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Shareholder activists violate human rights, CORE charges at ExxonMobil annual meeting
CORE Press Release May 28, 2004 by Congress of Racial Equality Congress of Racial Equality May 2004 For Immediate Release Contact: Niger Innis May 28, 2004 212-598-4000 Shareholder activists violate human rights, CORE charges at ExxonMobil annual meeting “I am delighted that shareholder activists are making human rights and corporate social responsibility keynote topics at this meeting,” […]
Third World Sweatshops: Part II
by Thomas Sowell Townhall.com January 2004 Those who vent their moral indignation over low pay for Third World workers employed by multinational companies ignore the plain fact that these workers’ employers are usually supplying them with better opportunities than they had before, while those who are morally indignant on their behalf are providing them with nothing. Some […]
Time to terminate Big Wind subsidies
The battle over wind energy subsidies in America is heating up. After suffering defeat in four straight efforts to extend the Production Tax Credit, Big “Wind lobbyists have greatly expanded their efforts to secure enough Democrat and Republican votes to transfer still more billions from US taxpayers and ratepayers to industrial wind companies that would not survive without more handouts.
Eco-Imperialism – Green and Gold
by Paul K. Driessen Eco-Imperialism.com April 2004 “What about the people?” asks Fifi Kobusingye, a designer and businesswoman in Kampala, Uganda. “The mosquitoes are everywhere. You think you’re safe, and you’re not. Europeans and Americans can afford to deceive themselves about malaria and pesticides. But we can’t.” “If we don’t use DDT,” adds David Nabarro, director of […]
Eco-Imperialism: Reflections on Earth Day
Eco-Imperialism: Reflections on Earth Day It’s time to focus on the needs of the Earth’s poorest people, say experts at National Press Club event Washington, DC. “Safeguarding environmental values is essential,” Niger Innis, national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality, told journalists and others attending an Earth Day discussion today at the National Press Club. “But we […]
The costs of malaria
by The Washington Times The Washington Times April 2004 Published April 17, 2004 http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20040416-085250-8026r.htm In a remarkable article in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, titled “What the World Needs Now is DDT,” Tina Rosenberg argues that Westerners’ irrational fears of DDT are allowing malaria to take a devastating toll on Africans. The costs of […]
Banned U.S. pesticide could save millions in Africa
DDT Saves Lives by Chicago Sun-Times Chicago Sun-Times April 2004 This is what writer Hilary Spurling says about the female bloodsucker, otherwise known as the flying needle of death: “She is elegantly constructed, miraculously adaptable and prodigiously efficient. She can deposit 30 or 40 malarial parasites in the human bloodstream at a single bite. Within […]
What an Unnecessary Disaster
Last month in Jonizi, South Africa, I watched my friend Jocky Gumede happily bounce his grandchild on his knee. The recent malaria epidemic had subsided, and Jocky was relieved that the child had escaped death — for this year, anyway. Jocky can’t erase the memory of the toll the disease has taken on his family. […]
Africa’s Deadliest Disease
by Fiona Kobusingye-Boynes Eco-Imperialism.com April 2004 Ask an American what malaria is, and he might say it’s a disease you can get from mosquitoes, if you travel to Africa, Asia orSouth America. That’s all. Few could even name one person who has ever had malaria. When my husband took me to a hospital in New York City a few weeks […]
Some Still Can’t Digest Idea of Biotech Food
by Henry I. Miller, MD Investor’s Business Daily April 2004 Anti-biotechnology activists claimed recently that “genetically modified” material (in minuscule amounts) has moved into and thereby “contaminates” conventionally produced seed supplies. As usual, they’re way off-base. In fact, it’s like finding Lexus parts in your Yugo. It’s not surprising that the activists’ claims are misleading. […]