NPR/Foreign Policy: Bolivia To Pave The Great Green Way? (convening an alternative climate summit)

[OKIsItJustMe]

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Foreign Policy: Bolivia To Pave The Great Green Way?

by Christina Larson

January 7, 2010

Every failure presents an opportunity, for someone.

On the heels of the disappointing Copenhagen climate summit, Bolivian President Evo Morales http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100105/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/climate_bolivia">announced on Tuesday that he will convene an alternative climate summit. As he told a press conference in La Paz, "Due to a historical responsibility for the mankind, we decided to summon the ."

Sure, the official U.N. body behind Copenhagen is hosting world leaders again this December in http://www.cop16.mx/3w/">Mexico City. But despite being a world leader, Morales says he's fed up with world leaders making all the decisions. The Bolivian climate summit, planned for April in the city of Cochabamba, according to the AP will "include indigenous peoples, social movements, environmentalists and scientists as well as governments 'who want to work with their people.'"

The aim, in part, will be to get rich countries to pony up more cash for developing countries to build low-carbon energy infrastructure. The meeting will also attempt to establish an international "Climate Justice Tribunal," a detail that http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/06/content_12763878.htm">Xinhua, the Chinese news service, highlights in its report.

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[Peace Patriot]

1. 'despite being a world leader,Morales says he's fed up with world leaders making all the decisions'?

What kind of journalism is that? Trying to be cute?

NPR used to have more kulchud advocacy of global corporate predator causes--seamless, Harvard-educated prose from their corporate sponsors' commercials to their pro-corporate, warmongering news and interviews. Lately, they seem grossly inadequate to the task. You ever read a science fiction book called "Mind Parasites," by Colin Wilson? The thesis is that these little devil critters from outer space infect the minds of the "best and the brightest"--Oxford dons and Cambridge poets--sapping their creative juices, to the great detriment of human civilization. Maybe the Bushwhacks unleashed this civilization-killing disease, then decided to step down from power and watch the little devil germs do their work of dismantling the last of the "liberal" facade in front of corporate rule: the academics, the artistes, the writers of "Foreign Policy" magazine, the afficionados of Woody Allen movies, the writers and editors of NPR and the NYT and the WSJ and the National Review of Books--all going down, their standards in a steep spiral of increasing incoherence, as alien devils suck on their mental energy and eat up their brains. But since this alien occupation of "the best brains" only affects the upper classes, maybe the Bushwhacks will have done the rest of us a favor. The geniuses of the proletariat--born tough, with a native resistance to alien inhabitants of their brains--will inherit the earth! --and all the broadcast frequencies.

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"...despite being a world leader, Morales says he's fed up with world leaders making all the decisions." --?????????????

[OKIsItJustMe]

2. If it's of any comfort

The piece is hosted by NPR, but written by http://www.foreignpolicy.com/">Foreign Policy.

[Peace Patriot]

3. Which article do you mean? Your link takes me to a general page (front page of FP). nt

[OKIsItJustMe]

4. Check out the NPR page

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122307697

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