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Trump Withdraws US From Paris Climate Accord

June 1, 2017 3:40 PM

Filed Under: Climate Change, Donald Trump

By Kevin Liptak and Jim Acosta

WASHINGTON (CNN/CBS) — President Donald Trump announced from the White House Rose Garden Thursday that the United States is withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, a major step that fulfills a campaign promise while sparking global outcry.

“Therefore, in order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord,” Trump said.

The president said that he will begin negotiations to re-enter the Paris accord or an entirely new transaction “with terms that are fair to the United States.”

Trump called the agreement “draconian.”

“This agreement is less about the climate and more about other countries gaining a financial advantage over the U.S.,” Trump said.

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Following Trump’s speech, Germany, Italy and France said in a joint statement that the accord will not be renegotiated.

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The White House began informing members of Congress Thursday afternoon that Trump planned to pull out of the U.S. from the landmark agreement, according to a congressional source.

In talking points delivered to Trump’s allies, the White House characterized the Paris agreement as a job killer that placed undue burdens on American taxpayers.

“The Paris Accord is a BAD deal for Americans, and the President’s action today is keeping his campaign promise to put American workers first,” the talking points read. “The accord was negotiated poorly by the Obama administration and signed out of desperation. It frontloads costs on the American people to the detriment of our economy.”

Trump and Vice President Mike Pence were calling lawmakers, including House and Senate leaders, in the hours leading up to the announcement to get input on his climate decision, a Republican source said.

In triggering the official withdrawal process, Trump will spark a lengthy process that won’t conclude until November 2020 — the same month he’s up for re-election.

The president campaigned against the climate agreement as a candidate, and those close to him suggest he’s ready to fulfill those promises to remove the U.S. from the 195-country deal. The move would isolate the U.S. in a global effort to curb the warming of the planet, and leave an opening for countries like China to fill the leadership void.

The U.S. is now one of three countries that are not taking part in the deal. The other two are Syria and Nicaragua.

Pressure to remain in the Paris accord has been intense, however, including from some of Trump’s closest aides.

But a person familiar with Trump’s thinking said the president was convinced he needed to withdraw from the pact, and there was little chance of talking his out of it.

Trump, a former reality star himself, advertised the announcement in a tweet late Wednesday. Earlier in the day, he told reporters he was “hearing from a lot of people both ways.”

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On Thursday morning, senior administration officials would not reveal the precise mechanism the U.S. would utilize to execute the decision.

Trump would have several options, including triggering a years-long withdrawal process or taking the more drastic step of removing the U.S. from the United Nations climate treaty. He could also declare the Paris agreement a treaty that requires Senate approval, which isn’t likely to come from the Republican-controlled body.

Lawyers and other administration aides have planned a withdrawal announcement, but recognize Trump has changed his mind at the last minute previously on important decisions where outside forces are pressuring him to moderate his position.

As news emerged Wednesday that Trump planned to quit the Paris deal, business leaders and foreign heads-of-state began castigating the decision as a woeful abandonment of US leadership. Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, said he would resign from White House business councils if Trump followed through.

Apple CEO Tim Cook also urged Trump to reconsider.

Inside the West Wing, attempts to sway Trump’s thinking also continued apace. Trump’s daughter and senior adviser, Ivanka, has worked to ensure her father heard pro-Paris voices over the last several months, and has continued to press for a decision short of a full withdrawal.

Ivanka Trump and her allies, including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Trump’s chief economist Gary Cohn, have pressed Trump to alter the U.S. commitments to the Paris agreement without fully pulling out of the accord.

A Republican familiar with Trump’s decision-making said the expected announcement could include some attempts to satisfy his daughter’s point of view, but didn’t specify what that might include.

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But anti-Paris voices, led by chief strategist Steve Bannon and EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, have appeared to won out. In conversations with his advisers, Trump has cited the affect a withdrawal would have on the states where he won by the largest margins, including in the Rust Belt and the western plains.

That’s a reflection of Trump’s “America First” governing policy, which he’s sought to bolster since taking office. Trump was pressured heavily by his foreign counterparts during last week’s G7 meetings in Sicily to remain in the deal, but his advisers say he felt little obligation to concede to that point of view.

On Wednesday, global figures began reiterating their own commitment to the Paris deal as Trump prepared to withdraw. Chinese premier Li Keqiang, visiting Germany, said his country would remain committed to combating climate change, despite US moves.

And European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker declared Europe was ready to act as a global climate leader in the US absence.

“The vacuum that would be created has to be filled, and Europe has aspirations for a natural leadership in this whole process,” he said in Berlin.

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LGBT Wins Over Large Corporations. Any Religious Person Or Company Is Now Targeted For Extinction

TOP U.S. COMPANIES 'AT WAR WITH RELIGIOUS PEOPLE'

Apple, Frito-Lay, Procter & Gamble among many on battlefield

In  the 1960s, it was all about skin color.Fifty years later, it’s all about “alternative sexual lifestyles.”

“What’s basically happened is that those who have conservative moral values and biblical values, they have become the new Ku Klux Klan,” said Michael Brown, an author and talk-radio host.

“What’s happened is that gay activism is the new civil-rights movement. This is the new kid on the block that everyone’s standing with.”

Among those standing with the “gay” rights movement are numerous businesses. In the 2015 Corporate Equality Index, compiled by the pro-homosexual Human Rights Campaign, a record 366 major businesses earned a perfect score of 100 percent, indicating HRC completely approves of their policies, practices and benefits for LGBT employees.

In the first CEI in 2002, only 13 businesses earned a 100 percent score. And HRC claims the criteria have become more stringent over the years.

Among the companies that earned a perfect 2015 CEI score were Chevron, Apple, General Motors, General Electric, Ford, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, UnitedHealth Group and JP Morgan Chase.

HRC recognizes businesses that achieve a 100 percent rating as “Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality” and welcomes companies to tout that distinction in their marketing efforts.

But for corporate America, it’s not just about appealing to LGBT employees; many are trying to appeal to LGBT customers, as well.

Frito-Lay launched a line of rainbow-colored Doritos last week, with proceeds going to support “It Gets Better,” a nonprofit founded by the radical homosexual activist Dan Savage. As of Tuesday, Doritos Rainbows had already sold out.

At the same time, GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee was challenging the Frito-Lay board of directors to watch Dan Savage in action and decide whether his lewd and offensive comments fit their corporate image.

Paul Kengor, a college professor and author of “Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage,” believes Frito-Lay fears no backlash from conservative Christians. Instead, the company is afraid of offending gay activists.

See “The Big List of ‘gayest’ companies in America,” where support for homosexual, bisexual and transgender causes is a priority.

“From a purely marketing standpoint, one would think that corporate America might be concerned about offending traditional Christians,” Kengor said. “But I don’t think that’s so. Christians aren’t relentless and brutal like the liberal forces of ‘tolerance’ and ‘diversity’ who boycott, picket, protest, demonize, dehumanize, fine and even incarcerate those who dare to disagree with their new definitions of marriage, family and sexuality. So corporations are happy to outrage Christians. They won’t dare outrage the forces of ‘tolerance’ and ‘diversity.’”

Brown, a WND columnist and author of “Outlasting the Gay Revolution,” said companies now see an advantage in becoming more LGBT-friendly.

“This is now the big thing for big business,” he explained. “This is good business: Let’s recognize the giftedness of gays and lesbians, let’s promote them to the highest level, and let us rid ourselves of those that would oppose with their old, bigoted mindsets.

“I have been overseas, and in other countries they’ve told me the pressure they are under. I was in Singapore, and business leaders told me they are under pressure from the big companies, the Googles, the Microsofts: ‘If you want to do business with us, then you are going to have to change your policy toward gays and lesbians.’”

Tide recently jumped into the “gay marriage” debate with a new TV commercial featuring a “gay” couple on their way to a church for their wedding. A woman stops them at the church steps and exclaims: “How offensive! I won’t let you blemish the sanctity of marriage.”

She then whips out a Tide to Go pen and removes a stain from the shirt of one of the men before allowing the couple to proceed.

Tide’s parent company, Procter & Gamble, has publicly promoted LGBT rights on its Twitter account.

When commercial director Mark Nickelsburg posted the ad to his Facebook page, he referenced embattled Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, writing: “First a clerk in Kentucky, and now a church lady in Los Angeles! This same sex couple faces yet another obstacle on the way to marriage equality in this spec commercial I directed.”

Brown does not see the “gay” rights movement as a simple plea for tolerance. He pointed to Apple CEO Tim Cook, who announced last October that he is “gay.” In his coming-out essay, Cook wrote he was “proud to be gay” and expressed hope that his announcement would “help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone.”

But the following March, Cook went a step further by criticizing the religious freedom laws under consideration at the time in Arkansas and Indiana. He called the laws “very dangerous.”

“So the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, now he’s not just out and proud, he is at war with religious people,” Brown said. “We must recognize what’s happening. This is not a matter of ‘live and let live;’ this is a matter of the gay revolution pushing out all opposing views, and big business is helping lead the way.”

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Apple’s Tim Cook Discriminates and Misses Worse Offenders

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Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has guns blazing toward Indiana for their passing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, (RFRA).

Cook penned an op-ed in the Washington Post titled, “Pro-discrimination ‘religious freedom’ laws are dangerous.”

Cook writes: “Regardless of what the law might allow in Indiana or Arkansas, we will never tolerate discrimination.”

He also writes, “that’s why, on behalf of Apple, I’m standing up to oppose this new wave of legislation” that he has interpreted encourages unbridled discrimination in Indiana and the other states that have passed similar versions of the law.

The focal point of concern (Cook’s and other’s whose hackles Indiana has raised) as to just who is the victim of the anticipated discrimination that results from the RFRA pertains to people based on their sexual orientation, i.e., lesbians and gays.

Cook doesn’t issue ultimatums or disclose exactly how he or Apple will express their ‘opposition’ to Indiana’s or the other state’s practices. One would presume they would do nothing that would jeopardize Apple revenues or shareholder value.

Cook also wrote in his op-ed, “Opposing discrimination takes courage.”

Then why not write a similar op-ed to King Salman in the English language newspaper, Ar Riyadh, in Saudi Arabia where gays may be publicly executed by being severed from their head?

If Indiana deserves the chastisement, certainly Saudi Arabia does. Why discriminate and not strike out at a perpetrator of even worse offenses?

Wouldn’t want to jeopardize corporate revenues or shareholder value, though.

Tin Earred Obama Tries To Avoid Talking NSA By Moving The Conversation To ObamaCrapCare. Tech Execs Upset.

Tech Leaders Not Amused By Obama’s Veer Toward Obamacare Boosterism In Meeting To Discuss NSA Reforms

December 17, 2013 by Ben Bullard 

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President Barack Obama met with executives and experts from major global technological companies today at the White House. The techies were there out of concern for their various companies’ roles as sometimes-unwilling middleman facilitators in the National Security Agency’s spy dragnet behemoth.

People like Apple’s Tim Cook, Google’s Eric Schmidt and Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer, along with upper-level company reps from Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, AT&T and many other tech giants all sat down at one table with Obama for two and-a-half hours to urge for government reforms to the NSA’s bulk data surveillance program, in part to rehabilitate the private tech sector’s image among customers leery of its complicity in the NSA dragnet.

Several of those in attendance were co-authors of a group letter sent to the White House last week that criticized the government for aggrandizing power at the expense of individual rights.

“The balance in many countries has tipped too far in favor of the state and away from the rights of the individual – rights that are enshrined in our Constitution,” that letter scolded.

But at Tuesday’s meeting, Obama wanted to devote equal time to Obamacare and Healthcare.gov – and the Technorati was having none of it.

The President’s repeated and jarring attempts to steer the conversation toward his signature “achievement” irritated the techies, who reported they did not feel comfortable talking about other aspects of Obama’s broader policy agenda when they were clearly there to talk about one thing: the tenuous intersection between government, technology and the private sector.

“That wasn’t what we came for,” one company VP told The Daily Mail. “We really didn’t care for a PR pitch about how the administration is trying to salvage its internal health care tech nightmare.”

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One executive said that meeting participants were dead-set against straying from the principal focus of the meeting – the uncomfortable and legally untenable position they are in when the National Security Agency demands access to their digital records.

The White House said in advance that the meeting would include a discussion of Healthcare.gov, but the company executive said the only subject that mattered to the participants was the NSA.

“He basically hijacked the meeting,” the executive said. “We all told the White House that we were only there to talk about what the NSA was up to and how it affects us.”

Yet Obama, according to insiders, repeatedly peppered the discussion with reassuring words about how the Affordable Care Act’s marquee website was well on its way to becoming functional.

According to The Guardian, the tech execs were unwavering in their insistence on keeping the serious focus of the meeting on the matter at hand.

Senior executives from the companies whose bosses were present at the meeting said they were determined to keep the discussion focused on the NSA, despite the White House declaring in advance that it would focus on ways of improving the functionality of the troubled health insurance website, healthcare.gov, among other matters.

“That is not going to happen,” said an executive at one of the major tech companies represented at the meeting. “We are there to talk about the NSA,” said the executive, who was briefed on the company’s agenda before the event.

In light of the tech industry’s newly-galvanized solidarity against partnering with the Obama Administration to snoop on people, as well as a judge’s ruling Monday that the NSA has been violating 4^th Amendment protections, Obama’s attempt to swerve the topic in other directions came off as especially inappropriate and self-serving.

As another unnamed executive told The Guardian afterward, “There’s only one subject that [industry] people really want to discuss right now.”

And it’s not Obamacare.