Oh no - what if all the climate alarmists leave and never come back?

'We Are Witnessing a New Brain Drain' as Scientists Flee America for France

A French university says it's providing safe harbor to American scientists from Yale, Stanford, NASA, and the NIH.

By Matthew Gault Published March 13, 2025

Aix Marseille University in France has said that 40 U.S. scientists have "answered the call" it put out earlier this month offering safe harbor to fleeing Americans. Scientists in the U.S. under the Trump regime are facing a sudden loss of funding and stricter regulations on speech and areas of research. According to Aix Marseille University President Eric Berton, some of them will find a home in France.

Survivors of the violence against the Alawite, Christian, and Druze communities shares their stories with RT.

Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the dominant militant group in northwestern Syria, once presented itself as a local opposition force. Just over a month ago, the group was formally disbanded and became part of the Syrian Defense Ministry, yet its origins tell a far more sinister story. Born out of the ashes of Jabhat al-Nusra, Al-Qaeda's official branch in Syria, HTS carries the same ideological DNA as the world's most notorious terrorist network. While it has sought to rebrand itself for international legitimacy, its methods remain unchanged: Massacres, ethnic cleansing, and the systematic extermination of those who do not conform to its radical ideology.

Nowhere has this been more evident than in Syria's coastal cities, where HTS and its foreign recruits have unleashed an unspeakable wave of violence against Alawite, Christian, and Druze communities. Entire villages have been erased, their inhabitants slaughtered in the dead of night. Yet, as these horrors unfold, the world remains indifferent, and the silence of international powers only emboldens the perpetrators.

The massacre in Latakia: A night of unimaginable horror

In one of the darkest nights in Syria's recent history, coordinated attacks on rural Latakia resulted in mass executions. Survivors tell of masked men storming their villages, dragging families from their homes, and carrying out public executions. Those who resisted were burned inside their homes, leaving behind entire neighborhoods reduced to smoldering ruins.

The Girl Scouts allegedly violated laws when selling cookies contaminated with dangerous heavy metals, including aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury ... and pesticides, including glyphosate," according to the suit, which was filed on March 10 in federal court in New York.

Amy Mayo, the plaintiff, is seeking class action status in the litigation.

Mayo says she purchased Girl Scout cookies on numerous occasions, including three boxes on Jan. 23.

The suit points to a study conducted by the consumer organization GMOScience. Testing done by the organization found heavy metals and pesticides in cookies sold by the Girl Scouts.

The Girl Scouts said in a February blog post that their cookies "are made with ingredients that adhere to food safety standards set by the FDA and other relevant authorities," referring to the Food and Drug Administration. The organization said that nearly all foods may contain trace amounts of contaminants like heavy metals as well as pesticides such as glyphosate.

"Our bakers have confirmed that the levels reported do not pose a food safety concern to our customers," the organization said.

Mayo said that additional testing also detected toxins such as lead and mercury in the cookies.

I was at the ballet the other night, yes, the ballet. It was the Canadian Ballet Company's production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Before the ballet started, the orchestra struck up a thundering version of Canada's national anthem, O Canada.

I knew the ballet had not yet started because I was aware that Tchaikovsky's masterpiece did not begin with a drum roll. This rendition of O Canada most certainly did.

Almost without hesitation, the entire audience stood and broke into song. How riveting. I do not know the words to the national ditty, and even if I did, I doubt if I could have persuaded my lungs to pump them out. In fact, I was more inclined to sit down, but instead, I stood with the rest of them. When in Rome and all that — and better not to start a fight with the Canadian wife.

When it was over, the crowd broke into a cheer that would rival hockey game exuberance. For a moment, I expected the ballet dancers to come out with helmets and sticks rather than tutus and ballet slippers. "What in hell was that all about?" I thought to myself. Ahh, it is time for Canadian nationalistic fervor!

They have, once again (the first time being in 1812), been attacked by their neighbours to the south, and I'll be danged if they are going to stand for it! The first time, they burned the White House to the ground. Who knows what they will do this time? (Fact Check Alert: I doubt if the White House was burnt to the ground, and it wasn't even Canadians who did it — Canada as a country was not yet invented. It was the British who set the place ablaze — but try to tell that to a Canadian.)

Ever since Big Bad Orange Man Trump levied tariffs on poor little ol' Canada, Canadians have been in a feverish uproar. How dare he? That horrible bully! And rather than look to their leaders (in this case, the venerable Justin Trudeau) for possible causes for the tariff, they rally 'round the maple leaf flag and cry out about American hostility. Down with America! Up with Canada, O Canada, We Stand on Guard for Thee!

That'll show 'em!

Only it won't. Not even close.

Passengers forced to stand on wing as they evacuate

An American Airlines plane suddenly burst into flames after it diverted to Denver International Airport on Thursday night — forcing evacuating passengers onto the wing of the aircraft as thick, black smoke covered the tarmac.

The Texas-bound Boeing 737-800 was rerouted to the airport shortly after taking off from Colorado Springs when crew members reported engine vibrations, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

In the early days of March 2025, Syria's coastal regions were engulfed in a wave of sectarian violence that have left an indelible mark on the nation's collective conscience. Predominantly targeting the Alawite minority, the atrocities have reignited fears of deepening sectarian divides and underscored the challenges facing Syria's path to stability.

It all began on March 6, when armed men loyal to ousted President Bashar Al Assad launched an attack on Syrian state security forces in Latakia. The current President - Ahmed Al Sharaa - responded with force. Thousands of armed men engulfed the region and retaliatory attacks began. Their target was the Alawite community - a minority sect within Shiite Islam to which the Assads belong. Comprising some ten to thirteen percent of the entire Syrian population, the Alawites have traditionally lived in the coastal region: Tartus, Latakia and other cities and towns - and this is exactly where the gangs of Al Sharaa arrived on that fateful Friday.

Reports indicate that over a span of 72 hours, more than 1,300 individuals were killed, with civilians bearing the brunt of the violence. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that 830 civilians were among the dead, alongside 231 Syrian security force members and 250 Alawite militants. But the actual numbers could be much higher.

It's been more than 20 years since it became fashionable to style questioning the policies of the federal government - and its Maximum Leader - tantamount to what the then-Maximum Leader styled (or enunciated as) terrrr. Of being "with them" - as juxtaposed with "us."

Meaning, of course, him.

And it looks like here we go, again.

The new Maximum Leader said something the other day about categorizing the destruction of property - already a criminal act - as an act of "domestic terrorism." The distinction being not merely etymological. The latter is a federal crime, you see. Destruction of property isn't.

It is of a piece with the way certain other crimes - assault and murder, for instance - can be become federal crimes by styling them "hate" crimes. And - by the way - it appears the Maximum Leader is hankering to categorize criticism of any of the policies of the government of Israel and/or U.S. actions in support of those actions as "hate" crimes, too. It being anti-Semitic, you see, to ever question anything done by or on behalf of the state of Israel.

So now the cretins - and they are cretins, because destroying other people's property is cretinous - who set alight Tesla charging stations, smashed Teslas and shot up Tesla stores - are to be (apparently) pursued at the federal level, as "domestic terrorists."

Kiev failed to both prevent the tragedy and to properly investigate it, the court has ruled

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that the Ukrainian authorities were responsible for the deaths of 42 anti-coup activists in the city of Odessa in 2014. They lost their lives when Ukrainian nationalists, who supported the armed takeover in Kiev weeks earlier, torched the port city's Trade Unions House where the protesters had gathered.

"The Court concluded that the relevant authorities had not done everything they reasonably could to prevent the violence, to stop that violence after its outbreak, and to ensure timely rescue measures for those trapped in the fire in the Trade Union Building," the ECHR said in its decision published on Thursday.

The Bibas family demands the Israeli government cease exploiting the deaths of their family members for propaganda purposes as layers of evidence support claims an Israeli airstrike killed them

The relatives of an Israeli family killed while in Hamas captivity in Gaza have demanded the government stop making statements attributing blame for the killings of their loved ones, threatening to "take all legal measures at their disposal" if the Netanyahu administration refuses to comply. The request came three days after a declaration by Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari that Palestinian "terrorists" had "deliberately" killed two young members of the Bibas family "with their bare hands."

Lawyers representing surviving members of the Bibas family have accused government ministries of seeking to exploit their plight for propaganda purposes, complaining:

"The family continues to receive, surprisingly, repeated inquiries from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Information System... with the aim of satisfying the public's voyeuristic instinct.

"Although it is surprising that it is necessary to request and emphasize this, we ask once again and in every language of request that all parties be instructed not to contact the family, nor to speak with any professional party entrusted with conducting the examinations regarding the circumstances of the murder and the condition of the deceased."

Read the Bibas family's letter to Netanyahu and other officials here.

Romania's Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) has blocked Calin Georgescu's bid to participate in the May presidential election over his "anti-democratic" views.. The right-wing, anti-establishment candidate's surprise victory in the first round of the November vote had triggered a rerun.

The electoral authorities in Bucharest cited the outspoken politician's supposed failure to "comply with the rules of the electoral procedure, violating the very obligation... to defend democracy." BEC had previously received more than 1,000 complaints against Georgescu regarding his "extremist" views.

The ruling can be appealed to the Constitutional Court within 24 hours.

Georgescu's reaction

The presidential hopeful, who was a clear favorite in the upcoming election and projected to garner up to 45% of the vote, wrote on X that the decision constitutes a "direct blow to the heart of democracy worldwide." Georgescu claimed that "Europe is now a dictatorship [and] Romania is under tyranny."