Leverage/ Jiu Jitsu

=1/22 new tag levragesee defectors, divestment, shareholder  revolt, hope, solutionssynergy?social entrepreneur, CREDObad juju: carbon/ methane bombs sudden release of vast old buffer (soil, ice)=<div>=</div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/02/qanon-followers/">https://www.alternet.org/2022/02/qanon-followers/</a></div><div>
</div><div><div>no lnx twt</div><div>QAnon followers are focused on 'a new project' in swing states</div><div>
</div><div>Meaghan Ellis February 11, 2022</div><div>   </div><div>QAnon enthusiasts, who believe former President Donald Trump represents some form of new world order, are now focusing on a different plot in hopes of regaining control of the White House.</div><div>
</div><div>According to The Guardian, QAnon advocates have turned their attention toward Secretary of State election races in various swing states. So, why do these races have the attention of QAnon followers? They believe these particular races could be the key to ensuring there is not a repeat of the 2020 presidential election. In many swing states, Republican election officials refused to assist Trump in overturning the presidential election.</div><div>
</div><div>Now, QAnon believers and far-right extremists are adamant about putting people in place who align with Trump's beliefs. Alex Kaplan, a senior researcher at Media Matters for America who has studied the evolution of conspiracy theories, explained how QAnon's actions could create more problems in the very near future.</div><div>
</div><div>“This is the way that QAnon could trigger a constitutional crisis,” said Kaplan. “QAnon is linked to an effort to recruit and elect candidates to positions directly controlling election administrations, and given their ties to harming democracy, that is very concerning.”</div><div>
</div><div>Per The Guardian, QAnon's agenda and their strategic plot to control the outcome of elections was detailed by former Republican lawmaker and Trump loyalist, Jim Marchant who is currently running to become a high-ranking election official in Nevada. Marchant revealed the moment he was propositioned by QAnon advocates and QAnon influencer Juan Savin about running for Secretary of State. It was at that moment when he realized those particular election races could be a key to controlling elections.</div><div>
</div><div>“I knew right then that they had figured out that we need to take back the secretary of state offices around the country. Not only did they ask me to run, they asked me to put together a coalition of other like-minded secretary of state candidates. I got to work, Juan O Savin helped, and we formed a coalition.”</div><div>
</div><div>Savin has also spoken out about the QAnon agenda. In January, Savin also shared details about the supposed "project" the movement had in place. Marchant explained, “We have a project that we are doing helping candidates across the country that we started here in Nevada that has prospered pretty well, with a number of Trump endorsements."</div><div>
</div><div>On Sunday, Savin also weighed in on “the secretary of state stuff”, as he boasted that “across the country we are gaining strength rapidly to get back into this game in an effective way. A lot of those offices that they thought they held and weren’t going to matter, we are going to flip those.”...</div></div><div>=</div>=aha/yikes:  the ppl's tools PROPS ~ corps hijacked by them; jiu jitsu?  asset/buffer flips to liability/vulnerability?note gun to head soda tax, juul fail on local prop b/c of bad PR at inopportune moment? prop 37 beat by last minute TV ads?relentless ads on roku "free" tv: 181m$an 1020 also lyft and doordash<h1 class="widgetheadline h1" style="margin: 25px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="widgetheadline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/expert-uber-funded-ballot-measure-in-california-would-create-permanent-underclass-of-workers/" aria-label="Expert: Uber-funded ballot measure in California would create 'permanent underclass of workers'" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 25px;">Expert: Uber-funded ballot measure in California would create 'permanent underclass of workers'</a></h1><div class="social-author clearfix" style="font-size: small; margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="social-authorname" href="https://www.alternet.org/author/nicole-karlis" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.4; display: inline; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; position: relative;">Nicole Karlis</a></div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-2648054594" style="font-size: small; margin-top: 10px; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; margin-bottom: 15px; display: -webkit-box; text-overflow: ellipsis; line-height: 23px; -webkit-line-clamp: 3; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body-description">Those who took high school civics may recall that our democracies lives on fractions. A majority vote — one-half plus one — is what it takes to pass a bill in most legislative bodies.</div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="">GAME-CHANGER PRECEDENT?!Jim Hightower: Can ‘powerless nobodies’ fight the corporate powers?
Written by Jim Hightower December 21, 2019The many sparkling bays along the Texas coastline of the Gulf of Mexico have long provided both a working-class living and a valued lifestyle for generations of shrimpers, oysterers and other fishing families. People and seafood, however, are not the only creatures here, for such wildlife as alligators and snakes also call many of these interconnected waterways home. Yet, by necessity and experience, the hardy people of the water have figured out how to share the bays so all creatures can get along.But in the 1980s, a strange and invasive new critter entered Lavaca Bay, near the town of Port Comfort. Far from getting along, this species proceeded over the years to devour whole harvests of seafood, along with the livelihoods of local Gulf communities. This marauder was not some monster from the deep but a massive, 45,000-acre factory looming over Lavaca Bay. It is the Formosa Plastics Corporation, founded by the richest man in Taiwan.As its name implies, Formosa is not here for seafood. It is the world’s second largest fabricator of polyvinyl chloride, the tiny, highly toxic pebbles and powders used to make the gabillions of plastic bags, pipes, bottles, etc. that are choking the Earth. For decades, the Formosa plant has cavalierly been dumping trillions of these poisonous pebbles and tons of the polyvinyl powders into its wastewater — which end up in Lavaca Bay.That poisonous content then spreads to other bays, nearby waterways, the Gulf itself … and into the shrimp, oysters, fish and other creatures living there. The result has been species vanishing from these waters, creating economic and social devastation for families and port communities that rely on nature’s bounty.Wait, isn’t this against the law? Of course, but petrochemical behemoths like Formosa have corrupted the law, turning Texas lawmakers and environmental regulators into their puppets. When leaders won’t lead, The People must, and that’s exactly what’s happening in this case. A defiant, determined former fourth-generation shrimper named Diane Wilson, along with a scrappy environmental coalition on the Texas Gulf Coast, have just won the largest citizen environmental lawsuit in U.S. history, forcing Formosa to stop its gross contamination of the bay, the local economy and the law.It’s good to have a happy-ending story for the holidays — one that’s not sugar-plum sappy but genuinely uplifting.It “feels like justice,” said Wilson in early December when a federal district judge OK’d a $50 million pollution settlement against Formosa Plastics Corporation. Judge Kenneth Hoyt, a Ronald Reagan appointee, had previously ruled that the Taiwan plastics conglomerate was a “serial offender” whose violations of America’s Clean Water Act were “extensive, historical, and repetitive.” How the case got there is as important as his ruling.Wilson, the indefatigable local shrimper, had been trying for some 30 years to get state and national officials to stop Formosa from dumping poisonous plastic chemicals into the Lavaca Bay ecosystem. The corporation’s deliberate contamination was destroying seasonal seafood harvests upon which she and thousands of Gulf Coast fishing families relied. She was ignored by those in power and then ridiculed and then demonized. Yet this lady of the sea wouldn’t quit. She kept speaking out, mounted hunger strikes and even tried to sink her own beloved shrimp boat in the bay as a public protest.Nothing. But then, backed by a volunteer network of regional environmentalists and a savvy group of nonprofit legal service lawyers, Wilson filed the private citizens lawsuit in July 2017 that came to trial this spring in Judge Hoyt’s courtroom, finally producing an overdue measure of justice. The $50 million settlement doesn’t go to Wilson or the other plaintiffs but to projects that will revitalize local marine ecosystems and create a shrimping and oyster cooperative for local families. It also will pay for citizen-group monitoring of Formosa’s compliance with the judge’s orders for “zero discharge” of its plastic pollutants.Even more significant than the money that the Formosa settlement provides, this victory sets a major legal precedent to advance other citizen lawsuits against polluters, requiring that the polluters (not taxpayers) pay for their messes. Who needs Santa Clause when “We the People” can deliver such democratic gifts to ourselves?  For information on the details and impact of this remarkable people’s victory, go to the Texas RioGrande Legal Aid website.Populist author, public speaker and radio commentator Jim Hightower writes “The Hightower Lowdown,” a monthly newsletter chronicling the ongoing fights by America’s ordinary people against rule by plutocratic elites. Sign up at HightowerLowdown.org.</div>=<div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div>https://yyy.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/15/european-investment-bank-to-phase-out-fossil-fuels-financing</div><div>
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</div><div>European Investment Bank has agreed to phase out its multibillion-euro financing for fossil fuels within the next two years to become the world’s first ‘“climate bank”.</div><div>
</div><div>The bank will end its financing of oil, gas, and coal projects after 2021, a policy that will make the EU’s lending arm the first multilateral lender to rule out financing for projects that contribute to the climate crisis.</div><div>
</div><div>The decision to stem the flow of capital into fossil fuel projects has been welcomed by green groups as an important step towards the EU’s aim to be carbon-neutral by 2050.</div><div>
</div><div>The EIB, the world’s largest multilateral financial institution, described its decision as a “quantum leap” in ambition. “Climate is the top issue on the political agenda of our time,” said the bank’s president, Werner Hoyer. “We will stop financing fossil fuels and launch the most ambitious climate investment strategy of any public financial institution anywhere.”</div></div>=only jj if gnerates $ to deploy?
<div class="mag-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h3 class="magcat-titlte entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 1px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/bernie-sanders-unveils-bold-plan-to-legalize-marijuana-and-help-restore-communities-hit-by-the-drug-war/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; display: block; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"> Sanders unveils bold plan to legalize marijuana — and help restore communities hit by the drug war</a></h3><div class="grid-post-box-meta mag-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/eoin-higgins/" title="Posts by Eoin Higgins" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Eoin Higgins</a> / <a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/common-dreams/" title="Posts by Common Dreams" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Common Dreams</a></div></div><div class="mag-excerpt entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Bernie Sanders released an expansive plan on Thursday to as president legalize marijuana and ensure the benefits of legalization are felt across all communities, especially those affected by the…</div>=lil sis 1019Private prison industry now faces 87.4% financing gapDue to popular pressure from below, major banks - eight of them, as of September - are publicly vowing to end any future financing arrangements with the private prison industry. As a member of the Families Belong Together coalition, we’ve been working to uncover the complicity of big banks in propping up this industry by providing massive lines of credit and term loans. Now private prisons face an astounding<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/BgE/ni0YAA/t.2vj/IcK49enzSCWTVbqb-izWQA/h2/XKZfTMuEOsLhm2dRxaQuoLdgC52U9n9fFwfKFHS09Ynj1xkd73rVkM-2F2hSBOgWsPMqP7ePYPpPgZXTYbzIoytzrjbHrAOLQJ47LugFiVhAHmYKrZ8V4IFlXB4ad3STDn8jS2kp5AsFsk0pSbQwg6NpWdQ4-2FbYX3rGJcIvd8wwoOv-2F4qkvb9HSw5ZBOeQ-2FpBqRXIl8BUzWKHQy4rsYq3JP0Dfis6wOe2wZ0VYGCb773n1i3IaONaOdiZ9sukWtW16NYNg8Fl8MClQFNhy4GcsvxUupxCadDZosBrlHI7CwMXscMkwnceQ2IsnRca8vnw84lLFQ2miwPiuukjCWtA-2B17EeMpkLIeYdK0Xxw2Uj-2FchWEfE069AyPY4t5PDF2RpSYCI-2BuSSpqrJFUBHnNnhBm2I6thR3dQ-2F1AcuAFKfPauW-2FhTYGBhozxZrmz-2BHmoz5GXDwa8LtL1AzSERlvJYx5SOEclD1C1pp4hT6lycU-2FTKRsyeBm-2FLDDr4wSJAq0akfdF5msDEKCFDI1QFUjk8l9-2FAzh93lL2O7vvFGCGI8z52U-3D/dEwB" style=""> 87.4% financing gap</a>, downgraded credit ratings, and tanking stocks, as banks continue to flee under public scrutiny. The story has garnered widespread media attention including reports from<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/BgE/ni0YAA/t.2vj/IcK49enzSCWTVbqb-izWQA/h3/ZqmN4WWWj-2F84W376Z1YcV0wJ78XY-2FqiJD8VsNE5PzaddWIKauw6qH6gh2z0Zs42mGHWbvEEinMEthsekXxcM7vdE3dyB5bzD4PMgje0O3PCQa7RMS5qtKhAgI0vwhCF4Lrr-2FVvHsKUon8UHHHmA5-2BLuzbSRtSbcEi5khzc7b9hiUHJopXrlO5DuO2TFVRtb5oRpNolxXL-2BmcoE4uT-2B-2FEbAGLYX-2FkrnakyQcP5ZQr8jMLs7bqzivJcN7EU48CregX6XkVo3TbMggOez3ldS8NibPudWsGOHChEU45wKrZHzvTyoWZMAXY4W4J-2BwrOO0V5UkDIvqFYVqnBbfToZIm8HGC8MvMtrh0ef4IQPnNrISd50rAzZvf34iFwF2g1nT3-2BkTMIt-2FQRJecRP6-2B952EO8UNUBPFRRKkrC88omrjipZkx-2FECR98TC0A6i4Psw-2FjviEbmLzyAxO5e0DqL-2FlhaE6ZTxjeu-2B6LDK2ua7pXc-2Bvfnj3vN9wA6pCXIvyquHj2efsQelxVY7Tt-2BkTIJWOFauQ-2B9w6e2sFqCxhrIdUX0Ycdw-3D/DFl-" style=""> CBS News</a> and<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/BgE/ni0YAA/t.2vj/IcK49enzSCWTVbqb-izWQA/h4/ftu8Vhqa6UaMVs3jvJcOMNOVkHTbcYwEILt7-2BHgDB-2FrgOvccCZI8Ko6n5YzkkRao8CIHIaN7MdLMKWpzcWaM8SEbrojH1eA0uYel3PKEneRHG1kmXhcEQ7yRyvllRfxsJubDiSlqcVmnbJUia3yhLCBiN7X32Y7tQ0kEoHt4BkSSoz8lzrK-2BpJ8DbtP5ZKSoCbev0Xi8Adi8Zc8BSa39bjIprIF3fdOuF4HRE5hZ-2B1c9AwbKC-2BRFse8hEYHNcyLHJgLpsD3gZdxq0YP7twpnC11LXkZBJfUAAXJKTzTjtlVxwmnOM-2FyOUtmeQLmka8DoUv-2Fu-2F0yd9IL-2BnjI6uoqnlCofnBAyM-2B9lIcZ0g4swD60fipVSo1T-2BFHkWgJMwyXH4i-2FNPCf9ro-2BolEdThSZ-2BUfj9pLUP71XwOAT1sg1J4UfBIKeoyeKPb4ChzjM2k-2B1X-2Bg0czYVHHY3nb9n5Trvl5swzzMYTY7JhrBfaa7gWkt6NRV1Jdjm9AB3NFgec-2BlVu2yQzF-2B8ObgcMnNPdZTqFFdA-3D-3D/gB_4" style=""> Forbes</a>.<div>=</div><div>aha-let: gov't exerts leverage by what it buys, eg military transistors; what if USPO converted to electric cars?</div><div>
</div><div>P<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://go.propublica.org/e/125411/l-utm-campaign-dailynewsletter/6xz81m/406898806?h=OeuCGNJw1xjW_0YfQErd8E6LeEQCOYYtaEwoWt_jzWY" style="text-decoration-line: none;">roposed California Law Would Punish Companies for Failing to Limit Harm to the Planet’s Forests</a>The legislation could affect everything from what paper gets used in state offices to what gets served in California cafeterias.<div class="yiv6988525144byline" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0.25em 0em;">by Abrahm Lustgarten</div><div class="yiv6988525144button-holder" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" class="yiv6988525144button" target="blank" href="https://go.propublica.org/e/125411/l-utm-campaign-dailynewsletter/6xz81m/406898806?h=OeuCGNJw1xjW_0YfQErd8E6LeEQCOYYtaEwoWt_jzWY" style="text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block; border: 1px solid rgb(33, 124, 227); font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 40px; padding: 10px 20px; margin-top: 15px; border-radius: 3px;">View Story</a></div>=</div>kochs co-opting TP was leverage/ amplification/ force multiplier?!=<div></div><div><div>guk no lnx 719</div><div>
</div><div>Device could bring both solar power and clean water to millions</div><div>Researchers say one invention could solve two problems for people lacking basic resources</div><div>
</div><div>Nicola Davis</div><div>
</div><div> @NicolaKSDavis</div><div>Tue 9 Jul 2019 16.00 BST Last modified on Wed 10 Jul 2019 17.04 BST</div><div> A woman fetches drinking water from a well in Zimbabwe</div><div> More than 780 million people worldwide lack basic access to safe drinking water. Photograph: Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters</div><div>A device that can produce electricity from sunlight while simultaneously purifying water has been produced by researchers, an invention they say could solve two problems in one stroke.</div><div>
</div><div>The researchers say the device is not only a source of green energy but also offers an alternative to current technologies for purifying water. These, they add, often consume large amounts of electricity and require infrastructure beyond the reach of many communities that lack basic access to safe drinking water – a situation thought to affect more than 780 million people worldwide.</div><div>
</div><div>“These people spend a collective 200m hours a day fetching water from distant sources,” said Prof Peng Wang, a co-author of the research from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia.</div><div>
</div><div>With solar farms often located in arid regions, the device could provide clean water where it is needed most. What is more, the team say it could be used in a backyard or on an industrial scale.</div><div>
</div><div>“Having a significant amount of freshwater produced continuously on a daily basis [means] many challenging tasks can then be easily achievable,” said Wang. “The generated clean water can be used [for] cleaning solar panels to remove dust particles; it can be use to irrigate plants and crops, making desert agriculture possible.”</div><div>
</div><div>Writing in the journal Nature Communications, Wang and colleagues reveal how they constructed the device.</div><div>
</div><div>On the top is a horizontal commercial silicon solar cell and beneath this are several tiers through which saline, brackish or contaminated surface water is run. Waste heat from the solar cell warms the saline water passing immediately beneath it – the water evaporates, passes through a membrane and condenses to yield clean water, releasing heat in the process that warms the saline water in the tier below that – the process is then repeated for the next tier. The purified water flows out of the device and is collected.</div><div>
</div><div>The team found the device can be used to purify saltwater as well as seawater contaminated with heavy metals, with the water collected containing levels of lead, copper, sodium, calcium and magnesium all below the levels deemed safe for drinking water by the World Health Organization.</div><div>
</div><div>While the team outline various versions of the device, they reveal that under conditions on a par with a bright, cloudless day the energy efficiency of the solar cell was about 11% – a figure they say is on a par with what would be expected without the distillation section attached, and higher than previously reported by others working on such devices.</div><div>
</div><div>The device was also able to produce clean water from seawater at a rate they say is higher than conventional solar stills.</div><div>
</div><div>The device, while not the first to make use of solar distillation, has a particular advantage: by combining two types of device that typically each require a large land area, and mounting systems, the approach is relatively compact.</div><div>
</div><div>Wang said the device turned the traditional link between water and electricity on its head: conventionally, electricity is produced by heating water to produce steam that is then used to turn turbines. While he said the team was still working on scaling up the device and reducing costs, they are optimistic.</div><div>
</div><div>“It is our hope that we move quickly to push this technology towards its large-scale adoption,” he said.</div></div><div></div> =CalSTRS, the largest public teachers’ pension fund in the country, currently invests over $6 billionin the fossil fuel industry—an investment that is both immoral and financially under-performing. Divesting this fund from fossil fuels will improve teachers’ retirement income, and send a huge message to global financial markets that fossil fuel investments are no longer acceptable. Reinvesting those funds in the clean energy economy will give our kids’ futures a fighting chance.So this year #YourTeacherHasHomework.  We want teachers to tell CalSTRS to divest from fossil fuels; and we want teachers to tell their union chapter to pass a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n-tX54D2kquPImxXcSt_yT_FFrUahgxHftFElM7U-RU/edit?usp=sharing" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">resolution</a> for CalSTRS to divest.What You Can Do to Help<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgba(229, 229, 229, 0.5);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Contact your teachers’ union and ask it to endorse a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n-tX54D2kquPImxXcSt_yT_FFrUahgxHftFElM7U-RU/edit?usp=sharing" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">resolution</a> to divest CalSTRS.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Add your voice to the thousands who have already urged CalSTRS to divest: <a href="https://fossilfreeca.org/petition" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Sign our petition</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Want to gather petition signatures?  <a href="https://fossilfreeca.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/NEW_Petition2018-8.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Download Blank Petition</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Want to contact the Board directly? Send a personal message to the CalSTRS Board at <a href="mailto:board@calstrs.com" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">board@calstrs.com</a></li></ul><a href="https://fossilfreeca.org/campaigns/#CalSTRS">https://fossilfreeca.org/campaigns/#CalSTRS</a><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">May 8th, Fossil Free California teamed up with students from Youth vs. Apocalypse and Earth Guardians to bring our message straight to CalSTRS—divest from fossil fuels! More than 20 students skipped school that day to tell the CalSTRS Investment Committee to stop investing in the destruction of their future.</blockquote>CalSTRS was so taken aback that they attempted to censor the youths' testimony by refusing to record it on their video live-stream. That didn't stop the word from getting out, however, as several radio stations covered the event, including KPFA: <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mpss/c/9gA/ni0YAA/t.2rv/iapUcntDRCGCnIyZkaI0LA/h1/9GJXOhJWbx9C2cbJgrP6rCEdVdz0ACjVqhyZEpGdO7fX1Hn4XqkPEitOHVsQ2UXnCQwooRRNrPeG3991NEGb5GJVFHiwJBnDjh8CiDdXgpD8zfHZEFqQYPkxTPIOBOoQfqNv-2Fh7V99TGiTqyeFUYcVOf4wn-2B46x0nTyWRyb-2Bp-2FzW8nB6Lx3IuBcyEU6ELmQv11w1Wk85pOHGgJiKz3912uTBmHd4rwJ690IgNdNFRRpKLWPs0uoHoPlabR2DJz9OyVziNeysd8MMuoxormn8-2FDklCilhws-2FDMA-2BG3eKHPmYWTD-2F2FpC5PSc0uSs0Lik-2F9VtPL3CnL-2FsAWmRhR6-2BvsSppY7b8oF-2BzgySv7KALhU5mMnZy498ZyhDPC7RbgC4K">listen here</a>.
Inspired by this success, the students have promised to return to CalSTRS' meetings in July and September, and FFCA has hired a part-time organizer to make sure that many more students join us at these next meetingpence book; anti birth control!  evang in MI and WI are swing inside swing? = leverage?perry, perdue, price all pence guys, he steped up to staff/ do transition when djt still stunned by win; lots of trump admin loyal to VPbig $ raiser<a href="https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-february-18-2019/">https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-february-18-2019/</a>=flip --> jiu jitsu cascade effect2. David PeckerAmerican Media publishes the National Enquirer, which has been a bastion of trash “journalism” since 1926. Back in the 1930s, the Enquirer published pro-fascist anti-Semitic propaganda and vilified Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s presidency—although in the 1970s and 1980s, it was better known for goofy accounts of Americans encountering zombies or being kidnapped by flying saucers. Pecker was a major supporter of Trump’s 2016 campaign, publishing a series of over-the-top anti-Hillary Clinton articles—and in the 1990s, he had promoted Trump’s business interests by published the quarterly magazine Trump Style. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that in 2015 and 2016, Pecker and American Media had a “<a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/08/24/ronan-farrow-intv-catch-and-kill-national-enquirer-trump-stories-safe-new-yorker-sot-newday-vpx.cnn" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">catch and kill</a>” agreement with Cohen, meaning that the Enquirer would purchase exclusive rights to negative stories about Trump but wouldn’t publish them. According to federal prosecutors, Pecker offered, in August 2015, to help Cohen find negative stories about Trump’s relationships with women and kill the stories.3. Dylan HowardFederal prosecutors allege that in June 2016, Pecker and Howard contacted Cohen to inform him that McDougal was trying to sell them a story about her alleged affair with Trump in 2006/2007—and Cohen asked them to purchase the story and agreed to reimburse American Media. In August 2016, American Media agreed to pay McDougal $150,000 for the story, and Cohen created a dummy corporation called Resolution Consultants in order to purchase the story from American Media for $125,000. Now, with Howard <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/trump-investigation-grants-australian-journalist-dylan-howard-immunity-20180824-p4zzhb.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">agreeing to cooperate</a> with federal prosecutors in exchange for immunity, it’s in his best interests to be as forthcoming as possible about his dealings with Cohen during the Trump campaign. recent pattern/trend: small # 10% of ggl engr threaten to quit if take military contract: DC metro workers stopped private car [towed by biz in Ore?], 2 prof quit miller ctr Uva, 2k signature marc short booted. youtube monetized, HQ attack b/c woman thot blocked, rt has used better/1st? echo/escalator?<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">alt rt uses effectively see RAM and red elephant</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div>tom crum akido?OMFG RW jiu jitsu?!privacynever connected petition to social media before, aha<div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2538134798" data-authors="Lorraine Chow" data-headline="Monsanto 'Commands' Civic Group to Turn in All Communications Over Glyphosate" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="body-description">Avaaz worries about the scope of the subpoena, as it would also include the names and email addresses of members who have signed Monsanto petitions. <a href="http://gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/18131-now-monsanto-goes-after-civil-society" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">GM Watch</a> noted that <a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/stop_glyphosate_loc_glb/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">one of its petitions</a> calling for a moratorium on glyphosate garnered more than 2 million signatures.The subpoena was issued as part of a class-action lawsuit against Monsanto in which <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/monsanto-lawsuits-roundup-cancer-2324693930.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">plaintiffs around the country claim</a> that they or their loved ones developed non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma due to exposure to Roundup.Avaaz is <a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_red_alert_41/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">now fighting</a> back and is raising funds for the defense effort. The group will be represented by the New York firm of Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady, LLP."This is big," Avaaz writes in a new petition. "[Monsanto's] a $50 billion mega-corporation, infamous for legal strong-arm tactics like this. They have unlimited resources. If they get their hands on all our private information, there's no telling what they'll use it for."Emma Ruby-Sachs, Deputy Director of Avaaz, said Monsanto's demand for internal communications is a "violation" of first amendment rights."There are millions of people around the world who have a deep and genuine concern that Monsanto's glyphosate is making us and our environment sick," she added. "That is the sole reason our members have called on governments to regulate it based on independent science. We're not going to let this legal attack slow down that essential work one bit."<div class="around-the-web" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="around-the-webheadline" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;">RELATED ARTICLES AROUND THE WEB</div><ul class="around-the-weblist" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/monsanto-propaganda-newsweek-2528277875.html" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">Monsanto's Fingerprints All Over Newsweek's Opinion Piece, a Hit ... ›</a></li><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://usrtk.org/in-the-news/carey-gillam-on-monsanto-cancer-and-the-corruption-of-science/" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">Carey Gillam on Monsanto, Cancer and the Corruption of Science ... ›</a></li><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/business/monsanto-roundup-europe.html" class="around-the-web__link" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">Monsanto's Roundup Faces European Politics and U.S. Lawsuits ... ›</a></li></ul></div></div></div>
==<a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06022018/marathon-oil-shareholder-resolution-human-rights-dakota-access-environment-social-risk-disclosure">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06022018/marathon-oil-shareholder-resolution-human-rights-dakota-access-environment-social-risk-disclosure</a>
<div class="panel-pane pane-node-content" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="pane-content" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><article id="node-48885" class="node node-article node-promoted node-content-48885 full clearfix" about="/news/06022018/marathon-oil-shareholder-resolution-human-rights-dakota-access-environment-social-risk-disclosure" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document" role="article" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="content" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The clash between the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and backers of the <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/tags/dakota-access-pipeline" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent;">Dakota Access pipeline</a> unfolded in news clips of violence, intolerance and humiliation. Demonstrators against the pipeline were met with snarling guard dogs, armed security officers and fire hoses that drenched them during freezing weather.  For a block of shareholders in Marathon Petroleum Corp., an Ohio-based company that bought a minority interest in the Dakota Access pipeline just as <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24112016/police-dakota-access-protesters-aclu-amnesty-international-standing-rock" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;">tensions hit a flashpoint</a> in 2016, it was an unsettling scene that played out on social media and network news.<a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/tags/dakota-access-pipeline" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">What happened</a> in full view of the world on the remote plains of North Dakota has prompted a shareholder resolution calling on <a href="http://www.marathonpetroleum.com/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Marathon</a> to explain how it identifies and addresses environmental and social risks—including potential violations of the rights of indigenous peoples—when making business decisions related to acquisitions."The construction and operation of energy infrastructure in North America requires respect for rigorous standards of environmental review and the human rights of Indigenous Peoples," <a href="https://tools.ceres.org/resources/tools/resolutions/report-on-environmental-and-human-rights-due-diligence-process/@@s3_view" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">the resolution</a> says.The shareholders argue that Marathon, which contributed $500 million in partnership with Enbridge to buy a $2 billion stake in the Bakken pipeline system that included Dakota Access, must consider environmental and human rights issues when assessing risks associated with purchases. They cite the <a href="https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">United Nations' Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples</a> as a measure of the expectations for considering the rights of indigenous people to "free, prior and informed consent prior to the approval of any projects affecting their traditional territory.""When such risks are not adequately considered, decisions can be made that lead to reputational, regulatory and financial loss," says the resolution, which will be considered during the company's <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/marathon-petroleum-corp-announces-2018-annual-meeting-of-shareholders-300589278.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">annual meeting</a> in Findlay, Ohio, on April 25.The shareholders say the value of their investments could be jeopardized by the negative image created by future confrontations that could result in damage to the company's reputation.So, they are asking Marathon to prepare a report that describes the review process used to identify and address environmental and social risks in reviewing potential acquisitions. They want the company to consider a number of points, including how environmental and social risks are identified and assessed; which international standards are used to define the company's human rights; and how this information is calculated into business decisions.Jamal Kheiry, communications manager for Marathon, said the company had no comment. The company's position will be spelled out later in its proxy statement that addresses business to be conducted at the meeting.<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.333;">Human Rights Risks Are Investment Risks</h3>The resolution by Marathon shareholders is one of more than two dozen resolutions on environmental matters filed with oil and gas companies. Those resolutions, which address concerns such as reducing methane emissions and curbing global warming, could be considered during annual meetings usually scheduled throughout the spring.Marathon shareholders <a href="https://tools.ceres.org/resources/tools/resolutions/report-on-environmental-social-due-diligence-for-acquisitions/@@s3_view" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">filed a similar resolution last year</a> that met resistance from the company but still earned approval by 35 percent of the company's stockholders who voted.The New York State Comptroller's Office, which manages public employee pension funds that are major shareholders, was the lead sponsor of both resolutions.Although the office declined to discuss the resolution in detail, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said a year ago that investors had a right to know how Marathon considered the rights of indigenous peoples."Given the nationwide protests and controversy that surrounded the Dakota Access Pipeline, we assume Marathon would have undertaken robust due diligence before getting involved with that project," DiNapoli said in <a href="https://www.osc.state.ny.us/press/releases/mar17/032717.htm" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent;">a 2017 statement</a>. "Risks to the environment and to human rights create risks for our pension fund's investments and should be addressed as part of a sustainable business plan."<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.333;">Why Marathon Says It Opposed the Resolution </h3>The company, in its proxy statement last year, said it "respects the human, cultural and legal rights of individuals and communities" but still urged shareholders to reject the resolution.Preparing the kind of reports sought through the resolution would require a highly customized study of projects under consideration, <a href="http://www.marathonpetroleum.com/content/documents/investor_center/proxy_statements/2017MPCProxyStatement.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">the company's 2017 proxy statement said. </a>"Providing a report of the nature the proponent seeks would require (Marathon) to present an incomplete and potentially misleading picture of prospective strategic transactions," it said.Marathon's Board of Directors argued that the company's community engagement program provided a forum and allowed adequate opportunity for any group to make its positions known.The resolution resonated with shareholders, though, said Jonas Kron, a senior vice president for <a href="http://www.trilliuminvest.com/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent;">Trillium Asset Management</a>, a Boston-based company that focuses on socially responsible investing and that filed the resolution.Similar resolutions addressing environmental and social justice issues with oil and gas companies typically generate around 20 percent approval, he said. "This vote shows the intensity of the issue with shareholders," he said. "I would hope they would be more responsive to such a significant plurality, and take steps to reexamine the way they consider indigenous people issues and maybe don't get involved with these types of projects."A year ago, Marathon sought permission from the Securities Exchange Commission to suppress the resolution. The commission, which regulates publicly traded companies like Marathon, rejected the company's request.This year, Marathon has not tried to block the resolution and is in discussions with DiNapoli's office. "Should Marathon decide to endorse its provisions as company policy, the comptroller will ask that the proposal be withdrawn from consideration at the annual meeting," Patrick Doherty, the comptroller's director of corporate governance, <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4366641-NY-Comptroller-Marathon-Petroleum-Corp.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent;">wrote to Marathon</a>.<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.333;">'People Are at Stake'</h3>Shareholders in Marathon's partner, Enbridge Inc., a Canadian pipeline company that owns more than 10,000 miles of pipelines in Canada and the United States, filed a <a href="https://www.wespath.org/assets/1/7/16-11-21_enbridge_resolution_final_iccr_3.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">similar resolution last year</a> that was also sparked by the faceoff at Standing Rock."To put it very bluntly, the protest, the movement, if you will, could most likely have been prevented," Chad Harrison, a Standing Rock councilman, said during the Enbridge shareholders meeting last year.The solution would have been for the company to engage the people affected by the pipeline, he said. "People are at stake," Harrison said, according to <a href="http://www.enbridge.com/_{/media/Enb/Documents/Investor%20Relations/2017/2017_ENB_AGM_Transcript.pdf}" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent;">a transcript</a>. "People on the ground, people where pipelines are built."Although Enbridge opposed the resolution and it was defeated, the company nevertheless vowed to update its policy on indigenous peoples and expand its disclosures about how it addresses human rights."One thing that shouldn't be in doubt is the fact that we recognize and respect the legal and constitutional rights of indigenous peoples, and the vital relationship they have with traditional lands and resources," Enbridge President and CEO Al Monaco <a href="http://www.enbridge.com/media-center/media-statements/al-monaco-statement-on-shareholder-resolution" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent;">said in a statement</a> following the shareholders meeting.The Dakota Access pipeline is part of Marathon's 8,300 mile pipeline system. It begins in the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota and runs nearly 1,200 miles to Illinois, where it connects to other pipelines that carry oil to refineries as far south as Texas. Along the way, it crosses hundreds of streams, rivers and other waterways, including the Missouri River a half-mile upstream from the Standing Rock reservation.The people of Standing Rock rely on the river for drinking water, irrigation and fishing.A prolonged protest involving people from more than 100 tribal nations, along with veterans and supporters from across the country, began in 2016 during construction of the pipeline. Along with their fear of polluted water, the tribe decried the desecration of sacred sites and the loss of tribal sovereignty; issues that highlighted the tribe <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08092016/standing-rock-sioux-tribe-energy-transfer-dakota-access-pipeline-oil-environmental-justice" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent;">long-standing struggle for social justice.</a>Oil began flowing through the $3.78 billion pipeline last year. It was designed to carry 470,000 barrels of oil a day.Jodi Gillette of Standing Rock, a former adviser to President Barack Obama on Native American affairs, reminded Marathon shareholders last year of the tribe's <a href="https://www.standingrock.org/content/history" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent;">rich heritage</a>. While she said she believes the company can change, she said this of Marathon executives: "They are the ones who will have to look their grandchildren in the eye and say they are the ones who continue the abuse of the indigenous people of America even when they had the chance to change."</div></div></div></div></article></div></div>new: synergy/ solve for pattern:“The trick, as with all the behavioral possibilities of complex systems, is to recognize what structures contain what latent behaviors, and what conditions release those behaviors” to reduce destructive behavior and encourage beneficial ones. (Meadows 72)
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</div><div>Empire State Building Shines Green After NYC's Decision to Take on Fossil Fuel Industry</div><div>
</div><div>New York City's iconic Empire State Building glowed green Wednesday night following two "watershed" announcements-that the city would seek to divest its pension funds from fossil fuel investments, and that it filed suit against five oil giants for contributing to climate change.</div><div>
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</div><div>"The Empire State Building is shining green tonight because it's time to put our planet first. #DivestNY," Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted Wednesday.</div><div>
</div><div>350.org co-founder Bill McKibben, a major campaigner in the global divestment movement, remarked in a tweet about the green lighting, "Just this once I think it's worth the carbon!"</div><div>
</div><div>The Belgium-based European Green Party also chimed in and advocated for European leaders to follow the Big Apple's footsteps.</div><div>
</div><div>"Let's join #DivestNY and #DivestEurope for a Green and sustainable future for us and generations to come," the party said on social media. </div><div>
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</div><div>The divestment movement has grown in the U.S. and around the world. In November, Norway proposed to sell off all of its shares (about $35 billion) in oil and natural gas holdings.</div><div>
</div><div>Mayor de Blasio and Comptroller Scott Stringer said they intend to divest New York City's $5 billion in securities of over 190 fossil fuel companies.</div><div>
</div><div>New York's lawsuit, filed in federal court, names BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell as defendants. The city seeks billions of dollars in damages and alleges the fossil fuel industry knew for decades that burning fuels drives global warming.</div><div>
</div><div>Environmentalists cheered the city's historic announcement.</div><div>
</div><div>"Today was an incredible day," author and investigative journalist Naomi Klein tweeted. "Hearing the mayor of the biggest city in the richest country on earth announce a lawsuit against 5 oil majors for climate damages AND fossil fuel divestment? Wow. We needed this. We will build on it."</div><div>...</div></div><div>
</div><div>=</div>=aha: rw sez regs are burden, but fines prevent damage/costs and fines can be used for commons/ good. eg riverkeepercan be leverage, eg riverkeeper and <a href="https://www.alternet.org/environment/billions-vw-settlement-boost-push-clean-vehicles">https://www.alternet.org/environment/billions-vw-settlement-boost-push-clean-vehicles</a>South Carolina wants to replace aging school buses. Colorado plans to electrify Denver’s bus system. And Washington wants electric ferryboats for Puget Sound.As part of a 2016 federal court <a href="https://www.vwcourtsettlement.com/wp-content/uploads/documents/DOJ/Final%20Approval%20Order%20-%20Amended%20Consent%20Decree.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">settlement</a> after Volkswagen admitted programming its diesel vehicles to cheat on emissions tests, the automaker agreed to pay $2.8 billion to states to be used to reduce diesel pollution. And with money arriving as early as June, states are already deciding how to spend their share of the funds.The infusion of money comes at a time when states are struggling to meet air quality standards and believe they won’t be able to do it without widespread adoption of low- and no-emission vehicles, from the Nissan Leaf in someone’s driveway to propane-fueled city buses and electric freight locomotives in public and corporate fleets. The VW funds — ranging from $8 million to $423 million per state, depending on the number of diesel VWs sold — could jump-start a viable market for alternate-fuel and electric vehicles, clean energy experts and state officials say.“The hidden value of the VW settlement is creating an interest and appetite [among] agencies that might not otherwise have been participating in clean-vehicle technologies,” said Dan Welch of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, a nonprofit that advocates for clean energy.Under the settlement, negotiated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board, states can spend the VW money on grants to both public agencies and private businesses. Each state has named a lead agency — whether environmental, energy or transportation — to oversee the projects, and 11 states (Arkansas, Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Maine, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Vermont and Washington) have already released draft plans outlining their proposed grants to replace engines that spew nitrogen oxide, or NOx.States can spend as much as 15 percent of their payout to subsidize construction of public <a href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2017/09/11/should-utilities-build-charging-stations-for-electric-cars" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">charging stations for electric cars</a>. Most states are likely to spend the full amount, said Nick Nigro of Atlas Public Policy, a transportation electrification consulting firm: 17 states have already said they will do so. (Under a separate part of its court settlement, Volkswagen is spending $2 billion to build <a href="https://www.electrifyamerica.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">electric car charging stations</a> and $10 billion <a href="https://www.vwcourtsettlement.com/en/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">to buy back diesel cars</a> from consumers.)Dirty BusesClean-energy advocates say public transit and school buses are likely targets for state programs for diesel replacement. Parents like the idea of getting rid of diesel fumes at the school bus stop. And the VW funds are arriving at a time when transit systems around the country are increasingly trying out electric and hybrid buses....aha: 1st rw? guard uk sez clinton cash early and critical moment that set up narrative crooked hillary?injected escalator into mainstreaM PRESS<a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/8/billionaire_gop_backer_robert_mercer_used" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/8/billionaire_gop_backer_robert_mercer_used</a>=617IRS audit used with wild abandon by nixon admin (we have it on tape?) leverage?Has never been used since (lbj?) but a sort of nuclear option is to go after tax exempt status of enemy  Chamberwatch?<a href="http://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2012/08/eric-schneidermans-mission-to-expose-americas-most-influential-donors-004851">http://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2012/08/eric-schneidermans-mission-to-expose-americas-most-influential-donors-004851</a>CMD ~ Daily Caller fdn Tucker carlson<div>
<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/06/08/window-dressing-exxon-reluctantly-crosses-climate-threshold">https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/06/08/window-dressing-exxon-reluctantly-crosses-climate-threshold</a>

</div><div>The day before President Trump made his decision to <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/06/01/trump-paris-climate-leave-fossil-fuels" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px;">pull the U.S. out of the landmark Paris climate accord</a>, ExxonMobil reluctantly crossed a climate threshold.A

majority of shareholders, over 62 percent, voted in favor of America’s

biggest oil company releasing detailed analyses of the risks that

climate change poses to its business. Having previously argued that sufficient information is already being provided, CEO Darren

Woods relented far enough to say that Exxon would “take the vote

seriously [and] will respond to that feedback and look for

opportunities” to communicate. Woods did not, however, agree to produce a

requested report.  </div><div>
</div><div></div> =<a href="http://www.fossilfreeuc.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">http://www.fossilfreeuc.org/</a>Contacts:Spokesperson: Celeste Argueta, 559-901-1328, celiarg@sbcglobal.netSpokesperson: Cassie Macy,  714-813-5437, cassiemacyy@gmail.comMedia coordinator: Emily Williams, 408-318-4356, <a href="mailto:emilylynnwilliams@gmail.com" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">emilylynnwilliams@gmail.com</a>  UC Santa Barbara’s Chancellor Yang Becomes First UC Chancellor to Call for UC’s Divestment from Fossil FuelsStudent Sit-In Results in Bold Action on Eve of Next UC Regent’s MeetingSANTA BARBARA, Ca.- May 11 at noon in Cheadle Hall, the UCSB campus administration building, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Margaret Klawunn issued a statement on behalf of Chancellor Henry T. Yang both endorsing the fossil fuel divestment campaign, Fossil Free UC, and pledging to collaborate on the issue with fellow chancellors across the UC system. The public endorsement comes after 350 students maintained a 3 day sit-in inside the administration building, with the endorsement by over 25 faculty members of the action, calling upon UC Regent Richard Sherman to divest the university’s $2.8 billion currently invested in fossil fuel companies. The endorsement is the first of its kind from a UC chancellor on the issue of fossil fuel divestment and students expect it will help push the UC towards accomplishing the campaign’s goal of full divestment from the fossil fuel industry.The chancellor’s full statement said the following: “I stand by our students who have been sitting in calling for fossil fuel divestment this past week and support their aims. I furthermore wish to acknowledge the professors and staff at this campus and across the University who deeply care about the moral, political, economic, and scientific imperative of moving away from fossil fuel dependency. Finally, I am pleased to support the incredible efforts the UC has already made toward tackling climate change and providing leadership and solutions that we will all depend on. In the coming week, I look forward to working with my fellow chancellors in support of a thorough and transparent discussion on divestment from fossil fuels as part of the UC’s approach to combating the climate crisis.”Fossil Free UCSB spokeswoman and UCSB first year, Celeste Argueta, said “Chancellor Yang’s endorsement of our campaign is a historic victory for all the students who have taken part in the sit in and for the UCSB student community more broadly, making it clear that our campus will stand on the right side of history. Remaining neutral is simply not an option, it is high time Regent Sherman joined us too.” Richard Sherman chairs the UC’s investment committee.On Monday, May 8, 38 UCSB students walked into Cheadle Hall and began a sit-in to pressure  UC Regent Sherman and the broader UC Board of Regents. Over the following three days, Chancellor Yang met with campaign negotiators and together they agreed on the terms of endorsement.  Students at UCSB have been campaigning on fossil fuel divestment since 2012 and the Fossil Free UCSB group is part of a larger coalition of students across the UC. The campaigns at UC Davis and UC Berkeley held similar sit ins last week. The rolling sit ins come during a wave of global action for fossil fuel divestment.UCSB political science major and fossil free campaigner, Cassie Macy, said “Students showed up and  showed their power this week because the fossil fuel industry intends to burn five times more coal, oil, and gas than is safe for a stable climate. Eighty percent of fossil fuels must remain below ground to avoid climate catastrophe but the UC continues to invest in companies whose business plan depends upon destabilizing the future safety and security of its students.” These numbers have motivated Fossil Free campaigns across the globe and led them to point to the 200 most polluting fossil fuel companies as those most responsible for climate change and pollution linked to cancers and respiratory diseases that impact society’s most marginalized communities first and hardest.Chancellor Yang’s endorsement comes just four days before the UC Regents will meet at UC San Francisco, where students from across the UC will converge once again to take bold action and urge Regent Sherman to stand with students and commit to divestment. After four years, Fossil Free campaigners across the UC have become wary of such meetings but next week they will be eager to capitalize on the support of their new found ally.---http://www.fossilfreeuc.org/divest/uc-santa-barbara<p open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.71429rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.71429;">As determined in her <a href="http://www.sustainabilitycoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/WILLIAMS_EFH_UCSB_INVESTMENTS_COAL.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">senior thesis</a>, now-alumni Emily Williams found that UCSB’s own investments in just the 15 most polluting coal companies is responsible for nearly $200,000 of external costs–in the form of health burdens, climate change-related costs, ecosystem services, etc–pushed off onto society and the environment. If UCSB’s own investments have such a large impact on society and the environment, what about the greater University of California’s investments?<p open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.71429rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.71429;">Fossil Free UCSB started up in Fall 2012 through Associated Students Environmental Affairs Board. Since then, our team passed a unanimous reolution through the Associated Students Senate on Valentines Day, 2013; a resolution through the UCSB Academic Senate; and a resolution through the Chancellor’s Sustainability Committee. We have also held actions including a teach-In, featuring keynote speaker, Jill Stein of the Green Party; marches; and rallies.<p open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.71429rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.71429;">We are currently working with the larger Fossil Free UC team and the UCSB campus to spark a rich and insightful dialogue around our university’s investments in fossil fuels, in addition to coordinating with our alumni and faculty on ways to strengthen our outreach, and build power.<h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanson's_law" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Swanson's law - Wikipedia</a></h3><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="f kv SWb" style="height: 17px; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;"><cite class="Rm" style="font-style: normal;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanson'slaw</cite><div class="action-menu ab_ctl" style="display: inline; position: relative; margin: 0px 3px; vertical-align: middle; user-select: none;"><a class="Fmb ab_button" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=swanson+effect+solar&oq=swanson+effect+solar&aqs=chrome..69i57.3992j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#" id="am-b3" aria-label="Result details" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" jsaction="m.tdd;keydown:m.hbke;keypress:m.mskpe" data-ved="0ahUKEwjKrPzj2u_RAhWBfCYKHZO1BJUQ7B0ILDAD" style="border-radius: 0px; cursor: default; font-weight: bold; height: 12px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none; user-select: none; background-image: none; border: 0px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 0px; filter: none; width: 13px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block;"><span class="mn-dwn-arw" style="border-color: rgb(0, 102, 33) transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px 4px 0px !important; width: 0px; height: 0px; margin-left: 3px; top: 7.5px; margin-top: -4px; position: absolute; left: 0px;" /></a><div class="action-menu-panel ab_dropdown" role="menu" tabindex="-1" jsaction="keydown:m.hdke;mouseover:m.hdhne;mouseout:m.hdhue" data-ved="0ahUKEwjKrPzj2u_RAhWBfCYKHZO1BJUQqR8ILTAD" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; top: 12px; z-index: 3; transition: opacity 0.218s; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 2px 4px; left: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; user-select: none; cursor: pointer;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CGg04uqFiq4J:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanson%27s_law+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CGg04uqFiq4J:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanson%27s_law+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
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3/16 INFLECTION PT, SEE HOPE 2: COAL VS ALT INVESTESTMENT, EXXON BUSTED
exxon busted iCN AGThe day would only get worse for the multinational energy firm, as

the Securities and Exchange Commission ordered a vote on a shareholder

resolution that would require the firm to disclose how climate change—or

regulations meant to combat it—would impact the stability of the

company’s finances.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Govt securities watchdog orders ExxonMobil shareholder vote on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/climate?src=hash">#climate</a> data <a href="https://t.co/KfS425w05d">https://t.co/KfS425w05d</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ExxonKnew?src=hash">#ExxonKnew</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/divest?src=hash">#divest</a>— climatehawk1 (@climatehawk1) <a href="https://twitter.com/climatehawk1/status/713085755757715457">March 24, 2016</a></blockquote>The

SEC’s move comes just weeks after an investigation by the Government

Accountability Project, which revealed that, for years, Exxon had lied

to the SEC in its 10-K filings.“Exxon has done a masterful job of

hedging its bets, both by omission and commission: omitting mere

mention for many years, and then grossly understating, the vast array of

direct and indirect risks it faces as a result of climate change,” said

Climate Science & Policy Watch, a GAP program that promotes

governmental integrity in the use of climate science. “Even worse, Exxon

has <a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/%E2%80%9C%3Ca" target="“blank”">overtly and flagrantly overstated</a>

possible financial and economic risks associated with regulating carbon

and other GHGs, both here in the U.S. and in nations around the world."<a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/rockefeller-family-fund-divest-exxonmobil-says-oil-giant-morally-reprehensible">http://www.alternet.org/environment/rockefeller-family-fund-divest-exxonmobil-says-oil-giant-morally-reprehensible</a>
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</div><div><a href="http://www.globalpossibilities.org/south-african-insurance-company-backs-tree-planting-effort-to-reduce-effects-of-drought/">http://www.globalpossibilities.org/south-african-insurance-company-backs-tree-planting-effort-to-reduce-effects-of-drought/</a></div><div>
</div><div>...Rather than sit idly by and watch farmers lose untold acreage of croplands, <a href="https://www.santam.co.za/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Santam</a> is working to actively reduce drought risk for its customers by funding <a href="http://livinglands.co.za/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Living Lands</a>, an international nonprofit that has been active in South Africa since 2008. Working with government agencies, community organizations, and individual farmers, the project has planted more than 3.7 million trees so far in an effort to stop land degradation and restore the compromised water catchment system. All of this falls under a larger project intended to create “a living landscape” in the Baviaanskloof.<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;" /><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">“This is a business imperative for us, the likelihood of our sustainability is highly dependent on this,” Ray-Ann Sedres, head of integrated sustainability at Santam, told The Guardian. She explained Santam recognizes how climate change is impacting businesses, and feels projects like this tree-planting effort are crucial for the company’s survival.<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The city of Port Elizabeth, now home to 1.4 million residents, hopes to reap direct benefits from the tree-planting program. The city has doubled in size since 1997 and endured water restrictions on and off since 2007. Baviaanskloof area farmers report the rate of topsoil loss has slowed, indicating the runoff which causes erosion has been reduced. With any luck, Port Elizabeth’s water supply will also stabilize as the result of this unique approach to risk management.</div><div></div><h1 class="page-title" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">People v. The Coal Baron</h1><div class="entry-meta" style="font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted on <a href="http://freespeechforpeople.org/2015/07/" title="View Archives for July 2015" rel="bookmark" style="text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease; -webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;">July</a> <a href="http://freespeechforpeople.org/2015/07/08/" title="View Archives for July 8 2015" rel="bookmark" style="text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease; -webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;">8</a> <a href="http://freespeechforpeople.org/2015/" title="View Archives for 2015" rel="bookmark" style="text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease; -webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;">2015</a> by <a class="url fn n" href="http://freespeechforpeople.org/author/bri-holmes/" title="View all posts by Bri Holmes" style="text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease; -webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;">Bri Holmes</a></div><div class="entry-content">West Virginia — In 2010, a disastrous coal mine explosion at the Upper Big Branch facility claimed the lives of twenty-nine miners. An independent report investigating the blast found Massey Energy directly responsible for its neglect. Massey’s parent corporation agreed to criminal and civil penalties, but such recklessness deserves harsher penalties than a fine or a slap on the wrist.The Report of the Governor’s Independent Investigation Panel (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/05/20/us/20110520_MINE_REPORT_DOC.html?r=0" style="text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease; -webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;">the “Report”</a>) concerning the April 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine explosion and deaths describes in more than 100 pages how Massey repeatedly <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/03/10/392207163/feds-add-coal-dust-allegation-to-mine-ceos-indictment" style="text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease; -webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;">placed profits ahead of worker safety and compliance with the law</a>, and has a long history of criminal and civil violations of law.Driving Massey Energy’s aggressive growth and misconduct, is former CEO Don Blankenship. Blankenship’s <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/business/energy-environment/the-people-v-the-coal-baron.html" style="text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease; -webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;">“quasi-dictatorial management style as chief executive produced spectacular results for Massey.” </a>During his tenure as CEO, Blankenship elevated Massey Energy from a modest business to a multi-billion dollar corporation, and the sixth-largest coal company in the country. Various accounts tell of Mr. Blankenship spending millions of dollars to thwart the efforts of politicians and judges that he saw as threats against his free-market and anti-regulatory views.Federal prosecutors found the deadly explosion resulted from Massey cutting corners on important safety measures, and last November a grand jury indicted Blankenship on four criminal counts. The counts include conspiracy to violate mine safety standards and conspiracy to impede federal mine safety officials. If convicted, he could face up to 31 years in prison.The people of <a href="http://www.wvgazette.com/article/20141115/ARTICLE/141119512" style="text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease; -webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;">West Virginia hailed the indictment as a major breakthrough.</a>Although the charges against Blankenship mark a shift in improving mine safety and accountability, Massey Energy got off easy.<a href="http://www.freespeechforpeople.com/sites/default/files/CharterRevocationFAQ060811.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Revoking Massey Energy’s corporate charter in Delaware is a way to hold the corporation accountable for its lethal neglect.</a>A corporation is an artificial entity. It exists only because we the people — represented by a state government — allot a charter. Just as we the people can grant that charter, we can also revoke it. Most major corporations in the U.S., including Massey Energy, are legally based in Delaware. To revoke a charter, the state of Delaware must take action.In 2011, Free Speech For People, <a href="http://www.appalachianvoices.org/" style="text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease; -webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;">Appalachian Voices</a>, and <a href="http://www.ran.org/" style="text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease; -webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;">Rainforest Action Network</a> delivered a petition with 35,000 signatures calling for Massey’s corporate charter to be revoked.With increasing consequences of unrestrained multinational corporate power in America, corporate charter accountability is more important than ever. Individuals, like Don Blankenship must be brought to justice for their actions, but corporations should not be let off the hook.To learn more about our initiative to revoke Massey’s corporate charter, <a href="http://freespeechforpeople.org/initiative-revoke-massey-energys-corporate-charter/" style="text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease; -webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;">click here.</a>
Watch the video below to find out more about our Model Corporate Charter Revocation Act.</div><a href="http://freespeechforpeople.org/people-v-the-coal-baron/">http://freespeechforpeople.org/people-v-the-coal-baron/</a>
Large institutional museums have a history of receiving funding from those who might have an interest in slanting how they cover climate issues. Oil company BP, for instance, is a corporate sponsor at Chicago’s venerable Museum of Science and Industry, whose exhibits have long promoted a cheerful upbeat “better living through science” approach and whose interactive coal mine exhibit has been one of its major attractions since 1933.But BP is doing a little image scrubbing of its own. It announced Monday that it has <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/23/usa-alec-bp-idUSL2N0WP21Y20150323" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">dropped its membership</a> in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the rightwing <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/09/25/alec-climate-change-deniers/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">climate denying group</a> that is heavily funded by—you guessed it!—the Koch brothers. BP gave no reason for dropping its membership, but it follows in the footsteps of Walmart, Amazon, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola Co., Best Buy, <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/09/23/alec-google-climate-change/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">Google</a>, Microsoft, <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/09/24/facebook-alec-climate-change/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">Facebook</a>, eBay, Wells-Fargo and dozens of others that have dropped their ALEC membership in response to pressure from activist groups.trocetta 1:26 euros b/c small co owns chunks of bigger ones737 shareholders (of 600K .01%)emergent property, not top down146 in core, can control 40% of TNC value[<a href="http://www.ted.com/speakers/james_b_glattfelder ">http://www.ted.com/speakers/james_b_glattfelder </a>James Glattfelder studies complexity]: how an interconnected system — say, a swarm of birds — is more than the sum of its parts. And complexity theory, it turns out, can reveal a lot about how the economy works. Glattfelder shares a groundbreaking study of how control flows through the global economy, and how concentration of power in the hands of a shockingly small number leaves us all vulnerable. TEDtalk.

Leverage is a small amount of effort that has a large effect; it requires profound understanding of system dynamics (eg feedback)

Most effective is ju jitsu when you use force of attack to disable attacker.

RW orthodoxy often leads to monoculture/overshoot thus shoot off mouth,thus shoot self in foot: have baby from rape, 1/2 brain b/c god wants it?  Fear of primary flank.

did Rove use social wedge issues as leverage? or just a tactic?  evangelicals allowed revival (sorry0 of Southern Strategy (in conjunction with gerrymandering of ppl of color into electoral ghettos?) recall too early mobilization of RW to create own schools vs segregation/busing, which led to vouchers and homeschool [oregon pet]

credential lever?  eg more lateral infiltration: harvard observatory partners with smithsonian, soon and baliunus get harvard stamp of approval: huge FF $ to Soon:  aerospace degree (diss refers to atmos?) promoted to astrophysics, lateral to climatology; st'd hack method, also 2 freds?==

Stripping an org of IRS tax exempt status is the nuclear option?

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escalator: METHOD: 1 activist lie, 2 massive coverage 3) attack other mdia for not covering 4) mainstream media picks up  5 media critics praise fox  60 story falls apart after damage done 168-9

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Color of change very effective at driving defectors [cascade?] (prompted ctr attack), see also alec and ICC/Heartland: cf expose faster than RWI can construct astroturf BS; perhaps related 350.org driving funders away, eg pension plans, successfully done against apartheid, divestment.note not directly a defund the right strategy, only use market forces in ju jitsu fashion: if the fossil fuel corps understand/respond only to profit/shareholders, then use that.  Not possible to defund the right? the money will get laundered one way or another? What is happening to shareholdr ability to sway?

Listening to Amy Goodman on BookTV, i realized ju jitsu peel off strategy to undo the intergrative 4 dovetails: 1) stewards vs xian, 2) military goes green tired of fighting for flammable and heavy oil (convoy); 3) anti-commie on last gasp (tho BO w/ moustache? and Agenda 21 backed by all TP PRES? cands?); 4) Paul Hawken new green economy? insurance co's 1st to crack on AGW; anti-corp TP and Occupy admit mkt not perfect? see tobacco on dovetail spin (reed?) personal freedom, _ and

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<a href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/a-pay-it-forward-approach-to-funding-solar-power" class="external text" title="http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/a-pay-it-forward-approach-to-funding-solar-power" rel="nofollow" style="margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; line-height: 16.704px; background-image: url(" http="http" www.ic.ucsc.edu="www.ic.ucsc.edu" college8core="college8core" c8wiki="c8wiki" skins="skins" monobook="monobook" external.png="external.png" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">RE-Volv, a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization, is working to make solar more financially accessible to local community groups</a>. The organization is building a program that allows community centers to make the switch to clean energy with no upfront costs. see <a href="http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php?title=Category:Economics" class="external text" title="http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php?title=Category:Economics" rel="nofollow" style="margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; line-height: 16.704px; background-image: url(" http="http" www.ic.ucsc.edu="www.ic.ucsc.edu" college8core="college8core" c8wiki="c8wiki" skins="skins" monobook="monobook" external.png="external.png" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">Economics</a> and <a href="http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Category:Solar" class="external text" title="http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Category:Solar" rel="nofollow" style="margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; line-height: 16.704px; background-image: url(" http="http" www.ic.ucsc.edu="www.ic.ucsc.edu" college8core="college8core" c8wiki="c8wiki" skins="skins" monobook="monobook" external.png="external.png" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">Solar</a>.

legal:  [cf also conspiracy charge; bust for talking about topic]

Note also that tort and class action lawsuits are leverage where small groups and individuals can get justice from large rich corp

RICO countered by voodoo TP:

<h3>Citizens for a Sound Economy</h3>

CSE, one of the third-party ‘anti-tax’ tobacco industry partners, was a think tank dedicated to free market economics. CSE (which split into AFP and FreedomWorks in 2004) was co-founded in 1984 by David Koch, of Koch Industries, and Richard Fink, former professor of economics at George Mason University, who has worked for Koch Industries since 1990.<a id="xref-ref-3-2" class="xref-bibr" href="http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/07/tobaccocontrol-2012-050815.full#ref-3">3</a> ,<a id="xref-ref-51-1" class="xref-bibr" href="http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/07/tobaccocontrol-2012-050815.full#ref-51">51</a> CSE supported the agendas of the tobacco and other industries, including oil, chemical, pharmaceutical and telecommunications, and was funded by them.<a id="xref-ref-52-1" class="xref-bibr" href="http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/07/tobaccocontrol-2012-050815.full#ref-52">52</a> In 2002, before Tea Party politics were widely discussed in the mainstream media, CSE started its US Tea Party (<a href="http://www.usteaparty.com">http://www.usteaparty.com</a>) project, the website of which stated ‘our US Tea Party is a national event, hosted continuously online and open to all Americans who feel our taxes are too high and the tax code is too complicated.’<a id="xref-ref-53-1" class="xref-bibr" href="http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/07/tobaccocontrol-2012-050815.full#ref-53">53</a> Between 1991 and 2002 the tobacco companies, mainly Philip Morris, provided CSE with at least US$5.3 million (see online supplementary table S3). Philip Morris gave CSE US$250 000 annually in the early 1990s to start six state chapters.<a id="xref-ref-41-2" class="xref-bibr" href="http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/07/tobaccocontrol-2012-050815.full#ref-41">41</a>

Philip Morris (PM) designated CSE a ‘Category A’ public policy organisation for funding.<a id="xref-ref-54-1" class="xref-bibr" href="http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/07/tobaccocontrol-2012-050815.full#ref-54">54</a> ‘Category A’ organisations were ‘the largest and most important/sustained relationships’ that were assigned a ‘PM senior relationship manager’ to put them at the ‘centre of a network of information-sharing among PM people involved with the organisation’ and ‘[assure] systematic and ongoing relationship activities’.<a id="xref-ref-54-2" class="xref-bibr" href="http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/07/tobaccocontrol-2012-050815.full#ref-54">54</a> In response to an internal 1999 email asking whether CSE was worth its current level of funding, Philip Morris’ vice president of federal government affairs replied: <q id="disp-quote-4">They are adding this level of value. They have provided significant grassroots assistance, in the nature of several thousand calls to the Hill on the lawsuit [likely the federal RICO lawsuit against the major cigarette companies discussed below] direct lobbying on the lawsuit, some media as well as continuing a very useful level of activity on FET [federal excise tax]/prescription drugs [a proposal to expand Medicare and fund prescription drugs with a tobacco tax]. Throughout the August [Congressional] Recess they have been very active on our behalf in the field in key states with key Members.<a id="xref-ref-55-1" class="xref-bibr" href="http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/07/tobaccocontrol-2012-050815.full#ref-55">55</a></q>

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sad crytpo?

"Give an inch, gain a decade." As Richard Kluger's history shows, the industry often fights regulation ferociously, then compromises to its own advantage. Tobacco companies fought health warnings, then used them to deny legal liability to consumers. When they were losing the fight over TV ads, they proposed their own ban and used it to prevent new brands from taking market share. When cigarette excise taxes passed, the tobacco companies raised prices and profits, while blaming the hike on bureaucratic government.