Today's Essential Reading: "Road to Bali"

If you didn't listen to Rush today, then you missed, among other things, the piece by Peter Foster which appeared in the Financial Post, titled, Road to Bali. It deftly explains why the U.N. elites and elite wannabes are in Bali and what they're really talking about (Hint: it's not really about global warming.) Here are a couple of salient paragraphs:

The environmental left, centred in the UN, has achieved stunning success in building and pushing the climate change/sustain-ability bandwagon. They have done this first by funding, then hijacking, scientific research via the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They have also promoted and allowed access to an ever-proliferating group of activist NGOs (Bali, significantly, is overrun by the non-elected "representatives" of scores of radical organizations, who have in turn forced similar numbers of industry representatives to follow them). NGOs have also had great success in pushing their alarmist message through a sympathetic media and thus --along with more direct lobbying--in achieving grossly disproportionate influence with democratic politicians. "Progressive" pols, meanwhile, have embraced environmental alarmism because it gives a much-needed boost to their flagging relevance.

Climate-change alarmism couldn't be presented as simply a new justification for power-seeking, so it had to be cloaked--as social-ism has always been cloaked, both consciously and unconsciously -- in concern for "the poor." Addressing climate change has always been linked in the UN script with Third World development, even though it in fact represents the greatest threat to such development. Nevertheless, the prospect of more international redistribution has meant that poor countries' corrupt and/or incompetent governments have become enthusiastic supporters of the Kyoto "process."

Please read the rest of this piece. We can't afford to allow these international socialist thugs to determine the future of America. Every democrat presidential candidate embrace the leftist ideals that the U.N. wishes to impose on the United States, whereas there may be some republican candidates who oppose them.

We need oppose those who go along with the U.N.'s plan to redistribute our wealth to 3d and 4th world countries via their global warming agenda.