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Earth Day: It’s Lenin’s birthday — and the hippie founder murdered his girlfriend!

April 22, 2015 By Kathy Shaidle

I’ve written about Earth Day over the years.

I quit a very shortlived column at a Catholic paper when they refused to run my anti-Earth Day column.

While I can’t find a completely intact version of the original online, there are bits of it about.

Finally:

[T]he image of the burning river that purportedly catalyzed Earth Day and the modern environmental movement was actually taken in 1952, not 1969, because the “historic” latter fire didn’t even burn long enough to be photographed. (…)

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