On this day:
1429
Hundred Years’ War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau.
1775
American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
1776
The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
1967
Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet’s atmosphere and successfully return data).
1994
Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in wrongful death civil suit.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry--Thomas Paine
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The American politician meets the rug merchant. In the Middle East, the West has met a culture as cynical and mendacious as its own.
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A new contest: Draw your own cartoon to fit the caption!
"Hmm. Well, I''ll see your MMA Markwayne, and raise you a Nazi."
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The fighting in Ukraine has ground on for longer than the First World War.
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Israeli firm BlackCore, suspected of interfering in France's local elections in March, is also suspected of meddling in elections in New York City and Scotland, and operating in Angola and Togo, France's disinformation detection service, Viginum, said on Thursday.
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Insincerity Olympics #1
The dichotomy between what the world's elite demand of us and what they do continues at breakneck speed. But in our world, where the only guy who is not a Nazi is the guy who says he is one, and has a tattoo to prove it, nothing is real or meaningful.
The dichotomy between what the world's elite demand of us and what they do continues at breakneck speed. But in our world, where the only guy who is not a Nazi is the guy who says he is one, and has a tattoo to prove it, nothing is real or meaningful.
You can bet your bitcoin on it.
The world’s largest banks committed $906bn in financing to the fossil fuel industry last year, an “unfathomable” increase in investment locking in years more of coal, oil and gas production as the world continues to overheat, a new report has found.
The surge in new fossil fuel lending, up $64bn or nearly 8% on 2024, shows that the world’s largest 65 banks are making decisions incompatible with international agreements to restrain rising global temperatures, according to the coalition of environmental groups behind the new analysis.
The world’s largest banks committed $906bn in financing to the fossil fuel industry last year, an “unfathomable” increase in investment locking in years more of coal, oil and gas production as the world continues to overheat, a new report has found.
The surge in new fossil fuel lending, up $64bn or nearly 8% on 2024, shows that the world’s largest 65 banks are making decisions incompatible with international agreements to restrain rising global temperatures, according to the coalition of environmental groups behind the new analysis.
But the development of AI is incompatible with those pronouncements, too. And AI promises wealth and power. acrifices will have to be made.
JPMorgan Chase is again the world’s leading financier of fossil fuels, according to the annual Banking on Climate Chaos report, after pushing $58bn to the sector last year – up 13% from 2024.
In 2015, countries agreed in the Paris climate deal to strive to avoid breaching 1.5 °C of global heating above preindustrial levels, beyond which the world is said to suffer ever more ruinous heatwaves, floods, droughts, and other climate-fueled disasters.
Avoiding such a threshold would require the near elimination of planet-heating emissions from fossil fuel production. Since the Paris agreement, however, the world’s largest banks have funnelled $8.7tn to the fossil fuel industry to dig and drill for more coal, oil, and gas.
Scientists now predict that the 1.5C limit will be breached imminently, with a recent string of record-hot years set to be surpassed this decade.
Last year, the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, a UN-backed scheme that aimed to align banks’ lending with a net-zero-emissions scenario by 2050, was disbanded after several high-profile departures from its membership.
“We’ve seen a lot of banks turn their back either quietly or more loudly amid a context of political pressure, particularly in the US,” said Lusiani.
He added: “The era of voluntary commitments has not worked at the scale that we need and so this points to a much more active role for financial regulators, legislators and policymakers, especially in those big six financial centers.”
The guys who can't run a charity want to run the world. But of the myriad of motives available, our betterment is not one of them.
JPMorgan Chase is again the world’s leading financier of fossil fuels, according to the annual Banking on Climate Chaos report, after pushing $58bn to the sector last year – up 13% from 2024.
In 2015, countries agreed in the Paris climate deal to strive to avoid breaching 1.5 °C of global heating above preindustrial levels, beyond which the world is said to suffer ever more ruinous heatwaves, floods, droughts, and other climate-fueled disasters.
Avoiding such a threshold would require the near elimination of planet-heating emissions from fossil fuel production. Since the Paris agreement, however, the world’s largest banks have funnelled $8.7tn to the fossil fuel industry to dig and drill for more coal, oil, and gas.
Scientists now predict that the 1.5C limit will be breached imminently, with a recent string of record-hot years set to be surpassed this decade.
Last year, the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, a UN-backed scheme that aimed to align banks’ lending with a net-zero-emissions scenario by 2050, was disbanded after several high-profile departures from its membership.
“We’ve seen a lot of banks turn their back either quietly or more loudly amid a context of political pressure, particularly in the US,” said Lusiani.
He added: “The era of voluntary commitments has not worked at the scale that we need and so this points to a much more active role for financial regulators, legislators and policymakers, especially in those big six financial centers.”
The guys who can't run a charity want to run the world. But of the myriad of motives available, our betterment is not one of them.
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