[Union of Concerned Scientists] Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl A. Racine sued four of the world’s largest oil and gas companies on Thursday for misleading consumers about the impact their products have on the climate.
Coming just a day after Minnesota filed a similar suit, the District lawsuit contends that BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell have been aware since the 1950s of the threat posed by fossil fuels but launched public relations campaigns to manufacture doubt about the reality and seriousness of climate change. It seeks a court order for the companies to pay civil penalties, provide financial relief for District residents, and stop their disingenuous PR campaigns.
"For decades, these oil and gas companies spent millions to mislead consumers and discredit climate science in pursuit of profits," Racine said in a statement. "The defendants violated the District’s consumer protection law by concealing the fact that using fossil fuels threatens the health of District residents and the environment. [The Office of the Attorney General] filed this suit to end these disinformation campaigns and to hold these companies accountable for their deceptive practices."
The lawsuit also maintains that the companies’ current marketing campaigns hype the relative "green" benefits of natural gas and other products, suggesting that they are "clean" and "emissions-reducing," while concealing the fact that they still contribute significantly to the climate crisis.
"Defendants have shifted their advertising strategies to mislead DC consumers into believing that buying Defendants’ products supports companies committed to reducing and reversing the effects of climate change," the lawsuit asserts. "In fact, the opposite is true."
The four companies named in the District lawsuit are major contributors to global warming. Along with ConocoPhillips, they are responsible for 12.5 percent of all industrial carbon pollution emitted between 1854 and 2010, according to a 2013 study by the Climate Accountability Institute.
Both of the lawsuits filed this week in Washington, D.C., and Minnesota are similar to fraud cases brought by Massachusetts and New York attorneys general against ExxonMobil.
Massachusetts’ lawsuit, filed in October, claims that ExxonMobil deceived consumers about the threat its products pose to the climate. It has not yet gone to trial.
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It won't happen, but I'd love to see 3M pull out of there. There should be enough writing on the wall.
But the absurdity is that if anybody is doing the "misleading", it is the climate change advocates. I mean, why didn't NYC de-fund the NYPD over 20 years ago? The al-Gore types said NYC was supposed to be under water by 2010.
#6
The disclosures of the climatista lies should be very interesting.
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The oil companies should refuse to sell their products to the District. After all, if DC were serious about climate change, they would ban automobiles, trains, and electricity.
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/\ climatista ?
Deacon ~ There are ladies that sometimes visit here. That's an anatomical reference that could get you sinktrapped.
#8
Whats the hospitalization rate and mortality rate? Those are the only numbers that matter. If its like Texas, the aggregate numbers of positive tests are going way up, but as a percentage, its steady, and the number of actual fatalities is declining even in the face of the increase of simple test counts. Hospitalization rates per thousand have actually declined slightly per the CDC's own numbers.
This is how the "flattened curve" bumps up as herd immunity comes into being.
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A rare case of coronavirus was reported in Egypt where a man threw his wife from the fifth floor because she tested positive for coronavirus.https://t.co/GbeWBOex7W
#Oman reports 919 new #coronavirus cases, and six new deaths, bringing the total case count to 36,953, and total deaths in the Sultanate to 159, the Ministry of Health reports.https://t.co/QVnDo6GYqb
#Qatar recorded 879 new coronavirus cases and one new death, the ministry of health reports. The total case count in the country now stands at 93,663, and 110 people have died from the novel #coronavirus.https://t.co/EztgANCeaX
#Iran has launched a campaign to motivate a reluctant public to use face masks as the country faces a sharp increase in infections and deaths from the #coronavirus.https://t.co/2D0zwoPfIs
#India reports over 17,000 new #coronavirus cases in 24 hours, pushing the country's total above 500,000 cases, federal health ministry data shows, with #COVID19 infections surging in major cities including the capital New Delhi. Find out more here:https://t.co/kR0KMZ99Rq
#UAE reports 387 new #coronavirus cases, 365 recoveries and one death. The government's spokesperson urges everyone to continue following precautionary measures.https://t.co/FgsDUTAH5d
#Brazil announces it has signed a $127 million agreement to start producing locally an experimental vaccine developed by #AstraZeneca that has shown promise to fight the novel #coronavirus. Find out more here:https://t.co/6fxN0YHSHt
After a second wave of #coronavirus, people in California, Florida, and Texas are back in hiding, and the recovery in driving that had restored highway travel nationwide is looking more fragile than ever, hitting demand for gasoline in the #US.https://t.co/jduGva0yoy
#Coronavirus in #Saudi Arabia: Twenty-one family members, including elderly individuals, have contracted the coronavirus after one woman, who was carrying the virus, did not comply with preventative measures, the health ministry says. https://t.co/3IMLlRzGFw
#2
...ah, another use of the police as revenue agents. Might be the original cause of Portland's exemption for 'people of color', they wanted to avoid the usual 'incident' that sets off the 'free stuff looting days' we've seen elsewhere.
#6
/\ Appears many of the protesters were out-of-town Antifa caucasians, which negates the need for a large number of urban locals. A few non-caucasions are however necessary for BLM narrative and visual. Other urban dwellers are free to mingle and contribute to the CV-19 die off.
Planned Parenthood was never actually designed to handle current urban 'Margaret Higgins Sanger' population downsizing requirements. Drive-by shootings continue to be plagued by dodgy marksmanship which amount to little more than anecdotal news flashes.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a warning to consumers about hand sanitizers manufactured in Mexico. The agency has put together a list of nine products that are to be avoided because they may be fatal to the consumer.
If the hand sanitizer in your handbag or pocket is one of these, the FDA asks that you "stop using these hand sanitizers and dispose of them immediately in appropriate hazardous waste containers. Do not flush or pour these products down the drain."
All-Clean Hand Sanitizer (NDC: 74589-002-01)
Esk Biochem Hand Sanitizer (NDC: 74589-007-01)
CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 75% Alcohol (NDC: 74589-008-04)
Lavar 70 Gel Hand Sanitizer (NDC: 74589-006-01)
The Good Gel Antibacterial Gel Hand Sanitizer (NDC: 74589-010-10)
CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 80% Alcohol (NDC: 74589-005-03)
CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 75% Alcohol (NDC: 74589-009-01)
CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 80% Alcohol (NDC: 74589-003-01)
Saniderm Advanced Hand Sanitizer (NDC: 74589-001-01)
These nine brands are manufactured by Eskbiochem SA de CV in Mexico. The problem is an ingredient used in these hand sanitizers — methanol. Methanol is also known as wood alcohol. Methanol is toxic when absorbed through the skin or ingested. The FDA recommends that if you have used these products, seek immediate treatment.
FDA tested samples of Lavar Gel and CleanCare No Germ. Lavar Gel contains 81 percent (v/v) methanol and no ethyl alcohol, and CleanCare No Germ contains 28 percent (v/v) methanol. Methanol is not an acceptable ingredient for hand sanitizers and should not be used due to its toxic effects.
So, have the products been removed from store shelves? Nope. Eskbiochem has not honored the FDA’s request to do so. They are still on the market.
On June 17, 2020, FDA contacted Eskbiochem to recommend the company remove its hand sanitizer products from the market due to the risks associated with methanol poisoning. To date, the company has not taken action to remove these potentially dangerous products from the market.
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As hand sanitizers are biocides wouldn't they cause a noticeable and painful skin inflammation if there was any significant absorption beyond the layer of dead cells, especially if used regularly?
#6
Now people, methanol (wood alcohol) is dangerous because - if you drink it, the enzymes that normally handle ethanol would turn it into formaldehyde.
[ZeroHedge] Almost five short months ago, 'journalist' Ryan Broderick was the envy of his fake news peers. The BuzzFeed 'senior reporter' had just written a hit-piece against Zero Hedge slamming us over the 'conspiracy theory' that COVID-19 may have emerged from a lab in Wuhan, China, and claiming that we doxed one of their scientists. Hours later, we were summarily kicked off of Twitter - a ban which has since been reversed after the social media giant admitted they were in error. Meanwhile, the lab origin 'conspiracy theory' has gained widespread support and is now the focus of several international investigations into the CCP lab.
Less than 48 hours after our February Twitter ban, internet sleuths discovered that Broderick had previously blogged about pedophilic fantasies involving young boys. Why he wasn't fired on the spot is anyone's guess. Perhaps former BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith (now with the 'Pedophilia: A Disorder, Not A Crime'-promoting New York Times) has a soft spot for Ryan.
On Friday, Broderick was fired for plagiarism after BuzzFeed's new editor-in-chief, Mark Schoofs, published "A Note To Our Readers" detailing eleven instances where Broderick lifted content from other publications without attribution going back to 2013, including his hit-piece against Zero Hedge.
"BuzzFeed News has found that the following articles do not meet our editorial standards, as laid out in our standards and ethics guidelines," reads Schoofs' note. "As a result, the articles have been updated to more clearly attribute phrases and sentence construction to material previously published by other news organizations."
Which is a long-winded way to say: 'Our Senior Reporter got caught plagiarizing eleven times, so we're doing damage control.'
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Certainly they wouldn't have wanted to fire him over his cherished, stated ambition to be 'the Andy Warhol of erotic children's photography'. Where's Tony Soprano when you need him?
[News24] SAA staff are being offered extremely generous severance packages — averaging R580 000 each — at a total cost of R2.2 billion that is due to come from taxpayers’ pockets.
This includes retrospective increases and incentive bonuses, but is still not enough for several unions.
The offer comes at a time when companies which did business with SAA will be lucky if they see 7.5c on every rand that the bankrupt airline owes them. The debt amounts to about R11 billion in total and creditors may have to give up any hope of ever seeing the money they are owed.
The debt, however, excludes that to banks, which is guaranteed by the state.
The acceptance of the severance packages is a prerequisite for the approval of SAA’s rescue plan, according to which the workforce of the airline will be cut from the current level of about 4 700 to 1 000.
Creditors were meant to vote on the plan on Thursday, but the it was postponed after unions and creditors said the plan was deficient. They are expected to meet again on July 14.
Although the business rescue practitioners have indicated that government is ready to finance the plan, it is still not clear where the money will come from.
CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations said an abandoned oil tanker moored off the coast of Yemen loaded with more than 1 million barrels of crude oil is at risk of rupture or exploding, causing massive environmental damage to Red Sea marine life, desalination factories and international shipping routes.
Meanwhile, Houthi rebels who control the area where the ship is moored have denied U.N. inspectors access to the vessel. Internal documents obtained by The Associated Press shows that seawater has entered the engine compartment of the tanker, which hasn’t been maintained for over five years, causing damage to the pipelines and increasing the risk of sinking. Rust has covered parts of the tanker and the inert gas that prevents the tanks from gathering inflammable gases, has leaked out. Experts say maintenance is no longer possible because the damage to the ship is irreversible.
For years, the U.N. has been trying to send inspectors to assess the damage aboard the vessel known as the FSO Safer and look for ways to secure the tanker by unloading the oil and pulling the ship to safety.
But one European diplomat, a Yemeni government official and the tanker’s company owner said that Houthi rebels have resisted. The diplomat said the rebels are treating the vessel as a "deterrent like having a nuclear weapon." All three individuals spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the subject with a reporter.
#Britain will be ready to quit its transitional arrangements with the #EU “on Australia terms” if no deal on their future relationship is reached, PM Johnson tells his Polish counterpart Morawiecki.https://t.co/M41TrejWbj
.@NORADCommand: US F-22 fighter jets “intercepted four Russian Tu-142 reconnaissance aircraft entering the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone“ Saturday. Russian aircraft remained in international airspace & came within 75 miles south of the Alaskan Aleutian island chain
Moscow reports operations normal, after Dutch officials suggest rise harmless to humans and environment may stem from damage to fuel element in western Russia nuclear power plant.
[DAILYTIMES.PK] A Japanese University has awarded its first-ever degree in ninja studies after Genichi Mitsuhashi spent two years examining historical documents on the true nature of the stealth fighters while perfecting his martial arts skills. Now there's a wide open job market!
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Southeast Asian leaders say a 1982 #UN oceans treaty should be the basis of sovereign rights and entitlements in the #SouthChinaSea, in one of their strongest remarks opposing China’s claim to virtually the entire disputed waters.https://t.co/wpTO26CqMU
[Statista] European airline carriers secured billions worth of government support since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Germany's Lufthansa, the world's fourth largest airline, received a nine billion euros lifeline, the biggest German corporate rescue caused by COVID-19 so far. This was no exception. On June 26, for example, the Netherlands announced the details of its financial support for KLM with a bailout package worth of 3.4 billion euros. Earlier, France announced seven billion euros worth of support for Air France.
This support comes at a cost for the airlines, however, as most European governments attach environmental conditions to their support. This is because the sector's greenhouse gas emissions kept growing up until 2020. Between January and June 2019, for example, carbon emissions from departing flights that originated from Austria and Finland grew by 19 and eight percent, respectively. [Perhaps another example of using COVID-19 hysteria to push the climate change agenda.]
India has apparently lost 3 tactically important positions to China since spring thaw--the "triangle" near PP14 in the Galwan Valley, the zone up to Finger 4 on Pangong Lake, & "the Bottleneck" on the Depsang plains. 1/n https://t.co/x6D8afOdRN
[NYT] - Dr. Camilla Rothe was about to leave for dinner when the government laboratory called with the surprising test result. Positive. It was Jan. 27. She had just discovered Germany’s first case of the new coronavirus.
But the diagnosis made no sense. Her patient, a businessman from a nearby auto parts company, could have been infected by only one person: a colleague visiting from China. And that colleague should not have been contagious.
The visitor had seemed perfectly healthy during her stay in Germany. No coughing or sneezing, no signs of fatigue or fever during two days of long meetings. She told colleagues that she had started feeling ill after the flight back to China. Days later, she tested positive for the coronavirus.
Scientists at the time believed that only people with symptoms could spread the coronavirus. They assumed it acted like its genetic cousin, SARS. Assume makes an ass of u and me
"People who know much more about coronaviruses than I do were absolutely sure," recalled Dr. Rothe, an infectious disease specialist at Munich University Hospital.
But if the experts were wrong, if the virus could spread from seemingly healthy carriers or people who had not yet developed symptoms, the ramifications were potentially catastrophic. Public-awareness campaigns, airport screening and stay-home-if-you’re sick policies might not stop it. More aggressive measures might be required — ordering healthy people to wear masks, for instance, or restricting international travel.
Dr. Rothe and her colleagues were among the first to warn the world. But even as evidence accumulated from other scientists, leading health officials expressed unwavering confidence that symptomless spreading was not important. Because, otherwise, you'd have to quarantine China?
...Interviews with doctors and public health officials in more than a dozen countries show that for two crucial months — and in the face of mounting genetic evidence — Western health officials and political leaders played down or denied the risk of symptomless spreading. Leading health agencies including the World Health Organization and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control provided contradictory and sometimes misleading advice. A crucial public health discussion devolved into a semantic debate over what to call infected people without clear symptoms. Now the critical question is: if symptomless infected can infect, are there some infected/infecting who never develop symptoms?
#1
Yet, in America, about 99% of the population has yet to be infected.
Even in Israel,more than 99% remain uninfected/undetected.
Are we done flattening the curve yet?
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^Robert.
(a) So far, and you'd expect some, there is no evidence that recovered CV19 patients are immune.
(b) There never was any evidence for "herd immunity". It's an artifact of sloppy mathematical modeling.
#12
Go back and look at #1. We are a long, long, long way from being finished with this. Never did 'finidh' with the Hong Kong flu, by the way.
So we either lock down until we get a vaccine we know is safe and effective and plentiful, or we get on with life until the death toll gets so high no one wants to go out.
Pick one.
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The Universe, Robert, doesn't give a f*ck about what we want.
#14
The longterm health hazards from Pandemic M@sturbation, Grom are not in your favor
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"in America, about 99% of the population has yet to be infected."
If you start off with an unproven assertion (commonly known as "a lie", or mopre courteously as a "misrepresentation"), the rest of what you say is extremely suspect.
And the "herd immunity" has some decent mathematical underpinnings. Please post credible citations to the contrary - you're marking the assertion, show your work. Otherwise you're just another ass, braying at barnyard.
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A soldier in the Syrian Army has been forcefully disappeared after he posted videos expressing his love for President Bashar Al-Assad’s daughter, Zein Assad, and his wish to marry her.https://t.co/x0Mp6aDd7p
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Ugh! She's WAY too old per Mo
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...On the other hand, the poor SOB has probably been out in the boonies for a while, and the local goats certainly got his number by now, so it probably seemed reasonable.
Mike
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What's that coda to "May you live in interesting times"?
Oh yeah, "May the Emperor's concubine speak fondly of you".
#5
A mutated strain of coronavirus that has decimated the US, UK and Italy is nearly 10 times more infectious than the original virus that emerged from China, a study suggests.
The potent version of SARS-CoV-2 - called D614G - has four to five times more 'spikes' that protrude from the viral surface allow it to latch onto human cells.
Not only does this trait make it more infectious, but it also makes the virus more stable and resilient.
That was exactly my suspicion. So, China had a multiple release and they managed to eradicate the second, more virulent one. Without warning the world that it had spread to Italy and Spain.
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[Union of Concerned Scientists] Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl A. Racine sued four of the world’s largest oil and gas companies on Thursday for misleading consumers about the impact their products have on the climate.
[News24] SAA staff are being offered extremely generous severance packages — averaging R580 000 each — at a total cost of R2.2 billion that is due to come from taxpayers’ pockets.
CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations said an abandoned oil tanker moored off the coast of Yemen loaded with more than 1 million barrels of crude oil is at risk of rupture or exploding, causing massive environmental damage to Red Sea marine life, desalination factories and international shipping routes.
[Statista] European airline carriers secured billions worth of government support since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Germany's Lufthansa, the world's fourth largest airline, received a nine billion euros lifeline, the biggest German corporate rescue caused by COVID-19 so far. This was no exception. On June 26, for example, the Netherlands announced the details of its financial support for KLM with a bailout package worth of 3.4 billion euros. Earlier, France announced seven billion euros worth of support for Air France.
