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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1104303)	12/13/2018 1:47:50 PM
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It's the end of the world as we know it and I don't feel fine Climate policies put world on track for 3.3C warming: study By Nina Chestney ReutersDecember 12, 2018 FILE PHOTO: Boats are seen on the dried lake Poopo affected by climate change, in the Oruro Department, Bolivia, September 1, 2017. REUTERS/David Mercado More By Nina Chestney KATOWICE, Poland (Reuters) - Average world temperatures are on course to far exceed the main goal set in the 2015 Paris Agreement on limiting global warming, a study showed on Tuesday. But the overshoot by the end of this century could be less severe than expected thanks to significant efforts by some countries to combat climate change, said the report by Climate Action Tracker (CAT), a consortium of three independent European research groups. The Paris Agreement aims to restrict warming to "well below" two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times. Countries are meeting in Poland from Dec. 2-14 to agree guidelines for implementing the pact which comes into force in 2020 but there are concerns these will be too weak to limit temperature rise to within safe levels. The CAT report said there had been progress since 2015, but current policies meant the world was heading for warming of 3.3C. That compared with the 3.4C it predicted a year ago, and it said that if governments were to implement policies they had in the pipeline, warming by 2100 could be limited to 3C. Even a rise of 3C could cause loss of tropical coral reefs, Alpine glaciers, Arctic summer sea ice and perhaps an irreversible melt of Greenland's ice which would drive up world sea levels, a United Nations science panel has said. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in October that keeping the rise to 1.5C was possible but would require rapid and unprecedented changes in human behavior. "We have yet to see this translate into action in terms of what governments are prepared to put on the table," said Bill Hare, chief executive of Climate Analytics, one of the three CAT research groups. Since the Paris accord was agreed, countries including Argentina, Canada, Chile and India plus the European Union are moving in the right direction toward cutting emissions. Countries such as Norway and Costa Rica are making progress with low-carbon transport and renewable energy deployment but China's carbon emissions rose again this year, the report said. "With prices for renewables dropping roughly a third since Paris, both South Africa and Chile are mapping out strategies to address coal, and renewables are taking off in India,” said Niklas Höhne of research group NewClimate Institute. But countries including the United States, Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, Russia and the United Arab Emirates have made either no progress or taken backward steps. ca.news.yahoo.com

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1104303)	12/13/2018 2:24:00 PM
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OOPS! Russian spy Maria Butina pleads GUILTY to engaging in conspiracy against US By Katelyn Polantz, Veronica Stracqualursi and Marshall Cohen, CNN Updated 12:48 PM ET, Thu December 13, 2018 cnn.com Washington (CNN)Alleged Russian spy Maria Butina pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday for conspiracy to act as an illegal foreign agent in the United States. Butina, 30, was accused of working to infiltrate Republican political circles through groups such as the National Rifle Association to bolster Russian interests. Butina said she acted "under direction of" a Russian official whom CNN has identified as Alexander Torshin, the recently retired deputy governor of the Central Bank of Russia. "Butina sought to establish unofficial lines of communication with Americans having power and influence over US politics," the prosecutor said in a Washington courtroom. Her guilty plea and agreement to cooperate comes with the hope that prosecutors will ask for a reduced sentence. She agreed to turn over any evidence of crimes she is aware of, submit a full accounting of her financial assets, sit for interviews with law enforcement (and waive right to counsel during those interviews) and testify before grand juries or in trials in Washington or elsewhere. READ: Maria Butina plea agreement She faces a maximum of five years in prison and will likely be deported after serving any time. A hearing was set for February to discuss a sentencing date. In court, Butina said her mind was "absolutely clear." This comes in contrast to her lawyer's previous notice to the court that as of late November, she was in solitary confinement in jail and the conditions were "starting to have a profound psychological impact" on her. Since late November, Butina has been allowed time out of the cell at night and for other activities, including for church and to visit with a Russian orthodox minister, which has helped her mental state, her attorney Robert Driscoll said. Work to infiltrate conservative circles The conspiracy, as prosecutors described it in court, kicked off no later than March 2015 with a draft proposal Butina wrote to Torshin and others called the "Description of the Diplomacy Project." Trump says he never told former lawyer Michael Cohen to break the law It described her plan to become an unofficial conduit of communication between Russia and the US, especially through the Republican Party, at a time when the two governments were less willing to negotiate formally. She had also planned to use $125,000 from Torshin to attend conferences associated with the GOP -- particularly the NRA, which she believed "had influence over" the Republican Party, she admitted. NRA members also received her invitation to visit Moscow and meet with high-ranking Russian politicians. Torshin and "US Person 1", whom CNN identified as Butina's boyfriend Paul Erickson, a GOP political operative, helped her prepare for the trip. After the trip in December 2015, she said to her Russian backer, "We should let them express their gratitude now, we will put pressure on them quietly later." She helped a US citizen host "friendship dinners" with other wealthy and influential Americans to talk about US-Russian policy, prosecutors said and Butina admitted in court. Butina organized a delegation and oversaw invitations to attend the National Prayer breakfast in 2017. She noted to Erickson at the time that the people were "coming to establish a back channel of communication." Trump's former friends flip as he faces a new reality She also admitted that Torshin "did not believe" the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs would "go for it" when she asked him in November 2016 "how to create a dialogue with the then President-elect's advisers," prosecutors said in court, referring to advisers of Donald Trump. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Thursday that Butina took the deal "to survive." "She used this option to survive," Zakharova told CNN. She has described Butina's arrest as politically motivated. Erickson's defense attorney, William Hurd, attended the plea hearing. After the hearing, he said he would speak to his client before deciding whether to make a public statement. He said he did not know in which jurisdiction Butina would be helping a criminal investigation, if she does indeed cooperate with one involving Erickson. Butina spoke from jail with journalist US District Judge Tanya Chutkan began Thursday's court session by revealing why Butina was appointed a public defender. Chutkan said that prosecutors had tapes of a call Butina made from jail with a journalist and that prosecutors flagged this to the judge as a potential conflict of interest. On the call, Butina referred to someone whom prosecutors believe could be her lawyer about acting as a go-between to pass messages to journalists. Chutkan said she did not find that Butina's lawyer Driscoll acted improperly, but said it was why a public defender was appointed. During the calls, the prosecutors also learned that Butina told other inmates to talk to her lawyer and to speak to the media on her behalf. This story is breaking and will be updated. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen and Sara Murray contributed to this report.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1104303)	12/14/2018 7:22:57 AM
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I was thinking about the world that the liberals built. It's a world where identity politics rules and where each aggrieved micro targeted group espouses victimhood and blames the evil white man for their own failures. Meanwhile, the libtard politicians revel in their elitism as they cheer on the power they gain from dividing and conquering the political halls of our country. In thinking about all of this, I am reminded of a quote from Kierkegaard. Libtards should absorb and internalize this quote and maybe they will change their labeling ways. What labels me, negates me.