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Pacific pushback: Podesta, White House warned about ocean preserve expansion to combat ´climate
Fox News ^ | 9/10/14 | George Russell

Posted on 09/10/2014 5:09:23 PM PDT by Nachum

EXCLUSIVE: John Podesta, the Obama administration’s climate and energy czar, got a blunt warning this week that a plan to cut off all fishing in a huge, U.S.-controlled tract of the Pacific Ocean would have devastating economic effects in the region, and would cede geopolitical advantages to China and other Pacific powers. “China is overwhelming the South Pacific with investment, and increasing its fishing fleet in the area,” noted Eric Kingman, a Hawaii-based fisheries enforcement official and one of those who carried the warning. For the U.S. not to recognize this potential for lost influence would be “incredibly naïve,” he added. Kingman

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climate; pacific; podesta; pushback
Pacific pushback: Podesta, White House warned about ocean preserve expansion to combat ´climate change´
1 posted on 09/10/2014 5:09:23 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Podesta is a little Marxist shit who doesn’t give a shit about hurting the US economy. After all, he gets a govt paycheck for destroying the economy.

I’m praying for lightning. Little bastard should roast in Hell.


2 posted on 09/10/2014 5:12:47 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

The administration is infested with smug, smarmy, arrogant little pricks from the top down.


3 posted on 09/10/2014 5:17:07 PM PDT by clintonh8r (It's possible to love your country and hate your government. I'm proof of it.)
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To: Nachum

He’s cautioned by those who would know to not do this. Which means he will do it.


4 posted on 09/10/2014 5:17:53 PM PDT by bubbacluck (America 180)
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To: Nachum

What’s new? More radical sh*t to ruin the lives of everyday citizens, yet almost 40% are still to blind to say so..


5 posted on 09/10/2014 5:52:16 PM PDT by JSDude1
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To: Nachum
U.S.-controlled tract of the Pacific Ocean would have devastating economic effects in the region, and would cede geopolitical advantages to China and other Pacific powers.

Seesh, why encourage them?

6 posted on 09/10/2014 7:35:20 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the earth for a thousand years.)
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