2) economists Cloward / Piven strategy
3) The current controversy of Hollywood receiving financial incentives versus the 'celebrities' ""Preaching" how we, in flyover country, should be conducting our finances/water usage/utility usage/guns (versus their bodyguards/home size/limousine's/private planes....etc
4) 1974 -1989 Coming ice age versus 1992 - 2011 global warming (also when global warming became a punch line...then it evolved to 'climate change' (which ANSWERED ALL weather conditions).
Loving all your ideas, but this is another one that is interesting to me. Could consult Lord Monckton and the founder of Greenpeace.
Or maybe how the environment is being used for political purposes.