TV News LIES

Exxon Mobil Chair and CEO Darren Woods urged the incoming Trump administration to avoid making turbulent climate policy swings — and he pushed the president-elect to reject carbon border taxes favored by some GOP lawmakers.

In an interview with POLITICO, Woods signaled that one of the most powerful players in the energy industry might serve as a moderating influence in Washington, even as Republicans seek to dismantle Biden-era climate policies. The future of the Inflation Reduction Act and other clean-energy programs is one of the most important questions hanging over the incoming administration.

Israel is preparing to put boots on the ground with an invasion of Lebanon, its army chief has said.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) jets have carried out heavy bombardments of Hezbollah targets to pave the way for “your boots” to “enter enemy territory”, Lt Gen Herzi Halevi told troops on Wednesday.

It came as the Israeli army called up two brigades of reservists, around 4,000 soldiers, for operations on the northern border.

Gen Halevi, speaking during a visit to the border, said: “You hear the jets overhead; we have been striking all day. This is both to prepare the ground for your possible entry and to continue degrading Hezbollah.”

“The sense is that your military boots, your manoeuvre boots, will enter enemy territory,” he said.

More...

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a global pact on Sunday that included explicit calls to phase out fossil fuels — which has been a stubborn sticking point in climate change talks for decades.

The call to move away from fossil fuels is outlined in the “Pact of the Future” — a broad plan for the U.N.'s 193 member nations to work together across a range of challenges, from escalating conflicts to rising poverty to climate change. Warning that inaction on various issues threatens to push people around the world “into a future of persistent crisis and breakdown,” the document also laid out a framework for digital cooperation and artificial intelligence governance.

In a press release, the U.N. said the agreement was years in the making. The goal was to address the problems of today, as well as anticipate the troubles of tomorrow. It was reached at the opening of the two-day “Summit of the Future" in advance of the 79th session of the U.N. General Assembly, which kicks off on Tuesday.

More...

Three Mile Island, the power plant near Middletown, Pa., that was the scene of the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history, will reopen to power Microsoft's data centers, which are responsible for powering the tech giant's cloud computing and artificial intelligence programs.

Constellation Energy, which bills itself as America's largest producer of "clean, carbon-free energy," announced Friday that it had signed its largest-ever power purchase agreement with Microsoft.

“Powering industries critical to our nation’s global economic and technological competitiveness, including data centers, requires an abundance of energy that is carbon-free and reliable every hour of every day, and nuclear plants are the only energy sources that can consistently deliver on that promise,” said Joe Dominguez, Constellation Energy's president and CEO.

The deal will create approximately 3,400 jobs and bring in more than $3 billion in state and federal taxes, according to the company. It also said the agreement will add $16 billion to Pennsylvania's GDP.

More...

 

 

Countless images of dead and wounded children have been pouring out of the Gaza Strip for nearly a year, laying bare the toll of a war that’s killed tens of thousands of people.

This week, though, one photo stood out: It shows the body of a young girl covered in a white shroud, wearing pink roller skates. It’s been widely shared on social media, quickling becoming another defining image of the war in Gaza — a place UNICEF has called “a graveyard for children.”

Gaza’s Health Ministry says more than 40,000 people have been killed by Israeli fire in the war, a third of them children.

Ten-year-old Tala Abu Ajwa had managed to survive 332 days of the war, the bombardment, hunger and uncertainty. She and her family had fled on foot from one place to another eight times in the past 11 months, sometimes in the middle of the night.

TVNL Comment:  Someone has to stop the bloodthirsty Israelis.  They have a free hand to kill civilians at will. It's a slaughter.

More...

Palestinian residents of Jenin surveyed the destruction after Israeli forces pulled out of the city on Friday (September 6).

The nine-day raid was one of the largest in the occupied West Bank in months, involving hundreds of troops and police backed by helicopters and drones.

Streets were littered with rubble and debris and water and electricity remained cut.

Samaher Abu Nassa scoffed at the idea that the operation targeted terrorists.

"Terrorists? No, we are not terrorists, we are peaceful. They are the terrorists, killing our children."

For the past nine days, she said, they had been "living in terror and fear".

More...