October 10, 2018: Hurricane Michael Pummels Florida Panhandle - Just as Scientists Predicted

 

10/10/18: Hurricane Michael, a near-Category 5 storm piles into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions in damage. It is the strongest hurricane to strike the area since record-keeping began in 1851. Original estimates put Michael at the “tropical storm” level, but the hurricane gained intensity as it passed over much-warmer-than-normal waters in the Gulf of Mexico. 

(See, Hurricane Dorian: 8/30/19.) 

Or, as climate experts might put it in a tweet – assuming they were orange jerks like the president: “We told LOSER Republicans this would be the direct result of rising global temps! Climate deniers are pathetic. SAD. Their corporate masters are a disgrace. #Losers #WePredictedThis.”

Damage from Hurricane Michael.

 

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RICHARD PINEDO, “a California computer whiz caught by the Special Counsel Mueller’s office selling fake online identities to Russians,” gets a six-month prison sentence, meaning score one for his team. 

Pinedo is a small fish but may know where the big fish swim. CNN explains: 

Prosecutors told the judge that Pinedo gave them “significant assistance” and that his admissions and testimony “saved the government significant time and resources in the investigation.”

 

Pinedo helped the investigators identify previously anonymous Russians who allegedly ran the social media propaganda scheme during the election. He then explained to investigators how the scheme of using false identities worked….

 

Pinedo testified before a federal grand jury in DC, which approved the indictment of the Internet Research Agency, Concord Management and Consulting and the oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, known as “Putin’s chef.”

 

In other words, Mueller’s investigators pull one loose thread, and several begin to unravel. We have one Russian and two possibly complicit American companies. Keep digging Mr. Mueller.