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>>146314
They deserve it for not speaking English.

>>146318
stfu

>>146320
Mmmmm, that (You) was delicious, may I have another please?

>She said Shell was committed to making its business “resilient over time” to the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy required to meet the Paris targets. Shell is investing heavily in natural gas as a cleaner alternative to coal in power generation and also in offshore wind and other forms of low-carbon power.

>>145409
>tfw the corp that concealed climate change evidence throughout the 80s is doing more to fight it than the the government
Hey, at least we can dump coal waste straight onto our rivers, so that's nice.

In the old days lobbyists had to seek out a corrupt politician to sell favors.

Nowadays politicians just line up at the door of industry. "Everything is for sale! take your pick and name your price!".

Until multinationals come to our politicians to beg them to stop doing them so many favors. I guess this is what the free market regulating itself will look like.

Good for them. Something romantic about the Scottish independence movement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1tJJO_pVvQ

Meh, it would be like 2014 again.

State Senate President Stan Rosenberg and House Speaker Robert DeLeo, both Democrats, applauded Baker for joining the alliance.

This feels like a light succession. At the very least, I don't recall another moment in history where the states decided to tell the President to fuck off like this.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/01/us/trump-climate-deal-cities-states-defying/ Same guy from above. This list is growing. Here's a list I copy/pasted by Governor and State:

-- Charlie Baker, Massachusetts
-- Jerry Brown, California
-- Kate Brown, Oregon
-- Andrew Cuomo, New York
-- John Hickenlooper, Colorado
-- David Y. Ige, Hawaii
-- Jay Inslee, Washington
-- Dannel P. Malloy, Connecticut
-- Terry McAuliffe, Virginia
-- Gina M. Raimondo, Rhode Island

>The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks bigotry, said it has seen an increase in hate incidents in the U.S. since the election of President Donald Trump. Between Election Day and Feb. 1, the SPLC said, it collected information on about 1,800 hate-related episodes from almost every state.

>"In the past, it would be a couple hundred at most, and that would be high," said Heidi Beirich, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center.

>Loops of rope have long been used to intimidate African-Americans because they evoke lynchings. The nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative said there were 4,075 lynchings of blacks in the South to spread racial terror between 1877 and 1950.

> For blacks, the noose is "comparable in the emotions that it evokes to that of the swastika for Jews," the Anti-Defamation League said.

>"I've seen in the last couple of months more instances of nooses being used to intimidate people," said Shuler, author of "The Thirteenth Turn: A History of the Noose." ''I think we're in a situation right now where people who express hateful opinions are being allowed to speak freely and it's become OK again."

>Beirich blames the rhetoric from Trump's presidential campaign, during which he pledged to build a wall on the Mexican border and ban Muslim immigrants. Trump also claimed for a long time that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

>"Putting those sentiments in public from a presidential campaign has sanctioned a lot of people," Beirich said. "Things they might have kept inside themselves, that they have kept quiet about, have burst out."
...

> The noose didn't stop some visitors to the black history museum.

>Stephen Middleton, who brought his extended family to the museum Thursday from Georgia and Maryland, said he wasn't surprised someone targeted the museum. But "we're not going to be deterred, we're not going to be wavered and not going to be intimidated," he said.

>>146110
False flag, calling it

Come to think of it, Crapper does look like he was spawned by a failed Eugenics experiment, doesn't he?

The author does seem to hint (or more than hint) than the average IQ of Americans are dipping.

>>145696
Immigration / refugees

>Kristina Trotta, another former DEP employee who worked in Miami, said her supervisor told her not to use the terms “climate change” and “global warming” in a 2014 staff meeting. “We were told that we were not allowed to discuss anything that was not a true fact,” she said.

>This unwritten policy went into effect after Gov. Rick Scott took office in 2011 and appointed Herschel Vinyard Jr. as the DEP’s director, according to former DEP employees. Gov. Scott, who won a second term in November, has repeatedly said he is not convinced that climate change is caused by human activity, despite scientific evidence to the contrary.

>Vinyard has since resigned. Neither he nor his successor, Scott Steverson, would comment for this article.

>“DEP does not have a policy on this,” the department’s press secretary, Tiffany Cowie, wrote in an email. She declined to respond to three other emails requesting more information.

>“There’s no policy on this,” wrote Jeri Bustamante, Scott’s spokeswoman, in an email.

>But four former DEP employees from offices around the state say the order was well known and distributed verbally statewide.

>One former DEP employee who worked in Tallahassee during Scott’s first term in office, and asked not to be identified because of an ongoing business relationship with the department, said staffers were warned that using the terms in reports would bring unwanted attention to their projects.

>“We were dealing with the effects and economic impact of climate change, and yet we can’t reference it,” the former employee said.

>Former DEP attorney Byrd said it was clear to him this was more than just semantics.

>“It’s an indication that the political leadership in the state of Florida is not willing to address these issues and face the music when it comes to the challenges that climate change present,” Byrd said.

Cool

Climate Change Denial

>Climate change and global warming refer to the body of scientific evidence showing that the earth’s environment is warming due to human activity, including the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. It is accepted science all over the world.

>The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, established by the United Nations, wrote in a 2014 report for world policy makers: “Human influence on the climate system is clear, and recent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are the highest in history. Recent climate changes have had widespread impacts on human and natural systems.” The report’s authors were scientists from 27 countries.

>Still, many conservative U.S. politicians say the science is not conclusive and refuse to work on legislation addressing climate change. This type of legislation, such as a carbon tax or policies to encourage more sustainable energy sources, could be costly to established industry.

>Among the politicians who refuse to acknowledge climate change is Gov. Scott. During his first campaign for governor in 2010, Scott told reporters who asked about his views on climate change that he had “not been convinced,” and that he would need “something more convincing than what I’ve read.”

>In 2014, Scott said he “was not a scientist” when asked about his views on climate change.

>In response, a group of Florida scientists requested to meet with Scott and explain the science behind the phenomenon. Scott agreed. The scientists were given 30 minutes.

>“He actually, as we were warned, spent 10 minutes doing silly things like prolonged introductions,” geologist and University of Miami professor Harold Wanless recalled. “But we had our 20 to 21 minutes, and he said thank you and went on to his more urgent matters, such as answering his telephone calls and so on. There were no questions of substance."

https://youtu.be/HH4pXNtMYnk

>Robert Reich, the secretary of labor under Bill Clinton, tweeted: “So 15 million American children in poverty just need better attitudes and they’ll have food in their stomachs and roofs over their heads?”

>Carson’s comments were not the only cause for concern for those working on poverty-related issues this week.

>The Trump administration’s 2018 budget calls for cuts of $6.2bn, or 13.2%, to HUD, alongside deep reductions in expenditures on Medicaid and food stamps. Although Congress will ultimately come up with its own spending plan, the president’s budget is taken as a reflection of his philosophy and priorities.

>Carson did not seem fazed by the possible slimming down of his agency. The budget proposal “reflects this administration’s commitment to fiscal responsibility while continuing HUD’s core support of our most vulnerable households”, he said in a statement, and states, local governments and the private sector were intended to pick up the slack.

>Carson was always an unlikely choice for his job. His experience in government is essentially limited to his 2016 presidential candidacy, and he is known for zany pronouncements – for instance, that the pyramids were grain storehouses rather than pharaonic tombs. This seemed of little concern to his supporters; during his confirmation hearing, Senator Mike Rounds said that “probably running this department is not really brain surgery.”

>Still, Carson’s hardscrabble upbringing – an adviser said his “mother worked three jobs at a time to keep them out of public housing” – and his medical background had suggested to some that he might bring empathy and a valuable perspective to the role.

>For one man currently experiencing poverty, Carson’s charge about his mental state rankles.

>“I challenge Ben Carson or anyone of his choosing with the ‘right mindset’ to step into my life on the streets,” said Brett Anderson, a homeless man who resides with his family in an RV in San Francisco. It would not be so easy, he said, to find a way out.

>>143292
>his medical background had suggested to some that he might bring empathy

lol, aren't american doctors greedy corporate whores anyway?

The little green men are just patriots.
Why do you hate patriotism?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WTt14AAuyU

>Yet she still has no proof

>>146867
Susan Rice doesn't have a foundation to stand on. She's been caught lying what, 15 times to Congress?

>“If the same person is doing the score of undoing Obamacare who did the scoring of Obamacare in the first place, my guess is that there is probably some sort of bias in favor of a government mandate,” he said.

>He went on to suggest that reports by multiple independent organizations should replace the CBO’s analysis.

>“I would do my own studies here at OMB as to what the cost and benefits of that reg would be,” he said. “And other folks would do their studies from the outside … You and I and other lawmakers can sit down and say, ‘Okay, we think that this is where it is, and we’ll make our decisions based upon that.'”

>Mulvaney said he doesn’t have a problem with the CBO continuing to exist as long as the organization rededicates itself to true non-partisan analysis, but he argued they should not be the go to arbiters of legislation.

>“To defer to them, I think is giving them way too much authority,” he said. “Certainly there is value in having that information, especially if they could return to their nonpartisan roots. But at the same time you can function, you can have a government, without a Congressional Budget Office.”

>I would do my own studies here at OMB as to what the cost and benefits of that reg would be,” he said. “And other folks would do their studies from the outside … You and I and other lawmakers can sit down and say, ‘Okay, we think that this is where it is, and we’ll make our decisions based upon that.'”

Surely, nothing bad could come of lawmakers being allowed to use their own estimates on the impact of legislation they are trying to pass :^]

>>146802
The CBO is under Clinton control, so drain the swamp Mr. President.

Drain that swamp.

>>146784
/b/ knocked over the card stand again?

>Rosenstein acknowledged that Mueller could expand his inquiry to include Attorney General Jeff Sessions' and Rosenstein's roles in the decision to fire Comey, who was investigating the Trump campaign. Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller as special counsel, wrote the memorandum intended to justify Trump's decision to fire Comey. Sessions met with Trump and Rosenstein to discuss Trump's decision to fire him despite Sessions' pledge not to become involved in the Russia case.

>The AP asked Rosenstein specifically whether Mueller's investigation could expand to include examining Sessions' role.

>"The order is pretty clear," Rosenstein responded. "It gives him authority for the investigation and anything arising out of that investigation, and so Director Mueller will be responsible in the first instance for determining what he believes falls into that mandate."

>Under Justice Department rules, Mueller is required to seek permission from Rosenstein to investigate additional matters other than ones already specified in the paperwork formally appointing Mueller.

>"I've talked with Director Mueller about this," Rosenstein said. "He's going to make the appropriate decisions, and if anything that I did winds up being relevant to his investigation then, as Director Mueller and I discussed, if there's a need from me to recuse, I will."

>Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, declined to comment on the scope of the investigation.

>Mueller, who spent 12 years as FBI director and served under Republican and Democratic presidents, was appointed after Comey's firing on May 9. Comey is expected to testify for the first time before the Senate intelligence committee on Thursday.

>Mueller's assignment covers the investigation into possible links or coordination between Russia and associates of the Trump campaign but also "any matters that arose or may arise directly" from the probe. It would extend to any allegations of perjury, witness intimidation or obstruction of justice uncovered during the course of the investigation.

>Last month, House Democrats called for congressional investigations into whether Sessions violated his pledge to recuse himself from matters related to investigations into Trump associates. They also asked the Justice Department to investigate Sessions' role in Comey's firing and to lay out how that investigation would proceed.

>A Democratic aide said Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., asked Rosenstein about the matter during a briefing before House members. Rosenstein said he would get back to Cummings, but he has yet to respond, said the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private interactions.

>The Justice Department began looking at Manafort's work in Ukraine around the beginning of 2014, as Ukraine's president, Viktor Yanukovych, was toppled amid protests of alleged corruption and Russian influence. Business records obtained by the AP show Manafort's political consulting firm began working as early as 2004 for clients that variously included a political boss in Yanukovych's party, a Ukrainian oligarch and Oleg Deripaska, a Russian businessman and longtime ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin.

>A special counsel, by design, is constrained by the terms of his appointment to avoid boundless and perpetually open-ended investigations. In this case, though, Mueller's mandate appears fairly broad, said Samuel Buell, a former federal prosecutor and criminal law professor at Duke University.

>"That investigation that's named in the appointment is already one that has, as far as we can tell, a number of tentacles and offshoots that involves conduct over a fairly lengthy period of time involving a lot of people," Buell said.

>He said he did not expect Mueller to seek Rosenstein's approval each time he wants to subpoena a new witness or pursue a new Russia-related investigative thread. The more difficult question would involve any allegations separate and apart from Russia, he said.

>"This gives him the authority to pull on all kinds of string and see where they lead him," Buell said. "As long as you're following a string that's connected to the string of Russian influence on the election — however that may have occurred, whoever that may have involved — would seem to fall within that appointment."

>Manafort's work in Ukraine continued at least through the beginning of 2014, when Yanukovych's government was ousted amid protests of widespread corruption and his rejection of a European trade deal in favor of one with Moscow. As the AP reported last year, that work included covertly directing a lobbying campaign on behalf of Ukraine's pro-Russian Party of Regions in Washington. Following the AP's reporting on emails in which Manafort deputy Rick Gates was overseeing the work, two lobbying firms involved in the project registered as foreign agents. Manafort has not done so, and a spokesman for him has declined to say if he will.

>The memo showed Wasserman Schultz describing in a message how Lynch had privately assured a Clinton staffer during the campaign that the Justice Department wouldn't take the investigation too far. Comey knew the information in the memo wasn't real, but he feared that the memo would cast doubt on the credibility of the FBI's investigation if it leaked after Lynch closed the probe, CNN reported.

>The sequence played a part in his decision to circumvent the Justice Department to hold the press conference, where he issued a blistering assessment of Clinton's recklessness that many believe damaged her reputation among voters.

'None of it makes much sense'

>Comey told lawmakers after the press conference that he had no choice but to go around the Justice Department and answer directly to reporters out of fear that the document might leak, but he did not tell them that the document was probably fake, according to CNN.

>Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told CNN on Sunday that Comey "never once told a member of the House or the Senate that he thought the email was fake" and would have been "incredibly incompetent" to act on a document he knew to be fraudulent.

>"I can't imagine a scenario where it's OK for the FBI director to jump in the middle of an election based on a fake email generated by the Russians and not tell the Congress," Graham said.

Olson said Comey's decision to bypass his superiors based on the document was even more bizarre.

>"None of it makes much sense," Olson said. "The notion that the FBI needs to circumvent DOJ procedure and officials because a known false document might be used publicly to forward some political agenda makes no sense. And the notion that DOJ is somehow incapable of defending itself against false publicity does not withstand scrutiny."

>FBI officials briefed Lynch on the existence of the document one month after Comey publicly announced the end of the email investigation. Lynch said she "never communicated" with the Clinton campaign staffer in question, Amanda Renteria, and offered to be formally interviewed by the FBI about the matter, according to The Post.

>Renteria also told The Post she had never spoken to Lynch. And Wasserman Schultz said she had never heard of the Open Society Foundations official, Leonard Benardo, whom the document said she had emailed to discuss Lynch's communications with Renteria.

>"The FBI is in the business of ascertaining the true facts through investigation," Olson said. "That is what should have been done. I'd love to know why it was not done."

>Matthew Miller, who was a Justice Department spokesman under Barack Obama, agreed that Comey "absolutely should have briefed" his superiors on the existence of the document before holding the press conference, especially if he thought it was fake.

>"If he already knew the document was fake, then he in no way should have relied on it to make decisions about how to handle the case, and he had an obligation to brief his superiors," Miller said on Tuesday.

>"Even if it was a real document, it wouldn't excuse him acting on his own," Miller added. "There are procedures set up for handling sensitive information like this when someone is potentially compromised, which is the best-case interpretation of his thinking. He could have briefed his direct boss, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and the two of them could have decided how to proceed.

>"The bottom line is this document seems to have been an excuse to do what he always wanted to do, rather than an actual factor in any decision-making."

>>146679
Baffled? Globalists want Russia to be the scapegoat for all wrongdoings

Nothing surprising about this