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PACIFIC MARITIME MAGAZINE
 Fidley Watch: Useful Idiots
By Chris Philps
Managing Editor
There is some debate as to whether Russian Leader Vladimir Lenin actually used the term “useful idiots” to refer to communist sympathizers in the US, but there is no doubt that he said, “Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.”
That generation is before us now – not to usher us into communism, but to deliver us from the evils of petroleum and its byproducts. Witness the earnest young people in the photo on this page who, as representatives of Greenpeace, a large, multinational conglomerate, scaled an Arctic-bound oil rig in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to protest the continued extraction of fossil fuels.
One of the founders of Greenpeace, the late Robert Hunter, believed that in order for environmentalism to become a mass movement, it would have to be based… MORE
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