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Mezcal, Mexico’s traditional agave spirit, has enraptured palates across the country and abroad. But as demand soars, a more bitter note emerges: the amount of waste its production generates and the risks that poses for the very environment that sustains it. Like tequila, mezcal is a distilled beverage produced from agave, a plant native to the arid and semiarid zones of the Americas.
COVID-19 vaccines and drugs were developed at "warp speed" and now experts are concerned about the US Food and Drug Administration's inadequate surveillance of clinical trial sites. Regulatory documents show that only nine out of 153 Pfizer trial sites were subject to FDA inspection prior to licensing its COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.
A federal judge ordered an FBI cybersecurity official to be deposed in a lawsuit alleging that the FBI coerced social media companies to block stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop ahead of the 2020 election. The FBI deposition is one of several sought by the state Republican officials in a lawsuit accusing Biden officials of effectively enforcing government censorship.
President Joe Biden requested Congress to allocate another $37.7 billion to Ukraine, and the Democratic Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the neoconservative Gregory Meeks of New York, said it was “urgent to make sure that we get them everything that we can … so that they have the weapons to continue the momentum moving through the winter,” against the Russians.
Dear Bill Gates:
You were recently featured commenting on the global state of agriculture and food insecurity, in a recent New York Times op-ed by David Wallace-Wells and also in an Associated Press article. In both articles, you make a number of claims that are inaccurate and need to be challenged.
Six weeks before taking power, Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Wednesday told cheering crowds at the U.N. climate conference that he would crack down on illegal deforestation in the Amazon, revive relationships with countries that finance forest protection efforts and push to host an upcoming world climate summit in the rainforest.
On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that a “senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people.” This story ripped through big media outlets which blared “BREAKING NEWS” — see from CBS. It tore through Twitter. There would be a series of followups, see how the story morphed on archive.today.
Katherine Watt is an independent journalist and a legal researcher who has created a meticulously cited and sourced reference on her Substack (Bailiwick News). Katherine has uncovered specific changes to the U.S. laws that have over the years led to the current events which she characterizes as a domestic bioterrorism and mass murder masquerading as a public health emergency response.
As climate change fuels extreme drought, heat and flooding, Lund explained, some of California’s native species will become unsustainable in the wild. Farmers, government agencies and environmental groups will continue to fight over dwindling water supplies. In the San Joaquin Valley, farmers could be forced to fallow 40 percent of their land.
