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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.
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The activist group Extinction Rebellion has said the declaration is a crucial first step in addressing the crisis.
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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!
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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.
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“I favor the public ownership of utilities, banks and major industries,” Sanders said in one interview with the Burlington Free Press in 1976.
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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.”
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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.
David
For your interest, this article sums the current obsession with CO2 well.
Regards
https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/73745/predatory-green-capitalism-is-monetizing-the-air-and-its-going-to-cost.html
There was another thread which talked about the organised way the media works, leading to the observation of increasingly strident calls for action.
Maybe they are doing this to get something before the dam breaks – like this !
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-11/scientists-finland-japan-man-made-climate-change-doesnt-exist-practice
“Even if the resolution passed and was signed by the president, it would not force any action on climate change.”
And that’s the point. If the Democrats actually had been able to turn this proposal into real climate policy, it would be a disaster for them. And they know it. Waving hands and whining is all they are capable of, and they know this too.
They know the steak is rotten so they sell the sizzle.
Pelosi made AOC sit in the corner for bad behavior, attacking other socialist democrats.
AOC subsequently called Pelosi a racist.
“Now I know why tigers eat their young!” Rodney Dangerfield
This will end only/if Pelosi jerks the rebels’ committee assignments. If she allows this to continue with no consequences, Pelosi is done. Bad-mouthing them will not be effective.
Pelosi also says that wanting to put a question about citizenship status on the census is racist.
Calling those who disagree with you racist/sexist/whateverist is so ingrained in Democrats that they can’t help themselves anymore.
I think the citizenship question is “much ado about nothing”
Both those on the Left and Right get worked up about putting this question on the census questionaire (it was on there until Obama had it taken off for the 2010 census) but as far as I know, unless some new law has been passed, the only question a resident of the United States has to answer on the census, according to the U.S. Constitution, is the question about how many people are living in the home. That’s the only question you are required to answer. So if you don’t like the citizenship question, don’t answer it. It’s as simple as that.
I know this because during the 2010 census, they sent me a big long questionaire, and I filled out the question pertaining to the number of people in my house, and then wrote them a note respectfully declining to answer any of the other question (because I’m hardheaded about some thngs:).
That wasn’t good enough for the Census Bureau, so they sent one of their workers out to my house to request that I answer the questions, and she was real nice about it, but again I respectfully delcined to answe and she finally leftr
The Census Bureau sent her out again a few weeks later and we went through the same drill, and then she left again.
Then, a few weeks after that, the woman’s supervisor came out and we went through the same thing again, and she finally left. She was real nice about everything too, but it’s still a hassle to have to deal with it.
Anyway, at least in 2010, it was not illegal to refuse to answer the questions, although, as you see, they will harrass you a little bit if you don’t anwer. But they can’t force you to answer, so those worried about the question should probably read the pertinent laws and not worry about it.
“it was on there until Obama had it taken off for the 2010 census”
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Nope
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/12/no-obama-didnt-remove-citizenship-question-census/?utm_term=.e3f038f29cf7
Thanks for that update, Donald.
“AOC subsequently called Pelosi a racist.”
AOC backed off that comment yesterday.
My question is: How can one caucasian be racist towards another caucasian? I thought it can’t be racism if the criticism is directed at white people.
I do belive Rep. Ocasio is a caucasian, so it looks to me like she is claimig her suntan is being discriminated against and that’s racist.
It is not true that “once a Marxist, always a Marxist”. For example, Peter Hitchens admits openly to being a Marxist and Communist in his youth. Not merely labelled a Marxist by others, as Sanders has been, but actually describing himself as such. Today Hitchens is the most verbal critic of left wing politics of all descriptions and solidly on the right.
Maybe I should have said, “Once stupid, always stupid.”
Fact is that rich folks are very mobile and about any country competes in perks and amenities for the privilege of hosting them.
Equally fact is that the rest of the crowd, those without yachts and private wide-bodies are stationary, furthermore unwanted by about any country.
Conclusion, spool-up the climate driven war on wealth and you’ll be left with a very democratic universal poverty.
Does anyone know why there is this massive uptick in Green Alarmism concerning climate change at this time?
They usually bore on about the none subject at a consistent rate, but over the past six months there has been this bizarre push into the Green New Deal, or suicide as it is widely known. Followed by Greta from Sweden being given prime time TV, rather than attending clinic to help her condition. We then get the climate crisis mob/movement followed by the Crisis Extinction anarchists, who are allowed to stop central London for a week. The police are strangely accepting of the illegality of the movement’s antics? They decide, just booking the extinctionist before allowing them back onto the bridge to continue blocking duties is the right approach?
Is there something about to happen, that causes the BBC and all the other media outlets who are supporting these fraudulent activists, to engage turbo drive?
We even had that old BBC presented Attenborough given prime time Parliamentary Committee space, to gush climate crisis nonsense without ever being challenged on the veracity of what he was saying.He even got a free pass on his personal CO2 generating habits and the latent hypocrisy of his position.
What is driving the madness?
Perhaps even the greens have figured that actually the Earth is cooling. Before that becomes more widely known they have to get their power grab in, wouldn’t they?
“actually the Earth is cooling”
Silly Ed, you’re holding it upside down.
My take on it is this: If the coming solar minimum theory is correct, global temps will be a lot cooler by 2030 regardless of atmospheric CO2 levels. Therefore, they are demanding action now so they can claim they were right all along.
“See? there’s less CO2 now and it’s got cooler. Never doubt us again, we are your intellectual superiors”
Of course, China and India aren’t going to cut emissions so, to get any reduction at all the rest of the world has to stop all emissions. And exhaling. Right now.
So when they say, “end of the world by 2030”, they really mean the end of their world only?
They enjoyed the unchallenged commanding heights for many years but more recently the voices of their critics are growing and being heard more and more but worse than that they’re being increasingly ignored by the average man in the street and they know it with electoral results. It’s driving them to display their worst character traits and foot stamping tendencies and that in itself will drive the mainstream even further away. It may even split their ranks as the moderates desert their cause from personal discomfort with the direction they’re heading in.
When you lose a certain amount of gravitas and begin to be ignored and then openly mocked you’re in real trouble politically and they are very much political animals. I’m beginning to think their whole movement is in the early stages of its death throes and the end could come quite swiftly and unexpectedly like the fall of the Wall. Don’t be too surprised with that.
There will never be “…this very unpleasing, sneezing and wheezing…crash… to the ground…”. We could possibly set up a data-mining counter to alert us to the time since last mention of Climate Change, where suddenly the MSN just won’t mention it anymore. And it will be an abrupt end, I’m sure of that, it has been obvious for quite some time that the MSM and DNC carefully coordinate their “messaging”. There’s probably a conference call each and every morning!
Nobody should earn more than a million. I agree; with one exception that is.
Perhaps the problem is that Bernie, just as me, doesn’t know how you do that: earn a million.
Why do you believe you have the right to limit what other people earn?
Why do you want to destroy the economy by driving successful people out of the country?
Oh, I think Bernie is doing alright for himself:
“Bernie Sanders net worth: Bernie Sanders is an American politician who has a net worth of $2 million dollars. According to his June 2017 Senate financial disclosure, Bernie earned around $1 million in 2016, the majority of which ($795,000) came from a book advance.”
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/democrats/bernie-sanders-net-worth/
Notice it was a sweetheart advance on a book that will never sell enough to cover the advance. It is a trick publishers use to get around Federal campaign financing laws.
The Declaration of Independence states “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”
Translation: All humans are created equal. There after, every person has the unalienable rights to rise to the highest level of achievement legally and ethically possible. Equality of outcome is not guaranteed or even mentioned. You have to work for your own achievements, in your pursuit of personal happiness. Git ‘er done! Envy of others achievements will not make you happy….
For years Trump did nothing to stop those pushing up the temperature at NASA.
The real temperature as shown by UAH and the lack of any trends in severe weather is about as benign as we can get. The delusional temperature as created by NASA is fuelling these nutters, not just in the US but worldwide.
If a US president years after their election can’t stop a few publicly funded people fabricating global temperature, what is the point in them?
The problem is similar to the one in Britain. The civil service really runs things and sabotages any attempts to rein in their power. Most civil servants know they can passive-aggressively ignore the edicts of any government they disagree with and so long as they aren’t actively insubordinate, can get away with gumming up any reforms for decades. Case in point: British civil service mangling of the attempts to leave the EU.
But what advantage do they (civil servants) have in staying in the EU? Is it just a philosophical stance – toward more socialism? They do not collect more pay?
While you are correct, many of the worst ones just prefer to think of themselves as European rather than British. The worst ones also are hard core believers in the absolute power of government over the people and in that respect, the tendencies of the EU are much more in line with their preferences for central, unaccountable to the unwashed masses, control of every aspect of life from conception to death. They see themselves as the enlightened enforcers and everyone else as an obstacle to Utopia (Greek for nowhere, I believe).
Of course those same characteristics are true of a very large number of US civil servants as well. It is the nature of rule by bureaucracy.
Good reason to repeal most of the various civil service employment protections and go back to unrestricted hire-and-fire. It’s much harder for a bureaucratic swamp to form if the whole system stands to be flushed every few years.
The first Civil Service Act, signed by that machine politician Chester A. Arthur, would have been better named the Deep State Enabling Act.
Mike,
President Trump has only been in office for 2.5 years. When you state “For years Trump did nothing…” you are barely technically correct and simultaneously creating a false impression of a greater period of time. You know that, don’t you?
Just as the UNFCCC and IPCC have stated, “
climate change, global warming” is actually about forcing countries to join a global socialist government. Another soon to be global disaster that destroys civilization achievements.Thank you.
Chakrabarti needs to go back socialist school.
You don’t EVER remind your useful idiots that they are, from your perspective, useful idiots.
stories which often go unreported by others in the media
Like the BBC, NYT, LA Times etc etc etc etc
The Guardian really has gone tabloid
Alarmists — drive the posted speed limit and buy your clothes at Goodwill and we can talk.
“AOC’s Chief of Staff Admits It: ‘Green New Deal’ Is About Changing The ‘Economy’ – Not Climate”
https://flagandcross.com/aocs-chief-of-staff-admits-it-green-new-deal-is-about-changing-the-economy-not-climate/
And the first victims of Changing The ‘Economy’ will be journalist, just like it was in China.
There IS a national emergency — a complete mental breakdown of leftist politicians/media, and all their sychophants.
Obama nationalized GM, with a bailout. So for a while was CEO of a motor company. When GM recently closed factories, Trump said return the $11 billion.
What was the AIG et al $700 billion bailout other than a massive nationalization of worthless derivative paper.
Looks like Bush’s and Obama’s bailouts cost more than the entire Afghan/Iraq war.
Instead the USA needs a National Bank along Hamiltons lines, 2 of which were already scuppered. Then massive projects like fusion and the Moon can really get going.
Not to get too bogged down in the climate swamp, an’ all that…
Next up for photo op purposes will be the call to issue a travel warning on visiting the climate.
Ka ching to the donations fund, book sales, and speaker circuit fees.
Bernie needs a turban to go along with the rants.
The border is no emergency.
Climate is a crisis and an emergency.
Our representatives are a catastrophe.
Curious George,
“The border is no emergency.” …………………FALSE
“Climate is a crisis and an emergency.”……….FALSE
“Our representatives are a catastrophe.”……..TRUE
Just like “global warming” before it, the “climate change” meme is wearing thin due to overuse, so it’s now time to bring on the new meme “climate crisis.”
Gotta keep those dollars flowing, don’t cha know!
From “The Bern” Bonus box at the end of the above article: “Nobody should earn more than a million dollars,” Sanders said.
CNBC reported that it is likely that Bernie Saunders earned more than $1 million in CY2016 . . . see https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/06/bernie-sanders-made-over-1-million-last-year-and-has-joined-the-1-percent.html
Clowns !
https://youtu.be/kMQPeovhP7w
Reminded me of this.
https://media4.picsearch.com/is?xHekoYQht1P_Iyyzu1wcldWl04B0z31c-h3PCA_5VsQ&height=341
Does Congress have to declare something to be an emergency before it can become one? Was Hurricane Katrina a non-event until Congress declared it to be an emergency? It seems to me that real emergency are obvious to the observer. The only ones that have to be declared are the fake ones that no one believes are emergencies until Congress says so. I didn’t know Congress was so powerful and all-knowing that they could foresee the future and pass a law to declare an emergency before it happens. Why don’t they just pass a law that forbids the climate to change?