Neil Campbell
Neil lives in Canada and writes about society and politics.
NYC Begins Tracking Household Food Consumption in Carbon Climate Struggle
“New York City's leading in the world when it comes to combating climate change because we're using every option on the menu. And in some cases, we're going to change the menu,” Mayor Eric Adams...
Pentagon Docs Say East Coast Wind Turbines ‘Highly Problematic’
The Pentagon has designated a large range of water in the U.S. East coast earmarked for leasing to install wind turbines to meet a Biden administration “green” energy goal as “highly problematic,” according to documents...
Berkeley Ban On Natural Gas Tossed by Ninth Circuit Appellate Court
An attempt to ban natural gas by the City of Berkley has been thrown out by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Issued April 17, the appellate court ruled in a 46-page decision that in...
DOJ Charges 34 Chinese Police Personnel For Running ‘Troll Farm’ Against Americans
The United States Department of Justice has charged 34 members of the Communist Chinese Ministry of Public Security (MPS), alleging that a key unit of the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s counterintelligence and political security operations...
Overleveraged Housing Speculators Default as America Flirts With Recession
What goes up must inevitably come down, housing market speculators who overleveraged during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic stimulus measures are learning as a sharp hike in interest rates has combined with a troubled...
Apple Offloads 6% More Worldwide iPhone Production to India From China
Cell phone, gadget, and computer producer Apple has increased the amount of iPhone production the company has transferred away from mainland China to India by a factor of seven, according to new reports. “People familiar...
Meet the Overemployed Who Moonlight With ChatGPT On the Sly for a Second Paycheck
Another adverse effect of the rush to normalize and make widespread artificial intelligence tools has emerged in the form of people who use ChatGPT while moonlighting multiple work from home jobs, and usually without their...
18,000 Cows Die in Texas Dairy Farm Explosion
A huge loss of animal life has been incurred after an explosion at a dairy farm in Texas killed 18,000 cows. The fire was one of the worst in more than a decade of tracking....
Work From Home? We’ll Outsource Your Job to India, Says Executive
An executive bragged to The Wall Street Journal about how he came up with the idea to outsource a woman’s job to India after she asked to work from home in order to move out...
Biden Admin Considering Giving Social Media Influencers Base at White House
As the 2024 Presidential Election campaign draws ever closer, the Joe Biden administration is launching something of a preemptive strike as it deputizes social media influencers with a potential briefing room base at the White...
UK Pubs Vanishing Faster Amid Economic Tension Than Following COVID Lockdowns
The United Kingdom’s iconic public houses are vanishing at a faster rate in the first three months of 2023 than during the aftermath of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown mandates and work from home edicts,...
19-Year-old Charged After Allegedly Selling Fentanyl-laced Counterfeit Prescription Drugs
A 19-year-old man has been charged after a months-long investigation alleges he had been selling counterfeit prescription drugs laced with the highly poisonous narcotic fentanyl. The bust underscores new risks inherent in a marketplace created...