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More on Environmentalism Science, Politics and Deathby Arthur B. Robinson & Jane M. OrientEnvironmental extremism kills. Millions die annually because of restrictions on DDT, and imposing the "Kyoto" regulations would kill many more.Dr. Arthur B. Robinson, a professor of chemistry, is the founder of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, and editor of the newsletter Access to Energy. Dr. Jane Orient, a specialist in internal medicine, has a private practice and is the executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Easily usable energy is the currency of human progress. Without it, stagnation, regression and untold...

USAID Undercuts U.S. Global HIV/AIDS Initiative   This May, President Bush signed into law the Global HIV/AIDS bill (HR 1298). Over the course of the next few years, $15 billion will be spent on new programs designed to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS, and to provide life-extending care to millions infected with the disease. The law mandates that 55% of the overall funding will go for basic medicaltreatment. Even more importantly, 33% of the overall prevention funding must go to abstinence programs. No money would go to groups that advocate the legalization of prostitution. Oversight of the U.N. Global Fund...

Dear Colleague: Ideas have consequences. With a recent surge in media coverage relating to China's one-child policy, it is important to understand the origins of that barbaric program which I first documented in 1979-80. It all began with the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth hoax of the early seventies. A computer simulation of population growth and ecological collapse convinced China's ruling elite to embark on a radical program to cut in half the number of people in China. The population controllers and their radical environmentalist sidekicks bear a moral responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people...

Congressional Action on UNFPA will be a Pro-Life Watershed MomentIn March 2002, President George W. Bush declared, “I said we’re not going to use taxpayers’ money to fund abortion, and I’m going to make sure we’re not using taxpayers’ money to fund abortion.” Later last year, in July 2002, the State Department announced the findings from a team sent to China to investigate reports that UNFPA funds were being used to force women to have abortions, “we came to the conclusion that the UN Population Fund monies go to Chinese agencies that carry out coercive programs.” The State Department report...

Very Bad News for the U.N. Population Fund Since its founding in 1969, the United Nations Population Fund (also known as UNFPA, the acronym of its earlier name) has expended almost $5 billion on population control programs worldwide. In the early days, population control was seen by many as an appropriate response to fears of a population explosion that could doom billions of humans to starvation. Today, with fertility rates in steady decline, UNFPA usually justifies its actions under another dubious and discredited notion — that curbing population growth is essential to achieving "sustainable development" in countries of the developing...

  29 April 2003Volume 5/ Number 13 Dear Colleague: In Africa, nearly 6 out of 10 victims of HIV/AIDS are women. Why does the disease disproportionately strike African women? Because, say the gender feminists at the United Nations, they are powerless to refuse sex with HIV-positive men. We disagree with this ideologically-motivated assessment. We believe that the targeting of women and girls for invasive contraceptive, sterilization and abortion procedures by so-called Sexual and Reproductive Health programs is largely responsible. Steven W. MosherPresident African Women and AIDS An examination of HIV/AIDS statistics by region and by gender reveals a curious anomaly....

Winner Has Called the Vatican "an anti- contraceptive Gestapo."NEW YORK — Werner Fornos, President of the Population Institute and a former Planned Parenthood executive director, has been awarded the 2003 United Nations Population Award. Fornos, a controversial figure, has been at the forefront of promoting population control through scare mongering. The United Nations Population Fund has given the award to Fornos despite his intimate involvement in the Chinese government's coercive one-child policy. UNFPA's own association with the coercive China policy has cost it funding from the United States. However, such criticisms have apparently not caused UNFPA to distance itself from...

Family Planners Eye Abortion Jihad in Iraq Steven Mosher Vol. 5/ No. 7 Population Research Institute Reproduced with Permission Once Saddam Hussein is defeated, what then? President Bush has publicly declared that he would like to see a stable democracy and a free market economy spring up in the cradle of civilization. He has picked, apparently, an official from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to head the lengthy "nation-building" effort.1 The problem is that our foreign aid programs are better at promoting population control and radical feminism than in building free market democracies abroad. If we Americans...

UNITED NATIONS PROPOSES COERCIVE POPULATION CONTROL IN ETHIOPIACruel "reward and punishment" system proposed for food aid. The United Nation's emergencies Unit for Ethiopia (EUE) has called for pressure tactics for depopulation in Ethiopia.  Rather than providing food aid, the EUE is suggesting that a "reward and punishment" system should be implemented to implement 'family planning'.   African media quote the EUE report as saying, "If Ethiopia wants to become less dependent on foreign food aid, all appropriate means should be explored to stop the ongoing population explosion." "The dissemination of family planning methods, possibly linked with relief operations, must be stepped...

The president of Estonia goes on national TV to urge his countrymen to have more children. Russian President Vladimir Putin warns his parliament about "a serious crisis threatening Russia's survival": the nation's low birth rate. The government of Singapore is trying to reverse that country's birth dearth by sponsoring a massive taxpayer-funded matchmaking service. In 1968, Paul Ehrlich published The Population Bomb, panicking the world with dire predictions of a population explosion. By the year 2000, he predicted, the world would be so crowded that hundreds of millions would die of starvation. Although Mr. Ehrlich's prophecies have turned out to...

LifeSite Daily News Thursday January 30, 2003 NEW WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION CHIEF INVOLVED IN POPULATION CONTROL VACCINE SCANDAL GENEVA, January 30, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Dr. Jong Wook Lee, a relatively unknown World Health Organization (WHO) insider beat out high profile competitors to become the head of the World Health Organization Tuesday. Other candidates for the post included Dr. Julio Frenk Mora - currently Mexico's Minister of Health and Dr. Pascoal Mocumbi - the Prime Minister of Mozambique. However, Lee's work with WHO included being in charge of and weathering one of the most scandalous accusations to be brought against the...

On a recent night at the Blue Elephant recreation center here, a clutch of parents watched adoringly as dozens of 3- and 4-year-olds sprinted through a colorful playroom, bounced on the cushioned floor or doodled on drawing pads, aglow with creative pride. It was Italy as outsiders still imagine it: child-worshiping and family-loving. But there was something wrong with the picture. Most of the parents were gazing at one, and only one, child. That was true of Gianluca Valenti, who said that giving his son any siblings would be too exhausting and expensive, and of Barbara Lenzi, who said that...

A model sports an outfit designed by Ukrainian designer Oleksandr Hapchuk during the spring-summer 2002 ready-to-wear collections, presented in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, March 9, 2002. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)