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Green Economy, Red Herring

"All things can be made compatible by ignoring the basic contradiction between ever-expanding human activity and a finite world. The illusion grows thinner every day."

David Suzuki: A Figure of Left-liberalism — At Its Breaking Point

Image by ‘Mad Love’ Overcoming Doom with Dr. David Suzuki by Andrew...

Rejecting Rio+20 & Other Cocktail Parties

Published on March 28, 2012 Republished June 28, 2012 by Gregory Vickrey...

Fourth World Eye | Public Relations Puppets

"In commenting on the difficulties of Fourth World nations to develop independent of colonial structures like the UN, Dr. Rudolph Ryser — Chair of the Center for World Indigenous Studies — once remarked that where a people lacks the ability to develop politically, they remain unable to advance their own social, economic and human rights. He went on to say the age of colonialism has prevented the emergence of politically strong Fourth World nations, and that the UN promises to permanently lock these nations into a cage of political subjugation."

RIO+20 | Indigenous Leaders in Brazil and Abya Yala Shut Out of RIO+20 Process by United Nations and Elite NGOs

At Rio+20 an unethical, corrupt and unfortunate reality continues to unfold. The reality is that of an escalating, internal Indigenous power game which has now reared its ugly head once again at the Rio+20 conference. An existing Indigenous elitist UN group, comprised/inclusive of acquiescent NGOs, has grabbed control over the funding and "official organizing powers", thus isolating the Indigenous peoples who refuse to bow down to corporate interests and sell out their people.