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The recent Global Warming hysteria is in reality a geopolitical push by leading global elite circles to find a way to get the broader populations to willingly accept drastic cuts in their living standards, something that were it demanded without clear reason by politicians, would spark strikes and protest. The UN's latest IPCC report on Global Warming calls for diverting a huge 12% of global GDP to "prevent the harmful effects of climate change." The UN report, for example, estimated that its recommendations to reduce certain manmade emissions would cost about $2,750 per family per year in the price of energy.

Today there are two principal policy options of the Anglo-American power establishment to impose their further control over a world that is rapidly slipping out from under them. We might call them Plan A and Plan B for short.

The first, Plan A, was the option represented by Bush-Cheney and the big oil and military industrial complex behind them. Cheney and his close Houston friend, Matt Simmons, propagated the myth of Peak Oil to lull populations into accepting the inevitability of $100 a barrel or even higher oil prices. In the meantime, the relative strength of the Big Oil and the related US military establishment grew with higher oil prices.

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The second broad faction of maintaining their control over the greater part of the world economy, Plan B, sees Global Warming and "soft power" as embodied in the organs of the United Nations and IMF and World Bank as the more suitable vehicle to convince people to willingly accept drastic reduction in living standards.

Barack Obama, the apparent choice of the same elites as a "breath of change" to allow them to regroup after the debacle of the Bush-Cheney years, would likely opt for the second faction of the global elite--the Global Warming option to lowering general living standards, `Plan B' of the Anglo-American establishment. In a recent campaign speech in Wallingford Pennsylvania, Mr. Obama replied to a question about Al Gore, the hero of Global Warming. As President, Obama said he would consider putting Al Gore in a Cabinet-level position--or higher. He stated, "I will make a commitment that Al Gore will be at the table and play a central part in us figuring out how we solve this problem. He's somebody I talk to on a regular basis. I'm already consulting with him in terms of these issues but climate change is real."

The two major global factions

Today there are two major factions within the Western political power establishment internationally. They cooperate and share broad elitist goals, but differ fundamentally on how to reach these goals. Foremost is their goal of sharply controlling global economic growth and population growth. The first faction is best described as the Rockefeller Faction. It has a global power base and is today best represented by the Bush family faction which got their start, as I document in my book, as hired hands for the powerful Rockefeller machine. The Rockefeller faction has for more than a century based its power and influence on control of oil and on use of the military to secure that control. It is personified in the man who is since 2001 de facto President in terms of decision-making--Dick Cheney. Cheney was former CEO of Halliburton Corp., which is both the world's largest oilfield services company (now based in Dubai for tax reasons), and the world's largest military base constructor.

The second faction might be called the Soft Power Faction. Their philosophy might be summed up that they think its "possible to kill more flies with honey than with vinegar." Their preferred path to global population control and lowering of the growth rates in China and elsewhere is through promoting the fraud of global warming and imminent climate catastrophe. Al Gore is linked to this faction. So is British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. They see globalist institutions, especially the United Nations, as the best vehicle to advance their agenda of global austerity.

Global Warming gets the Cold Freeze Global warming hoax exposed by record global cold

For those who recommended this loon: you presumably also know that gullible ain't in the dictionary, right?

by MarekNYC on Sun Apr 20th, 2008 at 12:48:09 PM EST
He is also the nuttiest Peak Oil denier, claiming an abiotic origin of oil.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sun Apr 20th, 2008 at 01:25:01 PM EST
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Something I judge as even more nutty (but perhaps some here would give credit to it...) is his claim that Greens are a creation of the fossil fuel industry to combat the nuclear competition.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sun Apr 20th, 2008 at 01:27:20 PM EST
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Are you denying the creamy chocolate center theory of earth?

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Mon Apr 21st, 2008 at 01:54:20 AM EST
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We have also previously discussed Engdahls claims about the Global Crop Diversity trust.

"Doomsday Seed Vault" in the Arctic

Why now Svalbard?

We can legitimately ask why Bill Gates and the Rockefeller Foundation along with the major genetic engineering agribusiness giants such as DuPont and Syngenta, along with CGIAR are building the Doomsday Seed Vault in the Arctic.

Who uses such a seed bank in the first place? Plant breeders and researchers are the major users of gene banks. Today's largest plant breeders are Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta and Dow Chemical, the global plant-patenting GMO giants. Since early in 2007 Monsanto holds world patent rights together with the United States Government for plant so-called `Terminator' or Genetic Use Restriction Technology (GURT). Terminator is an ominous technology by which a patented commercial seed commits `suicide' after one harvest. Control by private seed companies is total. Such control and power over the food chain has never before in the history of mankind existed.

This clever genetically engineered terminator trait forces farmers to return every year to Monsanto or other GMO seed suppliers to get new seeds for rice, soybeans, corn, wheat whatever major crops they need to feed their population. If broadly introduced around the world, it could within perhaps a decade or so make the world's majority of food producers new feudal serfs in bondage to three or four giant seed companies such as Monsanto or DuPont or Dow Chemical.

To which I noted:

A swedish kind of death:

Engdahl does not seem to have his facts straight.

(Follow the last link for some factchecking.)

Sweden's finest (and perhaps only) collaborative, leftist e-newspaper Synapze.se

by A swedish kind of death on Sun Apr 20th, 2008 at 02:01:15 PM EST
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He's apparently writing a book to reveal the great GMO plot. Everything is always a conspiracy. Embarrassing for those who are really concerned about the need to move agriculture away from petro-productivism altogether, GM included.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Apr 20th, 2008 at 03:12:07 PM EST
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Everything is always a conspiracy.

Sometimes I get the idea of another conspiracy: maybe such people are CIA agents trying to discredit legitimate conspiracy exposures by enhancing them with provably wrong or insane elements?... But then I'm reminded of everyday people's 'creativity' in such matters...

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Sun Apr 20th, 2008 at 04:59:34 PM EST
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