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	Maurice Strong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Honourable Maurice F. Strong, PC, CC, OM (born April 29, 1929, in Oak Lake, Manitoba) is an industrialist and public servant who was the Secretary-General of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), better known as the Earth Summit.
		Strong was the UN's envoy to North Korea until July 2005.
		According to Associated Press his contract was not renewed "amid questions about his connection to a suspect in the UN oil-for-food scandal", Tongsun Park, as well as due to criticism that he gave his step-daughter a job at the UN contrary to UN staff regulations against hiring immediate family[1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maurice_Strong (339 words)

	Maurice Strong has become the single most influential person in the world. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Elaine Dewar, author of Cloak of Green, says Maurice Strong is a Socialist, who has connections to Communist China where he is well received, partly because his cousin, Anna Louise Strong, a Marxist, and a member of the comintern, spent two years with Mao and Chou En-lai in China, where she was buried in 1970.
		Strong was Secretary-general of the UN Conference on the Human Environment, the first "Earth Summit," held in Stockholm in 1972.
		Strong and his wife, Hanne, set up a $1.2 million Manitou Foundation, which also receives an annual grant of $100,000 from Laurence Rockefeller, to assist in the preservation of various faiths at Baca.
	www.wealth4freedom.com /truth/5/strong.htm (522 words)

	ESR \| December 24, 2001 \| Maurice Strong: Godfather of the international environmental movement
		Strong's persistent calls for an international mobilization to combat environmental calamities, even when they are exaggerated (population growth) or scientifically unproven (global warming), have set the world's environmental agenda.
		Maurice Strong was born on April 29, 1929 in Oak Lake, Manitoba, Canada.
		Strong was secretary-general of the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment and later served as executive director of the UN Environment Program.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/1201/1201strong.htm (3005 words)

	Maurice Strong
		Strong organized the UN first-world environmental summit in Stockholm in 1972 and has never stopped pressing for a world where UN resolutions would be enforced as law all over the Earth.
		Strong went on to chair the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio and to become senior adviser to Kofi Annan, the UN's secretary general.
		Strong explained: "Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child."
	www.taxtyranny.ca /images/HTML/Maurice-Strong/article1.html (1320 words)

	Saving The Planet with Maurice Strong, 12 January 1998
		Maurice Strong 68, and his wife, Hanne, fancy themselves quite the environmental couple.
		Nevertheless, Strong's a chap to be reckoned with.
		Strong said the deal was fair compensation for the harm Hydro was doing to the local environment.
	www.globalpolicy.org /finance/docs/machan.htm (723 words)

	Maurice Strong - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A 1997 dossier (http://www.nationalcenter.org/DossierStrong.html) on Maurice Strong, prepared by the National Center for Public Policy Research, relates that Maurice Strong is a senior advisor to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan.
		During the 1950s and 1960s, Strong was involved in the oil industry and utility industry and was quite successful.
		Strong is [the former] director of The Temple of Understanding in New York.
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Maurice_Strong (725 words)

	Meet Maurice Strong
		Strong's appointment as Senior Advisor, "to assist planning and executing a far-reaching reform of the world body," is seen by U.N. watchers to be a masterful strategic maneuver to avoid political opposition while empowering Strong to implement a global agenda he has been developing for years.
		Strong's long-time colleague, and former cabinet minister to Pierre Trudeau, J. Hugh Faulkner, was asked to leave his post as Executive Director of the International Chamber of Commerce to take charge of the new organization.
		Strong has served, or is currently on the Board of Directors of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN); the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF); and the World Resources Institute (WRI); the three international NGOs that have developed and advanced the global agenda since the early 1970s.
	www.sovereignty.net /p/sd/strong.html (3341 words)

	Champagne socialist full of bubbles: Maurice Strong profits from pushing leftist ideas
		Strong revels in telling fawning audiences that he is "a socialist in ideology," but "a capitalist in methodology." His socialist core would explain his attraction to revolutions against rich, industrialized civilizations.
		Strong is a founder of the Council on Global Governance; the author of the Earth Charter (earthcharter.org), that he wants to be not only the supreme law of the planet -- replacing national laws and constitutions -- but a new "Ten Commandments," as well.
		In 1994 Maurice Strong, the secretary general of the Earth Summit and chair of the Earth Council, and Mikhail Gorbachev, president of Green Cross International, launched a new Earth Charter initiative with support from the Dutch government.
	www.fathersforlife.org /articles/gunter/Strong_Martin_2.htm (1960 words)

	Dossier - Maurice Strong
		Maurice Strong is a senior advisor to United Nations' Secretary General Kofi Annan.
		Strong's most significant role at the U.N. to-date has been his position as Secretary General of the 1992 U.N. Conference on the Environment and Development, the Rio Earth Summit.
		Strong responding to a question by a reporter asking why he gave large donations to both political parties in the United States during the 1988 election cycle...
	www.nationalcenter.org /DossierStrong.html (831 words)

	Maurice Strong coal power and Kyoto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The life of Canadian multi-millionaire Maurice Strong is straight out of a James Bond movie, the difference being there is no guarantee the good guys win in real life scenarios starring this pseudo intellect.
		At age 73, Strong is apartment hunting in Beijing, where he is setting up shop as an ‘environmental consultant.’ Translated to working person’s language, that means Strong will single handedly tackle China’s burgeoning pollution, deforestation, pesticide use and other things environmental by advising business and government on ecological matters.
		Maurice Strong is a man on a mission.
	www.torontofreepress.com /2003/main012703.htm (783 words)

	CNN.com Chat Transcript - Maurice Strong on environmental concerns - Monday, April 23, 2001
		Maurice Strong is the author of "Where on Earth are We Going?" Strong is also the senior advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
		Maurice Strong: That's a broad question There is already a market in sulphur-dioxide emission credits and the beginnings of a market in CO2 credits.
		Maurice Strong: This person is probably very sincere in his question, but has certainly not kept up to date on the science.
	www.cnn.com /COMMUNITY/transcripts/2001/04/23/strong (1348 words)

	Maurice Strong
		Strong provides a historical context by which to judge our progress in the struggle to save the planet from environmental degradation, and lends insight as to where we are heading.
		Maurice Strong, a senior advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and former senior advisor to the President of the World Bank, is one of the world's most influential political and environmental activists.
		Strong regularly travels across the globe, from Japan to Africa, London to Costa Rica, and all comers of the planet to further the causes of peace and the environment.
	www.iaed.org /books/strong.html (939 words)

	Maurice Strong < Business < Career < People < : news feed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"Maurice Strong, a senior advisor to the Secretary- General of the United Nations [ Kofi Annan] and former senior advisor to the President of the World Bank, is one of the world's most influential political and environmental activists.
		Maurice Strong, a native of Oak Lake, head of a United Nations Secretariat and former head of Canada’s foreign aid agency, is to be named chairman and...
		Maurice Strong is a man who talks as if from the left but his actions lean far to the right.
	www.schema-root.org /people/career/business/maurice_strong (2133 words)

	His Gray Eminence Maurice Strong - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Strong, who likes to be known as "Max" (as in "maximum leader"), also has a giant ranch in Costa Rica.
		Strong returned to Canada in his late 30s to commence a James Bond-type of career as a future self-appointed chief diplomat for the world.
		Maurice Strong is the fox that was invited into the henhouse -- and given the tools to redesign it for his own interests.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/opinion/columnists/datelinedc/s_334103.html (691 words)

	Biography of Maurice F. Strong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Maurice F. Strong was born in Oak Lake, Manitoba, in 1929.
		Strong was Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment.
		Maurice Strong is an officer of the Order of Canada and a member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada.
	www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /department/skelton/Strong_bio-en.asp (234 words)

	Maurice Strong Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Your fearless leader is Maurice Strong, Chairman of the Earth Council, head of the Rio Summit, powerful U.N. figure.
		Maurice Strong lives in wealth and luxury such as you will never even glimpse in your lifetime.
		Maurice Strong, the Canadian oil mogul who presided over the 1992 UN "Earth Summit," recently addressed the subject of a "global alliance for environmental security" during remarks to the Royal Institute for International Affairs at Chatham House in London.
	hometown.aol.com /XianAnarch/cause/maurice.htm (249 words)

	National Review: Who is Maurice Strong? - international political player - Cover Story
		The adventures of Maurice Strong & Co. illustrate the fact that nowadays you don't have to be a household name to wield global power.
		Maurice Strong, a 68-year-old Canadian, is the "indispensable man" at the center of this creeping UN power grab.
		Strong warned urgently about global warming, the devastation of forests, the loss of biodiversity, polluted oceans, the population time bomb.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n16_v49/ai_19722906 (1486 words)

	Deanna Spingola -- Move Over Moses, You're Being Outsourced
		One of Strong’s reforms was the reorganization of the UN.
		Strong is also associated with the United Religions Initiative, a movement to “promote an enduring, daily, interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the earth and all living beings.”
		Of the same mentality as Strong, Mikhail Gorbachev was elected the General Secretary of the Communist Party on 11 Mar 1985 after the untimely deaths of his two predecessors, Yuri Andropov (former head of the KGB) and Konstantin Chernenko, who, interestingly, both died after little more than a year in office.
	www.newswithviews.com /Spingola/deanna6.htm (3057 words)

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		Maurice Strong is alive and well in Taiyuan, China.
		Strong, co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Earth Council Alliance, and Qu Geping, media dubbed "the father of China’s environmental protection", made a joint announcement Thursday that the two sides will join efforts to promote the research, development and utilization of environment-friendly technologies in different industries worldwide.
		"Strong, who is a former under-secretary-general of the United Nations, addressed the meeting, speaking highly of China’s enormous efforts in environmental protection by governments at all levels, different organizations and individuals, over the past decades." (www.chinaview.cn).
	www.canadafreepress.com /2005/cover092305.htm (529 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Where on Earth Are We Going? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Entrepreneur and environmentalist Maurice Strong doesn't offer firm answers to any of these questions save the last, counselling that there may yet be time to undo some of the mess we have made--but also offering some scary scenarios for what might happen if we do not.
		Strong is a self-admittedly contradictory figure, a wealthy businessman who has headed huge nuclear power and hydroelectric concerns while taking important roles at international environmental conferences and there pressing for a greener way of life.
		Strong's story takes on a special eloquence and intensity when he tells about the gift he received from a famine-stricken Sudanese woman--the book is worth reading just for this passage.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0676973647 (1308 words)

	CTV.ca \| UN studying Maurice Strong's business ties
		Strong is the UN pointman on stalled talks aimed at persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons programs.
		Strong acknowledged Monday that Park invested in an energy company he was associated with in 1997.
		Stephane Dujarric, a UN spokesman, said the world body was studying whether it was appropriate for Strong to have ties with Park given that Strong, a well-known businessman with longtime association with the UN, was an envoy to the region.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1113961328740_9?hub=World (716 words)

	Maurice Strong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Maurice Strong serves as the Under Secretary General of the United Nations and Special Advisor to the Secretary-General.
		A native of Canada, Strong is one of the world’s foremost political and environmental figures.
		Strong also served on the board of the World Economic Forum Foundation, and is former Chairman of both the Stockholm Environment Institute and the World Resources Institute, and former board member of the United Nations Foundation.
	www.ncseonline.org /NCSEconference/2004conference/page.cfm?fID=3005 (199 words)

	LifeSite Special Report - Champagne socialist full of bubbles: Maurice Strong profits from pushing leftist ideas
		That is Maurice Strong's take on what is wrong with the world, today, and what is the greatest threat to the environment.
		Strong is or has been a board member with Earth Council, the World Wildlife Fund, the David Suzuki Foundation, the United Nations Environment Program and two of three of the UN's big world environment gatherings -- Stockholm in 1972 and Rio in 1992.
		The 1997 Kyoto accords sprang directly out of Strong's Rio conference in 1992, with Strong having a hand guiding the accords to fruition all the way, as a special adviser to the UN secretary general, periodically with the status of undersecretary general, himself.
	www.lifesite.net /ldn/2003/jul/030718a.html (791 words)

	International Man of Mystery: Who Is Maurice Strong? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		So Strong gave political contributions (of dubious legality) to both parties; George Bush, now a friend, intervened to help him stay in charge of the Rio conference; he was thereby enabled to set a deep green agenda there; and Bush took a political hit in an election year.
		Most of Strong's friends are more obviously compatible, which may explain why they tend to overlap in their institutional commitments.
		Strong's business deals were especially complicated at the time -- he was setting up a Swiss oil-and-gas exploration company with partners that included the Kuwaiti Finance Minister and the Arab Petroleum Investment Corporation -- and that is the explanation usually given.
	www.afn.org /~govern/strong.html (4911 words)

	Speaker Biographical Information - Maurice Strong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Strong is perhaps most well-known for the role he played in organizing the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro (Earth Summit), where he served as Secretary-General.
		Strong successfully placed global environmental issues on the international agenda for the first time.
		Strong's professional accomplishments in Canada have resulted in a number of honors, including membership in the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, The Swedish Royal Order of the Polar Star, the Order of Canada, and 43 honorary doctorates from universities in Canada, the United States, and European countries.
	www.yale.edu /edsig/strong.html (273 words)

	The Earth Charter & the Ark of the Gaia Covenant
		Maurice Strong's wife Hannah, was involved in the NGO alternative meeting at the Summit called Global Forum '92.
		Maurice Strong hinted at the overtly pagan agenda proposed for a future Earth Charter, when in his opening address to the Rio Conference delegates he said, "It is the responsibility of each human being today to choose between the force of darkness and the force of light." [note:
		Maurice Strong is also a member of Lindisfarne (publishers of G-A-I-A, a way of knowing) along with Gaia theory biologist James Lovelock, and admitted Luciferian David Spangler, among others.
	www.conspiracyarchive.com /NewAge/Earth_Charter_Ark.htm (3197 words)

	Microscoping Maurice Strong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Strong actually teared up at the mention of Martin in the PMO on Canada’s state-controlled television network, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), which ran a special, called the Life and Times of Maurice Strong just three months after Martin’s December 12, 2003 swearing-in ceremony.
		Strong is weird in the kind of advisors from whom he says he takes his counsel.
		The Strong material appears to have been provided by Strong himself or his assistants, so this is not any kind of an expose -- he considers his dealings with Cuba and Vietnam to be a credential.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1389719/posts (890 words)

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