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Gore Administration- Autumn 2005
Fall 2005
The autumn of 2005 was marked with a glowing welcome for the holidays along with a greater sense of compassion. With many people displaced by Hurricane Katrina along with Rita and Wilma and even a tornado in Kentucky, there was a greater sense of unifying with one another to overcome the natural crisises brought at hand. Attention shifted from national politics to a greatet emphasis of global politics. Various rescue organizations and individuals devoted their time, money and influence to helping the survivors out and many people benfitted from the assistance. Notably, nations that were considered US's hostiles, like Cuba, Venezuela and formerly Iran, sent the most help. It led to greater improvement of relations while also raising their opinion on them in the American population, especially Muslims. While Islamophobia has begun dying out after the unfortunate spike in 9/11, their greater assistance within the Hurricane season became noteworthy, especially contrasted with the opinions or mentions of certain Christian groups and or televangelicals. Many people even began spending Thanksgiving at some mosques or other places of worship. The various natural disasters were spoken of inmmensely in UN Climcate Change discussion in Montreal and the potential for greater disasters was enough to bring greater emphasis to what was needed. Gradually, fossil fuel companies were losing their influence and the process was accelerated by the Gore administration, who pressued further on the urgency of climate change. Beyond CO2 emmissions though, it was the matter of not polluting rivers and streams, unneeded intrusion into land, disrupting habitats, the usage of unneeded pesticides and so on and so forth. The Gore Administration had been pushing for more and more stipulations and rules and now mroe embolden to take their stance and pass rules and regulations to ensure the well-being of the planet. Moreover, Gore's digital cabinet had realized the capabilities of social media and began noting the usage for spreading information though also warned because of the possibility to spread misinformation. Climate change became more and more prominently discussed within the public forums. Not just in what people could do as individuals, but on the larger scale and holding large companies accountable. The latter became especially prevalent as the spectre of the Exxon-Mobil scandal still existed and some wondered about more investigations or on government figures enabling them. These and others were the big discussions over at the UN Climate Change Conference of 2005. Unsurprisingly dominated by Al Gore every year since his presidency, his triumphant return and the first year since the revelations of Exxon-Mobil have granted him greater prestige and
2005 United Nations Climate Change Conference Logo
Not everything was smooth sailing and unity however. Former Republican House minority head Tom DeLay (who lost his reelection) was indicted with criminal conspiracy and seem to serve as another blow to the morale of present-day Republicans. The days of Reagan and his successors were dying out and replaced by a new breed of conservatives though what path they take remains unknown outside a growing concern for the environment due to the mainstream concern and support by those such as Governor Arnold of California. Additionally, many were surprised to hear of the large riot in Toledo, Ohio involving Neo-Nazis and then soon after was the death of Rosa Parks. Unsurprisingly, this led to the return of talks of how to deal with the lingering remnants of racism within the nation and how the riot even began as such. Other issues continued to have trouble. While the Supreme Justices were sworn in, the replacement for Rehnquest was being more dragged out, with rumors circulating the Republicans were trying to hold out to see if they could win seats in 2006 though the indictment of Tom DeLay would end up with a hole for that pipe dream. Other issues went on and continued as they faced the growing end of a productful year. However, the large issues was a failed terrorist attack in Jordan, done my remants of Al-Queda based in Iraq. This borught the nation, under the iron fist of Saddam, back into an uncomfortable spotlight. While he responded with tightening his grip and launching investigations and attacks on perpetrators and associates, it was a bleak reminder that he still was a wild card. However, the end of the year was wrapping up and there was much mroe that was to come.
Thomas Dale DeLay, disgraced House member
The autumn of 2005 was marked with a glowing welcome for the holidays along with a greater sense of compassion. With many people displaced by Hurricane Katrina along with Rita and Wilma and even a tornado in Kentucky, there was a greater sense of unifying with one another to overcome the natural crisises brought at hand. Attention shifted from national politics to a greatet emphasis of global politics. Various rescue organizations and individuals devoted their time, money and influence to helping the survivors out and many people benfitted from the assistance. Notably, nations that were considered US's hostiles, like Cuba, Venezuela and formerly Iran, sent the most help. It led to greater improvement of relations while also raising their opinion on them in the American population, especially Muslims. While Islamophobia has begun dying out after the unfortunate spike in 9/11, their greater assistance within the Hurricane season became noteworthy, especially contrasted with the opinions or mentions of certain Christian groups and or televangelicals. Many people even began spending Thanksgiving at some mosques or other places of worship. The various natural disasters were spoken of inmmensely in UN Climcate Change discussion in Montreal and the potential for greater disasters was enough to bring greater emphasis to what was needed. Gradually, fossil fuel companies were losing their influence and the process was accelerated by the Gore administration, who pressued further on the urgency of climate change. Beyond CO2 emmissions though, it was the matter of not polluting rivers and streams, unneeded intrusion into land, disrupting habitats, the usage of unneeded pesticides and so on and so forth. The Gore Administration had been pushing for more and more stipulations and rules and now mroe embolden to take their stance and pass rules and regulations to ensure the well-being of the planet. Moreover, Gore's digital cabinet had realized the capabilities of social media and began noting the usage for spreading information though also warned because of the possibility to spread misinformation. Climate change became more and more prominently discussed within the public forums. Not just in what people could do as individuals, but on the larger scale and holding large companies accountable. The latter became especially prevalent as the spectre of the Exxon-Mobil scandal still existed and some wondered about more investigations or on government figures enabling them. These and others were the big discussions over at the UN Climate Change Conference of 2005. Unsurprisingly dominated by Al Gore every year since his presidency, his triumphant return and the first year since the revelations of Exxon-Mobil have granted him greater prestige and
2005 United Nations Climate Change Conference Logo
Not everything was smooth sailing and unity however. Former Republican House minority head Tom DeLay (who lost his reelection) was indicted with criminal conspiracy and seem to serve as another blow to the morale of present-day Republicans. The days of Reagan and his successors were dying out and replaced by a new breed of conservatives though what path they take remains unknown outside a growing concern for the environment due to the mainstream concern and support by those such as Governor Arnold of California. Additionally, many were surprised to hear of the large riot in Toledo, Ohio involving Neo-Nazis and then soon after was the death of Rosa Parks. Unsurprisingly, this led to the return of talks of how to deal with the lingering remnants of racism within the nation and how the riot even began as such. Other issues continued to have trouble. While the Supreme Justices were sworn in, the replacement for Rehnquest was being more dragged out, with rumors circulating the Republicans were trying to hold out to see if they could win seats in 2006 though the indictment of Tom DeLay would end up with a hole for that pipe dream. Other issues went on and continued as they faced the growing end of a productful year. However, the large issues was a failed terrorist attack in Jordan, done my remants of Al-Queda based in Iraq. This borught the nation, under the iron fist of Saddam, back into an uncomfortable spotlight. While he responded with tightening his grip and launching investigations and attacks on perpetrators and associates, it was a bleak reminder that he still was a wild card. However, the end of the year was wrapping up and there was much mroe that was to come.
Thomas Dale DeLay, disgraced House member
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