Democrat Beto O’Rourke Proposes $5 Trillion in New Taxes to Combat Global Warming – Lib Group Says It’s Not Socialist Enough

In early April Democrat Beto O’Rourke came out in support of Democrat Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal that would finally rid the planet of this nuisance country.

Beto went so far as to say climate change may lead to extinction.

Ocasio-Cortez’s plan would rid the country of fossil fuels, even in winter, it would end air travel and build bridges to Europe.

Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore estimated that AOC’s plan would eliminate half of the US population.

On Monday Beto came up with his own Green New Deal. The far left open borders Democrat wants $5 trillion in new taxes to pay for his plan to battle global warming junk science.

Already far left groups are panning Beto’s plan.

They claim it is not socialist enough.

Democrat Beto O’Rourke Proposes $5 Trillion in New Taxes to Combat Global Warming – Lib Group Says It’s Not Socialist Enough

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In early April Democrat Beto O’Rourke came out in support of Democrat Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal that would finally rid the planet of this nuisance country.

Beto went so far as to say climate change may lead to extinction.

Ocasio-Cortez’s plan would rid the country of fossil fuels, even in winter, it would end air travel and build bridges to Europe.

Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore estimated that AOC’s plan would eliminate half of the US population.

On Monday Beto came up with his own Green New Deal. The far left open borders Democrat wants $5 trillion in new taxes to pay for his plan to battle global warming junk science.

Already far left groups are panning Beto’s plan.

They claim it is not socialist enough.

It won’t destroy the country soon enough.

These Democrats are a crazy, dangerous bunch.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/democrat-beto-orourke-proposes-5-trillion-in-new-taxes-to-combat-global-warming-lib-group-says-its-not-socialist-enough/

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The Evidence In The MH17 Case Doesn’t Point To Russia Or Ukraine

The MH17 case shocked the world as it happened and caused an escalation of the war in Ukraine. Although many accusations have been leveled over responsibility for the tragedy, the panel investigating the incident continues to search for the identities of the perpetrators. However, all focus has centered around the culprits being either Ukrainian or Russian, both of whom did not have incentive to further aggravate the Ukrainian conflict.

An examination of the facts, the connections of various state and non-state actors pushing disinformation about MH17 along with knowledge about historical intelligence playbooks and foreign mercenary involvement in Ukraine would in fact suggest that the party responsible for shooting the aircraft down may have been a team with ties to transatlantic American groups allied with certain Western European interests.

I. Investigation Results

In 2014, the Dutch Safety Board (DSB) published its initial findings as part of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) seeking to determine who was at fault for the attack on MH17. These findings established that a BUK 9M38-series missile was fired at MH17 and that the missile was shot from somewhere inside east Ukraine in an area where control was contested by government and rebel forces. At the same time, BUK missile producer Almaz-Antey gave a press conference where they stated that based on the shape of the shrapnel particles which hit MH17, the missile prototype was last produced by the Soviet Union in 1986. Since the missiles have a life span of 25 years, they were decommissioned by the Russian Army in 2011.

In 2016, Stratfor released analysis of satellite imagery from DigitalGlobe that they claimed showed the missile launcher which fired the BUK at MH17. As Disobedient Media has previously reported, DigitalGlobe is an American vendor of satellite imagery founded by a scientist who worked on the US military’s Star Wars ICBM defense program under President Ronald Reagan. DigitalGlobe began its existence in Oakland, CA and was seeded with money from Silicon Valley sources and corporations in North America, Europe and Japan. Headquartered in Westminster CO, DigitalGlobe works extensively with defense and intelligence programs. In 2016, it was revealed that DigitalGlobe was working with CIA chipmaker NVIDIA and Amazon Web Services to create an AI-run satellite surveillance network known as Spacenet. Their photos have repeatedly been used in propaganda attempts to undermine negotiations between North Korea and the United States.

In May 2018, the JIT gave an update on their investigation where they “presumed” that the BUK missile which was used against MH17 came from the Russian 53rd Anti Aircraft Missile brigade. This presumption appears to be a rehash of claims made by “independent” investigative organization Bellingcat in 2014. Nonetheless, investigators left open the possibility that the missile had been fired by another party.

In September 2018, the Russian military gave a press conference where they said the missile that shot down MH17 came from a Ukrainian army arsenal. This belief was based on a study of military archives after the JIT had made the serial number of the missile public. The JIT responded that they would need Russia to submit information supporting their claims, despite the fact that Dutch investigators could have also reached out to Ukrainian authorities in an attempt to verify whether or not the serial number was in fact from a missile part transferred during the Soviet era.

https://disobedientmedia.com/2019/04/the-evidence-in-the-mh17-case-doesnt-point-to-russia-or-ukraine/

Imprisonment Rate Drops to Lowest in 20 Years

The portion of Americans imprisoned has declined by more than 2 percent in 2017, making the rate drop to its lowest since 1997.

The rate has been steadily decreasing since it recorded highs of 506 per 100,000 residents in 2006 and 2007 to 440 per 100,000 in 2017, according to a recent report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) (pdf).

The rate dropped more steeply in 2017 for black adults, by 4 percent from 2016 and by 31 percent from 2007. Still, the rate was 2,336 per 100,000 black men, more than six times than the rate of white men (397 per 100,000).

A majority (55 percent) of state prisoners were serving time for a violent offense at the end of 2016. For about 15 percent, the most serious offense was drug-related. In federal prisons, on the other hand, nearly half were serving sentences for drug-related crimes, nearly all of those for drug trafficking. Less than 7 percent were in federal prison for an immigration crime as their most serious offense.

Among states with the largest prison populations, the imprisonment rate dropped in Texas (some 1.6 percent), Florida (nearly 3 percent), Georgia (almost 1 percent), and New York (more than 2.3 percent). However, it slightly increased in California (about 0.3 percent).

The total prison population was just shy of 1,490,000, the first year in more than a decade when the number dropped below 1.5 million. A little over 183,000 were serving their time in federal prisons (down 3.2 percent from 2016).

The number doesn’t include the average of nearly 750,000 people held in jails. More than 3 percent (10.6 million) of Americans were admitted to jail in 2017, with an average jail time of 26 days, the BLS estimated based on its annual survey of jails (pdf).

If the prison and average jail populations are counted together, the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world—more than 680 per 100,000 residents.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/imprisonment-rate-drops-to-lowest-in-20-years_2899677.html