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Posted: 24 Nov 2009 02:37 PM PST

 A clip from “Collapse” a documentary by Chris Smith director of “American
Movie” & “The Yes Men”.
Radical thinker Michael Ruppert outlines his apocalyptic vision of our world
after the collapse of industrial civilization.

Source: Collapse the Movie <http://www.CollapseMovie.com>

The Corporate Climate
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Posted: 24 Nov 2009 02:17 PM PST

Over the last decade and a half we have been subjected to two competing
corporate campaigns, echoing different time-honored corporate strategies and
reflecting a split within elite circles. The issue of climate change has
been framed from both sides of this elite divide, giving the appearance that
there are only these two sides.

Source: Corporate Climate Coup, Part 1 <http://permaculture.tv/?p=322>

 The first campaign, which took shape in the late 1980’s as part of the
triumphalist “globalization” offensive, sought to confront speculation about
climate change head-on by denying, doubting, deriding, and dismissing
distressing scientific claims which might put a damper on enthusiasm for
expansive capitalist enterprise. It was modelled after and to some extent
built upon the earlier campaign by the tobacco industry to sow skepticism
about mounting evidence of the deleterious health-effects of smoking. In the
wake of this “negative” propaganda effort, any and all critics of climate
change and global warming have been immediately identified with this side of
the debate.

Video Source: Corporate Climate Coup, Part 2 <http://permaculture.tv/?p=324>

The second positive campaign, which emerged a decade later, in the wake of
Kyoto and at the height of the anti-globalization movement, sought to get
out ahead of the environmental issue by affirming it only to hijack it and
turn it to corporate advantage. Modelled on a century of corporate liberal
cooptation of popular reform movements and regulatory regimes, it aimed to
appropriate the issue in order to moderate its political implications,
thereby rendering it compatible with corporate economic, geopolitical, and
ideological interests. The corporate climate campaign thus emphasized the
primacy of “market-based” solutions while insisting upon uniformity and
predictability in mandated rules and regulations. At the same time it hyped
the global climate issue into an obsession, a totalistic preoccupation with
which to divert attention from the radical challenges of the global justice
movement. In the wake of this campaign, any and all opponents of the
“deniers” have been identified - and, most importantly, have wittingly or
unwittingly identified themselves - with the corporate climate crusaders.

The corporate campaign has done more than merely create market opportunities
for mainstream popular science writers like Flannery. By constructing an
exclusively Manichean contest between mean and mindless deniers, on the one
hand, and enlightened global warming advocates, on the other, it has also
disposed otherwise politically-astute journalists on the left to
uncharacteristic credulity. Heat, George Monbiot’s impassioned 2006
manifesto on the matter, is embarrassing in its funneled focus and its naive
deference to the authority of science. “Curtailing climate change,” he
declaims, “must become the project we put before all others. If we fail in
this task, we fail in everything else.” “We need a cut of the magnitude
science demands,” he declares; we must adopt “the position determined by
science rather than the position determined by politics,” as if there was
such a thing as science that was not also politics.

Climate change campaigners have no greater right to be wrong than anyone
else. “If we mislead the public,” he allows, “we should expect to be
exposed,” adding that “we also need to know that we are not wasting our
time: there is no point in devoting your life to fighting a problem that
does not exist.” Here perhaps some remnants of truth seep between the
managed lines, hinting yet at the opening of another space and another
moment.

*Historian David Noble teaches at York University in Toronto. Canada. He is
the author, most recently, of Beyond the Promised Land (2005)*

Source: Corporate Climate Coup, Part 3 <http://permaculture.tv/?p=330>

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Posted: 24 Nov 2009 01:59 PM PST

Source: Its the End of the World of We Know It,
Submedia.TV<http://submedia.tv/stimulator/2009/11/22/the-stimulator-vs-alex-jones/>

Could global warming be a hoax? Some people believe they’ve found proof that
it is. Recently hackers broke into the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia
University computers and hacked over 1000 emails between global warming
scientists discussing the “extra proof” they had to use to pad the global
warming theory. These emails have leaked across the internet and in several
it’s admitted that global warming is in fact declining. It doesn’t need to
be said the questions that these emails have raised so many questions:
whether the emails are authentic or falsified? Whether scientists have been
stretching the truth on global warming?

Source: 
Gather.com<http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977916239>

Cointelpro Counterintelligence Program (a)
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The Knights 
Carbonic<http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009/11/23/the-knights-carbonic/>
Posted November 23, 2009
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian, 23rd November 2009

It’s no use pretending that this isn’t a major blow. The emails extracted by
a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia
could scarcely be more damaging(1 <http://www.anelegantchaos.org/>). I am
now convinced that they are genuine, and I’m dismayed and deeply shaken by
them.

Yes, the messages were obtained illegally. Yes, all of us say things in
emails that would be excruciating if made public. Yes, some of the comments
have been taken out of context. But there are some messages that require no
spin to make them look bad. There appears to be evidence here of attempts to
prevent scientific data from being
released(2<http://www.anelegantchaos.org/cru/emails.php?eid=914&filename=1219239172.txt>
,3<http://www.anelegantchaos.org/cru/emails.php?eid=490&filename=1107454306.txt>),
and even to destroy material that was subject to a freedom of information
request(4<http://www.anelegantchaos.org/cru/emails.php?eid=891&filename=1212063122.txt>
).

Worse still, some of the emails suggest efforts to prevent the publication
of work by climate
sceptics(5<http://www.anelegantchaos.org/cru/emails.php?eid=307&filename=1051190249.txt>
,6<http://www.anelegantchaos.org/cru/emails.php?eid=484&filename=1106322460.txt>),
or to keep it out of a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change(7<http://www.anelegantchaos.org/cru/emails.php?eid=419&filename=1089318616.txt>).
I believe that the head of the unit, Phil Jones, should now resign. Some of
the data discussed in the emails should be re-analysed.

But do these revelations justify the sceptics’ claims that this is “the
final nail in the coffin” of global warming
theory?(8<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/>
,9 <http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116882>) Not at all.
They damage the credibility of three or four scientists. They raise
questions about the integrity of one or perhaps two out of several hundred
lines of evidence.

Source: The Knights Carbonic,
Monbiot.com<http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009/11/23/the-knights-carbonic/>


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Posted: 24 Nov 2009 01:45 PM PST

*March 2008*, ABC’s Four Corners returns for 2006 with a
whistleblower…revelations of a powerful insiders’ club.”Having found out
what I’ve found out, I find it impossible to continue with a clear
conscience without speaking out” - whistleblower interviewed by Four
Corners.Do you know the whole truth on global warming?Not according to
evidence given to Four Corners, which returns with disturbing allegations
about the power wielded by industry lobbyists, the self-proclaimed
greenhouse “mafia”.A whistleblower steps forward with claims that industry
representatives have burrowed deep inside the federal bureaucracy in a
successful bid to hijack greenhouse policy.Four Corners examines separate
claims that the public is being denied full information about strategies to
combat global warming.

Source: Produced by ABC Australia
Source: Distributed by Journeyman
Pictures<http://www.youtube.com/user/journeymanpictures>

The greenhouse mafia is the self-description adopted by a group of
executives of big mining and heavy industry companies and industry
associations lobbying th Australian government on climate change policy.
During the reign of former Prime Minister John Howard (1996-2007), their
close relationships with federal ministers were exposed by Guy Pearse, a
former speechwriter to former federal liberal Minister for the Environment,
Robert Hill.[1] Their influence over federal climate policy at that time was
so strong that they boasted that in some instances they have vetted and
drafted cabinet submissions and ministerial briefings.[1]

Since the election of Kevin Rudd in November 2007, the influence of the
greenhouse mafia does not appear to have waned much. They still actively
lobby the federal government on climate policy and frequently appear in the
media, in vocal opposition to initiatives aimed at reducing the carbon
emissions caused by the Australian business sector.

Source: 
Sourcewatch<http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Greenhouse_mafia>
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