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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
The Russian assasination by poisoning only happened a couple of years ago.
While people think that since the collapse of the Soviet empire that the KGB now SVR or whatever its called has softened are lying to themselves, all that happened was it streamlined and rebuilt itself.
And I've yet to hear world wide condemnation of China's environmental record on the same level as the Oil Sands for example. Call me when we see dissidents chaining themslelves to coal plants or crying over dead ducks in polluted lakes there or in russia call me.
America is and has made itself an easy target.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the government Thursday to suspend the clearing of a centuries-old oak forest on the edge of Moscow for construction of a toll road, a rare nod to grassroots critics who have fought the project for years.
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Late last week, police arrested nine environmental activists camping out in the 1,000-acre Khimki Forest, which faces partial destruction to make way for an $8 billion federal highway between the capital and St. Petersburg, the Moscow Times reported.
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The ongoing standoff between activists and authorities has seen the brutal beating of highway critic Mikhail Beketov by unidentified attackers, reports of intimidation threats, and a local government building attacked with smoke grenades after the Khimki mayor suggested that building the highway in the forest of centuries-old oak trees was preferable to letting it pass through residential areas with "dachas [summer homes] and garden plots."
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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010...ets-uglier.php
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BEIJING, CHINA - A top Chinese environmentalist said Tuesday he was beaten and suffered brutal treatment while serving a three-year jail term imposed after he spoke out about rampant pollution in a lake.
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http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest+N...11-215655.html
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Pioneering Chinese activist Liang Congjie, who helped found the country's first environmental organization, died last week at age 78.
According to Friends of Nature, the group he helped founded, Liang passed away Oct. 28. Services for him will be held Tuesday at Beijing ####ian Hospital.
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http://asiancorrespondent.com/breaki...ang-congji.htm
And there's plenty more if you just do a search. If you haven't heard the condemnation of China's environmental record, you don't pay much attention to environmental activism (and I am going to go ahead and guess you don't.)
So, what's your phone number so I can give you a call?
