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World needs a 'New Green Deal' after Obama win: German FM
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 11/6/08 | AFP

Posted on 11/06/2008 3:07:14 PM PST by NormsRevenge

BERLIN (AFP) – The world has to work more closely together on the environment to create a "New Green Deal" after Barack Obama's US election victory, Germany's foreign minister said Thursday.

"Climate change is one of the challenges which we can either solve together or fail on together," Frank-Walter Steinmeier said at an environment conference in Freiburg, southern Germany. "The world needs a New Green Deal!"

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho2008; greens; newgreendeal; obama; obamatransitionfile; steinmeier; world
Climate change is unnatural?

pass the vomit bucket..

1 posted on 11/06/2008 3:07:14 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

May he be haunted by Crichton’s ghost.


2 posted on 11/06/2008 3:08:29 PM PST by Brian S. Fitzgerald
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To: NormsRevenge
"Climate change is one of the challenges which we can either solve together or fail on together,"

Or we could take the more prudent approach: brand it a hoax and ignore it.

3 posted on 11/06/2008 3:11:18 PM PST by San Jacinto
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To: NormsRevenge

I see this Green thing as the next bubble - internet, housing, etc.

This time though I think we see it coming. Anyone out their have an idea how we can take advantage of it? Matter as well take advantage of Obama since he’s gonna take advantage of us


4 posted on 11/06/2008 3:12:07 PM PST by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
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To: San Jacinto
...brand it a hoax and ignore it.

No can do. Too much money in hoaxes.

5 posted on 11/06/2008 3:12:26 PM PST by randog (What the...?!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Heard some clown on Good Morning America saying George Bush has left us with a “Mother Nature Deficit”... proof positive these people are mentally ill.


6 posted on 11/06/2008 3:12:52 PM PST by End_Clintonism_Now (POLITICAL DISSIDENT as of 11/4/08)
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To: wilco200
Anyone out their have an idea how we can take advantage of it?

Invest in "alternative" energy and tie-dyed t-shirts.

7 posted on 11/06/2008 3:14:00 PM PST by randog (What the...?!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Wow, all the worldly maggots are trying to jump on the Obama socialist greenie bandwagon (see nose in taxpayer money trough) —— they did not waste a single second. Vampires.


8 posted on 11/06/2008 3:18:42 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: NormsRevenge

“..solve together..”

KA CHING
KA CHING
KA CHING
KA CHING
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KA CHING


9 posted on 11/06/2008 3:20:15 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares (Refusing to kneel before the socialist messiah.)
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To: Brian S. Fitzgerald

May he be haunted by Crichton’s ghost.
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Amen


10 posted on 11/06/2008 3:23:03 PM PST by Taichi (Certe, toto, sentio nos in kansate non iam adesse)
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To: NormsRevenge

This is going to make me stay up nights thinking of ways to expand my carbon footprint.


11 posted on 11/06/2008 3:23:52 PM PST by Dionysius (Jingoism is no vice.)
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To: wilco200

We’ve definitely had our share of bubbles, huh? Enough bubbles already.. geesh,, Its like a Lawrence Welk show moment


12 posted on 11/06/2008 3:25:36 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed)
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I'll tell ya what,Comrade Fritz....you clowns take half your cars,trucks and trains off the road...permanently....shut down half your power plants....mandate the abolition of a/c and a maximum home heating temperature of 58 degrees...shut down half your factories and we just might decide to follow your example in about 10 years.

Deal?

13 posted on 11/06/2008 3:41:12 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obama:"Ich bin ein beginner")
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14 posted on 11/06/2008 4:26:25 PM PST by steelyourfaith
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To: Brian S. Fitzgerald

People wanted change. Now, they’re going to get it. I don’t believe they’re going to like it.


15 posted on 11/06/2008 5:06:56 PM PST by Know et al (Everything I know I read in the newspaper and that's the reason for my ignorance: Will Rogers)
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