Tag: insecticides

  • The Real Reasons Africa has Another Locust Plague

    The Real Reasons Africa has Another Locust Plague

    THE UN, ENVIRONMENTALIST PRESSURE GROUPS AND THEIR FINANCIAL BACKERS HAVE A LOT TO ANSWER FOR by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (Mar. 22, 2020) — The ChiCom coronavirus and COVID-19 outbreaks, deaths and responses continue to dominate US, European and Asian news. Meanwhile, a very different infestation is devastating East African crops and leaving tens of millions…

  • Bill to Reinstate Obama Pesticide Ban Ignores Science

    Bill to Reinstate Obama Pesticide Ban Ignores Science

    HOUSE LEGISLATION TO BAN NEONICOTINOIDS IN WILDLIFE REFUGES WOULD HURT BEES AND WILDLIFE by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Jul. 20, 2019) — The battle over neonicotinoid pesticides rages on. In response to one of many collusive sue-and-settle lawsuits between environmentalist groups and Obama environmental officials, in 2014 the Department of the Interior’s Fish & Wildlife Service…

  • For Bee Alarmists, Groundhog Day Comes in June

    For Bee Alarmists, Groundhog Day Comes in June

    WILL ACTIVISTS FINALLY ADMIT THEIR SINS AND BREAK OUT OF THEIR PESTICIDE-BLAMING TIME LOOP? by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Jun. 29, 2019) — Did you think Goundhog Day only comes in February? For anti-insecticide zealots and others in the environmentalist movement who’ve been preoccupied for years with bees and “colony collapse disorder,” it actually comes every…

  • Enemies of Humanity

    Enemies of Humanity

    MOSQUITOES AND UNCARING ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS PERPETUATE POVERTY, DISEASE AND DEATH by Steven Lyazi, ©2017       (Jul. 26, 2017) — After being infected again with malaria last July, I spent almost a month in a Kampala hospital. Paying for my treatment was extremely difficult, as it is for most Ugandan and African families. I was lucky I…

  • Another Good Target for EPA Reform

    Another Good Target for EPA Reform

    EUROPE GIVES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION EXCELLENT TUTORIALS ON HOW NOT TO REGULATE PESTICIDES by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Dec. 21, 2016) — With reform-minded folks in charge of the Executive and Legislative Branches, unelected, unaccountable, un-removable bureaucrats may soon be exerting far less power over our policies, regulations, lives and livelihoods. Energy and climate are high on…

  • Don’t Bee-lieve the Latest Bee-pocalypse Scare

    Don’t Bee-lieve the Latest Bee-pocalypse Scare

    NOW WILD BEE JUNK SCIENCE AND SCARE STORIES DRIVE DEMANDS FOR ANTI-PESTICIDE REGULATIONS by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Aug. 27, 2016) — As stubborn facts ruin their narrative that neonicotinoid pesticides are causing a honeybee-pocalypse, environmental pressure groups are shifting to new scares to justify their demands for “neonic” bans. Honeybee populations and colony numbers in…

  • Endangering our Citrus Industry

    Endangering our Citrus Industry

    APPEALS COURT DECISION MAKES IT HARDER TO PROTECT TREES FROM A DEVASTATING CITRUS DISEASE by Paul Driessen, ©2015 (Nov. 22, 2015) — Florida’s citrus harvest has plummeted 60 percent from ten years ago, because of citrus greening disease, a bacterial infection that causes trees to produce stunted fruit and eventually die. The disease has also been…

  • Bee Facts Changed – Green Agendas Did Not

    Bee Facts Changed – Green Agendas Did Not

    ACTIVISTS AND WHITE HOUSE APPEAR READY TO PRESENT NEW JUSTIFICATIONS FOR UNJUSTIFIED POLICIES by Paul Driessen, ©2015 (May 16, 2015) — The White House finally appears ready to announce conclusions and policy recommendations from the Pollinator Task Force it appointed a year ago. Environmentalist groups eagerly await the decision. After clamoring and campaigning for years…

  • Radical Environmentalism’s Death Campaigns

    Radical Environmentalism’s Death Campaigns

    ITS ANTI-DDT WAR IS A LETHAL “DEATH-RATE SOLUTION” IMPOSED ON THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES by Paul Driessen, ©2015 (Mar. 22, 2015) — The terms racism, white supremacy, crimes against humanity are bandied about so often that they have become almost meaningless. But they are absolutely appropriate in an arena where they are too rarely applied: radical environmentalism’s…

  • To Bee or Not to Bee

    To Bee or Not to Bee

    REPORTS OF HONEYBEES RAPIDLY DISAPPEARING ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED by Paul Driessen, ©2013 (Sep.9, 2013) — Activist groups continue to promote scary stories that honeybees are rapidly disappearing, dying off at “mysteriously high rates,” potentially affecting one-third of our food crops and causing global food shortages. Time magazine says readers need to contemplate “a world without bees,”…

  • A Bee in Their Bonnet

    A Bee in Their Bonnet

    ANTI-PESTICIDE ACTIVISTS FALSELY BLAME NEW PESTICIDES FOR BEE COLONY PROBLEMS by Paul Driessen, ©2013 (May 19, 2013) — Chemophobic anti-pesticide groups are at it again. This time they’re attacking a widely used and safe new insecticide, but their assertions and real agendas are nothing new. Radical environmentalism rose to ascendancy on opposition to pesticides, specifically DDT.…