Corporations Masquerading as 'Activism'.

Sacred art at Uluru

Many people refer to this as the "Controlled Opposition".  Many years ago in the 1970's and early 1980's many friends of the planet type groups were formed out of a cry from the people of the world to stop Nuclear Testing in the Pacific Ocean and Greenpeace was one of those born out of that era.

Greenpeace word mark Русский: Текстовый символ «Гринпис» (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

There has been a lot of too-ing and fro-ing at the top of Greenpeace and things sometimes have been seen as not as ecologically sound as they profess to be for a number of instants.  Large salaries and various in house fights about ridiculous things. It is said they have been infiltrated by the very people who are the enemy (corporations).   Then this happens. 

Who with any sense would ever have said this was a sensible thing to do?  How disrespectful does this show they have been to the Peruvian people. If this type of incident can happen to the Nazca Lines then I think its a fair question to ask "is Uluru safe from these types of outrageous shows of activism gone mad"?

No charges have been laid.  I wonder why?  Because in my opinion there should some action taken and perhaps charges should be laid against people like this in the future for dealing with people  with no moral fibre who participate in a protest and who do not go to trouble on researching their target to bother to understand the delicate nature of the place.

Nasca (Peru), Astronaut, August 2007 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

There is obviously a severe lack of knowledge of cultural values at the highest levels of Greenpeace for this mess to have occurred.  Greenpeace say they take full responsibility but really will any one ever trust this out fit again. I think this was the idea.  Infiltrate from the inside make wild decisions and before you know it your dead in the water. 

This is how it happens.  I have seen this situation before with other corporations that were starting out good, everybody happy and succeeding and for some reason the best salesmen in the world talk them into changing direction and making decisions that ultimately drive a nail in the coffin of the company or organization.  

"Controlled Opposition".  We could do well to get used to the terminology of this because you will see it a lot more as more truth comes out about how these corporations strings are pulled in places we never get to see.

Nasca (Peru), Condor, August 2007 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Petition against the Carmichael Mine on the Gallilee Basin in Queensland.

The Galilee Basin is a permian geological basin in the western Queensland region of Australia. It is located west of the Surat Basin and is part of the Great Artesian Basin drainage basin. Towns close to proposed mines in the basin include Alpha and Jericho but the basin extends north past Hughenden, south to Charleville and west beyond Winton to Middleton.

~ GREENPEACE PETITION click here ~

Queensland’s ‘in-the-coal-business’ Government is allowing one of the most reckless companies in the world, Adani, to create a monstrous new mine in the Galilee Basin.

It’s so massive that it would even require its very own shipping terminal in – of all places – the heart of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.

We can still stop this. Environment Minister Hunt has the final say, and he could announce his decision at any moment. Join our call to reject the Carmichael mine.

This monster would be seven times the size of Sydney Harbour and would produce enough emissions to eclipse all the carbon emissions of New Zealand every year! Together we can remind our government what’s at stake and stop this disaster in the making.  GREENPEACE AUSTRALIA PACIFIC

Dear Minister,

I am writing to urge you not to approve the Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin. As well as the local environmental impacts that the mine would have, it would require a new coal export terminal at Abbot Point which would require dredging and dumping in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, endangering this precious international treasure.

Just last month, UNESCO cited the dredging and dumping as one of the reasons it is still considering an 'in danger' listing for the reef.
I am also concerned about the contribution this massive mine will make to climate change. The annual emissions that will arise from burning coal from Carmichael are equivalent to the annual emissions reductions your government claims will be made through the Direct Action plan, effectively cancelling it out. Given the threat climate change poses to Australia - and the reef - this should be reason enough to reject it.
I look forward to you acting on behalf of the Great Barrier Reef and the national interest and rejecting the Carmichael coal mine.

Sincerely
Mary-Ellen Peters
Urunga NSW

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Where did Greenpeace come from?

This may well be a question some will ask in the future.  I was around and a teenager of thirteen years old when Greenpeace first protested the Nuclear testing in the oceans.  I do remember this but I really didn't know the history.  Greenpeace was founded in Vancouver, Canada in 1971.  It was formerly known as "The don't make a Wave Foundation"
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Crew of PHYLLIS CORMACK. First Greenpeace trip to Amchitka Island to protest USA nuclear testing. From left to right (top): Bob Hunter; Patrick Moore; Bob Cummings; Ben Metcalfe; Dave Birmingham, (bottom) Richard Fineberg; Lyle Thurston; Jim Bohlen; Terry Simmons; Bill Darnell; John Cormack. First Phyllis Cormack crew off to Amchitka, NW Canada to protest against US nuclear testing. (Greenpeace Changing the World page 27) (Annual Report 1999 page 25) Accession #: 1.71.002.051.42

Here is the story from one of the real Co-Founders... Patrick Moore  and this is from the 
Beatty Street Publishing Inc.  

It makes for very interesting reading and please follow the links to Beatty Steet Publishing Inc for more great stuff on their website.  Many thanks to BSP for this story.