[thechat] GreenPeace gets BullSh*t award

[John Handelaar]

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% [mailto:thechat-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Martin Burns
% Sent: 30 August 2002 22:38
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% Subject: Re: [thechat] GreenPeace gets BullSh*t award
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% On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Bob Davis wrote:
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% > http://www.news24.com/News24/WorldSummit/0,5733,2-1381_1249322,00.html
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% > African and Asian farmers gave Greenpeace, The Third World Network,
% > and Biowatch the Bullsh*t Trophy for helping to keep them in poverty.
% >
% > Interesting look at their perspective, eh?
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% Cynical bastard as I am, I wonder about the methodology for (a) starting
% the award and (b) choosing the recipient...
%
% In particular, I wonder who's actually behind Sustainable Development
% Network - claiming in a press releaser that you're a coalition of NGOs is
% very, very easy...

It doesn't have a web site, either, suspiciously enough.

Is that grass roots I'm smelling, or is it astroturf? :-)

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