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House rejects Democratic efforts to force release of Matt Gaetz ethics report‘A Complete Unknown’ Fact vs. Fiction: Bob Dylan Experts Go Deep on What’s True or Fanciful in the Celebrated BiopicHouse Republicans say the Biden administration buried a 2023 analysis that cautioned against imposing its January 2024 pause in processing new liquified natural gas (LNG) export permits and continues to dodge congressional requests to provide documents that justified the decision. “Reports indicate that before the ban, the White House met with activists and TikTok influencers—I’m not making that up—who were adamant the administration take radical steps to address climate change and eliminate fossil fuels,” said the subcommittee’s chair, Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas). Despite a year of committees requesting documents relevant to the pause with little success, Fallon said it was upsetting to learn through a nonprofit’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that 97 documents totaling 4,354 pages of LNG analyses were not provided by DOE in response to queries. “As it turns out, there may have already been a 2023 study in existence that the department kept under wraps and is still fighting to withhold,” Fallon said. “It appears possible that when the information ... did not fit the narrative pushed by the White House, that information was buried in an attempt to clear the way for a more politically favorable analysis.” Assistant U.S. Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy and Carbon Management Brad Crabtree denied knowledge of any such study. “I’ve not been presented with the document, so I’m not aware of what you’re referring to,” he said, noting that if it exists, it is among many studies that prompted the pause. Under the Natural Gas Act, DOE must review applications to export LNG to ensure they are “consistent with the public interest,” primarily if exports would raise domestic prices and cause environmental damage. DOE last conducted such a study in 2018. Regardless of the study, the permit pause is set to be lifted on Jan. 20, 2025, after President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in. Repealing the pause is among a flurry of “Day One” executive orders he vows to issue. Crabtree confirmed the report would be published in “mid-December” and would include a 60-day comment period. House Republicans maintain that the Biden administration has never been transparent about the data it used to justify the pause. The nonpartisan nonprofit says that to support the permit freeze, the administration tossed analyses by DOE’s National Energy Technology Lab and the U.S. Energy Information Administration and, instead, relied on a 2023 study that was not peer-reviewed and has since been rebuffed. “The work of Dr. Howarth played no role in the decision,” Crabtree said. “Our methodology is fundamentally different from that of Mr. Howarth.” GAO’s FOIA seeks “any LNG export study transmitted by the National Energy Technology Lab to DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management between Jan. 1, 2023 and Oct. 31, 2023.” DOE, however, “has unilaterally reinterpreted” what documents GAO is seeking “as applying only to records [DOE] asserts are ‘final’ or ‘ready for release’ for the public’s view,” it maintains. Reps. Russell Fry (R-S.C.), August Pfluger (R-Texas), Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), and Clay Higgins (R-La.) interrogated Crabtree about the undisclosed documents and why DOE is not releasing them. “It is my understanding our team that works on document production has been in cooperative engagement with the committee,” Crabtree said, adding “four document distributions” fostered by GAO’s FOIA have been released and “the next one, I understand, is planned for Friday.” He said 2,000 pages had been made public since September but that he’s “not part of the process” “So I can’t speak to the details of that process. In my role, I have no involvement in it. But if you feel that the department has not been responsive to the committee, I’m happy to take any specific concerns back to that team,” he said. Boebert said Crabtree’s responses “may be the reason why we have to create a ... Department of Government Efficiency, to have actual oversight and accountability on bureaucrats.” “These are questions I would have asked him,” he said. “How many times did he meet with TikTok influencers on climate issues leading up to or following the announcement of the LNG export ban? Was the White House relying on TikTok influencers for policy advice when it pushed the LNG ban? Did the White House vet them for foreign influence or sponsorship?” John Podesta’s brother, Tony Podesta, “is known to have lobbied for foreign LNG companies, including one co-owned by a Qatar state-run energy company,” he said. Since the pause was imposed, Qatar has “secured long-term LNG export contracts, invested in export infrastructure, and increased capacity, while the United States falls behind competitively,” Fallon said. Crabtree said he knows nothing of such meetings and said Qatar’s increased LNG capacity “was years in the making.” Ranking member Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-Colo.) called the hearing “a rehash of a topic we’ve already covered,” describing the uproar as “a politically manufactured non-issue” stewing in irony. It’s “interesting” that Republicans “are suddenly very concerned about having social media influencers involved in government decision-making. I hope that will extend to the new subcommittee that a certain billionaire social media owner is hoping to intersect with right here in this committee in the coming years,” she said. She said she’s “intrigued” that colleagues “are suddenly very concerned about foreign influence over American energy production,“ alleging that ”Russian disinformation” is heard daily inside the committee.365 bet nba 。

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Simpson and Boggios bring pharmacy biz back into NOTL hands2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate fed drought that in turn fed the worst year for fires since 2005. And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires were set to more easily clear land to run cattle. The Amazon is twice the size of India and sprawls across eight countries and one territory, storing vast amounts of carbon dioxide that would otherwise warm the planet. It has about 20% of the world’s fresh water and astounding biodiversity, including 16,000 known tree species. But governments have historically viewed it as an area to be exploited, with little regard for sustainability or the rights of its Indigenous peoples, and experts say exploitation by individuals and organized crime is rising at alarming rates. “The fires and drought experienced in 2024 across the Amazon rainforest could be ominous indicators that we are reaching the long-feared ecological tipping point,” said Andrew Miller, advocacy director at Amazon Watch, an organization that works to protect the rainforest. “Humanity’s window of opportunity to reverse this trend is shrinking, but still open.” There were some bright spots. The level of Amazonian forest loss fell in both Brazil and Colombia. And nations gathered for the annual United Nations conference on biodiversity agreed to give Indigenous peoples more say in nature conservation decisions. “If the Amazon rainforest is to avoid the tipping point, Indigenous people will have been a determinant factor," Miller said. Wildfires and extreme drought Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6% compared to the previous year, the lowest level of destruction in nine years. The improvement under leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva contrasted with deforestation that hit a 15-year high under Lula's predecessor, far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro, who prioritized agribusiness expansion over forest protection and weakened environmental agencies. In July, Colombia reported historic lows in deforestation in 2023, driven by a drop in environmental destruction. The country's environment minister Susana Muhamad warned that 2024's figures may not be as promising as a significant rise in deforestation had already been recorded by July due to dry weather caused by El Nino, a weather phenomenon that warms the central Pacific. Illegal economies continue to drive deforestation in the Andean nation. “It’s impossible to overlook the threat posed by organized crime and the economies they control to Amazon conservation,” said Bram Ebus, a consultant for Crisis Group in Latin America. “Illegal gold mining is expanding rapidly, driven by soaring global prices, and the revenues of illicit economies often surpass state budgets allocated to combat them.” In Brazil, large swaths of the rainforest were draped in smoke in August from fires raging across the Amazon, Cerrado savannah, Pantanal wetland and the state of Sao Paulo. Fires are traditionally used for deforestation and for managing pastures, and those man-made blazes were largely responsible for igniting the wildfires. For a second year, the Amazon River fell to desperate lows , leading some countries to declare a state of emergency and distribute food and water to struggling residents. The situation was most critical in Brazil, where one of the Amazon River's main tributaries dropped to its lowest level ever recorded. Cesar Ipenza, an environmental lawyer who lives in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, said he believes people are becoming increasingly aware of the Amazon's fundamental role “for the survival of society as a whole." But, like Miller, he worries about a “point of no return of Amazon destruction.” It was the worst year for Amazon fires since 2005, according to nonprofit Rainforest Foundation US. Between January and October, an area larger than the state of Iowa — 37.42 million acres, or about 15.1 million hectares of Brazil’s Amazon — burned. Bolivia had a record number of fires in the first ten months of the year. “Forest fires have become a constant, especially in the summer months and require particular attention from the authorities who don't how to deal with or respond to them,” Ipenza said. Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Guyana also saw a surge in fires this year. Indigenous voices and rights made headway in 2024 The United Nations conference on biodiversity — this year known as COP16 — was hosted by Colombia. The meetings put the Amazon in the spotlight and a historic agreement was made to give Indigenous groups more of a voice on nature conservation decisions , a development that builds on a growing movement to recognize Indigenous people's role in protecting land and combating climate change. Both Ebus and Miller saw promise in the appointment of Martin von Hildebrand as the new secretary general for the Amazon Treaty Cooperation Organization, announced during COP16. “As an expert on Amazon communities, he will need to align governments for joint conservation efforts. If the political will is there, international backers will step forward to finance new strategies to protect the world’s largest tropical rainforest,” Ebus said. Ebus said Amazon countries need to cooperate more, whether in law enforcement, deploying joint emergency teams to combat forest fires, or providing health care in remote Amazon borderlands. But they need help from the wider world, he said. “The well-being of the Amazon is a shared global responsibility, as consumer demand worldwide fuels the trade in commodities that finance violence and environmental destruction,” he said. Next year marks a critical moment for the Amazon, as Belém do Pará in northern Brazil hosts the first United Nations COP in the region that will focus on climate. “Leaders from Amazon countries have a chance to showcase strategies and demand tangible support," Ebus said.

Govt urged to scale up education financing to 4pc of GDP Islamabad:“Education cannot be treated as a commodity delegated to private sector rather it is a fundamental right guaranteed by state, for which it must be held accountable”, stressed speakers at a policy dialogue titled ‘Citizen’s Agenda for Gender-Responsive, Inclusive, and Resilient Education’ organised by Society for Access to Quality Education (SAQE) during the 15th annual convention. The theme was ‘People’s Agenda for Transforming Education; from Silos to Systems.’ Zehra Arshad, executive director, SAQE highlighted that addressing the education emergency requires inclusive policy planning with every stakeholder meaningfully engaged and guided by up-to-date gender-disaggregated data. She stated, “Political will remains central to ensuring access to quality education and urged the adoption of a ‘Charter of Education’ to build consensus on long-term education policies.” She called on the government to commit to scaling up education financing to a minimum of 4 per cent of GDP, compared to the current 1.9 per cent, and significantly increase development budget allocations to catalyse inclusive education transformation. State has guaranteed right to education for every child, thus government, state and legislators must be held accountable for the education emergency”, said Huma Chughtai, Member National Assembly. She urged for the adoption of “Charter of Education” to synergise efforts from every actor for sustainable solution of the Education Emergency. Harris Khalique, President of Board of SAQE, pointed out that while Pakistan constitutes 4 per cent of the world’s population, it accounts for 11 per cent of the global out-of-school children population. He noted that political parties have repeatedly committed to scaling up education financing to 4% of GDP, but the allocation remains at 1.9 per cent. “Committing to 4 per cent of GDP allocation to education is the first step toward ensuring justice for every child,” he remarked. Muhammad Ali Kemal, Chief SDGs, Planning Commission emphasised on addressing leakages in education financing along with overall investment in education. He urged for ensuring universal child registration so every child and their rights are acknowledged. Dr Shahid Soroya, Director General, Pakistan Institute of Education informed that National Education Policy Framework has been developed with consensus of provincial authorities to effectively devolve education policy planning to grassroot level and ensure policies reflect local needs.

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COLLEGE FB NOTESThe report from the Justice Department inspector general's office knocks down a fringe conspiracy theory advanced by some Republicans in Congress that the FBI played a role in instigating the events that day, when rioters determined to overturn Republican Donald Trump's 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden stormed the building in a violent clash with police. The review, released nearly four years after a dark chapter in history that shook the bedrock of American democracy, was narrow in scope, but aimed to shed light on gnawing questions that have dominated public discourse, including whether major intelligence failures preceded the riot and whether the FBI in some way provoked the violence. The report offers a mixed assessment of the FBI's performance in the run-up to the riot, crediting the bureau for preparing for the possibility of violence and for trying to identify known "domestic terrorism subjects" who planned to come to Washington that day. But it said the FBI, in an action the now-deputy director described as a "basic step that was missed," failed to canvass informants across all 56 of its field offices for any relevant intelligence. That was a step, the report concluded, "that could have helped the FBI and its law enforcement partners with their preparations in advance of January 6." The report found 26 FBI informants were in Washington for election-related protests on Jan. 6, including three who were tasked with traveling to the city to report on others who were potentially planning to attend the day's events. While four informants entered the Capitol, none were authorized to do so by the bureau or to break the law, the report said. Many of the 26 informants provided the FBI with information before the riot, but it "was no more specific than, and was consistent with, other sources of information" that the FBI acquired. The FBI said in a letter responding to the report that it accepts the inspection general's recommendation "regarding potential process improvements for future events." The lengthy review was launched days after the riot as the FBI faced questions over whether it had missed warning signs or adequately disseminated intelligence it received, including a Jan. 5, 2021, bulletin prepared by the FBI's Norfolk, Virginia, field office that warned of the potential for "war" at the Capitol. The inspector general found the information in that bulletin was broadly shared. FBI Director Chris Wray, who announced this week his plans to resign at the end of Biden's term in January, defended his agency's handing of the intelligence report. He told lawmakers in 2021 that the report was disseminated though the joint terrorism task force, discussed at a command post in Washington and posted on an internet portal available to other law enforcement agencies. "We did communicate that information in a timely fashion to the Capitol Police and (Metropolitan Police Department) in not one, not two, but three different ways," Wray said at the time. Separately, the report said the FBI's New Orleans field office was told by a source between November 2020 and early January 2021 that protesters were planning to station a "quick reaction force" in northern Virginia "to be armed and prepared to respond to violence that day in DC, if necessary." That information was shared with the FBI's Washington Field Office, members of intelligence agencies and some federal law enforcement agencies the day before the riot, the inspector general found. But there was no indication the FBI told northern Virginia police about the information, the report said. An FBI official told the inspector general there was "nothing actionable or immediately concerning about it." A cache of weapons at a Virginia hotel as part of a "quick reaction force" was a central piece of the Justice Department's seditious conspiracy case against Oath Keeper leader Stewart Rhodes and other members of the far-right extremist group. The conspiracy theory that federal law enforcement officers entrapped members of the mob has been spread in conservative circles, including by some Republican lawmakers. Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., recently suggested on a podcast that agents pretending to be Trump supporters were responsible for instigating the violence. Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who withdrew as Trump's pick as attorney general amid scrutiny over sex trafficking allegations, sent a letter to Wray in 2021 asking how many undercover agents or informants were at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and if they were "merely passive informants or active instigators." Wray said the "notion that somehow the violence at the Capitol on January 6 was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources and agents is ludicrous."

The Utah Jazz will be back in action on Friday night in Salt Lake City when they host the Phoenix Suns, but good luck guessing what will happen on the Delta Center court. If NBA games were capable of causing whiplash, a lot of Jazz fans would be in neck braces after watching what their team did on the road last week. Utah followed a 27-point loss at Oklahoma City last Tuesday with a jaw-dropping 141-99 blowout victory at Portland on Friday. But the pendulum then swung dramatically back the other direction on Sunday in Sacramento, when the Jazz allowed the Kings to score 141 points while they only put up 97. "Yeah," Jazz coach Will Hardy said after the setback in Sacramento, "we got our butts kicked." Utah makes a quick, one-game pitstop at home against the Suns having lost six of seven and 10 of 12. The Jazz then head out for a five-game holiday trek that has them traveling from Los Angeles to face the Clippers to Detroit, Brooklyn, Cleveland and back to Portland from Dec. 16-26. The Jazz will have to do much better on both ends than they did against the Kings to be competitive in this rough stretch. Sacramento shot 22 of 44 from 3-point range, while Utah made only 38.8 percent of its shots overall. The result wasn't pretty. "That's the way the NBA can feel now," Hardy said. "Games can feel crazy when teams get hot shooting the ball from kind of everywhere." Though neither made significant contributions in the blowout loss, Lauri Markkanen and Kyle Filipowski did return for the Jazz, so their presence could make a difference during this upcoming trek. Keyonte George had a strong game against the Kings, scoring 25 points on 8-of-14 shooting with six assists and four steals. Johnny Juzang scored a season-high 22 in the win at Portland. "We are in this space of guys being in and out, and it's tough for young players to find continuity," Hardy said. "I think for any team to find a level and sustain we do need to have continuity." The Suns wrap up a cross-country, four-game road trip with their second visit to Utah this season. They won 120-112 on Nov. 12. Phoenix has struggled on its trip, falling at New Orleans, Miami and Orlando, and finds itself closer to the bottom of the Western Conference standings than the top. Getting Kevin Durant back from a left ankle injury, which could happen as soon as Friday, would provide a big lift. They are 8-2 this season when Durant teams up with fellow stars Devin Booker and Bradley Beal, but 1-9 when Durant is sidelined. Durant, who has missed the last three games and 12 overall this season, is Phoenix's leading scorer (25.8 points per game), followed by Booker (24.9) and Beal (17.8). "You try to put importance on every segment of the season," Suns center Mason Plumlee said. "Just being fully healthy, having everybody, it'd be nice to get rolling and string some wins together. Those stretches can be meaningful. It does bring out a sense of identity if you're able to put some wins together." --Field Level MediaCOLLEGE FB NOTESLiveblog: Montembeault starts again for Canadiens vs. Predators

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