We Know About Soros — But Who Is Maurice Strong?
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.
Glenn Beck has been talking about and looking into Maurice Strong for a while now
Thanks to Glenn for exposing Maurice Strong for who and what he truly is and stands for. Without the american FOX, canadians would never have known about this man.
The canadian national media: CBC CTV and a few others are the worst media to have around.USELESS!
Thank you Glenn Beck
I’d suggest, Jen, that if you’d never heard of Maurice Strong you haven’t been paying attention.
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Yes, Chicago is mob central!
Re; Malloch-Brown, I think it will be another Brown as head of IMF, Gordon Brown. Who is also a friend of MB.
Thank you for this brilliant article. I am sure you are aware of the link, but the economic entity called BRIC – Brazil, Russia, India and China is another thing conjured out of thin air by Jim O’Neill of Goldman Sachs. He is a Mancunian (and probably Manchurian) socialist who runs the UK arm of Goldman Sachs. I believe it is part of this very scary “new world order” where the money is disinvested from the West and moved to the BRICs and totalitarian, anti-Israel and Islamic regimes like Iran.
‘Great article but it overlooks the cozy connection that Mo Strong has with the Liberal Party of Canada (Democrat clones), as crooked a political outfit as one could imagine. E.g., The Liberal Party STOLE $40 million from the Canadian taxpayers. The money, in cash, was passed on in brown, paper envelopes at restaurants, in order to buy Quebec votes. This was during the tenure of Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien, an altogether thuggish and unprincipled politician, even by Quebec standards! (“What’s $40 million?” Chretien sneered. He’s now hanging around in China with Mo Strong and has become a millionaire . . . sort of like Al Gore.)
Now I need one of Glenn Beck’s blackboards for a flowchart. (I’m far from an expert on this: I hope someone who is will join in.) Power Corporation is a multi-faceted, international, Montreal based company. It has a huge, mainly hidden—our MSM have done a fine job of covering for both the Liberals and Power Corp.—impact on Canadian politics. Power Corp is owned by the Desmarais family: most Canadians have never heard of these people, who have influenced—even “run”—Canadian politics for decades.
Maurice Strong worked for Power Corp, as did his protégé, Liberal Prime Minister, Paul Martin, who’s also heavily involved in making money in China these days. The daughter of Liberal Prime Minister, Jean Chretien, is married to a Desmarais. The Desmarais family was also heavily involved with Conservative Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney. (Nearly all of out PMs seem to come from Quebec . . .) It seems that Strong, Chretien, Martin, and the Desmarais’s Power Corp. were heavily involved in Saddam Hussein’s oil-for-food scandal. (Apparently, it was to protect Power Corp.’s oil investments that Jean Chretien declined to send troops to Iraq: he made some other excuse.)
The Liberals’ involvement with Power Corp. and Mo Strong reminds me of the American MSM’s treatment of Obama: the kid glove treatment. Only tell the good things, while ignoring/covering up for the less savoury. I agree that Mo Strong is Canada’s George Soros and as a key architect of the Kyoto Accord, our Al Gore, to boot.
That this shady and dangerous character has had the most intimate of ties with the highest level of government in Canada for many decades is scary, indeed. The present, Conservative government is headed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Alberta), not a Power Corp. minion. But our craven, Liberal Party insider MSM have their knives sharpened, as the Mo Strong-backed, Liberal bagmen plan their come back.
Canadians need to wake up!
Yes, Beck clearly should have been mentioned here. He did almost an entire program on the guy a few weeks ago.
I have recently come to a shocking conclusion: our buying power should be 20 times what it actually is, and the difference was paid out to international bankers like Mr. Strong, to Third World dictators, and to our own Federal Government.
We should be able to live decently on 10 hours work a week, and the developing world should be much farther along.
Fiat debt creation is fiat money creation is wealth transfer. Carbon credits are nothing more or less than a new type of fiat money, whereby real money, generated through productive economic activity, is siphoned off by someone who has rigged the system in their favor.
The IMF was founded by a known Soviet agent–Asst. Sec. of the Treasure Harry Dexter White–and John Maynard Keynes. It has followed policies of loaning money ONLY to public sectors, and is thus not only not a capitalist institution, but an ANTI-capitalist institution which has worked for its entire history to prop up dictators, encourage wasteful spending, and develop a dependent relationship between it and its clients.
You might think of it as an international sugar daddy. My thoughts are further developed on my blog, which is linked on my name. My thoughts on how to abolish it and the Federal Reserve are here: http://moderatesunited.blogspot.com/2010/05/abolishing-fed.html
and here: http://moderatesunited.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-fix-monetary-crisis.html
We can literally build a new world, if we all collectively figure out how we have been tricked
Raph-not only the IMF-the Federal Reserve system was founded under similair pretenses. Why are we paying interest and taxes on our OWN MONEY? And the illustrious Mr Beck was the first one to give us the who behind that scam known as the 16th amendment-Woodrow Wilson(what a coincidence-our first academian as President) and his Sec/Tres Olander Knox, who later was a member of the Frankfurt Institute, the first COMMUNIST party academic institute in the US.
Excellent, Ed. These international hucksters and their beneficiaries need all the exposure we can bring to their activities. AGW will go down in history as a massive worldwide fraud.
You gotta admit, though, Strong looks real sporty in that Aussie hat he sometimes affects. Genuine POS excaped the latrine, that one.
Surely Joe, Dolf and the Chairman are all sitting around the seventh circle waiting for him to show up and make the perfect foursome daisy chain.
The public has a very short memory but does anyone remember what happened at a hotel near the Democratic Convention? ABC News, I think, attempted to interview the members of the Billionaire Boys Club as they were holding their vision for their (and our) future. The ABC News team was arrested for standing on the sidewalk. Now that is proof that money is power! Especially for this administration. ABC, well, they just blew it off.
Wonderful clarity on a complex web of nefarious interests. Another character who has remained below the radar is Peter B. Lewis, whose family founded Progressive Insurance. He is a billionaire pal of Soros who funds along the same lines, and in similar amounts.
Dan-Lewis died two years ago at age %&, but ur correct about his far leftist leanings-ever wonder why he changed his companies name to Progressive? Its as simple as it sounds. I believe his son now is Ceo of the company and is just as big an idiot.
I admit not knowing about Strong before Glenn Beck show. He should stay in China. He is safe from journalists there or amBush journalism as they call it if you are in trouble and trying to hide.
The bribes in oil for food scam can be the business model in cash for carbon.
My mind has gone pretty blank on this but as an aside Mo Strong somehow figured in the JFK assassination coverup.
Ive personally known about Maurice Strong for about 15 yeras. Strong and Soros ARE the ones behind the global warming scam, using the complete idiot AlWhore as a stalking horse(typical of what communists do). Strong was one of the biggest beneficiaries of Saddam Hussiens oil for food scam, which expalins much of why he moved to Red China in the first place(to avoid possible prosecution). Oh by the way, Strong, you call yourself an environmentalist and live in RED CHINA, the worlds largest environmental nightmare? Shows what afraud the whole so called Green movement is. Green on the outside, but a deep red on the inside. Red with ahammer and sickle.
Actually, gentleman, Pittsburgh,Pa radio talker Jim Quinn(the war room) XM radio 6-9am EST channel 158-has been talking about Maurice Strong and George Soros long before Beck took on the challenge. I certainly admire Beck for exposing Strong, but give credit where credit is due. Jim Quinn has been onto this commie pig for years.
This nefarious character like soros and lewis derive their power from their wealth. Is it any wonder then that we have never had a wealth tax. I think that in order to remove the power of individuals, funds, charities and 527s you must remove the financial backing they receive.
So first I would institute a wealth tax on those with assets over, say, $100 million and make it progressive; start somewhere in the teens and go up. Next, I would remove the tax exempt status of the 527s, charities (Ford, McArthur, Tides, Heinz, etc) and groups that use the funding to shape policy; I would tax them at 90%.
You cannot remove the individual but you can emasculate their power.
People are not coming to China to flee anything, they come here because China has something that Europe and USA do not; hard asset backed Banking and economy. It is a no nonsense approach to managing a Nations economy.
Blaming China for being smart enough to control their economy is willfully ignorant, its the USA and Europe that allowed their banks and economies to be controlled by a few International Banking Families.
As long as USA and European taxpayers allow their nations to be held hostage to these few Banking families we will continue to slide slowly downward until Nations like China will come in to purchase Hard assets left for pennies on the dollar.
This website occasionally posts an article regarding serious economic / financial news which is the source of the Nation’s troubles. But until sites like this start to take the shocking arrangement the federal reserve has with European Banking Families, nothing will improve.
Dont Blame China, its the Fault of every registered US voter that allows the Nation to be bound and gagged by international bankers. China tosses them out on their butts, something the USA and Europe have not learned to do yet.
We up here in the Great White North have been aware of Mo Strong for decades. He first popped up on the radar when Ontario’s disasterous NDP(communist) government appointed him as chairman of Ontario’s Crown (government owned) Power Utility. He shut down the nuclear generators cancelled more nuke construction and put the reactors ofline for over a decade. Then Strong discovered the UN……
Maurice Strong has been controlling Canadian politics for years, especially during the Jean Chretien years…his daughter married one of Strong’s sons. Who knows how much money this cabal of theives bilked from the Canadian taxpayers during Chretiens reign.
You may be correct. However, to my knowledge, it is Jean Chretien’s daughter, France, who is married to the son of Paul Desmarais, the head honcho of Power Corp. I haven’t heard that any of the Liberal, political puppets are married to a relative of Maurice Strong. (Though, apparently, Bob Rae–whose brother, John, is a Power Corp CEO–is like a nephew to “Uncle Mo”: no surprise there. We need Glenn Beck’s flow chart again.)
Maurice Strong has been controlling the Canadian Liberal Party for years, especially during PM Jean Chretien years…Chretiens daughter married one of Strong’s sons. Who knows how much money this cabal of theives bilked from the Canadian taxpayers during Chretiens reign. Both of these guys should be in jail.
OK thread, but I’ll remind it that carbon offsets themselves were first dreamed up as a tradable commodity by the self-proclaimed geniuses at ENRON. They were the ones who expanded carbon offsets from simple measurable items like trees planted or CO2 gas sequestered in depleted gas wells to certificates from impoverished people to peddle exercycles to charge batteries for their hot plates and low voltage lights, and to not cut down trees. A careful analysis of this guarantee reveals it to be on the one hand a form of low-tech slavery: (“I promise to stay in abject poverty so you Westerners can continue to enjoy your sumptuous lives.”), or just a piece of paper worth less than the match to burn it.
Y’all might inform died in the wool warmists of your acquaintance that they are about to put the planet’s future into a scheme that is corrupt from the inception.
If you want to know more about what this guy (M. Strong) and his pals in the elistist Club of Rome and United Nations cabal have in mind for the rest of us mere peasants, check out the following: http://www.green-agenda.com. But don’t start until you can allow yourself plenty of time. It has a wealth of information about these characters and, once you get started, it’s hard to let go. Some of the quotes by these ‘world planners’ make me wonder about their sanity. Thank you ‘green-agenda watchdog folks’ whoever you are.And may God bless you for your work.
“Intercontinental Exchange has agreed to purchase the parent company of the Chicago Climate Exchange, the preeminent market for trading carbon credits. ” My God, they think they own the atmosphere. I hope the hand of God comes down, and sucker punches these con men.
Too clever by half. Thanks to bonds that are as solid as quicksand, and other stuff, balance sheets have been atomized. So, less money to go around for everything, and that includes projects by the self-appointed saviours of the human race.
Strong is Canada’s Armand Hammer, a spy, or profiting collaborator, but with China, not the USSR.
I suspect he helped the Chinese understand how they can rip off the Europeans with their carbon credit gimmicks. And moved the UN into carbon credit authentication business, their remaining big racket after Oil for Food.
I’m amazed no one at PJM connects the dots between Strong, and Soros anti-Russian proteges in Eastern Europe. Too painful to find out the enemy of your ‘enemy’ is NOT your friend.
Ukraine after all was supposed to be a ‘huge’ carbon credit reservoir, since it’s C02 levels were set at 1990 Soviet mark, as was Russia. Soros publically admitted to funding the Orange Revolution. So what happened? What was the deal breaker for Soros ‘investments’ in the post-Soviet space? Why did he own one of the largest steel mills in Russia and how did he maintain posession over it during the ‘metal wars’ of the 1990s?
Ed, thanks for joining Peter Foster on the barricades: http://opinion.financialpost.com/2010/05/27/the-master-of-green-socialism/
Cheers,