{"id":14182,"date":"2012-03-20T08:41:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T13:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14182"},"modified":"2012-03-20T08:43:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T13:43:19","slug":"australian-billionaire-claims-greenpeace-accepts-cia-funding-to-fight-coal-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/03\/20\/australian-billionaire-claims-greenpeace-accepts-cia-funding-to-fight-coal-exports\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian billionaire claims Greenpeace accepts CIA funding to fight coal exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian bush hats can apparently be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2012\/03\/20\/cia_funds_greenpeace\/\" target=\"_blank\">made of tinfoil<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Australian Mining Magnate Clive Palmer has declared the CIA is behind a Greenpeace campaign that aims to slow the growth of Australia&#8217;s export coal industry.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>The Greenpeace campaign centres on a document titled <em>Stopping the Australian Coal Export Boom<\/em> (PDF) which explicitly states that \u201cOur strategy is to \u2018disrupt and delay\u2019 key projects and infrastructure while gradually eroding public and political support for the industry and continually building the power of the movement to win more.\u201d Greenpeace hopes to do so in order to build support for fuels other than coal, in order to reduce global carbon dioxide emissions.<\/p>\n<p>The Greenpeace document says it is \u201c&#8230; based on extensive research into the Australian coal industry, made possible by the generous support of the Rockefeller Family Fund.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That statement is Palmer&#8217;s smoking gun, as he said at an event today, as reported by the Australian Broadcasting Commission and other outlets, that &#8220;You only have to go back and read the Church Report in the 1970s and to read the reports to the US Congress which sets up the Rockefeller Foundation as a conduit of CIA funding.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian bush hats can apparently be made of tinfoil: Australian Mining Magnate Clive Palmer has declared the CIA is behind a Greenpeace campaign that aims to slow the growth of Australia&#8217;s export coal industry. [. . .] The Greenpeace campaign centres on a document titled Stopping the Australian Coal Export Boom (PDF) which explicitly states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,25,65,683,13],"tags":[640,382,127],"class_list":["post-14182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-economics","category-environment","category-pacific","category-usa","tag-alternativeenergy","tag-cia","tag-conspiracytheories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3GK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14184,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182\/revisions\/14184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}