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Current claim to fame: Environmentalist...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party didn't just lose the March 21 regional elections--it got trampled. In a shocking reversal of the 2007 elections that put the UMP in power, a coalition of leftist and environmentalist parties took control of 21 of France's 22 regions, winning 54% of the vote vs. the UMP's 35%. Critics point to France's high unemployment rate and immigration fears as reasons for the public's discontent...
...Congress, I know that Timothy McVeigh’s deadly federal-building bombing was not the act of a mainstream political activist. Those on the left tend to overlook another mass murderer, the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, who sent 16 deadly package bombs to advance his extreme environmentalist throwback agenda. They also ignore the violent trashing of Seattle by socialist-leaning anarchists...
...miles up the main road, are beginning to share similar stories of being pressured to sell their property. "I've been to places like Whitesville, Lindytown. These are ghost towns, where Massey has come in and bought out the towns, forced out the residents and plowed them under," said environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to Don Blankenship, Massey's CEO, in a January debate at the University of Charleston on the hazards and benefits of mountaintop mining...
...lure of the forests and the forests’ products that have been the bane of the adivasis. It is also the fact that most of the tribal areas of India are mineral-rich. It is the “rich land of the poor,” as environmentalist and director of the influential Center for Science and Environment in New Delhi, Sunita Narain, put it recently in an opinion piece by that name...