By Timothy Birdnow ——Bio and Archives--August 20, 2016
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“If someone wants to build a new coal-fired power plant they can, but it will bankrupt them because they will be charged a huge sum for all the greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.”President Obama went on to do precisely that. I live in the purple state of Missouri, and we had the largest coal companies in the world based in St. Louis. Arch Coal, the second largest in America, is now in chapter 11 bankruptcy. Ditto the largest coal company on Earth, Peabody Energy. Granted, the Hydraulic Fracturing revolution has put serious pressure on the coal industry as natural gas is very cheap, but draconian regulations of the coal market have done their damage - as Obama promised. Hillary Clinton offers no better; when asked what her policies would be toward American coal - and coal miners - she replied:
“We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”And we must not forget that Bill Clinton closed off most of the really clean coal deposits when he signed an Executive Order turning 1.7 million acres of land in southwest Utah into the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Interestingly enough one of his big foreign donors - James Riady - controlled much of the rest of this type of coal in Indonesian mines. So Missouri suffers from the ambitions of Bill, Hillary, and Obama. The working class are the ones paying the price, too. If this isn't reason enough to vote for Donald Trump I don't know what is. Oh wait! I do! In addition to being a coal producer Missouri is home to the largest lead mining belt in the world. Now lead is a very important metal; it is used in medical technology, is put in prop-driven airplane fuel, and is a critical part of most large batteries. With the push to develop electric automobiles one would think the American lead industry would be sacrosanct. But recently the last lead smelter in the United States closed down as a result of onerous regulations. That lead smelter, by the way, was in Missouri. Former Congressman Allen West thinks this is an attempt to backdoor gun control, because it will increase the cost of bullets. While I admire Mr. West greatly, I think he's wrong; most bullets are made from recycled lead, taken from batteries. Of course, the prices will rise if we have to import lead (from China, most likely, although it may come from Australia) but it will not likely drive prices up THAT high. But that doesn't matter overmuch, because what it does is make America dependent on foreign smelters. That will necessarily impact our production of unprocessed ore, and it will make our batteries more expensive. It will reduce our availability of Avgas, the fuel used by prop-drive aircraft. In an era where we being shepherded to electric vehicles it gives foreign nations power over our transportation.
Part II: 29. In order to accelerate economic growth, poverty eradication and environmental protection, particularly in developing countries, there is a need to establish macroeconomic conditions in both developed and developing countries that favour the development of instruments and structures enabling all countries, in particular developing countries, to benefit from globalization. [...] There is a need for continuing the elimination of discriminatory and protectionist practices in international trade relations, which will have the effect of improving access for the exports of developing countries.This gives away the game; we are to restrain our own capabilities to allow developing countries to get a bigger share of the world's economic pie. It is, in short, a way to redistribute wealth by forcing us to buy more expensive products from overseas. Bill Clinton's established the President's Council on Sustainable Development by executive order in 1993 to implement U.N. Agenda 21 despite opposition from Congress. In 2009 Barack Obama created the "Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance" to do likewise. Hillary Clinton's husband and boss both have taken strong stands to implement world economic integration via the U.N. George H.W. Bush supported the accord. His son signed Executive Order 13423 on January 24, 2007 which promised:
“Executive Order 13423 “Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management,” signed by President Bush on January 24, 2007. The order sets goals in the areas of energy efficiency, acquisition, renewable energy, toxics reductions, recycling, renewable energy, sustainable buildings, electronics stewardship, fleets, and water conservation. In addition the order requires more widespread use of Environmental Management Systems as the framework in which to manage and continually improve these sustainable practices“.In short, American citizens are taking a back seat to globalist ambitions by the ruling class, ambitions that ultimately seek to empower international institutions at the expense of the free market and national security. Coal and steel in Europe - coal and lead in America. As the United States surrenders her sovereignty one brick at a time the power of the international community grows, and the money that would flow into the U.S. from the growing "green technology" that we have been promised will flow to China, to India, to those who are willing to dig the lead and the coal and use it. This will do nothing to stop the overall pollution, it just means the Chinese make the money. It is a redistribution scheme on a global scale. The good people of the State of Missouri should think very carefully about all of this when they go to the polls in November. Special thanks to William Been, author of Masters of Audacity and Deceit for the head's up about this.
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Timothy Birdnow is a conservative writer and blogger and lives in St. Louis Missouri. His work has appeared in many popular conservative publications including but not limited to The American Thinker, Pajamas Media, Intellectual Conservative and Orthodoxy Today. Tim is a featured contributor to American Daily Reviewand has appeared as a Guest Host on the Heading Right Radio Network. Tim’s website is tbirdnow.mee.nu.