The USA doesn't' love it's children.

In a society whereby the violent deaths of children, their teachers and a principal was an abhorrence; their families pleading to a country to change it's path; such extreme measures of social awareness would not be necessary.

Parents feel compelled to plead their reality to a country. That in and of itself is an abhorrence.

We don't live in that country, anymore. The USA is not that country whereby it becomes disgusted with gun violence enough to change it's path. We were that country, but, are no more.

There are countries that act to protect children, their teachers and a principal. Those countries love the children and seek to provide a life worth living including excellent food, fresh and clean air and water and safe playgrounds.

We live in a society in the USA that goes to the extremes to protect Wall Street. (click here)

That website uses the deaths of children, their teachers and a principal as a LIE to the American public. The underlying campaign of gun violence and make no mistake; the lies of the gun rights lobbyists; serve profits. MONEY. That is more important than children, their teachers and a principal.

But, the underlying lies are no different than the extremists now occupying public lands. They believe the government makes up story lines to take guns from the hands of citizens and will ultimately remove the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. They are extremists and use the political environment to conduct a campaign of fear of the government right along side of "Bad Guys with a Gun."

January 4, 2016
By David Nakamura and Juliet Eilperin

The Obama administration (click here) on Monday unveiled a series of new executive actions aimed at reducing gun violence and making some political headway on one of the most frustrating policy areas of President Obama’s tenure.
The package, which Obama plans to announce Tuesday, includes 10 separate provisions, White House officials said. One key provision would require more gun sellers — especially those who do business on the Internet and at gun shows — to be licensed and would force them to conduct background checks on potential buyers. Obama would devote $500 million more in federal funds to treating mental illness — a move that could require congressional approval — and require that firearms lost in transit between a manufacturer and seller be reported to federal authorities.
At the president’s direction, the FBI will begin hiring more than 230 additional examiners and other personnel to help process new background checks 24 hours, seven days a week. Also, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has established a new investigation center to keep track of illegal gun trafficking online and will devote $4 million and additional personnel to enhance the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network.

Plainly understand the extremists that lie about the deaths of children, no matter the ethnicity or age, their teachers and a principal are removing the definition of life and living with every political victory they carry out.

I can only imagine the evidence President Obama may have seen about any of the senseless deaths in the USA. If there is such graphic evidence I am confident he has seen it. There is no doubt what keeps his will to change the 'violence culture' in the USA.

There has to be a message to the American people to shake them from their complacency and fear. The American people are seeking guns to protect them from their fears. Those fears, in the case of Sandy Hook, are all false. It was the permissiveness of the American society to allow horrible weapons to accumulate. It was fashionable after 2004 to favor guns over safety from guns. Why?

The people that care and want to reach an entire country to awaken it's indifference, need a far different message than they currently are carrying in their pleadings.

Can we please bring back intelligence to media broadcasting? Believe me when I say What's his name isn't the anwser. What is on CNN?

There has always been concealed carry laws. The difference between before "W" and now is that it was far more difficult for people to get concealed carry, except, for lawyers.

July 11, 2013
By Clara McCarthy

On Tuesday, (click here) Illinois became the 50^th state to enact concealed-carry legislation. The Illinois law allows concealed guns on private property and places of work and worship unless property owners post signage that indicates otherwise; it prohibits guns in schools, parks, child care facilities, government buildings, public transportation, and establishments where the majority of revenue comes from alcohol sales, among other places. The big picture: It is now perfectly legal to carry a concealed firearm in public everywhere in the country except for Washington, D.C., with varying restrictions on who exactly is allowed to carry and where he or she can do so.

The first modern concealed-carry law was enacted in Georgia in 1976. The real push, though, has come in the last 15 years, when 29 states have passed concealed-carry (also called “right to carry”) legislation. The NRA and other gun supporters have pushed for concealed-carry laws by relying on the “more guns, less crime” hypothesis, which posits that increasing the volume of law-abiding gun owners will make the country safer. This hypothesis has been promoted aggressively by gun rights advocate and author John Lott, who defended this principle in the aftermath of the shootings in Tucson. “Just as you can deter criminals with higher arrest or conviction rates, letting victims defend themselves also deters criminals,” he wrote in an op-ed in the New York Times. “With concealed handguns, criminals don’t know whether victims can defend themselves until they attack.”...

The United Nartions Security Council needs to be in session NOW. We are not going to do this anymore.

The protracted war (click here) between these neighboring Middle Eastern countries resulted in at least half a million casualties and several billion dollars’ worth of damages, but no real gains by other side. Started by Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein in September 1980, the war was marked by indiscriminate ballistic-missile attacks, extensive use of chemical weapons and attacks on third-country oil tankers in the Persian Gulf. Although Iraq was forced on the strategic defensive, Iran was unable to reconstitute effective armored formations for its air force and could not penetrate Iraq’s borders deeply enough to achieve decisive results. The end came in July 1988 with the acceptance UN Resolution 598....

The coalition that formed to defeat Daesh needs to convene to realize how dangerous it is for any tensions to escalate into war between the members. THAT is exactly what Daesh wants.

No more. 

Iran can file a human rights violation with the world courts to bring the death of the Shia Cleric and others killed due to Saudi Arabian court charges. But, to think for one minute a war is the best resolution is crazy and will doom the middle east to unending war.

I heard Chuck Todd, the brainiest man on Earth, talk to a Texan about Open Carry vs Concealed Carry.

Hello?

Hunting doesn't happen without open carry, even in the state of New Jersey where this deer was taken.

Every state in the union allows open carry.

It was the most hideous conversation I ever heard.

Texans really need to get out once in a while.

Reince Priebus figured it out. I'll be darn.

January 4, 2016

,,,I'm not one (click here) of these people that think that Donald Trump can't win a general election. I actually think there is a huge crossover appeal there to people that are disengaged politically that he speaks to.... Donald Trump taps into the culture. Some people in politics don't get it, don't understand it, are frustrated by it. It doesn't matter. He does. [The Washington Post]...

These people are criminals. What are they doing on television?

This is not Ruby Ridge. This is federal property that belongs to all the Americans born to and living on American soil.

The camera the media needs right now is a feed to the camera at the front gate of the prison. That is the only camera any media service needs. This way they can record the date and time the criminals reported to serve their sentence.

These already convicted ARSONISTS are occupying MY LANDS and have armed themselves. Excuse me. That is my land and no criminals are welcome to occupy it with arms to lay in wait to kill federal employees. 

I don't think so.

January 4, 2016
By Emilio Shapiro

The armed occupation (click here) of an Oregon wildlife refuge that has captured the nation's attention began as a rally Saturday in support of two eastern Oregon ranchers, who are expected to report to a California prison today.

Harney County, Oregon, rancher Dwight Hammond Jr., 74, and his son, Steven Hammond, 46, were convicted of setting fires in 2001 and 2006 on lands managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, "on which the Hammonds had grazing rights leased to them for their cattle operation," according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

The father and son were expected to turn themselves in today at Terminal Island in San Pedro, California.

"Good Night, Moon"

The Waning Crescent

23.8 day old moon

32.9 percent lit

January 3, 2015
By Irina Zhorov

DNA (click here for article and audio) from a genetically modified goat, a spritz of perfume, sculptures so small you need a microscope to see them.
They're all headed for the moon.
The MoonArk is a sort of eight-inch-tall portrait of humanity, with more than 200 artists and designers contributing to it. There's space reserved for it on one of the privately-funded Moon missions competing for the Google Lunar Xprize.
Lowry Burgess, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the MoonArk project lead, holds up one of his contributions, a vial full of red liquid. A drop will go in the Ark....

Picture on right:

This platinum-engraved sapphire disk, part of a set illustrating Earth's biodiversity, will be housed in the Earth Chamber of the MoonArk. It's designed by Mark Baskinger with Matt Zywica, Maggie Banks, Christie Chong, Bettina Chou, Adella Guo, Natalie Harmon, Deborah Lee, Deniz Sokullu and Carolyn Zhou.
Courtesy of The Moon Arts Project

Welcoming the adoption of United Nations General Assembly resolution A/RES/70/1, “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in particular its goal 13, and the adoption of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the third International Conference on Financing for Development and the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction,...

The idea of accumulated authority over time is a completely accepted standard. The global community does not have to reinvent the wheel every time the political wind changes in the USA.

The USA books of laws can fill buildings of libraries. The USA law builds on itself and falls under the authority of the Supreme Court to honor it as constitutional. None of these international frameworks are new. They all have history, great scholars and valid facts for the framework.

The meeting in Paris of 2015 was not a radical new idea brought to the international community by President Obama. It was the 21st meeting of these countries and their presidents and ministers.

Conference of the Parties (click here)
Twenty First Session
Paris, 30 November to 11 December 2015

The reason I brought all this up tonight is because understanding the responsibility conveyed in this agreements spans a great deal of work. Hours and hours over decades of time. This is nothing a head of state should ignore. It was a historical meeting with nearly all heads of state in attendance. This is permanent and going forward. Countries are taking the climate issue extremely seriously. The USA needs to stop being stupid about the needs for it's own responsibility.

I'll work through it. This is called work. Understanding a concern of a global community is work. It isn't just the USA and a movement. This is not a movement anymore. This is our reality.

The Sendai Framework (click here) is a 15-year, voluntary, non-binding agreement which recognizes that the State has the primary role to reduce disaster risk but that responsibility should be shared with other stakeholders including local government, the private sector and other stakeholders. It aims for the following outcome: 

The substantial reduction of disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods and health and in the economic, physical, social, cultural and environmental assets of persons, businesses, communities and countries.

The Sendai Framework is the successor instrument to the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters. It is the outcome of stakeholder consultations initiated in March 2012 and inter-governmental negotiations held from July 2014 to March 2015, which were supported by the UNISDR upon the request of the UN General Assembly.

UNISDR has been tasked to support the implementation, follow-up and review of the Sendai Framework....

Welcoming the adoption of United Nations General Assembly resolution A/RES/70/1, “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in particular its goal 13, and the adoption of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the third International Conference on Financing for Development and the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction,...

I. A global framework for financingdevelopment post-2015 (click here)

1. We, the Heads of State and Government and High Representatives, gathered in Addis Ababa from 13 to 16 July 2015, affirm our strong political commitment to address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling environment at all levels for sustainable development in the spirit of global partnership and solidarity. We reaffirm and build on the 2002 Monterrey Consensus and the 2008 Doha Declaration. Our goal is to end poverty and hunger, and to achieve sustainable development in its three dimensions through promoting inclusive economic growth, protecting the environment, and promoting social inclusion. We commit to respecting all human rights, including the right to development. We will ensure gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment. We will promote peaceful and inclusive societies and advance fully towards an equitable global economic system in which no country or person is left behind, enabling decent work and productive livelihoods for all, while preserving the planet for our children and future generations....

All countries want to do the right thing. Some have more trouble achieving their goals than others.

Welcoming the adoption of United Nations General Assembly resolution A/RES/70/1, “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in particular its goal 13, and the adoption of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the third International Conference on Financing for Development and the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction,...

...Our shared principles and commitments...

...13. The challenges and commitments contained in these major conferences and summits are interrelated and call for integrated solutions. To address them effectively, a new approach is needed. Sustainable development recognizes that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, combatting inequality within and among countries, preserving the planet, creating sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth and fostering social inclusion are linked to each other and are interdependent....

There is no more quitting on climate. Our youngest and most precious are dying.

Welcoming (click here) the adoption of United Nations General Assembly resolution A/RES/70/1, “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in particular its goal 13, and the adoption of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the third International Conference on Financing for Development and the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction,...

As with most international dialogues leading to protocols and agreements there is an accumulation of documents over time that supports continuation of priorities among countries.

Preamble (click here)

This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognise that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. All countries and all stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership, will implement this plan. We are resolved to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and want and to heal and secure our planet. We are determined to take the bold and transformative steps which are urgently needed to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path. As we embark on this collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left behind. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets which we are announcing today demonstrate the scale and ambition of this new universal Agenda. They seek to build on the Millennium Development Goals and complete what these did not achieve. They seek to realize the human rights of all and to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. They are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, social and environmental.

The Goals and targets will stimulate action over the next fifteen years in areas of critical importance for humanity and the planet:...

Guys. I just don't know. Boys will be boys. Indeed.

...By the pulse of freedom
buried in the ground

Father Earth will swallow you
lay your body down

Find the cost of freedom 
buried in the ground

Father Earth will swallow you
lay your body down

The international history of the climate crisis began in 1979. We had plenty of time to reverse the greenhouse gas emissions.

The "Framework Convention on Climate Change" is the overriding authority assembling the meetings that sent the standards, definitions and expectations.

It was in 1992, the issue of the climate crisis took on a serious international platform.

Essential Background: (click here)

In 1992, countries joined an international treaty, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to cooperatively consider what they could do to limit average global temperature increases and the resulting climate change, and to cope with whatever impacts were, by then, inevitable.

By 1995, countries realized that emission reductions provisions in the Convention were inadequate. They launched negotiations to strengthen the global response to climate change, and, two years later, adopted the Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol legally binds developed countries to emission reduction targets. The Protocol’s first commitment period started in 2008 and ended in 2012. The second commitment period began on 1 January 2013 and will end in 2020.

There are now 195 Parties to the Convention and 192 Parties to the Kyoto Protocol. The UNFCCC secretariat supports all institutions involved in the international climate change negotiations, particularly the Conference of the Parties (COP), the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties (CMP), the subsidiary bodies (which advise the COP/CMP), and the COP/CMP Bureau (which deals mainly with procedural and organizational issues arising from the COP/CMP and also has technical functions). For a brief depiction of how these various bodies are related to one another, please see Bodies.

The question of what happens beyond 2020 was answered by Parties in Durban in 2011. For more information on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, click here.

Climate change is a complex problem, which, although environmental in nature, has consequences for all spheres of existence on our planet. It either impacts on-- or is impacted by-- global issues, including poverty, economic development, population growth, sustainable development and resource management. It is not surprising, then, that solutions come from all disciplines and fields of research and development....

The IPCC has been conducting it's work for a very long time. Decades. I am not sure when the climate crisis became American political fodder, but, it never should have. 

1991 — First meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) takes place.
1990 — IPCC's first assessment report released. (click here) IPCC and second World Climate Conference call for a global treaty on climate change. United Nations General Assembly negotiations on a framework convention begin.
1988 — The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is set up. More about the science of climate change.
1979 — The first World Climate Conference (WCC) takes place.

I will say this about some prominent citizens in the USA. They get tired of suffering the damage of the climate crisis.

Take heart, we are not alone.

When Hurricane Sandy (click here) struck the Northeast in 2012, Bloomberg Businessweek didn’t mince words.

“It’s global warming, stupid,” the magazine boldly declared.

In its detailed report on the storm , the National Hurricane Center was similarly plain-spoken about the bizarre and far-reaching extreme impacts:

…houses were washed from their foundations, boardwalks were dismantled or destroyed, cars were tossed about, and boats were pushed well inland from the coast....

Let me be plain. Corruption of the US Congress by their cronies is preventing action on climate. There is no morality when Senator Inhofe takes to the US Senate floor and throws snowballs around the audience. He is simpleton. He is a hideous person that should not be in power.

So, there are many people including those within power that stand with us when we demand action against the greenhouse gas emissions causing such horrible outcomes for American citizens.

The one country that had to make a huge impact on the reversal of emissions of greenhouse gases QUIT.

December 25, 2006

Negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (click here) were completed December 11, 1997, committing the industrialized nations to specified, legally binding reductions in emissions of six “greenhouse gases.” The Protocol entered into force on February 16, 2005, and its emissions reduction requirements are binding on the 35 industrialized countries that have ratified it; the United States disengaged from the Protocol in 2001 and has not ratified it.

As structured in the negotiations completed in 1997, this treaty would commit the United States — if it were to ratify the Protocol — to a target of reducing greenhouse gases by 7% below 1990 levels during a “commitment period” between 2008-2012. Because of the fact that “sinks,” which remove and store carbon from the atmosphere, are counted and because of other provisions discussed in this report, the actual reduction of emissions within the United States that would be required to meet the target was estimated to be lower than 7%.

The United States signed the Protocol on November 12, 1998. However, the Clinton Administration did not submit the Protocol to the Senate for advice and consent, acknowledging that one condition outlined by S.Res. 98, passed in mid-1997 — meaningful participation by developing countries in binding commitments limiting greenhouse gases — had not been met. In late March 2001, the Bush Administration rejected the Kyoto Protocol. The United States continued to attend the annual conferences of the parties (COPs) to the UNFCCC, but did not participate in Kyoto Protocol-related negotiations. In February, 2002, President Bush announced a U.S. policy for climate change that will rely on domestic, voluntary actions to reduce the “greenhouse gas intensity” (ratio of emissions to economic output) of the U.S. economy by 18% over the next 10 years.

The protocol was ratified only after Russia agreed to it.

Following the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol by Russia in November 2004, it entered into force on February 16, 2005,...

From the text of the 2015 agreement:

...decision 1/CP.17 (click here) on the establishment of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action,

The Climate platforms are nearly as difficult to understand as the science itself. So, I will try to make sense of it. 

The Conference of the Parties (click here) serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, Recalling Articles 5, 7 and 8 of the Kyoto Protocol, Also recalling decisions 2/CMP.6, 2/CMP.7, 3/CMP.7, 4/CMP.7, 1/CMP.8 and 2/CMP.8, Being aware of decisions 11/CMP.1, 13/CMP.1, 15/CMP.1, 16/CMP.1, 18/CMP.1, 19/CMP.1 and 27/CMP.1, 1. Decides that, for the purpose of the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol and pending the entry into force of the Doha Amendment, contained in decision Annex I to 1/CMP.8, any references in this decision and decision 2/CMP.8 to Annex A, Annex B, Article 3, paragraphs 1 bis, 1 ter, 1 quater, 7 bis, 7 ter, 8, 8 bis, 12 bis and 12 ter, and Article 4, paragraphs 2 and 3, unless otherwise specified, shall be understood as referring to those Articles and Annexes as contained in the Doha Amendment, and that, upon the entry into force of the Doha Amendment, such references shall be read as references to the relevant Articles of the Kyoto Protocol as amended;...

CMP shows up as supporting and inclusive documents. CMP is Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol.

The climate has been a concern for a very long time. I am sure everyone remembers the Kyoto Protocols. 

The Kyoto Protocol (click here) is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which commits its Parties by setting internationally binding emission reduction targets.

Recognizing that developed countries are principally responsible for the current high levels of GHG emissions in the atmosphere as a result of more than 150 years of industrial activity, the Protocol places a heavier burden on developed nations under the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities."

The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, on 11 December 1997 and entered into force on 16 February 2005. The detailed rules for the implementation of the Protocol were adopted at COP 7 in Marrakesh, Morocco, in 2001, and are referred to as the "Marrakesh Accords." Its first commitment period started in 2008 and ended in 2012....

Before there can be an understanding of the 2015 Climate Summit there are DEFINITIONS.

Those frequenting this blog knows when it comes to reading documents I am a stickler about clear definitions.

Glossary of climate change acronyms (click here)

Even chemical abbreviations can be found here, such as CH4, which is methane.

Recovering from Earth's warming is everyone's responsibility.

Teresa M. Thorp has written a book that seeks to interpret all the actions of the climate community to bring about a livable climate.

The book is entitled "Climate Justice, A Voice for the Future" (click here)

Yes, Google has information from the book online. This is not an old book. It is a preview not the entire book. 

On page iv it states "Teresa M. Thorp, 2014." The information is very current.

The book is inclusive of all documents upto the date of it's publication. Beginning on page 348 of this review are the notes used to compile this book. 

Misogyny is frequently used to hold women responsible for their husband's wandering.

dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women: "she felt she was struggling against thinly disguised misogyny"

A woman is responsible for her own behavior. She is not responsible for her husband's behavior.

While Hillary Clinton has had a variety of official titles there is still only one Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton.

That matters.

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