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To: lorne who wrote (39053)	11/25/2009 5:19:45 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

WND threatens U.N. with suit over Copenhagen coverage Global climate-change convention refuses to issue press credentials to news agency November 25, 2009 © 2009 WorldNetDaily wnd.com NEW YORK – Attorneys for WND today threatened the United Nations with a lawsuit for its refusal, thus far, to issue press credentials for coverage of the global climate-change convention next month in Copenhagen. WND's senior staff writer Jerome Corsi has been seeking the credentials from the U.N. Framework Convention for Climate Change for weeks – providing all of the documentation requested and establishing his bona fides as a full-time reporter for the largest independent English-language Internet news organization in the world. Until today, despite repeated requests, the UNFCCC had refused to acknowledge whether Corsi, a two-time No. 1 New York Times bestselling author, will be permitted to attend the meetings that have been hailed by organizers as a major step forward in "global governance." The UNFCCC press office sent an e-mail to Corsi today insisting the agency had not responded because it is dealing with more than 4,000 applications and must "examine each on a case-by-case basis." "We regret that you have had to wait so long; however, it is not for any political reason. We would be happy to refer your application to New York for further consideration," the e-mail said. "It takes time to make arrangements to travel to Copenhagen for an extended period, and I began to believe the U.N. was stalling," said Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of WND. "So we are formally putting the U.N. on notice that we will not accept its non-decision lying down." The conference begins Dec. 7. "Your refusal to respond to these contacts leads to the conclusion that UNFCCC believes that if it ignores Dr. Corsi, he 'will go away,'" wrote Gary Kreep of the U.S. Justice Foundation. "Nothing can be further from the truth. If he is denied press credentials to this event as a result of the acts, or omissions, of UNFCCC, litigation will ensue that will result in substantial negative press coverage for UNFCCC, and for the attendees at the Copenhagen Conference as well. The specter of UNFCCC trying to allow attendance at the conference only of journalists who will report in what UNFCCC views to be a positive manner on the conference will not sit well with the American public, no matter what the outcome of the litigation." Last year, the Department of Transportation barred Corsi from attending a news conference in which Secretary Mary Peters defended the controversial Bush administration program allowing Mexican trucks to travel freely on U.S. roads. Corsi, however, received White House press credentials to attend summits of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America in Quebec and in New Orleans. Last weekend, the first president of the European Union, Herman Van Rompuy affirmed in a speech captured by the BBC his belief that "2009 is the first year of global governance with the establishment of the G20 in the middle of the financial crisis. The climate conference in Copenhagen is another step toward the global management of our planet." Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, asserts the real purpose of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen Dec. 7-18 is to use concern over "global warming" as a pretext to lay the foundation for a one-world government. At the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen "this December, weeks away, a treaty will be signed," Monckton told a Minnesota Free Market Institute audience at Bethel University in St. Paul. Monckton warned that President Obama supports the idea and is ready to sign on the dotted line. "Your president will sign it," he said. "Most of the Third World countries will sign it, because they think they're going to get money out of it. Most of the left-wing regimes from the European Union will rubber-stamp it. Virtually nobody won't sign it. I read that treaty and what it says is this: that a world government is going to be created. The word 'government' actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity." He has warned the proposal would cede U.S. sovereignty, mandate a massive wealth transfer from the United States to pay reparations for "climate debt" to Third World countries and create a new "world government" to enforce the treaty's provisions. Meanwhile, in recent days, as WND reported, documents and e-mails retrieved by a computer hacker from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit indicate top climate-change scientists have manipulated data to hide cooling trends and worked together to marginalize scientists with opposing views. The U.S. Senate's leading global-warming skeptic says he plans to demand an investigation into the allegedly fraudulent data manipulation unveiled at the highly influential British research center. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., said he knew scientists were "cooking" information years ago. The e-mails, he said, were the proof, and now something needs to be done. "It is pretty serious," Inhofe said. "And since, you know, Barbara Boxer is the chairman and I'm the ranking member on Environment and Public Works, if nothing happens in the next seven days when we go back into session a week from today that would change this situation, I will call for an investigation. Inhofe said he would ask for an investigation into the United Nations and its climate-change committee "on the way they cooked the science to make this thing look as if the science was settled, when all the time of course we knew it was not."

To: lorne who wrote (39053)	9/3/2010 11:26:46 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Media Bias Gets Dangerous: Minimizing the Ecoterror Threat They are over and done with the topic of James J. Lee, despite the mounting number of attacks committed in the name of environmentalism. by Patrick Richardson September 3, 2010 Whether or not James J. Lee, who invaded the corporate offices of the Discovery Channel Wednesday armed with explosives and a gun, was a terrorist or not would seem to be open to debate. Certainly PJM has been unable to discover any ties between Lee and any known ecoterror group — despite his radical environmentalist manifesto. At the same time, groups such as the Animal Liberation Front could be expected to disavow any connection to him. As PJM reported earlier this week, the operational model groups such as ALF use would preclude them from taking responsibility for incidents where a human being was harmed or potentially harmed. PJM did contact Dr. Jerry Vlasak, spokesman for North American Animal Liberation Press Office — an ALF front organization — to pose that very question: We haven’t heard of him. … We do not approve of his methods. … I’m not going to say we don’t agree with some of his ideology, but there is no reason to believe he’s part of the animal liberation struggle. This incident does serve to point out the real potential for violence from the environmental movement. More troubling is the fact that Lee — who had a long-running grudge with the Discovery Channel and who spent time in jail on disorderly conduct charges after a 2008 protest against it — was not on some sort of watch list. Such as the kind advocated for “right-wing extremists” by a Department of Homeland Security document last year. Lee claimed to be inspired by a book, Ishmael, written by Daniel Quinn. Regardless, he seems to have been a severely disturbed individual who needed help. With his death, we have only his writings, his manifesto, and the posts on an Ishmael discussion board (found by TheWrap.com) to determine what drove the 43-year-old to pick up a starter pistol, construct eight explosive devices — the four he took to the Silver Springs, MD, location and four more which were discovered and detonated at his house — and take hostages. Perhaps most disturbing? The number of people on left-wing blogs who have ignored Lee’s environmental and left-wing leanings and dismiss him as a nut — which he undoubtedly was — and who deflect along the lines of: “but look at the real violence on the right.” (Of course, without providing examples.) Worse, there are those who seem to agree with him — for example, this comment from a Huffington Post piece on Lee: OilCrash: So what would be wrong with “programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility”? There are way too many people on this planet. My personal motto is “Human beings, no damn good.” The unfortunate reality is that — because of media bias — eco-terrorism will continue to be ignored until someone dies, despite the hundreds of millions of dollars in economic damage already caused by groups like the ALF and the occasional high=profile case such as Lee or Joseph Stack. Recall Stack committed suicide by flying his small plane into an IRS building, after leaving behind a six-page document complaining about the evils of taxes, the IRS, and capitalism, and ending with the phrases: The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed. In the end, Lee was simply a sad, deranged man who pointed a weapon at an innocent life and thereby ended his. Would that all terrorists ended so. pajamasmedia.com