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2009-11-29 Great White North

Scientists seek ouster of Canada from Commonwealth due to emissions

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Posted by lotp 2009-11-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 FTA: "Prominent campaigners, politicians and scientists have called for Canada to be suspended from the Commonwealth over its climate change policies."

It might be "interesting" to have a list and brief bio of those folks. What twits!

Posted by tipover 2009-11-29 00:52|| 2009-11-29 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Those whom the gods wish to destroy...

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-11-29 03:53|| 2009-11-29 03:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Intolerant like most young religions.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-11-29 09:02|| 2009-11-29 09:02|| Front Page Top

#4 The leaders of the Commonwealth need to start spinning off members that no longer embrace core values such as free and fair democracy, racial and gender equality, and general modernity.

Maintaining the illusion that Commonwealth membership actually encourages tyrannical and oppressive nations, like Zimbabwe, to improve themselves, is a joke. The reality is that it just supports dictators and encourages them to be even more extreme.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-11-29 09:03|| 2009-11-29 09:03|| Front Page Top

#5 The World Development Movement (WDM) tackles the underlying causes of poverty. We lobby decision makers to change the policies that keep people poor. We research and promote positive alternatives. We work alongside people in the developing world who are standing up to injustice.

Initially, the idea of the Polaris Institute was conceived in 1996 following a decade of social movement building in opposition to two major free trade agreements that dramatically restructured the economy and society here in Canada. The pivotal lesson that emerged from this social movement experience was that transnational corporations had effectively secured control over the reins of public policy making in this country [and elsewhere] to the point where citizens were becoming politically disenfranchised. In effect, a form of corporate governance had been established which, in turn, meant that citizen movements had to develop new methods, strategies and tools in order to bring about democratic social change. What's more, it became evident that citizen movements in other countries were facing similar challenges. As a response, the Polaris Institute was launched in 1997.

Greenpeace nuff said.

So where are the scientists? Is that we are calling leftwing-NGO-nuts these days?

Posted by Skunky Glins****">Skunky Glins**** 2009-11-29 19:38|| 2009-11-29 19:38|| Front Page Top

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