Color Me Green - Crayola Propoganda

So I recently purchased some crayons at the local back-to-school sale. I stockpile A LOT of crayons because you know they're going to loose or eat them over time, right? Well, I was helping my 3rd grader with her 2+3+R=10 kind of problems using crayons to illustrate. While I'm waiting for her to compute things, I'm looking at the back of the box which says:

* Made with solar energy! Solar panels provide enough energy to make one billion crayons each year. Starting Spring 2011, additional panels provide energy to make a half a billion markers in the USA.

Crayola Eco-Evolution
Here are some of the ways Crayola is conserving energy and making the products you love in a more environmentally friendly way:
A new tree is planted for every one used to make our colored pencils.
Using recycled plastic in our markers keeps hundred of tons of plastic out of the landfills each year.
To learn more about other ways Crayola colors are getting greener all the time, go to Crayola.com.

I know what you're thinking..What's the big deal? Are you against solar panels and conservation? No, I think those things are great, but the angle I'm looking at is how kids are bombarded with this green stuff all day, everyday of their little lives. When my daughter when to public school, science was all about pollution and compost. To contrast, the Apologia Homeschool science curriculum has elementary aged kids memorizing the taxonomic classes of the animal kingdom and the like. You know, real science.

It's Orwell's world we're living in and you know that green is the new red, right? So I went to investigate who owns Crayola to see what the interlock might be. Well, the parent company of Crayola is Hallmark, that's right one of the companies where Herman Cain is on the board of directors. What you take away from this is that there is considerable interlock between the board members of Hallmark and board members at some of these Fortune 500 companies you see to your right. Stupid map thing is not saving right, so I don't have a link, but the other thing I discovered was that two of Hallmark's former CEOs and a board member are affiliated with the Midwest Research Institute, which has now changed its name to MRI Global to be more fashionable. And buddy, are they all about the green. They have recently bought a great deal of office space in North Kansas City, and do a lot of contract research for the United State Government. William Hall of Hallmark family fame, is the Chairman of this nonprofit's board. So there's your answer as to why Crayola is trying to color our kids green.

Breaking Down Planned - Opolis

Welcome iOwnTheWorld readers - look around 'cause my blog is like a curiosity boutique - lots of info you won't find blogged on anywhere else!

Update/Correction: Should read 3000 gallons of water below - I was going off memory when I was writing this up.

Consider the following three videos: If you don't have the stomach to watch them all, I completely understand. Just watch one and skip down to the analysis, which I'm sure you'll find quite interesting.

You would almost believe that this is some sort of farce, a put-on. So I did some digging on what exactly the Forum for the Future is and who is funding it. If you've been a regular reader, then you know by now that the super-duper rich elites work their wiles on the world through the Foundations as revealed in the Reece Committee of 1953 and written about by Rene Wormser. This Forum for the Future is yet another of the "nonprofits"  that seeks to collectivize society.

According to their latest financial report, this UK based NGO has recently opened a New York office with the financial backing of the Tides Foundation and has raised over 200,000 pounds for the 2010 fiscal year.  They brag of the following accomplishments:

We continued to influence business thinking, contributing to ambitious strategies - such as Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan and PepsiCo’s sustainable agriculture goals - that set the benchmark for corporations globally.

We ran a number of cutting edge projects, launching the UK’s first eco-rating scheme for mobile phones with O2, helping eBay make its business model even more sustainable, and trialling ‘disruptive innovation’ in the energy sector.

 One thing I noticed on the back of my Unilever corporation Suave shampoo bottle while showering was a little factoid. Did you know that you can save up to $150 a year or 3000 gallons of water by turning the water off while you condition and shampoo? That's right, you turn the water on to get your hair wet, turn it off to later and back on to rinse. They would prefer you not repeat. So who is behind Unilever, one of the biggest corporate sponsors of Forum for the Future? Well here's the map for Unilever that shows their board members and past and present officers along with the other corporations and nonprofits that these Unilever execs are members of. Isn't it interesting to see how they are connected?

link to explorable map

When you look at their financial statement, you find that only 100 pounds was donated by individuals the Lion's share of their money comes from corporate donors. But wouldn't the green agenda be bad for corporations? Not if the corporations giving the money has got it rigged so that the green agenda benefits them.

Forum for the Future sources of income 2010

 Getting backed to the Planned-opolis videos wherein the propoganda is such to get you ready for having your job chosen for you, your travel restricted, your dwelling place restricted, your food restricted, etc. At the end of the videos, you will find that they were produced as a joint project of the Embarq Corporation, the FIA Foundation, and Vodaphone. Let's look at these three entities and see who they're connected to and why they would want to fund such collectivist propoganda.

If you click on over to the end of their 2010 financial statement, you will find a listing of their corporate partners, which is a humongous list of Fortune 500 companies.

First up, the Embarq Corporation is a spinoff of Sprint/Nextell formed in 2006. As you can see from it's map, whose link is not agreeing with me today, the officers of this corporation are also well-connected:

Embarq Corporation

The CEO is Dan Hesse, who also was CEO of Sprint/Nextel and AT&T Wireless. He sits/sat on the Boards of Nokia and Vanify Fair (my source for cheap khakis). Vice Chair of the Joint Chiefs during the Clinton administration, William Owens is currently Chairman of the Board. Ol' Dick Gephardt is on the Board as well as on the board of nine other big corporations, which I didn't expand for some reason? The rest of the gang includes Peter C. Brown, CEO of AMC Entertainment, Steven Davis, CEO of Bob Evans farms, John P. Mullen, CEO of DHL (aka day and a half late!), Dinesh C. Paliwal, CEO of Harman International, Stephanie Shern, a lawyer and board member of three other corporations, and Laurie Siegel, an exec at Tyco.

If you click on embarq.com, you will be taken to the website of Centurylink internet. They acquired Embarq in 2009 in a tax free transaction. Admiral William Owens, mentioned above became chairman of the board. CenturyLink recently acquired Qwest Communications. What we've got here is a change in names, but the players are still the same. On Centurylink's website, they're all about the phony carbon footprint/offset bullcrap.

Next Up, what in the world is the FIA Foundation? According to their website,

The FIA Foundation is an independent UK registered charity which manages and supports an international programme of activities promoting road safety, environmental protection and sustainable mobility, as well as funding specialist motor sport safety research.

The FIA Foundation was established in 2001 with a donation of $300 million made by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the non-profit federation of motoring organisations and the governing body of world motor sport.

The FIA Foundation is an NGO in Roster Consultative Status with the Economic & Social Council of the United Nations and a regular participant in the Working Party on Traffic Safety and the World Forum on Harmonisation of Vehicle Standards at the UN Economic Commission for Europe, and is a leading participant in the UN Global Road Safety Collaboration. The Foundation works with a range of international agencies including the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank and the UN Environment Programme on road safety and environmental issues.

 Supporters include Mexican President Calderon, British Prime Minister David Cameron, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, UN Secretary General Moon, Nelson Mandela, the whole cast of characters. So repubmom, do you want children to die in the streets? Are you some evil person against road safety? What's your problem anyway? My problem is that they're using something everyone can agree on, like not being run down in the streets, to cloak their real agenda, control of transportation. It's one of the oldest tyrannical tricks in the playbook. The fact that the WHO, World Bank and the UN are the biggest players in this foundation tells you all you need to know.

Lastly, we move on to the Vodaphone corporation, where you will find a sustainability section all about keeping a low carbon footprint, blah blah blah. Vodaphone is a big wireless phone company in Europe and parts of Asia and Africa. In the Egyptian uprising, or whatever you want to call it, Vodaphone cut off a lot of dissenters saying that they had to do what Mubarak told them. I believe that there's a lot of funny business going on with Arabic countries - I sure don't believe what I'm told there. Anyway, the CEO is a Mr. Vittorio Colao who got his MBA at Harvard Business and then went on to work at Morgan Stanley in London. For those of you who've been following my Wall Street & the Bolsheviks series, let me pause a minute and..

Ok, now I can continue. He then went on to McKinsey and Co, a global management bankster firm, after which he got into an Italian wireless company, which became Vodophone Italy and eventually became CEO of the whole Vodaphone corporation in 2008. So what? Well what I'm trying to do here is establish who's doing what behind the scenes. When I get on a names database, I find influential people on corporations I've never heard of funding foundations I've never heard of who are writing policy that none of us are aware of until our esteemed legislators have already passed it. Get me? I'm not saying that all of these people are pure evil, but there is something horribly wicked brewing in the details. You will not find glowing accolades of the power of the individual on the websites of these foundations or corporations,  just how the individual can add to the group.

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”

 --Voltaire

Well, I'm off to take a long luxurious shower while I still can!

Update: Just forgot to tie this in a nice neat package for you. Agenda 21 totally ties into all this. Well, I take these people's cute little videos and raise you this informational Agenda 21 featuring Henry Lamb:

How You Can Help Oppose Agenda 21

I saw this great article on Worldview Weekend, one of the few evangelical Christian sites who are clued in to what's really going on. What I mean is, they don't focus on your best life now..

In Carroll County, Maryland, five intrepid county commissioners have accomplished the following:

1. They have shut down the county's Sustainable Development Office, created by their predecessors, and terminated its manager.

2.  They terminated the county's contract with ICLEI (International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives)– the international organization that is working in over 600 American cities to enforce the UN's Agenda 21 policy.

3. They rejected the County's Comprehensive Development Plan, the Sustainable Development scheme that had been written by ICLEI.


These brave men cited the violation of property rights and the U.S. Constitution as reasons for terminating the relationship between the county and this United Nations sponsored organization.

Support them by sending them an encouraging thank you here. They are gearing up for what they know will be intense persecution from the EPA and other associated United Nations minions. If we can be successful kicking the UN out of one American county, it can be a template for the rest to follow.

BP - The Spill and the Carbon Tax

Here's a great post at Offmyfrontportch that has a lot of good links to articles about BP writing the legislation and policy for Cap & Trade Tax. I would guess that they embarked on this before God made it snow on Algore's Climate Summits and the East Anglia emails exposing AGW as a fraud were released. The powers that be, whoever they are, have seemed to be obsessed with the ludicrous idea that humans can influence and even destroy the earth. It is a major policy item in just about every major corporation, government entity, and global non-governmental organization.

I would now like to profile the previous CEO of British Petroleum, John Browne. He served as CEO of BP from 1995-2007. He is the one who coined the phrase "Beyond Petroleum".

From MIT's Sloan School of Management

  Lord Browne has turned a good many heads with his activism, achieving exactly what he set out to do — focus a global spotlight on the dangers of climate change. Fortune Magazine and CNN are just two of many media outlets that have put his warnings front and center. And Browne has written articles in such influential journals as Foreign Affairs, published by the Council on Foreign Relations.

    His case is this: The world must reduce carbon emissions by seven gigatons — 7 billion tons — a year. That's a massive amount if you consider that individually any of the following would eliminate only a single gigaton:

        * Replacing fossil-fuel-burning power plants with 700 nuclear stations
        * Increasing the use of solar power by a factor of 700
        * Ceasing deforestation and doubling reforestation

    If all three of these alternatives were accomplished, along with four more large-scale reallocations of capital and infrastructure, says Browne, the world would stabilize its carbon emissions. Unfortunately, he says, stabilizing emissions might not, at this late date, stop global warming.

    Browne says that nations cannot afford to be paralyzed by the limitations of the Kyoto Protocol, the U.N. agreement to cut carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. They must mobilize and start implementing solutions — immediately. He believes that any forward movement will take us closer to our goals. And if we expect the planet to survive, he warns, we must make every attempt to implement any changes we can.

John Brown was recently a member of the Board of Goldman Sachs (1999-2007), who if I recall, was heavily involved in writing the financial reform legislation recently passed. He is also known to have attended the Bilderburg Conference several times. I just want to know, as a citizen, who is writing the laws in our country? It is most obviously not our elected officials. Its seems to be they're being handed a stack of papers and being told how to vote on it. True reform is not going to happen in our country until we find the root of the problem and start asking the right questions. Why do the heads of multinational corporations, the United Nations, and the worldwide financial players  seem to have vested interest in lowering the standard of living for everyone under the guise of environmentalism? What to they seek to gain?  I could point out that regarding Kyoto, China and India were not required to meet the carbon quotas that the United States were, despite that these two nations are the biggest polluters on the planet! It's obviously not about the environment, but about power.

So we have this horrible oil spill that defies explanation. The President refuses to take control of the situation by sending in the Coast Guard to supervise putting down boom containment in the early days of the spill. Even the liberal media are watching astonished at the incompetence of their beloved President. Everyone knows that something here just doesn't add up. On David Horiwitz's NewsRealBlog, there's a rundown of Goldman Sachs former employees, highlighted by Glenn Beck,  who are all in the Obama administraion:

Beck noted that: William C. Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, was a partner and managing director at Goldman; Gary Gensler, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, spent 18 years at Goldman; Mark Patterson, chief of staff to Tim Geithner, is a former Goldman lobbyist; Philip Murphy, nominated for ambassador to Germany, is a former Goldman executive; Diana Farrell, deputy director of the National Economic Council, is a former Goldman employee; and Emil Michael, White House fellow, used to be an investment banker at Goldman.

With so many Goldman alumni in the Obama administration, “if Goldman really are the bad guys, we have bigger problems than just regulation,” Beck said.

I'm not saying that Goldman has anything to do with the spill, but I'm saying that this is a clear precedent that a private entity can be influential, if not instrumental, in writing legislation that winds up being the law of our land. Are the "powers that be" trying to use this crisis to revamp the need to tax control energy, thus controlling the people? Time will tell.