it has always been bush's way or the highway. it is time the rest of the world took control and go their way. which would leave the u.s. even further behind.

Developed countries could include help with green energy alternatives like hemp legalization, family planning, internet access and online education incentives for developing countries if they are serious about achieving a workable climate deal. Anything less is a token gesture from the corporatocracy to appease the public.

Bushist Manifest Insanity.

National participation in global climate change must be evaluated not by nation's total but rather by her per capita contribution. Not in this country, which get used to put average American as display of national wealth. For example, my assets, averaged with Bill Gates are about $30 B. Not bad.
This is why Bush along with the Congress and 50% of Joe Public will insist on bringing China first, when in fact Chinese per capita emission of greenhouse gases is about 19% of American per capita emission.

So, I espect our AmericaFirsters keep leading us over the cliff.

If Bush did sign, his signing statement would be something like "as long as we (the corporations) don't have to comply in the US and are excluded from prosecution"

Yet another reason to be ashamed of carrying a US passport.

The U.S. has not sat down with leaders of the other major emitting nations to discuss a plan for reducing carbon emissions, but they are going to? When? I mean, what, it's only been six years since they announced they were not going along with Kyoto but that they would be unveiling an alternative plan "soon." Now, they are just figuring out that they need to talk to people if they are going to include them in their plan? Look, I know the press has completely lost the ability to ask questions, but can't they at least recognize a good joke when it is presented to them and maybe encourage a chuckle or two?

I give the planet about 5 years until the melting Greenland ice cap, and artic ice fields, shuts down the Gulf Stream and Europe plunges into an ice age (yes, in the midst of GLOBAL warming.) The UK is about on the same latitude with the middle of Canada. Then, the Global super storm, will rebalance the atmosphere, as months of intense meteorological calamity is unleashed on the Northern Hemisphere.

A hard snow is going to fall. Bushworld shrugs its collective shoulders, burps, grabs the remote, and gets all teary eyed at the sight of soooo many God fearing men on one stage last night in New Hampshire - protecting us from the evils of a competent government.

God help us all.

They should be talking about energy from the sun!

The power of the purse might just work to dethrone Bush on this issue. We do have the Internet! How about a listing of corporations and companies, big and small, that are taking steps to reduce carbon emissions of their own accord??? So they get our business.

The USA should be internationally isolated until they get with the program...BOYCOT USA

People don't have to do business with the corporations that drive the policies of the US government. One of the many options we have in the US is to buy or rent garden plots (or simply use our suburban yards) and hire Mexican immigrants to grow their native crops on it. You pay them the same you pay for the grocery food and look at the benefits: 1.) You get far better nutrition for your money, 2.) The grower gets far better pay than if he worked for Agri, Inc., 3.) The grower doesn't pay federal taxes so you reduce your total contribution to the military-industrial complex 4.) it's like voting in an election for a candidate who truly represents your interests - when enough people do the same, then macro-scale change happens.

Create your micro-utopia, by disengaging from the establishment, and see if macro-utopia doesn't automatically happen.

Why don't the rest of them call themselves the G-7 and go do what they know needs to be done?

COMarc has a fine idea. I agree. It's time for the rest of the world to tell the U.S. to shove it.

Other world leaders know what has to be done. Bush still bobs and weaves and lies, from one crisis to another, and doesn't give a s**t about tomorrow.

"Why don't the rest of them call themselves the G-7 and go do what they know needs to be done?"

As a suggestion not a question, that's good.

And put Bush on a no-fly list.

GLOBAL WARMING DIVERSION.
After six years of stonewalling & deception to impede global warming mitigation, Bush now throws a bone to appease the world community with comparable meaningless rhetoric. The dangerous manipulation of essential scientific data used by his team to conceal and derail corrective measures for this threat and other vital environmental reforms has always been apparent--and all indicators still show that their motives have not changed.

Contrary to their assertions, measures to reduce greenhouse gases could only improve our economy by lessening our trade deficits, and improving our security by reducing our dependance on foreign oil. We could also regain some of our lost world respect that has resulted from our opposition Kyoto while arrogantly contributing disproportionally to carbon pollution.
Evidence linking carbon pollution to warming has been as close to certain as science can be for many years. Its causes, consequences, and mitigation requirements have been documented by many dedicated environmental organizations including The Union of Concerned Scientists.

Often overlooked is the fact that the same measures needed to mitigate global warming would be necessary even if it were not an issue. Conservation, alternative energy development, anti- pollution refinements, etc are essential for other vital environmental reforms such as air and water quality, reductions in toxic waste generation, land preservation, etc.

The environmental and social damage from our indifference to carbon pollution and related environmental measures can only worsen if we allow this reckless and unlearned president to continue this war on the environment.

Robert Settgast
San Rafael, CA
rhsettgast@hotmail.com

The following insightful article is from Share International magazine (Dec 2004). Note the accuracy of these forecasts:

America adrift
by the Master —, through Benjamin Creme

"It is only a matter of time before the people of the United States realize that they have made a grievous mistake. They have reinstated, albeit with the aid of many stolen votes, a man and administration dedicated to the creation of division and hatred, both nationally and internationally.

"They will ruefully watch an attack on their proudly held freedoms; they will see a steep decline in their standard of living as the government, of necessity, strives to tackle their enormous debts; they will witness a loss of confidence in their currency and a sharp reversal of trade with their traditional trading partners. The calamitous invasion of Iraq will continue to fester, both in Iraq and elsewhere in the world."

"...the USA taken a huge step backwards, isolating itself from the true concerns of much of the world: environmental pollution and the demands of a planet suffering under the strain of impending disaster."

"...If the United States insists on its right of unilateral action, it will find itself neglected and ignored in international plans and projects, its economy will further decay, and its people will lose confidence and trust in government action. Without friends, and with ebbing strength, it will be forced to change, and to renew dialogue with its former friends.
The emergence of Maitreya will speed the process of this transformation and assure its welcome completion."

www.Share-International.org

Bush embarrasses the United States again by representing us as a self-serving, arrogant, abusive tyrant, and hypocrite babbling about 'democracy' not only not practicing it at home, but destroying it daily.
Why does our national legislature continue to allow him to do what he does? Perhaps we need a 'vote of confidence' amendment so that our 18th century democracy is advanced to the level of newer western democracies... taking a president out of office when his approval rating sinks below a certain level.
How annoying that major Democratic leaders consider impeachment 'Off the Table' or 'Not realistic'. Start Impeachment Proceedings Now on both Bush and Cheney! and at least neutralize them via the accompanying scrutiny until he is GONE! Even if impeachment cannot be completed before the end of his term, there are many advantages to having the investigations and hearings in progress, instead of letting him run loose like a spoiled brat with a BB-gun that has the power of a nuclear bomb.
Bush is disgusting.
The Democratic Party is losing support because it has shifted too far to the right and is compliant with right-wing extremists such as Bush via so-called 'bi-partisanism' which is usually a mask for a one-party Republican fascist state like that which would have been installed by a coup in the early 1930s had FD Roosevelt and General Smedley Butler not stopped it. That coup was supported by Prescott Bush, and his brat and grand-brat have now carried it out through stealth and trickery.
In addition to the disaster being created in our country, Bush is also destroying our international reputation by his stupid and arrogant actions.
Why are we letting Bush-Cheney Wreck Our Ship, America, and kill us all as it sinks?

Leaders of all other countries should be thankful that they will not make any agreement with Bu$h the inferior.

The people of the world should be even more thankful.

The next president will be better than this one if only because events and conditions will force some element of reason into our government.

The only logical reason for world leaders to continue to talk to Bu$h the inferior is to keep him as busy as possible trying to construct a sentence.

The US will not do anything environmentally constructive while this criminal neocon cabal remains in power. Agreemenst should be passed and the US sanctioned if set goals are not met.

Governments are a liaison between the global economy and the people.

Just like most CEOs our leaders have chosen to represent the global economy instead of us. Their job is to convince us that toxic waste is good for you.

In the global financing of business the only real income comes from the natural resources. We need to value human resources higher and wean off the non-renewables.

We need to assess the value of the planet and include it in the economics of our decisions.

The totalitarian leaders of the USA are a handfull of insanely greedy billionaires who are torpedoing much more than just the G8 climate deal. They have torpedoed the evolutionary efforts towards global disarmament, peace, and the global eradication of poverty too.

In their view, peace is not profitable. So they do what they can to keep wars going.

They move to perpetuate war, to rob and rape the peasants, and kill all who get in their vulgar way.

They cloak their dark efforts in fair words, but the truth can't be hidden from everyone. The USA has become a massive fountain of horror, and is the #1 obstacle to world peace. They have insanely greedy collaborators in all of the developed nations, and they must be stopped.

They think that they are the "best and the brightest" of all people, but in truth they are the "dullest and the worst" - true menaces to the family of mankind.

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WAR PICTURES

Pictures of Destruction and Civilian Victims of the Anglo-American Aggression in Iraq

These photos are only of a very tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Civilian Victims who have been terrorised, humiliated, injured, maimed and killed through British and American bombing of civilian areas in
various cities of Iraq. Due to insecurity, independent reporters could not and still can not reach many areas to photograph and report the atrocities. Several independent reporters and journalists were deliberately bombed to prevent them reporting the atrocities.

WARNING:
PLEASE NOTE THAT SOME OF THESE PICTURES ARE NOT SUITABLE FOR SMALL CHILDREN AND THOSE WITH WEAK HEARTS.

Robert Fisk: http://snipurl.com/h6tm

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