posted 11-29-2001 07:01 PM            

WHO IS MAURICE STRONG? And why should you care?

Some answers are here at http://iresist.com/cbg/strong.html
Here are some excerpts I took from this link
Originally written By Ronald Bailey and Published in The National Review September 1,1997

Among the hats he currently wears are:
Senior Advisor to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan;
Senior Advisor to World Bank President James Wolfensohn;
Chairman of the Earth Council;
Chairman of the World Resources Institute;
Co-Chairman of the Council of the World Economic Forum;
member of Toyota's International Advisory Board.
As advisor to Kofi Annan, he is overseeing the new UN reforms.

Yet his most prominent and influential role to date was as
Secretary General of the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development –
the so-called Earth Summit -- held in Rio de Janeiro, which gave a significant push to global economic and environmental regulation.

Strong started in the oil business in the 1950s. He took over and turned around some small ailing energy companies in the 1960s, and he was president of a major holding company -- the Power Corporation of Canada -- by the age of 35

In 1966, by now a Liberal favorite, Strong became head of the Canadian International Development Agency and thus was launched internationally. Impressed by his work at CIDA, UN Secretary General U Thant asked him to organize what became the first Earth Summit -- the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. The next year, Strong became first director of the new UN Environment Program, created as a result of Stockholm

After a couple of years, Strong left Petro-Canada for various business deals, including one with Adnan Khashoggi through which he ended up owning the 200,000-acre Baca ranch in Colorado, now a "New Age" center run by his wife, Hanne.
(see more about this in a later link)

It is instructive to read Strong's 1972 Stockholm speech and compare it with the issues of Earth Summit 1992. Strong warned urgently about global warming, the devastation of forests, the loss of biodiversity, polluted oceans, the population time bomb. Then as now, he invited to the conference the brand-new environmental NGOs [non-governmental organizations]: he gave them money to come; they were invited to raise hell at home

(This was at a time we were supposed to worry about nuclear winter ~ )
He found time to serve as
president of the World Federation of United Nations Associations,
on the executive committee of the Society for International Development,
and as an advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation
and the World Wildlife Fund.
(the “local folks” that almost tied up 1.1 million acres National Monument here last year ~ )
Above all, he served on the Commission on Global Governance -- which, as we shall see, plays a crucial part in the international power grab.

The concept of global governance has been fermenting for some time.
In 1991, the Club of Rome (of which Strong is, of course, a member)
issued a report called The First Global Revolution, which asserted that current problems "are essentially global and cannot be solved through individual country initiatives [which] gives a greatly enhanced importance to the United Nations and other international systems." Also in 1991 Strong claimed that the Earth Summit, of which he was Secretary General, would play an important role in "reforming and strengthening the United Nations as the centerpiece of the emerging system of democratic global governance." In 1995, in Our Global Neighborhood, the CGG agreed: "It is our firm conclusion that the United Nations must continue to play a central role in global governance."

ANOTHER CGG recommendation is that the old UN Trusteeship Council "be given a new mandate over the global commons." It defines the global commons to include the atmosphere, outer space, the oceans beyond national jurisdiction, and the related environmental systems that contribute to the support of human life. A new Trusteeship Council would oversee "the management of the commons, including development and use of their resources . . . [and] the administration of environmental treaties in such fields as climate change, biodiversity, outer space, and the Law of the Sea."

EXCERPTS FROM SOURCE #2 http://www.nationalcenter.org/DossierStrong.html

Maurice Strong is a senior advisor to United Nations' Secretary General Kofi Annan.
Annan has appointed Strong to lead U.N. reforms,
positioning him to be the next U.N. Secretary General.
But placing Strong in charge of U.N. reform could pose a significant threat to the American way of life as Strong has used his position to centralize power in the U.N. at the expense of national sovereignty.

In the opening session of the Rio Earth Summit, Strong commented: "The concept of national sovereignty has been an 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. The global community must be assured of environmental security."

Strong is also involved in the U.N. Education Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Through his work in UNESCO, Strong promotes Gaia, the Earth God, among the world's youth. Strong is also the director of The Temple of Understanding in New York. He uses The Temple to encourage Americans concerned about the environment to replace Christianity with the worship of "mother earth."

Strong also directs the U.N.'s Business Council on Sustainable Development. Under his leadership, the council tries to affect peoples' lives through U.N. policies, that attempt to reduce the availability of meat products, limit the use of home and workplace air conditioners; discourage private ownership of motor vehicles; encroach on private property rights; and work to reduce the number of single family homes.

AND FINALLY EXCERPTS FROM SOURCE # 3 (scroll down a half a page to get to the start, this is a 33 page long document but only the first 13 have to do with Strong) http://www.inforamp.net/~jwhitley/strong.htm

Okay, folks, I'm going to test your endurance. But stick with this item, lengthy as it might be, because it has a highly-significant sting in the tail!
This news comes to you courtesy of the redoubtable TORONTO STAR, newspaper of choice for all Northern lumberjacks who like their news hearty, meaty and raw!

TORONTO STAR, Tuesday, May 17th, 1994 [page A2]
HYDRO CHAIRMAN STARTS BID TO BUY COSTA RICAN LAND
Ontario Hydro chairman Maurice Strong has opened talks on buying 12,500 hectares [30,875 acres] of a Costa Rican forest in a deal the [Opposition] Progressive Conservatives brand as "wacky" in the face of the utility's $34 billion debt.
"How is this going to help the ratepayers in Ontario?" Conservative energy critic Chris Stockwell asked in the Legislature yesterday.

The talks come at a time when Hydro has cut about 10,000 jobs.

The Hydro jungle scheme first surfaced yesterday in the Legislature when Tory MPP Chris Stockwell read a little snippet from the publication COSTA RICA.
According to that newsletter, Costa Rica's government has received "an offer from the Canadian electric company Ontario Hydro to buy 12,500 hectares next to Corcovado National Park and add it to the area for environmental preservation."
Young said no decision has been made as to whether Hydro would buy the entire 12,500 hectare forest, or indeed whether it would do anything.
He said the deal is being handled directly by Hydro Chairman Maurice Strong.
He said he did not know if Strong, who was on his way from Japan yesterday, still had business interests in Costa Rica.
(Strong owns a 330 acre resort nearby ~ )

This is not the first time that the New Democratic government has been blindsided by the peripatetic Strong.
Hired in 1992, the 65-year-old energy entrepreneur has been given free rein by [Rhodes Scholar] Premier [of Ontario] Bob Rae.
As a young man Strong was a frequent visitor at the home of diplomat Saul Rae, the Premier's father. Rae still has fond memories of "Uncle Mo".
Since then, Strong has emerged as one of the most intriguing figures on the international stage, operating in the interstices between politics and business.
As journalist Elaine Dewar pointed out in a revealing 1992 SATURDAY NIGHT piece, Strong's signature has been the "mingling of public and private in the cause of public policy."
His business arrangements have been so complicated they make the head spin. Strong's deals have involved U.S. oil interests, Saudi arms merchant Adnan Kashoggi, Canada's Power Corp. and the man who is now federal Finance Minister, Paul Martin.
Under the Trudeau Liberals, Strong headed up key federal crown corporations, most notably Petro-Canada and the Canada Development Investment Corp.
He's been chosen twice by the United Nations to run environmental summits and is still head of some thing called the World Earth Council.

In his spare time, Strong has supported New Age movements in the U.S. and has helped finance a second Ark in preparation for the next Deluge.

Strong also has had business dealings in Costa Rica.
One of his most recent Costa Rican adventures pitted him against an Indian tribe which accused him of trying to build a hotel on native land.

. Strong solidified his reputation among the world's developing nations in 1992 when he accused the U.S. of committing environmental aggression against the rest of the world.
"At the military level, the United States is the custodian. At the environmental level, the United States is clearly the greatest risk," Strong said before acting as chairman of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June, 1992.

WHO IS MAURICE STRONG?
Maurice Strong is a man to watch! The billionaire Canadian businessman is an employee of the United Nations; an employee of he Rockefeller and Rothschild's trusts and projects; a director of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies; the organiser of the first World Conference on the Environment in 1992; the founder and first head ofthe U.N. Environment Program; the secretary general (and chief organizer) of the UNCED Earth Summit in Rio in June 1992, and a leading socialist, environmentalist, New World Order manipulator, occultist, and New Ager.In the mid- 1980s, Strong joined the World Commission on the Environment where he helped produce the 1987 Brundtland Report widely believed to be the "incendiary" which ignited the present "Green movement."
Strong, who spearheaded the Earth Summit, has complained that "the United States is clearly the greatest risk to the world's ecological health," and wrote in an UNCED report in August 1991 that:
"It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle-class . . . involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of motor vehicles, small electric appliances, home and work place air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable. . . . A shift is necessary toward life-styles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns."

Strong has forcefully advocated a new economic order based on the re-distribution of the developed world's industries and wealth to the Third World

The Trilateral Commission recently published book, Beyond Interdependence: The Meshing Of the WorId's Economy and the Earth's Ecology. Rockefeller wrote the foreword and Maurice Strong wrote the introduction, saying in part:
"This book couldn't appear at a better time, with the preparation for the Earth Summit moving into gear . . . it will help guide decisions that will literally determine the fate of the earth.....Rio will have the political capacity to produce the basic changes needed in our international economic agendas and in our institutions of governance."
Strong has established what could be the global headquarters for the New Age movement in the San Luis Valley of Colorado at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Crestone, Colorado.

(THE RANCH IS 200,000 ACRES by the way, remind you of Ted Turner ? ~ )

He and his occultic wife, Hanne, call the Baca (ranch) an international spiritual community which they hope will serve as a model for the way the world should be if humankind is to survive - a sort of United Nations of religious beliefs. The Baca (as the center is called) is replete with monasteries; the Haidakhrndi Universal Ashram, a Vedic temple where devotees worship the Vedic mother goddess; amulet- carrying Native American shamans; a $175,000 solar- powered Hindu temple; a mustard-yellow tower called a ziggurat; a subterranean Zen Buddhist center complete with a computer and organic gardens; a house full of thousands of crystals; and even Shirley MacLaine and her New Age followers.
In 1978, a mystic informed Hanne and Maurice Strong that "the Baca would become the center for a new planetary order which would evolve from the economic collapse and environmental catastrophes that would sweep the globe in the years to come." The Strongs say they see the Baca, which they call 'The Valley Of the Refuge Of World Truths '",as the paradigm for the entire planet and say that the fate of the earth is at stake. Shirley MacLaine agrees - her astrologer told her to move to the Baca, and she did. She is building a New Age study center at the Baca where people can take short week-long courses on the occult! Apparently, the Kissingers, the Rockefellers, the McNamaras, the Rothschild's, and other Establishment New World Order elitists all agree as well- for they do their pilgrimage to the Baca - where politics and the occult-the New World Order and the New Age - all merge. Watch Maurice Strong and watch the Baca!

Much of the above information about the Strong and the Baca comes from an interview entitled "The Wizard Of the Baca Grande," which Maurice Strong conducted with WEST magazine of Alberta, Canada May 1990. Strong concluded the interview with a thought- provoking, apocalyptic story from a novel he says he would like to write:
"Each year the World Economic Forum convenes in Davos, Switzerland. Over a thousand CEOs, prime ministers, finance ministers, and leading academics gather in February to attend meetings and set the economic agendas for the year ahead.
What if a small group of these word leaders were to conclude that the principle 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? Will the rich countries agree to reduce their impact on the environment? Will they agree to save the earth?
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 form a secret society to bring about a world collapse. It's February. They're all at Davos. These aren't terrorists - they're world leaders. They have positioned themselves in the world's commodity and stock markets. They've engineered, using their access to stock exchanges, and computers, and gold supplies, a panic. Then they prevent the markets from closing. They jam the gears. They have mercenaries who hold the rest of the world leaders at Davros as hostage. 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 of the window.
I sat there spellbound. This is not any story-teller 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.

The Earth Summit
"The Earth Summit must establish a whole new basis for relations between rich and poor, North and South including a concerted attack on poverty as a central priority for the 21st century. This is now as imperative in terms of our environ- mental security as it is on moral and humani- tarian grounds. We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have bor- rowed a fragile planet called Earth." - Maurice Strong
Billed as the "mother of all summits," with up to 40,000 government officials and environmentalists from 167 countries in attendance, the June 4-14 Earth Summit was the biggest gathering of world leaders ever held. Described by Time magazine as a "New Age carnival," the summit (and related activities) was attended by the Dalai Lama of Tibet, thousands of New Agers and occultists (including John Denver and Shirley MacLaine), numerous leftist groups, and virtually every environmental group in the world - 7,892 non-governmental organizations from 167 countries.
As the Wall Street Journal said: "The summit on Mother Nature was asking: 'What is needed to save the world and how much is the world willing to do to save itself?'" The Audubon Society called the Earth Summit "the most important meeting in the history of mankind", and Maurice Strong said at the opening session of the Summit:
"Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake. . . . No place on the planet can remain an island ofaffluence in a sea of misery. . . . We're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved. I think we're at a real point of civilizalion change. We must, from here on in, all go down the same path. . . . There may not be another chance."
The Goals Of the Rio Earth Summit
The June Earth Summit in Rio was not just about the pseudo-environmental crisis; it was not just about clean air, clean water, acid rain, global warming, or endangered species: it was about massive wealth redistribution from the industrial countries (i.e., the North) to the Third World countries (i.e., the South) - from the rich to the poor countries. It was about massive global socialism people control, and world government.

Their broad goals include:
1. A Massive Global Wealth Redistribution Scheme - Maurice Strong and other summit leaders are demanding a $625 billion a year (for a decade) wealth transfer from the so-called wealthy countries (epitomized by the U.S.) to the so-called poor countries-with $125 billion per year coming from America. The U.S. is being pushed to contribute $70 billion per year to this Third World Green fund (this is in addition to the $55 billion we already pour out annually to developing nations).
2. Imposition Of a System Of Global Environmental Regulation - including onerous taxes on energy fuels, and on the populations of the United States and other industrialized nations. The developed countries should limit production and consump- tion, and cut back dramatically on the use of the automobile, electrical appliances, air conditioning, etc. The same formula for "sacrifice by the rich nations to save the planet" was summarized well some 12 years earlier by Kansas Senator James P. Pearson, who said: "Profits must be cut, comforts reduced, taxes raised, sacrifices endured."
3. Elimination Of Property, Hunger, and Disease In The Third World - Only if these are eliminated, the environmentalists say, will the poor Third Worlders stop polluting planet earth.
4. Establishment Of a Global Environmental Protec- tion Agency - to duplicate the efforts of the American EPA on a worldwide basis and prosecute environmental crimes on a global basis.
5. Population Control - is high on the Green agenda, although the issue was low-profiled at the Earth Summit. Strict population control is high on the agenda of UNCED and the Green movement. As the Greens see it, there are too many people on Mother Earth (and the 5.4 billion will double in the next 10 to 15 years); the more people there are, the more pollution there is; the more highly- developed the people are, the more resources they consume. So, one of UNCED and the Greens' chief goals is to restrict population growth by whatever means possible. Biology professor Garrett Harden (an influential Green spokesman) recently wrote:
"lt is a mistake to think that we can control the greed of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience. . . . The only way we can cherish and nurture other and more precious freedoms is by relinguishing the freedom to breed, and that very soon."
It is very significant that the Greens are very preoccupied with population growth in America. The Club of Rome would like to see the U.S. population reduced to 75 million - they don't say what will happen to the other 175 million Americans (perhaps Russian nukes or AIDS can solve that problem). In Earth Day - The Beginning, David Brower declared:
"That's the first thing to do - start controlling the population in affluent white America, where a child born to a white American will use about 50 times the resources of a child born in the black ghetto."
for the first time, during the writing of this book, this writer has begun to understand the relationship between the Rockefeller-backed Planned Parenthood, the abortion and euthanasia movement on the one hand, and the Green movement on the other. Both groups want to shrink the worlds population to save Mother Earth and our scarce resources.

posted 11-29-2001 10:46 PM            

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1996 BankAmerica Foundation $5,000 Nature Conservancy--OR
1996 First Union Foundation $2,000 Nature Conservancy--PA
1996 Union Pacific Foundation $5,000 Nature Conservancy--PA
1996 AlliedSignal Foundation $5,000 Nature Conservancy--Pottersville, NJ
1996 Chevron $10,000 Nature Conservancy--San Antonio, TX
1996 Chevron $20,000 Nature Conservancy--San Francisco, CA
1996 U S West Foundation $1,000 Nature Conservancy--Seattle, WA
1996 Monsanto Fund $2,000 Nature Conservancy--Sun Valley, ID
1996 Phillips Petroleum Foundation $50,000 Nature Conservancy--Tulsa, OK
1996 Burlington Northern Santa Fe Foundation $5,000 Nature Conservancy--TX
1996 Enron Foundation $660,000 Nature Conservancy--TX
1996 Texaco Inc. Foundation $10,000 Nature Conservancy--TX
1996 USX Foundation $2,500 Nature Conservancy--TX
1996 Chevron $5,000 Nature Conservancy--UT
1996 Phillips Petroleum Foundation $1,500 Nature Conservancy--UT
1996 Union Pacific Foundation $10,000 Nature Conservancy--UT
1996 John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $140,000 Nature Conservancy--VI
1996 Texaco Inc. Foundation $5,000 Nature Conservancy--WA
1995 Alco Standard Foundation $5,000 Nature Conservancy
1995 ALCOA Foundation $7,500 Nature Conservancy
1995 AlliedSignal Foundation $1,500 Nature Conservancy
1995 Archer Daniels Midland Foundation $25,000 Nature Conservancy
1995 AT&T Foundation $100,364 Nature Conservancy
1995 BankBoston Charitable Foundation $540 Nature Conservancy
1995 Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation $5,000 Nature Conservancy
1995 Chase Manhattan $30,000 Nature Conservancy
1995 Chevron $5,000 Nature Conservancy
1995 Chrysler Corporation Fund $25,000 Nature Conservancy
1995 E.I. Dupont $5,000 Nature Conservancy
1995 Emerson Charitable Trust $2,000 Nature Conservancy
1995 Enron Foundation $1,445 Nature Conservancy
1995 Fleet Charitable Trust $6,000 Nature Conservancy
1995 GTE Foundation $10,000 Nature Conservancy
1995 J.P. Morgan Charitable Trust $7,500 Nature Conservancy
1995 Mead Corporation Foundation $5,000 Nature Conservancy
1995 Merrill Lynch $1,000 - $9,999 Nature Conservancy
1995 Merrill Lynch & Company Foundation $5,000 Nature Conservancy
1995 Mobil Foundation $5,000 Nature Conservancy
1995 Monsanto Fund $70,250 Nature Conservancy
1995 NYNEX $1,000 Nature Conservancy
1995 Phillips Petroleum Foundation $1,000 Nature Conservancy
1995 PPG Industries Foundation $1,000 Nature Conservancy
1995 Procter & Gamble Fund $215,000 Nature Conservancy
1995 Public Service Electric & Gas Company Foundation $7,500 Nature Conservancy
1995 Tenneco $25,750 Nature Conservancy
1995 Walt Disney Company Foundation $1,000 Nature Conservancy
1995 Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation $15,000 Nature Conservancy
1995 WMX Technologies $50,000 Nature Conservancy
1995 ARCO Foundation $25,000 Nature Conservancy--AK
1995 Monsanto Fund $1,000 Nature Conservancy--AR
1995 Mobil Foundation $1,000 Nature Conservancy--Baton Rouge, LA
1995 Union Pacific Foundation $5,000 Nature Conservancy--Baton Rouge, LA
1995 BankAmerica $1,000 Nature Conservancy--CA
1995 BankAmerica Foundation $52,500 Nature Conservancy--CA
1995 Sun Microsystems Foundation $3,275 Nature Conservancy--CA
1995 E.I. Dupont $5,000 Nature Conservancy--DE
1995 Travelers Companies Foundation $1,500 Nature Conservancy--DE
1995 Kroger Company Foundation $500 Nature Conservancy--Denver, CO
1995 Monsanto Fund $1,000 Nature Conservancy--FL
1995 Lincoln National Life Foundation $62,500 Nature Conservancy--Fort Wayne, IN
1995 Mead Corporation Foundation $5,000 Nature Conservancy--GA
1995 Travelers Companies Foundation $1,000 Nature Conservancy--GA
1995 BankAmerica Foundation $2,500 Nature Conservancy--Honolulu, HI
1995 Chevron $15,000 Nature Conservancy--Honolulu, HI
1995 GTE Foundation $3,000 Nature Conservancy--Honolulu, HI
1995 Cummins Engine Foundation $1,000 Nature Conservancy--Indianapolis, IN
1995 Phillips Petroleum Foundation $5,000 Nature Conservancy--LA
1995 SBC Foundation $2,000 Nature Conservancy--Little Rock, AR
1995 Chase Manhattan $1,000 Nature Conservancy--Long Island, NY
1995 Sun Microsystems Foundation $125 Nature Conservancy--MD
1995 Dayton Hudson $1,000 Nature Conservancy--MN
1995 Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation $35,000 Nature Conservancy--NC
1995 BT Foundation $15,000 Nature Conservancy--New York, NY
1995 Lockheed Martin Corporation Foundation (formerly Martin Marietta Corporation Foundation) $3,500 Nature Conservancy--NJ
1995 Phillips Petroleum Foundation $50,000 Nature Conservancy--OK
1995 ConAgra Charitable Foundation $2,570 Nature Conservancy--Omaha, NE
1995 PNC Financial/Pittsburgh National Bank Foundation $2,000 Nature Conservancy--PA
1995 WMX Technologies $5,000 - $24,999 Nature Conservancy--PA
1995 Travelers Companies Foundation $1,000 Nature Conservancy--Philadelphia, PA
1995 AlliedSignal Foundation $5,000 Nature Conservancy--Pottersville, NJ
1995 Chase Manhattan Foundation $1,000 Nature Conservancy--Saint Croix, VI
1995 Chevron $11,000 Nature Conservancy--San Antonio, TX
1995 Chevron $7,000 Nature Conservancy--San Francisco, CA
1995 Unocal Foundation $5,000 Nature Conservancy--San Francisco, CA
1995 ARCO Foundation $10,000 Nature Conservancy--Seattle, WA
1995 Monsanto Fund $2,000 Nature Conservancy--Soda Springs, ID
1995 Ford Motor Company Fund $1,000 Nature Conservancy--TN
1995 Mead Corporation Foundation $1,000 Nature Conservancy--TN
1995 Chase Manhattan $1,000 Nature Conservancy--TX
1995 Dresser Foundation $1,500 Nature Conservancy--TX
1995 Phillips Petroleum Foundation $5,000 Nature Conservancy--TX
1995 Union Pacific Foundation $10,000 Nature Conservancy--TX
1995 USX Foundation $2,500 Nature Conservancy--TX
1995 Sun Microsystems Foundation $3,194 Nature Conservancy--VA
1995 BankBoston Charitable Foundation $135 Nature Conservancy--VT
1995 GTE Foundation $2,500 Nature Conservancy--WA
1995 Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation $10,000 Nature Conservancy--WA
1995 ALCOA Foundation $8,800 Nature Conservancy--Winter Park, FL
1995 WMX Technologies $1,000 - $4,999 Nature Conservancy--Winter Park, FL
1994 Alco Standard Foundation $4,000 Nature Conservancy
1994 ALCOA Foundation $15,000 Nature Conservancy
1994 American Express Foundation $10,000 Nature Conservancy
1994 Amoco Foundation $200,000 Nature Conservancy
1994 AT&T Foundation $35,000 Nature Conservancy
1994 BankBoston Charitable Foundation $1,045 Nature Conservancy
1994 Chevron $5,000 Nature Conservancy
1994 Cigna Foundation $10,000 Nature Conservancy
1994 Citicorp Foundation $25,000 Nature Conservancy
1994 Cooper Industries Foundation $1,000 Nature Conservancy
1994 Cummins Engine Foundation $1,000 Nature Conservancy
1994 Eastman Kodak Charitable Trust $5,000 Nature Conservancy
1994 Eli Lilly & Company Foundation $2,500 Nature Conservancy
1994 Emerson Charitable Trust $4,035 Nature Conservancy
1994 Fleet Charitable Trust $2,500 Nature Conservancy
1994 General Motors Foundation $750,000 Nature Conservancy
1994 GTE Foundation $5,000 Nature Conservancy
1994 Johnson Controls Foundation $980 Nature Conservancy
1994 Mead Corporation Foundation $6,500 Nature Conservancy
1994 Mead Corporation Foundation $1,250 Nature Conservancy
1994 Merck Company Foundation $10,000 Nature Conservancy
1994 Merrill Lynch $10,000 - $24,999 Nature Conservancy
1994 Merrill Lynch & Company Foundation $10,000 Nature Conservancy
1994 Mobil Foundation $105,000 Nature Conservancy
1994 Monsanto Fund $2,000 Nature Conservancy
1994 PepsiCo Foundation $3,000 Nature Conservancy
1994 Phillips Petroleum Foundation $1,000 Nature Conservancy
1994 PNC Financial/Pittsburgh National Bank Foundation $250 Nature Conservancy
1994 Procter & Gamble Fund $215,000 Nature Conservancy
1994 Sun Microsystems Foundation $3,145 Nature Conservancy
1994 Union Pacific Foundation $20,000 Nature Conservancy
1994 Walt Disney Company Foundation $1,000 Nature Conservancy
1994 Cooper Industries Foundation $1,500 Nature Conservancy--Attica, NY
1994 Amoco Foundation $2,000 Nature Conservancy--Baton Rouge, LA
1994 Exxon Mobil $15,000 Nature Conservancy--Baton Rouge, LA
1994 Mobil Foundation $2,500 Nature Conservancy--Baton Rouge, LA
1994 Texaco Inc. Foundation $5,000 Nature Conservancy--Baton Rouge, LA
1994 Wheelabrator Technologies Charitable Foundation $1,000 - $4,999 Nature Conservancy--Baton Rouge, LA
1994 Norwest Foundation $3,000 Nature Conservancy--Boulder, CO
1994 Wheelabrator Technologies Charitable Foundation $1,000 - $4,999 Nature Conservancy--Boulder, CO
1994 Sun Microsystems Foundation $550 Nature Conservancy--CA
1994 Duke Power Company Foundation $3,000 Nature Conservancy--Charlotte, NC
1994 Norfolk Southern Foundation $100,000 Nature Conservancy--Charlottesville, VA
1994 Exxon Mobil $5,000 Nature Conservancy--Chester, NJ
1994 Duke Power Company Foundation $1,500 Nature Conservancy--Columbia, SC
1994 Cooper Industries Foundation $1,000 Nature Conservancy--East Lansing, MI
1994 Ford Motor Company Fund $10,000 Nature Conservancy--East Lansing, MI
1994 Delta Airlines Foundation $1,000 Nature Conservancy--GA
1994 Chevron $15,000 Nature Conservancy--Honolulu, HI
1994 GTE Foundation $5,000 Nature Conservancy--Honolulu, HI
1994 Wheelabrator Technologies Charitable Foundation $5,000 - $24,999 Nature Conservancy--Honolulu, HI
1994 USX Foundation $2,500 Nature Conservancy--Houston, TX
1994 Hewlett-Packard $21,168 Nature Conservancy--Ketchum, ID
1994 BankAmerica Foundation $5,000 Nature Conservancy--Las Vegas, NV
1994 Union Pacific Foundation $1,250 Nature Conservancy--Little Rock, AR
1994 Travelers Companies Foundation $1,500 Nature Conservancy--Middletown, CT
1994 Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation $1,000 Nature Conservancy--MS
1994 ARCO Foundation $7,500 Nature Conservancy--MT
1994 Ford Motor Company Fund $1,000 Nature Conservancy--Nashville, TN
1994 Union Carbide $1,000 Nature Conservancy--New Milford, CT
1994 ConAgra Charitable Foundation $2,000 Nature Conservancy--Omaha, NE
1994 Union Pacific Foundation $10,000 Nature Conservancy--Omaha, NE
1994 PNC Financial/Pittsburgh National Bank Foundation $1,000 Nature Conservancy--Philadelphia, PA
1994 Union Pacific Foundation $5,000 Nature Conservancy--Philadelphia, PA
1994 Chevron $11,000 Nature Conservancy--San Antonio, TX
1994 Cooper Industries Foundation $2,500 Nature Conservancy--San Antonio, TX
1994 BankAmerica Foundation $50,000 Nature Conservancy--San Francisco, CA
1994 Chevron $7,000 Nature Conservancy--San Francisco, CA
1994 Transamerica Foundation $3,000 Nature Conservancy--San Francisco, CA
1994 Wheelabrator Technologies Charitable Foundation $1,000 - $4,999 Nature Conservancy--San Francisco, CA
1994 U S West Foundation $2,000 Nature Conservancy--Santa Fe, NM
1994 ARCO Foundation $5,000 Nature Conservancy--Seattle, WA
1994 GTE Foundation $2,500 Nature Conservancy--Seattle, WA
1994 ALCOA Foundation $13,000 Nature Conservancy--TN
1994 Phillips Petroleum Foundation $50,000 Nature Conservancy--Tulsa, OK
1994 Enron $330,000 Nature Conservancy--TX
1994 Johnson Controls Foundation $1,000 Nature Conservancy--WI

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posted 11-29-2001 11:43 PM            

Conservation group buys large grazing allotment at national monument in
southern Utah

The Associated Press
11/28/01 7:24 AM

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A conservation group has purchased another large
grazing allotment at a national monument in southern Utah in its campaign to
reduce livestock grazing and preserve sensitive canyon land.

The Grand Canyon Trust purchased grazing rights Monday in the 256,000-acre
swath, which represents about 15 percent of the 1.9 million-acre Grand
Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

The Flagstaff, Ariz.-based organization paid an undisclosed sum to a
rancher, who will relinquish the rights.

"It's a way of preserving a big representative swath of the canyon country,"
Bill Hedden, who runs the Grand Canyon Trust's Moab office, said in The Salt
Lake Tribune.

Hedden said he will ask the Bureau of Land Management, which manages the
monument, to let the trust end most of the grazing in the allotment. By law,
the land can't be held unused for long periods unless the BLM amends its
management plan. About a half-dozen ranchers still hold grazing privileges
for parcels larger than 80,000 acres.

"When (cattle) congregate around water sources, they damage native
vegetation and pollute streams, they introduce and spread exotic species. If
we can buy the ranchers out, those most sensitive places can recover and go
back to a more natural productive condition," Hedden said.

Since 1996, the Grand Canyon Trust has paid ranchers to give up grazing
rights on about 500,000 acres of the monument, Hedden said. The trust has
spent more than $1 million purchasing grazing rights in southern Utah.

posted 11-30-2001 12:07 AM            

By Bill McAllister
Denver Post Washington Bureau Chief

Thursday, November 29, 2001 -

WASHINGTON - Interior Secretary Gale Norton and a top aide were ordered Wednesday to stand trial for contempt of court over their handling of billions of dollars the government holds in trust accounts for American Indians.

U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth said that Norton and Bureau of Indian Affairs director Neal McCaleb may have violated his orders in a massive lawsuit over the government's acknowledged mishandling of the accounts.

If Norton and McCaleb are formally cited for contempt in proceedings that begin in Lamberth's court Monday, they would become the first senior Bush administration officials to be disciplined by a federal judge. Both are expected to vigorously challenge the judge's proposed contempt order.

At stake in the suit are more than 300,000 accounts, said by lawyers in the case to be worth as much as $10 billion. The accounts, some of them more than 100 years old, are supposed to hold royalties from the sale of oil, gas and minerals found on Indian lands.

Government officials have conceded they cannot say for certain how much money should be in the accounts and Lamberth has directed both Clinton and Bush administration officials to provide a complete accounting of the funds.

In 1999, Lamberth held then-Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and BIA director Kevin Gover in contempt, fining them $625,000.

This time, lawyers for the Indians who filed the lawsuit have asked that Norton, a former attorney general in Colorado, be jailed for her actions. That would be extremely rare for a Cabinet secretary.

Since the 1999 fine, Lamberth has said publicly that the next time he will force any officials to pay the fines out of their own funds - not with taxpayer funds as the three Clinton officials did.

Norton spokesman Eric Ruff issued a statement after the judge released his order citing the secretary and BIA director McCaleb, saying both officials "remain committed to trust reform. The matters in the court order reach back to 1999 and present a complex set of facts and circumstances."

Interior officials had no immediate comment on the judge's action. It came despite pleadings filed by government lawyers that Norton's actions were not "clearly contemptuous" as Lamberth had suggested in a recent hearing.

The judge said Norton and McCaleb, an American Indian who is a former Oklahoma highway official, must appear before him to show cause why they should not be held in contempt for their failure to conduct an historical accounting of the trust accounts as the judge ordered in 1999.

Lamberth also cited Norton and McCaleb for failing to tell him that a much heralded computer system was not working, and for filing false and misleading quarterly reports to the court about the computer and efforts to reconcile the trust accounts.

Norton recently announced an initiative to move the trust accounts from the much troubled BIA and place them under former BIA director Ross Swimmer. She said that step would help bring the department into compliance with the judge's orders.

But the move has won only partial support form tribal leaders and has been strongly opposed by some Democrats in Congress.

"Nothing has changed," said Denver lawyer Dennis Gingold, who has been the legal mastermind behind the Indians' lawsuit. "She is doing exactly what Bruce Babbitt did."

posted 11-30-2001 10:54 AM            

Gee, if you have the time and money
you can attend the Summit - or maybe
we could pool our resources and send
a Chemtrail Central Rep.

My Groups | Network2002 Main Page

Dear Readers,

As we approach the end of the Regional Preparatory Process for the Summit a clearer picture is emerging of what next years summit will look like. This month we cover Latin America & the Caribbean and West Asia. We lead howver on the all important WTO Ministerial, where the priorities of some remain at odds with of those who advocate long term sustainable development. We introduce you to our flagship Earth Summit 2002 event - the Implementation Conference, provide a summary of our online debate on the effects of Sept. 11th on the Summit before rounding off with more info. on the Bonn freshwater conference. And if that's not enough, we've thrown in a little climate change too.

I'd also like to bring to your attention our Governance resources, now online, which feed into the Montreal International Governance Meeting. Available at: www.earthsummit2002.org/es/issues/Governance/governance.htm

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