Without a binding agreement, there is no go for COP 15.

Without aid from developed countries, developing countries cannot be blamed for not co-operating.

Without developed countries support, developing economies will continue to use anti-green technologies.

There is a need for green environmental strategy. Having more COP15 is not a viable solution at all.

Jeong Chun phuoc

Democracy, is of course an often-used term of simplification to describe any society that provides the citizens the right to vote, but a true democracy would be a society wherein the people vote directly on legislation (such as ballot initiataves in California). A Republic consists of representatives of the people who may or may not be elected and who vote in a democratic fashion on legislation. Specifically, the United States was established to be a Constitutional Republic. That is, a republic where the representatives do not have unchecked power, but are limited by the Supreme Law of the Land, the Constitution. Our founders were brilliant in establishing our form of government as it guarantees equal protection under the law, protecting the rights and liberty of minorities from the tyranny of a majority. Pure democracy would trample the rights of minorities.

Democracy in itself is not a virtue. Without the protections of a constitution making certain untouchable guarantees of rights, a democracy would be a horrible tyranny.

http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/AmericanIdeal/aspects/demrep.html

For those reasons democracy, as practiced, is a fraud.

The remedy is as follows :

Undermine the power of parties, ban private funding of parties, ban ‘party line’/'party whip’ and make lobbying transparent, both of which are currently enforced because no-one at the grass roots level would abide by such behaviour amongst their own neighbours, and why would they chose otherwise? Institute a recall process for all positions of public office, at all levels, from grass-roots to the executive. Make it easier for independent representatives to enter. Give more decision making powers and the resources to effectively make decisions at the grass roots local level.

In a word, give people real power and they will use it wisely. This is proven by the very fact that the system is rigged AGAINST people power.

And for all these reasons, Democracy as practiced is a fraud.

In early 1944 the New York Times asked Vice President Wallace to, as Wallace noted, “write a piece answering the following questions: What is a fascist? How many fascists have we? How dangerous are they?”

Vice President Wallace’s answers to those questions were published in The New York Times on April 9, 1944, at the height of the war against the WWII Axis powers of Germany and Japan:

“The really dangerous American fascists,” Wallace wrote, “are not those who are hooked up directly or indirectly with the Axis. The FBI has its finger on those… With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.”

“American fascism will not be really dangerous,” he added in the next paragraph, “until there is a purposeful coalition among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information…”

Noting that, “Fascism is a worldwide disease,” Wallace further suggested that fascism’s “greatest threat to the United States will come after the war” and will manifest “within the United States itself.”

In his strongest indictment of the tide of fascism the Vice President of the United States saw rising in America, he added:

“They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”

Finally, Wallace said, “The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. … Democracy, to crush fascism internally, must…develop the ability to keep people fully employed and at the same time balance the budget. It must put human beings first and dollars second. It must appeal to reason and decency and not to violence and deceit. We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.”

As Wallace’s President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, said when he accepted his party’s renomination in 1936 in Philadelphia:
“…Out of this modern civilization, economic royalists [have] carved new dynasties…. It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction…. And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man….”

Speaking indirectly of the fascists that Wallace would directly name almost a decade later, Roosevelt brought the issue to its core:
“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power.”

Whether it’s the US Government or the Iranian Government, the Catholic Church or Islam, the IMF or the WTO, decisions that are properly those of the people of the land are made by distal powers whose experience is inadequate to the task of knowing what people need and truely want, and therefore relies upon theory and belief for it’s action. Such a basis for action is bound by it’s inadequacies to cause harm.

That harm, vast and yet somehow invisible to many, is rationalised as a ’sacrifice’, or ‘collateral damage’ or ‘the price of freedom’ or ‘enduring freedom’ or worse, it is rationalised as evolution, the survival of the fittest, as progress.

Until we recognise that a) we are fully of nature b) that the function of ALL living beings on Earth is to improve the habitat for ALL living beings c) that the processes of power and dominance start with the domination of our children, who become adapted to that dynamic of dominance, and so become troopers, cops, weapons scientists, corporate managers, bankers and mercenaries as much as those who become rapists, murderers, and abusers of all hue.

Paul- why don’t you run for office. Your excuses would probably be the same as mine. However, maybe not- my reasons are this: I don’t beleive in the systme the way it is- I wouldn’t get one little toe in the door let alone my foot, and one big reason is MONEY. And all the other reasons why regular people like us are SHUT OUT. Bottom line- I believe the entire polotical process in this country is broken and CORRUPT. Why would I wan to join THAT, even if I could? And look what happened to JFK when he tried to act like a Prez with balls. And that is why Obama is acting so timid. He is basically doing what the power elite want him to. Need I say more?