Copenhagen Climate FacilityPosted Sunday, October 25, 2009, at 2:03 PM
As promised, I did sit and read the Copenhagen Climate Treaty (not the final draft)in order to decide if there are any "red flags" of concern that may be present that would suggest the underlying "One-World" government plot. This was one of the most hair-pulling reads and not my idea of a relaxing Sunday. (But if I comment on something, I am obligated to read the damn thing!) So I will only post a few things from the Treaty for your consideration and comments. Help me to understand it and come to some type of conclusion, if possible. Thanks, gang. Below are actually from the documents, a direct quote.
http://www.germanwatch.org/klima/treaty1... Begin transmission: Copenhagen Climate Treaty "All that is needed is that Parties have an open mind and real dedication to concluding a just, effective, science-based agreement, in time to keep global average temperature rise far below the danger threshold of 2°C. Failure to agree a strong, effective deal in Copenhagen will accelerate the demise into competing smaller entities, resource wars, disruption, refugees, and natural catastrophes. In order to ensure that industrialized countries meet both their emissions reductions and support commitments, both in the field of emissions reductions and support, industrialized countries should be subject to a much stricter compliance regime, including financial penalties and early warning mechanisms. Industrialized countries should commit considerable funds to cover the full cost of preparing these plans, immediately in 2010. This cannot be accomplished by a fragmented set of existing institutions. The new Copenhagen Climate Facility (CCF) would be an enhanced finance & technology mechanism learning from the experience of already existing institutions. It should reflect a democratic decision-making structure with an equitable and balanced regional representation. The CCF would operate under the guidance and authority of the supreme body of the Copenhagen Protocol (CMCP). Each industrialized country should assume responsibility for an assessed amount of this 160 billion US$ financial requirement as part of its binding national obligation for the 2013-2017 commitment period. Assessed amounts should be based on countries' responsibility and capacity according to criteria to be agreed at Copenhagen. This means that Annex II countries will have to carry responsibility for a majority of the overall obligation. In addition to these resources, industrialized countries should contribute to the research, development and demonstration pillar of the Technology Board as part of their commitments...in terms of to at least double the current spending on research, development and deployment of climate friendly technologies by 2012 and then quadruple the RD&D spending by 2020. Industrialized countries should also support the new reporting requirements of developing countries on an agreed full cost basis. All industrialized countries must act -- immediately and ambitiously. Compliance should not only be assessed at the end of the commitment period. Early warning triggers should be put in place to flag when a country is behind in meeting its mitigation or support obligations for finance, technology, and capacity building and then refer said country to the Compliance Committee. The consequences for non-compliance should be strict; including, inter alia (among other things), heavy financial penalties. If a country is found to be out of compliance with its support obligations at the end of a commitment period, financial penalties should be levied by the Enforcement Branch. All financial penalties should be paid into the Copenhagen Climate Facility and support adaptation activities. Developing Countries who are in non-compliance: Under no circumstances may matters relating to developing countries be referred to the Enforcement Branch. If a discrepancy exists between the activities implemented and the anticipated outcomes, questions should be referred to the Facilitative Branch of the Copenhagen Protocol... Technical and financial advice including technology transfer and capacity-building should be made available on request. " End of transmission. Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] |
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And WHO do all these "assessments" get paid to?
And WHEN......pray tell.......did the UNITED STATES, who has helped every country on this planet in one way or another..........start taking ORDERS from anybody?
All these "financial requirements", "out of compliance" and "assessed penalties"
Talk about GALL!
We saved Europe from the Germans------twice
We saved Asia from Japan
We have provided foreign aid for DECADES all over this globe
If there's a natural disaster, our planes are the first ones in with food and medical supplies
If the U.N. requires troops someplace, it's usually OURS
We've rebuilt countries that STARTED the wars with us, while a lot of our own people sit in poverty
We provide medical AND economic care to those who sneak in here illegally
We pay the U.N. to work against us
Many countries have their hands out for help, then spit at us when our back is turned
And now they DARE to want to "tax and penalize" the hands that have fed and helped them for all these years?
Contrary to what many of our politicians might think, we don't TAKE ORDERS from ANYBODY outside of our borders.
We didn't USED TO, anyway.
The "Enforcement Branch".............run by WHO? I can't wait to see what happens the next time the Russians have a nuke reactor problem and this "Enforcement Branch" tries to tell PUTIN he has to pay a fine!
He'll say "NYET!"..........and WHO's gonna "force" him?
When they send OBAMA a "bill" of some kind, he'll just come up with another tax (excuse me......FEE), PAY them and apologize for the inconvenience, while China continues to stoke up the fires in the sweat shops, making toys for 18 cents that retailers HERE can sell for $14.00
Someone HERE of course will say that the Treaty is a GOOD idea, and we somehow OWE the rest of world yet once again.
Being the mean-spirited, arrogant, hateful country we've been all these years.
And I suppose we DO owe them all..........they've all been there for US during earthquakes, floods, drought, tornados, hurricanes, 9/11, Katrina...............We should KNOW who are friends are and act accordingly.
Screw this. I need to go shoot today, if the weather's nice.
Do you suppose this delay resulted from reports of our President's decision not to attend the conference in Copenhagen?
http://en.cop15.dk/news/view+news?newsid...
Hard to say what's going on behind all these closed doors.
Dave, there is often a part of me that just wants to be like old "Sgt. Schultz" from Hogan's Heroes.
"I see nothing, I hear nothing, I know NOTH-ING!"
Just toss out the TV, stay off this computer permantly, grab a fishing pole and just disappear for awhile.
................But I gotta know what's going on, so as never to be caught off guard. There is just too many cloak & dagger things going on in a country I know longer recognize.
Wow, Mr. Dave Thompson, I am totally in agreement regarding the question about the Copenhagen's comments. It sure does appear that since Obama decided not to attend, everyone is coming to a sreeching halt. I know that they need Obama to vote yes on this or the Treaty will never come to fruition. We need to keep the pressure on to keep him from picking up that pen and signing us away. (at home, not at work)
Yep. Uncle Sam has been the world's "sugar daddy" for so long now, nobody wants to do ANYTHING without American bank accounts being involved in it.
Being "the first one in, the last one gone" is the mark of a leader, wouldn't you agree?
We can take pride in America's humanitarian endeavors as well.
As far as saving Asia and Europe goes, that was then, this is now.
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Oops! Disregard that link in my last. Too many tabs open!
Yes..........."that was THEN and this is NOW. And BETWEEN "then and NOW"...............we SHOULD have learned enough to STOP participating in anything else the rest of the world wants us in.
Next time there's an earthquake somewhere, let the RUSSIANS send millions of rubles and supplies
Next time there's a flood somewhere, let the British fly in millions of pounds and medical supplies
Next time someone's shores get battered by a hurricane or typhonn, let Japan help 'em out
Next time two nations start squabbling, let the U.N. (with their OWN friggin' troops) go take care of it---------they can get the French to help, or at least bring the wine
Next time there are thousands of refugees with nowhere else to go, send 'em to Mexico.
Let the other countries dig into their OWN pockets for defense and use some of THEIR men to duck the bullets. That's not OUR job and never HAS been. Our troops belong HERE on OUR borders.
Dave.......the ONLY thing the U.S. has ever meant to ANYBODY out there, is a source of foreign aid, and if there's a fight to be fought someplace...."Let the Yanks do it." (Oh sure, once in awhile the U.N. will lean on the countries that ALSO might have a vested interest in the problem, and they'll send a few troops so they can at least say they "helped.")
But we always do the lion's share whether it actually concerns us or not. Everybody's got their hands out, They ridicule us, spit at us, but the next time they NEED us................out comes those palm-up hands again.
And our government continues to lay our tax dollars, and all to often, AMERICAN LIVES into those same ungrateful little hands.
"THEN and NOW?"
Really?
Until we once again get some AMERICANS on Capitol Hill, the "war on terrorism" should begin in Washington D.C.
Folks..........if YOU want to give money to Transylvania for the care and upkeep of the Bucharest mud leopard, that's your money and your business.
If some Senator thinks it's a good idea as well, he can reach into HIS/HER wallet and make a personal donation too.
Any and ALL....American tax dollars (BY OUR OWN CONSTITUTION).........are to be used for OUR country. Says so. read it.
So I take personal afront when our politicians take a portion of what I've worked hard for and give it to Joe Blow the Bananaman down in the Amazon somewhere. And that Transylvanian mud leopard can fend for himself, I have a family HERE to look after!
It's not THEIR money to hand out as they wish............it's OURS.
Now, our church tithings DO go toward food and blankets, not only to needy kids in poor countries, but kids here in AMERICA as well.
But again......this is money and Christmas boxes I give FREELY...........and in that same spirit.
It isn't TAKEN from me like our taxes are, and given to causes and perk projects I would NEVER willingly support.
If I want that bum with the cardboard sign and the Buick parked down the street to have an extra 20 bucks to spend on booze or dope, I'LL give it to him myself. I'LL make that decision.........not "Taxman Timmy" back there!
Remember that this government never gave anybody anything that they didn't FIRST take from somebody else.
In discussions about Idaho seceeding from the Union, the first response I always seem to get, is that "we need Federal money to operate."
That so?.......Where do the Feds GET the money to BEGIN with.....that they so graciously "dole out" BACK to us? And how much of your tax dollars end up in New York or Florida to build million-dollar tunnel systems so the turtles don't get run over.
What's that you say? You're more concerned about making your mortgage payment next month, than you are about eastern turtles?
Well, that's "just the way it is, ain't it?"
Have a nice day, and remember ALWAYS to be a GOOD LITTLE REPUBLICAN or a GOOD LITTLE DEMOCRAT and keep those dollars going to the same people term after term, 'cause by golly, their lookin' out for ya!
Maybe it was Einstein himself that once decribed insanity as "doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results."
And I LOVE it. That idiot Newt Gingrich is upset because Sarah Palin and Tim Pawlenty are supporting the Conservative Party guy instead of the registered Republican in that New York election coming up next week. (I don't remember the guy's name at the moment)..............
But............PARTY BE DAMNED!...........AMERICA FIRST and that's why Sarah and Tim are backing that guy.
Newt is a "Republican" the same way most Democrats are Democrats...........as long as the guy has an (R) after his name, he's "good to go".........right Newt?
Bonehead.
"Republicans" like Gingrich are in NO POSITION to accuse Democrats of "blind allegience."
Palin has her priorities right. The greatest travesty of last year's election is that SHE didn't have a worthy partner to run with. The only bad choice on THAT ticket was McCain.
The leftwing press KNOWS it too. That's why they continue to chop at her, even a YEAR later. On her own, she fires people up and draws huge crowds, a lot more than Chicago's "community organizer" ever did. The press is nervous about that, although I doubt she'll make a run in 2012. She had the misfortune to be part of a losing ticket. But she's definitely got the White House worried to SOME degree, because the mainstream media is still dogging her.
Tim Pawlenty seems to have a good head on his shoulders, though I haven't checked his track record yet, and probably WON'T, unless he decides to run for the big one in 2012.
Rumblings around the GOP campfires already, are emerging as "Huckabee" in 2012........ALREADY!
Maybe they HAVE learned something since McCain. We'll see.