Posted on 04/15/2005 8:13:24 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Mikhail Gorbachev is pressing world leaders to adopt a treaty guaranteeing clean water and sanitation for their people, a task he says is more daunting than ending the nuclear arms race during the Cold War.
Dwindling water supplies and political resistance have hampered efforts to bring fresh water to poor people around the world, the former Soviet leader said Friday in an interview with The Associated Press.
"We were able to solve the nuclear arms race because of ... political will," he said before an awards banquet held by his American environmental group, Global Green USA. "Today we don't see that political will. But I think it will emerge that leaders will have to address this problem."
Gorbachev will call for a first-ever international water treaty during an April 21 keynote address to the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development.
He envisions a binding agreement that makes access to water and basic sanitation a human right, holds nations responsible for providing it, and governs how freshwater resources are managed and shared.
A petition campaign he launched March 22 aims to pressure governments to begin negotiations that would produce the covenant.
Gorbachev, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who led the Soviet Union for six years until its 1991 collapse, founded Green Cross International in 1993 to encourage business, government and non-governmental organizations to collaborate and find solutions to environmental problems.
About 2.5 billion people worldwide lack water sanitation services, and 5 million die from waterborne diseases each year, according to Global Green USA, the American arm of Green Cross. Nearly 1.2 billion people do not have clean water to drink.
On the Net: http://www.watertreaty.org/
I'm really impressed at how well you keep track of all these little annex groups.
Gorbachev feeds like a suckbird on Communism's bloated carcass. That's the thing about the Communist, they're incapable of shaking the idea that they can "get it right this time". He's a dangerous sumbitch.
I think I just overload my long-term memory at the expense of frying my short-term memory, LOL!
>>>I think I just overload my long-term memory at the expense of frying my short-term memory, LOL!
Who are you?
/tease
I don't know--let's see, the last time I remembered who I was, was when I was in that speakeasy in 1928--that was before the Demmycrats took over. Back then parents could still give their kids a spanking without the government's permission. . .
That clip is from the Kevin McCullough show? I listen to him too!
I have to pay to see my own grandson. That's the Democrats for ya.
He may not have. I had a blonde moment. I hit your link and I still had the McCullough show in my Real Radio Cache. :)
Gorby thinks, along with the rest of the world, that the US should make do with less so other countries have more water, and more everything. He didn't really become an American citizen, did he?
Hey, what about all those melting icebergs? Lasso one and tow it wherever needed.
ROFL! Well, there goes my McCullough-Simpsons-Gorbachev theory :-)
He's busy promoting the NWO in his own special way.
I always knew Kevin owed his fame to the payoffs from Mr. Burns ;)
The Russians have bee polluting their water supply for many years.
you know something's going on with water because billionaires are buying it up.
for example, philip anschultz, who started qwest, bought a major water holding east of el paso.
Those payoffs were supposed to be made through an untraceable front company disguised as a Girl Scout Cookie factory--that blasted Smithers has fouled up the paperwork again! As for these new-money upstarts Soros and what's-his-name, I already bought and sold the world's water supply long before they embezzled their first billion! Little do these amateurs realize that I own all the real estate in Greenland and Antarctica, so when they attempt to corner the world's water market, suddenly there will be a global demand for snow, whereupon I will announce the opening of ICE, Inc: I'm Capitalizing on Econonsense, Incorporated. . .
The UN has a proven track record of failure in everything they have tried to manage. Does anyone besides me remember the "Food For Oil" fiasco?
Oh shoot. I didn't know the payoffs were to be untraceable!
See, Mayor Quimby was drunk and thought the Girl Scout Cookie Factory was a front for Girl Scouts. So instead of doing a wire transfer through the NGO, he set up an auction site to presell child labor futures.
He really thought he was being innovative, ordering 10 girl scout futures contracts, at $12000 investment; but he was thwarted by the Trial Lawyers of America who were busy outlawing the Girl Scout Cookie Factory for promoting junk food to raise money.
That, uh, is an outrageous partisan smear. I had no knowledge of the wire transfer, which can be proven by the video tape documenting that I was having an extramarital affair with my secretary Marilyn at the time the transfer occcurred. Furthermore, I have always stood firmly against all plans to, uh, steal the world's water supply and block out our sun. I voted against Mr. Gorbachev's plan before I voted for it.
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