This Summer Could Be Our Kids’ Coolest Summer
Hot weather has always been something West Aussies have been able to handle, almost wearing it like a badge of honor that proves just how tough we really are.
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Pinkerton: How Biden, Like Jimmy Carter, Lost the Energy War to Russia
Carter 2.0 Why did the Russians invade Ukraine? One reason is that they could afford to.Vladimir Putin’s neo-Tsarist empire has piled up an estimated $631 billion in currency reserves.
Maine Legislature Sinks Bill to Protect Lobstermen from Green New Deal
A Maine legislative committee rejected a bill meant to create a legal defense fund for lobster fishermen fighting against environmental regulations that activists claim will protect North Atlantic right whales. Set to take effect on May 1, new federal regulations will soon “require lobstermen in the Gulf of Maine to
This Week in the New Normal #23
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.
1. The Munich Security Conference 2022 and the future global government
Bill Gates is still really unsettling Not exactly news,
Pinkerton: Joke of the Day: ‘Vulnerable’ Senate Dems Propose Cutting Gas Tax
Here’s an actual headline good for some laughs: “Vulnerable Senate Dems try to run as tax-cutters.” That howler of a header appeared this week in Politico.
Ship Carrying 1,100 Porsches, 189 Bentleys Ablaze in Atlantic
A ship transporting about 4000 vehicles – including roughly 1,100 Porches and 189 Bentleys – across the Atlantic to the U.S.has been abandoned at sea and left ablaze.
The Unseen Environmental Crises Destroying Humanity
In part 1 of this series, we looked at a recent Rockefeller policy document calling for transformative change in food production and how that ties in with the new food agenda.
In part 2, we examined the shady history of modern agribusiness and some of the wealthy elites and institutions
Tory Green Motoring Tax Incentives to Burn £8bn Hole in Finances - Report
Tax incentives put in place by the UK Conservative party to push people towards green motoring could cost the exchequer billions, underlining the likelihood of new taxes being raised once electric cars are established, wiping out financial benefits for owners. A push to get motorists in the UK to adopt
Tory Green Motoring Tax Incentives to Burn £8bn Hole in Finances - Report
Tax incentives put in place by the UK Conservative party to push people towards green motoring could cost the exchequer billions, underlining the likelihood of new taxes being raised once electric cars are established, wiping out financial benefits for owners. A push to get motorists in the UK to adopt
Tory Green Motoring Tax Incentives to Burn £8bn Hole in Finances - Report
Tax incentives put in place by the UK Conservative party to push people towards green motoring could cost the exchequer billions, underlining the likelihood of new taxes being raised once electric cars are established, wiping out financial benefits for owners. A push to get motorists in the UK to adopt
Tory Green Motoring Tax Incentives to Burn £8bn Hole in Finances - Report
Tax incentives put in place by the UK Conservative party to push people towards green motoring could cost the exchequer billions, underlining the likelihood of new taxes being raised once electric cars are established, wiping out financial benefits for owners. A push to get motorists in the UK to adopt
UK Energy Price Hike Threatens to Worsen Poverty Crisis
Last week, the United Kingdom government raised the price energy providers can charge customers by 54 percent in response to rising fossil fuel costs, putting the human right to an adequate standard of living at risk for millions. Poverty rates have risen sharply in UK households with children over the
Vivek Ramaswamy: BlackRock’s Woke Green Agenda Is All About BlackRock’s Bottom-line, Not Its Portfolio Companies’
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled “BlackRock’s Climate-Crusade Doubletalk,” entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy takes aim at BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s annual letter urging corporate leaders to put their companies’ “purpose” as the “foundation” of their relationship with their stakeholders while also pursuing a climate change agenda favored by
How the US Can Protect Pregnant Workers from High Temperatures
US President Joe Biden tasked the US Labor Department to write regulations to better protect workers from heat, partly because climate change is making more and more days dangerously hot.
This Week in the New Normal #21
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.
1. Lockdowns, clean air and saving lives
Not a big story this week, just snuck into the papers without much