Poll: 59 percent of Republicans say ‘free trade’ benefits other countries more than U.S. - NetRight Daily
“Surprisingly, the voters of the party traditionally strongest for free trade, the Republican Party, have become the most consistent and strongest opponents to trade policy.”
That was independent pollster Pat Caddell at the National Press Club on March 10 commenting on a poll of 1,950 likely voters he conducted on behalf of Americans for Limited Government on voter attitudes toward the international trade issue including the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership now under consideration.
Particularly, GOP voters more than any other segment are opposed to vast trade deals that shift production and jobs overseas, with 59 percent of Republicans agreeing that “Over last two decades, free trade agreements signed by the U.S. were more of a benefit to other countries...”
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Saturday, March 12, 2016
Riot Migrants Claim They Didn't Understand German Norms, Were Just Following Afghan Law
Riot Migrants Claim They Didn't Understand German Norms, Were Just Following Afghan Law:
Migrants who were part of a gang that tore apart asylum accommodation and savagely attacked police officers in a riot last year are now in court, charged with aggravated breach of the peace.
Violence broke out in the migrant receiving centre in Suhl, Thuringa in August 2015 after a disagreement between migrants belonging to different sects of Islam living there turned bitter.
...She said: “I perceived the mood to be aggressive, angry, hateful” and described while her fellow officers took refuge in a room with the man the gang was trying to kill the other migrants broke glass windows and threw objects.
Some had dismantled beds and equipped themselves with the iron bars and wooden planks they had taken from them.
The officer revealed they were on the verge of drawing their handguns, but did not, restraint for which they were praised by the judge.
As her group retreated, one of her colleagues said “run, they are coming” as 100 people pursued the officers.
Die Welt reports that despite the officers being in clearly marked uniforms, storms and glass bottles were thrown at them.
Eyewitness reports at the time recalled the aggressors were screaming “Allah Akbar” as they advanced.
With the police at a safe distance, the rioters turned on their accommodation itself and tore it apart, demolishing walls, doors, and smashing windows.
Four of the Afghan migrants in the dock have refused to make an apology for attacking the officers, which they deny, but claim their attack on the Afghan man who tore the Koran was due to a misunderstanding.
One of the men has made a plea to the court for understanding, reports Die Welt, as he didn’t understand the German legal system and that it is normal to threaten people who “desecrate” the Koran back in his home country..."
Migrants who were part of a gang that tore apart asylum accommodation and savagely attacked police officers in a riot last year are now in court, charged with aggravated breach of the peace.
Violence broke out in the migrant receiving centre in Suhl, Thuringa in August 2015 after a disagreement between migrants belonging to different sects of Islam living there turned bitter.
...She said: “I perceived the mood to be aggressive, angry, hateful” and described while her fellow officers took refuge in a room with the man the gang was trying to kill the other migrants broke glass windows and threw objects.
Some had dismantled beds and equipped themselves with the iron bars and wooden planks they had taken from them.
The officer revealed they were on the verge of drawing their handguns, but did not, restraint for which they were praised by the judge.
As her group retreated, one of her colleagues said “run, they are coming” as 100 people pursued the officers.
Die Welt reports that despite the officers being in clearly marked uniforms, storms and glass bottles were thrown at them.
Eyewitness reports at the time recalled the aggressors were screaming “Allah Akbar” as they advanced.
With the police at a safe distance, the rioters turned on their accommodation itself and tore it apart, demolishing walls, doors, and smashing windows.
Four of the Afghan migrants in the dock have refused to make an apology for attacking the officers, which they deny, but claim their attack on the Afghan man who tore the Koran was due to a misunderstanding.
One of the men has made a plea to the court for understanding, reports Die Welt, as he didn’t understand the German legal system and that it is normal to threaten people who “desecrate” the Koran back in his home country..."
‘This Man Scares Me’: TV Ad From 1964 Presidential Campaign Is Going Viral — One Look and You’ll Understand Why | Video | TheBlaze.com
‘This Man Scares Me’: TV Ad From 1964 Presidential Campaign Is Going Viral — One Look and You’ll Understand Why | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Though it may be fair to say the 2016 race for the White House is unprecedented in recent memory, tough elections and epic primary battles are not unheard of. In fact, from fears over “party unity” to issues with the Ku Klux Klan, one 1964 ad for incumbent President Lyndon Johnson (D) offers a message some believe to be shockingly relevant in today’s presidential cycle."
"Though it may be fair to say the 2016 race for the White House is unprecedented in recent memory, tough elections and epic primary battles are not unheard of. In fact, from fears over “party unity” to issues with the Ku Klux Klan, one 1964 ad for incumbent President Lyndon Johnson (D) offers a message some believe to be shockingly relevant in today’s presidential cycle."
Engineer Tricked EPA Out Of $50 Million In Green Energy Scam
Engineer Tricked EPA Out Of $50 Million In Green Energy Scam | The Daily Caller
An engineer pleaded guilty Thursday to tricking the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) into handing his company $50 million in taxpayer-backed subsidies as part of a massive biofuels scam.
Engineer William Barnes reportedly “rubber-stamped” false reports sent to the EPA in order to get the owners of two biofuel companies lucrative subsidies from taxpayers, according to The Morning Call.
The owners of the two green energy companies, Dave Dunham and Ralph Tommaso, were charged in December for exaggerating the amount of biodiesel and heating oil they produced as part of a racket that extends from Pennsylvania to Washington state and even Canada.
Durham and Tommaso hired Barnes to document the production capacities of their biofuels plants in order to get subsidies from the EPA’s renewable fuel credit program — a subsidy created to encourage the production of biofuels from things like cooking oil..."
An engineer pleaded guilty Thursday to tricking the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) into handing his company $50 million in taxpayer-backed subsidies as part of a massive biofuels scam.
Engineer William Barnes reportedly “rubber-stamped” false reports sent to the EPA in order to get the owners of two biofuel companies lucrative subsidies from taxpayers, according to The Morning Call.
The owners of the two green energy companies, Dave Dunham and Ralph Tommaso, were charged in December for exaggerating the amount of biodiesel and heating oil they produced as part of a racket that extends from Pennsylvania to Washington state and even Canada.
Durham and Tommaso hired Barnes to document the production capacities of their biofuels plants in order to get subsidies from the EPA’s renewable fuel credit program — a subsidy created to encourage the production of biofuels from things like cooking oil..."
Syria refugees likely end up on welfare
ABRAHAM H. MILLER: Syria refugees likely end up on welfare - Washington Times
Do you live in a preferred refugee resettlement community?
There are 82 of them in America, and a lot of them are in small towns where you’d least expect to find them.
Refugee resettlement is big business, and nine organizations, called volags, have a virtual monopoly over the business.
They are the ones that Department of State has selected because they are located or use subcontractors in communities where refugees have “ample opportunities of sustained economic independence.”
Or so the State Department would like you to believe.
In reality, there is little follow up on whether this assumption merges into reality.
Our local refugee resettlement contractor in Walnut Creek, California, a preferred community, even denies preferred communities exist.
She claims there are not refugee resettlement communities but grant recipients, as if these grant recipients operate in cyberspace without a geographical location.
...The Minneapolis area, for example, has been a preferred area for resettling Somalis.
It was ground zero for recruiting for the jihadist group al-Shabab, and a decade later it is the focal point for ISIS recruitment in America.
...The volags and the community influentials that support them would tell you that their refugees are well vetted, citing a State Department site to verify this.
But as noted by Michael Steinbeck, the assistant director of the FBI, there is no way to adequately vet refugees that come from a failed state..."
Do you live in a preferred refugee resettlement community?
There are 82 of them in America, and a lot of them are in small towns where you’d least expect to find them.
Refugee resettlement is big business, and nine organizations, called volags, have a virtual monopoly over the business.
They are the ones that Department of State has selected because they are located or use subcontractors in communities where refugees have “ample opportunities of sustained economic independence.”
Or so the State Department would like you to believe.
In reality, there is little follow up on whether this assumption merges into reality.
Our local refugee resettlement contractor in Walnut Creek, California, a preferred community, even denies preferred communities exist.
She claims there are not refugee resettlement communities but grant recipients, as if these grant recipients operate in cyberspace without a geographical location.
...The Minneapolis area, for example, has been a preferred area for resettling Somalis.
It was ground zero for recruiting for the jihadist group al-Shabab, and a decade later it is the focal point for ISIS recruitment in America.
...The volags and the community influentials that support them would tell you that their refugees are well vetted, citing a State Department site to verify this.
But as noted by Michael Steinbeck, the assistant director of the FBI, there is no way to adequately vet refugees that come from a failed state..."
Lunch video-----Death by Dems
Death by Dems | Power Line:
Detroit is a case study in the wreck of liberal governance and the politics of racial grievance. Michael Barone is from Detroit originally and has occasionally written about its decline, as in his CRB review “The unheavenly city” (on Charles LeDuff’s Detroit: An American Autopsy). The review opens: “When people ask me why I moved from liberal to conservative, I have a one-word answer: Detroit.”
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Detroit is a case study in the wreck of liberal governance and the politics of racial grievance. Michael Barone is from Detroit originally and has occasionally written about its decline, as in his CRB review “The unheavenly city” (on Charles LeDuff’s Detroit: An American Autopsy). The review opens: “When people ask me why I moved from liberal to conservative, I have a one-word answer: Detroit.”
In his current column, Barone refers to last week’s GOP debate in Detroit and points to Ted Cruz “citing Detroit and how, in his view, 50 years of liberal governance destroyed so much of a once-thriving city.” Here he provides his own testimony again: “I saw that destruction as an intern in the Detroit mayor’s office during the 1967 riot and in repeated visits over the years afterward, destruction wreaked in large part because of policies now advocated by the Black Lives Matter movement and Hillary Clinton.”
In his new Firewall video for the David Horowitz Freedom Center (below, also posted with transcript here), Bill Whittle takes a look at Detroit over the past 55 years. He calls what happened to Detroit Death by Democrats. I thought readers who haven’t seen it might find it of interest.
Cruz’s Path to Victory: The Math and Science
Cruz’s Path to Victory: The Math and Science:
"For most of the modern primary cycles, the delegate math has been driven by momentum early on in the season. Typically, once the front-runner wins most of the key early primaries and comes out with more delegates and states on Super Tuesday, he becomes the presumptive nominee. The other candidates might hang in for another month and score a few wins, but they are usually fighting a losing battle similar to the confederate army in 1864."
"For most of the modern primary cycles, the delegate math has been driven by momentum early on in the season. Typically, once the front-runner wins most of the key early primaries and comes out with more delegates and states on Super Tuesday, he becomes the presumptive nominee. The other candidates might hang in for another month and score a few wins, but they are usually fighting a losing battle similar to the confederate army in 1864."
With Every Other Problem Solved, Obama Makes Diaper Prices A Priority
With Every Other Problem Solved, Obama Makes Diaper Prices A Priority | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:
"When John F. Kennedy was president, he worried about a Missile Gap with the Soviet Union.
His party’s successor to the White House, Barack Obama, is worried about — we are not kidding — a Diaper Gap.
An official White House email alerts the public that while diapers “are basic necessities … nearly one in three families struggle to afford them for their babies.”
These families, the email says, are forced to choose among food, heat and diapers.
“That’s a choice no family should have to make.”
The email directed recipients to a White House Web page — whitehouse.gov/diapergap — wherein Cecilia Munoz, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, laments that while the lucky few can buy diapers by the truckload at Costco or order them for cheap on Amazon, “the benefits of the new economy aren’t available to all Americans.”
And, shock and horror, there is “no federal assistance for purchasing diapers.”
So, short of proposing a revamp of the nation’s welfare program, the White House is “highlighting a cross-sector strategy to expand access to affordable diapers” that involves manufacturers, online retailers and nonprofits..."
"When John F. Kennedy was president, he worried about a Missile Gap with the Soviet Union.
His party’s successor to the White House, Barack Obama, is worried about — we are not kidding — a Diaper Gap.
An official White House email alerts the public that while diapers “are basic necessities … nearly one in three families struggle to afford them for their babies.”
These families, the email says, are forced to choose among food, heat and diapers.
“That’s a choice no family should have to make.”
The email directed recipients to a White House Web page — whitehouse.gov/diapergap — wherein Cecilia Munoz, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, laments that while the lucky few can buy diapers by the truckload at Costco or order them for cheap on Amazon, “the benefits of the new economy aren’t available to all Americans.”
And, shock and horror, there is “no federal assistance for purchasing diapers.”
So, short of proposing a revamp of the nation’s welfare program, the White House is “highlighting a cross-sector strategy to expand access to affordable diapers” that involves manufacturers, online retailers and nonprofits..."
The democrat party of amerika-----What really happened at the Chicago rally - My Firsthand Account
What really happened at the Chicago rally - My Firsthand Account : The_Donald:
"At 2:30 p.m., I arrived at the Donald Trump rally located at the UIC pavilion in Chicago, IL. There was light police presence at the Blue Line station, and the pavilion was short walk away. There I waited in line for about an hour until making it to the front doors, going through a security scanner, and finding a seat in the main hall.
"At 2:30 p.m., I arrived at the Donald Trump rally located at the UIC pavilion in Chicago, IL. There was light police presence at the Blue Line station, and the pavilion was short walk away. There I waited in line for about an hour until making it to the front doors, going through a security scanner, and finding a seat in the main hall.
For nearly two hours the pavilion filled until it neared capacity. It was clear that protesters were seated around the room, given easily away by their manner of dress. Most of the Trump supporters, being suburbanite or small town white people from outside of Chicago, were dressed strikingly normal—jeans and t-shirts, yoga pants or dresses, and the occasional suit.
The first protestors began around 5:30 when two young white males pulled off their coats to reveal t-shirts with anti-Trump slogans. At this point I noticed the police presence inside the rally was a mere 8 police officers, bolstered with hands-off event staff.
Before 6:00 p.m., a man spoke on the microphone and requested that rally attendees do not touch or harm protesters who interrupt the event. He reminded the protesters that Donald Trump supports the first amendment as much as the second.
Following this was a string of smaller incidents, such as people holding up improvised signs and shouting.
- One entire bleacher row was filled with protesters and they began chanting and throwing around torn up signs.
- A few people who began standing up and screaming, and were slowly escorted out by police. The police kept leaving the protesters unattended throughout this, taking 4-8 officers to escort protesters out one at a time.
- A black man in a black jacket ran up to the front stage, bumped into the podium, and attempted to speak, but was wrestled down by two men in suits. As they escorted him through the crowd, he took a swing at a Trump supporter. The men escorting him were incredibly gentle and restrained themselves from using any force.
Then voice came on and declared that the event was postponed. A few minutes later, they informed us that Trump had landed in Chicago and spoken to Chicago Police officers, and that due to safety concerns, the rally was canceled.
At this point, the protesters began to descend into chaos. Aside from a few mild “TRUMP” and “USA” chants, the Trump supporters were mostly quiet and bewildered as the protesters began to scream, chant, and run around the main floor area in a huge pack, flipping off the rally attendees and swearing at them. There were a few tense altercations between the two groups, but from what I saw at this point, no violence.
The rally was instructed to leave the pavilion, and I have to admit, the Chicago Police messed up bad here.
We walked straight out of the building and into enormous packs of protesters screaming at us, with little police presence to protect the Trump supporters.
Following this, I wandered the protest grounds to see what was going on. My memory is a bit jumbled at this point because I was so pumped up, but let me string together the events as clearly as possible:
- Many of Trump propaganda signs, most commonly depicting him as Adolf Hitler, but others showing him with a small penis, simple signs of text English and Spanish, signs.
- Young women shouting anti-white racial epithets.
- “THE PEOPLE ARE UNITED. WE WILL NOT BE DIVIDED” being shouted at Trump supporters who holed themselves up in a parking garage, quietly fearing for their safety. Another good one by the protesters was “FREEDOM FIRST! FREEDOM FIRST!” Strangely enough, there were a good amount of signs calling for peace and freedom. Lots of peace signs being flashed with the fingers.
- A single white Trump supporter who held up a sign and stood quietly as three dozen people surrounded him, smiling and screaming, snatching and pushing at him until he had to run for police cover. Someone grabbed his American flag and threw it on the ground and he fought to recover it. The police escorted him away.
- Two young men, perhaps 17-19, standing quietly as they waited for a ride home. They were wearing their MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN hats, looking terrified as people cursed and swore at them, and occasionally threw furious challenges for debate. The two young men held their ground. Only once did one of those hats come down, and it quickly went back on again.
- A general atmosphere of pleasure and happiness from the protesters. A common chant was “WE WON!” and “WE STOPPED* TRUMP!” It honestly felt like a social event for the protesters. There was plenty of mingling
- Plenty of shouts at Trump protesters that Trump and his supporters are not welcome in Chicago. I challenged one on the first amendment. He said he does not consider himself an American and continued insulting the grizzled old white man he was arguing with.
- Extremely inefficient police presence. The cops were lined up on their horses or standing behind barricades, but generally were not present where Trump supporters were being hounded and occasionally struck by protesters.
- The protesters were primarily composed of millennial-aged: white hipsters, African Americans, Hispanics, and Muslims. Some of the protesters were teenagers below voting age.
- The protesters flew a big set of American, Mexican, and Puerto Rican flags. There were lots of small American and Mexican flags too. *The Trump supporters mostly fled for safety immediately. You have to understand, they were outnumbered by thousands of protesters.
- There was media presence, but not as much as you’d think. Plenty of areas where chaos was going on had no media nearby. The reporters were mostly getting people to talk to them off to the side where nothing was going on, or focusing ongoing debates between Trump supporters and rally members.
- A small amount of the protesters were smoking weed. (I have nothing against this personally, just included for accuracy.)
- Plenty of chants for “BERNIE! BERNIE! BERNIE!” Some Trump supporters looked at each other in bewilderment. “But Bernie Sanders isn’t even running against Donald Trump,” was the common sentiment.
- Edit: The Trump supporters had a general trust for the police, while the protesters saw their presence as antagonistic. This is especially interesting to me, because as a foreigner and person of color I am generally afraid of police.
Closing statement:
Obviously I did not see everything that occurred as I wandered the protest grounds outside the cancelled Chicago rally. What I did see, however, was fear. Fear from the rally attendees for their immediate safety, and fear of Donald Trump from the protesters.
More than that, I feel that I experienced today, for the first time in my life, true totalitarianism and authoritarianism, expressed laterally from citizen to citizen, in order to silence opinions from being shared. This enforcement was shared through sheer numbers and intimidation, and in a few cases, violence.
People brought their children, loved ones, and friends to attend the Trump rally. I saw an older Asian man and his white wife in attendance, and the looks on their faces when the rally was declared cancelled almost broke my heart. I saw scared children clinging to their parents’ sides as they exited the building to the screams of protesters. I saw a quiet, but excited crowd of Donald Trump supporters get thrown out of Chicago.
Worst of all, I saw the first amendment trampled, spit on, and discarded like trash.
This cannot go on. As I finish this, I feel a sense of utter dread and hopelessness for what is becoming of the youth in this country, particularly those of the regressive left. So polarized has political opinion become, that dissenting thoughts on college campuses are now seen as hateful. These people deal in absolutes. They are right, and whatever means they must take to achieve their ends, they will do it. They will not stop themselves from violence or censorship. They will do it, and they will call hell down upon you if anyone dare does upon them the same.
Tonight I went to the Trump Rally to hear the thoughts of not only the man who was supposed to come and speak, but the people who support him. I found respect. I found calmness. I found peace.
The truth is, I am a legal immigrant, not a US citizen. I am not American. I am not white. I cannot vote.
After tonight, I support Donald Trump..."
"Brown shirt" thugs-----Leftist mob forces cancellation of Trump rally
Leftist mob forces cancellation of Trump rally | Power Line:
During last night’s debate, in response to a question about the rough treatment of some protesters at his rallies, Donald Trump said “we have some protesters who are bad dudes, they have done bad things.” Trump added:
They are swinging, they are really dangerous and they get in there and start hitting people.
And we had a couple big, strong, powerful guys doing damage to people — not only the loudness, the loudness I don’t mind.
But doing serious damage.
Trump’s response caused some to raise their eyebrows.
But anyone who doubts that there are “bad dudes” among the anti-Trump protesters should watch film of the anti-Trump protests tonight in Chicago.
...Chicago community activist Quo Vadis said hundreds of protesters had positioned themselves in groups around the arena, and that they intend to demonstrate right after Trump takes the stage.
Their goal, he said, is “for Donald to take the stage and to completely interrupt him.
The plan is to shut Donald Trump all the way down.”
This is beyond bad dudeism.
The left is attempting to “shut all the way down” the leading contender for the presidential nomination of one of our two major political parties.
If the left has its way, Trump will not be able to speak in public.
He will have to run the modern equivalent of a front-porch campaign.
With no sense of irony, the protesters, having successfully shut Trump down, chanted “this is what democracy looks like.”
Many of them also chanted “Bernie,” suggesting that they really mean “this is what Democratic Socialism looks like.”
In so, they probably aren’t wrong.
I have criticized Donald Trump for what looks to me like latent authoritarian.
But the left’s authoritarian streak has become patent.
And by “the left,” I don’t just mean street protesters. I mean the Obama administration, including its Department of Justice.
This state of affairs doesn’t exonerate Trump..."
During last night’s debate, in response to a question about the rough treatment of some protesters at his rallies, Donald Trump said “we have some protesters who are bad dudes, they have done bad things.” Trump added:
They are swinging, they are really dangerous and they get in there and start hitting people.
And we had a couple big, strong, powerful guys doing damage to people — not only the loudness, the loudness I don’t mind.
But doing serious damage.
Trump’s response caused some to raise their eyebrows.
But anyone who doubts that there are “bad dudes” among the anti-Trump protesters should watch film of the anti-Trump protests tonight in Chicago.
...Chicago community activist Quo Vadis said hundreds of protesters had positioned themselves in groups around the arena, and that they intend to demonstrate right after Trump takes the stage.
Their goal, he said, is “for Donald to take the stage and to completely interrupt him.
The plan is to shut Donald Trump all the way down.”
This is beyond bad dudeism.
The left is attempting to “shut all the way down” the leading contender for the presidential nomination of one of our two major political parties.
If the left has its way, Trump will not be able to speak in public.
He will have to run the modern equivalent of a front-porch campaign.
With no sense of irony, the protesters, having successfully shut Trump down, chanted “this is what democracy looks like.”
Many of them also chanted “Bernie,” suggesting that they really mean “this is what Democratic Socialism looks like.”
In so, they probably aren’t wrong.
I have criticized Donald Trump for what looks to me like latent authoritarian.
But the left’s authoritarian streak has become patent.
And by “the left,” I don’t just mean street protesters. I mean the Obama administration, including its Department of Justice.
This state of affairs doesn’t exonerate Trump..."
GOP Establishment Coming to Terms With the Idea That Ted Cruz Is the Only Candidate Who Can Defeat Trump | TheBlaze.com
GOP Establishment Coming to Terms With the Idea That Ted Cruz Is the Only Candidate Who Can Defeat Trump | TheBlaze.com:
"Possible Cruz supporters include reluctant Senate colleagues and former presidential rivals with strong ties to major donors, all of whom have long feared Cruz’s purist ideology but dread the prospect of a Trump nomination even more. The first-term senator announced Wednesday the backing of one former primary opponent, Carly Fiorina, and is seeking the nail down the support of another, Jeb Bush, Thursday."
"Possible Cruz supporters include reluctant Senate colleagues and former presidential rivals with strong ties to major donors, all of whom have long feared Cruz’s purist ideology but dread the prospect of a Trump nomination even more. The first-term senator announced Wednesday the backing of one former primary opponent, Carly Fiorina, and is seeking the nail down the support of another, Jeb Bush, Thursday."
Obama: U.S. responsible for climate change
Obama: U.S. responsible for climate change | Washington Examiner:
The U.S. and Canada are responsible to a great degree for causing the Earth's temperature to rise and spurring climate change, President Obama said Thursday.
"In some ways, as wealthier countries, we can probably adapt and manage better," Obama said in a joint press conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
"On the other hand, we're also those responsible for a lot of the carbon pollution that is causing climate change."
He added that if the U.S. and Canada are not strong leaders on addressing the issue of climate change, nothing will get done.
...The two leaders also will harmonize greenhouse gas and fuel-efficiency standards for big rig trucks and will work to craft a system to cut carbon dioxide from the commercial airline industry.
The two countries also will take steps to reduce emissions in the Arctic by creating standards to limit carbon emission from ships moving freight through the icy waters, while also putting in place measures to preserve the region's fisheries and biodiversity.
The U.S. and Canada are responsible to a great degree for causing the Earth's temperature to rise and spurring climate change, President Obama said Thursday.
"In some ways, as wealthier countries, we can probably adapt and manage better," Obama said in a joint press conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
"On the other hand, we're also those responsible for a lot of the carbon pollution that is causing climate change."
He added that if the U.S. and Canada are not strong leaders on addressing the issue of climate change, nothing will get done.
...The two leaders also will harmonize greenhouse gas and fuel-efficiency standards for big rig trucks and will work to craft a system to cut carbon dioxide from the commercial airline industry.
The two countries also will take steps to reduce emissions in the Arctic by creating standards to limit carbon emission from ships moving freight through the icy waters, while also putting in place measures to preserve the region's fisheries and biodiversity.
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