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Dr. Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace...

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Dr. Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace...

Moore is the former president of Greenpeace Canada, not "the co-founder of Greenpeace", but a "a paid spokesman for the nuclear industry, the logging industry, and genetic engineering industry".

According to Greenpeace, he is "a paid spokesman for the nuclear industry, the logging industry, and genetic engineering industry"

He helped found Greenpeace, and was a director of it for 15 years. He took part in direct action against whaling and nuclear testing, was arrested for protecting a seal pup from being clubbed to death, and was on board the Rainbow Warrior the day it was blown up by French spies in Auckland harbour.

But now Dr Patrick Moore is seen by environmentalists as a traitor to the cause.

In his latest broadside against the green movement, Moore last week denounced the charity to which he devoted so much in the Seventies and early Eighties as an enemy of the environment, declaring its policies 'irrational' and 'damaging'....

Moore, 52, regularly takes to the airwaves and publishes essays in North America to denounce environmental 'extremism'. He criticised a range of other green charities, including the World Wide Fund for Nature and the Rainforest Foundation, and ridiculed celebrities such as Sting and Leonardo DiCaprio, who he believes have jumped on the green bandwagon. 'I doubt Leonardo DiCaprio has a deep knowledge of molecular biology,' he said....

And the greens do not like it one bit....Chris Genovali, of Western Canada Wilderness Committee, said: 'Each time I read something by this megalomaniacal crackpot, I get the urge to hurl.'

Moore insists he is still an environmentalist. He voices concern about global warming and deforestation in the tropics, and still has some warm words for the charity he helped to found.

'Greenpeace is still doing some great things, but most of the really serious issues have been dealt with. The fact is that there are an awful lot of positive trends. We're improving air quality and water quality. Population growth is slowing. In the developed world, forests are increasing; the bald eagle has been taken off the endangered list.'

In 1986, after leaving Greenpeace over differences in policy, Moore established a family salmon farming business, Quatsino Seafarms, at his home in Winter Harbour. He commented that he had left Greenpeace because it "took a sharp turn to the political left" and "evolved into an organization of extremism and politically motivated agendas".[20][21]

In this year he was also elected president of the British Columbia Salmon Farmers Association. From 1990-4 he was appointed to the British Columbia Round Table on the Environment and the Economy[22][23] and founded and chaired the B.C. Carbon Project. In 1991, he joined the board of the Forest Alliance of BC, an initiative of the CEOs of the major forest companies in British Columbia. As chair of the Sustainable Forestry Committee of the Forest Alliance he spent ten years developing the Principles of Sustainable Forestry, which were later adopted by much of the industry.[24][25] In 1991, Moore also founded Greenspirit to "promote sustainable development from a scientific environmental platform".[26] In 2002, Tom Tevlin and Trevor Figueiredo joined Moore in the formation of the environmental consultancy company Greenspirit Strategies Ltd.

Moore served for four years as Vice President of Environment for Waterfurnace International manufacturing geothermal heat pumps.[27] In 2000, Moore published Green Spirit - Trees are the Answer, a photo-book on forests and the role they can play in solving some current environmental problems. He also made two appearances on Penn & Teller: Bullshit! in episodes Environmental Hysteria (2003) and Endangered Species (2005). In 2006, Moore became co-chair (with Christine Todd Whitman) of a new industry-funded initiative, the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, which promotes increased use of nuclear energy.[28][29]

The Trump administration has instructed officials at the Environmental Protection Agency to freeze its grants and contracts.

Trump has repeatedly criticized the EPA for what he calls a string of onerous, expensive regulations that are hampering businesses. And his nominee to run the agency, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, has repeatedly sued the EPA over the years, challenging its legal authority to regulate...

According to its website, each year the EPA awards more than $4 billion in funding for grants and other assistance agreements.

US ethics official slammed for 'unethical' Donald Trump tweets

Lawmakers from both parties on Monday admonished a federal ethics official who sent a series of tweets commenting on President Donald Trump's potential conflicts of interest.

Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz of Utah called Shaub's Jan. 11 comments "highly unethical" and summoned Shaub to a closed-door meeting. Chaffetz and committee Democrats met with Shaub for more than an hour Monday, an unusual meeting prompted by Republicans' frustration with the ethics office and its operations—rather than Trump.

Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the panel's senior Democrat, said lawmakers from both parties were troubled..."When he did that, it didn't seem professional," Cummings said.

Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway told Fox News Monday that reporters covering the West Wing who mock President Donald Trump "ought to think about what they're really doing."

"If they snark, if they roll their eyes, if their Twitter feed is filled with 92 percent anti-Trump tweets, they're not being reporters, they're being opinion columnists," Conway told Fox News' Sean Hannity in a White House interivew. "They're being professional political hacks and pundits, and we have a right to call that out."

Conway said an erroneous pool report that a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office after Trump's inauguration Friday was an example of "presumptive negativity" toward the new administration from the mainstream media....Why didn't you ask us? Why didn't you say 'where's the bust?'"

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Trump Repeats Lie About Popular Vote in Meeting With Lawmakers

President Trump used his first official meeting with congressional leaders on Monday to falsely claim that millions of unauthorized immigrants had robbed him of a popular vote majority, a return to his obsession with the election’s results even as he seeks support for his legislative agenda.

The claim, which he has made before on Twitter, has been judged untrue by numerous fact-checkers. The new president’s willingness to bring it up at a White House reception in the State Dining Room is an indication that he continues to dwell on the implications of his popular vote loss even after assuming power.

President Trump’s Big-Money Establishment
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

President Trump says his administration signals the end of “the establishment” that “has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost.” He pledged in his campaign to tend to the interests of the forgotten workingman, and, in his Inaugural Address on Friday, said he was “transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the people.”

Mr. Trump may be out to challenge one establishment — the liberal elite — but he is installing one of his own, filled with tycoons, Wall Street heavyweights, cronies and a new rank of shadowy wealthy “advisers” unaccountable to anyone but him. His gilded cabinet, still being confirmed, presents a jarring contrast with his message

Take first the Goldman Sachs crowd. The Trump campaign lambasted global financiers, led by Goldman, as having “robbed our working class,” but here come two of the alleged miscreants: Gary Cohn, Goldman’s president, named to lead the National Economic Council, and Steven Mnuchin, named as Treasury secretary. Hardly the workingman’s ideal of an anti-establishment figure, Mr. Mnuchin is the son of a Goldman partner who worked his way up to partner himself. Now a hedge fund manager, he has a net worth estimated as high as $500 million and, like Mr. Cohn, has no public policy experience....