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There's an elephant in global warming's living room that few in the mainstream media want to talk about: the creators of the carbon credit scheme are the ones cashing in on it. The two cherub like choirboys singing loudest in the Holier Than Thou Global Warming Cathedral are Maurice Strong and Al Gore. This duo has done more than anyone else to advance the alarmism of man-made global warming. With little media monitoring, both Strong and Gore are cashing in on the lucrative cottage industry known as man-made global warming. Strong is on the board of directors of the Chicago Climate Exchange, Wikipedia-described as "the world's first and North America's only legally binding greenhouse gas emission registry reduction system for emission sources and offset projects in North America and Brazil." Gore buys his carbon off-sets from himself--the Generation Investment Management LLP, "an independent, private, owner-managed partnership established in 2004 with offices in London and Washington, D.C." of which he is both chairman and founding partner. To hear the saving-the-earth singsong of this dynamic duo, even the feather light petals of cherry blossoms in Washington leave a bigger carbon footprint. It's a strange global warming partnership that Strong and Gore have, but it's one that's working. Strong is the silent partner, a man whose name often draws a blank in the Washington cocktail circuit. Even though a former Secretary General of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the much hyped Rio Earth Summit) and Under-Secretary General of the United Nations in the days of a beleaguered Kofi Annan, the Canadian born Strong is little known in the United States. That's because he spends most of his time in China where he works to make the communist country the world's next superpower. The nondescript Strong, nonetheless is big cheese in the world of climate change, and is one of the main architects of the coming-your-way-soon Kyoto Protocol. The tawdry tale of the top two global warming gurus in the business world goes all the way back to Earth Day, April 17, 1995 when the future author of An Inconvenient Truth traveled to Fall River, Massachusetts, to deliver a green sermon at the headquarters of Molten Metal Technology Inc. (MMTI). MMTI was a firm that proclaimed to have invented a process for recycling metals from waste.Gore praised the Molten Metal firm as a pioneer in the kind of innovative technology that can save the environment, and make money for investors at the same time. "Gore left a few facts out of his speech that day. First, the firm was run by Strong and a group of Gore intimates, including Peter Knight, the firm's registered lobbyist, and Gore's former top Senate aide," wrote EIR. "Second, the company had received more than $25 million in U.S. Department of energy (DOE) research and development grants, but had failed to prove that the technology worked on a commercial scale. The company would go on to receive another $8 million in federal taxpayers' cash, at that point, its only source of revenue. "With Al Gore's Earth Day as a Wall Street calling card, Molten Metal's stock value soared to $35 a share, a range it maintained through October 1996. But along the way, DOE scientists had balked at further funding. When, in March 1996, corporate officers concluded that the federal cash cow was about to run dry, they took action: Between that date and October 1996, seven corporate officers--including Maurice Strong--sold off $15.3 million in personal shares in the company, at top market value. On Oct. 20, 1996--a Sunday--the company issued a press release, announcing for the first time, that DOE funding would be vastly scaled back, and reported the bad news on a conference call with stockbrokers. "On Monday, the stock plunged by 49%, soon landing at $5 a share.By early 1997, furious stockholders had filed a class action suit against the company and its directors. Ironically, one of the class action lawyers had tangled with Maurice Strong in another insider trading case, involving a Swiss company called AZL Resources, chaired by Strong, who was also a lead shareholder. The AZL case closely mirrored Molten Metal, and in the end, Strong and the other AZL partners agreed to pay $5 million to dodge a jury verdict, when eyewitness evidence surfaced of Strong's role in scamming the value of the company stock up into the stratosphere, before selling it off. In 1997, Strong went on to accept from Tongsun Park, the Korean man found guilty of illegally acting as an Iraqi agent, $1 million from Saddam Hussein, which was invested in Cordex Petroleum Inc., a company he owned with his son, Fred. http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover031307.htm You might conclude that these two are men of many scams.
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 04, 2008 6:54 am) Now Obama is looking at Gore as his Energy Czar. What a corrupt government we have. And it is getting worse by the day.
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 04, 2008 7:03 am) Why don't you haul your clan up to Canada then. Or Mexico. Or Cuba. Or China. Or Russia. There are far WORSE places and far more problematic guvmints. Be happy we are FREE.
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Replying to: larsb (Nov 04, 2008 7:06 am) I am happy I can drive my SUV most places without fear of having it burned by GW cultists such as ELF or Gaia. Just because the other governments are corrupt is not an excuse for ours to be the same. I know you are in denial about cap & trade laws. Our next President has said he will implement them to bankrupt Coal generation. Why cap and trade could backfire
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 04, 2008 8:05 am) Ha Ha Ha that's funny....................................... How do you think "the incumbents" got corrupted in the first place? By the political machine. And changing the people going into the machine does not affect the mechanization of the machine. Face it - just like in any society, there are 5 or 10 percent of the populace who make the rest of us look bad. Guvmint is just a microcosm of society, so there will always be bad apples. Lucky for us, he good apples outrank the bad by a LONG shot. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 04, 2008 8:05 am) Here! Here!! And I will argue and fight against any increase in $ and power going to the government. Larsb: Speaking of FREE, I wish we were. But I'm doing major work just to feed the wheels of government. Let's see after my income taxes and social security, I just got hit with a 10% increase in property tax, even though the house value went down 15%, I don't see where I'm FREE.  I guess even a prisoner can delude himself into believing he's free, as he has some freedom - he can decide where to sit in his cell, or who to fight with .... The real problem I have with people who serve the public, is that the vast majority live better than the public!
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Replying to: kernick (Nov 04, 2008 8:38 am) I thought that was the point in the first place!!!????  
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Replying to: kernick (Nov 04, 2008 8:38 am)  If this were not a car forum and were a political forum, you'd get a great education-based tongue lashing from me right about now.
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Replying to: larsb (Nov 04, 2008 8:44 am)
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Replying to: ruking1 (Nov 04, 2008 8:47 am) 1. No other better system has been developed. 2. Sometimes the wheels of change turn slowly in Washington. The "limo fleet" is a holdover from the "bad old days" and should be hybridized where possible. I'm sure the people in charge KNOW this. |
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