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Sheeple, Internet, Maurice Strong

Yesterday the pond, today a takeover of the Internet

By Judi McLeod
Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Google alert: below-the-radar Canadian billionaire Maurice Strong, like The Terminator, is back. Strong, oddly silent since moving to Beijing, resurfaced yesterday as a leader of the all-new Internet. It's an all-new net that promises to dazzle the masses.

The man who saved the world from greenhouse gas emissions is saving us from the Internet. We're not making this up.

With the recent failure of the United Nations to do the same thing, it was bound to happen sooner or later.

Strong, whom United Nations Secretary General Kofi annan and Canada's Prime Minister Paul Martin depend on as senior adviser, is part of yesterday's launch of the "socially responsible business model platform for the digital universe." (http://ManyOne.Net).

Touted as a "PBS of the Web", the bold new venture is called ManyOne Networks.

"ManyOne has been carefully designed with a socially-responsible ownership, governance and advisory architecture to ensure that it can play a pivotal role in the ethical evolution of the Internet and the World Wide Web," stated a google alert ManyOne media release.

"a world-class team of executives and staff from USWeb, Microsoft, UTStarcom, HP. Sony, aOL/Netscape, Nokia and Lockheed have joined forces over the past three years to build this unique enterprise."

ManyOne–and it's ruder than Freudian slip to call it MoneyOne–is self-described as "a company with an ethical compass."

"an integral facet of its unique business plan is that it will become wholly owned by the International nonprofit ManyOne Foundation as of 2006. The Foundation's Board of Directors, which will include Jane Goodall, Paul Hawken, Maurice Strong and other social leaders and scientists worldwide, will ensure that the assets and activities of ManyOne Networks, along with profits paid out to the Foundation, go to advancing the greater public good," states the release.

"The company's Board of Directors of (sic) includes Christy Carpenter, former Vice Chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Paul Irwin, former President of the Humane Society of the United States; and Robert Richards, a member of the team that founded the telecommunications giant Sprint.

"advisors to the company include General Wesley Clark, former candidate for U.S. President; James Lee Witt, former head of FEMa under President Clinton; David Phillips, President of the Peer Consulting Group, founder of CIO Round Tables (in northern and southern Ca) and former CIO at Fluor Daniel; Dr. Robert Corell, world-renowned scientist, Chairman of the arctic Climate Impact assessment, and Senior Fellow, american Meteorological Society; Dr. Tim Foresman, former Director of Environmental Science for the United Nations Environment Programme; and William a. Nitze, former official at the U.S. EPa and the U.S. State Department."

The only ones who appear to be missing from the ManyOne Networks lineup are al Gore and Monica Lewinsky.

In any case, the organization is working with a growing alliance of partners worldwide to evolve a "dazzling new kind of Web experience".

Like the lawyer played by Richard Gere in Chicago, ManyOne promises to "razzle and dazzle" you.

With ManyOne, thousands of non-profit organizations that are working for positive social and environmental change, will find their niche on a more ethical Internet without all that tacky Internet advertising for Viagra and Vonage.

`Ethical' is the new 25-cent word for all those determined to save the sheeple. But how can the saviours of the net guarantee ethics in cyberspace when they couldn't do it in real time at the Oil-for-food scandalized United Nations?

Meanwhile it's now 2006 and the call for the rescue of the masses could very well be: Conspiracy theorists of the world unite. Those dirty rotten scoundrel lefties, led by those who always know better than the rest of us, just spent the last three years proving "Today the pond, tomorrow the Internet."

Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com


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