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Within hours of her 2016 presidential campaign loss, a devastated Hillary Clinton attributed her defeat not to the American voters who rejected her, but to Russia, echoing a campaign theme she had been developing for months. “Hillary declined to take responsibility for her own loss” and “kept pointing her finger” at Russia, according to Shattered, a 2017 book about her campaign—“Her team coalesced around the idea that Russian hacking was the major unreported story of the campaign.”The corporate media were also devastated, as they had spent the entire campaign mocking the idea that Trump and his anti-establishment positions on foreign...

Pope Francis’ climatologist visits New Orleans The Rev. Eduardo Scarel is best known for his role in advising Pope Francis on climate change. As such, he’s been dubbed the Pope’s climatologist. A Carmelite priest and atmospheric scientist, Scarel was in New Orleans earlier this week speaking with high school students and to an audience at the Notre Dame Seminary Tuesday evening.Why does the Pope need a climatologist? “Because the care for environment, for nature requires to see the state of the planet,” Scarel said. “And the tools of science provide the best way to see.”Scarel helped advise Pope Francis on...

Rajendra Pachauri, the 73-year-old Indian leading the U.N.’s climate science arm, told Speigel Online he planned to step down from his position in 2015. Pachauri, who once told climate skeptics to go rub their faces in cancer-causing asbestos, is not a scientist himself, despite the fact that he leads a group of climate scientists looking at global warming. Pachauri is rather a railroad engineer, an economist and a consultant with lucrative contracts in the energy industry, the German paper noted. Meaning that when Pachauri vacates his position, anyone could step in to take over -- no degree in climate science...