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3D-printed ‘meat’: Does the plant-based product pass the taste test? – BBC News

For the first time, 3D-printed ‘meat’ is being served as a whole ‘cut’, with the product launching in four cities around the world this week.

Produced by Redefine Meat, the ‘meat’ is made of plant-based products, and is completely vegan.

BBC Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis went along to London restaurant Chotto Matte to see if it passes the taste test.

Source: 3D-printed ‘meat’: Does the plant-based product pass the taste test? – BBC News

Covid cases highest in younger children in England – BBC News

The data, up to 14 November, shows this younger age group has overtaken older, secondary school aged children for the first time.

In recent months, the 10 to 19 age group maintained the highest rate of infections per 100,000 tested.

It is too soon to say what is behind the change and if it will continue.

In recent weeks, children aged 12 and over have started being offered Covid jabs.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) report shows 723 cases recorded per 100,000 among children aged five to nine.

That’s up week-on-week from 484.5 per 100,000.

The rate for 10 to 19-year-olds is 694.2, up from 571.7.

Covid infections are lowest among the eldest in society – those aged 80-plus – with a weekly rate of 76 per 100,000. But this group has the greatest risk of getting more seriously ill with Covid if they were to catch it, particularly if they are not vaccinated.

Covid case rates by age group

Source: Covid cases highest in younger children in England – BBC News

“Earthshine” from the Moon shows our planet is dimming, intensifying global warming

  • This graph shows the downward trend in Earth’s albedo, as measured by earthshine (black) and CERES data (blue) in watts per square meter. Image credit: Goode et al. (2021), Geophysical Research Letters.This graph shows the downward trend in Earth’s albedo, as measured by earthshine (black) and CERES data (blue) in watts per square meter. Image credit: Goode et al. (2021), Geophysical Research Letters.
  • …Earth’s brightness, as seen from space, has dropped significantly over the past two decades.
  • When the planet reflects less light, more sunlight reaches the ground and the sea, warming the atmosphere.
  • A natural rise in Pacific Ocean temperatures in 2015-2017 made Earth even dimmer by reducing bright clouds over the western Americas, a new study concludes.

For 20 years, researchers stared at the dark side of the moon to measure its faint but visible “earthshine,” a glow created by sunlight reflecting off Earth and onto the lunar surface. Their new analysis, published recently in Geophysical Research Letters, revealed that this ghostly light has darkened slightly, confirming satellite measurements that our planet is getting dimmer.

As the planet reflects less light, the incoming heat gets absorbed by the seas and skies. This lingering warmth probably intensifies the rate of global warming, scientists believe…

Source: “Earthshine” from the Moon shows our planet is dimming, intensifying global warming

Urgent: RCMP now raiding Gidimt’en Checkpoint

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“This is Sleydo over here on Cas Yih Yintah. The RCMP have moved in this morning on Gidimt’en Checkpoint. CGL is enforcing their own injunction order. 

They started this morning on both ends of the blockade at 63 with a bunch of heavy machinery, chasing somebody with a dozer, they had rock trucks. 

Currently right now the state of Gidimt’en Checkpoint is that dozers have rolled in (as well as) Heavy Machinery, CGL workers and RCMP. We just got word that they released K9 units at the bridge at Gidimt’en Checkpoint. Our warriors are down there. Our matriarch is there. There’s a lot of people that are there that are at risk of this police violence.

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Two Iranian Nationals Charged for Cyber-Enabled Disinformation and Threat Campaign Designed to Influence the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election | OPA | Department of Justice 

  • …In October 2020, members of the conspiracy, claiming to be a “group of Proud Boys volunteers,” sent Facebook messages and emails (the “False Election Messages”) to Republican Senators, Republican members of Congress, individuals associated with the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump, White House advisors, and members of the media. The False Election Messages claimed that the Democratic Party was planning to exploit “serious security vulnerabilities” in state voter registration websites to “edit mail-in ballots or even register non-existent voters.” The False Election Messages were accompanied by a video (the “False Election Video”) carrying the Proud Boys logo, which purported, via simulated intrusions and the use of State-1 voter data, to depict an individual hacking into state voter websites and using stolen voter information to create fraudulent absentee ballots through the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) for military and overseas voters.[1]
  • Also in October 2020, the conspirators engaged in an online voter intimidation campaign involving the dissemination of a threatening message (the “Voter Threat Emails”), purporting to be from the Proud Boys, to tens of thousands of registered voters, including some voters whose information the conspiracy had obtained from State-1’s website. The emails were sent to registered Democrats and threatened the recipients with physical injury if they did not change their party affiliation and vote for President Trump…

Source: Two Iranian Nationals Charged for Cyber-Enabled Disinformation and Threat Campaign Designed to Influence the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election | OPA | Department of Justice

(Me: Why did two Iranians try to help the Trump 2020 campaign???)

A Joint Statement from the Ambassador of the European Union to Jamaica and the United Nations Resident Coordinator to Jamaica

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fromMarianne Van Steen, Ambassador of the European Union to Jamaica

andDr. Garry Conille, United Nations Resident Coordinator to Jamaica

onThe violence perpetrated on November 16th against several participants of a Spotlight Initiative Workshop in Westmoreland

The past few days have been disturbing. On Sunday, November 14, Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced that States of Emergency were in place in no less than seven police divisions: three parishes in western Jamaica (St. James, Westmoreland, and Hanover), and four divisions in Kingston. This was in response to our soaring murder rate, largely perpetrated by criminal gangs; and to the extreme psychological impact of the ongoing crime and violence on Jamaicans in all walks of lifebut especially those in the most vulnerable communities, who are the victims. While the jury is still out on whether this is an effective anti-crime strategy, it has helped to ease the…

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Muchos compradores de oro establecidos en países ricos; Suiza, Canadá y el Reino Unido han comprado el 72% de las exportaciones de oro de Brasil y contribuyen a la violencia, la deforestación y la contaminación mortal por mercurio asociada con la extracción ilegal de oro. – Si compras o usas oro, ¡esto también podría estar relacionado contigo! — Barbara Crane Navarro

Casa comunal Yanomami « Mis antepasados ​​murieron precisamente por lo que estoy enfrentando ahora; minería ilegal de oro y epidemias propagadas por mineros de oro. Los mineros de oro traen Covid-19 xawara y violencia. » Dario Kopenawa Yanomami Deforestación y contaminación por mineros de oro en territorio indígena A principios de noviembre de 2021, Dario Kopenawa Yanomami […]

Muchos compradores de oro establecidos en países ricos; Suiza, Canadá y el Reino Unido han comprado el 72% de las exportaciones de oro de Brasil y contribuyen a la violencia, la deforestación y la contaminación mortal por mercurio asociada con la extracción ilegal de oro. – Si compras o usas oro, ¡esto también podría estar relacionado contigo! — Barbara Crane Navarro