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There can be only one logical conclusion to the anthropogenic global warming campaign: eliminate human beings. Or, at least, reduce to a minimum their number on the planet. Have you had the sneaking suspicion that climate change activists were seeking to suppress every possible life-enhancing human activity from a long hot bath to

Comedian and talk show host Bill Maher had a heckuva time recently with his recent remarks calling America a “stupid country.” (My NewsReal colleague Joseph Klein had a great retort here in which he ripped Maher a new one for the clown’s Anti-Americanism.) On last Friday’s new episode of HBO’s “Real Time” Maher expanded on and defended his initial remarks. As usual the transcript of the evening’s final New Rule was reprinted as a blog post at the Huffington Post, the leftist mega-blog founded by conservative-turned-progressive Arianna Huffington. (Huffington was even on the show as part of Maher’s panel.) New...

...Sir David, 82, said the devastation of the environment has its roots in the first words that God supposedly uttered to humankind, as detailed in Genesis 1:28: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” An atheist raised in an academic, non-religious family, Sir David said Genesis peddled untruths about how animals and plants appeared on earth and was also at the root of why there was now serious environmental degradation...

Not an Agent of the Death Cults Typical agent of the Death Cults: any convicted killer.Process: killer gets a full hearing after full hearing based upon any evidence or grievance or procedure overlooked that a criminal lawyer can dream up. Result: killers, as a class, gain protection. Every effort is made to preserve the life of the condemned man until all appeals have been exhausted. That protection is institutionalized to the extent that justice is delayed to the point that justice is denied. Whatever deterrence that executions have to suppress similar murders by others is diminished. Not an agent of...

CHICAGO -- When David Kelly -- aka "Capital D" -- raps, he doesn't follow the mainstream mantra of women, cars and jewelry. Instead, the Chicago rapper uses his rhymes to dish out praise for Allah, criticize the war in Iraq and blast corporate America. Kelly is among a new group of Muslim rap artists gaining popularity among Muslim-Americans looking for entertainment that reflects both their mainstream tastes and religious beliefs. "Muslims in the United States are not going away. They're part of the culture, but they're not creating their own culture," Kelly says. "I try to show them that you...

Environmental ideology demands opposition to DDT despite the millions of malaria deaths its use could prevent. The West Nile virus deaths being reported across North America are a grim echo of a larger tragedy. Each year a million lives are taken worldwide by another mosquito-borne killer: malaria. Though nearly eradicated decades ago, malaria has resurged with a vengeance. But the real tragedy is that its horrific death toll is largely preventable. The most effective agent of mosquito control, the pesticide DDT, has been essentially discarded--discarded based not on scientific concerns about its safety, but on environmental dogma. The environmental crusade...

he days are long past when the Episcopal Church could jokingly be called "the Republican party at prayer." But the environmental movement, now more than ever, does represent the American Left at worship. The green crusade is now crafting a new way for its own troubling religion to pervert traditional faith. Having fought in federal court to deny its religiosity — and thus continue its life-sustaining flow of taxpayer dollars — the Down With People machine is donning religious vestments and teaming up with the Bush administration to tap the president's faith-based initiative. CNSNews.com reports that "EPA is informally seeking...

Somehow, I thought Sept. 11 might put an end to the witch-hunt against so-called "right-wing fundamentalism." One of the reasons the very real threat of Islamic terrorism was obscured through the 1990s was due to the focus on the unreal threat of "right-wing fundamentalism." Today we know, thanks to the reporting of WorldNetDaily, that the FBI throughout the 1990s was obsessed with "right-wing fundamentalism." Whenever there was an attack – like the Oklahoma City bombing – the assumption was made that it was the work of these home-grown militia types. Evidence to the contrary was ignored. Evidence supporting this misguided...

DDT Delirium [or A Misanthrope's Dream Fulfillment] Pseudoscience: On the Senate agenda is ratification of the Stockholm Treaty, which would virtually ban the pesticide DDT. The payoff is the death of millions. Numbers don't lie. DDT is the most effective means to fight malaria, a mosquito-borne disease. Take India in the 1940s, where 75 million people contracted malaria and 800,000 died each year. By 1961, thanks to DDT, the number of cases dropped to 50,000. In Sri Lanka, DDT use began in 1946. By 1964, the number of cases dropped from 3 million to 29, with zero deaths. DDT came...

The Washington Post reports that a 54 year-old Northern Virginia woman died this Sunday after being infected with the West Nile virus. The woman was Virginia's first death from the mosquito-borne illness. To date, the Centers for Disease Control reports over 2,000 Americans have been infected and over 100 Americans have died as a result of the disease. The suffering and death caused by the West Nile virus is tragic, yet this suffering is made all the more tragic when you consider that the best technology to prevent the spread of the disease has been illegal for 30 years. Despite...

Green Misanthropy, (John) Gray Misanthropy By Todd Seavey What are we to make of green activists who oppose electricity and want most of humanity to remain poor? What are we to make of green activists who would rather see Zambia face starvation than let people eat genetically-modified crops? What are we to make of green activists who promote "voluntary human extinction"? Finally, what are we to make of a philosopher who once held libertarian, pro-capitalist views, later held anti-capitalist and anti-globalization views, and has finally denounced humanity as a plague upon the Earth, openly longing for our destruction as the...

Failed Predictions: book review of 'Betrayal of Science and Reason' by Paul Ehrlich The Ehrlichs have a message--simplistic and wrong; the paranoid title of their book pretty much tells the story: They sense a conspiracy by "anti- environmentalists," who have "successfully sowed seeds of doubt among journalists, policy-makers, and the public at large about the reality and importance of such phenomena as overpopulation, global climate change, ozone depletion, and loss of biodiversity." But there is no conspiracy out there; and if journalists are listening, it may just be that they find scientific facts persuasive. Paul Ehrlich is a professor of...

While we are restructuring our government to rout out terrorists, we need to recognize that not all terrorists worship Allah – we have terrorists in this country who worship the earth, or so they claim. These misguided misfits should rank equally high on the "stop-the-terrorists" agenda. Like al-Qaida, these green terrorists work in small cells, strike in the dark of night, and wreak havoc on what they believe to be unholy. They are as dangerous – and deluded – as the terrorists who become human bombs in Israel, or in New York City. They are often known as the Earth...

With the relentless passion of true believers, self-appointed environmental and health activists are busy promoting a potent new weapon in their ongoing war against business, technology, and progress. Known euphemistically as the "Precautionary Principle," it is the latest manifestation of how these radicals obscure their real intentions by swathing them in the rhetoric of risk, fear, environmental destruction, and utopian dreams of safety through ever-expanding regulation. Begin first by understanding that it is not a "principle" at all. It is the invention of radical Greens and others who conjure up these devices in order to impose their agendas upon the...

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The man who videotaped a police beating near Los Angeles that enraged black leaders and then dodged a grand jury inquiry into the matter was arrested on Thursday as he prepared to grant a television interview. Photos Reuters Photo Slideshows Audio/Video (AP) Mitchell Crooks was taken into custody on warrants issued in northern California for petty theft and drunken driving. Authorities also served him with a subpoena to testify before the Los Angeles County grand jury. Crooks' arrest was videotaped and broadcast on local KCAL-TV, showing undercover officers hustling him into a sports...

It has been my practice for the past seven years to use the words and written material from any group or organization to try and show the American people that the blueprint for the destruction of our nation and our God-given rights is right in front of their eyes - if they would just look. The following is a short excerpt taken from the web site of The Wildlands Project, http://www.wildlandsproject.org/ The Wildlands Project The goal of the Wildlands Project is to set aside approximately 50% of the North American continent (Turtle Island) as "wild land" for the preservation of...

Theory Most of the many Americans who would label themselves as environmentalists, do so on the basis of a genuine advocacy of a proper stewardship of man's environment. Indeed, by such a yardstick we're all "environmentalists" - a conscious desire for a polluted and demonstrably hazardous environment would be patently irrational. Implicit but rarely explicit in such advocacy, is the premise that human health and well-being is at least a, if not the, standard of value and prime motivation. For this reason - and the fact that a majority of people are not versed in philosophy, much less Objectivist philosophy...

"We have got to share this planet with the other living creatures, and sharing means not merely preserving them in zoos or National Parks, but setting aside huge areas. Whole regions perhaps that will be free of human interference. Ideally, I would like to see certain large areas of the planet set off-limits to human entry of any kind, even aerial over flights." -Edward Abbey-Deep Ecology for the 21st Century: The Natural Wonder: An Ecocentric World View. New Dimensions Radio, 1998. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The only hope of the Earth is to withdraw huge areas as inviolate natural sanctuaries from the depredations...