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Biggest Carbon Credit Certifier To Replace Its Rainforest Offsets Scheme
In January, a nine-month investigation by the Guardian, the German weekly Die Zeit and SourceMaterial found widespread problems with the system. Analysis of a significant proportion of Verra projects indicated more than 90% of its rainforest offset credits do not represent genuine carbon reductions. Human rights issues are a serious concern in at least one of the offsetting projects co-run by the NGO Conservation International and the Peruvian governments, with evidence people had been forced from their homes. From the band Pearl Jam to easyJet, Lavazza to the housebuilder Berkeley Group, Verra’s rainforest carbon offsets have been used by internationally renowned companies. Some have labelled their products “carbon neutral,” or told their consumers they can fly, buy new clothes or eat certain foods without making the climate crisis worse. In Singapore and Colombia, companies can buy the offsets instead of paying carbon taxes.
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Guy Embezzles Cool $9 Million From Poop-to-Energy Ponzi Scheme
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A guy embezzled nearly $9 million by convincing investors he was turning cow poop into green energy—and then not building any of the machines at all.
Thousands can scheme against you in political sim King Of The Castle
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At first glance, King Of The Castle might look similar to other medieval political sims; something like Reigns or Yes, Your Grace, where you ascend the throne, rule a kingdom, and make decisions that will impact your gold reserves, military strength, or alliances. That political manoeuvring is intact in King Of The Castle, but this time up to 24 of your friends (or thousands of Twitch viewers) can join your campaign, hopping into the shoes of nobles from various regions. All of them have different goals, all of them can vote on certain decisions, and all of them have the potential to support or backstab the all-powerful monarch: you.
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Great British Railway Journeys among shows flagged by counter terror scheme ‘for encouraging far-right sympathies’
SOME of the UK’s most beloved TV shows have been flagged by counter terror programme Prevent.
Hit shows like Yes Minister and The Thick Of It and even Michael Portillo’s Great British Railway Journeys were bizarrely described as “encouraging far-right sympathies”.
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Great British Railway Journeys with Michael Portillo was among the materials flagged by Prevent for ‘promoting right-wing extremism’[/caption]
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The list also included the works of William Shakespeare[/caption]
Meanwhile, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare were placed on a list of “key texts” for white supremacists.
A report by the programme’s Research Information and Communications Unit (RICU) said that extremists posted “reading lists” on online chat boards.
The document shared a list of these “important texts” under pictures of Nigel Farage and 1930s British Union of Fascists leader Oswald Mosley.
Works from BBC’s 1990s political thriller House of Cards to classic film The Dambusters to John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy made the rankings.
House of Cards screenwriter Andrew Davies said that he had thought the list was “a joke” and emphasised that his show was a satire of the Right.
Historian and broadcaster Andrew Roberts told the Daily Mail: “This is truly extraordinary. This is the reading list of anyone who wants a civilised, liberal, cultured education.
“It includes some of the greatest works in the Western canon and in some cases – such as Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent – powerful critiques of terrorism. Burke, Huxley, Orwell and Tolkien were all anti-totalitarian writers.”
Meanwhile, noted author and Sun columnist Douglas Murray was shocked to discover that one of his own books had been flagged.
He wrote in The Spectator: “A number of books are singled out, the possession or reading of which could point to severe wrongthink and therefore potential radicalisation… It seems that RICU is so far off-track that it believes that books identifying the problem that it was itself set up to tackle are in fact a part of the problem.”
He called the report “pathetic” and called for “sackings by the score” over its unusual findings.
The list comes after a damning review into Prevent by William Shawcross.
Mr Shawcross found that the scheme applied a “double standard” to Islamist terror threats compared to far-right issues.
His report said that Prevent had highlighted material that “fall well short of the extremism threshold altogether”.
It added that the programme had prioritised right-wing terrorism over its Islamist counterpart.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman slammed the scheme for having “defined right-wing extremism too broadly” in a way that included the “respectable Right and the centre-Right”.
A spokesperson for the Home Office said: “The Home Secretary made clear that Prevent will now ensure it focuses on the key threat of Islamist terrorism, as well as remaining vigilant on emerging threats.
“We’ve accepted all 34 recommendations [from the Shawcross report] and are committed to protecting our country from the threat posed by terrorism.”
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