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The University of California, home to 61 Nobel laureates, 86 winners of the MacArthur Foundation’s “genius” grants and 67 recipients of the Medal of Science, is widely considered to be the world’s premier public research university system.
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President Trump accepted the Washington
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Coal Club's inaugural award on
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Wednesday, declaring him the quote
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undisputed champion of beautiful, clean
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coal, unquote.
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Trump accepted the award, a statue of a
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coal miner from Peabody Energy President
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and CEO Jim Gretch during a White House
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event where Trump announced he directed
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the Pentagon to purchase electricity
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from coal fired plants and said he'd
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asked the energy department to provide
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$175 million in federal funds for
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upgrades at several US coal plants.
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I've saved 74 coal power plants from
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crushing restrictions and closures that
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would have been forced to shut down in
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the very immediate future. And today,
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I'm proud to announce that the Tennessee
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Valley Authority is taking action to
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save two major coal plants in Tennessee.
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Tennessee Valley Authority. In response,
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the Natural Resources Defense Council
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wrote, quote, "While Americans are
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demanding clean, affordable energy, the
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Trump administration's using our tax
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dollars to prop up the nation's
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dirtiest, least efficient power plants.
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It's no wonder fossil fuel lobbyists are
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handing Trump an award today." unquote.
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TDB REF
A cavalcade of supporting characters in the MAGA universe, and President-elect Donald Trump, showed up at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday to attend a soirée for the conspiratorial, QAnon-adjacent conservative nonprofit America’s Future.
Mel Gibson, the traditionalist Catholic actor and director, told the crowd, “I got nine kids. If one of them got stolen or trafficked, I’d have to kill someone.”
That chimes with the kind of themes promoted by the group’s chairman, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who has remade America’s Future in his own image. Since his appointment in 2021, the formerly meat-and-potatoes conservative group has shifted to promoting QAnon-adjacent conspiracy theories about a clandestine cabal of pedophiles controlling media and government.
Last year, Gibson executive produced Sound of Freedom, a Christian thriller starring QAnon conspiracist Jim Caviezel that stoked QAnon paranoia. He praised Flynn for exposing “wolves in sheep’s clothing that prey upon our young” during Tuesday night’s speech at Trump’s club.
In addition to Gibson—who arrived in a polo shirt, shorts, and Crocs before changing into a more appropriate suit and tie—other attendees included British comedian turned conspiracy theorist Russell Brand, car dealership fortune heir turned working-class poseur Kid Rock, Fox News outcast Tucker Carlson, and former Trump adviser Roger Stone.
Trump was listed as an “invited honored guest” and was seen alongside Flynn before he briefly addressed attendees outside, accompanied by Flynn, Carlson, and Kid Rock, who he called “great people.”
Carlson and Kid Rock, née Robert Ritchie, were given “Champion for Freedom” awards by Flynn.
Carlson once called QAnon supporters—who believe a cabal of clandestine, Satanic child molesters are working against Trump—“gentle people waving American flags.” America’s Future, under the professed mandate of combatting human trafficking, has promoted similar conspiracies.
“They have organ harvesting,” says Flynn’s sister, Mary O’Neill, who was appointed executive director after he became chairman, in a video on their site. “They have also found a way to take the blood, and use the blood, to make themselves youthful.”
One attendee, who posed with Stone, commented on Instagram that they saw one-time television actor turned COVID and election denier Kevin Sorbo, who has been known to frequent Mar-a-Lago.
But the biggest name on hand, after Trump, was the pope-denying Gibson.
He called the Biden administration “four years of thinly veiled Marxism” and the incoming Trump administration as “a four year grace period,” adding “we’ll see how much this administration can claw back from the Philistines.”
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AWARD HEARTLAND
2019
2015 WINNERS
Robert Carter
Robert M. Carter, Ph.D. is a palaeontologist, stratigrapher, and marine geologist with a 50-year record of university teaching and publishing international research on ancient environmental and climatic change topics.
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William Happer
William Happer, Ph.D. is a physicist who has specialized in the interaction of atoms and nuclei with radiation. He is the Cyrus Fogg Brackett professor of physics (emeritus) at Princeton University and a long-term member of the JASON advisory group, where he pioneered the development of adaptive optics and invented the sodium guide star to eliminate astronomical imaging blurring due to atmospheric turbulence.
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James Inhofe
U.S. Sen. James Inhofe is well known in his home state of Oklahoma and in Washington, DC as one of the most conservative members of the United States Senate. Human Events recently ranked Inhofe #1 on its list of the “Top 10 Most Outstanding Conservative Senators.” In 2013, National Journal ranked Inhofe among the top five most conservative members of the Senate.
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David Legates
David Legates, Ph.D. is professor of climatology in the Department of Geography at the University of Delaware and an adjunct professor at the university’s Physical Ocean Science and Engineering Program and in the Department of Applied Economics.
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Anthony Watts
Anthony Watts is a 25-year broadcast meteorology veteran and currently chief meteorologist for KPAY-AM radio. He got his start as an on-air meteorologist for WLFI-TV in Lafayette, Indiana and at KHSL-TV in Chico, California.
2017 WINNERS
J. Scott Armstrong
J. Scott Armstrong is a professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and founder of the Journal of Forecasting, International Journal of Forecasting, and International Symposium on Forecasting.
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John Barrasso
U.S. Sen. John Barrasso has a long and distinguished career in both medicine and public service. In 2012, Barrasso was reelected to the U.S. Senate with over 75 percent of the vote to represent his home state of Wyoming. He is the fourth-ranking member in the Senate Republican leadership and chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
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Walter Cunningham
Walter Cunningham is best known as pilot of Apollo 7, the first manned flight test of the Apollo Program to land a man on the Moon. He is a retired Marine Corps fighter pilot with the rank of colonel and 4,500 hours pilot time. He is a successful businessman, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, lecturer, and author.
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Myron Ebell
Myron Ebell is director of energy and global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He chairs the Cooler Heads Coalition, representing more than two dozen non-profit groups in the U.S. and abroad that question global warming alarmism and oppose energy rationing policies. He led the EPA Transition Team for the Trump Administration in 2016-2017.
2014 WINNERS
E. Calvin Beisner
Dr. E. Calvin Beisner is national spokesman for The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, editor of the Cornwall Alliance’s electronic newsletter, and author or co-author of several major papers and articles on global warming produced by the Cornwall Alliance.
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Alan Carlin
Dr. Alan Carlin, now retired, was a career environmental economist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1971 to 2009. His criticism of the agency’s draft Endangerment Finding led to efforts to silence him and orders to stop working on global warming issues. He chose to become a whistleblower, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute broke the story in June 2009.
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Tom Harris
Tom Harris is executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition, a non-partisan group of independent scientists, economists, and energy and policy experts who are working to promote better understanding of climate science and policy worldwide.
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Sherwood Idso
Dr. Sherwood Idso, one of the world’s leading authorities on the effects of carbon dioxide on plants, is president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. Prior to 2001 he was a research physicist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service at the U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory in Phoenix, Arizona, where he worked since 1967.
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Christopher Monckton
Christopher Monckton, Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, is chief policy advisor to the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI). He has held positions with the British press and in government, as a press officer at the Conservative Central Office and as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s policy advisor.
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Patrick Moore
Dr. Patrick Moore is an internationally renowned ecologist and environmentalist. Beginning his career as an activist/leader in the Greenpeace movement he now concentrates on collaborative efforts aimed at finding environmental solutions. He speaks and lectures frequently at universities, community meetings, and conferences.
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Arthur B. Robinson
Dr. Arthur Robinson is a distinguished chemist, cofounder of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, and editor of the newsletter Access to Energy. He also works on the development of home schooling techniques and on the public dissemination of information on civil defense
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S. Fred Singer
Dr. S. Fred Singer was among the first and is still the most prominent scientist in the world speaking out against global warming alarmism. He is the author, coauthor, and editor of many books, including Climate Change Reconsidered (several volumes) and more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles.
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Willie Soon
Dr. Willie Soon, an astrophysicist and a geoscientist, is a leading authority on the relationship between solar phenomena and global climate. His discoveries challenge computer modelers and advocates who consistently underestimate solar influences on cloud formation, ocean currents, and wind that cause climate to change.
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Roy W. Spencer
Dr. Roy W. Spencer is a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He previously was a senior scientist for climate studies at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, where he and Dr. John Christy received NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for their global temperature monitoring work with satellites
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Buck Sexton and RealClearFoundation president David DesRosiers discuss censorship, the First Amendment, and RCP's new Samizdat Prize, whose inaugural winners, Stanford epidemiologist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and journalists Matt Taibbi and Miranda Devine, will join Dave Rubin for a live interview at a March 7 awards gala in Palm Beach, Florida.
DAVID DESROISERS: "Samizdat" is Russian for "underground publishing."
We're going to do this on the eve of the State of the Union. This is going to be our own State of the Union. We really think that we're moving in a bad direction with regard to one of the founding cornerstones of the way we should conduct our lives and our politics -- the First Amendment.
We really think that the First Amendment is not trending well, and we want to praise those intrepid souls who stand up for the rest of us so we can remain free.
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"The Gulag Archipelago" by Solzhenitsyn, the lie-killer that was that book, had to be smuggled into their own country. Some of the greatest dissident thinkers we have come to know, who challenged the lie that was Soviet communism -- and any type of regime suffering from a tyranny of the mind -- like Vaclav Havel, went underground to get above ground.
We see our country, a country committed to the First Amendment, has made a dangerous turn away from it. We want to call attention to that turn and show people the trajectory of where it is going if we don't stand up to it now. It's not going to get better, it is going to get worse.
What we want to do on Thursday, March 7, is to highlight three intrepid people who we think show what a real, clear presentation of First Amendment courage is.
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The three folks we have singled out to get these awards capture that.
We have Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, he was the guy who stood up to Fauci and said, "Hey, the scientific method can withstand a crisis." And everything in his experience, in terms of science, says that we are going the wrong way. He was treated very poorly -- and not just by the press and the politicians but by his own profession. And what did we see? History vindicated him. He was put up as a monkish superstition, but it turns out that Fauci was the pope and Dr. Jay was Galileo.
The same goes for the other two we picked. The New York Post's Miranda Devine is another recipient. If someone gave you [Hunter Biden's] laptop, if you don't jump into that with the responsibility that comes with being a representative of the First Amendment, you'd be a hack.
And the same goes for Matt Taibbi, the other gentleman who is receiving it. If you get invited into Elon Musk's [Twitter Files] to look behind the veil, and you see this alphabet soup of violations of the First Amendment -- the government is not supposed to do that, regardless of whether a private company wants them to.
I think you see in the journalists we picked, the differences between them are of degree and not kind, which is what healthy journalism should be. Matt and Miranda share a profession, ethics, and a sense of fearless reporting. And sadly, that type of reporting is being attacked at scale.
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There's going to be a room full of people who deserve the award. We live in a society where we actually get more of what we praise. We have to praise the First Amendment and the people who have the courage for it. The Pulitzer Prize bent the arc of journalism, and I don't think it bent it the right way. We want to start something this week, stand it up, and reward and praise the people who keep us free so maybe we won't have to go underground and live in a Samizdat world.
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https://www.alternet.org/2019/12/trump-supporters-cry-bitter-tears-after-time-names-greta-thunberg-person-of-the-year/
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Trump supporters cry bitter tears after Time names Greta Thunberg ‘Person of the Year’ [djt runner up last yr?]
Written by Brad Reed / Raw Story December 11, 2019
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year — and Trump supporters are deeply unhappy about it.
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