Open Thread: A Stalled 'Green' Agenda
As the science behind the global warming fear machine continues to disintigrate, the many enviro-activist hangers-on who have made hundreds of millions scaring their fellow humans are beginning to realize something: while many politicians like to pretend in public that they are in favor of stopping the supposed crisis, almost none of them actually ever bother to do much of anything about it. The realization comes in conjunction with the "Rio+20" conference, yet another lavish conference to promote climate alarmism which this time is having trouble getting world leaders to attend:
It’s easy to see why there is so much skepticism about this week’s meeting in Rio, officially called the UN Conference on Sustainable Development or “Rio+20.” When leaders met in the same convention centre 20 years ago for the first Earth Summit, they signed Agenda 21, a series of pledges for the 21st century to protect biological diversity, curb climate change, eradicate poverty and stop desertification.
Today, almost none of those pledges has been fulfilled. A recent report by the UN’s Environment Program tracked 90 goals from Agenda 21 and hundreds of other international conventions. It found that significant progress had been made on just four; reducing ozone depletion, removing lead from gasoline, improving access to water supplies and boosting research for marine pollution. Some or no progress had been made on 64 targets and there was further deterioration on eight, such as increased destruction of coral reefs. Progress on 14 others couldn’t be measured because of a lack of data.
There’s isn’t much hope that Rio+20 will change things. Several leaders have skipped the event, including U.S. President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Those who did show up are expected to sign a 53-page statement that contains no specifics. There had been hope the leaders would agree to “sustainable development goals” but that fell through and the statement is so weak it was greeted with boos by some delegates when it was unveiled at a preparatory gathering Tuesday. “There is no action. It’s very disappointing,” said Aleksandra Nasteska, co-founder of We Canada, a coalition of activists that was among some 50,000 participants in the preparatory meetings.
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Dead Issue
Submitted by libBuster on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 10:01am.
The leaked emails and Al Gore's bimbo eruptions have all but killed this scam. Rumors were that the emails were purloined by a foreign intelligence agency and sent to US Media outlets. When US Media refused to publish, the documents were put on a website and went viral.
Imagine the New York Times, which has no problem publishing the intimate details of a "virus attack" on Iran would not publish "stolen" emails.
Change of Subject "Open Thread" Warning:
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 10:35am.
Obama has just envoked "Executive Privilege " over the release of F&F documents... Proving, once again, that this is 'The Most Transparent Administration in History.' .... shame on them!!
- Grump
Fast & Furious
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 10:45am.
Holder should be charged with murder and treason. Link
This was predicted...
Submitted by c5then on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 10:49am.
This is the best evidence yet that there is something MUCH bigger and more important being covered up than just what is known about the F&F scandal.
What could possibly have been "discovered" by allowing drug cartels to straw purchase the best weapons that their money could buy in the US and then "tracking" them after they were smuggled into Mexico? We already knew they were criminals. We already knew that they were ruthless and would kill people for the slightest infraction or just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. What is it that could possibly have been learned and used in any kind of law enforcement action? The answer is basically nothing.
But what could have been alleged and used was that US guns were "flooding" over the border and arming the drug cartels and, therefor, the US needs to clamp down on gun sales in order to deal with the "crisis". IMO this was going to be used to gut the 2nd amendment and place the same restrictions that apply to handguns on all fire arms. This is the info that the administration desperately wants to prevent from seeing the light of day.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
The ONLY reason
Submitted by jon_torlin on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 11:14am.
The ONLY reason that the WH would do such a thing is because they are directly involved in this whole thing in the first place after all, despite their public announcements saying as such. And when I say directly, I mean O'Bambi himself is directly involved in it.
This is going to make Watergate look like a picnic.
-Jon
Sorry Grumpy didn't see you
Submitted by ricklail on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 11:10am.
Sorry Grumpy didn't see you post before I posted the same thing.
Thanks Rick.
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 11:53am.
No problem... just glad others are as concerned about the mis-dealings of this criminal administration.
My best wishes,
- Grump :o)
Hey, Grump~
Submitted by GG_NB on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 12:05pm.
Yeah, I saw that. More "transparency" in action (LOL). Dang. Enough is enough!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/20/house-republicans-tee-up-immi...
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
Hi GG!
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 12:14pm.
Was just watching the Committee hearing on the contempt citation…
Reps say: Go for it!
Dems say: No need for it!
What a Surprise! It’s just another pro-forma waste of time (imho) – just refer it to the floor for a vote and be done with it!
YES, GO FOR IT.
Submitted by GG_NB on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 12:49pm.
There's nothing more weak than threatening to do something and not following through. I realize this could get messy even for Repubs in various ways (hello, MSM spin), but sometimes you just have to do what is right. Holder won't comply. What choice do they really have, unless they want to teach the O Administration they can just do whatever?
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
Grump~
Submitted by GG_NB on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 1:49pm.
Are you watching this on C-SPAN 3? We only have 1 & 2. :(
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
GG: Sorry for the late reply.
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 4:35pm.
It's been pretty busy around 'Casa Grumpy' today... and I had to leave. I caught only a few minutes of the hearings over at "Right Scoop.com" - just enough to get the flavor of the spectical.
- Grump :o)
23-17 Holder In Contempt of Congress…
Submitted by upcountrywater on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 4:29pm.
House Oversight Committee Votes 23-17 To Hold Eric Holder In Contempt of Congress…
You Didn't Build That.
I saw that...
Submitted by GG_NB on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 4:35pm.
And then it will go through the House with little problem -- but stall in the Senate. But I'm glad they're doing it. And O attempting to intervene looks really bad. So it's out there for consideration in November.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
Nice dose of reality for berry.
Submitted by upcountrywater on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 5:00pm.
"Until now, everyone believed that the decisions regarding Fast and Furious were confined to the Department of Justice,” Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said in a statement. “The White House decision to invoke executive privilege implies that White House officials were either involved in the Fast and Furious operation or the cover-up that followed. The administration has always insisted that wasn't the case. Were they lying, or are they now bending the law to hide the truth?”
You Didn't Build That.
Don't write off global (BS) warming yet.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 10:43am.
I have a feeling that with all the crap that Bambi is pulling in just the last couple of weeks to gut the Constitution and eliminate separation of powers, it could get really, really hot soon.
The world is watching the USA disintegrate before their eyes, and our enemies haven't even had to lift a finger. Their "agent," Obama is taking care of it for them.
Whether he wins or loses in November, this country is likely to explode.
Republicans in Congress need to get in his face now and stay there, or he will grind us all to dust with his BS version of a dictatorship.
No more smiling; no more "my friends across the aisle;" no more "the President is trying;" no more RINO/McCain politics or politicians!
If Obama doesn't destroy us himself, the vultures of the world are waiting for us to become so impotent that they can fight over us and destroy this country in the process.
Don't think it can happen here? Read a history book!
This is why we can't wait
Submitted by jon_torlin on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 12:21pm.
Waiting till November as people keep saying isn't going to help us, it'll be too late and for the reasons you stated above.
I've been having a bad feeling the last couple of months that something's going to happen before then and all the stuff we're seeing, including today's "executive privilege" for F&F is leading up to it.
It absolutely INFURIATES me that people even at this point and time just don't seem to get this!
We are in danger NOW, and we have seen this coming for a long time.
We are being sold down the river and in full view of anyone who wants to see it. And that's the problem, too many people don't want to see it, so they stick their heads in the sand or close their eyes, stick fingers in their ears and scream "Lalalalalala!"
-Jon
This is BS
Submitted by ricklail on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 11:04am.
Obeyme has exerted executive priviledge over Fast and Furious documents. I know damn well now there is something in those documents Obeyme and withHolder don't want to be seen
Here's more BS from withHolder
Submitted by ricklail on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 11:08am.
10 FBI agents sent to investigate George Zimmerman for thought crimes.
http://moonbattery.com/?p=13086
Well what did they expect?
Submitted by c5then on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 11:13am.
When looked at objectively and logically, a warmer climate is good for the vast majority of the population. From the records that we have we know that civilization was able to thrive and make astounding advances historically when the climate was warmer, wetter and more freindly to the human species. After we had attained a certain level of technology, the climate became less of an issue. Now they are worried about it going back to a better condition?
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Today, a bill is being introduced to roll back EPA regulations
Submitted by ThisnThat on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 11:27am.
and the dims (in particular, Boxer) has just claimed that this bill will kill 11,000 people per year, and injure thousands of others. In other words, another scare tactic designed by dims in favor of job-killing over-regulation by the o'bama regime.
Dims are determined to kill the coal industry once and for all. http://www.statejournal.com/story/18834382/senate-to-vote-today-on-mercu...
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“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
Oh look, yet another idiot
Submitted by ant on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 11:52am.
Oh look, yet another idiot journalist saying idiotic things;
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-host-911-response-was-horrific-racial-v...
Any one with a smidgen of reason already knows Harris-Perry is a nincompoop, but this speech is chock full of it. Notice how 'welfare queens' and 'radical islam' are imaginary in her twisted little 'this country is so racist but I'm a black woman with a job on TV and a law degree' world.
Hw long will it be?
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 12:09pm.
I've been watching the three-ring circus on Fox about F & F, and I've noticed one problem that will rear its ugly head before dark today, I'm betting.
Everyone on the Democrat side who seems to be speaking in defense of Holder (black), and Obama (black) and his "executive privilege," appears to be black (is that acceptable terminology nowadays?). All of the mean old Republicans on the other side are white boys.
How long will it be before MSNBC, NBC, CNN, and all other official Democrat organizations invoke "Racial Privilege?"
The White House, Justice, and all minority members of Congress are obviously being pursued by a pack of RACISTS!!!
First day of the longest hottest summer ever in our lives..
Submitted by upcountrywater on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 1:16pm.
Necessary day...live feed .... 76,000 pages are getting lined up for the shreader...Stinking creepy democrats...
Spring ends with The Flame Thing....Spokesmen for the CIA, the NSA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, as well as the Israeli Embassy in Washington, declined to comment.
Thegreen police screwed up the computers at a Nuke power plant...
You Didn't Build That.
In other news from San Antonio...
Submitted by Unsane on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 2:07pm.
Mayor Julian Castro wants a 1/8 of one cent sales tax increase.
Why? For the children, of course. To pay for pre-K programs.
Naturally, the mayor calls this an "investment".
To all my friends in San Antonio: beware of the beginning.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
50,000 what's of power!
Submitted by CobraMan on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 3:22pm.
"It’s very disappointing,” said Aleksandra Nasteska, co-founder of We Canada, a coalition of activists that was among some 50,000 participants in the preparatory meetings."
It takes 50,000 people just to prepare for a single "summit?" It didn't take that many people to land a man on the moon, but it takes that many activists just to prepare for a meeting? And they wonder why nothing's happening! WTF were you thinking?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.