The Green Movement - Eco Terror or Socialist Plot?

Out of all the nooks and crannies that socialists have infiltrated in our society, the environmental movement has proven the most productive. It has everything they need. Armies of passionate followers that can be easily swayed by tainted studies laced with falsified data as well as the urgency of crisis they need to force entire nations headlong into self-destructive legislation and international pacts under the guise of saving the planet Neither of which are acts that are designed to save the planet. It wasn’t always that way. Many environmental groups began life to protect endangered species, prevent deforestation and to insure our air and water were free of dangerous chemicals and poisons. It was only in the last 30 years that the “green” movement added political activism into their repertoire.

The groups that were formed around the environmental movement are now funded in large part by the same people and organizations that fund socialist efforts as well as the extreme left of the Democrat party and other progressive movements. One of the more notable “contributors’ is our old friend, George Soros. It seems that wherever there is a movement to defeat Capitalism in general and American Capitalism in particular, you always seem to find George and his check book. Another familiar donor to anti-American / anti-Capitalist environmental organizations is the Tides Foundation.

Established in 1976 by California-based activist Drummond Pike, the Tides Foundation was set up as a public charity that receives money from donors and then funnels it to the recipients of their choice. Because many of these recipient groups are quite radical, the donors often prefer not to have their names publicly linked with the recipients. By letting the Tides Foundation, in effect, "launder" the money for them and pass it along to the intended beneficiaries, donors can avoid leaving a "paper trail." Such contributions are called "donor-advised," or donor-directed, funds.

In 1996 the Tides Foundation created, with a $9 million seed grant, a separate but closely related entity called the Tides Center, also headed by Drummond Pike. The Tides Center functions as a legal firewall insulating the Tides Foundation from potential lawsuits filed by people whose livelihoods or well-being may be harmed by Foundation-funded projects. (Such as farmers or loggers who are put out of business by Tides-backed environmentalist groups.) In theory the Foundation's activities are restricted to fundraising and grant-making, while the Center focuses on managing projects and organizations; in practice, however, both entities do essentially the same thing.

The Tides Center's Board Chairman is Wade Rathke. Wade is also a member of the Tides Foundation Board. If you recall, Wade Rathke was a protégé of the late George Wiley, founder of the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) and a devout follower of Cloward and Piven. Maya Wiley, daughter of George Wiley, currently sits on the Tides Center's Board of Directors. In addition to his work with the Tides center, Rathke also serves as President of the New Orleans-based Local 100 of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and is also the founder and chief organizer of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). Isn’t funny how the same names keep popping up when the discussion is radical socialism?

One particularly notable donor to the Tides entities is Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Senator John Kerry. From 1994 to 2004, the Heinz Endowments, which Mrs. Kerry heads, gave the Tides Foundation and Center approximately $8.1 million in grants. Until February 2001, Mrs. Kerry also served as a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also gave Tides numerous six-figure grants. I case you haven’t guessed; George Soros also infuses money into the Tides Foundation. The Tides Foundation funnels money into hundreds of projects for the radical left including several dozen for the stated purpose of environmental sustainability. All of this draws Senator Kerry’s involvement with environmental legislation into serious question. With that kind of money changing hands, there must be a trade off. Has Kerry been promised a “soft landing” when the eco-activists finish tearing our Constitution and economy to shreds? Will these deals leave the Heinz-Kerry fortune one of the fortunate “untouchables” in a post-America, Socialist elite club with George Soros, Maurice Strong and Al Gore?

Getting into the groups themselves, Greenpeace must top the list. Founded in 1970 as a loose assortment of Canadian anti-nuclear agitators, American expatriates, and underground journalists calling themselves the "Don't Make a Wave Committee", Greenpeace, is today, the most influential group of the environmental Left. Its stated mission is to "use non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and force solutions for a green and peaceful future." After a schism in the late 1970s, the various organizations originally comprising Greenpeace have today united into 41 affiliates and two main branches, Greenpeace USA and the Amsterdam-based Greenpeace International.

One of the founders of Greenpeace was Irving Stowe (1915-1974) who was also on the executive board of Canada’s New Democratic Party. The New Democratic Party are Democratic Socialists that advocate many radical ideals including the abolition of the Canadian Senate. While they have never attained power over the Canadian Federal Government, they have had sufficient success in several provinces to be able to exert considerable political pressure.

Another of Greenpeace’s founders, Patrick Moore, left Greenpeace in 1986 after what he saw was a shift to a radical political ideology. He said in a statement that “Greenpeace today is motivated by politics rather than science and that none of his "fellow directors had any formal science education". In the 2007 film “The Great Global Warming Swindle, Moore commented: "See, I don't even like to call it the environmental movement anymore, because really it is a political activist movement, and they have become hugely influential at a global level.”

A prime example of socialists that discovered the environmental movement as a vehicle for their agenda is the group “Socialist Action”. Socialist Action is a nation-wide group of revolutionary socialists. In their own words: “We fight for a society organized to satisfy human needs, rather than corporate greed. We seek to revitalize the anti-war, labor, student and other social movements, and to bring activists together from different backgrounds into a revolutionary party that can successfully challenge the wealthy elite. As socialists we seek to understand the theory of Marxism, but as an activist group, we also seek to put those ideas into practice. Join us in the struggle to make a better world!”

Christine Frank of Socialist Action says: “We need to build a powerful and uncompromising environmental movement led by working people in alliance with other oppressed groups in society. In addition, we must infuse this new movement with eco-socialist principles that go beyond the maintenance of capitalism and its suicidal and genocidal policies and advance toward a zero-waste, democratically planned socialist economy that is green and sustainable and puts planetary and human needs before profits.”

Elmar Altvater is another Marxist that discovered the environmental movement could be used to further socialist policies. Mr. Altvater gained fame as one of Germany's most important Marxist philosophers, who strongly influenced the political and economic theory of the 1968 generation of radicals and is a renowned critic of "political economy" and author of numerous writings on his desire for globalization and his disgust of the free market. He suggests that there is only one “realistic alternative to oil imperialism; a shift from dependence on renewable energy sources, on the radiation energy released by the sun (and its derivatives such as photovoltaic, water, wave and biotic energy etc.), or on volcanic and geothermal energy”. He argues that “A society based on renewable instead of fossil energy sources must develop adequate technologies and above all social forms beyond capitalism.”

The Bullitt Foundation was established in 1952 by Dorothy S. Bullitt, who also created the King Broadcasting Company in Seattle. Denis Hayes, who was the national coordinator for the first Earth Day in 1970, is currently the Foundation's President. Hayes is a strong supporter of leftist political candidates, groups, and causes.The Bullitt Foundation, whose stated mission is "to protect, restore, and maintain the natural physical environment of the Pacific Northwest for present and future generations", directs its grants almost exclusively to radical environmental organizations whose ultimate goal, as writer Michael Berliner explains, is "not clean air and clean water, rather . . . the demolition of technological/industrial civilization." This philosophy is certainly aimed at using the environmental movement to further the group’s advocacy of destroying capitalist industry in favor of the establishment of socialism in the western nations.

Take your pick. When you research environmental groups, 90% are considered political activists and obtain funding from the same “progressive” sources. All have left-wing policies and many believe that only socialism will give society the tools it needs to stave off environmental disaster. The fact is that the United States has meaningful tools in place to prevent the irresponsible release in pollutants coupled with crippling fines and criminal prosecution for violators. In a socialist society, these safeguards would disappear as productivity drops, industries are lost and revenues to fund enforcement and remediation dwindle.

You must remember that wherever environmentalists have won the day, economic disaster followed closely. The logging industry in the Pacific Northwest was decimated in the 1990’s by the environmental campaign to preserve the spotted owl. Even though logging was banned in vast areas of the Pacific Northwest because this was purported to be the spotted owls “critical habitat”, in February 2008, a federal judge reinforced a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision to designate 8,600,000 acres in Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico as critical habitat for the owl as well. It just so happens that is prime cattle grazing area so is this just a move to cripple yet another U.S. industry to drive us deeper into financial crisis a la Cloward-Pivens?

Last summer, half a million acres of fertile California farmland in the San Joaquin Valley have turned to dust after the water used for irrigation was reduced by 90% to save the endangered “Delta Smelt”. The smelt was not being further endangered by falling water levels, but because they were being drawn into the pumps. All technical suggestions to alleviate that from happening were dismissed in favor of denying water to the farms. These are the same farms that provide 15% of all the produce consumed in the United States. These examples, as with so-called “global warming”, display that only one conclusion can be reached and that is, the “real inconvenient truth” is that this is not about the environment at all but about progressive socialism, political power and who will ultimately wield much of the power in the “New World Order".

Paul

Reality Check

I will be honest with you; I am confused. I think I need a reality check because I must be missing something. President Obama laughs off criticisms that he is creating a “shadow” government through the appointments of radical and Marxist Czars to positions of power within his administration and then we find that Carol Browner, Mr. Obama’s Climate Czar, is at the center of a plan to implement the most onerous portions of the climate bill through the existing Clean Air Act of 1970 with or without Congressional approval. Ms. Browner is yet one more Obama appointee with Marxist tendencies as displayed by her previous involvement with Socialist International, a group that supports global governance.

The insanity Ms. Browner seeks to implement would add a massive amount of new regulations from an 18,000 page blueprint that can only be described as an eco-terrorist manifesto to destroy the economy of the United States. If implemented, it will move beyond automobiles to regulating the U.S. economy. It will eventually regulate everything that moves (light-duty trucks, heavy-duty trucks, buses, motorcycles, planes, trains, ships, boats, tractors, mining equipment, RVs, lawn mowers, fork lifts, and just about every other piece of equipment that has a motor) and lots of things that don’t (any building over 100,000 square feet could be pulled in, along with smaller carbon dioxide emitters, like restaurants, schools, and hospitals that have commercial kitchens with gas burners).

In an article featured in Politico, Josh Gerstein reports;

“Former Vice President Al Gore and current White House climate change czar Carol Browner are warning companies and lawmakers that the courts will step in to regulate greenhouse gases if Congress fails to act.

"All of the discussion has been about the president and the Congress," Gore told journalists at a U.N. press conference Tuesday. "We have a third branch of government: the courts."

He pointed approvingly to a decision issued Monday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit allowing public-nuisance lawsuits to proceed against companies that produce large amounts of greenhouse gases. (The three-judge panel initially included Judge Sonia Sotomayor, but the two judges resolved the case after she was elevated to the Supreme Court.)

Gore said the trend in the courts was favoring greater regulation. "The Supreme Court ruled over a year ago that CO2 emissions are pollution as covered in the Clean Air Act," he said. "The U.S. EPA as a result of that court ruling has the [authority] to mandate reductions….Yes, there would be some efforts in the legislative branch to remove that authority but anything in the legislative branch of that sort would be vetoed by the president."

"Even in the absence of legislation, existing law will be requiring significant reduction of CO2. As a practical matter, that puts significant pressure on business lobbies resisting legislation to reassess their position," Gore said.
Browner called attention to the same appeals court ruling and also argued that the (electric) train was leaving the station, one way or another. "The courts are starting to take control of this issue. If they were to follow this out, they would be setting the standards," Browner told reporters at a separate briefing in New York Tuesday. "Obviously, that’s not something that anybody wants….Everything is moving towards getting legislation done because it is the best way to do it."

While I know many of you already see the warning signs, there are some that still do not see the dangers. They ask “What would they possibly gain from disrupting industry and destroying the American economy?” I guess that depends on what their ultimate goals are. Carol Browner is an advocate of a single, global government. She is also an environmentalist. What a coincidence! So was Van Jones, the radical and vocal “Green Jobs Czar” that was recently forced to resign his position. The environmental movement has been infiltrated and taken over by radical socialists that look at America as the only thing that is preventing the spread of not only Marxism, but globalism in the Americas.

Mark Lloyd, the Chief Diversity Officer of the FCC, who is another Obama appointee residing in a newly created position was heard praising the assent of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and spoke openly of how a free press nearly crushed his “amazing revolution.” He also has been quoted as saying that “Freedom of speech and of the press has become a distraction….”

Then we have John Holdren, the Science Czar, that believes that people are the scourge and depopulation is the answer. Mr. Holdren co-authored a book that proposed mandatory sterilization and forced abortion to bring the human race down to acceptable levels. How did these people slip past both the press and the Congress and be ultimately escorted directly into the halls of government?

For the record, I don’t believe Al Gore is a globalist or a Marxist. He is heavily invested in a software company that will make him a billionaire if the Climate Bill passes so he is just a good old fashion thief and a hypocrite who is merely cashing in on global warming. We know he can’t possibly believe what he says because his lifestyle is so opulent and his energy consumption is ten time higher than the average American. Consuming that much energy is a feat all by itself and it simply doesn’t fit the lifestyle of a real honest-to-goodness environmentalist, now does it?

For those that believe that the only salvation of man is unification under a single world government, the environmental movement is the perfect vehicle since the planet is after all, global. All they would need is some all encompassing environmental crisis to achieve momentum. Well how about that…..global warming certainly fits that description. While America is dutifully engaged in hot debates over healthcare, the environmental socialists are maneuvering to implement plans that can have no other effect than to destroy the biggest roadblock to world governance…The United States of America.

Think about it. If global warming was the real crisis and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions was the real objective, then why is this something the United States is doing virtually alone? China and India have already said “No thanks” and many other nations with CO2 emissions on a par with the U.S. would be exempt under the UN climate proposal. In fact, we will be cutting our emissions only to allow developing nations expand their manufacturing base and economy. Oh yes, and we will be throwing billions of dollars to assist them at that too.

If you ask me, this is the first assault in the war of globalism. If other nations are to take an equal place in this new global government then the United States would have to be cut down to size while her wealth and industrial might are portioned and sold off in one giant garage sale. Additionally, if our economy were disrupted beyond repair then we could no longer fund the fight for freedom. If we were impoverished, the American citizens would quickly lose this crazy idea that their wealth and freedoms give them immunity from the enlightened view of global social morality that is prevalent in liberal universities and geopolitical think tanks.

Author and journalist James Tucker has been following the globalist movement for thirty years. He wrote: “In 1990 the Bilderbergers adopted climate change as the preferred model to impose global government and reintroduce serfdom. Like the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Group discovered the issue of environmental deterioration. Bilderbergers embraced a report from the Trilateral Commission that year on the environment, because the potential profit in cleaning up the mess would be immense.”

Unlike other crises that these groups could have latched on to, global warming has the urgency factor that they needed. It will compel people and nations to act before the full economic consequences of this so-called race to save the planet are fully realized or before the scientific data that supports it dwindles under increasing ridicule.

Slowly more and more people in the scientific communities are seeing data that does not make sense when discussing carbon dioxide induced global warming. The carbon dioxide found in ice core samples are not supporting the man-made crisis theory and the rise in global temperatures are not following the upward curve that would be expected if this were a continuing and unabated man made dilemma. The data actually suggests that natural cycles in solar output may have far more to do with recent warming trends than had previously been thought. These are not fringe scientists either; these are MIT study groups and others that actually have reputations to consider. Regardless of this change in philosophy by so many scientists, the Carol Browners and Al Gores of our nation are moving with alarming speed to force this nation into damaging legislation with dubious climatic benefits as a result of highly questionable science.

One thing is clear. There must be many more marches on Washington equal in size and passion to the one that occurred on September 12th. People must flood their legislator’s offices with letters and phone calls demanding that they put an end to this obvious conspiracy to coalesce powers in the White House that rightfully belong in the hands of Congress and more importantly, the States and people. There must be a unified demand for transparency in government and truth in the press. As long as they think they can dismiss us like ignorant peasants, we might as well dust off the pitchforks and torches and act like ignorant peasants. You know the old saying. “If you’re going to accuse me of stealing a hat, I might as well wear it.”

Paul