{"id":268,"date":"2010-11-02T16:38:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T20:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/?p=268"},"modified":"2023-10-07T11:34:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T15:34:48","slug":"robert-f-kennedy-jr-inspirational-defender-of-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/2010\/11\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-inspirational-defender-of-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert F. Kennedy Jr \u2013 Inspirational Defender of the Environment (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_274\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-274\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/2010\/11\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-inspirational-defender-of-the-environment\/260px-robert_kennedy_jr-_speech_1\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-274\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-274 \" title=\"Robert F. Kennedy Jr\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/260px-Robert_Kennedy_Jr._speech_1.jpg\" alt=\"Robert F. Kennedy Jr\" width=\"260\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/260px-Robert_Kennedy_Jr._speech_1.jpg 260w, http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/260px-Robert_Kennedy_Jr._speech_1-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When I first heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr speak at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ideacityonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Idea City<\/a> in 2004 I was immediately inspired. He speaks about topics that are very near and dear to my heart; the environment, health, politics, media and of course how they interconnect. I was very impressed with his sincerity and the way he framed and delivered his message. I figure you should see what he has to say too. So here are a few clips of speeches he has given to various groups on various subjects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the failure of U.S. media:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; We know more about Kate and Tom than we do about global warming. American people are, today, the best entertained and the least informed people on the face of the earth &#8230; 80% of Republicans are just Democrats that don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kd6P8obJmjo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n&#8220;They are destroying the Constitution&#8221; Robert F. Kennedy Jr:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; it&#8217;s the biggest bunch of bologna when they say &#8216;well, we live in dangerous times&#8217; &#8230; When I was a little boy, and we had 1500 nuclear warheads in Russia pointing at our country &#8211; each one able to destroy and entire city &#8211; that was dangerous times! But we didn&#8217;t wiretap our citizens, we didn&#8217;t torture people then, we didn&#8217;t suspend habeas corpus &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u-eZbTnv0WE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nRobert Kennedy Jr. speaking in Burlington Vermont:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; They have put polluters in charge of all the agencies that are supposed to be protecting us from pollution &#8230; most of us don&#8217;t know about it or make the connection because we have a negligent and indolent press that has simply let down American democracy &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VvfVVKpllgI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Also, here is a post on Grist: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-11-01-carbon-cronies-chat-robert-f-kennedy-jr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018A coup d\u2019etat against the carbon cronies\u2019: chatting with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr speak at Idea City in 2004 I was immediately inspired. He speaks about topics that are very near and dear to my heart; the environment, health, politics, media and of course how they interconnect. I was very impressed with his sincerity and the way he framed and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[178,1,381],"tags":[124,126,127,125,85,129,128,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1369,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/1369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}