(CNSNews.com) -- The U.N. Green Climate Fund’s governing board has approved a proposal to hike the number of permanent staff at the body’s secretariat by 150 percent by the end of next year -- from the current 56 positions to 140.
The decision, made at a meeting at the GCF’s headquarters in Songdo, South Korea last week, came days after the Obama administration confirmed payment of the first $500,000 of a $3-billion, four-year pledge to the fund, whose aim is to help developing countries reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to phenomena blamed on climate change.
At the board meeting, the U.S. government formalized its pledge of $3 billion, the GCF said in a statement.
Some Republican lawmakers are incensed that the administration is going ahead with the funding without specific congressional authorization, warning that the move may be illegal. The State Department says it has determined that the funding is permissible.
The 24-member GCF board agreed the staff increase is necessary as the fund gears up to meet a goal of paying out $2.5 billion to projects around the world this year. The GCF claimed its secretariat has been understaffed, overstretched, and lacks experts in areas such as clean energy.
[CBSNEWS] Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... on Monday night said he decided to run for president as a Democrat because of the media attention he would receive.
"Do you run as an independent? Do you run within the Democratic party? We concluded-- and I think it was absolutely the right decision, that in terms of media coverage -- you have to run within the Democratic Party," the Vermont independent said at MSNBC's Democratic town hall in Columbus, Ohio.
The senator also said that the only way he could have launched a third-party bid was if he were a billionaire.
"If you're a billionaire, you can do that. I'm not a billionaire. So the structure of American politics today is such that I thought the right ethic was to run within the Democratic party," he said.
His comments came a day before critical primaries in five states, including Illinois, Florida and Ohio.
A CBS News battleground tracker poll released on Sunday found Clinton was leading in Ohio and Florida while Sanders had a slight edge in Illinois. Clinton, meanwhile, has a large overall lead with 1,222 delegates while Sanders has picked up 565. He or she must win 2,383 delegates in order to win the nomination.
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"... You have to run wid the Democratic Party" > no surprise there to DRUDGE + LUCIANNE.
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The American Communist Party (does it exist?) wasn't available for comment.
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I thought his run was to demonstrate that the Old Democratic Party take over by the socialists was all but complete. His competitor pretty much validated that as well.
[FREEBEACON] Ted Strickland, a U.S. Senate candidate in Ohio, described Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another James Baker ... ’s recent comments about coal-industry jobs as "unartful" after the former secretary of state received criticism for pledging to put coal miners and companies out of business.
While Strickland, a longtime Clinton ally, criticized the Democratic presidential candidate’s phrasing, he argued that she accurately stated that coal-industry jobs are dwindling during an interview with the Washington Free Beacon outside a polling place in Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday.
"What Hillary Clinton said, unartfully I believe, is the truth--that coal jobs are being lost, but they’re being lost for a lot of reasons," Strickland said. "They’re being lost because of mechanization, they’re being lost because natural gas is cheap and plentiful and burns cleaner, and so there are lots of reasons why coal jobs are being lost."
Former Governor Strickland has been in politics since 1976. He knows whereof he speaks.
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If it wasn't for the arm pit of America (Cleveland), Strickland would be a low life two bit dog catcher. (On a good day).
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She showed a complete lack of empathy and pure ruthlessness.
Once in a while a person's mask slips, just a little, and their true colors shine thru for anyone observant enough to notice. Sadly most of her followers refuse to notice even when its blindingly obvious.
A member of the United States Secret Service attacked a Time magazine photographer at a Donald Trump rally, grabbing his neck and slamming him to the ground. Neither paid by nor trained by the Trump organization, but it will, no doubt, get a lot of mileage to the contrary in the Left circles.
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After Morris said, “F*** you,” she explained, the Secret Service agent grabbed the photographer’s throat and threw him to the ground, at which point Morris started kicking.
An unartful response by Morris. The Secret Service agent should be counseled for failing to follow-up with a groin stomp.
[Breitbart] The protests launched by militant leftists who shut down Donald Trump’s Chicago rally were far more aggressive and destructive than reported, says a Chicago Police officer.
"It seems the [media] aren’t broadcasting footage of the debris being thrown across Harrison by Sanders/Hillary supporters at Trump fans," the officer wrote shortly after the canceled Trump event.
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The thing that might bring Hillary down is in the confidential, secret, top secret and above emails. Moreover, the destruction of documents might also get her.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
(CNSNews.com) -- The U.N. Green Climate Fund’s governing board has approved a proposal to hike the number of permanent staff at the body’s secretariat by 150 percent by the end of next year -- from the current 56 positions to 140.
Hillary Clinton
