Oct 28
20131
350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Greenpeace, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
350.org Assembly of First Nations Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA) Capitalism Forestry Products Association of Canada North American Tar Sands Coalition Pew Charitable Trusts PowerUp Tar Sands Solutions Network
"While Big Capital and Big Green are trying to propose they are building a bridge to a better, healthy planet– whatever you do, don’t look down. The bridge is faulty, and you’re already half way over the chasm. Just trust the bridge– and keep walking."
Oct 28
20130
350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
350.org Bill McKibben Buffett Gates KXL Rockefeller Tar Sands Solutions Network Tides Foundation Tzeporah Berman
"A Cory Morningstar writes at Wrong Kind of Green, the evil empire Buffett, Gates and Rockefeller built in the private sector is mirrored in the evil networks of NGOs they -- along with Clinton -- have constructed to provide cover for widespread environmental devastation, ethnic cleansing and Indigenous genocide committed by their corporate investments."
Oct 25
20137
350.org / 1Sky, Ceres, Foundations, Greenpeace, Natural Resources Defense Council, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club
"The following article is the third installment of an investigative report that demonstrates why billions of dollars are pumped into the non-profit industrial complex by corporate interests, effectively to manufacture discourse in order to protect the ruling classes from systemic change. The first installment outlined the key players: Barack Obama, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Warren Buffett, the Rockefeller family, Bill Gates, and Bill Ackman. The key instruments employed by the state and the oligarchs were/are a cluster of foundation-financed NGOs. These included/include Greenpeace, Sierra Club, NRDC and others, with 350.org/1Sky at the helm leading the cunning and strategic discourse."
Oct 24
20130
350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Greenpeace, National Wildlife Federation, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
350.org BASF CAN CJN! Climate Action Network Climate Justice Now! Cochabamba COP19 Fracking Green Climate Fund Greenpeace Narcissism National Wildlife Federation Nihilism The Nature Conservancy The People's Agreement
"Despite “actions” attempting to display the contrary, large environmental organizations have co-opted Climate Justice Now! to the point where it is indistinguishable from Climate Action Network, the condescending, well-funded, corporatized shill for Green Capitalism and mass affiliate for Rockefeller-produced 350.org and, yes, nearly every politicized branch of Friends of the Earth. And while steadfast, small-time excellence consistently pushes for acceptance of the People’s Agreement, those in control at CJN! maintain a measurable silence on the matter and an inherent lust for a Green Climate Fund – capitalism and progress and growth, oh my! – to save us all."
Oct 24
20130
350.org / 1Sky, Forest Ethics, Foundations, Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Sierra Club
350.org Bill McKibben Canadian Boreal Initiative Capitalism CPAWS Dow Chemical Enbridge Gateway Environmental Defense ForestEthics Greenpeace Canada Keystone Living Oceans BC Michael Marx MoveOn.org NATSC Nexen North American Tar Sands Coalition Pembina Institute Pew PowerUp RAN Sierra Club BC Suncor Tar Sands Coalition Tar Sands Solutions Network Tides Canada Tides Foundation Tzeporah Berman WWF
"Before Tzeporah Berman began her current position as head of the North American Tar Sands Coalition, Tides Canada had already established these structures to create near-total control over budgets– and therefore, most decisions– for staggering numbers of organizations. Berman was around at the time, working for PowerUp pushing forward offsets garnered by river destruction. Some of the participant organizations already had working partnerships with multiple tar sands producers. The over-whelming majority were already greased by primarily high donors and foundations. Thus, joining the NATSC meant, essentially, double dipping."
"Imagine, if you will, reality. Ecological collapse remains imminent without economic collapse; Sarah Palin controlled a relevant climate-political agenda 8 long years ago; Ke$ha sings a song more prescient than any 350.org message; and so many us think concepts of inception that will put us in control, rather than in jail."
"We must call for what we really need – the end to all new fossil fuel infrastructure and extraction. The pipeline placed yesterday in British Columbia, the most recent drag lines added in Wyoming, and the fracking wells built in Pennsylvania need to be the last ones ever built. And we should say that."
Sep 20
20132
350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
350.org Democratic Front Party KXL Manipulation Naomi Klein No Logo Obama Brand
""Every brand comes with a set of associations," explains study co-author Gavan Fitzsimons, a professor of psychology and marketing at Duke University. "When we're exposed to logos, those associations fire automatically, activating our motivational systems and leading us to behave in ways that are consistent with the brand image"—and our preexisting drives."
Sep 18
20130
350.org / 1Sky, David Suzuki Foundation, Forest Ethics, Foundations, Greenpeace, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
350.org Bill McKibben Bolivia Capitalism CBFA Cochabamba NAFTA Naomi Klein Tides Canada Tzeporah Berman
"Now the rule has become this: If you have staff and are an environmental organization in North America, you are funded and directed by foundations who see “saving capitalism from itself” as the goal of environmentalism today. So what are we left with? Unfortunately, more of the same. South of the border, Bill McKibben’s outfit, 350.org, is a new face of this game. If only they were not."
Sep 12
20130
350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
350.org Divestment Campaign First Peoples Worldwide Ford Foundation Idle No More Naomi Klein Rockefeller Foundations Seventh Generation Fund Spectacle Celebrities
Spectacle celebrities like Naomi Klein, while raising valid (albeit hypocritical) criticism of the complex, count on infantile consumers to maintain their activist credentials. Serving as proxies for consumer rage, yet asking nothing serious of them as citizens, makes these capitalist activists popular and profitable PR puppets.