Tuesday, June 24, 2014

India cracks down on Greenpeace

Expect to see more of this sort of thing:
Indian Home Ministry places curbs on each foreign donation
Following an Intelligence Bureau (IB) report that alleged foreign-funded NGOs were creating obstacles to India’s economic growth, the Home Ministry has clamped down on Greenpeace, an international campaign group present in 40 countries.

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In a letter dated 13th June, the Ministry has directed the Reserve Bank of India that all foreign contributions originating from Greenpeace International and Climate Works Foundation — two principal international contributors to Greenpeace India Society — must be kept on hold until individual clearances are obtained from the Ministry for each transaction.
Quite frankly, India has correctly identified the problem, which is rich Progressives in the west trying to keep the Emerging World's populations poor and hungry.  Good for them taking action against Greenpeace.  Now Europe needs to do the same thing:
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), and former premier of Denmark, told the Chatham House thinktank in London on Thursday that Vladimir Putin’s government was behind attempts to discredit fracking, according to reports.

Rasmussen said: “I have met allies who can report that Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so-called non-governmental organisations - environmental organisations working against shale gas - to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas.”
What - a bunch of Euro dirty hippies in cahoots with Socialist military intelligence?  That's crazy talk.

2 comments:

Brad said...

Greenpeace has long since lost its way. It was, once upon a time, an organization with a purpose. Even one of their founders thinks their current positions are nuts.

It has mostly succumbed to Pournelle's Iron Law. What little purpose remains has been taken over by fanatics who are simply enemies civilization.

Anonymous said...

I hope India does better against them than France did.