Tanton Network Banned from Earth Times

MJ Olahafa writes for www.imagine2050.net

The Earth Times, an environment specific news agency, has taken a bold step and is attempting to remove all the content  from its site that was added by anti-immigrant groups affiliated with John Tanton.

The Tanton Network is an array of anti-immigrant organizations founded or funded by white nationalist John Tanton. Well known as an advocate of racial eugenics, Tanton was nicknamed The Puppeteer for orchestrating the most powerful anti-immigrant movement in the United States. In his own words:

“I’ve come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.” – Dec. 10, 1993, letter to the late Garrett Hardin, a controversial ecology professor.

“Do we leave it to individuals to decide that they are the intelligent ones who should have more kids? And more troublesome, what about the less intelligent, who logically should have less? Who is going to break the bad news [to less intelligent individuals], and how will it be implemented?” – Sept. 18, 1996, letter to now-deceased California multimillionaire and eugenicist Robert K. Graham.

Earthtimes.org is an environmental website based in the UK, yet it maintains an impressive international scope: The Earth Time boasts the fact that over 3/4 of its readers come from the United States and Canada. A few weeks ago The Earth Times website introduced a bold new look, with a new plan of focusing only on environmental issues. Gone are the various non-environmentally related topics, and gone are the racist publications of the Tanton Network.

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