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Campaign Promise Kept
as Trump Exits Paris Climate Deal
by Allyne Caan
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Putin on whether he has damaging
info on Trump: That's a 'load of nonsense'
by Caitlin Yilek
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Russian President Vladimir Putin denied having any damaging information on President Trump in an interview that aired Sunday with NBC's Megyn Kelly... "Do you have something damaging on our president?" Kelly asked, citing concerns about Trump's unreleased tax returns and a dossier with unverified claims that was published by BuzzFeed. "This is just another load of nonsense," Putin responded. "Where would we get this information from? Did we have a special relationship with him? We didn't have any relationship at all."... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/putin-on-whether-he-has-damaging-info-on-trump-thats-a-load-of-nonsense/article/2624929
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Society To Blame For “Extremism”
And Not Buying His Great Climate Lie
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Double talking globalist hanoi-John Kerry went on Meet the Press to try to stir opposition to President Trump’s throwing of a lifeline to American sovereignty... the exiting of the global welfare and wealth redistribution program falsely identified as the Paris climate accord. hanoi-Kerry has a long history of pillaging America for personal again and this globalist mechanism he and anti-American comrade Hussein liar-nObama shackled us with was a cash jackpot that now won’t be paying off. Before hanoi-Kerry is given the opportunity to do what he came to do and attack Donald Trump, Chuck Todd asks him about the London terrorist attack and comments made by Prime Minister Theresa May that “for too long there’s been too much tolerance of this extremism in the UK.” He asks, “Is she right?” hanoi-Kerry wouldn’t want to alienate his Iranian cohorts or family members, so he’ll dance around that question, comparing their situation to the United States when that wasn’t asked... http://rickwells.us/kerry-society-blame-extremism-not-buying-great-climate-lie/
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North Korea Provocation: The Background
and Context You’re Not Being Told
by Makia Freeman
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ The North Korea provocation is dominating the attention of the media and many people around the world, who are fearful the tensions between North Korea and the US may erupt into a war... If China gets involved and let’s face it – how can China not get involved if fighting breaks out on the Korean peninsula which is right on its doorstep?, we could be into a World War 3 scenario with the US on one side and China and therefore Russia on the other. The term North Korea provocation itself is ambiguous, because it could imply that the North Korea is the active party doing the provoking, or it could imply that North Korea is the passive party being provoked. History clearly shows wherever Team USA is involved, the American political and military elite are always at least partly and usually fully the active agents doing the provoking, although they do a masterful job of spinning it to trick you into thinking the other party is the crazy, unlawful and aggressive one. So what’s the background and context to the current North Korean provocation?... http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/north-korea-provocation-youre-not-told/
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Supreme Court Expedites Trump’s
Petition on Executive Order Case
by Ken Klukowski
{breitbart.com} ~ The Supreme Court took the rare step on Friday of expediting consideration of a major case, rapidly accelerating the schedule for reviewing the Fourth Circuit’s blocking of President Donald Trump’s travel ban executive order...President Trump issued Executive Order 13780 (EO) on March 6, Section 2(c) of which temporarily restricted travel from six Muslim-majority countries associated with terrorism while the United States developed new vetting procedures to keep the nation safe... http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/06/03/supreme-court-expedites-trumps-petition-on-executive-order-case/
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The Forgotten Truth
about the Balfour Declaration
by Martin Kramer
{mosaicmagazine.com} ~ At the time, as World War I raged, British forces were fighting deep in Palestine against the Ottomans, and were poised to take Jerusalem... The Balfour Declaration, for all its vagaries, constituted the first step toward the objective of political Zionism as outlined by the First Zionist Congress at its meeting in Basle, Switzerland in 1897: “Zionism seeks to establish a home for the Jewish people in Palestine secured under public law.” Theodor Herzl had failed to land such a commitment, either from the Ottoman sultan or from any of Europe’s potentates. The declaration was the much-awaited opening: narrow, conditional, hedged, but an opening all the same...https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2017/06/the-forgotten-truth-about-the-balfour-declaration/
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Campaign Promise Kept as Trump Exits Paris Climate
Deal
By Allyne Caan: An American in Paris no more. President Donald Trump announced the U.S. exit from the Paris climate agreement Thursday afternoon in a welcome instance of a campaign promise kept. "In order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord," Trump said, while leaving open the possibility of renegotiating a better deal. "We're going to have the cleanest air. We're going to have the cleanest water. We will be environmentally friendly. But we're not going to put our businesses out of work. We're not going to lose our jobs." And in acknowledgment of who brung him to the dance, he said, "I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris."
Given that the U.S. entered the agreement only thanks to Barack liar-nObama's strategically skirting the Senate, it's worth revisiting why this treaty deal was a ridiculous farce from the start. Claiming the 195-nation deal was simply an executive agreement, liar-nObama made the pact in the waning days of his administration. On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to un-make it.
As we explained last year, the Paris agreement was a UN scheme to cut global greenhouse gas emissions to keep earth's temperature increases "well below" two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, as opposed to the projected three-degree increase the world would otherwise see by 2100. Yep, a costly international agreement for an ineffective one degree.
And that's just the stated goal. The real agenda, of course, is statist control of the world's economy — control that would just happen to benefit Europe and China at the expense of the United States.
The Daily Signal notes, "If carried out, the energy regulations agreed to in Paris by the liar-nObama administration would destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs, harm American manufacturing, and destroy $2.5 trillion in gross domestic product by the year 2035."
Trump critics and the media (but we repeat ourselves) are in an uproar at the exit, with the press quick to point out the only other non-participating countries are Syria and Nicaragua. As if the U.S. under Trump's leadership is now comparable to Syria under Bashar al-Assad. Clearly, these critics missed the childhood lesson, "If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump off, too?"
liar-Hillary Clinton comically went further in her reasoning, stating, "Part of what keeps us going is that America's word is good, and that you stand with your prior administration whether it was of your party or not." Yep, just like liar-nObama stood by everything George W. Bush did.
Speaking of liar-nObama, he once again eschewed the humble example of his predecessor in blasting his successor. "It was steady, principled American leadership on the world stage that made [the Paris agreement] possible," he boasted of himself. Then, using his familiar tripe, he accused Trump of joining "a small handful of nations that reject the future." Finally, he turned to a cynical call for "hope": "But even in the absence of American leadership; even as this Administration joins a small handful of nations that reject the future; I'm confident that our states, cities, and businesses will step up and do even more to lead the way, and help protect for future generations the one planet we've got."
The Wall Street Journal rebutted succinctly: "Leadership is not defined as the U.S. endorsing whatever other world leaders have already decided they want to do, and the U.S. is providing a better model in any case. Private economies that can innovate and provide cost-effective energy alternatives will always beat meaningless international agreements."
Indeed, for all its costly restrictions, the Paris climate agreement is somewhat of a joke. As National Review's Rich Lowry wrote prior to Trump's decision, "The treaty's advocates, hoping to forestall a Trump exit, are trying to save the accord by arguing that it is largely meaningless. In this spirit, a piece on the liberal website Vox explained, the Paris accord 'asks participants only to state what they are willing to do and to account for what they've done. It is, in a word, voluntary.'"
The deal has little enforcement mechanism. As Hot Air's Ed Morrissey notes, the agreement "basically allows each nation to write its own rules, and then decide what enforcement and reporting will look like." Thus, he explains, "The idea is that nations will compete to look super-greeny, and the laggards will get so ashamed of their foot-dragging that they'll finally comply."
But make no mistake: Current carrots would become sticks before long. The Left's objective is always to tighten the screws, and this agreement would become more restrictive over time.
Of course, some companies see their own super-greeny photo-ops as good for their bottom lines, so they oppose bidding Paris adieu. As Rosebud Mining CEO Cliff Forrest writes for the Wall Street Journal, "The commercial interests that strongly support the Paris Agreement typically have created programs to exploit, game or merely pass through the costs of the climate-change agenda. Many also maintain a green pose for marketing purposes." Yet, Forrest adds, "It seems that Paris backers hope for a sudden public amnesia about the many businesses that use government to push out smaller competitors."
And as Heritage Foundation policy analyst Katie Tubb notes, "Big business and big government often go hand-in-hand. Big businesses generally can absorb and adapt to the costs of complying with burdensome regulation, of which Paris is a wellspring. Smaller companies have a much harder time complying, which means less competition for big business."
Of course, now that Trump has made the U.S. exit from Paris official, climate-change alarmists and the media (but again, we repeat ourselves) are eviscerating him based on their tyrannical pseudo-science that permits no debate, only agreement. But it was high time to leave this absurd deal behind. ~The Patriot Post
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