#thomas pickering

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I Could Never Go Vegan

6/10 - VOD - 2024

Todo el mundo ha respondido con alguna excusa o razón para seguir comiendo productos animales como carne, pescado, leche, queso, etc. 

Este documental repasa una a una todas estas excusas y explica porqué deberíamos pasarnos al veganismo. No es el mejor documental al respecto que puedas ver, pero no está nada mal.

Recomendado.

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Dopo il grande successo internazionale, arriva nelle sale italiane a partire dal 30 marzo il documentario "Non sarò mai vegano" di Thomas Pickering e sarà distribuito da NFILM. Il film, tramite le testimonianze di esperti, attivisti e persone comuni, affronta le convinzioni di chi considera il veganismo un’opzione irrealizzabile o addirittura inutile 🙂 Una riflessione profonda sui temi dell’alimentazione, degli allevamenti intensivi e dei cambiamenti climatici.

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But I conclude on a much more sober, judicious, and appropriately unimpeachable D.C. figure, the rightly revered Thomas Pickering, career diplomat, bipartisan Council on Foreign Relation fixture, co-chairman of blue-ribbon investigative committees, and perhaps heir to the itinerant fixers of a bygone age, such as Sumner Welles, John McCloy, and Clark Clifford. Pickering — multilingual, veteran of hazardous diplomatic posts, confidant to presidents of both parties, and octogenarian “wise man” — was asked by the State Department to conduct its internal investigation of the Benghazi debacle, as chairman of the Benghazi Accountability Review Board.   Four of the five members of this board, including Pickering, were apparently recommended by Hillary Clinton’s own State Department team in good Quis custodiet custodes? style. No one would dare suggest that Pickering, appointed as an undersecretary of state and an ambassador by Bill Clinton, and a well-known Clinton friend, might have various conflicts of interest in investigating fully the allegations that Hillary Clinton refused to beef up security at the consulate in Benghazi, or falsely claimed in public that the loss of four Americans was the result of an inflammatory video, just hours after she confided in e-mail communications that it was a preplanned al-Qaeda attack.   Instead, Pickering decided that Clinton would never appear before his committee and declared that he was not interested in a gotcha finding; yet somehow Clinton aide Cheryl Mills found a way to review the board’s findings before publication. In the end, the State Department chastised and put on leave lowly subordinates for seemingly working within the security parameters established by the sacrosanct secretary of state.   Nor would anyone suggest that the temperate and esteemed Pickering, as a vice president of Boeing from 2001 to 2006, and then a consultant to Boeing from 2006 to 2015, had any special financial interest in promoting the Clinton, and then the Kerry, outreach to Iran. Indeed, Pickering testified before Congress and wrote elegant op-eds about why the Iran non-enrichment accord was a good deal — but without ever quite telling the country that a liberated Iran was also considering a $25 billion purchase of aircraft (with potential dual use as military transports) from Boeing — which just happened to be Pickering’s quite generous corporate client.

Victor Davis Hanson, “Washington’s Hollow Men” (National Review, 07/05/2016)

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The current U.S./Iran deal, as explained by Jack Black, Morgan Freeman, Natasha Lyonne, Farshad Farahat, Valerie Plame, Queen Noor of Jordan and Amb. Thomas Pickering.

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This pro-Iran Deal video from Global ZERO is funny. And serious. And funny. 

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Give Diplomacy With Russia a Chance

Give Diplomacy With Russia a Chance

Mit Matlock, Pickering und Collins äussern sich in der New York Times drei frühere Botschafter Amerikas in Moskau zur aktuellen Ukraine-Krise. Die aktuell bestehende Situation zwischen USA und Russland beschreiben sie wie folgt: “Relations between the two capitals have descended into attempts by each side to pressure the other, tit-for-tat actions, shrill propaganda statements, and the steady…

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(via Watch Conservative Media's Favorite Benghazi Myth Fall Apart | Blog | Media Matters for America)

Retired Admiral Mike Mullen and former Ambassador Thomas Pickering today debunked the conservative media myth that the Obama administration failed to deploy adequate military resources to Benghazi, Libya, in response to the September 11, 2012, attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission. Mullen told members of Congress that the "military did everything they possibly could that night." Pickering agreed, testifying that the military is not always "positioned to come in short notice to deal with those issues."

Mullen and Pickering led the State Department Accountability Review Board (ARB), which issued an independent report in December about the attacks. Both men are testifying today at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing led by Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, who, along with members of the conservative media, have attempted to politicize the attacks to criticize the Obama administration.

During his questioning time, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) noted that Republicans have suggested the Obama administration "withheld assistance on the night of the attacks for political reasons." As Media Matters has documented, conservative media -- led by Fox News -- have echoed Republicans in persistently using this line of attack when criticizing the Obama administration over Benghazi.

Mullen, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2007-2011, debunked the myth, stating that the "military did everything they possibly could that night. They just couldn't get there in time." Mullen also detailed the "many forces that moved that night" and said a military response "is not something you can just wish to happen instantly. There's a lot of planning, preparation" to "do it as rapidly as one can do it." 

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Sanctions may have planted seeds of long-term alienation between the Iranian people and the U.S.. (Illustration by Sally Thurer | Op-Ed by Lee Hamilton, Thomas Pickering & Anthony Zinni)