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Friesland said:
"There is uncertainty as to specific #s" is not "it does not exist..." That's just bad, intentionally obfuscating rhetoric we hear all the time by those trying to smog the issue.

There is no question there are huge negative environmental costs. That's just facts.

Social costs of pollution - from air to water to land - have almost never been accurately or adequately charged to the polluters.
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But the IMF isn’t trying to smog the issue. But I do see you people trying to smog the issues. I wish you all would have the balls to stop using fossil fuels as profusely as you do while you professing environmental and social responsibility.
 
US soccer star Megan Rapinoe says she will 'probably never sing the national anthem again'
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By Ryan Gaydos | Fox News
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Rapinoe, who was the first white athlete to kneel during the national anthem before a sporting event following former NFL star Colin Kaepernick’s decision in 2016, revealed in a lengthy interview with Yahoo Sports the backlash she received over her choice to take a knee.

FLASHBACK: US SOCCER STAR MEGAN RAPINOE KNEELS DURING NATIONAL ANTHEM IN 'LITTLE NOD' TO KAEPERNICK

Rapinoe said she wasn’t satisfied with the conversation that stemmed from her decision to knee during the anthem. She expressed her displeasure with U.S. soccer’s statement about the kneeling controversy and the federation’s decision to adopt a rule requiring players to “stand and honor the flag.”

“Using this blanketed patriotism as a defense against what the protest actually is was pretty cowardly. I think the NFL does it,” she told Yahoo Sports. “I felt like the statement from U.S. Soccer, and then the rule they made without ever talking to me, that was the same as what the NFL was doing – just to not have the conversation, to try to just stop me from doing what I'm doing instead of at least having a conversation, and trying to figure out a [solution] that makes sense for everyone.”

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Rapinoe knelt during the national anthem before her match against the Chicago Red Stars in 2016. She called her act a “little nod” to Kaepernick and “everything that he’s stranding for right now.”

She recalled to Yahoo Sports that the whole controversy “wasn’t super easy for me.”

“I think that was a really good lesson for me: This is what it’s going to take for things to change, norms to change, conventions to change, to try to break down white supremacy and break down racial bias,” she said. “It’s going to take it being hard. For everyone. … That really resonated with me.”

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Rapinoe will lead the U.S. in its first group-stage match against Thailand on June 11. The U.S. will then play Chile on June 16 and Sweden on June 20.
 
Uncover 'Mistakes' in FISA Probe

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JOSHUA CAPLAN 14 May 2019




Former FBI General Counsel James Baker conceded that the Department of Justice inspector general will find that the bureau made “mistakes” during its counterinvestigation into now-debunked collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election.
“The inspector general is looking at everything we did,” Baker told CNN, per the Washington Examiner. “If the IG usually finds mistakes that we made, so I expect him to find mistakes this time.”

The former FBI official’s remarks come as Inspector General Michael Horowitz is expected to complete his review of alleged surveillance abuses committed by the Justice Department and FBI related to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court applications regarding former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page. Attorney General William Barr has stated the probe could wrap up by May or June. Meanwhile, Barr has assigned U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut John Durham to look into the origins of the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign, the New York Times reported Monday.

Baker’s remarks come after expressing uneasiness last week about Horowtiz’s forthcoming report on the bureau’s conduct. “I’m always nervous about the IG, I guess,” the former FBI official replied during a fireside chat with Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes in Washington, D.C, the Examiner reported.


“They’re coming in after the fact to look at what we did,” Baker continued, adding that during the probe the bureau was “trying to do it in real time and having the pressure to deal with these threats as they were coming.”

He later said he felt “confident in the judgments that I made at the time based on the information that I had available to me,” before conceding, “I’m sure they will find things that I didn’t know at the time and maybe that others didn’t know at the time.”

Baker was reassigned from his role as the FBI’s top lawyer by bureau Christopher Wray in December 2017 — a position he had held since 2014. On May 4, 2018, he resigned from the FBI and later joined the Brookings Institution as a fellow. He is also a lecturer at Harvard Law School.

In July 2017, Circa reported Baker was under investigation for allegedly leaking information about classified material concerning a top-secret surveillance program, which was reported by Reuters the previous year. Yahoo Inc. was said to ordered by the federal government to scan “hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said three former employees and a fourth person apprised of the events.” House Oversight Committee members Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Mark Meadows (R-NC) said in January 2018 that the probe was still ongoing.
 
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