The governor announced during a media briefing on Wednesday that he had issued a decree forbidding gas producers from selling to clients outside the state through February 21. Citing the current weather crisis that has crippled the state, Abbott said the order would help increase the ability of gas-fired generators …
Read More »US sanctions on Venezuela have failed to achieve anything but needless death and misery. Against all reason, they are set to stay
Alena Douhan, the UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures and human rights – a new position created by the UN Human Rights Council in March of 2020 – issued a stinging preliminary report last week condemning US and EU sanctions against Venezuela. Ms. Douhan has urged the US, EU …
Read More »Texas disaster is what happens when you DON’T pursue a Green New Deal – AOC
“The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don’t* pursue a Green New Deal,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Wednesday. The message appeared to be in response to Abbott criticizing a potential Green New Deal due to many renewable energy sources like solar panels and wind turbines failing …
Read More »Collateral damage? Facebook’s purge of Australian news ‘inadvertently’ hits charities, health organizations & government pages
The blanket ban was meant to target only Australian news publishers, and prevent users across the country from sharing and viewing news content, amid a bitter rift with the government over the News Media Bargaining Code. The move, however, claimed dozens of collateral victims, wiping the pages of South Australia’s …
Read More »Prince Philip admitted to hospital, expected to remain in care several days – Buckingham Palace
Philip began feeling unwell on Tuesday, and was admitted to London’s King Edward VII hospital that evening, the palace said in a statement to media on Wednesday. “The Duke’s admission is a precautionary measure, on the advice of His Royal Highness’s Doctor, after feeling unwell. The Duke is expected to …
Read More »The media’s Valentine’s Day love-in for Joe & Jill Biden was so saccharine it made the Hallmark Channel look gritty
The masturbatory media coverage that accompanied Joe Biden’s inauguration was not, it seems, a brief lapse in objectivity from America’s normally upstanding news industry. No, it was just a taste of things to come, and Valentine’s Day gave journalists another excuse to don the kneepads and service Joe and Jill …
Read More »‘No violations allowed’: WATCH Russian Su-27 intercept trio of French planes over Black Sea
The Southern Military District deployed the interceptors on Wednesday morning as the trio of foreign aircraft appeared on their radars, the National Defense Control Center (NDCC) said in a statement. The two interceptors “identified the air targets as a group of French Air Force planes that consisted of a KC-135 …
Read More »Biden signals green light for reparations study as Congress press bill to examine slavery & discrimination from 1619 to present
Biden “certainly would support a study of reparations” and the “continuing impacts of slavery,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters at a briefing on Wednesday. “He continues to demonstrate his commitment to taking comprehensive action to address the systemic racism that persists today,” and the reparations study is …
Read More »Israeli PM Netanyahu says he had ‘friendly and warm’ call with US president Biden
Tweeting in Hebrew, Netanyahu announced on Wednesday that he had spoken with Biden, saying they discussed the “strong alliance between Israel and the United States,” the “Iranian threat,” and challenges in the Middle East, among other things. The Israeli PM also noted the “long-standing personal connection” with the current US …
Read More »US-developed Pfizer & Moderna vaccines produce THREE TIMES LESS antibodies against South African strain of Covid-19 – lab studies
A lab study jointly conducted by Pfizer/BioNTech and researchers at the University of Texas in Galveston showed that the neutralization of the South African strain “was weaker by approximately two thirds,” but concluded that it was “unclear what effect” that would have on protection the vaccine provided from the disease. …
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