GREEN on the outside, RED on the inside.
Posted on 08/22/2007 3:49:27 AM PDT by FocusNexus
Tonight, PBS will air "Gold Futures," a film by Hungary's Tibor Kocsis. The film focuses on residents in Romania's Rosia Montana, a rural Transylvanian town, who are divided over the benefits of a proposed gold mine. It also features Gabriel Resources, the Canadian mining company trying to convince them to relocate so it can dig for a huge gold deposit estimated at 14.6 million ounces, worth almost $10 billion. PBS describes the film as a "David-and-Goliath story."
Viewers who see pristine shots of the Rosia valley won't realize the hills hide a huge, abandoned communist-era mine, leaking toxic heavy metals into local streams--or that while the modern mining project will level four hills to create an open pit, it will also clean up the old mess at no cost to the Romanian treasury.
As for Mr. Kocsis's documentary, his Flora Film corporate Web site lists as its partners Greenpeace, the Hungarian Ministry of Environment and the George Soros-backed Energy Club of Hungary, all of which oppose the Romanian project on either environmental or nationalistic grounds (Transylvania used to be part of Hungary).
And there's the rub. Rosia Montana needs a cleanup and development. Three-quarters of its 600 families lack indoor toilets, unemployment tops 70% and the only truly viable crop is potatoes. In "Mine Your Own Business," Andrei Jurca, the local dentist, tells Mr. McAleer "we don't need foreign advocates. We are smart enough to take our own fate in our own hands."
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Liberal hypocrisy at its "best".
GREEN on the outside, RED on the inside.
Actually, it's Liberals doing what the strive to do every day: Control every aspect of your life.....try to control their lives and it's a different matter entirely.....
Viewers who see pristine shots of the Rosia valley won't realize the hills hide a huge, abandoned communist-era mine, leaking toxic heavy metals into local streamsI saw part of the show and I thought it was pretty freaking strange when one of the local residents said her only son "died of a heart attack at 18". Now, such things happen, I realize, but I immediately thought of local toxins when I heard that.
Maybe he is looking to get mine stocks on the cheap if the stocks collapse and, then, there will be mining -- too late to help the poor people of that area.
Never listen to what Soros wants; just do the opposite.
What these people reall want is contained in their vapid, meaningless term “pristine.”, They don’t want those people, or you and I to esist, at all. They have beeen working for a return to the medieval world where they will rule giant estates. But who thinks the last people standing would be the
George Soros or algores of the world. Not me. I’d vote for Norman Schwartzkopf to take them out.
In their arrogance, they believe that preserving their 'quaint' lifestyle is a good thing. Makes it easier to keep the peasants in line.
It is a valid question. If there is a true ruling class, currently mostly invisible, would the Greenies be anything other than puppets?
Nope.
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puppets.
That’s from Plato. It’s an ancient perception, and the (possibly real) hidden masters would be just as ancient. One thing for sure, if you aren’t sure about the existence of the HM, you aren’t one of them and won’t make the cut.
“the biggest threat to the people of Rosia Montana “comes from upper-class Western environmentalism that seeks to keep them poor and unable to clean up the horrific pollution caused by Ceausescu’s mining.”
Typical.
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