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Collection of News Group postings on Maurice Strong:
in front of us, FTM considered the material again, because the
information (though somewhat dated) illustrates the mind set of
those whom G.K. Chesterton dubbed 'The New Unhappy Lords.' He
wrote of them: They have given us into the hand of new unhappy
lords, Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their
swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead
alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man
looks at flies. And the load of the loveless pity is worse than
the an- cient wrongs. Their doors are shut in the evening; and
they know no songs. We may not like our New Unhappy Lords any
more than they like us, but it's good to know who they are.
The Very Important Person is Canadian multimillionaire Maurice
Strong, a former deputy secretary general of the United Nations,
executive director of the United Nations' environmental program,
chairman of the UN's Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and a person who
is working as diligently as he can with his mystic second wife
Hanne to help create a New Earth-Friendly Religion. It's hard for
FTM to tell who is more daffy and more dangerous ~ the UN
official or his crystal-gazing consort~so you, reader, can make
up your own mind. Maurice Strong, you must know, is the earth's
self-appointed 'Custodian of the Planet,' and from his
63,000-acre ranch in the San Luis Valley on the edge of the
Sangre de Cristo (Blood of Christ) mountains, he entertains
grandiose dreams about how only he can save the earth And he
doesn't dream alone. Some equally high-powered and influential
people come to his ranch to share his dreams and encourage more
dreaming, people with names like Rockefeller, Kissinger, McNama-
ra, Trudeau, Moyers, the Dalai Lama, Shirley MacLane ~ along with
countless other dignitaries, politicians, businessmen, media
moguls, actors and actresses. New Age gurus, and even satanists.
Truly. What? You didn't know satanists are concerned about the
fate of the world, too?
What Strong is doing out at his Baca Ranch in the desert,
according to Canada's national newspaper, the prestigious Globe
and Mail (July 9th, 1990), is 'laying the groundwork for what
amounts to a new world order. 'The plan, ' wrote reporter Miro
Cernetig, 'is to be ready for the beginning of a new Dark Age,
says Mrs. Strong [profiled by herself, in a companion article to
Maurice's], a self styled visionary, whose apocalyptic vision of
the future involves the earth's population shrinking to about 400
million people in the next few years as the result of
environmental degradation.' The Danish-born Mrs. Strong, who
believes she has lived thou- sands of years in other lives, was
inspired to settle in Colorado in her childhood dreams. She
thinks that in a past life she was a Colorado Indian, and so she
planned her life so that she could return to her ancestral home.
About a decade and one-half ago, she was site-hunting in
Colorado, when a mysterious 'prophet' named Glen Anderson, who
lived in the Colorado mountains, materi- alized on her doorstep.
He pointed to the place where the Strongs were to build their
ranch and conference center for world lead- ers.
Reporter Daniel Wood, writing in West magazine in May, 1990,
tells what happened next: 'And so when she heard Anderson telling
her about his voices, she took it as prophecy. She headed uphill
into the mountains carrying an Indian pipe and a pouch of medici-
nal herbs and found a promontory on the Baca. For three days she
stayed there, fasting, meditating, observing the land.' And when
she came down from the mountain, she was determined to do what
Anderson directed ~ with the help of her husband's international
connections. Speaking to reporter Jack Levand of the (Colorado)
Valley Courier, Hanne Strong prophesied: 'It will not be too
distant before the Baca attains its true potential. 'You will see
more and more world leaders of various fields coming here to help
the world community put into action proper enlightened plans that
will eliminate problems...solving the political, social, and
environmental difficulties of the world.' Her millionaire husband
shares her dreams, and is financing the settlement of various
religious houses: a Carmelite monastery where men and women live
together, a $175,000 solar-powered Hindu Temple, a monastery for
Tibetan Buddhists, temples for Sufis and Taoists, a center for
the study of Jewish mysticism, a center for environmentalists
from the Aspen Institute ~ all in the effort to create a New
World Religion based on earth spirituality that will be more
tolerant than the 'ancient' religions. Hanne calls it 'The Valley
of the Refuge of World Truths,' and FTM's Colorado correspondent
says the place is growing by leaps and bounds.
Once the religious component is in place, the Strongs think,
corporate and political leaders will follow, making the Baca
Complex the 'Vatican City' of the New World Order. Today, the
area is booming, and there are plans for a complex of futuristic
buildings, including a 300-foot pyramid. Making His Mark On The
World Just who is Maurice Strong? West magazine reporter Daniel
Wood spent a week with Strong and his wife Hanne in preparation
for his story, and he found himself 'wondering what dedication,
what idealism compels them toward such an unlikely dream. And the
more I learn, the more aware I become that I've entered a world
of illusions, where the surface conceals things unfathomable.
That world sound just like the United Nations! Strong, we learn,
was born dirt-poor in Oak Lake, Manitoba, in 1930. He 'decided
one day in the early 1940's that he would make his mark on the
world...At 25 he was vice president of Dome Petroleum. At 31, he
became president of the Power Corporation of Canada. He went on
to found and head CIDA (the Canadian Interna- tional Development
Assistance program) and later Petro Canada... 'From there,
through his subsequent friendship with [Lester] Pearson's
successor Pierre Trudeau, the millionaire energy-entre-
preneur-turned-international-do-gooder found the cause that has
come to dominate the past 20 years of his life. With the support
of the Canadian government, he has participated in or directed
practically every major environmental initiative that has come
out of the United Nations from that time to this. He organized
the first World Conference on the Environment, which produced the
epochal 1987 Brundtland Report, the incendiary that has ignited
the present global 'green' movement...'
Strong, wrote Wood, believes that one thing that might save the
earth is a 'worldwide spiritual awakening,' and baca is dedicated
to that end> Strong, like his wife Hanne, has also had spiritual
experiences, as Wood related.'He confesses that a few years ago,
while walking with the famed author and journalist Bill Moyers in
the desert nearby, something strange, something inexplicable
happened. According to Strong, 'We'd been walking, talking,
heading back to my parked car. Suddenly, this bush ~ some sage-
brush ~ erupted in flames in front of us! I was astounded. Moyers
was, too. A bush bursting into flames'....It is the most mystical
experience he has had." Wood concluded his profile of Strong with
Strong narrating the novel he would love to compose if only he
could write. 'Each year, [Strong] explains as background to the
telling of the novel's plot, the World Economic Forum convenes in
Davos, Switzerland. Over 1,000 CEO's, prime ministers, finance
ministers, and leading academics gather in February to attend
meetings and set economic agendas for the year ahead. With this
as a setting, he then says: 'What if a small group of these world
leaders were to conclude that the principle risk to of the rich
countries? And if the world is to survive, the rich countries
would have to sign an agreement reducing their impact on the
environment. Will they do it? And Strong, driving as I take
notes, looks at me. Then his eyes go back to Highway 17. The man
who founded the United Nations Environment Program and who wrote
parts of the Brundtland Report and who in 1992 will try to get
the world's leaders to sign just such an agreement, savors the
question hanging in the air. Will they do it? Will the rich
countries agree to reduce their impact on the environment? Will
they agree to save the earth? 'Strong resumes his story. 'The
group's conclusion is 'no.' The rich countries won't do it. They
won't change. So, in order to save the planet, the group decides:
Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civi-
lizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this
about?'
'This group of world leaders, he continues, 'form a secret
society to bring about an economic collapse. It's February.
They're all at Davos. These aren't terrorists. They're world
leaders. They have positioned themselves in the world's commodi-
ties and stock markets. They've engineered, using their access to
stock markets and computers and gold supplies, a panic. Then,
they prevent the world's stock markets from closing. They jam the
gears. They hire mercenaries who hold the rest of the world
leaders at Davos as hostage. The markets can't close. The rich
countries...' And Strong makes a slight motion with his fingers
as if he were flicking a cigarette butt out the window. 'I sit
there spellbound. This not any storyteller talking. This is
Maurice Strong. He knows these world leaders...He sits at the
fulcrum of power. He is in a position to do it. 'I probably
shouldn't be saying things like this.' he says... 'When the truth
is finally told, Maurice and Hanne Strong fear the world will
come to this. No secret societies. No hostage-taking at Davos.
But it will come to the same conclusion: the global economy,
sapped by credit and debt loads and environmental disasters, will
simply come unstuck. And nothing ~ not even the dreams of Baca ~
can save humanity from itself....They fear that Baca will be, at
best, an oasis in the desert of the future ~ and at worst, a
place where dreams die.' Waiting For The Spirit To Depart
Daniel Wood offers another story that provides a peculiar insight
into the 'spirituality' of the Strongs. There was a visiting
Tibetan monk at their ranch, who went into a meditative trance.
While sitting there, meditating cross-legged, the monk died. The
Strongs left him untouched for four days, because, accord- ing to
Tibetan custom, it takes that long for the spirit to depart.
Powers And Principalities. When there are people like Maurice
Strong running the world, is it any wonder some are running away?
What's intriguing to FTM is the Strongs' unabashed dalliance with
the occult. Not only do they not think it strange, but they trot
out their eccentricities and delusions like a prize pony. The
couple recalls Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned
Parenthood, and Sanger's fellow occultists, all millionaires and
publicists for millionaires, and all dabblers in astrology,
numerology, and Eastern mysticism. It's important to know that it
is such visionaries who move the agenda of the United Nations.
There's not much anyone can do about it, (Editor's Note: Wanna
Bet? Join the Militia) but it does help one appreciate the battle
the Vatican has fought over the past few weeks in Cairo. That
battle was not one involving individuals, but principali- ties
and powers. The Eugenic State Oh, speaking of Margaret Sanger,
FTM was just looking at Elasah Drogin's excellent little study,
Margaret Sanger: Father of Modern Society (CUL Publica- tions,
New Hope, Ky., 40052). Among the curious facts: In 1934, Sanger
proposed an eight-point agenda to rid the world of unde-
sirables. Article n. 4: 'No woman shall have the legal right to
bear a child; no man shall have the right to become a father,
without a permit for parenthood.' Article n. 5: "Permits for
parenthood shall be issued by government authorities to married
couples upon application, providing...' At Cairo, the Powers That
Be just instituted Margaret's plan. Welcome to what the Pope's
spokesman called 'The Eugenic State.'"
(Ed. Note: We will be keeping close watch on the Baca Ranch from
here on out. If any of our readers can keep us informed and/or
has anymore information on this please send it to us. Thank you.)
IN CLOSING
We have now entered into another stage in the battle for our
freedom. The enemy has heightened its activities in trying to
shut down the militias nation-wide. They are doing this by caus-
ing seeds of discontent among the ranks. Also, they have their
agents out spreading malicious lies and rumors that militia
organizations are hate groups and/or are dealing in illegal
activity. We cannot sway from center. We must keep our eyes on
track and not let the enemy get to us. Do not be pulled off
center. As long as we stay focused on the ultimate goal and prize
~ we shall prevail. If we allow them to swerve us off track ~ we
shall lose. We must maintain unity. We must not allow them to
divide and conquer us. We must remain balanced and united.
Likewise we must get our food supplies put away, our militia
material put away, our clothing put away, and any and all items
that we will need for the coming collapse of the system as we
know it. For those of you who live in the cities, make your
contingency plans now to GET OUT! The cities will not survive.
Get your radio networks established now. You will need to
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easy and relatively inexpensive. If you need assistance in any of
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From rschwarz@edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu Wed Aug 10 03:21:20 1994
Date: Sat, 21 May 94 03:58 EDT
From: Ron Schwarz
Reply to: act@zilker.net
To: act@zilker.net
Subject: Maurice Strong
Here is the EXCELLENT report that John W. (financial opportunities)
posted on alt.conspiracy. This is VERY important stuff, so be
sure to read ALL the way through! The first part may seem
funny, and irrelevant, but it is NOT! This character looks like
the embodiment of, and fulfillment of ALL SORTS of really bad stuff.
And he's headed our way.
-- -- --
>Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
>Subject: Time for the Last Act
>From: financial.opportunities@canrem.com (Financial Opportunities)
>Date: Thu May 19 21:30:00 1994
Okay, folks, I'm going to test your endurance. But stick with this
item, lengthy as it might, because it has a highly-significant sting
in the tail!
This news comes to you courtesy of the redoubtable TORONTO STAR,
newspaper of choice for all Northern lumberjacks who like their
news hearty, meaty and raw!
We begin, innocently if ludicrously, with the following item [see
if you can spot the FAMOUS NAME concealed within this column of
news, kids!].....
TORONTO STAR, Tuesday, May 17th, 1994 [page A2]
HYDRO CHAIRMAN STARTS BID TO BUY COSTA RICAN LAND
By Leslie Papp
Queen's Park Bureau.
Ontario Hydro chairman Maurice Strong has opened talks on buying
12,500 hectares [30,875 acres] of a Costa Rican forest in a deal the
[Opposition] Progressive Conservatives brand as "wacky" in the face
of the utility's $34 billion debt.
"How is this going to help the ratepayers in Ontario?" Conservative
energy critic Chris Stockwell asked in the Legislature yesterday.
"In my wildest dreams, I can't fathom how the hell this could be
used", he later told reporters.
Citing federal sources, Stockwell said the tract sought by Strong is
worth between $10 million and $12 million. It borders on Corcovado
National Park and, if Hydro buys the land, it would be added to the
park for environmental preservation.
A Hydro spokesperson said the land might help combat greenhouse
gases.
The talks come at a time when Hydro has cut about 10,000
jobs.
Later, asked by reporters, Stockwell said he saw no connection
betweeen the proposed parkland purchase and Strong's private
ownership of land in Costa Rica.
Hydro spokesperson Terry Young confirmed that Strong had discussed
purchase of the tract by the utility in a recent meeting with Costa
Rican officials in Ottawa.
"We've had some discussions which I would term exploratory about
investment in this park", Young said. "It's an option. We've not
talked money at all. We haven't done anything in terms of
commitments".
The purchase is being considered on grounds that saving a large
section of forest will help offset the emission of greenhouse
gases by oil or coal-burning generating stations, he said.
Asked why the utility isn't investing in Ontario forests, instead
of those in the Caribbean, Young said Hydro does much for this
province too, including a rate freeze this year.
Stockwell said Strong should use his own money if he wants to
invest in the global environment. "Ontarians can't afford to save
the Earth through their hydro bills".
Strong was on a business trip to Japan and unavailable for
comment.
Energy Minister Bud Wildman appeared taken aback by news of Hydro
talks toward a Costa Rican land purchase.
He stressed that no deal had been signed and vowed to discuss the
matter with Strong.
- o O o -
Loopy, right? But wait...now, like the Earth itself [with that
fabled pesky Global Warming], the story begins to heat up. [Find
that FAMOUS NAME yet, kids? Keep looking - it could change your
*life expectancy*!]
>From the TORONTO STAR, Tuesday, May 17, 1994 [page A21]
WHY DOES HYDRO WANT TO BUY COSTA RICAN JUNGLE?
Thomas Walkom
Queen's Park
There is surely a good reason why Ontario Hydro is contemplating
the purchase of 12,500 hectares ofjungle in Costa Rica
Yesterday, government and Hydro officials were scrambling to
find out what that reason is.
The Hydro jungle scheme first surfaced yesterday in the
Legislature when Tory MPP Chris Stockwell read a little snippet
from the publication COSTA RICA.
According to that newsletter, Costa Rica's government has received
"an offer from the Canadian electric company Ontario Hydro to buy
12,500 hectares next to Corcovado National Park and add it to the
area for environmental preservation."
Stockwell said the Tories had been told the land in question is
worth between $10 million and $12 million.
Energy Minister Bud Wildman told Stockwell he bad no idea why Hydro
would want to buy jungle in Costa Rica but that he'd try to find out.
Later, he told reporters that David Hopper, head of Hydro's
international operations, knew nothing about the jungle
deal.
However, Ontario Hydro spokesman Terry Young told The Star
yesterday that there have been discussions between Hydro and Costa
Rica but that no deal has yet been signed.
Why Costa Rica?
"It's an interest we have in testing opportunities to offset
greenhouse gas emissions," Young said. "It's because of the trees.
Trees sequester carbon dioxide."
What Young seemed to be saying was that the crown corporation
wants to preserve the Central American jungle to offset the
world production of carbon dioxide.
Ontario Hydro itself creates carbon dioxide through its coal-
fired generating stations Such emissions form a blanket around
the Earth that traps heat, leading to higher temperatures.
This is the so-called greenhouse effect.
Young said no decision has been made as to whether Hydro would
buy the entire 12,500 hectare forest, or indeed whether it would
do anything.
He said the deal is being handled directly by Hydro Chairman
Maurice Strong.
He said he did not know if Strong, who was on his way from
Japan yesterday, still had business interests in Costa Rica.
This is not the first time that the New Democratic government
has been blindsided by the peripatetic Strong.
Hired in 1992, the 65-year-old energy entrepreneur has been
given free rein by [Rhodes Scholar] Premier [of Ontario]
Bob Rae.
As a young man Strong was a frequent visitor at the home of
diplomat Saul Rae, the Premier's father. Rae still has fond
memories of "Uncle Mo".
Since then, Strong has emerged as one of the most intriguing
figures on the international stage, operating in the
interstices between politics and business.
As journalist Elaine Dewar pointed out in a revealing 1992
SATURDAY NIGHT piece, Strong's signature has been the "mingling
of public and private in the cause of public policy."
His business arrangements have been so complicated they make
the head spin. Strong's deals have involved U.S. oil interests,
Saudi arms merchant Adnan Kashoggi, Canada's Power Corp. and the
man who is now federal Finance Minister, Paul Martin.
Under the Trudeau Liberals, Strong headed up key federal crown
corporations, most notably Petro-Canada and the Canada Development
Investment Corp.
He's been chosen twice by the United Nabons to run environmental
summits and is still head of some thing called the World Earth
Council.
In his spare time, Strong has supported New Age movements in
the U.S. and has helped finance a second Ark in preparation for
the next Deluge.
Strong also has had business dealings in Costa Rica. One of his
most recent Costa Rican adventures pitted him against an Indian
tribe which accused him of trying to build a hotel on native
land.
So when Costa Rica's new president-elect, Jose Mana Figueres,
came to Ottawa on an unofficial visit this year, it made perfect
sense that he should talk to Strong and Hydro.
An official from the Costa Rican embassy, who asked not to be
identified, said the meeting between Figueres and "the president
of Hydro" took place in late April but that talk of ajungle
purcase was "just speculation."
He also said a Hydro-Costa Rica deal could be announced soon.
If any other government were in power, the notion of an Ontario
crown corporation buyingg a jungle in Central America would seem
an impossible absurdity.
But this is the NDP. And Hydro is run by Maurice Strong. So while
the notion may still be absurd, it certainly is not impossible.
- o O o -
Hey, isn't this becoming *yummy*! A flakey, shadowy, world-moulding,
New-Agey billionaire, tied in to *all* the Elite groups, buying
jungle on a whim with public money in Central America? Why doesn't
the U.S. have nice, clean, whacky scandals like this, PG-rated, with
not even a *hint* of sex and violence?
But, wait! It gets even *better*. And you're just going to *love* the
*ending*! [Hey, kids! Keep working on finding out who this mysterious
FAMOUS PERSON banana-brain *really* is! Then let the rest of us know.
Is he just a *loon* with a lot of *moolah*? Or is he something *real
nasty*? Don't tell your folks, and don't stay up real late checking
him out, but keep digging away. YOU may win a new Scout badge in the
shape of a Bent Buck if you're first on-line with the answer!]
Okay, folks, you're all hanging in admirably well.
First, this hilariously sardonic commentary on Maurice
Strong's "jungle fund"; and then the staggering
*aftershock*! Now, I want to make just one thing perfectly
clear first. We in Canada take full responsibility for
the tootsie-freezing Winter winds we send down to the
States. Heck, we're even *proud* of them, and manufacture
them for you with extra-special care. But we take *no*
responsibility for Maurice Strong, who is clearly an
aberrant Force of Nature, on a Cosmic scale. SO DON'T BLAME
US IN THE FUTURE. Right? We DISOWN ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR
HIM!
Having made that clear, let's proceed through the following
comments to the *terrifying* climax!
TORONTO STAR, Thursday, May 19th, 1994. [page A23]
MERE MINISTERS ARE NO MATCH FOR MO OF THE JUNGLE
Thomas Walkom,
Queen's Park
Maurice Strong's jungle adventure lives.
The Hydro chairman won't back down from his plan to investigate
the purchase of thousands of acres of rain forest in
Costa Rica.
Yesterday, he told reporters it would be "irresponsible" for
Hydro not to consider buying a piece of the Central American
jungle.
He said such a move would cost the publicly owned utility
mere tens of thousands of dollars.
Jaded scribes had assumed that Hydro's imperial had been
thwarted on Tuesday.
That was when Economic Development Minister Frances Lankin
told the Legislature that as far as she was concerned, Hydro's
jungle plan was a no-go.
"I find it astounding that we would be considering, particu-
larly in these times, to spend ratepayers' money in that way,"
she said. "As one minister of the crown, my advice to
the Premier and the minister would be to say we wouldn't
support this kind of expenditure."
That sounded definitive.
Lankin is one of the most senior members of cabinet. Under
provincial law, the cabinet has the power to tell Hydro
what to do.
But few reckoned with Maurice Strong.
The 65-year-old energy entrepreneur has been around
the block a few times.
He's dealt with presidents and kings, arms merchants
and moguls.
He has run international summits.
He knows Pierre Trudeau
He's supped at the home of Premier Bob Rae's father,
Saul. He owned his own company when Frances Lankin
was still a toddler.
More 20 years ago, THE NEW YORKER magazine lauded
Strong as the man upon whom "the survival of civilization in
something like its present form might depend."
So when a minister of the crown suggested that perhaps
it wouldn't be the wisest use of money in the world for Hydro
to buy a rain forest, Strong was undeterred.
He said that comments made "impulsively"'by a cabinet minister
wouldn't move him.
He pointed out that he is the head of Hydro.
"In the final analysis, we have a responsibility to carry
out our duties," he said.
Indeed, a newspaper with less grace than THE STAR might
have summed up the chairman's comments in the following pithy
fashion "Mo to Earth: Butt out."
Faced with the iron will of Chairman Maurice, the cabinet
became more circumspect.
Questioned in the Legislature yesterday, Lankin said that she
still thought it unwise for an Ontario crown corporation to
buy a jungle.
But, she added, now that the issue has become
controversial, everyone should wait for Energy
Minister Bud Wildman to return and sort matters out.
Anyway, as she explained later to reporters, it was just
her personal opinion.
Speaking for Rae, who is in China, Deputy Prime Minister
Floyd Laughren echoed the same cautious sentiment.
Wildman, at a native affairs meeting in Quebec, has been
wisely keeping his head down.
Strong's personal interest in the jungles of Costa Rica
stems from two sources.
First, he owns a hotel complex on 300 hectares of land in
that country. His hotel business got him in some trouble
with both the Costa Rican government and a local Indian
band which claimed he had built on their property.
Second, Strong is - as Lankin reiterated yesterday - a
man most interested in enviromental questions.
It is all so simple.
Hydro burns coal, which creates carbon dioxide. This
leads to the gradual temperature increases known as global
warming.
Trees eat carbon dioxide.
If Hydro can keep some alive, then perhaps they will eat
some of the carbon dioxide it produces.
Lesser minds might suggest, as did Lankin yesterday, that
Hydro should plant trees in Ontario.
Really miniscule minds might suggest that if Hydro
were truly interested in preventing global warming, it
shouldn't be building coal-fired generating plants in
already polluted China.
Absolutely infinitesimal minds might argue that
Strong's adopt-a-rain-forest policy is a form of blood
money - maintain trees far away so you can pollute with
impunity at home.
Such mental midgetry would miss the point. As the
poet so aptly put it many years ago: "I am you and you
are me and we are all together... I am the walrus.
Koo-koo-ka-choo."
Or as Chairman Mo said yesterday: "Why not Costa Rica?"
- o O o -
Nutty, to the n-th degree, right? Whoooaa, there, fella! Don't
be so hasty! You've met the man; you've measured his style; and
you've seen his supreme - nay, *serene* - self-confidence.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is my inestimable privilege to introduce
to you the next KING OF THE WORLD and COMMANDER EL SUPREMO OF THE
NEW WORLD ARMY [Motto: "This Blue's for *you*"], KING MAURICE!.....
TORONTO STAR, Thursday, May 19th, 1994 [front page]
STRONG URGED TO SEEK JOB AS UNITED NATIONS CHIEF
by Jonathan Ferguson
Ontario Hydro chairman Maurice Strong is under mounting
international pressure to stand for United Nations
Secretary-General, diplomatic and business sources say.
The draft for the prestigious U.N. job is spearheaded by
developing countries in Africa and Latin America that could
tilt a U.N. General Assembly vote in Strong's favor.
"Maurice has a big following among the developing nations
that would help immeasurably if he ultimately decides to go
for the job," said Stephen Lewis, Canada's former [Socialist]
ambassador to the U.N.
The current Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt,
is expected to leave his post in 1996. Many U.N. members believe
it is the turn of a North American to hold the organization's
top post for the first time since its creation in 1946.
If the 102-country Non-Aligneded Movement of mostly developing
nations pledged to support Strong, he would clearly be the
frontrunner for the top U.N. job.
Strong told THE STAR yesterday that he is not personally
"involved in activities that would pertain to this discussion."
"Whether or not I am being considered is an academic question,
since there is a very competent Secretary-General who will
occupy that role for some time," Strong said. "While I am
flattered that my name would be raised, my present position as
chairman of Ontario Hydro has its own full share of
responsibilities."
The draft surfaced this week when Strong supporters in the
international business community fretted over his handling of
Ontario Hydro's controversial plan to purchase a jungle tract
in Costa Rica for around $10 million.
Strong, a leading player on the international environmental
scene who has served as an Under-Secretary General of the
U.N., has had previous controversial dealings in Costa Rica.
A recent Costa Rican business investment resulted in an Indian
tribe accusing him of trying to build a hotel on native land.
"Our concern is the appearance of conflict between Strong
the able public servant and Strong the entrepreneur at a
time when his name is gaining momentum throughout the
world for the U.N. post," said a European-based financier
and Strong confidante.
"We're at the sensitive point where the job is being raised
tentatively to Maurice. Numerous people internationally have
initiated talks with Maurice. We don't want them backing off."
Former prime minister Brian Mulroney was the last Canadian
whose name was on a list for the top U.N. job - in 1991,
with then-U.S. president George Bush's blessing.
But unlike Mulroney, who bowed out of the race when it
became clear his support didn't extend far beyond North
America, Strong is expected to win multilateral support
in recognition of his career as an international
humanitarian.[Especially with them there Costa Rican
Indians! - FO]
His international resume includes: founder of the U.N.
Environment Program, head of U.N. relief efforts in
Ethiopia in the mid-1980s, and secretary-general of the
1992 U.N. Conference on the Environment and Development.
Strong solidified his reputation among the world's develop-
ing nations in 1992 when he accused the U.S. of committing
environmental aggression against the rest of the world.
"At the military level, the United States is the custodian.
At the environmental level, the United States is clearly the
greatest risk," Strong said before acting as chairman of the
Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June, 1992.
In the race to succeed Boutros-Ghali, Canada has the edge
over other nations.
While North America is the favored continent, the U.S. is
ruled out by many diplomats because of its clout and the U.N.
headquarters in New York.
Strong's blue-chip cast of supporters, said sources close to
the rapidly organizing draft, include:
* Prime Minister Jean Chretien who, when a cabinet minister
during Pierre Trudeau's years in power, worked with Strong
when he headed up federal
>Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
>Subject: Maurice Strong, World Emperor-in-Waiting
>From: financial.opportunities@canrem.com (Financial Opportunities)
>Date: Fri May 20 23:14:00 1994
Hi, folks:
I noticed that the last part of my second posting on
Maurice Strong, next occupant of the U.N. Earth Emperor
throne, was mysteriously deleted by the Net Thoughtpolice
before it arriving on alt.conspiracy. So, for those of you
who believe that forewarned is forarmed and who would like
to build a spaceship to escape in time, as well as for those
who just find this loopy character too funny too be true, and
could do with the diversion, here's the missing part.....
Prior paragraphs breathlessly report on the gathering
international momentum which will *compel* the reluctant
Emperor-Elect to ascend the U.N. throne, then....
"Strong's blue-chip cast of supporters, said sources close to
the rapidly organizing draft, include:
* Prime Minister Jean Chretien who, when a cabinet minister
during Pierre Trudeau's years in power, worked with Strong
when he headed up federal crown corporations such as Petro-
Canada and the Canada Development Investment Corp.
* U.S. Vice-President Al Gore, another internationally
acclaimed environmentalist, who became a "personal friend";
when Strong twice ran U.N. environmental summits.
* Paul Martin, a Strong protege and federal Finance Minister.
Strong hired Martin when he was president of Power Corp.,
and launched Martin's meteoric business career.
* Toronto-based international financier Andrew Sarlos, of
Sarlos and Associates, who is drumming up support for
Strong with his network of contacts throughout Europe.
* Stephen Lewis, another internationally acclaimed Canadian
humanitarian, who carries great weight with African and
Latin American countries for his work as a special
representative to the United Nations children's fund, UNICEF."
- o O o -
Gosh, folks, isn't it just *great* to see democracy at work, as the
world's financiers scurry about, lobbying each other energetically
on behalf of the only candidate.
But, hey, why leave it to the pro's? *You* can have a part of the
action, too! I'm afraid that the best "loot-the-world" jobs in the
new U.N. Administration are already spoken for, but there are still
some highly-lucrative positions open for Tax Collectors, Firearms
Confiscators and New Thought Enforcers. If you would like to be
considered for one of these, address your properly-sycophant
application to:
Maurice Strong,
World Emperor and Chief Cosmic Channeler
c/o Ontario Hydro
700 University Avenue
TORONTO, Ont. CANADA
Your application will be helped immeasurably if:
* You have a lengthy criminal record
* you have never been caught [or even suspected]
* you enclose information on someone you know who
a] has a gun
b] might buy a gun
c] knows what a gun *is*.
Really eager would-be slaves and oppressors can reach Mr. Strong
directly by dialling 1-419-592 5111; *your* chances will be
likewise improved if you speak with a heavy German, Russian or
Eastern European accent and include the phrase "New Vorld ORDER!"
in every sentence.
The rest of you had better finish off those bunkers in your
back gardens as soon as possible. Try not to waste any hydro
in constructing them - Maurice is tired enough of his job as it
is. He doesn't need any extra pressure.
II. Another Look at Maurice Strong
>Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
>Subject: More on Emperor Maurice.
>From: financial.opportunities@canrem.com (Financial Opportunities)
>Date: Fri May 20 23:16:00 1994
So, you think that this Starcrossed Secretary-General-
in-Waiting is just a good humoured old buffoon, right?
Well, here are some hard facts extracted from Donald
McAlvany's *excellent* book TOWARD A NEW WORLD ORDER
[ISBN 096 245 1787, paperback], *must* reading for
everyone seriously interested in these matters.....
WHO IS MAURICE STRONG?
Maurice Strong is a man to watch! The billionaire
Canadian businessman is an employee of the United
Nations; an employee ofthe Rockefeller and Rothschilds
trusts aand projects; a director of the Aspen Institute for
Humanistic Studies; the organiser of the first World
Conference on the Environment in 1992; the founder and
first head ofthe U.N. Environment Program; the secretary
general (and chief organizer) of the UNCED Earth
Summit in Rio in June 1992, and a leading socialist,
environmentalist, New World Order manipulator,
occultist, and New Ager.In the mid- 1980s,Strong joined
the World Commission on the Environment where he
helped produce the 1987 Brundtland Report widely
believed to be the "incendiary" which ignited the present
"Green movement."
Strong, who spearheaded the Earth Summit, has
complained that "the United States is clearly the greatest
risk to the world's ecological health," and wrote in an
UNCED report in August 1991 that:
"It is clear that current lifestyles and consump-
tion patterns of the affluent middle-class . . .
involving high meat intake, consumption of
large amounts of frozen and convenience foods,
ownership of motor vehicles, small electric
appliances, home and work place air-condi-
tioning, and suburban housing are not sus-
tainable. . . . A shift is necessary toward life-
styles less geared to environmental damaging
consumption patterns. "
>From his platform as UNCED secretary general,
Strong has forcefully advocated a new economic order
based on the re-distribution of the developed world's
industries and wealth to the Third World. Strong
is indeed an arch socialist.
The Trilateral Commission recently published
book, "Beyond Interdependence: The Meshing Of the
WorId's Economy and the Earth's Ecology".
Rockefeller wrote the foreword and Maurice Strong
wrote the introduction, saying in part:
"This book couldn't appear at a better time,
with the preparation for the Earth Summit
moving into gear . . . it will help guide decisions
that will literally determine the fate of the
earth.....Rio will have the political capacity to
produce the basic changes needed in our inter-
national economic agendas and in our institu-
tions of governance."
Strong has established what could be the global
headquarters for the New Age movement in the San Luis
Valley of Colorado at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo
Mountains near Crestone, Colorado. He and his occultic
wife, Hanne, call the Baca an international spiritual
community which they hope will serve as a model for the
way the wor1d should be if humankind is to survive - a
sort of United Nations of religious beliefs. The Baca (as
the center is called) is replete with monasteries; the
Haidakhrndi Universal Ashram, a Vedic temple where
devotees worship the Vedic mother goddess; amulet-
carrying Native American shamans; a $175,000 solar-
powered Hindu temple; a mustard-yellow tower called a
ziggurat; a subterranean Zen Buddhist center complete
with a computer and organic gardens; a house full of
thousands ofcrystals; and even Shirley MacLaine and her
New Age followers.
In 1978, a mystic informed Hanne and Maurice
Strong that "the Baca would become the center for a new
planetary order which would evolve from the economic
collapse and environmental catastrophes that would
sweep the globe in the years to come." The Strongs say
they see the Baca, which they call "The Valley Of the
Refuge Of World truths "-"as the paradigm for the entire
planet and say that the fate of the earth is at stake.
Shirley MacLaine agrees - her astrologer told her to
move to the Baca, and she did. She is building a New Age
study center at the Baca where people can take short
week-long courses on the occult! Apparently, the
Kissingers, the Rockefellers, the McNamaras, the
Rothschild's, and other Establishment New World Order
elitists all agree as well- for they do their pilgrimage to
the Baca - where politics and the occult-the New World
Order and the New Age - all merge. Watch Maurice
Strong and watch the Baca!
Much of the above information about the Strong
and the Baca comes from an interview entitled "The
Wizard Of the Baca Grande," which Maurice Strong
conducted with WEST magazine of Alberta, Canada
May 1990. Strong concluded the interview with a thought-
provoking, apocalyptic story from a novel he says he
would like to write:
"Each year the World Economic Forum convenes
in Davos, Switzerlan4. Over a thousand CEOs,
prime ministers, finance ministers, and leading
academics gather in February to attend meetings
and set the economic agendas for the year
ahead.
"What if a small group of these word
leaders were to conclude that the principle risk
to the earth comes from the actions of the rich
countries? And if the world is to survive, those
rich countries would have to sign an agreement
reducing their impact on the environment. Will
they do it? Will the rich countries agree to reduce
their impact on the environment? Will they
agree to save the earth?
"The group's conclusion is 'no.' The rich
countries won't do it. They won't change. So, in
order to save the planet, the group decides: isn't
the only hope for the planet that the industrialized
civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility
to bring that about?
"This group of world leaders form a secret society to
bring about a world collapse. It's February. They're
all at Davos. These aren't terrorists - they're world
leaders. They have positioned themselves in the world's
commodity and stock markets. They've engineered, using
their access to stock exchanges, and computers, and
gold supplies, a panic. Then they prevent the markets
from closing. They jam the gears. The have mercenaries
who hold the rest of the world leaders at Davros as
hostage. The markets can't close. The rich countries...?
and Strong makes a slight motion with his fingers as
if he were flicking a cigarette butt out of the window.
I sat there spellbound. This is not *any* story-teller
talking. This is Maurice Strong. He knows these world
leaders. He is, in fact, co-chairman of the Council
of the World Economic Forum. He sits at the fulcrum
of power. He is in a position to *do it*"
And he's shaping up fast to become next Secretary-General of
the United Nations and World Chief Wackyhead. Oh, and El
Supremo Grand Commander, Strategist and Director of the
New World Army! But, hey, he was just *joking* about all
that stuff, right?
From aa2793@freenet.lorain.oberlin.edu Wed Aug 10 03:22:19 1994
Date: Sat, 21 May 1994 05:59:09 -0400
From: Steve Crocker
Reply to: act@zilker.net
To: act@zilker.net
Subject: Re: Maurice Strong
Found the following on a UN gopher:
Stockholm to Rio: A Journey Down a Generation
By Maurice F. Strong
On a beautiful spring morning in Stockholm nearly 20 years ago, the
world community embarked on an extraordinary journey of hope. It is now
almost a generation later, and world leaders and people from virtually every
country will be meeting in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 to ensure fulfillment
of that hope.
In this essay, I propose to tell the story of that journey--about what
it has meant to those of us who were present in Stockholm that morning, and
what our experience may illustrate for future generations who will inherit
this terribly fragile planet that is known as Earth.
The journey began on 5 June 1972 when delegates from 113 countries and
many organization, and people from all parts of the world, gathered in the
Stockholm Opera House to be welcomed to the United Nations Conference on the
Human Environment by their Swedish hosts. King Gustaf VI Adolf was present.
So was the late Prime Minister Olof Palme. It was a historic moment--marking
the first time ever that representatives of world governments had come
together to consider the implications of deepening environmental degradation
for the future of our planet. It had taken more than two years of intensive
effort to prepare for the Stockholm Conference. There had never been such a
parley on a subject--environment--that was regarded as relatively novel at
the time. We had expected a lively conference, of course, but had little
idea of just how lively it would prove to be. It soon became evident during
the first round of plenary statements that participating governments were
deeply divided on some of the most important issues. The Conference
newspaper summed it up well in its headline, `Only One Hundred and Thirteen
Earths.'
Developing countries, led by Brazil, insisted that the primary source
of their environmental problems were poverty and under-development. They
asserted that environmental concerns must not be allowed to detract from
their principal priority of development. As the late Prime Minister Indira
Ghandhi of India put it, `Poverty is the greatest polluter.'
By the final days of the Conference, however, consensus was reached on
an historic Declaration and Action Plan which established the basis for a
new era of international environmental cooperation. This consensus involved
intense negotiations between government representatives and United Nations
officials, including me. As Secretary-General of the Stockholm Conference, I
felt that divisive though the issues were concerning environment and
poverty, it was important that the conference should not end in a stalemate.
Results of the Stockholm Conference
In the event, the Conference was a success. The environment was
inscribed firmly and irrevocably on the world's agenda. Coverage of the
Conference in the global media was extensive, and many articles in
prestigious journals--and many books--were published in the months and years
following the meeting.
The Stockholm Conference led to the creation of the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP) as the global instrument for catalyzing action
to implement the consensus reached at the meeting. Fittingly, UNEP adopted
the Conference theme `Only One Earth' as its motto. I was honored to be
appointed as UNEP's first Executive Director.
In time, the Stockholm Conference produced a proliferation of new
initiatives. UNEP, thanks primarily to the dynamic and enlightened
leadership of its current Executive Director, Mostafa K. Tolba, led the way.
Governments established environmental ministries or agencies, and enacted
environmental legislation and regulations. Inter-governmental organizations
incorporated `environment' in their programs. A host of new non-governmental
organizations and citizen groups sprang up in all parts of the world.
Business began to take environmental issues more seriously, and public
awareness and concern broadened on environmental issues.
Nevertheless, the global environmental crisis continued. Economic
growth and wealth in industrialized countries--contrasting with burgeoning
population growth and poverty in developing countries--highlighted that
gross economic and social imbalances afflicting our global community. The
deterioration of the global environment meant setbacks for both rich and
poor. Air and water pollution problems, and the cancerous spread of urban
poverty and blight made many developing-country cities the most polluted of
the world's urban environments. Water contamination, impending shortages of
supply and rising tides of toxic substances, have been added to degradation
of the renewable resources, loss of soil, forest cover and important species
of plant and animal life in these last two decades.
The Brundtland Commission
The recognition of the essential linkages between environment and
development was a dominant theme of the Stockholm Conference of 1972. But
not enough progress was made toward the actual integration of the
environmental dimension into development policies and practices until the
World Commission on Environment and Development, in its 1987 report, `Our
Common Future', gave new impetus to this process. The commission, which was
chaired by Mrs. Gro Harlem Brundtland, the Norwegian Prime Minister, soon
became known widely as the Brundtland Commission.
The Commission's report documented in compelling terms the case for
sustainable development--the full integration of environment and
development--as the only sound and viable means of ensuring both our
environment and development future. It made clear the transition to
sustainable development is equally imperative for developing as for more
industrialized countries. It recognized that the vastly different conditions
under which they must make this transition impose special handicaps on the
poor and place special responsibilities on the rich.
The 1992 Earth Summit
The United Nations General Assembly responding to the report of the
Brundtland Commission, decided in December 1989 to hold a new conference,
this time on environment and development, on the 20th Anniversary of the
Stockholm Conference, in June 1992. It accepted the invitation of Brazil to
host the Conference, and President Fernando Collor de Mello decided that it
would be held in Rio de Janeiro.
In December 1990, the General Assembly decided that countries would be
represented at the Conference by their Heads of State or Government. And the
people of the planet who constitute the base on which this Summit depends
will be there too--represented by the broad range of non-governmental
organizations and citizen groups that will be participating. The expectation
is that the presence of leaders and everyday people will generate the kind
of political will required to take bold decisions concerning mankind's
future.
The recommendations of the Brundtland Commission provide the primary
basis for the agenda of the United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development. I hope that the 1992 Conference will produce a new political
commitment to a global war on poverty as a central priority of the world
community in the remainder of the 1990s and into the 21st Century.
The United Nations General Assembly decided to establish a Preparatory
Committee to oversee efforts for the 1992 Earth Summit. The Committee has
become widely known as PrepCom. The goals of the Earth Summit have been
articulated in General Assembly Resolution 44/228, and the task before the
Preparatory Committee is to recommend the options and the actions to reach
these goals.
Ambassador Tommy Koh of Singapore was elected chairman of the Committee
at its organizational meeting in New York in March 1990. Ambassador Koh has
enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a lawyer and a diplomat.
The Earth Summit in Rio will be about environment and development. But
there is a primary emphasis on development and economic change. For it is
through the development process that we have an impact on the environment.
And it is only through fundamental changes in our economic behavior, in
lifestyles and in management of the development process, that we can effect
the positive synthesis between the environment and development that will
produce a way of life that is sustainable both in economic and environmental
terms.
The development model which has produced the lifestyles that we in the
industrialized world and the privileged minority in developing countries,
enjoy is simply not sustainable. The 1992 Conference will focus largely on
the changes we must make in our economic behavior to ensure global
environmental security.
The industrialized countries must clearly take a lead in this
transition. It is they who have developed and benefitted from the
traditional development model which has produced our present dilemma. And
they are the only ones with the means and the power to change it. But, of
course, most of the world's population lives in developing countries--and
their full partnership in effecting the needed transition will be essential.
The transition to sustainability requires much more effective use of
resources and accountability of the environmental as well as the economic
impacts of such use. This must depend primarily on the provision of the
necessary incentives to change rather than over-reliance on regulatory
measures. Operation of market forces can and must be a powerful ally in
providing the incentives to change. It is, after all, fully consistent with
market economy principles that every economic transaction and product must
absorb the full costs to which it gives rise, including environmental costs.
The system of incentives and penalties through which governments create the
conditions that motivate our economic life must be re-examined and
reoriented to provide the necessary incentives for the transition to
sustainability in both our industrial life and individual behavior.
A New Revolution
What is called for is nothing less than a new `eco-industrial'
revolution, one that will not only preserve and extend the benefits created
by the industrial revolution of yesteryear, but create a whole new
generation of economic opportunity and redress the gross imbalances between
rich and poor. The substantial reductions effected recently in the material
and energy content of industrial production, particularly in Western Europe
and Japan, illustrate the degree to which environmental measures can be
compatible with economic vitality. Japan, for example, uses only about half
as much energy per unit of industrial production as the United States. This
gives it a competitive advantage averaging some 5 percent in the US market.
And such environmentally related industries as waste management and
pollution control are now among the leading growth industries. These changes
within industrialized economies must be accompanied by concrete measures to
ensure an increased net flow of resources to developing countries; and to
make available to them on an affordable basis the environmentally sound
technologies they will require to incorporate the environmental dimension
into their own development policies and practices.
Renewed Role of the United Nations
The imperatives of global environmental cooperation will require a vast
strengthening of the multilateral system, including the United Nations. Its
current inadequacies, its lack of the capacity and means in many cases to do
its job, are largely a function of the severe constraints imposed on both
its mandates and its budgets by Member States. Yet the world needs the
United Nations today more than ever. If it did not exist, it would have to
be invented.
And the same difficulties that make governments reluctant to accord to
the United Nations the powers and resources required to do its work would
make it difficult to re-create. That is not to say that the United Nations
can or should do it all. Indeed, in virtually all cases the principal actors
are national governments and other inter-governmental organizations and the
private sector. But the United Nations' role is unique and indispensable in
providing the global framework, context and forums required to enable the
other actors to contribute effectively and cooperatively to addressing
common global concerns.
Strengthening the role the United Nations can play on behalf of its
members will require serious examination of the need to extend into the
international arena the rule of law and the principle of taxation to finance
agreed actions which provide the basis for governance at the national level.
But this will not come about easily. Resistance to such changes is deeply
entrenched. They will come about not through the embrace of full blown world
government, but as a careful and pragmatic response to compelling
imperatives and the inadequacies of alternatives.
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. There is no need for a renunciation or wholesale
retreat from this principle.
What is needed is recognition of the reality that in so many fields,
and this is particularly true of environmental issues, 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.
Interdependence and Globalization
The increasingly integrated and interdependent nature of the human
systems we have established through the functioning of the world's economy
and global communications also transcends national boundaries.
It is an interesting paradox that the globalization and
universalization we are now experiencing in so many aspects of our life is
accompanied by the resurgence of parochialism and ethnic and religious
nationalism. This is creating strong and growing pressures for separatism in
federal and multi-ethnic states.
The processes of democratization which are re-shaping the political
life of so many nations today are producing a new emphasis on individual
rights and responsibilities. This is particularly manifest in respect of
environmental issues ranging from consumer preferences and demands for
cleaner and safer products to resistance to mega-development projects.
Environment and development issues are moving to the grass roots in a
growing number of countries. There is a proliferation of new citizen groups
and voluntary organizations which are becoming important agents of action as
well as sources of political pressure. They are insisting on greater
participation in the decisions which affect them and for more effective
accountability of the decisions and actions by governments.
Expectations about the Rio Summit
The strong and vigorous interest which the non-governmental community
is showing in the 1992 Conference and in preparations for it, is an
encouraging sign that `people power' will be an important factor in the
success of the Conference.
The Rio Conference offers a unique opportunity to provide the basis for
the major shift required to put us on the pathway to a more secure and
sustainable future. At the core of this shift there will have to be
fundamental changes in our economic life--a more careful and more caring use
of the earth's resources and greater cooperation and equity in sharing the
benefits as well as the risks of our technological civilization. Of
particular importance is the need to integrate the ecological dimension into
education and economics. But accelerated development will be necessary, too.
Developing countries cannot deal effectively with their fragile eco-systems
and burgeoning urban problems without higher incomes derived from efficient
use of technologies. Poverty, as we know, breeds environmental disaster.
Population is another critical element in the environment-development
equation. The relationship between population dynamics and the ecosystems on
which the survival and the well-being of people depend, is decisive in
achieving sustainable development. Demographic factors such as rates and
distribution of population growth will be key to the transition to
sustainability. This issue, of course, is bound up with the issue of
poverty. Each country must determine the relationship between the growth and
distribution of its own population, its environment and resource base, and
the level and quality of life that its development policies and programs are
designed to produce for its people. But overall reduction in population
growth and early achievement of population stability are imperative.
Realistic or Overly Ambitious?
The results we seek in Rio are clearly ambitious; some may say even
unrealistic, given the current economic difficulties of developing
countries, the Soviet Union and other countries of Eastern and Central
Europe--and the preoccupation of the OECD countries with their own economic
concerns.
With the Earth Summit already on the horizon, is it really feasible to
develop the political will required to agree on the fundamental changes that
are needed? Surely if our diagnosis is correct, such changes are imperative
and we must believe they are possible!
There is basis for hope in our won history which demonstrates that
dramatic changes in direction are possible when necessity and new realities
compel them. The world community new faces together greater risks to our
common security through our impacts on the environment than from traditional
military conflicts with one another. We must now forge a new `Earth Ethic'
which will inspire all peoples and nations to join in a new global
partnership of North, South, East and West. This partnership would ensure
the integrity of the Earth as a secure, equitable and hospitable home for
today's inhabitants and tomorrrow's generations.
Rio 1992 will build on the foundations established in Stockholm in
1972. The people of our planet, especially the young and the generations
which follow them, will hold us accountable for what we do or fail to do in
Rio. Earth is the only home we have; its fate is literally in our hands.
in our hands Earth Summit '92
From rschwarz@edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu Wed Aug 10 03:22:36 1994
Date: Sat, 21 May 94 18:01 EDT
From: Ron Schwarz
Reply to: act@zilker.net
To: act@zilker.net, ab625@leo.nmc.edu, ab821@leo.nmc.edu, ac392@leo.nmc.edu,
ac733@leo.nmc.edu, bracken@cps201.cps.cmich.edu, dclyon@csupomona.edu,
gek@tardis.svsu.edu
Subject: More on Maurice Strong
>Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
>Subject: Yet *more* on Earth-King Maurice I.....
>From: financial.opportunities@canrem.com (Financial Opportunities)
>Date: Sat, 21 May 94 13:05:00 -0400
Hi, folks:
This is the final extract on Emperor-Elect Maurice the Strong,
taken from the *invaluable* TOWARD A NEW WORLD ORDER, by Don
McAlvany [ISBN 096 245 1797, paperback]. This excellent 374-
page book is a remarkable and meticulously-researched, up-to-
date treasure-trove of information on issue after issue, as
they pertain to the gradual and deliberate introduction of
the destructive and enslaving New World Order.
Cut down on your coffee for a few weeks, and use the money
you save to buy your own copy. You'll find it an essential
reference, sourcebook and roadmap for the half-crazed
universe which is planned for us.
************************************************************
The Earth Summit
"The Earth Summit must establish a whole new
basis for relations between rich and poor, North
and South including a concerted attack on
poverty as a central priority for the 21st century.
This is now as imperative in terms of our environ-
mental security as it is on moral and humani-
tarian grounds. We owe at least this much to
future generations, from whom we have bor-
rowed a fragile planet called Earth. "
-Maurice Strong
Billed as the "mother of all summits," with up to
40,000 government officials and environmentalists from
167 countries in attendance, the June 4-14 Earth Summit
was the biggest gathering of world leaders ever held.
Described by Time magazine as a "New Age carnival," the
summit (and related activities) was attended by the Dalai
Lama of Tibet, thousands of New Agers and occultists
(including John Denver and Shirley MacLaine), numerous
leftist groups, and virtually every environmental group in
the world - 7,892 non-governmental organizations from
167 countries.
As the Wall Street Journal said: "The summit on
Mother Nature was asking: 'What is needed to save the
world and how much is the world willing to do to save
itself? "'The Audubon Society called the Earth Summit
"the most important meeting in the history of mankind, "
and Maurice Strong said at the opening session of the
Summit:
"Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at
stake. . . . No place on the planet can remain an
island ofaffluence in a sea of misery. . . . We're
either going to save Ihe world or no one will be
saved. I think we're at a real point of civilizalion
change. We must, from here on in, all go down
the same path. . . . There may not be another
chance.
The Rocky Mountain News, in a May 31, 1992
article entitled "Agenda For Rio: Save the Planet Earth,"
posed a question:
"Who is killing planet earth? Styrofoam-crush-
ing, beef-eating, gasoline-guzzling, air condi-
tioner-blasting Americans and their partners in
the developed nations? Rain forest-razing,
sewer-fouling, baby-booming peasants of the
Third World? Air-poisoning, river-killing, radio-
active waste-leaking, dirty coal-burning denizens
of formerly communist Eastern European
countries? All of us are killing planet earth! "
Many environmentalist leaders touted the summit as
an ecological Bretton Woods, just as world leaders
crafted the post-World War 11 international financial
system in New Hampshire, the leaders of the post-Cold
War era would lay the foundations for the "era of
sustainable development." Lester Brown, president of
Worldwatch Institute, said: "I think when we look back
we will see the Rio conference as the event that marked
the end of an era and the start of a new one."'
The Goals Of the Rio Earth Summit
The June Earth Summit in Rio was notjust about the
pseudo-environmental crisis; it was not just about clean
air, clean water, acid rain, global warming, or endangered
species: it was about massive wealth redistribution from
the industrial countries (i.e., the North) to the Third
World countries (i.e., the South) -from the rich to the
poor countries. It was about massive global socialisn
people control, and world government. It was also an
unprecedented global media platform, for militant anti-
American eco-propaganda with emotional diatribes about
America's alleged crimes against the global environment.
The summit was concerned with writing a World
Constitution which will deal with ways and means of
eliminating pollution; cutting down the alleged "global
warming"; cutting down on the emission of carbon
dioxide; stalling the rate of ozone depletion; adopting
plans to prevent overpopulation, acid rain, nuclear
fallout, and to promote clean water and clean air; and
depriving landowners ofthe right to use their land in any
manner other than that permitted by UNCED or its local
or regional representative. Their broad goals include:
1. A Massive Global Wealth Redistribution Scheme -
Maurice Strong and other summit leaders are
demanding a $625 billion a year (for a decade)
wealth transfer from the so-called wealthy countries
(epitomized by the U.S.) to the so-called poor
countries-with $125 billion per year coming from
America. The U.S. is being pushed to contribute
$70 billion per year to this Third World Green
fund (this is in addition to the $55 billion we
already pour out annually to developing nations).
2. Imposition Of a System Of Global Environmental
Regulation - including onerous taxes on energy
fuels, and on the populations of the United States
and other industrialized nations. The developed
countries should limit production and consump-
tion, and cut back dramatically on the use of the
automobile, electrical appliances, air conditioning,
etc. The same formula for "sacrifice by the rich
nations to save the planet" was summarized well
some 12 years earlier by Kansas Senator James P.
Pearson, who said: "Profits must be cut, comforts
reduced, taxes raised, sacrifices endured. "
3. Elimination Of Property, Hunger, and Disease In
The Third World - Only if these are eliminated, the
environmentalists say, will the poor Third Worlders
stop polluting planet earth.
4. Establishment Of a Global Environmental Protec-
tion Agency - to duplicate the efforts of the
American EPA on a worldwide basis and prosecute
environmental crimes on a global basis.
5. Population Control - is high on the Green agenda,
although the issue was low-profiled at the Earth
Summit. Strict population control is high on the
agenda of UNCED and the Green movement. As
the Greens see it, there are too many people on
Mother Earth (and the 5.4 billion will double in
the next 10 to 15 years); the more people there are,
the more pollution there is; the more highly-
developed the people are, the more resources they
consume. So, one of UNCED and the Greens'
chief goals is to restrict population growth by
whatever means possible. Biology professor Garrett
Harden (an influential Green spokesman) recently
wrote:
"lt is a mistake to think that we can control the
greed of mankind in the long run by an appeal to
conscience. . . . The only way we can cherish
and nurture other and more precious freedoms
is by relinguishing the freedom to breed, and
that very soon."
The U.N. Population fund defends the Chinese
population control regime, which uses mandatory abortion
and sterilization, female infanticide, and incarceration of
uncooperative parents. PaulEhrlich, another Green'
population controller, in his books, "The Population Bomb"
and "The Population Explosion", praises the Chinese
approach but calls it inadequate. He recommends a
Chinese-style population control program supervised by
the U. N., and the adding of sterilants to water and food
supplies.
It is very significant that the Greens are very
preoccupied with population growth in America. The
Club of Rome would like to see the U.S. population
reduced to 75 million - they don't say what will happen to
the other 175 million Americans (perhaps Russian nukes
or AIDS can solve that problem). In "Earth Day - The
Beginning", David Brower declared:
"That's the first thing to do - start controlling
the population in affluent white America, where
a child born to a white American will use about
50 times the resources of a child born in the
black ghetto."
For the first time, during the writing of this book,
this writer has begun to understand the relationship
between the Rockefeller-backed Planned Parenthood,
the abortion and euthanasia movement on the one hand,
and the Green movement on the other. Both groups want
to shrink the worlds population to save Mother Earth
and our scarce resonrces. Both are preoccupied with
death, and opposed to life. As Deuteronomy 30:19 says,
"I call heaven and earth to record this day against you,
that I have set before you life and death, blessing and
cursing: therefore, choose life, that both thou and thy
seed may live".
- o O o -
Folks, I urge you *all* to go out and buy a copy of this
amazingly-detailed, factual and fascinating book! Read it
yourself, and loan it out widely to friends. Better still,
sell your T.V. set and invest the money in several dozen
copies and *give* them away!
Unless, that is, you look *forward* to a world of water-induced
impotence, controlled reproduction, impoverishment-by-transfer,
slavery, and the promise of efficient "termination" as soon as
you become a "useless eater" or accidentally have an original
thought.
Of course, you could always get that spaceship ready and
prepare to flee. But Emperor Maurice will be *really* taxing
fuel by then!
From pwatson@utdallas.edu Wed Aug 10 03:23:26 1994
Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 05:48:00 -0500
From: Paul Watson
Reply to: act@zilker.net
To: -
Subject: Maurice Strong, global 2000
OK, here is the Greens plan for a New World Order and sounds like Maurice
Strong is the new world king.
Regards,
Paul Watson
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Subject: PROJECT GLOBAL 2000
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 20:43:33 GMT
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PROJECT GLOBAL 2000
A Global Partnership for New World Order
Project Global 2000 is an international partnership of organizations
and individuals who are combining their expertise, networks and
influence to develop a forum and process in which all sectors of
society can participate in the shaping of a more equitable,
sustainable, and inclusive world order. The Project gives special
attention to redefining security and sovereignty in the context of
economic and ecological interdependence.
In 1978, Robert Muller and Margaret Mead, core associates of Global
Education Associates challenged the people of the world to prepare for
the year 2000 by a "worldwide collaborative process of unparalleled
thinking, education and planning for a just and sustainable human
world order." Taking heed of this summons, GEA associates worked
through the 1980s to help develop such a process. Project Global 2000
-- which will develop teams and programs councils in seven, geographic
regions and a minimum of 5O countries -- emerged from those efforts.
Project Globl 2000 is sponsored by the following 20 international
partnership organizations which together form its International
Partnership Council:
- Centre for Our Common Future
- Earth Restoration Corps
- Global Education Associates
- Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders for Human
Survival
- International Center for Integrative Studies
- International Institute for Rural Reconstruction
- International Peace Research Association
- Parliamentarians Global Action
- Society for Internatinal Development
- United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- United Nations Childrens' Fund (UNICEF)
- United Nations Education, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
- Vienna International Institute for the Study of the Future
- World Conference on Religio and Peaceh)0*0*0* - World
Federalist Movement
- World Federation of United Nations Associations
- World Future Studies Federation
- World Order Models Project
Many other networks and institutes -- secular and religious -- are
becoming partners through the projects councils on Education, Health,
Religion, Business and Communications. Each partner contributes its
own expertise and experience through its members and affiliates.
Linking their combined networks provide a unique multisectoral global
infrastructure for implementing the Project's overall goals and
strategies. Global Education Associates, with associates in over 80
countries, serves as the project's coordinating partner.
The project has four principle objectives: (1) Develop a conceptual
and institutional framework for responding to the new challenges of
global interdependence; (2) develop an ongoing, coordinated global
process for research, dialogue and joint action after in Rio; (3)
Produce research/policy monographs that examine key world order issues
in a world order context, (4) disseminate and use these monographs
through the partner networks to develop multi-issue action strategies
for policy and systems change at Iocal, national and international
levels.
There is no question that a new world order is already coming into
being. But current geopolitical expressions of this new order carry
with them the old world order of economic and military power and
dominance. This raises urgent questions: Who will be involved in
designing the new world order? What will be its values? Will it be
controlled by the economically and militarily powerful? Or will it be
a genuinely participatory order governed by international law,
enforced by collective action and effective legal and judicial
institutions?
As a global partnership of organizations and individuals who are
combining their expertise, networks and influence during the 1990's,
Project Global 2000 is uniquely capable of responding to the above
questions. A central premise of the Project is the following: If
quality documents and monographs framed in the context of ecological
and economic interdependence are produced through a participatory
process in up to 50 countries that are influential in their regions -
and then promoted, utilized, and adapted by partner organizations
through their networks - significant framing of national debates can
be achieved. Such framing in multiple countries can shape
decision-making toward policy and system change based on mutually
beneficial trade-offs.
A Global Ethic
A central premise underlying the decade-long strategies of Project
Global 2000 is that the creation of an equitable and sustainable
common future is, at its heart, an ethical and spiritual matter. Such
a future requires a world ethic that can provide a foundation for
radical changes in prevailing value systems and a deepened
awarenessh)0*0*0*of the sacred source of all life, and the
integral relationship
between the human species and the whole earth community. The World
Conservation Union has spoken forcefully for such moral undergirding:
"Only a new world view and a renewed ethic for living sustainably can
change people's relationship with each other and the Earth...An ethic
for living sustainably will promote relationships among people that
reflect compassion, equity and tolerance; and relationships between
people and the Earth that are based on understanding, humility and
respect "
The four principles of the Earth Covenant - which emerged through a
worldwide consultative process facilitated by Global Education
Associates and adopted by Project Global 2000 after world wide
consultation - provide the beginning framework for such a global
ethic:
1. Relationship with tbe Earth: Each human being is a unique and
integral part of the Earth'community of life and has a social
responsibility to care for life in all its diverse forms.
2. Relationship with each other: Each human being has a right to a
healthful environment and access to the fruits of the Earth. Each
also has a continual duty to work the realization of these rights for
present and future generations.
3. Relationship between economic and ecological security: Since human
activity is rooted in the natural processes of the Earth, economic
development - to be sustainable - must preserve the life-support
systems of the Earth.
4. Governance and Ecological Security: The protections and
enhancement of life on Earth demands adequate legislative,
administrative, and judicial systems at appropriate local, national,
regional, and international levels. In order to be effective, these
systems must be empowering, participatory, and based on openness of
information.
Adopting and promoting a new world ethic is, admittedly, a difficult
challenge. The subject matter is controversial and there are few
precedents. But as the WCU emphasizes, "It is not sufficient to wait
and hope that an ethical conscience will emerge on its own." The
development of a new moral framework must be pursued with utmost
vigor. This is one of PG 2000's important objectives.
PROGRAM COUNCILS of Project Global 2000
Six Councils - Health, Education, Religion, Business, Youth, and
Communications - were commissioned at the Vienna conference of Project
Global 2000 in October 1991. Each Council will be supported by
regional - and, when feasible, national - committees in Asia, Africa,
Europe, Latin America and North Ameria. The Councils are designed to
engage six major sectors of society in a multi-sectoral movement for
world order systems that are more suitable, inclusive, and
ecologicalyh)0*0*0*sustainable. They provide strategic
links with important
constituencies whose expertise, networks and involvement are essential
to a resolution to today's global-scale, multi-dimensional challenge.
An Inter-Council Committee is being developed to facilitate
collaboration between the programs and initiatives of the various
Councils. Each Council is incorporating the following common, but
flexible, format and process:
* Establish an International Commettee that will represent diverse
groups, dimensions, experience, and expertise.
* Develop a preliminary working paper that will (1) place the concerns
and agenda of the sector represented by the Council in the context of
ecologial and economic interdependence, (2) integrate those analyses
and proposals of Agenda 21 and UN and NGO documents prepared for the
Earth Summit and other global conferences that are most relevant to
these concerns and agenda, and (3) formulate and work for policy and
system change at local, national, and international based on this
integration.
* Conduct formal and informal consultations on this paper organized by
members and affiliates of PG2000's partner organisations around the
world.
* Produce an analytical and policy-oriented monograph that integrates
the input from these consultations into the working paper.
* Conduct regional conferences based on this monograph that will
include representatives of partners of PG2000 as well as a broad
spectrum of people with expertise and experience in its particular
issue.
* Produce an action guide and a video based on the analyses and
proposals resulting from the monograph, consultations, and
conferences for use with the monograph as tools for the multi-issue
movement.
* Develop a section for the proposed UN Earth Charter in 1995 that
would relate to the particular concerns of the Council.
* Participate in - and prepare material related to the particular
concerns and agendas of the Council for - the programs and events of
the 5Oth anniversary of the United Nations in 1995
The Councils concretize PG2000. They offer a process for enlisting the
six sectors of society in common efforts for policies and systems
commensurate to the global-scale realities and challenges during this
pivotal decade. They are designed to utilize the expertise, programs,
and materials of PG2000 partners in collaborative efforts for
objectives beyond the reach of organizations acting alone. They
provide opportunities for the partners to expand their own outreach
and audience, and to benefit from experience; expertise, perspectives,
and linkages of their partners.
h)0*0*0* YOUTH COUNCIL PROJECT GLOBAL 2000
Program
The Youth Council is involving young leaders and youth organizations
from around the world in analyzing - and developing constructive
responses to - the global-scale crises and opportunities that are
confronting the human community in today's increasingly economically
and ecologically interdependent world. Particular focus is on (1) the
stakes that youth have in rethinking ecurity and sovereignty in a
global context, and (2) collaborative programs and strategies which
can empower youth to participate in NGO, UN, and governmental efforts
to develop world order systems that are equitable, inclusive, and
sustainable. In addition to working within youth networks, members of
the Youth Council will be active in PG2000's five other councils -
Education, Health, Religion, Business and Communications. The Council
builds upon groundwork of the analyses, proposals, linkages, and
worldwide networking that developed during the two-year process of
Youth '92 process which prepared youth for participation in the Earth
Summit in Rio.
Rationale
Many young people today feel overwhelmed by the magnitude and gravity
of the interrelated, and seemingly intractable, crises that confront
the human community as it prepares for life in the 21st century. Most
have been ill-prepared to cope with the rapid, global-scale changes
that are eroding the relevance of current world views, expertise, and
institutions. Without a process and forum for understanding and
framing these crises within a world order context - i.e., a context in
which realistic alternatives commensurate to the challenges of global
interdependence can be identified and pursued - growing numbers of
youth are giving way to hopelessness, alienation, passivity,
materialism, drugs, suicide, or violence. Conversely, however, the
number of youth seeking constructive alternatives and having a voice
in building the future is also growing. The Youth Council is designed
as a process and forum for their talents and energy. It seeks not only
to empower youth to join hands with each other in collaborative
research, formulation of policy options, public outreach and political
action. It also seeks their active participation in "established" fora
and institions to assure a youth voice in shaping the future to which
- more than any other sector of society - they have first claim.
Objectives
1. To provide a framework for concerted action among youth movements
on issues related to economic and ecologial interdependence and world
order.
2. To participate in the development of world order education programs
for schools, universities, and youth movements that focus on the new
crises and opportunities that are emerging in today's post Cold War
world.
h)0*0*0*3. To introduce young people to the United Nations
system and
facilitate their active involvement in the movement to strengthen and
empower its bodies and affliated agencies - e.g., UNICEF, UNEP,
UNESCO and UNFPA - as effective, democratic expressions of the total
human community.
4. To motivate and prepare young people to participate during 1995 -
the 50th anniversary of the United Nations - in programs to engage
diverse sectors of society at national and local levels to discuss
and work for a strengthened and empowered UN system.
5. To promote the Earth Covenant as a vehicle for channeling the
energy from Youth '92 and the Earth Summit as input into the
preparation of an Earth Charter in 1995.
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For furher information:
World Federalist Association
418 7th Street, S.E.
Washington, DC 20003-2796
USA
phone: (202) 546-3950, fax: (202) 546-3749
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