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Stop clearing thousands of acres to build solar panels: Harvard study

Elaine Gunthorpe
The College Fix
Tue, 07 Nov 2023 19:08 UTC
solar panels
FILE PHOTO
While "more solar energy" is needed in Massachusetts, deforestation is not the way to go, according to a study from Harvard University.

"Since 2010, over 5,000 acres of natural and working lands have been destroyed for solar development in Massachusetts, resulting in the emission of over half a million metric tons of CO₂ — more than the annual emissions of 100,000 passenger cars," Mass Audobon stated in a summary of its study with Harvard Forest.

"Under current siting practices, thousands of acres of forests, farms, and other carbon-rich landscapes are being converted to host large-scale solar," the report stated.

The removal of trees undercuts the state's requirement to reduce emissions by 2050. This is because trees are an effective carbon removal tool. "By 2030, climate-polluting emissions in Massachusetts must be reduced by 50 percent relative to 1990 levels, and by 75 percent by 2040, on the way to net-zero emissions by 2050," the study stated.
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'Israelis Against Apartheid' demand ICC take action to protect Palestinians from genocide

Israelis Against Apartheid
Mondoweiss
Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:00 UTC
Relatives of Palestinians who died in Israeli airstrikes
© Omar Al-Dirawi/APA ImagesRelatives of Palestinians who died in Israeli airstrikes perform funeral prayer around the bodies taken from the morgue of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza on November 06, 2023.
Editor's Note: Members of the 1500-strong group Israelis Against Apartheid sent the following letter to Karim A. A. Khan, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, on November 2, 2023 urging immediate international intervention to halt the massacre in Gaza.
2.11.2023

To Karim A. A. Khan, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court,

We, Israelis Against Apartheid, a group of Israeli Jews for decolonization, representing more than 1,500 concerned citizens, call on the ICC to take accelerated action against the escalating Israeli war crimes, and genocide of the Palestinian people. For the safety and future in the region, all elements of international law must be enforced and war crimes should be investigated. We appreciate your deep concern for the lives of Palestinians, Israelis and others, and are encouraged by your determination to conduct a thorough investigation into the ongoing violations of international law.

As Israeli anticolonial activists, we have joined our voices to the voices of Palestinians for decades warning on the dangerous course of action pursued by the Israeli State and repeatedly called for international intervention.
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Control Panel

Wider war will bring inevitable attempts at martial law in America

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
Fri, 27 Oct 2023 00:00 UTC
martial law
Not long ago at the height of fear over the global pandemic the US underwent a change that many people argued would never happen. For years I have heard people say that authoritarian controls in America are "tinfoil hat conspiracy theory" and doom mongering - All the prepping, all the talk of community organizing, all the guns and the gear and the training were for nothing. Then...the covid agenda hit like a freight train.

Our constitutional rights were no longer set in stone, but mere guidelines that government officials could bend or break in the name of "public health safety." Laws no longer had to be passed through a series of checks and balances; mandates could be implemented as if they were laws without public oversight and enforced unilaterally.

There was talk (primarily among Democrats) of severe punishments for people who refused the pointless covid vaccines. They wanted vaccine passports, they wanted prison time for those that spoke publicly against the vax, they wanted people's jobs taken away, they wanted their children taken away, and there were even plans to build covid detention centers to segregate and lock up "vax deniers."
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A new law is about to kill free speech and democracy in Australia


RT
Sun, 05 Nov 2023 22:12 UTC
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (C) in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra
© DAVID GRAY / AFPAustralian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (C) in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra
The Australian Government has recently introduced in Parliament a new law proposal to ban officially unapproved online content. Digital companies are expected to adopt a code of conduct which will see them censor speech based on broad, vague and far-reaching directives.

The Communications Legislation Amendment (Combating Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023 foreshadows the imposition of a legal obligation on digital platforms to police alleged 'misinformation' and 'disinformation'. If that does not work, the law proposal provides for the full empowerment of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to directly intervene for the purpose of preventing 'harm'.
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Health

EU's Borrell suggests Gaza 'pause' for access to hostages


Barron's
Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:00 UTC
Jaballa Bombing Gaza
© Ali Jadallah / Anadolu Agency / Gettyimages.ruPalestinos llevan a cabo una operación de búsqueda y rescate tras el segundo bombardeo del EJército israelí en el campo de refugiados de Jabalia, en Gaza, el 1 de noviembre de 2023.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Monday suggested a plan under which Israel could suspend its military operation in Gaza in return for the Red Cross getting access to hostages held by Hamas.

"I think that a humanitarian pause counterbalanced by access to hostages with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as a first step to their release is an initiative in which we should work," Borrell told European Union diplomats in Brussels.

The EU, United States and Britain have been pushing for "humanitarian pauses" in the fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza to ensured people in the besieged territory get help.
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LA man with heaps of riot gear, apparent weapons factory in apartment out on bail

Christina Coulter
Fox News
Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:46 UTC
weapons factory, armory
© Los Angeles Police DepartmentWhat appeared to be a weapons factory was recovered at an apartment in downtown LA this weekend.
Police stumbled upon a sizable weapons cache this weekend after responding to a reported shooting in downtown LA this weekend.

Neighbors contacted the LAPD just before 1 a.m. on Saturday after hearing gunfire in an apartment building at the intersection of West Olympic Boulevard and South Olive Street, per Fox 11.

Before getting into the apartment, per the LAPD, officers heard 15 to 20 more shots fired. Police evacuated the building before investigating the unit, per reporting by ABC 7.
Tactical gear and
© Los Angeles Police DepartmentTactical gear and "ghost guns" were found in the apartment on Sunday after neighbors reported that shots were fired, police said.
Roy Allen Henson, 39, was taken into custody without incident - without any weapons on him - and charged with discharging a firearm and gross negligence.

He bailed out of jail for $35,000 on Sunday, police said. Per the LAPD, there was no indication that the man was planning an attack with the weaponry.

Comment: What was he doing with all this stuff? Was he working for someone?

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Road Cone

Disney theme park guests are now pooping while waiting on line for rides

Ariel Zilber
New York Post
Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:36 UTC
Disney World, Disneyland, theme park
© APDisney guests are reportedly defecating while waiting on line for rides at Disney World and Disneyland theme parks.
When you gotta go, you gotta go — even if you're on line for hours at a Disney theme park.

Riders at Disneyland and Disney World have been defecating while standing in line, according to witnesses who reported the grotesque sight on social media.

"I am in the queue for [Rise of the Resistance at Disney World] - someone let their kid take a dump on the floor and then they just walked out and left it- WTF?" wrote one poster on Reddit.

The post was cited by the news page SFGATE.

Disney guests can wait on line for Rise of the Resistance, the Star Wars-themed attraction, for more than an hour-and-a-half, according to the Queue Times website.

Another Redditor who claims to have worked near the ride confirmed the claim, writing: "For the skeptics... this actually happened. Fun fact: this was one of 3 s — t-related incidents at Rise today."

Comment: Disney has been churning out crap for years now. Guess one reaps what one sows.

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Car Black

Woman plowed car into what she thought was Jewish school: cops

Emily Crane
New York Post
Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:24 UTC
Ruba Almaghtheh
© IMPDRuba Almaghtheh, 34, was arrested for allegedly driving her car into what she thought was a Jewish school in Indianapolis on Friday night, police said.
An Indiana woman, whom cops described as a "terrorist," has been arrested after she allegedly plowed her car into what she thought was a Jewish school.

Ruba Almaghtheh, 34, allegedly backed her vehicle into a building associated with Black Hebrew Israelites in Indianapolis late Friday while several adults and children were inside, Fox 59 reported.

The driver copped to targeting the building, which houses the Israelite School of Universal and Practical Knowledge, because she was allegedly offended by a "Hebrew Israelite" symbol out front, according to a police report.

"Yes. I did it on purpose," Almaghtheh allegedly said in the wake of her arrest.

She repeatedly described the building as the "Israel school," cops said, adding that the driver also made a reference to "her people back in Palestine."

The Israelite School of Universal and Practical Knowledge, however, is a sect of the Black Hebrew Israelites, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

Comment: What an idiot. Not only was this stupid it's just going to further inflame those who're up in arms about the rise in antisemitism.

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2 + 2 = 4

'World didn't agree to anti-Russia sanctions' - India


RT
Mon, 06 Nov 2023 14:35 UTC
Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
© Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFPIndian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar looks on during a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the Treaty Room of the US Department of State in Washington, DC, on September 28, 2023.
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has described sanctions against Russia imposed by the West as "levers" that advanced economies have at their disposal "based on mechanisms, powers and tools built over many years."

"They use these levers when it suits them," he said in an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera during last week's visit to Rome. "It's not that they go to the United Nations to seek legitimacy; they do it when they think their interests are at stake. Many parts of the world do not accept the concept of sanctions in the same way. It is done as if the whole world agreed on sanctions. It's not really like that."

When asked why emerging countries bring up the "double standards" of the West when it comes to the Ukraine conflict or the war between Israel and Gaza, the foreign minister replied that this sentiment had a lot to do with its Eurocentric attitude toward global affairs.

Comment: As the gap widens between the East and the West, leaders naturally feel more confident challenging the Western hegemony. It's unlikely the future will be Eurocentric and for those that shut out this reality, they will become a dream of the past. Here's what Putin had to say on the matter:
"We can speed up this process or someone can try to slow it down and maybe even achieve some kind of reduction in the pace of building a multipolar world. Anyway, its creation is inevitable."


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5 ways to prepare for the online privacy crackdown

Ramiro Romani
Unlimited Hangout
Mon, 06 Nov 2023 08:58 UTC
computer programmer
The internet is about to change. In many countries, there's currently a coordinated legislative push to effectively outlaw encryption of user uploaded content under the guise of protecting children. This means websites or internet services (messaging apps, email, etc.) could be held criminally or civilly liable if someone used it to upload abusive material. If these bills become law, people like myself who help supply private communication services could be penalized or put into prison for simply protecting the privacy of our users. In fact, anyone who runs a website with user-uploaded content could be punished the same way. In today's article, I'll show you why these bills not only fail at protecting children, but also put the internet as we know it in jeopardy, as well as why we should question the organizations behind the push.

Let's quickly recap some of the legislation.

European Union

- Chat Control: would require internet services (Email, chat, storage) to scan all messages and content and report flagged content to the EU. This would require that every internet based service scans everything uploaded to it, even if it's end-to-end encrypted. Content would be analyzed using machine learning (i.e. AI) and matches would automatically be reported to the police. This is awaiting a vote from the EU LIBE committee.

chat control

Chat Control is overwhelmingly opposed by EU citizens, but is advancing regardless. Source
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