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rickpat:
confusion everywhere

I'm sure they're paying for the oil with weapons,

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....exactly what i would do!

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Manchin fumes as US buys 500,000 barrels of Russian oil a day amid Ukraine war

Sen. Joe Manchin called on President Joe Biden to ramp up domestic energy production to curtail the United States's reliance on Russian oil and gas imports, accusing the White House of pushing “hypocritical” policies.

The West Virginia Democrat said in a statement late Monday that the U.S. importing about a half-million barrels of oil products from Russia a month poses a “clear and present danger to U.S. national security."


The “entire world is watching as Vladimir Putin uses energy as a weapon in an attempt to extort and coerce our European allies,” said Manchin, who leads the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

Many Republicans have said in recent days that Russia's aggression vindicates the case for added U.S. production of fossil fuels, but it's unusual for a member of Biden's own party to make the same argument. Manchin, though, has long favored fossil fuel production and has been skeptical of his party's regulatory agenda.

“While Americans decry what is happening in Ukraine, the United States continues to allow the import of more than half a million barrels per day of crude oil and other petroleum products from Russia during this time of war,” Manchin said. "This makes no sense at all and represents a clear and present danger to our nation’s energy security."

“The United States can and must ramp up domestic energy production and increase access to our abundant resources and technologies to both protect our energy independence and support our allies around the globe,” Manchin said.

His statement came as oil prices ticked upward, with West Texas Intermediate crude futures closing near $96 a barrel, up roughly $20 a barrel from two months ago.

The statement also came before Biden is slated to deliver his first State of the Union address at the Capitol.

Manchin’s Republican counterpart on the committee, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, also said Monday that she has asked the Biden administration to consider “further utilization of domestic oil resources” in her home state of Alaska, according to Politico. Failing to utilize the state’s natural resources, she said, would be “a missed opportunity” as the U.S. seeks to move away from Russian imports.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/manchin-fumes-as-us-buys-500-000-barrels-of-russian-oil-a-day-amid-ukraine-war

She needs disciplining.....she's gone mad

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Pilotaffair:
We've heard enough about Russia news!!
Next please?

What's happening in Canada

Canada’s Inflation Rate Hits 30-Year High: Here’s How it Affects You

Last month, Canada’s official inflation rate hit a whopping 5.1% — a level only seen back in 1991. Increases in the price of food, energy, and shelter have eroded the purchasing power of Canadian consumers, especially given that the average wage increase is around 4%.

Essentially, your money is worth less … a lot less. What may have sufficed for a grocery shopping trip, renting a place, or filling up your gas tank in 2020 is no longer the case. Until the Bank of Canada raises the policy interest rate sufficiently to cool inflation. Canadians will have to rely on these options for mitigating the damage to their wallets.

Dealing with high gas prices
Gone are the days of $1.50 a litre. Today, prices of $1.70, $1.80, or even $1.90 per litre in metropolitan areas for the cheapest 87 octane have been spotted. In January alone, gasoline prices increased by 4.8% and were 31% more expensive compared to the year prior.

The situation has been hampered by high commodity prices, exacerbated by the recent geopolitical crisis with Russia and Ukraine. These costs not only affect average drivers but businesses too, which pass on the cost of pricier gas to their customers by raising prices. Even public transportation is being impacted.

Your best bet here is to find a rewards system to link to a credit card. When filling at participating stations, you can receive a small discount on your gas, and collect points to redeem for small rewards. Although not significant in itself, the savings can add up over time.

https://www.fool.ca/2022/03/01/canadas-inflation-rate-hits-30-year-high-heres-how-it-affects-you/

Belarus is being hit with a tranche of UK sanctions for aiding Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

UK foreign secretary, Liz Truss said Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko’s administration “actively aids and abets Russia’s illegal invasion” and should be made to feel the “consequences”.

Leading Belarusian military figures are among those who have been sanctioned with immediate effect under the UK’s Russia sanctions regime, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said.

The named individuals will be unable to travel to the UK and any UK-based assets will be frozen.

The Foreign Office said the Belarusian military has “supported and enabled the Russian invasion of Ukraine”.

Among those to be targeted are the Belarus chief of the general staff and first deputy minister of defence, Major General Victor Gulevich, who is responsible for directing the Belarusian armed forces.

Others sanctioned include Major General Andrei Burdyko, the deputy minister of defence for logistics and chief of logistics of the Belarusian armed forces; deputy minister of defence for armament and chief of armament of the Belarusian armed forces, Major General Sergei Simonenko; and deputy minister of defence, Major General Andrey Zhuk.

State enterprises JSC 558 Aircraft Repair Plant and JSC Integral, a military semi-conductor manufacturer, have also been included in the economic strike, the FCDO said.

JSC 558 provides maintenance and servicing to military aircraft at Baranovichi air base, from which Russian aircraft operated as part of the invasion, according to the department.

Ms Truss said: “We are inflicting economic pain on Putin and those closest to him.

“We will not rest until Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity is restored.

“The Lukashenko regime actively aids and abets Russia’s illegal invasion and will be made to feel the economic consequences for its support for Putin.

“There will be nowhere to hide. Nothing – and no one – is off the table.”

The move follows separate sanctions against Russia, including preventing designated Russian banks from being able to transact payments in sterling and have correspondent banking relationships with UK-based banks.

It is designed to cut Russia’s biggest bank, Sberbank, out of the UK’s financial markets.

A ban has also been enacted on a range of exports critical to the maintenance and development of Russia’s military and strategic interests.

It is being applied in close alignment with the US, European Union and other partners to collectively cut off much of Russia’s high-tech imports, with the intention of constraining Russia’s future military-industrial and technological capabilities.

The Belarus sanctions are on top of those already applied on Minsk by the UK since 2020.

More than 100 people and organisations have previously been targeted in response to the fraudulent elections in Belarus and the “litany of abhorrent acts and human rights violations that the Lukashenko regime continues to commit”, the FCDO has said.

https://www.itv.com/news/2022-03-01/belarus-hit-with-uk-sanctions-for-role-in-russias-invasion-of-ukraine

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...CIA code words?

He looks tired already....

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But i thought.........

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Psychos....

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Because of Putins nukes?

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Gas price hike has removed the fear of bandits?

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Righteousness2:
There is Nothing UN, EU, AU, NATO, Scientist or anyone can do about the Climate.

What they Call "Climate Change" are the things JESUS told the world, will Precede HIS Coming.
They are Signs of the soon return of JESUS Christ..,

Receive some sense.....

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Google, Space X, BP, Shell .........

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....all is fair in love and war?

koo

From frying pan to fire back to frying pan....

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February 28, 2022

Large numbers of people are being displaced by worsening weather extremes. But some of these risks can be prevented or lessened with prompt action.

Deadly with extreme weather now, climate change is about to get so much worse. It is likely going to make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer, gloomier and way more dangerous in the next 18 years with an "unavoidable" increase in risks, a new United Nations science report says.

And after that, watch out.

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report said Monday that if human-caused global warming isn't limited to just another couple tenths of a degree, an Earth now struck regularly by deadly heat, fires, floods and drought in future decades will degrade in 127 ways, with some being "potentially irreversible."

"The cumulative scientific evidence is unequivocal: Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health," says the major report designed to guide world leaders in their efforts to curb climate change. Delaying cuts in heat-trapping carbon emissions and waiting on adapting to warming's impacts, it warns, "will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all."

Today's children who may still be alive in the year 2100 are going to experience four times more climate extremes than they do now even with only a few more tenths of a degree of warming over today's heat. But if temperatures increase nearly 2 more degrees Celsius from now (3.4 degrees Fahrenheit), they will experience five times the floods, storms, drought and heat waves, according to the collection of scientists at the IPCC.

Already at least 3.3 billion people's daily lives "are highly vulnerable to climate change" and are 15 times more likely to die from extreme weather, the report says. Large numbers of people are being displaced by worsening weather extremes. And the world's poor are being hit by far the hardest, it says.

More people are going to die each year from heat waves, diseases, extreme weather, air pollution and starvation because of global warming, the report says. Just how many people die depends on how much heat-trapping gas from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas gets spewed into the air and how the world adapts to an ever-hotter world, scientists say.

"Climate change is killing people," said co-author Helen Adams of King's College London. "Yes, things are bad, but actually the future depends on us, not the climate."

With every tenth of a degree of warming, many more people die from heat stress, heart and lung problems from heat and air pollution, infectious diseases, illnesses from mosquitoes, and starvation, the authors say.

The report lists mounting dangers to people, plants, animals, ecosystems and economies, with people at risk in the millions and billions and potential damages in the trillions of dollars. The report highlights people being displaced from homes, places becoming uninhabitable, the number of species dwindling, coral disappearing, ice shrinking and rising and increasingly oxygen-depleted and acidic oceans.

Some of these risks can still be prevented or lessened with prompt action.

"Today's IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership," United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement. "With fact upon fact, this report reveals how people and the planet are getting clobbered by climate change."

The panel of more than 200 scientists puts out a series of these massive reports every five to seven years, with this one, the second of the series, devoted to how climate change affects people and the planet. Last August the science panel published a report on the latest climate science and projections for future warming, branded "code red" by the United Nations.

Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe of The Nature Conservancy, who wasn't part of the latest report, calls it the "Your House is on Fire" report.

"There's real existential threats," report co-chair Debra Roberts of South Africa told The Associated Press.

Since the last version of this impacts panel's report in 2014, "all the risks are coming at us faster than we thought before," said report co-author Maarten van Aalst, a climate scientist for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, mentioning floods, droughts and storms. "More of it will get really bad much sooner than we thought before."

"Every bit of warming matters. The longer you wait ... the more you will pay later," report co-chair Hans-Otto Poertner of Germany told the AP in an interview.

Since 2008, weather disasters have forced about 20 million people a year out of their homes as climate change refugees, with the future looking even grimmer in some places, according to the report.

By 2050, a billion people will face coastal flooding risk from rising seas, the report says. More people will be forced out of their homes from weather disasters, especially flooding, sea level rise and tropical cyclones.

"Some regions that are presently densely populated will become unsafe or uninhabitable," the report says. And it says that small islands face that "overarching significant risk" of no longer being livable.

And eventually in some places it will become too hot for people to work outdoors, which will be a problem for raising crops, said report co-author Rachel Bezner Kerr of Cornell University.

Some of these climate change harms have been warned about for years, even decades, and have become reality, now written in the past and present tenses. Others are still warnings about future woes fast approaching.

Monday's 36-page summary, condensed from more than 1,000 pages of analysis, was written by scientists and then edited line-by-line by governments and scientists with that final summary approved by consensus Saturday during a two-week virtual conference that occurred while Russia invaded Ukraine. In the final hours, a Ukrainian delegate made an impassioned plea that the war not overshadow the climate change report, some authors said.

"Climate change isn't lurking around the corner waiting to pounce. It's already upon us raining down blows on billions of people," United Nations Environment Program Director Inger Andersen said.

Study authors said much of Africa, parts of Central and South America, small islands and South Asia are "hot spots" for the worst harm to people and ecosystems.

The report has a new emphasis on the mental health toll climate change has taken, both on people displaced or harmed by extreme weather and on people's anxiety level, especially youths worried about their futures.

If the world warms just another nine-tenths of a degree Celsius from now (1.6 degrees Fahrenheit), the amount of land burned by wildfires globally will increase by 35%, the report says.

And the rest of the living world won't be spared either, with the report warning of climate change extinctions. Already two species — the mammal Bramble Cays melomys in Australia and Central America's golden toad — have gone extinct because of climate change.

"The risk of extinction in biodiversity hotspots increases by about tenfold as warming rises from 1.5 to 3 degrees Celsius," said Poertner, the German co-chair.

With just one more degree Celsius of warming (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit), 20% of the world's species will become endangered, representing "severe biodiversity risk," the report says.

One of the biggest changes in the report from previous versions emphasizes how crucial a key temperature threshold is scientifically and for people and how exceeding it, even if only a few decades, can cause permanent damage.

In the 2015 Paris agreement, the world adopted a goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times, which was then further cemented when a special IPCC report in 2018 showed massive harms beyond that 1.5 degree mark. This new report found that threshold is even more important, but scientists do note that the world does not fall off a cliff after that mark.

Because the world is already 1.1 degrees (2 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than pre-industrial time and emissions are still rising, not falling, the vast majority of future scenarios show temperatures are on track to shoot well above 1.5 degrees, hitting the mark in the 2030s. So some officials began to count on going over that threshold and coming back down a decade or so later with still-to-be-proven expensive technology to suck carbon out of the air or by some other means.

Monday's report says that if that overshoot happens, "then many human and natural systems will face additional severe risks... some will be irreversible, even if global warming is reduced."

Countries need to do more to adapt to warming, with rich countries needing to do a better job giving financial help to poorer nations to adjust to climate change caused mostly by the developing world, the report says. But there are limits to what adapting can accomplish and sometimes — like in the case of sea walls — technical fixes to lessen harms in one place will make it worse somewhere else, the report says.

"This has to be a whole of society response. Not a single individual, community, city or government can opt out," South African co-chair Roberts said in a Monday press conference. "While action is happening, it's not rapid enough and it's uneven."

Amid all the danger signs, experts said they want to shy away from doom.

"Fear is not a good advisor and never is," German vice chancellor and minister for climate and economy Robert Habeck told the AP. "Hope is the right one."

Hayhoe said what's needed is realism, action and hope.

"It's really bad and there's a good chance that it will get worse," Hayhoe said. "But if we do everything we can, that will make a difference. Our actions will make the difference ... That's what hope is."

https://www.newsy.com/stories/united-nations-releases-dire-new-climate-change-report/

....and when the new phones breaks down?

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Nigerians are docile distracted.....

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Compassionate capitalism?

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....that's an 'oxymoron'

Buhari should ban politicians transferring loot abroad.

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Dead on arrival.....

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Early days.....Russia is just 'colding' up

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Officialgarri:
Useless analysis. He said 3.4soldiers to 1000 people. When did Russia tell you they plan to kill the 44million population?

Watch as Ukraine is decimated before the end of next month

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