Martin, Maurice Strong, and World Government

Via Western Standard, the National Post carries a report on a book by David Henderson, former chief economist for the OECD, which documents his role as the main power broker behind the “global salvationism” movement at work at the UN and related agencies:

According to Mr. Henderson, the great psycho-wave of the past 35 years is “global salvationism.” This quasi-religious belief has two ill-fitting articles of faith: environmental alarmism, and the assertion that Third World poverty is in some way due to the West taking more than its fair share of global resources. Both problems are alleged to require top-down global political solutions, including giant corporations accepting more “social responsibility.”

As for Strong’s role, the Nat Post says this:

Mr. Henderson admits that he himself should have been more aware of the threat presented by the 1992 Rio Conference, which spawned Kyoto. But he notes that the global salvationist movement goes back to the early 1970s, and in particular to the UN conference in Stockholm in 1972. It is hardly coincidence that Mr. Strong happened to be the guiding light and chairman of both conferences. Mr. Henderson notes that the foundation of the United Nations Environment Program, UNEP, was a “landmark.” Guess who created UNEP. Again, sustainable development emerged from the 1987 Brundtland commission, one of whose self-described “eminent persons” was Mr. Strong.

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Mr. Henderson notes that the UN International Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, is far from independent. Why? Because one of its institutional parents is the Strong-created UNEP.

The IPCC of course is that fraudulent organization that facilitated the “hockey stick” graph that allegedly shows massive warming of the earth in the 19th and 20th centuries, and which has recently been debunked (and here).

Strong’s name has also come up in Unscam investigations concerning the Iraqi food for oil scam.

And as we’ve noted in the past, Strong has been a long time mentor of Paul Martin, who shares a similar internationalist/world government vision (and here).