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Malaria atonement and forgiveness: Environmentalists and foundations that support them have much to atone for
By Paul Driessen
Friday, September 28, 2007
During the Days of Repentance, Jews ponder their sins of the past year. Yom Kippur, is their final opportunity to make amends and alter the judgment that God will enter in his books, as the sun sets.
Wind-Driven Delusions
By Alan Caruba
Monday, September 24, 2007
"Wind-Power surge" was the headline of an article by Newhouse News Service reporter, Gail Kinsey Hill. "Demand for turbines generates higher prices" was the sub-title and it noted that, "The supply shortage comes as New Jersey officials have begun planning a windmill farm off the South Jersey coast."
Illusions of Sustainability: Organic Believers Speak Out
By Dennis T. Avery, Hudson Institute
Friday, September 21, 2007
"I read a piece by Dennis Avery in today's Minneapolis Star. Dennis expressed concern that 'organic farms may have concentrated themselves on steep hilly land that is prone to mudslides.' (Organic Farms Suffering Mudslides) I have visited many farmers in the Upper Midwest and I can say without reservation that this assertion is incorrect. Their losses are not due to mudslides but to an incredible amount of rain that caused flash flooding over the entire region." (Rick, Minneapolis)
More Bad News for Bird Flu Chicken Littles
By Michael Fumento
Friday, September 21, 2007
New scientific discoveries keep eating away at the prophecy that "bird flu," avian influenza type H5N1, will become readily transmissible from human to human and unleash a disastrous pandemic. This leaves little but rhetoric to counter the reality, such as massive death estimates.
Birch vs. Aspen; the unexpected carbon outcome
By Joshua S. Hill
Thursday, September 20, 2007
One of the fundamental rules of an issue such as global warming is that there are sub-issues that are going to be overlooked for a variety of reasons. Primarily, and the one we are most accustomed too, is the sheer force of will of some to ignore what is going on around them. However just occasionally we find that we’re killing something unexpectedly.
Neanderthals not brought down by Chill
By Joshua S. Hill
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
The extinction of the Neanderthal has long been a science mystery, reserved for the backroom debates of science conventions and classroom punch ups. Was it modern man wiping them out, was it a sudden climactic change, was it a bad burger? The lists of reasons go on. Thankfully, an international study led by the University of Leeds has managed to cross at least one explanation off the list of possibles.
Be a Vegan or Else!
By Alan Caruba
Monday, September 17, 2007
To put it quite simply, unless you and everyone else becomes a vegetarian or adopts the vegan (no animal products, period!) lifestyle, the Earth is going to come to an end or you will probably die from some horrid disease.
Global warming insanity?
By Paul Driessen
Monday, September 10, 2007
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority," Marcus Aurelius opined, "but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
Pacific La Nina Building?
By Joshua S. Hill
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Scientists with NOAA's Climate Prediction Center in the release of its latest monthly El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Diagnostic Discussion are predicting that another La Nina event is on its way.
Organic Farms Suffering Mudslides
By Dennis T. Avery, Hudson Institute
Thursday, September 6, 2007
A new danger has beset the nation's struggling organic farms--too much rain. Hundreds of organic farms in southwestern Wisconsin and southeast Minnesota were drenched by a foot of rain in late August. The heavy downpour washed out plantings, eroded soil, and damaged fences and buildings. The owner of Wisconsin's Harmony Valley Farm estimated his damages at $300,000.
Future Ice Age Put on the Back Burner
By Joshua S. Hill
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
It comes as a sheer bafflement to me as I try and wrap my mind around the time-frames used to describe what our earth has gone through, and what it has still to encounter. Evolutionary process, ice ages and life spans are all detailed in the millions of years; it boggles the mind!
Rising Population puts strain on Soil
By Joshua S. Hill
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
In a climate where everything is going to accelerate global climate-change, Iceland's President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson has said in a statement "Soil and vegetation are being lost at an alarming rate around the globe, which in turn has devastating effects on food production and accelerates climate change."
Keeping Romania impoverished
Anti-mining campaigns will perpetuate unemployment and environmental degradation
By Paul Driessen
Friday, August 31, 2007
For decades, Nazi and Communist regimes ruled Romania, kept her people impoverished and exploited her resources -- tearing vast mineral wealth from her mountains, with little regard for worker safety, people's health or the environment. When the Soviet Empire collapsed, Romania eagerly embraced a more hopeful future and embarked on a course to join the European Union.
Saving CORE Uganda saves lives
By Paul Driessen
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Dear Friend:I've never done this before -- asked friends to help support an important cause. I am doing so today only because the Congress of Racial Equality Uganda does so much with so little, and truly needs your help.
Testing Produce Won't Stop the Deadly E. Coli
By Dennis T. Avery, Hudson Institute
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Mr. Will Daniels oversees food safety at Earthbound Farm in Salinas, CA—the company that last year grew and packaged the bagged spinach that killed three people, including a 2-year-old boy, due to contamination with E. coli 0157 bacteria. The spinach also sickened at least 200 other people, many with serious kidney failure.
CSPI Lays An Egg
By ConsumerFreedom.com
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Earlier this summer, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) bellyached to the FDA about omega-3-enriched eggs that promised "heart health" on the carton. The group's executive director, Michael Jacobson, warned the press that the promotion would "bilk health-conscious consumers" and "hoodwink shoppers with a myriad of misleading and downright inaccurate claims." But the real consumer confusion isn't over grocery aisle promotions -- it's over health-scare hype.
Ocean Currents under study for Global Effects
By Joshua S. Hill
Friday, August 10, 2007
For those of us who have been hiking up a mountain, there is no denying the ferocity of the wind. Sometimes you might get lucky and not have to tie your hat around your chin, but for the most part, the higher you get, the trickier the wind decides to be.
Can Organic Really Feed the World? Activism Disguised As Science
By Dennis T. Avery, Hudson Institute
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
A new study published in an alternative agriculture journal has gained widespread attention by claiming that organic farming not only could adequately feed the world, it might even yield more food and require less farmland. It is a truly sensational claim.
Corn Facts, Not Corn Flakes!
By Alan Caruba
Monday, August 6, 2007
There's a whole aspect of life in America about which fewer and fewer Americans know anything. It's farming. Some two percent of the population feed the rest of us who have no idea how what they produce gets to our plate. Responsible for everything we eat, agriculture is also an essential element of our nation's economy.
Organic Food Fantasies Never Die
By Dennis T. Avery, Hudson Institute
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Way back in 1946, the esteemed British medical journal the Lancet declared in an editorial that organic fanatics were making health and nutrition claims way beyond what the science supported. Oh how little has changed since then.
Canada Skewers Phony Animal-Rights Seafood 'Boycott'
By ConsumerFreedom.com
Thursday, July 26, 2007
It's that time of year again, when the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) goes north of the border to bully the Canadian government. HSUS says it has organized a massive boycott of Canadian seafood as leverage to force Canada to cancel its annual seal hunt.
PETA Kills Far More Animals than Michael Vick
By ConsumerFreedom.com
Saturday, July 21, 2007
WASHINGTON -- While People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) protests the National Football League today over Michael Vick's dog-fighting indictment, the animal "rights" group is ignoring its own sordid puppy-killing operation, the Center for Consumer Freedom said today. Public records released by the State of Virginia show that PETA itself has killed 14,479 dogs and cats since 1998, including 90 percent of the animals it took in for "adoption" in 2005. And PETA is presently more than 3 months overdue to report its 2007 numbers.
"It's astonishing but true," said Center for Consumer Freedom Director of Research David Martosko. "PETA itself kills helpless, adoptable animals by the thousands out of sheer inconvenience. Why anyone continues to take this bunch of hypocrites seriously is beyond me."
Live Earth -- Dead Africans?
By Paul Driessen
Friday, July 20, 2007
Policies that prevent energy development have lethal consequences for Africa
Promoters claim the Live Earth concerts drew 2 billion fans -- a number equal to people worldwide who still don't have access to electricity. Others say the actual audience was a fraction of that -- a few tens of millions, including via television and webcasts.
Sometimes "M.D." Stands For 'Medical Dodo'
By ConsumerFreedom.com
Friday, July 13, 2007
There continues to be no shortage of kooks on Planet Earth, and more than a few of them of them have medical degrees.
Tour De Farce
By ConsumerFreedom.com
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Saturday’s Washington Post had a surreal yet instructive piece on the uproar in France over -- get this -- the jogging habits of recently-elected President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Green PR Suffers Blowback
By Alan Caruba
Monday, July 9, 2007
In mid-June, the leading newsletter for the public relations profession, Jack O'Dwyer's, reported on a speech given to a Canadian Public Relations Conference by Jim Hoggan, a Vancouver PR practitioner. Reportedly global warming is the top public issue in Canada, even more than the economy and healthcare.
Canadian Climatologist Says Sun Causing Global Warming
By Dennis T. Avery, Hudson Institute
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Another scientist has added his voice to the Global Warming debate. Canadian climatologist Tim Patterson says the sun drives the earth's climate changes—and Earth's current global warming is a direct result of a long, moderate 1,500-year cycle in the sun's irradiance.
Nebraska Research Safeguards Sustainable World Crop Yields
By Dennis T. Avery, Hudson Institute
Thursday, July 5, 2007
The journal Science editorialized on May 23rd that the world is becoming too dependent on Roundup-Ready biotech crops. It claimed agriculture had become as dependent on glyphosate for weed control as human medicine had become on antibiotics. The journal predicted: "There is going to be an epidemic of glyphosate-resistant weeds."
Bird Flu Fear Mongers Get Plucked
By ConsumerFreedom.com
Thursday, July 5, 2007
This week BMJ (The British Medical Journal) published a fantastic editorial on the ever-widening gap between the scientific reality of avian influenza H5N1 (i.e., bird flu) and the apocalyptic worldwide-pandemic predictions churned out by activists. Animal rights groups like the Humane Society of the United States and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have a habit of exploiting public misconceptions of miniscule food-related health risks, and they’ve found in bird flu yet another PR vehicle for their anti-meat message.
Stupid Human Tricks: The Sad Case of the Spotted Owl
By Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center
Friday, June 29, 2007
Environmentalists are quick to lecture the rest of us about the ways of nature. Don't clean the dead trees off the forest floor, it's natural. Cattle and horses on the range aren't native, so let the grizzles and wolves devour them, it's natural. Man isn't part of the ecology, lock him out of vast areas of land, it's natural. It's interesting to note how the "natural" argument only applies when it is used to impose the radical environmental agenda. Case in point, the Northern Spotted Owl.
Food Cops Cheer Over Rising Food Costs
By ConsumerFreedom.com
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Last week's issue of TIME magazine featured an endorsement of America's rising grocery prices. Yes, an endorsement. Claiming that obesity is the residual price of affordable food, TIME reporter John Cloud concludes that "it actually would be good if food cost a great deal more." But growing grocery bills won't bring shrinking waistlines, because personal preferences drive dietary choices more directly than pocketbook concerns.
Activists Play Chicken With Arsenic
By ConsumerFreedom.com
Thursday, June 21, 2007
A recent Milwaukee Journal Sentinel column reminded us just how far some organic food alarmists and small-farm-only advocates will go to push their agenda. Take the Minnesota-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP): If they're to be believed, we now have yet another reason to fear what's on our dinner plates.
China Bars Corn Ethanol Due to High Food Costs
By Dennis T. Avery, Hudson Institute
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
China has just banned further expansion of its corn ethanol industry, after a radical 43-percent increase in pork prices over the past year. Xu Dingming of the Chinese National Energy Leading Group told a recent seminar that "Food-based ethanol fuel will not be the direction for China." The Chinese turnabout comes as President Bush is cheerleading a massive corn ethanol expansion, supposedly to help the U.S. achieve "energy independence."
Bad information breeds harmful legislation
By Paul Driessen
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Ad campaign illustrates how corporate and environmental interests can harm consumers
As Congress continues to deliberate energy and global warming bills, President Bush's new climate initiative has altered the debate, at least at the international level. Clearheaded analysis and accurate information is essential -- or narrow political and economic interests could run roughshod over consumers.
Paying More for Milk than Gas
By Alan Caruba
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Anyone who has been to the supermarket lately knows that the cost of food is increasing. Energy costs have risen 2.9 percent over the past year, but food costs have increased 3.7 percent.
The Physicians Committee's 'Heimlich Problem'
By ConsumerFreedom.com
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Thanks to his eponymous "maneuver," Dr. Henry Heimlich's name is among the most iconic in the medical world. He sits on the advisory board of the animal-rights Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), which named an award after him in 2005.
Marketing Myth Debunked; One Less Bogeyman
By ConsumerFreedom.com
Thursday, June 7, 2007
It's hard for us not to say "we told you so" when a prestigious medical journal and a federal agency simultaneously corroborated one of our longstanding arguments. Over the weekend the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine (APAM; a publication of the American Medical Association) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released separate reports with almost identical findings: American children today do not see more food ads on television than their counterparts 20 years ago.
PETA Kills Animals: The Drug-Laced Update
By ConsumerFreedom.com
Monday, May 28, 2007
Yesterday afternoon in Norfolk, Virginia, the Virginian-Pilot newspaper reported that the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has developed a particular interest in People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
Real Cops Called On Food Cop
By ConsumerFreedom.com
Monday, May 28, 2007
Boycotting motivational programs, demonizing Girl Scouts, and banning birthday cupcakes are just part of a day's work for "executive publicist/advocate for brain, body, libido" MeMe Roth.
Why don't they value human life?
By Fiona Kobusingye
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Activists who oppose DDT prolong malaria, misery and death in Africa
The 2007 World Health Assembly is wrapping up and people are commemorating the birthday of Silent Spring author Rachel Carson. Meanwhile, millions of Africans are commemorating still more deaths from a disease that the chemical she vilified could help control.
A Kind Word for Big Oil
By Alan Caruba
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Is there a politician breathing this summer who has anything good to say about "Big Oil"? If there is one topic that is safe to demagogue, it is the price of gasoline at the pump.
Eight Months to Save the Planet?
By Dennis T. Avery, Hudson Institute
Thrusday, May 24, 2007
The UN Climate change panel says we have eight months to save the planet from massive overheating, huge sea level increases, and millions of lost species. How is the world taking this dire news?
The "Coal is filthy" advertising scam
By Paul Driessen
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Gas company ad campaign could impact US energy policies and consumers
Even in this "era of corporate social responsibility," brazen violations of honesty, transparency and accountability standards occur regularly. Exhibit 1: the recent "Coal is filthy" ad campaign.
Greenpeace pirating Noah's Ark for global warming
By Judi McLeod
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Ageing Greenpeace hippies have made a brilliant discovery: There is money to be made making like Noah of Ark fame and in exploiting the Bible.
Al Gore having co-opted church pulpits in making global warming the new religion and April being colder than expected, new angles to spread the global warming gospel were needed.
Pro-malaria forces resurface at WHO
By Paul Driessen & Cyril Boynes, Jr.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Proposals to ban life-saving chemicals would cost countless lives
The World Health Organization intends to phase out chemotherapy drugs, due to concerns about their health effects, WHO Public Health and Environment director Dr. Maria Neira announced recently. Those effects include anemia, diarrhea, reduced resistance to infection, potential birth defects and hair loss.
Saving Lives the Greenpeace Way
By Dennis T. Avery, Alex Avery, Hudson Institute
Friday, May 11, 2007
The media this week is full of dire warnings about man-made global warming. Greenpeace and the UN say Americans must move quickly to give up 80-90 percent of their current energy use to prevent millions of potential human deaths from an over-heated planet.
Pesticide-Free Schools--Full of Rats and Roaches?
By Dennis T. Avery, Alex Avery, Hudson Institute
Friday, May 4, 2007
Our local radio station is encouraging parents to protest the use of pesticides in our schools. The station is broadcasting "public service announcements" saying pesticides used in the schools are "linked" to cancer, asthma and lower IQ scores among the kids.
Scary Salt Science Needs To Be Taken With A Grain Of ...
By ConsumerFreedom.com
Monday, April 23, 2007
Recently a team of American researchers unveiled a study linking reduced salt consumption with slightly lower rates of heart disease and stroke. And while we've yet to hear cries of vindication from the anti-salt crusaders at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), you can bet they'll use the results to justify their heavy-handed "solutions" to the nation's salt "crisis." Before they do, here are a few things to keep in mind:
Bill Clinton Brandishes Obesity Myths
By ConsumerFreedom.com
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Over the last six months former President Bill Clinton has transformed himself into one of the nation's most vocal anti-obesity crusaders. Given Clinton's prominence and influence, it's too bad that his calls to action are basically a rehashing of the shoddy science and blame-business-first talking points that have been dutifully employed by obesity scaremongers for years. Case in point: Clinton's speech last Sunday at the National School Boards Association (NSBA) annual conference, during which he warned that the nation's escalating rates of childhood obesity will trigger "a calamitous crisis in health" if left unaddressed.
Rachel Carson and the Malaria Tragedy
By Dennis T. Avery
Friday, April 13, 2007
If Rachel Carson were still alive, April 12 would have been her 100th birthday. All over the Western World well-meaning, but misguided, souls marked that day with choruses of praise for the woman who almost singly-handed created the modern environmental movement. Her book, Silent Spring, warned us that man-made pesticides would kill our kids with cancer and eliminate our wild birds.
Bird Flu: Just The Facts
By ConsumerFreedom.com
4/10/07
The panic over the potential of a bird flu pandemic among humans has died down since England had its first poultry infections in early February. And in the lull, it's become clearer exactly how activists have exploited bird flu fears to advance their agendas.
The War on America's Lawns
By Alan Caruba
4/9/07
I have lost track of when I first noticed that Greens were engaged in a war on chemicals, but it has been a long time. Almost any chemical, whether used in agriculture or for industrial purposes, and even chlorine which is vital to the purification of the water we drink continues to be under attack.
Recalled Pet Food Kills Fewer Animals Than PETA
By ConsumerFreedom.com
Monday, April 2, 2007
We just came from a fascinating event at the National Press Club in Washington. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) vice president Bruce Friedrich did his best to implicate IAMS (a well-known pet food company) in a product recall related to the deaths of a few hundred dogs and cats.
Wolfgang Puck Drinks Animal Rights Kool-Aid
By ConsumerFreedom.com
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
WASHINGTON -- Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck's headfirst dive into the animal-rights movement will eventually backfire, the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom warned today. The telegenic but delusional Puck has announced a wholesale revamping of his menu, based on the teachings of radical animal-rights activists at the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).
Forty years of perverse "social responsibility"
By Paul Driessen
Monday, March 26, 2007
"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean," said Humpty Dumpty -- "neither more nor less."
Lewis Carroll's "Looking Glass" logic often seems to be a guiding principle for environmental and corporate social responsibility (CSR) activists. They claim to be committed to people and planet, not just profits -- and to honesty, transparency, accountability and human health. One would expect that such basic ethical standards would apply equally to for-profit companies and nonprofit advocacy corporations.
Why Hybrid Cars Aren't Selling Well
By Alan Caruba
Monday, March 26, 2007
An article in the March 19 issue of Business Week magazine caught my eye. "Why Hybrids are Such a Hard Sell" was the topic and reporter David Welch began by writing, "Given all the buzz about hybrids, not to mention the greening of the citizenry, you'd think they would be easy to sell. They're not."
The sale of hybrid automobiles constitutes an anemic 1.8% of all vehicle sales, down from a peak of 2.1% in October 2006.
Latest Warnings About Mercury in Fish Completely Ignore New Science
By ConsumerFreedom.com
Monday, March 19, 2007
Recently the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom said that in light of more recent and reliable science, the public should ignore the call for wide-ranging public warnings about mercury in fish issued by the Eighth International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant. During the seven months since the 2006 summit, three new breakthrough scientific reports about the health implications of eating fish have made concerns about mercury mentioned in the conference's "Madison Declaration" largely irrelevant.
Deadly Organic Spinach
By Dennis T. Avery, Alex Avery, Hudson Institute
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Organic food activists are being served a heaping platter of organic crow now that we finally learn last fall's outbreak of deadly E. coli O157:H7 was caused by organically grown spinach.
The New Dark Age
By Alan Caruba
Monday, March 12, 2007
In the 1970s, as a public relations consultant, I helped introduce a new pesticide to the American market. More specifically, to the pest control industry as it was not available for use by the public. It was called "Ficam" and, after having undergone the costly Environmental Protection Agency registration process, it was quickly and widely used by pest control professionals, not just for its capacity to eliminate cockroaches and a variety of other pest insects, but because it was applied with nothing more toxic than water.
