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Whoah! Former Chairman of Shell Oil Calls for Divestment from Fossil Fuels & Carbon Taxes
By Damian Carrington
The former chairman of Shell has said that investors moving their money out of fossil fuel companies is a rational response to the industry’s “distressing” lack of progress on climate change.
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, who spent almost four decades at Shell and rose to be its chairman, also said the big oil and gas companies had been calling for a price to be put on CO2 emissions for 15 years but had done little to make it happen.
His striking remarks are the most supportive of divestment made by any senior figure in the fossil fuel business. They will also be chastening for Shell. The company is currently positioning itself to be part of the solution to climate change rather than part of the problem, but faces criticism of its Arctic and tar sands operations.
MORE:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/04/former-shell-chairman-advocates-fossil-fuel-divestment
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/06/1391072/-Whoah-Former-Chairman-of-Shell-Oil-Calls-for-Divestment-from-Fossil-Fuels-Carbon-Taxes
Same fools who think George W Bush is better than Obama also think Katrina happened in a magic time
https://twitter.com/Bipartisanism/status/606616474883530753
Victim's Sister to Hastert: ‘I want you to know your secret didn’t die in there with my brother.'
Reinhold died in 1995, and his sister Jolene described being enraged when Hastert showed up at the funeral:
“Then I just continued to say, ‘I want you to know your secret didn’t die in there with my brother. And I want you to remember that I’m out here and that I know.’ And again, he just stood there and he did not say a word.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/exclusive-alleged-dennis-hastert-sex-abuse-victim-named/story?id=31530828
“He damaged Steve, I think, more than any of us will ever know,” she told the morning show.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/05/dennis-hastert-alleged-abuse-victims-sister-fbi-interview?CMP=twt_gu
Man learns amazing lesson in irony after mocking Caitlyn Jenner’s ‘bravery’ in viral Facebook post
Terry Coffey, of Salem, posted a black-and-white photo Monday night that appears to show a World War II soldier trudging through mud carrying on his back an apparently wounded soldier who is firing a pistol:
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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207205538076300&set=a.1556334427812.2074903.1218754797&type=1&fref=nf
In a follow-up post Tuesday, Coffey said he had conducted a quick image search online and simply chose one that fit his words, but he decided after the post went viral to identify the photographer so he could credit his work.
“In an ironic twist, I have discovered that the photo is part of a documentary created by a man who was beaten nearly to death outside of a bar in 2000,” Coffey posted.
The photographer, Mark Hogancamp, spent nine days in a coma and suffered severe brain damage and other injuries, Coffey learned.
Hogancamp coped with his pain afterward by creating an imaginary world set in World War II – where he created the image that went viral years later – but Coffey was gobsmacked by something else he learned.
“Why was he nearly beaten to death by 5 strangers?” Coffey asked. “Because he was a cross-dresser.”
more:
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/man-learns-amazing-lesson-in-irony-after-mocking-caitlyn-jenners-bravery-in-viral-facebook-post/#.VXBjZe_X5aQ.facebook
Hunting for Hackers, N.S.A. Secretly Expands Internet Spying at U.S. Border
Hunting for Hackers, N.S.A. Secretly Expands Internet Spying at U.S. Border
By CHARLIE SAVAGE, JULIA ANGWIN, JEFF LARSON and HENRIK MOLTKEJUNE 4, 2015
WASHINGTON — Without public notice or debate, the Obama administration has expanded the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international Internet traffic to search for evidence of malicious computer hacking, according to classified N.S.A. documents.
In mid-2012, Justice Department lawyers wrote two secret memos permitting the spy agency to begin hunting on Internet cables, without a warrant and on American soil, for data linked to computer intrusions originating abroad — including traffic that flows to suspicious Internet addresses or contains malware, the documents show.
The Justice Department allowed the agency to monitor only addresses and “cybersignatures” — patterns associated with computer intrusions — that it could tie to foreign governments. But the documents also note that the N.S.A. sought to target hackers even when it could not establish any links to foreign powers.
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The disclosures, based on documents provided by Edward J. Snowden, the former N.S.A. contractor, and shared with The New York Times and ProPublica, come at a time of unprecedented cyberattacks on American financial institutions, businesses and government agencies, but also of greater scrutiny of secret legal justifications for broader government surveillance.
the rest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/us/hunting-for-hackers-nsa-secretly-expands-internet-spying-at-us-border.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region
Duggar Endorsements Disappear From Huckabee's Campaign Site
http://a4.img.talkingpointsmemo.com/image/upload/c_fill,fl_keep_iptc,g_faces,h_365,w_652/ldc8il8f3z0m1e7bbzmz.jpgEndorsements from Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, of TLC's "19 Kids and Counting," have disappeared from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's (R) presidential campaign website.
The Duggar endorsements enjoyed top billing on the campaign site's "I Like Mike" sidebar on May 22, the day Huckabee issued a full-throated defense of the family following the publication of a 2006 police report that showed the Duggar's eldest son, Josh, was investigated for molesting five underage girls when he was a teenager. Parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar said that four of the victims were Josh's sisters, while the fifth was a babysitter, during an interview with Fox News' Megyn Kelly that aired Wednesday night.
Jim Bob, a former Arkansas state representative, and Michelle Duggar endorsed Huckabee both for his 2008 and 2016 presidential campaigns. Their endorsements did not appear in the "I Like Mike" section of the site Thursday morning. Archived versions of the campaign site show that the endorsements were removed sometime Monday night.
When a reporter on Tuesday asked Huckabee whether the Duggars would be joining him on the campaign trail, the former governor responded "I don't know, it'll be up to them. Ask them, I don't know," according to video captured by BuzzFeed.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/duggar-endorsements-disappear-mike-huckabee
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