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“You have a government that is reckless about what is going to happen to Guyana” said Melinda Janki an international lawyer in Guyana who is handling several lawsuits against Exxon. It’s pursuing “a supposed course of development that is actually backward and destructive” she told CNN. kelp dao And while plenty of Guyanese people welcome the new oil industry some say Guyana’s startling economic statistics do not reflect a real-world prosperity for ordinary people many of whom are struggling with the higher prices accompanying the oil boom. Inflation rose 6.6 in 2023 with prices of some foods shooting up much more rapidly. “Since the oil extraction began in Guyana we have noticed that our cost of living has gone sky high” said Wintress White of Red Thread a non-profit that focuses on improving living conditions for Guyanese women. “The money is not trickling down to the masses” she told CNN. CNN contacted President Ali the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Finance for comment but received no response. Guyana a former Dutch then British colony which gained independence in 1966 is one of only a handful of countries that is a “carbon sink” meaning it stores more planet-heating pollution than it produces. This is due to its vast rainforest; trees remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow. The country has protected its biodiversity where others have destroyed theirs President Ali said in a BBC interview last year. In 2009 the country signed an agreement with Norway which promised Guyana more than 250 million to preserve its 18.5 million hectares or nearly 46 million acres of forests. Ali insists the country can balance climate leadership and fossil fuel exploitation. The new oil wealth will allow Guayana to develop including building climate adaptations such as sea walls he has said. He has also pointed to the continued failures of wealthy countries already grown rich on their own fossil fuels to help poorer countries with climate finance. But there are concerns Guyana could fall victim to the “resource curse” in which vast new wealth ?can actually make life worse for those who live there.
A federal judge on Tuesday afternoon temporarily blocked part of the Trump administration’s plans to freeze all federal aid a policy that unleashed confusion and worry from charities and educators even as the White House said it was not as sweeping an order as it appeared. kra30 at The short-term pause issued by US District Judge Loren L. AliKhan prevents the administration from carrying through with its plans to freeze funding for “open awards” already granted by the federal government through at least 5 p.m. ET Monday February 3. kra28 cc The judge’s administrative stay is “a way of preserving the status quo” while she considers the challenge brought by a group of non-profits to the White House plans AliKhan said. kra29 cc “The government doesn’t know the full scope of the programs that are going to be subject to the pause” AliKhan said after pressing an attorney for the Justice Department on what programs the freeze would apply to. AliKhan is expected to consider a longer-term pause on the policy early next week. kra28 cc The White House budget office had ordered the pause on federal grants and loans according to an internal memorandum sent Monday. Federal agencies “must temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance” White House Office of Management and Budget acting director Matthew Vaeth said in the memorandum a copy of which was obtained by CNN citing administration priorities listed in past executive orders. captcha kra17 cc https://kpa27.cc
The voice of ‘White Lotus’ star Walton Goggins is the lullaby we didn’t know we needed jumper exchange While his “White Lotus” character Rick has been the source of some stress this season Walton Goggins is here to soothe us into a state of dreamy sleep to make up for it. The actor has partnered with relaxation and meditation app Calm for one of their famed Sleep Stories lending his smoky voice to a fable titled “The Yard Sale.” Goggins announced the Sleep Story on his verified Instagram on Tuesday writing “A friend once said to me the first question you ask someone shouldn’t be ‘How are you?’ but rather ‘How did you sleep last night?’ I agree.” The post included an excerpt from the story in which Goggins is heard languidly instructing listeners to relax their bodies and get into bed. “You could even climb into a hammock” he added. “I wouldn’t do that because I’ve never gracefully got in or out of one.” In the caption the actor also wrote that he “wanted to create a Sleep Story that feels dreamlike helping people slow their minds down by wandering through a yard sale which happens to be one of my favorite things to do uncovering hidden treasures.” “It’s the Walton Goggins version of counting sheep. I hope you enjoy” he added. Other celebrities who have read bedtime stories in the hopes of putting audiences to sleep include Dolly Parton and the late Jimmy Stewart whose voice was featured in a Calm Christmas Sleep Story in 2023 thanks to generative AI technology. Goggins currently stars on “The White Lotus” where his character is often the most stressed out and tortured of the ensemble at one point setting a slew of snakes free.
Of course he said yes to coming back to the series which eventually required him to live in Italy for a few months for filming. hop exchange During production White revealed to Gries that Greg is “very sinister.” That became rather irrefutable by the season’s climax which saw Tanya’s demise orchestrated by her now-husband. Come Season 3 Gries had to rewrite Greg’s backstory again this time drawing from some unlikely sources for inspiration like HBO docuseries “The Jinx” about late convicted killer Robert Durst and the case involving the man who came to be known as the Tinder Swindler. Gries said he was struck by Durst’s “kind of seemingly even keel personality” which served as a model for where Greg was headed someone “who doesn’t really show a great deal of emotion doesn’t seem to get too angry just gets a little bit irritated and is dangerous.” “There’s a bridled rage underneath. And those kind of people I find – at least with respect to Gary Greg Gary – fascinating” he said. And yet while searching for an empathetic way back to portraying his character Gries kept wondering if there was anything still redeeming about Greg. An important “wake up moment” came during a decisive conversation he had with White just before filming in Thailand in which the show’s creator said of Greg in no uncertain terms: “He’s a psychopath.” “And that was it. It was like ‘back to the drawing board.’ And it really did help me” Gries said. The penultimate episode of the series will air on Sunday an evening that thanks to “Lotus” and other shows has again become a night of appointment viewing amid a general move away from binge watching. Gries said he appreciates the shift. “We’re a society that in a weird way doesn’t understand the beauty of waiting. The beauty of the space between the notes” he shared. “If I binged ‘White Lotus’ I’d feel like I just ate too many chocolates. It just wouldn’t be the same. You need to process this.” “The White Lotus” airs Sundays at 9 p.m. EDT on HBO with the episode available to stream on Max. HBO and Max like CNN are owned by the same parent company Warner Bros. Discovery.
“Every morning I come downstairs and he’s already done the dishwasher he’s already packed his lunch and he’s ready to go” Ruthe’s father Ben tells CNN Sports. “He’s just a disciplined kid. He goes to bed early he looks after himself he eats well he looks after his sister. He’s just a good kid around the house in all ways really. We’re very lucky.” pendle finance Ruthe is next due to compete in the 1500 meters at the Maurie Plant Meet in Melbourne on Saturday and one target time to aim for will be his dad’s fastest time of 3:41.22 – three hundredths of a second faster than Ruthe’s current personal best. But he still has a way to go before he can call himself the most decorated runner in his family. Dad Ben and mom Jess are both former national champions who represented New Zealand on the world stage while his maternal grandparents won European championship medals for Great Britain. His grandmother Rosemary Stirling arguably had the most impressive achievement: an 800m Commonwealth Games title from 1970. Despite his family pedigree Ruthe was never under any pressure to take running seriously. His parents in fact didn’t allow him or his sister Daisy to train at all until they were 13 never wanting their identities to be tied solely to running. “It feels like it’s the right decision about now” says Ben. But as he gradually starts to realize his potential Ruthe when pushed admits to having big goals in the sport. “If I had to pick one thing definitely Olympic gold” he says. “I feel like that’s most runners’ dream and the biggest thing you can actually win. So that’ll definitely be the top of my bucket list.” The 2032 Olympics in Brisbane Ruthe adds would be a nice target. And as for the Los Angeles Games in three years’ time? “I’d actually love to try and qualify for LA 28” he says. “I feel like that’ll be a tough goal. But if I do that I’ll be really happy.” Already Ruthe’s name is being mentioned in the same breath as Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen the most successful middle-distance of this generation. It was his record as the youngest-ever four-minute miler that Ruthe took last week and the New Zealander also beat Ingebrigtsen’s 1500m record for a 15-year-old earlier this year. Ingebrigtsen’s success Ruthe says has given him hope that he too can “have a good future” in the sport. But his biggest source of motivation comes not from the two-time Olympic champion but from those closest to him – his training group led by coach Craig Kirkwood and athlete Sam Tanner. The pair were instrumental in Ruthe’s recent mile time of 3:58.35 and it was five-time national champion Tanner who paced him perfectly around four laps of the track on his way to the record.
A tiny rainforest country is growing into a petrostate. A US oil company could reap the biggest rewards kyberswap Guyana’s destiny changed in 2015. US fossil fuel giant Exxon discovered nearly 11 billion barrels of oil in the deep water off the coast of this tiny rainforested country. It was one of the most spectacular oil discoveries of recent decades. By 2019 Exxon and its partners US oil company Hess and China-headquartered CNOOC had started producing the fossil fuel.? They now pump around 650000 barrels of oil a day with plans to more than double this to 1.3 million by 2027. Guyana now has the world’s highest expected oil production growth through 2035. This country — sandwiched between Brazil Venezuela and Suriname — has been hailed as a climate champion for the lush well-preserved forests that carpet nearly 90 of its land. It is on the path to becoming a petrostate at the same time as the impacts of the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis escalate. While the government says environmental protection and an oil industry can go hand-in-hand and low-income countries must be allowed to exploit their own resources critics say it’s a dangerous path in a warming world and the benefits may ultimately skew toward Exxon — not Guyana. Since Exxon’s transformative discovery Guyana’s government has tightly embraced oil as a route to prosperity. In December 2019 then-President David Granger said in a speech “petroleum resources will be utilized to provide the good life for all … Every Guyanese will benefit.” It’s a narrative that has continued under current President Mohamed Irfaan Ali who says new oil wealth will allow Guyana to develop better infrastructure healthcare and climate adaptation.