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Every major Democratic presidential candidate has made addressing "climate change" a major priority, warning of doom for mankind if fossil fuels are not drastically curbed or eliminated within the next decade. Voters, however, don't share that concern, according to a Pew survey that found it to be ranked 17th of 18 priorities the government should address. That result is consistent with Pew polls since 2007, when "global warming" was added to a list of priorities voters were asked to assess. In 2016, when the language was changed to "climate change," the issue was ranked third to last. In most years...

In a Sept. 21 memo to his department heads, President Obama instructed all federal departments and agencies to consider the impact of climate change on national security. Obama states that it is the policy of the U.S. government to ensure that current and anticipated impacts of climate change be "identified and considered" in developing national security doctrine, policies and plans. "Climate change poses a significant and growing threat to national security, both at home and abroad," the memo says. Those threats, according to Obama, include flooding, drought, heat waves, intense precipitation, pest outbreaks, disease, and electricity problems, all of which...

Maurice Strong orchestrated most of the early action because he knew how to set up the bureaucratic structure necessary to control the politics and science. Neil Hrab wrote in 2001 that Strong achieved this by: Mainly using his prodigious skills as a networker. Over a lifetime of mixing private sector career success with stints in government and international groups… He began with the 1977 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment Stockholm Conference. As Hrab explained: The three specific goals set out by the Secretary General of the Conference, Maurice F. Strong, at its first plenary session—a Declaration on the...

Between crime, unemployment, government surveillance and the increasing attempts to remove the Second and Fourth Amendments, our benevolent leaders are desperately attempting to keep us placated so the bubbling cauldron of discontent doesn’t overflow into civil war, at least before their plans for total disarmament can be achieved.

The NAIS laws and the new agriculture regulations that are coming into effect will take control over what we eat. These regulations give total unconstitutional control to the government. This is all in the name of food safety. You and I will not even be able to grow gardens or raise a few chickens on the side. We will need to register with the government, provide a plan of what we intend to grow, set up setbacks to prevent contamination of our gardens, give the government unlimited rights to inspect our property and books, etc. It will be impossible to...

Berlin, Jan 24 (IANS) They are colourful and children love them. But in an effort to reduce the incidence of childhood obesity, the European Union (EU) wants junk food advertisements on television to be banned. Markos Kyprianou, the EU commissioner for health and consumer affairs, said he wants to see "clear labelling" of products and a significant reduction in the number of junk food advertisements directed at children, according to a report by German radio Deutsche Welle. Kyprianou has warned makers of junk food - those products high in sugar, salt or fat content - that the EU will enforce...

12:36 PM ET BEGIN TRANSCRIPT:Now back to Medicare and the rising cost, the tax increases, substantial, long-term tax increases the Heritage Foundation says will be necessary to support this boondoggle, and boondoggle it is. Here's the bottom line. There is no amount of facts and analysis, no amount of logic that will deter the liberals on this, because, ladies and gentlemen, it is not about, this whole Medicare, prescription drug entitlement, is not about prescription drugs for "our seniors." Oh, they say it is, and they make a great case out of caring and they try to make everybody think...

Tradition Be Damned (7/25) The European Union's employment and social affairs directorate has proposed a sweeping rash of rules aimed at battling discrimination against women. The proposed laws would force insurance companies to give men and women the same rates for pension annuities and car insurance, overriding the actuarial data the companies use to calculate risk. The rules also would bar TV programs that depict sexual stereotypes and ban topless "Page Three" girls from the continent's newspapers.