"Greening Earth Society" probably refers to increased vegetal production due to increased CO2. Ingenious naming.
Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jed Rothwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 7:33 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Should Congress support cold fusion? I vote no! > Horace Heffner wrote: > >>>Honestly, I disagree with this policy. I do not think that any part >>>of government can or should be removed from the hand of politics. >> >>Well, it was also the goal to get the energy fund entirely out of >>government as well: "When financially independent, and maybe sooner, >>the agency should become a private non-profit corporation, a trust, >>with special legislated benefits and duties." > > First, the people in this Energy Fund fund would be as political as > any other group of people or chimpanzees. Primates all engage in > politics, all of the time. Industry would buy off the Fund managers > as quickly as they subvert members of Congress. > > Second, this would put the Energy Fund beyond the reach of the > taxpayers, where no publicly funded organization should be. The > Japanese economy is in tatters, and the government has the biggest > deficit in the world in percent terms, because large parts of the > budget go to specially established half-public/half-private > "independent" institutions. They answer to no one, and they waste > billions of dollars mainly on lunatic environmental destruction: > megaprojects that dump concrete into forests, national parks, rivers, > and the ocean. About 55% Japanese coastline has been ravaged by this > (Kerr, p. 19), and nearly all of its rivers. No one benefits from > this but the construction companies and the "amakudari" ("descent > from heaven") retired government officials who run the institutions. > They pocket millions of dollars. > > This subject has been dominating the Japanese news this week. The day > before yesterday, the agriculture cabinet minister in Japan hung > himself partly because he was caught with his fingers in one of these > cookie jars. It is called the "Green Forest Society" -- or something > like that. And at 5:00 a.m. yesterday, another retired high-official > from the Society "descended from heaven" in a more literal fashion > than usual, when he jumped off his 11th floor apartment balcony onto > the pavement below. (A little too high but well-and-truly retired.) > > Naturally, the purpose of the "Green Forest Society" is to destroy > green forests and replace them with monocultured cedar trees that > nobody wants, and that cause severe erosion, local plant and animal, > and nationwide sinusitis from pollen, killing thousands of people and > forcing children and old people indoors. By 1997 they have wiped out > 43% of Japan's forests, according to Kerr. They name these > organizations after whatever part of nature they are destroying, > "Friends of the Rivers" "Ocean Partners" or what-have-you, like the > U.S. "Greening Earth Society" which promotes global warming on behalf > of the coal interests. > > - Jed >
