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Ecovillager Bert Sacks Featured in McDermott Article
Longtime peace activist Bert Sacks of Phinney Neighbors for Peace and Justice is part of the Saddam Hussein funding link for a trip Congressman Jim McDermott took in 2002 to Baghdad
Bert as eco-friendly "Mr. Zapper" who explains how to reduce greenhouse gases through lowered electricity use
Neither Sacks nor McDermott knew the source of the funding and no wrongdoing is alleged.
As Bert points out in the article's closing quote:
"We take millions of dollars, hundreds of millions, and give it to different groups in different countries to influence either the outcome of their elections or the overthrow of their government or for even the assassination of their leader," he said. "So I think, realistically, it's not surprising that other governments will try and do the same."
