Showing posts with label Kathleen Hartnett White. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kathleen Hartnett White. Show all posts
Saturday, November 18, 2017
Sunday, November 12, 2017
Tim Dickinson | Will Republicans Send an Accused Child Molester to the Senate?
11 November 17 PM
Tim Dickinson | Will Republicans Send an Accused Child Molester to the Senate?
Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone
Dickinson writes: "Roy Moore, the Republican Senate nominee in Alabama, has been accused in The Washington Post article of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl when he was 32 - and an assistant district attorney. Will the party that rode Donald 'grab 'em by the pussy' Trump to the presidency stand by an accused child molester as he runs for Senate?"
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Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone
Dickinson writes: "Roy Moore, the Republican Senate nominee in Alabama, has been accused in The Washington Post article of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl when he was 32 - and an assistant district attorney. Will the party that rode Donald 'grab 'em by the pussy' Trump to the presidency stand by an accused child molester as he runs for Senate?"
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Sally Yates: Trump 'Embraces Putin Yet Again' in 'Unpatriotic' Comments
Brandon Carter, The Hill
Carter writes: "Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates blasted President Trump on Saturday, calling him 'shamelessly unpatriotic' for accepting Russian President Vladimir Putin's denial that Russia interfered in the 2016 election."
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Brandon Carter, The Hill
Carter writes: "Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates blasted President Trump on Saturday, calling him 'shamelessly unpatriotic' for accepting Russian President Vladimir Putin's denial that Russia interfered in the 2016 election."
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What's Killing America's Veterans? Here's What the Data Says
Sy Mukherjee, Fortune
Mukherjee writes: "This Saturday marks Veterans Day, when Americans pay respect to those who have served in the armed forces. But it also marks an opportunity to highlight the issues most important to military families - and few are quite as significant as the persistent holes in medical care and socioeconomic ills which afflict veterans' health."
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Sy Mukherjee, Fortune
Mukherjee writes: "This Saturday marks Veterans Day, when Americans pay respect to those who have served in the armed forces. But it also marks an opportunity to highlight the issues most important to military families - and few are quite as significant as the persistent holes in medical care and socioeconomic ills which afflict veterans' health."
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Does Trump Want a New Middle East War?
Bob Dreyfuss, Rolling Stone
Dreyfuss writes: "Does Donald Trump want a new Middle East war, pitting Saudi Arabia against Iran in a conflict that could lay waste to the world's oil region and drag the United States into a conflict that would make the war in Iraq look like a minor skirmish? It sure looks like it."
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Bob Dreyfuss, Rolling Stone
Dreyfuss writes: "Does Donald Trump want a new Middle East war, pitting Saudi Arabia against Iran in a conflict that could lay waste to the world's oil region and drag the United States into a conflict that would make the war in Iraq look like a minor skirmish? It sure looks like it."
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Meet Lee Carter, the Democratic Socialist Who Just Knocked Off One of the Virginia GOP's Legislative Leaders
Meagan Day, Jacobin
Excerpt: "On Tuesday, democratic socialist Lee Carter unseated Jackson Miller, the Republican majority whip of Virginia's House of Delegates. Buoyed by the enthusiasm around the Bernie Sanders campaign and backed by the Washington DC chapter of Democratic Socialists of America, Carter successfully campaigned on single-payer health care, getting money out of politics, and putting the interests of working-class Virginians above those of big donors."
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Meagan Day, Jacobin
Excerpt: "On Tuesday, democratic socialist Lee Carter unseated Jackson Miller, the Republican majority whip of Virginia's House of Delegates. Buoyed by the enthusiasm around the Bernie Sanders campaign and backed by the Washington DC chapter of Democratic Socialists of America, Carter successfully campaigned on single-payer health care, getting money out of politics, and putting the interests of working-class Virginians above those of big donors."
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US Execution of Mexican National Sparks Human Rights Outcry
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has condemned the execution of a Mexican in Texas, saying it violates a U.N. ruling on treatment of the Central American country's nationals in the U.S."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has condemned the execution of a Mexican in Texas, saying it violates a U.N. ruling on treatment of the Central American country's nationals in the U.S."
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Trump's Pick for Environmental Adviser Got Grilled on Climate Change. It Was a Trainwreck
Kate Yoder, Grist
Excerpt: "Kathleen Hartnett White, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality, stammered through her confirmation hearing on Wednesday."
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Kate Yoder, Grist
Excerpt: "Kathleen Hartnett White, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality, stammered through her confirmation hearing on Wednesday."
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Here's How to Support Puerto Rico as It Recovers From Devastating Hurricane Maria
Remezcla
Excerpt: "With the island expected to go without power for months, Puerto Rico now needs our help. The US territory is in the midst of a financial crisis and already struggling in many ways."
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Remezcla
Excerpt: "With the island expected to go without power for months, Puerto Rico now needs our help. The US territory is in the midst of a financial crisis and already struggling in many ways."
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Saturday, October 14, 2017
Tragic commentary of Republican Supporters!
The catastrophic failures of Republican Texas Governance in the Hurricane aftermath defined the consequences of lack of regulation and planning - streets flooded with sewage waste, Super Fund cleanup sites flooded spewing toxic chemicals, unregulated chemical plant fires spewing toxic fumes sickening First Responders, streets flooded because of the failures to regulate and plan, homes built in low lying flood plains and much else.
Perpetuating Ignorance, denying science has become a pathetic Republican Platform.
Tragic commentary of Republican Supporters!
14 October 17
We have a unique problem. A large dedicated audience that is averse to supporting the project. While there may be reasons, good and bad, the net effect is a constant headache for everyone.
To expect that 1% of the subscribers would respond to the funding appeals seems like a modest aspiration.
We are going to have to find a way to raise the level of participation. You apparently rely on RSN, and we clearly rely on you.
Need to find a way to make this work.
Marc Ash
Founder, Reader Supported News
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Kathleen Hartnett White arrived at Trump Tower last November while then-President-Elect Donald Trump and his transition team considered positions in the administration. (photo: Drew Angerer/Getty)
Trump Pick for Top Environment Post: Carbon Dioxide Is 'The Gas of Life'
13 October 17
Kathleen Hartnett White is an unabashed defender of fossil fuels who has argued against the endangerment finding and the Endangered Species Act.
resident Donald Trump has picked Kathleen Hartnett White, a former Texas regulator and unapologetic advocate of expanding U.S. fossil fuel production regardless of carbon dioxide emissions, for the top White House environment post.
Putting her in charge of the Council on Environmental Quality, which has been rudderless since Trump took office, would place an extreme denier of mainstream climate science, a hero of those who oppose urgent action on global warming, at the fulcrum of federal interagency policy discussions on energy and environmental matters.
White has argued against the federal government's "endangerment finding" that carbon dioxide, the principal greenhouse gas feeding worldwide climate change, is a danger to human health and the environment. If confirmed to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality, she would be coordinating environmental efforts across the federal agencies.
As a fellow of the conservative Austin-based think tank, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, White leaves a long paper trail that will surely be fodder for her confirmation hearing. The group has been funded by fossil fuel interests, including Exxon and the Koch brothers.
She has decried regulation of carbon dioxide, which she calls "the gas of life," and co-authored last year's paean to the fracking boom, "Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy." Her co-author, economist Stephen Moore, founded the Club for Growth, the political action group that weaponized the primary process to successfully move the Republican party to the right over the past two decades.
"An invisible, harmless trace gas in the Earth's atmosphere, CO2 is a plant food," White said last year in a Q&A with the Orlando Sentinel.
In her 2014 monograph, "Fossil Fuels: The Moral Case," she wrote: "Humanity's use of fossil fuels has released whole populations from abject poverty. ... Until energy sources fully comparable or superior to fossil fuels are securely available, policies to reduce emissions of CO2 should proceed with caution lest they prematurely exhaust the well-springs of mankind's greatest advance."
She has also promoted tactics for undermining the Endangered Species Act, claiming its protections for endangered wildlife imperil prosperity.
In its announcement Thursday of Trump's intent to nominate White, the White House highlighted her role on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (2001-2007) and as a former director of the Lower Colorado River Authority.
White's appointment to a top position in the administration has long been rumored; she met with the president-elect in Trump Tower while he was mulling his choice for Environmental Protection Agency administrator. But her supporters betrayed no sense of disappointment when Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt was named to that post instead.
At an energy policy summit that the Texas Public Policy Foundation co-hosted with the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., last December, the group's president Brooke Rollins, said she expected that there would be "something very special" ahead for White in the Trump administration.
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