Maurice Strong advises folk to ignore Glenn Beck

Interesting that Maurice Strong would send FoxNews‘ Glenn Beck a message today via Britain’s guardian.co.uk. Maurice Strong: Ignore Glenn Beck--I don’t want to rule the world was Chairman Mo’s message in newspaper headlines. Interesting the message was sent from over the pond because G-8 and G-20 are now well underway in Toronto and Huntsville, both locations in Strong’s home nation of Canada.

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In fact, according to Monday’s Corporate Knights Media Advisory, Maurice Strong chaired the Corporate Knights and the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Common Future 2.0 Summit at Toronto’s downtown Design Exchange. The media advisory was emailed to Canada Free Press (CFP) half way through the event. We don’t really know whether Strong appeared in person or by video satellite from his beloved China. The self-professed “planet’s leading environmentalist” is a master at Public Relations. In his latest PR stunt, Strong denies he wants to rule the world, insisting: “What I do believe is that we need a system of global governance through which nations can cooperate and deal with issues they cannot deal with alone.” (guardian.co.uk, June 23, 2010). “Maybe that statement is too sophisticated for some, but it shouldn’t be.” Maybe some expert in doublespeak could explain to us what Strong is now saying. In any case, Strong could have fooled many more than GB. In his own words, Strong told hundreds of thousands at the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, “The concept of national sovereignty has been 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. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states, however powerful.” (Link) And get this, Glenn: Strong said in Rio, “It is the responsibility of each human being today to choose between the force of darkness and the force of light. We must therefore transform our attitudes, and adopt a renewed respect for the superior laws of Divine Nature.” Since Strong is not a man of the cloth but came up the well greased UN chain of bureaucracy, we’ll have to consult anything but the Earth Charter, Strong co-authored with former leader Mikhail Gorbachev as the replacement for the Ten Commandments. Nor did Strong show much sympathy for the middle class while addressing the Rio Earth Summit: “Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class--involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air conditioning and suburban housing--are not sustainable. A shift is necessary which will require a vast strengthening of the multilateral system, including the United Nations.” The affluent middle class? Meanwhile, the great unwashed have the ability to follow Strong’s advice to “ignore Glenn Beck”, but when they ignore Maurice Strong, they do it at their own peril.