BloggeRhythms

Sometimes, items in the news result in sitting back, scratching one’s head and wondering about politician’s opinion of exactly how stupid they really think the public is. And yesterday, the POTUS presented an incredible insult to the American people's intelligence.

A FoxNews.com item was headed: “Obama: Climate deal a tribute to American leadership.” Going on to describe how wonderfully things went for the U.S. and world in Paris. 

And then, the same website posted a separate item, revealing that: “Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday the climate agreement reached this week in Paris did not contain any enforcement provisions because Congress would not have approved them. 

"It doesn't have mandatory targets for reduction and it doesn't have an enforcement, compliance mechanism," Kerry said during an interview on "Fox News Sunday." 

“Kerry said such mechanisms were not included because Congress would have refused to greenlight the deal.” 

As it turns out, Kerry is precisely right because, according to Pilita Clark in Paris and Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington for ft.com, “In the US, Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate majority leader, questioned the Paris deal, saying that the US portion relied on measures championed by President Barck Obama that were being challenged in the courts. 

“Before his international partners pop the champagne, they should remember that this is an unattainable deal based on a domestic energy plan that is likely illegal, that half the states have sued to halt, and that Congress has already voted to reject,” Mr McConnell said. 

“A spokesman for Paul Ryan, the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, told the Financial Times: “This agreement does not bind Congress in any way, and we will continue to focus on an energy policy that promotes America’s abundant natural resources.” 

Therefore, if this deal is a “tribute to American leadership,” as defined by the POTUS, he apparently believes that wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on a trip to France to produce a worthless piece of paper, having no means of enforcement against uncontrollable acts of nature, is a valuable accomplishment. Which goes a long way to demonstrate that it’s no wonder the nation’s gone backward in every aspect imaginable for the past seven years.   

On another issue, according to Dmitry Zhdannikov and Amanda Cooper of Reuters this morning via Drudge: “Iran's crude oil exports are set to hit a six-month high in December as buyers ramp up purchases in expectation that sanctions against the country will be lifted early next year, according to an industry source with knowledge of tanker loading schedules. 

“Iranian news agency Shana quoted on Monday manager director of Iran's Central Oil Fields Company, Salbali Karimi, as saying Iran's cost of production stood $1-$1.5 per barrel, in a clear indication it would ramp up output in any price scenario. 

“Gulf producers and Russia have previously said they would not cut output even if prices fell to $20 per barrel.” 

Furthermore, “OPEC supply is likely to increase by 1 million bpd next year, Morgan Stanley analysts said in a research note Monday,” while, “Almost the entirety of added supplies in 2016 will come from Iran, Iraq and Saudi." 

Thus, what’s going on in the world is that as the oil glut grows, prices are falling precipitously, cutting seriously into the income of Russia and Saudi Arabia. And soon, Iran will join the group, significantly lowering the total earned by them even further. 

As that loss of funds continues, financially supporting terror becomes far harder. Yet, as far as the U.S. is concerned, the opportunity to do considerably more to curtail enemies is purposefully prohibited. Whereas environmentalists would rather have stronger foes than opening the Keystone pipeline, loosening drilling restrictions, and permitting the export of our overflow. Which is so far beyond idiocy and shortsightedness, there are no words to adequately describe it.    

Which brings us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife. 

FoxNews.com reports that: “According to Time magazine, the conservative watch group, Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), plans to file a complaint with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics alleging that Clinton gave Neptune Minerals "special access to the State Department based upon the company’s relationships with Secretary Clinton’s family members and donors to the Clinton Foundation." 

This comes two weeks after emails released by the State Department show that Bill’s wife ordered a senior State Department official to look into a request from Marc Mezvinsky. Mezvinsky is a partner in a New York hedge fund and also the husband of Clinton's daughter Chelsea. He had received an email in May 2012 from investor Harry Siklas asking if he could help set up contacts with Clinton or other State Department officials.

“That August, Clinton relayed a copy of the investor's email to Mezvinsky to Thomas Nides, then a deputy secretary of state and now vice chairman at Morgan Stanley, a major New York financial services firm. "Could you have someone follow up on this request which was forwarded to me?" Clinton asked Nides. He replied: "I'll get on it."

What the email crystallizes, is how the pieces fit together, illustrating how when Bill’s wife was Secretary of State, relationships were exploited for the personal benefit of the Clinton family, and those around them, as follows:

Harry Siklas said his then-employer, Goldman Sachs, was representing Neptune Minerals. Before joining the hedge fund Eaglevale, Marc Mezvinsky had also worked for eight years at Goldman, partly during Siklas' tenure there between 2004 and 2007. Members of the influential New York firm were one of Clinton's top funders in her 2008 presidential race, giving more than $225,000 in that cycle. The firm has also been a major donor to the Clinton Foundation, giving between $1 million and $5 million.

That web of interrelationships has now led to FACT’s Executive Director Matt Whitaker telling Time magazine: “We believe that requests like this from anyone other than Goldman Sachs and her son-in-law were not passed along, so there was a preference given in her duty as Secretary of State in comparison to other requests."

Therefore, several key factors have come into play now, stemming from the utilization of an unauthorized email server to begin with. Followed by the disclosure of what many of Bill’s wife’s emails entailed regarding abuses while in office as Secretary of State. Which also seems to  shed some light on why last week, Bryan Pagliano, the former aide who helped her set up her private email server, has told “at least three congressional committees that he will invoke the Fifth Amendment to avoid testifying against his former boss.”

Adding to the rapid mounting of potentially incriminating evidence, is the compilation of facts amassing in the hands of the committee investigating Benghazi. All of which is taking place as the calendar moves toward November 2016, and once again raising the ongoing question: Joe Biden, Mayor Bloomberg, Jerry Brown, and Starbuck’s chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you guys reading this?

That’s it for today folks.

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