Obama Announces Climate Accord

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Friday, December 18, 2009 at 4:54 pm

Following news that world leaders had reached a climate deal, President Obama just held a press conference in Copenhagen, calling the agreement “an important milestone” and laying out the framework that will guide the steps toward a binding climate treaty.

The deal centered on “transparency, mitigation and finance,” he said. “We worked to establish a consensus around these three points.” The accord followed a meeting with leaders from China, Brazil, South Africa and India, he said.

But Obama stressed that this agreement is merely “the beginning” of the process. “This progress did not come easily, and we know that this progress alone is not enough,” he admitted. “We’ve come a long way, but we have much further to go.” The deal is not legally binding, but rather “will allow each country to show to the world what they are doing.”

Obama also announced that “because of weather constraints in Washington,” he will be leaving before the final agreement is concluded.

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triathlon
Comment posted December 18, 2009 @ 5:05 pm

[EU on Hook for Empire Default]

Hillary Diane Rodham-Clinton can let the figure of [$100B/€69.7B], One-Hundred-Billion Dollars / Sixty-Nine-Point-Seven Billion Euros, with the American-Israeli Empire taxpayer to be on the hook for a [20%] Twenty-Percent Chunk of the Change , since it is not Clintons to give, as The Empire is sinking into a Third-World Economy, with a dominate African Cultural Demographic. The global economy is slowing down The Dollar will no longer be the Worlds Base Currency, and will no longer have nearly the value that it has had in the past, is sinking now, and will be sunk, by [2020], [NATO] The North Atlantic Treaty Organization will no longer exist. And the statement that yet history suggests it is wise to be wary of big figures, is a very serious understatement in the era of the Empires Decline, into a Third World Status on the North American Continent. The [20%] Twenty-percent figure is not realistic from a culture in decline, that figure to be met by real value will be a massive drain as the Dollar devalues. The Dollar at today market value is worth only [€0.69] Zero-Point-Sixty-Nine Euros, but by [2020], it may take [$5] Five Dollars to equal the same [€0.69] Zero-Point-Sixty-Nine Euros, which means it cost the Empire Taxpayer [5] Five times as much. And, when the Empire defaults on its commitment then the [EU] European Union will find itself on the hook for the default amount.

[Other Peoples Money]

The Empire is no longer a rich, powerful or productive one and questions have to be asked;

1. What developing Third World Countries, are to receive this money, divided between which countries? Are the taxpayers of the [EU] expected to just hand over this money to other countries in the hope that they will do something positive with it?

2. How will these Third World Counties be held accountable, and what is that system accountability, how will it be enforced?

3. What Institution or Group is going to monitor the spending, both within these Third World Countries and then audited by or for the contributing countries?

4. What new projects and technology are under development at the present time, and what can be expected too evolve in the future which will be more efficient.

5. How will priorities be set upon projects, cost versus project, will the decision be made solely by the country receiving the funding or those providing the funding, or thru yet another international organization created for approval and funding of such projects.

6. How do you enforce the contributing countries honour their pledges and how can you when they are themselves in Economic Decline [The Empire].

Then once again Hillary Diane Rodham-Clinton is running into the reality of the Empire is running out of other people’s money to spend while at the same time Hillary is spending it, its value is decreasing, a buck is not near what it use to be, and tomorrow will be less then it is today.

[Only a Decade Away]

The environmental damage is done, and at this point the laying of the blame for it to any one or particular nation, group of nations or regions is too late. But the idea of the Community of Nations to rely on fuzzy figures, at best and then to really count on an Empire which will no longer exist in [2020], relying upon the assurances of that failing Empire, and failed State Department Head, the [EU] should really before it commits to any multi-generational economic outlays, understand that at this time there are [NO] international agreements, [NO] commitments, [NOTHING] that can be held certain when they include the Empire, the [EU] would be walking on quick-sand in any such arrangements. Hillary Diane Rodham-Clinton suffers from a [1960’s] mindset, of Empire, a rich, powerful or productive one, and not the reality of a failing Empire of the [21st] Century, broke, weak, unproductive. By the year [2020] the [EU] will be on the hook for the clean up of the planet along with dealing with the fall out from the fall of the American-Israeli Empire, the figures, the sums, the year [2020] is only a decade away.

HERCULE TRIATHLON SAVINIEN


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deauntaymckinney
Comment posted December 18, 2009 @ 10:09 pm

Deauntay Mckinney said – the environmental damage is done, so is President Obama's aggreement really a milestone or a stumbling block toward true climate resolve


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ab1_6
Comment posted December 19, 2009 @ 1:44 am

Global problems like poverty, overfishing oceans, nuclear & insolvent bandid states can be dealt with in the same way. Now the majority of world leaders wants to take responsiblity. This majoriry is new and details will follow.


ab1_6
Comment posted December 19, 2009 @ 1:50 am

Global problems like poverty, overfishing oceans, nuclear & insolvent bandid states can be dealt with in the same way. Now the majority of world leaders wants to take responsiblity and pay. This majoriry of leadership is new. After alle it would have been worthwile to act on bandid states some time ago. The differece of a little responsibility now and the cost in a few decades is huge.


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Comment posted December 19, 2009 @ 10:34 am

Copenhagen has failed. The UN has failed to address the most important crisis in human history. This is now the time for sanctions, boycotts and embargoes. A new alliance is needed. An alliance of hope and peace and justice must be built to oppose the axis of pollution, extinction and self destruction.

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COPENHAGEN – Shocked and shaken by the theft of the Auschwitz sign, the world community must now “take note” of another midnight action. This time its a deal brokered by US President Barack Obama at the largest and most important U.N. meeting ever on fighting global warming. The new deal, which abandons the most vulnerable of nations along with the world's biologically rich tropical forests, continues a pattern of what international representatives call a “real lack of transparency” by the White House. Obama dismissed the UN's criticisms of his unusual and undemocratic negotiating process as “cynicism” while declaring his unbinding document an “unprecedented breakthrough”. Obama's document promises to funnel up to $100B a year through the UN Development Programme, widely known for its corruption. “The deal is a triumph of spin over substance,” said Jeremy Hobbs, executive director of Oxfam International, it “kicks back” on the issue of “climate cash”. Like the Nazis sending “6 million people into furnaces” in the Holocaust, Obama is condemning the world to wide-spread global warming deaths, other leaders pointed out. Meanwhile, outside in the cold, hundreds of European protesters chanted and carried signs of Obama with the word “shame” pasted on his face.


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Chris Lawrence
Comment posted December 19, 2009 @ 3:34 pm

Copenhagen has failed. The UN has failed to address the most important crisis in human history. This is now the time for sanctions, boycotts and embargoes. A new alliance is needed. An alliance of hope and peace and justice must be built to oppose the axis of pollution, extinction and self destruction.

http://www.selfdestructivebastards.com/2009/12/beyond-copenhagen.html


yerwerds
Comment posted December 19, 2009 @ 7:32 pm

COPENHAGEN – Shocked and shaken by the theft of the Auschwitz sign, the world community must now “take note” of another midnight action. This time its a deal brokered by US President Barack Obama at the largest and most important U.N. meeting ever on fighting global warming. The new deal, which abandons the most vulnerable of nations along with the world's biologically rich tropical forests, continues a pattern of what international representatives call a “real lack of transparency” by the White House. Obama dismissed the UN's criticisms of his unusual and undemocratic negotiating process as “cynicism” while declaring his unbinding document an “unprecedented breakthrough”. Obama's document promises to funnel up to $100B a year through the UN Development Programme, widely known for its corruption. “The deal is a triumph of spin over substance,” said Jeremy Hobbs, executive director of Oxfam International, it “kicks back” on the issue of “climate cash”. Like the Nazis sending “6 million people into furnaces” in the Holocaust, Obama is condemning the world to wide-spread global warming deaths, other leaders pointed out. Meanwhile, outside in the cold, hundreds of European protesters chanted and carried signs of Obama with the word “shame” pasted on his face.


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