Month: <span>October 2020</span>

In a sweeping overhaul of environmental regulations in the UK, Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday announced plans to slash over 80,000 pages of laws that protect the environment against business practices. The list of over 3,000 regulations on the chopping block—outlined in a speech at the Federation of Small Businesses Conference Monday—includes guidance on…

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While climate activists from around the world gathered outside the UN climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009 called for “System Change, Not Climate Change’ while demanding to be heard by world leaders, the U.S. delegation inside the talks was busy listening to something else: a steady stream of surveillance intelligence on other nations provided by…

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Members of the U.S. military stationed in Japan are receiving almost no punishment for committing sexual assault, according to a new trove of Department of Defense documents revealed by the Associated Press Monday. More than 1,000 records, obtained by the AP through a Freedom of Information Act request, reveal that military personnel accused of sex…

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Romain Grosjean says Haas’ decision to part with both its drivers at the end of the 2020 season was rooted in “financial reasons”. Grosjean and teammate Kevin Magnussen were informed last week by Guenther Steiner that the pair no longer figured in the team’s 2021 plans. Click Here: cheap all stars rugby jersey The Frenchman…

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Impact Wrestling has revealed when Ken Shamrock’s Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be taking place. It was announced today that Shamrock will be inducted into the Impact Wrestling Hall of Fame on Countdown to Glory this Saturday. Countdown to Glory is the pre-show for Impact’s Bound for Glory pay-per-view. The pre-show will air live…

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Following an announcement by the Federal Communications Commission that it will issue new rules in the coming months to protect an open internet, communications advocates are crying foul, saying the FCC’s promises are largely toothless and the agency has the power to do far more. The FCC announcement follows a ruling in a federal court…

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An environmental impact statement released Thursday from the federal government could mount to a “death sentence” for marine mammals as the pursuit for oil and gas deposits may turn a 300,000 square mile area in the Atlantic Ocean into a “blast zone,” a conservation group warns. In its final environmental impact review, the Bureau of…

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In an ironic turn, the congressional authorities who have staunchly defended the National Security Agency’s widespread spying operations are now crying foul after having been spied on by another branch of U.S. intelligence. News reporting on Tuesday revealed that the Inspector General’s office, the agency tasked with CIA oversight, has asked the Department of Justice…

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As individual professors called her a “war criminal” whose mere presence would tarnish the school’s reputation, the body that represents the interests and concerns of faculty members at Rutgers University in New Jersey is slamming the administration’s decision to invite Condoleezza Rice to give this year’s commencement address and receive an honorary degree. Both students…

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Scores of First Nations activists have blockaded a train line in Ontario on Wednesday as part of a day of action to call for justice for the over 800 murdered and missing indigenous women across Canada. Similar actions have been held recently in response to a parliamentary report that failed to call for a full…

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