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Word is leaking from Copenhagen that the whole conference is really just an attempt to give extraordinary new powers to the World Bank and private banking cartels. You’ll have to view the whole document here, because WordPress doesn’t seem to want to allow me to embed it on this site.

Not only would the agreement codify and institutionalize the wealth gap between rich and poor nations, it would also help to serve the interests of the ultra-rich within those rich countries, by giving them more direct control over how ‘permission’ for economic activity is obtained.  Those with little direct activity in the burning of fuel will now be in charge of rationing those carbon credits – and we can probably expect a whole lot of complex derivative deals that allow speculators to pull profit on the very foundation of our economies – energy itself.

Call us denialists or skeptics or whatever.  There are plenty of serious environmental problems to be dealt with in this world, and our fearless leaders are fixing exactly zero of them.  To them, the only dilemma that remains is how to go about retaining and magnifying one’s own power.

Ahead of the climate summit in Copenhagen, the internet has been abuzz with accusations derived from the leaked emails from global warming research centers.  Some of the world’s richest and most powerful are now gathering in Europe to discuss new enforcement powers for the United Nations when it comes to regulating the economic activities and legal rules for member nations.

Under the faith of science, the relatively young relic of nationalism and sovereignty is fading quickly in the face of a new world order, a bureaucratic, technocratic monolith glued together by a faith in and fear of a human triggered environmental apocalypse.

Voices of protest are lost among the crashing waves, the river of fate thundering down the valley of the old ways.  As the institutions have been fortified for so long, they will hardly need to ask our consent before giving up our future claims of self-determination.

Blizzard clouds gather on the horizon as civilization enters its own winter – the crisis is upon our door and we have hardly defined what threats are bearing down on us, and we’ve scarcely had time to consider remedies.  We may deny the sources of danger that are growing, but it cannot be doubted that we have entered into a cold and dark time.