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History will tell that George W. Bush has been a great, very great President of the United States

Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister, Columbus Day 2008

George, please, in November take Silvio with you.
Many thanks.

So the Hokkaido G8 has food security, climate changes and oil prices in a prominent place of its agenda.

Bush has made accountability a major theme for this year’s G8 meetings, arguing that “we need people who not only make promises, but write checks, for the sake of human rights and human dignity, and for the sake of peace.” The G8 includes Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States.

G8 leaders are expected to address an array of political, security and economic issues when they meet for three days. “We expect that they will discuss a broad range of issues, including development, Africa, food security, trade and investment policy, energy security, climate change and issues relating to the global economy, including oil prices.

Obviously, we expect the very same people who became insanely rich thanks to these “issues” ¹ to clean up their profitable mess and save the world.

We expect politicians whose career and position is entirely built upon terror to fight it.
We expect governments driven by ruthless corporate interests to regulate for a planet-sustainable economy, which may require profit margin reductions or even degrowth ².
We expect oil companies, mercenary armies, reconstruction contractors and weapon manufacturers, which rather than bribing the elected people representatives like they used to do in the past, nowadays have their executives directly placed in key government roles as an obscene parody of democracy, to shoot themselves in their feet.

Just like expecting anti-virus vendors to push technologies and approaches making our information systems really safer, or Microsoft to promote open (web) standards…

Notes

Looks like I’m helping Obama’s campaign in an unexpected way :)

Update

Let’s help Google doing its part too: John McCain, John McCain, John McCain, John McCain, John McCain, John McCain, John McCain, John McCain, John McCain…

Discovered the ultimate cure for the NIMBY syndrome!

Reported by Beppe Grillo (popular Italian blog), but ignored by mainstream television news as usual: with an urgent decree effective since May 1st 2008, Italian Government allows toxic/nuclear waste storage sites, polluting power plants, incinerators and similar tourist attractions to be covered by State Secret.
Information about their existence, location and environmental impact can be declared “classified”: anybody revealing them risks up to 5 years in prison.
Even the official Public Health agencies are banned from exercising their ordinary monitoring powers: in other words, no common people can actually measure, know or tell if a certain place in the sun-blessed Italian seaside or countryside is being actively poisoned by a government-blessed shit factory.

In the embedded Youtube movie clip, former Minister of Culture and Tourism Francesco Rutelli (of the cabinet which wrote the aforementioned decree) invites you to visit the Best Country in the World®.
Where are you going to spend your summer vacations?
Any relocation hint for me and my family?