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Agenda 21 was formally announced by the United Nations at the 1992 Rio summit on the environment. It has been the operating agenda for world economic control ever since. The USA never ratified the Kyoto Accord. Officially, the government does not hold to the land-use planning program of Agenda 21. But this is a cover. [...]
Continue reading →Fisker Automotive has released a hybrid car, the Karma. The U.S. government lent the company $193 million to produce it. It gets 50 miles on a single battery charge. Not 50 miles an hour. Fifty miles. It has a 400-horsepower engine. It needs it to charge the battery. It costs over $102,000 in a stripped-down [...]
Continue reading →By executive order, Obama has created the beginning of a vast new regulatory system to control natural gas. Congress had nothing to say about this. Natural gas prices are falling due to new methods of extraction called fracking. This is creating havoc for the anti-growth environmentalists. It has dropped the price of natural gas. Across [...]
Continue reading →This seemed clever in 2010. Today, it’s illegal to manufacture 100-watt incandescent light bulbs in the USA. Here is what we are now facing. In its Environmental Justice Strategy document, the DHS says the idea is to “include environmental justice practices in our larger mission efforts involving federal law enforcement and emergency response activities” and [...]
Continue reading →Obama wants Americans to pay for Third World nations to combat global warming’s effects. What global warming? Temperatures have not risen for a decade. No matter. When the President wants American taxpayers to fund Third World bureaucrats, no sacrifice is too great. This $770 million expenditure is part of the Global Climate Change Initiative (GCCI). [...]
Continue reading →Congress in its wisdom passed a law in 2007 that led to the banning incandescent of the sale of light bulbs, beginning on New Year’s Day, 2012. By 2015, all of them in between 40 watts and 150 watts must be gone from the shelves. The 100-watt lights go first, by law. Maybe you don’t [...]
Continue reading →Carbon emissions have climbed for a decade, but temperatures worldwide have not trended up or down for a decade. So, the promoters of global warming have had to do a bait-and-switch. They got the voters into the movement with “global warming.” Now the promoters have substituted “climate change.” Why? Because the climate is not changing. [...]
Continue reading →In 1992, the United Nations’ Kyoto Agreement set up Agenda 21. It is a project for the removal of national sovereignty. It is comprehensive. The UN has issued a series of guidelines to implement it. The latest is the International Covenant on Environment and Development (4th ed.). It is 200 pages long. The key section [...]
Continue reading →The Border with Mexico is a sieve. You know it. Washington knows it. Americans who live near the crossing points know it. The voters care, but they are powerless. There is a new wedge in the border: the environmental movement. The Greens have pushed open the border. Under the guise of environmentalism, various federal agencies [...]
Continue reading →Across America’s highways drive the nuclear truckers. We don’t think about them, but they are out there. Now there is a map that shows where the routes are. Most Americans have never seen this map. “Is that it?” My wife leans forward in the passenger seat of our sensible hatchback and points ahead to an [...]
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