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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: November 10, 2018, 12:26 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: YES, this belongs here. EVERY bit of the U.S.
Military Industrial Complex Sponsored Murder and Mayhem
(including declared wars and undeclared wars) since 1980 has
been planned BY the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn 🦕 AND executed
by their bought and paid for TOOLS 🦍🦀 in
Government. The Fossil Fuel Fascists 🦖, above and beyond
the horrendous planetary death toll from carbon pollution
hurting thousands of species (inculding humans ☠️),
have the blood of millions of innocent people on their hands.
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[center]The War on Terror’s Toll, From Atrocities Abroad
☠️☠️☠️☠️a
60;️
to Mass Shootings ☠️ at Home[/center]
November 10, 2018
A new Brown University study says the US-led so-called “War on
Terror” has killed around 500,000 people in Afghanistan, Iraq
and Pakistan — an “undercount,” it stresses. And as Ian David
Long — an-ex U.S. Marine who served in the Afghan war — kills 12
people in Thousand Oaks, California, might we also count victims
of mass shootings carried out by U.S. veterans? We speak to
Vijay Prashad of the Tricontinental Institute for Social
Research.
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: November 10, 2018, 4:26 pm
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[center]The US [img
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/>🦍 Must Take Responsibility for Asylum Seekers and the
History That Drives Them[/center]
[font=times new roman]BY David L. Wilson 🕊,
Truthout[/font]
PUBLISHED November 10, 2018
Many Americans feel genuine sympathy for Central American asylum
seekers, but confronted with the US's own failing systems, fall
for the right-wing line that "it's not our problem." However,
anyone who has followed the history of US policies and
involvement in Central America knows that the current crises in
the region and these migrants absolutely are our responsibility.
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: November 13, 2018, 4:16 pm
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EcoWatch
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[center]Koch Industries 🦕🦖 Lobbies Against
Electric Vehicle Tax Credit[/center]
DeSmogBlog
By Dana Drugmand
Nov. 12, 2018 11:26AM EST
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/>is calling for the elimination of tax credits for electric
vehicles (EVs), all while claiming that it does not oppose
plug-in cars and inviting the elimination of oil and gas
subsidies that the petroleum conglomerate and its industry peers
receive.
Outgoing Nevada Republican Senator Dean Heller introduced a bill
in September that would lift the sales cap on electric vehicles
eligible for a federal tax credit, and replace the cap with a
deadline that would dictate when the credit would start being
phased out.
Under the current tax credit for EVs, once a manufacturer sells
200,000 EVs in the U.S. the amount of the credit gets slashed in
half, then halved again. The full credit amount is $7,500. Tesla
has already hit the 200,000 cap and GM will soon reach it, so
both companies would benefit from a tax credit extension via
eliminating the sales cap. Heller's bill lifts the 200,000
vehicle limit and substitutes a phase-out period starting in
2022.
But the conservative senator's bill is facing opposition from
the conservative billionaire Koch brothers.
In a letter to senators dated Oct. 24, Koch Industries lobbyist
Philip Ellender urges opposition to the expansion of EV tax
credits through 2022. Ellender claims that the tax credits
primarily benefit wealthy consumers and that subsidization
interferes with "innovation and consumer choice."
The letter cites two studies, each by a right-wing think tank.
One study comes from the Pacific Research Institute, which has
received fossil fuel funding—including more than $1.7 million
from Koch-related foundations and $615,000 from ExxonMobil. The
PRI study, "Costly Subsidies for the Rich: Quantifying the
Subsidies Offered to Battery Electric Powered Cars," emphasizes
that "the majority of the dollar benefits from energy and
electric car subsidies are paid to tax filers in the higher
income tax brackets."
The other study is from the Manhattan Institute, another "free
market think tank" that takes in money from the Koch network and
Exxon. The study paints a misleading picture of EVs and their
subsidies.
In addition to citing biased studies by groups tied to Koch
money, Ellender claims in the letter, "We do not oppose electric
vehicles."
This sentiment echoes the company's 2016 advertorial, in which
Koch Industries claimed to be "all for electric vehicles."
Ellender also claims that Koch Industries is against any and all
energy subsidies, even ones that benefit the company. According
to the letter:
Instead of expanding this subsidy for wealthy EV owners,
Congress should eliminate it along with all other energy
incentives—including eliminating any incentives given to us and
our competitors where we may participate. We are focused on
long-term value creation, not short-term windfalls.
In reality, while Koch Industries is claiming publicly to
support ending fossil fuel subsidies (along with EV and clean
energy incentives), Koch lobbyists have long worked to ensure
that the petroleum industry continues to get subsidized.
As Koch vs. Clean previously pointed out, "In a detailed 2011
report on Koch Industries, the Center for Public Integrity
wrote: 'Oil is the core of the Koch business empire, and the
company's lobbyists and officials have successfully fought to
preserve the industry's tax breaks and credits.' The report
documented that Koch lobbyists have worked to preserve billions
of dollars in oil industry subsidies, including the Section 199
manufacturing tax deduction and the 'last-in, first out'
accounting rule."
In fact, according to the International Business Times, Koch
Industries has itself directly secured subsidies totaling more
than $195 million.
The Koch network also lobbied for the Trump tax cuts that became
law late last year. The corporate tax cut is not specific to
energy, but it benefits giant corporations including Big Oil and
Koch Industries nonetheless. Americans for Tax Fairness
estimated that the Kochs would save more than $1 billion just
this year from the tax cut—a significant windfall for a
corporate behemoth that claims, "We [img
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[quote]Koch vs. California: These Groups Want Pruitt 🐒
to Undo the State’s Right to Regulate Auto Emissions
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/>… @ewg @UCSUSA @YEARSofLIVING @ClimateReality @greenpeaceusa
@EnvDefenseFund
9:50 AM - Apr 11, 2018[/quote]
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: November 25, 2018, 3:15 pm
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[center]Oil Industry 🐉🦕🦖
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/>Cleanup Costs Vastly Exceed Alberta Government’s
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/> Estimates
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[font=times new roman]TheRealNews[/font]
Published on Nov 24, 2018
Regan Boychuk of Reclaim Alberta explains that Canadian
taxpayers could ultimately be on the hook for hundreds of
billions of oil industry cleanup costs
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: December 10, 2018, 4:20 pm
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[center]Court Orders Three Iowa Wind Turbines Dismantled
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December 10th, 2018 by Steve Hanley
SNIPPET:
A court in Iowa has ordered three wind turbines in Fayette
County, Iowa be dismantled by December 9. Local residents are
standing outside watching them come down and cheering. What’s
going on? Some of it has to do with NIMBY, some of it has to do
with money, and some of it has to do with the “city vs. country”
divide that helped propel the current president into office. The
dispute comes down to whether or not the developers who put up
the wind turbines had a proper building permit. The court ruled
they did not.
Full article:
HTML https://cleantechnica.com/2018/12/10/court-orders-three-iowa-wind-turbines-dismantled/
Agelbert COMMENT: I smell one of these behind the "anlaysis" the
judge made before his Court order:
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If those who claim to be so discomfited by wind trubines had to
actually pay for the damage the fossil fuel powered electricity
they gleefully use in their homes causes, they would opt for
sound proofing instead of Koch Brothers🦕🦖
funded, Profit Over People ☠️ and Planet🚩,
Renewable Energy Strangling 😈.
I defy anyone here to claim you "cannot soundproof against wind
turbines". That is TOTAL BS. Do you want to talk SERIOUSLY about
sound pollution or do you want to cherry pick "acceptable" and
"unacceptable" sounds caused by out civilization (i. e. make
stuff up)?
How many people in the USA live next to train tracks? MILLIONS
of them. You don't hear of any court ordering the train tracks
relocated because of the sound, MUCH GREATER than that of wind
tirbines, generated by frequent freight trains, often carrying
toxic cargo to boot!
True, if you are outside, you cannot avoid the sound that wind
turbines make. But, if you are inside, which is where people in
Iowa are 90% (OR MORE!) of the time, it is not terribly
difficult to block the low frequency sound waves produced by
wind turbines.
The HYPOCRITES that whine about wind turbines have consistently
been quiet as DEATH about the decisions made in towns all
accross the USA, for the last century, to permit the building of
Coal fired power plants near neighborhoods of the poor.
I would order the judge that gave the Koch Brothers
🦕🦖 this Corruption Based Christmas Present to
move to a house a mile or so downwind of a Koch Brothers
🦕🦖 refinery in Southern Texas.
I would plainly ask that judge, What part of the Precautionary
Principle of Science does he so poorly interpret that he can
turn a blind eye to massive fossil fuel pollution, while
claiming that the sound of Wind Turbines is "unacceptable"
through legalese DOUBLETALK about "permits"?
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It was that judge's responsibility to COMPUTE the benefit of
those wind turbines to the community, in terms of pollution
avoided, and COMPARE THAT BENEFIT with the bother of the low
frequency sound that could cause property values to go down
around said wind turbines. He SHIRKED his respsonsibility,
PERIOD!
As far as Fossil Fuels are concerned, people that talk about
NIMBY (not in my backyard) have to change NIMBY to NOPE, not on
planet earth. When they DO THAT, and not a second before, we can
talk about whether wind turbines are properly positioned or not.
The double standard in this country between fossil fuel powered
power plants and Renewable Energy power plants is the height of
hypocrisy.
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: December 12, 2018, 4:07 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: Don't think for a secomd that the Hydrocarbon
Hellspawn are any less corrosive to our environment and our
government than they were in 2017. If anything, they have
increased their unethical destructive activity. [img
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This article covers their typical mens rea modus operandi. These
bastards need to be shut down in Ohio (and everywhere else) or
we are toast. [img
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OCT 29, 2017
BY BRAD WIENERS AND DAVID HASEMYER
[center]How Fossil Fuel Allies Are Tearing Apart Ohio's Embrace
of Clean Energy >:([/center]
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With scare studies, policy drafts and political donations,
industry groups turned Ohio lawmakers against policies they once
overwhelmingly supported.[/center]
SNIPPET 1:
As fossil fuel 🦖 interests 👹 mobilized at the
national level to fight proposals to mitigate climate change
that would undercut their profits, they made Ohio a priority for
fighting clean energy policy at the state level. Beginning in
earnest in 2011, a network of coal companies, utilities, think
tanks, nonprofit foundations and political action committees
coalesced to roll back Ohio's alternative energy initiatives.
SNIPPET 2:
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Agelbert NOTE: Bill Seitz is a typical (bought and paid for)
KochRoach.
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: December 16, 2018, 3:32 pm
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[center]Friends of the Earth foe.org[/center]
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[center]VICTORY [img
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/>Ryan Zinke 🦖 resigns as Interior Secretary
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Dec 15, 2018, 9:59 AM
Dear Anthony,
Victory for the environment: Ryan Zinke resigns from the
Department of the Interior after onslaught of scandals!
VICTORY! Ryan Zinke just stepped down as Secretary of the
Interior, according to a tweet from Donald Trump. He will leave
at the end of the year. This was largely thanks to people like
you demanding he be held accountable for his corruption.
Every day Ryan Zinke was in office, he worked to destroy our
public lands and waters -- with devastating impacts on our
communities. He slashed protections for places like the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge and Bears Ears National Monument. And
he did it all to help his fossil fuel industry friends.
The scandals surrounding Zinke have been building for months.
The DOI Inspector General released a report showing that every
time Zinke had a choice between benefiting taxpayers and
himself, he chose himself. He even changed policies so taxpayers
would cover travel for his wife, and wasted $25,000 on a
romantic trip to Turkey with her.
His corruption was so severe that the DOI Inspector General
referred an investigation to the Department of Justice for
possible criminal prosecution.
Friends of the Earth members like you spoke out on these
scandals and made them impossible for Trump to ignore. Zinke
resigned after you signed petitions, made phone calls, took to
social media and took to the streets to demand that he be kicked
out of the Department of Interior.
This shows that when people like you stand up to Trump and his
Administration, you can make a difference. You can stop them
from destroying our environment and endangering our communities.
Forcing Zinke out is a huge victory for people and the
environment. Each day Zinke was Interior Secretary, he worked to
advance his radical plan to slash national monuments, cut
Indigenous communities out of the decision-making process, and
ignore significant environmental, cultural, and scientific
information. And he did it all in a mad dash to frack
☠️, mine ☠️ and drill ☠️
on America's public lands.
And until the scandals caught up to him, he was dangerously
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By kicking Zinke out of the Department of the Interior, you
helped send a strong message that it’s unacceptable for our
leaders to put the fossil fuel industry and other corporate
interests ahead of people and the planet.
Trump 🦀 is still trying to fill his government with
corrupt extremists 💵 🎩 and climate deniers
🦕. Zinke’s likely replacement, [size=14pt]David
Bernhardt 🐉, is a walking conflict of interest. Before
coming to Interior he was a high paid lobbyist representing the
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/>to hand our public lands and waters over to
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/>[b]polluters.
That’s why we’ll need you with us every step of the way as we
work to stop these dangerous nominees and appointees. But
Zinke’s ouster shows that when we all take action together, we
win.
Thank you for helping build a better future for our country and
our planet.
Standing with you,
Nicole Ghio,
Senior fossil fuels program manager,
Friends of the Earth
HTML https://foe.org/news/
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/>has MORE than FOUR Profit Over People and Planet 'HORSEMEN'
(see: The Book of Revelation in the Bible) on his [img
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: December 16, 2018, 6:47 pm
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December 16, 2018
The story of fossil fuel consumption growth is a story of
technologies used, misused and moulded by the corporations that
control them; of capitalist expansion, particularly after the
second world war; and of government complicity.
HTML https://truthout.org/articles/until-we-confront-capitalism-we-will-not-solve-the-climate-crisis/
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: December 31, 2018, 4:31 pm
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December 31, 2018
SNIPPET:
Put your hands together for the most watched video on our
Facebook page in 2018! We’re honestly not surprised that this
one took the crown. The Trump 🦀 Administration
🐉🦕🦖 has done a lot of damage to the
climate movement this year – and clearly, people were paying
attention.
Every week (and sometimes every day) seemed to present another
instance of the White House on the wrong side of climate
history. Case in point: the administration’s decision to place a
tariff on solar panels manufactured overseas. This video
explains why imposing this tariff was such a terrible idea,
hurting both American workers and our planet.
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: January 1, 2019, 1:14 pm
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[font=times new roman]CleanTechnica[/font]
Support CleanTechnica’s work via donations on Patreon or PayPal!
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[center]Rooftop Solar Tax Relief Bills Vetoed By Michigan
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January 1st, 2019 by Steve Hanley
In most parts of the country, the improvements people make to
their homes increase the taxable value of their property. The
building permit process has two parts. The first makes sure the
proposed improvements comply with all applicable building codes.
The second sends the information from the application to the tax
assessor so the value can be taxed the next time property tax
bills are rendered. But is a rooftop solar system a taxable
improvement?
The answer to that question depends on where you live. Some
states say yes, others say no. Even within a state, the rules
may vary. That is the case in Michigan where most communities
choose to treat rooftop solar systems as personal property that
is not subject to real estate taxes. But Ann Arbor, one of the
larger cities in Michigan, takes the opposite view. It treats
rooftop solar systems as real estate, claiming state law
requires it to do so. Therefore, the value of those systems are
taxed by the city.
Ann Arbor residents Mark Clevey and Nancy Fenton filed a lawsuit
last year asking the court to declare their rooftop solar system
was personal property and not real estate. They lost. According
to a report by Michigan Live, tax tribunal judge Steven Lasher
agreed with the city, saying residential solar energy systems
are not common enough to be considered the type of “customary”
personal property exempt from taxation.
To be clear, the judge ruled that if rooftop solar systems were
more common, they would be exempt but because they are not more
common, they are taxable, even though taking them out of the
taxable category would encourage more people to install rooftop
solar. “The law is a ass,” Charles Dickens wrote in the 19th
century. Things in the legal sphere have not improved all that
much since then, apparently.
In 2018, the Michigan legislature stepped in to resolve the
issue. It passed two bills — HB 5143 and HB 5680 — that
specifically defined rooftop solar systems as personal property.
Even the Ann Arbor city council passed a resolution last fall
supporting both bills. HB 5143 passed the House 106-3 and the
Senate 38-0. HB 5680 passed the House 105-4 and the Senate 38-0.
Just before the end of the year, Michigan governor Rick Snyder,
the man who has refused to lift a finger to help the citizens of
Flint solve their water crisis, vetoed both measures.
“There was no opposition,” says Clevey, who is also vice
president of the Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association. “It
was a good idea, it was based on merit, and everybody came
together and said, ‘This (taxation) is bad for everybody, so
let’s get rid of this stupid law.’”
Ostensibly, the governor’s action was based on the fact that the
new legislation would set up two classes of rooftop solar owners
— those who installed their systems before the law changed and
those who did so afterward. This sort of legislative oversight
is routinely resolved by the courts, which have ruled
consistently that any legislation is presumed to apply
retroactively unless the legislature clearly states a different
intention.
But Snyder was having none of it. Common sense, logic, and the
will of the people be damned. The law is the law is the law and
never the twain shall meet, or something like that.
Comments on the Michigan Live story may provide some
illumination on this subject. A person calling himself Snide
posted, “Almost unanimous support in both chambers by both
parties yet he vetoes…. In this case I’d say follow the
money……..who will benefit by this not going ahead and check
Snyder’s connection to them,” which got this reply, “Fossil fuel
companies have Snyder in their pocket.” Perhaps so. Snyder has
been obstinately opposed to any proposal that would allow Tesla
to sell direct to Michigan residents.
While perusing the comments, I couldn’t help noticing this
posting from someone styling himself as SpotOn: “A123 was an
alternative energy for cars. How did that work out? Over 500
Billion in subsidies before they went bankrupt.” A free
subscription to the CleanTechnica newsletter to the first person
who spots the error in that statement. If we could turn idiocy
into energy, we could decarbonize the electrical grid overnight.
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/>despicable, as well as abysmally stupid, actions are easy to
explain. Snyder is a Kochroach, period.
Steve Hanley, the author of this truth filled article, pointed
out the mendacious doubletalk comment by "SpotOn 🦕".
That comment can be explained the same way.
Steve said, "If we could turn idiocy into energy, we could
decarbonize the electrical grid overnight. "
I would add a small modification to that statement:
If we could turn Hydrocarbon Hellspawn
🐉🦕😈🦖 bought and paid for
Mendacious PROPAGANDA idiocy into energy, we could decarbonize
the electrical grid overnight.
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