The government has “significantly underestimated” coal and gas emissions in its Safeguard Mechanism to curb big carbon polluters, according to new analysis by Climate Analytics. Callum Foote reports.
Source: New Report: coal and gas emissions “set to soar” under Safeguard Mechanism – Michael West
Remember when Andrew Bolt bragged that he’d take his family on holiday to Chernobyl. He told us it was perfectly safe and that there was no danger of any long lasting nuclear radiation fallout.
Yaroslav Yemelianenko, who works for the Public Council at the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management, called them “irradiated terrorists” on Facebook. He seemed unsympathetic to their plight and likely permanent health problems as a result. “Digging the trenches in Radu Forest, bitches? Now live the rest of your short life with this.”
Source: Russian Soldiers Suffer Acute Radiation Syndrome At Chernobyl | Crooks and Liars
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Who’d Prefer Their Country to Trump’s US? Norwegians Would
President Donald Trump says the United States should take in more Norwegians, but is it any wonder that more Americans are going the other way?“Norwegians generally live longer than Americans. There’s a generous safety net of health care and pensions. And although it’s pricey, the country last year was named the happiest on Earth.
President Donald Trump says the United States should take in more Norwegians, but is it any wonder that more Americans are going the other way?
The country of 5.2 million people that seldom makes global headlines awoke Friday to the news that Trump wanted to have more immigrants from Norway, rather than Haiti and countries in Africa that he disparaged with a vulgar term.
The comments came after Trump met Wednesday with Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg in Washington. His remarks were seen in Oslo as racially charged and sharply at odds with Norwegian values of inclusivity.”
Despite an almost total lack of public debate, Western military escalation in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya is on the rise. Renewed military interventionism has been largely justified as a response to the meteoric rise of Islamic State networks, spreading across parts of the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. Missing from government pronouncements, though, is any acknowledgement that the proliferation of Islamist terrorism is a direct consequence of the knee-jerk response of military escalation.
Shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus has had a court victory over the current minister, George Brandis, with the Administrative Appeals Tribunal overturning Senator Brandis’ refusal to release his ministerial diary.
Source: Mark Dreyfus wins case over George Brandis’ refusal to release ministerial diary
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