Maurice Strong - Air date: 05-07-01

Maurice Strong is a senior advisor to United Nations' Secretary General Kofi Annan. Annan has appointed Strong to lead U.N. reforms, positioning him to be the next U.N. Secretary General. But placing Strong in charge of U.N. reform could pose a significant threat to the American way of life as Strong has used his position to centralize power in the U.N. at the expense of national sovereignt. Strong, a native of Canada, grew up during the Great Depression and lived in poverty. He was able to escape poverty and became a successful businessman. During the 1950s and 1960s, Strong was involved in the oil and utility industries and was quite successful. By the time he was 35 Strong was president of a major holding company, the Power Corporation of Canada. As successful as he was, Strong nonetheless felt the need to embellish his achievements. According to National Review, Strong claimed to have had a $200,000 salary when he left the Power Corporation of Canada. But the magazine was informed by an official with the Power Corporation of Canada that Strong's salary was in fact $35,000 upon his departure. In the early 1970s, U.N. Secretary General U Thant tapped Strong to organize and direct the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. The conference came to be known as the first Earth Summit. In the following year, Strong became the first director of the U.N. Environment Program. These two U.N. positions marked the beginning of Strong's methodical march toward global governance. Strong's most significant role at the U.N. to-date has been his position as Secretary General of the 1992 U.N. Conference on the Environment and Development, the Rio Earth Summit. In the opening session of the Rio Earth Summit, Strong commented: "The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security." Interestingly, Strong had initially been blocked from participating in the conference by the U.S. Department of State. When Strong learned of this, however, he persuaded then-President George Bush to overrule the State Department. Strong is also involved in the U.N. Education Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Through his work in UNESCO, Strong promotes Gaia, the Earth God, among the world's youth. Strong is also the director of The Temple of Understanding in New York. He uses The Temple to encourage Americans concerned about the environment to replace Christianity with the worship of "mother earth.". Strong also directs the U.N.'s Business Council on Sustainable Development. Under his leadership, the council tries to affect peoples' lives through U.N. policies that attempt to reduce the availability of meat products; limit the use of home and workplace air conditioners; discourage private ownership of motor vehicles; encroach on private property rights; and work to reduce the number of single family homes.

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[turbografx]

Maurice Strong is an EVIL fucking scumbag and needs to be killed.

[GeorgeDorn00023]

such a dear little man:

"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsiblity to bring that about?"

- Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme

Opening speech, Rio Earth Summit. 1992

[toranacar]

@turbografx don’t like the idea of just killing people but you won’t get an argument out of me.

[decoderchick99]

This nazi jew prick is going down. Go to wellaware1 (dot) com and learn the truth of this prick. Go before it's to late, lets put this guy and all those families controlling us and making OUR reality for us, in the slammer!

[ParapaDrifter]

@21:40 on going back into public sector to do a job that needs to be done. Hint using govt monopoly to enforce profit motive of private corps.

"Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities."

Perfect example is his Chicago carbon exchange, which failed after fudge emails were leaked.

[ParapaDrifter]

food is plentiful, you can sustain life on grasses, Purslane is a wonder omega-3 rich plant, tasty... we regard them as weeds.

Linda Runyon raised 3 children eating wild food.

[mmattjanet]

unmitigated evil in its purest form.

[mmattjanet]

unmitigate evil in its purest form.

[meushubris]

Maurice Strong is a scumbag who should be sent to gitmo and waterboarded.

[DeathMetalPatriot]

@Cadmium77 

[DeathMetalPatriot]

@Rogerrumjet WTF man? What did we ever do to you?

[philnoll]

What on Earth are We doing?