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These German reporters went undercover to expose @HeartlandInst’s “pay to play” climate denial operation. Worth. A. Watch.
zdf.de/politik/fronta…
To summarize: right-wing donors who wish to remain fingerprint free donate to dark money groups like DonorsTrust. DonorsTrust doesn’t have to reveal its donors because technically the donors don’t get final say on where the money goes. But realistically everyone’s in on the game.
DonorsTrust then funnels the now anonymous money to @HeartlandInst, which uses it to spread climate denial & misinformation. One way Heartland does this is by paying influencers to speak out against climate science.
It is time to shine a light on this web of denial: the bad actors anonymously funding these efforts, the shell-corporations through which the money is transmitted, and of course the organizations actively fighting against climate science.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
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Here’s how the impeachment outcome looked to leading editorial & opinion pages:
“Republican senators are shockingly unaware of their constitutional obligations and unable to provide a coherent explanation for their actions.”
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“What a reasonable senator could not do was what happened here: wholesale shirking of the Senate’s constitutional responsibility to assess — which includes a responsibility to obtain — all the evidence of potential wrongdoing.”
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Sheldon Whitehouse
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Astoundingly, Republican colleagues are criticizing House presentation as providing “nothing new”

—wait for it—

WHILE they are blockading ALL new evidence + witnesses! Irony Department working overtime.
But if you want something new from yesterday: White House broke the law TWICE — Impoundment Control Act and Whistleblower Protection Act — and both acts of lawbreaking serviced to cover-up Ukraine scheme from Congress.
When you break the law — twice— to cover something up, it tells you a lot about how bad that something was, particularly when lawyers are involved in the lawbreaking cover-up. Had to be pretty desperate.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
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My take on a long grim day.

My father served the United States government his whole life, as a WWII Marine Corps dive bomber pilot, as a CIA officer in post-war Europe, & as a career foreign service officer with three tours in the Southeast Asia conflict.
Yesterday’s ordeal of relentless evidence about the Ukraine "drug deal" cooked up & covered up in our government, about disgraceful conduct & motives of the President & officials, & the damage it has done to our reputation, allies, & interests, has sickened my stomach & my heart.
As a lawyer, the role of the White House lawyers, apparently colluding with & covering up this sordid episode, is particularly troubling & raises serious questions about misuse of the law to conceal wrongdoing.
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Bubba Rogowski
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Beste mensen, er is geen significante zeespiegelstijging, geen globalwarming, ijsberen gaat ook prima mee, stikstofcrisis is ook verzonnen, etc.
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Stefan Rahmstorf
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Till Eckert
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Abstruser wird’s heute nicht mehr, aber here we go: Hinter indirekter Wahlwerbung für die AfD vor der #Thueringen-Wahl steckt nach Recherchen von @correctiv_org und @Frontal21 ein anonymer Strippenzieher mit guten Kontakten zu Großspendern. correctiv.org/aktuelles/neue…
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Brexitshambles
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Best 11 minutes you'll spend tonight, Germany is on to the greatest fraud in British political history, it's all in here, Leave's lies, illegal spending, dubious companies, Banks' dodgy diamond mines, Farage; even a cameo by @shahmiruk
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BRILLIANT - If you though that was 11 minutes well spent, we recommend you invest the best 30 minutes you're ever likely to spend this week. This longer subtitled version contains extensive footage from @carolecadwalla and @EmmaLBriant
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George Gowing
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Why @Nigel_Farage on @adamboultonSKY on @SkyNews, should anyone "Respect" the biggest democratic vote .. blah.. Referendum when it has been proven to have been criminally financed? And since when has Big meant Better.
You admitted as much on German TV doc into the Ref campaign
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This short doc on 19/3
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Jan Schürlein
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Neben der ARD habe ich auch dem ZDF (Frontal21) vor ein paar Tagen ein Interview gegeben.

Das waren die einzigen beiden Sender.

Das Interview beim ZDF sollte eig. mit wem anderem laufen, Tarik Tesfu ist einfach mittendrin 'hinterhältig' aufgetaucht und hat dann Fragen gestellt.
Bei dem ursprünglichen Interviewer handelt es sich um die gleiche Person die damals mit Imp & Dorian das Interview geführt hat.

Aber ich hatte die Befürchtung viel mehr aus dem Kontext gerissen zu werden, ist soweit ich bis jetzt gesehen habe ganz okay der Beitrag.
Finde es nur lächerlich wie man mich immer wieder versucht als Rechten / Hetzer darzustellen.

Wie man inzwischen wissen sollte, bin ich absolut neutral zu jedem, auch politisch (Ausgenommen AFD 🖕), sonst würde ich ja wohl kaum mit Leuten wie Tarik reden.
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