Yep! Just as cooling can be proof of global warming, trees can be a sign of a desert to Greenies. Happening at the moment in Porto Alegre, Brazil, is a United Nations "conference" on agrarian reform. And to get their rocks off, there has just been a "coincidental" activity:
"About 2,000 protesters on Wednesday invaded a plantation in southern Brazil owned by Aracruz, the world's biggest producer of bleached eucalyptus pulp, and caused what the company said was millions of dollars of damage and losses. The demonstrators, most of them women, said they opposed the mass cultivation of eucalyptus trees near one of Aracruz's four main factories in Brazil. The pulp is used to produce cellulose, the main ingredient of paper. "We don't want the green desert of the cellulose firms. We want a country that produces food," said Irma Ostroski, coordinator for the Via Campesina peasants' organization which staged the raid on the Barba Negra farm in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's southernmost state.
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The result: Aracruz is suspending a projected billion dollar investment in Porto Allegre, which pleases the Porto Allegrans no end. Who wants jobs? Brazil already has huge unemployment. Why not a little more? To the wreckers of the Green/Left, unemployment is fine and dandy. It just generates more discontent for them to feed on. More here
Official British Prudery
In an age where all sorts of "obscene" language is now to be heard everywhere, the British government has banned the word "bloody" from British TVs. Which should make something of a laughing stock of them.
But it gets better: The ban has been applied to an advertisement being run by a government department -- the Australian government's tourism promotion arm. The Australian bureaucracy is like any bureaucracy -- pretty prim and proper. But it is obviously not prim and proper enough for the Brits. The actual sentence (from a tourism promo) that upset the Brits was "Where the bloody hell are you?". You can view the advertisement here. It's a very professional production.
The Australian Tourism authorities are of course delighted by the ban:
"But Tourism Australia was unfazed by the British TV ban, welcoming it as unexpected publicity for the campaign. "It's a bit of a PR dream," Tourism Australia managing director Scott Morrison told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio. "This is a great opportunity to really promote the campaign. We'll be driving people to the Internet like there's no tomorrow," he said
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Incidentally, the title of the woman who imposed the ban is: "Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport". That sounds like something out of the old Soviet or Nazi regimes to me. I am sure that culture and sport could get along perfectly well without government getting its sticky fingers into either. And I won't comment on government censorship of the media!
