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Thibaut Pinot has done cycling a service by voicing his doubts

'Doping didn't ruin my career, but it often frustrated me' says retiring Frenchman

https://trib.al/286IdIF

In Science Magazine today, peer-reviewed research showed Exxon scientists predicted global warming with incredible accuracy as early as 1977.

Also #ExxonKnew the ‘carbon budget’ for holding warming below 2°C.

They chose to deliberately spread disinformation and climate denial to continue making massive profits instead of inform the public of the danger.

This should make the lawsuits easier.

#ClimateChange #Justice

#2022 was once again one of the warmest years on record
#2021 ended up ranking fifth warmest or sixth warmest, depending on dataset. We now have tally for 2022—and it’s the new 5th or 6th warmest, depending on the dataset!
https://bit.ly/3W682rd #climatechange #ClimateCrisis

Once again, make-shift morgues are being used to store dead bodies across the UK as hospital morgues reach capacity due to a surge in deaths caused by the #COVID #pandemic.

NHS England and the Department of Health refused to comment.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/temporary-morgues-set-up-uk-hospitals-run-out-space-2021-01-12/
#CovidIsntOver

It seems what he has in mind is to expand the current criminalization of anti-war speech. So, I guess it would mean even more police monitoring of social media. (He’s very upset about emigres continuing to earn rental income on homes they still own back in Russia.)

State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin has proposed confiscating the property of the “lowlife” Russians who emigrated after the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine. He wants to take their stuff as “compensation” for the damage they’ve inflicted on the Motherland. https://t.me/vv_volodin/594

Cervical cancer rates dropped 65% from 2012 to 2019 among women in their early 20s after a generation of young women were vaccinated against human papillomavirus, or HPV, for the first time. Now if the boys would get vaccinated, too, maybe we could start to talk about elimination....

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-cancer-death-rate-has-dropped-by-a-third-since-1991-11673535327

New Geopolitics Decanted podcast episode is out!

Ukrainian Reserve Colonel Sergii Grabskyi makes the unexpected case for why Ukraine may attempt to retake Crimea soon, long before it is able to liberate all of the territory lost since Feb 24!

Take a listen:

https://podcast.silverado.org/episodes/why-ukraine-may-try-to-retake-crimea-next

We also covered other topics:

- Why Ukraine is fighting so hard for Bakhmut despite taking devastating losses there
- Why Kreminna and Svatove are even more important than Bakhmut
- The vital importance of the barely noticed fight at Vulhledar in the South
- Is it possible for Ukrainian forces to cross the Dnipro river
- Why the latest supplies of western IFV and tanks may not help as much as many think
- How Ukraine is maintaining the Noah's Ark of western weapons donations

- Why Ukraine has not attempted to destroy the North Crimean Canal and the real situation with the water supplies to Crimea
- Why there is only one real general in the Russian military
- Where is Ukraine expecting a new Russian offensive
- Why the stories of Russian forces being unmotivated to fight is largely a myth
- Why Kharkiv remains a key priority for Russia
- Why Ukraine is not worried about a new offensive from Belarus
- and much more

1/ Yevgeny Prigozhin's apparently premature announcement of Soledar's capture has reportedly led to a desperate push by Wagner to make it a reality. Wagner is fighting without regard for casualties, not just to gain Soledar, but for Prigozhin's reputation. ⬇️

Some 11yr old racist child told my lovely 11yr old daughter to "go back to Africa" & kept mocking her beautiful Black skin. They're both born in Canada, & this is their home. The difference is, while I teach my daughter about a beautiful world, the other child is taught to hate.

NANCY SINATRA * bang-bang (my baby shot me down)

https://youtu.be/7FNse1n7pSs

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