> Chapter 8

"THE GREENING"

(By Larry Abraham. Pub. 1993 by Double A Publications, Inc., 2320 W. Peoria 9C122, Phoenix, AZ 85029. Tel. (800) 528-0559)

The subtitle of Abraham's book is The Environmentalists' Drive For Global Power, and describes how the war-substitute that appeared most feasible to the Iron Mountain study group has been converted into an action program. First, however, let's review the other major possibilities that were considered by that group, and briefly observe what has developed.

A massive social welfare system was proposed, to include health care, college education, modern housing, and poverty elimination for all. We now have myriad programs dealing with these matters, including Medicare, Medicaid, college tuition grants, subsidized housing, and income assistance programs of various kinds, on which we as a nation have spent close to $5 trillion in the 30 or so years since LBJ declared his War on Poverty, without appreciably changing the incidence of "poverty." All this can certainly be considered a world-class effort to produce serious waste, but it has also produced a major backlash among those who are being taxed to pay for it, a backlash which the elites can't control very well. As they predicted, it clearly can't serve their long-term goals.

We also now have a space research program which the public is willing to support at a reasonable level, but "reasonable" is nowhere near enough as a substitute for war.

The environmental issue has clearly been selected as the major policy initiative to be developed. Recall that the Iron Mountain report expressed doubt that this issue would prove to be viable if dealt with only on its inherent merits, since the public would not likely view a sullied environment as a sufficiently severe threat to justify spending massive amounts of money on it, much less give up one's life in such a cause. It might be possible, however, to enhance the environmental threat, or even to invent a fake issue if an appropriate real one could not be found, though the conferees thought it better not to further discuss such possibilities in their written report. That, however, is what Abraham discusses at length in his excellent book.

In the first few pages of his book, Abraham plainly states his fundamental thesis. The real goal of the secret elites, he says, "is nothing less than to control natural resources worldwide. The Insiders of Environmentalism realize - even if many innocent bystanders do not - that the wealth of the world consists of the things that men take from the earth, and they want to control it all.... For what is now being unleashed in the name of 'saving the earth' is nothing less than the most historic grab for power in all of human history."

Abraham then commences to lay out his evidence. In April 1970, just four years after the completion of the Iron Mountain study, President Nixon declared the first Earth Day, and in the same year established the Environmental Protection Agency. Abraham quotes a news article celebrating the 20th anniversary of that first Earth Day: "Government, business, and consumers have spent up to a trillion dollars, by Department of Commerce count, to clean the environment.... The U.S. seems to find three new environmental hazards for each one it conquers." Thus this "war-replacement" project, with its germ of a justifiable excuse for incurring public expenditures, has obviously added mightily to the production of economic waste, but that's hardly its total purpose, as we shall shortly see.

In April 1970 there also appeared an article by insider George F. Kennan in the CFR's journal Foreign Affairs, entitled "To Prevent a World Wasteland ... A Proposal." The article, no doubt written for the edification of the worker bees in the fields of the elites, was nothing less than the concrete plan for implementing the environmental project suggested by the Iron Mountain Special Study Group. Abraham quotes from the paper extensively, from which one may list the following principal elements of the plan:

• Treat environmental issues as transnational, since water and air contamination are no respecters of national boundaries.

Create facilities to collect, store, and disseminate worldwide data on all aspects of environmental problems and activities.

Promote the coordination of present international research and operational environmental activities.

Establish international environmental standards, and advise and help governments and other organizations on how to meet those standards.

Most important of all, establish and enforce "suitable rules for all human activities" conducted within the great international media of the high seas, the stratosphere, outer space, and perhaps the polar areas. Since individual governments and their selfish parochial nationals cannot be trusted to make or enforce such regulations, the task must be given to an international authority.

An international body should be created to perform the above functions, including that of enforcing the rules and standards to be created. The body, perhaps called the Environmental Agency, should be empowered to act, not on the basis of agreements between government representatives, but by "collaboration among scholars, scientists, experts, and perhaps also something in the nature of environmental statesmen and diplomats - but true international servants.... The agency would require, of course, financial support from the sponsoring governments ... and one should not underestimate the amount of money that would be required."

Just in case the Establishment workers still don't get it, Kennan specifically spells out that the environmental issue is to replace society's fixation on the then-current Cold War, of which Kennan was a major architect, as Abraham clearly documents. Kennan emotes:

"Not only the international scientific community but the world at large has great need, at this dark hour, of a new and more promising focus of attention. The great communist and Western powers, particularly, have need to replace the waning fixations for the cold war with interests which they can pursue in common and to everyone's benefit. For young people the world over, some new opening of hope and creativity is becoming an urgent spiritual necessity. Could there, one wonders, be any undertaking better designed to meet these needs, to relieve the great convulsions of anxiety and ingrained hostility that now rack international society, than a major international effort to restore the hope, the beauty, and the salubriousness of the international environment in which man has his being?" (Abraham's emphasis added.)

1984 has defined for us the purposes of war as an instrument for controlling a servile citizenry, The Report From Iron Mountain has defined the criteria and a suggested replacement for war, and Kennan's article provided a blueprint to install that replacement. It was expected to take about a generation and a half for that replacement to mature, however, and the remainder of The Greening describes the forced growth of environmental fervor during that period.

Before going into that, however, Abraham gives us a preview of the elites' most recent assessment of the status of their plan, along with details on how it is to be completed. It appears in a 1991 book by Jim MacNeill called Beyond Interdependence: The Meshing of the World's Economy and the Earth's Ecology, published by the Trilateral Commission, and containing a foreword by David Rockefeller himself. The book lays out the major goal to be sought at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit meeting then being planned: "The major purpose of this conference is to launch a global transition to sustainable development." The mechanics laid out for the conference, says Abraham, were to be such as to endow it with "the political capacity to produce the basic changes needed in our national and international economic agendas and in our institutions of governance [our emphasis] to ensure a secure and sustainable future for the world community." He quotes Beyond Interdependence: "By the year 2012, these changes must be fully integrated into our economic and political life," and then notes that someone up there seems to be setting deadlines for us.

"Sustainable growth" says Abraham is "Insider jargon for Green de-industrialization, global cartelization of natural resources, and international control of the world's economy.... [It] is a new synonym for Iron Mountain's 'stability,' i.e., perpetuating Insider control." We have referred to the same term as "social stability," meaning "keeping the Low's in poverty and the High's in power, forever."

MacNeill recommends environmental taxes to pay for the real cost of using (replacing?) natural resources. Such costs may be highly speculative, but don't worry, those "environmental statesmen and diplomats" mentioned above can probably handle the job. "Politically," says Abraham, "MacNeill teaches that environmental interdependence means the end of national sovereignty. It will provide the 'external necessity' for a world government with new laws and regulations aplenty." And if some nations don't rush to relinquish their sovereignty, remember that MacNeill says it's OK to accept its piecemeal erosion by the "steady encroachment on their sovereignty by the forces of economic interdependence."

MacNeill's "credible threat," which The Iron Mountain Report required, consisted, said Abraham, of "the same old worn-out menu of eco-hoaxes: over-population, ozone hole, global warming, deforestation, bio-diversity, acid rain, rising sea levels, soil degradation, ad nauseam. " The "alternate enemies" are to consist of those who resist the imposition of international controls over these areas, such as us taxpayers, especially those of us who can still read. To control all of this, MacNeill proposes that a new international environmental super-agency be created.

Listening intently to all the above, the authors of the agenda of the Rio Summit of June 1992 included the following agenda items:

Adopt an Earth Charter, defining new principles for handling environmental issues into the next century.

Define an action program to implement the new principles, especially designating the agencies responsible for implementing the first phase of the effort, up to the year 2000.

Define and sign treaties concerning global warming, deforestation, and bio-diversity.

Create the necessary long-term international control agencies.

Abraham discusses the outcome of the Summit a little later. For now, he emphasizes just that the elites are deadly serious about their own goals and about the means they have chosen to attain them. "These megalomaniacs," he says, "genuinely believe they are the destined elite worthy to rule the world. Environmentalism is merely the ratty, ragged rationalization designed to hoodwink the world into accepting their rule." He digresses briefly to note that these elites have largely managed to identify themselves in their own writings, which few people outside of their own circles ever read. He lists over a dozen such books, including a couple that we have reviewed, and a couple more from which he quotes below. From his review of these and other sources, he says this of their organizational beginnings in the United States:

"The U.S. branch of the Institute [of International Affairs] was called the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and was officially founded in 1921. Prior to the formation of the CFR, a tight reciprocity existed between the Round Table group in the U.K. and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in the U.S., and once the Council was formed, most if not all of the Carnegie Trustees comprised its original board of directors.

"Dominating the leadership of the U.S. Establishment was the Wall Street lawyer for both Andrew Carnegie and J.P. Morgan, Elihu Root. Root was both chairman of the Carnegie Endowment and the first honorary chairman of the CFR. Orbiting Root were Morgan bank partners John W. Davis (CFR president 1921-33), Dwight Morrow, Thomas Lamont, and Henry Davison, along with other legal powerhouses such as Paul Cravath, Norman Davis, Russell Leffingwell, and Root's special protege, Col. Henry L. Stimson [FDR's Secretary of War]."

Regarding the political clout which they developed, Abraham quotes from Professor Arthur S. Miller's The Secret Constitution and the Need for Constitutional Change: "In other words, those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body but from a small group of men (plus a few women). This group will be called the establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order. A second secret is the fact that the existence of the establishment, the ruling class, is not supposed to be discussed.... A third secret is implicit in what has been said - that there is really only one political party of any consequence in the United States, one that has been called the 'Property Party.' The Republicans and the Democrats are in fact two branches of the same (secret) party." Abraham notes support of this view from Alvin Toffler's new book, Power Shift, which "identifies this consortium as the 'Invisible Party' and agrees with Miller that partisan politics has little or no bearing on the wielding of this all-encompassing power."

Abraham then proceeds to outline how the elites have developed their environmental program over the last 20 years or so. First off, if we're going to replace war with something else, we must start by eliminating the threat of war that has been hanging over us. We do that by eliminating the "credible enemy" which has made us willing to fight the recent Cold War. Lo and behold, the USSR has suddenly become peaceful. Not only that, but it is converting itself into a "Green" image of its former self. Abraham quotes from a New York Times article in August 1991 entitled "Gorbachev Turns Green":

"Soviet diplomacy is preparing a dramatic leap in the concept of 'new world order' that will leave President Bush in the primeval sludge if he doesn't move.... Mikhail Gorbachev gave Mr. Bush a hint to his thinking at their Moscow meeting, proposing that next year's UN conference in Rio de Janeiro on the environment be held at the summit level [our emphasis].... Moscow's new idea is not only an astonishing reversal of Soviet attitudes about international relations; it goes beyond accepted notions of the limits of national sovereignty and rules of behavior.... Foreign Ministry officials say they are working on a plan for a global code of environmental conduct. Moscow suggests a convention for all states to sign. It would provide for the World Court to judge states.... This is a breathtaking idea, beyond the current dreams of ecology militants. It is meant to show that the Soviets really take seriously their 'integration' in the world economy. And it is that the environment be [the] topic for what amounts to global policy." National borders must be disregarded, because "Environmental problems ignore borders, and the convention would draw the consequences on the basis of laws applied to all."

We have thus become witnesses to the birth of a "viable replacement for war." Abraham notes, in closing this topic, that the Gorbachev proposal not only "coincided perfectly with what George F. Kennan proposed in his April 1970 article in Foreign Affairs, " it also presaged precisely what was to be the outcome of the upcoming Rio Summit. But Mr. Abraham doesn't believe that much in coincidences, and treats us instead to a thumbnail history of the art of deception in warfare, an art in which the international con men are highly adept, and in which we, the American public, are the primary "marks."

Abraham next backs up a few years to let us discover how the banking elites will profit even while journeying on their road to world control. In September 1987, in Denver, Colorado, there occurred a conference called the Fourth World Wilderness Conference. The 1500 delegates from 60 countries found upon arriving that a conference Declaration had been written for them, stating in part that, because more funding was needed for expanding conservation activities, "a new conservation banking program should be created to integrate international aid for environmental management into coherent common programs for recipient countries based on objective assessments of each country's resources and needs."

These words clearly were not written by the whale lovers and tree huggers in attendance, but more likely by the most major of the several major actors that were found in attendance, who included not only David Rockefeller of the Chase Manhattan Bank, but even the seldom seen (in public) Baron Edmond de Rothschild, representing the interests of his 200-year-old international banking family. Abraham suggests that we best pay close attention.

Conference papers proposed that up to 30 percent of the world's wilderness land mass, i.e., about 12 billion acres, including whatever natural resources may lie underneath, be set aside for wilderness areas, with title vested in a "World Wilderness Trust." The new World Conservation Bank (WCB) would participate by financing "directly and through syndicated and co-financing arrangements:

(1) The preparation, development, and implementation of national conservation strategies by developing country governments;

(2) The acquisition/lease of environmentally important land for preservation of biological diversity and watersheds;

(3) The management and conservation of selected areas."

And how are these lands to be acquired? In the Third World, we hark back to the fact of the Third World's unpayable debts, and listen to the conference's plan. It proposes that the WCB "act as intermediary between certain developing countries [e.g., Brazil] and multilateral or private banks [e.g., Chase] to transfer a specific debt [Brazil's debt to Chase] to the World Conservation Bank, thus substituting an existing doubtful debt on the bank's books [Brazil owes Chase] for a new loan to the WCB [WCB owes Chase]. In return for having been relieved of its debt obligation, the debtor country [Brazil] would transfer to the WCB natural resource assets of 'equivalent value'...."

"In other words," says Abraham, "the mega-banks' bad loans [created out of nothing by the 'Mandrake Mechanism'] which are not now collateralized would be sold at full nominal value to the WCB, instead of their presently discounted value on the open market (as low as 6 to 25 cents on the dollar). The WCB would 'buy' the loan from the existing holder [Chase] and the debtor country [Brazil] would have to collateralize the loan with wilderness areas. If [i.e., when] the debtor failed to pay, the WCB, or whoever its stockholders happen to be [Rockefellers, Rothschilds, etc.], would end up with vast tracts of land and everything below it.

"Now you see why I've been warning for years that the mega-banks were just not going to fail. The fix is in. What was proposed in Denver was the 'Proposal' of Kennan over 20 years ago.... The name of the game is the creation of world banks, regional currencies, multinational trusts, giant foundations, land expropriations, and massive transfers of natural resources - the cartelization of the world's natural resources - which will ultimately evolve into transfers of national sovereignty...."

We might recall at this point our discussion toward the end of Chapter 1 of Henry Kissinger's National Security Council Study Memorandum 200 recommending that a program of population reduction be aimed at a list of 13 Third World countries that produced raw materials that the U.S. needed. As reported by William Engdahl (p. 164), Kissinger noted in the Memorandum "how much more efficient expenditures for population control might be than [expenditures for] raising production through direct investments in additional irrigation and power projects and factories," such as would be required if the country's population and standard of living were permitted to rise. We wondered aloud in Chapter 1 what the hidden rationale for such a policy might be. Now it's getting much clearer. The elites wish to reduce the targeted Third World populations to a bare subsistence level in order to reduce to a minimum the costs of producing the raw materials on the lands which the elites are presently trying to wrest from those target countries in the name of world environmentalism.

In the United States, the methods are different. They depend upon the poor brainwashed citizen being willing to be taxed (or to use "government" money, no matter how it is created) in order for the government (ultimately to be synonymous with "elites") to "buy" vast additional tracts of U.S. real estate. In order for this to work, the media must keep up its bombardment of environmental horrors on the psyches of us ordinary folks. Abraham quotes from an arbitrary sampling of such material to remind us just how deeply we are swimming in such intellectual sewage.

We are constantly reminded that the costs of the overall environmental cleanup program will be immense, no doubt to reinforce the claim that the danger is critical and imminent, and to get us used to thinking in terms of throwing hundreds of billions of dollars a year at the problem. For instance, the New York Times article of August 1991, which was quoted above, projects environmental cleanup after the military production of the last 30 years or so to take 30 years and cost $400 billion. Vice President Al Gore's book Earth in the Balance suggests that needed environmental activities would cost on the order of $100 billion per year, or about 2 percent of the GNP, though this is quite a bit lower than the Iron Mountain assertion that the economic waste of the war substitute must reach at least 10 percent of the GNP. That probably means we'll have to keep activated for a little while longer the annual drug losses of around $400 billion, the welfare waste of another $200-$300 billion, plus a little war now and then, such as in Bosnia, to keep more excess billions flowing into the Pentagon as well.

Abraham then launches into an outline of the personnel and programs constituting the environmental onslaught in the United States. He notes that we should not be surprised to find that the figures at the helm of each and every one of the major environmental foundations (such as the World Wildlife Fund, the Heritage Trust, the Nature Conservancy, the National Wildlife Federation, The Sierra Club, the World Wilderness Congress, Conservation International, and the Center for Earth Resource Analysis) are key members of the elite political organizations previously and repetitiously identified (i.e., the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberger Group, the Club of Rome, and the Trilateral Commission). Abraham spends a whole chapter on mini-biographies of 20 of these "EcoProphets," as he calls them, namely David Brower, McGeorge Bundy, Helen Caldicott, Barry Commoner, Paul Ehrlich, Dave Foreman, Jay Hair, Denis Hayes, Amory Lovins, J. Michael McCloskey, Ralph Nader, William Reilly, Jeremy Rifkin, John D. Rockefeller III, Laurence Rockefeller, William Ruckelshaus, John Sawhill, J. Gustave Speth, Maurice Strong, and Russell Train. We'll pick out just one of these gentlemen to say a few words about, namely Maurice Strong.

Mr. Strong is a multimillionaire Canadian with Establishment credentials starting with President, World Federation of United Nations Associations; co-chairman, World Economic Forum; member, Club of Rome; trustee, Aspen Institute; trustee, Rockefeller Foundation; and on and on for a dozen more lines of type, including heading up the Rio Earth Summit in June 1992. Abraham reports: "To buttress the Earth Summit, Strong formed the Business Council for Sustainable Development, 'a blue-ribbon group of 50 eminent business leaders from all regions of the world ... to promote a clear understanding of and commitments to environmentally sustainable development within the private sector at the highest corporate level."' Strong appointed members to the council, many of whose names are not familiar, but whose company affiliations certainly are, including Asea Brown Boveri, Chevron, Volkswagen, Alcoa, Dow Chemical, Royal Dutch Shell, and du Pont. Holding this little sketch of Mr. Strong in mind, Abraham continues:

"In May 1990 Daniel Wood interviewed Strong for West magazine. Strong presented the idea that the only way to save the planet from destruction is to see to it that the industrialized civilizations collapse... Wood recounts the conversation:

[Strong] has a novel he'd like to do.... [In] the novel's plot, the World Economic Forum convenes in Davos, Switzerland. Over a thousand CEOs, prime ministers, finance ministers, and leading academics gather ... to attend meetings and set economic agendas for the year ahead.... "What if" [says Strong] "a small group of these world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the earth comes from the actions of the rich countries? And if the world is to survive, those rich countries would have to sign an agreement reducing their impact on the environment. Will they do it?"....

Strong resumes his story. "The group's conclusion is 'no.' The rich countries won't do it. They won't change. So, in order to save the planet, the group decides: isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?

"This group of world leaders," he continues, "form a secret society to bring about an economic collapse... These aren't terrorists. They're world leaders. They have positioned themselves in the world's commodity and stock markets ... and have engineered, using their access to stock exchanges and computers and gold supplies, a panic. Then, they prevent the world's stock markets from closing. They jam the gears. They hire mercenaries who hold the rest of the world leaders at Davos as hostages. The markets can't close. The rich countries ..." And Strong makes a slight motion with his fingers as if he were flicking a cigarette butt out the window.

I sit there spellbound. This is not any storyteller talking. This is Maurice Strong. He knows these world leaders. He is, in fact, co-chairman of the Council of the World Economic Forum. He sits at the fulcrum of power. He is in a position to do it...."

Abraham concludes that Strong's megalomaniacal daydream speaks for itself, that he has surrounded himself with a group of people who believe in the coming of an apocalypse, and that a cult of personality is appearing around him. "Strong," says Abraham, "is part of a terrifically dangerous group of elitists who actually believe they are Plato's 'philosopher kings.' They alone are fit to rule the world. After all, without their guiding light, nothing 'can save humankind from itself."'

Recalling that Iron Mountain noted that only the perception of impending catastrophe was necessary, Abraham includes a couple of chapters on how the elites are doing at creating this perception. The first has to do with the one-sided media barrages on the various environmental issues, the second on environmental brainwashing of kids in the public schools. On the elites' side in the media effort is the ownership and expert use of the mass media; on our side is scientific truth. Though the printed and spoken words on the one side vastly outnumber those on the other, truth and skepticism are still winning out among the public, as indicated by polls which ask people to define what they believe to be the most important problem facing the country. Results: 34 percent - economic problems; 27 percent - the drug crisis; 10 percent - poverty and homelessness; and 4 percent - environmental problems. Abraham presents a reading list of literature refuting the various environmental calamities which are claimed to beset us. The mass media drumbeat continues, however.

Abraham then outlines with what ease and effectiveness the "green" message is cleansing the brains of our next generation in the public schools. He quotes a New York Times article of November 1989: "Educators and environmentalists say that schools across the country are reporting an increase in classroom demand for environmental education.... Government officials and other spokesmen ... go to schools with [various environmental] messages. Several teachers describe the campaign as brainwashing for a good cause.... By and large the environmental groups are active and moving into education." Abraham notes that these "environmental groups" involve not only private organizations, such as the National Audubon Society, but large corporate entities as well, including Dow Chemical, AT&T, Exxon, and 3M. "Is it only an accident," asks Abraham, "that all [of these corporate entities] are also members of the National Wildlife Federation's Corporate Conservation Council as well as Maurice Strong's Business Council for Sustainable Development?" He winds up his discussion of the green indoctrination of our children with a look at Captain Planet and similar programs on children's TV.

The next couple of chapters are devoted to debunking a few of the specific ways that we are being told that the sky is falling. This is the fun part, because whenever the claims are racked up against measurable facts, the claims and their claimants suddenly lose their credibility. Abraham takes on briefly the issues of the population explosion, global warming, the ozone hole, and acid rain. This is fun reading, and I won't steal it from him. You should read it yourself.

He does introduce a final issue, however, which we must discuss. It involves a legal ploy long ago developed by the elites, but now being increasingly used in the name of environmentalism, to bring our citizenry under the much more direct control of government bureaucrats who are enabled to define and enforce their own arbitrary "law." The legal starting point is with the Congress, which, against the long-term best interests of the country, "delegates authority to an independent agency with no specific powers, only a general 'mandate' for enforcement. The EPA is only the latest example of a legacy most exemplified by the fearsome power of the IRS. In varying measure, these agencies are cop, judge, and jury. They all possess legislative powers, executive powers, and judicial enforcement powers - which means they can define law [and] impose fines, civil penalties, injunctions, and in some cases even criminal sanctions. Legal proceedings have been removed from a 'judicial' to an 'administrative' setting. We are no longer protected by a presumption of innocence. These entities operate on a presumption of guilt. Administrative law replaces constitutional and common law rights...."

Abraham continues: "Objective law affords prior notice so that people can avoid criminal acts. But when the law becomes subjective, when legislatures refuse to define offenses but issue only generalized mandates to bureaucracies ('clean up the air,' 'protect the environment' ...) then the very definition of the law becomes unknowable, [and] liable to change with the bureaucrats' subjective perceptions."

Given the above, Abraham concludes that the purpose of this "law" is not to save the environment, but to change the law itself into an institution better suited to controlling our once-independent citizenry. Of course, congressional delegation of such bureaucratic authority is unconstitutional on at least two counts: that the Constitution does not grant to Congress the power to delegate its legislative authority to other agencies, and that it does not grant Congress the power to legislate concerning the "environment." Such action appears to be an obvious violation of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, and, so long as it stands, is a major threat to our God-given natural rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and a major tool in the hands of the elites who wish to dominate us.

Abraham includes as an appendix an article written recently by scholar Brooks Alexander entitled The View From Iron Mountain, reprinted by permission. It seeks to answer the question of the authenticity of The Report From Iron Mountain, and evaluates the available evidence. It's a highly interesting interpretation from yet another party of one of the most significant publications of this last century, a publication which created a significant stir immediately after its appearance, and which continues to resist efforts by the elites to relegate it, once and for all, to the memory hole.