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Rep. Lamar Smith thinks Russians are behind opposition to pipelines and fracking

Years ago I met Rep. Lamar Smith at the Texas State Capitol.
He studiously avoided my attempts to talk to him about solar power.
And is House Committee report on energy markets does not mention
solar power even once, and wind only to sneer at it.
The report does spend quite a bit of space promoting fracking.

Oh, it’s supposed to be about those horrid Russians.
It builds its case otherwise around 4% of 9,097 social media posts
over two years, which is about one every other day.
I personally post more than that.
Not a very impressive report.

Justin Mikulka, Desmog, February 18, 2018,

Safety Officials Order Partial Shutdown of Sabine Pass LNG Export Facility After Discovering 10-Year History of Leaks.

Here’s a sample from the
Majority Staff Report, Continue reading →

Free the Internet: stop SOPA and PIPA

If you don’t know what SOPA and PIPA are,

Google, Wikipedia, reddit, and many other websites will tell you today

that those are bills in Congress to censor the Internet.

If you like blogs, YouTube, facebook, and other social media,
you won’t like SOPA and PIPA if they become law, because they
will enable big copyright holders such as movie studios to
force websites to remove links to entire domains on suspicion
of copyright violation.

What you can do:
contact your members of Congress today.
You can do that through

one of the many online tools
Or

call, email, or send a paper letter directly.
Free the Internet!

-jsq

Media to Attract Local Industry?

In addition to those previously blogged,
some other projects are also mentioned in

Sunday’s VDT article about the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority.

Malynda Fulton’s writeup of the February Industrial Authority meeting
mentions a couple more projects, Project Butter, and Project Loaves, both about baking, that don’t appear in either the January or April articles.
This leads to the question: what are the current projects, and what is
their status?

Apparently the media campaign discussed in

the January article
didn’t happen, since it’s not mentioned in either of the later articles.

The February writeup does brag about the Industrial Authority’s “newly-designed Web site”.
Well, it’s fancy, all right.

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