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1 posted on 07/05/2016 6:04:47 PM PDT by Elderberry
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Get the the UN out of the U.S. — Get the U.S. out on the UN. Don’t need it and dont want it.


2 posted on 07/05/2016 6:08:40 PM PDT by WENDLE (Go TRUMP!)
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The United Nations wants 'ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT'
and they want to be that government
and at the rate that Islam is taking over countries
it appears that may occur - under jihad, immigration, and sharia !
3 posted on 07/05/2016 6:08:42 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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We don’t want to “participate” any more.


4 posted on 07/05/2016 6:12:35 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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According to climate justice activists the United States owes the world a climate debt because of our excessive use of fossil fuels.

This strawman gets my last goat. Our 'excessive use' of fossil fuels, as opposed to undeveloped nations burning up the trees of the world, has enabled the US to GIVE, free of obligation, hundreds of billions of dollars each and every year to undeveloped nations. Our science and technology, developed by people who use fossil fuel to go to and from work every day, have saved tens of billions of lives, whether it be vaccines, clean water, bridges, disaster response, protecting them from enemies of overwhelming force with our own armies, or simply funding education and building schools. Without the use of fossil fuel by the USA, the world would still be sailing clipper ships and international trade on the scale we see today would be a distant dream. Get off our backs.

7 posted on 07/05/2016 6:17:13 PM PDT by blueplum (March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?)
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Most UN troops only get UN duty because their home countries want the UN pay ,the troops never see the money so that makes those troops useless


8 posted on 07/05/2016 6:18:31 PM PDT by butlerweave
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We need to think long and hard and give Trump a landslide victory, if we get this bulldagger in we will have a possible civil war


10 posted on 07/05/2016 6:27:24 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (without the 1st we have no second)
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To: Elderberry; TEXOKIE; george76; laplata; GnuThere; bushwon; Fiddlstix; driftdiver; ...

Agenda 21 Ping!!!

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15 posted on 07/05/2016 8:50:23 PM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: Elderberry

Good article! Saving this. Thanks for posting!


16 posted on 07/05/2016 9:18:00 PM PDT by octex
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http://www.scribd.com/doc/92363330/Leon-Penetta-Defense-Secretary
Panetta: ‘International Permission’ Trumps Congressional Permission For Military Actions (video)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2856395/posts

conservativebyte.com ^ | 3/8/2012 | Conservative Byte

Panetta bypasses congress to go to war under United Nations flag

Senator Sessions:
General Dempsey, in one of your criteria for determining what we might do militarily, you say you have to ask the question as to weather the question is worth the cost and is consistent with law and what law. What law does the United States military look to?

General Dempsey:
Yeah, if I could, I would like to address both because they are related. So costs resources risk uncured elsewhere by the use of force, one other place. So, you know it is a zero sum game. We take them from some place else, we use them for how long, and that’s the kind of issue for costs. Is it and in course of (what did Jesse Jackson Say?).

The issue of legal basis is important though. We act with the authorized use of military force at either the consent of a government, so we are invited in, or, out of national self defense, and there is a very clear criteria for that. And then the last one is with some kind of international legal basis (unintelligible).

Senator Sessions:
Wait a minute, let’s talk about an international legal basis. You answer under the constitution to the United States government, do you not? And, you don’t need any international support before you would carry out a military operation authorized by the Commander in Chief.

General Dempsey:
No, of course not, that’s the second…

Senator Sessions:
I just want to know because there are a lot of references in here to international matters before we can make a decision. And I want to make sure that the United States military, I understand and I know you do, that we are not dependent on a NATO resolution or a U.N. resolution to execute policies consistent with the national security of the United States.

Now secretary Penetta, in your remarks you talk about, we are working first to increase diplomatic isolation and encouraging other countries to join European Union and Arab League and imposing sanctions. And then you note that China and Russia have repeatedly blocked U.N. Security Council from taking action. Are you saying, and is the president taking the position, he would not act if it was in our interest to do so, if the U.N. Security Council did not agree?

Secretary Panetta:
When it comes to the kind of military action where we want to build a coalition and work with our international partners, then obviously we would like to have some kind of legal basis on which to do it as we did in Libya.

Senator Sessions:
Now, some for legal basis, we’re worried about international legal basis, but nobody worried about the fundamental constitutional legal basis that this congress has over war. We were not asked in stunningly direct violation of War Powers Act whether or not you believe it is constitutional, it certainly didn’t comply with it. We spent our time worrying the U.N., the Arab League, NATO, and too little time in my opinion worrying about the elected representatives of the United States.

Do you think you can act without congress to initiate a no-fly zone in Syria without congressional approval?

Secretary Panetta:
No, again, our goal would be to seek international permission and we would come to congress and inform you and determine how best to approach this, whether or not we want to get permission from congress, I think those are issues we would have to discuss as we decide what to do here.

Senator Sessions:
Well, I’m almost breathless about that, because what I heard you say here is, we’re going to seek international approval and then we will come and tell congress what we might do, and we might seek congressional approval. I want to just say to you, that’s a big, wouldn’t you agree, you served in the congress, wouldn’t you agree that that would be pretty breathtaking to the average American. So would you like to clarify that.

Secretary Panetta:
But I’ve also served with Republican presidents and Democratic presidents who has always reserved to right to defend this country if necessary.

Senator Sessions:
But you, before we do this, you would seek permission from international authorities?

Secretary Panetta:
If we’re working with international coalition, we are working with NATO, we would want to get appropriate permissions in order to be able to do that. All of these countries would want to have some kind of legal basis to act.

Senator Sessions:
On what legal basis are you looking for? What entity?

Secretary Panetta:
Well obviously, if NATO made the decision to go in, that would be one, if we develop an international coalition beyond NATO, then obviously some kind of U.N. Security resolution …

Senator Sessions:
A coalition of, so your saying NATO would give you a legal basis and an ad hock coalition of nations would provide a legal basis.

Secretary Panetta:
If we were able to put together a coalition and were able to move together, then obviously we would seek whatever legal basis we need to make that justified. We can’t just pull them all together in a combat operation without getting the legal basis on which to act.

Senator Sessions:
Who are you asking for the legal basis from?

Secretary Panetta:
Obviously if the U.N. passed a security resolution as it did in Libya, we would do that, if NATO came together as we did in Bosnia, then we would rely on that. So we have options here if we want to build the kind of international approach to dealing with the situation.


17 posted on 07/06/2016 3:47:19 AM PDT by Haddit (Minimalists Al Gore and Al Qaeda)
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Thanks for the post. Wow.
I’d like to start vetting Mike Rogers as possible VP for Trump...
anyone who fights to get us out of the UN gets my attentipn


19 posted on 07/06/2016 4:23:17 AM PDT by polly-put-the-kettle-on
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The Nature of a Psychopath and the Global Elite ~ Jay Weidner - Thomas Sheridan - James Corbett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqfvXw8qu6Q


21 posted on 07/06/2016 5:25:10 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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