Matt Wiser
April 15th 04, 03:01 PM
When anyone quotes the Guardian, I immediately consider them suspect: the
paper was a notorious critic of going into Iraq and giving the POV of the
French, Russians, and Germans: all countries that opposed the Iraq operation
due to their expected economic gains from the Baathist regime and their past
connections.....Anyone here know that Chirac when he was PM of France met
Saddam and sold Iraq the Osirak reactor that the Israeli AF took out in '81?
With ties like that, French motives are rightly questioned.
"Z" > wrote:
>We should all use the Taliban as the model for
>the perfect world, right !
>
>Z
>"~ LITTLE HITLER ~" >
>wrote in message
...
>> World Set Back 10 Years by Bush's New World
>order, says Blair Aide
>>
>> Paul Brown, environment correspondent
>> Wednesday April 14, 2004
>> The Guardian
>>
>> George Bush has had a "devastating impact"
>on global sustainable
>> development and set the world back more than
>ten years, says Jonathon
>> Porritt, the prime minister's senior adviser
>on the subject, today.
>> Writing in Guardian Society Mr Porritt, who
>is the chairman of the
>> Sustainable Development Commission, says it
>is hard to exaggerate the
>> damage done to the planet by Mr Bush's drive
>for a "new world order".
>>
>> On a whole series of issues including climate
>change, international aid,
>> family planning, nuclear proliferation, trade
>and corporate
>> responsibility, "staying true to a discredited
>model of extreme economic
>> liberalism has set the world back a decade
>or more", says Mr Porritt.
>>
>> He says it is not surprising that the rest
>of the world has done so
>> badly because Mr Bush has given them the perfect
>"out" from their
>> responsibilities.
>>
>> "Developing countries are increasingly disenchanted
>with what they see
>> as a narrow, unfair and protectionist agenda,"
>he says, "Japan is mired
>> in its own economic and political failure,
>Russia plays the field for
>> whatever it can get out of it, and even the
>EU has started to lose the
>> plot, with a least five countries seeking
>to renege on their climate
>> commitments. ..."
>>
>> Against this backdrop the British government
>looks like a world leader
>> but even here the title of his report on progress
>is Shows Promise: But
>> Must Try Harder.
>>
>> The five-year review says that a lack of political
>will and a failure to
>> understand that quality of life is not just
>about economic growth has
>> led to slow progress towards the government's
>sustainable development
>> goals. But Mr Porritt singles out Tony Blair's
>leadership on climate
>> change and Gordon Brown's efforts on global
>debt as bright spots.
>>
>> He says that in some of the 15 areas he judges
>the government on, for
>> example waste management and traffic, the
>performance has been
>> "dreadful". Four areas "show promise" and
>two - air quality and river
>> water - manage a "good". He accepts that the
>government intends to do
>> more but it is not a brilliant picture.
>>
>> "Far more effort needs to be made to differentiate
>between smart growth
>> (that generates wealth and social benefits
>without damaging the
>> environment) and today's wholly unsustainable
>growth that inevitably
>> ends up damaging people's real quality of
>life."
>>
>> On this criterion he gives Britain's economic
>growth a "poor" rating and
>> says eco-taxation policy has become bogged
>down.
>>
>> The government gets a "disappointing" rating
>in four areas: employment,
>> because of longer working hours and gender
>wage gaps; health, because
>> life expectancy in poor communities is not
>rising; housing, because
>> energy efficiency is low; and greenhouse gas
>emissions because of
>> increased traffic and air travel. The four
>areas "showing promise" are
>> poverty reduction, education, wildlife and
>land use.
>>
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1191321,00.html
>>
>
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paper was a notorious critic of going into Iraq and giving the POV of the
French, Russians, and Germans: all countries that opposed the Iraq operation
due to their expected economic gains from the Baathist regime and their past
connections.....Anyone here know that Chirac when he was PM of France met
Saddam and sold Iraq the Osirak reactor that the Israeli AF took out in '81?
With ties like that, French motives are rightly questioned.
"Z" > wrote:
>We should all use the Taliban as the model for
>the perfect world, right !
>
>Z
>"~ LITTLE HITLER ~" >
>wrote in message
...
>> World Set Back 10 Years by Bush's New World
>order, says Blair Aide
>>
>> Paul Brown, environment correspondent
>> Wednesday April 14, 2004
>> The Guardian
>>
>> George Bush has had a "devastating impact"
>on global sustainable
>> development and set the world back more than
>ten years, says Jonathon
>> Porritt, the prime minister's senior adviser
>on the subject, today.
>> Writing in Guardian Society Mr Porritt, who
>is the chairman of the
>> Sustainable Development Commission, says it
>is hard to exaggerate the
>> damage done to the planet by Mr Bush's drive
>for a "new world order".
>>
>> On a whole series of issues including climate
>change, international aid,
>> family planning, nuclear proliferation, trade
>and corporate
>> responsibility, "staying true to a discredited
>model of extreme economic
>> liberalism has set the world back a decade
>or more", says Mr Porritt.
>>
>> He says it is not surprising that the rest
>of the world has done so
>> badly because Mr Bush has given them the perfect
>"out" from their
>> responsibilities.
>>
>> "Developing countries are increasingly disenchanted
>with what they see
>> as a narrow, unfair and protectionist agenda,"
>he says, "Japan is mired
>> in its own economic and political failure,
>Russia plays the field for
>> whatever it can get out of it, and even the
>EU has started to lose the
>> plot, with a least five countries seeking
>to renege on their climate
>> commitments. ..."
>>
>> Against this backdrop the British government
>looks like a world leader
>> but even here the title of his report on progress
>is Shows Promise: But
>> Must Try Harder.
>>
>> The five-year review says that a lack of political
>will and a failure to
>> understand that quality of life is not just
>about economic growth has
>> led to slow progress towards the government's
>sustainable development
>> goals. But Mr Porritt singles out Tony Blair's
>leadership on climate
>> change and Gordon Brown's efforts on global
>debt as bright spots.
>>
>> He says that in some of the 15 areas he judges
>the government on, for
>> example waste management and traffic, the
>performance has been
>> "dreadful". Four areas "show promise" and
>two - air quality and river
>> water - manage a "good". He accepts that the
>government intends to do
>> more but it is not a brilliant picture.
>>
>> "Far more effort needs to be made to differentiate
>between smart growth
>> (that generates wealth and social benefits
>without damaging the
>> environment) and today's wholly unsustainable
>growth that inevitably
>> ends up damaging people's real quality of
>life."
>>
>> On this criterion he gives Britain's economic
>growth a "poor" rating and
>> says eco-taxation policy has become bogged
>down.
>>
>> The government gets a "disappointing" rating
>in four areas: employment,
>> because of longer working hours and gender
>wage gaps; health, because
>> life expectancy in poor communities is not
>rising; housing, because
>> energy efficiency is low; and greenhouse gas
>emissions because of
>> increased traffic and air travel. The four
>areas "showing promise" are
>> poverty reduction, education, wildlife and
>land use.
>>
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1191321,00.html
>>
>
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