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Sleepy Don was caught sleeping during day one of his criminal Trial. update: Trump falls asleep again on day 2 of his criminal trial. Sleepy don

A priest has been stabbed multiple times while delivering Mass at a Sydney church, a live stream appears to have shown. The incident comes just days after a man killed six people in a Westfield shopping centre. Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was leading a service at Wakely's Christ The Good Shepherd Church when he appeared to have been stabbed multiple times by a man who approached him at the altar. x

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13304671/amp/Riddhi-patel-gaza-bakersfield-threat.html not 18 felony charges and $1 million bail

https://www.timesnownews.com/world/europe/spanish-politician-daniel-gmez-del-barrio-resigns-after-photos-reveal-he-offered-himself-as-sex-slave-article-109256687 who was it?

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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a move that environmentalists called a betrayal, the Biden administration has approved the construction of a deepwater oil export terminal off the Texas coast that would be the largest of its kind in the United States. The Sea Port Oil Terminal being developed off Freeport, Texas, will be able to load two supertankers at once, with an export capacity of 2 million barrels of crude oil per day. The $1.8 billion project by Houston-based Enterprise Products Partners received a deepwater port license from the Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration this week, the final step in a five-year federal review. Environmentalists denounced the license approval, saying it contradicted President Joe Biden's climate agenda and would lead to "disastrous" planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, equivalent to nearly 90 coal-fired power plants. The action could jeopardize Biden's support from environmental allies and young voters already disenchanted by the Democratic administration's approval last year of the massive Willow oil project in Alaska. "Nothing about this project is in alignment with President Biden's climate and environmental justice goals,’' said Kelsey Crane, senior policy advocate at Earthworks, an environmental group that has long opposed the export terminal. "The communities that will be impacted by (the oil terminal) have once again been ignored and will be forced to live with the threat of more oil spills, explosions and pollution,’' Crane said. "The best way to protect the public and the climate from the harms of oil is to keep it in the ground.” In a statement after the license was approved, the Maritime Administration said the project meets a number of congressionally mandated requirements, including extensive environmental reviews and a federal determination that the port's operation is in the national interest.

https://www.cp24.com/news/ontarian-wins-legal-battle-for-public-funding-of-gender-affirming-surgery-argued-as-experimental-1.6843548 The Ontario resident, who identifies as she/her, feels she doesn't fit within the gender binary, and was not satisfied with the option of receiving regular vaginoplasty surgery. She took it to court and fought for her right to receive penile preserving vaginoplasty, which involves the creation of a neovagina in the perineum, the part of the body located between the anus and the scrotum. After two years of fighting for coverage from the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP), the Health Services and Review Board (HSARB) ruled against an appeal from OHIP who claimed the procedure was too experimental, and ordered OHIP to pay the legal costs of her court battle. "Such an interpretation would force transgender, non-binary people like K.S. to choose between having a surgery (penectomy) they do not want and which does not align with their gender expression to get state funding, on the one hand, and not having gender-affirming surgery at all, on the other. Such a choice would reinforce their disadvantaged position and would not promote their dignity and autonomy," Justice Breese Davies wrote in the decision, commenting on OHIP's "inconsistent" interpretation of the schedule of benefits. ... Further, the court decided that HSARB's conclusion that the term vaginoplasty includes this procedure is consistent with the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care, the leading authority on gender-affirming medical and surgical care ... "We hope that OHIP decides to accept the decision of the Court rather than seeking leave to appeal so that K.S. can move forward with her surgery she has been trying to get for years now." K.S. and McIntyre said they hope the decision encourages Canadian clinics to start offering such procedures ... "With the vast push rightward stemming from the recent strong anti-equality ideology, it's been a second dark ages for us in the 2SLGBTQIA+ community of late, so this very appropriate and correct verdict is a breath of fresh air," K.S. said.

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Popular Twitter User with 100,000 that I've followed for years It seems like she killed the father of the kids in Woodland Hills, then drove the 2 kids on the 405 where she threw them out the car near the 90. The infant died and the 9 year old is in the hospital. She then drove to Redondo Beach, and fatally crashed her Porsche into a tree on Pacific Coast Highway. Her Twitter account over the past few days included a lot of dark posts over the solar eclipse. She called it "the epitome spiritual warfare" and told people they needed to "pick a side" and that something big was coming. NBC 4 LOS ANGELES - https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/woman-who-threw-her-daughters-onto-405-traffic-claimed-to-be-astrologer-i-team-confirms/3384844/

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Fears are growing that the H5N1 outbreak among cattle in the United States could have been caused by contaminated animal feed. In contrast to Britain and Europe, American farmers are still allowed to feed cattle and other farm animals ground-up waste from other animals including birds. Dairy cows across six US states – and at least one farm worker – have become infected with the highly pathogenic virus, which has already killed millions of animals across the globe since 2021. The farm worker, who is thought to have been exposed via infected cattle in Texas, is only the second recorded human H5N1 case in the US. Since February, the US has investigated and discounted a further 8,000 possible exposures, according to Dr Joshua Mott, WHO senior advisor on influenza. The development is of concern because it allows the virus, which has killed millions of birds and wild mammals around the world, more opportunities to mutate. Experts fear that H5N1, which was only first detected in cows a few weeks ago, may have been transmitted through a type of cattle feed called "poultry litter" – a mix of poultry excreta, spilled feed, feathers, and other waste scraped from the floors of industrial chicken and turkey production plants. In the UK and EU, feeding cows proteins from other animals has been tightly regulated since the outbreak of BSE – or 'mad cow disease' – 30 years ago. Experts are unsure but fear it could be the poultry litter feed used in the US that has passed the virus to cattle. "In the US, the feeding of poultry litter to beef cows is a known factor in the cause of botulism in cattle, and is a risk in the case of H5N1,” said Dr Steve Van Winden, Associate Professor in Population Medicine at the Royal Veterinary College. Dr Tom Peacock, a virologist and fellow at the Pirbright Institute agreed: "This latest case wouldn't be the first time there have been concerns H5N1 could be moving through different mammals via contaminated feed,” citing the outbreak of avian flu in cats in Poland last year, which experts suspected might have been transmitted through mink byproducts used in raw cat food. The US cattle industry is worth over $100 billion and regulations covering animal standards there have long been controversial in Europe – most famously over the use of hormones in the rearing of cattle for meat.

From Consumer Reports: Lead is a metal that can be bad for our health. Just like how too much candy can give you a tummy ache, too much lead in your body can make you feel sick. Think about Taylor Swift's glittery microphones; if they had lead in them, it could be harmful to her and her fans. Now, what would you do if your favourite snack had lead in it?

First time in American history this has happened

They asked users to send their eclipse vids so they could show them on live tv and then this happened TW: NSFW

Lobbyists for the world's biggest meat companies have lauded a better than expected outcome at COP28, which they say left them "excited" and "enthusiastic" for their industry's prospects. U.S. livestock bosses reflected on the conference's implication for their sector on a virtual panel, fresh from "sharing U.S agriculture's story" at the climate summit last December. Campaigners and climate scientists had hoped the summit – which was billed as a "Food COP" due to its focus on farming – would see governments agree to ambitious action to transform food systems in line with the goals of the Paris climate agreement. But while more than 130 governments pledged to tackle agriculture's carbon footprint, a slew of announcements and initiatives failed to set binding targets, or to broach the question of reducing herds of ruminant livestock such as cattle and sheep, which are agriculture's largest driver of emissions. In the online discussion, which was hosted by the trade outlet FeedStuffs, meat lobbyists groups made it clear they saw COP28 as a win. The three representatives all said there had been widespread recognition at the Dubai summit that agriculture was a "solution" to climate change, despite livestock accounting for over 30 percent of anthropogenic methane emissions. Outcomes at the summit were characterised as "a far more positive outcome than we had anticipated" by Constance Cullman, the president of the Animal Feed Industry Association (AFIA) – a US lobby group whose members include some of the world's biggest meat and animal feed producers. She added that this was the first time she had "felt that optimistic" after a "large international gathering like this one". Cullman also praised the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)’s Global Roadmap to tackle the climate crisis and end hunger, which she described as "music to our ears", stating that she particularly welcomed the report's emphasis on "production and efficiency" over "looking at reduced consumption of animal protein". Academics described the FAO report's failure to recommend cuts to meat-eating as "bewildering" in a March submission to the journal Nature Food. According to a March paper, which surveyed more than 200 environmental and agricultural scientists, meat and dairy production must be drastically reduced – and fast – to align with the Paris Agreement. The report concludes that global emissions from livestock production need to decline by 50 percent during the next six years, with "high-producing and consuming nations" taking the lead. The FAO told DeSmog in a statement that its roadmap took a "balanced" approach to animal agriculture, saying that its report had "acknowledged the importance of livestock for poor people in traditional agrifood systems" and referenced the need for dietary shifts. "We believe that some comments on the change in diets and the role of animal products in them are either misinformed because people have not properly read the Roadmap report, or deliberately disingenuous for the sake of feeding vested interests narratives,” it said. Another industry panellist, Eric Mittenthaler, had attended COP28 on behalf of lobby group the Meat Institute (formerly the North American Meat Institute, or NAMI). He stressed the importance of sharing the message that animal agriculture is necessary for nutrition and sustainability. The Meat Institute, which runs an initiative called the ProteinPACT, represents hundreds of corporations in the meat supply chain, including the meat sector's three largest companies, JBS, Cargill and Tyson, which together have emissions equal to oil majors Shell or BP. Sophie Nodzenski, a senior campaign strategist on food and agriculture at Greenpeace International, said it was "unsurprising" that industrial meat producers felt positively about COP28's outcomes "given that their interests essentially took the central stage there". The number of lobbyists for big meat and dairy companies tripled at COP28 as revealed by DeSmog and the Guardian, amid rising scrutiny of the food sector's climate impacts. Meanwhile, smallholders and family farmers at the summit saidthey felt "drowned out". "COP28 has rightly put the spotlight on the link between food production and the climate crisis, but the sheer number of Big Ag lobbyists present gave them an outsized influence,” Nodzenski said. Full article: https://www.desmog.com/2024/04/08/us-meat-lobby-celebrates-positive-outcome-cop28/