American Being Duped About Greenhouse Gases? Soros At It Again?

Read this first: [putting fear into the American People]

Obama’s Biggest Radical

By Ben Johnson
February 27, 2009

When Barack Obama nominated John P. Holdren as his Science Adviser last December 20, the president-elect stated “promoting science isn’t just about providing resources” but “ensuring that facts and evidence are never twisted or obscured by politics or ideology.” In nominating John Holdren, his words could scarcely have taken a more Orwellian ring.

Some critics have noted Holdren’s penchant for making apocalyptic predictions that never come to pass, and categorizing all criticism of his alarmist views as not only wrong but dangerous. What none has yet noted is that Holdren is a globalist who has endorsed “surrender of sovereignty” to “a comprehensive Planetary Regime” that would control all the world’s resources, direct global redistribution of wealth, oversee the “de-development” of the West, control a World Army and taxation regime, and enforce world population limits. He has castigated the United States as “the meanest of wealthy countries,” written a justification of compulsory abortion for American women, advocated drastically lowering the U.S. standard of living, and left the door open to trying global warming “deniers” for crimes against humanity. Such is Barack Obama’s idea of a clear-headed adviser on matters of scientific policy.

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All of these positions are consistent with a man who began his career as a “dissident scientist.” Peter Collier remembers Holdren working by day at a national laboratory and by night writing for Ramparts, the intellectual journal of the New Left. Holdren has authored numerous books and journal articles with his mentors Paul and Anne Ehrlich, the infamous doomsayers who predicted overpopulation would force most of the world’s population to perish during the 1980s “great die-off.” Holdren has gone on to a distinguished academic career in his own right. A longtime professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Teresa Heinz Kerry used her late husband’s tax-exempt billions to endow a chair at Harvard for Ehrlich’s disciple; Holdren is now the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, where his (and her) ideas influence the next generation of policymakers. Holdren himself has a background in political “philanthropy,” serving for 14 years on John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation‘s Board of Trustees, steering its grants to far-Left organizations. He also pursued the intersection of science and diplomacy by joining the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, an organization founded during the Cold War by former nuclear scientist and fellow traveler Joseph Rotblat. Pugwash hewed to the Communist Party line and was subsequently feted by Czechslovakian and Polish Communist leaders.

 

 

 

Read the rest about this radical here:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=1FDD71E4-B9E4-4FAD-9868-2936193BF8F1

Then add Al Gore talking about saving “Gaia”

Then this:

Is George Soros a Global Warming Turncoat?

 

 

 

 

By Steven Milloy
Publisher, JunkScience.com/Co-Manager, Free Enterprise Action Fund

NASA’s global-warming-alarmist-in-chief James Hansen is urging the public to join the likes of Greenpeace and the Ruckus Society and others in a March 2 rally in Washington to protest the burning of coal for electricity.

But before further clogging the already busy streets of the nation’s capital perhaps Hansen ought to first lay siege to the offices of billionaire supporter George Soros.

According to a February 17 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, investment funds managed by Soros own more than $112 million worth of  stock in Arch Coal and CONSOL Energy — the third and fifth largest coal companies in the U.S. Other SEC filings indicate that Soros began investing in coal during 2008 — hardly an auspicious time for such investment. Not only did the stock values of coal companies fall sharply, but the future of coal use in the U.S. became less certain. Since 2006, climate activists have pressured state regulators to deny permits for 83 coal-fired power plants.

Odder still is that this is the same George Soros who, in October 2007, told CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo “I think we have to stop the increased use of coal if we want to bring climate change under control…”

This is also the same George Soros who, through his Open Society Institute, may have provided as much as $720,000 in 2006 to help finance Hansen’s global warming activism. And what does Hansen have to say about coal?

In a recent op-ed in Britain’s The Observer, Hansen wrote that “The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.” Warning British Prime Minister Gordon Brown that “history and [his] children will judge [him],” Hansen called for Brown to bring the use of coal to an end.

It seems quite possible that Soros and Hansen no longer see eye-to-eye on climate change.

Last June, Soros testified before a Senate Committee that the cap-and-trade form of global warming regulation, which would allow the use of coal, would be a “move in the right direction.” Hansen, meanwhile, has since been bent on likening the use of coal to the Holocaust.

In addition to his over-the-top allusions to “death trains” and “factories of death,” last June, Hansen called for coal and oil company CEOs to be “tried for high crimes against humanity and nature.” Would Hansen spare large coal and oil company investors like Soros?

Coal investments may not be Soros’ only problem with Hansen on the day of reckoning. Soros also owns and/or manages $900 million worth of the Brazilian state oil company, $218 million of Hess Corp., $177 million of ConocoPhillips and $72 million of oil driller Schlumberger.

ConocoPhillips, in particular, is a major investor in a project to develop the so-called Canadian oil tar sands. But on Feb. 18, two days ahead of President Obama’s trip to Ottawa, Canada, Hansen hyperventilated to Reuters about the dangers of tar sands:

“If we burn all the conventional fuels — oil, gas and coal — we would be heading the planet to eventually an ice-free state,” Hansen said. “[Tar sands oil] is a total wild card on top of that. You just can’t do it, that’s what politicians and international leaders have got to understand. You can’t exploit tar shale and tar sands without pushing things way beyond the limit. They’re just too carbon intensive.”

It’s also possible that Soros is just another green hypocrite, hoping to make a few bucks before coal is killed as an energy source. A source in the coal industry told me that Soros doesn’t let “politics get in the way of commerce.” Indeed, Soros told PBS’s Bill Moyers in an October interview that “dealing with global warming will require a lot of investment” and that “energy has to cost a lot more.” So Soros may be betting that climate policies will somehow make his coal/oil investments more profitable. It’s a contrarian outlook to say the least.

A spokesman from Soros Fund Management denied that any explanation was necessary for Soros’ investments and global warming posture. He also denied that Soros might be breaching his fiduciary duty to his investors by advocating public policies that could spell doom for the coal industry and their coal investments.

While a spokesman from the Open Society Institute flatly denied that it funded Hansen, this denial seems to be an exaltation of form over substance. The Institute was seemingly very proud in a 2006 report of the support for Hansen provided by the Government Accountability Project — a grantee of the Institute.

This is all something to keep in mind as we watch Hansen and his protesters rally on March 2 at the Capitol’s coal-burning — and Soros-profiting — power plant.

http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/03/01/milloy_soros_coal/

Remember what Soros did to Halliburton?  Utilizing Moveon.org to launch a political attack on Halliburton to lower the amount the stock was worth?

(LPAC) — After funding the launching of Barack Obama’s political career, and while funding MoveOn.org, Center for American Progress, etc. to attack Dick Cheney’s Halliburton Corp. war profiteering, George Soros was steadily buying Halliburton’s stock. Soros had bought millions of shares of Halliburton by the beginning of 2007, when the stock’s price, under the constant political pounding, had been cut from a high of $40/share down to $26. Then the MoveOn.org, etc. political attacks largely stopped, and Halliburton began its rise to today’s price of $50.

 

The Anglo-Dutch oligarchy’s billionaire opponent of `Bush’s War’ and `Cheney’s Halliburton,’ Soros began making purchases of Halliburton stock in the third quarter of 2005. He accelerated his buying in the fourth quarter of 2006, when the stock was trading near its low ($26.33) of the last four years. His purchase prices were between $27.62 and $33.53, with an estimated average price of $31.3. As of 12/31/06, Soros owned 1,999,450 shares, more than 2% of his total portfolio, making Halliburton his hedge funds’ biggest investment of 2006.

 

The Soros-funded Center for American Progress, which had published dozens of scathing articles on Hallburton since its founding by Soros in 2003, went silent. Criticism of Halliburton by CAP ceased in 2006 shortly before Soros began his big purchases to accumulate 2 million shares. Likewise, other Soros-backed groups such as MoveOn.org, went silent on Halliburton. Listen to the false naivete of a big blog in the same political grouping, Daily Kos, on 3/4/2007: “I guess Soros has his reasons for buying the stock of a company such as Halliburton. Soros has remained a financial speculator while putting on other hats such as saving the world etc…. Maybe Soros plans on changing the company in some way. Maybe Halliburton could become a `green’ company?”

 

2005 was also the year in which George Soros hedge funds began major speculation in oil majors and futures. The funds owned stocks of 17 oil producers, from ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Conoco-Phillips to Devon Energy and Pioneer Natural Resources. He bought Halliburton along with a bunch of other “oil servicers”: Schlumberger Ltd., BJ Services Corp., Noble Corp., etc.

 

Predicting publicly in 2005, at Davos and elsewhere, that the dollar was going to drop sharply, Soros had his funds (along with those of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett) buy gold futures and oil futures beginning early that year. In March 2006 at Davos, he predicted oil price shocks. In late 2007, his “predicted” oil price shocks began hitting, although his claim is that he got the funds back making billions by betting on the mortgage bubble’s, and dollar’s, collapse.

http://www.rense.com/general82/omab.htm

Is George Soros manipulating the markets today?  After all he just so “happens” to be the recipient of wealth due to downturns either cyclical or man made.

He attended the World Economic Summit for 2009 in Davos, Switzerland.

He is now looking into Nigerian oil as well.

Is America being duped? Or are we just plain stupid?

Obama is DEFINITELY connected to Soros; his main money man.

You be the judge.