By Judi McLeod
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
It was some 28 years ago when the New Yorker magazinedescribed Canadian Maurice Strong as the man upon whom "the survival ofcivilization in something like its present form might depend."
Nobody paid much attention to the bland man with the bigboast. Strong, after all was then making all of his inroads at a place no onepays much attention to, the big spending United Nations where diplomats haveblondes and pinkie rings.
Today's world is poised for the debut of New Year 2007,and the enemy has moved right up to the front gate with no one there to chasehim away.
From the distance of China, Strong who once workedsimultaneously for the United Nations as senior Advisor to the UN SecretaryGeneral and for the Rockefeller and Rothschild's Trusts, has hatched a planthat will see the Chinese Chery rolling off the assembly line in Detroit.
It's not just that the 77-year-old Strong, one of the mostignored yet most powerful and enigmatic figures on the international scene fordecades, is going into the car business to turn a big buck, he's going todecimate the American car industry.
The architect of Kyoto, Strong has insisted that "theUnited States is clearly the greatest risk to the world's ecological health"and has continued to advocate a new economic order based on the redistributionof the developed world's industries and wealth to the Third World.
Strong has boasted for decades that North Americans willeventually be driving Chinese-built car. The only thing that has changed isthat Chinese cars built on American soil will now be sold worldwide.
"The Chinese recognize the automobile industry has alwaysbeen a major factor in any industrialized country and they are aspiring to bethe largest producer in the world," said Strong. (Jason Kirby, Financial Post,Sept. 16, 2000).
Unfortunately, the man who has predicted the emergence ofChina as the world's next superpower, is now a man whose time has come.
It turns out that DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group hasbeen seeking a Chinese partner to build small cars, saying it cannot make moneyby building them in the United States due to high labor and other costs.
"We can't build one here in that segment. You can't makemoney on it. That's why we need a partner," said Chrysler spokesman JasonVines.
Cars, to be designed jointly by China's Chery AutomobileCo. and Chrysler with Chrysler taking the lead, would be sold as a ChryslerGroup brand, either Chrysler, Jeep or Dodge.
Chery will build tiny cars known in the industry as"B-cars", and Chrysler will unveil a prototype "fairly soon" with production tobegin sometime after 2007.
Strong and American George Soros, who last year partneredon a plan to flood the American market with 250,000 Cherys beginning in 2007,must have had a crystal ball.
But the original Strong-Soros initiative was to flood theAmerican market with cars built in China, not Detroit.
Soros bankrolled the Chinese deal to the tune of$200-million.
Strong stepped down from the board of directors at Toyotato be an "environmental advisor" for China's Chery.
Talk about getting around!
As the old adage has it, "As GM goes, so goes the nation."
"Bill Ford, addressing the National Press Club on November22, 2005, noted that GM, Ford and DaimlerChrysler combined invest more than $16billion on research and development each year, which eclipses any otherindustry in the U.S." (www.howtobuyamerican.com, Jan. 7, 2006). "Bill Fordwent on to point out that U.S. automakers pay more than $11 billion in pensionseach year to no less than 800,000 retirees and their spouses. Any American whothinks they aren't affected by the recent struggles of Ford and GM since theydon't work for either automaker had better think again. Why? Because you can'ttake literally billions of dollars out of the U.S. economy without it affectingeveryone in the country."
It was one year ago when Ford said he was hopeful thingscould still turn around for the American auto industry.
"But if these two American companies are forced to exit theauto industry, literally millions of Americans will be forced to exit themiddle class."
If as Shakespeare said, "all the world's a stage and allthe men and women are merely players", the anti-American bad guys are about topulled off a fast one on America's middle class.
One of the bad guys made his exit to China directly afterhis alleged ties to the UN Oil-for-Food scandal became public. With the UNsinternational immunity, no one can touch him.
Meanwhile, the timing couldn't be any better for Strongand Soros. It's 2007 and their friends the Democrats now control the WhiteHouse.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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