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☆ Opinion | Is ‘Peak Woke’ Behind Us or Ahead?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The attempts to use “woke capital” to effect progressive change have met strong resistance, and corporations are losing enthusiasm for a vanguard role. Meanwhile, there is more intellectual and political energy in anti-wokeness now, evident not just in backlash in red states but in this autumn’s roster of new books, which includes critiques of social justice ideology from the socialist left, the center left and the right. The Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmative action has created new legal roadblocks for Kendi-style progressivism. The mood in elite journalism is less ideologically committed and more skeptical and critical. These exemplify a different aftermath for “peak woke” — not the ideology’s retreat, but its consolidation and entrenchment.

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Norway could become the first nation to make deep sea mining happen on a commercial scale if the country's parliament approves a plan to open ocean an area larger than the United Kingdom to the new industry. The mining could provide a source for such metals as copper and rare earth elements for the transition away from fossil fuels. He did not say whether SV would make support for the government's budget conditional on the issue. Still, Haltbrekken said deep sea mining was "high on our agenda" and "an important issue for us". In 2021, SV blocked the government's plans to conduct oil and gas exploration licensing round in frontier areas.

Persons: Lars Haltbrekken, Haltbrekken, SV, Victoria Klesty, Nerijus, Gwladys Fouche, Timothy Gardner Organizations: Reuters, NOAA, of Ocean Exploration, REUTERS, Rights, Labour, Centre Party, Socialist Left, SV, Conservative, Progress Party, Thomson Locations: Rights OSLO, Norway, United Kingdom

☆ Nikki Haley Announces 2024 Presidential Campaign as First Major GOP Trump Challenger
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( John Mccormick | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Nikki Haley , a former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, said Tuesday she is entering the 2024 Republican presidential nomination race in a move that puts her in direct competition with her onetime boss, former President Donald Trump. Mr. Trump is 76, while President Biden, who is expected to make a formal announcement in March or April about seeking the Democratic nomination, is 80. “The socialist left sees an opportunity to rewrite history,” Ms. Haley said in the video. You should know this about me: I don’t put up with bullies. And when you kick back, it hurts them more if you’re wearing heels.”

☆ Nikki Haley Announces 2024 Presidential Campaign as First GOP Trump Challenger
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( John Mccormick | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

☆ How Nikki Haley Went From Tea-Party Favorite to Governor to Trump 2024 Challenger
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( John Mccormick | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

CHARLESTON, S.C.— Nikki Haley , the first woman and person of color elected South Carolina’s governor, on Tuesday became the first major candidate to commit to challenging former President Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. “The socialist left sees an opportunity to rewrite history,” she said in a video announcement. They all think we can be bullied. You should know this about me: I don’t put up with bullies. And when you kick back, it hurts them more if you’re wearing heels.”References to high heels have long been a staple in political speeches for Ms. Haley, 51 years old, a former United Nations ambassador in the Trump administration.

☆ Nikki Haley Bets on GOP Wanting New Face, Direction for 2024
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( John Mccormick | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Nikki Haley , who was the first woman and person of color elected South Carolina’s governor, on Tuesday became the first major candidate to commit to challenging former President Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. “The socialist left sees an opportunity to rewrite history,” she said in a video announcement. And when you kick back, it hurts them more if you’re wearing heels.”References to high heels have been a staple in political speeches for Ms. Haley, 51 years old, a former United Nations ambassador in the Trump administration. In early 2016, Ms. Haley said she was embarrassed by Mr. Trump and criticized his reluctance to condemn white supremacists. Less than a year later, she agreed to join his cabinet and served as a validator for him on both the domestic and global stages.

Haley, 51, dug into the difference in ages between 80-year-old President Joe Biden and her challenger Trump, who's 76. She enters the race trailing Trump and other would-be challengers in public polls. A Morning Consult poll on Tuesday, for instance, shows Trump backed by 47% of Republican primary voters, while just 3% of respondents said they would pick Haley. Haley's widely anticipated announcement makes her just the second candidate in what's likely to become a wide Republican primary field. "Haley's entrance officially kicks off a messy 2024 primary race for the MAGA base that has long been brewing," it said.

☆ Norway’s fossil fuel bonanza stokes impassioned debate about how best to spend its ‘war profits’
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Sam Meredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

It has ignited an impassioned debate about international justice, with many questioning whether it is fair for Norway to rake in record oil and gas revenues at the expense of others' misfortune. Norway's Finance Ministry expects the state's revenues from oil and gas sales to climb to 1.38 trillion Norwegian krone ($131 billion) this year. "They are war profits," Lars-Henrik Paarup Michelsen, director of the Norwegian Climate Foundation think tank, told CNBC via telephone. Oil companies are getting richer and richer, but we don't see that money — and who is really paying for this? The so-called Government Pension Fund Global, among the world's largest sovereign wealth funds, was established in the 1990s to invest the surplus revenues of Norway's oil and gas sector.

[1/2] Offshore oil and gas platform supply vessels (PSVs) are docked at a pier in Stavanger, Norway, August 10, 2021. The decision to postpone the so-called 26th licensing round was part of the minority government's budget deal with the opposition Socialist Left Party (SV), Terje Aasland said in an interview. The deal extends an agreement the minority cabinet and SV made last year, when the government won elections, which delayed the 26th licensing round by a year. Aasland said there was "no drama" in the decision as authorities still issue licences to oil companies in a parallel licensing around called the APA round, in so-called mature areas that are already open to oil companies. The 26th licensing round grants the right to oil companies to explore and produce oil and gas in areas not explored previously.

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