Documents Reveal How Secretive Fossil Fuel Lobby Group Manipulated UN Climate Programs. The documents show how the GCC influenced international negotiations, manipulated the IPCC process, and undertook a disinformation campaign designed to cast doubt on mainstream climate science.
https://www.desmog.co.uk/2019/04/25/global-climate-coalition-documents-secretive-fossil-fuel-lobby-un-programs
Trump approved payment of $2 million bill for North Korea care of Warmbier: report
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-northkorea-warmbier/trump-approved-payment-of-2-million-bill-for-north-korea-care-of-warmbier-report-idUSKCN1S124E
PepsiCo sues 4 Indian farmers for $150,000 each for ‘infringing its rights’ by growing the potato variety used in its Lays chips
https://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/potato-farmers-cry-foul-as-pepsico-sues-them/article26936480.ece
Global Warming Is Wiping Out Marine Animals Faster Than Land Dwellers - A study of 406 cold-blooded animals revealed that climate change is already pushing marine species to their thermal limits.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7xgved/global-warming-is-wiping-out-marine-animals-faster-than-land-dwellers
Why Won’t Twitter Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS? Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3xgq5/why-wont-twitter-treat-white-supremacy-like-isis-because-it-would-mean-banning-some-republican-politicians-too
Booker releases 10 years of tax returns, gave 15 percent of income to charity in 2018, 100% more than Bernie Sanders did
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/booker-releases-10-years-of-tax-returns-gave-15-percent-of-income-to-charity-in-2018/2019/04/24/a1f86998-66df-11e9-8985-4cf30147bdca_story.html
White House says Stephen Miller won't testify on immigration to House Oversight
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/24/politics/white-house-stephen-miller-testify-immigration/index.html
Border Patrol to pay out $84 million in bonuses to agents in bid to stop them leaving
https://www.newsweek.com/border-patrol-agents-bonus-84-million-1405402
Iowa House votes to limit powers of Iowa attorney general, who's filed suits against Trump
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/23/iowa-house-republicans-vote-bill-limiting-powers-state-attorney-general-tom-miller-donald-trump/3548443002/
Sanders surrogate lauds Bernie for 'denouncing' '94 Crime Bill. All the replies remind him Sanders voted for it
https://twitter.com/_waleedshahid/status/1121398566088396800?s=19
For the past three years, virtually nothing has hatched at Antarctica’s second biggest breeding grounds for emperor penguins and the start of this year is looking just as bleak
https://apnews.com/4629dfad58f540229b9bbae3b4581249
Sanders Faces Skeptical Audience at Forum for Minority Women
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-24/sanders-faces-skeptical-audience-at-forum-for-minority-women
Sanders gets tough reception at minority women’s event, signaling challenges ahead
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sanders-gets-tough-reception-at-minority-womens-event-signaling-challenges-ahead/2019/04/24/baf1b172-66ab-11e9-a1b6-b29b90efa879_story.html
Deutsche Bank Turns Over Trump Financial Docs to NY Attorney General
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/deutsche-bank-turns-over-trump-financial-docs-to-ny-attorney-general/
Convicted Palestinian terrorist obtains US citizenship
https://www.jpost.com/International/Convicted-Palestinian-terrorist-obtained-US-citizenship-587879
GOP legislators seek to intervene in more lawsuits at taxpayer expense -- this time over environmental laws
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/25/republicans-seek-join-environmental-lawsuits-taxpayer-expense/3571861002/
Ontario cancels program that aimed to plant 50 million trees
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-tree-planting-program-cut-1.5110282
‘Death by a thousand cuts’: vast expanse of rainforest lost in 2018 - Pristine forests are vital for climate and wildlife but trend of losses is rising, data shows
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/25/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-vast-expanse-rainforest-lost-in-2018
Watchdog groups sue federal agency over NRA's alleged campaign coordination 'scheme'
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/watchdog-groups-sue-federal-agency-nras-alleged-campaign/story?id=62626150
A “Death Trap” in Raqqa: Amnesty Finds U.S.-Led Coalition Killed More Than 1,600 Syrian Civilians
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/4/25/a_death_trap_in_raqqa_amnesty
North American drilling boom threatens major blow to climate efforts – Over 1/2 the world’s new pipelines in Canada & the US. Pipelines are ‘locking in huge emissions for 40-50 yrs at a time’. Of a total 302 pipelines in some stage of development around the world, 51% are in N America.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/25/us-oil-gas-boom-climate-change-report
Day 2: National Republican Congressional Committee remains silent on whether they’ll continue to use hacked or stolen material in elections
https://dccc.org/day-2-national-republican-congressional-committee-remains-silent-on-whether-theyll-continue-to-use-hacked-or-stolen-material-in-elections/
Rhino Poachers Sentenced to 25 Years Each Setting A New Precedent – South Africa
https://www.the-open-mind.com/rhino-poachers-sentenced-to-25-years-each-setting-a-new-precedent-south-africa/
It's probably worth noting that while this group, Justice Democrats, calls Biden "out-of-touch" with the "center of energy" in the Democratic Party, only 26 of the 79 candidates it endorsed last year won their primaries, and only 7 of those went on to win the general election.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1121400808342478849
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