Former Secret Service agents and cops spied on Greenpeace and other green groups for corporations
MOTHER JONES Exclusive: Cops and Former Secret Service Agents Ran Black Ops on Green Groups
Meet the private security firm that spied on Greenpeace and other environmental outfits for corporate clients. A tale of intrigue, infiltration, and dumpster-diving.
By James Ridgeway
Additional reporting by David Corn, Jennifer Wedekind, Daniel Schulman, and Nick Baumann
April 11, 2008
A private security company organized and managed by former Secret Service officers spied on Greenpeace and other environmental organizations from the late 1990s through at least 2000, pilfering documents from trash bins, attempting to plant undercover operatives within groups, casing offices, collecting phone records of activists, and penetrating confidential meetings. According to company documents provided to Mother Jones by a former investor in the firm, this security outfit collected confidential internal records—donor lists, detailed financial statements, the Social Security numbers of staff members, strategy memos—from these organizations and produced intelligence reports for public relations firms and major corporations involved in environmental controversies. Read article ...
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/04/firm-spied-on-environmental-groups.html
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April 12, 2008
The World Bank's carbon credit scam
Published on Friday, April 11, 2008 by Inter Press Service
World Bank “Playing Both Sides of Climate Crisis”
By Haider Rizvi
NEW YORK - A new study released by an independent policy think tank casts further doubts on the World Bank’s ability to stay neutral in the global politics of climate change.
“It is making money off of causing the climate crisis and then turning around and claiming to solve it,” charged Janet Redman, the study’s lead author and a researcher at the Institute for Policy Studies. In releasing the 79-page report Thursday, Redman described the World Bank’s role in the so-called carbon markets as “dangerously counterproductive” to international efforts to tackle climate change. Carbon markets refer to commercial aspects of environmental responsibility, in which energy companies can either agree to cut carbon emissions or buy the right to keep polluting. The report, entitled “World Bank: Climate Profiteer”, shows that instead of encouraging clean energy investors, the bank is lending much of its financial support to the fossil fuel industry. “It’s playing both sides of the climate crisis,” said Redman, noting that in just past two years the bank loaned no less than 1.5 billion dollars to companies investing in fossil fuels. The scientific community has repeatedly warned that drastic reduction in the use of oil, gas, and coal is a must to avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change.
The bank claims it is an “honest broker” of carbon deals, but the study’s authors say their findings do not validate that assertion. Read article ...
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41943
World Bank “Playing Both Sides of Climate Crisis”
By Haider Rizvi
NEW YORK - A new study released by an independent policy think tank casts further doubts on the World Bank’s ability to stay neutral in the global politics of climate change.
“It is making money off of causing the climate crisis and then turning around and claiming to solve it,” charged Janet Redman, the study’s lead author and a researcher at the Institute for Policy Studies. In releasing the 79-page report Thursday, Redman described the World Bank’s role in the so-called carbon markets as “dangerously counterproductive” to international efforts to tackle climate change. Carbon markets refer to commercial aspects of environmental responsibility, in which energy companies can either agree to cut carbon emissions or buy the right to keep polluting. The report, entitled “World Bank: Climate Profiteer”, shows that instead of encouraging clean energy investors, the bank is lending much of its financial support to the fossil fuel industry. “It’s playing both sides of the climate crisis,” said Redman, noting that in just past two years the bank loaned no less than 1.5 billion dollars to companies investing in fossil fuels. The scientific community has repeatedly warned that drastic reduction in the use of oil, gas, and coal is a must to avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change.
The bank claims it is an “honest broker” of carbon deals, but the study’s authors say their findings do not validate that assertion. Read article ...
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41943
April 11, 2008
Listen online: New Zealand family joins Long Walk, on Earthcycles
Photo: Family from New Zealand, just off the cold Hwy 50 on the Longest Walk, will be onair on Earthcycles radio today, Friday. Photo at the Cimarron, Kansas, Library by Brenda NorrellGood Morning from Cimarron, Kansas,
Listen to http://www.earthcycles.net/ and meet a family that just arrived and joined the Longest Walk from New Zealand. We'll be talking with Sharon Heta, Maori/Tuhoe Nation, Michael Lane, Menominee and children Merehuka, Rangitau, TeRuihi.
Welcome to the Longest Walk.
Earthcycles is live at 10 am Pacific; 11 am Mountain; 12 am Central Time and 1 pm Eastern Time on weekdays, weekends during special events on the Longest Walk
Listen to http://www.earthcycles.net/ and meet a family that just arrived and joined the Longest Walk from New Zealand. We'll be talking with Sharon Heta, Maori/Tuhoe Nation, Michael Lane, Menominee and children Merehuka, Rangitau, TeRuihi.
Welcome to the Longest Walk.
Earthcycles is live at 10 am Pacific; 11 am Mountain; 12 am Central Time and 1 pm Eastern Time on weekdays, weekends during special events on the Longest Walk
Read about the Maori sovereignty movement following the police raids in New Zealand:
Te Kotahi a-Tuhoe
Western Shoshone visit Longest Walk
Western Shoshone spiritual person Johnny Bobb, wife Bonnie and daughters recently visited the Longest Walk. They presented the Longest Walk with a flag of the Western Shoshone National Council to carry to Washington D.C. The family hosted the walkers earlier when they were in Austin, Nevada. Photo Brenda Norrell
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