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visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 06:34:03 -0500 From: SiouxB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ParanoidTimes] Strong's Earth Council Flees Costa Rica Earth Council flees Costa Rica Peter Foster, Financial Post May 12, 2004 Global maestro of sustainable development Maurice Strong is in a pickle down in Costa Rica. The government in San Jose is chasing one of his most important global policy instruments, the Earth Council, for US$1.65-million, charging the council with the "wrongful sale" of land which the government had granted it for a headquarters. As a result, the council has left the island. In the wake of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, Mr. Strong -- perennial United Nations player-referee and now a key advisor to Prime Minister Paul Martin -- set up the Earth Council as a "watchdog" on the process he had started himself. It was to keep up the pressure for Agenda 21, Rio's doorstop socialist wish list, as well as for global restrictions on carbon emissions (which brought us the horrors of Kyoto). The council was also to seed myriad new non-governmental organizations to spread the gospel of sustainable development, and push the notion of an "Earth Charter," which had been rejected at Rio. As the location for this beacon of radical environmentalism, Mr. Strong chose Costa Rica, well known for its status as eco-tourist paradise and tax haven. In 1996, the Earth Council was granted land on which to build a new headquarters, with the provision that the land would have to be returned if the council shut down or moved on. Intriguingly, the funds to build the new headquarters were to come from part of the proceeds of issuing Costa Rican Carbon Bonds, a Swiftian emissions trading instrument which entitled the bearer to emit CO2 if he paid the government of Costa Rica not to torch its own rain forest. Hence "value" would be created literally from thin air, with the proceeds to flow to part of Mr. Strong's master plan to save the world from capitalism. At least capitalism as practised by others. Mr. Strong had long held land in Costa Rica, and had become embroiled in a tourist development for which he was harshly criticized by local native groups. Also, in 1994, when he was head of Ontario Hydro, Mr. Strong had become steeped in controversy when he was discovered to be considering the purchase of a swathe of Cost Rican rain forest. But back to the Earth Council. In anticipation of the carbon bond proceeds, the council started spending its own money on development plans, eventually sinking $1.1-million into the centre. But then a new Costa Rican government abandoned the carbon bond plan, and suggested that the Earth Council share the facilities of the United Nations' University of Peace, which also happens to be in San Jose. No problem there. Lots of "synergies" from two left-wing fronts on one campus. And guess who the president of the UPEACE council happens to be! However, trouble arose in paradise when the Earth Council decided to reimburse itself for its expenditures by selling the land that Costa Rica had given it. The government cried foul, and the Earth Council upped and departed the country, citing the drain of the legal fight. That Mr. Strong's council is miffed is obvious from a thinly veiled warning on the Earth Council's Web site that if Costa Rica doesn't get its act together, then other UN-type boondoggles might not find their way to its shores. "This unfortunate experience of the Earth Council," says the council, "will also affect the attitudes of other international organizations in deciding whether to locate in Costa Rica." The council, meanwhile, has moved its operations back to Toronto, which is also threatened with the first offshore campus of the University of Peace. The world would be a safer place without the Earth Council. Take that Earth Charter, for example, the latest version of which was hatched under the auspices of Mr. Strong and his old buddy Mikhail Gorbachev. The charter is a typical mix of UN pablum and poison, declaring that "the dominant patterns of production and consumption are causing environmental devastation, the depletion of resources, and a massive extinction of species." The only problem with this statement is that it is blatantly untrue, as countless authorities and researchers such as Bjorn Lomborg and the Cato Institute's Jerry Taylor have exhaustively detailed. Beneath all the boilerplate about compassion and shared visions lies the fact that Mr. Strong wants nothing less than a destruction of the Western way of life. "Fundamental changes are needed in our values, institutions and ways of living," declares the charter. Anybody seeking confirmation of the charter's target market might turn to unstinting praise for it from that well-known domestic organ of the left, Canadian Dimension. The magazine's March issue describes the charter as a "shared positive vision ... for anti-capitalism," which brings together the "Red-Green Alliance" and promises "a global coalition of progressive counter- hegemonic forces." And you thought that Red Green was just a Canadian comedian. Meanwhile not just the devil, but the farce, is in the details. Down in Costa Rica, the man who would change materialistic human nature and blanket the world with minute regulation and expect it to continue to function has become bogged down -- yet again -- in an argument over money and contracts. http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/financialpost/columnists/story.html?id= c0e445-8848-4aff-b6d6-dbd28cc2499e ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. 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