Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Davos 2

Riley Dowell, 23, of Melrose, is charged with assault by means of a dangerous weapon, destruction or injury of personal property, and damage of property by graffiti/tagging, stemming from an incident at the Parkman Bandstand, according to authorities.
Boston police were called to the bandstand around 9:30 p.m. Saturday for a report of a protest and allegedly saw a person, later identified as Dowell, spray-painting the monument with the words “NO COP CITY” and “ACAB,” the department said in a statement, which identified Dowell, who was assigned male at birth, using her birth name.
She is the daughter of the Democrat Senate Whip.

Some pictures from the Daily Mail and Twitter:

Dowell, 23, was charged with Assault by Means of a Dangerous Weapon, Destruction or Injury of Personal Property and Damage of Property by Graffiti. Pictured: Clark and Dowell in 2018

Dowell, 23, was charged with Assault by Means of a Dangerous Weapon, Destruction or Injury of Personal Property and Damage of Property by Graffiti. Pictured: Clark and Dowell in 2018 



Riley Dowell
Riley Dowell Twitter


Jared Dowell
Jared Dowell Twitter

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So the big Mexican anti-drug cop has been taking millions of dollars from the cartels. Is anyone surprised?

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Thomas raised the interesting question as to whether the Hamlin excitement distracted the Bills.

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Davos 2

On Wednesday, a nine-month investigation by The Guardian, produced with Die Zeit and non-profit investigative outlet Source Material, revealed that forest carbon offsets mostly don’t work.

On Thursday, a second report criticized this approach as well: Researchers in several countries found that carbon removal technologies are still a long way off from being able to suck up the vast amounts of emissions that corporate net-zero plans are banking on.

Novel methods like direct air capture today account for just 0.1 percent of the 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere, itself a small fraction of the roughly 37 billion tons of carbon dioxide emitted worldwide last year.

Self-appointed expert activists do not want control of their proclaimed problem out of their hands. And they really don't want private businesses to do it. Speaking alongside Kerry at one panel of extraterrestrials was Helena Gualinga, a 20-year-old indigenous climate activist from the Kichwa Sarayaku community in the Ecuadorian Amazon, whose credentials are obvious. “Putting business first is exactly what has led us to the point where we are at right now,” she said, reacting to Kerry’s comments that point to private sector climate solutions. “In this building, we have people who are enabling those crimes against humanity and against planet. Let’s not get confused here. We’re talking about not expanding on fossil fuels,” she said. “We don’t want any new oil wells. We don’t want any new coal mines,” she added, or “any new fossil fuel development.” At the end of the panel, Gualinga directly asked Kerry and Germany’s climate envoy, Jennifer Morgan, also on the panel, if they would commit to ending new fossil fuel exploration.

“I love and respect your passion and your voice is really critical in this,” the extraterrestrial-in-chief said, noting that he had just met with “your environment minister,” newly-appointed Brazilian environment minister Marina Silva, “about the forest.” Kerry seemed to erroneously believe Gualinga was from Brazil. (Extraterrestrials have a broader vision, beyond arbitrary national lines.) Politely, Gualinga chimed in as he continued talking about the Rainforest Protection Pact: “Make sure to include Ecuador also, my country.”

There is no greater example of American tolerance than the open-mindedness shown toward a dangerous political-scientific belief championed by extraterrestrial morons and a child.

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