Glaciers, Government, Gas

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/beware-the-boogeyman-alarm/

The government took your tax dollars sometime prior to 2010 warning you that the glaciers you were looking at would be gone by 2020. Remember, some version of "Global Warming" or "Climate Change" is SETTLED!

My view is that what is "settled" is that humans are susceptible to marketing! 

Now government is taking your tax dollars to take the signs down as the glaciers they advertised as being gone by 2020 are 60% still there. Nature often fails to comply with government mandates. What's more, the government is complaining that they didn't get enough funding to correct their error! It is enough to bring a tear to your eye.

This is why you can’t trust a federal employee to do anything. If these people were still in charge of the internet, every January 1 you’d have to send a money order and a stamped, self-addressed envelope to the federal office of grain management, spotted-owl preservation and information services, in Pueblo, Colo., to pay for your Internet access license to be renewed.

Actually I think you CAN trust them to make increasing demands for money and control over your life, ever increasing invasion of your privacy, and ever increasing limits on your ability to make any complaints about it!

What? You mean that even though promised the opposite by the great Obama -- if you liked your health insurance, you weren't able to keep it? Fracking actually did make the US energy independent even though we were assured it would not?

There is a never ending litany of the "experts" being certain, and completely wrong. How many people have the common sense awareness to notice that killing Iranian head terrorist Solemani barely caused a blip in US gas prices  (he met his virgins Jan 3). Those of us old enough to remember the bad old days prior to fracking know that an action like that would have kicked the pump prices up a good .50 to a buck!

If you think a bit independently and somewhat  rationally, you KNOW that there is NO WAY the Russians would want Trump rather than Hillary to win! They are a huge energy producer, and US oil dependency vastly reduced US global power. (and the Russians invested heavily to discourage fracking -- duh) ... if Hillary had been elected, fracking in the US would have been crippled! Advantage Moscow!

I can imagine they put some token money in US elections in order to diminish faith in the US electoral process (mission accomplished!), but to want Hillary to win? Not in this universe.

One could suspect that even if a full Democrat government takes over ... House, Senate, President, SCOTUS, Deep State, etc, that college and healthcare may not actually be free, free, free! ... although one could easily expect that it might be "hate speech" to point that out!

Fracking Deep State, Russian Meddling

The 'deep state' is real. But are its leaks against Trump justified? | Jack Goldsmith | Opinion | The Guardian:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/07/anti-fracking-groups-russia-secret-funding-protects-kremlin-interests/

The top link is a Guardian article that is so even handed that it almost fails to say anything -- it does realize the obvious, a) There is and has been a Deep State for a long time b). Trump is fighting back against them. Beyond that, it assumes that the Russian connection with Trump MIGHT be legit, however is concerned by the following ...

The comparison is plausible in light of the extensive efforts soon after the election to encourage the bureaucracy, including the intelligence bureaucracy, to resist the Trump administration, and the evidence that there was in some agencies such resistance.
But while Hoover did many awful things in quiet, neither during his reign nor at any other time in American history have we seen such a profusion of sensitive leaks from the deep state with such an overtly political aim to bring down senior leadership.

 Ok, so we know the obvious -- the Deep State is made up of a bunch of Democrats who don't like Trump, so they are working like crazy in the open to discredit him.

The PROBLEM from my POV is WHY would the Russians have wanted Trump in the White House? The second link tells us another obvious point -- Russia is a huge energy producer and they HATE competition! They have been working around the globe for a LONG time to prevent the use of fracking ... spending millions (likely hundreds of millions) to do what they can to prevent the use of this technique which lowers the price of energy, which is BAD for Russia!

According to the reports, entities connected to the Russian government are using a shell company registered in Bermuda, Klein Ltd. (Klein), to funnel tens of millions of dollars to a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) private foundation, the Sea Change Foundation (Sea Change). This money appears to move in the form of anonymous donations. Sea Change then passes the money originating in Russia to various U.S. 501(c)(3) organizations such as the Sierra Club, League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, and others. These funds are dispersed as grants that will be used to execute a political agenda driven by Russian entities. The purpose of this circuitous exchange of foreign funds is to shield the source of the money.

Russia has been working through organizations to help elect DEMOCRATS for a long time because DEMOCRATS tend to oppose anything that allows the US to produce any energy. It's a "win/win" ... prevent the US from competing with Russia, AND weaken the ability of the US to operate militarily (solar powered fighter planes and aircraft carriers are a LONG way off).

Super bonus! Pay 10's of millions of dollars directly to the Clinton Crime Family to lock up 20% of the N American urainium reserves!

I'm fully willing to assume that the Russians are incompetent as well, however they are REALLY incompetent if they are paying 10's of millions of dollars both DIRECTLY to the Clinton Crime Family, AND to organizations that oppose fracking, and THEN, turning around and deciding that they want to "rig the election" to get PRO fracking Trump elected. Seriously?