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Trump Sued for Censorship of Climate Change Data – EcoWatch

The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration Tuesday to uncover public records showing that federal employees have been censored from using words or phrases related to climate change in formal agency communications.

Tuesday's lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, DC, seeks to require four federal agencies to release climate-censorship records, in compliance with the Freedom of Information Act. The U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Department of State have failed to provide records requested by the Center for Biological Diversity or indicate when they might do so, violating deadlines established under the law.

"The Trump administration's refusal to release public information about its climate censorship continues a dangerous and illegal pattern of anti-science denial," said Taylor McKinnon at the Center for Biological Diversity. "Just as censorship won't change climate science, foot-dragging and cover-ups won't be tolerated under the public records law."

On March 30 the Center for Biological Diversity filed Freedom of Information Act requests for all directives or communications barring or removing climate-related words or phrases from any formal agency communications. The records requests followed news reports that federal agencies had removed climate information from government websites and instructed Department of Energy staff to avoid using the phrases "climate change," "emissions reductions" and "Paris agreement."

The Center for Biological Diversity has filed identical requests with the Council on Environmental Quality, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

On March 23 the Center for Biological Diversity joined conservation biologist Stuart Pimm and the Center for Media and Democracy in a separate Freedom of Information Act request to prevent the administration from removing hundreds of environmental data sets on government websites.

Under the Freedom of Information Act, when federal agencies receive requests for the same records three or more times, they must make the records freely available to the public on their websitesa rule known as "the Beetlejuice provision."

Records responsive to the Center for Biological Diversity's climate censorship requests will be made available to the public and the media.

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George Zimmerman shot at, wounded in Florida road dispute

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013, file photo, George Zimmerman listens in court, in Sanford, Fla., during his hearing on charges including aggravated assault stemming from a fight with his girlfriend. The Seminole County Sheriff's Office says Zimmerman was arrested in Lake Mary, Friday, Jan. 9, 2015 on an aggravated assault charge, and is being held at the John E. Polk Correctional Facility. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool, File)

By Barbara Liston

ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of murder charges in the 2012 shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Florida, suffered a minor wound after being shot at in his vehicle on Monday, police said.

Zimmerman did not fire a gun in the Monday incident, his latest brush with law enforcement since his 2013 trial, according to police.

No charges were immediately filed in the shooting, which took place on a roadway in Lake Mary, Florida, a suburb of Orlando.

The other man involved was Matthew Apperson, police said. Apperson previously accused Zimmerman of threatening to kill him during a September 2014 roadside dispute, but declined to press charges.

Zimmerman, 31, was a neighborhood watch volunteer when he shot Trayvon Martin, claiming it was in self-defense. The incident prompted civil rights rallies and drew international attention to Florida's controversial "stand your ground" law.

While Zimmerman no longer lives in central Florida, he unexpectedly ran into Apperson on Monday while visiting for Mother's Day, his attorney, Don West, told Reuters.

Zimmerman recognized Apperson, who was flashing his lights, honking and shouting insults, West said.

As Zimmerman attempted to make a U-turn to leave, Apperson pulled up alongside his vehicle and "pulled out a gun and shot it through the passenger window," West said.

Zimmerman was not injured by the bullet but suffered minor wounds from flying glass and debris, West said. He was treated and released from a hospital.

Apperson called authorities to report the incident about the same time that Zimmerman flagged them down around 1 p.m., police said.

The motive for the shooting was not immediately known, police spokeswoman Bianca Gillett said at a news conference.

Earlier this year federal prosecutors decided not to press civil rights charges against Zimmerman in the Martin case.

Since being acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in that shooting, Zimmerman has drawn attention for his repeated encounters with law enforcement.

He was arrested in January in connection with a domestic dispute. He was accused of throwing a wine bottle at his girlfriend but prosecutors dropped the charges after she recanted.

He was arrested in November 2013 after allegedly pointing a gun at a different girlfriend during an argument. Those charges were later dropped after the woman withdrew her complaint.

Zimmerman also has drawn the attention of authorities over accusations that he had threatened his then-estranged wife.

(Writing by Letitia Stein; Editing by Bernadette Baum and Bill Trott)

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George Zimmerman attorney now representing Fort Worth’s Jacqueline Craig – WFAA

Ryan Osborne, Star-Telegram , WFAA 12:49 PM. CDT May 27, 2017

Defense counsel Mark O'Mara addresses the jury during closing arguments in George Zimmerman's murder trial July 12, 2013 in Sanford, Florida. (Photo: Joe Burbank-Pool/Getty Images), Custom)

FORT WORTH, Texas -- High-profile Florida attorney Mark OMara is now representing Jacqueline Craig, the black Fort Worth woman whose arrest by a white officer in December sparked accusations of racism and led to widespread criticism of the police department.

OMara, who was in Fort Worth on Friday meeting with the Craig family, is best known for representing George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch leader who was acquitted in 2013 in the shooting death of black teenager Trayvon Martin.

In Craigs case, she had called police to report an assault on her son. As tensions rose between her and the responding officer, William Martin, she and her teenage daughter were wrestled to the ground and arrested.

OMara said he wanted to partner with her other attorney, Lee Merritt, to work collaboratively with the city of Fort Worth to address Craigs concerns.

Craig, Merritt and their supporters have called repeatedly for the firing of Martin, who arrested Craig in the viral incident and was later suspended for 10 days. They have also sought harsher charges against her neighbor, Itamar Vardi. He was cited for misdemeanor assault of Craigs son.

More recently, Craig and others in the black community have called for the firing of Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald, who last week demoted high-ranking officers Abdul Pridgen and Vance Keyes for leaking Martins bodycam video of Craigs arrest and his personnel file.

Pridgens and Keyes supporters have argued that they were being targeted in the leak investigation because they are black.

OMara said he was intrigued by Craigs case after watching the video of her arrest. The clip, which went viral on Facebook, showed Martin pointing his Taser at Craig and her daughters and wrestling them to the ground.

It also showed Martin asking Craig, Why dont you teach your son not to litter?

When Craig said littering does not give the neighbor the right to touch her son, Martin responded, Why not?

I was pretty frustrated by the video I saw, OMara said. Nobody can look at that video and say thats the way Martin should have acted.

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Political Violence: GOP Blamed for Media Lies That Kill – The New American

Its hard to know if its more delusion or deception, but the media are again blaming President Trump for violence, this time after a Republican congressional candidate got physical with a reporter. Of course, the medias accusation is much like Planned Parenthood or the MS-13 gang blaming George Zimmerman for our nations diminishing respect for life.

Fake-news outlet the Washington Post is a case in point, currently running an article titled The GOP inherits what Trump has wrought. The paper opines, The angry forces that propelled President Trumps rise are beginning to frame and define the rest of the Republican Party.

When GOP House candidate Greg Gianforte assaulted a reporter who had attempted to ask him a question Wednesday night in Montana, the Post continues, many saw not an isolated outburst by an individual, but the obvious, violent result of Trumps charge that journalists are the enemy of the people. Nonetheless, Gianforte won Thursdays special election to fill a safe Republican seat.

Yes, many saw because many see what they want to see. Of course, its no surprise that the media have glommed onto the Gianforte incident; not only does it serve their ends, but its a man-bites-dog story. The medias selective memory is striking, however.

While conservative violence is relatively rare, the only people as bad as the violent liberals making headlines the past year have been those who didnt make headlines (because they werent covered). And the kicker is that the media have stoked much of this violence.

Its possible the two Post writers, Karen Tumulty and Robert Costa, didnt hear about it (fake-news people associate with other fake-news people), but anti-jihadism crusader Robert Spencer was poisoned by an Icelandic leftist earlier this month. He survived and blames the attack on media propaganda, which has relentlessly portrayed him as a racist while omitting mention of what he actually believes.

Then there was Democrat House candidate Mark Wicklund, who was arrested last year for drunk driving and assaulting a police officer (perhaps he should have followed Trumps lead Trump is a teetotaler). The media, drunk on leftism, also chose not to give this story the ink theyve devoted to the Gianforte incident.

Of course, Gianfortes dust-up with the reporter appears to have been mischaracterized, has been apologized for, and was unplanned. Yet the same cannot be said of the 2016 Democrat scheme to incite violence at Trump rallies. Democrat operative Scott Foval explained the methods on hidden camera in the video below. In an operation allegedly approved by Hillary Clinton, Foval admits that they even paid mentally ill people to instigate trouble and proclaimed, Were starting anarchy here.

Warning: This video contains obscene language.

Speaking of anarchy brings us to Congresswoman Maxine Waters, now a Democrat standard bearer dubbed Auntie Maxine. She called the 1992 Los Angeles riots, which cost 58 lives and took place in her city, a rebellion and somewhat understandable, if not acceptable; she also refused to denounce the savage attack on Reginald Denny, a man rioters beat to within an inch of his life only because of the color of his skin (white). Below is a video of commentator Tucker Carlson exposing Waters history of bigotry.

Then theres Yvette Felarca, a California middle-school teacher and leader of the left-wing groupBy Any Means Necessary. She has taken credit for shutting down (her euphemism for violent action) social commentator Milo Yiannopoulos, referring to how violent protesters who broke windows, threw rocks, hurled incendiary devices at police and set fires prevented him from giving a Feb. 1 UC Berkeley speech. In the Feb. 13 Tucker Carlson Tonight video below, shes shown attacking an apparently peaceful protester in the street, as she labels Yiannopoulos and others fascists.

Note that in whats becoming a pattern, other conservative figures, such as Ann Coulter and social scientist Charles Murray, have also been prevented from speaking on college campuses by violent protesters.

Again courtesy of Carlson, were introduced to attorney Kevin Zeese, co-director of leftist group Popular Resistance. Carlson said during a recent interview, and Zeese did not disagree, that the organization has the goal of making this country ungovernable until President Trump leaves office.

Popular Resistance has associated itself with the violent Occupy Wall Street movement, even once calling itself Occupy Washington, DC. Note also that its name is reminiscent of the Popular Front, the left-wing group that controlled Spain for much of the 1930s and which helped spark the Spanish Civil War.

In the video below, Zeese would not denounce the recent left-wing violence; in typical ends justify the means style, all he would say is that he didnt know if it was effective.

Then, breaking new ground in political depravity, Democrat politicians have actually been leading vulgar chants such as F*** Donald Trump! No less a personage than Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez now casually uses profanity in his stump speeches, and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) followed suit in a recent magazine profile.

This makes the 2006 film Idiocracy sadly prophetic (and it took only a decade), as it portrays a dumbed-down, dystopian American future in which intellectually degraded politicians use profanity reflexively. And how low weve sunk. Note that in a 1776 general order, George Washington inveighed against profanity, calling it a foolish, and wicked practice and a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense, and character, detests and despises it.

One man without sense and character, apparently, is outgoing California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton. In the below video he is shown leading a F*** Donald Trump! chant, at Californias Democratic Party convention in Sacramento, as he and most of the attendees hold up two middle fingers (House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi [D-Calif.] is present, seen on the far right). Ironically, Sacramento means the Sacraments; perhaps cursing is now a new liberal one.

Warning: This video includes obscene language and gestures.

Whats so tragic about this behavior is that just as Bill Clintons sexual improprieties helped define deviancy downwards it coarsens society. Did these leftists, who sometimes sell proposals as being for the children, think at all of the example theyre setting for them?

But violent rhetoric and action have always characterized the Left. In 2012, certain liberals wanted to kill a cute six-year-old boy who expressed anti-Obama sentiments in a video. In 2013, such miscreants expressed support for Christopher Dorner, who murdered innocent people in leftisms name. Town Hall presented 15 more cases of violent leftist rhetoric here, a prime example being, F*** God D****d Joe the God D****d Motherf*****]g plumber! I want Motherf*****]g Joe the plumber dead. Liberal talk show hostCharles Karel Bouleyon the air.

It should now be apparent how comical it is to portray the Gianforte incident as a new American political low inspired by President Trumps behavior. As for the media, they doth protest too much. Theyve instigated much of the violence by suppressing the truth, spreading lies (e.g., Black Lives Matter propaganda) and fomenting unrest. Theyre clearly upset about being called out, but richly deserve the contempt in which Trump and millions of Americans hold them.

They and the rest of the Left also should know that if they want serious conflict, they should stay their evil course. For civil war can be the ultimate result of a breakdown of and the breaking down of civility.

Photo of fire set during Berkeley protests: AP Images

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