Above Photo: Plenary session of the COP21 adopting the Paris Agreement in 2015. (UNclimatechange from Bonn, Germany). World-leading economists have blown a hole right through the middle of the main tool used to produce the net-zero scenarios embraced by climate policymakers. In a new paper, Sir Nicholas Stern, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz and Charlotte Taylor conclude that climate-energy-economy Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), which are the key tool in producing emission-reduction scenarios, “have very limited value in answering the two critical questions” of the speed and nature of emissions reductions and “fail to provide much in the way of useful guidance, […]
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The UK, and others, have criticized Facebook over its plan to introduce end-to-end message encryption, arguing it would allow pedophiles freely share child abuse materials as millions are attributed to the tech giant’s platforms. The US social media giant has found itself at the center of yet another controversy as its initiative supposedly aimed at protecting the privacy of billions of people using Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp stumbled on the vehement opposition of the UK and the US, as well as other countries. The governments argue the move would make the social networks a safe haven for pedophiles and terrorists. Also […]
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A week after the heated debate with Biden, who raised allegations of Trump’s ties with Moscow that have long been proven false, POTUS ordered the release of all documents related to the so-called Russiagate in a bid to end the longstanding “hoax”. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has commented on recent allegations by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, who accused Trump of being “Putin’s puppy” during the first debate, saying that such remarks only characterise the level of political culture, or lack thereof, of the former US vice president. Putin added that such remarks also benefit Russia’s global image, as they suggest […]
President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden’s debate this week was low on substance and high on interruptions and aggression, particularly from Trump. SOPA Images/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett hide caption toggle caption SOPA Images/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden’s debate this week was low on substance and high on interruptions and aggression, particularly from Trump. SOPA Images/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett With news that the president and first lady have tested positive for coronavirus, Tuesday night’s presidential debate can seem like a distant memory by now. Which is particularly wild because the debate was also […]
“Anarchist” jurisdictions and cities that allow violent protests and cut police budgets will face the loss of federal funding, says the latest executive memo from US President Donald Trump ramping up his “law and order” campaign. A five-page memo sent to federal agencies on Wednesday orders them to report to the White House Office of Management and Budget on any funding that could be redirected. New York City, Portland, Seattle and even Washington, DC are among the initial targets of the measure. SCOOP: President Trump has signed a memo ordering federal agencies to defund ‘anarchist jurisdictions’Agencies must report to OMB funds […]
Earlier this week, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei expressed his gratitude to the nation’s air defence troops, saying the Islamic Republic “owes its security” to their continued “preparedness and wakefulness” in the face of regional and global threats. Iran’s new radar systems are capable of detecting and destroying objects of ‘any size’ if they violate the country’s airspace, Alireza Sabahifard, commander of Iran’s Air Defence Force has said. Speaking at an exhibition of over two dozen ‘salient achievements’ of the air defence forces on Wednesday, the commander said that “today, we have the ability to identify any drones in the sky […]
The device, which was first conceived back in 2015, has been perfected over the last five years – and the timing couldn’t be better, as countries are lifting their lockdowns while trying to prevent a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Russia’s KMZ plant, working in cooperation with the Gamaleya Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology that developed the world’s first coronavirus vaccine, has presented its latest product – a device capable of detecting a wide array of toxins as well as 86 types of pathogens, including the COVID-19 virus, by analysing the air. While the device, dubbed “Detector-Bio”, is far from […]
The Trump Campaign released the speaker’s list for this week’s Republican National Convention. Via Daily Caller: Day 1: Matt Gaetz, Tim Scott, Jim Jordan, Vernon Jones, Kim Klacik, Charlie Kirk, Don Jr. TRENDING: Police Make Second Arrest in Attack on 7-Year-Old Trump Supporter Outside of DNC Convention Day 2: First Lady Melania Trump, Mike Pompeo, Ran Paul, Daniel Cameron, Mary Ann Mendoza, Nick Sandmann, Eric Trump, Tiffany Trump Day 3: Lee Zeldin, VP Mike Pence, Kellyanne Conway, Burgess Owens, Lara Trump Day 4: President Trump, Tom Cotton, Ivanka Trump, Alice Johnson, Ben Carson, Dana White This will be a great week […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States has imposed new Syria-related sanctions on six individuals including President Bashar Assad’s press officer Luna al-Shibli, the Treasury Department said in a statement on Thursday. “The following individuals have been added to OFAC’s SDN List”, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said. The United States has announced sanctions against military and other supporters of the Syrian government of President Bashar Assad in memory of the victims of the alleged chemical attacks in Ghouta seven years ago, US Secretary Pompeo said in a statement on Thursday. “Tomorrow will mark the seventh anniversary of the Assad […]
Over the past few weeks, at least seven members of the Seattle City Council have revealed a commitment to cut police funding by 50% in the wake of anti-police violence and anti-racism protests in the US, calling to defund police departments across the country. The Seattle City Council on Monday passed a spending plan that would reduce funding for the city police department as part of a revised 2020 budget. The plan, approved by a 7-1 vote, included a 14-percent cut in police funding or about $3 million of the department’s earlier approved budget of $400 million, which is far below […]
Five women are said to be at the top of former Obama Vice President Joe Biden’s list of potential vice presidential running mates, according to a report by NBC News citing sources “familiar with the matter.” Biden, the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, has taken advantage of the month delay of the party’s Milwaukee convention, now set to start August 17, to announce his pick for V.P. Biden and Whitmer, file image. Among the five is newly relevant contender Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) whom Biden interviewed last Sunday at his Delaware home. Whitmer is said to be one of the […]
In June angry Black Lives Matter leftists tore down the statue of Hans Christian Heg in Madison, Wisconsin. They beheaded the statue and then threw it in a lake.Hans Christian Heg was an abolitionist who gave his life to end slavery in America. The protesters are idiots. During their rioting Democrat Senator Tim Carpenter stopped by and took a video of the destruction.The mob turned on him. They punched him, beat him in the head, neck and ribs.They socked him in the left eye and gave him a concussion. TRENDING: TGP at Tech Hearing: Rep. Greg Steube Grills Google CEO on […]
The attackers who compromised Twitter in a massive breach last week might have accessed direct messages from up to 36 accounts, including CoinDesk’s. Twitter announced late Wednesday that it had completed its review of the 130 accounts targeted by the hack, which saw numerous verified accounts hijacked to post a link to a questionable website or directly shill a bitcoin giveaway scam. “The most important question for people who use Twitter is likely — did the attackers see any of my private information? For the vast majority of people, we believe the answer is, no,” Wednesday’s update said, later adding: CoinDesk […]
The grandmother of the two year old boy in the viral photograph of Black Lives Matter supporters kneeling on his neck tells the Gateway Pundit that zero national news outlets have reached out to the family. In the photo, a man named Isaiah Jackson is seen kneeling on the neck of his girlfriend’s two year old son as another person holds down the diaper-clad baby’s feet. The photo was captioned with “Blm now mf.” Not even Fox News has bothered to contact them to cover this story and local media is blurring the face of the man and refusing to publish his name […]
Another day, another lie. The fake news media exploded this weekend after a health official on the Texas Gulf Coast claimed 85 infants have tested positive for the Coronavirus. “We currently have 85 babies under the age of one year in Nueces County that have all tested positive for COVID-19,” Annette Rodriguez said during a public health update in Corpus Christi in a Friday presser. “These babies have not even had their first birthday yet. Please help us to stop the spread of this disease” by staying home except for necessary trips, socially distancing and wearing masks in public. Fake News […]
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is deploying “enforcement teams” that include police officers to airports to keep track of visitors to New York as officials enforce the Democrat’s out-of-state travel advisory, which mandates that all travelers from coronavirus hot-spot states must quarantine for 14 days upon arrival. On Monday, the governor issued an executive order that requires travelers from designated states — at least 22 at last count — to fill out a “contact information form” established by the N.Y. Department of Health. The mandate applies to all visitors traveling by plane, train or car and require contacts phone numbers and addresses for […]
USA Today wrote a BS article on how President Trump is selling Nazi T-Shirts at his campaign store.The far left “fact checkers” at USA Today ruled the America First Eagle on the Trump T-Shirt is in fact a Nazi Symbol. But then their fake news fell apart. Matt Whitlock pointed out that Speaker Nancy Pelosi uses the same image on her website. TRENDING: Young White Mother Killed By Black Lives Matter Mob for Allegedly Saying ‘All Lives Matter,’ National Media Fully Ignores Let’s compare. pic.twitter.com/XlHETdxSFE — The GOP Problem (@xnilxnil) July 12, 2020 And now several photos have surfaced of top […]
Multnomah County district attorney Rod Underhill has dropped charges on 59 people who have been arrested on suspicion of various different crimes over the last seven weeks of protests that have commonly devolved into riots. Some of these are small, petty crimes, such as Failure To Obey, which some journalists were charged with, while others are more serious felonies, including a suspected arsonist. KGW reports: Dozens of protesters arrested during mass demonstrations in downtown Portland have had their criminal charges dropped and cases closed. KGW analysis of police and court records shows the Multnomah County District Attorney’s office dropped charges against […]
Attendants refill teacups as Chen Quanguo (center), Communist Party secretary of China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, listens to a speaker during a group discussion meeting on the sidelines of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on March 12, 2019. The Politburo member is one of the subjects of new U.S. sanctions over human rights abuses in the region. Mark Schiefelbein/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Schiefelbein/AP Attendants refill teacups as Chen Quanguo (center), Communist Party secretary of China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, listens to a speaker during a group discussion meeting on the sidelines […]
Over 200 serving law enforcement officers in the UK have convictions for assault, drug possession and burglary, according to a report. It comes after a London Met police officer was charged with a series of terrorism offenses. According to data released to Sky News under the Freedom of Information Act, forces across the UK employ at least 211 police officers and Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) who have been found guilty of serious crimes. The true figure is highly likely to be much higher, however, as only a third of police forces felt comfortable revealing how many of their officers have […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107977/76/1079777637_0:84:3491:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_949ff171af1b678d5e91c4002b2f9442.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007071079815027-pompeo-says-us-considers-banning-chinese-social-media-apps-including-tiktok/ Pompeo earlier welcomed a similar move by India, as it issued an interim order blocking TikTok and 58 other apps linked to China, two weeks after the two countries saw the first deadly border clash in decades. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on late Monday that the United States is “certainly looking” at banning China’s social media apps, including TikTok. “I don’t want to get out in front of the President, but it’s something we’re looking at”, Pompeo said in an interview with Fox News. Last week, Pompeo said the US welcomes India’s […]
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained Secret Service records for the first five years of the Obama Admin showing Hunter Biden took 411 flights and visited 29 countries. The Secret Service did not disclose, as requested by Judicial Watch, if Hunter Biden flew on Air Force One, Air Force Two or other government planes or whether other family members were in attendance. The records reveal Hunter Biden visited China 5 times. The new documents also show that Hunter Biden never visited Ukraine prior to being hired by Burisma Holdings, a corrupt Ukrainian natural gas company. TRENDING: EXCLUSIVE: Police Source: Woman Who […]
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Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202006191079662682-paris-police-ban-three-rallies-including-protest-near-us-embassy-due-to-covid-19-risks/ The news comes after mass rallies against racism held last week resulted in major clashes between the police and protesters. The Parisian police announced that they have banned three protests scheduled for Saturday due to fears of public disorder and the coronavirus pandemic. According to law enforcement, the decision was also made considering the recent outbreaks of gang violence in Dijon and Nice. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
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Donald and Melania Trump may not sleep in the same bedroom, as has been reported time and time again, but Washington Post correspondent Mary Jordan reveals one thing the first lady shares with her husband: “modeling tips.” If the president looks disheveled and bloated in every photo and walks with a rickety gait, it is not for lack of Melania trying, Jordan writes in the new biography The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump (Simon & Schuster). “Before a photo shoot, she has been heard telling Trump to slightly lift and extend his chin,” the book reveals. […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): New Delhi and Kathmandu have been engaged in a tussle since May, when India launched a strategic road along the Lipulekh Pas leading to China border. Nepal had accused India of encroaching on its territory. In a snub to India, the lower house of Nepal’s Parliament, the House of Representatives, has passed the New Nepal Map (Coat of Arms) Constitutional Amendments, which include the strategically important Indian territories of Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura as part of Nepal. The Bill also seeks to resemble the national emblem. The constitutional amendment was introduced by Law Minister Shivamaya Tumbahamphe on 31 May […]
US Veterans, Including Active Duty, Reject Militarization Against Demonstrators By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. June 8, 2020 US Veterans, Including Active Duty, Reject Militarization Against Demonstrators2020-06-082020-06-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/marine-e1591629210794.jpg200px200px The United States is in the midst of a mass uprising against police violence, but also a whole list of grievances such as the lack of jobs, health care, education and more. Sustained protests have been going on for two weeks defying curfews and severe repression by police. The national guard has been deployed to 23 states and President Trump threatened to deploy the military against people expressing their First Amendment […]
Publishing and e-commerce giant Amazon is facing a wave of criticism for refusing to publish a book questioning whether the media and medical experts made the threat of Covid-19 seem much bigger than it is, before backing down. “Your book does not comply with our guidelines,” Amazon informed author Alex Berenson on Thursday about his submitted work ‘Unreported Truths about Covid-19 and Lockdowns Part 1: Introduction and Death Counts and Estimates’. The company, which accounts for about 50 percent of the print book market and 75 percent of the ebook business, told Berenson it would not offer his book for sale. […]
DNI Richard Grenell declassified a slew of Russia probe documents on his way out the door on Tuesday. Former Rep. John Ratcliffe will take over as DNI today after his swearing in ceremony on Tuesday morning. FOX News reported: The documents include transcripts of phone calls that then-incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak had in December 2016, during the presidential transition period. Grenell said publicly last week that he was in the process of declassifying those files, after House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., asked that he do so. Fox News has learned that the […]
Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi revealed a $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill that sneaks in taxpayer funding to hand out up to $1,200 in cash directly to undocumented aliens who don’t have a valid social security number. Fox News’s Tucker Carlson reported, “This bill goes out of its way to supply illegal immigrants who, in case you needed to be reminded, have no right to be here in the first place with billions in taxpayer dollars.” Carlson continued, “According to House Democrats, illegal immigrants must have a right to have the $1,200 checks that American citizens received in the last bill. They […]
Washington state Governor Jay Inslee announced a controversial rule earlier this week that would wipe out restaurants in his state. The governor said he will require restaurants to keep a log, including contact information, on every customer who dines at their establishment. Advertisement – story continues below Inslee also wants all restaurants to open at half capacity. This crazed tyrant wanted to be president. TRENDING: BREAKING: Video Surfaces of Joe Scarborough Joking About Having Affair With Intern and Having to Kill Her This was another example of pure liberal insanity. Here’s the update—On Friday the governor of Washington walked back his […]
Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Joe Biden’s camp is rushing to do some damage control after it was revealed on Wednesday that Biden sought to unmask General Flynn on January 12, 2017 — the same day David Ignatius published his WaPo article about Flynn’s communications with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Last week Acting DNI Richard Grenell declassified the list of Obama officials involved in the unmasking of General Mike Flynn in his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. CBS reporter Catherine Herridge on Wednesday obtained the list of Obama operatives who unmasked General Flynn and released it to the public. Names […]
A newly published list of US officials who were interested in National Security Agency (NSA) records on Trump adviser Michael Flynn includes President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, as well as Vice President Joe Biden. Biden is listed as requesting the unmasking on January 12, 2017, the same day the Washington Post published a story claiming that Flynn had misreported his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, based on leaked NSA information. Yet on Tuesday, Biden told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that he “knew nothing” about the investigation of Flynn, and accused the Trump administration of using the former adviser’s case as […]
Herd immunity may be an unrealistic tactic for dealing with Covid-19, new research has warned, calling into question the strategy of several countries – such as Sweden – who shied away from quarantine measures in its favor. Europe is a long way from reaching the levels of exposure required for herd immunity, according to a new study published by the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). Belgium tops the list, with just 6.2 percent of its population exposed to Covid-19 so far, and Sweden – with no enforced lockdown measures – is even lower down the list at just 2.5 […]
It’s hard to believe but America’s top Infectious Disease Doctor Anthony Fauci has been wrong on the coronavirus pandemic — Every step of the way! Here is a list of several errors, contradictory statements and dangerous gaffes by NIAID Director Dr. Tony Fauci: 1.) Dr. Fauci says he warned Trump in January that the US was in real trouble but that is not what he said publicly. In January Dr. Anthony Fauci told Newsmax TV that the United States “did not have to worry” about the coronavirus and that it was “not a major threat.” “This is not a major threat…” […]
This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here. This week: The week’s best TV performance. The week’s most insufferable controversy. The week’s weirdest celeb quarantine trend. The week’s most brazen quarantine offense. The week’s best gold lamé harem pants. Keep Your Garbage Adele Takes Adele shocked the world when she posted a photo on her birthday thanking fans for their nice messages and also taking the opportunity to honor front-line workers. In the photo, […]
On Thursday–** The Justice Department announced it was dropping its case against former Trump administration National Security Advisor Mike Flynn. ** DNI Richard Grenell and Intel Chair Adam Schiff both released the 53 hidden transcripts from the Mueller hoax investigation. ** Then Ed Henry broke the news tonight that DNI Richard Grenell walked a “satchel of documents” over to the Department of Justice on Thursday. Henry says the satchel contained more transcripts that may be released on Friday. Now tonight Shannon Bream informed her audience that there is MUCH MORE coming next week including a “bombshell” from the intelligence community. TRENDING: […]
The House Intelligence Committee released the 57 previously undisclosed transcripts from the Mueller probe into the Trump admininstration. Chairman Adam Schiff released the documents after DNI Rick Grenell threatened to release the documents earlier this week. The committee voted in 2018 to release the damning documents that show NO RUSSIA COLLUSION between the Trump Campaign and Russia. Correspondence Letter from HPSCI to Acting Director of Intelligence Richard Grenell (May 7, 2020) Correspondence between HPSCI and Office of Director of National Intelligence and White House (November 2018 – May 2020) Interview Transcripts Interview Transcript of Rinat Akhmetshin (November 13, 2017) Interview Transcript […]