“At the U.N., Three of World’s Poorest Countries
Thank U.S. for Help Streamlining Bureaucracy” - News Brief, PRFA, Summer 2009
See Also
Mont Pelerin Society Essay Competition
Essential Books
& Publications
Who Owns Britain
- The Hidden Facts Behind Landownership in the UK and Ireland
By Kevin Cahill (Canongate Books, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1
1TE)
The fruit of years of research, Kevin Cahill’s investigations
reveal how the 6000 or so aristocratic names who together own
about 40 million acres — more than half the country —
have maintained their grip on land of Britain right through the
twentieth century.
Who Owns the
World
By Kevin Cahill
To be published autumn 2005
Economic Freedom
of the World - 2004 Annual Report
By James Gwartney & Robert Lawson
The Fraser Institute (2004)
The key ingredients of economic freedom are personal choice,
voluntary exchange, freedom to compete, and protection of persons
and property. Economic Freedom of the World is the most comprehensive
index of economic freedom in the world and the only one that
uses reproducible measures appropriate for peer-reviewed research..
Economic Freedom of the World
- 2003 Annual Report,
James Gwartney & Robert Lawson, with Neil Emerick, Frazer
Institute, Van Couver, Canada (2003)
Eco-Imperialism: Green Power,
Black Death
By Paul K. Driessen (2003)
“The environmental movement I helped found has lost its
objectivity, morality and humanity. The pain and suffering it
is inflicting on families in developing countries must no longer
be tolerated. Eco-Imperialism is the first book I’ve
seen that tells the truth and lays it on the line. It’s
a must-read for anyone who cares about people, progress and our
planet.” - Patrick Moore, Greenpeace co-founder.
Additional Resources
Fraser Institute
An independent Canadian economic and social
research and educational organization, with the
objective of redirection of public attention to the role of competitive
markets in providing for the
well-being of Canadians.
Publishers of Economic Freedom of the World - Annual Report,
many other books and publications
address & website
Michael R. Hubert
Shabnam Resources
address
Websites
ITSSD
Institute for Trade, Standards, and Sustainable Development
Providing an informed,
reasoned, and dispassionate voice to the global public debate.
address
& website
Center for Civil Society, India
The Center for Civil Society is an independent,
non-profit, research and educational organization founded in
1997 and devoted to improving the quality of life for all citizens
of India.
Web site: www.ccsindia.org
E-mail: parth@ccsindia.org
Eco-Imperialism.com
Paul Driessen, Founder and author
The environmental movement is intolerant and inflexible in
its demands and insensitive to the needs of billions of people
who lack the food, electricity, safe water, health care, and
other basic necessities.
Initiative for Public Policy Analysis
Thompson Ayodele, Director
Lagos, Nigeria
IPPA is a private, non-profit organization involved in research,
education, and publication on matters affecting the freedom of
individuals. Its objective is to provide market-oriented analysis
of current and emerging policy issues, with a view to influencing
the public debate and the political decision-making process.
address
& website
Links to International
News Agency Reports
“Beijing
enshrines private property”
By Chris Buckley/NYT
International Herald Tribune
March 15, 2004
“Can
Iraq Succeed Without Private Property Protections?”
- By Cheryl K. Chumley, American Policy Center,
Guest Commentary, Published by www.MichNews.com
March 16, 2004
The Law of the Administration of the State of Iraq, which
has been created under U.S. influence, states, “Public
property is sacrosanct and its protection is the duty of every
citizen,” but private property rights protections
are not strong enough.
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In-Depth Information
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  “The Proposed
Law of the Sea Treaty: A Threat to Private Property Rights”
- Lawrence Kogan, Esq., J.D., LLM, The Institute for International
Trade, Standards and Sustainable Development (ITSSD), Princeton,
New Jersey, Eleventh Annual National Conference on Private Property
Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October 13, 2007)
The Law of the Sea Treaty is the largest regulatory treaty
ever conceived, but has just missed ratification by the United
States. Instead of clarifying maritime law, it would change it
fundamentally. Freedom of navigation would be hindered, because
it is capitalist. Deep-sea mining rights would not go to miners,
but would be redistributed. Environmental rules based on “sustainable
development” and the “precautionary principle”
would supersede private property rights, even within the United
States, because pollution could theoretically flow to the oceans.
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 “The
Craze of Environmental Irrationality” - By John Berlau,
Director, Center for Entrepreneurship, Competitive Enterprise
Institute, Washington, D.C.; Eleventh Annual National Conference
on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October 13, 2007)
Environmentalism is dominated by disdain for human life, grounded
in Rachel Carson’s vilification of DDT and thus arguably
causing more deaths from malaria and other insect-borne diseases
than from any other cause during the twentieth century. A recent
local example of this disdain for human life was the death of
Alfred Langner from exposure while trapped in his car for 2 days
after an auto accident, unable to reach help because his cell
phone had no reception on the Interstate Northway because environmentalists
banned cell towers.
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  “A Word
about UNESCO” - By Ellen McClay, Author, Arizona; Eleventh
Annual National Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA,
Albany, N.Y., October 13, 2007)
Tracing her involvement back to the fifties, author Ellen
McClay refers to individuals, including Alger Hiss and Secretary
of State Dean Achenson, who were involved with UNESCO’s
role in changing textbooks in the United States to derogate Washington
and the founding fathers, as well as private property rights,
while substituting Marxist values.
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 “Malaria:
Anti-DDT policies are deadly”- By Thompson Ayodele &
Adegoke Anthony (Posted by permission of Thompson Ayodele, Director,
Initiative for Public Policy Analysis, Shomolu, Lagos, Nigeria,
July 2007)
“…Africa became a sacrifice zone, where environmental
ideologies demand that only politically correct tools like bednets
be used to prevent the disease that is still the biggest single
killer of our children.”
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 “U.S.
Private Property Rights Under International Assault”
- By Lawrence A. Kogan, Esq., Institute for Trade, Standards
and Sustainable Development, Presented at the Tenth Annual National
Conference on Private Property Rights, Albany, New York, October
14, 2006, sponsored by the Property Rights Foundation of America
Left-leaning foreign governments, activists and academics
are waging a campaign against the American free market, private
property, and science and economics-based regulatory systems.
The non-scientific Precautionary Principle, which has assumed
regulatory status in Europe, means banning whole classes of products,
substances and activities from entering the marketplace if it
is merely possible, absent any scientific risk analysis, that
they or the processes used for their manufacture might cause
uncertain health or environmental harm sometime in the future.
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 “Invasive
Species—Regulation by Fraud”-By Fred V. Grau, Jr.,
President Grasslyn, Inc., Tenth Annual National Conference on
Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October 14, 2006)
Invasive species rules are already having negative impact
on ranchers, farmers, sportsmen, and boaters. “White
listing” in accord with the precautionary principle
requires that you have to prove that a species doesn’t
cause harm before you can trade in it. The concept of “biological
pollution” is starting to bring U.S. EPA jurisdiction
over aquatic invasive species. Invasive species laws are a federal
funding mechanism to The Nature Conservancy.
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  “Out-foxing
the Foxes” - By Nathaniel R. Dickinson (PRFA, May 4,
2006)
A “rather universal human tolerance for the wild
kingdom, fueled by the radical environmental movement,”
has generated such unwelcome neighbors as foxes in Britain’s
cities, aggressive bear in New Jersey suburbs, and uncontrolled
deer populations causing millions of damage to agricultural crops
and motor vehicles, including human fatalities.
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 Three Gorges Probe
- Eradicating Shangri-La
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- “Wishes and Horses
for Africa-The Lethal Chasm Between Wind Energy Hype and Reality”-
By Paul Driessen (January 2005, Used by Permission)
International environmentalists promote costly, ecologically
unsound wind energy for developing countries, pressuring banks
and energy companies to abandon projects that would create reliable
sources of abundant, reliable, affordable electricity and other
means to give desperately poor people the basic necessities that
wealthy countries take for granted.
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  “International
Property Rights and How to Win in This Country” - By
Richard Miniter, Founder and President, Brussels Institute, Brussels,
Belgium; Speech to the Eighth Annual Conference on Private
Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y. October 23, 2004)
Property rights are already lost in Europe, but in the United
States only a few battles have been lost. It is time to win.
Modeled after successful movements, Richard Miniter’s
ten steps to win start with recruiting a legislative champion.
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 “A Movement
to Empower Small Farmers in India”
- By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, August 2003)
Michael Hubert, a village leader in the area of the city of
Madras, India, is bringing together village and city women. His
organization, Shabnam Resources, is concerned about farmers giving
up because of low income, debt, water scarcity, and the bigger
companies and industries acquiring the lands.
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 “Private
Conservation of Wildlife in Africa” - By Brian Seasholes,
Speech to the Sixth Annual New York Conference on Private Property
Rights (PRFA, November 16, 2002)
The creation of property rights to wildlife in southern Africa
caused wildlife to burgeon on private lands. In Zimbabwe, the
black rhinoceros, lions, elephants, and imperiled wild dogs migrated
to conservancies, where they multiplied.
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- “Nationalization
of Land—A Wake-Up Call” - by Nate Dickinson, Wildlife
Biologist (PRFA, Aug. 15, 2002)
“Environmental Policy” is the mantra for
nationalization of land in Britain and the U.S.
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 “Bias Fear or Biosphere —
The Proposed Bay of Fundy Biosphere Reserve” —
Guest editorial by Douglas Boddy, Advocate Harbour, Nova Scotia,
Canada (April, 2002)
The proposed designation of the Bay of Fundy Biosphere Reserve
threatens people and sovereignty. It would include five counties,
over 180,000 people, and approximately 900,000 hectares (2,225,000
acres).
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 “Japan Recruits
the Unemployed to Inventory Wildlife-Modern Version of ‘New
Deal’ Makes Work in Environment and Education”
-By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, March 20, 2002)
Is it possible that poor urban jobless in the U.S. could have
access to the environmental job market by starting out in unskilled
outdoor work now done by volunteers and government researchers
in natural areas?
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  “European Union Institutes
Dawn Raids-‘Powerless’ EU’s Warrantless Searches
Can Lead to Heavy Fines”- Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, March
2002)
Where is the fundamental right to privacy going under the
European Union?
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 “Russians May Own
Land-President Putin Signs Landownership Bill Passed by Both
Houses of Parliament”-By Carol W. LaGrasse,
Reprinted from New York Property Rights Clearinghouse,
Vol. 5, No. 2, Fall 2001.
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- “Britain’s Exmoor
National Park to Ban Second Homes—New Rules to Fight Gentrification”-By
Carol W. LaGrasse, February 28, 2002.
British authorities proposed a radical solution in September
2001 to the increase in the cost of homes to over $250,000 in
the national park in southwestern England. Will this idea come
to the U.S.A.?
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- “Maybe
Someone Should Spend More Time Consulting the Grizzly”
- By Nate Dickinson, Wildlife Biologist, Altamont, N.Y. 1994
Grizzlies are much more tolerant of human interaction than
environmentalists allege. Furthermore, they range across a great
reserve of parks in western Canada, where they are fully protected.
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