Under the radar
As Diane mentioned yesterday, with the record this maladministration has run up to date, we can’t fail to realize that under cover of the noise and ‘freak show’ (as the press called the mudslinging), they’re putting the fix in on pet projects like despoliation of the environment, plugging turkeys into appointments to positions of public trust at public expense, and working their magic on the institutions the world has developed to try defending against their kind.
In one for instance, the world not including the U.S. is presently hard at work trying to cut down on global warming at the Bonn Conference on the Kyoto Protocol of 2005;
‘The UNFCCC 12th Conference of Parties (COP) and the Kyoto Protocol COP 2 will take place from November 6-17, 2006. Kenya has offered to host these meetings, although the location is still to be confirmed. Canada will retain the presidency until a new president is elected in November. [It is now taking place in Nairobi.}
WWF, the global conservation organization, said that as the protocol reaches its first anniversary, higher oil prices are a clear opportunity for governments to intensify moves towards cleaner energy alternatives.
“Don’t wait around for higher oil prices or even more worries about energy security, act now,” urged Jennifer Morgan, director of WWF’s Climate Change Programme. “The Kyoto Protocol may be one year old, but we are still far from winning the fight against global warming.”
Elsewhere in that same article;
The European Commission is leading the push to move beyond current Kyoto commitments towards deeper emissions cuts after the first commitment period expires in 2012.
In a statement to mark the protocol's first anniversary, EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said, "The battle against climate change is winnable but with the Earth’s temperature continuing to warm rapidly – NASA says 2005 was the hottest year on record – farther-reaching measures will be needed after the Kyoto targets expire in 2012."
And now meeting in New Delhi, food safety watchdog agencies of the world are being asked to let this country seriously endanger the already hazardous hole in our ozone layer;
President George W. Bush's administration is seeking world permission to produce thousands of tons of a pesticide that an international treaty banned nearly two years ago, even though U.S. companies already have huge stockpiles of the chemical.
Methyl bromide has been used for decades by farmers to help grow plump, sweet strawberries, robust peppers and other crops, but it also depletes the Earth's protective ozone layer. The United States and other countries signed a 1987 treaty promising to end its use by 2005.
Americans failed to meet the Montreal Protocol deadline and since have been getting annual exemptions allowing methyl bromide's continued use on certain crops in specific states. Other nations have sought far smaller exemptions.
The latest exemption requests are being considered this week at an international meeting in New Delhi, India.
A disgrace without parallel, the administration signed into law with great flourish our late unregretted Congress’ veil over its’ immigration fiasco, the bill to put up a Wall – without funds and acknowledged to be a ruse that the President was authorized to reallocate as he saw fit. While this freak show was fooling no one, there were immigrants actually working in the fields in conditions worse than dust bowl days. No longer do the workers get accommodations, health care, schools. And most don’t get minimum wage either.
I've seen children working in fields in northern Mexico, but this year I saw them working here too. When families bring their kids to work, it's not because they don't value their education or future. It's because they can't make ends meet with the labor of adults alone.
What would make a difference?
Unions would. The UFW pushed wages up decades ago, getting the best standard of living California farmworkers ever received. But growers have been implacably hostile to union organizing. For undocumented workers, joining a union or demanding rights can mean risking not just firing, but deportation.
Enforcing the law would better workers' lives, too.
Where is your maladministration on all this? Hiding behind The Wall, of course. Yesterday at his presser, the lame duck president claimed that he looks forward to working with the new Democratic overlords to find a real solution to immigration's problems. I'm sure he will be working toward that now. The last six years, it was impossible to work with his rubber stamp congress I suppose.
Busy at that Hard Work that makes the C-I-C run through those crucial states in those crucial last days, the whirlwind that he was reaping covered up a lot. I suspect the atrocities will start coming out soon as to the details. But it's going to be Hard Work to cover up from now on. Oversight is in the offing, and not giving a no-nevermind [old family saying] to the working people who should be the basis of a sound economy is about to become so pre-November 7th.
In one for instance, the world not including the U.S. is presently hard at work trying to cut down on global warming at the Bonn Conference on the Kyoto Protocol of 2005;
‘The UNFCCC 12th Conference of Parties (COP) and the Kyoto Protocol COP 2 will take place from November 6-17, 2006. Kenya has offered to host these meetings, although the location is still to be confirmed. Canada will retain the presidency until a new president is elected in November. [It is now taking place in Nairobi.}
WWF, the global conservation organization, said that as the protocol reaches its first anniversary, higher oil prices are a clear opportunity for governments to intensify moves towards cleaner energy alternatives.
“Don’t wait around for higher oil prices or even more worries about energy security, act now,” urged Jennifer Morgan, director of WWF’s Climate Change Programme. “The Kyoto Protocol may be one year old, but we are still far from winning the fight against global warming.”
Elsewhere in that same article;
The European Commission is leading the push to move beyond current Kyoto commitments towards deeper emissions cuts after the first commitment period expires in 2012.
In a statement to mark the protocol's first anniversary, EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said, "The battle against climate change is winnable but with the Earth’s temperature continuing to warm rapidly – NASA says 2005 was the hottest year on record – farther-reaching measures will be needed after the Kyoto targets expire in 2012."
And now meeting in New Delhi, food safety watchdog agencies of the world are being asked to let this country seriously endanger the already hazardous hole in our ozone layer;
President George W. Bush's administration is seeking world permission to produce thousands of tons of a pesticide that an international treaty banned nearly two years ago, even though U.S. companies already have huge stockpiles of the chemical.
Methyl bromide has been used for decades by farmers to help grow plump, sweet strawberries, robust peppers and other crops, but it also depletes the Earth's protective ozone layer. The United States and other countries signed a 1987 treaty promising to end its use by 2005.
Americans failed to meet the Montreal Protocol deadline and since have been getting annual exemptions allowing methyl bromide's continued use on certain crops in specific states. Other nations have sought far smaller exemptions.
The latest exemption requests are being considered this week at an international meeting in New Delhi, India.
A disgrace without parallel, the administration signed into law with great flourish our late unregretted Congress’ veil over its’ immigration fiasco, the bill to put up a Wall – without funds and acknowledged to be a ruse that the President was authorized to reallocate as he saw fit. While this freak show was fooling no one, there were immigrants actually working in the fields in conditions worse than dust bowl days. No longer do the workers get accommodations, health care, schools. And most don’t get minimum wage either.
I've seen children working in fields in northern Mexico, but this year I saw them working here too. When families bring their kids to work, it's not because they don't value their education or future. It's because they can't make ends meet with the labor of adults alone.
What would make a difference?
Unions would. The UFW pushed wages up decades ago, getting the best standard of living California farmworkers ever received. But growers have been implacably hostile to union organizing. For undocumented workers, joining a union or demanding rights can mean risking not just firing, but deportation.
Enforcing the law would better workers' lives, too.
Where is your maladministration on all this? Hiding behind The Wall, of course. Yesterday at his presser, the lame duck president claimed that he looks forward to working with the new Democratic overlords to find a real solution to immigration's problems. I'm sure he will be working toward that now. The last six years, it was impossible to work with his rubber stamp congress I suppose.
Busy at that Hard Work that makes the C-I-C run through those crucial states in those crucial last days, the whirlwind that he was reaping covered up a lot. I suspect the atrocities will start coming out soon as to the details. But it's going to be Hard Work to cover up from now on. Oversight is in the offing, and not giving a no-nevermind [old family saying] to the working people who should be the basis of a sound economy is about to become so pre-November 7th.
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