Early Warnings on Gore's Temple Visit

In March 1996, Vice President Al Gore had a 10-minute White House meeting with the master of a Buddhist temple. It was described as a social call, but just two days before, a Democratic Party fund-raiser, John Huang, had an intriguing telephone conversation with a top Gore aide that hinted at another motive. Lead to a lot of money moving support, Mr. Gore's deputy chief of staff, David M. Strauss, jotted down on a phone log recording Mr. Huang's call. And shortly afterward, Mr. Huang followed up with a memorandum to another Gore aide, proposing that the Vice President attend a fund-raising lunch at the master's Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, Calif., that April 29.

Mr. Gore's attendance at that luncheon is remembered as one of the most embarrassing episodes of the Democratic fund-raising scandal and has emerged in recent weeks as one of the most intense areas of inquiry by Federal and Congressional investigators. Mr. Gore has said he did not know the lunch was a fund-raiser, and he has acknowledged that it was inappropriate and a mistake to entertain contributors at a religious site. The contacts between White House officials and Mr. Huang in the days before the event represent the strongest evidence to date that Mr. Gore's top aides had ample warning that the lunch would be tied in some way to the Democratic Party's 1996 fund-raising push. They also show that in planning the event, Mr. Huang described it in varying – and some say misleading – ways to party officials and Mr. Gore's aides, prompting some to envision the site more as a neighborhood community center than as a golden-tiled, 15-acre compound where nuns and monks lived.

A reconstruction of the origin of the event, based on interviews with White House officials and Congressional investigators, provides further evidence that in their zeal to raise money for last November's election, the Clinton Administration and party leaders failed at times to weigh the propriety of events and paid only cursory attention to what Mr. Huang was doing. Recent revelations that Mr. Huang quietly prodded temple leaders and devotees for $100,000 in donations, and that the temple illegally reimbursed monks and nuns for at least half of them, have left White House officials complaining that Mr. Huang sandbagged the Vice President, who is the front-runner for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2000. The reimbursement scheme also has heightened interest among investigators in piecing together the full story of what happened with Mr. Gore's now-infamous visit to the temple, which is part of a huge Buddhist sect based in Taiwan. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is trying to determine how the temple's donations came about and whether they were part of a larger effort by Mr. Huang to funnel illegal money to the Democratic National Committee. Republican investigators in the House and the Senate are searching for anything that might damage Mr. Gore politically, though no new evidence has surfaced that contradicts his account of what he knew about the event. Ginny Terzano, Mr. Gore's press secretary, said the Vice President and his top aides would not comment. Mr. Huang's lawyer, Ty Cobb, did not return calls for comment.

Still, it is clear that as Mr. Gore's office was hustling to keep up with the flood of appearances he was making during the campaign, his aides failed to grasp the significance of several comments from Mr. Huang about his goals for the temple lunch. And to some degree, they said they were lulled by the fact that Mr. Gore had met the temple master, Hsing Yun, several years earlier and probably knew more about the sect than most of his aides did. Indeed, Mr. Gore's ties to both the temple master and Mr. Huang go back to 1989, when Mr. Gore visited the sect's headquarters on a trip to Taiwan while he was a Senator from Tennessee. That trip was arranged by Maria Hsia, a longtime Democratic fund-raiser in Los Angeles who helped obtain immigration visas for temple members. Mr. Huang, then an executive at Lippo Bank in Los Angeles, which is owned by Indonesia's wealthy Riady family, also was part of the group.

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/12/us/early-warnings-on-gore-s-temple-visit.html

Al Gore in San Francisco addressing climate change

This is the Week of California's Global Climate Summit in San Francisco. Attendees have come from the four corners of the planet. On Tuesday, Al Gore sounded as much a a candidate as an climate advocate. Former Vice-President Al Gore, now an investor in green technologies and an avid environmentalist, appeared at the Coal and Ice exhibition, part of this week's Climate Summit in San Francisco a forum hosted by UC Berkeley Economist Laura Tyson, the former Chair of the U.S. President's Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton. "Any of us who get involved occasionally have a struggle between hope and despair. I will admit that openly but I always do come down on the side of hope," said Mr. Gore.

In the early 2000's, initial projections about how quickly wind and solar would become mainstream, have been realized almost 100 times faster. That's largely because the costs of wind and solar have plummeted. "Already, here in the United States, there are 5 times as many jobs in solar as in coal. "The famous Coal Museum on Kentucky just installed solar panels on it's roof," said Gore. But, Gore warns that environmentalists should not cry wolf. "We have to make the de-carbonization of the global economy, the central organizing principle of human civilization in order to stave off the climate crisis in time to avoid the truly catastrophic consequences. It is a global emergency. People hear a phrase like that and it sounds a little "hair on fire" hype. But this is an existential threat to the future of human civilization," said Gore.

The former Vice President says the U.S. is not out the the Paris Climate Agreement just yet. "Under the law, the first day the United States of America could actually leave the Paris Agreement the next day after the next Presidential election. Upon 30 days notice by a new President, the U.S. would be right back in it. When Gore ended, to huge applause, he sounded like the Presidential candidate he once was, "We did not close our eyes. We did not turn away. We are awake. We are alive. We're paying attention. We're gonna do the right thing. No doubt, he is a man preaching to the choir, but a choir that appears to be growing.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/al-gore-in-san-francisco-addressing-climate-change

Jerry Brown enlists Al Gore, liberal friends to rescue Paris climate deal

California Gov. Jerry Brown is bringing in the A-team to save the sinking Paris agreement. In one of his final acts in office, the four-term governor has cast himself as President Trump’s foil on global warming as host of this week’s Global Climate Action Summit, a splashy, star-studded event in San Francisco.

The massive three-day bash hosted by Mr. Brown will feature top Democrats, liberal megadonors, Obama administration figures, international leaders, green energy, Silicon Valley, Hollywood celebrities, and Al Gore. “We’re running out of time,” said Mr. Brown, who leaves office in January. “There’s been some backsliding since Paris, and our Summit … aims to increase the commitments that have already been made in Paris, to make them even greater, and thereby build the momentum going into the [UN] conference of the parties at Poland.”

Expect plenty of Trump-bashing at the Moscone Center, where 4,500 attendees are expected to gather Wednesday through Friday, over the White House’s June 2017 decision to pull out of the accord. “Yes, I know President Trump is trying to get out of the Paris agreement, but he doesn’t speak for the rest of America,” said Mr. Brown in a summit video. The Trump exit delivered the biggest blow to the UN-sponsored pact, prompting Mr. Brown and other Democratic governors to vow to fill the void by abiding by the agreement, but more setbacks have followed. At a meeting this week of climate delegates in Bangkok, there were warnings that the Paris accord could unravel after talks hit a stalemate over the $100 billion annual transfer from Western-style economies to developing nations, funding aimed at helping them invest in low-carbon power sources.

“Developed countries are going back on their word and refusing to agree to clear rules governing climate finance,” Harjeet Singh, global lead on climate change for ActionAid, told AFP. “If they remain stuck in their positions and fail to loosen their purses, this treaty may collapse.”

In Brazil, presidential frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro, known as the “Brazilian Trump,” has indicated he may leave the climate agreement if he wins in October. In Canada, Ontario premier Doug Ford announced in July that he would revoke the province’s cap-and-trade program, a key component of the national climate plan.

Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull scrapped plans last month to embed Paris climate targets in national legislation amid a revolt within his party. Meanwhile, about 1,600 coal-fired plants are scheduled to be built in 62 nations, according to data compiled last year by the German environmental group Urgewald. “President Donald Trump may be presiding over the disintegration of the UN Paris climate pact,” said Climate Depot’s Marc Morano, adding that the U.S. decision “set a global example and it may have led to the agreement potentially teetering on the brink of its own survival.” Thomas Pyle, president of the free-market American Energy Alliance, argued that the Paris agreement has been on shaky footing ever since Mr. Trump took action. “The Paris Agreement was bound to begin to unravel when President Trump took bold steps to remove the United States, since the whole point was to penalize the U.S. and get it to redistribute billions of dollars to other nations,” said Mr. Pyle, a member of the Trump transition team. The agreement, aimed at limiting the increase in global temperatures, has also enjoyed successes as nations implement policies to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions, but critics argued that the California summit shows support for the accord has yet to cross ideological lines.

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/11/jerry-brown-taps-al-gore-climate-summit-save-paris/

>>3003392

They are all frauds, just another way to tap into people's wallets for their own benefit.

>>3003605

I did a dig on him months ago, he wrote the rules for the EPA as we have know of them for the last 20+ years for the benefit of him thru the use of grants. This is were all the money he needed for all his little pet projects came from, the people…

>>3003657

Indeed the rules were written to enrich the elite and impoverish all others..(((They))) have been quite busy for many years thinking up new ways to screw the world.

>>3003713

EYE WALL DOWN!

FLORENCE WEAKENS

STALL NEAR COAST?

C O N E

WINDS 110 MPH

This is what drudge is currently reporting….

>>3003776

I am thinking the next thing we will hear goes something like this: Storm shifted just enough at the last minute keeping it out at sea…