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Greens shackle national security – and renewable energy

“China’s control of a key minerals market has US military thinkers and policy makers worried about access to materials that are essential for 21st-century technology like smartphones – and smart bombs,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Plus stealth fighter jets, digital cameras, computer hard drives – and wind turbine magnets, solar panels, hybrid and electric car batteries, compact fluorescent light bulbs, catalytic converters, and more. China’s dominance in mining and processing 17 “rare earth” metals “has raised alarms in Washington,” says the Journal. These unique metallic elements have powerful magnetic properties that make them sine qua non for high-tech, miniaturized and [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2013-10-04T12:01:09-04:00October 4th, 2010|Comments Off

U.S. reduces dependence on foreign cobalt

Cobalt, a precious metal that has all but disappeared from production in the United States, is on the verge of a big American comeback.After years of clearing one bureaucratic hurdle after another, Formation Minerals, Inc., a Canadian mining company, is moving ahead with plans to open a cobalt mine in east central Idaho, about 40 miles west of Salmon. When the mine opens for business in late summer of 2011, it will produce about 1,500 tons of high-purity cobalt metal per year. The mine, dubbed the Idaho Cobalt Project, is expected to be in operation for at least ten years.Cobalt is [...]

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2010-10-01T12:25:44-04:00October 1st, 2010|Comments Off

Federal government’s land grab faces growing resistance

Fearful that the federal government’s already pervasive presence in their state could expand dramatically, Montanans are rising up against another looming Washington land grab.Over 200 angry citizens recently gathered in a high school gymnasium in Lewiston, where Rep. Denny Rehberg (R) told them, according to the Great Falls Tribune (Aug. 21): “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I don’t trust ‘em.”The “’em” Rehberg referred to are officials at the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Earlier this year, a 21-page “treasured landscape” memorandum prepared by top BLM officials was leaked to members of the [...]

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2010-09-27T08:59:35-04:00September 27th, 2010|Comments Off

Renewables are unsustainable

Seek a sustainable future! Wind, solar and biofuels will ensure an eco-friendly, climate-protecting, planet-saving, sustainable inheritance for our children. Or so we are told by activists and politicians intent on enacting new renewable energy standards, mandates and subsidies during a lame duck session. It may be useful to address some basic issues, before going further down the road to Renewable Utopia. First, when exactly is something not sustainable? When known deposits (proven reserves) may be depleted in ten years? 50? 100? What if looming depletion results from government policies that forbid access to lands that might contain new deposits – as [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2012-11-01T13:58:55-04:00September 21st, 2010|1 Comment

3 billion and counting

"We will eradicate malaria by 2010," stricken families were promised a few years ago. Well, 2010 is nearly gone and, instead of eradication, we have more malaria than before … and a new target date: 2015. Unless malaria control policies change, that date too will come and go. Billions will still be at risk of getting malaria. Hundreds of millions will continue getting the disease. Millions will die or become permanently brain-damaged. And poverty and misery will continue ravaging Third World communities. For years, malaria strategies have been dominated by insecticide-treated bed nets, Artemisia-based drugs, improved diagnostics and hospitals, educational campaigns, [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2012-10-24T18:16:38-04:00September 13th, 2010|Comments Off

Climate change and renewable energy movements falter

It’s been a rough few weeks for the “eco-progressive” fringe.Static jet streams induced near-record high temperatures in parts of the United States and Russia, but extreme cold pummeled Seattle, England and much of the Southern Hemisphere. Perhaps Al Gore, Michael Mann and Rajendra Pachauri can turn this hodgepodge into “catastrophic climate change,” but most folks understand it as Mother Nature and weather. Polls and news accounts find more Americans, Europeans and other people becoming weary and skeptical of “manmade global warming disaster” claims, convinced that natural forces are the primary cause of recurrent climate change, and unwilling to accept soaring energy [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2010-09-09T13:28:21-04:00September 9th, 2010|Comments Off

Eco-terrorism hits Maryland: ‘Inconvenient Terrorist’ latest in long line

James Lee, the gunman and hostage taker who was shot and killed by a SWAT team in the Discovery Channel Building in Silver Spring, Maryland, is the latest of a long line of eco-terrorists who have killed and maimed innocent people for over three decades.The quick and decisive action by the Montgomery County Police Department enabled Lee’s three hostages to escape unharmed, a happy ending to an incident that brought the scourge of eco-terrorism to the gates of the nation’s capital. Before he met his end, Lee issued a manifesto which contained a set of demands aimed at the Discovery Channel. [...]

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2010-09-02T06:37:13-04:00September 2nd, 2010|Comments Off

An Inconvenient Terrorist

Police report that James J. Lee stormed the Discovery Channel Building today and held hostages at gunpoint for four hours today before being shot and killed by police. Lee, “the inconvenient terrorist,” was “awakened” after watching former Vice President Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. Lee issued a lengthy manifesto which shows the degree to which he was influenced by Gore and other radical green campaigners. Taken together Lee's manifesto seems the rantings of a madman, but we who follow these issues closely have seen the bulk of these demands before issued by one radical environmental campaigner after another. Lee's manifesto (click [...]

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|2010-09-01T16:00:48-04:00September 1st, 2010|Comments Off

Howard Stern: ‘Bring back DDT!’

**WARNING** AUDIO CLIP INCLUDES STRONG LANGUAGE **WARNING** Click here if the player doesn't work Howard Stern, radio personality and host of The Howard Stern Show, one of the most popular and influential radio programs in America, is calling for the insecticide DDT to be brought back to battle the bedbugs in New York and the malarial mosquitos in Africa. "It's time for this nonsense to stop," Stern declared. He praised an article by CFACT senior policy advisor Paul Driessen and quoted from it extensively to support his case. Driessen recently wrote about the drastically different consequences the ban on DDT [...]

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|2010-08-25T09:22:06-04:00August 25th, 2010|Comments Off

New York’s bedbugs vs. Africa’s malaria crisis

“Don’t let the bedbugs bite” is no longer a fashionable good-night wish for Big Apple kids, even in the city’s high-rent districts and posh hotels. Growing infestations of the ravenous bloodsuckers have New Yorkers annoyed, anguished, angry about officialdom’s inadequate responses, and “itching” for answers.Instead, their Bedbug Advisory Board recommends a bedbug team and educational website. Residents, it advises, should monitor and report infestations. Use blow dryers to flush out (maybe 5% of) the bugs, then sweep them into a plastic bag and dispose properly. Throw away (thousands of dollars worth of) infested clothing, bedding, carpeting and furniture.Hire (expensive) professionals who [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2010-08-21T10:19:36-04:00August 21st, 2010|Comments Off

Empowering the poor in the Yucatan jungle

By Duggan FlanakinIn the heart of the Yucatan jungle lies the village of Becan, where CFACT recently sent a team to make a documentary film that demonstrates the principles of economic empowerment. CFACT developed these principles five years ago through its international social entrepreneurship program. Aldesus AC, a Mexican nonprofit organization that focuses on assisting the poor in their quest for a better life, was inspired by CFACT’s vision and is now in the early stages of a major effort to help Becan’s residents improve their standard of living. Aldesus founder, Sara Andrade, explained that the Becan project involves a two-way [...]

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Christina Norman

|2021-06-28T11:28:38-04:00August 13th, 2010|Comments Off

Target: Monckton

Have you noticed the kicking around that CFACT Advisor Lord Christopher Monckton's been getting lately? Add to the title “Viscount of Brenchley,” “whipping boy du jour.” Seldom a recent day goes by without some new name calling or conspiracy theory attacking Lord Monckton echoing through the left-wing blogosphere. Why is Chris Monckton the victim of a global warming attack campaign? Effectiveness.

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CFACT

|2012-10-30T12:29:45-04:00August 12th, 2010|Comments Off

EPA set to crack down on farm dust

As if fickle weather and a sluggish economy weren’t enough to worry about down on the farm, America’s farmers may soon be facing a new threat to their livelihood: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).EPA’s regulatory machine is moving ever closer to imposing more stringent limitations on the amount of dust farmers will be allowed to kick up while plying their trade. Specifically, EPA is proposing a new standard for particulate matter (PM) that will be twice as stringent as the current one. The Clean Air Act requires EPA every five years to review its regulations that fall under the National [...]

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2010-08-09T07:35:44-04:00August 9th, 2010|Comments Off

Environmental scientist bails out of global warming movement

Physicist Dr. Denis Rancourt, a former professor and environmental science researcher at the University of Ottawa, has officially bailed out of the man-made global warming movement.In a hard-hitting and exclusive new exclusive video just released by Climate Depot, Dr. Rancourt declares that the entire man-made global warming movement is nothing more than a “corrupt social phenomenon.” “It is as much psychological and social phenomenon as anything else,” Rancourt, who has published peer-reviewed research, explained in a June 8, 2010 essay.“I argue that by far the most destructive force on the planet is power-driven financiers and profit-driven corporations and their cartels backed [...]

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Marc Morano

|2010-07-28T11:50:16-04:00July 28th, 2010|1 Comment

Rural Georgia blacks demand feds return expropriated land

Descendants of black property owners in Georgia whose land was seized by the federal government at the beginning of World War II are locking horns with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS). The black landowners want the government to give back what it took, and bureaucrats at FWS want to hold on to what they have.At issue is the Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge, a 2,800-acre preserve in coastal Georgia, about 40 miles south of Savannah. In 1865, a plantation owner deeded the property, known as Harris Neck, to a former slave. Over the years, other former slaves settled in [...]

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2010-07-19T15:54:16-04:00July 19th, 2010|Comments Off