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/
What the hell is that commie doing in the US?
Who gives a rats *** about what this man thinks. America should allways come first in deciding international decesions, not the opinion of some washed up former communist leader.
Paying any attention to His Irrelevancy (and any other of his ilk and kind) only postpones the day he would mercifully disappear into utter oblivion. I would even consider some self-censorship to that effect.
Gorby is still a Marxist promoting radical environmentalism, a Marxist movement. He has been building a reputation in the enviro movement since the USSR fell under his leadership.
So? Now he poses as a greenpisser, and before he used to be an unadulterated red one. So, he's reddish-greenpisser.
Gorbachev Backed "Earth Charter" is a Blueprint for Totalitarianism. (vanity)
12/17/2004 | Jaysun
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1303372/posts
Swilhelm73 calls for Mikhail Gorbachev to be tried for crimes against humanity.
Gorbachev's been busy. Among many other things, he's behind The Earth Charter and the United Religion Initiative.
Earth Charter: http://www.earthcharterusa.org/earth_charter.html
United Religion Initiative http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=2925
Take the time to read through. This is being taught in college political science courses. The left is already on board. Run a Google search on each and add George Soros to the search.
Know thy enemy.
PING
The powers that be in San Francisco gave him a "villa" in the Presidio after they kicked our military out. They also gave him commercial space to run his global socialist foundation, Green Cross. If you read the Green Cross website documents you'll see they've been going to water managers all over the state and country to convince them to model their water policies after the global socialist agenda. One reason you do not see new water storage facilities in California is because Gorby is going around convincing our elected officials that CA can "conserve" its way out of water shortages. Communist doublespeak that.
One other thing, the Green Cross people had a document that has been removed, that told of their true agenda: 70 gals of water a day per family of 4. They say, that when you limit water like that, people won't have children anymore.
The sustainable developers and global socialists at the UN feel the same way. They would like to see the population of the earth reduced to 1 billion people. They don't care if the other 5 billion die of thirst or hunger. Just as long as they die before they have more children.
Riparian rights, an often ignored topic of law school property class.
I can see why the commie turned envirowacko chose this area of law to try and impose communism via a flank attack.
From a Google search on the 1995 Beijing conference (Hillary feature speaker), adding Gorbachev to the search:
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39cab9547190.htm
Green activities of Mikhail Gorbachev: http://www.greencrossinternational.net/GreenCrossFamily/GORBY/activities.html
GASP!!!
from the greencross.org website:
"Contracts and Grants
Green Cross Foundation is registered with the federal government through its Central Contractor Registration system (www.ccr.gov ) and is eligible to receive Federal contracts/grants."
They should not get a DIME!
Yes--Gorbachev, Soros, and Maurice Strong also.
INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY: WHO IS MAURICE STRONG?
Another example of how this selection process operates was the "great civil society forum" convened at the behest of Strong's Earth Council and Mikhail Gorbachev's Green Cross International this past March.
Hidden Paul Martin firm linking leftwing activists to Information Highway
Move over Teresa Heinz-Kerry, here comes Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. Lansdowne Technologies Inc. (LTI), the Paul Martin corporation that somehow disappeared from Martin's public disclosure statements circa 1995, is in a business similar to the Heinz-Kerry charitable organization that links leftwing activists and UN radicals to specially designed Internet communications and virtual private networks.
SNIP
LTI merged with FirstMark Technologies in 2003 and is an affiliate of Auresco Consulting Inc. Listed among the ACI clientele, the Maurice Strong-founded Candian Investment Development Agency (CIDA).
If Gorbachev is for something, then that officially certifies whatever he is supporting as 'gorbage'.
Mikhail Gorbachev (L), former Soviet leader and founder of Green Cross International, poses with actor Michael Douglas before the 2005 Global Green USA Millennium Awards in Beverly Hills April 15, 2005. Green Cross International and Global Green USA, its affiliate in the U.S., are working to foster a global value shift toward a safer and sustainable planet. REUTERS/Fred Prouser
What about dwindling brain cells? Seems to me that this is more of a problem.
Low Tide on the Aral Sea
Gorby: All your water are belong to us.
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