... also "shaky."
James Hansen, the "father of climate change" who is a member of the United States Academy of Science has called COP-21 a "fraud" because it lacks a framework for decisive action.
U.S. secretary of state John Kerry rejected Hansen's criticism, noting that 186 nation have submitted independent plans that will lay the groundwork for new investment in sustainable technologies and generate economic growth. Does COP 21 have the makings of a "Green Bubble" that will burst like the subprime mortage market did in 2007?
Fossil fuels and the petroleum economy aren't ...
... which open sources indicate is spending billions of dollars to provide asylum to refugees from many nations, including Syria, operates sophisticated screening operations to examine the backgrounds of asylum seekers. As seen by the refugee program launched by U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry, it can take four or five years from the time an applicant is processed until approval is granted, after which there can be more wait time. The recent statement by U.S. President Barack Obama that Washington will grant asylum to 10,000 Syrians ...
... of soft power, public diplomacy, the internet and social media. Henry Kissinger was still at Harvard. Robert MacNamara was managing the biggest failure in the history of the Ford Motor Company, the ill-fated Edsel automobile; the highly publicized wunderkind who computerized the Pentagon and the Vietnam War wasn’t made president of Ford until two months before the Kennedy transition team chose him to be U.S. Secretary of Defense. An Outside-The-Box Gamble That Paid Off Overcoming objections ...
... president Obama continues to dangle the use of force. The FSA has raised the concern that Assad not having signed off on the deal is slowing down the process of installing a new government. That bluster had enough weight to it that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke to FSA leader General Salam Idris, who is currently based near they Syrian border in Turkey, to assure him that Washington launching an attack on Assad controlled Syria is very much an option. Then too, there are no indications that president Vladimir Putin has backed off from his “yes we will” commitment to support Syria if the nation is attacked. Meanwhile the ...