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Researchers said China was responsible for 27% of all greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, nearly three times the amount emitted by the United States and more than the entire developed world combined.

The Blaze

China’s greenhouse gas emissions exceed every developed nation combined, researchers say

China produces more greenhouse gas emissions than any other developed nation in the world combined, according to new data.What are the details?Despite climate change alarmists who claim the U.S. has a problem with greenhouse gas emissions, a new report from the Rhodium Group exposes China as the wor…

The cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline by the Russians no less is a reminder that old fashioned national security, fuel stockpiles and working class labor still matter in the real world. When you need them you really need them.

The Fossil Fuels Must Go Through | The Pipeline

There is something surrealistically ironic about Joe Biden’s Emergency Order to mobilize tanker trucks — anything — to keep the fossil fuels going. On the one hand it is a backhanded admission of how vital the products transported by the Colonial Pipeline are. On the other it is a reminder of how …

WHO elevates Indian coronavirus strain to ‘variant of concern’

A top official at the World Health Organization on Monday announced the agency is elevating a coronavirus variant first identified in India from a ‘variant to interest,’ to a ‘variant to concern,’ citing early studies suggesting increased transmissibility.

Plus “the black fungus”.

We live in this bizarre world where Greens are praising Chernobyl for creating an environmental garden spot; where incredibly bad job figures are signs Biden has got things right; when Russians who attack US infrastructure justify their acts as merely criminal and everyone believes the covid pandemic was caused by a Species X that no one can find.

Maybe ‘post-truth’ is another name for crazy.

‘We are just ordinary criminals’, Russian group claims as Biden seeks alternative ways to deliver fossil fuel after key pipeline is disrupted.

Colonial pipeline hack claimed by Russian group DarkSide spurs emergency order from White House

The federal government issued a rare emergency declaration on Sunday after a cyberattack on a major U.S. pipeline choked the transportation of oil.

The voting reforms, which will also include a limit on the number of postal votes that can be handed in on behalf of others, are being justified by ministers as a way to reduce the risk of electoral fraud.

Guardian

Queen’s speech: voters will need photo ID for general elections

Government’s legislative agenda is unlikely to include long-awaited reforms to adult social care

Bad luck I guess.

Widespread shortages and production snags are driving prices higher for many everyday items, as an uneven economic reopening leaves Americans facing the unfamiliar risk of inflation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/10/economy-inflation-prices/

New at the Belmont Club. Evidence that Gain of Function lab experiments may have accidentally released super pathogens could haunt humanity’s relationship to technology.

Starting a Pandemic in Order to Prevent One

The sorcerer’s apprentice

Chernobyl: Why the nuclear disaster was an environmental success

The 1986 disaster has unexpectedly created Europe’s largest nature reserve.

“The burden brought by radiation at Chernobyl is less severe than the benefits reaped from humans leaving the area,” explains plant biochemistry expert Stuart Thompson, who adds that the zone “supports more life than before.”

After being described as the end of mankind, now it’s a pity it wasn’t.

Are you sure this is the right road?

Biden finds reasons for optimism in disappointing jobs report

“Today there is more evidence our economy is moving in the right direction, but it is clear we have a long way to go,” the president said.

The New York Times fears the Chinese narrative, which they see projected through methods copied directly from the Western media. Beijing is using its clout to suppress Western ‘conspiracy theories”. As the MSM ran roughshod over alternative media so is Chinese state media steamrolling the mere press.

When Covid Hit, China Was Ready to Tell Its Version of the Story

The government has been using its money and power to create an alternative to a global news media dominated by outlets like the BBC and CNN.

The love of money has been famously described as “the root of all evil”. It has tainted love, motivated betrayal, ruined virtue and corrupted incorruptible activists. It’s never about the money yet somehow it always is.

Israel says Palestinian NGOs funnelled European donor cash to militants

Israel accused a Spanish resident of the occupied West Bank on Thursday of being part of a network of NGOs that it suspects of diverting sums “in the eight figures” from European donations to a Palestinian faction that is on the EU’s terrorism blacklist.

Why are countries named “the People’s Democratic Republic” always autocratic tyrannies and why do regimes who bemoan the lack of baby milk seem awash with expensive rpgs and machine guns?

US Navy seizes thousands of assault weapons from ship allegedly sent by Iran

Wild images show thousands of assault weapons, machine guns and sniper rifles the US Navy says it found on a sailing ship believed to be bringing them from Iran to support the war in Yemen. The gui…

Sound familiar?

The working-class revolt against Labour

The local elections confirm that working people are sick of Labour’s sneering.

The mass working-class defection to the Conservative Party; the colonisation of Labour by middle-class graduates; the transformation of Labour from a party of working people into a metropolitan machine more concerned with gender-neutral toilets and taking the knee than with what working-class people want and need

Can any inquiry that shuts itself to scientific possibilities before reaching a conclusion be an inquiry? How do you “fact check” an investigation still in progress?

Report: Chinese People’s Liberation Army 2015 Dossier On Bio-Warfare Plans Included Coronaviruses

A document obtained by The Australian, titled “The Unnatural Origin of SARS and New Species of Man-Made Viruses as Genetic Bioweapons,” predicted that World War III would be fought with biological weapons.

The story of Franz Jägerstätter, the Austrian altar server who was executed for conscientious objection to the Third Reich, was made into a movie by Terrence Malick, director the Thin Red Line.

When you think of energy, especially hydrocarbon energy as bad, you don’t prioritize a stockpile or reserve of it. You don’t want to stockpile immoral substances which it turns out are absolutely vital.

Cyber attack shuts down U.S. fuel pipeline ‘jugular,’ Biden briefed

Top U.S. fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline shut its entire network, the source of nearly half of the U.S. East Coast’s fuel supply, after a cyber attack on Friday that involved ransomware.

EXCLUSIVE: Classified study found COVID-19 could have originated in Chinese lab

WASHINGTON (SBG) – A classified study of the origin of SARS-CoV-2 conducted a year ago by scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Department of Energy’s premier biodefense research institution, concluded the novel coronavirus at the heart of the current pandemic may have …

This area of scientific activity, experts told Sinclair, carries a “dual-use”: It supports the development of new vaccines and therapeutics but can also be used in covert biological- and chemical-weapons programs, which China is suspected of maintaining.