It's Time for a G 8

[Prairyearth]

Greetings beautiful peoples. It's that time of year again - time for a G 8 summit. Here's how things are starting out. Prairyearth
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Merkel urges G8 protesters to forgo violence


Berlin- Chancellor Angela Merkel urged anti-globalization activists Saturday to abstain from violence during protests against the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Germany early June. "I appeal to all those campaigning for a human face to globalization to help ensure that protests are peaceful, that they are listened to, but that they are non-violent," Merkel said in her weekly podcast.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators are expected when the leaders of Germany, Britain, France, the United States, Italy, Russia, Canada and Japan gather in the beach resort of Heiligendamm from June 6-8.

Merkel said she had nothing against large numbers of people using protests and other activities to draw attention to their desire for a more equitable and human form of globalization.

"But one thing has to be clear," she said. "Violence is not the way to achieve political aims. That is why we have to ensure that it does not come to outbreaks of violence."

Germany is mounting a massive security operation to protect the summit amid an increase in politically motivated arson and vandalism by radicals opposed to globalization.

Some 16,000 police have been drafted in, 1,100 troops will be on duty andwarships will patrol the coastal waters in front of the secluded hotel complex where the G8 will meet.

Demonstrators have been banned from approaching within 200 metres of a 12-kilometre-long barbed wire and metal fence that been erected around the summit venue.

A police ban on unauthorized marches on country lanes within 5 to 10 kilometres of the fence was ruled excessive by the administration tribunal in the city of Schwerin on Friday.

Police said they would appeal the ruling because anti-G8 groups were threatening to block all roads to the meeting.

Mainstream aid and environmentalist groups said this week that the main anti-G8 rally, in the nearby city of Rostock before the summit, would be peaceful.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/66545.html

[Prairyearth]

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US clash with G8 partners looms over climate issues
05.27.07, 9:53 AM ET



PARIS (XFN-ASIA) - The prospect looms of a major clash between the United States and its G8 partners over global warming, with Washington's view threatening to block agreement at next month's summit of the leading industrial nations.

German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel Saturday criticized the US climate policy in a newspaper interview, saying it 'was going to difficult to achieve success' at the June 6-8 session hosted by Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has made climate change a priority during Germany's presidency of the Group of Eight.

The environmental protection group Greenpeace yesterday published a leaked document showing that the United States had raised serious new objections to a proposed global warming declaration prepared by the German hosts.

It looked to observers as though US objections in the form of amendments had drained the substance from the German statement.

'The United States still has serious, fundamental concerns about this draft statement,' the document stated.

Washington rejects the idea of setting mandatory emissions targets, as well as language calling for G8 nations to raise overall energy efficiencies by 20 percent by 2020.

Merkel's proposed climate statement calls for limiting the worldwide temperature rise this century to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit and cutting global greenhouse gas emissions to 50 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.

'The treatment of climate change runs counter to our overall position and crosses multiple 'red lines' in terms of what we simply cannot agree to,' the US document said.

Sources close to negotiations told Agence France-Presse the US amendments seek to remove any idea of an urgent problem of climate change requiring a firm international response.

'The preliminary sessions clearly indicate the American desire to minimalize (the draft),' said one European diplomatic source.

The US was refusing to take account of findings by an Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Climate Change, whose latest conclusions have been used by the Germans in their draft climate statement, the source said.

'I can't remember any major international climate meeting with that kind of complete divergence of views,' said Phil Clapp, head of the National Environment Trust in Washington.

'There is a fundamental disagreement between the EU and the Bush administration positions. It's hard to see how governments could sign the sort of statement that Washington wants.'

Clapp added that 'at this point we don't see signs that the (Bush) administration will change its position... and as a matter of fact the signs go in exactly the opposite direction.'

In Washington, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino played down the document leaked by Greenpeace while acknowledging differences.

'We believe that there are many different approaches to climate change,' she said. 'By no means is there a final document.'

Washington does not recognise the UN Convention on climate change as an appropriate forum for multilateral negotiations on global warming, but only as one of several possible forums.

This also does not augur well for a conference scheduled in Bali in December at which states signatory to the Convention will have to negotiate a follow-up to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change which runs out in 2012. The US has not signed the protocol.

'These latest proposals display a complete absence of reconciliation between the American technological approach and that of the EU...' said the diplomatic source.

'And all this despite appeals by major American companies and Republican Party personalities like Arnold Schwarzenegger.'

On May 18, senior US lawmakers wrote to Bush expressing deep concern over reports that his administration was seeking to weaken a G8 declaration on climate change.

'US leadership is critical to tackling this global threat.... But we need an executive branch that engages the rest of the world to solve this problem rather than stubbornly ignoring it,' the 15 heads of congressional committees wrote in a letter.

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[GhostChild]

Protestor's: You Are Correct To Surround This Meeting, And It Is Good To See You Are Surrounding It "To Keep The Criminals In!"

Your Message Did Reach My Ears Thank To BBC-CNN, But I Will Warn You Now: Once The Camera's Are Off: They Will React, They Will Track And They Will Harm: Keep Your Eyes Wide Open, And Your Good Hearts And Minds Tuned To The Creator Of This World, The Full Circle Is Here.....

To Those Whom Burned That CORPORATESHIP: Please Remember: "Create No Harm," I Am Grateful That No One Was Harmed In Your Message, And Believe Me: The Fictions Got Your Message Loudly, But It Is Wasted Upon The Ears And Eyes Of The CORPORATE EVIL.

Please Take The Time To Love Each Other, To Treat Your Children Well: For All That You Do Must Be To The Benefit Of Those Whom Are And Those Come From Those Whom Are....The GhostChild.

[Prairyearth]

Hey, Thanks Ghostchild for that comment.

Guess what I learned today?

I learned I don't have enough yachts. Well, correction, I don't have any yachts. Sort of floating out here on the open sea waiting for a life raft to come by. smiling...

Sitting here listening to a program running through my head. Thought I'd share it with you all.

This message is coming to you live from the Heart of the Prairie, and is sponsored by the Past and Present.

We will be featuring an arrangement of written segments from "Amused to Death," written and performed by Roger Waters and company. Also thanks to http://www.lyricsdepot.com/album/roger-wat...d-to-death.html for having some of these lyrics around to share.

Special Thanks to Roger for sharing his insights with humanity. Roger, if you ever tune into this, my sympathies to you for having lost your Dad in the world war.

Warning to parents, some of these segments describe violent content and strong language that may not be suitable for Children, as War and Amusing ones self to death is usually always harmful (and often fatal) to their mental and physical being. It's probably a good idea to hope for Peace and help put a stop these sacrificial wars, or the War Theatre may be coming to a neighborhood near you soon.

Okay then, let's not waste any more time. Here are some ballads from;

Amused to Death

The Ballad of Bill Hubbard by Roger Waters

(Crickets chirping outside as the family is watching T V)

(T V playing in the background can hear channel being switched and the following dialogue is being spoken)

[Alf Razzell:]
"Two things that have haunted me most are the days when I had to
collect the paybooks; and when I left Bill Hubbard in no-man's-land."

"I was picked up and taken into their trench. And I'd no sooner taken
two or three steps down the trench when I heard a call, 'Hello Razz,
I'm glad to see you. This is my second night here,' and he said 'I'm
feeling bad,' and it was Bill Hubbard, one of the men we'd trained
in England, one of the original battalion. I had a look at his wound,
rolled him over; I could see it was probably a fatal wound. You could
imagine what pain he was in, he was dripping with sweat; and after
I'd gone about three shellholes, traversed that, had it been...had
there been a path or a road I could have done better. He pummeled
me, 'Put me down, put me down, I'd rather die, I'd rather die, put me
down.' I was hoping he would faint. He said 'I can't go any further,
let me die.' I said 'If I leave you here Bill you won't be found, let's
have another go.' He said 'All right then.' And the same thing
happened; he couldn't stand it any more, and I had to leave him
there, in no-man's-land."

(Channels heard being switched again)

(Girl speaks and says) "I don't mind about the war, that's one of the things I like to watch, if it's a war going on, 'cause then I know if our side's winning,
if our side's losing..."

(Switch channels)

This next segment written by Roger Waters is called;

What God Wants Part I

What God wants God gets God help us all
What God wants God gets God help us all
God gets
What God wants God gets God help us all
What God wants God gets (repeated)

The kid in the corner looked at the priest
And fingered his pale blue Japanese guitar
The priest said:

God wants goodness
God wants light
God wants mayhem
God wants a clean fight

What God wants God gets
What God wants God gets

Don't look so surprised
It's only dogma
The alien prophet cried
The beetle and the springbok
Took the Bible from its hook
The monkey in the corner
Wrote the lesson in his book
What God wants God gets
What God wants God gets
What God wants God gets
What God wants God gets

God wants peace
God wants war
God wants famine
God wants chain stores

What God wants God gets
God wants sedition
God wants sex
God wants freedom
God wants semtex
What God wants God gets
What God wants God gets

Don't look so afraid
I'm only joking
The alien comic lied
The jackass and hyena
Took the feather from its hook
The monkey in the corner
Wrote the joke down in his book
What God wants God gets
What God wants God gets
What God wants God gets
What God wants God gets

God wants borders
God wants crap
God wants rainfall
And God wants wetbacks

What God wants God gets
God wants voodoo
God wants shrines
God wants law
God wants organised crime
God wants crusade
God wants jihad
God wants good
God wants bad

What God wants God Gets

Perfect Sense by Roger Waters

The monkey sat on a pile of stone
And stared at the broken bone in his hand
Strains of a Viennese quartet rang out across the land
And the monkey looked up at the stars
And he thought to himself
Memory is a stranger
History is for fools
And he cleaned his hands in a pool of holy writing
Turned his back on the garden and set out for the nearest town
Hold on hold on soldier
When you add it all up
The tears and the marrowbone
There's an ounce of gold
And an ounce of pride in each ledger
And the Germans killed the Jews
And the Jews killed the Arabs
And the Arabs killed the hostages
And that is the news
And is it any wonder that the monkey's confused
He said Mama, the President's a fool
Why do I have to keep reading these technical manuals
And the joint chiefs of staff
And the brokers on Wall Street said
Don't make us laugh, you're a smart kid
Time is linear
Memory is a stranger
History is for fools
Man is a tool in the hands
Of the great God Almighty
And they gave him command of a nuclear submarine
And sent him back in search of the Garden of Eden
Can't you see
It all makes perfect sense
Expressed in dollars and cents
Pounds shillings and pence
Can't you see
It all makes perfect sense
Little black soul departs in perfect focus
Prime time fodder for the News at Nine
Darling is the child warm in the bed tonight
Hi everybody I'm Marv Albert
And welcome to our telecast
Coming to you live from Memorial Stadium
It's a beautiful day
And today we expect a sensational matchup
But first our global anthem
Can't you see
It all makes perfect sense
Expressed in dollars and cents
Pounds shillings and pence
Can't you see
It all makes perfect sense
And here come the players
As I speak to you now the captain
Has his cross hairs zeroed in on the oil rig
It looks to me like he's going to attack
By the way did you know that a submarine
Captain earns 200,000 dollars a year
Oh that's less tax Marv yeah less tax
Uh thank you Emery you're welcome
Now back to the game he fires one yes
There goes two both fish are running
The rig is going into a prevent defense
Will they make it I don't think so
Can't you see
It all makes perfect sense
Expressed in dollars and cents
Pounds shillings and pence
Can't you see
It all makes perfect sense

What God Wants part II and III

[TV Evangelist:]"Do you believe in a better day?
Do you have faith in a golden way?
If you do, then we must come together this day
Come together as one, united television audience
Brought together by the sound of my voice
United, united financially, united socially,
United spiritually, and all possible ways
Through the power of money
And the power of prayers...."

What God wants God gets God help us all
What God wants God gets

God wants dollars
God wants cents
God wants pounds, shillings, and pence
God wants guilders
God wants Kroner
God wants Swiss francs
And God wants French francs

(Oui il veut des francs francais)

God wants escudos
God wants pesetas
Don't send lira
God don't want small potatoes
God wants small towns
God wants pain
God wants clean up rock campaigns
God wants windows
God wants solutions
God wants TV
God wants contributions

What God wants God gets God help us all
What God wants God gets
What God wants God gets God help us all
What God wants God gets

God wants silver
God wants gold
God wants his secret never to be told
God wants gigolos
God wants giraffes
God wants politics
God wants a good laugh

What God wants God gets God help us all
What God wants God gets

God wants friendship
God wants fame
God wants credit
God wants blame
God wants poverty
God wants wealth
God wants insurance
God wants to cover himself

What God wants God gets God help us all
What God wants God gets
What God wants God gets God help us all
What God wants God gets

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The Star of Hope may lay battered and bruised, but she is not dead yet. There's still hope.

Be safe out there.
Prairyearth