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Greenpeace Just Kidding About Armageddon
The Washington Post ^ | June 2, 2006 | Philly.com

Posted on 06/02/2006 3:09:21 PM PDT by thackney

The environmental activist group Greenpeace wanted to be prepared to counter President Bush's visit last week to Pennsylvania to promote his nuclear energy policy.

"This volatile and dangerous source of energy" is no answer to the country's energy needs, shouted a Greenpeace fact sheet, decrying the "threat" posed by the reactors Bush visited in Limerick.

But after that assertion, the Greenpeace authors were apparently stumped while searching for the ideal menacing metaphor.

"In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world's worst nuclear accident, there have been nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE]," the sheet said.

The Greenpeace spokesman who issued the memo, Steve Smith, told the Web site that a colleague was making a joke in a draft that was then mistakenly released.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alarmist; armageddon; armageddonist; energy; environmentalism; environmentalists; gas; globalwarminghoax; greenpeace; greenspirit; nuclear; oil; patrickmoore
Just left in writing what we all knew was their point.
1 posted on 06/02/2006 3:09:24 PM PDT by thackney
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2 posted on 06/02/2006 3:13:48 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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3 posted on 06/02/2006 3:16:18 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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4 posted on 06/02/2006 3:17:26 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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5 posted on 06/02/2006 3:18:35 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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6 posted on 06/02/2006 3:21:35 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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EVERYTIME I hear the name Greenpeace, I think of the scene in Armageddon where Bruce Willis was bouncing golf balls off their ship and complaining that he had sent them a check to shut them up. ROTFL! What a bunch of freeloading frauds.


7 posted on 06/02/2006 3:27:00 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Somebody get Jack a beer! He spent the whole day "fraggin'" Marines!)
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Greenpeace Charged with Violating Alaska Environmental Laws
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=15722


8 posted on 06/02/2006 3:29:45 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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Have you followed the Founder of Greenpeace who change his views...Quote...



Patrick Moore endorses nuclear energy before US Congress

“Nuclear energy is the only non-greenhouse gas-emitting power source that can effectively replace fossil fuels and satisfy global demand.”

—Dr. Patrick Moore, PhD

Statement to Congressional Subcommittee on Nuclear Energy

http://www.greenspirit.com/logbook.cfm?msid=70


9 posted on 06/02/2006 3:32:05 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Caught red-handed.

Just like Dan Rather.

We need to exclaim this every time they try to weasel out of getting caught lying.
10 posted on 06/02/2006 3:33:58 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
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Thanks.

"...no certificate of financial responsibility.

This is probably why they got so upset when the Froggies blew up their other little boat.

11 posted on 06/02/2006 3:34:10 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Somebody get Jack a beer! He spent the whole day "fraggin'" Marines!)
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bttt


12 posted on 06/02/2006 3:35:17 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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High heating bills?

Thank Greenpeace.


13 posted on 06/02/2006 3:35:43 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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The Greenpeace spokesman who issued the memo, Steve Smith, told the Web site that a colleague was making a joke in a draft...

Fake but accurate is funny now? Paging Dan Rather...

14 posted on 06/02/2006 3:36:30 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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