Why is Bush doing this?

[Joanne98]

He's made three empty islands in Northern Mariana national monuments.
We know he hates the environment, so what is he really doing?



http://health.126xiaoshuo.com/2009/01/bush-launches-massive-conservation-project/

THE home of a giant land crab, a sunken island ringed by pink-colored coral, and equatorial waters teeming with sharks and other predators are being designated national marine monuments by United States President George W. Bush in the largest marine conservation effort in history.

The three areas ?? totaling some 505,760 square kilometers - include the Mariana Trench and the waters and corals surrounding three uninhabited islands in the Northern Mariana Islands, Rose Atoll in American Samoa and seven islands strung along the equator in the central Pacific Ocean.

Each location harbors unique species and some of the rarest geological formations on Earth, from a bird that incubates its eggs in the heat of underwater volcanoes to a sulfur pool ?? the only other one is on Jupiter’s moon Io.

All will be protected as national monuments under the 1906 Antiquities Act. The law allows the government to immediately phase out commercial fishing and other extractive uses.

However, recreational fishing, tourism and scientific research with a federal permit could still occur inside the three areas. The designations will also not conflict with US military activities or freedom of navigation, White House officials said.

It will be the second time Bush has used the law to protect marine resources. Two years ago, the president made a huge swath of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands a national monument, barring fishing, oil and gas extraction and tourism from its waters and coral reefs. At the time, that area was the largest conservation area in the world.

The three new areas are larger although still falling short of what environmentalists had hoped for.

:wtf:

[babylonsister]

1. Because he wants everyone to think he's a friend of the environment

and look the other way when it comes to his defiling land in the US. He's throwing us a bone.

[Joanne98]

2. Bush only thinks about money. Maybe he got paid. Or worse, new Gitmos!

[Saturday]

3. I was curious about why he did it too.

If he was throwing us a bone why just 2 weeks before he leaves? Wouldn't he have done it month/years ago if that were the case? I don't know.

[Joanne98]

7. He wouldn't throw us a bone. He won't even let Obama in Blair House.

No, he's up to something.."The deepest canyon on Earth".. He sure is interested in deep water. Remember Paraguay? It had a deep water port too.


Friend of Jack Abramoff

AP - Yesterday, 08:19 pm President George W. Bush is hugged by U.S. Commonwealth Northern Mariana Islands Gov. Benigno R. Fitial after Bush used his executive authority to establish the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex in Washington. The largest of the protected areas surrounds the Northern Mariana Islands and includes the Mariana Trench, the deepest canyon on earth and is believed to harbor some of the oldest known life on the DNA tree. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/19/20090106/img/pot-bush-9399fe8-833163cc3a10.html

Fitial is the seventh elected governor of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), having been sworn in during 2006. He defeated incumbent Republican Governor Juan N. Babauta during the 2005 gubarnatorial election with 28.1 percent of the total vote. The 2005 gubernatorial election was the closest in the history of the Commonwealth.

Fitial has faced many challenges during his term as governor, including budget shortfalls, a weak economy, and declining Japanese tourism. He implemented a dress code of business attire for all cabinet members shortly after his inauguration.<2>

Many observers and prominent publications (such as the Marianas Variety) have accused Fitial of concentrating power in his office and making decisions autocratically <1>. This includes a decision made to abolish the autonomy of at least two government agencies, with their functions being transferred to the executive <2>. The governor and his supporters have asserted that drastic measures need to be taken to cut excessive government spending during the tenure of the previous governor, Juan Babauta <3>. <4>.

Personal life
Born in 1945 and raised in a Satawalese family, Fitial graduated with honors from Saipan's Mt. Carmel High School in 1964. He also holds a Bachelor of Business Administration with an emphasis on business management from the University of Guam. According to his official website, he is recognized as a University of Guam "Distinguished Alumni".

Fitial is the first elected Northern Mariana governor of Carolinian decent. <5> The Carolinians are a minority group whose ancestors immigrated to the Northern Marianas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, from the Yap and Chuuk islands groups of what is now the Federated States of Micronesia. Chamorros are the majority group on the Northern Marianas and a Chamorro has tended to win in past gubernatorial elections.

The Governor is married to Josie Fitial; the couple have two children. Fitial describes himself as a "good friend" of convicted US Lobbyist Jack Abramoff, which has caused some controversy in both the Commonwealth and Washington. As vice president of Tan Holdings, Fitial worked closely with Abramoff, who was a consistent client of the family textile conglomerate <6>.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benigno_R._Fitial

[Solly Mack]

4. Someone making money?

Follow the money is always the first thing to do with a Bush.

[Joanne98]

8. You're a wise one.

[Demeter]

5. Why Does He Do Anything? Somebody Told Him To

Cherche la $


Maybe there's a treasure his cronies have buried there, and this is their idea of security.

Stranger things have come off due to this crook.

[Serial Mom]

6. Somebody told him this "act" will be remembered

forever! and more than his all his fuck-ups in his entire mis-administration!

After all, he now has protected more area than any PERSON in the world - oh great man and great legacy! :sarcasm:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

9. Building his "legacy" no doubt. n/t

[Joanne98]

10. The Mariana Trench would be a good place to get rid of evidence

You could dump "things" into the "deepest trench of earth" then earthquakes would push the evidence under the plate.

Just a thought.

[Joanne98]

11. The Mariana trench is a magnetic "quiet zone"

http://tripatlas.com/Magnetic_reversal

The Jurassic Quiet Zone

The Jurassic Quiet Zone is a section of ocean floor which is completely devoid of the magnetic stripes that can be detected elsewhere. This could mean that there was a long period of polar stability during the Jurassic period similar to the Cretaceous Superchron. Another possibility is that as this is the oldest section of ocean floor, any magnetization that did exist has completely degraded by now. The Jurassic Quiet Zones exist in places along the continental margins of the Atlantic ocean as well as in parts the Western Pacific (such as just east of the Mariana Trench).

[spanone]

12. he'll now claim himself an environmentalist