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Bobby and the pig farmers
March 8, 2004
The latest pit of Robert F. Kennedy’s wrath, Polish pork farmers, have issued a lawsuit against the deep-pocketed environmentalist.
At the heart of the lawsuit are allegations Kennedy called their company a "mafia organization". The suit asks that Kennedy be prevented from spreading "untrue and debasing information".
As president of the Waterkeeper Alliance, Kennedy often makes outrageous and misleading claims against American pork farmers.
Last year, Kennedy accused pig farmers of being a greater threat than al Qaeda.
Kennedy has a list of detractors that goes beyond pig farmers. Perhaps one of the most barbed of insults came from Robert Boyle, Founder of Riverkeeper (the predecessor to Kennedy’s Waterkeeper Alliance) who said Kennedy was "very reckless" and has "assumed an arrogance above his intellectual stature."
UN, Deadbeat paper tiger
Who would ever spend $436 for an ordinary hammer, or $640 for a toilet seat?
The federal government in the U.S.A.
The hammer and toilet seat were uncovered by the Citizens Against Government Waste (CAWG), a non-partisan watchdog group, created in 1984 to implement President Ronald Reagan’s Grace Commission recommendations.
These days, CAWG has the United Nations in its sight.
The UN officially came into being on October 24, 1945 with the United States as one of the 51 founding member nations. Now CAGW wants to know how much Americans spend on the international body, and is calling for deep cuts in the $1.8 billion the U.S. sends to the UN.
The US pays an estimated 25 percent of the total cost to run the UN, according to CAWG President Thomas Schatz.
"And what do we get for these tens of billions of dollars? We provide a platform for nations who despise us," Schatz said in a recent letter sent off to supporters.
"We are giving a voice to nations that oppose our American values of democracy, justice, free enterprise and private property rights! In short, your tax dollars are paying for a rag-tag collection of dictators and socialists to propagandize and work against our security and economic interests," Schatz said.
Schatz went on to call the UN one of the "greatest wastes of our tax dollars when you consider that they not only won’t stand behind their resolutions, they fought against us do it for them!"
"The UN is worse than a wasteful, bloated, paper tiger," Schatz said. "The UN is a paper tiger intent on biting the hand that feeds it–the United States of America."
Schatz reminded supporters of his organization that President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell warned the international body that it would lose credibility if it did not act.
Echoing Schatz feelings, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said last year, "I think the days of the UN have come to an end–because they can’t do anything
`Kyotism’ Marxism in another guise
Dr. Andrei Illarionov, President Vladimir Putin’s chief economic advisor, does not mince words when it comes to Kyoto. In fact he calls "Kyotism" Marxism in another guise.
Russia, says this actual survivor of Marxism, is under pressure to say yes to Kyoto from the European Union, Canada and Japan.
"The EU has offered increasing amounts of money to `facilitate’ our decision," Illarionov told National Post columnist Elizabeth Nickson, "and the last amount mentioned was half a billion euros. But when we take a look at the science behind Kyoto, we can’t find it."
According to Illarionov, "Kyoto has a similar smell, a very familiar smell" to Marxism."
"It will become a bureaucratic monster that will decide what happens in every country, their special quotas will throw a net over the world economy, and they will decide who has the right to live and who must die.
"We called our plans Gosplans, they were hopeless, they didn’t work, but their aim was a growing economy. Kyoto is like a Gosplan, but it wants to preside over a declining economy. Kyoto is a death camp. Kyoto is an economic gulag for the world."
Sheriff sinking ships
When Greenpeace founding father Pat Watson is not working an agenda to take over the Sierra Club, he’s pirating the world seas.
Newspaper reporters romantically portray Watson as close as you can get to a 21st-century pirate of the high seas.
Like Bluebeard, he has many deeds better left in the closet.
As the self-proclaimed "captain" and founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, he has rammed ships, sunk them and has been jailed by foreign nations, all in the name of saving the lives of marine animals. In taking over the Sierra Club, he’s furthering his own cause.
He claims that 10 ships his group sank between 1979 and 1998 were illegally hunting for whales.
"It’s no different than policemen apprehending bank robbers," Watson explains. "You have to ram the car to stop them."
Unlike lawmen, Watson carries no badge and is his own self-appointed sheriff.
Kept afloat by public donation, Sea Shepherd flies a skull-and-crossbones flag on its main ship.
The destructive march of the Red Crab
Joseph Stalin may be long dead, but his legacy is making what one expert calls "an underwater desert" of our oceans.
Giant Pacific crabs, brought to Europe by Stalin in the 1930s, have morphed into monster proportions and are now on the march along Norway’s coast–devouring everything in their path.
The monster crabs with claws capable of biting off human fingers are proving too resilient for anything science has to offer.
Energized by a mysterious population explosion of a decade ago, whole armies of the crustaceans–known as the Kamchatka or Red King Crabs–have already advanced about 600 kilometers along the roof of Europe, overwhelming the ports of Northern Norway.
They now number 10 million and have reached the Lofoten Islands off northwest Scandinavia, leaving devastation in their wake.
Northern clams and other shellfish, once so plentiful, that divers could scoop up handfuls, have been all but eliminated.
The survival instinct of the monster crab is part of the problem. Subsisting on a diet of kelp, dead fish, seaweed and fish eggs, it can even digest crushed shells fulfilling calcium needs for its shells.
The Red Lobster and other fish houses could go a long way in dealing with the Kamchatka, but only if environmentalists don’t put them on their endangered species list.
The edge of anarchy
Forget about the fault line taking down entire cities during devastating earthquakes, Britain will be plunged into a `Siberian’ climate by 2020.
Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.
Sound like the script of radical environmentalism?
The latest sky is falling psychology comes from a secret report, suppressed by US defense chiefs and obtained by The Observer.
The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies.
According to The Observer, the threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism is the conclusion of the few experts privy to the report’s contents.
`Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,’ concludes a Pentagon analysis. `Once again, warfare would define human life.’
The report was commissioned by influential Pentagon defence adviser Andrew Marshall, who has held considerable sway on U.S. military thinking over the past three decades. Marshall was the man behind a sweeping recent review aimed at transforming the American military under Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
"You’ve got a President who says global warming is a hoax, and across the Potomac River you’ve got a Pentagon preparing for climate wars," said Rob Gueterbock of Greenpeace. "It’s pretty scary when Bush starts to ignore his own government on this issue."
While the news of being on the edge of anarchy is depressing news for the unwashed masses, it’s convenient for Democratic frontrunner John Kerry, who is known to accept climate change as a real problem.
Scientists disillusioned with Bush’s stance are threatening to make sure Kerry uses the Pentagon report in his campaign.
