The true face of evil?
The Free Liberal
by Paul Jacob
04/16/07
On April Fool’s day, it did command The Washington Post front page. Maybe the story was just a funny joke. But I didn’t get it. The article, ‘Corruption Stains Timber Trade,’ details total disregard for both the law and the environment in a number of repressive regimes — Burma, China, Russia and Indonesia. Logging companies pay off government officials to ransack land supposedly protected. There’s scant regard for private property and lots of looking the other way. No surprise, just another argument against tyranny and repression. But no, the lead quote in this article features an unnamed ‘American environmentalist’ explaining that, ‘Western consumers are leaving a violent ecological footprint in Burma and other countries’...
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002714.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3515163/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Jacob
by Paul Jacob
04/16/07
On April Fool’s day, it did command The Washington Post front page. Maybe the story was just a funny joke. But I didn’t get it. The article, ‘Corruption Stains Timber Trade,’ details total disregard for both the law and the environment in a number of repressive regimes — Burma, China, Russia and Indonesia. Logging companies pay off government officials to ransack land supposedly protected. There’s scant regard for private property and lots of looking the other way. No surprise, just another argument against tyranny and repression. But no, the lead quote in this article features an unnamed ‘American environmentalist’ explaining that, ‘Western consumers are leaving a violent ecological footprint in Burma and other countries’...
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002714.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3515163/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Jacob
rudkla - 17. Apr, 16:03
