The Top 1% of Emitters Caused Almost a Quarter of Global Emissions Since 1990
Just 1% of the world’s population was responsible for almost a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions over 1990-2019, new research finds. The study, published in Nature Sustainability, highlights the inequality in peoples’ greenhouse gas footprints — a cornerstone of the climate justice movement. According to the study, people in sub-Saharan Africa emitted 1.6 tonnes (tCO2e), […]
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Dahr Jamail on William Rivers Pitt
The title of William Rivers Pitt’s unpublished book about the pandemic is: Please Take This, I Love You, and I Might Die. A COVID Diary.He sent me the manuscript quite a while ago so that I could review it and offer my input on whether it would make sense to have it published. Will was […]
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Conservative Orgs Demand DOJ Comms On Violence Against Pro-Lifers
Former Vice President Mike Pence’s Advancing American Freedom is leading a conservative coalition in demanding Justice Department records about the “ongoing attacks against pro-life organizations” — and whether the Justice Department is ignoring them. In a FOIA Request first obtained by The Daily SignalAdvancing American Freedom and Americans United for Life, Catholic Vote and Concerned […]
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Polling shows 11 Cabinet ministers set to lose their seats, as Labour gain the Isle of Wight
Drawing on the opinion polls published in the week since Kwarsi Kwarteng’s mini budget, politics.co.uk’s latest Westminster model provides a graphic illustration of how the Conservatives would be decimated in any election held today. Within the first three weeks of Truss’ premiership, the Labour lead over Conservatives had already reached 11.2%. In doing so, Britain’s […]
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The Green Party Annual Conference- what to expect.
The Green Party’s Autumn Conference starts today in Harrogate. The conference will run at the town’s Convention Centre until Sunday. As with last years event, the conference will be fully hybrid, and members can choose between attending in person or joining and voting online. The Conference is expected to debate the current energy crisis with the party leadership […]
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Farron: Migration has to be part of the solution to labour shortages
Tim Farron 30 September 2022 Addressing labour shortages is a good place for economic growth. I’m glad there seems to be – from media headlines at least – some recognition by the prime minister that migration has to be part of the solution. These shortages are visible up and down our country, in sectors from […]
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Mastriano Called for Prosecuting Abortion as Murder. He’s Not the Only One.
This week, an old interview with Doug Mastriano (Republican Pennsylvania gubernatorial Nominee) surfaced. callingPeople who have had abortions should be tried for murder. These comments were made by a 2019 radio. interview in which Mastriano was asked whether a “fetal heartbeat” bill he’d sponsored in the state Senate, which would have banned abortion after six […]
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Grassroots Climate Organizers Led the Way to Scrapping Manchin’s Dirty Deal
Frontline climate leaders just secured a huge win by stopping West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin’s pipeline bill from weaseling into the Senate’s key funding bill. In the face of fierce opposition, conservative Democrat Manchin asked Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-New York) to remove this “permitting reform” bill from the continuing resolution just hours before they voted […]
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Democratic Leaders Will Likely Delay Vote on Stock Ban Until After the Election
A vote on the long-awaited — and some say direly needed — bill to ban members of Congress from being able to trade individual stocks will likely be delayed until at least after the midterm election in November, sources within House Democratic leadership say, drawing frustration from advocates who have been pushing for the bill […]
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Trump Believed He Could Sue Congress to Stop Congressional Impeachments
A new book about Donald Trump’s time in the White House showcases that the former president lacks a basic understanding of the constitutional rules surrounding impeachment. The book, “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America,” written by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, contains a number of anecdotes about Trump’s […]
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