USA - The company was founded under the name Future Meat Technologies in 2018, but rebranded to Believer Meats last month. In 2021 they opened a facility to produce lab-grown meat at scale in Israel, and were aiming to secure FDA approval and start offering their products in US restaurants by the end of this year. That doesn’t seem to have happened, as the first FDA approval went to competitor Upside Foods.
USA - The acquisition by investment managers BlackRock and Vanguard of ever-increasing shares in America’s public utility companies is setting off alarm bells from conservatives and progressives alike. In April, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved a request from BlackRock to increase its ownership up to 20 percent of a public utility’s voting shares without being deemed an “affiliate” and incurring the regulatory scrutiny and disclosures that come with that. To gain FERC approval, BlackRock and Vanguard promised they would be “passive” investors and not use their share ownership to influence management.
USA - This past summer, with just a few months to go before the midterm elections, the Biden administration faced a huge problem called the economy. Most voters vote on the basis of the economy and how they feel they're doing and how they feel their country is doing. And their country at the time was not doing well. The US economy had just recorded two consecutive quarters of declining GDP. That's a technical definition of a recession. Two quarters. Declining GDP. Recession. But the Biden administration could not admit that. If they admitted that the US was in a recession, they would lose the Senate. They would lose control of both chambers of the Congress. So they had to lie about it.
USA - Jon Uhler, a counsellor who works in the Pennsylvania and South Carolina prison systems, said that the general public is unaware of the push to normalise paedophilia in culture and academia. When Colorado mom Lydia Lerma hears the hip new term “minor-attracted person,” she feels punched. She hurts just thinking about what a paedophile did to her son, who was six at the time.
SOMALIA - US Africa Command on Sunday said it launched two airstrikes in Somalia this month that targeted al-Shabaab fighters in support of the US-backed Mogadishu-based government. One strike took place on December 14, about 109 miles northeast of Mogadishu near the coastal town of Cadale. AFRICOM claimed the strike killed seven al-Shabaab members. The other strike took place on December 17, about 137 miles northeast of Mogadishu, also near Cadale, which AFRICOM said killed eight al-Shabaab fighters.
USA - Congressional appropriators dropped the $1.7 trillion, 4,155-page omnibus spending bill at 1:30 am ET Tuesday, giving lawmakers days to read it before the government shuts down Friday. The bill would fund the government through September 2023 and would boost defense spending by $76 billion, totaling $858 billion. Domestic spending is $773 billion.
EUROPE - Following an eight-month blockade, the EU lifts obstacles to supplying African countries with vital Russian fertilizers. According to UN data, the global grain harvest has already slumped by 2.4 percent this year due to the lack of fertilizers. It is expected to drop significantly more next year – up to 20 percent. The main reason is that due to EU sanctions, Russian fertilizers could no longer be delivered to African countries. Russia is one of the world's main fertilizer producers. The EU has continuously denied this publicly, but has now implicitly admitted its responsibility. The existing sanctions have already impeded fertilizer shipments to Africa, it was remarked prior to Thursday's decision to alter the sanctions regime.
USA - An estimated 50 million Americans are under windchill alerts as a "once-in-a-generation-event" could impact Christmas travel. Millions of Americans are set to be affected by severe winter weather this weekend as strong storms threaten to trash Christmas holiday plans. A burst of arctic air that is settling over several states this week is forecast to drop temperatures to potentially deadly levels.
USA - A 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked parts of Northern California early Tuesday, knocking out power for thousands, causing widespread damage and leaving at least two people injured, officials said. The quake hit at a depth of 10 miles just after 5:30 am Eastern Time near Eureka in Humboldt County, the US Geological Survey said. It struck around 7.4 miles west-southwest of Ferndale, the agency said.
ISRAEL - The world is at a transition point analogous to being on the verge of a cliff, after which a series of crises striking simultaneously will reorder the planet’s geopolitics, the place of technology, the economic order and a variety of other disciplines from health to energy, according to Israel’s first government national intelligence estimate. According to the report, the world is on the verge of a cliff and is likely to be struck by a variety of crises affecting all aspects of life.
SWITZERLAND - The World Economic Forum (WEF) will host its annual meeting in Davos next month, and for the second year in a row, The Dossier is the first publication to publish a list of speakers attending the invite-only, ruling class gathering in Switzerland. The World Economic Forum is a fanatical political organization masquerading as a neutral entity, with specific policy goals that involve centralizing power into the hands of hand-picked global elites as the only means to save the earth from a claimed climate emergency.
USA - As The Gateway pundit reported for over a year now – FDA finally admits Pfizer Covid vaccine causes blood clots. This statement was confirmed by an unredacted Pfizer agreement from a FOIA request with the Slovenian government. During a COVID-19 EU hearing last October, Pfizer’s President of International Developed Markets, Janine Small,admitted that the vaccine had never been tested on its ability to prevent transmission, contrary to what was previously advertised.
ISRAEL - The New York Times published an editorial on Saturday warning that Benjamin Netanyahu’s presumed incoming hard-right, ultra-religious government represents a danger to Israel’s democracy. The piece, titled “The Ideal of Democracy in a Jewish State Is in Jeopardy,” argued that while Netanyahu won the election fairly, the far-reaching power he is offering his far-right and ultra-Orthodox partners creates a real threat to democratic values. The incoming government positions “could make it militarily and politically impossible for a two-state solution to ever emerge.” The piece warned of Netanyahu’s partners, notably far-right MK Itamar Ben Gvir.
USA - Global coal consumption will reach an all-time record by the end of 2022 as shortages of natural gas have driven up energy prices, forcing countries to burn more coal, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). The international community is set to use over 8 billion tons of coal in 2022, representing a 1.2% increase in coal consumption compared to 2021, as countries began using coal as a cheaper alternative to natural gas after prices spiked following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the IEA’s annual coal report which was released Friday.
USA - The radical left long ago declared war on Christmas, traditional values, and Christianity in general. Now an infamous contestant from RuPaul’s Drag Race is doubling down on the war while shoving a disgusting, anti-Christmas play down America’s throat. Miz Cracker, a biological male whose real name is Maxwell Eiias Heller, is staging a one- “woman” show called Who’s Holiday! The play mocks a prominent character from the classic Christmas tale The Grinch and the story’s moral lesson.
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