Netpardon,Palm Oil: Cynical Propaganda by Greenpeace and FOE
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 Time: 10:35 PM
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Iraq remains a case study in how propaganda was used to dishonestly justify a war that Bush and Blair were determined to prosecute against Sadam Hussein. Sadam may not be my flavor of the month but when we have been looking at Iraq ad nauseam, it is well worth retching again over your repast to see how twisted the road is to war especially as drums are now being beaten for the Baghdadisation of Teheran.
In the story so far we have seen parts of an old PhD thesis cut and pasted into an "intelligence" report to justify war, how a teary- eyed Kuwaiti teenager was dragged before the American senate enquiry to tell tales of babies being ripped from their incubators by Iraqi soldiers and she turned out to be not someone who'd be familiar with the hospital on invasion day, but the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador!
And who do we have here now but Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller, former head of Britain's domestic intelligence service (MI5) telling the Chilcot Inquiry, now ongoing in Britain, on the UK's role in the Iraq war. Hers is a predictable list, but formidable nevertheless for highlighting Blair's determination to play the American poodle and bring devastation that we see in Iraq now.
Manningham-Buller dismissed the WMD threat from Saddam, supplied by the MI6 and flaunted by Blair as justification to go to war. It was "fragmentary", she said, lacking in substance. She said there was no credible evidence to show that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and even the CIA thought so too, but Donald Rumsfeld, then US Defence Secretary, set up another unit in the Pentagon to give an "alternative" view.
The Guardian newspaper quoted Admiral Lord West's remark to the BBC's World at One programme following Manningham-Buller's evidence to Chilcot, "My own personal view is that it is actually a very bad idea to invade people." Lord West was head of the navy during the time of the invasion and is now Britain's chief understater.
There was no al-Qaeda in Iraq, no WMDs, and no capability to rain Britain with a hot shower within 45 minutes of Saddam's word "Go!". They were all so intent on invading, it seemed, that it made one wonder if they were just looking for excuses to fly.
And once there, they destroyed all infrastructure and the Iraq that once had top-notch medical facilities for its citizens and world class education for its men and women is now reeking with the stench of its own sewage overflow. It is tempting for us to speculate but you may say it's all oil over the water now.
This proclivity by those vested with a twisted agenda to paint a grossly distorted picture and false propaganda all happily lapped up by an unquestioning and compliant media is reminiscent of the situation faced by palm oil today.
Palmhugger observes that green groups like Greenpeace and FOE were clambering over each other to fire cheap shots at palm oil with each making allegations that were more bizarre than the next!
Accusing palm oil of causing massive deforestation and peat lands and, in the process, destroying ecosystems and biodiversity and claiming that deforestation costs anything between $2-5tn dollars a year and causing 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions, both Greenpeace and FOE shrilly demanded that growth of palm oil be reined in.
Whilst acknowledging that palm oil fuels the developing economies of Indonesia and Malaysia, Greenpeace and FOE claim that it is also irrevocably damaging them. As demand for oil palm grows in the EU and in the burgeoning economies of India, China and the rest of the world, both green groups bayed that we will start paying the environmental costs soon.
What is interesting is that both groups which hail from the UK remain silent over the 33 millions tons of carbon emitted during the annual process of coal mining in the UK. Yet the cultivation of palm oil which has been hailed recently by researchers from Wageningen University in the Netherlands as "the most efficient energy crop," is systematically demonized as destructive of rainforest and contributing to global warming.
The university's finding is a rejection of environmental NGOs and the anti-palm oil lobbyists who consistently claim that palm oil is unsustainable.
Its research found that palm oil, sugar cane and sweet sorghum are currently the most sustainable energy crops. These commodities also produce "far smaller quantities of greenhouse gases than fossil fuels".
The university's analysis considered nine different energy crops against nine different sustainability criteria with palm oil coming out on top while biofuel from maize from the United States and wheat from Europe scored far lower.
The report's author, Sander de Vries, concluded that sustainable sugar canes and oil palms get the most energy per hectare and cause the least environmental damage.
Another researcher, Dr Gernot Pehnelt, founder and director of GlobEcon, an independent research and consulting institute based in Germany, released a new study that revealed the biased and prejudicial nature of the EU's Renewable Energy Directive towards foreign biofuels.
The report, entitled "European Policies Towards Palm Oil: Sorting Out Some Facts," demonstrated that the assumptions contained in the directive about the ecological impact of foreign biofuels reflected political and not scientific or economic reality.
Dr Pehnelt came to the defense of the rich biodiversity in oil palm plantations, their excellent crown cover that oil palms provide and the yield per hectare advantages of this low-energy and low-fertilizer crop.
"Sadly, many of the claims that foreign biofuels, specifically palm oil, are a threat to the environment are seriously flawed, some even completely unfounded," he said, adding that the side effects of the flawed policies could give rise to political friction and trade disputes to severe economic handicaps for developing countries.
"This new study makes a strong case that RED discriminates against non-EU producers of biofuels, such as Asian palm oil.
"Perhaps most importantly, palm oil acts as a substantial driver of economic growth in the developing world, drastically reducing hunger and poverty in regions that actively cultivate this valuable crop.
"It's time for Europe to not only recognize the energy and environment benefits of palm oil, but also the suffering in low-income, tropical countries that palm oil critics continue to perpetuate," said Dr Pehnelt.
Given the obvious predilection of green groups like Greenpeace, FOE and RAN to ignore ecological events of far greater proportions and their ominous manipulation and cherry picking of facts to get consumers and multinational food manufacturers like Unilever and Nestle to ostracize palm oil, the media should have been adequately alerted to the probability that there is more going on beneath the surface than meets the eye with these green groups. It should be patently obvious to the media that it is cynical propaganda at work! THE END.
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