Guest Grauniad slap-down by David Middleton
Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez move to declare climate crisis official emergency
Exclusive: Democrats to introduce resolution in House on Tuesday in recognition of extreme threat from global heatingA group of US lawmakers including the 2020 Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders are proposing to declare the climate crisis an official emergency – a significant recognition of the threat taken after considerable pressure from environment groups.
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Climate activists have been calling for the declaration, as data shows nations are not on track to limit the dangerous heating of the planet significantly enough.
[Blah, blah blah]
The activist group Extinction Rebellion has said the declaration is a crucial first step in addressing the crisis.
[Blah, blah blah]
In Congress, Democrats in control of the House might have enough support for the resolution, but Republicans in the majority in the Senate are not likely to approve.
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It won’t even make it to the Senate floor for debate, much less get voted on. 100% fake news.
In Congress, Democrats in control of the House might have enough support for the resolution, but Republicans in the majority in the Senate are not likely to approve.
Wait! This just in…
I stopped reading after I got to the bit about this being DOA in the Senate. There’s more…
Even if the resolution passed and was signed by the president, it would not force any action on climate change.
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It’s fake news about a fake emergency declaration regarding a fake crisis!
And now it’s Cheeseface time…
As the crisis escalates…
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In other words… If you don’t buy this newspaper, we’ll kill the climate.
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Bernie Sanders in the 1970s urged nationalization of most major industries
By Andrew Kaczynski and Nathan McDermott, CNN
Updated 1:39 PM ET, Thu March 14, 2019(CNN)Bernie Sanders advocated for the nationalization of most major industries, including energy companies, factories, and banks, when he was a leading member of a self-described “radical political party” in the 1970s, a CNN KFile review of his record reveals.
Sanders’ past views shed light on a formative period of his political career that could become relevant as he advances in the 2020 Democratic primary.
Many of the positions he held at the time are more extreme compared to the more tempered democratic socialism the Vermont senator espouses today and could provide fodder for moderate Democrats and Republicans looking to cast the Democratic presidential candidate and his beliefs as a fringe form of socialism that would be harmful to the country.
Aspects of Sanders’ plans and time in the Liberty Union have been reported before, but the material taken together, including hundreds of newly digitalized newspapers and files from the Liberty Union Party archived at the University of Vermont, paint a fuller portrait of Sanders’ views on state and public-controlled industry at the time.
[Excuses, excuses, excuses]
“I favor the public ownership of utilities, banks and major industries,” Sanders said in one interview with the Burlington Free Press in 1976.
[Excuses, excuses, excuses]
The energy industry
In 1973, during his time as chairman of the Liberty Union Party, Sanders took to a Vermont paper to oppose Richard Nixon’s energy policy and oil industry profits, calling for the entire energy industry to be nationalized. Consumers at the time had been facing steep price increases and heavy shortages as a result of the OPEC oil embargo.
“I would also urge you to give serious thought about the eventual nationalization of these gigantic companies,” Sanders wrote in a December 1973 open letter to Vermont Sen. Robert Stafford that ran in the Vermont Freeman. “It is extremely clear that these companies, owned by a handful of billionaires, have far too much power over the lives of Americans to be left in private hands. The oil industry, and the entire energy industry, should be owned by the public and used for the public good — not for additional profits for billionaires.”
[Excuses, excuses, excuses]
Taxing assets at 100%
Heavy taxation of wealthy people played prominently into Sanders’ plans to pay for expanding government services.
In February 1976, Liberty Union put out a state tax proposal calling for a radical revamping of the system, including the removal of all taxes of sales, beverages, cigarettes, polls, and the use of telephones, railroads or electric energy. Tax rates for those earning more than $100,00 would be 33.47%, $50,000-$99,999 would be 19%, $25,000-$49,000 would be 13.56%, and $10,000-$14,999 would be 4%. Anyone earning less than $10,000 would pay no state income tax.
But Sanders’ rhetoric at times went much further.
During his 1974 Senate run, Sanders said one plan to expand government included making it illegal to gain more wealth than person could spend in a lifetime and have a 100% tax on incomes above this level. (Sanders defined this as $1 million dollars annually).
“Nobody should earn more than a million dollars,” Sanders said.
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Once a Marxist, always a Marxist.
If people fall for this we deserve to go extinct.
Roger that… 👍👍
David, can you fix this? I know it’s nothing but a typo: “Tax rates for those earning more than $100,00 would be 33.47%” – s/b $100,000.
Both of these maroons are doing this for the sole purpose of getting attention. Let’s hope they stick together long enough to draw votes away from the rest of the “candidates” (and I use that term loosely), whether on the ballot or during these so-called debates, which will bore people right into voting for another administration run by the Nemesis.
Orange Man BAD!
The typo is in the CNN article…
That;s actually probably true ….especially in CA. . .
https://acton.org/pub/commentary/2016/07/06/forgotten-story-german-economic-miracle
Given the similarities between Uncle Adolf’s style of governing and the proposals of both Uncle Bernie and Uncle Tom, it is truly a wonder why todays politicians haven’t learned from prior failed regimen’s
Orange man GOOD!
Okay – thanks for the info on that.
Proofreading is no longer required in news releases. Pity.
CNN…
Well, not all of the U.S. electors, surely. But certainly the Democrats – and they will most certainly lose the next presidential election if they do. But I think they would stand a fair chance of winning if they wisely stopped talking about climate change.
‘For The Guardian, reporting on the environment is a priority. We give reporting on climate, nature and pollution the prominence it deserves, stories which often go unreported by others in the media.’
I am on-board about pollution and the despoilation of nature, often done so causally and on a large scale, but it is a shame these topics are habitually conflated with climate, as that is a separate subject which I am not on board about, so consequently I reject the overall climate flavoured message
“causally” or “casually”? If casually, I respectfully disagree, because I see the lives of billions made better by resource production.
“I favor the public ownership of utilities, banks and major industries,”
That’s done already Bernie. The office that helps you to do this is called the stock exchange.
Cheers
Roger
+100 even governments are allowed to buy shares.
Fresh from Kobe univ. Its the sun.. Henrik 😁 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190703121407.htm
Bernie Sanders declared a climate emergency and then he didn’t.
Here is the last paragraph of the resolution.
“(2) nothing in this concurrent resolution constitutes a declaration of a national emergency
for purposes of any Act of Congress authorizing the exercise, during the period of a national
emergency or other type of declared emergency, of any special or extraordinary power.”
The fact is there is nobody with any actual expertise involved. It is a tale “Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” quoth the Bard.
Nothing more than virtue signaling/posturing. 20 years ago not one person in Congress voted for Kyoto. On the extremely slim chance it could pass both houses it would be vetoed in a New York minute. And they know it.
If God came down on a white cloud over the UN IPCC HQ at Geneva and announced in a booming voice, “It’s Natural Variability not Greenhouse gases driving the climate”, two things would follow-
1. The New York Times would headline, “Geneva Police seek Climate Hoaxer”,
2. Bernie Sanders and AOC would seek a Congressional Inquiry into God’s professional qualifications saying He/She is not a climate scientist.
Bernie would also demand God pay 100% of the costs of the Inquiry.
Crazy young Commie. >>>>> Crazy old Commie.
The Lunatic Fringe. We all know you’re out there!
Red Rider – Lunatic Fringe
https://youtu.be/sTFVMMCwsss
We have the same communists as Bernie in our New Zealand government and most of them are in the Green party but scratch a green and they are red underneath and red in New Zealand stands for socialism heading towards Communism .
Amen to that.
Hence the name Watermelon.
Green on the surface, red to the core.
It’s amazing and somewhat disturbing that the self destructive policies promoted by the far left have gained as much traction as they have. TDS seems to have the side effect of turning otherwise thinking brains into mush.
No. Those brains were always mush.
Leftists corrupt language in order to redefine an issue. An official declaration of a climate emergency may do nothing – for now – but it is part of a larger scheme of redefining the limits of what is normal and what is acceptable. It will not end here.
When it’s done at a local council level as it has been done here in New Zealand you just know what follows. Rates increases justified by ‘moral’ reasons to cover up profligate and incompetent local body waste of hard working people’s money. This boondoggle must fall…
Supposedly 70% of Americans support single payer medical care. link If that were true, it could be a winning election issue … maybe. It seems that Americans think immigration is a bigger problem by a long shot. Nation’s most important problem In any event, about twice as Americans think healthcare is the nation’s most important problem as those who think “environment/pollution/climate change” is the biggest problem.
It’s another case of they “support” it but if you ask them to pay anything for it the numbers invert and less than 30% support paying for it.
70% of Americans would be supportive of other people paying for their health care.
(70% of Americans would also be supportive of other people paying for their transportation, electricity, housing, food, education, & entertainment (in the way of free cable/internet))
It’s all in how you frame the question and spin the results.
Might as well as start putting chips/rubies in our hands that tell us that we can’t live past 30 just like in “Logan’s Run”….how prophetic was that story???🤮🤮🤮
President Trump needs to have fun with this. We have been trying to put in front of him a Carbon Capture System that is so affordable and will turn all that BAD CO2 into good paying full time jobs and money.
https://youtu.be/RQRQ7S92_lo
President Trump will be able to sell this CO2 Capture technology to the other countries around the world that are still trying to figure out how they are going to reduce their CO2 emissions as per their Paris Climate Accord agreement.
It will be good for America’s GDP . Go President Trump Go. Keep On Making America Even Greater.
Even if it were free, it would still be too expensive.
Free always means so expensive that you can’t afford it.
I keep hoping Ol’ Bern-pit will start foaming at the mouth when he makes one of his lectern-thumping speeches. He just loves the attention he gets when he’s on camera. And his protege Occasionally=Conscious is not much higher than he is in his quest to get attention.
They were made for each other. A matched pair…. Mr. Fury and Ms. “Is this microphone on?”
As that old wise person Anon said, “An ounce of appearance is worth a pound of performance.”
This is especially true in politics where hypocrisy is a virtue.
Declaring a Climate Emergency isn’t going to go as smoothly here in the U.S. as it did in the UK.
Republicans control the U.S. Senate and the Presidency so no Climate Emergency will be officially declared.
I *would* like to see the Democrats make a big deal of it just so they force the Trump administration to take an actual stand on the subject. Other than Trump, all the other Trump officials seem to try to avoid talking about the subject as much as possible. They hem and haw and it’s a pitiful sight to see. Watching them you would think they don’t know what they are talking about, they are so hesitant to make a flat statement. it makes them look devious when they try to avoid the question.
No doubt most of them are reluctant to get into a scientific debate when they don’t have full command of the subject. To them I would say that when they are quizzed about CAGW they should just say that “the science is not yet settled”.
When the alarmist reporter challenges that statement, the Trump official should ask the reporter how much net heat CO2 adds to the Earth’s atmosphere. Of course, the reporter does not know the answer to this question, nor does anyone else on the planet, yet this number is central to the claim that CO2 can somehow affect the Earth’s weather and climate.
You have to know this number before you can make accurate predictions about the Earth’s climate, but noone knows this number, yet politicians want us to spend Trillions of dollars fixing a problem they can’t prove even exists.
It Trump officials can’t remember all this, just make a copy of this post and take it with you. You’ll feel much more confident in your position that the science is not settled when you see that the alarmists don’t even have the basic, fundametal CO2 number from which to extrapolate anything into the future.
The Alarmists don’t know how much net heat CO2 adds yet they claim to know what this unknown quantify will do once in the Earth’s atmosphere. They don’t have the essential facts in hand to make such claims.
The science definitely is not settled. Just say it isn’t settled and then make them prove it is. Put the onus on the Alarmists.
Back when the Democrats had super majorities in both houses of congress and the presidency, they chose to do nothing regarding climate change.
Their real motto is “Trust me, this time it will work”. Forget history, even though we have been attempting something similar since the French Revolution, and it has never actually worked, trust us, this time is different.
There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action.
The fact that you are ignorant should not keep you from acting. When we climbed down from the trees, we had no idea what the long term consequences would be.
“The fact that you are ignorant should not keep you from acting.” WTF? Over.
In your ignorance, what action are you to take, commieBob? Flip a coin? What if you have more than two options for action?
I hope yours was /sarc.
Not sarc at all. “We plan, God laughs.” In his books, Nassim Nicholas Taleb describes strategies for dealing with our essential ignorance.
The other author I would recommend is Philip Tetlock. He points out that expert predictions of anything to do with humans are no more accurate than would be the predictions generated by a dart-throwing chimp. If you can’t predict what will happen, that means that even if you have infinite information, it isn’t enough to overcome a chaotic system.
I am ignorant and so are you. Get over it. Don’t let your ignorance freeze you into inactivity. Just be aware that sometimes things don’t work the way you planned.
If you are ignorant in a particular area, you should not be making decisions, commieBob. Think AOC.
The fact that one does not know the infinite number of unlikely outcomes does not mean he is ignorant of the relevant issues at hand. I made many high-dollar decisions that panned out. I have never been frozen by indecision because I was always cognizant of realistic possibilities inherent to the situations in which I found myself.
You seem to be using the term “ignorance” in some philosophical-type argumentative sense. Uncertainty of outcome is not ignorance; being unaware of extant facts is ignorance. It is a fact that nobody knows the future, but many have become rich betting on different outcomes.
Anyway, this is no place to argue the meaning of ignorance. I’m done.
The trouble is, they get away with it. John Cook, an unknown cartoonist, made a mint (in both money, position, and prestige) with the 97% hoax, and has not been seen, in public, since.
“Hey Doc, take a look at this … does this growth look like cancer to you?”
“I don’t know … being a podiatrist I’m a bit ignorant on the subject of intraocular cancer. But, I’m feeling fairly confident today and I’ve just come from a self-help conference where were told that ignorance should so keep us from acting.” says Doc, squinting “Nope, that looks like nothing you need to worry about. And if it starts to hurt … well … here’s a prescription for a three months worth of Opiod pain relief … I’m pretty sure you will be fine with that.”
There are a couple of ways to go wrong.
You can never have enough knowledge to make a perfect decision. It’s part of the human condition. The trick is to be able to act anyway. Otherwise, you will never get anywhere.
You don’t actually know as much as you think you do … and neither do I.
When it comes to taking risks, I strongly suggest Nassim Nicholas Taleb. When it comes to the fallibility of expert knowledge, I suggest Philip Tetlock.
CB,
What do you mean WE,
Speak for yourself not others.
What? You’re still swinging from branches and chewing leaves?
I would love to see Bernie be the Democrat’s nominee. I’d be a deja vu, 1972 all over again style thumping for the Democrats.
Right now my money is on Kamala Harris or E Warren, with a slight edge to Pocahantas at this point. And Trump can beat both of them in the mid-west states and Florida.
I prefer Harris. Here in Findland Kamala means Terrible.
It means the same thing here too!
I don’t think Kamala has the personality to win the presidency.
Warren will probably get in there as either the presidential or vice presidential candidate.
That all depends on whether the two frontrunners, Biden and Bernie Sanders don’t self-destruct.
I would not be surprised if Biden self-destructs. Bernie hurt himself by advocating for allowing convicted terrorists to vote, but maybe that will fade away by the time the Democrat elections come about. It won’t fade away if Bernie wins the Democrat nomination because the Republicans will certainly bring up Bernie’s “terrorist vote” advocacy.
So it could be Bernie and the Fake Indian, or the Fake Indian and Kamala.
Bernie and Warren would be the perfect socialist ticket. Bernie a known socialist sympathizer and Warren a known liar. Yeah, they will make a great Democrat ticket. Very representative of the Democrat Party of today.
Per Wikipedia, her father:
“Recalling the lives of his grandmothers, Donald Harris wrote that one was related to a plantation and slave owner”.
I’m positive that non of my great grandparents were related to slave owners. So when it comes to reparations, Kamala can pay my share.
(might the fallout be worse if that section is scrubbed, and she is accused of hiding it, or left there for others to see and complain about?
Biden should ask here if there was consensus among her campaign when they discussed it.)
In Australia, the Extinction Rebellion Brownshirts think it is ok to force their opinions/ propaganda down our throats by deliberately inconveniencing those that work. If they are so convinced, why not have a proper debate. Perhaps, as they will ultimately be shown to be wrong, they must pay the full cost of compensation to all they have deliberately and wantonly inconvenienced. Perhaps $1,000 compensation to each of those thousands they have inconvenienced. As it would be hard to ascertain, perhaps fine them as a group say $50 million. Perhaps some of this money can go to conservative groups, WUWT , X-22, Breitbart etc to reeducate these delusional , brainwashed climate zombies.
Well up here in Canada,we remain deeply confused.
Our fearless federal government declared a :”Climate Emergency” but then did nothing.
Not one of the Climate Cult reduced their CO2 output.
The government has spent not one dollar extinguishing existing fossil fuel fires.
Nothing at all,except some very uneven taxing of Carbon emissions.
Except in Court it is a fee on pollution,not a tax.
And a Provincial Appeals Court has declared the science overwhelmingly supports the “Climate Crisis”,yet no science was presented to that court.
So it is a declared emergency,but no one acts as if it is an emergency.
Another own goal by those who wish to “change the entire economic system of the world”.
Which does amaze me,people who have endlessly demonstrated their numerical illiteracy and utter gullibility are going to “Reform the worlds economy”..
I cannot imagine why anything would go wrong, can you?
Why is Bernie always waving his finger about like a ranting Muslim cleric?
It’s a manufactured crisis.
My other thought on Bernie amping up the climate crisis rhetoric is it may be tied to Tom “Stinky” Steyer threatening to enter the race and run. Stinky’s main man, Washington Gov Jay Inslee is probably just weeks, or a few months at best, away from dropping out due to continued low polling among Democrats and thus his declining fund raising to support a campaign.
And the Bernie camp needs Stinky to stay out of the race. Bernie’s socialism message and anti-Billionaire talk blows up if he were to face Stinky in a real debate. Beside’s Stinky doesn’t really want to be President, he wants to own the the President and stay in the shadows pulling his strings with his money. SO as long as there is another front leading candidate carrying Stinky’s climate Change crisis flag, then he’ll probably stay out.
Time to overturn the Co2 Endangerment Finding. Speaking of emergencies.