{reminds me of Bill Gates buying up all that farmland}

South Africa #6 >>>/qresearch/14306277

“Italian and Rwandan leaders join urgent call to transform world's food systems as UN Food Systems Pre-Summit gets under way”dated July 27, 2021 at https://finance.yahoo.com/news/italian-rwandan-leaders-join-urgent-113600697.html

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame stress need for more inclusive, sustainable and holistic approaches ahead of the Summit in New York in September.

ROME, July 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ – Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame led calls for countries to make bold commitments to transforming their food systems during opening day remarks at the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit.

Drawing parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and global hunger crisis, Prime Minister Draghi called on delegates, who came from more than 100 countries, to commit to ending hunger for 811 million people amidst a changing climate.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres added: "The pandemic, which still assails us, has highlighted the links between inequality, poverty, food, disease and our planet."

Against this backdrop, President Kagame announced a common position for Africa, aligned with the continent's Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals. The position is based on five actions including policies such as school feeding programmes, market development and finance, as well as encouraging farmer cooperatives and expanding social safety net programmes.

"Food unites us all, as families, as communities, as cultures and as humanity," said UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed. "Now let's use it to unite around the urgency and the actions that are needed to transform our world by 2030."

In pre-prepared remarks, Pope Francis said that eliminating hunger alone was not enough, urging the world to commit to "designing food systems that protect the Earth and keep the dignity of the human person at the center."

Referred to as the "People's Summit", it has already embarked on an unprecedented year-long process of engagement with more than 1,000 dialogues involving tens of thousands around the world. The results give the most comprehensive picture to date of existing interconnected challenges – from hunger and poverty to rural livelihoods, health and youth unemployment – as well as opportunities.

Reflecting on Uruguay's national dialogue, Vice President Beatriz Argimón said it was necessary to "celebrate and enhance the incredible resilience of women and their key role for the transformation of productive systems."

Playing a central role at the Summit were youth, Indigenous Peoples, farmers and women including Cherrie Atilano, President of Philippine agribusiness AGREA, who said: "We want young people to have better food choices. The youth have the power to change it because they are the now, the current, and the present."

Peter Bakker, President and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) announced a Business Declaration that sets out the private sector's ambition towards equitable, net-zero and nature-positive food systems that can nourish all people.

General Research #18099 >>>/qresearch/14306413

Jeffrey Epstein compensation fund pays out nearly $125M to victims

The compensation fund set up for Jeffrey Epstein’s victims paid out nearly $125 million before it was closed down Monday — the eve of the two-year anniversary of the pedophile’s death.

The case’s Victims’ Compensation Program began distributing money a little more than a year ago and paid about 150 women, according to fund administrator Jordana Feldman.

Epstein was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and other charges when authorities say the sick multimillionaire financier hanged himself in a Lower Manhattan jail cell Aug. 10, 2019.

The compensation program for Epstein’s sex-abuse victims received around 225 claims, 92 percent of which it determined to be credible, administrators said. Those eligible to receive funds were then offered various compensation amounts.

Epstein’s estate — which at its peak was valued around $634 million — funded the program but had no say in determining which cases were credible and the amount of the offers.

Feldman emphasized it was a confidential and impartial process that allowed the women to resolve their claims outside of the public scrutiny of a court case and which also saved them the cost of litigation.

“Every claimant had an opportunity to be heard in a safe space, to share the intimate, personal, often harrowing accounts of what they endured and how it has affected them,” Feldman said in a statement.

“I am proud of what we were able to accomplish with this Program, but also recognize that no amount of money will erase the years of pain these victims have endured because of Jeffrey Epstein,” Feldman said. “My hope is that the Program provided his victims a meaningful measure of justice and a step on the path toward healing.”

Some of Epstein’s victims are still choosing to fight their cases in court.

If the victims opted into the fund, they had to sign a release not to bring more legal action against the estate.

https://nypost.com/2021/08/09/epstein-compensation-fund-pays-out-nearly-125m-to-victims/

General Research #18099 >>>/qresearch/14306671

UN issues dire warning on climate change in new report

The newest climate report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that climate change is "unequivocally" caused by humans and warns that global temperatures are expected to reach a significant warming milestone in the next 20 years.

The planet is expected to reach average temperatures that are 1.5 degrees warmer than a pre-industrial baseline by 2040, according to the report, which was released on Monday.

A prior special report from the IPCC found that keeping warming below this level would prevent climate-related impacts on extreme weather, biodiversity and food security.

“A 1.5 degree Celsius world is a fundamentally different world with larger extremes and larger climate damages than a 1 degree C world that we’re more or less in right now, which is fundamentally different than the world before this all started,” said Kim Cobb, the lead author of the report's first chapter, in an interview with The Hill.

“We’re already reeling, clearly, from so many of these impacts that the report highlights, especially in the category of extremes that are gripping these headlines and causing so much damage, but of course the 1.5 degree C world is notably and discernibly worse,” Cobb said.

The report also warns that climate change will increasingly be seen in heat waves, more frequent and intense precipitation and droughts.

The report from the IPCC, which was created by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations, stated that increases in greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere since about 1750 were “unequivocally caused by human activities.”

"The fact that the IPCC has agreed — with the agreement of all member countries, 195 member countries — that it is unequivocal that human activity is causing climate change, is the strongest statement the IPCC has ever made," Ko Barrett, IPCC vice chair, told reporters on Sunday.

It said that it’s likely that humans had already caused about 1.07 degrees Celsius of extra warming compared to pre-industrial temperatures between 1850 and 1900.

In addition to the 1.5 degrees of warming, the new report also found that without serious greenhouse gas emissions reductions, global temperatures will rise by a full 2 degrees Celsius compared to preindustrial levels.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/566801-climate-report-warns-temps-to-rise-15-degrees-celsius-over-preindustrial-levels

General Research #18099 >>>/qresearch/14307041

Democrat Austin Judge Signs Order Blocking Arrest of AWOL Texas Democrat Lawmakers

Another day, another activist judge.

State District Judge Brad Urrutia, a Democrat, signed an order Sunday night temporarily blocking the arrest of AWOL Texas Democrat lawmakers who fled the state to block the GOP’s voting bills.

In mid-July at least 58 Democrat members of the state House of Representatives fled Texas and headed to Washington DC to block Republicans from advancing new voting laws through a special session of the legislature.

Last month Governor Abbott said that he will have the lawmakers arrested and hold them inside the state Capitol “until they get their job done.”

“If these people want to be hanging out wherever they’re hanging out on this taxpayer-paid junket, they’re going to have to be prepared to do it for well over a year. As soon as they come back in the state of Texas, they will be arrested, they will be cabined inside the Texas Capitol until they get their job done,” Abbott told local station KVUE.

The Texas House of Representatives also voted to send law enforcement to arrest the Democrat lawmakers for fleeing the state and blocking the GOP from passing voting laws.

22 of the AWOL Texas Dems filed a lawsuit over the weekend against Texas Republicans claiming they are a “protected class” and suffering from “much anxiety and stress.”

The Texas Tribune reported:

A state district judge in Travis County issued an order blocking the arrest of House Democrats who have broken quorum by leaving the state, paving the way for those who remain outside of Texas to return home without threat of apprehension.

State District Judge Brad Urrutia, a Democrat, granted the temporary restraining order late Sunday night restricting Gov. Greg Abbott and House Speaker Dade Phelan from “detaining, confining or otherwise restricting” the free movement of House Democrats within the state or issuing any warrants ordering their confinement.

The order expires in 14 days unless extended by Urrutia. The court will hear arguments on a temporary injunction on Aug. 20 where Abbott and Phelan must show why a temporary injunction should not be filed against them.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/democrat-austin-judge-signs-order-blocking-arrest-awol-texas-democrat-lawmakers/

Pentagon to seek approval to make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory

By Idrees Ali

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Pentagon on Monday said that it will seek U.S. President Joe Biden's approval by the middle of September to require military members to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

After setting COVID-19 rules for federal workers, Biden last month directed the Pentagon to look into "how and when" it will require members of the military to take the vaccine.

The Defense Department is targeting mid-September for a vaccination deadline based on expectations for the Food and Drug Administration to give full approval to the Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE vaccine. Currently it falls under an emergency use authorization.

"I strongly support Secretary (Lloyd) Austin’s message to the (military) today on the Department of Defense’s plan to add the COVID-19 vaccine to the list of required vaccinations for our service members not later than mid-September," Biden said in a statement.

The deadline could be moved up if the FDA approves the vaccine earlier, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a memo. Austin said that he could act even sooner or recommend a different course if the situation worsened.

Two U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the vaccine could have been immediately mandated but that more than a month had been given with the hope of full FDA approval, which might reduce fears about the safety of the shot.

Top U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has said that he hopes regulators could start granting full approval for the vaccines as soon as this month.

The U.S. military says around half the U.S. armed forces are already fully vaccinated, a number that climbs significantly when counting only active duty troops and excluding National Guard and reserve members.

Vaccination rates are highest in the Navy, which suffered from a high-profile outbreak last year aboard an aircraft carrier. About 73% of sailors are fully vaccinated.

That compares with the U.S. national average of about 60% of adults ages 18 and over who have been fully vaccinated.

Because U.S. troops are generally younger and fitter, relatively few U.S. servicemembers have died as a result of COVID-19 - just 28 in total, according to Pentagon data.

Many congressional Republicans have refused to say publicly whether they have been vaccinated, and some have attacked the shots as unnecessary or dangerous.

(Reporting by Idrees Ali; editing by Susan Heavey and Cynthia Osterman)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pentagon-to-seek-approval-to-make-covid-19-vaccines-mandatory/ar-AAN7gzz

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General Research #18100 >>>/qresearch/14307342

BREAKING: The Governor's office is now threatening to withhold salaries of superintendents and school board members who impose mask mandates.

https://twitter.com/AaronParnas/status/1424827286591840258?s=20

General Research #18100 >>>/qresearch/14307446

Marxist Oregon Governor Signs Law Allowing Students to Graduate Without Proof They Can Read, Write or Do Math

Possibly the most incompetent Democrat in office today, Oregon Governor Kate Brown, signed a new law allowing students to graduate without proving they can read, write or do math.

Wow. Isn’t that the purpose of school?

This effectively makes a diploma worth nothing in the state of Oregon.

That’s how the Marxists like it.

Who in their right mind can support this?

Via The Post Millennial:

An Oregon high school diploma does not guarantee that students who earned it can read, write or do math at a high school level.

Governor Kate Brown dropped the requirement that students demonstrate they have achieved those essential skills by signing Senate Bill 744 into law. She declined again Friday to comment on why she supported suspending the proficiency requirements, reported OregonLive.

The bill was not entered into the legislative database until July 29, a departure from the standard practice of updating the public database the same day a bill is signed. Charles Boyle, the governor’s deputy communications director, said the governor’s staff told legislative staff the same day the governor signed the bill.

Boyle said in an emailed statement that suspending the reading, writing and math proficiency requirements will benefit “Oregon’s Black, Latino, Latina, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Tribal, and students of colour.”

You don’t need to read or write but you better wear a mask!

https://youtu.be/1ZyILtP8qv4

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/marxist-oregon-governor-signs-law-allowing-students-graduate-without-proof-can-read-write-math/

Police battle to defend broadcaster's west London studios as mob of dozens of activists protesting vaccine passports and jabs for children try to storm building

Protesters opposing vaccine passports and child vaccinations swarmed on the west London base of the BBC

Video shows a large group clashing with police officers outside the BBC's White City Studios in west London

Today's protest at the BBC appears to have been organised by an anti-lockdown group called Official Voice

Ahead of the protest, the group called on supporters to descend on London and said 'media is the problem'

By Danyal Hussain and James Robinson for MailOnline

Published: 09:29 EDT, 9 August 2021 | Updated: 18:43 EDT, 9 August 2021

Dozens of anti-vaccine protesters attempted to storm the BBC's west London studios this afternoon prompting violent clashes with police - with at least one making it inside.

The protest, organised by anti-lockdown group Official Voice, is believed to have been directed against vaccine passports and jabs for children.

The protesters started at Shepherds Bush Green at around 1pm before making the short journey to the BBC Studioworks site in White City.

Currently, the site is used by BBC Studioworks with ITV live programmes such as This Morning and Loose Women filmed there, as well as some live BBC shows. The BBC Worlds News is filmed nearby.

However, the main BBC News programme is filmed at Broadcasting House in Portland Place, Westminster.

The BBC sold the site to property developers Stanhope plc in 2013, and the site now mostly contains homes and entertainment and leisure facilities.

No arrests have been made and an officer sustained a 'minor' facial injury during the demonstration, which is being investigated, the Metropolitan Police said.

One of the ringleaders appeared to be DJ Pat Wilson, who proudly posted a picture of himself on Instagram holding up his 'demands' inside the building.

He said afterwards: 'We want to make a noise, the right noise. We will see what happens now.'

Later in a speech to the march he added: 'A group of us lot set this up, but we're not the leaders we don't want to tell you lot where to go or what to do.'

Former Coronation Street actor Sean Ward was also at the protest and posted footage from the roadside.

Loose Women presenter Charlene White took to Twitter to reveal that the protesters tried to access the site while they were on air. She wrote: 'Huge thanks to Andy and the security team over at Television Centre. The protesters attempted to gain access to the building while we were live on air with @loosewomen - and we’ve only just left, because of safety. Andy and his team were just incredible, thank-you.'

On its Instagram page, Official Voice said the 'media is the problem' and proclaimed that 'the lies will end' as it urged supporters to descend on London for today's protest from as early as July 27.

There, they were filmed clashing with police outside the building, with at least one of the protesters wearing a beret as they tussled with officers.

Video shows police attempting to push back protesters in a bid desperate bid to stop the group getting inside the centre.

Initially, the police were seemingly overwhelmed before reinforcements quickly arrived, including officers with batons. Some of the demonstrators later made it to the BBC's current headquarters in Portland Place, police said, but left hours later.

pics & vids at:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9876735/Anti-vax-assault-BBC-Police-battle-defend-broadcasters-London-HQ.html

>>91452

Declare the seats vacated, go ahead with those still in Texas for quorum and have the vote.

General Research #18103 >>>/qresearch/14309529

Fauci says 'hopefully' making young kids wear masks won't have 'lasting negative impact'

Delta variant is filling up pediatric hospitals and seems more threatening, Fauci said

White House Chief Health Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday that "hopefully" making young kids wear face masks won’t have any "lasting negative impact" on them.

During an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Dr. Fauci said it’s important to keep an "open mind" about masking after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that unvaccinated children ages 2 and older wear masks and that students wear masks in all K-12 schools, regardless of vaccination status, in light of the rapid spread of the COVID-19 delta variant.

"It's not comfortable, obviously, for children to wear masks, particularly the younger children," he said. "But you know, what we’re starting to see, Hugh, and I think it's going to unfold even more as the weeks go by, that this virus not only is so extraordinarily transmissible, but we're starting to see pediatric hospitals get more and more younger people and kids not only numerically, but what seems to be more severe disease.

"Now we're tracking that, the CDC is tracking that really very carefully, so it’s going to be a balance that we would feel very badly if we all of a sudden said OK, kids, don't wear masks, then you find out retrospectively that this virus in a very, very strange and unusual way is really hitting kids really hard," he continued. "But hopefully, this will be a temporary thing, temporary enough that it doesn't have any lasting negative impact on them."

Hewitt pushed back, citing an editorial Sunday by The Wall Street Journal, titled, "The Case Against Masks for Children," which argues that long-term masking can cause physical and developmental issues in children and that there’s little evidence to back up a mandate.

"Facial expression are integral to human connection, particularly for younger children who are only learning how to signal fear, confusion and happiness," Hewitt said. "Covering a child's face mutes these nonverbal form of communications, can result in robotic and emotionless interaction. So, Dr., what did you base it on? Why?"

Dr. Fauci responded by claiming the data cited in the editorial "dates back to the alpha variant, not necessarily all the most recent data on delta."

"Delta is different," he said. "We’d better go back and make sure those data are really solid the same way you’re asking me, and I will. I’ll go back to the CDC and make sure that the data that they’re talking about is really solid. So let’s do both. Let’s just check both those things out and make sure we’re really talking about apples and apples and not apples and oranges, and make sure we’re talking about transmissibility of delta as we’re seeing what it’s doing right now.

"So I’ll just keep an open mind," he added.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fauci-young-kids-wear-masks-lasting-negative-impact

General Research #18103 >>>/qresearch/14309963

CDC Combines Multiple Days of Data into One to Make it Appear Florida is Reporting Record Number of New Daily Covid Cases

The CDC with help from fake news media outlets on Monday reported there was a ‘record’ number of Covid cases in Florida on Sunday.

“FLORIDA COVID DATA: The state hit yet another record number of new daily cases, reporting 28,317 on Sunday. Here’s the updated state data including cases, deaths, vaccination rates and hospitalizations” – the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported on Monday using the CDC’s inaccurate data.

The Florida Health Department scrambled to correct the record as the lie spread like wildfire across several different outlets.

“Wrong again. The number of cases CDC released for Florida today is incorrect. They combined MULTIPLE days into one. We anticipate CDC will correct the record.” The FL Health Dept said.

Another news site reported the CDC’s inaccurate information and sounded the alarm on the record number of Covid cases in Florida.

Again, this is based on MULTIPLE DAYS of reporting into one.

The CDC knows this and falsely reported that Florida is experiencing record number of hospitalizations in an effort to attack Governor DeSantis.

“Wrong. The CDC combined multiple days of data. We anticipate a correction. Please correct this story to ensure accurate reporting to your audiences.” the Florida Health Department said in a tweet to Spectrum News 13.

Florida Dept. Health

@HealthyFla

Wrong. @cdcgov combined multiple days of data. We anticipate a correction. Please correct this story to ensure accurate reporting to your audiences.

Spectrum News 13

@MyNews13

#BREAKING: Another day, another record as Florida continues to see its largest-ever surge of COVID-19 cases. On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 28,317 new cases in the state. Almost 14,000 people are hospitalized. https://mynews13.com/fl/orlando/new

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/cdc-combines-multiple-days-data-one-make-appear-florida-reporting-record-number-new-daily-covid-cases/