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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, will hold a meeting in New York for his Clinton Global Initiative. Recently, former President Clinton gave an interview in which he told his agenda about the Clinton Global Initiative and its details. Clinton said that with a philanthropy program like Clinton Global Initiative could help reduce the burden of the donor governments
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This is a great program that will help over 50,000 people have access to clean water in the poorest country of the western-hemisphere. Clean water and health care are the first steps towards economic development or Haiti, which has been devastated by extreme poverty. It'll be important for the appropriate technologies to be implemented into this program to ensure it's sustainability.This is a great program that will help over 50,000 people have access to clean water... more
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Former President Bill Clinton told a group of public health officials in Washington Monday that as a "member of the peanut gallery" viewing the posturing over health care reform, he sees "eerily familiar" political arguments getting in the way of progress on one of the most serious issues facing the nation.
Clinton told attendees at the "Weight of the Nation" conference, sponsored by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies, that he hadn't come to give a speech on health care reform, "since that's above my pay grade now." But as he discussed public health and the costs of obesity to families and communities, health care reform was not far from his train of thought.
The former president's perspective, and obvious frustration, come from his own failed attempt to reform the nation's health care system in 1993, as well as his work in public health since leaving office. His foundation has focused on several health initiatives, including reducing AIDS and targeting childhood obesity in poor neighborhoods through the Alliance for a Healthier Generation.
Ultimately, Clinton said, "I just want this to work."Former President Bill Clinton told a group of public health officials in Washington... more
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Responding to the global recession, former U.S. President Bill Clinton's philanthropic summit this year will focus on ways for companies to profit from tackling poverty, climate change, health and educationResponding to the global recession, former U.S. President Bill Clinton's... more
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil should worry about ways of stopping and controlling deforestation in order to achieve a broader global market for its cane-based ethanol, former U.S. President Bill Clinton said on Monday.
Clinton said the world is already aware of the fuel's benefits, such as its 90-percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions when compared to gasoline. But if Brazil starts exporting large amounts of ethanol it must be prepared to impede ranchers and farmers from cutting further into forests.
"What people are worried about Brazil is not (whether) you have the most efficient biofuel in the world... everybody knows that is true," Clinton said in a speech to businessmen, most of them from the ethanol sector, at a three-day Ethanol Summit.
"(But) the world would say if we let Brazil help us solve our problem at the price of more rainforest destruction, have we really gained anything? That's what you have to answer."
Clinton said countries would give incentives instead of barriers" over biofuel imports if Brazil manages to prove it "can help other people with their emission problems without making yours worse."SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil should worry about ways of stopping and controlling... more
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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, May 29 (UPI) -- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton told crowds in two eastern Canadian provinces there had to be more public involvement in solving the world's problems.
Clinton spoke first on Thursday in St. John's, the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador, and coined his own term -- communitarianism -- for personal involvement, the city's Telegram newspaper reported.
"All of us need to think of our citizenship in terms of what we can do in our communities and halfway around the world," he said. "The truth is, cynicism and pessimism is an excuse to do nothing."
He later flew to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where his address was similar in a call for activism in such areas as AIDS and other disease prevention, poverty and inequality.HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, May 29 (UPI) -- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton told crowds... more
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - A soccer ball that absorbs energy to light a home and a radio program to help Nigerian farmers are among 78 projects sharing in $400,000 funding through former U.S. President Bill Clinton's youth humanitarian program.
The Clinton Global Initiative University announced the winners on Friday for the projects aimed at improving communities around the world.
Clinton said the funding "will help innovative college students make a tremendous difference in the world" and that he hoped they would "inspire others to take action."
Another winning program will allow people in Ghana and Nigeria to text message drug companies to check that their medication is not counterfeit.
The grant winners were chosen from more than 1,000 applications worldwide. Along with these projects, 1,700 pledges of action to tackle the world's problems have been made by students at www.cgiu.org.NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - A soccer ball that absorbs energy to light a home and a... more
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By Mike Collett-White ANTIBES, France (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton called on guests at an amfAR AIDS research charity gala in France to give more to good causes during the recession.
The glitzy party, held late on Thursday and hosted by actress Sharon Stone, is held every year during the Cannes film festival to raise funds for amfAR.
Clinton joined Stone, rapper 50 Cent, actor Robert Pattinson, singer Annie Lennox and members of the cast of Quentin Tarantino's film "Inglourious Basterds" at the exclusive Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc to make the keynote speech to 800 guests.
"When times are tough you should give more, not less," he told diners in a giant marquee. "If it hurts a little more, we will still be happier," he added.
Clinton said around $30 trillion of wealth had been wiped out by the financial crisis between September and February. "But if you think about it, everyone in this room is better off than 99.9 percent of people who ever lived on planet Earth."
One of the top lots at a fund-raising auction held on the night was a saxophone belonging to and signed by Clinton.
The instrument fetched 130,000 euros ($181,000), and the proceeds will be shared between The Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) and the Clinton Global Initiative.By Mike Collett-White ANTIBES, France (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton... more
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The National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS (NBCLA), in conjunction with its “National Call of Action” against HIV/AIDS, will host their Choose Life Awards Benefit Gala on June 3.The benefit gala will take place at the Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers on the west side of Manhattan. Former President Bill Clinton will serve as national chair of the gala.
As founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation, the former president has done his share to combat HIV/AIDS around the world. Back in 2002, he formed the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative to address the gap in access to treatment in developing nations via negotiating prices for lifesaving antiretroviral treatment. The initiative also works with governments to improve the national health care systems.The National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS (NBCLA), in conjunction with its... more
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Former President Bill Clinton has finally released a list of all the contributors who have given money to his Clinton Global Initiative Foundation as part of the agreement that he had with Obama's transition team. This is the first time he has reveled the donor list.
The donor list also has a number of Mideast countries, who led the contributor field in amount given to the foundation.
The information show that the donor list has a large number of foreign nations as contributors. Like Saudi Arabia (between $10 million to $20 million), Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei and Oman ($1 million to $5 milllion), Norway ($5 million to $10 million) etc.
The donor list shows a lot of overseas business interest like steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, Confederation of Indian industry, Suzlon Energy Ltd. (Amsterdam), China Overseas Real Estate Development, Frank Giustra, the Canadian mining financier etc.
Oh! Even Blackwater made some contribution!
External link--> Donor list:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/18/clinton-foundation-donor-list/
http://www.clintonfoundation.org/contributors
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Are some of the contributors suspicious? How will the conservatives will look at it (especially FOX)? What about Liberals? Would this / How will this affect Hillary Clinton bid for Secretary of State?Former President Bill Clinton has finally released a list of all the contributors who... more
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LOS ANGELES, Sept 24 (Reuters Life!) - The cold-blooded murder of about 10 of Congo's endangered mountain gorillas last year horrified author Craig Hatkoff until one glimmer of hope emerged -- the rescue of an orphaned baby gorilla.
The baby, named Miza, was feared dead as her mother was among the gorillas killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park, home to 380 of the world's 720 mountain gorillas.
But after several days lost in the jungle, Miza was rescued by her father, silverback gorilla Kabirizi, and brought back to live with her family to be raised by her sister and half-brother.
The story inspired New York-based Hatkoff to write "Looking for Miza: The True Story of the Mountain Gorilla Family Who Rescued One of Their Own", along with his daughters Isabella, 9, and Juliana, 13, as the centrepiece of a campaign to help save the gentle giants that range across the borders of Uganda, Rwanda and of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
It is not the first animal story by Hatkoff. He has previously written books about the polar bear Knut who became an icon for global warming and about the friendship of a tortoise and hippo, Owen and Mzee, after the southeast Asian tsunami.
"Miza's true story is a life-affirming tale of hope and courage. I think the appeal of this story is that gorillas are about 98 percent human from a genetic standpoint and it is like we are looking into a mirror at ourselves," Hatkoff told Reuters.
"My guess is you could put a name, face and nose print to every mountain gorilla left on the planet and it becomes a powerful metaphor because if we can't save the mountain gorillas what does it say about the other species we have to save."
CAMPAIGNING FOR GORILLAS
Hatkoff wants to use the book, released this week by Scholastic, as a centerpiece of a campaign to raise awareness about the endangered mountain gorillas and help the people living in the Great Lakes area of Africa.
"This is a war-torn area of the world and the loss of habitat and economic problems like the charcoal mafia have created a crisis," said Hatkoff.
"This is not longer just about saving the gorillas but we have to save the people there too who need clean water, food security, education and health care. These are complicated problems but they are solveable."
His company Turtle Pond Publications has joined forces with Scholatic, Wildlife Direct, the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative founded by Bill Clinton to raise awareness about Africa's endangered mountain gorillas.
The book will be at the core of the campaign with a children's summit on gorillas with U.S.-wide webcast planned and websites to get people involved and show how they can help.
"These true stories can create an emotional connection to real animals and the idea here is to say what you can do about it and you can become part of the story," said Hatkoff.
"Mountain gorillas must be the most magnificent species on the planet and if this campaign works, it will work for tigers, for people as well."
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“If you’re a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration,” Gore told the Clinton Global Initiative gathering to loud applause.
I’m a big fan of the Veep, but there is something young people can do that is vastly more important right now — and that is to get politically involved immediately. If you are too young to vote, you can still knock on doors.
Yes, the CGI is nominally nonpolitical. Fine, don’t mention which candidate is most committed to solving the problem. Everybody already knows — well, almost everybody (see “Clinton Global Initiative jumps the shark, invites McCain to keynote on Energy Solutions“). Okay, so Gore will have to spell out exactly who in another speech. Fine.
gandhi4.jpgI am all for civil disobedience. But this isn’t the civil rights movement or the struggle for India’s independence, where you are appealing to a general populace that will be impressed by the nonviolence of a mass of marchers and shocked by the response of a brutal establishment. Thus, the scale and nature of the problem makes civil disobedience at best a weak solution to the climate crisis — with one possible exception.
mlk.jpgCivil rights had Dr. King and India had Gandhi to create a mass movement. If Gore really believes that civil disobedience is an important strategy — then he needs to lead the effort and go chain himself to some fences and sit in front of some bulldozers with thousands of others. If he won’t, then this is all just talk. Gandhi and King certainly never sat around with a bunch of world leaders in a big, fancy hotel and urged others to do that which they were not prepared to do any time or anyplace, over and over again, until the cause was won.
Gore made some other interesting statements, including a reference to Martin Luthor King. It’s Getting Hot in Here live blogged Gore’s CGI session with Bill Clinton:
11:24 Clinton asks Gore to tell everyone what investors/politicians should do in regard to energy/climate, and how to overcome political and financial difficulties.
11:25 Gore acknowledges all in the room and offers what appears to be very sincere thanks to Clinton for hosting the Clinton Global Initiative.
11:26 Gore: “Current economic crisis was triggered by the sudden collapse of an assumption. The assumption was that if you lumped housing loans together (even bad ones), you could eliminate the risk. That assumption went splat this week.”
NOW is the time to prevent a much worse catastrophe based on an even bigger assumption.
“Since we met here last year (at CGI) we are losing badly in the fight against global warming”
11:28 References all the natural disasters - from hurricanes to fires in the US and Carribbean this year.
For every 1 degree in temperature increase there will be a 10x increase in lightning strikes.
Warming means less or no more frost in certain areas, which means more bugs/pests running rampant that we can’t control; throwing off our ecosystem. (haven’t heard him use this point before.
“This is all the result of an insane approach to climate”
“We as a species have to make a decision.”
“The economic crisis can truly provide an opportunity to make the right decisions.”
“We should stop burning coal!”
Compares clean coal to what happened on Wall StreeReuters reports:
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President Clinton Has High Praise for the GOP Nominee
by Shushannah Walshe
NEW YORK—Former President Bill Clinton opened up his Global Initiative’s annual meeting today and introduced John McCain who delivered the opening remarks.
Clinton had high praise for the GOP nominee pointing out that his wife and McCain took a congressional delegation on a climate change fact-finding mission to Alaska and the Arctic Circle. Clinton referred to McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin when he mentioned Alaska, but not by name:
“I want to say one thing in particular about John McCain in bringing him out here. When most people in his party were thinking that global warming was overstated and maybe even admit designed to let people like me who love solar and wind get into it. He decided to look into it and everyone of us by the way with every thorny problem we face need to be in the looking into it business and he and the Junior Senator from New York, with whom I have a passing acquaintance took 2 astonishing trips. One to your state to the point barrel of Alaska, the northern most community in the United States,” Clinton said referring to Palin, “where the Eskimos told them they thought their way of life was coming to an end because of changes in the climate and one to the northern most settlement on Planer Earth. It’s on an island 600 miles north of Norway above the Arctic Circle where they study the changes in the planet where there were signs on their cabin don’t go out at night without a gun or a light or the polar bears will eat you.”
Clinton pressed that McCain’s work on global warming was not to score political points, “The point I want to make is there were any votes on this in Arizona. He just wanted to know and they dragged along some very skeptical Republican senators who now are prepared to vote for some kind of bipartisan legislation which will put America in a position to be a part of what is coming up by 2010 which is figuring out where we go next in the struggle against climate change. That’s what we want from everybody. We want some of us to be on the left, some of us to be on the right but all of us to want to know,” Clinton said. “John McCain wants to know and I am profoundly grateful to him coming here today.”
The former President also thanked both Palin and Cindy McCain for attending CGI and praised Cindy for her humanitarian work in Rwanda.
John McCain took the podium next and the two got a laugh when Clinton accidentally took McCain’s speech when he picked up his own. McCain quipped, “What kind of a host is that?” to laughs from the crowd.
McCain returned the former President’s praise and commended Clinton, “This man’s drive, and determination, and compassion for those in need are still a force for good in the world, and I am proud to call him a friend.”
Barack Obama also addressed the Clinton Global Initiative today via satellite from Clearwater, Florida.
President Clinton Has High Praise for the GOP Nominee
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Former vice president Al Gore urged young environmental activists to engage in "civil disobedience" to halt the construction of coal plants that do not mitigate their carbon emissions.
Gore, who won a Nobel Prize for his environmental activism, was speaking to a gathering of the Clinton Global Initiative, created by the former president he served with, Reuters reports.
"If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration," Gore told the Clinton Global Initiative gathering to loud applause.
"I believe for a carbon company to spend money convincing the stock-buying public that the risk from the global climate crisis is not that great represents a form of stock fraud because they are misrepresenting a material fact," he said. "I hope these state attorney generals around the country will take some action on that."
Gore and other environmentalists say coal plants are among the biggest emitters of carbon pollution, which contributes to global warming.
The New York Times reports that Gore did not provide more detail on what he wanted people to do.
Mr. Gore did not elaborate on his call for action. And almost as soon as the words “civil disobedience” were out of his mouth, Mr. Clinton, moderating a panel that Mr. Gore shared with the singer Bono, the president of Liberia, the chairman of Coca-Cola and Queen Rania of Jordan, turned to the queen to ask whether Middle Eastern countries might ever become “models of clean energy usage.” The discussion continued in a less-fiery vein from there.
Despite intense advertising from the industry, Gore said so-called clean coal technology "does not exist." Former vice president Al Gore urged young environmental activists to engage in... more
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Al Gore, the former vice president and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is nothing if not passionate on the issue of global warming. But his usual fired-up remarks on the subject took a step into the Gandhian realm on Wednesday when he told an audience at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York that the crisis was so severe and intractable that it was time for direct action.
If you are a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration, he said at the third annual meeting of former President Bill Clinton's initiative, which arranges partnerships between the very rich and the very needy.
Mr. Gore said the civil disobedience should focus on stopping the construction of new coal plants, which he said would add tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere despite half a billion dollars worth of advertising by the coal and gas industry claiming otherwise. He added, Clean coal does not exist.
The audience at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers, which was composed of hundreds of heads of state and chief executives, as well as representatives of philanthropic groups, reacted with scattered applause. There was a lot of shifting in seats.
Mr. Gore did not elaborate on his call for action. And almost as soon as the words civil disobedience were out of his mouth, Mr. Clinton, moderating a panel that Mr. Gore shared with the singer Bono, the president of Liberia, the chairman of Coca-Cola and Queen Rania of Jordan, turned to the queen to ask whether Middle Eastern countries might ever become models of clean energy usage. The discussion continued in a less-fiery vein from there.
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I can just bet people at the Clinton Global Initiative were shifting in their seats. ;-) Mr. Gore, I love you for this and am with you 100%. The climate crisis is getting lost in all of the talk about this 'election' and the 'financial crisis' that is actually related to our current energy policy. We do need more young people out here peacefully protesting to save their environmental future which also means saving this economy. And we also need older people as well to set an example for younger people about how change is really made. It isn't made by going to a rally of someone who claims to have charisma and can talk us out of it and thinking you have done something. It's taking action ourselves. I hope his endorsee is listening.Al Gore, the former vice president and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is nothing if... more
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At today’s Clinton Global Initiative, Al Gore said for the first time in public that we are at a point in our world’s history, and in need of such immediate action, that if you are a young person it’s time for civil disobedience.
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Former President Bill Clinton is welcoming a galaxy of international stars to the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative later this month, including Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, whom Mr. Clinton has vowed to help Senator Barack Obama defeat in November.
The event, scheduled to run Sept. 23-26 in New York, is nonpolitical and has featured prominent Republicans in the past, including Laura Bush in 2006. Mr. McCain is to deliver the opening remarks; Mr. Obama, the Democratic nominee, is to address the participants by satellite.
“C.G.I. isn’t about politics,” said Matt McKenna, a spokesman for Mr. Clinton. “It’s about improving lives and solving some of the world’s most pressing problems. President Clinton is grateful that both candidates for president are taking time away from the trail to join in that effort.”
Mr. Clinton began the initiative in 2005 to bring together influential people to help solve problems in areas like health, energy and poverty around the world. The members have made nearly 1,000 commitments valued at more than $30 billion to provide help in more than 150 countries.
Others scheduled to attend this year include Al Gore, Bono, Lance Armstrong, Barbra Streisand, Muhammad Ali, T. Boone Pickens and Tom Brokaw. Several heads of state are also coming, including Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, Gordon Brown of Britain and Silvio Berlusconi of Italy.
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Oh right: This is why she's famous. Angelina Jolie tells a tale of hardship and humanity involving two Iraqi refugees in Syria. Totally natural (I always forget she has a normal twangy voice, not that haughty accent she always uses in movies) and yet totally riveting.Oh right: This is why she's famous. Angelina Jolie tells a tale of hardship and... more
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