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The anti-Greta: A conservative think tank takes on the global phenomenon
How a group allied with the Trump administration is paying a German teen to question established climate science.
Naomi Seibt is a 19-year-old German who, like Greta, is blond, eloquent and European.
But Naomi
denounces “climate alarmism,”
calls climate consciousness “a de ably anti-human ideology,”
and has even deployed Greta’s now famous “How dare you?” line to take on the mainstream German media.
“She’s a fantastic voice for free markets and for climate realism,” said James Taylor, director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy at the Heartland Ins ute,
While the campaign “is not outright disinformation,” Brookie said in an email, it “does bear resemblance to a model we use called the
4d’s —
dismiss the message,
distort the facts,
distract the audience, and
express dismay at the whole thing.”
“The tactic is intended to create an equivalency in spokespeople and message.
In this case, it is a
false equivalency
between a message based in climate science that went viral organically and
a message based in climate skepticism trying to catch up using paid promotion.”
Naomi echoes far-right skepticism about feminism and immigration.
she is not a member of AfD — she describes herself as libertarian — but acknowledges speaking at a recent AfD event.
An emeritus professor of physics at Princeton University, Happer has repeatedly argued that carbon emissions should be viewed as beneficial to society — not a pollutant that drives global warming.
Why would an American think tank want to get involved in German politics?
Because it worries that Berlin’s strong stance on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions could be contagious,
“Worse, other nations — including the United States and European Union nations — are increasingly being influenced by unwise German policy.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/clima...wpisrc=nl_most
The Best People
Our new Director of National Intelligence didn't mention he was a shill for a corrupt oligarch
Richard Grenell, theincompetent buffoon and erstwhile Twitter troll who Donald Trump selected this week to oversee our entire National Intelligence apparatus, previously
worked as a paid consultant for a corrupt Moldovan oligarch, and
authored multiple articles for mainstream rightwing media outlets the either defended that oligarch or placed him in a more favorable light.
According to reporting by ProPublica,
he did this without telling anyone about his work for that oligarch, in potential violation of a federal anti-corruption statute.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...tail=emaildkre
Only s bags and gutless sycophants still work for Trash
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U.S. Bans Fugitive Moldovan Tycoon From Entry For 'Significant Corruption'
https://www.rferl.org/a/fugitive-mol.../30375065.html
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The Best Liars
National security adviser O'Brien lies on Sunday shows to parrot false Trump intelligence claims
Trump National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien took to multiple Sunday shows Today
to, evidently, lie outright to the American people on Donald Trump's behalf.
Parroting a Donald Trump line that does not mesh with any of the previously-known revealed intelligence about Russia's repeated efforts to disrupt United States elections via state-sponsored hacking and online propaganda efforts,
O'Brien is insisting that he "has not seen" any intelligence to indicate that Russia is again attempting to boost Donald Trump's campaign.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/23/1921426/-National-security-adviser-O-Brien-lies-on-Sunday-shows-to-parrot-false-Trump-intelligence-claims?detail=emaildkre
Trump's new head of Intelligence is unqualified, but that's not the only reason he's dangerous
The Grenell appointment is intended to place the finger of one of Trump’s most vocal and rabid supporters
on the spigot where information gathered by our intelligence agencies such as the CIA and the NSA normally flows.
With Grenell in place, that information can be filtered, sanitized or otherwise manipulated by Trump for political ends.
Grenell has zero experience in intelligence,
has never worked in any capacity for a U.S. intelligence agency,
has zero experience in managing government agencies, and
is most prominently known for sending
a series of demeaning tweets
about the physical appearance of Democratic women.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/22/1920848/-Trump-s-new-head-of-Intelligence-is-unqualified-but-that-s-not-the-only-reason-he-s-dangerous?detail=emaildkre
RIP national security intel
from now on it only matters what trump intel is approved by
A RUSSIAN ASSET
let that sink in
There's always a tweet
Joans
This Is How Kleptocracies Work
Trump’s pardons were shocking to some, but to me they were eerily familiar—straight out of the kleptocratic playbook I’ve studied in a dozen other countries.
A long, carefully designed, and meticulously executed investigation culminated in the arrest of a palace aide on charges of extorting a bribe.
But the man did not spend a single night in jail. Afghan President Hamid Karzai made a call; the aide was released; and the case was dropped.
Karzai later bragged about interfering, in terms akin to the “horribles” and “unfairs” we now hear emanating from the White House.
He likened the operation to the way people under Soviet rule were wrenched from their homes.
Corruption, I realized with a start, is not simply a matter of individual greed.
It is more like a sophisticated operating system,
employed by networks whose objective is to maximize their members’ riches.
And a bargain holds that system together:
Money and favors flow upward (from aides to presidents, for instance) and downward in return.
Subordinates owe fealty to their network higher-ups, and a cut of whatever revenue streams they manage to access.
In Afghanistan and other notorious kleptocracies I’ve studied,
such cash transfers might include a percentage of extorted bribes, or kickbacks on contracts for development projects.
Many government jobs carry an explicit purchase price, payable in a lump sum or indefinite monthly installments.
examples of such an upward money flow include the use of Trump’s hotels and other facilities by government officials and their agencies, either on public business—
so as to siphon taxpayer money from the U.S. Treasury into Trump’s coffers—or on a personal basis.
Direct payments more typically take the form of
campaign contributions, as were reportedly made by at least one beneficiary of the recent presidential pardons.
subordinates may owe in-kind services. Or submission to egregious and humiliating loyalty tests,
In return for this torrent of cash and favors and subservience,
those at the top of kleptocratic networks owe something precious downwards.
They owe their subordinates impunity from legal repercussions.
That is the other half of the bargain, without which the whole system collapses.
That’s why moves like Trump’s have to be advertised.
he was broadcasting a message to his network: Don’t worry. I stand by the deal.
Even a cursory look at the list of Trump’s February 19 beneficiaries suggests that
his aim was not to right the wrong of prosecutorial overreach,
but to send a similar message to his network—
to reinforce and perhaps expand it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...s-work/606958/
Pretty sure it's fake,it can be hard to tell.
Trump seems to have a thing for hiring NATSEC guys who carry water for strongmen like Orban and Erdogan.
Ric Genell is the new DNI.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/20...ht-government/An investigation by Responsible Statecraft has found that President Trump’s newly installed acting Director of National Intelligence, Richard Grenell, knowingly provided public relations services directed at U.S. media on behalf of a project funded by Hungary’s far-right government. Grenell didn’t register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), which is a requirement applying to individuals and en ies operating inside the U.S. as an “agent” of a “foreign principal.”
Unelected judges on the Ninth Court of Appeals good now.
damn experts, what to do they know?
‘Untreatable and incurable’:
Psychiatrist says Trump’s Harvey Weinstein rant was ‘a symptom’ of dementia
President Donald Trump’s lengthy, disjointed rant about convicted rapist and former film mogul Harvey Weinstein was a sign of dementia.
talking about Weinstein, in which the president went off on tangents about his 2016 election win and Weinstein’s donations to prominent Democrats,
Alzheimer’s dementia destroy (sic) the life of Fred Trump, and dementia tends to run in families.”
many psychiatric professionals who have regularly sounded the alarm on Trump’s mental faculties.
“my professional opinion is that Donald J. Trump is impaired to the extent that
he is not mentally, emotionally, or cognitively fit to meet the demands of the Presidency;
and that he is unable to preserve, protect, and defend the Cons ution
as required by his Oath of Office.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/unt...8460&list_id=1
A VERITABLE revolt by Senators against Moscow Mitch and mentally ed Trash
70 former senators says if Republicans are brave enough to stand up to Trump and McConnell — they’ll help save them
Former U.S. senators are begging Republicans to do their jobs and uphold the Cons ution and
if doing so puts them in political danger,
the former senators said they’ll do whatever it takes to save them.
In a letter from 70 former senators in the Washington Post,
they accused the(
They explained that the framers of the Cons ution crafted Article I to give legislative powers for a reason.
Without use of those powers, lawmaking is handed to the less democratic judicial branch.
“We are writing to
encourage the creation of a bipartisan caucus of in bent senators
who would be committed to making the Senate function as the Framers of the Cons ution intended,”
blasted officials for ceding power to the president as well, citing war powers and regulation of international trade.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/70-former-senators-says-if-republicans-are-brave-enough-to-stand-up-to-trump-and-mcconnell-theyll-help-save-them/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3811&re cip_id=298460&list_id=1
what about Moscow Mitch KILLING 400 bills passed by the House?
Judge Amy Berman Jackson restricts Roger Stone retrial hearing to audio only
due to Trump incitement
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/jud..._campaign=3811
Notorious RBG blast back at Trash
RUTH BADER GINSBURG SAYS
TRUMP SHOULD RECUSE HIMSELF FROM ALL DECISIONS
INVOLVING THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY
WASHINGTON —Asserting that his personal interests put him in direct conflict with the interests of the United States of America,
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has demanded that Donald Trump recuse himself from all decisions involving the future of the U.S.
Speaking from her office at the Supreme Court, Ginsburg said that
Trump’s oft-stated allegiance to himself
makes it impossible for him
to render unbiased decisions on issues affecting people other than himself.
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/ruth-bader-ginsburg-says-trump-should-recuse-himself-from-all-decisions-involving-the-future-of-the-country
Like how it was a GREAT cleanup job in Puerto Rico.
It's well do ented that the Puerto rican officials were withholding aid.
Oh look bot making up again.
Look it up got
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