Apparently the Canberra media gallery and the social mediasphere are all abuzz over comments by anti-CO2-derivatives-scam activist, self-made billionaire and recently honoured National Living Treasure, Clive Palmer.
Naturally, the “buzz” is 99.999% abuse and insults, rather than objective, calm, reasoned assessment of Mr Palmer’s comments. And certainly there is no attempt whatsoever to calmly and methodically investigate the evidence Mr Palmer has cited in support of his comments.
Now, I haven’t had time to follow up and check his purported evidence either.
But then, neither am I making any rush-to-judgement call about whether he is right or wrong.
And I am certainly not jerking the knee in a self-glorifying display of imagined-witty insults, spewed bile, and general ad hominem abuse.
Like many journalists.
I am curious to follow up, to decide for myself whether there is any substance to Mr Palmer’s claims.
Especially since my own research over many years suggests there may be more than a little ring of truth in what he has said.
In the meantime though, here is a news article from the Brisbane Times this afternoon that does at least include a number of complete quotes from Mr Palmer’s press conference.
Since you will only see/hear selectively edited sound bites on the TV and radio news this evening – because after all, it is vital to smear the character of anyone threatening a legal challenge to the bankers’ CO2 derivatives scam – I’ll reproduce the Brisbane Times’ piece in full.
I assume that readers of this blog are significantly less predisposed to hasty judgements and attacking the messenger rather than dispassionately assessing the message, than the average egotistical narcissist twit on Twitter … and in the Canberra press gallery:
Mining magnate Clive Palmer has accused the Australian Greens and Queensland environmental campaigners of “treason” in conspiring with US powers to destroy the nation’s coal industry.
Mr Palmer was expected to give his response to the passing of the Gillard government’s mining tax at a media conference called this afternoon, but the multi-billionaire was concerned only with perceived collusion between the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency and the environmental lobby.
Mr Palmer turned his attention to a report by Greenpeace and other anti-coal groups, titled Stopping the Australian Coal Export Boom, which outlined an environmental campaign designed to disrupt and delay the expansion of the industry.
While brandishing a copy of the report this afternoon, Mr Palmer said it was the result of a CIA conspiracy involving the US-based Rockefeller Foundation.
“This is funded by the CIA,” he said.
“You only have to go back and read … the reports to the US Congress that sets up the Rockefeller Foundation as a conduit of CIA funding.
“You only have to look at the secret budget which was passed by Congress last year – bigger than our whole national economy – with the CIA to ensure that.
“You only have to read the reports to US Congress where the CIA reported to the president that their role was to ensure the US competitive advantage – that’s how you know it’s funded by the CIA.”
Mr Palmer argued descendants of US oil magnate John Rockefeller had bankrolled the report, in a bid to disrupt and damage the Australian coal industry.
He went on to say that the document confirmed local environmental campaigners, including Lock the Gate Alliance president Drew Hutton and Greens leader Bob Brown, were improperly collaborating with foreign multinationals.
“The Greens have not been providing you with the full information about where their money comes from or what it’s about,” he said.
“I think the Greens [candidates] in this upcoming state election … should resign if they’re being funded by an offshore political power.
“It’s paramount [sic] to treason and something needs to be done about it.”
Mr Palmer made little mention of mining tax legislation, passed last night in the Senate, saying he had no concern with it.
“I don’t care about any tax. It won’t affect my life one way or the other,” he said.
Mr Palmer said the controversial tax, which aims to distribute the spoils of Australia’s mining boom, would have no affect on his businesses.
“It probably won’t cost me anything, because I’m not mining anything that comes under the classification of it. So, you know, it’s not something that’s worried me,” he said.
Mr Palmer said he would not join Australia’s third largest iron ore miner, Fortescue Metals, owned by Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest, in mounting a legal challenge.
“Certainly Andrew Forrest has indicated he’ll do that – he has major concerns with it, because it affects him, affects his business and affects the ability of his workers,” Mr Palmer said.
UPDATE:
Andrew Bolt at least shows some restraint in joining the mockers, but does make one worthy observation (emphasis added) –
The Opposition will be thinking, oh, damn.
That’s not to say there wasn’t a straw from which this grass castle was built. From the CIA’s website, this book review:
She also does a fine job in recounting the intriguing story of how the CIA worked with existing institutions, such as the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, and established numerous “bogus” foundations to “hide” its funding of the Congress for Cultural Freedom and its other covert activities. Everything came a cropper in 1967, however, as a result of press articles, especially revelations in the long-gone Ramparts magazine.
UPDATE 2:
ABC News video clip here.
UPDATE 3:
Twitterer @pyrmontvillage sagely observes –
According to
#WikiLeaks, we have people in the federal ALP, who REPORT to the US Embassy…Not much of a stretch..#auspol#ClivePalmer#CIA
Pyrmontvillage is right.
From The Australian, December 9, 2010:
WikiLeaks outs Mark Arbib as US informant
FEDERAL Labor powerbroker Mark Arbib has been outed as a key source of intelligence on government and internal party machinations to the US embassy.
New embassy cables, released by WikiLeaks to Fairfax newspapers today, reveal the influential right-wing Labor MP has been one of the embassy’s best ALP informants, along with former frontbencher Bob McMullan and current MP Michael Danby.
The documents say the Minister for Sport had been secretly offering details of Labor’s inner workings even before his election to the Senate in 2007, dating back to his time as general secretary of the party’s NSW branch from 2004.
Senator Arbib was one of the “faceless men” who was instrumental in the decision to oust Kevin Rudd and install Julia Gillard as Prime Minister in June.
Those leaked US State Department cables show that sitting members of the Federal ALP Government are informants for the USA.
So it is no stretch at all to believe the possibility that some (or all) of Clive Palmers’ claims regarding the CIA and the Greens are true.
Barnaby Is Right 
Why worry about the CIA when your own government is looking to destroy your livelihood?
Indeed.
Though that is the heart of the matter, isn’t it … since the Greens are (in large degree) directing the government agenda now.
I’m not saying he’s right or wrong. Like you, i’d need to do a bit more research.
But it is known that Doug Anthony’s Country Party recieved cia funding in the early 70’s and also the Libs under Fraser back in the 75 election (the dismisal).
I didn’t know that. Thanks Andrew. If you have any relevant links or other info on that, please do post them here.
I’ll post ’em as soon as I can, but it’ll most likely be a day or two
I do believe this to be true in some way. Remember that the 13 Illuminati family,s in which the Rothschilds are head of, own the CIA and at this point in time the Banking Fraternity world wide. But lets not hope for long if the OITC has anything to do with it. It all comes back to how the controlling family,s can make more money from the mass populas through system loop holes and the pollies are prone to do what they are told in fear of many things.
You are right Nelson. Just look up the history of the Rothschilds,and the 13 Illuminati family the Bank of International Settlements etc. Money, money, money, strangle democracy and crash the economy. This is certainly what the Australian Labor Party is doing and Ibelieve that Clive Palmer is right. And that’s just not conspiracy stories.. It is all in black and white. Of course the Greens would throw insults – they are a dangerous and unread and the sooner peple realise this the better for Australia.
Have a look at the CIA’s own venture capital firm ”In-Q-Tel” and the ties with the QLD government, Rockefeller Foundation is a financial backer of ”ICLEI Oceania” just these two examples alone should set the alarm bells ringing.
current ICLEI Oceania membership, click onto supporters to Rockefeller Foundation
http://www.iclei.org/index.php?id=oceania-members0