Executives at ExxonMobil continued in recent years to raise doubts internally about the dangers of climate change and the need to cut back on oil and gas use, even though the company had previously conceded publicly that burning fossil fuels contributes to global warming, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The effort to minimize concerns about climate change under former chief executive Rex Tillerson, who led Exxon from 2006 until 2016, was happening at the same time that scientists at the company were modeling troubling increases in…
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Britain’s second-biggest city effectively declared itself bankrupt on Tuesday, shutting down all nonessential spending after being issued with equal pay claims totaling up to £760 million ($954 million). Birmingham City Council, which provides services for more than one million people, filed a Section 114 notice on Tuesday, halting all spending except on essential services. The deficit arose due to difficulties paying between £650 million (around $816 million) and £760 million (around $954 million) in equal pay claims, the notice report says. The city now expects to have a deficit of…
Balado was reporting on a robbery in Madrid for channel Cuatro when a man groped her on camera. Police in Spain have arrested a man for sexually assaulting a journalist while she was on air. Isa Balado was reporting on a robbery on Tuesday in Madrid when a man approached her from behind and groped her before asking which channel she worked for. Balado confronted him, explaining that she was working and tried to continue with her report, but host Nacho Abad insisted that she show the man’s face on…
The United States on Wednesday approved a $5 billion sale to South Korea of F-35s, top-of-the-line fighter-jets with stealth capacity, as tensions soar with North Korea. The State Department informed Congress that it had given the green light to the sale of 25 of the aircraft made by Lockheed Martin as well as engines and related equipment. The sale “will improve the Republic of Korea’s capability to meet current and future threats by providing credible defense capability to deter aggression in the region and ensure interoperability with US forces,” a…
Russia’s president and Kim Jong Un held talks on Wednesday during which they are believed to have explored a range of “sensitive topics”. Vladimir Putin held talks with his North Korean counterpart on Wednesday, during which Kim Jong Un vowed his “full and unconditional support” for Russia’s war in Ukraine. “Russia has risen to a sacred fight to protect its sovereignty and security against the hegemonic forces,” he said. “North Korea supports all Putin’s decisions.” “I’m sure we will remain together in [the] fight against imperialism,” Kim said earlier, expressing his…
A Russian airliner carrying 170 people was forced to crash-land in a field after a hydraulics failure. No one was injured in the emergency, which left the Ural Airlines Airbus A320 stranded next to a forest in the Novosibirsk region of Siberia. Ural said the pilot “selected” the landing site after the jet’s hydraulic systems failed while approaching Omsk. The incident sparked denials from the airline that it was unable to service its planes due to sanctions on Russia. Pictures showed the plane stranded in an open field, its emergency…
UFO truthers rejoiced today, as a unique event unfolded in Mexico City. In the country’s Congress, no less. An official event unveiling two alleged alien corpses took place in the Mexican capital, spearheaded by journalist and ufologist Jaime Maussan. The two small “non-human” corpses were displayed in windowed boxes for all to see. The small mummified specimen, retrieved from Cusco, Peru, are believed to be one thousand-years old. Scientists co-hosted the event. While Ryan Graves, Americans for Safe Aerospace Executive Director and former U.S. Navy pilot, was also in attendance. Maussan, under oath, addressed members…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia were wrong. Speaking at a forum in eastern Russia, he said it is not right to do anything in foreign policy that harms the interests of other people. His remarks come as Russian troops continue fighting in Ukraine. The Soviet Union invaded Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968 following mass protests and demands for greater freedoms. President Putin made the comments at the Eastern Economic Forum in the far eastern Russian city of Vladivostok on Tuesday.…
Though it is a truism, when supplies run dry, war becomes arduous. Russia’s war with Ukraine is no exception. Without heavy artillery shells, there can be no artillery fire – what Joseph Stalin infamously termed the “God of War”. Without rockets and anti-tank missiles, Russia cannot take aim at Western-supplied tanks to Ukraine. With the pariah state having few global friends, Putin knew that Moscow did have one partner-in-crime, a state equally intent on inflicting belligerence to the West, and who would do anything for cash. Turning towards Russia’s Cold War…
One of the DEA’s most-wanted alleged fentanyl traffickers, who was allied with “Los Chapitos,” the sons of “El Chapo” Guzman, was killed in Sinaloa this week after getting into a car accident, according to news reports. Luis Javier Benítez Espinoza, known as “El Fourteen” crashed his SUV into the car of an unidentified 60-year old-man south of Culiacán, Sinaloa, on September 8, according to news reports. After the accident, Benítez reportedly fired his handgun into the sky before kidnapping the man and taking off. Two days later, Benítez’s body was found outside a local public…