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‘Time Is Running Out’: UN Chief Begs China To Save The Planet From Warming

The UN’s top official is pleading with China and other nations connected to the Paris climate accord to craft rules reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. His intervention comes as climate talks are breaking down.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres would make a telephone call to Chinese President Xi Jinping to ask for personal help in pushing moribund countries on rules mitigating climate change, The Guardian reported Wednesday. It’s an unusual push considering coal still makes up the bulk of China’s energy sector

His pleas took on a desperate tone. “We’re running out of time,” Guterres told officials at climate talks in Katowice, Poland, an area famous for its coal production. “To waste this opportunity would compromise our last best chance to stop runaway climate change. It would not only be immoral, it would be suicidal.”

The talks are centered around hammering out a rulebook for implementing the 2015 Paris agreement, but progress is grinding to a snail pace, especially as countries like US, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait criticize recent climate reports.

Guterres criticized the U.S. and other nations he thinks are holding up progress and rejecting climate science.

“The IPCC special report is a stark acknowledgment of what the consequences of global warming beyond 1.5 degrees will mean for billions of people around the world, especially those who call small island states home,” he told delegates at the summit Tuesday. “This is not good news, but we cannot afford to ignore it.”

Frank Bainimarama, the prime minister of Fiji, mirrored Guterres’s message. Many countries risk being portrayed as “the generation that blew it – that sacrificed the health of our world and ultimately betrayed humanity because we didn’t have the courage and foresight to go beyond our short-term individual concerns: craven, irresponsible and selfish.”

Their critiques come after recent reports suggest the U.S. is deliberately torpedoing the talks.

“It pains me deeply to have watched the people of the United States and other developed countries across the globe suffering the devastating impacts of climate-induced tragedies, while their professional negotiators are here at COP24 putting red lines through any mention of loss and damage in the Paris guidelines,” Vanuatu foreign minister Ralph Regenvanu said in a speech to the delegates.

President Donald Trump, meanwhile, is using the platform at the summit to illustrate the importance of pushing cleaner forms of fossil fuels. The president announced his decision in 2017 to pull the U.S. out of the Paris agreement, calling the non-binding agreement harmful to the U.S. economy.

Media and activists have expressed concern about Trump’s energy agenda, particularly his reticent to accept government-created climate reports. The Trump administration released the NCA Friday, launching a wave of media coverage on the report’s dire predictions.

https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/12/climate-change-united-nations/

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THE REAL COLLUSION: Obama’s FBI Paid More on Russian Dirt and Fake News in 2016 Election Than Russia Did

On Tuesday Google CEO Sundar Pichai was called in to testify before the House Judiciary Committee.

Pichai was called in to explain Google business practices including data collection and targeting of conservative voices.

During questioning Pichai dashed the hopes of Democrats everywhere when he admitted Russia spent only $4,700 on advertisements during the 2016 election.

Which is next to nothing… In a campaign where Hillary Clinton spent nearly a billion dollars!

Russia also paid around $70,000 on Facebook ads to attract both Trump and Hillary supporters. Russia spent around $6,000 on Facebook ads the last six weeks of the election which had no effect on the election.

So we are looking at a total of around $75,000 spent by Russia to run ads on US social media during the 2016 election — both to promote Hillary AND Donald Trump.

Meanwhile, the FBI spent much more for Russian dirt than Russia paid on collusion.

The FBI picked up the tab for the Steele dossier along with the DNC and Hillary campaign. The FBI paid Steele’s travel and other expenses while he was putting together his slanderous dossier on Trump.

The Clinton campaign paid DNC lawyer Marc Elias and his law firm Perkins Coie paid Fusion GPS and later denied knowledge of the same dossier they paid for.

And the FBI paid Michael Steele from Fusion GPS $160,000 for travel expenses while he was digging up dirt for his fake dossier.

The FBI actually spent more on fake news during the 2016 election than Russia did!

You won’t see THAT in the liberal mainstream news anytime soon!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/the-real-collusion-obamas-fbi-paid-more-on-russian-dirt-and-fake-news-in-2016-election-than-russia-did/

Members of Congress cannot use taxpayer money to settle sex abuse cases anymore — here's why

Members of Congress will no longer be able to use taxpayer money to pay off their settlements in lawsuits involving sexual harassment and abuse according to a deal made in Congress after months of debate.

The agreement between Republicans and Democrats means that members of Congress would have to pay these settlements with their personal funds and not from the government.

But there's a caveat - the deal that was reached also excludes settlements arising from discrimination, meaning taxpayers will have to continue footing the bill for those lawsuits.

Members would have to pay such settlements personally within 90 days or have their wages garnished.

A joint statement from Republican and Democratic House members applauded the agreement.

"We believe this is a strong step towards creating a new standard in Congress that will set a positive example in our nation," read the statement, "but there is still more work to be done."

Settlements will be made known to the public as well, and members will be named when such settlements are made. The bill will tighten restrictions on the process of reporting and processing such claims of sexual harassment against a member of Congress.

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) also heralded the agreement in a tweet Wednesday.

If the bill passes, it will update the rules in the Congressional Accountability Act from 1955.

Numerous members of Congress were excoriated in the media when it was discovered that they were paying off settlements of sexual abuse and harassment with taxpayer money through a Congressional slush fund.

Here's a local news report on the new bill:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/members-of-congress-cannot-use-taxpayer-money-to-settle-sex-abuse-cases-anymore-heres-why