Donna Laframboise has an excellent piece on how the IPCC has been assimilated by influence from the WWF.
Apparently hawking the threat of dead panda bears is quite lucrative, Donna writes:
It is important to understand that while the WWF might once have been a humble, shoestring operation this is no longer the case. It has grown into a business entity with offices in 30 countries that employs a staff of 5,000 (see the last page of this PDF). The US branch of the WWF alone employs:
- a Managing Director of International Finance
- a Vice President of Business and Industry
- a Senior Vice President of Market Transformation and
- a Government Relations Program manager
That same branch also includes a:
- a Director of International Climate Policy
- a Managing Director of Climate Change
- a Managing Director of Climate Adaptation
- a Director of Climate Change Communications
- a Senior Scientist, Climate Adaptation and
- a lead specialist on Climate Change
In 2010, the WWF’s US arm had operating revenues of $224 million – just under a quarter of a billion dollars. Yes, that’s a B.
By way of comparison, operating revenues for Amnesty International’s US affiliate amounted to $36 million – one-sixth that amount (see page 29 here).
According to its 2010 annual report, the WWF’s international network had operating revenues of €524,963,000. Converted to US dollars that’s just shy of three-quarters of a billion. In one year.
Read it here. Well worth a read.
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That thing is a fiscal monster.
_Jim says:
September 26, 2011 at 8:04 pm
Gail Combs says on September 26, 2011 at 5:21 pm
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The collapse of the US economy can be traced to the ratification of NAFTA, WTO and the signing of five banking acts into law.
What!? No mention of the sub-prime loan fiasco imposed by our legislators on financial institutions?…..
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That was the five new banking laws. But you can go all the way back to President Reagan and the Leveraged Buyouts and Hostile Takeovers that raped our decent, well financed domestic corporations. Most of our domestic midsized corporations are now gone or foreign owned. see: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foreign_ownership_of_U.S._corporations
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/TakeoversandLeveragedBuyouts.html
descriptive: http://www.tititudorancea.com/z/leveraged_buyout.htm
Today: Whitewashed Windows and Vacant Stores
That statement might bear some weight were it not for the fact a) that boards of directors are voted on by something called common stock b) shareholders who hold voting shares in those corporations. Shareholders in most companies may also introduce motions, called Shareholder motions to be voted on by the other shareholders.
As it is, it bears little weight given b) above. Anything beyond, below or to either side of that is just rant sans any real basis.
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Jim, I certainly agree that the spike in oil prices was a contributing factor.
You need energy, raw materials and labor to produce goods. The WTO and other trade agreements did away with import duties that made imported goods and domestic goods competitive in price. Add trade treaties abolishing quarantine and inspection as “trade barriers” at the border. All that is added on top of the leveraged buyouts that stripped the wealth from domestic corporations making it harder for them to weather down turns in the economy. This set the stage.
Then add China to the trade treaties and suddenly it made financial good sense for the foreign owners of American corporations to move factories overseas were TRAINED labor is cheap and regs were nonexistent. Add marginal loans and AIG credit default swaps on those loans and you had a recipe for disaster when the actual unemployment rate skyrocketed to over 20%. see Shadow stats: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts
FDIC – Important Banking Legislation: http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/important/index.html
Some Descriptive References:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover/print
http://tkcollier.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/joe-cassano-the-guy-who-sank-aig/
http://www.realtytrac.com/content/news-and-opinion/how-the-aig-bailout-could-be-driving-more-foreclosures-4861
By the way I never read or listen to Alex Jones… YUCK!
J. Felton says: @ur momisugly September 26, 2011 at 11:27 pm
Maybe I should get a picture of a sad-eyed gopher or something, make up a name that sounds important; some combination of World, Forest, Defense, Foundation, Enviroment, Planet, or something close will do, and then solicit as much donations as I can…..”
L.Ron Hubbard had the right idea he started a Religion (Scientology) Jean Berman allegedly said “I knew L.Ron when he was a small time crook” (snicker) It is something of a joke in S.F. circles.
_Jim says:
September 27, 2011 at 2:25 pm
Schaeffer says on September 27, 2011 at 10:18 am
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Each side is run by crooked, massive multi-national corporations
That statement might bear some weight were it not for the fact a) that boards of directors are voted on by something called common stock b) shareholders who hold voting shares in those corporations…..
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That was in the “Old Days” Jim, now that has been “Fixed”. For example 85% of the stock in Monsanto is held by Mutual Funds/ Pension Funds. The people who vote the stock are the owner/managers of the funds and not the people who hold “Title” to the stock.
I have not bothered to investigate other corporations but given the popularity of mutual funds these days I would not be surprised to see over 50% of the stock owned by Mutual funds.
I think some where I read that 5% is now considered a “Controlling Block” of stock. The Johnson family (Fidelity) controls over 7% of Monsanto.
[SNIP: This is a good example of innuendo. If you want to make these assertions, supply references. -REP, mod]
I should also add the book “Bank Control of Large Corporations in the United States” By David M. Kotz
It explains how banks use pension funds to buy controlling interest in large corporations among other strategies.
Here’s a cute ‘drinking game’ to play; searching the EPA website for mentions of “world wildlife” (ostensibly for World Wildlife ‘Fund’ or ‘Foundation’ or ‘… for Nature’ or whatever their name has morphed into now):
Search EPA.gov.
It showed “1,240 [hits] for “world wildlife” within all areas of the EPA.”
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What has changed; you have given another ‘assertion without proof’ or substantiating cites/facts.
I still have the ability to vote my common stock shares of TI stock and make motions if so desired.
You’ve not made your case with that last ‘thrust’ into the aether …
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I’m (and by extension, those visiting WUWT are) supposed to view this through some sort of jaundiced, conspiratorial mindset?
On another note, when did you begin reading The Nation? Home to lib -er- commies like David Corn and that raving loony hurricane Katrina Vanden Heuvel. Have you ever seen or heard the ideas expressed by these individuals? Both she and Corn used to appear on ABC’s Sunday morning talking-head show. These two are not just simply progressives (as admitted) or even socialists, we’re talking full-blown communist (this as observed by their arguments as witnessed while they appeared on the aforementioned ABC program).
The reason I bring this up, it turns out David M. Kotz is a contributor to that rag owned and published by Vanden Heuvel? Here’s his ‘bio’ over there: http://www.thenation.com/authors/david-m-kotz
I notice that David has a presence over at Truthout.org too, an organization I would rank up there with WWF … but I have digressed too much already.
Well, I don’t have infinite time to address these ‘buckets of stuff’ that, like an Alex Jones proxy you’re inclined to continue to heap against a blank canvas until ‘something forms up’ in the way of continued nefarious ‘acts’ by anyone in this country above the pay-grade/position of clerk.
I’m just wondering out loud now, have you ever heard this expression: “Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them“? I’m thinking the latter part of this fits rather than the former, but that’s just this poster’s opinion …
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Insufficient; vaporous as to specifics; please see response to another poster up thread …
(IOW, pls identify which governments, which agencies … the ‘report’ looks like whitewash. You need something more specific to even be considered close, or even hope to approach the level of ‘actionable’. I doubt you can do this, BTW.)
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Jim says
“I want (‘would like’, for the purposes of debate here; I’m not demanding they be shown, obviously, as this is not a courtroom and I am not a judge) to see a primary document; do they not exist? I want to see a primary document in lieu of either hearsay or a condensed, sanitized ‘annual report’ which is not specific as to (governmental) monetary sources and for the/any purpose(s) for which funds were received, if any …”
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I understand the point you are trying to make, and yes, I agree with you.
However, the link I supplied is the WWF’s own annual report. It is presumable that when their own report lists funding from ” publicservice/finance ” then that means exactly what most would think it is. As deceptive as the WWF can be, I think it would be foolhardy for them to claim they have government support when they do not. I also cannot see a motive for that.
Maybe an email to the WWF on what exactly they mean is in order?
OT but illuminating:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/armed-troops-burn-down-homes-kill-childen-to-evict-ugandans-in-name-of-global-warming.html
Try this link:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/armed-troops-burn-down-homes-kill-children-to-evict-ugandans-in-name-of-global-warming.html