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California Attorney General Thursday announced an investigation to fossil fuels and the petrochemical industry for allegedly exaggerating the role of recycling in curbing global plastic pollution and exacerbating the crisis.
Attorney General Rob Bonta said his office subpoenaed Exxon Mobil for information relating to the company’s alleged role in defrauding the public and exacerbating plastic pollution. The office did not specify which other companies it is investigating. Exxon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
When state and local legislatures began considering bills restricting or banning plastic products in the 1980s, fossil fuel and petrochemical companies launched an “aggressive” and “deceptive” campaign to convince the public that they could mitigate the waste problem through recycling, which the industry knew was not true, Bonta said in a press release.
“For more than half a century, the plastics industry has waged an aggressive campaign to deceive the public by perpetuating the myth that recycling can solve the plastics crisis,” Bonta said. “The truth is that the vast majority of plastic cannot be recycled.”
https://newsquick24.com/business/california-sues-exxon-for-details-on-role-in-plastic-pollution/
MSNBC just announced Elon Musk bought a Twitter for $44B.
He claims it's to "unlock" Twitter, because free speech is necessary to a functioning democracy.
I wonder if he is going to unblock all those people he blocked for criticizing him....
Ukraine just went from 56 to 76 fighter aircraft.
The Ukrainian Air Force has added about 20 more operational aircraft to its fleet because of an influx of spare parts, according to a senior US defense official.
Though the official wouldn't specify which country had provided the aircraft parts, the official said Wednesday that the US and other countries had worked "to get them the parts they need to get them in the air."
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In early March, about two weeks into the war, the defense official said Ukraine has 56 fighter aircraft, which composed about 80% of its fixed-wing fighters. But the Ukrainians weren't using their aircraft much, flying only five to 10 missions per day, the official said.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/20/politics/ukraine-aircraft-spare-parts/?iid=ob_mobile_article_footer_expansion
People On Texas Beach Tried To 'Ride' Stranded Dolphin That Later Died
Federal officials in Texas are investigating beachgoers’ harassment of a stranded female dolphin that later died.
According to witnesses, some individuals on Quintana Beach on the Gulf of Mexico some 6 miles east of Freeport dragged the bottlenose dolphin back into the water last Sunday, then “attempted to swim with and ride the sick animal,” the Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network said in a statement on Facebook.
All pertinent information about the dolphin has been forwarded to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which investigates cases of harassment. Violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act is punishable by up to a year in prison and as much as $11,000 in fines.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-beach-harassed-dolphin-death_n_625a39eae4b0723f80190e9b
If you see a stranded dolphin, or any beached marine mammal, call 1-800-9MAMMAL. Don't try to push the AIR BREATHING sick mammal back in the water, or try to ride it for Instagram posts.
One of the worst ways Putin is gaslighting the world on Ukraine
Among Russian President Vladimir Putin’s many fantastical pretexts for invading Ukraine, the urgent need for its “denazification” may be the most preposterous. Ukraine isn’t free of domestic extremists, but Putin’s claims are pure disinformation. In fact, the Russian strongman has been supporting neo-Nazis and white supremacists for years, including mercenaries and separatists who have waged war on Ukraine since 2014.
Putin isn’t fighting neo-Nazism. He nurtures it, making his gaslighting about Ukraine even more repellent.
Perhaps Moscow’s most notorious military proxy is the Wagner Group, mercenaries the Kremlin has used to wage deniable war and otherwise promote its interests in places like Syria, Libya and Mozambique. Recently the Wagner Group deployed to the Central African Republic, and it has shown up in Mali, where its brutal methods appear to be replacing previous efforts by the international community to fight terrorists active in the country.
The Wagner Group is named after the 19th century German composer Richard Wagner, whose music Adolf Hitler adored. The group’s leader, Dmitry Utkin, reportedly wears Nazi tattoos, including a swastika, a Nazi eagle and SS lightning bolts. Wagner mercenaries are reported to have left behind neo-Nazi propaganda in the war zones where they’ve fought, including graffiti with hate symbols.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/putin-nazi-pretext-russia-war-ukraine-belied-white-supremacy-ties-rcna23043
Truck convoy protesting COVID mandates is heading to California
A group of truck drivers protesting COVID-19 mandates on roads and highways around the Washington, D.C., area in recent weeks will head to California next, an organizer announced Sunday night.
During a livestream of the People’s Convoy nightly rally Sunday, organizer Mike Landis read a list of measures aimed at controlling COVID-19 in California, The Herald-Mail reported.
“I think stopping those is more important at this point in time than getting the emergency declaration repealed because that’s already in place and we need to stop stuff like these bills from getting in place,” Landis said, “otherwise, the rest of us that don’t live in California are going to end up subject to the same situation.”
https://ktla.com/news/california/truck-convoy-protesting-covid-mandates-heading-to-california/
Just what California needs, a bunch of idiots in semis fucking up our already FUBAR traffic. California has dropped just about all the covid mandates, so I don't know what the fuck they're protesting.
Accused Russian Agent Gave to One Politician: Tulsi Gabbard
Source: Daily Beast
Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii and 2020 presidential dark horse candidate, has long perplexed U.S. officials and observers with her seemingly inexplicable pro-Russian positions. And a new development this week is sure to reinforce the half-jokes that Gabbard is a “Russian asset”; as it turns out, her campaign took money from one.
That agent—dual Russian-American national Elena Branson, also known as Elena Chernykh—stands accused of illegally pushing pro-Russia policies in the United States for nearly a decade, at the direction of top Kremlin officials, without registering under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), according to a criminal complaint federal prosecutors filed this week in the Southern District of New York.
But, in all her time lobbying for Russian goals, she gave money to just one federal candidate: Gabbard.
According to Federal Election Commission records, an Elena Branson made two donations in 2019 to Gabbard’s presidential campaign. The filings tie the donation to Branson’s former address at a million-dollar condo on Central Park West. However, the merchant banker listed her occupation as “not employed.” (Branson lived in the United States for decades and holds American citizenship, so the contributions were legal.)
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/accused-russian-agent-elena-branson-gave-to-one-politician-tulsi-gabbard?ref=home
Russian troops are resupplying by looting Ukrainians' stores, banks.
From Newsweek:
Videos on social media appear to show Russian soldiers looting banks and grocery stores in Ukraine.One video which has circulated widely on Twitter over the last few hours purportedly shows armed Russian soldiers taking items from a Ukrainian supermarket.
It was not immediately clear where the incident took place, and Newsweek is still trying to verify the details.
Meanwhile, another video appears to show Russian soldiers who had broken into a bank in the Kherson region of Ukraine.
https://www.newsweek.com/videos-show-russian-soldiers-looting-banks-grocery-stores-ukraine-1683027
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1497853526881546241
Most speech watchers say State of the Union made them feel optimistic, proud - CBS News poll
Source: CBS News
Most Americans who watched President Biden's first State of the Union address approved of what they heard, and many said it made them feel optimistic and proud.
After nearly two years of the coronavirus pandemic, more than half who tuned in Tuesday night said the speech made them feel like the coronavirus is mostly behind us.
Older Americans who watched the speech were a bit more likely to say the speech made them feel the coronavirus will be with us for a while. CBS News interviewed speech viewers immediately after the president's speech.
Overall, about 8 in 10 of speech watchers approved of Mr. Biden's address tonight, including majorities of both Democrats and independents. Among members of his own party, his speech received high marks among both liberals and moderates.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-state-of-the-union-speech-watchers-reactions/?dc_data=4165335_samsung-browser-us&utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=taboola_news&jd=V1_600865245568363801
Lots more breakdown of opinions at the link. Good news for Biden, showing he moved the needle in his favor on several key issues, like inflation.
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