history of mankind."
The first is global warming.
And the second is election fraud in the United States, by the Bush junta, using Bushite corporations, Diebold and ES&S--the electronc voting companies who now control our election system with 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, and virtually no audit/recount controls--in order to manufacture a phony endorsement for waging war over the last oil reserves, instead of responding to the will of the people who want strong environmental regulation and protection (way up in the 80% to 90% range in opinion polls).
As the U.S. goes, so goes the planet.
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There is a third suppressed "biggest story," and it is the collusion of big enviro groups like Greenpeace and the Sierra Club, in the Forest Stewardship Council. The FSC gives a sort of "green label" to logging operations, after a SECRET, PROPRIETARY review process, conducted by private consultants who are paid directly by the logging company. The rules for this "certification" process are extremely lax. The timber industry has basically taken over this group--the FSC (of which groups like Greenpeace are a member)--and has turned it to the purpose of very large-scale, industrial logging concerns, who do massive clear-cutting, use poisonous pesticides, and are logging ancient and virgin forests, and killing off endangered species--all permitted under the FSC's extremely lax guidelines, with virtually no appeal possible.
One such FSC-certified logging company--Swiss-based Precious Woods Amazon--is right now targeting virgin hardwoods in the Amazon, has put in extensive news roads, has doubled its rate of logging, and is pushing the local economy away from diversification, and back toward the mono-economy of forest destruction. The FSC is "certifying" such operations all over the world--against vociferous opposition by local groups and indigenous peoples, which gets entirely muffled by the Big Greens' clout. Industry is thus given a "green gloss" to go after the very last of the world's forests.
Any members of Greenpeace, Sierra Club or other big green groups who support this disastrous FSC "certifcation" program, should object within your groups, and demand that your group withdraw from the FSC.
Greenpeace does a lot of good, in general, and they THINK they are doing some good within the FSC. But they are absolutely wrong on the FSC. They got sucked in. Industry took it over (with the World Wildlife Fund--tied to the World Bank--in collusion). Now they should get out.
The only solution is that the world MUST STOP USING WOOD PRODUCTS. Period. There IS no other alternative. And the biggest and best of our green groups should be saying this. We have GOT to stop using wood. There IS no way to "sustainably log" the world's few remaining forests. And what the FSC is "certifying" is horrendous. Consumers need to know. Citizens need to know. We MUST find alternatives wood. Or we die, and all life on earth with us--as the "lungs of our planet," the forests, disappear. That is the choice.
The U.S. corporate news monopolies are lying about this, as they lie about everything else. We need to, a) restore our right to vote, by throwing Diebold and ES&S election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' NOW, and re-establishing our sovereignty as a people; b) get on an accelerated program to save our planet; and c) bust the corporate news monopolies and the war profiteers.
See:
FSC is misleading consumers
http://www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin/64/FSC.htmlDon't Buy It: Forest Stewardship Council's Green Timber Labels 'Flawed'
OVERVIEW & COMMENTARY by Forests.org
http://forests.org/archived_site/today/recent/2002/agrcampa.htmTrading in Credibility: Myth & Reality of the FSC (there is a section on Precious Woods Amazon)
http://rainforestfoundationuk.org/s-Search?searchstring=trading+in+credibilityReform of the Forest Stewardship Council
http://rainforestfoundationuk.org/s-Reform%20of%20the%20Forest%20Stewardship%20CouncilTimber Certification Tainted, Forest Group Alleges
http://forests.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=17849For info on FSC activities in northern California (and some in connection with Precious Woods Amazon), see:
The Forest Stewardship Council strikes again!
www.gapsucks.org
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(Note: Most of these reports are 2002-ish. Unfortunately, all efforts to reform the FSC have failed, due mostly to the collusion (big financial interests) of the World Wildlife Fund. The FSC is even worse today. The world's forests are one of our bulwarks against global warming and climate disruption, and other kinds of pollution. 80% of the world's forests have been destroyed or severely damaged and depleted over the last 100 years. 80%! And NOW they start talking about "green logging"--with massive clear-cutting and pesticide use, no less. Give me a break.)