Do you remember the Al Gore film about climate change? I do remember the boom that cause this film, but I also keep in mind that this climate change has been an issue for many many years, since the first media news a decade ago started talking about the hole in the Ozone layer.

Today's news says that the former US vice-president Al Gore and the UN climate change panel will share the 2007 Nobel peace prize for raising awareness of the risks of climate change, the Nobel committee announced.

Mr Gore is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted," the committee said. He has consistently said he is not interested in running again for the White House, insisting he can be more effective in the fight against climate change outside mainstream politics.

The other presidential candidates - Hillary Clinton, in particular - have so far disappointed environmental activists by shying away from promising aggressive action to deal with America's contribution to climate change.

Actor and President

In several TV shows and movies we see US presidents physically similar with previous presidents, illustrating a personage with grayish hair, tough and with the air force one airplane at his disposal any moment.

Accordingly with this article now we do not need to pretend anymore, as a true Hollywood actor is running for president!

Fred Thompson, a former senator and actor, made his declaration on NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

He has appeal to Republicans who find the three leading candidates - Romney, Rudolph Giuliani and John McCain - insufficiently conservative, but the formal announcement of his candidacy has been pushed back amid staff shake-ups and questions about his work as a lobbyist.

Thompson is mainly concerned about illegal immigration and the progress of the US policy in Iraq.

I cannot stop wonder what the others candidates are might be wondering! Competing against an actor with tremendous experience...

I guess American society must like it! If Schwarzenegger is already in the political power, why not another one?

Fame and Power

Few days after the previous blog about Fred Thompson's qualifications for the US presidency, along came another article on this matter.

Is mainly about fame and if is a fast-track to power?

Fred Thompson's qualifications for the US presidency are more impressive than most. He's a former Senator with a good line in rock-jawed machismo. If he's this good at acting the part of a government official, it seems natural to conclude he'll be good at it in real life. Plus, his hair looks freshly shampooed and he's got great teeth.

These days, fame is not only about films and shows, but a new term of media had been improved and is being used in a different way. Currently YouTube electioneering and prime-time TV debates are a new way of doing politics, and it reassures us to know that our parliamentarians have at least made the effort to be aesthetically pleasing.

Perhaps we're naturally more cynical about the power of fame... look at Ronald Reagan! Anti-communist? Anti-Nuclear? What is that when you can be in a movie kissing famous ladies!?

Hundreds a head!

You know that famous sentence that we said to our children:"eat everything because there is children dying in Africa with the lack of food"? I used to hear even worse, with pictures of Somalian kids, and I used to think; I should go and eat all of it, look at these children, just flies and nothing else! ...well... it seems that US does not care about nutrition issues, as they have a lunch in London which costs £500-a-head, the same as $1,000!!!

This article about foundraising methods among US presidential candidates is about this, a day in the life of a candidate ... three PMs and a £500-a-head lunch.

Republican presidential frontrunner came to London and brought their campaigns, particularly because there are an estimated 200,000 Americans living in the UK, out of around 6.6 million worldwide.

Money, of course, was the most obvious explanation for the presence in Britain of the Republican frontrunner: tickets to the Mandarin Oriental lunch cost $1,000 each each (£500), or $2,300 with the bonus of having your photo taken alongside Mr Giuliani

Bill Clinton is due to hold an event for his wife, Hillary, in Windsor next month, two weeks before Michelle Obama does the same in London for her husband, Barack. The Republican Fred Thompson came earlier this year.

So much money to the same type of people! and there is still others who are in deep debt to these 'biggest' countries.

I reckon that if instead of spending this thousands of pounds in luxury lunches, they gave this money to others...maybe this debt would be better balanced.

Selling presidents

So that it seems fame sells, or at least rises status or improve opinions!

In this article from last month, we understand that in every presidential campaign several famous people, being mostly actors and singers, support their favorite candidates.

The greatest endorsement anyone could get is in this case Oprah Winfrey, the wealthiest African-American. Oprah is selling Obama, and this weekend Winfrey will set a precedent by hosting a political fundraiser at her 42-acre, $50m estate outside Santa Barbara. The recipient of her largess - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama - could see as much as $3m (£1.5m) flow into his campaign as a result. Even Stevie Wonder is understood to be among the performers booked for the event.

At CNN's Larry King, Winfrey, said: "My money isn't going to make any difference. My value to him - my support of him - is probably worth more than any other cheque that I could write." And with these simple words Winfrey could make a difference for Obama in his efforts to catch up with Hillary Clinton, the Democratic front runner.

Money calls money, and a president = power comes along!

Prises raising and Patience failing...

Everyone is aware of the risk that Americans have in what it comes to health care.This article is one of the many proves of this concern!

It claims that health care and insurances in America are rising costs, and Americans are also being aware of this failure so they are losing patience with they failing system.

As we go to a hospital waiting room, same as in Europe, we can notice people watching TV while awaiting for their turn, a two-month-old baby, people with chemical burns brought in after a fight with the police, patients with asthma and diabetes, but none of these people have access to adequate medical care, unlike in Europe. And then there is the doctor who says that it is people's fault to be in this critical state, as they don't come in until their health gets to a critical mass.

I guess America is between two extremes: the ones who live in Hollywood and can afford benefits, high insurances, even a visit of a doctor, but then there is the rest (80% population I would say) which cannot afford assistance, such as elderly who cannot even afford prescriptions.

America spends more money on prevention and treatment of disease than ever before, yet it is falling behind on such basic indicators of health as infant mortality and life expectancy.

The US health care system is considered a dysfunctional mess," writes Ezekiel Emanuel, chairman of the department of clinical bioethics, in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

If even doctors find this true, why not start changing the health care environment, instead of being concern only about Global warming as environment problem?

Money, Money, Health!

In Clinton's campaign, she unveils an universal health plan.

The article claims Hillary Clinton setted out an ambitious $110bn (£55bn) plan to introduce universal health care in the US more than 10 years after her earlier failed attempt.

Her main Democratic rivals, Barack Obama and John Edwards, also propose to introduce universal health care, though there are differences.

Will she actually change this concerned health plan? If Clinton wins, I would like this matter to be true, and have my few American friends with a doctor visit if they required it!