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A new study shows that pesticides are a key contributor to climate change, from their manufacturing, transportation, and application, all the way to their degradation and disposal. That’s according to researchers at the Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA), their efficacy is on the decline while climate change exacerbates the need to use more.
As the political situation becomes even more intense in the capital city of Lima in Peru and other regions of the South American country, the western-backed administration of Dina Boluarte has called for dialogue among the contending political forces.
/*-->*/ Russian Ambassador Talks Tensions Escalating as Us Eyes Regime Change in Moscow.
Was a real pleasure speaking to “Then & Now” hosted by Sierra Leonean journalist Prince Kroma, who is now based in England. Sorry for all my “umms” — the cost of thinking before you speak, but I think I’m getting better. Especially interesting to me is that Kroma said that most people in the region believe the Ebola 2014 had lab origins.
On February 19, Washington, DC, will witness a protest against the war in Ukraine that marks a sharp departure from past demonstrations. The lead demand is simple and direct, “Not One More Penny for war in Ukraine.” It is a demand that emphasizes what we in the US can do to end the war, not what others can do.
Shaking a traditional rattle, Brazil’s incoming head of Indigenous affairs recently walked through every corner of the agency’s headquarters — even its coffee room — as she invoked help from ancestors during a ritual cleansing. The ritual carried extra meaning for Joenia Wapichana, Brazil’s first Indigenous woman to command the agency charged with protecting the Amazon rainforest and its people.
Peru has large reserves of copper, gold, zinc, silver, lead, iron, and natural gas. After a coup overthrew left-wing President Pedro Castillo, the US ambassador, CIA veteran Lisa Kenna, met with mining and energy ministers to discuss “investments”. Europe is importing Peruvian LNG to replace Russian energy.
As the CDC quietly announces it’s investigating whether the Pfizer COVID vaccine increases risk of strokes, excess deaths levels in the UK are at their largest outside the pandemic in 50 years. So what’s going on, and what happens when you discuss it on the mainstream media?
David Crosby was a tough old bird, touring full-time until tendonitis finally forced him off the road two years ago, then moving into the recording studio, while tweeting, often wittily, with a devoted readership—a steady bustle of activity despite the tendonitis and three heart attacks, and liver problems, too.
The New York Times reports that Ron Klain will be resigning as Biden’s chief of staff: “Mr. Klain has been a singularly important figure in Mr. Biden’s administration. Having worked for Mr. Biden off and on for more than three decades, admirers say that Mr. Klain channels the president as few others can.