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Jericho On Jimmy Jacobs Creating The List Idea, Incident That Led To WWE Release

December 1, 2020 | News | No Comments

While out promoting his Fozzy tour, Chris Jericho spoke with the folks at Metal Injunction and touched on the incident that led to Jimmy Jacobs getting released from WWE and more. Below are some of the highlights from the interview.

On the incident that led to Jimmy Jacobs, the guy who came up with the idea for “The List,” getting released from WWE: “Jimmy’s good and if I was there I would’ve tried to help him out, but it’s not the smartest of moves. If I work at McDonalds and post a picture of me hanging out with guys from Wendy’s and hashtag ‘Wendy’s is great,’ McDonalds might not be too happy about it.

“I think Jimmy’s a smart guy and maybe wouldn’t surprise me if he knew something was going to happen. Maybe he was getting sick of it, I don’t know. I just know as soon as I saw that picture, I was just like ‘ooof,’ with the hashtag ‘#BCInvasion,’ you can’t do that man. I mean, you can’t. Was it a fireable offense? Well, it’s not my decision, obviously Vince thought it was, which tells me there was probably some other stuff going on and that was the final straw.”

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On Jacobs helping to come up with all of Jericho’s stuff, including “The List” storyline, during his latest WWE stint: “And I will say this, last year, 2016, Jimmy Jacobs was my co-writer on all of it. All of it! And the weeks he wasn’t there I was like ‘Ah f–k, I don’t like this, I want Jimmy.’ So he’s very talented, and he really got me. I worked with him a few times and I went to [head writer] Dave Kapoor, ‘I want Scoville, which is his real name, Chris Scoville, on every Jericho promo. No one else.’ Because that’s how much I trusted his talent, his instincts.”

Check out the complete Chris Jericho interview at MetalInjunction.net.

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Energy Chief Confirms Critics' Fears: Obama Still Loves Coal

December 1, 2020 | News | No Comments

US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz declared Sunday that ‘coal is our future,’ affirming skeptics’ fears that, despite the rhetoric heralded in President Obama’s climate policy speech last week, the US will continue to kow-tow to the interests of Big Coal.

The Energy Chief’s statement appeared to backpedal on comments made by the president regarding “new rules to cut carbon emissions from US power plants and support renewable energy.”

Despite these claims, Obama “expects fossil fuels, and coal specifically, to remain a significant contributor for some time,” Moniz told Reuters Sunday while attending a nuclear security conference in Vienna, Austria.

From Reuters:

Moniz was responding directly to Big Coal interests who, following the President’s speech, denounced his climate plan. Senator Joe Manchin (D- W. Va) responded to the speech by claiming that the Obama had “declared a war on coal.”

However, environmentalists watching the speech anticipated little change in the administration’s energy policy, despite the “flowery rhetoric.”

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“A sensible climate plan,” said Damon Moglen, climate and energy program director of Friends of the Earth, “would include a renunciation of the president’s ‘all of the above’ energy strategy, which promotes biofuels, so-called clean coal, natural gas and dirty and dangerous nuclear power.”

“In order to address climate change,” he continued, “the president needs to focus on the ambitious development of renewable energy, energy storage and efficiency technologies while setting us on a path which clearly leaves behind the fossil fuel-based energy economy of the 20th century.”

Rather than moving away from fossil fuels, the Obama administration keeps “pinning its hopes […] on developing new technologies to make coal cleaner,” writes DeSmogBlog’s Sharon Kelly.

“The plan in rough form, involves collecting carbon dioxide emitted by power plants and burying it, forever, underground,” she adds. “If that sounds like a heck of a challenge, that’s because it is.”

During his speech, Obama resurrected the myth of ‘clean coal’ and Moniz echoed the falsehood of carbon capture and storage technology (CCS) when he announced an $8 billion loan guarantee program for projects to develop new “clean” technologies.

Despite the numerous and well-documented renunciations of CCS, Moniz—”whose support of the coal industry and faith in sequestration has been longstanding,” writes Kelly—remains dangerously undaunted.

She continues:

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