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☆ Russian state-media stars pushing Putin's official war narrative have been exempted from fighting in Ukraine
  + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Russian state media workers have been exempted from Putin's latest military draft. It means the TV stars pushing a distorted image of the war won't have to face its reality. The decision to exempt state-approved journalists ensures that the media figures pushing a distorted state narrative on the war in Ukraine won't have to face its realities themselves. And some Russian media stars have flourished in an environment that rewards blatant propaganda — often going further than the Kremlin itself. Russia-1 host Olga Skabeyeva has played a key role in the Kremlin's propaganda strategy amid the war in Ukraine.
☆ In poor, rural Buryatia, Russia's partial mobilisation hits hard
  + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Felix Light | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
The Ulan-Ude draft office and the defence ministry in Moscow did not reply to a request for comment on the situation. PROVINCIAL MOBILISATION"There’s nothing partial about the mobilisation in Buryatia," said Alexandra Garmazhapova, president of the Free Buryatia Foundation, an organisation that provides legal help to those mobilised. Her foundation collected hundreds of appeals for help from residents whose relatives had received mobilisation papers. One resident of the Buryatia village of Orongoi, whose population in 2010 was 1,700, told Reuters that 106 men from the village had been mobilised. "The federal centre is trying not to touch St Petersburg and Moscow, because in Moscow you can have protests against the Kremlin," she said.
☆ Secret clause in Putin's mobilization decree may allow him to draft up to 1 million reservists, an independent Russian outlet reports
  + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( John Haltiwanger | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
A secret clause in Putin's mobilization decree allows one million to be called up, a new report says. The Kremlin denied the report, maintaining that 300,000 reservists will be drafted. The West says Putin's partial mobilization shows he's failing in Ukraine. The Pentagon in August said the US estimates the Russian military has seen up to 80,000 casualties in the war so far. Western leaders and officials said Putin's decision to announce a partial mobilization stood as an acknowledge that Russia is "losing" or "failing" in Ukraine.
☆ A rights group says Russia is drafting anti-war protesters to fight for Putin in Ukraine, and the Kremlin isn't denying it
  + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Protesters arrested in Russia are being forced to report to military recruitment offices, a monitor said. The Russian-based rights group OVD-Info said at least 1,310 anti-war protesters have been detained. At 15 police departments across the capital, protesters were handed summons demanding they report for military duty, the group said. At least 17 anti-war protesters in Voronezh, a city in southwest Russia, were also ordered to report to an enlistment office. Dmitry Peskov, a spokesperson for the Kremlin, did not deny that some detained protesters were being drafted, Reuters reported.
☆ Duke Energy is one of the top leakers of a gas that is 25,000 times more polluting than carbon dioxide, EPA records show
  + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Phil Mckenna | Inside Climate News | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +22 min
The emissions were equal to the annual greenhouse gas emissions of more than 59,000 automobiles, according to the EPA’s greenhouse gas equivalency calculator. Under such a scenario Duke Energy would likely have years of low emissions punctuated by a single year of high emissions. While other utilities have participated for decades in a voluntary program with the EPA to reduce SF6 emissions to next to nothing, Duke Energy has not. Brooks said Duke Energy is also targeting its most leaky equipment for faster replacement. The figure is roughly half of 1% of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, far smaller than yearly emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary driver of climate change.
☆ A Nebraska county of only 625 people contained nearly 100 deep underground nuclear missiles, so the US Air Force halted a green-power project that would have revitalized its economy
  + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
There are hundreds of underground nuclear missiles across Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, North Dakota, and Montana. The US Air Force says wind turbines can't be constructed within a 2-mile radius of these missiles. Due to underground missiles, a wind turbine project in Banner County, Nebraska, was limited in scope. The Flat Water Free Press, an independent news outlet in Nebraska, reported last week that in 2019, the US Air Force began to thwart a wind turbine project in the state's southwest Banner County. But the Air Force contended that the turbines would pose a "significant safety hazard" to pilots — especially during storms or blizzards.
☆ All of Puerto Rico without power after Hurricane Fiona makes landfall
  + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Dennis-Romero-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +9 min
The National Hurricane Center said Puerto Rico could get 12 to 18 inches of rain, with 30 inches possible in some areas. Nelson Cirino secures the windows of his home Sunday as the winds of Hurricane Fiona blow in Loiza, Puerto Rico. He said the first responders were prepared to be in Puerto Rico for as long as two weeks. Biden was briefed on the situation in Puerto Rico during his trip abroad, a senior administration official said. Nelson Cirino looks in his bedroom Sunday after Hurricane Fiona tore the roof off his house in Loiza, Puerto Rico.
☆ Video shows the head of a shadowy mercenary group recruiting at a Russian prison, offering inmates freedom if they fight in Ukraine but death if they run
  + stars: | 2022-09-14 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Wagner is a Russian private military company with close ties to the Kremlin that is now in Ukraine. In a video shared on Telegram, the group's founder can be seen recruiting at a Russian prison. Wagner's Yevgeny Prigozhin claims the men will receive pardons if they agree to fight in Ukraine. Prigozhin's offer to Russian prisoners — to fight in a conflict he bills as being far more difficult than the war Russia fought in Chechnya and Afghanistan — comes with other conditions beyond the threat of execution for deserters. In the video, Prigozhin says he's prepared to accept men between the ages of 22 and 50 but can accept younger recruits with the consent of their families.
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