Glenn Beck Requests Information Download on Maurice Strong (Vanity)

Glenn Beck tonight requested everyone watching the show to begin downloading everything possible on a Mr. Maurice Strong. According to Beck, Maurice Strong is one of the "Big Fish" involved in the global warming scam.

Beck requested the information download to prevent operatives "hinting at the Whitehouse" from scrubbing the internet of relevant information concerning Mr. Strong.

Anna Louise Strong remains one of the notable radicals in the history of the United States. During her Seattle years (1910-1921), she won her election as the lone woman on the School Board, only to be recalled because of her overt sympathies with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or "Wobblies") and because of her pacifist stance during World War I. A journalist, she supported the working class in the Seattle General Strike (1919) and promoted the new Soviet government.

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Anna Louise Strong (November 24, 1885 – March 29, 1970) was a twentieth-century American journalist and activist, best known for her reporting on and support for communist movements in the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.

Strong was born on November 24, 1885 in Friend, Nebraska. Her father, Sydney Dix Strong, was a Social Gospel minister in the Congregational Church and active in missionary work. An unusually gifted child, she raced through grammar and high school, then studied languages in Europe.

She first attended Pennsylvania's Bryn Mawr College from 1903 to 1904, then graduated Oberlin College in Ohio where she later returned to speak many times. In 1908, at the age of 23, she finished her education and received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago with a thesis later published as The Social Psychology of Prayer.

When Strong ran for the Seattle School Board in 1916, she won easily, thanks to support from women's groups and organized labor and to her reputation as an expert on child welfare. She was the only female board member.

Strong's endorsement of left-wing causes set her apart from her colleagues on the school board. She opposed war as a pacifist, and when the United States entered World War I in 1917, she spoke out against the draft. On one hand, the PTA and women's clubs joined her in opposing military training in the schools. On the other hand, the Seattle Minute Men, many of whom were veterans of the Spanish-American War, branded her as unpatriotic.

The pacifist stance of the Wobblies led to mass arrests at the Seattle office where Louise Olivereau, a typist, was mailing mimeographed circulars to draftees, urging them to consider becoming conscientious objectors. In 1918, Strong stood by Olivereau's side in the courtroom, as the typist-activist was tried for sedition, found guilty, and sent to prison.

At a loss as to what to do she took her friend Lincoln Steffens' advice and in 1921 travelled to Poland and Russia serving as a correspondent for the American Friends Service Committee. The purpose of going was to provide the first foreign relief to the Volga famine victims.

After a year of that, she was named Moscow correspondent for the International News Service. ....Strong grew to become an enthusiastic supporter of socialism in the newly formed Soviet Union. In 1925, during the era of the New Economic Policy in the USSR, she returned to the United States to arouse interest among businessmen in industrial investment and development in the Soviet Union....

In the late 1920s, Strong travelled in China and other parts of Asia. She became friends with Soong Ching-ling and Zhou Enlai. As always her travels led to books: China's Millions (1928), Red Star in Samarkand (1929).

In 1930 she returned to Moscow and helped found Moscow News, the first English-language newspaper in the city. She was managing editor for a year and then became a featured writer. She married Soviet official and fellow socialist Joel Shubin in 1932. Much like Strong, Shubin was a man passionately dedicated to his work and the two were often separated due to work commitments, and would ultimately spend relatively little time together before Shubin's death in 1942. While living in the Soviet Union she became more enthused with the Soviet government and wrote many books praising it.

In 1936 she returned once again to the United States. Quietly and privately distressed with developments in the USSR (The "Great Purges"), she continued to write for leading periodicals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, The Nation and Asia

Strong met W. E. B. Du Bois, who visited Communist China during the Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s. Neither ever supported famine-related criticisms of the Great Leap. Strong wrote a book titled When Serfs Stood Up in Tibet based on her experience during this period, which include the Chinese invasion of Tibet.

Partly from fear of losing her passport should she return to the USA, she settled permanently in China until her death in 1970. Anna Louise Strong died March 29, 1970.

Strong has had a profound impact on many communists, especially Marxist-Leninists descended from the Maoist tradition. Because of her writings on life and society in places like the Soviet Union and China, it has given many communists a clearer idea of what societies based on their views should look like. Strong herself, and others after her, have claimed that she succeeded in disproving many of the lies regarding the Soviet Union and China spread by capitalists and other anti-communists.

In their book on the so-called "Venona files", historians Harvey Klehr and John Earl Haynes, argued that Strong appeared in decrypted Soviet espionage traffic under the codename "Lira." The status of these designations is problematic.[2]

Strong's papers reside at Suzzallo Library at the University of Washington in Seattle.

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Biography
1919: No One Knows Where
1925: Children of Revolution
1925: First Time in History
1925: Stalin ‘The Voice of the Party’ Breaks Trotsky
1941: Stalin
1946: Talk with Mao Tse Tung
1949: In North Korea: First Eye-Witness Report
1952: Letter to Susan Talmadge Detweiler
1956: The Stalin Era (Off Site)
1959: When Serfs Stood up in Tibet
1963: Letters from China
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While writing her Ph.D. thesis, Anna Louise officially began her career in journalism at a Chicago newspaper called the Advance. Hired as an associate editor, Anna Louise wrote under four different pseudonyms, using a certain name with a specific topic. In her autobiography she explains being drawn to the idea of using pen-names, stating: I knew that the purpose of this was to bluff our readers into thinking that we had a big, expensive staff, but this already seemed to me clever. Anna Louise would continue the practice of writing under pseudonyms many more times throughout her journalistic career.

Anna Louises' time in Chicago working at the Advance would prove to be short-lived, however. Always restless to travel to new sites of progressive action, Anna Louise spent the next few years working on various campaigns and projects that would introduce her to socialist ideology. Along with her father, who had since relocated to Seattle after Ruth Strong died, Anna Louise organized a campaign called Know Your City, a project devoted to promoting Christian social ideals in various northwestern cities. SOURCE

HARVARD Collection of papers
http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~env00004

PROVENANCE:
The Maurice F. Strong Papers were acquired in their entirety in 2000. Approximately 1/2 of the papers were collected at the home of Maurice F. Strong in Lost Lake, Ontario. The remaining 1/2 were collected from the home of Hanne Marstrand Strong in Crestone, Colorado, the wife of Maurice F. Strong.

Those materials collected in Ontario span the early life of his career and the early 1990s to the present. Those materials collected in Colorado span the mid-range of his career dating from the early 1970s to the late 1980s.

It is believed that Strong made his permanent residence at the Crestone home during the time period 1970-1989 as a result of his marriage to Hanne Marstrand. The materials held in Ontario date prior to his marriage to Hanne; the materials from 1990s to the present presumably were sent to Ontario as a result of a separation from Hanne.

The Maurice F. Strong Papers are the physical property of the Environmental Science and Public Policy Archives, Harvard College. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns.

CITE AS:
Maurice F. Strong Papers: 1948-2000, Environmental Science and Public Policy Archives, Harvard College Library.
Maurice F. Strong, 1929-

MAURICE STRONG was named Senior Advisor to the President of the World Bank in June 1995. From December 1992 until December 1995, Mr. Strong was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ontario Hydro, North America’s largest utility.

Until September 1992, Mr. Strong was Secretary General of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the Earth Summit) and Under-Secretary General of the United Nations.

During 1985 and 1986, he served as Under-Secretary General of the United Nations and Executive Coordinator of the United Nations Office for Emergency Operations in Africa and was a member of the World Commission on Environment and Development.

Born in Canada and a resident of Toronto, Canada, Mr. Strong has longstanding ties with both the private and public sectors. Mr. Strong served as the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment from November 1970 to December 1972, and subsequently became the first Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi, Kenya (January 1973-December 1975).

He was then appointed President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Canada’s national oil company, Petro-Canada.

He also has been President of Power Corporation of Canada, first President of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Chairman of the Canada Development Investment Corporation and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the International Development Research Centre (IDCR) in Canada.

Mr. Strong is an advisor to the United Nations, and serves on the board of several other public service organizations. He has been a director and/or officer of a number of Canadian, U.S. and international corporations.

He has received a number of awards and honours including the Order of Canada, the Swedish Royal Order of the Polar Star, and honourary doctorates from 37 universities. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (U.K.), the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Architectural Society of Canada.Mr.

Strong was born 29 April 1929, and educated in Manitoba, Canada. He is married to Hanne Marstrand and has four children, a foster child and eight grandchildren. His current appointments include

* Under-Secretary General and Special Advisor to the Secretary-General, United Nations

* Special Advisor to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme>

* Chairman, Earth Council Institute

* Chairman, International Advisory Board, CH2M Hill Group Inc.

* Director, Foundation Board, World Economic Forum

* Director, The Human Society of the United States

* Member, Toyota International Advisory Board

* Director, Zenon Environmental Inc.

Past appointments include:

* Special Advisor to the President, World Bank

* 1998-2001 Mamber International Advisory Board, Federation of Korean Industry

* 1992-1995 Chairman, Ontario Hydro

* 1992 Secretary General, United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

* 1985-1986 Executive Coordinator, United Nations Office for Emergency Operations in Africa

* 1983-1987 Member World Commission on Environment and Development

* 1976-1978 President, Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Petro-Canada

* 1973-1975 Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya

* 1970-1972 Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on the Human Environment

* 1970-1972, 1976-1980, Chairman, Board of Governors, International Development Research Centre, Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum

* 1966-1970 Headed Canada’s International Development Assistance Program as Director-General of the External Aid Office, and later as President and Chairman of the Board of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)

* 1966-1970 Alternate Governor for Canada- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Chairman, Bureau of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

SCOPE and CONTENT

The collection consists of the business, personal and professional papers of Maurice F. Strong dating from his career

beginning in 1948, through his work as the Secretary-General of the UN Conference on the Human Environment,

as the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, with the Office for Emergency Operations in Africa during the 1980s African famine,

as the Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Environment and Development of 1992, and ending with his directorship of the Earth Council.

The order of the collection has been retained as it was in storage and reflect 12 phases of Strong’s career. They are:

I. Early personal papers dating from 1945-1954;
II. Power Corporation years, 1962-1970 as the head of this Crown Corporation in Canada;

III. External Aid Office/CIDA years dating from 1966-1970 as the Director of the Office which later became the Canadian International Development Agency;

IV. UN Conference on the Human Environment/UN Environment Programme years, 1970-1975 as the Secretary-General and Executive Director respectively;

V. Colorado/”F” Series dating from 1968-1985, a grouping of alphabetical files found in Strong’s home in Colorado spanning several career periods;

VI. Petro-Canada years, 1976-1978 as Chief Executive Officer of a major Canadian petroleum company;

VII. Private enterprise and public service years I, 1978-1984 during which time he was involved in a number of financial ventures and with a number of governmental and non-governmental organizations;

VIII. African famine years, 1984-1986 as the head of the UN effort to disseminate aid to African countries under the seige of famine;

IX. Private enterprise and public service years II, 1986-1989;

X. Earth Summit/Earth Council years, 1990-1992 as Secretary-General of the Earth Summit and Director of the Earth Council;

XI. Ontario-Hydro years, 1992-1995; and

XII. UN years, 1993-2000 as a consult to the Secretary-General of the UN.

The collections contains a number of general series including correspondence, diaries, clippings, alphabetical files, trip files, university visits, personal files, organization files, chronological files, day files, publicity, subject and speech reference file, speeches and writings and event files. Within the organizations files are corporate documents such as financial statements, annual reports, correspondence, project reports, proposals, etc.

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Largess that highlights a crisis
The Washington Times - Saturday, October 4, 1997
Author: Alston Chase
You’ve - aww - got - aww - to admire - aww - Ted Turner. He is the model mogul of the media age. He may seem to possess the attention span of a television junkie and a mind stuffed with pop-culture cliches, but this cable network billionaire who talks like Gomer Pyle is one heck of a super salesman. Who else could gain a reputation as a generous public benefactor by pledging a billion dollars to the United Nations?

This international body is wasteful and corrupt, even by Washington standards. Throwing more money at it is merely to guild a lily that’s gone to seed. Nevertheless, by his gift, Mr. Turner, who has launched a self-serving crusade to promote himself as the most generous person in virtual reality, highlights a dilemma: We can’t live without private philanthropy, but sometimes we can’t live with it, either.

As a system for improving the public weal, the alternative - taxation - is terribly wasteful. Governments don’t spend money wisely. But when wealthy individuals make gifts through tax-exempt foundations, as Mr. Turner is doing here, the results are often not better, and sometimes worse.

Rather than funneling the donation through his existing foundation - headed by a former Greenpeace USA director - Mr. Turner may establish a separate nonprofit trust, thereby creating another eleemosynary bureaucracy, staffed, no doubt, by other Greenpeacers. And while he intends to support programs and not administration, that goal can’t be fulfilled. Subsidizing these programs merely frees other funds for administration.

Indeed, some of Mr. Turner’s gift will almost certainly aid United Nations environmental programs guided by Maurice Strong , the 68-year-old millionaire Canadian who, like Mr. Turner, owns a ranch in the Rockies and who is chairman of the United Nations Earth Council and a member of the Commission on Global Governance. Described by one former United Nations deputy ambassador as “a very dangerous ideologue, way over to the left,” Mr. Strong admits to holding a “socialist ideology” and openly advocates that countries “give up some of their national rights.”

By giving to the United Nations, Mr. Turner is pursuing a top-down approach to social change. He is puffing up a self-perpetuating elite in order to pursue personal political agendas. And thereby he personifies the current state of failed philanthropy.

The first charitable foundations were created by wealthy men like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller a century ago, to salve their puritanical consciences.

But over time, these institutions became vehicles by which the rich escaped taxes and extended political influence. They gave far less away than their investments earned, thereby growing enormously and gaining near immortality. They hired larger, more “professional” staffs that belonged to the same social class as government bureaucrats and who preferred sweeping social agendas to aiding the sick or poor.

According to a recent report by the Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, a reform group chaired by former presidential hopeful Lamar Alexander, most foundations are losing touch with ordinary people. Indeed, this document reveals by implication how Mr. Turner’s gift violates virtually every principle of sound giving.

Established philanthropy, the report notes, is dominated by a “ `new class,’ with its own prejudices, jargon and preferences.” Foundations have become sizable bureaucracies - the Ford Foundation alone employs more than 600 people - that “act like government” and are infatuated with “the grand theory - and abstract cause - over the simple solution to a tangible problem.” Consequently, their giving is often “ineffective, inefficient, even misguided.”

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Jockeying Begins For Successor To Perez De Cuellar
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Sunday, March 17, 1991
Author: 1991, Reuters News Service
UNITED NATIONS - With the Persian Gulf War over, the search for a U.N. secretary-general to replace Javier Perez de Cuellar has begun with only one official nominee and rumors of about two dozen other candidates.

No one candidate appears to be the favorite, but African nations have made it clear that the time has come for an African secretary-general following two from Europe, one from Asia and one from Latin America.

Perez de Cuellar completes his second five-year stint this year. He has said that he will not run again.

Diplomats said one way to deflect an African challenge was to select a woman. The name mentioned most frequently is Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundlandt, a pioneer in environmental affairs.

Added to this year’s intrigue and gossip is a campaign by Sir Brian Urquhart, a former U.N. undersecretary general now at the Ford Foundation , to change the selection process and the U.N. secretariat in general.

Urquhart and his colleague in the Ford Foundation research organization, Erskine Childers, want U.N. members to draw up a list of qualifications, ask governments for nominations and allow the winner to have more say in appointing senior staff.

Union, Britain, China and France. Currently, a secretary-general is nominated by the Security Council in which the five permanent members have veto power.

Perez de Cuellar was a compromise candidate after the Chinese used their veto to make sure that Kurt Waldheim of Austria did not win a third term. Perez de Cuellar has earned high marks from most diplomats, but implicit in the praise is criticism that he had to tread warily among the major powers.

To circumvent this constraint, Perez de Cuellar has avoided using some undersecretaries-general and depended heavily on a small group of advisers in his executive office.

The only official candidate, formally proposed by his government, is Kenneth Dadzie of Ghana, secretary-general of the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development.

Speculation has centered on three Nigerians - Maj. Gen. Joseph Garba; U.N. Ambassador Ibrahim Gambari; and Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, former president of Nigeria.

Others mentioned include Salim Ahmed Salim of Tanzania, the secretary-general of the Organization of African Unity; Bernard Chidzero, finance minister of Zimbabwe; and Olara Otunni, the Ugandan president of the New York-based International Peace Academy.

Speculation includes Singaporeans Tommy Koh, a former U.N. ambassador, and Chan Heng Chee, who just completed her stint as her nation’s chief U.N. envoy; Undersecretary Martti Ahtisaari of Finland, who led the U.N. operation in Namibia; Maurice Strong , Canadian secretary-general of the 1992 U.N. environment conference in Brazil; Sadruddin Aga Khan, the former U.N. High Commission for Refugees who carries an Iranian passport among others; and former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

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A New Report Suggests U.N. Consolidate
New York Times, The (NY) - Thursday, July 14, 1994
Author: PAUL LEWIS, Special to The New York Times
A new, privately commissioned report issued today suggests the United Nations should create a common headquarters for the General Assembly, the Secretariat and all its specialized agencies as the United Nations ‘ founders originally envisaged.

The report, titled “Renewing the United Nations System,” was financed by the Ford Foundation and written by two former senior United Nations officials, Sir Brian Urquhart and Erskine Childers. It also recommends radical reform of the International Monetary Fund and other aid organizations to mount an attack on the world’s economic inequalities, which have left 80 percent of the world’s wealth in the hands of 20 percent of its population.

The report recalls that the United Nations founders and the first meeting of the General Assembly both recommended that the United Nations group all its agencies in a common seat instead of spreading them around the world’s capitals as it has done.

It suggests returning to this idea in the interests of efficiency and cutting costs with a single site for the United Nations Secretariat, the General Assembly and such agencies as the World Health Organization, the Food and Agricultural Organization, the International Labor Organization and the International Monetary Fund, which are currently in Geneva, Rome, Vienna and Washington.

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He is one of the chief architects--- globalist (one world government) "par excellence"

Old and long, but wothwhile...

Maurice Strong: The new guy in your future!

By Henry Lamb
January, 1997

Shortly after his selection as U.N. Secretary General, Kofi Annan told the Lehrer News Hour that Ingvar Carlsson and Shirdath Ramphal, co-chairs of the U.N.-funded Commission on Global Governance, would be among those asked to help him reform the sprawling, world-wide U.N. bureaucracy. His first choice, however, announced in the Washington Post on January 17, 1997, was none other than Maurice Strong, also a member of the Commission on Global Governance.

Strong's appointment as Senior Advisor, "to assist planning and executing a far-reaching reform of the world body," is seen by U.N. watchers to be a masterful strategic maneuver to avoid political opposition while empowering Strong to implement a global agenda he has been developing for years.

More than 100 developing nations coordinated a "Draft Strong" movement in 1995 to replace Boutros Boutros-Ghali. But Strong's name was never presented publicly as a candidate. His appointment avoids the public scrutiny and the possibility of a veto. As a Senior Advisor to Kofi Annan, Strong will have a free hand to do what he wants while Annan takes the heat - or the praise. Strong prefers to operate in the background. He, perhaps more than any other single person, is responsible for the development of a global agenda now being implemented throughout the world.

Although various components of the global agenda are associated with an assortment of individuals and institutions, Maurice Strong is, or has been, the driving force behind them. It is essential that Americans come to know this man who has been entrusted with the task of "reforming" the U.N. - this man Maurice F. Strong.

According to Elaine Dewar, author of Cloak of Green. Strong is a Socialist. He was born into a family who worked to get out the vote for Prime Minister Mackenzie King, who in 1943 was promoting the National Council for Soviet-Canadian Friendship. Strong's cousin, Anna Louise Strong, was a Marxist, and a member of the Comintern, who spent two years with Mao and Chou En-lai. Her burial in China in 1970 was organized personally by Chou En-lai. Maurice is well received in China, partly because of his cousin's connections.[1]

Strong is also closely aligned with Mikhail Gorbachev and was a participant in Gorbachev's State of the World Forum in San Francisco in 1995.[2] His organization, Earth Council, and Gorbachev's organization, Green Cross International, are currently developing a new "Earth Charter" for presentation to the U.N. General Assembly and ratification by all U.N. members before the year 2000. He served on the Brundtland Commission, headed by Gro Harlem Brundtland, then-Vice President of the World Socialist Party. Strong's love for socialist ideas is scattered throughout his professional life - as they apply to everyone else. For himself, he is quite the capitalist.

He ran away from home at 14. His father retrieved him from Vancouver. But in 1945, after completing the 11th grade, Strong was off again to become an apprentice fur trader in Hudson Bay. Strong's business success was remarkable. At 19, he was an investment analyst. At 25, he was Vice President of Dome Petroleum. At 31, he became the President of Power Corporation of Canada. He headed both Petro Canada and Hydro Canada, and made a few deals on the side as well, one of which was the acquisition in 1978 of the Colorado Land & Cattle Company which owned 200,000 acres of San Luis Valley in Colorado -- from Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.[3]

The ranch, called Baca, sat on the continent's largest fresh water aquifer. Strong intended to pipe the water to the desert southwest, but environmental organizations protested and the plan was abandoned. Strong ended up with a $1.2 million settlement from the water company, an annual grant of $100,000 from Laurance Rockefeller, and still retained the rights to the water.

Strong's success in business was exceeded only by his success in government. From his post as founding director of the Canadian International Development Assistance Program (CIDA), he was elevated by Prime Minister Lester Pearson to represent Canada's interests in international affairs.

Strong's first exposure to the U.N. came in 1947 when, at 18, he went to New York to take a job as assistant pass officer in the Identification Unit of the Security Section. He lived with Noah Monod, then treasurer of the U.N.. Here, he first met David Rockefeller and learned that the U.N.'s funds were handled by Rockefeller's Chase Bank. He also met the other Rockefeller brothers and other influential people as well.

The idea of global governance emerged during this era. John J. McCloy was a member of the law firm that represented the Rockefeller's business interests. McCloy helped set up the World Bank and became its first president. He also became an assistant to Roosevelt's secretary of war, Henry Stimson.

McCloy had been with Truman, Andrei Gromyko and Stalin at Potsdam in 1945, and it was McCloy who first received word that the atomic bomb test at Almagordo had been successful. He was appointed to a presidential commission to respond to a Soviet proposal that the United Nations control future development of atomic power.

McCloy recommended that the U.S. turn over all information about the atomic bomb, including where to find uranium, to the U.N.. This idea of allowing the U.N. to become a supranational agency was also promoted by the Rockefellers and the Rockefeller-funded Council on Foreign Relations.[4]

Although Strong kept his U.N. job only two months, he met very influential people through Noah Monod who would later prove to be very useful. Strong returned to Winnipeg, failed to qualify for the Royal Canadian Air Force, and took a job as trainee analyst for James Richardson and Sons. By 1951, he had taken a job with Dome Petroleum, on whose board of directors was Henrie Brunie, a close friend of John J. McCloy. Dome became one of the largest oil companies in Canada but its shareholders resided on Wall Street, never very far away from Standard Oil and the Rockefellers.

In 1951 Strong married, and in 1952, abruptly sold his home, quit his job and took a world cruise. He wound up in Nairobi and took a job with CalTex, a company formed to exploit Saudi oil. His job involved travel to exotic parts of the world for two years. Strong visited his distant cousin, Robbins Strong, in Geneva, who was the Secretary of the Extension and Intermovement Aid Division of the international YMCA. He met Leonard Hentsch whose Swiss bank handled the money of the YMCA. Strong wanted to become an international ambassador for the YMCA, but settled for a position on the International Committee of the U.S.A. and Canada which raised funds for the YMCA.

This experience may have been the genesis of Strong's realization that NGOs (non-government organizations) provide an excellent way to use NGOs to couple the money from philanthropists and business with the objectives of government

. In 1959, Strong created his own company, MF Strong Management. While serving as executive vice-president of Canada's Power Corporation, he also ran his own company, Alberta gas company, another company called Ajax, and elevated his role in the international YMCA and Canada's Liberal Party. He told Elaine Dewar, "We controlled many companies, controlled political budgets. We influenced a lot of appointments.... Politicians got to know you and you them."[5]

While Strong was expanding his influence in the business world and in Canadian politics, his friend, John J. McCloy became entrenched in the Kennedy administration as the head of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. McCloy continued to promote the idea of turning all defense over to the U.N. through his Blueprint for the Peace Race: Outline of Basic Provision of a Treaty on General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World (Publication 4, General Series 3, May 3, 1962).

By 1966, Strong had moved up again in government. He became Director General of Canada's External Aid. He also became President of Canada's YMCA. Strong's primary job was to deliver the foreign aid promised by Lester Pearson's government. Rather than hire a staff, Strong contracted with a Quebec-based engineering firm called SNC-Lavalin, to supply "technical facilities" with the proviso that the firm would hire only those individuals approved by Strong. External Aid was transformed from a one-man operation to the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in 1968, which Strong headed.

His mentor, Lester Pearson, created another institution called the International Development Research Center (IDRC). The IDRC was a quasi-government agency that had unique authority to receive charitable donations -- and issue tax deductible certificates -- and give money directly to individuals, governments, and private organizations. Strong became its head in 1970.

Through his creation and direction of CIDA, Strong controlled the implementation of aid programs on the ground -- including who was hired to do the work, and through the newly created IDRC, Strong controlled the issuance of tax deductible certificates and the distrubution of both private foundation money as well as government money. He was in the perfect position to make many friends around the world. Dewar describes the arrangement this way: "He had helped create a federally funded but semi-private intelligence/influence network that could have impacts both in Canada and abroad."[6]

Strong was chosen to direct Earth Summit I, in Stockholm in 1972, not for his demonstrated interest in the environment, but because the Swedish representative to the U.N. believed that only Strong, with his extensive worldwide network of friends, could get both the developed and developing nations to participate. Strong was very busy when asked to organize the conference. He was recruiting people for Trudeau's new government, and he was managing his private investments which included real estate holdings in a company consisting of two former Canadian officials and himself.

He also took a position as trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation which supplied a grant for the running of the Stockholm Conference office. He was also given the writing services of Barbara Ward and of the French ecologist Rene Dubos, who worked for the Rockefeller Foundation.

The 1972 Stockholm Conference on Human Environment (Earth Summit I) had far more international significance than was ever reported. NGO's (non-government organizations) were funded by the Canadian government to attend the conference to give the appearance of participation by the general public. Of course, only those NGOs personally selected by Strong received funding. One such NGO was headed by William Turner, Strong's protege who then headed the Power Corporation which Strong once headed.

Strong also personally softened the Chinese to Nixon's initiatives. Strong visited China to persuade them to participate in the Stockholm Conference; the Chinese had not appeared at any U.N. function since the 1949 revolution.

The Chinese took Strong to visit the grave of his cousin, Anna Louise Strong. Nixon named Henry Kissinger, who came from the Council on Foreign Relations, as his Security Advisor, and his first assignment was to open secret discussions with China. The Rockefellers gave Kissinger a $50,000 bonus when he went to work for Nixon.

The 1972 Stockholm Conference institutionalized the environment as a legitimate concern of government, and it institutionalized NGOs as the instruments through which government could varnish its agenda with the appearance of public support. The primary outcome of the conference was a recommendation to create the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) which became a reality in 1973 with Maurice Strong as its first Executive Director.

Not surprisingly, Nairobi, Strong's headquarters twenty-years earlier, was chosen for the permanent headquarters of the UNEP.

After establishing UNEP and setting its agenda, Strong returned to Canada where he resumed chairmanship of both Petro-Canada and the IDRC.

He was introduced to Scott Spangler, who ran a Texas company called ProChemCo. Strong's partnership, Stronat, bought ProChemCo, and changed the name to Procor, which immediately entered into a complex $10 million deal to acquire AZL, also known as the Arizona-Colorado Land and Cattle Company.

AZL's major stockholder was Adnan Khashoggi. In the end, AZL acquired Procor, but Strong landed in control of the conglomerate which owned feed lots, land, gas and oil interests, engineering firms, and 200,000 acres which included the Baca ranch in Colorado. Amid this multi-national deal making, Strong became a Vice President of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), a post he held until 1981. In 1983, Strong was appointed to the U.N.'s World Commission on Environment and Development, headed by Gro Harlem Brundtland, Vice President of the World Socialist Party. Strong also had a colleague appointed as Executive Director, Warren "Chip" Lindner, an American lawyer, based in Geneva who had handled an intricate merger for Strong and who later went to work for the World Wildlife Fund in Gland, Switzerland. Strong, and the World Wildlife Fund, were largely responsible for the content of the Brundtland Commission's final report, Our Common Future. Before the report was released, Strong was looking to the future.

At a luncheon with Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson in 1986, Strong proposed another world conference on the environment to be held on the 20th anniversary of the Stockholm Conference. Both Sweden and Canada wanted to host the event, but Strong's visit to Collor de Mello, prospective Brazilian President, convinced Strong that the event should be held in Rio de Janeiro. Dewar says: "I was beginning to understand that the Rio Summit was part of a Rockefeller-envisioned Global Governance Agenda that dated back before World War II...."

As Strong organized the Rio Conference, he utilized his vast network to ensure the outcome. His office bought Bella Abzug's airplane tickets to attend a preparatory meeting in Geneva. He asked her to schedule a special conference in Miami for women through her recently formed NGO called Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO). Another NGO formed by Abzug in 1981, the Women's USA Fund, had been almost dormant until 1991, when the NGO received nearly $1 million.

He arranged for the creation of the Business Council on Sustainable Development. Strong's long-time colleague, and former cabinet minister to Pierre Trudeau, J. Hugh Faulkner, was asked to leave his post as Executive Director of the International Chamber of Commerce to take charge of the new organization. The new organization was immediately accredited to the Rio Conference and designated to advise Strong who "needed people with their feet on the ground to do a reality check on these U.N. guys." The Canadian Participatory Committee for UNCED (CPCU) was entirely funded by the Canadian government and consisted of carefully selected individuals who represented various NGOs.

The practice started by Strong at the 1972 conference, of cloaking the agenda in the perception of public grassroots support from NGOs, culminated in Rio in 1992, with the largest collection of NGOs ever assembled in support of Agenda 21. Only those NGOs that were "accredited" by the U.N. Conference were permitted to attend. And only those which had demonstrated support for the agenda were funded. Dewar calls these NGOs -- PGOs -- Private Government Organizations.

Strong has influence with the major Foundations which provide the funding for NGOs and he has influence with the major international NGOs that coordinate the activities of the thousands of smaller NGOs around the world. Strong has served, or is currently on the Board of Directors of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN); the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF); and the World Resources Institute (WRI); the three international NGOs that have developed and advanced the global agenda since the early 1970s.

Strong also served on the U.N.-funded Commission on Global Governance, co-chaired by Ingvar Carlsson, and Shirdath Ramphal, former President of the IUCN. The Commission's final report, Our Global Neighborhood, sets forth detailed plans to achieve what is called "Global Governance."

In his new position as Senior Advisor to Kofi Annan, Strong is again well positioned to implement the agenda he has been developing by calling its implementation "reform." Undoubtedly, Strong's NGO network, funded by Foundations and governments tied to Strong's worldwide interests, will be used to promote the agenda at the national level and at the U.N. level.

One of the first steps likely to be taken will be a recommendation to dissolve the U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). This cumbersome body is one of five original organs of the U.N. designated to oversee economic and social programs. Activities in these areas have expanded to the extent that programs such as the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Development Program, and several others, now have their own budgets, staff, and independent headquarters facilities. ECOSOC has become a useless layer of bureaucracy. Strong will be praised for eliminating this waste.

In reality, the move will simply pave the way to strengthen the U.N.'s power and will actually result in more expense. The functions of ECOSOC will be divided between a newly created Economic Security Council, and a reorganized Trusteeship Council. In other words, we will praise the publicly touted "reform" of eliminating one U.N. agency, but probably never even be told of the new activities of two new councils. This projection is based upon published recommendations of the U.N.-funded Commission on Global Governance -- of which Maurice Strong was a member. The implementation of this "reform" will require an amendment to the U.N. Charter.

The G-77 nations, which represent 135 of the 185 member nations of the U.N. held a conference in Costa Rica in January [7] to outline amendments to Article 13 of the U.N. Charter which will be necessary to bring about global governance as described in Our Global Neighborhood. Costa Rica is the international headquarters of Strong's most recent NGO, Earth Council, and the U.N. University, where a portion of the conference was held.

Among the other recommendations of the Commission on Global Governance is the elimination of the veto power of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, and a review of the entire concept of permanent member status in ten years. Another recommendation would make decisions of the International Court of Justice binding on all nations. Still another would create an International Criminal Court, and a U.N. standing army, and another would provide for independent finance in the form of various global taxation schemes.

Strong has worked diligently and effectively to bring his ideas to fruition. He is now in a position to implement them. His speeches and writings provide a clear picture of what to expect. In 1991, Strong wrote the introduction to a book published by the Trilateral Commission, called Beyond Interdependence: The Meshing of the World's Economy and the Earth's Ecology, by Jim MacNeil. (David Rockefeller wrote the foreword). Strong said this: "This interlocking...is the new reality of the century, with profound implications for the shape of our institutions of governance, national and international. By the year 2012, these changes must be fully integrated into our economic and political life."

He told the opening session of the Rio Conference (Earth Summit II) in 1992, that industrialized countries have:

"developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class -- involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing -- are not sustainable. A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns."

In an essay by Strong entitled Stockholm to Rio: A Journey Down a Generation, he says:

"Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of law and the principle of taxation to finance agreed actions which provide the basis for governance at the national level. But this will not come about easily. Resistance to such changes is deeply entrenched. They will come about not through the embrace of full blown world government, but as a careful and pragmatic response to compelling imperatives and the inadequacies of alternatives."

End of National Sovereignty--- "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. What is needed is recognition of the reality that in so many fields, and this is particularly true of environmental issues, 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."[8]

Maurice Strong has demonstrated an uncanny ability to manipulate people, institutions, governments, and events to achieve the outcome he desires.

Through his published writings and public presentations he has declared his desire to empower the U.N. as the global authority to manage a new era of global governance. He has positioned his NGO triumvirite, the IUCN, WWF, and the WRI, to varnish U.N. activity with the perception of "civil society" respectability. And now he has been appointed Senior Advisor to the U.N. Secretary General and assigned the responsibility of reforming the United Nations bureaucracy. The fox has been given the assignment, and all the tools necessary, to repair the henhouse to his liking.

Endnotes

1. Elaine Dewar, Cloak of Green (Toronto, Ontario: Lorimar & Co., 1995), p. 254.

2. The Gorbachev Foundation/USA, "Revisioning Global Priorities," Program Brochure, March 2, 1995. (On file)

3. Marci McDonald, Maclean's, October 10, 1994, p. 51.

4. Elaine Dewar, Op Cit., p. 263.

5. Elaine Dewar, Op Cit., p. 270.

6. Elaine Dewar, Op Cit., p. 274.

7. Robert Pease, "A Chance To Save the United Nations," Cape Cod Times, December 30, 1996.

8. Maurice Strong, "Stockholm to Rio: A Journey Down a Generation." (On file)

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