February 16, 2006.

Tomorrow, February 17, is the first anniversary of the going-into- effect of the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Convention on Climate Change. The event is being noticed in all countries except the United States. Most countries, with the most significant exception of the United States and Australia have ratified the Kyoto Protocol. Our web (please, look it up with the help of our Search mechanism) is dealing in depth with this phenomenon.

Here we will simply post the article that appeared today on the website of a South African news agency that we link to - “Jol.” So, we go to South Africa to find out their reporting of what has been said at the headquarters of the European Union!

It all boils down to: “WE NEED THE FULL PARTICIPATION OF ALL MAJOR EMITTING COUNTRIES - SUCH AS THE UNITED STATES - THE WORLD’S LEADING ECONOMY, BUT ALSO THE WORLD’S LEADING POLLUTER.”

Now, let’s face it - while some overseas ponder the future of the globe, we in the US are being distracted by the antics of one Dick Cheney who has never yet seen an environmentalist he did not hate - he can not even leave a covey of quails be in peace.

Why is it possible for foreign business to plot how to take advantage of this great opportunity to grow, while developing energy sources that are alternatives to oil, and Mr. Cheney has to sequester himself in Texas closed quarters with conventional energy CEO’s, and plot on how to keep up our addiction to oil. This man has undermined his president’s credibility, and still is doing so even his president has professed being now a reformed addict to oil. His President rather has some personal credibility in our eyes, as he has proven to be able to carry out his decision to hang on as a reformed addict to alcohol, I even heard the opinion that this strength has given him the chance to become President in the first place. Mr. Cheney has no credibility whatsoever. This week he showed clear incompetence even as a short range shooter, forget about long range planning; no understanding of the fact that when the public pays for what he thinks are his private pleasures, the same public is entitled to know all about the way that money was spent - this includes all the truth of what went on at that Texas ranch filled with lobbyists and their lawyers. Aye, this was no different from the now famous meet of energy executives. From that meeting resulted many deaths - aye, those killed by plain pollution and by resulting so called natural” catastrophes - now we know only about one injured elderly lawyer.

The best thing the President could do is to retire Mr. Cheney and find someone who does not shoot but builds. Someone who understands that CREATION IS TO BE CONTINUED BY STEWARDSHIP. Someone who has religion - does not shoot to kill, but rather nurtures good ideas; someone that would get together with the environmentalists and work with them towards a common goal of enhancing life on planet earth rather then slaving to enrich a few fat cats that are even inept at catching quail - but why catch quail?