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The COP 26 organizers must be quaking in their chardonnay. Just when they need all the usual hyped up wind powered record headlines, they’re getting headlines of record gas prices, rocketing inflation, and industries thinking about shutting down. Welcome to the Green Revolution: UK industry could face shutdowns as wholesale gas price hits record high Rob Davies and Joanna Partridge, The Guardian
Strangely, making electricity affordable makes it harder to employ people. Who knew? The IPA shows that nearly 650,000 Australian jobs are at risk from Net Zero policies, and most of those jobs will be lost in the regions and thus in National Party electorates. Seats predicted to escape that pain are in inner city areas. Thus and verily, the price of Net Zero will be largely paid by the deplorable
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Marvel Studios is developing an Agatha Harkness WandaVision spinoff, according to sources at Variety . Kathryn Hahn will reprise her role as the insidious, perfidious witch with WandaVision head writer and creator Jac Schaeffer at the helm. Reps for Hahn and Schaeffer didn't respond to Variety, and Marvel is kind of known for their secrecy, so we don't expect to know much about this show any time
As the days get shorter and the temperatures drop, that can only mean one thing: Christmas is coming, bringing with it new Christmas movies and TV shows to binge. This year, Netflix's Yuletide offerings begin in November with new romantic Christmas comedies like Love Hard , A Castle For Christmas, and Single All the Way . TV offerings include holiday specials from The Great British Baking Show an
Cold case investigators believe that they have finally discovered the identity of the infamous murderer. The notorious killer, whose identity has rema...
NASA has announced more details of an upcoming mission that will attempt to redirect an asteroid. Known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)...
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Ship's anchor appears to have caused devastating Southern California oil spill; Fossil fuel industry receives $11 million in government subsidies every minute , new report finds; PLUS: Pennsylvania Attorney General files criminal charges against notorious pipeline developer... All that and more in today's Green News Report! GNR's now celebrating 12 YEARS of independent gr

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Zanzibari novelist becomes first black African writer in 35 years to win prestigious award The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”. Gurnah grew up on one of the islands of Zanzibar before fleeing pers
Exclusive: Report from planning exercise in 2016 alerted government of need to stockpile PPE and set up contact tracing system Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Senior health officials who war-gamed the impact of a coronavirus hitting the UK, warned four years before the onset of Covid-19 of the need for stockpiles of PPE, a computerised contact tracing system and scre
The decision will impose an additional burden on unvaccinated people, following on from a law requiring a health pass to enter many indoor venues.
Conservative media was going to birth a network eventually. But Fox has made life worse, even if you never watch
I s it just me, or does it feel like America is running out of everything? I visited CVS last week to pick up some at-home COVID-19 tests. They’d been sold out for a week, an employee told me. So I asked about paper towels. “We’re out of those too,” he said. “Try Walgreens.” I drove to a Walgreens that had paper towels. But when I asked a pharmacist to fill some very common prescriptions, he told
In an emotional press conference, the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, called the judge’s decision to confer human status on women “a dark day in the history of our great state.”

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The first scientific analysis of images taken by NASA's Perseverance rover has now confirmed that Mars' Jezero crater—which today is a dry, wind-eroded depression—was once a quiet lake, fed steadily by a small river some 3.7 billion years ago.
New research has confirmed that an obsidian mirror used by John Dee, confidante to Queen Elizabeth I, to contact otherworldly spirits in his occult practices has Aztec origins.
The agency has promised to move quickly on the request and has tentatively scheduled a meeting at the end of the month to consider it.
"With new cases in children in the U.S. continuing to be at a high level, this submission is an important step in our ongoing effort against #COVID19," the pharmaceutical giant said. (Image credit: Jill Connelly/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Outdoor nature-based activities are effective for improving mental health in adults, including those with pre-existing mental health problems, a new study has found.
In urban areas across the U.S., low-income neighborhoods and communities of color experience an average of 28% more nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution than higher-income and majority-white neighborhoods. The disparity is driven primarily by proximity to trucking routes on major roadways, where diesel trucks are emitters of NO2 and other air pollutants.

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Erdogan in continual communication with Trump still...in his war on both the US and Russia. Now Erdogan is moving the world's heroin business from Afghanistan and providing a new home for the CIA's drug empire. It gets worse...much worse... The post first appeared on Veterans Today | Military Foreign Affairs Policy Journal for Clandestine Services .
When the Red Planet’s lakes burst their banks, the disaster carved the undulating canyons and valleys we still see today The post first appeared on Veterans Today | Military Foreign Affairs Policy Journal for Clandestine Services .
In two decades, the insect’s population has declined by nearly 90 percent due to a combination of threats, including habitat loss, pesticides and diseases The post first appeared on Veterans Today | Military Foreign Affairs Policy Journal for Clandestine Services .
Stu Littlewood - "These brave souls have published an open letter with over 1,000 signatories to the International Community." The post first appeared on Veterans Today | Military Foreign Affairs Policy Journal for Clandestine Services .
When it comes to abortion, people have the right to speak their minds saying that it is their body. But when it comes to taking the vaccine, your freedom is actually being taken away. The post first appeared on Veterans Today | Military Foreign Affairs Policy Journal for Clandestine Services .
The Navy has created a new task group on the East Coast to ensure it has ready destroyers that can deploy on short notice to counter the Russian submarine threat in the Atlantic Ocean. The post first appeared on Veterans Today | Military Foreign Affairs Policy Journal for Clandestine Services .

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Country star Kane Brown took the stage to perform his song “Memory” featuring blackbear. Check your local listings to watch Ellen today: https://ellen.tv/3BOuzz4 Subscribe to The Ellen Show: https://youtube.com/theellenshow?sub_confirmation=1 #Ellen #TheEllenShow #EllenDeGeneres From: TheEllenShow
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Ellen recruited actor Jason Sudeikis and singer Kane Brown to help raise money and awareness with a game called "Ramp It Up!" See how much money Ellen and Jason can win for charity as Kane gets soaked with water! Brought to you by: Hologic Check your local listings to watch Ellen today: https://ellen.tv/3BOuzz4 Subscribe to The Ellen Show: https://youtub
A decade before Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, a tiny team of renegades imagined and tried to build the modern smartphone. Nearly forgotten by history, a little startup called Handspring tried to make the future before it was ready. In Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone, The Verge’s Dieter Bohn talks to the visionaries at Handspring and dives into their early successe
On October 5th, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen appeared before a Senate Commerce subcommittee to testify about Facebook, Instagram, and the danger of engagement-focused algorithms. Read more: https://www.theverge.com/e/22475988 Subscribe: http://goo.gl/G5RXGs Like The Verge on Facebook: https://goo.gl/2P1aGc Follow on Twitter: https://goo.gl/XTWX61 Follow on Instagram: https://goo.gl/7ZeLv

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Female teacher and her male colleague killed inside a government school - the seventh targeted killings in six days.
Gurnah hailed for 'uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and fate of the refugee'.
" The primary "scientific" assumption driving nearly all the political mandates that have wrecked the world economy and more during the past 20 months is: COVID-19 IS CONTAGIOUS The shocking truth is that there is not a single scientific experiment or investigation that has demonstrated that this is true." Kevin Boyle is a retired teacher of physics, engineering science and math living in Croydon
Earlier this week, a Soyuz spacecraft launched to the International Space Station with three people on board. But only one of them was a cosmonaut. The other two crew members were Russian actress Yulia Peresild and film producer Klim Shipenko. They will be on the ISS for 12 days to film scenes for an upcoming movie, called “Challenge.” NASA says the film crew is there under a commercial agreement
"T homas Nash, co-director of the independent think-tank, New Zealand Alternative ... says many of the opinion writers [decrying NZ's exclusion from AUKUS] appear to prioritise a militarist worldview but he contends if we are to enjoy a peaceful future, we should do the exact opposite 'and forge closer relations that share our anti-nuclear values.' NZ [he says] should resist pressure to fall into
The belief that Poland has transferred most of its sovereignty to unelected EU officials and declared the primacy of "EU laws" over the Polish constitution is legally incorrect Some institutions of the European Union have been attacking Poland by saying that their judges didn't have enough independence. Well, the Polish constitutional tribunal just showed quite a lot of independence 

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