Tag: wildlife
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Florida Wildlife Raise More Doubts about Climate Fearmongering
by Paul Driessen, ©2026 (Jul. 19, 2026) — “Scientific studies,” activist fundraising pitches and “news” stories about apocalyptic threats to Earth’s wildlife are as ubiquitous as trees in the Pacific Northwest. Overexploitation and habitat alteration had been the gravest causes of the existential crisis facing Earth’s wild animal species. But now, they assert, “intensifying climate…
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Snuff Out Satan: We Would, but God Hasn’t, for Good Reason
by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2026 (Jul. 8, 2026) — Our son has wildlife in his yard. You do, too. Different from his but menacing, just the same. Jonathan moved to Alaska last year, nearly 30 miles northeast of Anchorage, for work. He lives on a mountainside overlooking a river valley. On any given…
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Greens Detest ‘Little Guys’ who Get in Their Way
by Paul Driessen, ©2024 (Oct. 31, 2024) — Environmentalists insist they love “little guys.” At least in the abstract, until those folks get in the way, raise inconvenient questions, or try to block “renewable energy” projects intended to “save the planet” from “manmade climate cataclysms.” Then the little folks learn the environmentalists are really working…
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Looming ‘Clean’ Energy Disasters off our Coasts
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2024 (Aug. 25, 2024) — Photos of oil-covered seals and birds from California’s 1969 Santa Barbara blowout helped launch the environmental and stop-oil movements. Some 90,000 barrels polluted ocean waters and yet, when I was scuba diving beneath it two decades later, the same production platform support structure once again hosted…
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No, Wildlife is not Teeming with SARS-CoV-2 Virus
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Aug. 14 2024) — The COVID-19 pandemic was met with a high priority on diagnostic testing in managing public health crises. Central to this effort has been the widespread deployment of Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests, widely regarded as the gold standard for detecting SARS-CoV-2. However,…
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RSPCA, Let the Culls Proceed!
October 3, 2022 Dear Editor, “Let the culls begin!” I say to the ever-woke-folk-oriented RSPCA (Roo meat off shelves, HS, 3/10), as I’ve seen many hundreds of kangaroos for tens of kilometres around the Lilydale Gateway to the Yarra Valley where large numbers of ‘roos exist (many a menace) despite British white-fella colonisation! And Alyssa…
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The Social Costs of Carbon Cancellation
by Paul Driessen, ©2021 (Mar. 14, 2021) — Fearing that incessant warnings about manmade climate cataclysms would not be enough to end US fossil fuel use, the Obama-Biden Administration instructed a special Interagency Working Group to concoct a “social cost of carbon” concept. The SCC would “scientifically” calibrate the dollar value of damages that a…
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Ban Neonics – Hurt Farmers and Bees
“WRONGHEADED AND COUNTERPRODUCTIVE” by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (Jul. 12, 2020) — Organic pesticides, and other organic chemicals, are more dangerous to bees … and people The honeybees, bumblebees and other little pollinators swarming over my flowers remind me what important roles they play – and how some misguided folks could inadvertently hurt them. Montgomery County,…
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It’s Never Too Late to Learn to Hunt
“PRACTICE” IS THE KEY by Contributor (Dec. 10, 2019) — Most often sons and daughters learn about hunting from their fathers. However, if you are an adult whose family is not into the whole hunting culture, you may be wondering whether this sport is for you. Not to worry; it is never too late to…
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Nipping a Legal Problem in the Bud
CONSULT WITH ALL AFFECTED PARTIES, TO ENSURE INFORMED ENDANGERED SPECIES AND PESTICIDE POLICIES by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (May 27, 2017) — One of my recent articles predicted that the Fish & Wildlife Service’s endangered species designation for the rusty patched bumblebee would lead to its being used to delay or block construction projects and pesticide…
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UN Habitat III Pushes “Compact Cities”
“THE GOAL OF URBAN PLANNERS” by Bonner R. Cohen, Ph. D., from The DeWeese Report (Oct. 20, 2016) — Dr. Bonner Cohen, a member of the American Policy Center Board of Directors, is in Ecuador attending the UN’s Habitat III meeting – the latest assault on private property. Here is his report. In a world repeatedly…
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The Makings of An American West Rebellion!
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (Jan. 24, 2016) — THE COWBOY’S PROMISE: ”If you push me once, I’ll ask you what your problem is. If you push me again be prepared to defend your life! — Ron Ewart * * * * * * * * * Well,…
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Enviro-Wackos Won’t Be Happy Until the Bundy Militia is Dead!
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (Jan. 17, 2016) — “If you own rural land, the government and the environmentalists want it and intend to take it, regardless of your property rights engraved in the U.S. Constitution.” — Ron Ewart * * * * * * * * *…
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What Happened To the Large Lot Single Family Home?
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2015 (Aug. 23, 2015) — In a little over 230 years, Americans conquered half of the North American continent at great risk and began to spread out. The massive land areas they tamed were equated with freedom, freedom to move freely, freedom to raise…
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Strange Bedfellows in Climate Marches
SOCIAL JUSTICE AND WILDLIFE PROTECTION GROUPS SHOULD DISTANCE THEMSELVES FROM CLIMATE ACTIVISTS by Tom Harris, ©2015, Executive Director, ICSC (Jul. 9, 2015) — Toronto, Ontario became ground zero for North American climate campaigners this week. On July 5, over 10,000 people demonstrated in the city as part of the “March for Jobs, Justice, and the Climate”.…
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The Iceman Cometh?
COULD A QUIESCENT SUN PORTEND A NEW LITTLE ICE AG: A CHILLY ERA FOR HUMANITY AND AGRICULTURE? by Paul Driessen, ©2015 (May 11, 2015) — Mr. Obama, Al Gore and other alarmists continue to prophesy manmade global warming crises, brought on by our “unsustainable” reliance on fossil fuels. Modelers like Mike Mann and Gavin Schmidt conjure…
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Salmon Recovery Forces Landowner To Abandon Her Land!
IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA by Ron Ewart, ©2013 (Apr. 28, 2013) — In the middle of the night Raven heard clanging and banging near her hayfield, down by the tide gates that kept the Grays River from flooding her property at high tide. The tide gates were installed many decades ago near the mouth…
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Hiding the Slaughter
BIG WIND HIDES EVIDENCE OF TURBINE BIRD KILLS – AND GETS REWARDED. HERE’S HOW THEY DO IT by Jim Wiegand, ©2013 (Mar. 18, 2013) — In 1984 the California Energy Commission said “many institutional, engineering, environmental and economic issues must be resolved before the industry is secure and its growth can be assured.” Though it was…
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Deforestation: Our National Forests Are Being Destroyed (PB)
“GOVERNMENT IS THE PROBLEM” by Kirk MacKenzie, ©2012, blogging at Defend Rural America (Aug. 5, 2012) — Most Americans love their forests and have in their minds an image of open, accessible forests with tall healthy trees, open glens with dappling sunshine redolent of cathedrals, and abundant wildlife. That is the image. It is no…