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Sheriff Joe said:
Irony: Environmentalists Protesting North Dakota Pipeline Left Behind Tons of Waste, Could Contaminate Waterways

In case you missed it, the legal and bureaucratic battle over the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines is finished. We won. President Donald J. Trump signed two executive orders to move forward with the projects. The Army Corp of Engineers signed off on the Dakota Access Pipeline’s final permit. And a judge refused to hear an appeal to block the project’s construction. After Trump won the 2016 election, it was only a matter of time before the incoming president would sign off on the projects. Hundreds of protestors flocked to Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota to protest the pipeline’s construction, which activists say will desecrate their sacred burial grounds and would contaminate their drinking water along the 1,172-mile route.

There have been claims that Dakota Access LLC never consulted the local tribes about the pipeline. They were consulted 389 times. There are also archeologists on site just in case construction runs into a burial site.
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There's also Paleontologist and Native American observers that watch the excavation of pipeline.
 
National Snow and Ice Data Center has been gathering satellite data on Antarctic Sea Ice extent since 1979. Now in Southern Hemisphere Summer, the Antarctic sea ice coverage extent is the lowest area in their record - and there is about another month left until the usual annual low point.

https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/
 
espola said:
National Snow and Ice Data Center has been gathering satellite data on Antarctic Sea Ice extent since 1979. Now in Southern Hemisphere Summer, the Antarctic sea ice coverage extent is the lowest area in their record - and there is about another month left until the usual annual low point.

https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/
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But's it's been cold and rainy here, there must be more ice in Antarctica??? The Earth can't be warming if I feel cold...
 
Lion Eyes said:
What treasonous act did Flynn commit?
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He lied to the Vice-President and the President said he couldn't trust him, isn't that enough right there? . . . besides undercutting American foreign policy as a citizen and all the other things that will be uncovered concerning Trump and Russia. Flynn's actions may end up being the least of the criminal and unsavory acts.
 
espola said:
Violation of the Logan Act of 1799, at least once. little jeffie is trying really hard to keep his fingers out of that tarball.
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I gave you an old rating as this is now ancient news as far as news cycles go . . . but I know, I know, LE keeps asking, then ignoring, asking, then ignoring. It's like he never reads a newspaper, watches any news (beyond infowars or Breitbart fed outlets like faux and Limbaugh) or talks to anyone in the real world.
 
Lion Eyes said:
What treasonous act did Flynn commit?
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No idea if Flynn is guilty, but I'm curious to see how it plays out, here is the relevant law:

"18 U.S. Code Chapter 115 - TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES

Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or

Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or

Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.

If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in this section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction."
 
Lion Eyes said:
Hmmm....
So being fired means he committed treason?
Any precedent for that?
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You asked if anyone of consequence, how about his boss? . . . and like Trump STILL talking about the election and Hillary, it's over, there may be hearings, court proceedings (Trump may now be sucking up to Flynn so he doesn't squeal like a pig), and possible further consequences (both of the election and the Trump/Russia alliance), but Flynn is gone. Treason? We'll see.
 
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