From the team at CFACT ~

According to Oxford Languages, “Mission Creep” is defined as “a gradual shift in objectives during the course of a military campaign, often resulting in an unplanned long-term commitment.”

It’s a term that unfortunately is a perfect description of the United Nations’ (UN) Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). What may have started out as a legitimate conversation on biological diversity is now more about power, control, and most of all, money.

This year is the 15^th annual meeting of the Convention, known as COP15, in Montreal, Canada. CFACT is a recognized nongovernmental (NGO) observer organization to the CBD and has been listening to many of the breakout sessions and discussions taking place.

Mentioned frequently during breakout panels were the words “finance” and “funding.” Developing countries were arguing for $100 billion per year from developed nations through the year 2030 in order to fund conservation initiatives.

As reported…

By Clay Waters ~

New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak sounded his latest alarm about the dangerously conservative Supreme Court in Tuesday’s paper. The online headline deck: “An ‘Imperial Supreme Court’ Asserts Its Power, Alarming Scholars — Several new studies document the current court’s distinctive insistence on its dominance and the justices’ willingness to use procedural shortcuts to achieve it.”

After decades of decisions expanding the reach of the federal government by liberal Supreme Courts, on abortion, regulation, education, affirmative action, religion, gay marriage, etc., now it’s alarming if there’s any kind of push in the direction back toward Congress or the states.

Liptak (pictured) expanded upon his previously expressed hostility toward what he considers a dangerously conservative court, backed up by several cherry-picked law review studies: The Supreme Court is not just right-wing, it’s power-hungry as well.

The conventional critique of the Supreme Court these days…