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Dan Simmer

Harmful instruments, false solutions and private interests dominate at COP15

The 15th session of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (“UNCBD”) concluded in the early hours on Monday, 19 December, with the adoption of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (“GBF”), known as the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The UNCBD is a multilateral treaty

South Africa Should Bring Home Grandmother and Other Nationals from Northeast Syria

“I’m an ‘accidental terrorist,’” Khadija, a 54-year-old South African woman, told me with a rueful laugh.

The Year of the Gaslighter

Well, it has been quite a year, 2022.

BlackRock Will Continue Leftist ESG Push in New Year Despite Backlash

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, will continue to push for leftist environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies when it engages with companies and exercises its voting rights — despite backlash from Republicans. The asset manager says it will make no significant changes to the way it plans on engaging

The Enlightenment & the Emancipation of Humanity

To what extent was Enlightenment one of human emancipation? As Hampson (1968) describes the period “an embarrassment of wealth for the historian and the danger of being buried under his own treasure”, this essay in the explanation of the question is in danger of not only being buried by treasure

Europe's Largest Bank to Halt Financing of New Oil and Gas Projects

Multinational investment bank HSBC announced that it will no longer finance new oil and gas projects in order to meet the green agenda goals of globalist elites.

There’s microcircuitry inside the Covid injections, says Australian doctor

Australian general practitioner Dr.

El-Erian: Saying a Recession Will Be Short and Mild Is 'Same Trap' as Saying Inflation Was 'Transitory'

On Wednesday’s “PBS NewsHour,” economist and President of Queens’ College Dr.

This Colorful Spice Can Help Treat Anxiety and Depression

STORY AT-A-GLANCE Saffron, stigmas of the purple crocus fiower, is one of the most intriguing plants on Earth.

Experiments show by reprogramming the electrical communication between cells, organisms grow extra limbs, eyes and heads

Sometimes you find things out that are fascinating but utterly frightening and repugnant.

Baby W’s case raises critical questions: What is science and who is an expert?

On Tuesday night we heard the decision of the New Zealand High Court Judge in the Baby W case, who ruled that the state should enforce a transfusion from the national blood bank in defiance of the wishes of the parents. He declined to allow an obvious and simple workaround

Quercetin and Vitamin D — Allies Against Coronavirus?

STORY AT-A-GLANCE As the outbreak of novel coronavirus, COVID-19, continues into its third year around the world, researchers are still feverishly searching for effective remedies, for both the original virus and its substrates. According to a February 15, 2020, Nature article, more than 80 clinical trials were already underway testing

Fmr. Obama Econ. Adviser Furman: 'Most Likely Scenario' Is Recession that 'Does Not Solve' Inflation Problem

On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Closing Bell,” Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard University and the Harvard Kennedy School Jason Furman, who served as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama and on the Council of Economic Advisers and the National