Robert F. Kennedy - Climate in Crisis

Copyright 2017, 2020 by Dick Russell

Introduction Copyright 2017 Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Foreword Copyright 2017 David Talbot

Previously published under the title Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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Contents

By Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

By Dick Russell

By David Talbot

By Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

CHAPTER 1:
The Choices Before Us

CHAPTER 2:
Rex Tillerson, Lee Raymond, and the Duplicity of ExxonMobil

CHAPTER 3:
The Rockefeller Familys Revolt Against ExxonMobil

CHAPTER 4:
The Fossil Fuel Companies PR Maestroand the Son Who Denounced Him

CHAPTER 5:
The Man Who Pioneered Fracking, and a Granddaughters Quest

CHAPTER 6:
Harold Hamm and the Frack-Turing of Oklahoma

CHAPTER 7:
Peabody Energys Global War on Children

CHAPTER 8:
The Kochs In KansasLand of the Fee and Home of the Crave

CHAPTER 9:
A Childrens Crusade?

This book is dedicated to the children who will inherit the earth.

Introduction 2020: The Deep State

By Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

To greed, all nature is insufficient. Seneca

Long before it turned its attention to systematically destroying the planet, the carbon industry set its sights on destroying American democracy and bulldozing our values.

The term Deep State is one of those toxic phrases that highlights and exacerbates the widening chasm between Democrats and Republicans. Ironically, polarization is a key strategic objective for the sinister cabal that the phrase describes.

Right-wing populists use the term Deep State to characterize the supposed authors of the cavalcade of social and economic demotions that have fatally wounded Americas dwindling middle class. The obliteration has been so systematic and complete that it seems obvious to them that it is planned. In their view, a group of secretive aristocrats, led by George Soros and the late David Rockefeller, manipulate shadowy institutions like the Federal Reserve and the Council on Foreign Relations in order to shift wealth and power to billionaire elites, with the ultimate aim of achieving World Government. To weaken the American character, their allies among the Hollywood Elites have deliberately cheapened our culture by infiltrating TV and film with sex and violence. These elites are purposefully undermining American democracy, subverting constitutional rights, and waging economic and cultural war on Main Street America, our democracy, and national sovereignty. Since all those cohorts have devoted energies to averting climate change, the global warming debate has become a prominent feature of these cosmologies; decarbonization is yet another attack on the US economy, and a ploy for One-World Government. Like every conspiracy theory, this one has nuggets of truth.

Democrats, meanwhile, dismiss talk of a Deep State as the ravings of deluded right-wing conspiracy theorists. They point out that Hollywood czars like Tom Hanks and Barbra Streisand are a great distance from real power, while arguing that Wall Street itself pushed sex and violence onto our TV screens; pornography, after all, sells sex.

David Rockefeller died in 2017, and the remaining Rockefeller family members have greatly diversified interests and little demonstrated appetite for One-World Government. They point out that George Soros is ninety years old, and manages vast investments in oil and gas with annual profits that dwarf his relatively tiny contributions to climate change activism. His Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an anemic think tank; its members mainly jockeying to burnish resums and rub shoulders with a doddering Henry Kissinger. The CFR takes no position on foreign policy issues and mostly publishes informational white papers that gather dust.

But the Deep State does exist. It has already obliterated the middle class and has democracy on the ropes. The real power behind the curtain is a conglomeration of corporations, coal, oil, chemical, steel, and pharmaceuticalrecently joined by telecom, Big Tech/Big Dataall bound, in a web of corruption, to our global military-intelligence apparatus. It is this collaboration of modern Robber Barons that is making war on democracy, civil rights, and the lower classes, while driving our country down the road to plutocracy and environmental apocalypse. This conglomeration has declared war on Americas democracy and freedoms. Anyone who doubts that the Deep State exists should read the myriad histories of the CIA, including Tim Weiners Legacy of Ashes, David Talbots The Devils Chessboard, Jefferson Morleys The Ghost, and James Douglasss JFK and the Unspeakable.

John D. Rockefeller laid the groundwork for the conglomeration with his ruthless drive for monopoly control of the world oil supply. (His company Standard Oilnow ExxonMobilcontrolled 90 percent of the US oil supply.) The pharmaceutical cartel is the offspring of Rockefellers US petroleum and coal tar industries and Third Reich chemists, who were deeply incriminated in the Holocaust and the Nazi war effort. As William Shirer documents in his book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, it was Germanys oil and coal industry and the pharmaceutical giant I.G. Farben that principally financed Hitlers rise to power. Rockefeller gained controlling shares in IG Farben (now Bayer, the German chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate). His philanthropy focused on his philosophy of promoting petroleum-based pharmaceuticals and marginalizing the previously popular alternative medicines: osteopathy, homeopathy, natural remedies, and plant medicines. For decades, the Rockefeller family owned some 80 percent of the US pharmaceutical industry. Today, the Rockefeller Empirein tandem with JP Morgan Chasecontinues to own half the pharmaceutical industry in the US. John D. Rockefellers grandson, David, with his ties to the oil and pharmaceutical industries and international banking, and his friendship with Allen Dulles, was certainly among the Deep States Grand Panjandrums.