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To: locogringo who wrote (1055916)	2/20/2018 2:59:19 PM
From: Land Shark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572320

In Trump's first year, U.S. agency doubles solar investments abroad reuters.com In Trump's first year, US agency doubles solar investments abroad Reuters - Feb 13, 2018 The growing U.S. support for foreign solar projects comes despite an ongoing federal investigation into past U.S. solar loans abroad. It also deepens confusion about Trump's position on government support for renewable energy as his administration ... In Trump's first year, US agency doubles solar investments abroad Reuters - Feb 13, 2018 The growing U.S. support for foreign solar projects comes despite an ongoing federal investigation into past U.S. solar loans abroad. It also deepens confusion about Trump's position on government support for renewable energy as his administration ...

To: locogringo who wrote (1055916)	2/20/2018 3:15:35 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1572320

The Dark Twisted Failure of Devin Nunes The House Intel chair is carving out a place in history as Trump and Putin's most useful idiot on Capitol Hill By Bob Moser / Rolling Stone / February 13, 2018 rollingstone.com Someday, when Hollywood starts making movies and episodic dramas about this bizarre epoch in American history – that time when Russia installed a fat, orange-tinted fourth-grader in the White House, and "conservatives" cheered and plotted to keep him there – there will be a whole dog-kennel's worth of knaves to fill out any plot, from sweaty international man-of-mystery Paul Manafort to rosy-cheeked son-of-a-felon Jared Kushner. Screenwriters will be forced to pick and choose their villains; there will be far too many to pack into a script. But when it comes to comic relief, the choices (beyond Donald Trump himself) will be easy and universal: Failed-academic-in-a-Gilligan-hat Carter Page is guaranteed to become a stock character in the saga, as the eager stooge too dumb to be a spy. And Devin Nunes, the climate-denying mediocrity from Tulare, California, will take his place in the mythology as Trump and Putin's most useful idiot on Capitol Hill. Before Trump came along, Nunes was just another hack in the Republican House, a Central Valley milk-farmer from Portuguese stock cursed with a face that looks permanently astonished. After lucking his way into Congress in 2003, he'd risen to chair the House Intelligence Committee the old-fashioned way, through sycophancy. He endeared himself to future Speaker Paul Ryan by glomming on to his fever dream of demolishing the social safety net, and earned his Intelligence chairmanship by serving as an attack dog for then-Speaker John Boehner when Tea Partiers wanted to shut down the government in 2013; Nunes memorably assailed the GOP rebels as "lemmings with suicide vests." Then, in 2016, his fast friendship with deposed General Michael Flynn ("I talk to Flynn virtually every day, if not multiple times a day," Nunes proudly told a reporter in December 2016) landed him on the executive committee of Trump's presidential transition team. From there, it was a short step into historical infamy last March, when Nunes made his clandestine "midnight run" to the White House to be given (by one of Flynn's toadies) classified documents that falsely "proved" President Obama had "wiretapped Trump Tower," which he proceeded to make public in a manner so clumsy he almost lost his Intelligence perch. Ever since, Nunes has gleefully embraced his role as Trump's congressional stooge, turning the House investigation of Russia's election meddling into a bumbling fake-news shitshow that's been essential in the effort to distract both the media and Trump-supporters from the actual story. This year, Nunes laid his second great claim to historical infamy by ordering up the four-page #ReleaseTheMemo that purported to prove that Christopher Steele's dossier, sponsored by Hillary Clinton, was the FBI's sole rationale for launching an investigation into the Trump-Russia connection. The fact that the memo showed exactly the opposite was a minor inconvenience; Memogate, like the original Nunes caper, became (and remains) a deadly effective weapon of mass distraction.... < snip >