rousing pack of jackals with Union Jacks tattooed on their arms. It’s also a free pass to allow Boris and his cabal of advisers to enter into conflicts with limited blowback domestically.–
It’s avoided a great deal of attention, mainly due to the EU face-off and, of course, the resumption of Covid-19 lockdown in the UK. Ministers must be praising their luck as the bill is an unthinkable betrayal of what Britain stands for.
The first part insulates soldiers from alleged offences while on duty. It does this via a ‘triple lock’ of a five-year statute of limitations, a presumption against prosecution, and the requirement of explicit consent from the attorney general.
‘Explosive evidence from Trump insider, Assange dragged from embassy “on the orders of the president”, Laura Tiernan and Thomas Scripps, 22 September 2020, wsws.org (with permission & my bolds) Assange arrested by the British police on April 11, 2019 “Alt-right media personality Cassandra Fairbanks’ witness testimony was read out in court yesterday, providing evidence that […]
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