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Green New Deal: The Mini Series

2008: Green New Deal developed by the New Economics Foundation (UK)

s.bsd.net/nefoundation/d…
2009: Obama Administration to use economic crisis for Green New Deal

euobserver.com/news/27730
2012: Jill Stein runs on a Green New Deal platform.

She's on video via CSpan: c-span.org/video/?307060-…
I repeat: Jill Stein?! runs on a Green New Deal platform.
2013: New Economics Foundation of the UK releases a Fifth Anniversary Report of their Green New Deal

greennewdealgroup.org/wp-content/upl…
2016: Here comes Jill Stein again, running on a platform of a Green New Deal

Here's her platform. It should look familiar: jill2016.com/greennewdeal

Here's her plan: d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/jillstein/page…

Watch her here:
2018: The Sunrise Movement "develops" a Green New Deal. Nobody every heard of the Sunrise Movement until new leftist megaphone named Alexandria Ocasio Cortez brought attention to a sit in they did at the foot of Nancy Pelosi's office.
2019: The Sunrise Movement, along with the Justice Democrats and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez jam the "new" Green New Deal onto center stage.

web.archive.org/web/2019020719…
Leading Democrat Presidential Candidates jump all over themselves to endorse the Green New Deal

foxnews.com/politics/2020-…
What in the world happened to the Democratic Party and how did Jill Stein, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and the Justice Democrats push the Party so far left to the point where they set the party's narrative?

Stay tuned. I have the answer. And it will soon revealed.

@ScotsFyre
Here's the Democrats' Green New Deal Resolution

apps.npr.org/documents/docu…
I"m sorry. A very, very important addendum.

Here's the full report of the Green New Deal pushed by Ocasio-Cortez by Data for Progress: static1.squarespace.com/static/5aa9be9…
And here's the money shot from Sean McElwee, co-founder of Data for Progress...

Source: vox.com/energy-and-env…
Good read. Includes archived link to AOC since deleted link to GND

victorygirlsblog.com/gnd-undergoes-…
But wait, there's more!

Apparently there's already been a Green New Deal revolution overseas.

South Korea had their own Green New Deal in 2009. How's that worked out??

Source: Wikileaks, NYT
And Japan had their own Green New Deal

Source: Wikileaks, Japan Today
A Green New Deal was proposed and rejected in Germany

Source: Wikileaks
Let's welcome China to the Green New Deal festivities

Source: Wikileaks
Europe? Can we hear from Europe?
Yep, they rejected a Green New Deal.

Source: Wikileaks
Oh, hello Senegal, Tanzania, and Mozambique. You wanted to talk about a Green New Deal too?
Oh, come on. The 'stans of Central Asia also wanted a Green New Deal?
Well, the results from all the above proposed Green New Deals must have been staggeringly positive- since nobody ever heard of them.

So by all means, try it here in the US. Derp!
This is kind of fun. The scholar who "crafted" the Green New Deal blocked me. She & I must have a fundamentally different understanding of what the term "crafted" means. See the above history.

Although "craft" can mean either make from hand or deceive.

eenews.net/stories/106010…
The answer to the question: theresurgent.com/2019/02/11/lef…
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