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Rhiannon12866
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May 29, 2022
There was blood in the hallway and children were covered in it, one of the students who survived the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, told ABC News.
"[The shooter] came in and said, 'You're all gonna die,' and just started shooting," Samuel Salinas, 10, recalled in an interview airing Friday on "Good Morning America." - ABC7 05/28/2022.
More: https://abc7.com/texas-school-shooting-survivor-played-dead-uvalde-tx-student/11900363/
'I played dead': Kid who survived Texas school shooting recalls gunman saying 'you're all gonna die'
There was blood in the hallway and children were covered in it, one of the students who survived the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, told ABC News.
"[The shooter] came in and said, 'You're all gonna die,' and just started shooting," Samuel Salinas, 10, recalled in an interview airing Friday on "Good Morning America." - ABC7 05/28/2022.
More: https://abc7.com/texas-school-shooting-survivor-played-dead-uvalde-tx-student/11900363/
May 29, 2022
Just two months before the mass shooting in Uvalde, Robb Elementary’s police department posted on Facebook about an “active shooter training” at a local high school. Questions now arise on whether they followed taught protocol. The School District Police Chief, Peter Arredondo, who officials say delayed 19 officers from rushing inside the school during the deadly rampage, completed an 8-hour training course on active shooters himself in December, according to state records. Aired on 05/28/2022.
Questions Arise As Records Show Uvalde Police Recently Completed Active Shooter Training - NBC News
Just two months before the mass shooting in Uvalde, Robb Elementary’s police department posted on Facebook about an “active shooter training” at a local high school. Questions now arise on whether they followed taught protocol. The School District Police Chief, Peter Arredondo, who officials say delayed 19 officers from rushing inside the school during the deadly rampage, completed an 8-hour training course on active shooters himself in December, according to state records. Aired on 05/28/2022.
May 29, 2022
The country has been reacting to infuriating revelations from Texas DPS. The agency admitted to waiting 47 minutes before breaching the door of a classroom where children were being gunned down. Former and current law enforcement react to the critical mistake. Aired on 05/28/2022.
Texas DPS Director admits slow response to Uvalde shooting - FOX 26 Houston
The country has been reacting to infuriating revelations from Texas DPS. The agency admitted to waiting 47 minutes before breaching the door of a classroom where children were being gunned down. Former and current law enforcement react to the critical mistake. Aired on 05/28/2022.
May 28, 2022
MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart is joined by Texas-based NBC News Senior Investigative Reporter Mike Hixenbaugh who spoke to one of the Robb Elementary School teachers who explained the horror of being trapped inside the school during the Uvalde shooting. Aired on 05/27/2022.
Teacher Details Horror Of Being Trapped Inside School During Uvalde Shooting - The Last Word - MSNBC
MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart is joined by Texas-based NBC News Senior Investigative Reporter Mike Hixenbaugh who spoke to one of the Robb Elementary School teachers who explained the horror of being trapped inside the school during the Uvalde shooting. Aired on 05/27/2022.
May 28, 2022
Inger Andersen
Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme
Published On 27 May 2022
If world leaders are looking for reasons to commit to real change, they need only look at the many crises unfolding across the globe.
The war in Ukraine is causing death and misery – but also a widening energy and food crisis that we allowed to happen by relying on gas, oil and monocrops. The world is still dealing with the lingering hangover of the pandemic. Meanwhile, climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste – the triple planetary crisis – is already causing pain, ill health and financial ruin, with the potential for much more to come. It is blindingly obvious that we have gotten our societies and economies wrong. Something must change, starting at Stockholm+50.
Stockholm+50 is taking place 50 years after the original Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, which many consider the starting point of the modern environmental movement. The original conference wasn’t just about the environment, of course. It was about how harming the environment harms development and causes poverty, and how poverty reduction is key to addressing environmental harm.
Stockholm+50 is also not just about the environment. It is about how nurturing the environment can lessen poverty and help the world achieve the sustainable development goals. So, this is the moment to reimagine and create a fairer economic system, reinvent the structures that have caused environmental degradation and create a global society that offers everyone the opportunity to live a healthy, fair life. Here are five ideas on how we can do so over the next 50 years – starting with the political commitment to act at Stockholm+50.
Get real about the energy transition
We cannot continue with fossil fuels, but we also must tackle energy poverty. 759 million people have no access to electricity and 2.6 billion people depend on polluting cookstoves and fuels. The answer is to move to renewable energy, coupled with more energy efficiency and expanded energy access. Renewable energy costs are lower than fossil fuel costs. However, just because proven technologies exist, it doesn’t mean the market will respond. Only good public policies and much more investment will make markets move. Equally, countries have different types of resources, be they wind, solar, geothermal or hydropower. It is about horses for courses – backed by international cooperation and multilateralism to connect systems and create cross-border transmission lines, as well as off-grid energy solutions.
Much more: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/5/27/five-things-we-must-achieve-as-environmental-movement-turns-50
It is now up to us to mould our societies and economies in a way that keeps the environment healthy, vibrant and capable of supporting us all, writes Andersen [Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images]
Five things we must achieve as environmental movement turns 50 - Al Jazeera
This is the moment to reimagine our economic system, reinvent the structures that have caused environmental degradation and create a global society that offers everyone the opportunity to live a healthy, fair life.Inger Andersen
Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme
Published On 27 May 2022
If world leaders are looking for reasons to commit to real change, they need only look at the many crises unfolding across the globe.
The war in Ukraine is causing death and misery – but also a widening energy and food crisis that we allowed to happen by relying on gas, oil and monocrops. The world is still dealing with the lingering hangover of the pandemic. Meanwhile, climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste – the triple planetary crisis – is already causing pain, ill health and financial ruin, with the potential for much more to come. It is blindingly obvious that we have gotten our societies and economies wrong. Something must change, starting at Stockholm+50.
Stockholm+50 is taking place 50 years after the original Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, which many consider the starting point of the modern environmental movement. The original conference wasn’t just about the environment, of course. It was about how harming the environment harms development and causes poverty, and how poverty reduction is key to addressing environmental harm.
Stockholm+50 is also not just about the environment. It is about how nurturing the environment can lessen poverty and help the world achieve the sustainable development goals. So, this is the moment to reimagine and create a fairer economic system, reinvent the structures that have caused environmental degradation and create a global society that offers everyone the opportunity to live a healthy, fair life. Here are five ideas on how we can do so over the next 50 years – starting with the political commitment to act at Stockholm+50.
Get real about the energy transition
We cannot continue with fossil fuels, but we also must tackle energy poverty. 759 million people have no access to electricity and 2.6 billion people depend on polluting cookstoves and fuels. The answer is to move to renewable energy, coupled with more energy efficiency and expanded energy access. Renewable energy costs are lower than fossil fuel costs. However, just because proven technologies exist, it doesn’t mean the market will respond. Only good public policies and much more investment will make markets move. Equally, countries have different types of resources, be they wind, solar, geothermal or hydropower. It is about horses for courses – backed by international cooperation and multilateralism to connect systems and create cross-border transmission lines, as well as off-grid energy solutions.
Much more: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/5/27/five-things-we-must-achieve-as-environmental-movement-turns-50
It is now up to us to mould our societies and economies in a way that keeps the environment healthy, vibrant and capable of supporting us all, writes Andersen [Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images]
May 28, 2022
MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart speaks to Lucas Kunce, a Marine veteran running for U.S. Senate in Missouri, about the plague of violence in our schools and the training that is required of Marines before they can handle weapons of war. Aired on 05/27/2022.
Marine Vet On The Danger Of Selling Assault Rifles To 18-Year-Olds - The Last Word - MSNBC
MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart speaks to Lucas Kunce, a Marine veteran running for U.S. Senate in Missouri, about the plague of violence in our schools and the training that is required of Marines before they can handle weapons of war. Aired on 05/27/2022.
May 28, 2022
Jonathan Capehart speaks with MSNBC's Yasmin Vossoughian about the reaction from residents in Uvalde, Texas, after law enforcement officials admitted fault in the slow response to the shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 students and two teachers murdered. Aired on 05/27/2022.
'Angry, Frustrated, Sad': Uvalde Parents Furious Over Delayed Police Response - The Last Word - MSNBC
Jonathan Capehart speaks with MSNBC's Yasmin Vossoughian about the reaction from residents in Uvalde, Texas, after law enforcement officials admitted fault in the slow response to the shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 students and two teachers murdered. Aired on 05/27/2022.
May 28, 2022
Rep. Anthony Brown (D-MD) is “hell-bent” on getting back to Washington to pass gun safety laws. Rep. Brown joins MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart to discuss raising the minimum age for buying assault rifles from 18 to 21-years-old which, according to a new poll, the majority of Americans support. Aired on 05/27/2022.
Florida Democrat: ‘We Cannot Allow Ourselves To Become Numb’ - The Last Word MSNBC
Maxwell Alejandro Frost, Democratic candidate for Florida's 10th congressional district, joins MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart to explain why “we need to get something done” to implement universal background checks in the aftermath of yet another school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX. Aired on 05/27/2022.
Rep. Brown Reacts To Gov. Greg Abbott Remarks On Assault Rifle Ban For 18-Year-Olds - The Last Word
Rep. Anthony Brown (D-MD) is “hell-bent” on getting back to Washington to pass gun safety laws. Rep. Brown joins MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart to discuss raising the minimum age for buying assault rifles from 18 to 21-years-old which, according to a new poll, the majority of Americans support. Aired on 05/27/2022.
Florida Democrat: ‘We Cannot Allow Ourselves To Become Numb’ - The Last Word MSNBC
Maxwell Alejandro Frost, Democratic candidate for Florida's 10th congressional district, joins MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart to explain why “we need to get something done” to implement universal background checks in the aftermath of yet another school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX. Aired on 05/27/2022.
May 28, 2022
While some Republicans who had been scheduled to speak at the NRA convention just days after the Robb Elementary School gun massacre did cancel their appearances, they did so with scheduling excuses or, in the case of Governor Abbott, with a recorded message on the event's jumbotron instead. Aired on 05/27/2022.
New Gun Safety Protests Planned After Shooting Tragedy In Texas - MSNBC Prime
Ayman Mohyeldin reports on organizing taking place for nationwide protest marches demanding action on gun safety in the wake of the shooting tragedy at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Aired on 05/27/2022.
Shame Almost Reaches Politicians Cozy With The NRA - MSNBC Prime
While some Republicans who had been scheduled to speak at the NRA convention just days after the Robb Elementary School gun massacre did cancel their appearances, they did so with scheduling excuses or, in the case of Governor Abbott, with a recorded message on the event's jumbotron instead. Aired on 05/27/2022.
New Gun Safety Protests Planned After Shooting Tragedy In Texas - MSNBC Prime
Ayman Mohyeldin reports on organizing taking place for nationwide protest marches demanding action on gun safety in the wake of the shooting tragedy at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Aired on 05/27/2022.
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