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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Edward Snowden spoke by video link at the Estoril Conferences
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He stated that democracy is under threat due to leaders like Trump decrying inconvenient journalism as "fake news" and eroding civic rights due to fear, uncertainty and doubt.
Funny how the last viable candidate for US President that didn't do either was referred to by his truly as "Goldman Sachs".
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot![]()
Were they? I can't remember either of them taking a statement concerning the issue. As John Oliver pointed out, I don't even know how if Kushner speaks at all.
This is either about the coal industry or Trump is thinking that he can push the other countries into making special concessions. He is wrong. This has been too long in the works to make last minute changes for one obstinate and untrustworthy child.
Ivanka thinks its a bad move for diplomacy, but Bannon is all for it.
Seems as if the Influence Wars are back
"You can reply to this Message!"Climate aside, Trump has just wrecked the US economy. He thinks it is difficult to built a golf course in the EU? Ha! Once the EU, China and other growing markets like India agree on standards and agree on not allowing or putting additional fees on products which don't adhere to their standards, the US will wish that they have the same trade deficit they have today. The world is big, but at the end of the day there are only a few markets which are relevant because they have enough buying power.
Back on climate for a moment, some positive news. A wind power company wants to train coal miners as technicians.
https://www.ecowatch.com/wind-jobs-coal-miners-goldwind-2426715170.amp.html
edited 31st May '17 9:54:15 AM by megaeliz
California, Chabot said, was “overrun by illegals, drug addicts and violent criminals under the umbrella of a radical liberal ideology that has destroyed the state.”
I mean, not undue, if people choice to live there for whatever reason, then they have a right to representation.
Still, I find myself hating the "we don't live in a political echo-chamber so let's move" view. It has other things attached to it, but that is one thing I a fairly confident in saying is prolific on both the left and right. It just so happens that a lot of people who would want to leave can't for other reasons. Which is an entirely different problem.
edited 31st May '17 10:36:23 AM by LSBK
The timing of this raises alarms for the paranoid cynic in me. My gut says he's full of shit. This is just an attempt at buffering Texas's number of voting Republicans at a time when the state is in very real danger of turning blue.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Well, turning purple. But I'm sure things like this have happened before and probably didn't do much. I can't image something like this being helpful to anyone who wasn't already looking to move.
Seriously, people move to Texas all thr time, a good chunck from California. Demographic and political transition still going steady.
edited 31st May '17 10:57:54 AM by LSBK
Why don't people see that climate change will offset any economic growth from allowing fossil fuel industries to keep on growing?
Why don't people understand that manufacturing jobs aren't the driving force behind our economy anymore, and service jobs are?
Even the energy companies said, publicly at least, that they wanted the US to stay in the Paris Agreement.
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas EdisonNow the US is going to be one of the only 3 countries not in the Paris Accord. The other two? Nicaragua and Syria. SYRIA. The US is now on level with SYRIA. At least Nicaragua can be happy they aren't the only North American country that isn't in the Paris Accord anymore...
edited 31st May '17 11:09:43 AM by FireCrawler2002
Because of Truthiness.
Anti-intellectualism is extremely popular among modern Republicans. They hate experts, hate science, and hate facts. Climate change, like all other scientific phenomenon, is just a malevolent plot invented by Satan and/or China to destroy your life. You, personally. China is trying to murder you by making you believe in climate change.
Whatever value the conservative philosophy may or may not have, it does not exist in the modern Republican party, which is strictly a reactionary movement populated by belligerent regressives whose only unifying purpose or central philosophy is a mutual hatred of progressive policy.
And since facts and science are Satanic plots to murder you, once they're in power, they make their decisions based not on hard evidence and data collection but on what feels like it's probably true. Trickle Down Economics feel like they would work. Climate change feels like it's probably bunk. Being allowed to torture enemy combatants for being inhuman devil monsters feels like it would probably make them talk. Etc. etc.
edited 31st May '17 11:10:13 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.@Link To The Future You are attempting to ascribe rational thinking to these people. What is driving them? A combination of short-sighted greed, willful ignorance of economics/climate/reality, and/or very bad risk assessment ("climate change won't be that bad!").
Oh, and "Obama BAD!"
edited 31st May '17 11:21:53 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised![]()
It's actually worse than Syria (in this particular matter of course), since Syria isn't exactly in a position to agree to anything. They have other far more pressing matters on their plate. And Nicaragua apparently actually has non-bullshit reasons to disagree with the terms of the Paris Agreement.
edited 31st May '17 11:12:31 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedMore American Voters support Trump's Impeachment then Trump himself, according to POLITICO.
Trump's Approval rating is 41%. Support for Trump's impeachment is 43%.
I seriously hope and pray that the Blue Wave exists in 2018 and that in 2020 people see just how terrible Trump has been and vote him out.
Paul Ryan appointed a controversial cancer doctor to a Health and Human Services committee.
Soon-Shiong, a Los Angeles surgeon who leads a network of for-profit and not-for-profit ventures conducting cancer research, has been the subject of news stories, including by POLITICO and STAT, that have raised questions about potential conflicts of interest.
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A POLITICO investigation found that the majority of the expenditures of his nonprofit research organization, for instance, flow to businesses and not-for-profits controlled by Soon-Shiong himself, and the majority of its grants have gone to entities that have business deals with his for-profit firms.
Soon-Shiong joins a 25-member Health IT Advisory Committee that was authorized by the 21st Century Cures Act, signed into law by former President Barack Obama in December. The legislation gives congressional leadership the power to name eight of the members.
Earlier in the day, it was reported that Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mc Connell named Steve Ready, CIO of Louisville, Ky., health system Norton Healthcare, to the committee, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi chose Steven Lane, an informatics executive with Sutter Health in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The jokes makes themselves, especially when you realize The GOP literally has an Anti-Public Lands Caucus.
https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/sites/default/files/attachments/antiparks-brief.pdf
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2016/04/11/135044/the-rise-to-power-of-the-congressional-anti-parks-caucus/
edited 31st May '17 8:46:51 AM by megaeliz