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- From: dyrda@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Richard Dyrda)
- Subject: Re: Greenpeace: Anti-US feelings
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.143849.353@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1992Nov17.161857.24416@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Nov18.031743.1834@hpcvca.cv.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 14:38:49 GMT
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- >In article <1992Nov18.031743.1834@hpcvca.cv.hp.com> abrown@hpcvcec.cv.hp.com (Allen Brown) writes:
- >: Yellow Rain usage in Afghanistan and SE Asia.
- >
- >That was not at all clear. The US Government was unable to prove
- >their case in Afghanistan. How do you expect Greenpeace to do what
- >the $U$S$ could not?
-
- When certain KGB files were opened they had found that they had used it.
- Boris Yeltsin has also apologized about this. Something had to cause
- those massive amounts of bee crap in those areas, unfortunately it was
- Yellow Rain.
-
- >: Eastern Europe, esp. Romania and Hungary and their garbage problems
- >
- >Not true. They *did* protest there. The protests just didn't make it
- >into the US media.
-
- Fair enough, when and where?? On the Danube??
-
- >: It seems that Greenpeace only cares about Capitalistic countries'
- >: eco-faults.
- >
- >Within their limited budget Greenpeace investigates and protests (as
- >appropriate) the countries they have access to. You complain because
- >they do not do the near impossible: invade a hostile country.
-
- Why can't Greenpeace lobby the UN? Why can't they make statements
- regarding other countries (of which sometimes they do)?
-
- >: The US and the free world spend well over $1 trillion dollars
- >: on ours and the world's so-called ecological time bombs. I don't see any
- >: other nations doing this, we are leading the race to help find some
- >: remedies, however it seems Greenpeace doesn't appreciate it.
- >
- >We are not leading the world. In energy conservation the US is dead
- >last in the developed world. Would you like to list some of the areas
- >where the US is supposedly ahead?
-
- The point wasn't energy conservation it was spending $$$$$ on research
- and development. We are trying to help yet people, esp. Greenpeace and
- Sierra Club, never seem to appreciate all their fundings and gov't
- assistance.
-
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