Did You Breathe Smoke Last Week? This is Why.

This is how eco-terrorism works. This is how eco-terrorism feels.

Michael Walsh published the below piece on his the-pipeline.org last week, and in the meantime, the propaganda press has issued one full-throated bullshit call after another. I scan them, not one single writer has ever been to a forest, he is grabbing paras from another, and another grabs another paragraph, all ending in a mess of words that add up to something issued from the WEF’s PR Department. I thought for a split second Jim Geraghty at National Review would be sensible. He was not. It was another sleazy cruise through received wisdom. “Lightening strikes”. Sure buddy.

Meanwhile, Canada has arrested dozens of fire-setters in the last few weeks, and Quebec and Alberta are running full-bore investigations. The new Premier of Alberta was blocked from Facebook for saying so.

Not one pontificator knows what has happened to the forests since Rio and the 92 Earth Summit. Since then the regulatory structure created by the U.N.’s FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) has been instituted all over the world. It is a new method of forest management - “sustainable” - that throws over 1000 years of silvaculture. A forester takes seven years of wickedly difficult education to be able to manage forests. What the UN did was send a bunch of heavily indoctrinated, radically-undereducated hysterics into the forests - which cover one-third of the world - and proceeded to destroy them with a “no-touch” policy.

I cannot believe I’ve been writing about this for more than twenty years and the mainstream still pontificates without any knowledge what-so-ever. It demonstrates the culpability of journalists everywhere that one-third of the earth is being destroyed and no one notices.

I can cite you my work and that of others and I have before, but this piece from Evergreen covers it, and it is recent, authoritative and short.

When I did my green subdivision back in 2005-6, I joined a listserve of environmental activists in my region, which is a node, a hub even, of the movement. One of my friends was a funder of their causes, so they admitted me, with the occasional expression of distaste. I was there to prevent them from swarming me and the bureaucracy, which is one of their principal tactics, and which would ruin me. They had already sent people into my neighborhood to stir up my neighbors, but I had got to them first.

On the listserve, I became fascinated with one man, in his vigorous early 50’s, married to a local socialist-green politician. He was fierce, he posted all day every day, and my friend told me he was an extraordinary man who had done very risky things and that he ran eco-terrorist training camps in the forests of the Pacific North West.

In my region, we have no economic growth, but crime, which is to say our principal city, Vancouver, launders most of the drug money in North America through our real estate and casinos. Everything else is shut down. Multinationals with teams of lawyers can build something, everyone else is enmeshed in a web of green regulation that prevents growth, development, building anything at all ever. If an entrepreneur tries to build, say a middle-class resort, he is first swarmed then, if he persists, a fire. A forester with a quarter-section of gorgeous forest, which he logs to pay his property taxes? He is mouthy? Fire. Men and women in forested communities all across the world, those which do not comply with permanent poverty which is what these demons create, are attacked over and over again. Their equipment, including helicopters are tampered with, their brakes are cut, and trees are spiked. They lose their lives, they lose limbs, they are permanently crippled.

No one cares. No one does the reporting.

That’s why I think the fires were set. That and the arrest of so far, fifty people so far. And counting.

Herewith the Pipeline piece:

Were the Canadian Fires Deliberately Set?

Elizabeth Nickson • 10 Jun, 2023 • 3 Min Read

It wouldn't be the first time.

AGoogle Earth satellite video is making the rounds on twitter. it shows the moment an arc of fires began in northern Quebec, the smoke rising. It looks like people calculated the prevailing winds so that the smoke would blow south. Then connected via sat phone, they lit them. It’s another psy-op from our gracious overlords. We aren’t afraid enough, despite every nasty limiting idiotic play they have visited upon us in the last four years. Monkey Pox failed, more plague warnings were greeted by a shrug. But this one, the world bursting into flame? Be very very afraid.

Justin Trudeau lost no time in announcing that the fires were from “climate change” and the carbon tax, which is impoverishing everyone not in government or on lush pensions, is just the beginning of the restrictions he must institute or we are all gonna die. 

The stupidity and cruelty of this is almost unimaginable. But fires have worked over and over again to terrify people into quiescence. The rumours that they were deliberate were the stuff of fantasy until people started getting arrested. Alberta shows that almost 60 percent of fires in that province are human caused. And in Canada, as of today, we have arrested dozens. They will be released, their bails paid by a high-priced lawyer because most of them act as agents of the hyper-rich, paid through a cascade of environmental NGOs.  The richest people among us are burning the forests in order to force compliance.

When I moved back to the country 20 years ago, the movement adopted me because I was writing for the Globe and Mail and Harper’s Magazine. I interviewed hundreds of local activists, the ones who, with the inspiration of RFK, Jr. had shut down the biggest industrial forest in the world in an action called “The War of the Woods.” They were mostly ordinary people, socialists and scientists of one stripe or another and deeply profoundly committed to saving the earth. The fact that they had eliminated the principal source of funding for health care and education -- forestry --  their own in fact, went right over their heads. It didn’t matter. "Climate Change" was an existential threat and those trees must stand to suck up “carbon,” or CO2, as it used to be known.

I met Denis Hayes too, the founder of Earth Day, head of the Bullitt Foundation in Seattle, founded by the heiresses to Weyerhauser. He excitedly told me how he created the storm of protest that led to Bill Clinton shutting down the western forests of the U.S., during the same period that Clinton was giving away American manufacturing to China. The result was devastation in forested communities from northern California to the Canadian border. Hayes, a tall, attractive Ivy Leaguer married to a woman whose father won a Nobel in chemistry, slithers through every institution. When I hung out with him, his target was Bill Gates' climate initiatives and clearly, he has succeeded.

Forestry management: even a child can do it!

His "work" turned the forests into a tinderbox. Today, the 9th of June, 2023, a full thirty years too late, the Wall Street Journal editorial board finally acknowledges that sustainable forestry management may be the principal cause of the forests burning down. Holly Fretwell, a fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center, and professor at Montana State, gives, in this book, a thoroughgoing analysis of how wrong-headed and destructive "green" has been in the forests. Also this book by me, and a follow-up policy paper, also by me. These were not popular opinions, but they were, in fact, right. It is not "climate change" burning down the forests, it is government in the hands of brutal greens, in pursuit of an impossible goal.

Fires have been used in my region to dissuade development. If you are, for instance, trying to open a resort for the middle class, expect fires. If you are a forester with a section of land, and you are mouthy, expect a fire. Fire serves to shut people up. I am sporadically loud-mouthed in my town, because I know my dog, my house, my trees and my well make me vulnerable if I make too many enviros angry.

Five years ago, Fort McMurray, the home of the oil sands, a titanic achievement, the cleanest oil extraction infrastructure on the planet, burned to the ground in a fire called The Beast. There were reports of fires being set in an arc around the town. Investigations are on-going. During the last election in Alberta, fire patterns were shown to peak at election time, in order to scare people into believing that oil extraction, the engine of their economy, must be shut down.

Further south, the chronicle of eco-terrorism is thick with crime but few suffer prison. Usually it’s  slap on the wrist, a "Go with God, noble soul" kind of thing. So, if you’re not caught, why not go big?

Here is an in-depth character and provenance analysis of one pathetic creature “eco-terrorist” from New York Magazine.

Here is reporting on the month’s arson

Y’all aren’t paying me enough yet to go out and do some real reporting, which, btw, literally no one does anymore. And it badly needs doing. There is only so much you can do from a desk. As far as I can tell, I am, along with two or three others, the only one from the MSM who have ever investigated the dire results of programmatic green. I am very grateful for each subscription, paid and otherwise, but paid means I can do more digging. And thank you.

Elizabeth Nickson was trained as a reporter at the London bureau of Time Magazine. She became European Bureau Chief of LIFE magazine in its last years of monthly publication, and during that time, acquired the rights to Nelson Mandela’s memoir before he was released from Robben Island. She went on to write for Harper’s Magazine, the Guardian, the Observer, the Independent, the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times Magazine, the Telegraph, the Globe and Mail and the National Post. Her first book The Monkey Puzzle Tree was an investigation of the CIA MKULTRA mind control program and was published by Bloomsbury and Knopf Canada. Her next book, Eco-Fascists, How Radical Environmentalists Are Destroying Our Natural Heritage, was a look at how environmentalism, badly practiced, is destroying the rural economy and rural culture in the U.S. and all over the world. It was published by Adam Bellow at Harper Collins US. You can subscribe to her Substack at elizabethnickson.substack.com/