More US taxpayer dollars awarded to UNEP, UN agency that predicted 50 million climate refugees by 2010

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US taxpayer funds given to unelected crazies at the UN are always no-strings, can be put in Swiss bank accounts without consequence. This 'coalition' to reduce non-CO2 pollutants hardly requires yet another UN group entailing unaccountable staff and expensive international air travel to confabs paid for by US taxpayers.

4/24/12, "World Bank Joins Climate & Clean Air Coalition," web.worldbank.org

"The World Bank has joined a growing coalition of international partners working to fast-track action on reducing black carbon, methane, and a range of fluorinated gases called HFCs, substances that scientific research indicates trigger wide-ranging damage to health, climate, and crops.

Members of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, meeting in Stockholm in parallel with the Stockholm +40 International Conference on Sustainable Development, announced five new initiatives toward those efforts on April 24 and introduced six new partners in the coalition....

They also agreed on a new trust fund with initial pledges of about $16.7 million, to be managed by the UNEP-hosted secretariat, to support the coalition’s work. And they discussed additional initiatives – including a proposal by Ghana on agricultural/forest open burning and a proposal by Bangladesh on cook stoves – that are to be further developed over the coming weeks."...

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The above World Bank article erroneously states that the "Arctic and Himalayas are rapidly melting:"

"Fast action to reduce the short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) can have a direct impact on climate change...and help address the rapid melting of Arctic ice and glaciers, such as the Himalayas."

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May 3, 2012, Arctic Sea "Ice Extent averaged for April 2012 ranked close to average out of 34 years of satellite data per NSIDC:

NSIDC: Arctic Sea Ice Extent Reaches Near Average in April"

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4/16/12, "Global warming mystery: Some Himalayan glaciers getting bigger," Reuters, N. Chestney, CS Monitor

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2/8/12, "The Himalayas and nearby peaks have lost no ice in past 10 years, study shows," UK Guardian, Damian Harrington

"The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows.

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4/16/09, "Report: U.N. spent U.S. funds on shoddy projects," USA Today, Ken Dilanian

The UN is free to act criminally with US taxpayer money because it is immune from prosecution.

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3/3/11, "U.K. Pulls Plug on United Nations Spending, in Move That is Bound to Hearten U.S. Critics," Fox News, George Russell

"Some of the mightier U.N. organizations, like the U.N. Environmental Program (UNEP) and the World Health Organization, were deemed “critical” by the British in terms of their international role, but were rated merely “adequate” for their performance....

The British government, long one of the U.N.’s staunchest supporters, in a sweeping and hard-nosed reorganization of priorities for its $10.6 billion multilateral foreign aid program, has pulled the financial plug entirely on four U.N. agencies at the end of next year,

put three others judged merely “adequate” on notice that they could face the same fate unless they improve their performance

• “as a matter of absolute urgency.”"...

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3/3/11, "U.K. Pulls Plug on United Nations Spending, in Move That is Bound to Hearten U.S. Critics," Fox News, George Russell

"The U.S. pays 22 percent of the so-called”core” budget of the U.N. Secretariat, and

• 27 percent of peacekeeping expenses, but

its so-called voluntary spending on U.N. agencies and programs goes far beyond that, to an

• estimated $6.3 billion overall.

Even that number is likely a significant under-estimation, since many U.N. bodes operate as “implementing agencies”—program managers—for U.S. funds that are

• channeled through non-U.N. institutions, such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM),

where the U.S. has donated $5.1 billion since 2002, and pledged an additional $4.4 billion.

The implementing agencies typically charge a percentage for their services."

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1/23/10, "Pachauri: the real story behind the Glaciergate scandal," UK Telegraph, C. Booker,

"Dr Pachauri has rapidly distanced himself from the IPCC's baseless claim about vanishing glaciers. But the scientist who made the claim now works for Pachauri."...

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TIME Magazine advanced IPCC catastrophic report on Himalayas:

12/4/09, "The Tragedy of the Himalayas"

• "and the 2007 global-warming assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change judged that glaciers in the Himalayas were

• "receding faster than at any other place in the world."...

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5/15/12, "Global temperature and Arctic ice update," BBC, Paul Hudson

"Significantly, April Arctic sea ice was close to the 1979-2012 average, and the highest in April for over 10 years."

Good amount of 2 meter+ thickness per US Navy, comment #5.

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5/25/12, "Heavy sea ice could mean slight delay in offshore Arctic drilling," LA Times, Kim Murphy

"The heaviest polar ice in more than a decade could postpone the start of offshore oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean until the beginning of August, a delay of up to two weeks, Shell Alaska officials said."

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May 24, 2012, "Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants," CARB (Calif. Air Resources Bd.)

"Announced by Secretary Clinton and Administrator Jackson February 16, 2012
Goal is to accelerate reductions in BC, methane, and HFCs
Administered by UNEP."...(page 13).

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3/22/12, "Mammoth new green climate fund wants United Nations-style diplomatic immunity, even though it’s not part of the UN," George Russell, Fox News

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4/18/11, "UN Embarrassed by Forecast on Climate Refugees," SpiegelOnline, Axel Bojanowsk

"It was a dramatic prediction that was widely picked up by the world's media. In 2005, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations University declared that 50 million people could become environmental refugees by 2010, fleeing the effects of climate change.

But now the UN is distancing itself from the forecast."...

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At least $3.1 million US tax dollars are transferred to the UN IPCC yearly which is half the UN IPCC's budget for "meetings," etc.

1/3/12, "U.S. Taxpayers Cover Nearly Half the Cost of U.N.’s Global Warming Panel," CNS News, E. Harrington

Scott Walker supporters at Racine Tea Party Sat. 6/2/2012

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Above Scott Walker supporters at Racine Tea Party rally, 6/2/12, scott anderson photo



Above, Rep. Paul Ryan speaking to Racine Tea Party, 6/2/12, scott anderson photo

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Big miss, US April 2012 factory orders drop 'unexpectedly,' March revised down

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Huge miss to expectations and 3rd drop in 4 months.

6/4/12, "Factory Orders in U.S. Unexpectedly Dropped in April," Bloomberg, Alex Kowalski

"Orders to U.S. factories unexpectedly fell in April for a second month, pointing to a deceleration in manufacturing as the global economy cools.

Bookings dropped 0.6 percent after a revised 2.1 percent decrease in March, the first back-to-back declines in more than three years, figures from the Commerce Department showed today in Washington. Economists projected a 0.2 percent gain, according to the median forecast in a Bloomberg News survey....

Stocks dropped, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index down more than 10 percent from this year’s high....

The Commerce Department revised the March figure from a previously estimated 1.9 percent decrease....

The last time bookings decreased in consecutive months was in February and March 2009....

Demand for non-durable goods, including petroleum, dropped 1.1 percent.

Orders for capital goods excluding aircraft and military equipment, a measure of future business investment, decreased 2.1 percent after falling 2.3 percent in March, bigger declines than the government reported last month....

The expiration at the end of 2011 of a tax incentive allowing 100 percent depreciation on equipment purchases may have prompted a slowdown in investments this year. The allowance for 2012 is 50 percent....

Sales of cars and light trucks slowed to a 13.7 million annual rate in May, the weakest so far this year, industry data from Ward’s Automotive Group showed last week. Purchases in the first four months of 2012 ran at the fastest pace in four years.

The labor market stumbled in May as employers added the fewest workers in a year and the unemployment rate rose, figures from the Labor Department showed last week....

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6/4/12, "Factory Orders Add Insult To Economic Injury," ZeroHedge

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5/2/12, "US March Factory Orders Post Biggest Drop In 3 Years," NASDAQ.com

"U.S. factory orders fell at the sharpest pace in three years in March, a sign that demand is slowing amid an uneven economic recovery.

Orders for manufactured goods declined 1.5% to $460.46 billion, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. That matched expectations of economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires.

Factory orders over the previous month were revised down, as well, to a 1.1% increase from an initial estimate for a 1.3% gain.

Demand for durable goods, expensive products made to last at least three years, tumbled 4.0% in March. "...

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Portugal gives taxpayer bailout to 3 banks

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"Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said the United States and Spain have discussed the possibility that direct loans from Europe's emergency fund could be a solution for ailing European banks."

6/4/12, "Portugal injects $A8.4bn into three banks," news.ninemsn.com, AAP, AFP

"Portugal will inject more than 6.65 billion euros ($A8.49 billion) into private banks BCP and BPI, and the state-owned CGD to meet criteria established by the European Banking Authority.

"In all, the state will inject more than 6.65 billion euros in these banks," though five billion euros is to come from an envelope worth 12 billion included in a financial rescue plan drawn up in May 2011, the finance ministry said.

Portugal last year became the third eurozone country after Greece and Ireland to be bailed out, receiving an EU-IMF package worth up to 78 billion euros in return for a commitment to reform its economy and impose austerity measures.

European Union and International Monetary Fund auditors said in April Portugal was meeting debt-rescue targets and could be strong enough to borrow on financial markets next year but is in a deeper recession than thought.

In neighbouring Spain, Economy Minister Luis de Guindos warned last week that 30 per cent of the country's banks faced similar problems, after Bankia called for the biggest banking rescue in that nation's history.

Bankia, born out of the merger of seven spanish savings banks in 2010, is asking the state for 19 billion euros to repair its books, in addition to 4.5 billion euros already injected.

Spanish banks are at the heart of fresh market fears that the eurozone's fourth-largest economy might have to seek an international financial bailout.

Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said the United States and Spain have discussed the possibility that direct loans from Europe's emergency fund could be a solution for ailing European banks."

via Zero Hedge

Snow in June in Stockholm, coldest single June day since 1928

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"Stockholm isn’t alone in the unusually harsh weather for the season. June kicked off with up to 20 centimetres of snow and several degrees below freezing in parts of northern Sweden."

6/3/12, "Stockholm sees coldest June day in 84 years," thelocal.se

"Stockholm broke an 84-year-old cold record on Saturday, as the capital's temperature only reached 6 degrees Celsius, the lowest June maximum daily temperature the city has seen since 1928.

“This is a pretty sharp contrast to the warm weather we've just seen,” Lovisa Andersson, meteorologist at meteorological institute SMHI said to news agency TT.

Indeed, you could be excused for thinking that the current chill is more like winter than summer. It was actually colder in the capital yesterday than on Christmas Eve.

"The temperature was a degree lower than it was at Christmas in Stockholm, so it is colder. And it's windier, too," said SMHI's meteorologist Lisa Frost to newspaper Dagens Nyheter.

The less than balmy temperatures are likely to last a few more days yet, warned SMHI.

The cold is expected to last at least for the first couple of days of next week, and much of the country will continue to be covered by rainclouds on Monday and Tuesday.

However, by the coming weekend the temperatures may rise once more, hitting 20 degrees Celsius in many parts of Sweden, according to SMHI.

The country’s southern-most areas have the best chance of sun.

Stockholm isn’t alone in the unusually harsh weather for the season. June kicked off with up to 20 centimetres of snow and several degrees below freezing in parts of northern Sweden." via Iceagenow.info, via Tom Nelson

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Ed. note: Higher than average temperatures for a few weeks are said to prove catastrophic man caused global warming, the need to sign treaties and transfer billions. By that reasoning, colder than average temperatures prove the opposite. If you choose to build your entire case on a number, this is the consequence.

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6/3/12, The US and others have shifted focus away from CO2 and toward soot or black carbon as the biggest problem for climate. Most of the soot comes from Communist China and India per James Hansen and Dorothy Koch

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'Teamsters for Walker' sign in Wisconsin Saturday, Walker supporters say unions aren't the problem, it's fat cats and out of state union bosses

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6/3/12, "Walker supporters reach out to union members, targeting bosses instead," Legal Insurrection, Anne Sorock

"Nancy Milholland, who organized yesterday’s Tea Party, opened the rally by addressing union members and “We are not anti-union, we just can’t afford to pay for your long-ago negotiated benefits.”

Big Journalism’s Dana Loesch spoke about coming from a family of union members, and called out the “fat cats” and out-of-state union bosses who are using the state to flex their muscle and bully the rest of the country.

Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, who will be on the recall ballot along with Governor Scott Walker and several state senators, framed it as a battle between Goliath, or the union bosses, and David, or the people of America....

As voters go to the polls on Tuesday in what looks to be record numbers, Wisconsin conservative leaders are intent on reaching out to all Wisconsin workers and separating them from the operatives who would use them.

When I tweeted the photo above of the “Teamster for Walker,” several people responded that they too were Teamsters who would vote for Walker. The out-of-state union bosses will leave Wisconsin after Tuesday, but the residents will be left to repair relationships with their neighbors. Showing that this is a battle for all Wisconsin and that the dividing line is one between operatives and citizens, and not against union members, is step one to making Wisconsin that light on the hill.

WAJ Update: Ann Althouse exposes a really pathetic last minute Democratic smear attempt aimed at Walker." (Teamsters for Walker photo at top from LI.)

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Unfortunate past agreements created the question from sign below, 'Why do I have to work til I die so you can retire at 55?'

Sign from 4/14/12, Wisconsin Tax Day rally via Ann Althouse

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No one in America seems to be objecting to global government, a few who do will meet this month in Los Angeles

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US taxpayers are forced to finance an unelected, openly criminal gang, the UN. US elites believe the UN is a good vehicle to get us to shut up as the EU silenced Europeans. Imaginary things are in the process of being globally taxed and regulated like global warming, species diversity, and Law of the Sea Treaty. Proceeds can end up in Swiss bank accounts with no questions asked.

6/2/12, "American Independence vs. Global Government: Are We Losing the Struggle?" Breitbart, Avi Davis

"The globalist dream did not end with H.G. Wells nor those of his generation. In fact, the movement he and the other Fabian romantics spawned was really just beginning.

Today, although few advocates talk about a world government in which a single political entity would govern all humanity, a sophisticated and extremely well financed movement to advance global governance has taken root in most western countries. Insisting on the UN as a conduit for enacting international protocols and regulations, almost all of which would override national legislation, globalists use international environmental accords, humanitarian law and international treaties as their vehicles to advance an agenda that is becoming increasingly aggressive and unwilling to brook opposition.

This well-financed campaign designed to strip sovereign governments of their ability to regulate and monitor human rights and environmental protection, has naturally put the globalist agenda on a collision course with constitutional democracy. Put simply, transnationalists in the UN and the European Union, but more importantly among America’s elites, are using the demands for a global rule of law to make American constitutional law subservient to a global authority. And in many respects they are succeeding.

To examine how this is happening and what the consequences might be for the United States and other Western nations, the American Freedom Alliance has convened a two-day conference in Los Angeles titled "Global Governance vs National Sovereignty: Is It the West’s Next Great Ideological War?" Drawing upon an international list of speakers and panelists, with representatives from Australia, Central Europe, the U.K. and France, the conference will cover the full gamut of issues regarding the global governance movement’s assault on national sovereignty -- from the politicization of international law to the uses and abuses of lawfare to the role of non–governmental organizations as purveyors of global rule.

The conference will be headlined by three national leaders who have made firm commitments to the defense and preservation of national sovereignty: John Bolton, former US Ambassador to the United Nations; Vaclav Klaus, the current president of the Czech Republic; and John Howard, the former Prime Minister of Australia. Other speakers include John Yoo, former deputy assistant attorney general in the Bush Administration; John Fonte, author of Sovereignty or Submission: Will Americans Rule Themselves?; and Pierre Prosper, Ambassador-at-Large under the Bush Administration.

The conference will conclude on Monday, June 11 with a discussion amongst all the speakers of a strategy for resisting global governance activism and with a carefully crafted declaration, signed by the conference participants,

• calling world leaders to action on the issue.
  

It is fitting to remember that H.G. Wells, who died in 1946 just months after the defeat of Nazi Germany, lived to see to the devastation that Britain's policies of appeasement brought upon the West. But strangely enough, his 1933 book, which had accurately predicted the onset of the Second World War, failed to predict the causes of that war -- proposing that it would be Poland who would be the aggressor against an innocent Germany, not the other way around.

In this there is an important lesson for the modern world: In a brutal time, we are lost when we don’t respond immediately to obvious threats as soon as they appear. The global governance movement is one of those threats. We ignore it at our peril."

"Avi Davis is the president of the American Freedom Alliance and the coordinator of the Global Governance vs National Sovereignty Conference."

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5/17/12, "The European grand coalition," presseurop.eu, Stefan Kornelius

"Until now, ideological discussion has been off the menu in a Europe which lacked a genuine culture of debate. Now that we have a French President and a German Chancellor from opposing sides of the political divide, perhaps the EU can revive the interest of its citizens with public exchanges of views on important issues...

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10/20/11, "The lost decade," Claremont Institute, Angelo M. Codevilla

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"Federal prosecutors in New York City were forced to drop criminal and civil cases because the U.N. officials have immunity,"...

4/16/09, "Report: U.N. spent U.S. funds on shoddy projects," USA Today, Ken Dilanian

"Due to the refusal of the United Nations to cooperate with this investigation, questions remain unanswered," the report says....

Commissioner Dov Zakheim, a former Pentagon controller, asked Gambatesa whether the agencies have immunity "if they siphon (their U.S. grants) all off into Swiss banks? Is that accurate? They will be totally immune, no matter what they do with the money?"

"My understanding is, yes," Gambatesa replied." (item at end of article)

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3/30/10, "UN immune from criminal prosecution. Did you know?," SciForums

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2/26/12, "Rio+20 meets Agenda 21," WUWT, Willis Eschenbach

"Well, the rent-seekers, money-hungry NGOs, grifters, post-normal “scientists”, con-men, Eurotrash, and the usual camp followers are gearing up again for another monumental waste of money. This time, it’s for the upcoming extravagarbonza, the new Rio+20 Climate Carnival.

The meeting features the usual dangerous bafflegab, which conceals wholesale theft under layers of rhetoric....

Rather than figuring out if there was a danger, Agenda 21 instructed people to establish an imaginary level of “dangerous interference”....

It’s your money that they are planning to run out of, in the process of propping up some of the planet’s most despotic regimes in the name of “combatting climate change”."...

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6/24/04, "U.N. LAW OF THE SEA TREATY THREATENS U.S. SOVEREIGNTY," Tom DeWeese, NewsWithViews.com

"Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Richard Lugar (R-IN) and his allies are mad because they had hoped to sneak LOST through the Senate before anyone noticed....Does the Law of the Sea Treaty give the UN decision-making power over the world’s oceans? Of course it does....

The Law of the Sea Treaty is closely integrated with the Convention on Climate Change, the World Heritage Treaty, the Convention on Desertification Treaty, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on Ozone Depleting Substances and its Montreal Protocol, the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species, and several more
that can be traced back directly to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Six departments of our federal government (including the Department of State) and 44 U.S. environmental organizations are members of the IUCN. The IUCN uses the United Nations as the conduit to funnel the treaties to member countries for ratification. As such, the United Nations becomes the monitor for enforcement and implementation of the treaties. For Sen. Lugar to imply that the UN is not even part of the process is beyond disingenuous; it’s downright deceitful."...

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7/6/11, "Law of Sea Treaty Could Cost U.S. Trillions," Steven Gross, Heritage

"So who would benefit from this American largesse? The final say regarding distribution of Article 82 royalties is the “assembly,” a body made up of more than 160 countries. The United States would be powerless in the assembly, where it has only a single vote, to prevent the transfer of royalties to repugnant regimes. The assembly may vote to distribute royalties to undemocratic, despotic or brutal governments in Belarus, Burma, China or Zimbabwe—all members of LOST.

Perhaps the funds will go to regimes that are merely corrupt. Thirteen of the world’s 20 most corrupt nations according to Transparency International are parties to LOST. Even Cuba and Sudan, both considered state sponsors of terrorism, could receive these “international royalties.”

Those who favor U.S. accession to LOST must ask themselves why the United States should siphon off wealth from its own continental shelf for the benefit of foreign countries that cannot or will not spend the necessary resources to develop their own continental shelves. Instead of diverting U.S. revenues to such dubious purposes, the Treasury should retain any wealth derived from the U.S. ECS for the benefit of the American people."

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7/23/2009, "“ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT”: A STEALTH VEHICLE TO INJECT EURO-STYLE PRECAUTION INTO U.S. REGULATION," Lawrence A. Kogan, Washington Legal Foundation

"As debate continues over whether the United States will accede to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), recent developments in Congress and the Executive Branch indicate a quiet but concerted effort to inject UNCLOS environmental principles into U.S. law. Some, including this author, have argued that U.S. accession to UNCLOS would explicitly usher into the U.S. legal system an aggressive version of Europe’s precautionary approach to regulating economic conduct.1 In advance of accession, though, this “Precautionary Principle” is finding its way into U.S. policy statements and proposed legislation in the more politically palatable and innocuous-sounding, but no less unscientific, form of “ecosystem-based management” (EBM)."...

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4/20/12, "The tab for U.N.’s Rio summit: Trillions per year in taxes, transfers and price hikes," George Russell, Fox News

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3/22/12, "Mammoth new green climate fund wants United Nations-style diplomatic immunity, even though it’s not part of the UN," George Russell, Fox News

"The Green Climate Fund, which is supposed to help mobilize as much as $100 billion a year to lower global greenhouse gases, is seeking a broad blanket of U.N.-style immunity that would shield its operations from any kind of legal process, including civil and criminal prosecution, in the countries where it operates."...

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1/23/12, "Attack on U.S. Sovereignty - The Law of the Sea Treaty," Dr. I.L. Paugh, Canada Free Press

"To spread the wealth, the UN “Authority” (of Law of the Sea Treaty) must regulate and exploit mineral resources by asking companies to pay an application fee of half a million dollars, recently changed to $250,000, and to reserve an extra site for the Authority to “utilize its own mining efforts.”

A corporation must also pay an annual fee of $1 million and up to 7% of its annual profits and share its mining and navigational technology. Mining permits are granted or withheld by the “Authority” which is composed of mostly developing countries. (Heritage Foundation)

Any kind of maritime dispute, fisheries, environmental protection, navigation, and research, must be resolved under this treaty through mandatory dispute resolution by the UN court or tribunal which limits autonomy. Disputes should be resolved by U.S. courts. (Heritage Foundation)

The United States provisional participation in the Laws of the Sea treaty expired in 1998. Should we consider the ratification of another treaty that has the potential to further chip away at our National sovereignty?...

“According to the United Nations Agenda 21 policy, National sovereignty is deemed a social injustice.” United Nations treaties and programs want to force “social justice” through socialist/communist redistribution of wealth from developed nations like the U.S. to third world countries."...

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Hideous Trent Lott is lobbying to turn America over to global courts and taxation via Law of the Sea Treaty:

4/30/2012, "Former Senator Trent Lott Lobbies for U.N. Treaty He Vehemently Opposed," Heritage.org

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California voters turn against high speed rail boondoggle, 69% say they'd never or hardly ever ride it, lawsuits pile up

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"USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times survey (lat.ms/N9tTcm) published Saturday." Major environmental lawsuit filed Friday.

6/3/12, "Poll: Voters turn against California bullet train," AP. Houston Chronicle

"A new poll finds California voters are experiencing buyers' remorse over a proposed $68 billion bullet train project, as the number of lawsuits against the rail system grows.

Fifty-five percent of voters want to see the high-speed rail bond issue that was approved in 2008 back on the ballot, and 59 percent say they would now vote against it, according to the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times survey (lat.ms/N9tTcm) published Saturday.

Since the $9 billion borrowing plan was passed, the projected cost of the bullet train between Los Angeles and San Francisco has roughly doubled, and it will now share track with slower commuter and freight trains in some areas, the Times said.

A majority of voters have turned against the ambitious undertaking just as Gov. Jerry Brown is pushing lawmakers to approve the start of construction in the Central Valley later this year....

The poll found that concerns about the project extend across regions, ethnic groups, income brackets and even political affiliations, according to the Times. Among Democrats, initially the strongest supporters of the plan, only 43 percent would support the bond in a new vote, while 47 percent would oppose it. Seventy-six percent of Republicans would vote against it.

In Southern California, 67 percent of voters said they would reject issuing high-speed rail bonds if they could vote again.

If the bullet train system is built, 69 percent said they would never or hardly ever ride it. No respondents — zero percent — said they would use it more than once a week.

Just 33 percent of respondents said they would prefer a bullet train over an airplane or car on trips between LA and San Francisco

The USC Dornsife/Times survey heard from 1,002 registered voters in mid-May. It was conducted by Democratic polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner and Republican polling firm American Viewpoint. The sample has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points." via Lucianne

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