UN Urges Yemen Ceasefire, Says 233,000 Killed in Six-Year War

Most deaths were from lack of food, medicine

Six years into the Saudi-led invasion of Yemen, the UN is reporting that 233,000 people have been killed, calling this unacceptable and demanding both sides work on an immediate ceasefire to the conflict.

Though a lot of people have been killed directly in the war, UN figures show the majority of the deaths were from “indirect causes,” which is to say lack of food and medicine, diseases and lack of other general infrastructure.

That’s not a surprise. The UN’s own tracking of food insecurity shows the country going from bad to worse, and the absolute worst part, the populous northwest, is simply “not analysed” because things are so bad they can’t really function.

Beyond the starvation and malnutrition, war-torn Yemen has also been the site of cholera epidemics, and medical shortages so extreme and so long that some chronic illnesses, like diabetes, likely killed the bulk of those inflicted simply from going untreated too long. No one is really healthy in Yemen, there’s not food and medicine for that, but the really sick probably already died from lack of treatment.

On top of that, Saudi airstrikes have killed large numbers of people, mainly civilians, and those strikes have fueled an international outcry. This has led to questions about selling the Saudis so many bombs, though so far the US and Britain have kept the sales going.

https://news.antiwar.com/2020/12/01/un-urges-yemen-ceasefire-says-233000-killed-in-six-year-war/

HUMAN TRAFFICKING is the biggest killer, this is being run by the UN / Dyncorp

Beijing Offers Dialogue With NATO After Alliance Identifies China as Threat

New report calls for NATO to form stronger partnerships in Asia

On Tuesday, China said it hopes to engage in dialogue with NATO after news of a new report from the alliance that identifies China as an emerging threat. Hua Chunying, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry, said Beijing does not practice coercion and intimidation as the NATO report suggests.

The report titled “NATO 2030” identifies Russia as NATO’s top threat but calls for the alliance to increase its focus on China. “China has an increasingly global strategic agenda, supported by its economic and military heft,” the report reads.

The report says China “has proven its willingness to use force against its neighbors, as well as economic coercion and intimidatory diplomacy well beyond the Indo-Pacific region.”

One of the recommendations of the report is that NATO should build stronger relationships with countries in Asia, like Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea. The report calls for internal NATO discussions about forming a partnership with India, saying the South Asian country “shares

fundamental interests and values with the alliance.”

The US, Australia, Japan, and India make up the informal alliance known as the Quad. The NATO report says the alliance could form stronger ties with the Quad to coordinate on China’s rise.

Some US officials have suggested that the Quad could be the foundation for a NATO-style military alliance in Asia to counter Beijing. The four Quad countries recently held military drills together for the first time in over a decade, a clear message to China.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg discussed the rise of China at a news conference on Monday. “China is investing massively in new weapons. It is coming closer to us, from the Arctic to Africa. China does not share our values … and tries to intimidate other countries,” he said.

https://news.antiwar.com/2020/12/01/beijing-offers-dialogue-with-nato-after-alliance-identifies-china-as-threat/

Nashville Police Criminally Charge Three Women For Hosting Football House Party in Violation of Covid Order

Nashville police criminally charged three women for hosting a football house party.

Roommates Madilyn Dennington, Bailey Mills and Olivia Noe, all 23 years old, were issued misdemeanor citations for hosting a Halloween football watch party at their home.

According to the affidavit, more than 100 people were at the party.

Police arrived to the Nashville home and told the women that gatherings of more than 25 people were prohibited unless approved by the city.

The women listened to the police and told everyone to leave the party but they still got arrested and charged.

The Tennessean reported:

Nashville police are criminally charging three women including a registered nurse for violating Metro Health orders after hosting a large house party on Halloween.

Roommates Madilyn Dennington, Bailey Mills and Olivia Noe, all 23, were issued misdemeanor citations in connection with an Oct. 31 football watch party at their East Nashville home on the 1200 block of Boscobel Street south of Fatherland Street.

Police spokesman Don Aaron said the women were served with court summonses on Monday and are slated to appear on the charges Dec. 16.

According to an arrest affidavit, officers responded about 6:30 p.m. to a complaint about a loud party at the home, heard music blaring and saw several people in the yard. In all, police said they found more than 100 people inside and outside the home.

When officers spoke to Dennington, Mills and Noe outside, they told police they had organized a watch party at their home for a football game, the affidavit states. The officers told the women that at that time, no more than 25 people were permitted to gather in Davidson County unless the gathering was approved by the city.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/nashville-police-criminally-charge-three-women-hosting-football-house-party-violation-covid-order/

Vaccine Use Down From Lockdowns & Deaths Of Infants Down Commensurately

Vaccine study HERE. It is reported that Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has declined commensurately with a reduced application of vaccines resulting from the Covid 19 lockdown. The vaccine industry has decried, as unfounded, the claims of SIDS and autism being a result of the massive vaccine regimen mandated by law on children HERE under the age of 1 year old. It is reported that SIDS and vaccine use are both down 30% – this study may shed some light on that.

https://touchstoneconnect.com/2020/12/02/vaccine-use-down-from-lockdowns-deaths-of-infants-down-commensurately/

Table 1. Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule for ages 18 years or younger, United States, 2020

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolescent.html

Lessons from the Lockdown—Why Are So Many Fewer Children Dying?

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/lessons-from-the-lockdown-why-are-so-many-fewer-children-dying/

Democratic Party Leadership Operated Extensive and Unscrupulous Election Fraud Campaign

After everything we’ve already reported about, concerning the electronic election fraud, it’s time to focus on the other side of the story because obviously the electronic election fraud during, and before, the 2020 US presidential election is only half of the story.

In the past weeks, we’ve reviewed dozens of witness testimonies and the 2 things that we’ve come to conclude are these:

One, when relying on the mainstream media, the public simply is not being informed about any of the witness accounts – at all. This means that the average New York Times-reading or CNN-watching person is living in a complete news blackout when it comes to election fraud.

This goes against the purpose of a news outlet but ironically this also goes against the profits that news networks and outlets would normally generate. Admittedly, the election fraud is one of the best stories when you think about it in terms of making money as a news outlet. Still, the mainstream media somehow seems to survive financially by not reporting about the witness accounts.

This tells us something about how these ‘news’ networks are really funded. With at least half of the Western audiences having walked away from the mainstream news by now, the only way the mainstream media would be able to survive is when they get money from cryptos (secret sponsors and funders) and those groups and corporations that are trying to push through the 4th industrial revolution and the “Great Reset,” in return for being mouthpieces. There simply cannot be any profitable business deals involved here from a competitive business point of view. It’s just not possible.

Two, the situations that witnesses, so far only, have explained during public hearings, all across the United States, could only be possible when the Democratic Party leadership was in charge of a multi-layered, extensive and unscrupulous campaign to sabotage the 2020 elections.

To understand the extent of this sabotage, perhaps it is best to start by looking at what happened at Edison Research.

In Edison Research’s own words: Since 2004, Edison Research has been the sole provider of US Election Day data. Edison Research feeds this data to ABC News, CBS News, CNN, NBC News, the New York Times, the Washington Post, BBC, Sky News, the German Tagesschau and ZDF and the Mexican Televisa. Election results reported on the news is data that comes directly from Edison Research.

As the “sole provider” of election data, you’d expect that Edison Research is impartial, when it comes to politics and election results reporting.

But that’s not what has happened in 2020, and prior, at Edison Research. At least 1 of their own user guides created for their staff literally shows that Donald Trump was, according to Edison Research, the “competitor” of Edison Research and that the company was not planning on giving a fair reflection of the 2020 presidential election. The following are excerpts from the Airtable user guide that we found on Edison’s website:

https://erbn.online/1306

Democrats eye December 11 exit for House due to COVID-19

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Wednesday that he's aiming for the chamber to finish its work for the year by next Friday to give lawmakers enough time to quarantine and avoid potentially infecting their families with COVID-19, which he hopes will provide an incentive for bipartisan dealmaking.

Congress needs to pass a spending bill by next Friday to avoid a government shutdown when current funding expires. Lawmakers are also trying to strike an elusive agreement on another round of coronavirus economic relief and provide funding for vaccine distribution as well as pass an annual bill to renew defense programs.

"I want to send members home, if possible, no later than the 11th. The reason for that is that if need be, they'll get the time to quarantine before Christmas and to reintegrate with their families if they need to quarantine for any reason," Hoyer told reporters.

Hoyer suggested that the ideal timeframe to reach a coronavirus relief deal would be to reach an agreement by the end of this weekend and vote by the end of next week, adding that he's "hopeful" a deal can be reached within the next few days.

"I know that sounds very optimistic," Hoyer acknowledged. "But in light of the COVID crisis that confronts us, I'm hopeful that members will come to grips with decision making, that that will be a compelling reason for them to do so and reach compromise so that we can get members back home, as I've said, at least 15 days before the Christmas holidays so that they can do so as safely as possible."

Like the rest of the nation, Congress has been experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases among lawmakers in recent weeks.

A total of 11 members of the House and Senate tested positive for the virus in the two weeks before Thanksgiving. And since Monday, two more House members — GOP Reps. Austin Scott (Ga.) and Ted Budd (N.C.) — also announced that they tested positive.

Five House members who tested positive shortly before Thanksgiving were in Washington and cast floor votes before learning they had contracted the virus, underscoring the risks of having hundreds of lawmakers travel from all over the country and gather together in the Capitol. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) — who said that he never showed symptoms — also voted on the Senate floor a day before starting to quarantine.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/528378-democrats-eye-december-11-exit-for-house-due-to-covid-19

Ted Cruz demands Supreme Court hear Pennsylvania case

https://theduran.com/ted-cruz-demands-supreme-court-hear-pennsylvania-case/

Gantz claims Netanyahu duped the Israeli public. That’s not what happened at all

Now backing new elections, the Blue and White leader asserts ‘It’s not me Netanyahu duped; he duped all the citizens of Israel.’ His formulation is doubly inaccurate

Announcing Tuesday night that his Blue and White party would vote for a preliminary motion to dissolve the Knesset — a threat he implemented on Wednesday afternoon — Benny Gantz issued a stinging indictment of the man with whom he chose to partner in government a mere 200 or so days ago.

In their brief coalition life together, charged Gantz, Netanyahu had proven himself “a serial breaker of promises.” He had lied about truly seeking national unity. He had lied when promising “no tricks or shticks” in a coalition deal that was supposed to see Gantz take over as prime minister next November. He had claimed personal credit for every success in Israel’s mixed battle against the pandemic, marginalizing the roles of everybody else in government, the civil service and the national health care apparatus. He had left Israel without a budget for all of 2020, and was holding up the 2021 budget, too — radically exacerbating the devastation caused by COVID-19 on Israel’s legions of broken-hearted businesspeople, its hundreds of thousands of newly jobless.

Netanyahu likes to compare Israel to the world’s leading nations, Gantz noted bitterly, but where else in the world would a prime minister be so irresponsible as to leave his country without a budget in the midst of a pandemic? The prime minister’s refusal to pass the budget, he charged, was a veritable “economic terrorist act.”

The trouble with Gantz’s assault on the integrity and motives of his rival-partner-rival was that he delivered it as though it were revelatory. Yet his assertions that “Netanyahu reneges and the public pays,” that our prime minister is a deeply cynical political manipulator, and that for the last two to three years he has been making decisions with at least one eye on his corruption trial, are the very reasons Gantz cited upon entering politics two years ago. They are the very reasons why Gantz assembled a political alliance and campaigned in the last three elections on a platform with one core promise: that he would not sit in government with Netanyahu, a man he deemed dangerous to Israel.

And yet, eight months ago, Gantz announced that he was opening negotiations on a deal that would keep Netanyahu in power. And barely six months ago, he joined a Netanyahu-led coalition — delivering to the prime minister the votes he had won on that core pledge to do nothing of the kind.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/gantz-claims-netanyahu-duped-the-israeli-public-thats-not-what-happened-at-all/

Biden-Linked Firm WestExec Scrubs China Work From Website

Dem cabinet nom for State Department cofounded consulting firm WestExec

The Washington, D.C., consulting firm cofounded by President-elect Joe Biden’s secretary of state nominee, Antony Blinken, has removed from its website details of its China-related business as the firm’s work has drawn scrutiny following Biden's election victory.

As recently as late July, WestExec Advisors touted its work helping major American universities court donations in China without jeopardizing Pentagon-funded research grants. An archived version of the WestExec site states that "U.S. research universities" were among the company’s clients and that the consultancy worked with schools to "remain a trusted partner for DoD-sponsored research grants while expanding foreign research collaboration, accepting foreign donations, and welcoming foreign students in key STEM programs." The company deleted references to such work from its website between July 26 and August 2, weeks before Biden accepted his nomination at the Democratic National Convention in late August.

The consultancy’s work is under the microscope because Biden has tapped, or is considering tapping, several of its principals and advisers who have thus far refused to disclose their clients or elaborate on the precise nature of their work.

Biden is eyeing Blinken’s WestExec cofounder, the former Pentagon official Michèle Flournoy, as a potential secretary of defense. His nominee to be the intelligence chief, Avril Haines, and incoming press secretary Jen Psaki have also done work for the firm.

Founded in 2017, WestExec boasted of deploying its deep government connections on behalf of its clients, pledging to bring "the situation room to the board room," and promised first-hand knowledge and government access to clients. The firm has dabbled in an array of consulting work, some of which involves U.S. adversaries such as China and Russia.

A spokeswoman for WestExec told the Washington Free Beacon that the firm "previously offered a service targeted to U.S. research universities to help them avoid inadvertently becoming involved with the Chinese government." She said the company no longer offers the service but declined to elaborate on why that decision was made.

The firm still says on its website that it helps clients navigate "China-related risks in an era of strategic competition" and at one point strongly suggested its principals would lean on their government contacts, helping American universities seeking Chinese money "navigate these issues with the Department of Defense."

https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/biden-linked-firm-westexec-scrubs-china-work-from-website/

Judicial Watch: Records Show Obama DHS Scanned Georgia Election Site in 2016

Docs Suggest Activity Logs of Incidents Overwritten

(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch announced today that it received 243 pages of records from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that show the Obama administration’s scanning the election systems of Georgia, Alaska, Oregon, Kentucky and West Virginia in 2016. This activity prompted a letter from then-Georgia Secretary of State (now Governor) Brian Kemp to then-DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson accusing DHS of, “an unsuccessful attempt to penetrate the Georgia Secretary of State’s firewall.”

The records were produced in response to Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, which asked for all records related to reported cyberattacks against the Georgia secretary of state’s information network involving DHS, including investigative reports, memoranda, correspondence and communications between October 1, 2016, and February 14, 2017.

The minutes of a DHS “Enterprise Security Operations Center” (ESOC) meeting indicate that on November 15, 2016, at 8:43 a.m. a “scanning event” occurred. The “‘scanning’ event was the result of a FLETC [Federal Law Enforcement Training Center] user’s Microsoft Office Discovery Protocol sending a packet with the OPTIONS flag to the Secretary of State of Georgia site.”

The minutes notes that the Enterprise Security Operations Center “has received requests from NCCIC [DHS’s The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center] and MS-ISAC [Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center] to investigate other states that have seen ‘suspicious’ activity.”

The minutes note that Kemp accused DHS of conducting illicit scans on at least February 2, February 28 and May 23, 2016, as well.

DHS notes in the minutes that they were working with Microsoft to determine what happened: “Microsoft and the ESOC with the assistance of FLETC, were able to confirm that the user non-maliciously copied and pasted elements of the website to an excel document, which triggered the HTTP ‘OPTIONS’ request.”

A “Microsoft E-Mail Statement (Unofficial Statement to ESOC)” was included with the minutes. The email stated, “After looking at the data I do not see requests that look malicious in nature or appear to be attempting to exploit a vulnerability.”

A chart of “Current Open Vulnerabilities” for the period November 30, 2016, through December 12, 2016, noted that DHS had identified a total of 1,227 cyber vulnerabilities within DHS components, including five “High” severity ones at FEMA.

In a “Shift Pass Down Report – Sunday Night Shift – December 18, 2016” describing one of the State of Georgia incidents, DHS identifies that it originated, “from a FLETC-based Physical Security Contract Manager.”

DHS identifies activity originating from them in Alaska, Oregon, Kentucky and West Virginia.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/obama-dhs-scanned-ga/

Interpol warns that COVID-19 vaccines could be targeted by criminals

"As governments are preparing to roll out vaccines, criminal organizations are planning to infiltrate or disrupt supply chains," said Interpol's secretary-general.

The Interpol global police coordination agency warned on Wednesday that organized criminal networks could be targeting COVID-19 vaccines, and could attempt to sell fake shots.

Interpol, whose headquarters are in the French city of Lyon, said it had issued a global alert to law enforcement across its 194 member countries, warning them to prepare for organized crime networks targeting COVID-19 vaccines, both physically and online, including examples of crimes where individuals have been advertising, selling and administering fake vaccines.

"As governments are preparing to roll out vaccines, criminal organizations are planning to infiltrate or disrupt supply chains," said Interpol secretary-general Juergen Stock.

"Criminal networks will also be targeting unsuspecting members of the public via fake websites and false cures, which could pose a significant risk to their health, even their lives," he said.

In its statement, Interpol also stressed the need for coordination between law enforcement and health regulatory bodies, saying that it will play a vital role to ensure the safety of individuals and the well-being of communities.

“It is essential that law enforcement is as prepared as possible for what will be an onslaught of all types of criminal activity linked to the COVID-19 vaccine, which is why Interpol has issued this global warning,” Stock concluded.

In addition to the dangers of ordering potentially life-threatening products, an analysis by Interpol Cybercrime Unit revealed that of 3,000 websites associated with online pharmacies suspected of selling illicit medicines and medical devices, around 1,700 contained cyber threats, especially phishing and spamming malware.

https://www.jpost.com/health-science/interpol-warns-that-covid-19-vaccines-could-be-targeted-by-criminals-650913

Cabal telegraphing it's defense for future Vaccine deaths

Biden Education Lead: Chinese Communist Party Has Done ‘Magical Work’

Joe Biden's education transition team lead has a long history of praising China's school system—a system the Chinese Communist Party designed to indoctrinate students.

Linda Darling-Hammond, a Stanford University professor and the president of the California State Board of Education, has praised the Chinese Communist Party's education system for its "magical work" in establishing a strong teacher-government presence in student life. In her 2017 book Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World, she explained the centrality of the teacher to Chinese students' lives.

"Teachers in China are revered as elders, role models, and those whom parents entrust to shape the future of their children," Darling-Hammond wrote. "In the Tao traditions of ritual, the phrase ‘heaven-earth-sovereign-parent-teacher' is repeated and becomes ingrained in how people see themselves holistically governed and supported."

The Stanford educator failed to mention that any other teacher-student "relationship" could result in imprisonment. The Chinese government continually cracks down on "Western values" in the classroom by sending state-sponsored inspectors to monitor teachers—particularly in higher education—for "improper" remarks. Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has said that China's schools and teachers must "serve the Communist Party in its management of the country."

Not serving it can carry steep consequences. In July, for example, Chinese professor Xu Zhangrun was placed under house arrest after he criticized Xi's handling of the coronavirus crisis. He was subsequently fired from his teaching position at Tsinghua University—one of China's most elite institutions—after he spoke out against Xi's removal of presidential term limits.

In her book, Darling-Hammond also praised China for dramatically increasing spending on education. But that money has been unevenly distributed, resulting in persistent inequalities. Sixty percent of rural students drop out by the time they reach high school, and of the remaining 40 percent, only a small fraction take college entrance exams.

Similar disparities apply to teachers—yet in a 2011 Washington Post article, Darling-Hammond lauded China for boosting spending on teachers' professional development. She also took a "detailed statement" from the Chinese minister of education at face value, in which he claimed that China had allocated "billions of yuen" to improving teachers' "working … and living conditions."

Such omissions appear in Darling-Hammond's Twitter feed as well. In 2018, she tweeted that the United States had 71 times as many school shootings as China, but declined to note that Chinese crime statistics are notoriously inaccurate. She also ignored the numerous stabbings that plague Chinese schools. In October 2018, a woman stabbed 14 children in a kindergarten class. In April 2018, nine students were murdered at a middle school.

Darling-Hammond has spent nearly her entire life entrenched in Ivy League institutions, beginning at Yale University in 1969. In 2008, she served as the lead for Barack Obama's education transition team. Darling-Hammond had been under consideration to be Biden's secretary of education but claimed she was "not interested" in the position, citing her desire to continue working with California governor Gavin Newsom.

The Biden team did not respond to requests for comment.

https://freebeacon.com/campus/biden-education-lead-chinese-communist-party-has-done-magical-work/

Prominent Diversity Consulting Firm Funded Entirely by Taxpayer Dollars

Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium conducts 'anti-racist' trainings across 15 states and U.S. territories

A prominent equity consulting firm that conducts "anti-racist" trainings is funded entirely by taxpayer dollars, tax filings reveal.

The Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium (MAEC) is a self-proclaimed "social justice" nonprofit that conducts "anti-racist audits" for corporations and schools, often in partnership with far-left groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center. The consortium was recently awarded a lucrative contract by Maryland's largest school district and works with educators across 15 states.

MAEC's influence comes at the taxpayer's expense. According to its most recent tax filings, the group hauled in $2 million solely from government grants between mid-2018 and mid-2019. It has not reported a single private donation in four years. MAEC's reach is made possible thanks to a partnership with the Department of Education.

Equity firms have profited greatly from the burgeoning anti-racist movement in academia. The MAEC was awarded a $454,680 contract with the Montgomery County Public School district to conduct an "anti-racist audit" of the school's policies; in nearby Loudoun County, a similar consulting firm raked in $422,500 in two years. Prominent diversity consultants, such as White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo, make nearly $13,000 for a speaking gig on college campuses.

The MAEC also touts a handful of left-leaning education partners, including the Southern Poverty Law Center's "Teaching Tolerance" arm, which pushes for students to learn about slavery beginning in kindergarten. The consortium is considered the main equity firm in the Mid-Atlantic region.

City Journal‘s Christopher Rufo told the Washington Free Beacon that taxpayers shouldn't foot the bill for "divisive pseudosciences."

"This has become activists' primary strategy: securing taxpayer funds to push the deeply ideological agenda of critical race theory," Rufo said. "This kind of program plays on a double-standard. It would be unimaginable for a taxpayer-funded organization to teach a pro-life or pro-gun message in public school, but it has become commonplace to have taxpayer-funded organizations teaching extreme left-wing doctrine in public schools."

The MAEC has raked in a steady stream of government grants over the years. Of the $19 million the group has raised since 2001, $17 million is from taxpayer-backed cash, according to a review of its financial filings. Its most recent tax forms show that from mid-2018 to mid-2019, the group spent $1.6 million on "equity projects" to examine and address systematic policies and practices, nearly $233,000 on "family engagement" projects to build partnerships among schools and parents, and nearly $74,000 on youth projects. Susan Shaffer, the group's president, has received more than $200,000 in compensation, and Maria Del Rosario Basterra, its vice president, has collected more than $140,000 from the nonprofit.

https://freebeacon.com/campus/prominent-equity-consulting-firm-funded-entirely-by-taxpayer-dollars/

UN Secretary General on ‘The State of the Planet’

THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

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ADDRESS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY:

“THE STATE OF THE PLANET”

2 December 2020

President Bollinger,

Dear friends,

I thank Columbia University for hosting this gathering — and I welcome those joining online around the world.

We meet in this unusual way as we enter the last month of this most unusual year.

We are facing a devastating pandemic, new heights of global heating, new lows of ecological degradation and new setbacks in our work towards global goals for more equitable, inclusive and sustainable development.

To put it simply, the state of the planet is broken.

Dear friends,

Humanity is waging war on nature.

This is suicidal.

Nature always strikes back — and it is already doing so with growing force and fury.

Biodiversity is collapsing. One million species are at risk of extinction.

Ecosystems are disappearing before our eyes.

Deserts are spreading.

Wetlands are being lost.

Every year, we lose 10 million hectares of forests.

Oceans are overfished — and choking with plastic waste. The carbon dioxide they absorb is acidifying the seas.

Coral reefs are bleached and dying.

Air and water pollution are killing 9 million people annually – more than six times the current toll of the pandemic.

And with people and livestock encroaching further into animal habitats and disrupting wild spaces, we could see more viruses and other disease-causing agents jump from animals to humans.

Let’s not forget that 75 per cent of new and emerging human infectious diseases are zoonotic.

Today, two new authoritative reports from the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme spell out how close we are to climate catastrophe.

2020 is on track to be one of the three warmest years on record globally – even with the cooling effect of this year’s La Nina.

The past decade was the hottest in human history.

Ocean heat is at record levels.

This year, more than 80 per cent of the world’s oceans experienced a marine heatwave.

In the Arctic, 2020 has seen exceptional warmth, with temperatures more than 3 degrees Celsius above average – and more than 5 degrees in northern Siberia.

Arctic sea ice in October was the lowest on record – and now re-freezing has been the slowest on record.

Greenland ice has continued its long-term decline, losing an average of 278 gigatons a year.

Permafrost is melting and releasing methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

Apocalyptic fires and floods, cyclones and hurricanes are increasingly the new normal.

The North Atlantic hurricane season has seen 30 storms, more than double the long-term average and breaking the record for a full season.

Central America is still reeling from two back-to-back hurricanes, part of the most intense period for such storms in recent years.

Last year such disasters cost the world $150 billion.

COVID-19 lockdowns have temporarily reduced emissions and pollution.

But carbon dioxide levels are still at record highs – and rising.

In 2019, carbon dioxide levels reached 148 per cent of pre-industrial levels.

In 2020, the upward trend has continued despite the pandemic.

Methane soared even higher – to 260 per cent.

Nitrous oxide, a powerful greenhouse gas that also harms the ozone layer, has escalated by 123 per cent.

Meanwhile, climate policies have yet to rise to the challenge.

https://consortiumnews.com/2020/12/02/watch-un-secretary-general-on-the-state-of-the-planet/

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Iran Approved Bill To Intensify Nuclear Activities, Identified Those Behind Fakhrizadeh’s Assassination

A bill obliging the government to increase the level of uranium enrichment has been approved in Iran.

On December 1, the Iranian Majlis (Parliament) approved the draft “Strategic measure to lift sanctions”, by which it obliged the authorities to abandon the IAEA Additional Protocol on verification of nuclear activities. They will be obliged to do it, if within two months from the entry into force of the bill, the parties of the Nuclear Deal do not fulfill their commitments and above all do not “eliminate the barriers to the export of oil and oil products”.

Initially, the authorities were given a month, but later the term was extended.

On December 2, the bill was approved by the Guardian Council that is composed of 12 members – 6 faqihs (experts in Islamic Law) and 6 jurists specialized in different law areas. The Council has the authority to examine the compatibility of the legislation passed by Majlis with the criteria of the Constitution. Now the law is entering into power and must be handed over to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani for implementation.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani is opposite to a bill approved by parliament, saying it would be harmful to diplomatic efforts aimed at restoring the 2015 nuclear deal and easing U.S. sanctions.

“The government does not agree with the bill passed by the Parliament yesterday, and considers it to be detrimental to diplomatic efforts,” Rouhani said in a weekly cabinet session on December 2.

Rouhani expressed his belief that the situation will be different next year, once this war and maximum pressure is over.

The law obliges the authorities to produce at least 120 kg of uranium enriched to 20% per year. Iran will have to put into operation one thousand additional centrifuges at the Natanz and Fordo nuclear facilities within a year. The bill also supposes the reconstruction of the Arak nuclear reactor.

https://southfront.org/iran-approved-bill-to-intensify-nuclear-activities-identified-those-behind-fakhrizadehs-assassination/

RFK JR: THE BIG QUESTION ABOUT C0VID VACCINES THAT NO ONE IN MEDIA IS ASKING

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr: the big question about Covid Vaccines that no one in media is asking.. do these vaccines actually prevent spread of the virus? If not, will all those who receive them become Covid versions of “Typhoid Mary”?

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/78673/rfk-jr-the-big-question-about-c0vid-vaccines-that-no-one-in-media-is.html

Hundreds Of Syrian Mercenaries Have Returned From Karabakh: Monitoring Group

Hundreds of Turkish-backed Syrian mercenaries have returned from the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh where they fought for Azerbaijan, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on December 2.

According to the London-based monitoring group, Turkish efforts to settle the mercenaries in the region failed. Baku refused to allow Syrians to stay.

Last month, several sources revealed a Turkish plan to settle Syrian mercenaries along with their families in Nagorno-Karabakh. Ankara reportedly set up offices in the occupied Syrian region of Afrin to facilitate the plan

“over 900 fighters of Turkish-backed Syrian factions have returned to Syria in batches, with latest batch arriving in Syria last Thursday,” the SOHR said in its report. “More batches are expected to return in the next hours or days.”

The mercenaries who returned to Syria have reportedly received a part of their payment only, with the rest set to be paid within a few days.

Around 2,580 Syrian mercenaries, all recruited by Turkey, supported Azerbaijan’s offensive on Nagorno-Karabakh. At least 293 were killed by Armenian forces.

Azerbaijan, which used Syrian mercenaries as cannon fodder on Nagorno-Karabakh’s frontlines, is not apparently interested in their services anymore. Many of these mercenaries are known to be radicals, which explains Baku’s rejection of Ankara’s settlement plan.

https://southfront.org/hundreds-of-syrian-mercenaries-have-returned-from-karabakh-monitoring-group/

The Cheering Section for World War III

America repeatedly elects and re-elects champions of “regime change” in nations abroad (George W. Bush in 2000, Barack Obama in 2008, Donald Trump in 2016, and Joe Biden in 2020), such as in Iraq in 2003, and in Afghanistan in 2001, and in Libya in 2011, and in Syria in 2011-2020, and in Yemen in 2015-2020, and in Ukraine in 2010-2014; and, in all instances, has destroyed those nations while claiming to be supporting ‘human rights’ and ‘democracy’ and to be ‘opposing corruption’ in all of those nations that it was actually destroying.

Joe Biden, like all 21st Century U.S. Presidents except Donald Trump, wants regime change in Russia, and that would require WWIII.Only people who are either very stupid or very evil want that. Which is Joe Biden? Which was Barack Obama? Which was Hillary Clinton (whom Trump had beaten)? Which was Bush? All of them were supported by the post-World-War-II, permanent-Cold-War, endless-war, Washington Establishment, and by the controlling owners of America’s international corporations such as Lockheed Martin and ExxonMobil. And, therefore, all of them were elected to lead America’s Government. It’s a bipartisan Establishment, which includes every American billionaire (none mobilizes against imperialism, or “neoconservatism”), and which chooses the Presidential and almost all Congressional nominees of both of America’s two political Parties. So, Americans always ‘elect’ such leaders, in this permanent-warfare ‘democracy’. But its’ going to war against Russia — a real war against Russia — would be different, because that would be a nuclear war, all-out, instantaneous, and all of the weapons on both sides would be launched within less than an hour. There would be no looking back and correcting strategic errors, no recalibrations, no second-guesses. It would be historically unique, and all of the guesses would be made within that few-minutes-long period, and would be final.

A part of this Establishment is the magazine Foreign Policy, which is owned by the pro-imperialist (or “neoconservative”) Donald Graham, who virtually never has opposed any American aggression and has conspicuously supported them all. He used to own the Washington Post, which he sold in 2013 to the like-minded Jeff Bezos. America’s billionaires own or control all its major news-media and almost all of its online media that have a significantly large audience. (After all: billionaires can buy anything, and once they buy it, they control it.) This is how Americans always come to ‘elect’ such people to lead the country and to choose judges such as on the U.S. Supreme Court, who will see the world in essentially the same way that they do. Regardless of whether the liberal or the conservative version of that way, it’s the Establishment way. As the Nobel Peace Prize winner American President Barack Obama phrased that way, numerous times, while he was America’s President, “The United States is and remains the one indispensable nation”, meaning that every other country — including Russia — is “dispensable.” In fact, during his second term (after the first term, while he hid this), he constantly identified Russia as being America’s main enemy, but was a skillful enough politician to make fun of, and casually to ridicule, his 2012 ‘election’ opponent, Mitt Romney’s having said that “Russia, this is, without question, our number one geopolitical foe.” Obama was implying that he didn’t agree with that statement. It’s because of lies like this (to the effect that Obama opposed American imperialism), that Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize. Secretly, even at the very start of his first term, his Administration were preparing to restart the Cold War in a very serious way, by preparing to take over Russia’s next-door neighbor Ukraine and Russia’s Arab ally Syria. But no matter how many times the American public have been lied-to, they never get the hint; and, so, even at the end of Obama’s Presidency, he wasn’t considered a war-monger by most Americans: he had a 59% job-approval rating at the end of his Presidency. (And, of course, some of the other 41% disapproved of his Presidency for reasons that were lies from agents of the Republican Party’s billionaires; so, only far fewer than 41% had any idea, at all, that he, like his immediate predecessor, had been perhaps America’s most harmful and worst, of all Presidents.) Both of America’s political Parties represent only the billionaires who fund them, never the U.S. public. It’s a phony ‘democracy’, but few Americans even know this. The problem isn’t lack of democracy abroad: it is lack of democracy in U.S. federal ‘elections’. This Government is, in fact, a dictatorship, but it uses propaganda to fool the public to think otherwise. The problem is here at home. The following is an example:

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https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/12/02/the-cheering-section-for-world-war-iii/

Missing Context Alert: Biden Appointee Wears Commie Hat, Claims the Russians Made Her Do It or Something

Jen Psaki leads a charmed life. She went from communications at the Obama campaign, to communications in the Obama government where she wielded tweets like Ahsoka Tano wields actual weapons, to CNN, and is now headed back to government to work for Joe Biden should he prevail in the currently disputed election. Say what you want about the Democrats, and there’s plenty to say, they and the mainstream media do reward their loyalists. That probably buys them a whole lot more loyalists. It’s quite the symbiotic relationship the Democrats, Big Media, and Big Tech have going.

Psaki tweets a lot, and she tweeted this Tuesday.

For anyone who hasn't been the target of Russian propaganda (cc: @McFaul @HillaryClinton) the purpose is to discredit powerful messengers and to spread misinformation to confuse the public. Anyone who repeats it is (unwitting or not) simply a puppet of the propaganda machine.

— Jen Psaki (@jrpsaki) December 1, 2020

Puppet alert!

The pink hat Psaki is wearing features a prominent red symbol of communism, the hammer and sickle. USA Today fact-checked the fracas after the photo resurfaced, helpfully telling the world that the hat was gifted to Psaki by a Russian propaganda official. Because that’s just what fact-checkers do. They help the world by framing it along with the strong suggestion we should not think for ourselves.

Russia responded w/ #Ushanka Hat gifted to @statedeptspox to stay warm&fancy during #US #winterstorm up to @Sochi2014 pic.twitter.com/yPmWTxydyE

— MFA Russia 🇷🇺 (@mfa_russia) January 13, 2014

That doesn’t mean she had to wear the hat and grin in photos with the thing atop her head, because such a gift just might be a set-up by a foreign competitor to see what American leftists are willing or are dumb enough to do, or for some other reason, but ok, whatever, USA Today.

Is the hat made of real fur? That might get Psaki in trouble with the left, who largely aren’t bothered by the communism.

USAT accused those who spread the image around and got a good laugh out of it or found it disturbing (or both!) of “missing context,” and the paper does have a point. There is a great deal of context missing here.

For one thing, the Russians just might have been playing Psaki and her pal John Kerry for fools, which brings to mind the old saying involving candy and a baby. The Russians would soon thereafter annex the Ukrainian territory Crimea, over which a major war was fought back in the 19th century (“Charge of the Light Brigade” and all that), and Psaki’s State Department responded with…hashtags. Seriously. As if a salvo of tweets would stop an army or shame the likes of Putin. “Promise of hashtag” became one of the most laughable foreign policy moments during eight long years of them. Spoiler: Jen’s hashtags didn’t stop a thing.

“Promise of hashtag.” https://t.co/EHKorJLAff

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) November 29, 2020

So that’s some context. Thanks, USA Today, for the reminder.

If the Russians were playing the Dem duo for fools and/or laughs, it worked. Six years later, Psaki’s headed back to government after a stint in the stenographer media despite a record of embarrassing failure, and we’re talking about her wearing a hat with a communist symbol that ought to be despised, not propped atop any American official’s head ever.

Again, just because someone gives you something, it doesn’t mean you have to wear it. Otherwise we’d all be walking around wearing those ugly socks we’re bound to get for Christmas again. Well, if we were allowed to go anywhere. Thanks, communist China!

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2020/12/02/missing-context-alert-biden-appointee-wears-commie-hat-claims-the-russians-made-her-do-it-or-something-n1185248

Trump Team: 40,000 People Voted Twice in Nevada, to File Lawsuit

A lawyer for President Donald Trump’s campaign said the team is preparing to file a lawsuit soon alleging that 40,000 people voted twice in Nevada, which, if true, could potentially erase Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s lead.

Trump attorney Jesse R. Binnall, speaking to Fox Business Wednesday, said that they found evidence of “real voter fraud” including “thousands of thousands of instances” in Nevada that will be submitted to a court in the Silver State.

There are “instances of 40,000-plus people who have voted twice in the election,” Tindall remarked.

He did not provide a source, such as an affidavit or a whistleblower, for his claim but later said lawyers will present evidence to the court. It’s not clear where the bulk of the alleged fraudulent ballots were cast in the state.

Tindall, who helped defend retired Lt. Gen Michael Flynn, also said that some people who said they were recorded as having voted via mail never received ballots and told Trump’s team that they didn’t vote.

Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske’s office has not yet responded to a request for comment. Cegavske has released few public statements since the Nov. 3 election.

Several weeks ago, in response to allegations of fraud, Clark County Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria’s office told The Associated Press that Trump’s campaign’s “complaints … misstate and misrepresent evidence” and claimed they “parrot erroneous allegations made by partisans without first-hand knowledge of the facts.”

Earlier this week, Nevada Republicans dropped a lawsuit that claimed that people who no longer live in the state illegally cast ballots. It was later revealed that the addresses and zip codes in the lawsuit belonged to a number of military families and students who are legally able to vote in Nevada.

But in another instance, a data scientist, Dorothy Morgan, said there was an inexplicable jump in voter registrations with unusual addresses and incomplete information.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-team-claims-40000-people-voted-twice-in-nevada-to-file-lawsuit_3602039.html

Military Situation In Syria On December 2, 2020 (Map Update)

A brief overview of the recent developments in Syria:

On December 2, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 31 times: 20 – in Idlib province, 2 – in Aleppo province, 5 – in Latakia province, 4 – in Hama province;

On December 1, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Khatib Zadeh denied reported about the assassination of an IRGC commander in an airstrike in al-Bukamal;

On December 1, during the meeting of the Syrian constitutional committee in Geneva (4th round), the sides reached an understanding on the humanitarian file and the issue of sanctions imposed on Syria;

On December 2, clashes between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Turkish-backed forces were reported in the Tal Tamar area;

On December 1, clashes between SDF and Turkish-backed forces were reported north of Arimah;

On December 1, artillery of Turkish-backed forces shelled SDF positions in the Ain Isaa area;

On December 2, Syrian Arab Army (SAA) artillery shelled positions of Turkish-backed forces in al-Barah and Baylun.

https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-syria-on-december-2-2020-map-update/

Ex-Bill Clinton aide Doug Band dishes on family ties to Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell

Former President Bill Clinton’s one-time top advisor dished on the family’s ties to pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell in a series of new interviews on his time with the political dynasty.

Doug Band — who rose from Bubba’s body man during his second term in office to the most trusted adviser of his post-presidential life — told Vanity Fair that he tried for years to keep Epstein at a distance, but that Clinton just couldn’t stay away.

Though ignorant at the time of Epstein’s sex crimes, Band said he knew the financier was bad news ever since Clinton’s now-infamous 2002 trip aboard Epstein’s private jet, dubbed the “Lolita Express.”

Photos were unearthed earlier this year of the trip, including a shot of Clinton receiving a neck massage from Chauntae Davies, who later accused Epstein of rape.

Band also recalled for the Vanity Fair piece that Epstein made outlandish boasts during the humanitarian trip, including that he invented the concept of the derivatives trading market.

Band said he encouraged Clinton to sever ties with Epstein after the trip, but that in January 2003, the former president visited Epstein’s private Caribbean retreat, Little St. James — also known as “Pedophile Island.”

In an unusual move given their close working relationship at the time, Band said he declined to join Clinton on the trip, which, according to Epstein’s flight logs, was one of dozens he made to the island over the years.

The Clinton camp has insisted previously that the former president has never set foot on the island, a denial repeated in the Vanity Fair piece.

Epstein — who hanged himself in his Lower Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial — also donated $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation philanthropic group in 2006.

The family also maintained close ties to Maxwell — currently awaiting her own trial on charges she groomed underage girls she and Epstein would go on to abuse — through the years, Band said.

https://nypost.com/2020/12/02/ex-bill-clinton-aide-dishes-on-ties-to-epstein-maxwell/

DOMINOES: Georgia Announces Election Fraud Hearings After Pennsylvania, Arizona, And Michigan Bombshells

Two Georgia State Senate committees will hold hearings into claims of voting and tabulation irregularities from whistleblowers across the state

With a bevy of claims alleging vote fraud, ballot tampering, and non-adherence to legislated election processes, two critical State Senate committee in Georgia are set to hear testimony and examine evidence of malfeasance from whistleblowers and complainants from across the state.

Georgia’s Senate Government Oversight Committee and the Senate Committee on Judiciary issued statements saying they will hold back-to-back hearings on elections processes on December 3, 2020. The statement said the hearings would be livestreamed at 10am and 1pm, respectively.

Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Arizona held similar forums making Georgia the fourth state to hold hearings on election fraud and ballot tampering complaints during the 2020 General Election.

Democrats tacitly refused to commit to taking part in either of the Georgia Senate hearings.

According to the announcement of the hearings, the legislators explained that the purpose of both hearings is “to take testimony of elections improprieties and to evaluate the election process to ensure the integrity of Georgia’s voting process.”

2 committees in the #Georgia state Senate announced they will hold back-to-back #Hearings on #Elections processes on Dec. 3.

Georgia will be the 4th state to hold election-related hearings on the heels of #Pennsylvania, #Arizona and #Michigan. https://t.co/XulhyxufH8

— The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) December 2, 2020

The hearings were announced as Georgia continues to conduct a machine recount of the November 3, presidential election.

Embattled Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), in a rare admission that the Georgia election process was flawed, said Tuesday that Georgia “cut corners” during the second recount of the November 3, election.

“Us and our office, and I think the rest of the state, is getting a little tired of always having to wait on Fulton County and always having to put up with their dysfunction,” Raffensperger said at a press conference. “They can still make it by our midnight Wednesday deadline, but they seem to want to make it a dramatic finish.”

Fulton County is home to Atlanta and is one of the few blue counties in the traditionally red state of Georgia.

Robb Pitts, of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, rebuked Raffensperger’s claim saying Fulton County election officials hadn’t engaged in any election-related “hanky panky.”

Pitts did not address the multiple claims of vote fraud, ballot tampering, or inappropriate access to Dominion Voting Systems machines that have been documented and caught on video. Neither did he address complaints by poll watchers that alleged they were denied access to vote tabulations.

Attorney Sidney Powell filed a lawsuit in Georgia last week claiming a wide-ranging fraud scheme that included the manipulation of voting software to fraudulently alter vote tallies.

https://nationalfile.com/dominoes-georgia-announces-election-fraud-hearings-after-pennsylvania-arizona-and-michigan-bombshells/

Media Elites, Not Trump Supporters, Are Disconnected From Reality

It’s not Trump supporters who are living in a fantasyland, but members of the corporate media who sense their power and influence waning.

With the end of Donald Trump’s presidency fast approaching, we’ve seen a surge of columns and posts asserting that Republicans and Trump supporters have lost touch with reality. After four years of marinating in “falsehoods” and “disinformation”—a term that really just means “information I don’t like”—Trump’s backers are all turned around, we’re told. They believe much that isn’t so.

David Brooks of The New York Times explains that these poor saps, most of whom, he says, are uneducated, uncredentialed people who don’t live in prosperous cities, have retreated to conspiracy theories to explain their misfortune and unhappiness. “People in this precarious state are going to demand stories that will both explain their distrust back to them and also enclose them within a safe community of believers,” he writes. Trump, QAnon, and Alex Jones “rose up to give them those stories and provide that community.”

Over at The New Yorker, editor David Remnick ponders the grave costs of Trump’s “assault on the press and the truth,” asking how many COVID-19 victims “died because they chose to believe the President’s dismissive accounts of the disease rather than what public-health officials were telling the press? Half of Republican voters believe Trump’s charge that the 2020 election was ‘rigged.’ What will be the lasting effects on American democracy of that disinformation campaign?”

These are just representative samples, but across the mainstream commentariat the gist is all the same: if you support Trump, you’re likely a poor person who believes conspiracy theories and is dangerously disconnected from reality, partly because you resent successful people like Messrs. Brooks and Remnick. You live in a fantasyland because it assuages your feelings of inferiority, which are mostly justified. You’re paranoid because you’re powerless, and the alternate reality you’ve constructed for yourself gives you a sense of power and agency in a confusing, unsettled world.

But here’s the thing. Everything these media elites say about Trump supporters can more properly be said about media elites themselves. Who really has been living in a fantasyland these last four years? Is it the ordinary Americans—including a lot of educated, white-collar professionals—who voted for a president they felt would shake up the sclerotic status quo in Washington, or a press corps that perpetuated an actual conspiracy about Trump-Russia collusion for years?

https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/02/media-elites-not-trump-supporters-are-disconnected-from-reality/

Air Pollution Spikes Linked to Lower Test Scores In Elementary Students

Fine particulate matter (PM2.5), the tiny particles responsible for hazy air pollution, are detrimental to children’s health even inside the classroom. Mounting evidence has linked chronic exposure with poor academic performance in K-12 students. Until now, no research had examined the impact of “peak” air pollution events, the 24-hour spikes of extremely high PM2.5 levels. For students in Salt Lake County, Utah, these episodes are a dangerous reality–the county’s largest city, Salt Lake City, was among the top 10 most polluted American cities for short-term particle pollution in the latest American Lung Association report.

In a new study, University of Utah researchers found that more frequent peak air pollution exposure was associated with reduced math and English language arts (ELA) test scores for third graders in all primary public schools in Salt Lake County during the 2016-2017 year. The minimum peak pollution levels in this study are below what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determines are “safe” levels of PM2.5. The results stress the need for legislators to enact policies that reduce the number of peak pollution days, and to advocate for lower federal pollution standards.

“The huge takeaway is that this isn’t about school location–it’s not just the schools in the most polluted parts of the city. Everyone is impacted by peak pollution,” said lead author Casey Mullen, doctoral student in sociology at the University of Utah.

The study highlights the environmental injustice of Salt Lake County’s air pollution problem– schools with a higher proportion of students of color and from households experiencing poverty were exposed to higher mean concentrations of fine particulates and more peak pollution days than were schools serving middle- to upper- class and predominately white students. Though peak exposures had a stronger effect on lower math proficiency in more socially advantaged schools.

“There are so many studies showing us that air pollution damages our brain’s cognitive processing ability,” said co-author Sara Grineski, professor of sociology at the University of Utah. “Utah has made great strides to lower pollution in the past decades, but we need to keep pushing forward policies to reduce pollution. We already know it will improve Utahns respiratory health, but it also can help kids do a little bit better in schools.”

The paper published online on Sept. 22, 2020, in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. This research was funded by the Interdisciplinary Exchange for Utah Science at the University of Utah.

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2020/12/air-pollution-spikes-linked-to-lower-test-scores-in-elementary-students.html

Wray Stays: Biden Plans To Keep FBI Director Installed Under Trump

Joe Biden plans to keep FBI Director Christopher Wray in his post if President Trump hasn't fired him before he leaves office (should his challenges to the election fail), according to the New York Times, citing an anonymous senior Biden official 'not authorized to speak publicly.'

Wray notably sat on evidence from Hunter Biden's laptop indicating that Joe Biden was indeed involved in Hunter's Ukraine dealings - while Democrats impeached Trump for asking Ukraine to investigate Biden corruption. The Wray FBI also withheld exonerating evidence in the case of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, which was only pried loose by attorney Sidney Powell.

And while Wray, a Republican, was technically installed by President Trump after he fired former Director James Comey (an Obama appointee), the decision to leave Wray in charge of the FBI "would be a return to the norms around FBI directors, who are confirmed by the Senate and are supposed to have 10-year terms," according to the Times.

Wray, a Vanderbilt grad who went to Yale Law who formerly served under Comey at the DOJ, oversaw the Enron case. In 2005, he went into private practice, only to return to government service after President Trump nominated him to replace Comey.

Trump soured on Wray almost immediately - criticizing him for not moving fast enough to rid the FBI of corrupt officials installed by Comey. In October, Axios reported that Trump planned to fire Wray, along with CIA Director Gina Haspel 'immediately' if he were to be reelected.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/wray-stays-biden-plans-keep-fbi-director-installed-under-trump

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