I read an interesting comment in an Australian news blog yesterday. It was saying that all the debates and discussions currently going on in Bali has been completely ignored by the US media...until now. They, the US media, have been waiting for Al Gore to show them how to get to Bali it said.
It brings up a point I repeatedly make that the US media, the informant for the American people, rarely cover world news unless it feeds a particular 'them versus us' story, or when a US dignitary visits other countries, and even then it is rare the US dignitary gets shown in a bad light. The case in point highlighted in this article was when Dick Cheney and George Bush, at separate times, visited Australia and completely disrupted our lives. Australians are voting more and more in polls that they are waning in their friendship towards the US yet none of this gets to the main news stories. If this were the Brits, the Europeans or even our dignitaries doing the same thing to another country, there would be headlines in that home country's media, demanding apologies to that country.

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Al Gore doesn't appeal to me. Whatever his agenda, he's welcome to it. The fact is GLOBAL WARMING - not mere Climate Change is happening right now and those of us who can, will survive - just as those of us who can't, wont survive.

Make the most of what you have left of your life!

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Like many sheep before them, people line up to join the new religion, The Global Warming cult. This amazingly ill informed bandwagon is the newest fad. One that has no basis. The fact that the earth is getting warmer is due to the sun becoming hotter. I advise you to read up on it. I as anyone else would love to live in a world that is cleaner, but do we need a new religious type fervour to do it. Al Gore is peddling a carbon tax, that is nothing more than a global tax. A global tax is the wet dream of the few people that actually own and run this country and most of the world. Mans footprint is less than that of the active volcanoes in the world. Yes, an SUV is obnoxious and unnecessary , but it wont change the fact that the sun is getting warmer. The global warming crowd with their toyota prius and their recycling aren't going to make a ounce of difference in the large scheme of things. All it is, is a way for us to feel better about being the rabid consumers that we are.

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that until he gets back into U.S. politics and roots out these people: The Bush Crime Family et al. -- we are very rapidly going to become a slave nation in a poisonous and dying environment.

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He is the voice of millions of us who do not agree with this administration. The rest of the world has to know there are US citizens who understand the magnitude of global warming.

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Watch Canada's new Conservative government be the taster at the banquet for the
Bush admin. Harper and his cronies all have Bush strings in the back of their heads. They will be the propagandists for Bush and the oilers, the soft nice little guys. Disgusted by the right wing swing in Canada.

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