The usual suspects confirming what we should know about them

WorldNetDaily: North Korea hope for enviro activists?:
" ... the UK-based Television Trust for the Environment sponsored a meeting in Pyongyang for the international diplomatic corps in which participants shared about the successes of the Stalinist nation in the field of environmental protection, according to the Korean Central News Agency, the official voice of dictator Kim Jong-il."

This WND story is written from the perspective that there should be something surprising about a country with arguably the world's worst human rights record garnering praise for its efforts for animal rights and environmental protection. But this represents a fundamental misunderstanding of what is going on in the world.

The conference organizer, TVE, is an environmental lobby funded by the usual suspects, including "United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, Rockefeller Foundation and the World Wildlife Foundation." The featured speaker was primatologist and globetrotting leftist crank Jane Goodall who took time from her busy schedule to drop in on South Korea and condemn its record on animal rights before heading on to the capital of the Hermit Kingdom.

There is, however, no tension between advocacy of animal rights and concern for the environment on the one hand and approving a murderous police state on the other. In fact, if these folks were honest their slogan would be "Kill people, not animals."

This is spiritual warfare and must be discerned spiritually. The environmental movement, the animal rights movement, the last gasp Stalinist dictatorships like North Korea and Cuba, and the camouflaged communists of Russia and China are merely parts of a wide-ranging attack on Christendom. That is a rather archaic word nowadays, but using the right word helps to focus the argument. We have become accustomed to speaking of "the West" as if that was a concept which could be useful without its original religious connotation.

The Old Testament speaks of a refuge for the remnant being prepared in the West, and so it was. Many of the apostles and leading disciples went West, only a few went East (notably Thomas who took the Gospel to India) and South to preach to the Diaspora, the "Lost" Tribes of Israel, as well as the heathens. Paul went West - to Asia Minor, Italy and Spain. Joseph of Arimathea went to England. It is fashionable to scoff at this history, but it was well known and believed by our ancestors.

This gaggle of Red (communist), Green (environmentalist), and Black (anarchist) revolutionaries - whatever protective coloration they adopt to fool, if it were possible, the very elect - are the enemies of the permanent things, they are subverting God's laws, denying to Him due obedience. So, what does this have to do with animal rights and the environment?

Man was created in God's image, not the animals. Man was given dominion (the right and duty to rule) over the animals and permission to make food of some of them and to cover himself with their skins. Man was told to be fruitful and multiply. Man was given the stewardship of the land. The Biblical model is the garden, not the jungle. The garden represents intelligent planning, diligent labor, a consistent growth in productivity and prosperity. The jungle represents chaos, disorder, a constant alternation of plenty and poverty.

To the Greens, it is the animals who have the priority of rights over persons; human population is viewed as the enemy - not only is support for abortion near total in such circles, they carry on serious debates about what sort of catastrophe they might bring about to quickly and radically reduce the world's population; productive farmland and grazing ranges are to be returned to wilderness and jungle because that is more pleasing to their goddess whom they call Gaia, but is really just another clever deceit of our ancient foe Satan.