By Chris White
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Thursday indirectly targeting the Paris climate summit agreement signed by the Obama administration seeking to reduce carbon emission levels over the next two decades.
Trump will sign two memos broadly eliminating funding for any United Nations (U.N.) agencies which give full membership to terrorist organizations or which support programs that fund abortion. The memos would also direct committees to enact “at least a 40 percent overall decrease” in remaining funding toward international organizations and instruct committees to review any further treaties.
Trump, who made dismantling the Paris agreement a central part of his campaign message, does not intend to directly target the agreement, but instead will reduce U.N. funding, according to a Wednesday report by The News York Times.
Recent reports show 200 countries have reaffirmed pledges to comply with the Paris deal, which aims to keep so-called global warming below 2 degrees Celsius.
“[F]rom what we’ve seen the [executive order] does not mention the Paris Agreement directly, but rather that would be reviewed by default if in fact all multilateral treaties are to be reviewed,” Rhys Gerholdt, a spokesman for the environmental think tank World Resources Institute, told reporters shortly after TheNYT’s report was published.
David Waskow, the program director for World Resources Institute, questioned Trump’s authority to retroactively slash funding for any U.N. programs since defunding the agency’s obligations would take congressional action from appropriators.
“It’s hard to know what its effect is,” Waskow said. “One of the questions I’ve had is what the executive authority is they are going on, given that appropriations generally can direct those decisions.”
The memos appear to fall in line with comments made by Trump’s U.N. Ambassador, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who told senators at her confirmation hearing in early January that she would impress upon the international agency that any solution to global warming must not come at the expense of U.S. businesses. The Republican also noted that she would not agree with last year’s Paris climate agreement if it results in draconian regulations that hurt American workers.
Trump once suggested that climate change is a “hoax created by China” to disrupt the U.S. economy and harm American business. He has since moderated his tone, telling reporters in December that he is “open-minded” on global warming and believes that climate change is probably naturally occurring.
He also promised to “cancel billions in global warming payments to the United Nations” and redirect the funds toward U.S. environmental programs instead, effectively undoing the $3 billion pledge former President Barack Obama made to the U.N.’s Green Climate Fund, a program giving funds to developing countries that reduce carbon emissions.
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Things are not so happy for us here in the UK:-
…… Theresa May hailed the United Nations, praised the World Bank, …… And Mrs. May also spoke of the necessity for multilateralism in stark contrast with the line pushed by the White House — which prefers bilateralism — over recent days. She cited the need to tackle “climate change” as one of the reasons to back globalist institutions.
See http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/01/26/britains-theresa-may-in-u-s-uses-daesh-instead-of-islamic-state-proclaims-belief-in-liberty-despite-expanding-uk-surveillance-state/
The only thing I can think of here is that she has the Brexit vote coming up and she needs to look strong and move to the left to get a few more votes? Otherwise she is just another phony politician who can’t be trusted or she has no backbone and is afraid to speak what she thinks in fear of the EU left.
Yes, indeed, jjs. Those were her words (“climate change” as a genuine issue). Watch — what — she — does.
All is well.
Keep calm, and carry on. 🙂
Margaret Thatcher had a saying to cover times like this, “I smell the subtle stench of APPEASEMENT.”
JM, yup. Popcorn time. The peral clutching is hilarious.
Right and right again, she wants everyone to think that her hand was forced by a “deplorable” public, it’s a lot easier to negotiate when you appear to have some degree of “like mindedness” with the folks across the table … on a related note she seemed absolutely giddy earlier today, that she was invited to the Republican Retreat in Philly, and her words were very much in line with the current administration.
Margaret thatcher was trained as a scientist and believed in AGW.
seaice1 is wrong again.
(from pp. 729-30 of WUWT 10th Anniv. anthology)
Excellent quote, Janice.
Proving seaice1 wrong, the gift that keeps on giving. ^¿^
“seaice1 January 26, 2017 at 3:18 pm
Margaret thatcher was trained as a scientist and believed in AGW.”
She was a chemist.
Thanks for that quote about Thatcher, Janice. It looks like Thatcher is one of us.
Brexit AND ditching Climate Change AND Trump would be a delicious spectacle to watch on the BBC, but 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.
I din’t think it is quite right to say I was proved wrong, but indeed as pointed out Margaret did recant her views on global warming. However, all I have read suggests a disapproval of the reaction to global warming rather than a rejection of the science. If someone can post something she said or wrote that confirms she rejected the scientific basis of AGW I will concede unreservedly.
You knew your Thatcher claim was wrong before you made it. That is called lying. Now STOP lying. GK
G. Karst says: “That is called lying.” We no longer use the term “lying” anymore these days, today we refer to it as providing “alternate facts.”
The stupidity of the Paris accord is that we (nations in general) waste trillions of dollars in precious resources to enable other nations to continue to create the problem that they say is imminent and apocalyptic. So we waste money for no real impact on the supposed problem.
And 200 countries signed on to it. PT Barnum was correct.
Phil,
In case you haven’t heard and want to know what the trillions of dollars are really enabling and what those 200 countries actually signed up for, (but don’t tell the people who elected them and trusted them anything about it), read here:
http://www.newswithviews.com/DeWeese/tom267.htm
and here: http://carbon-sense.com/2016/07/17/a-summary-of-betrayal/
And uncle google can uncover much more of the same..
This is the scam that the climate change / CAGW horror story is masking.
While everyone’s arguing about the pseudo science of whether CAGW is real or not, they’re not seeing the huge elephant in the room. And of course, that’s exactly what the Socialist green scaremongers want us all to do…
The intent has always been to kill Western Capitalism so they are on target.
The 200 countries that signed up are not the suckers, they are just getting in line for the gravy train. The real suckers are the taxpayers of the western world who have to pay the money to all those nations who signed up. On top of that, China and India’s increasing CO2 production will negate all the CO2 reduction efforts of other countries, so all that money is spent and it won’t make a difference.
The countries designated as the “givers” are indeed suckers – at least the leaders of said countries are. The leaders designated as “takers” are, perhaps not suckers, but stupid. They fully expected free people to be enslaved by their leaders.
Drain the trough!
…and repeal the tax exemption for environmental orgs.
Couldn’t help but notice that David Waskow, “…the program director for World Resources Institute, questioned Trump’s authority to retroactively slash funding for any U.N. programs since defunding the agency’s obligations would take congressional action from appropriators.”
What are the chances that Mr. Waskow questioned President Obama’s authority to unilaterally add $500 million to the UN Green Fund days before being shown the door.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/01/18/president-obama-just-transferred-another-500-million-to-the-un-green-fund/
We have been hearing a lot of this sort of thing (…It…cannot…be…done…!!). Its like drawing a line in the sand and daring the rising tide to cross it.
The funding is small fry.
The whale in your budget is the cost of putting CO2 reduction above reducing poverty.
Tokenism.
http://www.dispatch.com/storyimage/OH/20170126/OPINION/170128955/AR/0/AR-170128955.jpg
http://freebeacon.com/politics/epa-employees-coming-work-tears-trump-win/
Oh lord! I think I just spent 10 minutes laughing at that comic. ^¿^
Thanks, Walter! 🙂
We will see what happens,as things play out. Remember, this was based on an NYT article, and we all know how accurate they can be. Personally, I believe they are giving themselves the think time to make the right combination of actions. Who knows, he may also pull the trigger on exiting the UNFCCC entirely. With 1 year notice, it quits the entire Climate kit’n caboodle, and automatically the US involvement in all of the associated treaties, agreements, etc, and complete defunding of UNFCCC activities.
It also gives Trump a lot of leverage if and deals or pressure is ever necessary. If someone comes begging ‘ please come back in’ he will be much more effective in saying ‘how much is it worth to you?’
Latest quote from Trump (Nov 2016) is that climate is changing and the change might be linked to man, to an unknown degree. Pretty much what the IPCC says. I wish people would stop quoting what he said in 2012. Out of date. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/11/22/politics/donald-trump-climate-change-new-york-times/index.html?client=safari
Has anyone ever bothered to look at the real costs of fighting this war on climate change? The costs are measured in multiples of the WORLD’S GDP. That isn’t a joke.
Just How Much Does 1 Degree C Cost?
https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/just-how-much-does-1-degree-c-cost/
Don’t forget the enforcement mechanism for Paris also has departed recently. That was Obummers hidden secret to send us further to the new Agenda 2030. Have not heard of that agenda yet? Google it.
On TPP, here is a start.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/obama_will_use_tpp_to_enforce_his_climate_agreement.html
this may be related more to palestine stuff (and US laws about funding them) and less to actual paris agreement but due to how it affects paris agreement is getting reported as such.
let it play out a few days and see.
Thank you all. You may return to a normal life now. Abnormal has just been repealed as a bad joke on the taxpayers of America.
Has anyone noticed that Trump’s signature looks a lot like a graph of global temps from 1997 to 2017?
Trump does seem to have a lot of ups and downs in his signature. I haven’t been able to get a clear view of it but from looking at it upside down on tv it looks like a lot of ups and downs and quite a large, long signature. Although that may just be his showmanship coming out. 🙂
El Ninos at each end.
Truly awesome Trump T-shirt I had to pass along!!!. Revolucionario.
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http://static4.fjcdn.com/comments/3580905+_afd0b82bc92d4f18ca4e8630dc532064.jpg
Excellent news here because if the US goes ahead with these cuts, it will be up to the countries that are supposedly so committed to the UN to make up the shortfall. None of us should hold our breaths until that happens. In addition, undoing Obama’s pledge of $3 billion to developing nations for reducing carbon emissions is an outstanding idea because who’s really keeping track of where that money is or will be going. What happens if those countries fail to meet their targets or use the money to line the pockets of the corrupt government officials that are the rule in most of them? Would the US or any other developed nation making the same contributions get a refund? Let’s quit sending tax dollars overseas and utilize them better domestically because chances are good we’ll get better results.
Some naivety in commenters thinking Trump and Tillerson are backing away from dispatching AGW fraud to the dustbin. Tillerson as CEO of Exxon had to play nice as a public cpy and besides if the gov was foolish enough to throw money away, why not gather it up, build subsidized wind farms, make money and get good public relations to boot. Remember what job one is for CEO of a corporation.
Trump played the game as entrepreneur, too, donating to Dems, GOP and NY politics, too. Hey, you have to negotiate with them to get permits, etc. Now they have a different agenda: put America first. Watch them roll.
While women Dems are out protesting their issues, Trump has just covered a couple of dozen other major jolts to the swampy system that must have professional left wing useful idiot herdsmen in a dizzy tizzy. Egad, maybe this whirling dervish only needs 100 days to complete the job and he can go back to building hotels before soshalist lawyers can file their suits against him.
My bold.
Do you think we should send in some recommendations? ^¿^
“we” probably would not have any more weight nor specific knowledge to advice a pres. on what and how to do it.
However, I was highlighting that part of the NYT article since it shows that he is calling for consultations, which was not really how it was communicated in Chris White’s article.
Ristvan has made some very specific and legally well-informed comments about this and others are working on this.
Give Trump his due, he’s been working incredibly hard. Here are some of the things he has done in his first week. These are some of the things that have been happening, obviously not all achieved by Trump.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the DOJ’s Violence Against Women programs.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Minority Business Development Agency.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Economic Development Administration.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the International Trade Administration.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Legal Services Corporation.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the DOJ.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Electricity Deliverability and Energy Reliability.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Fossil Energy.
* On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered all regulatory powers of all federal agencies frozen.
* On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered the National Parks Service to stop using social media after RTing factual, side by side photos of the crowds for the 2009 and 2017 inaugurations.
* On January 20th, 2017, roughly 230 protestors were arrested in DC and face unprecedented felony riot charges. Among them were legal observers, journalists, and medics.
* On January 20th, 2017, a member of the International Workers of the World was shot in the stomach at an anti-fascist protest in Seattle. He remains in critical condition.
* On January 21st, 2017, DT brought a group of 40 cheerleaders to a meeting with the CIA to cheer for him during a speech that consisted almost entirely of framing himself as the victim of dishonest press.
* On January 21st, 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer held a press conference largely to attack the press for accurately reporting the size of attendance at the inaugural festivities, saying that the inauguration had the largest audience of any in history, “period.”
* On January 22nd, 2017, White House advisor Kellyann Conway defended Spicer’s lies as “alternative facts” on national television news.
* On January 22nd, 2017, DT appeared to blow a kiss to director James Comey during a meeting with the FBI, and then opened his arms in a gesture of strange, paternal affection, before hugging him with a pat on the back. Reconciliation?
* On January 23rd, 2017, DT reinstated the global gag order, which defunds international organizations that even mention abortion as a medical option.
* On January 23rd, 2017, Spicer said that the US will not tolerate China’s expansion onto islands in the South China Sea, essentially threatening war with China.
* On January 23rd, 2017, DT repeated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing him the popular vote.
* On January 23rd, 2017, it was announced that the man who shot the anti-fascist protester in Seattle was released without charges, despite turning himself in.
* On January 24th, 2017, Spicer reiterated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing DT the popular vote.
* On January 24th, 2017, DT tweeted a picture from his personal Twitter account of a photo he says depicts the crowd at his inauguration and will hang in the White House press room. The photo is curiously dated January 21st, 2017, the day AFTER the inauguration and the day of the Women’s March, the largest inauguration related protest in history.
* On January 24th, 2017, the EPA was ordered to stop communicating with the public through social media or the press and to freeze all grants and contracts.
* On January 24th, 2017, the USDA was ordered to stop communicating with the public through social media or the press and to stop publishing any papers or research. All communication with the press would also have to be authorized and vetted by the White House.
* On January 24th, 2017, HR7, a bill that would prohibit federal funding not only to abortion service providers, but to any insurance coverage, including Medicaid, that provides abortion coverage, went to the floor of the House for a vote.
* On January 24th, 2017, Director of the Department of Health and Human Service nominee Tom Price characterized federal guidelines on transgender equality as “absurd.”
* On January 24th, 2017, DT ordered the resumption of construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline, while the North Dakota state congress considers a bill that would legalize hitting and killing protestors with cars if they are on roadways.
* On January 24th, 2017, it was discovered that police officers had used confiscated cell phones to search the emails and messages of the 230 demonstrators now facing felony riot charges for protesting on January 20th, including lawyers and journalists whose email accounts contain privileged information of clients and sources.
And today: the wall and a ban on Muslims entering from a large number of countries and the end to accepting Syrian refugees
Your first 17 items are defunding federal activities.
Perhaps you could show us where in the US Constitution the Federal Government was granted any of the powers required to engage in those activities. Otherwise, those are unconstitutional activities and need to be shut sown.
My Favorite:
Rioters stop your car, surround your car, start beating on your car, smash windows, threaten your family.
I, personally, have always advocated the aggressive use of the motor vehicle as a defensive weapon, in case of need. I have always been gratified how quickly violent rioters start to behave when confronted with a motorist who demonstrates a willingness to protect his own.
My Second Favorite:
You honestly have a problem with shutting out illegal aliens and Islamic terrorists attempting to sneak in under the guise of “refugee status”? Really?
My Third Favorite:
Conway is the first woman campaign manager to win a presidential race and bring her candidate into the winner’s circle.
That must mean President Trump is a sexist pig.
(President Trump, I love that!)
Did you have a point in there anywhere?
@TonyL
Thanks for the response. I’ll deal with your question first .
“You honestly have a problem with shutting out illegal aliens and Islamic terrorists attempting to sneak in under the guise of “refugee status”? Really?”
No I don’t everyone has a duty to protect their citizens, but that is not what is happening.
Start with, which countries are affected? Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.
How many US citizens have died in the last ten years as a result of terrorist action by people from those named countries? None.
The people who carried out 9/11 were largely from Saudi Arabia. Any restrictions on them ? Nope.
How much of a problem is Islamic Terrorism in the US.
Lets put it into perspective.
Some 13,286 people were killed in the US by firearms in 2015, according to the Gun Violence Archive, and 26,819 people were injured [those figures exclude suicide)
So how many died from terrorism?
Well over the last DECADE it is 24 ( possibly a few more or less)
In the same period 280,000 died from guns deaths.
Trump has said time and time again that he sees gun ownership has a positive factor despite the widespread slaughter, but wildly overreacts with regard to Islamic terrorism. He is doing the same with Illegal Mexican Immigrants.
How does this apparent incapacity to analyse and act in proportion to potential threats to the US reflect on his other pronouncements such as climate change? Not well I’m afraid.
While you are there, check out how many people from other countries have been killed by US action.
Does that answer your question Tony?
Wow Gareth, that’s a truly amazing collection of Spin, Character Assassination, and Outright Lies. It’s a good thing I already had absolutely no respect for your opinion, or this would have been truly depressing.
In all seriousness, why would you even post this viral Facebook trash here? Half the list is cuts to programs that most of us here would agree NEED cuts. And the rest? Spin and bull$h!t from Time and Mother Jones.
I mean, we already KNOW the truth about the Riots. Hundreds of identically black dressed people smashing windows and burning cars, and you want to spin it like Trump is some fascist ordering crackdowns on Doctors and Lawyers peacefully protesting? Really? >¿<
When is the MSM and the Leftists going to realize that the world has changed, and that the can't control the thoughts of the people anymore. We don't believe their lies now. We won't bark at their command. And there will be more of us every day, with every exposed lie, every failed prediction.
Their long night of iron fisted rule is ending. The dawn has come.
Ok, ya. I'm feeling melodramatic. ^¿^ it's after 3am here. Time for bed.
Thanks you for your gracious response Schittree. If it is not accurate, I accept that of course, but would you be so kind as to indicate which parts are untrue? It would help us understand your madness from this side of the pond. Hwyl!
I’m sorry, Gareth? Didn’t I just do that? Well, in your defense maybe you didn’t know the truth about the Washington DC protests. Here’s a link.
http://news.sky.com/story/anti-trump-protesters-smash-windows-in-tense-scenes-before-inauguration-10735956
I especially recommend watching the video on that page, the masses of identically black clad rioters or kind of a tip off. Well, they are if you are smart enough to understand the trick.
See, by all dressing in the same ninja wannabe outfit, it makes it nearly impossible for the police to know which of the protesters are the ones smashing windows, throwing chunks of concrete, starting fires, assaulting police and attacking passers-by, even in this age of ever present cameras.
Watch the video. As the protesters march down the road, individuals run out of the group, smash something, then run back into it. Meanwhile the crowd marches on, doing nothing to stop any of its members from doing this kind of $h!t, chanting slogans like ‘hands up, don’t shoot’. EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM knows what the plan here is, they are all accessories to it. There’s no legitimate reason for them to all be dressed like rejects from a cheap kung-fu movie.
This was a carefully planed and orchestrated move by the Leftists. And of course there will be some higher class lefties mixed in to the crowd. Doctors and Lawyers and whatnot, that the MSM can point to while crying about the unfair treatment these poor innocent protesters have suffered under the jack-boot of imperialism, or whatever Socialist dogma they’re spouting today.
All they need to get away with it are enough people like YOU, Gareth. Useful idiots who will believe and repeat ever lie they are told, as long as it comes from your Leftwing Masters. And make no mistake, Gareth. They are your Masters. You sold yourself willingly to them.
Wow what a great list. All great things achieved – from my perspective. Go Trump.
“Wow what a great list. All great things achieved – from my perspective. Go Trump.”
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking, too. What’s not to like?
Be still, my beating heart.
Kudos to the incumbent POTUS!!!!! He has taken power with a debt in the $20 trillion range, and given that the former POTUS started with a “miniscule” debt of $9 trillion, well, it is going to take some slashing of unnecessary arms of the government to start the process of reeling in the spending.
And the most recent Secretaries of State, namely Hillary and John Kerry, undoubtedly the two most incompetent in the history of the US, well, yet another area that will require some serious attention. And it will!
You are making it look like Trump has done more in a week then Obama did in 8 years. You are obviously a racist and misogynist and probably once ate lunch with a Russian too.
And yes, you are right on top of it, red states like North Dakota often often pass laws making murder legal.
“Gareth Phillips January 26, 2017 at 11:01 pm”
That is a nice cut n paste, where did you get that from?
Poor Gareth here you see the reason why trump is President of the United States of America, the vile extream left have been outed and they do not like it, the world is now in a much better place now we have flushed these totalitarian rats into the open. God bless trump God bless America.
Indeed, and Trump os such an honest man who has no room for lies and self promotion. I also like the way he keeps totalitarian dictators like Putin at arms length and will have nothing to do with silly claims like there were millions of unlawful votes. He is indeed the Messiah, you must feel extremely blessed on your planet.
Had we not seen dem operatives — on film — openly boasting about electoral fraud, including a lovely “how-to” set of instructions, your indignation might carry more weight.
Thank goodness for the electoral college. It doesn’t eliminate voter fraud, but it makes it far more expensive to steal an effective vote. All it takes is a pack of cigarettes and a pint of booze to buy a vote instate. But to get a vote to a purple state that matters costs hundreds of beans per shot and is more risky (we can view for ourselves the tactics used to avoid detection, straight from the jackasses’ mouths).
Let’s not forget that the last recent POTUS that had an impeachment hearing was a DEMOCRAT!!!
I love how all of the “lefties” are so very much in denial, these are truly wonderful times!!!!!!
Yup, “but names will never hurt me”
More exciting news with reference to previous articles on WUWT from Donald ( Call me Mr.Honest) Trump.
Donald Trump ordered the National Park Service director to produce additional photographs of his inauguration crowds, believing the images “might prove that the media had lied” about the size of the audience, according to the Washington Post.
Parks spokesman Tom Crosson told the Guardian in an email on Thursday night, “I can confirm the call happened … but I’m not discussing the content of the call.”
In the phone call with Reynolds, who did not respond to the Guardian’s request for comment, Trump also expressed anger about the NPS Twitter account retweeting an image of side-by-side photographs comparing the 2009 and 2017 events, the Post reported.
To be fair The White House deputy press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, told the Post that the call with Reynolds simply demonstrated that Trump’s management style is to be “so accessible, and constantly in touch”, adding: “He’s not somebody who sits around and waits. He takes action and gets things done.”
On Saturday, Trump also gave a controversial speech at a CIA memorial, in which he talked about the size of his inauguration crowd and slammed the “dishonest” media.
I wonder if the same heroes who monitored why they thought was disinformation with regard to climate science when Obama was in office, will be as enthusiastic to do the same on all issues now Mr.Trump is POTUS? Don’t hold your breath!
“Indeed, and Trump os such an honest man who has no room for lies and self promotion.”
Well, Gareth, a person who self-promotes himself isn’t necessarily being dishonest. It’s like Mohammed Ali said: “If you can do it, it ain’t braggin'”.
“and will have nothing to do with silly claims like there were millions of unlawful votes.”
There are a number of studies claiming anywhere from hundreds of thousands to millions of illegal votes were cast in the last few presidential elections. You act like Trump just invented all this. Not so.
And now, thanks to Trump, and the MSM/Left goading him, the U.S. government is going to do a formal study of how votes are cast, so we will have a much better handle on this problem in the future. Just what the doctor ordered. I don’t want some illegal alien, who doesn’t share my values, nullifying my vote.
If voter fraud has ever been of concern, the massive anti-Trump legions from Dems, even Republicans, academia, Hollywood, lefty billionaires, illegal immigrants… assures us that this election will have had much more of it than ever before. Generally past concerns have been with swing states. Look this time to NY and CA which have the easiest chance of hiding a million or so illegal votes. Funding by untouchables like Steyer, Soros, Rockefeller FN, it could be done easily. Don’t forget Steyer tried to buy the election for Hillary for 80m(?) and when she lost, he stated that next time he would be running the campaign. Don’t become an echo of the unsupported media statements that it has all been debunked. They have no idea. I believe there will be reform in this issue after the real investigation.
“Parks spokesman Tom Crosson told the Guardian in an email on Thursday night, “I can confirm the call happened … but I’m not discussing the content of the call.”
So, if the Parks spokesman didn’t discuss the content of the call with the reporter, how did the contents of the call get in this article? Did the reporter just make it all up?
I don’t see how else he would get these so-called quotes. If they have an unnamed source, they usually say so, but not here. No quotes. Then the report has quotes about what took place in the conversation.
More fake news.
“On Saturday, Trump also gave a controversial speech at a CIA memorial, in which he talked about the size of his inauguration crowd and slammed the “dishonest” media.”
It was only controversial to those on the Left. The CIA personnel loved Trump’s visit. They burst out laughing in agreement when Trump said the MSM was dishonest.
The MSM likes to make it out like there was some kind of feud between Trump and the entire CIA, but that is a gross mischaracterization of the situation.
What you really have are Obama’s CIA appointees at odds with Trump, not the rank and file. Brennan is doing the bidding of the Left in his criticisms of Trump.
Just because Brennan doesn’t like Trump, doesn’t mean the employees of the CIA don’t like Trump. I think you could hear how they felt about him with their enthusiastic applause. Some leftists want to pretend the loud applause was because Trump packed the house with his own people, but there is no evidence of that whatsoever, it’s just another smear against Trump.
“Indeed, and Trump os such an honest man who has no room for lies and self promotion. I also like the way he keeps totalitarian dictators like Putin at arms length and will have nothing to do with silly claims like there were millions of unlawful votes. He is indeed the Messiah, you must feel extremely blessed on your planet.”
Mr. Trump has been POTUS for one week and has already accomplished more than Obama did in 8 years. Apparently you are a sore-assed liberal loser that hasn’t realized your time of ass kissing Obama is over. We’re tired of your sanctimonious trolling. My advice is GFY…repeatedly!!
arms length and Messia,
reminds on
http://prince.org/msg/105/421104?pr
It will be more enlightening to see what the new text actually says when it is made public, rather than this anonymously leaked, draft, edited and spun they NYT.
As Nestroy said :
Es muass was gscheg’n sunst gschiacht nix –
No change without change.
“President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Thursday indirectly targeting the Paris climate summit agreement signed by the Obama administration seeking to reduce carbon emission levels over the next two decades”
This being Friday, did he actually do this? Not reported round my way, you see…
“Griff January 27, 2017 at 4:30 am
Not reported round my way, you see…”
You expect Trump to report to you Griff?
Wow. Common sense in the White House. How long has it been since that has happened? Decades?
generations actually. The same goes for real management at the agencies.
REGULAR Paris Agreement: … to combat climate change and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon future.
My proposal for the … ALT Paris Agreement:… to combat misinformation about climate change and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed to understand the role of carbon in all human life and to use this understanding to help insure a sustainable future.
Had an advertisement from Scientific American come through the internet today which said: “Reject a Post-Truth World”.
I think they are getting rattled by Trump. But they had better take a look at their own honesty, before Trump catches up with them.
R
From a promoter of post-normal science, this comes across as pretty disingenuous. ~¿~
So, which will it be, un-Scientific un-American, do we hold out for the truth, or do we publish wild eyed speculation and outright falsehood as long as it pushes our beliefs?
Obama likes giving your tax money to dubious causes.
He may have given $33 billion to Iran, much of it is cash (which needs investigating).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3782488/Iran-collected-33-6-BILLION-nuclear-deal-Obama-administration-delivered-cash-shipments-unfroze-billions-more.html
And he gave $221 million to the Palestinians on his last day in office.
http://europe.newsweek.com/us-gave-palestinians-221-million-obamas-last-day-office-547363?rm=eu
So on his last day, the ‘dying’ wish of Obama was not to help Americans, but to give a ‘Christmas present’ to an American-hating group that has caused more instability in the Middle East than anyone else. Says it all, really…..
R
And 500m to the gangrene fund under UNFCC. to keep 3rd World in perennial poverty.
“So on his last day, the ‘dying’ wish of Obama was not to help Americans, but to give a ‘Christmas present’ to an American-hating group that has caused more instability in the Middle East than anyone else. Says it all, really…..”
It sure does.
Obama is the greatest enabler of radical Islamic terrorism in world history, with the one exception of Mohammad, and Obama’s last act in Office was to help radical Islamic terrorist one more time.
I think Trump is looking into stopping those payments to the Palestinians, but he was asked about it the other day and declined to comment on it, and was asked about moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, and he declined to comment on that too, which got me to thinking maybe Trump is thinking he might be able to use these things as some leverage to possibly get the Israelis and the Palestinians back to the peace table.
>>possibly get the Israelis and the
>>Palestinians back to the peace table.
No point. This battle (and the one in Syria) have been going on for 1,300 years. It is futile to think that anything we do today will ever rectify and end this millennial-old dispute. The only thing that will is a Japan-style 1945 ‘reset button’, where the core religious texts and interpretations that caused the problem are dismantled and forbidden.
R
Japan style reset – but instead of FatBoy and LittleMan use a few hundred W88’s.
Oh it’s been going own for a LOT longer then 13 hundred years. Before Mohamad’s grandfathers were born, The Hebrews, Philistinians, Samarians, and a host of others had been fighting over that patch of land for Centuries. Lots of Centuries.
Just like others had for every other patch of land on Earth. The only thing making the middle east different is it has (slightly) better records of the Millenniums of Conflict.
“By what executive authority can Trump do this?” the author asks. How about by the same authority that Obumma used to steal our money and give it away in the first place??? Grrrr…