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New Email Reveals Answer to Establishment’s Efforts to Oust Trump

An FBI email previously not known to the public has revealed that the bureau planned to make Igor Danchenko—the primary source for British former spy Christopher Steele’s Trump dossier—a confidential human source (CHS) before it had even interviewed him.

The revelation, which was discovered as a result of special counsel John Durham’s case against Danchenko, indicates that the FBI deliberately targeted 2016 presidential candidate and later President Donald Trump with claims it already knew at the time to be false.

The email—of which only the subject line has been made public—was first uncovered by an internet sleuth who goes by the moniker “Walkafyre” and was included in hundreds of unused exhibits from Danchenko’s trial.

The FBI used Danchenko—who was acquitted last week on all charges of lying to the FBI—in its investigation of Trump, despite knowing that Danchenko had helped fabricate the dossier.

With the benefit of this new information, a renewed examination of the timeline between the Nov. 8, 2016, presidential election and the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller on May 17, 2017, reveals that the FBI—with the help of the Obama administration and Washington establishment figures—executed a concerted campaign to oust a sitting president.

The newly discovered email was sent by FBI agent Kevin Helson to unknown recipients on Jan. 12, 2017. The email’s heading reads “Plan to Convert Danchenko into CHS.”

Green Policies Damage Economy, Have ‘No Impact on the Climate’: Witnesses at PA House Hearing

The Pennsylvania House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee held a contentious hearing on Monday, titled “Fossil Fuels: Driving America’s Economy and Quality of Life.”
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Committee Chair Daryl Metcalfe, a Republican, has vowed to get Pennsylvania out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a 12-state cap and trade program for energy producers.

Much of the conversation in the hearing centered on the United Nations initiative to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 by cutting greenhouse gas emissions to as close to zero as possible, with any remaining emissions reabsorbed from the atmosphere by oceans and forests.
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This means, among other changes, that consumers would need to switch to electric cars and avoid fossil fuels in home heating.

“What happens if you eliminate CO2 emissions from the United States completely, starting now?” asked Kevin Dayaratna, senior research fellow at the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation. Analysis using federal data shows less than 0.2 degrees Celsius temperature mitigation by the end of the century, Dayaratna testified about his research.
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“The conclusion is, lawmakers should avoid carbon taxes and carbon capture related policies, because they will have significant economic costs and negligible environmental impact,” Dayaratna said. “We encourage you to employ cost benefit analysis as was done here.”
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Dayaratna said the climate has been changing for over 4.5 billion years and climate change may be beneficial because life expectancy and personal income has increased over the years.
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Carbon dioxide emitted by burning fossil fuels has been a major contributor to the overall greening of the earth, Wrightstone said. Farm machinery, pesticides, and fertilizers derived from carbons have enhanced agricultural productivity and fuel by coal, and natural gas lowers demand for many metals and minerals.

Carbon dioxide stimulates plant growth, and there is an increase in tree cover in Pennsylvania, the United States, and globally, Wrightstone said.

“We don’t see deforestation, we see reforestation,” he said.

I strongly disagree with his estimation of how old the universe or the earth actually is. We weren't there to tell how old they are anyway.  

Yet, the biggest problem here is that  China and India don't care about such policies. In fact, there's no real pressure coming from the Western world to force those nations to reduce the emissions. At the end it seems that the UN goals are nothing but a method to pave the way for Eastern countries to become a lot more powerful than other nations like the US or the EU.

Sunak’s Plan to Advance UK Green Energy Agenda ‘Unrealistic’ Amid Economic and Geopolitical Realities

Former Chancellor of the Exchequer and hedge fund boss Rishi Sunak became the new leader of the governing Conservative Party on Oct. 24. The following day, at the invitation of King Charles III, he stepped into the role of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Sunak is taking the helm at a critical moment as the country spirals into recession amid soaring inflation. Domestic gas prices shot up 96 percent year over year in September, and electricity prices soared 54 percent. The same month, shopping basket costs for food and non-alcoholic beverages surpassed 14 percent, representing the biggest price spike for food in the UK since 1980.

And while Sunak claims that tackling inflation is his main priority, he’s also putting the country’s progressive green energy agenda at the top of the list. He openly shared his ambition to make Britain the world’s first net zero emissions financial center during the COP26 summit in November 2021.

Sunak reinforced that intention in August this year by saying he’s committed to helping the UK reach its goal of net zero emissions by 2050.
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“The policy of ‘net zero by 2050’ … is a myth and simply is not going to happen—no matter what policy changes are made immediately,” geopolitical analyst and president of Scarab Rising, Inc., Irina Tsukerman, told The Epoch Times.

Tsukerman explained that for Sunak to achieve a true net zero 2050 goal, irrational and extreme economic shifts would need to happen.

“For instance, all plastic products would have to be banned completely. Whenever anything carbon based is utilized, some level of emission can be expected,” she said, adding, “This is even more unrealistic than the ‘zero COVID’ policy in China.”

She noted that committing to overly optimistic energy goals is great for generating votes, but considers it “highly irresponsible.”  Tsukerman thinks it is setting the country up for failure. Further, she said foundering energy policies just “kicks the can down the road” to future leaders who inevitably have to either lower expectations or admit defeat.

Russian Court Upholds US Basketball Star Griner’s 9-year Drug Sentence

A Russian court on Tuesday dismissed U.S. WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner’s appeal against a nine-year sentence for possessing and smuggling vape cartridges containing cannabis oil.
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The presiding judge said the verdict was upheld “without changes” except for the counting of time served in pre-trial detention as part of the sentence.

Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medallist, was arrested on Feb. 17 at a Moscow airport, a week before Russia sent troops into Ukraine, and her case has inevitably been viewed in the context of the ensuing crisis in U.S.-Russian relations.

The U.S. chargee d’affaires in Moscow, Elizabeth Rood, who attended the hearing, called the sentence “excessive and disproportionate.”
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Permitted to make a final statement to the judges by live video link from her detention center in the town of Novoye Grishino, just outside Moscow, Griner said how stressful her eight-month detention and two trials had been.
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She has said she used medical cannabis to relieve the pain from a series of sports injuries. Both recreational and medicinal uses are prohibited in Russia.

 Some people suspect that this is just an attempt to negotiate a prisoner exchange in the future. Well, her lawyer hopes that might take place any time soon according to Reuters.

JPMorgan President Says ‘Deeper Recession’ Is Acceptable Price for Taming Inflation

The president of the world’s largest investment bank says that a “deeper recession” is an acceptable price for taming high inflation.

Daniel Pinto, president and chief operating officer at JPMorgan, told CNBC in a recent interview that he supports the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes.

“I think putting inflation back in a box is very important,” he said in the interview. “If it causes a slightly deeper recession for a period of time, that is the price we have to pay.”

The United States is dealing with 40-year high inflation and a technical recession after two consecutive quarters of negative growth in the first half of the year.

Many analysts fear that the Fed’s current rate policy will force the U.S. economy into a serious recession, leading to economic chaos worldwide after global financial markets were conditioned to 14 years of extremely low interest rates and increasing interdependency.

That sounds more like a way to impoverish the whole world in no time to me.