Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Democracy on trial? As Aussie Prime Minister Scott Morrison arrives at the G7 with a voter mandate to export coal as fast as it can be extracted, an unnamed Biden official appears to be framing the talks as a test of democracy’s ability to deliver, on Biden’s climate and Covid ambitions.
Scott Morrison says pandemic and climate change are key issues for Australia as G7 leaders meet
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Australia’s Prime Minister has arrived in the UK for the G7-plus dialogue, which he said will focus on Boris Johnson’s plan to “vaccinate the world”, climate change and peace in the Indo-Pacific.
“The G7 plus isn’t about a club, it is about ensuring a world that favours freedom and inclusive world order that ensure that all countries can engage, trade with each other – and all countries can do so without coercion and so do consistent with their sovereign issues.”
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The club of leading economies – Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and United States – say a joint approach is the world’s best chance for recovering from the global health crisis, and tackling climate change.
President Joe Biden has set the tone, ditching Donald Trump’s isolationist stance to ram home a message of resolve by the G7 and NATO against both Beijing and Moscow, as he heads into his first sit-down with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week in Geneva.
“The driving animating purpose of this G7 summit is to show that democracy can deliver against the biggest challenges we’re facing in the world,” a senior US administration official said.
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“If the best G7 leaders can manage is to donate one billion vaccine doses then this summit will have been a failure,” Oxfam said, insisting the world needs 11 billion doses.
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Read more: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/scott-morrison-says-pandemic-and-climate-change-are-key-issues-for-australia-as-g7-leaders-meet
I wonder what the plan is, if Democracy “fails” the test?
The UN and it’s acolytes has been manipulating democracy for many years and very successfully with the advent of the CAGW MEME which has gone viral. The objective being to get its hands on the global levers of power.
It is taking an awful long time about it – and why such a long, convoluted plot?
Why so long? Because not everyone grew up stupid, and sometimes even the indoctrinated find out about reality and to question the lies. It’s not really convoluted, but everyone realized last century that Marxist/Progressives/Socialist can’t win people with honesty, so a plot of some sort is needed for them to attain their goals.
Coal is targeted https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57456641
Just as Biden confused The Royal Air Force (RAF planes etc) with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA boats etc) his official confuses a Parliamentary dictatorship with a democracy.
I wish I could make this stuff up.
Plus, it gets delivered in thirty minutes or less, or it’s free.
Win-win.
All missing is a video of the peasants singing patriotic songs as they march cheerfully to the fields with their hand eco friendly farming tools.
No mention of free enterprise or nationalism where the representatives at the G7 look after the interests of their own nation and not putting the meeting as a test of democracy.
Hopefully Swiss democracy will deliver-
Swiss voters look set to reject law to help cut carbon emissions (msn.com)
I’m having trouble with the Ebonics math, friends.
I see 9 standing figurines, yet this is the G-7 conference.
Which two are not ‘G’?
Which are ‘R’, which are ‘X’?
What movie is this?
Whose left are they on?
Why am I so confused by these idiots?
Must be the absence of Kool-Aid in my tequila…
The G7 is Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and US and also the EU. (I know that’s eight). Also invited were Australia, India, South Korea and South Africa.
I assume the photo ops were of the 7 (really 8) plus one of the other leaders so they could have a nice picture to hang on their office wall back home.
yes. The EU has been invited to send a representative since 1981
And Btw, after doing a little more checking, it seems that the Joint Chiefs of Staff that Biden said told him Climate Change was the greatest threat the U.S. faced, were the Joint Chiefs of Staff under the Obama administration, and Biden said he was told this while he was vice president.
“…ditching Donald Trump’s isolationist stance…”
Au contraire.
Trump was in agreement with China, India, Brazil, and many other nations, that he should not damage the economy of his home nation by making futile sacrifices at the altar of global warming. He sided with the nations representing the majority of the world’s population.
As an Australian, I have yet to hear wind of this ‘voter mandate to support coal’. Actually, a government survey found that only 12% of us want more coal. 19% for gas. Unfortunately there is a hell of a lot of fossil-fuel industry sponsored misinformation in Aus. The industry practically owns the party that is currently in power, as their biggest sponsor 🙁
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-05/australia-attitudes-climate-change-action-morrison-government/11878510
Biden Official: G7 Climate Talks “to show that democracy can deliver”Democracy? Where?
With 8% of global population >65 I calculate the world ‘needs’ about 1.1 billion doses, so they’re not far off if they don’t waste them on people not at risk.