Thursday, April 25, 2019

Light News Dump

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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