The last election brought some interesting changes to the USA. You might say it brought "The Change" that some of us were looking for. The question now is "What does change look like?

On the environment, Sarah Palin is essentially George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and perhaps James Watt rolled into one, but with a more pleasant demeanor. It is important to look beyond charisma and consider the environmental implications of our November vote.

The Bush Administration's report on global warming contains some crucial but awkward truths that neither George W. Bush nor his environmentalist critics want to confront. The Administration has sought to bury the report, and tried to misrepresent its most ominous conclusion.

President George W. Bush once said: "I'm the decider, and I decide what's best." When it comes to environmental issues, especially global warming, Bush often sounds more like the dissembler than the decider.

George W. Bush promised to do something about global warming. The insincerity of the promise was made clear when he reneged on his pledge, claiming that joining the Kyoto protocol would hurt the economy. In reality, doing something about global warming would hurt only Big Energy and Big Auto, both heavy contributors to the Bush campaign.

The video clips of Saddam Hussein's execution on 30 December 2006 have further alienated Arab opinion towards the West, and both President Bush and Prime Minister Blair have reviewed their Iraq strategies.

The execution of Saddam Hussein on 30 December 2006 set the scene for the New Year. The indignity of his fate, which was recorded on film and transmitted around the globe, filled even conservative observers with disgust.

In 1999, when Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliburton, he asked the rhetorical question 'Where is the oil to come from?' and then gave the answer 'The Middle East, with two thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies'.

The average price of gasoline has now reached an all time high in the United States at $3.03 per gallon. Higher even than in the Hurricane Katrina aftermath. The recent cease fire and UN agreement between Israel, Lebanon, and the Hizbollah and the recent downgrading of the years predicted hurricanes and gulf coast storms have reduced the risk to the oil industry.

It means we have rights. Rights that many have fought for and given their lives for. Unfortunately in current America there is, for the most part, two separate classes of citizenship, a bipartisanship if you will.