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"NO NO NO YOU HAVE TO COME TO THE COVID ZONE IN PERSON! YOU HAVE TO TAKE YOUR MASK OFF EVERY TIME YOU TALK!"

They really are just trying to force people to get Covid, huh?

Martinez, the Contra Costa County seat, has been a refinery town for more than a century. But the fragile peace between industry and neighborhoods cracked one year ago Thanksgiving night when PBF Energy’s Martinez Refining Company facility spewed chemical dust onto neighborhoods, coating cars, patio furniture, gardens and sidewalks. It looked like wildfire ash.

The refinery didn’t alert the health department, air quality regulators or the public about the emissions problems. So residents wiped it off and swept it away over the next day — puzzling over its origins — when masks, gloves and other precautions could have kept this industrial material out of their mouths and lungs.

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Asked this week about the string of problems over the past year, a spokesman for PBF Energy provided a statement from the company promising “to investigate and learn from these incidents and implement appropriate corrective actions.”

“We recognize we must earn the right to operate in the Martinez community and apologize to the Martinez community for falling short of that (in) the past 12 months,” the company said.

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Both PBF Energy and Chevron are fighting the new pollution standards, which the air quality district estimates could slash pollution by 70% at the Martinez refinery. The two companies have lodged separate lawsuits against the agency to prevent its implementation once it was passed. PBF argued the rule would cost the company $800 million and force the refinery to close, putting 600 full-time employees out of work. The lawsuit is still playing out, with the parties returning to court Dec. 21.

Israel's Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi submitted a proposal to take action against Haaretz by ending the publication of government notices in Haaretz.

Karhi, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, said the newspaper was "sabotaging Israel in wartime" and was an "inflammatory mouthpiece for Israel’s enemies."

Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken responded to Karhi’s proposal by saying, “If the government wants to close Haaretz, that’s the time to read Haaretz.”

Karhi's proposal, which would forbid the publication of official government notices in Haaretz, and would cancel all state employee Haaretz subscriptions – including those held by members of the IDF, the police, the prison service, government ministries and government companies

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-11-23/ty-article/israels-communications-minister-threatens-haaretz-suggests-penalizing-its-war-coverage/0000018b-fd0c-de73-a9bb-ffefb9f10000

Such rioting is almost unprecedented in Dublin. There are no far right parties or politicians elected to parliament, but small anti-immigrant protests have grown in the last year.

Ireland pls, no.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/kentucky-gov-andy-beshear-declares-state-emergency-train/story?id=105115636

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kentucky-train-derailment-chemical-spill-evacuations-rockcastle-county-livingston/

Bonus: b-b-but what about our treats?

I want an emote of the bumbling male protagonist from the Kelly cartoons

In 1999, British Gas (BG) discovered the existence of natural gas in the Gaza Marine fields, 20 nautical miles off the coast of Gaza ... In 2019, UNCTAD estimated the net value of the Gaza Marine natural gas at $4.592 billion

The Palestinian Authority was “granted” the right to exercise sovereignty over its own maritime territory by the Oslo Accords in 1995.

In December 2008, in total contravention of international laws, Israel declared sovereignty over the Gaza Marine area, and BG closed its offices in Tel Aviv.

... Israel continued to prevent Palestinians from developing and benefiting from their natural resources, in clear violation of international law that governs who has rights to these resources when a country is occupied.

Renewed interest in pursuing development of the Gaza Marine field surfaced in early 2022 following the war between Russia and Ukraine, the destruction of the Nord Stream Pipeline, and the sanctions placed on Russia that caused a global energy crisis.

On Oct. 29, Israel announced that it awarded 12 licenses for exploring additional offshore natural gas fields to six companies

Oh what the hell is going on over there

I wonder whose false-flag operation this is?