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Post by mhbruin on Aug 9, 2022 8:20:22 GMT -8
Never buy flowers from a monk. Only you can prevent florist friars.
If They Start Mining, How Green Will Greenland Remain, in the Effort to Create Green Cars. But They Will Make Greenbacks
Some of the world’s richest men are funding a massive treasure hunt, complete with helicopters and transmitters, on the west coast of Greenland.
The climate crisis is melting Greenland down at an unprecedented rate, which – in a twist of irony – is creating an opportunity for investors and mining companies who are searching for a trove of critical minerals capable of powering the green energy transition.
A band of billionaires, including Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg and Bill Gates, among others, is betting that below the surface of the hills and valleys on Greenland’s Disko Island and Nuussuaq Peninsula there are enough critical minerals to power hundreds of millions of electric vehicles.
A rush to mine lithium in Nevada is pitting climate advocates and environmental groups against each other
“We are looking for a deposit that will be the first- or second-largest most significant nickel and cobalt deposit in the world,” Kurt House, CEO of Kobold Metals, told CNN.
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 9, 2022 8:22:08 GMT -8
Want to Hire QANON Ron?
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 9, 2022 8:30:28 GMT -8
The QOP Whines, Blusters, and Raises Money
Because if there’s anybody in the government who you know has saved and secured every scrap of paper, every note from every conversation regarding the business of his office, it’s the notoriously meticulous and cautious Merrick Garland. Also, unlike Kevin McCarthy, not everyone has stuff they feel like they need to hide.
That’s right, McCarthy has been avoiding a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Responding to that subpoena, McCarthy’s lawyer accused the committee of wishing to “interrogate him” politically and slammed the panel as unconstitutional and acting beyond the “power of inquiry as decreed by our Founding Fathers.”
Federal agents went into the Palm Beach mansion in search of dozens of boxes containing confidential documents Trump allegedly kept after he left the White House, according to a source close to the investigation.
The following morning, the billionaire Trump sent out emails asking for money.
“I need every single red-blooded American Patriot to step up during this time,” read the email. “Please rush in a donation IMMEDIATELY to publicly stand with me against this NEVERENDING WITCH HUNT.”
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 9, 2022 8:31:11 GMT -8
They Got Al Capone on Tax Evasion
It might seem puzzling, even disappointing, that the Justice Department and the FBI would have chosen to throw down the gauntlet for a crime — “concealment, removal, or mutiIation generally” of official documents — that is far from the most serious of those we think the former president may have committed, such as obstruction of justice, fraud against the United States and, most dramatically, seditious conspiracy.
But a charge of mishandling or destroying official documents is no petty offense, not under the federal code (which provides for a prison sentence of up to three years) and not in the culture of the Justice Department, which takes it very seriously.
In Trump’s case, no surprise, the potential offense appears to be particularly brazen and damaging. Among the documents he reportedly took with him and has declined to return are true historical items that belong to the American people, including the letter President Obama left for him when he took office and his bizarre valentines to North Korea dictator Kim Jong-Un.
Further, a documents charge, as presidential accusations go, would be relatively easy to prove and would sidestep issues of 1st Amendment protected political activity that Trump no doubt would claim if he were indicted in relation to, say, his incendiary speech at the Ellipse on Jan. 6.
And most important, there’s this: Anyone who “willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies or destroys” official documents “shall be” disqualified — barred for life — from holding future federal office.
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 9, 2022 8:36:13 GMT -8
Don't Cry For Me, Crimea
There have been explosions reported in Crimea. Specifically, a Russian airbase about 100+ miles into Crimea. Informed opinion explains this will force Russia to stretch their defenses ever thinner. Hoping to hear more from those better able to digest this info. Still in question how attack was delivered that far into Russian occupied territory.
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 9, 2022 8:37:14 GMT -8
Guess Who Got Mexico to Pay for the Wall?
Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador agreed to spend $1.5 billion over the next two years to improve “smart” border technology during meetings Tuesday with President Joe Biden — a move the White House says shows neighborly cooperation succeeding where Trump administration vows to wall off the border and have Mexico pay for it could not.
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 9, 2022 8:39:19 GMT -8
80,000 Russians. Countless Children
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 9, 2022 8:40:58 GMT -8
Donatella, Don't Tella the TruthThis is a Tweet from CBS News promoting its now discredited documentary “Arming Ukraine” which claimed that billions of dollars of military aid that the U.S. is sending to Ukraine doesn’t make it to the front lines. The CBS Reports documentary did not interview a single U.S. or Ukrainian official. And those interviewed did not have first-hand knowledge about weapons shipments nor did any of them cite an actual case of corruption or black market sales of weapons. Among those interviewed was Donatella Rovera, a Senior Crisis Adviser for Amnesty International. She was likely interviewed weeks ago. Now it just so happens that Rovera was the principal researcher and author of the controversial Amnesty International report released last week that claimed the Ukrainian military was setting up bases in residential areas, schools and hospitals. I Wonder How Much Putin is Paying DonatellaA new critique from Ukrainian sources reported on Yahoo!news today demonstrates that much of the material that formed the basis of the AI report was actually obtained by “interviews” with Ukrainians evacuated to Russian controlled filtration camps and prisons in the illegally occupied Donbas and Crimea! And if that weren’t bad enough on its face, only those actually “willing” to provide information were interviewed — even though that was often a prerequisite for evacuees seeking to leave these camps, and the camp/prison administrators (and even FSB agents in some cases) were allowed to check the content of those interviews before being turned over to AI. Seriously?!? Amnesty ‘used testimony from detainees in Russian camps’ in scandalous report, Ukraine government agency claims
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 9, 2022 8:43:41 GMT -8
Rudy is Willing to Go Far and Wide To Not Go to Georgia
The Fulton County District Attorney’s office is calling bullshit on Rudy Giuliani’s claims that a recent medical procedure prevents him from traveling to Georgia and testifying before a special grand jury about his involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Giuliani’s legal team claims he can’t respond to a subpoena because a “recent invasive procedure” following a “complex artery diagnosis” means getting on a plane would be medically inadvisable. Yet District Attorney Fani Willis found multiple instances of Giuliani seeing the world despite his legal team’s assertions.
According to Willis’ response, Giuliani “purchased multiple airline tickets with cash, including tickets to Rome, Italy and Zurich Switzerland, for travel dates ranging between July 22, 2022 and July 29, 2022. All of these dates were after [his] medical procedure.” It’s anyone’s guess how Willis’ office obtained that information, but even more puzzling is Giuliani potentially forking over thousands in cash for plane tickets if not for the sake of the purchase going undetected by the likes of Willis.
Willis suggested getting Giuliani to Georgia by bus, which sounds like the stereotypical hell one would experience on a Greyhound. More appealingly, she suggested Giuliani could also make it to Fulton County by train. Not only would Giuliani being reducing his carbon footprint on this trip but Amtrak may actually be enticing enough to compel Giuliani to take Willis’ office up on a fully paid for ticket. After all, the passenger train does include a bar car.
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 9, 2022 8:45:34 GMT -8
The QOP Finds Horrible Dirt on Biden. He is Polite
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 9, 2022 8:54:34 GMT -8
No Wonder Rudy Doesn't Want to Go to Georgia!
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 9, 2022 8:55:30 GMT -8
“You would think a story like this couldn’t get any crazier.”
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 9, 2022 9:02:02 GMT -8
Ab-Butt Takes Texas Racist Law Enforcement to New LevelsGrassroots immigrant advocacy groups and civil rights organizations gathered in multiple Texas border cities over the weekend to protest Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s ongoing border scheme that has cost precious human lives and wasted billions in state taxpayer funds. Organizations and advocates gathered in El Paso, Presidio, Pharr, and Brownsville, all border regions that have been significantly impacted by the racist Operation Lone Star policy. Under the scheme, local communities have been racially profiled as Black and brown migrants have been rounded up on trespassing charges, and oftentimes jailed with no formal charges at all. “I think a lot of people here in the valley and a lot of people affected by Operation Lone Star would agree,” Emma Guevara told CBS 4 News Rio Grande Valley. “We’re being policed for no reason.” “Gov. Abbott has been continuously attacking immigrant communities through abusive and discriminatory policies that target and criminalize vulnerable immigrants coming to the U.S. seeking safety and a better future,” organizations led by Border Network for Human Rights (BNHR) said in a statement received by Daily Kos. “These policies criminalize and incarcerate immigrants, pushing them to undertake dangerous routes to access the country, which, in many cases, lead to death, as is the case of the recent tragedy in San Antonio, Texas, where 53 migrants died in a tractor-trailer.” But dozens of others have also been killed as a direct result of Operation Lone Star, civil rights organizations said in a recent complaint filed with the Justice Department. They said racial profiling of drivers by state law enforcement officers has resulted in unnecessary high-speed chases that have killed at least 30, including five bystanders who had nothing to do with the stops. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas and Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) were among the coalition of organizations that filed a Title VI discrimination complaint last year, pointing to ample evidence of racial profiling and biased policing. “For years, OLS has turned South Texas into a police state & border communities are tired of being harassed & living in what feels like a war-zone,” TCRP tweeted from the past weekend’s rallies. Justice Department is investigating Texas’ Operation Lone Star for alleged civil rights violations
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