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To: average joe who wrote (21971)	6/14/2008 8:25:40 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 36917

Brazilian president wants global pact on biofuels May 27th, 2008 - 2:32 pm ICT by admin - Email This Post Rio de Janeiro, May 27 (IANS) Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has proposed a “global pact” to promote use of biofuels to offset the impact of climate change and hold runaway petroleum prices. “We’re offering the world the certainty that it’s possible to create a non-polluting fuel and we can advance to second and third generation ethanol,” EFE news agency quoted Lula as telling newspersons Monday. The president blamed the rich countries for the “failure” of the Kyoto Protocol to limit greenhouse emissions. “Everyone signed it (the Kyoto Protocol), but whoever had to take measures to comply with it refused to endorse it. We’re the ones who endorsed it,” he said. By using sugar-based ethanol Brazil reduced greenhouse emissions in the country by 800 million tonnes, he said. He dismissed the argument of some leaders as unfounded that diversion of agricultural land from food crops to cash crops to produce biofuels has created the current food crisis and said improved technology and best practices could easily make up for the diversion of land to biofuels. He insisted that biofuels are the solution to the problem of global warming. Lula said that “South America is becoming an ever more indispensable interlocutor” to help the world “combine food security, adequate energy supply and preservation of the environment”. Brazil will hold Nov 20-21 in Sao Paulo an international conference to review global food position and inflation and “the new energy matrix needed to depollute such a polluted planet,” he said.

To: average joe who wrote (21971)	6/15/2008 12:33:14 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

AYN RAND Are you one of the Ayn Rand Institutes paid muppets or something? Much of the debate around Greenspan's legacy has revolved around the matter of hypocrisy, of a man preaching laissez faire who repeatedly intervened in the market to save the wealthiest players. The economy that is Greenspan's legacy hardly fits the definition of a libertarian market, but looks very much like another phenomenon described in his book: "When a government's leaders routinely seek out private-sector individuals or businesses and, in exchange for political support, bestow favours on them, the society is said to be in the grip of 'crony capitalism'." guardian.co.uk No wonder there isn't a single public library in the UK who stocks Ayn Rand's (imho) extremely boring & political books. I find Naomi Klein boring too, but sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. I doubt you could ever out-bore such a dedicated hypocritical Canadian -g- mcspotlight.org