WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord

Guardian (UK) ^ | December 3, 2010 | Damian Carrington

[libstripper]

Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage.

The US diplomatic cables reveal how the US seeks dirt on nations opposed to its approach to tackling global warming; how financial and other aid is used by countries to gain political backing; how distrust, broken promises and creative accounting dog negotiations; and how the US mounted a secret global diplomatic offensive to overwhelm opposition to the controversial "Copenhagen accord", the unofficial document that emerged from the ruins of the Copenhagen climate change summit in 2009.

[libstripper]

If the leaders of a private business did this to build the U.S. eonomy and provide jobs here, they'd be indicted under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and sent to jail. Here it's "perfectly legal" and being done to destroy the U.S. and our economy. The Illegal and his communist accomplices are the pure distilation of absolute evil.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Well, knock me over with a feather.

[DTogo]

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

When do we re-up?

[Excellence]

Finally, something actually useful is coming out of all of these leaks.

[hondact200]

Seems to be the Congress Critters need to have an entire staff just committed to investigating Obama’s Administration for graft, corruption and bullying of other countries. Notice Obama has lost his luster with foreign counties diplomats and so forth. To much acting like a schoolyard bully, has turned some of the worlds malcontents to muddy the waters some more, Okay Obama here is the line in the sand, you have opushed us to the point, cross and see what further actions we take. A weak leader causes for the malcontents to achieve further and further confrontations to get what they want. Look at germany under Hitler started small and once the fire got going it exploded into a full blown conflagaration that blew up into a world war.

[AndyJackson]

Already posted here

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[kittymyrib]

Perhaps we should be nominating Assange for a Pulitzer. He certainly has revealed more truth about our government than any of our so-called “news sources.”

[Reeses]

US, the world's biggest historical polluter

The EU economy is larger than the US and occupies colder territory. What are they heating their homes with? I can't see how they use less energy.

[taxtruth]

I totally agree!At least we get more truth from him than we do with our own press.Sad but true.

[goodnesswins]

Last paragraph....."At the mid-point of the major UN climate change negotiations in Cancún, Mexico, there have already been flare-ups over how funding for climate adaptation is delivered. The biggest shock has been Japan's announcement that it will not support an extension of the existing Kyoto climate treaty. That gives a huge boost to the accord. US diplomatic wheeling and dealing may, it seems, be bearing fruit."

[PGalt]

The 140 nations represent almost 75% of the 193 countries that are parties to the UN climate change convention...

Co-conspirators with UNaccountable bureaucrats. Defund, dismantle all anti-truth collectives.

[Hotlanta Mike]

CRIME INC.

[Starboard]

Between spending billions to buy political support around the world (through the State Dept) and shore up foreign banks (through the Fed), it’s no wonder that we are teetering on the edge of financial calamity. We desperately need that money to start paying down a crushing national debt.

[beebuster2000]

I can't see how they use less energy.

They dont have cable tv over there, thats how

[Benchim]

Wikileaks is doing more good than bad here.

[Huebolt]

US, the world's biggest historical polluter The EU economy is larger than the US and occupies colder territory. What are they heating their homes with? I can't see how they use less energy

France has almost total reliance on NUCLEAR POWER ! !

We are idiots for not doing the same twenty years ago!

Jane Fonda needs to rot in hell as a traitorous cancer to the country ! ! !

[Logical me]

Interesting how our communists leader King Obama and his RAT pack works. I'm sure some of this stuff is done on the watch of all Administrations but the degree our communists King is beyond belief. No wonder we have lost respect among some of our most treasured allies.

[rarestia]

If our Founders were alive today, they’d be arrested for conspiring to overthrow the government.

My how far we’ve come from the idea of government “by the People.”

[RaceBannon]

Every site I found that has these files has only one file at a time, does anyone know a site where I can download his entire section of files?

I do have a good reason to find some things he might have leaked!