Maurice Strong, the UN & "Collectivist Tides" -&- Flight of the Earth Council from Costa Rica

The prince of power Peter Foster, May 20, 05, Financial Post

[. . . . ] However, according to David Henderson, former chief economist for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the dangerous collectivist tides currently sloshing through both governments and executive suites have their origins down at Turtle Bay.

[. . . . ] Mr. Henderson has laid out his concerns in an excellent recent book, The Role of Business in the Modern World, and in a series of recent speeches (. . . ). However, what Mr. Henderson's plot lacks is a central character. Whom should it be? None other than Canada's own Maurice Strong, the world's best-connected doomster and inveterate promoter of a more powerful UN (which is, admittedly, something of a tough sell at the moment).

[. . . . ] The trends described by Mr. Henderson have their ultimate roots in an almost universal failure to appreciate the strength and complexity of markets, combined with an elitist power lust -- wrapped up in moralistic posturing -- that seeks to exploit such ignorance. These are compounded by a tendency to conform with "conventional wisdom," particularly when it is promoted by governments, CEOs, NGOs and the UN.

Flight of the Earth Council from Costa Rica -- or here

TORONTO, May 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a Financial Post feature, titled Earth Council flees Costa Rica, Peter Foster exposes a recent debacles of Maurice Strong's Earth Council. The Costa Rican government is pursuing the Earth Council for payment of US$1.65-million, for the wrongful sale of a tract of land it donated to the Council. The land was donated by the Cost Rican government with the agreement that, if the Earth Council moved, it would have to return the land.

"In the wake of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, Mr. Strong -- perennial United Nations player-referee and now a key advisor to Prime Minister Paul Martin -- set up the Earth Council as a 'watchdog' on the process he had started himself," Foster explains. "It was to keep up the pressure for Agenda 21, Rio's doorstop socialist wish list, as well as for global restrictions on carbon emissions (which brought us the horrors of Kyoto)."

Foster describes the Earth Council's mandate to "spread the gospel of sustainable development, and push the notion of an 'Earth Charter,' which had been rejected at Rio." [. . . . ]