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Russian-Style Kleptocracy Is Infiltrating America " Richard Palmer served as the CIA station chief in the United States’ Moscow embassy. ...In the dying days of the U.S.S.R., Palmer had watched as his old adversaries in Soviet intelligence shoveled billions from the state treasury into private accounts across Europe and the U.S. It was one of history’s greatest heists. ... The United States, Palmer made clear, had allowed itself to become an accomplice in this plunder. His assessment was unsparing. The West could have turned away this stolen cash; it could have stanched the outflow to shell companies and tax havens. Instead, Western banks waved Russian loot into their vaults. " Color me orange. trump wasn't the only one with open arms ready to launder Russian assets and protect kleptocrats and mob monies. This story should be required reading for those trying to understand the corrosive effects of Russian cash.

You have a pretty good case

Without getting too deep into sulfur as a component of global warming. Some fundamental misconceptions of how this chemical relates to energy are evident. Sulfuric acid Sulfur content of crude Images of sulfur piles as a result of refining oil Sweet crude oil Finally coal:Typical Sulfur Content in Coal Anthracite Coal : 0.6 - 0.77 weight % Bituminous Coal : 0.7 - 4.0 weight % Lignite Coal : 0.4 weight %

Well thats somewhat moot to the discussion at hand. What is relevant is Co2 levels, industrialization and the rate of climate change now. 4.5 billion years ago, who cares? In the next 100-200 years, everyone should. The planet was stable relative to Co2, carrying capacity of humans and industrialization. Up until about 100 years ago.

FOX, Facebook and donald j trump. Are the neutron bombs of disinformation. They destroy intelligence and leave craniums intact.

" According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the world's volcanoes, both on land and undersea, generate about 200 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually, while our automotive and industrial activities cause some 24 billion tons of CO2 emissions every year worldwide. " Are Volcanoes or Humans Harder on the Atmosphere?

Damn, sorry to hear that. For the uninitiated there are reasons why. No, its not because drug makers spend so much on research. No, its not because of inflation. No, its not because of litigious trial lawyers. No, its not even entirely trump's fault! yes I said it. This is why. It corrupts US health care, it predatory and degrades the well being of every American. They spend more than any other industry on it.

So you do watch FOX eh?

and How a massive fentanyl bust in Arizona undermines Trump's border wall "America is understandably aghast with the 254 pounds of fentanyl seized at the Arizona-Mexico border, reportedly enough to kill more than 115 million people. And guess where federal officials carried out this huge fentanyl bust? At the Nogales border crossing in Arizona. Yes, a port of entry, not somewhere over a border fence in the barren desert."

Father says he traveled to Canada for son's medicine that would cost $53K in UShttps://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/428876-father-says-he-traveled-to-canada-for-sons-medicine-that-would-cost-53k-in "Right now, I'm paying $15,000 a year for this medicine, which costs in the United States $53,000 a year which I feel is at best, criminal," Yeagley told CBS News. "There's no reason why an American should pay three times what somebody in Canada or Europe or Mexico has to pay," he added. AP FACT CHECK: Trump on prescription drug pricing WASHINGTON (AP) — A look at one of President Donald Trump’s statements from his State of the Union address on Tuesday night and how it compares with the facts: TRUMP: “Already, as a result of my administration’s efforts, in 2018 drug prices experienced their single largest decline in 46 years.” THE FACTS: Trump is selectively citing statistics to exaggerate what seems to be a slowdown in prices. A broader look at the data shows that drug prices are still rising." From LAST years SOTU speech. Trump declares cutting drug prices is a top priority, Tue, Jan 30 2018 President Donald Trump said Tuesday that cutting drug prices is one of the “greatest priorities” for his administration. ... “Prices will come down,” Trump promised in his State of the Union address.( over a year ago) “To speed access to breakthrough cures and affordable generic drugs, last year the FDA approved more new and generic drugs and medical devices than ever before in our history,” Trump said.

More reading on " The vory " the Russian mafia and how it saved trump enterprises not once but twice. A book review on how the Vory morphed into a quasi-political klepto-arm for President Putin and a financier for donald trump. Mark Galeotti, The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia. Below a shorter version of the aforementioned story. A short review Vory and its history Trump’s Russian Laundromat How to use Trump Tower and other luxury high-rises to clean dirty money, run an international crime syndicate, and propel a failed real estate developer into the White House. The above story details the start of the trump Vory relationship. How Russian mob money financed the post-trump's casino disasters. Into the more recent trump tower condo projects. This is the full Amazon book: Trump / Russia: A Definitive History That covers trump from the start to the influx of cash to save his UK , Ireland, Scottish golf course projects. Why trump is so aggrieved about Mueller and his team: Trump’s Top Targets in the Russia Probe Are Experts in Organized Crime Some of President Trump’s favorite targets in the Russia probe have spent their careers in the Justice Department and the FBI investigating organized crime and money laundering, particularly as they pertain to Russia. Finally for those who remain on the fence about Mueller, trump and how trump Enterprises is funded by the Vory and those linked to President Putin. I submit that all these continuing investigations, subpoenas and directions of inquiry. Can only proceed when US federal judges approve the aforementioned actions. Based upon evidence and sworn affidavits. Submitted by Mueller's team. and if you have further doubts here is a quote directly from the mouth of trump's friend President Putin: “There are three ways of influencing a person: blackmail, vodka, or the threat of murder.”

Save rubles by not clearing the runway. Save rubles by not turning on the runway lights.Save rubles by not upgrading to HUD, EVS, or modern avionics. Russia’s Upgraded Tu-22M3M Long-Range Bomber to Make Maiden Flight in August “Under this deep upgrade, the aircraft will be fitted with digital radio-navigation equipment, a new communications suite, and an updated weapon control system,” the source told Jane’s. ... the Tu-22 M3M, a supersonic variable-sweep wing bomber with earlier variants first introduced into service with the Soviet Air Force and Soviet Naval Aviation in the 1970s, ... There are currently a little over sixty Tu-22M3M in service with the Russian Air Force, although the serviceability rate of the aircraft is around fifty percent or lower. " Cockpit -ceiling 90 meters at time of accident,7.1 g impact on landing, three of four onboard killed, 33 year old aircraft.

Trump’s Tax Promise of Trillions Back to U.S. Fails to Materialize It’s official: The Trump tax cuts were a bust President Trump proclaimed: “It’ll be fantastic for the middle-income people and for jobs, most of all ... I think we could go to 4%, 5% or even 6% [GDP growth], ultimately. We are back. We are really going to start to rock.”... The numbers couldn’t be clearer: Corporations, big shareholders and top corporate executives reap the lion’s share of the gains from the 2017 tax cut, which should be renamed the Shareholder and CEO Enrichment Act of 2017. It didn’t boost economic growth that much, didn’t start a capital spending boom or U.S. manufacturing renaissance, didn’t bring overseas profits back home, and might have led to modest job growth but little discernible wage increases. And we’ll all be stuck with the bill for a long, long time. " For working Americans the net benefit was 1.1 percent over the entire year: "Real average hourly earnings increased 1.1 percent, seasonally adjusted, from December 2017 to December 2018. The change in real average hourly earnings combined with no change in the average workweek resulted in a 1.2-percent increase in real average weekly earnings over this period." Real Earnings in December 2018 - Bureau of Labor Statistics More trump lies to follow in a couple hours. President Putin is studying his copy of tonight's speech right now. "Da, da, da"

There appears to be no escaping facts for poor donald. It seems as if even his favorite sport has picked up the story line on his mob dealings.The story from Golf.com Congress investigated links between Russian mafia, Trump golf courses "they do show is enormous amounts of capital flowing into these projects from unknown sources and — or at least on paper it says it’s from The Trump Organization, but it’s hundreds of millions of dollars,” Simpson said under oath. “And these golf course are just, you know, they’re sinks. They don’t actually make any money.” One of the properties in question was Trump International Golf Links Ireland, a seaside resort in Doonbeg, County Clare. Trump bought the property in 2014 for €8.7 million (roughly $11.9 million at the time) and promised to invest €45 million into it. The Doonbeg course has yet to turn a profit under Trump’s ownership, according to The Washington Post." How Russian Money Helped Save Trump’s Business After his financial disasters two decades ago, no U.S. bank would touch him. Then foreign money began flowing in. December 21, 2018 "The overseas money came initially in the form of new real-estate partnerships and the purchase of numerous Trump condos, said a former real-estate partner of Trump’s who witnessed the transformation of those years and later soured on Trump. “I think part of it was he was toxic to the banks. I think he also probably learned that personal guarantees [on loans] weren’t a brilliant idea either,” said the former business associate, who would speak to FP only on condition of anonymity. “So he was saying to himself, ‘What else could I do in the world? I’ll just convince people to buy my brand.’ And the only people who were willing to buy it were tasteless Russians, people who like the absurd, ostentatious gold-leaf lifestyle he has.[and trump voters who are impressed with such crude displays] You’re not going to sell that brand to blue bloods in Greenwich, Connecticut.” Or as another Trump biographer, Gwenda Blair, put it: “Trump was on the Titanic heading down. Everyone’s drowning around him. … Suddenly he gets saved. It’s almost like a spaceship landed right next to where he was in the water.” Bold typescript my comments.

donald trump needs to step into this useless thread and moderate it.Or spice it up. Name calling, useless innuendo, to no intelligent purpose. Where has Marc gone? Some New York editors recalled that "calls from Barron were at points so common that they became a recurring joke on the city desk."[2] A writer for Fortune reported that Trump's father Fred Trump had used the pseudonym Mr. Green in business dealings

I've posted about trump's golf course funding before in this thread. How he was turned down by Deutsche Bank after no US bank would deal with trump anymore. How he expanded and purchased new courses in the UK, Scotland, etc. Yet no mortgages were placed upon the new purchases or renovated properties. Certainly not the first time trump family members have laundered Russian mob monies. Prosecutors investigating source of funding for Trump's Scotland golf courses: report

I completely agree. Scientific monitoring of ozone, the accord and the results speak to global efforts to control man-made events. I recognize smaller efforts of trying to rectify events of man-made ecological mistakes.Reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone national park. As an example. Easy to understand and easy to see the intended results. Co2 and ozone are more difficult for the layperson to quantify.

I hate to be the one to derail your righteous pulpit. But science is on the side of GW. The deniers, including trump, his fake FOX friends, etc. Are the ignorant and perpetrators of outright lies. Should the science change, then the "ignorant" could be claimed against the GW believers. You got a little carried away with your adjectives. The "objective" story that you quote above states that the number of large fires is increasing. "Despite the decline in overall fires, the amount of acres burned by wildfires isn’t following the same trend. In fact, acreage burned by wildfires is doing just the opposite. “For most ignition sources we have found a decline in the numbers since the 1980s, but not a decline in the area burned,” Keeley said." from your story. In addition: "This day started a few years back,” Jennifer Hinckley laughs dryly. Hinckley is a fire and fuels specialist for the Tahoe National Forest. And she does a lot of paperwork: before the first torch even can drip fire on the ground, federal law requires extensive environmental review. Even with approval, federal wildland managers waited months for the right weather and environmental conditions here. Hinckley says those criteria range from wind speed and temperature, to how much water is in the soil. It was a very wet spring; on-and-off rains created several months of delay here." Can California Use More Planned Burns To Prevent Catastrophic Wildfires?

The severity of the socal fires are due to a combination of factors. -spreading urbanization which precludes natural burns, planned burns, both of which could reduce the undergrowth which fuels, in part, these fires. - drought and higher temperatures which increases the risks of fires. Together with the intensity and spread of the fires. - an apparent lack of maintenance of the electrical grid, which may have ignited some of the fires. Cherry picking events, stories, or articles to make points in the debate about GW. Needs to be tempered with the evidence and common sense. The recent UN report relating a deadline of 12 years to bring GW under control. Seems unduly alarmist. However, photographic evidence of vanishing glaciers, satellite calculations of a shrinking antarctic and arctic ice mass. Can't be dismissed. Some climate change deniers like to dismiss the entire the entire concept that humans can influence anything on this planet. That any changes in weather or environment are either exaggerated. Or due entirely to natural factors. That humans can't change anything about such natural courses of events anyway. To which I submit the Montreal Protocol of 1987, re CFCs. In the clouds, a silver lining: The ozone layer is on track to fully heal

In case his FOX feed missed it: trump to officers: 'Please don't be too nice' with arrestees

Well I hope that this doesn't derail you're thread Wendy. But it seems as if the Bubba's in Florida have a new political sponsor: Florida bill would allow schools to teach alternatives to climate change and evolution 'A new bill proposed in Florida would allow school districts to teach alternatives to “controversial theories” such as human-caused climate change and evolution. State Sen. Dennis Baxley (R) sponsored the bill because he said that schools need to have the ability to teach “different worldviews,” according to the Tampa Bay Times.“Nothing is ever settled if it’s science, because people are always questioning science,” Baxley told the news outlet. “If you look at the history of human learning, for a long time the official worldview was that the world was flat. Anything you now accept as fact comes from a perspective and you learn from examining different schools of thought.”

"Trump insists Sims — an Alabama native who previously worked on the Trump 2016 campaign – was never in his inner circle, he “feels duped by a guy who he trusted,” said a person close to the White House. In the book, Sims described how he worked with Trump to create what Sims calls an “enemies list” of suspected leakers. Sims “creates a list of leakers which turns out to be the people he doesn’t like, and the guy who makes the list turns out to be the million-dollar leaker,” said a current White House official. A person familiar with the matter confirmed that Sims had received a seven-figure advance for the book, a fact that the New York Times first reported in November. The person close to the White House also noted that: “The president’s been warned about lots of hires that shouldn’t have happened, and he’s still hired them.” The White House had no public complaint when Sims departed last year. In a statement to an Alabama news outlet, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said: “Cliff Sims was a valuable member of President Trump’s team on the campaign and for 15 months in the White House. I worked with him on both and he is talented, smart, and worked hard for the President." Trump ‘very pissed off’ at former White House aide’s tell-all Clearly a new thread needs to be started about the best tell all books of the corrupt trump regime.It getting increasingly hard to ascertain who remains to be published.

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trumps psychological profile suggests that in the coming weeks he is more likely to strike out to distract. The Mueller investigation disclosures and the trump cave on the wall. Will provide impetus to more desperate actions. Trump administration ready to suspend Russian arms control pact "The Trump administration is poised to suspend a landmark, Soviet-era arms control pact with Russia, a move likely to inflame already high tensions between Washington and Moscow. .. In December, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave Russia 60 days to come back into compliance before the United States would suspend its obligations under the treaty. That deadline comes Feb. 2." U.S. nuclear arsenal to cost $1.2 trillion over next 30 years: CBO Trump Is Starting a Cold War With China to Distract From the Russia Scandal

Donald Trump hopes to save America’s failing coal-fired power plants The plan would benefit a handful of firms the president favours at the expense of consumers REPUBLICANS have long prided themselves on their commitment to free markets. ... the president announced a new regulatory plan for America’s energy market. ... would prop up ailing coal- and nuclear-power generators by forcing electricity-grid operators to buy energy from unprofitable plants. The official justification for the policy was national security. But the chief beneficiaries would be a small number of companies, located mainly in Midwestern states whose voters backed Mr Trump in the presidential election of 2016 Germany to shutter all 84 coal-fired plants to fight climate change Germany is planning to shut down all 84 of its coal-fired power plants over a 19-year span in an effort to combat climate change. ... The Times noted that the announcement was significant considering coal plants account for 40 percent of Germany's electricity. The plan calls for $45 billion in spending to mitigate the pain in regions where coal is widely used. ... The move to close coal-fired power plants comes about six years after Germany announced plans to phase out all of its nuclear power plants by 2022. Twelve of the nation's 19 nuclear plants have been shut down so far, according to The Times. Americans’ climate change concerns surge to record levels, poll shows Total of 72% polled now say global warming is personally important to them, Yale said, as 73% accept it is happening