A petition has been set up in the hopes that the ad will be dropped.

Iraqi oil production is above the levels seen before the US-led invasion of the country in 2003, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

And I assume we’re to believe the revenue is going to rebuild Iraq?

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has opened high-level talks at the climate change conference in Bali with a call to action.
He said that if no action was taken, the world would face impacts such as drought, famine and rising sea levels.

Delegates are hoping to agree a “Bali roadmap” leading to further cuts in greenhouse gas emissions when the Kyoto Protocol targets expire in 2012.

The US and Canada are among countries opposed to further binding targets.

Why be opposed to binding targets?
a) to avoid accountability
b) to avoid responsibility
c) to admit anything is “binding” is to relinquishment a sense of control.
d) duh, the needs of the natural world are not as important as the needs of our economic system
e) all of the above

This is the cutest animal I’ve ever seen. (BBC news video)

The Bush administration’s position, that technology, private investment and economic growth — rather than mandatory emissions cuts — will save the planet from global warming, is taking a beating this week at a U.N. climate change conference in Indonesia.

The conference in Bali is charged with launching negotiations that will eventually lead to an international accord to succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global warming.