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Elites Meet: 70,000+ Attendees Flying to Dubai for COP 28 Climate Summit

Ladies and gentlemen, please return your seats and tray tables to an upright position, fasten your seatbelts and prepare for landing… That is the order more than 70,000 people will hear as they arrive by private and commercial jets to attend the COP 28 climate conference that begins Thursday in Dubai.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry waves as he prepares to board his plane to depart, Satu

Incoming New Zealand Conservative Government Stubs out Smoking Ban

Smoke ’em if you got ’em. That’s the message from New Zealand’s incoming conservative coalition government which has vowed to scrap the nation’s smoking ban to fund tax cuts across the broader community and stem any possibility of starting a black market.

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Polls Show Voters Mourn Loss of the American Dream

The American dream holds that every citizen of the United States has a fair opportunity to achieve equal measures of success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative.

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Cricket Chiefs Ban Transgender Players from Women’s Competition

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has banned biological male players from participating in international women’s cricket. The move against transgender competitors who “identify” with the other sex has been made to protect the safety of female players.

South Africa's Laura Wolvaardt plays a shot while Australia's Alyssa Healy fields, during

Cardi B Torches Biden: Our Country Is ‘Really F**ked’ and He Says ‘We Can Fund Two Wars’

Rapper Cardi B told her 169 million Instagram followers she’s never endorsing another aspiring president after backing President Joe Biden in 2020. Why? America’s going through a recession, she says, big budget cuts are hitting her native New York, “the world is in fucking shambles,” and U.S. leaders are imposing more budget cuts while foreign funding flows.

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Jet-Powered Hypocrisy: Richest 1% of Global Elites Emit as Much Carbon as Bottom Two-Thirds

Private jets. Private yachts. Multiple holidays a year. Garages full of luxury vehicles. Investments driving – and profiting from – fossil fuel industries. These are just some of the factors that combine to see global elites, who comprise one percent of the planet’s population, emit the same amount of carbon as the world’s poorest two-thirds, or five billion people, an analysis published Sunday by the nonprofit Oxfam International details.

Taylor Swift gives thumbs up inside a private jet.