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Seventeen Republican members of Congress from diverse districtsincluding representatives from coastal Southeastern states, Nevada, Utah, upstate New York and Pennsylvaniasubmitted a resolution in the House Wednesday acknowledging that human activities have had an impact on global climate and resolving to create and support economically viable mitigation efforts.

The resolution, sponsored by representatives Elise Stefanik of New York, Carlos Curbelo of Florida and Ryan Costello of Pennsylvania, is being submitted in the midst of an unprecedented effort by the most anti-science administration in recent American history to remove climate science studies and data from federal agencies.

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On Tuesday, Bloomberg reported that President Donald Trump is about to sign an executive order repealing President Barack Obamas Clean Power Plan, and to order a reconsideration of the governments use of the social cost of carbonmetric, which measures potential economic damage related to climate change.

Last week, meanwhile, Trumps Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) director, Scott Pruitt, suggested that carbon emissions have nothing to do with climate change.

Curbelo, whose Miami-area district is already experiencing dramatic effects of rising sea levels, has been spearheading the effort to gather pro-science members on his side of the aisle since last year, when he coaxed 10 Republicans to join a bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus, which now has 30 members from 13 states, half of whom are Republican.

The resolution being submitted Wednesday states, That the House of Representatives commits to working constructively, using our tradition of American ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism, to create and support economically viableand broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.

During a call with reporters Tuesday, Curbelo said there are many, many more Republicans in the House who are interested in the issue andwant to learn more, and who are considering joining this effort officially by putting their name on it. He said his goal is to move on to solutions that we can all rally around and that we can work on with our Republican and Democratic colleagues. This would include, he said, pressing the administration to add projects to mitigate the effects of climate change, such as seawalls, in its expected infrastructure plan.

While prospects for a swell of GOP political support seem dim, given the presidents stated position that climate change might be a Chinese hoax and his EPA directors open animosity toward the issue, Curbelo said he sees a possible wedge via members of Trumps inner circlepresumably including his daughter Ivanka, who has reportedly lobbied her father on the issue.

We know there are people very close to the president who understand this issue, Curbelo said, without naming anyone. These are people who have already been a very good influence on items such as the Paris Agreement, and we are looking forward to engaging those individuals so that we can take this conversation to a good place.

Curbelo called Pruitts comments on carbon disconcerting and added, What he said was akin to saying the Earth is flat in the year 2017. We must insist on evidence-based and science-based policies. He also chastised Pruitt last week in a statement, saying,Rising carbon emissions have been a contributing factor to climate change for decades. That is a scientific fact and the reality facing communities like my district. The EPA is tasked with the very responsibility of helping to lower the impact of carbon emissions, and for Mr. Pruitt to assert otherwise without scientific evidence is reckless and unacceptable.

One of the resolutions signatories is Representative Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), who represents a section of his state known as the Low Country. Sanford, who grew up on a farm in the area, says he has seen firsthand the effects of rising sea levels, in acreage lost to salt water.

The Low Country makes Miami Beach look like high ground, Sanford said. I just think there is inherent danger in the three-monkey routinesee no evil, hear no evil, speak no evilrelated to climate change. To deny its existence is to deny what our country was founded on. The Founding Fathers designed a reason-based political system, and without reason the system doesnt work.

Curbelos climate caucus co-chairman, Florida Democratic Representative Ted Deutch, released a statement Wednesday morning welcoming the GOP effort. Americans dont see climate change as a partisan issue, and neither should Congress, he said. As the Democratic co-chair of the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus, I applaud my Republican colleagues for introducing this important resolution on climate change. Were going to need lawmakers from both sides of the aisle working together, engaging in robust debate, following the scienceand finding bipartisan legislative responses to the growing threats of climate change.

Polls have shown that a majority of Americans are concerned about climate change, and those fears among constituents, plus the fact that Republicans now control all branches of government and are thus alast line of defense, might be prompting more Republicans to reject the administrations anti-science position. The polling is very clear, Curbelo said. A clear majority understand this is a challenge we are facing, and among younger voters the numbers are staggering. Over 80 percent of millennials consider this a major issue. The House is the most representative institution in our government. This issue was regrettably politicized 20 years or so ago, and we are trying to take some of the politics out and reducing the noise.

Others who signed the resolution are Representatives Barbara Comstock (R-Va.), Don Bacon (R-Neb.), John Faso (R-N.Y.), John Katko (R-N.Y.), Frank LoBiondo (R-N.J.), Tom Reed (R-N.Y.), Mark Amodei (R-Nev.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Mia Love (R-Utah), Pat Meehan (R-Pa.), Brian Mast (R-Fla.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla).

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PHASE I: INFILTRATION

Phase I was the genesis of the modern progressive movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was launched by the cast of characters we covered at the beginning of this book, people such as Teddy Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, Margaret Sanger, Wayne Wheeler, John Dewey, and others. It got especially heated during the 1912 presidential election, when Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson tried to out-progressive each other. Wilson won out, and his administration was the first wave of the progressive movement. It would be followed by three more waves, each of which shared the following goals of the infiltration phase:

Goal 1: Organize groups for control. The collectivization of society began. Instead of focusing on individual rights and freedoms, progressives focused on organizing people into groups that set them apart. Sanger organized around birth control (i.e., eugenics), Wheeler organized around temperance, labor groups organized workers, and so on. This was the genesis of community organizing, and it has changed little from then to the days of Obamaherding people into groups, motivating them with fear.

Goal 2: Infiltrate. Slowly but deliberately, progressives inserted themselves into key American institutions, including the government, the labor movement, academia, the media, the military, and the courts. Progressives not only ran for high office, but they also made a point of inserting their operatives into a permanent government bureaucracy. They took control of the labor movement and of academia, which became a hotbed for progressivism at all levels. The leading race-theory eugenicists came from Americas top universities such as Princeton and Johns Hopkins, the latter of which was designed specifically to bring the German university model to the United States. Progressives such as Dewey influenced the education of the youngest Americans.

Goal 3: Weaken the social fabric. For the collectivization of society to succeed, the natural, organic fibers of our social fabricfaith, tradition, family, heritageneeded to be ripped apart. Progressives systematically drew wedges between different segments of society by collectivizing and organizing them against one another. And all with an unceasing agenda of political correctness to revise history and remove all traces of faith from public life.

Goal 4: Confuse the concept of right and wrong. Sometimes it feels as if were living in a moral house of mirrorsup means down, down means up, and everything is distorted. That is exactly how progressives want it. By preaching moral relativism and shaming us into thinking our traditions are wrong and outdated, by convincing us that our moral compass needs to progress, they can lead us ever closer to the final step of phase I . . .

Goal 5: Bring society to a state of near crisis. At some point, the confusion becomes too great, and those who could stand up to bring some sanity to the public sphere are successfully shamed into silence. The nation is brought to the edge of collapse so that progressives can step in and take power, all in a false-prophet effort to relieve peoples fears and anxieties.

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The Ontario government's plan to dramatically cut hydro rates did little to boost support for the Liberals ahead of next year's provincial election, a new poll suggests.

The Mainstreet research poll, commissioned by Postmediaand released Wednesday, suggeststhe Ontario Provincial Conservative party remain in the lead despite the announcement, though more respondents saythey are undecided about who they would vote for if an election were held today.

Earlier this month, Premier Kathleen Wynne unveiled a plan that would slash residential and small business hydro bills by an average of 17 per cent andsee billions in costs lifted off customers in the short term.It meant that some $28 billion in costs would be refinanced, with futureratepayersshouldering the interest.

The move came as the Liberalgovernment was found to be trailing the PCs by some 14 per cent in a range of polls, and nearly even with the NDP.

According to the poll, which captured the views of 2,531 Ontarians on March 11-12, the move was received by 41 per cent of respondents as a political one. Even so, 47 per cent of those polled approved of the hydro plan, with 35 per cent disapproving.

For comparison purposes only, a random sample of this size would yield a margin of error of plus or minus 1.95 per cent.The poll was conducted by interactive voice response and included landline and cell lineresponses.

"Right now, it looks like Wynne has succeeded in expanding the number of Ontarians who might vote for her," Mainstreet Research executive vice-president David Valentin said. "But that doesn't mean they will."

Demonstrators unhappy with the price of electricity protest at Queen's Park on Wednesday, November 23, 2016. (Mike Crawley/CBC)

"Everywhere I go I hear from people worried aboutthe price that they are asked to pay for hydro and the impact that it has on their household budgets," Wynne said, making the announcement at Queen's Park almost exactly two weeks ago.

The Liberals don't appear to have garnered any new support following Wynne's announcement, the poll shows. In fact, it notes they dropped two percentage points within the margin of error.

"Anger over hydro prices doesn't just work like a light switch. You can't just turn it on and off," said Valentin. "I think if people begin to see a real tangible change in their hydro bills come September, then maybe we'll start to see more traction."

But with the number of undecided voters up among every demographic in the province, the numbers do indicate they've managed to "knock voters away from the opposition parties for now."

The largest jump in undecided voters came from southwestern Ontario, while the GTA's undecided rate was largelyunchanged, it found. And among all those surveyed, the PCs posted a 10-point lead.

However, all bets were off on the issue of Ontario's hydro plan alone, the poll found, with PC leader Patrick Brown's lead disappearing altogether when respondents were asked who had the best plan for the province.

"When asked which provincial leader has the best Hydro plan, the results point to a three-way race," Valentin said.

"ButI think the question is not how many people are going to base their vote just on who has teh best hydro plan but has the premier been able to change the ballot question to not focus on hydro at all. If she can focus Ontarians on her plan for free tuition for low-income students in September or on upcoming job reform... she'll be doing a lot better."

The PCs have so far presented no plan for cutting hydro rates.

And earlier this month, Ontario's New Democratic Party leader Andrea Horwath released a plan to reduce rates by as much as 30 per cent for some households. The cornerstone of her plan was buying back shares of Hydro One sold by the government to private investors.

And earlier this month, Ontario's New Democratic Party leader Andrea Horwath released a plan to reduce rates by as much as 30 per cent for some households. The cornerstone of her plan was buying back shares of Hydro One sold by the government to private investors. (CBC)

That plan appears to have resonated with voters, the poll found.

Horwath's score on the question of hydro alone was four percentage points higher than her score overall on voting intentions.

On Wednesday, Horwath issued what she called a challenge to Wynne:To table the details of her plan at the legislature for debate Monday.

"Show the people of Ontario what your $40 billion dollar borrowing deal really means... People deserve to see it in black and white."

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BY: Alex Griswold March 15, 2017 12:49 pm

A group of anti-Trump liberals and Democratic operatives were tricked into paying thousands of dollars fordocuments that made explosive claims aboutPresident Donald Trump, butturned out to be forgeries.

Buzzfeed learned of the documents' existence when the operatives tried to sell them on the story. Supposedly, the documents showed$1.6 billion being transferred fromExxonMobil to a Chinese mining companyand then finally to the Trump Organization during the 2016 election. The purported transfers would have taken placeat the same time eventual Exxon Mobil CEO and Secretary of StateRex Tillerson was meeting with Vladimir Putin in Russia.

None of it was true.Anti-Trump activistBrett Kimberlin fronted the $9,000 for the documentswhich wereprovided by an alleged Italian scam artist,and passed them along to Democratic operatives. Kimberlin, now a liberal blogger, was convictedof a 1978 Indiana bombing spreethat eventually led a maimed victim to commit suicide.

But the documents were "rife with spelling and grammatical errors," Buzzfeed noted, at odd with what one would expect from a $340 billion multinational company like Exxon. Among the more blatant errors,the documents falsely identified the president of the Chinese company as its CEO and misspelled his name. The bank statements that came with the documents also contained clear errors, such as getting the fullname of ExxonMobil incorrect.

In addition to Buzzfeed, the groups of Democratic operatives shopped the documents toThe New York Times,The Washington Post, and Bloomberg, all of whom passed. The story was eventually picked up in February by theliberal blog Down With Tyranny,citing "pretty heavy duty, well-sourced rumors."

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