We Know About Soros--But Who is Maurice Strong?

[Geee]

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We Know About Soros — But Who Is Maurice Strong?
Canadian mogul and avowed socialist Maurice Strong manipulates governments to benefit his "green" portfolio and those of his friends: George Soros, Ted Turner, Al Gore, and China.


May 24, 2010 - by Ed Lasky

Intercontinental Exchange has agreed to purchase the parent company of the Chicago Climate Exchange, the preeminent market for trading carbon credits. This is a market that exists solely to capitalize on possible federal legislation that would mandate reduced greenhouse gas emissions or the purchase of “pollution credits.”

Politicians created this market out of thin air by fiat, and not surprisingly, cronies of these politicians will be the beneficiaries. These climate change profiteers include Maurice Strong.

We know of the usual suspects who have invested, either directly or indirectly, in the Climate Exchange: Goldman Sachs, Al Gore, and Chicago’s Joyce Foundation (which made an investment when Barack Obama sat on its board), among others. Franklin Raines, while he headed Fannie Mae, purchased and patented the mechanism used for trading under the cap-and-trade system — an investment that could fare far better than the trillion dollars worth of bad mortgages he saddled Fannie Mae with.

But Maurice Strong … who is he?

Strong is Canada’s George Soros — a man of vast wealth who has parlayed his fortune into influence. Strong made his money in the Canadian energy markets and decades ago began a second career hobnobbing with diplomats and environmentalists.

Strong became a wheeler and dealer at the UN. He was close to several secretary generals, including, most recently, Kofi Annan. Strong found himself embroiled in the oil-for-food scandal when a check with his name on it, drawn on a Jordanian bank, was delivered to him by infamous South Korean businessman Tongsun Park (convicted of conspiring to bribe UN officials to rig the oil-for-food program for Saddam Hussein).

Strong made for the exits when Annan lost his post. But before his departure (Strong now resides in Beijing), he had left his mark at the UN by encouraging that body to promote the view that climate change is a crisis requiring governmental intervention. Strong, like Soros, has leveraged his wealth and connections to influence governmental policies around the world.

Strong was appointed secretary general of the UN Conference on Environment and Development — better known as the Earth Summit. But that was, bad pun intended, just the tip of the iceberg. He rapidly became a key player in a raft of groups that have perpetrated the climate change fraud. He helped create a byzantine structure for Ted Turner’s billion dollar gift to the UN, which Turner has been dishing out periodically from his UN Foundation (little known, or appreciated, is that Turner also funds purportedly independent environmental groups whose agendas benefit his own privately owned investments).

Strong is reportedly close to Al Gore, who may become the world’s first “green” billionaire. Strong has been called the godfather of the environmental movement — if so, Al Gore must be his godson and unworthy heir (Strong is 81).

While Strong was at the UN, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was formed. Reports issued under their imprimatur have been used to justify all types of political and industrial changes — all fruits of a poisonous tree. Those reports have only recently been publicized as being of questionable validity, but the damage has been done. And like most frauds, this has benefited the perpetrators at the expense of the people.

Joe Lieberman and John Kerry have introduced the latest version of a cap-and-trade bill. It will impose strict limits on carbon emissions and establish a complex regulatory scheme. If a business exceeds its limits, it will have to purchase additional credits from an exchange where the credits will be traded like a commodity.

It is telling that the Climate Exchange is headquartered in Chicago, one of the world centers of commodity trading.

Therefore, I found it quite intriguing that Maurice Strong is listed a member of the Climate Exchange board and will presumably benefit from the sale to the Intercontinental Exchange.

Among Strong’s peregrinations around international bodies has been a stint at the World Bank, where he was a senior adviser to then-president James Wolfensohn. While there, one of his colleagues was Mark Malloch Brown — a Brit with his own intriguing background. Brown was Annan’s right-hand man, but had to look for a new line of work after the oil-for food scandal hit too close to home.

[SrWoodchuck]

Geee! You ruined my day, thank you!

 

If we never see the evil that sits in darkness, we're never forced to confront it. Maurice Strong is one of those unknown evils.

 

Boy, do we have our work cut out for us in November & in 2012?

 

Our children & their children's children, will be slaves to men such as these. It is telling that he now resides in Bejing.....is he their agent?

[Geee]

Sorry SrWoodchuck. Will throw an extra Twinkie out in your scarp pile today

[Sanguine]

Quite a piece of work, isn't he?

[Rheo]

@Geee, any new info you have come across lately on Maurice.

[Geee]

Nope. I'll see what I can find when I have a chance

[Geee]

@Rheo! Hmmmm. A quick look at DiscovertheNetworks is interesting.

 

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2461

[Rheo]

Thanks @Geee

Was following WSI info and someone had mentioned Strong. That with Algore speaking at the SALT convention in Vegas May 8-11th, 2012

Why else would he be invited. ha.

 

Al Gore

Keynote Address: Leadership in a Changing World – Remarks by Vice President Al Gore

45th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Laureate, Chairman – The Climate Reality Project, Chairman – Generation Investment Management, Chairman – Current TV, Bestselling Author

 

Maurice Strong and the Cap & Trade Crime of the Century

Maurice Strong

The short fact about Maurice Strong is that he’s a very rich man. Whether he believes the climate crap he proposes or not, it’s certain that he’ll become wealthier if governments go along with his plans. There’s a certain honesty to that. Like: “Al Gore is making $100 million off of this scam.

[Geee]

The left always looks in the wrong places to find people to demonize

[Rheo]

More on Maurice Strong and Agenda 21

 

In 1991, Strong wrote the introduction to a book published by the Trilateral Commission, called Beyond Interdependence: The Meshing of the World’s Economy and the Earth’s Ecology, by Jim MacNeil. (David Rockefeller wrote the foreword). Strong said this:

 

“This interlocking…is the new reality of the century, with profound implications for the shape of our institutions of governance, national and international. By the year 2012, these changes must be fully integrated into our economic and political life.”

 

He told the opening session of the Rio Conference (Earth Summit II) in 1992, that industrialized countries have:

“developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class — involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing — are not sustainable. A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns.” (12/5/08 READ THIS!)

 

In an essay by Strong entitled Stockholm to Rio: A Journey Down a Generation, he says:

 

“Strengthening the role the United Nations can play…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. 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.”