Y2Kyoto: If You Want To Make An Omelette
You gotta blend a couple birds. Or something like that.
It is a shame that some curlews will die or perhaps change their migration routes while we save humanity from catastrophic climate change. But there won’t be much point in having intact curlew migration routes if we don’t control emissions from the energy sector.
— GreenFolkestone (@GFolkestone) September 26, 2019
Y2Kyoto: The Time Has Come, The Walrus Said
‘To talk of many things:
Of shoes — and ships — and sealing wax —
Of cabbages — and kings —
And why the sea is boiling hot —
And whether pigs have wings.’*
It’s Probably Nothing
@CNBCnow — Boeing CEO Muilenburg has resigned, effective immediately.
Islamophobe Throws Water At Woman on Plane
She says: "There's a bomb in my body" as she tries to light the plane on fire!! pic.twitter.com/R9yvbn5NSh
— Marina lapiana2 (@MLapiana2) December 23, 2019
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Scumbag Lawyers”
In a press release, the DOJ said that one of the lead plaintiffs’ attorneys, Timothy Litzenburg, who helped land a $289-million hit job against Monsanto has been arrested for the attempted extortion of $200 million from another chemical company involved in the production of Roundup.
If the company (which the Wall Street Journal identified as Nouryon) did not cough up the money, Litzenburg would send in a “parade of horribles” (i.e., cancer patients) like he did to Monsanto, according to an affidavit. He also promised a “40 percent stock loss” and a “public relations nightmare.” But if Nouryon complied with his demand, then he would intentionally lose the case, just like the Black Sox in the 1919 World Series.
And, as it just so happens, Litzenburg has a buddy in Carey Gillam, a former journalist who left Reuters under troublesome circumstances (see image) and subsequently took a job with the anti-GMO activist organization U.S. Right to Know (USRTK). USRTK, a corporate front group that is primarily funded by the organic industry, routinely smears and spreads disinformation about biotech scientists.
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
The judge presiding over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) ordered the FBI in a secret court filing earlier in December to identify all cases handled by a former FBI lawyer who allegedly altered an email during the investigation of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Judge Rosemary Collyer ordered the review Dec. 5, several days before the release of a Justice Department inspector general’s (IG) report that found the FBI made “significant inaccuracies” in applications to surveil Page.
The report said a now-former FBI lawyer who has been identified as Kevin Clinesmith altered an email from the bureau’s liaison to the CIA in June 2017 to say Page was “not a source” for the agency.
More here on Kevin Clinesmith.
But that’s not the new news. This is: Former NSA Director Mike Rogers Working With John Durham For Several Months…
Sheba For President
I could watch this all day. You think that cat was a Trump supporter? 🤣🇺🇸👌🏻 pic.twitter.com/h1yEv1PADQ
— Mindy Robinson 🇺🇸 (@iheartmindy) December 21, 2019
December 22, 2019: Reader Tips
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Scheer Stupidity
Though to be truthful, I care even less what the Conservatives do than I did during the Kim Campbell days minutes.
#BREAKING Conservative Party convention postponed to November 2020 #cdnpolihttps://t.co/Xk2RAhPjg9 pic.twitter.com/obZRj4EvIm
— Natasha Fatah (@NatashaFatah) December 21, 2019
If the environmental movement remains so entangled with the political movement, 2020 will be ugly
…our public discourse on the climate file has sunk so low, been so manipulated and warped, that a global news institution, in a discussion about the challenges of trying to adapt the richest economy on earth, finds it appropriate to insert a false, political, manufactured, propagandistic quote from an ignorant and used teenager about an alleged human rights violation. Read on…
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
This is why men will always run the world.
a>The Children Are Your Future, Saskatchewan
And they’re being indoctrinated to loathe and fear everything that is this province — and by the teachers whose salaries are paid for by energy and agriculture.
A first hand account of this “concert” from the comments of the post.
December 21, 2019: Reader Tips
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Justin Trudeau Wants ‘Significant Penalties’ for Social Media ‘Hate Speech’
h/t Angel
Are We Still A Member Of This Thing?
UN peacekeepers in Haiti fathered babies then abandoned mothers to lives of poverty.
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
@TheLastRefuge – OK, so here’s a little thread on the specifics hinted in this article.. (Paywalled)
The federal prosecutor scrutinizing the Russia investigation has begun examining the role of the former C.I.A. director John O. Brennan in how the intelligence community assessed Russia’s 2016 election interference, according to three people briefed on the inquiry.
John H. Durham, the United States attorney leading the investigation, has requested Mr. Brennan’s emails, call logs and other documents from the C.I.A., according to a person briefed on his inquiry. He wants to learn what Mr. Brennan told other officials, including the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey, about his and the C.I.A.’s views of a notorious dossier of assertions about Russia and Trump associates.
Mr. Durham’s pursuit of Mr. Brennan’s records is certain to add to accusations that Mr. Trump is using the Justice Department to go after his perceived enemies. The president has long attacked Mr. Brennan as part of his narrative about a so-called deep state cabal of Obama administration officials who tried to sabotage his campaign, and Mr. Trump has held out Mr. Durham’s investigation as a potential avenue for proving those claims.
Mr. Durham is also examining whether Mr. Brennan privately contradicted his public comments, including May 2017 testimony to Congress, about both the dossier and about any debate among the intelligence agencies over their conclusions on Russia’s interference, the people said.
The co-founder of the prominent intelligence community blog, Lawfare, admitted that a recent report from the Justice Department inspector general on FBI FISA abuses for Trump campaign surveillance has destroyed their own credibility.
On a Thursday podcast hosted by Stewart Baker, a partner at the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, the blog’s founder, Bobby Chesney admitted that the damming report from the DOJ IG documenting FBI abuses and vindicating the infamous Nunes memo on the discredited Steele Dossier alleging Russian collusion has been destructive to his publication’s reputation.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
December 20, 2019: Reader Tips
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Articulatings Of Impeachment
Is she even speaking English? pic.twitter.com/p6G1x6Y706
— Caleb Hull 🎅🏻🎁 (@CalebJHull) December 19, 2019