The Green Files > “Extraordinary efforts” by Bush White House to Scuttle International Efforts on Global Change

[Guns, Germs Steeled] The paper reports that the documents reveal how the Bush administration has pulled out of financial pledges to fund a network of regional climate centers throughout Africa which were designed to monitor the unfolding impact of global warming and that the U.S. has reneged on plans to support a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to help developing states develop economically while controlling greenhouse gas emissions.

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http://www.howlingthemoon.org [Howling At A Waning Moon] New US move to spoil climate accord: This is an issue we must address urgently.' The government's chief scientific adviser, Sir David King, has dismissed the leaking of draft communiques on the grounds that 'there is everything to play for at Gleneagles.' However, there is no doubt that many UK officials have become exasperated by the Bush administration's refusal to accept the basic principle that climate change is happening now and is due to man's activities.

http://www.mirocat.com [Yowling from the Fencepost] They're speaking my language.: This is an issue we must address urgently.' The government's chief scientific adviser, Sir David King, has dismissed the leaking of draft communiques on the grounds that 'there is everything to play for at Gleneagles.' However, there is no doubt that many UK officials have become exasperated by the Bush administration's refusal to accept the basic principle that climate change is happening now and is due to man's activities.

http://www.retrovsmetro.org [Retrovsmetro.org] Retro vs. Metro : Blog : The Top 100 Reasons for Regime Change: Saddam Hussein has held numerous meetings with Iraqi nuclear scientists, a group he calls his "nuclear mujahideen"---his nuclear holy warriors. Satellite photographs reveal that Iraq is rebuilding facilities at sites that have been part of its nuclear program in the past.

[Blogs.washingtonpost.com] Deep Throat Revealed: A date has not been set, but Ronnee Sass, executive director of publicity and communications for Warner Home Video, confirmed in an e-mail that the revelation of Deep Throat will likely play a role in the disc's extra features. May I suggest a commentary track recorded jointly by the Felt family and Hal Holbrook?

http://edstrong.blog-city.com [Edstrong.blog-city.com] Bush Aggression Towards N. Korea (edstrong.blog-city.com): It is well established that Bush, as soon as he took office, reneged on all dialogues and negotiations with the DPRK that the previous administration had held, and defined the DPRK as part of an "axis of evil" in his State of the Union address of late January 2002, and named it as a target of a US "preemptive nuclear strike" in March that same year.

Southernappeal.blogspot.comhttp://southernappeal.blogspot.com [Southernappeal.blogspot.com] Southern Appeal: An RCP editorial says it best, "Instead of trying to conduct a reasonable debate over what is or isn't torture, however, Democrats like Durbin are overrun by partisanship and a desire to humiliate this administration. The result is a massive rhetorical overreach like the one on Tuesday which defies historical fact, slanders the U.S. military, and leaves the impression that Democrats are instinctively more interested in protecting the rights of suspected terrorists than they are about protecting the country."

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