The EU is coming to get YOU! (95)

‘Increasingly, environmental non-government organisations,
(NGOs) around the world, with the complicity of some governments, are embedding themselves in policy and regulatory frameworks in which they have commercial interests, and they do so with no mandate from the people and with no accountability.


The problem that we have today is that the un-elected NGO Groups have so much influence upon the Politicians, (both EU and National) that they are able to influence Legislation without ever being elected. Today WWF has a turnover of $400 Million,is a major investor in some Banks and finacial Institutions which them invest in environmentally destructive companies, whereas these groups were badly needed ,especially within the environmental conservation battle of the 60s/70s/80s and 90s, they have now gone down the political route. Many countries have expelled the larger NGOs, (known as Bingos-big Internationsal NGOs) for political interference.
How does this relate to the smoking ban in pubs and restaurants?, it was simple, the anti.smoking lobby groups got together with a raft of NGOs and threatened MPs with mass lobbying etc, it worked so well that they brought it into the EU MPs and got it passed there too. since smoking is quite legal and the taxes taken are very substantial, how is it that a blanket ban on smoking Inside a pub or restaurant can be banned?, surely the owner is entitled to decide what his clients want?, if the staff are dying from secondhand smoke, (the biggest con of all) then employ smokers!, if the owner wants an entirely no smoking pub or restaurant then ,great, gives everyone a choice, however with the NGOs it is not a matter of reality or democratic choice, it is a matter of what these highly life experienced 20 year olds want to happen and they dont want to wait around for any democratic process.

Many thanks for that, I have been in the Environmental Industry for 15 years, the company that I work for is probably the worlds leading developer of environmental standards,we have worked on standards for, organic agriculture, timber, fishing, Climate Change, Carbon,etc,etc, of course globally, this business is riven with NGOs, normally very important and dedicated people who have done an enormous amount of good in bringing environmental conservation to the forefront of the consumers mind, it has been a pleasure and privilidge to work with them over the years, however, the NGO movement has been taken over by the radicals using the power of the NGO to carry out what I say in my previous post.

Probably the worst offender is WWF, one instance, WWF held a league table review of The Most Responsible, (in terms of environmental & Social sensitivity) Bank, HSBC "donates" $50 million to WWF and guess what?, all of a sudden HSBC is the most ,caring,sharing environmentally friendly bank in the world.

There is a well known US based chemical company that produced the Agent Orange that American Troops used to destroy the jungle foliage cover during the Vietnam war,despite the knowledge that it caused cancer and other serious illness in the North Vietnamese population, after the war, they had so much of it left and all paid for by the American Government that they sold it to the poor countries as herbicide, especially the fruit growing regions of South Africa, very soon the incidence of ADD in children became epidemic, the fruit exported to Europe was full of it and lo and behold up went the incidence of ADD. so do you think this chemical company stopped selling?, no they then invented Rittilin, which controls the affects of ADD, so, you sell a damaging chemical and then you sell the answer!. did the EU or anyone ban this or do anything?, no. because as a very major American corporate with huge investments in Europe, the EU could not dare to upset them.
A considerable amount of the wheat grown in the vast Mid West of America, is grown for the World Food Programme, paid for by the American tax payer, on a visit there to a farm I joked with the Farmers Wife, "that she didnt have far to go for the bread", the Farm is in the middle of thousands of acres of wheat. Her response was stunning!, "oh no" said she, "this is for the Africans, it is so toxic that we are not allowed to use it, we go 20 miles to the Wal-Mart store for our bread".
While being a tad off subject, perhaps the above brings a perspective to the amount of nonsense and plain BS that Politicians do little about except to worry about banning smoking, it is just a amazing!