Posted on 06/10/2002 9:06:51 PM PDT by ancient_geezer
For those of us who are less versed in such high level financial schemes, can you explain more clearly how this works?
So what do we talk about? The Tobin Tax? BP machinations behind fuel cells? The Rockefeller Foundation setting up the Environmental Grantmakers Association? Pew Charitable Trusts behind salmon lawsuits directed at hydro dams? Prince Bernhard (Shell) beind the World Wildlife Fund? The problem is that the web of investments is so mixed into everyday business that it is very hard to see.
Pacific Power and Light, for example, built a power plant in Klamath Falls, OR. That plant runs on methane generated from cattle manure (a greenhouse gas under the Kyoto protocol). Scottish Power bought Pacific Power and Light and the World Bank granted them carbon credits for consuming the methane against a loan (of largely US Tax Dollars) that Scottish Power used to build another power plant in Sri Lanka where there are no carbon restrictions under Kyoto. But that's not all! Meanwhile, Scottish Power quietly supports NGOs who fund environmental groups advocating taking out the competing hydro dam in Klamath Falls and forcing the farmers to use wells (pumps running on what?). Electricity prices will rise when it becomes necessary to buy natural gas to supplement the plant. When they hit their carbon limits under UN mandates, Scottish Power (because they are not an American company) will buy the carbon credits and charge them to local electrical bills as a cost of operations and the Governor of Oregon is just fine with that. We are thus doing Kyoto no matter what George Bush says, in part because the global power company can make a buck on those carbon credits (cheap loan capital from US taxpayers sold at high rates) so they pay top dollar for US generating capacity.
That's just one example and it is a bit bewildering. Ain't socialism grand?
Try flat-out lying.
No joke, these vermin are more than happy to destroy the government and the country in order to keep milking the cash cow. It's unforgiveable.
Yep.
Here's another good one: the winter of '77 was the coldest of the 20th century and the snowfalls were record-breaking in many areas. In the '70s and early '80s, the enviro-socialists were crying about global cooling, claiming that atmospheric pollutants were blocking the sun and driving us into another ice age. They were claiming that the world would be uninhabitable in 20 to 30 years because we would not be able to grow any food because of the year-round cold and snow.
These whacks will claim that any weather fluctuation either way is "proof" that we only have 20 years to live and will cook up the craziest theories imaginable to "prove" it.
I'm not buying your big oil conspiracy theory though, it doesn't seem remotely plausible given their public opposition to all things Kyoto.
I think Kyoto is simply a very visible response to an illusion cooked up by crypto-communists, looking for ways to nationalize corporations by stealth (ie. allow them to operate only at the discretion of unelected fellow travellers in the permanent government raking off huge sums from the public, their customers, to pay for their ongoing incremental takeover of society). Now THAT'S a real conspiracy, and I'm afraid it's all too real.
It's not the oil companies themselves (although some of them now are involved and you should do some more homework there), it's the major stockholders of the founders of those companies that are the real danger when they use their tax-exempt foundations to manipulate access to resources using the environmental movement as a cover. You say some things in the rest of your response that are collinear with that assertion.
I think Kyoto is simply a very visible response to an illusion cooked up by crypto-communists, looking for ways to nationalize corporations by stealth (ie. allow them to operate only at the discretion of unelected fellow travelers in the permanent government raking off huge sums from the public, their customers, to pay for their ongoing incremental takeover of society). Now THAT'S a real conspiracy, and I'm afraid it's all too real.
Who sponsored those "communists" (also called the Popular Front, actually fascists (read Homage to Catalonia by Orwell)? You do know that land redistribution in the name of protecting "Nature" was one of Lenin's first and highest priorities (On Land)? You need to do a little more homework on the early history of Marx and his followers along with the Fabian Society, Cecil Rhodes, Freemasonry, and Gramsci. You do understand that the process of organizing environmental treaty law under the UN started before the UN itself was even formed? The environmental movement received over $3 billion dollars in corporate contributions last year, and that the money isn't just extortion or charity. You may not be convinced at this point, but if you really delve into the environmental movement, you will find the same patterns repeating over and over. Those "communists" are really the useful idiots, stooges for global corporate fascism.
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