Showing posts with label UN. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 12, 2018

Trump On Syria Attack: ‘Could Be Very Soon Or Not So Soon At All’


President Donald Trump seemed so sure of himself yesterday when tweeting that Russia should “get ready” for a strike against Syria. He appears to now be backpedaling some, and it’s a small sign that just maybe we won’t go to war over what’s shaping up to be a false flag attack.


He did post a tweet this morning, in typical confrontational fashion, saying he “never said when an attack on Syria would take place. Could be very soon or not so soon at all! In any event, the United States, under my Administration, has done a great job of ridding the region of ISIS.  Where is our “Thank you America?”




Trump may have missed his window for getting any “thank yous” as he almost singlehandedly stoked the fears of a third world war with his threatening tweet yesterday. The United States is said to still be considering a military response over a reported chemical weapons attack on the rebel enclave of Douma on April 7.


Syrian President Bashar Assad has been accused of being behind the purported incident, but the US said it also holds Russia responsible for failing to prevent Assad from conducting the alleged attack. White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday Trump “holds Syria and Russia responsible for this chemical weapons attack,” and said, “all options are on the table.”


According to RT, earlier this week, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, correctly pointed out that the alleged incident was beneficial only to the militants. Russian military specialists have already visited the site and said they found no signs of a chemical attack or any victims. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the UN’s chemical weapons watchdog, said back in June 2014 that all stockpiles of such material had been removed from the country.




Russia responded to Trump’s threat by calling on common sense to prevail. “We do not participate in Twitter diplomacy,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said. “We support serious approaches. We continue to believe that it is important not to take steps that could harm an already-fragile situation.“


But the beating of war drums continues, although this may be a sign that the US is willing to back off some.

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

The United Nations 2030 Agenda decoded: It’s a blueprint for the global enslavement of humanity under the boot of corporate masters

Michael Snyder published an important article entitled The 2030 Agenda: This Month The UN Launches A Blueprint For A New World Order With The Help Of The Pope.


That article references this UN “2030 Agenda” document that pushes a blueprint for so-called “sustainable development” around the world.


This document describes nothing less than a global government takeover of every nation across the planet. The “goals” of this document are nothing more than code words for a corporate-government fascist agenda that will imprison humanity in a devastating cycle of poverty while enriching the world’s most powerful globalist corporations like Monsanto and DuPont.


In the interests of helping wake up humanity, I’ve decided to translate the 17 points of this 2030 agenda so that readers everywhere can understand what this document is really calling for. To perform this translation, you have to understand how globalists disguise their monopolistic agendas in “feel good” language.


Here’s the point-by-point translation. Notice carefully that nowhere does this document state that “achieving human freedom” is one of its goals. Nor does it explain HOW these goals are to be achieved. As you’ll see here, every single point in this UN agenda is to be achieved through centralized government control and totalitarian mandates that resemble communism.


Translation of the UN’s “2030 Agenda blueprint for globalist government” (controlled by corporate interests)


Goal 1) End poverty in all its forms everywhere


Translation: Put everyone on government welfare, food stamps, housing subsidies and handouts that make them obedient slaves to global government. Never allow people upward mobility to help themselves. Instead, teach mass victimization and obedience to a government that provides monthly “allowance” money for basic essentials like food and medicine. Label it “ending poverty.”


Goal 2) End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture


Translation: Invade the entire planet with GMOs and Monsanto’s patented seeds while increasing the use of deadly herbicides under the false claim of “increased output” of food crops. Engineer genetically modified plants to boost specific vitamin chemicals while having no idea of the long-term consequences of genetic pollution or cross-species genetic experiments carried out openly in a fragile ecosystem.


Goal 3) Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages


Translation: Mandate 100+ vaccines for all children and adults at gunpoint, threatening parents with arrest and imprisonment if they refuse to cooperate. Push heavy medication use on children and teens while rolling out “screening” programs. Call mass medication “prevention” programs and claim they improve the health of citizens.


Goal 4) Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all


Translation: Push a false history and a dumbed-down education under “Common Core” education standards that produce obedient workers rather than independent thinkers. Never let people learn real history, or else they might realize they don’t want to repeat it.


Goal 5) Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls


Translation: Criminalize Christianity, marginalize heterosexuality, demonize males and promote the LGBT agenda everywhere. The real goal is never “equality” but rather the marginalization and shaming of anyone who expresses any male characteristics whatsoever. The ultimate goal is to feminize society, creating widespread acceptance of “gentle obedience” along with the self-weakening ideas of communal property and “sharing” everything. Because only male energy has the strength to rise up against oppression and fight for human rights, the suppression of male energy is key to keeping the population in a state of eternal acquiescence.


Goal 6) Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all


Translation: Allow powerful corporations to seize control of the world’s water supplies and charge monopoly prices to “build new water delivery infrastructure” that “ensures availability.”


Goal 7) Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all


Translation: Penalize coal, gas and oil while pushing doomed-to-fail “green” energy subsidies to brain-dead startups headed by friends of the White House who all go bankrupt in five years or less. The green startups make for impressive speeches and media coverage, but because these companies are led by corrupt idiots rather than capable entrepreneurs, they always go broke. (And the media hopes you don’t remember all the fanfare surrounding their original launch.)


Goal 8) Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all


Translation: Regulate small business out of existence with government-mandated minimum wages that bankrupt entire sectors of the economy. Force employers to meet hiring quotas of LGBT workers while mandating wage tiers under a centrally planned work economy dictated by the government. Destroy free market economics and deny permits and licenses to those companies that don’t obey government dictates.


Goal 9) Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation


Translation: Put nations into extreme debt with the World Bank, spending debt money to hire corrupt American corporations to build large-scale infrastructure projects that trap developing nations in an endless spiral of debt. See the book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins to understand the details of how this scheme has been repeated countless times over the last several decades.


Goal 10) Reduce inequality within and among countries


Translation: Punish the rich, the entrepreneurs and the innovators, confiscating nearly all gains by those who choose to work and excel. Redistribute the confiscated wealth to the masses of non-working human parasites that feed off a productive economy while contributing nothing to it… all while screaming about “equality!”


Goal 11) Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable


Translation: Ban all gun ownership by private citizens, concentrating guns into the hands of obedient government enforcers who rule over an unarmed, enslaved class of impoverished workers. Criminalize living in most rural areas by instituting Hunger Games-style “protected areas” which the government will claim are owned by “the People” even though no people are allowed to live there. Force all humans into densely packed, tightly controlled cities where they are under 24/7 surveillance and subject to easy manipulation by government.


Goal 12) Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns


Translation: Begin levying punitive taxes on the consumption of fossil fuels and electricity, forcing people to live under conditions of worsening standards of living that increasingly resemble Third World conditions. Use social influence campaigns in TV, movies and social media to shame people who use gasoline, water or electricity, establishing a social construct of ninnies and tattlers who rat out their neighbors in exchange for food credit rewards.


Goal 13) Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts


Translation: Set energy consumption quotas on each human being and start punishing or even criminalizing “lifestyle decisions” that exceed energy usage limits set by governments. Institute total surveillance of individuals in order to track and calculate their energy consumption. Penalize private vehicle ownership and force the masses onto public transit, where TSA grunts and facial recognition cameras can monitor and record the movement of every person in society, like a scene ripped right out of Minority Report.


Goal 14) Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development


Translation: Ban most ocean fishing, plunging the food supply into an extreme shortage and causing runaway food price inflation that puts even more people into economic desperation. Criminalize the operation of private fishing vessels and place all ocean fishing operations under the control of government central planning. Only allow favored corporations to conduct ocean fishing operations (and make this decision based entirely on which corporations give the most campaign contributions to corrupt lawmakers).


Goal 15) Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss


Translation: Roll out Agenda 21 and force humans off the land and into controlled cities. Criminalize private land ownership, including ranches and agricultural tracts. Tightly control all agriculture through a corporate-corrupted government bureaucracy whose policies are determined almost entirely by Monsanto while being rubber-stamped by the USDA. Ban woodstoves, rainwater collection and home gardening in order to criminalize self-reliance and force total dependence on government.


Goal 16) Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels


Translation: Grant legal immunity to illegal aliens and “protected” minority groups, which will be free to engage in any illegal activity — including openly calling for the mass murder of police officers — because they are the new protected class in society. “Inclusive institutions” means granting favorable tax structures and government grants to corporations that hire LGBT workers or whatever groups are currently in favor with the central planners in government. Use the IRS and other federal agencies to selectively punish unfavorable groups with punitive audits and regulatory harassment, all while ignoring the criminal activities of favored corporations that are friends of the political elite.


Goal 17) Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development


Translation: Enact global trade mandates that override national laws while granting unrestricted imperialism powers to companies like Monsanto, Dow Chemical, RJ Reynolds, Coca-Cola and Merck. Pass global trade pacts that bypass a nation’s lawmakers and override intellectual property laws to make sure the world’s most powerful corporations maintain total monopolies over drugs, seeds, chemicals and technology. Nullify national laws and demand total global obedience to trade agreements authored by powerful corporations and rubber-stamped by the UN.


Total enslavement of the planet by 2030


As the UN document says, “We commit ourselves to working tirelessly for the full implementation of this Agenda by 2030.”


If you read the full document and can read beyond the fluffery and public relations phrases, you’ll quickly realize that this UN agenda is going to be forced upon all the citizens of the world through the invocation of government coercion. Nowhere does this document state that the rights of the individual will be protected. Nor does it even acknowledge the existence of human rights granted to individuals by the Creator. Even the so-called “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” utterly denies individuals the right to self defense, the right to medical choice and the right to parental control over their own children.


The UN is planning nothing less than a global government tyranny that enslaves all of humanity while calling the scheme “sustainable development” and “equality.”


1984 has finally arrived. And of course it’s all being rolled out under the fraudulent label of “progress.”


Via Natural News




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U.S. satellites reportedly catch China selling oil to North Korea

China has reportedly been caught supplying North Korea with oil despite already imposed U.N. Security Council sanctions which bar such action


(INTELLIHUB) — Spy satellites have reportedly captured photographs of Chinese oil tankers conducting illegal ship-to-ship transfers of oil with various North Korean vessels despite the fact that the U.N. Security Council has imposed sanctions on such activity.


The illicit activity is damning, to say the least, and could even be seen as an act of war after a resolution was passed in September.


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Chicago commissioner requests U.N. troops patrol, fight violent crime, ‘genocide,’ on the streets

Full-fledged martial law may be coming to Chicago in the near future, county commissioner requests the United Nations to police city streets


CHICAGO (INTELLIHUB) — Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin and his team meet with the Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations on Friday to request the organization deploy armed troops into the streets in an effort to curb violent crime and sidestep Posse comitatus which bars the U.S. military to be deployed on domestic soil.


Such a measure would be the first in a new era of globalization and militarization inside of the United States and sets an extremely dangerous precedent. Not to mention, proponents of such a deployment feel the current level of gun violence and ‘genocide’ has become far too expansive and dangerous for state authorities to handle alone as the problem continues to spiral out of control with “horrific levels of shootings,” as pointed out by the commissioner.


“There is a quite genocide taking place in too many of our communities,” Boykin told the press Friday. “Eighty percent of those who are being killed by gun violence are African-American and are often killed at the hands of another African-American.”



Commissioner Boykin said that he feels the U.N. would be a good fit for “peacekeeping efforts” inside of the city to help make sure that residents are safe and says that “we can’t afford to wait.”


“We have had over 600 people killed by gun violence this year alone,” he said. “In my community of Austin, we have had 450 people shot and 80 people killed in this year alone.”


The commissioner said the bottom line is if local authorities can not protect the minority population then something has to be done about it.


“We are loosing to many of our young people, we’re losing too many senior citizens and we quite frankly we have people in this neighborhood that are afraid to walk down the streets,” Boykin explained. “We can never let this become the norm.”


Related:


Executive Order — United States Policy on Pre- and Post-Strike Measures to Address Civilian Casualties in U.S. Operations Involving the Use of Force — WhiteHouse.gov


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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Award-Winning Journalist: ‘The Target Of The Globalists Is America’


The target of the globalists is America, and the number one target is the “America First” president, Donald Trump. Award-winning journalist Alex Newman recently sat down for an interview with USA Watchdog‘s Greg Hunter, and he revealed that the New World Order is “freaking out” about Trump.


“This has come through loud and clear, and they have made clear America, as we patriots understand it with “self-evident truth” and our Founders said we were “all created equal” and “we were endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights,” is not going to fly with their little vision of a New World Order,” said Newman. “They need to eliminate that idea, and they make very clear they are coming after that. What we see in their actions and what we see in their words is they are trying to break down this idea of America. . . . It’s very clear their vision for the New World Order is totalitarian to the core. . . .They really can’t stand this whole agenda articulated by President Trump. We are going to put America first. We are going to stop globalism. We are going to get out of these so-called trade deals that undermine our sovereignty. You can tell they are freaking out about this, and it came through in the speeches at the World Government Summit most recently.”



Newman begins by blasting social media as a propaganda arm of the globalists and deep state. “It’s actually really hard to tell where the social media berms begin and where the deep state ends. They’re practically one in the same and this has been true from the start. A lot of these big social media companies ended up getting seed money from the intelligence community through In-Q-Tel the investment arm of the US intelligence community. And what you see is that all these globalist con bags…the leading executives of Facebook and Eric Schmit of Google and Twitter and LinkedIn and Amazon and all these…of course they all have memberships with the Council on Foreign Relations…they are undergoing a systematic campaign to censor, to silence, and to sideline conservatives, Christians, libertarians, people who say anything that contradicts the agenda.”


Hunter then says that so many people still believe the New World Order (one world government) is just a myth. However, the World Government Council met back in February and no one in the mainstream media dared to alert the public.


“This World Government Summit, which was the sixth one they have had, which takes place on the Arabian Peninsula . . . is all out in the open.  It did not get any coverage in the American media, even though Sky News and CNN have cosponsored this event. . . . You had the heads of all these UN agencies, the Head of the IMF, the Head of the World Bank, you had top globalists and executives from social media companies, very senior government officials and the head of the United Nations last year.  So, this is very serious business.  They told us what their agenda was.  They came out with an official press release and said we need to realign our institutions to get ready for the New World Order.  It’s not a conspiracy anymore because a conspiracy requires secrecy, and they are in the open now.  It’s not a theory, it’s a fact and you cannot argue with the facts.  They just haven’t told the American people their agenda.”

Friday, February 16, 2018

Report Finds UN Employees 3,300 Pedophiles, Responsible for 60,000 Rapes in Last 10 Years

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A former high-level official from within the UN has blown the whistle on a pedophilia network of massive proportions involving thousands of UN employees wreaking havoc on tens of thousands of innocent children.


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Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Friday, December 15, 2017

Cook County Commissioner Calls for UN Troops to Stop Chicago Violence

Nothing some UN troops and another gas tax can’t handle. Right? (Richard Boykin/Facebook)


“Cook Commissioner Richard Boykin … flew to New York on Thursday to discuss what he described as a ‘quiet genocide’ in Chicago’s black community with the U.N.’s assistant secretary-general for peacebuilding support, Oscar Fernandez-Taranco,” The Chicago Tribune reports.


His bright idea?


Foreign UN blue helmets patrolling American streets.


“The United Nations has a track record of protecting minority populations,” Boykin claimed. “There was tribal warfare between the Tutsis and the Hutus in Africa, and they deployed peacekeeping troops there to help save those populations and reduce the bloodshed. We have to do something — black people in Chicago make up 30 percent of the population but 80 percent of those who are killed by gun violence.”


That’s an interesting admission. It proves to any but the willingly blind that the problem with violence is not the guns. But that doesn’t stop Boykin from proposing this latest in a litany of loopy non-solutions. His brainstorm to address the same issue last year was a 4-cents-a-gallon gas tax.


Does this on U.S. soil suggest “peaceful resolution” to you?


And point of order, since Boykin’s the one who brought up UN intervention in the Hutu-Tutsi genocide:


“The United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) … is thus regarded as a major failure.”


The region is still a corrupt and brutal hellhole, where officials “manipulate” (lie about) the extreme poverty statistics and the military engages in “unlawful detention” and “widespread and systematic torture.”


And naturally, putting it mildly, “The regulation of guns in Rwanda is categorised as restrictive.”


That “progressive” policies promulgated by Boykin and the Chicago political establishment are “fundamentally transforming” more and more of America into a Third World “global norm” is self-evident. The further this country deviates from founding intent, the more tyranny — and the misery it brings — take over.


The destruction will grow and spread as long as powers are usurped and freedoms are infringed. As will the widespread violence, as long as that which is “necessary to the security of a free State” is deliberately ignored and suppressed instead of promoted, trained and supplied.


As long as the Boykins of the world have their places at the trough secured and can take expenses-paid junkets where they’re treated like important players, where’s the incentive to change?


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Tuesday, October 17, 2017

‘Modest Proposal’ Eviscerates Founding Intent on Second Amendment

Surrender of fundamental rights articulated in the Constitution to those who demand a monopoly of violence is a reasonable compromise, say the Opposite Day “progressives.”



“There is a reasonable and constitutional compromise that can be made regarding the Second Amendment,” the CNN summary for its “A Modest Proposal on Guns” guest editorial by Jeffrey Sachs claims. That alone should be enough to put gun owners on their guard—first because, as the tagline says, “This is CNN,” and we know what that means. For them to present themselves as arbiters of “reasonable and constitutional” opinions on gun owner rights smells like a set-up to a swindle. When they add the word “compromise,” you know what they’re pushing (commentary opinion disclaimers notwithstanding) is more infringements, not fewer.


The title of the piece ought to give it away. “A Modest Proposal” was an Eighteenth Century satire written by Jonathan Swift in which he proposed the impoverished Irish could improve their economic lot by selling their children to be slaughtered and eaten by the rich. At least in Swift’s case, he was mocking the heartlessness of the oppressive establishment elites of his time.


In Sachs’ case, he is the establishment. He’s a professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University who calls the U.S. “a rogue nation.” He’s a leading “warmist” who advocated that Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott should resign after Hurricane Harvey because he supports his state’s oil interests against (unconstitutional federal) regulation and opposed the Paris Climate Agreement for globalist wealth redistribution. And speaking of Swift and children perceived as liabilities, it’s telling that Sachs, along with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, were hosted at the Vatican to push the benefits of a worldwide tax-subsidized “right” to abortion along with “population control.”


“Reasonable compromise” on the right of the people to keep and bear arms can be most helpful with that, as multiple Twentieth Century genocides have proven.


And the good professor’s bright idea this time around?



“Focus the protection of the Second Amendment on keeping nonmilitary arms at home for self-defense, while putting an escalating standard of protection on other kinds of arms and uses …  If individuals want to own semi-automatic assault weapons, either as collectors or for practice shooting, then enforce a provision that such weapons can only be kept at legally registered shooting ranges or other registered depositories, and cannot be removed from the designated premises. Similarly, if individuals want to use unusual high-powered weapons for hunting, and if such weapons are deemed to be acceptable for hunting purposes, then require that the hunters collect their weapons from a registered hunting depot and redeposit them after hunting, with the guns and ammunition properly accounted for.”



There’s more, but you get the picture. He has completely eviscerated Founding intent and “shall not be infringed,” and reduced gun ownership to highly-regulated personal protection and “sporting purposes,” all of which are one majority rule vote away from the ultimate goal at the bottom of Nancy Pelosi’s “slippery slope.”


Cherry-picking quotes from Antonin Scalia in his Heller opinion only serves to highlight the dishonesty in Sachs’ argument. And he conveniently avoids “common use” language employed in the Heller and earlier Miller decision, misdirecting instead by focusing on “prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons.”


In Miller, the court had no evidence possession of a short-barrel shotgun had “some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia [or] that this weapon is any part of the ordinary military equipment, or that its use could contribute to the common defense.”


That’s the key point being ducked. The function of the militia, defined as “all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense [and] bearing arms supplied by themselves and of the kind in common use at the time,” was—and is—to field citizen soldiers. And these citizens bore arms that were suitable for that purpose, “ordinary military equipment” intended to be taken into “common defense” battles. The militia assembled with the intent to match and best a professional military threat.


And here’s the kicker. Say for argument’s sake we give Sachs what he wants. Will it all be better now?


“Would this compromise end gun deaths?” he asks. “Of course not, since so many gun deaths occur at home among family and friends. And criminals would still evade the law, no doubt…”


No doubt. As would enemies foreign and domestic. So much for Sachs’ “modest proposal.”


The appropriate answer is “No, your move.” Especially in light of comments reflecting an attitude that is hardly isolated and is being expressed with increasing frequency by violence-minded domestic Marxists…


“It does not matter, we will take all your guns away in 2018,” one CNN fanboy threatens. “It will be fun prying it out of your cold dead fingers.”


My shorter answer to CNN and to Sachs is two words, but this is not the appropriate venue to repeat it.


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Thursday, August 17, 2017

FDA Just Changed Their Minds, Declares CBD ‘Beneficial’—Asks for Your Input ASAP

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As the pharmaceutical-led police state continues to lock up citizens in the United States for a plant, the World Health Organization (WHO), under the direction of the United Nations (UN), is on the precipice of declaring CBD highly beneficial. And, for the first time ever, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is collaborating with both the WHO and the UN to determine how the WHO should designate CBD under the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances. They want you to help them.


The FDA is now asking for the public’s help to weigh in on the measure to classify CBD appropriately. Those who are interested in keeping CBD not only legal but available to the general public without a prescription (in some states) should immediately comment on an FDA website designated for public comment. According to the FDA’s announcement:



The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requesting interested persons to submit comments concerning abuse potential, actual abuse, medical usefulness, trafficking, and impact of scheduling changes on availability for medical use of 17 drug substances.



Those substances include the following: Ocfentanil, Carfentanil, Pregabalin, Tramadol, Cannabidiol, Ketamine, and Eleven Other Substances.



These comments will be considered in preparing a response from the United States to the World Health Organization (WHO) regarding the abuse liability and diversion of these drugs. WHO will use this information to consider whether to recommend that certain international restrictions be placed on these drugs. This notice requesting comments is required by the Controlled Substances Act (the CSA).



Within the notice, FDA Deputy Commissioner Anna K. Abram acknowledged that “CBD has been shown to be beneficial in experimental models of several neurological disorders, including those of seizure and epilepsy.”


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As Leafly points out, that puts the FDA at odds with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which late last year attempted to declare CBD a Schedule I substance. Schedule I drugs, by definition, have “no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.”


As TFTP has reported, CBD is quite harmless but has been shown to help individuals who suffer from chronic pain, epilepsy, Parkinson’s, depression, anxiety, and a myriad of other illnesses.



TFTP spoke to an expert in CBD, John Callahan at AZ CBD Source, to see what he thinks of this move. While the fact that the FDA has declared CBD ‘beneficial’ is certainly noteworthy, there could be other moves at play as well.


Callahan says the move by the FDA might be a result of one pharmaceutical company’s attempt to use the FDA to control the nation’s supply of CBD isolate. That company is called GW Pharmaceuticals (GWPH).


Callahan says GWPH has been rumored to be working with the FDA to retain exclusive control over all the country’s supply of CBD isolate, the purest form of CBD. If that happens, GWPH will be able to take the isolate and craft pharmaceutical-grade prescription pills to be prescribed by a physician for the illnesses which it can treat. In other words, Big Pharma may be making a power-play to take over the supply chain of CBD and using the FDA, the WHO, and the UN to do it.



John says anyone and everyone who can comment about the usefulness of CBD should immediately do so. All of our TFTP readers should express their position about CBD and insist that it be free for anyone and everyone to purchase on the open market.



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Because of its incredible track record, saving the lives of countless children, there is no harm in allowing free thinking individuals to decide for themselves if they want to use the naturally-produced substance directly derived from the Hemp plant.


As an aside, GWPH is one of the only pharmaceutical companies in the world offering two branded drugs derived from THC, Sativex and Epidiolex. Both drugs are sold in pharmacies all over the world, but GWPH has yet to receive FDA approval for its drugs to be sold in the US.


To post a positive comment with the FDA about the benefits of CBD, click here. Click on the “Comment Now” button in the top right-hand corner of the page.



You can also contact James Hunter at the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Controlled Substance Staff in Maryland. He’s at 301-796-3156, and can also be reached at [email protected]

Sunday, July 23, 2017

INVASION-21: UN Document Plans People Replacement War Against West



OATH KEEPERS:
ORDERS WE WILL NOT OBEY


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1. We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people.


2. We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people
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3. We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy combatants” or to subject them to military tribunal.


4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on a state.


5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty.


6. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.


7. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.


8. We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to “keep the peace” or to “maintain control."


9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies.


10. We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.


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Sunday, July 16, 2017

Fmr Govt Official ‘Shot Himself in the Head’ Just Before Testifying Against Clinton Foundation

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Miami, FL —  The former director of the Economic and Social Assistance Fund (FAES), Klaus Eberwein, was declared deceased this week by the Miami Medical Examiner’s office from a bullet wound to the head. He was set to testify before a Haiti Senate Committee on the management of the PetroCaribe fund and to alleged misappropriation of international donor funds by the Clinton Foundation — the next day.


According to the Miami Herald,



Eberwein, a former Haitian government official, was found dead Tuesday in a South Dade motel room in what the Miami-Dade medical examiner’s office is ruling a suicide.


“He shot himself in the head,” said Veronica Lamar, Miami-Dade medical examiner records supervisor. She listed his time of death at 12:19 p.m.


The address where Eberwein’s body was discovered according to police, 14501 S. Dixie Hwy., is a Quality Inn.


A supporter of former Haitian President Michel Martelly, Eberwein served as director general of the government’s economic development agency, Fonds d’assistance économique et social, better known as FAES. He held the position from May 2012 until February 2015 when he was replaced. He was also a partner in a popular pizza restaurant in Haiti, Muncheez, and has a pizza — the Klaus Special — named after him.


“It’s really shocking,” said Muncheez’s owner Gilbert Bailly. “We grew up together; he was like family.”


Bailly said he last spoke to Eberwein, 50, two weeks ago and he was in good spirits. They were working on opening a Muncheez restaurant in Sunrise, he said.



Eberwein was scheduled to appear Tuesday before the Haitian Senate’s Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, the head of the commission, Sen. Evalière Beauplan (Nord-Ouest/PONT) confirmed. The commission is investigating the management of PetroCaribe funds. He was also widely expected to testify that the Clinton Foundation misappropriated Haiti earthquake donations from international donors, according to the Haiti Sentinel. 



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Eberwein’s death would not be so suspicious if there weren’t so many other deaths involving people who were involved with exposing information on the Clintons.


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As the Free Thought Project reported this week, a GOP operative and donor from the Chicago area, Peter W. Smith, who was investigating and working to obtain Hillary Clinton’s “missing” emails from Russian hackers allegedly killed himself in a Rochester, Minnesota hotel room only days after discussing his efforts with the Wall Street Journal, according to public records.


Smith allegedly put a plastic bag over his own head and filled it with helium gas until he died. 


Records show that Smith’s death occurred at the Aspen Suites in Rochester, and they list the cause of death as “asphyxiation due to displacement of oxygen in confined space with helium.” Police allege that Smith used a plastic bag and a helium tank to kill himself.



Before Smith, however, other bodies were piling up who had dealings with the Clintons.


As the Gateway Pundit reports, On July 3, 2016, Shawn Lucas and filmmaker Ricardo Villaba served the DNC Services Corp. and Chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz at DNC’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., in the fraud class action suit against the Democrat Party on behalf of Bernie Sanders supporters.



Days later he was found dead. Details of how he died have yet to be made public.


Former U.N. President John Ashe is another one of the bodies to “conveniently” perish just before a high profile court date tied to the Clintons.


After Ashe was found dead, the U.N. claimed that he had died of a heart attack, according to the New York Post’s Page Six. Suspiciously, however, that claim was later disputed by local police officers in Dobbs Ferry, New York, who noted that Ashe had crushed his own throat while working out.



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Also, Democratic National Committee Staffer Seth Rich was murdered on July 10, 2016, and despite the public attention surrounding his death—and the possibility that he was the source who leaked thousands of DNC emails to WikiLeaks—no one has been held responsible for his murder.


He was just 27 years old, and was working as the voter expansion data director for the DNC in Washington D.C. Rich was shot twice in the back while he was walking home around 4:20 a.m., and the “official story” has always been that he was the victim of a botched robbery—yet even though he was killed, he was still found with his wallet, containing all of his cash and credit cards, and his expensive watch.



While there is no explicit evidence linking the untimely deaths of all these individuals together, the fact that they were all tied to the Clintons should not be ignored. To think that people who wage wars–in which thousands of innocent civilians are slaughtered–would be above taking out a handful of people who could expose their crimes is naive at best.

Thursday, July 13, 2017

Why The UN Human Rights Council Is Silent As Venezuelan’s Die Oppressed Under Socialism


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The United Nations Human Rights Council has been silent on the death of Venezuelans at the hands of their democratic socialist government. The UN has sided with death, but that isn’t surprising, considering the horrific plans they have laid out for most humans.


The Miami Herald is calling the UN’s lack of response to blood in the streets in Venezuela a “travesty.” Despite Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s bloody repression of opposition protests that have resulted in more than 100 dead, thousands of wounded and hundreds of political prisoners over the past three months, the United Nations Human Rights Council, UNHRC, has not uttered a single word about Venezuela’s human rights crisis.


But there’s a reason for the silence, and all one has to do to figure it out, is lightly scratch the surface. The UN doesn’t care about human rights.  It’s a front for their ability to massively depopulate the earth for the advancement of Agenda 21.



In 1992, at a Venezuela conference, the United Nations passed something called “Agenda 21,” for which the elder US President, George Bush, publicly gave his support. It referred to something called “Sustainable Development,” but what this plan laid out very clearly was a one world government. This idea of One World Rule is not new to the Bush clan, or even to the modern day Illuminati. It has been around at least since the times of the Roman Empire, and before. –The Daily Sheeple



Could this be the reason the UN doesn’t care about a few hundred Venezuelans and their oppressed deaths? Possibly, but don’t expect the mainstream media to report on the horrors of socialism.  Human beings who seek freedom are the biggest threat to the political structures which are planning to destroy most of mankind, which is why governments are using brainwashing techniques and propaganda on the weak masses.  Humans will always gravitate toward their freedom unless brainwashed to accept their own oppression. This is the reason we have so many people across the globe cannot see taxation as the theft that it is. But the explanation for the UN’s silence gets even more disturbing.


Some have an even more sinister reason for the UN’s silence on the oppression of the Venezuelan people.



There is a reason for that inaction, of course. About half of the council’s 47 member countries are dictatorships — including Cuba, China, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Venezuela — who defend one another against charges of human-rights violations. In fact, the UNHRC is a mutual protection society for the world’s worst dictatorships. –Miami Herald



That isn’t exactly comforting.  Dictatorships, which the US is headed quickly towards becoming, are in control of “human rights,” so expect the eventual announcement that there is no such thing by those claiming ownership over others. Neither the United States nor any other socialist democracies represented at the council have presented any motions to the council condemning Venezuela’s human rights abuses. That’s because death is a necessary outcome to those who seek infinite power over the lives of others.


As the United States stumbles toward tyranny and becomes more socialist, the changes of our streets looking like those of Venezuela increase.  The hypocrisy of instituting the very same socialist policies which caused Venezuela to collapse would appear too obvious for those attempting to brainwash the public in the United States.


Hope seems all but lost against a world takeover, but those on the bottom forget that they are many while the elites are few.



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Tuesday, July 4, 2017

American Media Silent After UN Just Called for Decriminalizing Drug Use Worldwide

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A little-noticed public statement issued by the United Nations last week contains a dramatic shift in thinking on the issue of “illicit” substance use. After recommitting to the failed idea of prohibition just last year, the UN is now calling for the worldwide decriminalization of drug use and possession.


The statement, put out by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the U.S. is in the midst of another political debate over health care, calls for “ending discrimination in health care settings.” The WHO calls on states to end discrimination against “marginalized and stigmatized populations” in a variety of ways, and includes a blunt and rather shocking statement on the drug war.



“We, the signatory United Nations entities, call upon all stakeholders to join us in committing to taking targeted, coordinated, time-bound, multisectoral actions in the following areas. Supporting States to put in place guarantees against discrimination in law, policies, and regulations by… Reviewing and repealing punitive laws that have been proven to have negative health outcomes and that counter established public health evidence. These include laws that criminalize or otherwise prohibit…drug use or possession of drugs for personal use.”



This is an admission that the problem of drug abuse is a public health issue, not a criminal justice issue. Locking people in cages for the victimless behavior of ingesting substances arbitrarily deemed illegal by the State does nothing to reduce drug use or supply, as evidenced by the utter failure of the War on Drugs.


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Prohibition has also denied people the miraculous healing powers of cannabis. For decades medical research of cannabis was stifled by a drug war borne of racism and political suppression. But research has increased exponentially in recent years as governments around the world take steps to decriminalize this medicinal plant, notably among states in the U.S.



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With this awakening has come amazing stories of healing through cannabis, such as stopping seizures in children with debilitating epilepsy, treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in veterans where all other treatments have failed, and healing a host of other illnesses without the dangerous side-effects of pharmaceutical drugs.



In terms of health care, prohibition is truly discriminatory, and the drug war only degrades public health. Portugal decriminalized all drugs in 2001, and it has been a resounding success. Drug usage rates, addiction rates, overdose deaths and sexually transmitted diseases have all declined.


The WHO statement is also notable because it contradicts the UN’s reaffirmed support of prohibition during their 2016 “special session on drugs.” The special session was the first to be held in almost two decades, and many were expecting a softened approach from the failed war on drugs.



Despite the pleas of countries like Mexico—suffering from horrendous black market drug violence—to “move beyond prohibition,” a prohibition framework remained in place. In the UN’s 1998 ‘special session on drugs’ the world body agreed to work toward a “drug free world” by 1998. The sheer lunacy of this position is blatantly obvious now more than ever. Despite decades of prohibition and trillions of dollars spent, drugs remain easily accessible.


The WHO statement comes at a time when the U.S. drug war is in a pivotal moment. More and more U.S. states are decriminalizing cannabis at both the medicinal and recreational level, putting themselves at odds with the ongoing federal prohibition of cannabis as a Schedule 1 narcotic. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a well-known rabid prohibitionist, is taking steps to ramp up the drug war, calling for increased police measures and prison sentences—even though this approach is proven as a failure.



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There is little hope that Sessions and other drug warriors around the world—such as Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte who is now having his police forces murder drug users on the spot—will pay any attention to the WHO call for decriminalization.


Nevertheless, the WHO statement is an encouraging sign that the tide has turned against prohibition. As the drug war is dismantled piece by piece—in Portugal, U.S. states, Mexico (which recently legalized medical cannabis) and Canada (soon to legalize recreational cannabis)—the wisdom of ending prohibition will become ever more obvious.

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

New Federal Infrastructure Policy To Be Driven By Sustainable Development Dogma



Technocracy is all about infrastructure. Infrastructure connects things: people, neighborhoods, smart cities and networks of smart cities. It includes roads, rail, air, fiber optic, data communications, etc.


Dr. Parag Khanna, scholar and Technocrat, authored a book in 2016 called Connectography which promotes the concept of connecting everything together… for the sake of implementing Technocracy, or a resource-based economic system run by scientists, engineers and technicians.


Thus, when President Trump says that we need to rebuild America’s infrastructure, we must pay careful attention to what exactly this will look like. Will our nation be ‘rebuilt’ for our sake or for the benefit of Technocrats and Technocracy? That answer is now becoming clear.


The American Planning Association (APA) was created in 1978 by the merger of the American Society of Planning Officials and the American Institute of Planners. It is the largest and most influential planning association in America and has 35,000 members from 100 countries. It has since become a major driving force of UN policy for Agenda 21, 2030 Agenda, and New Urban Agenda.


Worse, the APA is advising the Department of Transportation on how to re-work the nation’s infrastructure. This is dangerous for those who anticipated a reduction of UN influence over American life!


The APA openly and forcefully supports:


  • Regional Planning – Unconstitutional Councils of Governments are already networked across America and are used by the government to dole out funds to local communities who comply with their arbitrarily imposed conditionalities.

  • Public-Private Partnerships – Similar to Fascism, PPP yokes business with government and subverts the Constitutional process of public representation in government.

  • Sustainability and Sustainable Development – This is the ‘greening’ of America, where Agenda 21, 2030 Agenda and New Urban Agenda is implanted into every decision.

Needless to say, this a huge Trojan horse and a betrayal of the American mandate to get the UN out of American affairs. The APA will influence the spending of over $200 billion in the next four years, which will reinforce and set in concrete many more UN programs.

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

UN Child Sex Ring Left Victims But No Arrests

The men who came from a far-away place and spoke a strange language offered the Haitian children cookies and other snacks. Sometimes they gave them a few dollars. But the price was high: The Sri Lankan peacekeepers wanted sex from girls and boys as young as 12.

“I did not even have breasts,” said a girl, known as V01 — Victim No. 1. She told U.N. investigators that over the next three years, from ages 12 to 15, she had sex with nearly 50 peacekeepers, including a “Commandant” who gave her 75 cents. Sometimes she slept in U.N. trucks on the base next to the decaying resort, whose once-glamorous buildings were being overtaken by jungle.

Justice for victims like V01 is rare. An Associated Press investigation of U.N. missions during the past 12 years found nearly 2,000 allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers and other personnel around the world — signaling the crisis is much larger than previously known. More than 300 of the allegations involved children, the AP found, but only a fraction of the alleged perpetrators served jail time.


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Thursday, March 30, 2017

UN Adviser Claims Trump Won’t Last 4 Years in Office



UN Adviser Claims Trump Won’t Last 4 Years in Office



Jean Ziegler predicts “moral insurrection” will oust president.



| Infowars.com –
March 28, 2017




An adviser to the UN Human Rights Council predicts that Donald Trump will be forced to leave office before his 4-year term is up due to “psychiatric problems” or “pressure”.


Jean Ziegler, who according to CNS News, “has a history of sympathizing with despotic regimes,” told Austrian newspaper Kurier, “I do not believe that Trump will remain in office for four years.”


“Either there will be psychiatric problems or the pressure will become so great that he can no longer govern,” he added.


Ziegler believes that leftists will lead a “moral insurrection” against Trump’s “xenophobic, vulgar, anti-feminist, anti-solidarity” rhetoric.



The adviser’s gripe against the president appears to stem from Trump proposing to cut funding to the United Nations.



“People are traumatized,” Ziegler claims, adding, “If Trump reduces the payments massively, the U.N. is paralyzed.”




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STEWART RHODES COMMENT: 




This is clearly the globalist plan – try to create the impression of a massive, popular resistance by “the American people” to Trump, and then have the globalist shills in both major parties clamor for a finding that he is mentally incompetent, and remove him from office.




And that is where the American flag burning, communist flag waving, women and old men beating thugs of Anti-fa, BAMN (By Any Means Necessary), Red Neck Revolt, etc come in.   They are meant to suppress and chill public support for Trump or any of his policies, by using terrorism (the threat of violence or the use of violence to shape the behavior of people) to make conservatives, libertarians, constitutionalists, MAGA hat wearing people, etc. all stay home out of fear of violence in the streets.




Through that terrorism, they can create the artificial impression that fewer and fewer Americans support Trump or his policies, and masses of Americans (at mass rallies funded by Soros) oppose him, giving the globalists and their deep state operatives the thin veneer of legitimacyy will need when they remove him “by any means necessary.”




And that is precisely why all patriotic Americans who support the Constitution need to step out and do the opposite of what the domestic enemies of the Constitution want them to do – step out en mass at any patriotic gathering instead of staying home.




And the members of this org need to be front and center, wearing their Oath Keepers hats and shirts, at all such gatherings of patriots, just as we have done for years at every Tea Party rally, at every gun rights rights rally, and at “back the blue” and “Police lives matter – support the police” rallies in the wake of the Dallas and Baton Rouge cop killer attacks




Our message, when at such events, needs to be:




We are here for the following reasons:


1.  As part of our mission to Reach, Teach, and Inspire (to reach out to all who took the oath in service, whether current serving or veterans, to teach them more about the Constitution they swore to defend, and to inspire them to keep their oath).   We will reach out to the current serving police who are there to keep the peace, and we will outreach to any National Guard, and also to all of the veterans and retired cops in the audience about their duty to defend the Constitution.  And yes, part of that message will be that they should only support actions by elected officials that are in accordance with the Constitution.




2. To spread the message to Trump supporters that if they want to make America great again, they need to make America Constitutional again.   And that is the same message we have for President Trump.  We can then teach them more about what the Constitution requires, to keep them from going off track.   This is precisely the same thing we did for many years at nearly every Tea Party event in the country, encouraging the Tea Party people to support only constitutionalists for public office, and encouraging them to oppose those who are not sincere constitutionalists, and to oppose policies that violate the Constitution.




Our message to Trump is that we will support him when he keeps his oath, and we will oppose him when he violates it, as is our duty under that oath.   We will hold his feet to the fire, but without burning him at the stake (as the left is trying to do).   We’ll give him a chance, but we expect to see him walk the straight an narrow on the Constitution.  That is our message.  If he does, we will support those actions with our lives, fortunes, and sacred honor.




3.  To stand up for the right to free speech and assembly for all Americans, regardless of their politics or views.    That is a bedrock human right of free thought, free speech, and to peaceably assemble that is non-negotiable and essential to a republican form of government, which must be guaranteed to the people of each state.  We will take our place at the front ranks of the defenders of the First Amendment against the violent thugs who are violating those rights and acting like true Brown Shirts as they use violence to suppress speech they don’t like.




4.  This does not change the fact that we are non-partisan, and we do not endorse candidates or parties, or raise money for them, as an org.  But that does not keep us from outreaching to the community as part of our mission to defend the Constitution which is a duty for each and every one of us (which is why we give our members start up outreach kits as part of their welcome to our org when they join, so they can step out and use their own initiative to do outreach in their community, as Oath Keepers).


Nor does  our non-partisan status prevent us from fulfilling our obligation to be defenders of the lives, liberty, and property of the American people, as we have already done on many, many occasions, such as when we protected recruiting centers across the nation against terrorists, when we protected shop owners and residents of Ferguson Missouri against violent arsonists who threatened to murder them (there were apartments above the shops with families living in them), and when we protected attendees at Trump’s Inauguration in DC on Jan 20 (and also protected some of the attendees of the “Deploraball” the night before), and when we provided both overt and covert security details at March 4 Trump rallies on March 4, and again at MAGA rallies on March 25.   Nor does it prevent us from carrying out our standing offer to protect police and military families who are under death threats or have been the targets of terrorism, as part of our “Operation Backstop” (aka “Operation Back Our Blue”).  We have done such actions on numerous occasions over the years, and we will continue to do so, as part of our CPT program (Community Preparedness Teams).    And, finally, we have had overt security teams at police lives matter/back the blue rallies as well.  That is also perfectly consistent with our duty to be the “Guardians of the Republic” and consistent with our motto of “Not on Our Watch.”




Given the reality of increased leftist terrorism, and the clear agenda to create a leftist “color revolution” in this nation to overthrow a duly elected President, and to overthrow our Constitution (the clear goal of the communists and anarchists) we have a duty to step out and be an overt presence at each of these rallies for all of the above reasons.




For the Republic,



Stewart Rhodes




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Thursday, March 23, 2017

Corporate Sustainability Is An Oxymoron That Does Not Benefit Shareholders Or Employees



Corporate Sustainability Is An Oxymoron That Does Not Benefit Shareholders Or Employees






Excellent article from CFACT that ridicules Sustainable Development, which is Technocracy. The best way to return to business growth is to shut down the appeasement of the sustainability crowd. ⁃ TN Editor




In recent years, aggressive environmentalists in government and the non-profit sectors have successfully pressured many firms to endorse positions that make no sense for their shareholders, employees or the communities in which they operate. Few businesses would publicly endorse central planning or back restrictions on economic growth. But the rational fear of demonization, boycotts or even legal action by government or advocacy groups has encouraged many businesses to seek compromise by endorsing “sustainability.”


What went wrong? To many business people and to the general public, sustainability is the buzzword for thrift, resourcefulness, and long-term planning. Aren’t such qualities good for businesses and within families? But sustainability has grown into an ideology marked by dark skepticism toward human ingenuity and progress.



The roots of “sustainability” go back to a 1987 UN report, Our Common Future, in which the bureaucrats endorsed the idea that economics is a dismal zero-sum game. Sustainability presumes that using resources now necessarily means having fewer to draw upon in the future, a very dubious assertion. As sustainability became a leading movement in American culture, firms rushed to adopt and brand their “sustainable” business practices. That’s a rational response to their incentive to showcase risk management skills. But much of what goes on in the name of “sustainability” is economically unwise or wasteful.



A Google search for “corporate sustainability report” will generate roughly 110,000 hits. Sustainability has the allure of vagueness. That frees companies to define the word in different ways. Rachelle Peterson and her colleagues at the National Association of Scholars, which see, have shown light into dark corners of the sustainability movement. Many businesses note that sustainability rhymes with “corporate social responsibility.” Unfortunately, this tune never satisfies activists and is thus discordant.


As of this writing in January, 2017, the federal government and many states are transitioning to new political leadership. Should the business community take this opportunity to reconsider its stance on sustainability? Is it time to unwind corporate policies executives justifiably felt they had to take in order to avoid persecution by bureaucrats, the plaintiff bar or aggressive advocates?


We asked that of a senior staffer at a leading energy supplier. The firm initiated programs, entered negotiated settlements and joined organizations, the participation in which didn’t pass the smell test. They did so to get along by going along. To summarize his answer, “We exercise discipline so projects flagged as sustainable really deliver operational benefits. There’s continuous pressure to go into areas where [that breaks down.]” Even that discipline couldn’t keep them free from high-profile experiments on air emissions and related technologies. Some were priced in nine digits but the stakeholders’ benefits vanished. At least one negotiated settlement was worded so an environmental regulator and its activist backers could proclaim they inflicted punishment although the “remediation” was previously initiated as part of evolving operational standards.


ExxonMobil’s experience is instructive. During the late 1990s, at the time of the Kyoto Protocol, Lee Raymond, then Exxon’s CEO, took a strong and principled stance on climate change. He made clear and definitive public statements that the company was opposed to the too speculative climate agenda some parties advocated.  The result was the demonization of the corporation by climate activists. Rex Tillerson, the former CEO of ExxonMobil and US Secretary of State-designate, has sought to defuse the controversy by supporting carbon taxes and advertising broadly about ExxonMobil’s research on carbon capture and other technologies.  It’s not at all clear that this approach is helping shareholders, either, because the firm remains a target of fierce criticism and of litigation.


Regulatory and non-profit environmentalists cannot be kept at bay by companies explaining that their operations are clean, safe and energy-efficient, so their businesses are therefore “sustainable.” Caterpillar, for example, issues a “Sustainability Report” every year, while selling $8 billion annually in mining equipment. Komatsu, another major mining equipment manufacturer, is an active member of the World Business Council on Sustainable Development. Joy Global, also a major US firm in that sector, touts its “sustainability” by noting the low carbon emissions of its factories. A significant share of these companies’ well-earned profits comes from sales to the coal-mining industry, which is by far the largest carbon dioxide emitter in the world. Climate activists don’t want the coal industry made more efficient, they want it gone.



How can a firm keep its license to operate, meeting the expectations of both the broad public and of financial stakeholders? By accepting a few facts about today’s American and global society then pulling back the curtains on the sustainability charade.



Read more at Technocracy News




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