"As #COP25 has officially been moved from Santiago to Madrid I'll need some help," tweeted Thunberg, "Now I need to find a way to cross the Atlantic in November... If anyone could help me find transport I would be so grateful."
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"As #COP25 has officially been moved from Santiago to Madrid I'll need some help," tweeted Thunberg, "Now I need to find a way to cross the Atlantic in November... If anyone could help me find transport I would be so grateful."
New science, by a global team of IPCC researchers based at Oxford University, shows categorically that methane from Britain's ruminants is not causing global warming - instead ruminants provide a viable pathway to net zero emissions from UK agriculture by 2030.
What? But cattle and sheep produce methane almost constantly... Yes, but a focus on the emissions themselves is misleading - instead it's the warming impact of those emissions that actually matters. Currently global warming from UK agricultural methane is less than zero.
Comment: The CO2 model of climate warming is unsustainable, and the more actual scientists look into it, the more holes they'll poke in it. It's unlikely that this study will get much circulation in the mainstream press since it counters the "meat is bad for the environment" narrative. The goal, remember, is severe austerity measures for the populace, not reduced carbon emissions to 'save the planet'.
See also:
- Why are Establishment Elites so Obsessively Anti-meat?
- Let them eat steak: Hold the shame, red meat is not bad for you or climate change
- Don't blame meat for the climate crisis, say European livestock farmers
- Meat is back on the menu! Scientists who want to ban cows for the sake of the planet are predictably outraged
- Time to stop the war on meat! Livestock production can be good for the environment
- Destructive farming is the issue — not whether you eat meat or vegetables
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Julian Assange was the founder and editor-in-chief of the controversial news and information site WikiLeaks. As the name implies, after 2006 the site became famous, or perhaps notorious, for its publication of materials that have been leaked to it by government officials and other sources who consider the information to be of value to the public but unlikely to be accepted by the mainstream media, which has become increasingly corporatized and timid.
WikiLeaks became known to a global audience back in 2010 when it obtained from US Army enlisted soldier Bradley Manning a large quantity of classified documents relating to the various wars that the United States was fighting in Asia. Some of the material included what might be regarded as war crimes.
Comment: See also:
- Assange health and mental deterioration spur lawyers to ask Australian government for help
- Interview with Fidel Narvaez: 'I was fired for helping Julian Assange and I have no regrets'
- Punishing Assange sends 'we will get you' warning to other journalists, Roger Waters tells RT
- Don't railroad Assange to Virginia
- Outrageous: UK court blocks Spanish judge from questioning Julian Assange as a witness over spying allegations
- John Pilger interview with RT UK: British judge's treatment of Assange 'disgraceful, a 1950s showtrial'
- Kim Dotcom accuses Twitter of 'shadowbanning' pro-Assange tweets: 'Deep state controls social media to control you'
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Air pollutant readings monitored by the US Embassy in the city hit 810 micrograms per cubic meter on Sunday morning - over 30 times the World Health Organisation's safe daily limit of 25. The pollution in some parts of the city exceeded recordable levels, according to local reports.
Comment:
Lung cancer catching Delhiites young
Doctors issue yet another warning about rising cases in city
Lung cancer is currently responsible for the largest number of deaths due to a cancer in the country and doctors are conducting more research to prove just how disturbing the trend is.
Adding to this growing evidence, a research from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on Tuesday noted that nearly 21% of its patients with lung cancer were below the age of 50 years.
Non-smokers
"What is even more disturbing is that 5 of 31 patients in the younger-than-50-year age-group were less than 30-year-old and nearly 50% of the patients were non-smokers," said the report.
During the study period, 150 patients were analysed retrospectively. The age at presentation, gender and smoking status were recorded and analysed, among other parameters.
Even more distressing was the fact that this figure rose to 70% in the younger age group, that is patients who were less than 50-year-old. None of the patients who were less than 30- year-old were smokers. The male to female ratio of the study group was 3.8:1, indicating a significant rise in proportion of female patients compared to studies in the past, which had reported a much lower incidence of the disease in females.
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Bad air pollution
The report noted that with the bad air pollution scenario "we are only going to see an exponential rise in the incidence of lung cancer. These estimates are staggering and point towards an imminent epidemic of lung cancer that we are about to face".
Stubble burning: Punjab govt takes action against 3,000 farmers
The Punjab government has initiated action against almost 3000 farmers for burning stubble. The Amarinder Singh government, which hopes to cut down stubble burning in the state by 10 to 20 per cent this year, said that so far the government has received complaints against 20,729 cases of stubble burning. The government has initiated action against 2,923 farmers, the Punjab CM said.
The government claimed that the total number of stubble burning incidents reported last was around 49,000. In comparison, the government says it has received reports of 20,729 cases till November 1. The Punjab government hopes that as more than 70 per cent of the paddy has already been harvested, the total number of stubble burning reports will remain lower than last year.
As TFTP has consistently reported, in their relentless and often violent pursuit to control what citizens can and cannot put in their bodies, the police state leaves behind a trail of blood and suffering. Many times over, this trail often contains the blood of defenseless animals like the Dempsey family's beloved black lab named Tesla.
Last October, nearly a dozen cops swarmed the home of Charles Dempsey to allegedly "disrupt the suspected sale of illegal drugs by people who had congregated there." However, Dempsey sold no such drugs from his home and was entirely innocent. This did not matter to the officers though.
As the video shows, the officer hops the fence and moments later Tesla rounds the corner barking at the intruder in her yard. Without hesitation and without simply jumping back over the fence, officer Algarin pulled his gun and fired two rounds into Tesla, killing her, but not before she yelped in agony from the pain of the bullets lodged in her body.
Comment: Below is this heartbreaking video, warning it is graphic:
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VTS Media, a company based in Barcelona, runs the affected sites, out of which amateur.tv is one of the most popular cam sites in Spain, according to traffic-ranking service Alexa. Others include placercams.com and webcampornoxxx.net.
This data exposure does not come at the hands of any sort of hack or exploit — instead, just an oversight by the company. The administrative backends were left open, without a password, for several weeks. This allowed anyone to access the network's database, which included usernames, email addresses, IP addresses, browser user-agents, private chat logs, login timestamps, and even failed login attempts, which stored attempted passwords in plaintext.
The backend also contained data related to the videos that registered users were watching and renting. Users who broadcasted sexual content to viewers on these sites also had some of their personal information revealed.
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The area of Friedrichshain is home to several buildings occupied by squatters.
The area of Friedrichshain is home to several buildings occupied by squatters.
Ruptly footage shows police surrounding a building in Friedrichshain currently occupied by squatters. The illegal residents, clad in black masks, are seen waving red flares from the balcony. Protesters also draped flags and banners on the side of the building. "Smash the patriarchy!" one placard read.
A demonstration in support of the squatters clogged traffic in nearby streets, as riot police hugged the side of the road. According to German media, the left-wing protesters lit tires on fire and threw stones at the police. Footage of the unruly march shows several cars that were vandalized by the protesters. The mayhem reportedly resulted in several injuries. The protest was in response to a lawsuit aiming to evict the squatters, identified by local media as members of the city's "left-autonomous" scene.
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Recently, the editorial director of Kotaku's parent company, G/O Media, issued a memo to the staff of Deadspin, its massively-popular sister sports blog, outlining that writers need to "stick to sports" since the company has "plenty of other sites that write about politics, pop culture, the arts, and the rest, and they're the appropriate place for such work."
Think of Kotaku and Deadspin as the CNN of gaming and sports, respectively. Both blogs take pride in reporting news subjectively, and the memo led to Deadspin writers leaving en masse.
It was around this same time that Kotaku's staff began tweeting out ominous premonitions. Its news editor and most-recognized face, Jason Schreier, expressed that he "doesn't know what's going to happen next," thanking Kotaku's long-time readers. Editor-in-chief Stephen Totilo called to his ability to "steer Kotaku through rough waters" in the past.
The opinion comes as Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren dangle the prospect of forgiving some or all of the $1.5 trillion in outstanding education debt. Both candidates have also proposed free free college.
Moody's, however, think the effects of wholesale debt forgiveness at a macro level would be fairly muted.
"In the near term, we would expect student loan debt cancellation to yield a tax-cut-like stimulus to economic activity, contributing to a modest increase in household consumption and investment," said William Foster, the firm's senior credit analyst. "The magnitude of the stimulus would depend on the size of the debt relief and income level of the beneficiaries."
Comment:
- Debt Slavery! The student loan problem is worse than you think
- Subprime students: How Wall Street profits from the college loan mess
- Student debt: A ticking time bomb
- No free lunch: Bernie's #CancelStudentDebt is a dangerous scam
- Crushing college debt: The unforgiven generation
- Paul Gosar: Go into debt to get a STEM degree, then watch foreigners take your job
- Hello, my name is Stevie and I'm a student loan deadbeat
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A billboard advertising the film "Joker" is pictured in Los Angeles.
A billboard advertising the film "Joker" is pictured in Los Angeles.
The much acclaimed Todd Phillips movie starring Joaquin Phoenix has received its fair share of criticism from almost everyone, from the woke community to the US Army, who all believed it could prompt some "evil" people to commit acts of violence.
Yet, the film's critics have apparently overlooked the underlying message of the movie, Zizek, the senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, told RT, adding that it is not about some mentally-challenged person, but about the "hopelessness" of our "best ever" political order itself, which many still simply refuse to accept.
Daily life has become a horror movie
We should congratulate Hollywood and the viewers on two things: that such a film that, let's face it, gives a very dark image of highly developed capitalism, a nightmarish image which led some critics to designate it a 'social horror film', came out. Usually, we have social films, which depict social problems, and then we have horror films. To bring these two genres together, it is only possible when many phenomena in our ordinary social life become phenomena which belong to horror films.
Comment: For more analysis on the the 'Joker', listen to the SOTT editors discuss the movie on a recent episode of Mind Matters: MindMatters: The Value And Relevance of Joker
See also: Leading neurocriminologist Adrian Raine considers Joker "a great educational tool"
Comment: Is swimming not an option?