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Biden is not in the best form either, hard to believe a nation of 300 million cannot come up with anything better, I miss Ronald Reagan
General Politics Three: But what is left/right?
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Biden is not in the best form either, hard to believe a nation of 300 million cannot come up with anything better, I miss Ronald Reagan
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Putin Humiliates Tucker Carlson After Interview
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-humiliates-tucker-carlson-after-interview-too-soft-1870167
'Cos Tucker is so known for his well researched hard hitting combative interview technique.
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The last GOP Congressman to quit has said that the fight is not in Washington but with Washington. Angling for a role in the new rebel government? Meanwhile there was a brief moment of panic when the deep state realized that the Russians could blow up our satellites. That was always going to happen when war comes. The real wet diaper moment comes with the first autonomous drone swarms. The world is a changing.
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Hush! They were socialized
Thanks, conflict theory...
So, Putin is saying Tucker was not so useful?
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Well. Everyone is being asked to find the missing binder that houses the evidence that Obama had the CIA work with the other Five Eyes to cook up the Russian collusion hoax which was used against Trump. Apparently, it is being said, the missing binder was the reason for the Mar a Lago raid.
If you have information about the missing binder, please contact Jesse Waters at Fox News.
Back to your regular programing.
If you have information about the missing binder, please contact Jesse Waters at Fox News.
Back to your regular programing.
‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals
Plastic producers have known for more than 30 years that recycling is not an economically or technically feasible plastic waste management solution. That has not stopped them from promoting it, according to a new report.
“The companies lied,” said Richard Wiles, president of fossil-fuel accountability advocacy group the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI), which published the report. “It’s time to hold them accountable for the damage they’ve caused.”
Plastic, which is made from oil and gas, is notoriously difficult to recycle. Doing so requires meticulous sorting, since most of the thousands of chemically distinct varieties of plastic cannot be recycled together. That renders an already pricey process even more expensive. Another challenge: the material degrades each time it is reused, meaning it can generally only be reused once or twice.
The industry has known for decades about these existential challenges, but obscured that information in its marketing campaigns, the report shows.
The research draws on previous investigations as well as newly revealed internal documents illustrating the extent of this decades-long campaign.
Industry insiders over the past several decades have variously referred to plastic recycling as “uneconomical”, said it “cannot be considered a permanent solid waste solution”, and said it “cannot go on indefinitely”, the revelations show.
The authors say the evidence demonstrates that oil and petrochemical companies, as well as their trade associations, may have broken laws designed to protect the public from misleading marketing and pollution.
At a 1956 industry conference, the Society of the Plastics Industry, a trade group, told producers to focus on “low cost, big volume” and “expendability” and to aim for materials to end up “in the garbage wagon”.
In 1994, a representative of Eastman Chemical spoke at an industry conference about the need for proper plastic recycling infrastructure. “While some day this may be a reality,” he said, “it is more likely that we will wake up and realize that we are not going to recycle our way out of the solid waste issue.” That same year, an Exxon employee told staffers at the American Plastics Council: “We are committed to the activities [of plastics recycling], but not committed to the results.”
“It’s clearly fraud they’re engaged in,” said Wiles.
The report does not allege that the companies broke specific laws. But Alyssa Johl, report co-author and attorney, said she suspects they violated public-nuisance, racketeering and consumer-fraud protections.
The industry’s misconduct continues today, the report alleges. Over the past several years, industry lobbying groups have promoted so-called chemical recycling, which breaks plastic polymers down into tiny molecules in order to make new plastics, synthetic fuels and other products. But the process creates pollution and is even more energy intensive than traditional plastic recycling.
Plastic producers have known for more than 30 years that recycling is not an economically or technically feasible plastic waste management solution. That has not stopped them from promoting it, according to a new report.
“The companies lied,” said Richard Wiles, president of fossil-fuel accountability advocacy group the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI), which published the report. “It’s time to hold them accountable for the damage they’ve caused.”
Plastic, which is made from oil and gas, is notoriously difficult to recycle. Doing so requires meticulous sorting, since most of the thousands of chemically distinct varieties of plastic cannot be recycled together. That renders an already pricey process even more expensive. Another challenge: the material degrades each time it is reused, meaning it can generally only be reused once or twice.
The industry has known for decades about these existential challenges, but obscured that information in its marketing campaigns, the report shows.
The research draws on previous investigations as well as newly revealed internal documents illustrating the extent of this decades-long campaign.
Industry insiders over the past several decades have variously referred to plastic recycling as “uneconomical”, said it “cannot be considered a permanent solid waste solution”, and said it “cannot go on indefinitely”, the revelations show.
The authors say the evidence demonstrates that oil and petrochemical companies, as well as their trade associations, may have broken laws designed to protect the public from misleading marketing and pollution.
At a 1956 industry conference, the Society of the Plastics Industry, a trade group, told producers to focus on “low cost, big volume” and “expendability” and to aim for materials to end up “in the garbage wagon”.
In 1994, a representative of Eastman Chemical spoke at an industry conference about the need for proper plastic recycling infrastructure. “While some day this may be a reality,” he said, “it is more likely that we will wake up and realize that we are not going to recycle our way out of the solid waste issue.” That same year, an Exxon employee told staffers at the American Plastics Council: “We are committed to the activities [of plastics recycling], but not committed to the results.”
“It’s clearly fraud they’re engaged in,” said Wiles.
The report does not allege that the companies broke specific laws. But Alyssa Johl, report co-author and attorney, said she suspects they violated public-nuisance, racketeering and consumer-fraud protections.
The industry’s misconduct continues today, the report alleges. Over the past several years, industry lobbying groups have promoted so-called chemical recycling, which breaks plastic polymers down into tiny molecules in order to make new plastics, synthetic fuels and other products. But the process creates pollution and is even more energy intensive than traditional plastic recycling.
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Heheheh.
What is the odds we shall get them in a room together arguing? That could be a car crash but I would probably watch it.Imagine Biden being interviewed for 2 hours by a russian media person
Or by Tucker.
Or by pretty much anyone, tbh.
Going by random trending youtube videos - ie going by not much - Biden might even be replaced by someone else in the end and not run.
Though I am not sure it would help, assuming Trump will be the nominee.
Still, afaik Biden is projected to lose if he runs against Trump in 2024.
Though I am not sure it would help, assuming Trump will be the nominee.
Still, afaik Biden is projected to lose if he runs against Trump in 2024.
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Biden is not in the best form either, hard to believe a nation of 300 million cannot come up with anything better, I miss Ronald Reagan
What, the literal Alzheimer's patient in the White House?
Farm Boy
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He did forget to duck.
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So much cool political and general news this week. Great return by the late night guy. The denials by "he's not hitting my" Fani Willis. Declaration by the #3 guy in the House GOP that there will not be another continuing resolution, which leaves 2 weeks to a shutdown, right before super Tuesday, Putin has a space nuke or something, Trump is going to trial in a month (a criminal trial) which I can't keep up with it all, the SCOTUS isn't going to kick Trump off the ballot and might still grant him some sort of immunity, the DOJ officially finds Joe Biden to be a well-meaning elderly guy with a bad memory, so bad he can't remember the document crimes he committed, the Road Runner movie is getting canned because of the tax code, Kelce's GF forgot to endorse, obv., another shooting, -MOAR inflation, stock crash, the US is prompting the Philippines to claim China's islands, what can go wrong, Benny and Joe got in a shouting match and somebody hung up on the POTUS,
and Sam Altman is trying to raise 7 trillion dollars to train baby AI. Not billion. Trillion.
Not a bad week. Unless you live in Gaza or Ukraine or on the streets of San Francisco.
and Sam Altman is trying to raise 7 trillion dollars to train baby AI. Not billion. Trillion.
Not a bad week. Unless you live in Gaza or Ukraine or on the streets of San Francisco.
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Hunter Biden and Burisma: FBI source charged with lying about Biden bribe claims
An ex-FBI informant has been charged with making false statements about an alleged bribery scheme involving a Ukrainian company, President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.Alexander Smirnov, 43, is accused of lying about the Bidens accepting payments from energy firm Burisma.
The Justice Department said Mr Smirnov gave false statements to the FBI because he disliked President Biden.
Republicans had relied on his claims in an ongoing bid to impeach Mr Biden.
Hunter Biden, who has resolutely denied the allegations against him, is due to testify before the House Oversight Committee later this month about the accusations.
Mr Smirnov was arrested in Las Vegas on Thursday after returning from an overseas flight, the Justice Department said. He was charged with making a false statement and creating a false and fictitious record.
In a 37-page indictment document released on Thursday, Special Counsel David Weiss - who has overseen the investigation of Hunter Biden - accused Mr Smirnov of providing "false derogatory information" to the FBI about the president and his son in June 2020.
This information was provided after Mr Biden was cemented as the Democratic presidential candidate ahead of the 2020 election, prosecutors said, and after Mr Smirnov had expressed bias against the former vice-president.
Congressional Republicans have used Mr Smirnov's allegations over the last year in their impeachment inquiry into President Biden.
When announcing the inquiry, then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said "a trusted FBI informant has alleged a bribe to the Biden family".
Republicans later successfully pushed the FBI to release their memos on Mr Smirnov's claims.
At the time, senior congressional Republicans acknowledged the allegation was unverified, and there was no evidence that Joe Biden had received any payments from Ukraine.
Mr Smirnov had originally alleged that Burisma officials said they hired the president's son Hunter to "protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems" during a series of meetings in 2015 and 2016.
At the time, Mr Biden was serving as vice-president under Barack Obama, and his son Hunter was a board member of Burisma.
Burisma was also the subject of a criminal investigation conducted by the then-Ukrainian prosecutor general.
Mr Smirnov claimed that the company had paid $5m each to Mr Biden and his son, so that Hunter "will take care of all of those issues through his dad", referring to the company's legal troubles.
Prosecutors said that, in reality, Mr Smirnov had only spoken with Burisma officials in 2017, after Mr Biden was no longer vice-president, and after the then-Ukrainian Prosecutor General had been fired in February 2016.
"In other words, when [Joe Biden] had no ability to influence US policy and when the Prosecutor General was no longer in office," the indictment stated.
Prosecutors added that Mr Smirnov "transformed his routine and unextraordinary business contact with Burisma in 2017 and later into bribery allegations against [Joe Biden]", after expressing bias against the president and his candidacy.
When questioned again by FBI agents in 2023, Mr Smirnov allegedly changed elements of his story and made new allegations after claiming to have met with Russian officials.
If convicted, Mr Smirnov faces a maximum of 25 years in prison.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68313086
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LOL, didn't even mention that tidbit or Mayorkas impeachment.
Snowygerry
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How did he screw up AIDS exactly ? I was 5-15 at the time, but it was a big thing everywhere in the 80s as far as I remember ?
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