To address the serious threat of global warming, Americans should be required to "pay" for the carbon content of goods they consume from countries around the world, a top U.S. official said on Friday.
"It's important that those who consume the products being made all around the world to the benefit of America What about the benefit to the countries making those products? What would they do for money if they weren't making stuff for us? Oh, that's right - they'd starve in charming, authentic squalor. Something you leftist loons approve of. For others. Especially others with non-white skin. *spit*
-- and it's our own consumption activity that's causing the emission of greenhouse gases, then quite frankly Americans need to pay for that," Commerce Secretary Gary Locke told the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.
You think it's so important, you start, assh*le. Pony up yourself right now, as a "good example," for everything imported you've used in the last 10 years and LEAVE THE REST OF US THE HELL ALONE.
More buffoonery at the link. >:-(
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I recently spoke with a professor of environmental engineering who informed me that the real crisis related to CO2 levels is that we're presently sitting at 10% of the Earth's long-term "normal" level and that such an alarmingly low level is endangering the survival of plant life on our planet. Thus, the logical cost imposition would be on those cutting CO2 emissions, not those raising them. Which of course means that countries providing us goods should be paying us for the privilege of doing so.
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AzCat, that is what more people need to know. Most plants around today first appeared when CO2 levels were about 5x today's levels. In fact, CO2 depletion is seem as what will be the ultimate cause of extinction of life as we know it on Earth. CO2 continues to be converted to things like limestone, volcanism slows as the Earth cools, CO2 levels continue to drop, the plants die, the animals that eat the plants die.
This nonsense that carbon is somehow harmful is a suicidal meme. CO2 is probably the best fertilizer we could be producing.
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CO2 - you call it pollution. I call it plant food.
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mport tarrif in other words?
Exactly! Because the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act worked SO well in the 1930's. By the end of the Obama administration, we're going to look back fondly at a mere 10% unemployment rate.
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So...a car with a Japanese label made in the US with 80 percent domestic parts will be cheaper than a Big Two assembled in Mexico/Canada with 30 percent US parts? /rhetorical question
IF you were hiring a lawyer to help pro tect Americans from terrorists, you likely wouldn't choose a left-wing activist who's been a champion of the killers held at Guantanamo Bay.
Then again, you're not President Obama. His Justice Department has raised eyebrows by tapping Jennifer Daskal, formerly "senior counterterrorism counsel" at Human Rights Watch, to work as counsel in its National Security Division and to serve on a task force deciding the future of Guantanamo and its detainees.
A former public defender, Daskal has no prosecutorial experience -- let alone a background in national security. So how did she land an important job at Justice -- one of only four political appointments at the National Security Division?
"Even when selecting political appointees, the administration must place qualifications above political views, especially in an office as important as the National Security Division," says Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee.
Others note that if Daskal's Human Rights Watch activism counted as lobbying, the hire would be a direct conflict of interest: She's now working for the government on the same policies she was recently paid to shape from the outside.
As a lawyer for the advocacy group, Daskal never missed a chance to give Gitmo detainees the benefit of the doubt while assuming the worst about US government intentions. She has called for a "truth commission" to investigate Bush anti-terror policies, and was even unhappy with Team Obama before joining it.
In February, Justice asserted the state-secrets privilege to avoid disclosing details of the CIA's interrogation program; Daskal called it "a huge disappointment . . . inconsistent with the commitment to transparency and openness promised by the new administration."
Back when five Gitmo terrorists, including 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, announced their intention to confess, Daskal refused to accept their guilt: "In light of the men's severe mistreatment, the judge should require a full and thorough factual inquiry to determine whether or not these pleas are voluntary."
Maybe she didn't hear the outburst from one of the five at the end of his hearing: "I hope the jihad will continue and strike the heart of America with all kinds of weapons of mass destruction."
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[Geo News] Pakistan Muslim League-N MPA Shumaila Rana Thursday clarified she had made no buying through credit card which she said was of his father. Addressing a press conference here, she said the footage being shown on TV is being presented wrongfully. She brushed aside the allegations against her as unfounded and baseless and that she will soon unveil what she called the elements trying to frame her. Shumaila Rana said the consipiracy was hatched to damage her political career and tarnish the image of her party.
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Credit cards are bad because they are not Sharia Finance?
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Credit cards are bad because they are not Sharia Finance?
Seems to me that all the hoopla is because a long time ago Mighty Mo sed the concept of interest payments is immoral. Until they get this out of their system, they're going to be dealing with quite a bit of complicated denial rituals. I suppose debit cards ought to be OK, though.
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To address the serious threat of global warming, Americans should be required to "pay" for the carbon content of goods they consume from countries around the world, a top U.S. official said on Friday.
