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.
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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
Bathed in Pesticides: the Narrative of Deception
The volume of pesticide use and exposure is occurring on a scale that is without precedent and world-historical in nature.
EU: To End Deforestation, Protect Land Rights
(Brussels) – The European Union’s landmark anti-deforestation law should require businesses to respect traditional communities’ rights over their territories or risk failing to deliver on its objectives, more than 191 Indigenous, environmental, and human rights organizations from 62 countries said today in an open letter to EU policymakers.
These communities’
This Week in the New Normal #20
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. “anti-vaxxers are joining racist militias”
We’ve covered the increasing demonisation of the “anti-vaxxers” regularly for over a year
New Study Underscores Dangerous Levels of Chemical Pollution
Chemical pollution has reached a dangerous level globally.
Exclusive: GOP Bill Would Ban Foreign Land Purchases for 5 Years
A bill being co-led by Reps.