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>> sean: strong viewed democracy as an obstacle. he argued that our concepts of ballot box democracy may need to be modified to produce strong governments capable of making difficult decisions, particularly in terms of safeguardsing the global environment using a global warming platform strong tried to force nations to give up their sovereignty. he went on to propose a global tax on the use of oceans, atmosphere and outer space. >> problem is, if you really take global warming as something that ...

Democracy as an obstacle. he argued that our concepts of ballot box democracy may need to be modified to produce strong governments capable of making difficult decisions, particularly in terms of safeguardsing the global environment using a global warming platform strong tried to force nations to give up their sovereignty. he went on to propose a global tax on the use of oceans, atmosphere and outer space. >> problem is, if you really take global warming as something that you have to stop right ...

That. and id like to demonstrate that societies are smarter than just allowing business as usual to carry on. if we do, we will end up, in the phrase of my boss, jim hansen, with a different planet. we will end up with a planet that wont be recognizable in terms of where crops can be grown, that wont be recognizable in terms of where rain is falling, that wont be recognizable in terms of where glaciers are and where ice sheets are and -- >> and to put that in human terms -- >> -- and what the --...

And id like to demonstrate that societies are smarter than just allowing business as usual to carry on. if we do, we will end up, in the phrase of my boss, jim hansen, with a different planet. we will end up with a planet that wont be recognizable in terms of where crops can be grown, that wont be recognizable in terms of where rain is falling, that wont be recognizable in terms of where glaciers are and where ice sheets are and -- >> and to put that in human terms -- >> -- and what the -- >> th...

Like until you smell it. what it smells like to me is when im at the gas station and youre getting the last trace of fumes. thats what this beach smells like. >> oh, god. thats going -- lets take a look, by the way. lets take a look, jeff, at what the president said today. he had some tough comments about a congressman, we dont have it yet. let me ask you about the wildlife. i mean, a lot of people, im involved with saving wildlife around the world. i care about elephants and whales and everythi...

Achieved in this regard. there is very open and frank attitude about that now. the president express ed fundamentally human terms his concern about civilian casualties, not only as a political issue but as human issue that president obama remarked about, to which i have my respect to the president on this issue. we not only discussed the ways and means of how to reduce civilian casualties, rather not have them at all, nitrates were discussed and detentions were discussed, i made a remark in my

Territorial integrity, that afghan constitution, the afghan people, are respected by their neighbors. we think that that message is starting to get through, but its one that we have to continue to promote. >> maam, we did discuss civilian casualties, the protection of civilians. i must report to you, maam, that since the arrival of general mcchrystal in afghanistan, there has been can recall progress achieved in this regard. there is very open and frank attitude about that now. the president exp...

General mcchrystal in afghanistan, there has been considerable progress achieved in this regard. there is very open and frank attitude about that now. the president express ed in fundamentally human terms his concern about civilian casualties. not only as a political issue, but as a human issue that president obama remarked about to which i have my respect to the president on this issue. we not only discussed the ways and means of how to reduce civilian casualties, rather not

Customers to put their money in these mortgage investments, the feds say the bank failed to tell them about a conflict of interest. that one of its clients an investment firm helped to set up these deals and then bet that they would fail. in fact, constructed them, designed them, hoping they would fail. so the money went from the investors to the hedge fund, in essence through goldman and goldman got commissions on all of it advising investors to bet on success but betting themselves on failure....

Coal for electricity or foreign oil, which is very expensive in human terms, hasnt our government laid out a policy that says, were not willing to do the hard work and were willing to take the lobbying money from foreign oil and or coal mining companies that would prevent us from passing the legislation currently held up in the senate and has been for a couple of years. >> yeah. the coal industry is incredibly powerful. not just the coal mining companies, but the coal burning utilities and railr...