The whistle-blower who revealed that Trump sought foreign help for his re-election and that the White House sought to cover it up is a C.I.A. officer who was detailed to work at the White House at one point, according to three people familiar with his identity. The man has since returned to the C.I.A., the people said. Little else is known about him. His complaint made public Thursday suggested he was an analyst by training and made clear he was steeped in details of American foreign policy toward Europe, demonstrating a sophisticated understanding of Ukrainian politics and at least some knowledge of the law. The whistle-blower’s expertise will likely add to lawmakers’ confidence about the merits of his complaint, and tamp down allegations that he might have misunderstood what he learned about Mr. Trump. He did not listen directly to a July call between Mr. Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine that is at the center of the political firestorm over the president’s mixing of diplomacy with personal political gain.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/us/politics/who-is-whistleblower.html
In a closed-door meeting of oil and gas executives this summer in Colorado Springs, industry lawyer Mark Barron offered a bold proposal: Energy companies must accept that fossil fuels are helping to drive climate change. “It doesn’t matter whether it’s real, or not real, or what the issues are,” said Barron, who heads the energy litigation arm of Baker Hostetler. “That ship has sailed from a political perspective.” Barron added that any American younger than 40 had grown up learning that climate change is “an existential crisis that we need to address.” The recording of the June 24 meeting of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, which was obtained by The Washington Post, highlights a growing schism between the Trump administration and key players in the fossil fuel industry. Even as Trump officials work to repeal federal restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions, some oil and gas executives say they have no choice but to press forward with plans to address climate change.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/when-it-comes-to-acknowledging-humans-role-in-climate-change-oil-and-gas-industry-lawyer-says-that-ship-has-sailed/2019/09/26/63c0d250-c9c2-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html
Ukrainian President Says Trump Pledged to Help Him Take Crimea Back From Russia
https://www.newsweek.com/ukrainian-president-says-trump-pledged-help-him-take-crimea-back-russia-1461504
The $47 Trillion Death Sentence For Oil & Gas: Around 130 international banks, all present at the UN climate change summit in New York, have committed themselves to decrease their support and investments in the oil and gas sector the coming years
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-47-Trillion-Death-Sentence-For-Oil-Gas.html
Trump Admnistration moved records of Trump's conversations with foreign officials on to separate computer system
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-whistleblower-ukraine-call-records-foreign-officials-separate-computer-system-a9120961.html
Virginia county's entire board of Republican supervisors indicted | Fourteen people - all Republicans - were charged as part of the probe into alleged money laundering and embezzlement inside the local economic development authority, including all five members of the Warren County Board of Supervisors, according to the Post. The grand jury also charged former Warren County Schools superintendent Luke Drescher (Republican) and former County Attorney Daniel Whitten (Republican).
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/463130-virginia-countys-entire-board-of-supervisors-indicted
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/entire-republican-county-board-indicted-for-21-million-embezzlement-scheme-outside-washington-dc/
Cheetahs 'face extinction within within 2 years because cubs are sold as pets'
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9997854/cheetahs-extinct-cubs-smuggled-sold-wealthy-arabs-pets/
Syria staged a chlorine attack in May in first confirmed violation of chemical-weapons ban since 2018 allied strike on regime
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-intelligence-finds-syrian-government-conducted-chlorine-rocket-attack-in-may-11569513600
Sales of plastic bags in England’s largest supermarkets have fallen by 90% in the four years since the government introduced a 5p levy | England’s seven largest supermarkets sold 490 million fewer single-use plastic bags in 2018/19 than the year before – a drop of almost half, the department for environment, food and rural affairs (DEFRA) has revealed. In 2014, more than 7.5 billion bags were sold per year. Five years on, just 1.1 billion were sold.
https://economia.icaew.com/news/august-2019/plastic-bag-use-down-90-in-england-since-5p-levy
Trump complains whistleblower's sources are like 'spies' and would have been dealt with 'differently' in the 'old days'
https://theweek.com/speedreads/868077/trump-complains-whistleblowers-sources-are-like-spies-have-been-dealt-differently-old-days
Trump Obsessed With Hillary Clinton’s Private Server Hid Documents On A Secret System
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-secret-system_n_5d8cd295e4b0e9e76048ee32?fhe
A former Ukrainian prosecutor who investigated a gas company tied to Hunter Biden said in interview that there was no evidence the former vice president's son engaged in illegal activity.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/hunter-biden-did-not-violate-anything-former-ukrainian-prosecutor-says-n1059136
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