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Trucks roll off U.S. floating pier bringing humanitarian aid ashore in Gaza – UPI.com

The first trucks carrying more than 500 tons of humanitarian assistance began rolling off a U.S.-built floating causeway on the Gaza shore Friday morning, the American military said. Photo via U.S. Central Command/UPI
The first trucks carrying more than 500 tons of humanitarian assistance began rolling off a U.S.-built floating causeway on the Gaza shore Friday morning, the American military said. Photo via U.S. Central Command/UPI | License Photo

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Open Thread | Orange Menace Puts Price On the Future of the Planet | 3CHICSPOLITICO

Trump vowed at the dinner to immediately end the Biden administration’s freeze on permits for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports—a top priority for the executives, according to three people present. “You’ll get it on the first day,” Trump said, according to the recollection of an attendee. The roughly two dozen executives invited included Mike Sabel, the CEO and founder of Venture Global, and Jack Fusco, the CEO of Cheniere Energy, whose proposed projects would directly benefit from lifting the pause on new LNG exports. Other attendees came from companies including Chevron, Continental Resources, Exxon and Occidental Petroleum, according to an attendance list obtained by The Post.

Trump told the executives that he would start auctioning off more leases for oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, a priority that several of the executives raised. He railed against wind power, as The Post previously reported. And he said he would reverse the restrictions on drilling in the Alaskan Arctic. “You’ve been waiting on a permit for five years; you’ll get it on Day 1,” Trump told the executives, according to the recollection of the attendee. At the dinner, Trump also promised that he would scrap Biden’s “mandate” on electric vehicles—mischaracterizing ambitious rules that the Environmental Protection Agency recently finalized, according to people who attended. The rules require automakers to reduce emissions from car tailpipes, but they don’t mandate a particular technology such as EVs. Trump called the rules “ridiculous” in the meeting with donors.
This is not climate denialism. This is deliberate destruction for profit. As we have learned over the past several years, the executives in the extraction industry knew the nature of the damage, and the extent of it, long before the rest of us did, and they lied like tobacco experts about what they knew. That probably is still the case, despite the attention the climate crisis has drawn. They simply don’t care, and they’ve cultivated politicians who either don’t care or are too stupid to know why they should, as the small towns back home get blown across state lines by what appears to be an endless chain of tornadoes. With his predator’s instinct for quid pro quo, the former president* was simply honest enough to name his price.

The money isn’t for the his campaign. It’s for his pockets, because he’s taking every cent that comes into the RNC.
And, yet, this isn’t leading the news everyday.

Source: Open Thread | Orange Menace Puts Price On the Future of the Planet | 3CHICSPOLITICO