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Joe Biden rolled out his climate policy on Tuesday after facing weeks of criticism from the Democratic Party's left flank for reportedly considering a plan to strike a "middle ground" on the issue.
Former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign came under fire on Tuesday for putting out a $1.7 trillion
climate change plan that appeared to copy a handful of passages from previously published documents.
The incident recalled the plagiarism incident that helped drive Biden from the 1988 presidential race, though Biden's campaign team called the latest episode an error that was corrected.
"Several citations, some from sources cited in other parts of the plan, were inadvertently left out of the final version of the 22 page document," a Biden spokesperson said in an email. "As soon as we were made aware of it, we updated to include the proper citations."
Josh Nelson, vice president at the progressive group CREDO, first flagged the similarities on
Twitter.
The text contained the same language about technology designed to capture and store power plants' carbon dioxide emissions as documents previously released by the nongovernmental organization Center for Climate and Energy Solutions as well as the BlueGreen Alliance, a coalition of environmental and labor groups.
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions spokesperson Alec Gerlach said his group doesn't coordinate with campaigns but that "carbon capture should be an essential element in any comprehensive strategy to eliminate carbon emissions." BlueGreen Alliance interim co-executive director Mike Williams said in a statement that the portion Biden's campaign used was "publicly available."
Comment: So, to sum up: sh*tstain spooks who rule Europe from the shadows cashed in some of their blackmail currency on Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache to knock the FPÖ out of Austria's government (collapsing the whole government in the process). They did this because they detest that party's positive relations with the Russian government, or its openness to conservatism/'wokeness' to the multi-culti agenda. Or both.
Chancellor Kurz may have been party to the plan, or may simply have capitalized on it, but either way he got pulled down by the FPÖ as it fell from the top floor. Meanwhile, nothing has changed for the Austrian electorate, who, at the recent EU elections, voted for Kurz's and Strache's parties in the same ratio they did in the 2017 Austrian election.
So they could both be back together in coalition again this Fall - deep state schemes be damned!