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POPSObama, Maurice Strong, Al Gore Key Players Cashing In On Chicago Climate Exchange
The nondescript Strong, nonetheless is the big cheese in the underworld of climate change and is one of the main architects of the failing Kyoto Protocol. Full credit for the expose on the business partnership of Strong and Gore in the cap-and-trade reduction scheme should go to the investigative acumen of the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR). The tawdry tale of the top two global warming gurus in the business world goes all the way back to Earth Day, April 17, 1995 when the future author of “An Inconvenient Truth” travelled to Fall River, Massachusetts, to deliver a green sermon at the headquarters of Molten Metal Technology Inc. (MMTI). MMTI was a firm that proclaimed to have invented a process for recycling metals from waste. Gore praised the Molten Metal firm as a pioneer in the kind of innovative technology that can save the environment, and make money for investors at the same time. “Gore left a few facts out of his speech that day,” wrote EIR.
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POPSNobel Peace Prize Winners Comment: absurd decision on Obama makes a mockery of the Nobel peace prize The award of this year’s Nobel peace prize to President Obama will be met with widespread incredulity, consternation in many capitals and probably deep embarrassment by the President himself. Rarely has an award had such an obvious political and partisan intent. It was clearly seen by the Norwegian Nobel committee as a way of expressing European gratitude for an end to the Bush Administration, approval for the election of America’s first black president and hope that Washington will honour its promise to re-engage with the world. Instead, the prize risks looking preposterous in its claims, patronising in its intentions and demeaning in its attempt to build up a man who has barely begun his period in office, let alone achieved any tangible outcome for peace. The pretext for the prize was Mr Obama’s decision to “strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples”.
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POPSGlobal warming causes 300,000 deaths a year Civil unrest may also increase because of weather-related events, the report says: "Four billion people are vulnerable now and 500m are now at extreme risk. Weather-related disasters ... bring hunger, disease, poverty and lost livelihoods. They pose a threat to social and political stability". If emissions are not brought under control, within 25 years, the report states: • 310m more people will suffer adverse health consequences related to temperature increases • 20m more people will fall into poverty • 75m extra people will be displaced by climate change. Climate change is expected to have the most severe impact on water supplies . "Shortages in future are likely to threaten food production, reduce sanitation, hinder economic development and damage ecosystems. It causes more violent swings between floods and droughts. Hundreds of millions of people are expected to become water stressed by climate change by the 2030. ".
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POPS@ human telling of stories
UTUBE watch 1."introducing the elders"....& 2. "Members of The Elders on the escalating humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe", pleez. head-of-the-list clip no longer available. ELDERS We now have a Global Council of Elders - people who have led nations out of war and not only rebuilt them, but helped dozens of other nations do the same. The Elders are 13 of these greats, teamed up to take on our greatest challenges - like Darfur, Israel, Korea and beyond! Mandela commented. “Together we will work to support courage where there is fear, foster agreement where there is conflict, and inspire hope where there is despair.” GOOGLE EARTH-WITNESS HUB We're working to bring together human rights stories of triumph of and of abuse from the world over. We'll constantly add to this databank of human rights hero profiles, stories of triumph, and stories of abuse from those working tirelessly all over the map. You can explore the Every Human Has Rights 'Global Awareness' layer on Goog
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POPSGlobal Taxes and Global TV Now on the Agenda Another co-chair is Kofi Annan, the disgraced former U.N. Secretary-General. As director of U.N. peacekeeping, Annan was accused of ignoring genocide in Rwanda. As Secretary-General, he was investigated for presiding over the oil-for-food corruption scandal involving Saddam Hussein’s Iraq regime. In addition to global taxes, “The Global Agenda 2009” report urges creation of a global television channel. “Media has the capacity to connect the world, bridging cultures and peoples, and telling us who we are and what we mean to each other. The media can also ensure that no voice goes unheard,” it says. “We believe that this new moment also calls for a new media platform, across all media channels, a global non-profit ‘CNN’ providing a new form of independent journalism to inform, illuminate and deepen knowledge about issues that improve the state of the world.” The report doesn’t explain how this new global TV channel will be financed. But global taxes cannot be ruled out.
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POPSThe United Nations Resolution Isn't Working After spending a week watching United Nations diplomats flagrantly ignoring their own "no smoking" rules, it was hardly surprising when Israel and Hamas were similarly unmoved by the organisation's somewhat more serious ceasefire resolution in Gaza. http://devilskitchen.me.uk/2009/01/smoking-gun.html The Assembly voted in November to outlaw smoking in the building, but it has as much chance of success as Kofi Annan did five years ago. All too aware that New York's leaders have long resented the UN being a law unto itself, the former Secretary-General wanted to match Mayor Michael Bloomberg's outlawing of smoking in public indoor spaces in the rest of the city. Sergey Lavrov, Russia's then ambassador, summed up the feelings of many as he grumbled that Annan "doesn't own this building" before stomping off for a fag in the delegates' lounge. In true UN style, the smokers demanded a legal ruling against Annan's decision without a vote from member states. The fug stayed.
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POPSAxis Of George Soros & The Vendetta Against Norm Coleman (UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s deputy and right-hand man at the UN) who was seen as spinning away any culpability of Annan and the UN itself in this travesty of a program. Coleman thereby clearly earned the wrath of George Soros, for the ties between Brown and Soros are tight and seemingly mutually beneficial. How close was Soros to Mark Brown? Soros provided an apartment of very advantageous rates for Brown; the favoritism bestowed upon Brown only began with that token of appreciation and support. Upon leaving the UN under the cloud that Coleman helped create, Brown was named the vice-president of the Quantum Fund run by his friend George Soros. Brown had no experience in the hedge fund world, but such sinecures are generously passed out by billionaires wanting friends that might reach high places—they are an investment (see Axis of Soros in the Wall Street Journal’s archives).
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POPSCarter and Annan to visit Zimbabwe They will travel with rights activist Graca Machel, wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela, on November 22-23 on a mission to prevent the crisis from worsening, Annan said in a statement. Annan, Carter and Machel are members of the Elders: 12 world-respected statesmen with hands-on experience in conflict resolution. The group was formed last year by Machel and Mandela on his 89th birthday.
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POPS$5-Million Prize to Borswana Uncorrupt former president. The cash prize, worth 3.75 million euros paid over 10 years, Mogae will also receive 200,000 dollars a year for life thereafter. The foundation which awards the prize was created in 2006 by Mo Ibrahim, a Sudanese telecommunications mogul. Joaquim Chissano, the former president of Mozambique, was the inaugural winner. The prize is awarded to African former heads of state or government who have left office within the last three years.
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POPSBarack Obama and Raila Odinga -- The American electorate deserves answers on the relationship between Barack Obama and his supposed Kenyan cousin, Raila Odinga. (general overview of the deeply troubling actions of Barack Obama as he unsuccessfully set out to help get his purported cousin Raila Odinga -- a man the Kenyan government called a "genocidist" -- elected as the President of Kenya) Kenya's rival political leaders signed a power-sharing deal yesterday, offering hope of an end to weeks of post-election violence that have left more than 1,000 people dead. President Kibaki and the opposition leader, Raila Odinga, agreed to a deal that splits control of the government between them, creating a possible role for the latter as prime minister. The accord came after a month of talks mediated by Kofi Annan, the former U.N. secretary-general, to end the country's worst crisis since independence in 1963. http://www.nysun.com/foreign/kenya-power-sharing-deal-is-signed-to-end/72076/ :
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POPSMartti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to deserving people like Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa and Mother Terresa of Calcutta, India. May the good Lord give them more strength to 'make this world better place', U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said. May God save us from 'greedy politicians' is what I pray for, benaloy.
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POPSA tip of the hat to peacemakers A tip of the hat to peacemakers Just type in 'reconciliation' on Google News and the world looks a lot more hopeful. By the Monitor's Editorial Board from the September 11, 2008 edition
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POPSStatement by The Elders on Iran, July 18, 2008 The Elders... "This group can speak freely and boldly, working both publicly and behind the scenes on whatever actions need to be taken. Together we will work to support courage where there is fear, foster agreement where there is conflict, and inspire hope where there is despair" The Elders * Nelson Mandela * Graça Machel * Desmond Tutu * Kofi Annan * Ela Bhatt * Lakhdar Brahimi * Gro Brundtland * Fernando H Cardoso * Jimmy Carter * Mary Robinson * Muhammad Yunus * Aung San Suu Kyi
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POPSAmerica for Dummies Niaz Mosharraf challenges his peers on their knowledge of current-affairs and asks questions like: “Why do we know more about K-Fed than Kofi Annan?”
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POPSVirgin Group Chairman Sir Richard Branson Willing To Pay Carbon Offsets Former United Nation's chief Kofi Annan. "We must have climate justice." Abdul Gayoom is president of The Maldives, a band of 1,200 islands in the Indian Ocean. He said his nation faces elimination if sea levels rise, as a result of global warming... and suggested proceeds from aviation-related carbon offsets go towards benefitting small nations.
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POPS"Lest we Forget" The Big H in slow motion. "America's shoe in, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, has seemingly borrowed his predecessor Kofi Annan's two word lexicon (“concern” and “regret”) and announced his “concern” at the situation. That, only after he had spoken of Israel's threat from home made rockets, fired by the resistance, before verbally tiptoeing round Gaza's threat from weapons of mass destruction fired by the land baggers. Jordan's King Addullah did better, citing Israel's “state terrorism, in violation of all international covenants”, with his acting Foreign Minister, Nasser Judah, demanding a halt to the carnage and slamming Israel's violation of “international law”. Rogue states, as Israel, America and Britain, however, care naught for international law, the former two countries stolen and settled on the blood and beloved land of others and Britain, over centuries having plundered and culled across a swathe of the entire globe with impunity. ... Israel ENews
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POPSThe $5 million Ibrahim Prize: Bringing Better Governance to Africa
More: Using an index designed by Harvard University professor Robert Rotberg, the Ibrahim Foundation measures progress in key areas, such as security and safety, the rule of law, transparency and corruption, public participation and human rights, sustainable economic development, and human development such as poverty and education. Mr. Chissano was chosen by a small committee who used research from the new Ibrahim Index to assess every African leader who has left office in the last three years on their exercise of leadership Anticorruption groups such as Transparency International generally rank African nations at the bottom in terms of governmental corruption. Theft from public coffers means less money available for clean water, medical care, roads, and schools. African Union experts estimate that corruption costs African economies more than $148 billion a year, or roughly 25 percent of the continent's gross domestic product.
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POPSNOBEL HYPOCRICY ALFRED NOBEL REMADE HIS IMAGE, NOW HIS AWARD IS USED TO POLISH THE IMAGE OF MANY OTHER HYPOCRITS. POLITICS IS A RACKET. WAR IS A RACKET. THE UN DOES NOTHING TO BRING GLOBAL PEACE. EVERY ALPHABET AGENCY IS A FRONT & THEIR REAL PURPOSE IS THE OPPOSITE THAT THEY PUBLICALLY PROCLAIM. AND SO IT GO'S... Reminds me so much of the recent 'cultural diversity award' given to tyrant in Kazakstan. And what was his 'achievement'??? Boiling a human beings to death. The photo of the body i saw still haunts me. Burned up to his chest. Psyhopaths give each other awards. Pat each other on the back. Bush tells Brownie he's doing a great job in Katrina. What are their awards and accolades... but just more lies. Only the blind could not see through the lies and hypocricy. Least we could do is hold the mirror up to the hypocrits faces, and make certain they know we are not buying the cheap illusions. True nobility or virtue rarely takes place in elite circles. Power corrupts absolutely.
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POPS 'Year Of The Liar' An Inconvenient Truth No one should have the audacity to bore Gore with scientific fact. While the distinction of the Nobel Peace Prize is becoming ever more dubious, the glowing Gore seems to have become a major inconvenience for Mrs. Bill Clinton. “And so, after the obligatory spasms of celebration and the equally obligatory gnashing of Rush Limbaugh’s teeth, will Americans finally get to enjoy one of the great spectacles in political history, as Gore’s ultimate honor levitates him beyond his leading rival, Hillary Clinton, and into the Oval Office, asks Time (In Partnership with CNN) scribe Eric Pooley. Americans who rue Hillary’s rise in presidential election polls will sleep sounder nights when hearing that Pooley said, “If Al Gore gets into the presidential race, I’ll eat my copy of An Inconvenient Truth. (The paperback, not the DVD).” If the book-eating Pooley is wrong and Al Gore dives into the presidential race as Savior of the Planet, there’ll be no peace on earth by this Christmas.
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POPSRightful Petition Every signature/call/email counts. We CAN stop these people from destroying our planet.
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POPS Climate change tops future humanitarian challenges: Annan The Global Humanitarian Forum being set up by the former UN Secretary General, with Swiss government funding, aims to plug a gap in international disaster relief and prevention by bringing together governments, aid agencies, the military, the business world and academics.
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POPS10 Reasons Why Russia Can’t Trust Uncle Sam It failed to recognize that the Soviet Union is gone and that Russia is, of course, not our enemy." Putin called the move "a mistake." 9. "Mission Accomplished" - On March 20, 2003, the United States - without a mandate from the United Nations, and against the heated objections of France, Germany and Russia - invaded Iraq on the pretext that the secular Baathist state of Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was a proud sponsor of terrorism. Both accusations were proven wrong. Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the BBC in an interview that the attack was a violation of international law. "From our point of view and the UN Charter point of view, it was illegal."
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