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Maurice Strong & Paul Martin, Part 2
Champagne socialist full of bubbles: Maurice Strong profits from pushing leftist ideas
Friday 18 July 2003

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“Economic growth is not the cure; it is the disease.”
That is Maurice Strong’s take on what is wrong with the world, today, and what is the greatest threat to the environment. Everything that is wrong can, in Strong’s mind, be traced to three sources — industrialization, wealth and free markets. I’d add a fourth — Christianity — except Strong never quite comes out and blames it for the world’s ills. He merely hints at it with statements such as “We are all gods now, gods in charge of our own destiny,” which he made in his autobiographical 2000 book Where on Earth are We Going?

Actually, Strong’s three sources of evil are really just one source — Western civilization. Although he has reaped enormous personal profits from the Western ways of business and life, Strong has been a lifelong biter of the hands that feed him so well. In 1990, he even mused about a possible revolution against “industrialized civilizations.”

What if it were concluded, Strong romanticized, “that the principal risk to the earth comes from the actions of the rich countries? ... Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring this about?”

Strong wasn’t exactly speaking for himself in this daydream. His nightmarish scenario involved a “small group of ... world leaders,” gathered together at a semi-private conference, who decide to overthrow the established political and financial orders “in order to save the planet.”

But he was not speaking for himself, either. Strong revels in telling fawning audiences that he is “a socialist in ideology,” but “a capitalist in methodology.” His socialist core would explain his attraction to revolutions against rich, industrialized civilizations.

And his membership on a dozen international business and environmental organizations would explain why he thinks such a revolution might spring from a small, semi-private gathering of world leaders.

Those are the circles Strong runs in. They are the people he knows. Undoubtedly, as he has sat through literally hundreds of such gatherings, he has occasionally marvelled at the amount of power represented by the leaders in the room, and speculated on what might convince those leaders to suspend democracy and diplomacy, and join him in the top-down coup of his dreams.

If the idea of a revolt against power, privilege and wealth, led by the most powerful, privileged and wealthy strikes you as a bit incongruous, then you need to understand two more things about Maurice Strong: He has made his fortune, reputation and influence out of peddling radical leftist ideas to the international jet set, to champagne socialists like himself, who very much enjoy what rank and riches have given them, but who despair the consumerism and capitalism they see in those beneath them.

The other piece you need to the Strong puzzle is his contempt for ordinary people and the institutions that give them control over these leaders. Strong thinks only superior mortals who run in his circles and share his philosophy are fit to decide how the world should be run.

Only once has Strong lowered himself to stand for public office — in the 1979 Canadian general election that saw Joe Clark’s Tories squeak into power. But he couldn’t even bear to see that through to election day.

According to an eye-popping indictment of Strong’s smug contempt for democratic accountability, in the book, Fight Kyoto, Calgary journalist and lawyer Ezra Levant points out that Strong withdrew as the Liberal candidate in a Scarborough riding one month before voting day because he found his “constituents’ priorities were parochial.”

Strong is a founder of the Council on Global Governance; the author of the Earth Charter (earthcharter.org), that he wants to be not only the supreme law of the planet — replacing national laws and constitutions — but a new “Ten Commandments,” as well.

Strong is or has been a board member with Earth Council, the World Wildlife Fund, the David Suzuki Foundation, the United Nations Environment Program and two of three of the UN’s big world environment gatherings — Stockholm in 1972 and Rio in 1992.

The 1997 Kyoto accords sprang directly out of Strong’s Rio conference in 1992, with Strong having a hand guiding the accords to fruition all the way, as a special adviser to the UN secretary general, periodically with the status of undersecretary general, himself.

Levant claims Strong has “never stopped pressing for a world where the UN’s resolutions would be enforced as the law in every corner of the Earth.” And Strong has made it clear he sees no harm in carbon taxes, air travel taxes and financial transaction taxes that raise billions or even trillions annually to fund a super world bureaucracy where he and others can influence world affairs without every grubbying themselves by seeking approval from — ugh — voters.

This is the man Paul Martin wants to make a senior economic and environmental adviser in his PMO. But that’s no surprise, either. Levant details how Strong hired Martin to be his personal assistant at Montreal’s Power Corporation, even before Martin had left university, and later helped Martin get his stake in Canada Steamship Lines, the company that is the source of Martin’s personal wealth, not to mention his pride and joy. Martin’s enthusiasm for Strong’s counsel goes way, way back.

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Lorne Gunter
Columnist, Edmonton Journal
Editorial Board Member, National Post

GAIA

By Denise Caster

March 4, 2003

The Gaia hypothesis, like so many other things in our society, is the product of an unfortunate combination of an inadequate understanding of mathematics, a “mommy-didn’t-love-me-enough” insecurity complex, and the consumption of too many hallucinogenic drugs.(anonymous, 2000)

When an opponent declares “I will not come over to your side”, I calmly say “Your child belongs to us already. What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.” (Adolph Hitler; 1939).

Rep. Helen Chenoweth, R-Idaho, the darling of the militia/wise-use movements, has figured out that environmentalism is a religion and environmental laws are a form of state-sponsored religion.

She recently testified to Congress that “environmental policies are driven by a kind of emotional spiritualism that threatens the very foundation of our society. There is increasing evidence of a government-sponsored religion in America. This religion, a cloudy mixture of new-age mysticism, Native American folklore, and primitive Earth worship, is being promoted and enforced by the Clinton administration in violation of our rights and freedoms.”

Who wins the youth wins the future of America. (Earl Browder, former General Secretary of the Communist Party).

As a Christian, I had heard of this movement among the ‘new age teenagers and deviants’, little did I know, this movement has a great deal of backing and money, to become the ‘one-true’ religion of the United Nations, and eventually the world! I was unaware of politicians and ‘big money’ that have chosen the cause of ‘gaia’ to force down the throats of free thinking Americans and those of other nations. I was unaware of the ‘global assault’ on peoples of all nations, all beliefs, this belief that our ONE true GOD, was in fact female, and inside the earth.

Are you ‘unaware’ as well?

Lately, politicians here in the United States and abroad, have decided that the ‘gaia religion’ should be practiced throughout the world. But where did it come from? ‘Gaia’ can be found in Greek Mythology, before Zeus, as an explanation of the beginning of the world. According to mythology, gaia had sex with her son, and had her son kill his father in some kind of warped ‘father-son’ dispute over world control, human inhabitation, and eventual ‘patriarchal rulership. (Some followers now claim that Mary and Jesus must have had sex, since gaia and her son did, it is all such Blasphemy!)

The ‘new agers’ and ‘big money’ wannabee world rulers have decided that ‘gaia’ should become the ‘world religion’, teaching children that ‘gaia’ is the ‘true religion’ of the world, with the use of media outlets. These same people have taken the teenagers and young adults hostage, by forcing ‘green’ issues on them, as a way to ‘save our planet’ for future generations. The only generation they are having a problem with is US! Those that know the TRUTH!

Care to hear more Truths?

The United Nations has replaced the true ‘Ark of the Covenant’ with their own version, and it is not of the TRUE GOD. They have replaced the ‘TEN COMMANDMENTS’ with their own version called the ‘earth charter’.

“The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.”

—Maurice Strong

“Do not do unto the environment of others what you do not want done to your own environment....My hope is that this charter will be a kind of Ten Commandments, a ‘Sermon on the Mount’, that provides a guide for human behavior toward the environment in the next century.”

—Mikhail Gorbachev, The Los Angeles Times, May 8, 1997

Maurice Strong is Canadian, a man that became known internationally, as a canadian national that ruled ‘their oil’ (Dome Petroleum), and then a part of their green party. His ‘favorite’ friend was David Rockefeller. Maurice Strong’s career turned at that point, and he began his control of Canadian power points.

Strong’s most significant role at the U.N. to-date has been his position as Secretary General of the 1992 U.N. Conference on the Environment and Development, the Rio Earth Summit. In the opening session of the Rio Earth Summit, Strong commented: “The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security.” Interestingly, Strong had initially been blocked from participating in the conference by the U.S. Department of State. When Strong learned of this, however, he persuaded then-President George Bush to overrule the State Department.

Strong is also involved in the U.N. Education Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Through his work in UNESCO, Strong promotes Gaia, the Earth God, among the world’s youth. Strong is also the director of The Temple of Understanding in New York. He uses The Temple to encourage Americans concerned about the environment to replace Christianity with the worship of “mother earth.”

Strong also directs the U.N.’s Business Council on Sustainable Development. Under his leadership, the council tries to affect peoples’ lives through U.N. policies that attempt to reduce the availability of meat products; limit the use of home and workplace air conditioners; discourage private ownership of motor vehicles; encroach on private property rights; and work to reduce the number of single family homes.

Maurice Strong is probably one of the most dangerous men of the world at this time. (but more on him later). You must also know who else supports gaia, and what this is teaching our children.

Do your children attend public school? In the United States, your children are learning all about ‘gaia’. Your children may not read the Bible at school, nor may they ‘pray’, but they will be forced to learn about ‘gaia’. Mother Earth, ‘depopulization’ of the the world, abortion, eugenics, and ‘dictorial genocide’ sanctioned by the U.N., are the newest dictates of the NEA and the education of ‘our’ children!

Would you like to know about ‘Captain Planet’ of the 80’s? Or one of the newest movies, directed toward 13 and above audiences, entitled ‘Final Fantasy’ (2001)? Fortunately, this movie, lost at the box office, and at later movie sales. The powers that be, do hope that this movie will recoup it’s losses as ‘gaia’ gains more power over the years.....

It is in OUR CONTROL whether this movie, and thus the movement, retain the control and power that they need to sustain the movement!