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Thom's blog
Is It Now Game Over For the Planet?
 Yesterday one of the key members of Donald Trump's transition team broke some potentially major news about climate policy under the new administration. Speaking to reporters, global warming denier Myron Ebell - the head of the fossil-fuel-industry-backed Competitive Enterprise Institute - said that Donald Trump will withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate accords: "The U.S. will clearly change its course on climate policy." Ebell said, "Trump has made it clear he will withdraw from the Paris Agreement. He could do it by executive order tomorrow or he could do it as part of a larger package." If Ebell is right and Trump is considering a withdrawal from the Paris Climate accords, that would mark something of a major shift in policy. Although Trump dropping out of the Paris agreement was something Trump flirted with on the campaign trail, he told the New York Times after his election in November that "he would [at least] keep an open mind about it". But now it appears as though Trump has already made up his mind that the Paris Climate Accord is toast. He's playing with fire here - both literally and figuratively. In just 10 days in office, Donald Trump has inflamed popular opinion like no other president in recent memory. By some counts there were 145 protests in just the first 100 hours of his presidency alone. So with activists already gearing up for a major march in protest of the administration's climate policies, how will the destruction of the Paris Climate Agreement be received? -Thom (What do you think? Tell us here.) |
Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10:30pm... Trump's "Shock & Awe" Plan Uncovered (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
The Big Picture: Trump's "Shock & Awe" Plan Uncovered
Big Picture Interview: The Monday Night Massacre
- Jamal Abdi, National Iranian American Council (NIAC)/NIACAction 
Big Picture Panel: When Do We Say No!
- Angela Morabito, StandUnited.org
- Valerie Ervin, Working Families Party
Big Picture Fact: One In Four Mammals is At Risk of Extinction... |
Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Trump's Shock & Awe Campaign...
Quote: " It not who votes, but who counts the votes." - attributed to Joseph Stalin. Quote: " A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on" - attributed to Mark Twain.
Hour Two: Rising Fascism - At What Point Do You Say No! - Neil McCabe, Breitbart News Article: " Fasces" by Wikipedia. Article: " Fireside Chat. May 26, 1940" by Franklin D. Roosevelt. " Our present emergency and a common sense of decency make it imperative that no new group of war millionaires shall come into being in this nation as a result of the struggles abroad."
Article: " 5th Amendment" (double jeopardy, witness against self, due process, taking clause, due compensation) |
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