Drilling is Green insists Alaskan Senator

Trump 2020

Showy events like yesterday’s White House tax cut speeches make Trump’s re-election look assured.

Trump delivers world's biggest ever Tax Cut

Republicans are ecstatic about Trump's tax cut. Listen to Mike Pence.

London Conversation

But wheeling out African American politicians like Tim Scott to talk about how the tax cut is for ‘distressed communities’ and single mothers while Ben Carson is asked to pray for tax cuts in Cabinet Meetings could seriously backfire.

Ben Carson leads Trump cabinet in prayer | CNN Politics

In an unusual moment, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson led members of the Trump cabinet in prayer during a meeting on Tuesday, thanking God “for a President and for cabinet members who are courageous, who are willing to face the winds of controversy in order to provide a better future for those who come behind us.”

CNN

How long will America fall for Pity the Billionaire politics?

Steve Bannon Glosses Over Racist Past In Speech To Black Republicans

"A lot of women have come forward and accused me of doing things!" one attendee said. "Half of them are true!"

HuffPost UK

Breitbart’s Billionaire Bannon recently spoke to an AstroTurf White-Funded Black Business Group even while campaigning for Roy Moore.

UK Alt-Right

The Alt-Right has quite a following here in the UK:

Jacob Rees-Mogg met Steve Bannon to discuss US-UK politics

Exclusive Tory grassroots favourite met ex-Trump adviser this week to discuss how conservative movements can win in Britain

the Guardian

Including the Political Sketch Writer of the Daily Mail, Quentin Letts:

Rees-Mogg could have been offering May a slice of lemon drizzle: QUENTIN LETTS sees Theresa face Conservative Brexiteers at PMQshttps://t.co/Yr2HNzYNoJ #MoggMentum

— MoggMentum (@MoggMentum) December 14, 2017

Energy Dominance

Senator Dan Johnson claims high US safety standards mean drilling is good for the environment.

That’s some prizewinning flexibility in the face of facts.

But Ohio Senator Orrin Hatch takes things to a whole new level at 04:03.

Yes, the world needs America — but with friends like these, God help us.

Alaska

Arctic Refuge Just the Start of Trump’s Move to Unlock Alaska Oil

Drilling for crude in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge may be just the start as President Donald Trump seeks to revive Alaska’s beleaguered oil industry.

Bloomberg.com

Alaska’s Arctic national wildlife refuge now has a $1bn price tag on it | Kim Heacox

Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski believes this refuge could generate vast sums of money once it’s opened to oil leasing. That would be a tragedy

the Guardian

An Alaska Senator Wants to Fight Climate Change and Drill for Oil, Too (Published 2017)

Senator Lisa Murkowski’s views will take center stage this week in a hearing on opening an Arctic wildlife area to oil drilling.

www.nytimes.com

The Breitbart View

Delingpole – Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Drilling: Trump Parks His Tanks on Sierra Club's Lawn

There was a lot of good news in Trump's National Security Strategy -- the document which finally told the truth about climate change.

Breitbart

James Delingpole

An elder statesman in the world of UK Alt-Right politics — check out his Breitbart podcast— it’s designed for the corruptibly anti-corrupt.

I’ve listened to it a few times. The honesty is comforting. Can’t say we always agree. But it’s unfair on its own terms.

The contradictions don’t hide – they’re part of the fun.

I read somewhere that Delingpole smoked weed with David Cameron at Oxford. He must hate him now. Far too liberal for Delingpole.

More on Cameron (and HSBC) soon.

Breaking: Corrupt Money Launderers HSBC bankrolled Corrupt Cameron & Corrupt Osborne's Trips to Davos

Corrupt Tories David Cameron & George Osborne were flown to Davos in a private jet financed by money launders HSBC & gaffe-prone fiddler Michael Spencer

London Conversation

As for Delingpole – if he dies in battle, they should still let him into heaven.

Groupthink

Having moved around in some ‘progressive’ circles over the years, I’ve exposed myself to more than my fair share of groupthink, infiltration, astro-turfing and controlled opposition.

Greatest Threat to Freedom

Green movement 'greatest threat to freedom', says Trump adviser

Climate-change denier Myron Ebel says he expects Trump to withdraw the US from the global climate change agreement

the Guardian

Peter Foster: How Trump saved freedom and democracy from the Climate Industrial Complex

The U.S. was a problem for the green global governors because of that picky Constitution

financialpost

Better not to kill each other when we can all attack the planet instead

Technology and automation are fine if you’re invested. Anyone can pick up a bit of bitcoin!

Why end slavery when it is so profitable for some?

I feel there are arguments that would be made along these lines that parallel Trump’s $1.5 trillion tax repeal argument. They will mainly be found in the Wall Street Journal.