The UN Rio+20 agenda means less freedom, happiness, true justice and human rights progress By Paul Driessen and Duggan Flanakin Presidential candidate Barack Obama promised that his Administration would “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” He gave a clue to exactly what he had in mind when he told now-congressional candidate Joe “The Plumber”…
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Lori Weiss
The Business 9 Women Kept A Secret For Three Decades
By Lori Weiss Somewhere in West Tennessee, not far from Graceland, nine women – or “The 9 Nanas,” as they prefer to be called – gather in the darkness of night. At 4 a.m. they begin their daily routine – a ritual that no one, not even their husbands, knew about for 30 years. They…
Paul Chesser
Balance Needed on Coverage of Sea Level Rise
By Paul Chesser Raleigh – Environmental pressure groups, activist scientists, and the legacy media are predictably upset by the movement of a bill through the N.C. General Assembly that requires state policies dependent on sea level forecasts to be based on historical trends, rather than speculative computer projections. The implications for such policies are not…
Kelvin Kemm
Commonsense wisdom from African farmers
By Kelvin Kemm If you want to learn what farmers think (and need), talk to African farmers – not to bureaucrats, environmental activists or politicos at the Rio+20 United Nations summit in Rio de Janeiro. You’ll get very different, far more honest and thoughtful perspectives. The recent (May 24) Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy…
Duggan Flanakin, Paul Driessen
Dodging another UN bullet
‘The Future We Want’ offered sustained power and money grabs in name of sustainability Paul Driessen and Duggan Flanakin The Future We Want outlined a “common vision” for planetary “sustainable development,” as proclaimed by the “Organizing Partners of the Major Group of NGOs,” to guide the taxpayer-funded Rio+20 summit that ended last week in disarray…
One Nation under God
Guess our national leaders didn’t expect this
Guess our national leaders didn’t expect this, hmm? On Thursday, Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton , Colorado , was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee. What he said to our national leaders during this special session of Congress was painfully truthful.…