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The motives behind the propaganda

The "greenhouse" propaganda hoax and the corresponding measures to curtail the use of oil, natural gas and coal are part of a "green" stealth warfare which the main ruling bourgeois forces in the world are engaging in, against the people in all countries, since some three decades back now.

Briefly, the reasons for this warfare can be described as in Info #4en in this series (21.03.1996):
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Within US imperialism, it was always the forces of the Al Gore type that were advocating this particular kind of warfare more directly and openly that those of the George W. Bush type. One rather well-known 1992 book by Gore, for instance, "Earth in the Balance - Ecology and the Human Spirit", purportedly about a number of "environmental" questions, precisely is full of this spirit.

But it should not be thought that the Bush faction of international exploiters, oppressors, war criminals and mass murderers are not engaging too in this warfare, when now for instance in their recent programme (mid-February 2002) for energy provisioning in the USA itself, they have declared the particularly extreme Kyoto programme for worldwide industry strangulation, under "greenhouse" pretext, dead. The various forces of US imperialism, and of other reaction too, on principle are always using "double trouble" tactics. They will say one thing officially which may sound "not quite so bad" and at the same time, using a number of "unofficial" muppets of theirs which they are always handling, pursue a different and more sinister policy.

This last was the tactics, for instance, behind the 11 September 2001 terror attacks against the people in the USA and in the whole world, with which the US imperialists, in the more and more desperate situation for the reactionaries in all countries, started a policy of also open warfare against the people in all countries.

The war purportedly "against terrorism", in reality against the people everywhere, waged jointly by the biggest terrorists in the world, of course must be opposed. So must the "green" warfare by those same forces, which continues too and which internationally, continually, is causing even more destruction and death than did for instance the recent bombings of New York City, Afghanistan and Iraq.

A programme for making all energy as expensive and scarce as possible

Such an agenda may seem "completely mad". And in a way, it is too. But it's an important one of the main reactionaries' in the world, and has been more and more so since some three decades back. This is part of their "green" warfare against practically everybody on earth.

Marx pointed out, in a speech way back in 1856:

"Steam, electricity, and the self acting mule were revolutionists of a rather more dangerous character than even citizens Barbès, Raspail and Blanqui."

Note, Sept. 2007: See Info #005en, #005de or #005se (this last with a translation by me of that speech into Swedish), or http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1856/04/14.htm.

That's how mainly some feudalists were seeing things, in the mid-19th century. Today, with that enormous further development of such productive forces which has taken place since then, it's what the main political forces of the entire bourgeoisie are thinking.

Don't the bourgeoisie want to make profits? Isn't that what capitalism is all about? Yes, they do, and it is. But an absolutely necessary prerequisite for the capitalists is that they retain political power. Without this, they of course cannot exploit one single worker, or internationally, a single poor country. The "green" warfare of their main forces, of their main political forces, precisely is intended to prolong the rule of the entire bourgeoisie in the world.

Since this means curtailment of technological and scientific advances and of the development of industry, indeed even the mass destruction of some industries, of course some capitalists owning certain types of such are complaining that it's costing them a lot of money, and are sometimes protesting against the "green" warfare, or against such parts of it as are hitting "their" industrial branch.

They then are being told by their own politicians that they should not be so "greedy" or so "consumerist" but must make some sacrifices for the "common good" of the entire exploiting class, which needs a suitable political "environment", of stagnation and putrefaction today, of absolutely not "too" cheap energy, for instance.

The "greenhouse" propaganda and the programmes connected with it, of curtailing the use of oil, natural gas and coal so as to replace this with much more primitive energy sources, or not replacing it at all, are a campaign parallel to the one, by more or less the same forces, against the peaceful use of nuclear energy in the world.

In the late 1980s, the US imperialists and others, such as the Soviet social-imperialists at that time, were fairly confident that they, with their various overt and covert actions, had been successful in "containing" nuclear energy in the world.

In practically all of the more industrialized countries, no nuclear power plants were being built any more. A number of experiments with the particularly promising breeder technology had all been strangled. Most of the poorer, internationally-oppressed and exploited countries had been prevented from developing nuclear energy.

It was at that point in time, from 1988 on approximately, that the "greenhouse" propaganda really got to be a big theme in the international mass media. It had been there before, from the early 1970s or so in some countries, but during a long time at first, the arch-reactionary forces had concentrated above all on combating that superior energy technology by far, the nuclear one.

The "greenhouse" propaganda and corresponding curtailment measures are a continuation and an extension of the reactionary warfare against nuclear energy, now going after also the second-best energy sources, the chemical fuels.

Among these, coal of course is not a very modern one, but its use still is necessary in many less developed countries. Quite another matter is it when a highly-developed one such as the USA in the last two decades has built practically no further nuclear power plants but has more than doubled its coal use instead. This is a case of retrogression, very typical of that imperialism which already Lenin in his time characterized as parasitic, putrefying capitalism.

Of course this coal use of the US imperialists' comes into conflict with the "greenhouse" propaganda. But their main forces are continuing to pursue this anyway.

Another, though smaller, campaign parallel to the "greenhouse" one is that of the last decade or so also against the construction of hydropower dams and plants, in particular in some poorer countries, using various "environmental" and other pretexts. This too in reality has the aim of making energy scarce and expensive, in the countries in question, and preventing their industrial development, so that the people there shall remain as extremely low-paid wage slaves for the international big capitalist companies to exploit.

The importance, to the entire bourgeoisie in the world, of the "greenhouse" propaganda shows up in the fact that in recent years, some quite big international conferences have been held in which this was a major theme, or even the theme:

That in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the biggest international conference of all, so far, which was on so-called "sustainable development" - a bourgeois catchword implying that the development in the world had so far "not" been sustainable - and later that in Kyoto in 1997, purportedly "on world climate", in which a number of governments agreed on principle on far-reaching targets for "reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases", meaning in practice, most massive curtailment of the use of oil, natural gas and coal in the world.

Were these conferences called together "in order to address some vital problems confronting this planet and its people", as the bourgeois propaganda said? Of course not. They were called together, by the main reactionaries, in order to subject that people to some sneak attacks. And the "need" for them also shows how much the present rulers fear the people in all countries today.

[So far Info #165en]

	UNITE! Info #292en:
	From earlier articles on "green" warfare 14.09.2007
	Intro note: At the MLL mailing list, Calvin Broadbent <calvinbroadbent@hotmail.com> wrote on 12.09, subject "To Rolf M. On 'Green' Warfare": "I have been reading over Rolf Martens' posts on 'Green' warfare and find his views very interesting and quite shocking. http://www.rolf-martens.com/subjects_in_postings.html However, I was wondering if Rolf had written any sustained essays/articles exploring the full dimensions of this issue. Can you help me out, please, Rolf? Thanks a lot." And the signature Waistline2@aol.com <Waistline2@aol.com> added: "I would be interested in a synopsis of his views no longer than 30 pages. ... Rolf's suggestions concerning global warming are intriguing and I simply ask of more concise factual data as best as is available. ... Rolf's material would make the list more interesting. ... I still have an anti-nuclear narrow mindedness, but it might not be defensible. Although, I believe it can be defended on the basis of Marx' description of human need versus bourgeois need." To those writers, I already have written some brief replies, posted to the MLL list and Cc-ed also to the Modern Marxism mailing list. The first of them was reproduced in my "News with brief comments" item 312, yesterday 13.09. I wrote, firstly, that in my opinion, the phenomenon which I'm calling "green" warfare (by the imperialists against the people in all countries) is a very important one in the class struggle in the world today, and secondly, that an article or a synopsis exploring the full dimensions of that issue I had not written, but very many such (since 1996) on various parts of it, and also a few (listed in my reply to Calvin B.) which contained some rather extensive summaries concerning those relatively new methods of the imperialists' (above all from the late 1960s / early 1970s on) in their combating the working class and the oppressed peoples. Here I'm bringing some parts of those earlier articles. I hope that they together can function as something like such a synopsis that was asked for. Some repetitions, in one article, of things already said in an earlier one, there will be, but not very many. I repeat that the discovery of these things' going on in the world and of the basic, arch-reactionary, motive behind them is not mine. I got the knowledge about this, directly, from an important though internationally rather unknown Marxist in Germany in the 1970s, Hartmut Dicke (then using the pseudonym Klaus Sender), who however later turned bourgeois, and indirectly from Karl Marx. (See below, and also for instance the very last section of Info #270en.) The importance today of the issue of "green" warfare and the need for the actual Marx adherents to counteract these attacks too is noted in the description of that Modern Marxism mailing list which I mentioned above and which was created by me rather recently. It reads on this: "The listowner holds that: ... - some basic knowledge of the natural sciences is essential for all Marx adherents today (in 2007), and makes it possible for them to see that the imperialists today massively are engaging in 'green' (anti-industrial) warfare and in quackery warfare against practically everybody, and to arm the people against this". The phenomenon of quackery warfare going on in the world is a parallel, likewise very large and to people in general today probably even more unknown one. On this, I shall here only refer readers to articles listed under that subject in my homepage's "Subjects in postings" section. For scientific refutations of those various very big lies on questions of the natural sciences which largely make up the public-propaganda part of the "green" warfare, see several websites linked to from the "Science" part of my homepage's "Links" section.
	1. From Info #004en, "A barbaric anti-industry attack", 21.03.1996 (part 1/2, part 2/2 and Appendix 2/2 - before my homepage was set up in March 2005, "UNITE! (etc) Infos" were only posted to newsgroups etc, sometimes then divided into two or more parts) Note, Sept. 2007: This section, the first of five, already contains a main part of my summary now. The other four are filling in on some details and aspects. The present assault in this country [a repeated one against nuclear energy in Sweden then, in early 1996 - RM, 2007] directly concerns people in several other European countries as well, since these of course are connected to the same power grid as is also Sweden. Only a couple of years ago, for instance, a so-called Baltic Cable was completed, capable of transferring the current of one reactor from Sweden directly to Germany or vice versa. The workers, the unemployed etc in Germany, too, are under direct fire here, as are others. In Europe and of course in all countries, the machinations and the terror of the present-day, "green", international inquisition must be countered! People of different social strata and of different political persuasions should form a united front to do so, which is in the interest of all except some extremely small, though today extremely powerful, cliques of ultra-reactionaries. Earlier this year, when there was cold winter weather in Sweden as elsewhere, electricity rationing was imposed on some vital industries - a phenomenon earlier unheard-of here. The utilization of chemical-fuel reserve power plants and the importation of electricity from as many as four neighbouring countries still failed to meet all needs. The rabid anti-industry, anti-technology, anti-science and anti-growth forces already have managed to impose the beginnings of "East European" or "third world" conditions in certain respects in this country. This as you can see by no means has satisfied their lust for destruction. Precisely concerning of nuclear energy, precisely Sweden has long been a particular example to all countries. This at first, during a certain period, in a positive sense, in later years however, above all in exactly the opposite direction, in a very negative sense. In our small country with less than 9 million people, a quite important battle has long been raging in what is actually a "green" stealth world war waged by the main forces of the international bourgeoisie against the people in all countries. The new reactionary offensive here in Sweden therefore merits international attention. This war is not only over nuclear energy, although this energy source has long been a particular target of attack, precisely because it's such an important factor in all modern development. The international ultra-rightist forces, quite often operating under a camouflage of "leftism", of "Marxism" even, since 20 or 30 years back in fact are attacking the development of industry as a whole, particularly in the more developed countries and particularly in Europe. This mainly out of an increasing fear that the workers, if "allowed" to grow "too" many and "too" strong, will eventually team up with the oppressed peoples of the third world, together with them make revolution and smash the entire long obsolete system of capitalism and imperialism in the world, which is turning more and more completely into an enormous obstacle against the productive forces of today, a giant Berlin Wall against the progress of all mankind. In Sweden, between the years 1970 and 1985 a nuclear electricity generating capacity of 10,000 MW was installed, in four power plants totaling 12 reactors. This means that today appr. 50% of all electricity in Sweden comes from nuclear energy. Some countries, notably France, have a higher percentage than that, but in overall nuclear-generated electrical energy per inhabitant, Sweden is - still - the internationally leading country. There is of course great need for energy in such a country, too, with its comparatively cold climate and long transportation distances - the area of Sweden is bigger than that of Germany with its 80 million people. However, in the early '70s, the international campaigns against industry, technology, science and economic growth were stepped-up enormously, as a reactionary counterattack against the radical youth and student movement in many countries developing from 1967-68 on, which in France and West Germany also came to embrace many young workers, and indirectly as a counterattack against the then very massive national liberation struggles in many third world countries as well, all importantly inspired and supported by the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in then socialist China, 1966-76. These reactionary anti-industry etc campaigns were stagemanged above all by the main forces of U.S. imperialism. In 1972 there was published, for instance, a neo-Malthusian anti-progress book entitled "The Limits to Growth" by the U.S.-based so-called "Club of Rome", a kind of embryonic propaganda organ for an international "green" Inquisition. In the West European countries, also those superpower lackey forces which at that time mainly favoured Soviet social-imperialism, such as the openly revisionist parties and, more importantly, most of the recently emerged small parties which, in words, supported Mao Zedong's criticism of "modern" revisionism, started with increasing fanaticism to support the rabidly anti-Marxist anti-proletarian anti-liberation-struggle "green" ideology. Among the second-world countries, Sweden was an early victim of this escalated international stealth warfare. All second-world countries in fact were, and are, more or less prone to the infection of the "green" disease emanating above all from the superpowers and their lackeys, because, since they participated and still participate in the exploitation of the oppressed peoples and receive(d) part of their riches from this, they also were - and still are, even in the somewhat different international situation of today - more or less dependent on the superpowers in the capacity of the latter as "world gendarmes" - a role which today of course is taken up mainly by the USA. For Sweden, which had earlier prospered, in part because it had been in some respects a "canary" of both superpowers, this dependence from the mid-'70:s on started to have exactly the opposite effect economically. In 1972, the first UN so-called conference "on the environment" was held in Stockholm. It was in fact, on the part of the main international bourgeois forces including the revisionist ones, a conference on the strangulation of industrial development - as was, even more so, the big "follow-up" event in Rio de Janeiro 20 years later. In early 1973, initial decisions were taken by the Swedish parliament to cut down the nuclear-energy programme and to curtail other industrial development. This was even before the international so-called "oil crisis" of 1973-74, which was in part likewise caused by intentional efforts by the imperialists to strangle industrial growth. From 1974 on, no further permits were given by the government here for the construction of nuclear power plants. The propaganda of the bourgeois mass media in the '70:s became increasingly "green" and neo-Malthusian. From late 1976 on, when the imperialists started hoping that they would get the situation in China "under control", that is, when they saw reason to hope that the rule of the proletariat in China was being overthrown and that thus they needn't fear public counterattack against their plans from that country, they escalated their international "green" stealth warfare even more. In Europe, in particular the masses of West Germany and Berlin(West), a potentially important factor in the entire international proletarian revolution because of some obvious geographical and historical facts, were doused with great amounts of "Agent Green" propaganda. Ignorant or reactionary strata of society were moved to take part in public anti-nuclear-energy and other anti-industrial campaigns supposedly directed "against" those very international reactionaries who in fact were orchestrating them. In Sweden, there was an equally sharp conflict over nuclear energy in particular, resulting in the fall of one government in 1978. In Germany however there at the time was also, as probably in no other European country, a genuinely Marxist-Leninist party, the KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT), which (until approximately the late 80:s) continued to adhere completely to Mao Zedong's correct line. (See Infos #1en and #3en.) It counterattacked against the "green" campaigns, exposing the motives behind them. Although this party was very small indeed, the correct propaganda emanating from it in Germany and in Sweden (here in my rendering), which was based on some important findings by Marx 100-120 years earlier, spread like wildfire among the masses and in early 1979 had already achieved considerable results against the counter-revolutionary "green" public campaigns. We publicly "cut the throats" of some ultra-rightist phoney"Marxist" forces of that time, who functioned as a certain "ideological core" in them. In March 1979, the main forces of U.S. imperialism manipulated a nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, causing an "accident" and initiating a new wave of anti-industrial public propaganda and governmental strangulation measures internationally. The bourgeoisie of notably one of the comparatively highly-developed countries, France, didn't play along, despite also a probably "follow-up" sabotage action with explosives in early April 1979 against a Toulon storage of nuclear equipment intended for export to certain European and third world countries. In Sweden, however, the politicians illegally refused permission for two recently completed nuclear reactors to be commissioned, increasing the number of scandalously idle such new constructions here to four, and decided on a so-called referendum on nuclear power to be held in March 1980. For "safety", since they well knew the majority of people would probably still favour nuclear energy despite the entire reactionary propaganda, which at that time reached a truly feverish pitch here, they only advanced (three) parallel "NO" "proposals" between which to "choose" in this "referendum", whose "result" was thus ensured with no "risk of accident due to the human factor". Note, Sept. 2007: On that fantastic "referendum" in Sweden in 1980, see Info #225en, part 1/2 and part 2/2. In Swedish, there are several Infos on this including #276se, and in German, #231de. Behind this there was, visibly, massive superpower pressure. This whole "referendum" plot was publicly exposed beforehand by me in Sweden and by the KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT) in Germany, one of the important other countries where the public was intended to be "impressed" by the so-called "no" "of the Swedish people". And this exposure probably importantly contributed to the fact that the reactionaries didn't dare to scrap one or more of the completed plants in Sweden at once, as had certainly been their intention. But the politicians here have taken the "result" of the 1980 "referendum", an event justly described by one prominent nuclear-energy expert in Sweden as a "modern" counterpart to the sentencing of Galileo in 1633 by the old Inquisition, as a pretext for now directly banning the further construction of nuclear power plants and for deciding that this entire energy source is to be banned forever in this country from the year 2010 on, or "phased out", as is their "nice" Orwellian term for it. In 1987, after the murky Chernobyl incident in the Soviet Union and the extreme, technically completely illogical, outcry by the imperialists and social-imperialists against all nuclear energy which followed on this incident, there in Sweden was even enacted a law which prohibits the very research and projection with the purpose of constructing a nuclear power plant here, the illfamed "brainwash paragraph", which, even under today's "green Inquisition" imperialism, as far as I know has no counterpart elsewhere. The reactionary fanaticism which shows up in these actions is, as already pointed out above, by no means limited to enmity against nuclear energy. It's a fanaticism which has grown out of an increasing fear, by the main forces of the international bourgeoisie today, of proletarian revolution. It's directed, indirectly, against the workers and against the oppressed peoples and nations, and directly against the further development of industry in several countries. One main preoccupation [aim] of the extreme reactionaries is that energy should be intentionally made as scarce and as expensive as possible. This in fact all-embracingly important factor (as far as the technical side is concerned) in every more-or-less modern society today, energy, also in general is one over which the bourgeois state has a certain control, as opposed to the (non-state) industrial capitalists who are mainly concerned with profit-making and who therefore still may tend to favour industrial expansion and technological and scientific advance instead of the opposite. With actions taken by the executive body of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, the state, against the energy supply, industry can be strangled and a great number of people forced into unemployment (and thus at least in part "neutralized" politically), even against the will of some of the capitalists. This is also why in the last two decades not only the expansion of nuclear (fission) energy in the world has been brought practically to a standstill, with only some 400 reactors in operation out of the 2,000 originally envisaged for the year 2000, and funds for nuclear fusion research likewise cut drastically, but extensive measures have been taken and massive phoney "environmental" propaganda made also against the second-best energy sources, the chemical ones, oil and natural gas, which at present of course account for a much greater part of the total than does nuclear energy and therefore likewise have become important targets for attack by the arch-enemies of the peoples in their "green" stealth warfare. In 1983-85, there was an international propaganda campaign over the (non-existent) "forest death" allegedly caused by the use of oil etc. As far back as in 1972, the above-mentioned early Inquisition "Club of Rome" piece "The Limits to Growth" also contained, in addition to its vilification of nuclear energy, a so-called "theory" on an alleged "additional greenhouse effect" supposedly due to human chemical-fuel utilization. This "theory" obviously is not correct. Several arguments, largely suppressed by the mass media, speak against it. (I intend to post more on this later.) Despite this, the 1992 (actually anti-industrial) so-called "Earth Summit" in Rio under the auspices of international imperialism i.a. set up a so-called "convention" on the "limitation of carbon dioxide emissions". The Swedish bourgeois politicians declared their "ambition" to "take the lead" in implementing it, just as they had already "taken the lead" in "referenda" against nuclear energy (which they'll keep at least until someone comes up with one returning more than 100% "no"s) and in truly medieval laws against it. Furthermore, the chemical fuels are always called "fossil fuels" by all the media etc, by the entire present-day inquisition. This implies that the theory of their being of biological origin is correct, which would also mean that these resources were comparatively scarce - another "reason" for limiting their use. In reality, the hydrocarbons from which these energy sources stem are of cosmic origin. The planet Earth doesn't have such enormous amounts of them as do the atmospheres of the outer planets, but still there's plenty of oil and natural gas under large parts of the surface here, mainly at great depths. This knowledge, too (another subject for later postings), is being fanatically suppressed by the main international bourgeois forces. This constitutes yet another front in their particular "green" warfare against the proletariat. In Sweden, there in all probability is a very large oil and gas deposit some 7,000 m below the ground in Siljansringen in the province of Dalarna. But after the - much-delayed - exploratory drilling of only two bore holes, both of which showed great promise, the project of its possible utilization was finally killed by political machinations in 1994. Note, Sept. 2007: On this project in Sweden and on there being enormous resources of oil and natural gas, not difficult to extract quite cheaply, in many land and sea regions all over this planet, see a long article in Info #267en. In other parts of the world, e.g. in China when it was still socialist, oil and gas have been extracted from crystalline rock and from great depths, a fact which contributes to the refutation of the "fossil" theory. Here again, an important fact about the world today was clearly demonstrated in Sweden: One reason why the proletariat and the oppressed peoples and nations absolutely must topple the present rulers of the world from power is that these reactionaries today more and more are turning into a massive plug preventing the use of those enormous natural resources which the earth holds, a plug which must be pulled out if real economic progress is to be achieved. To all readers of this article, whether they are in agreement with me on the above analysis and the above description of certain recent events or not - and I realize the need for further elaborations and evidence on many of the points made here - I repeat the call: Please support the fight against the present anti-industrial attack here in Sweden! An international united front is sorely needed against the ultra-reactionaries' "green" stealth warfare. Not least those friends who have as their ambition to pursue a genuinely Marxist political line IMO should carefully study the scientific and political questions in connection with this, so as to be able all-sidedly correctly to lead the struggle of the masses against their worst enemies. ... From The Heidelberg Appeal This is a statement originally published on June 1, 1992, immediately before the so-called "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janeiro, as signed by 264 scientists, including 52 Nobel prize recipients, from 29 countries. ... Today the number of scientists who have signed this appeal is well above 1,000. ... I reproduce the text of the Appeal from the Fall 1992 issue of the magazine 21st Century Science and Technology,... [QUOTE:] THE HEIDELBERG APPEAL To Heads of States and Governments ¤ We want to make our full contribution to the preservation of our common heritage, the Earth. ¤ We are however worried, at the dawn of the 21st century, at the emergence of an irrational ideology which is opposed to scientific and industrial progress and impedes economic and social development. ¤ We contend that a Natural State, sometimes idealized by movements with a tendency to look toward the past, does not exist and has probably never existed since man's first appearance in the biosphere, insofar as humanity has always progressed by harnessing Nature to its needs and not the reverse. ¤ We fully subscribe to the objectives of a scientific ecology for a universe whose resources must be taken stock of, monitored, and preserved. ¤ But we herewith demand that this stocktaking, monitoring, and preservation be founded on scientific criteria and not on irrational preconceptions. ¤ We stress that many essential human activities are carried out either by manipulating hazardous substances or in their proximity, and that progress and development have always involved increasing control over hostile forces, to the benefit of mankind. ¤ We therefore consider that scientific ecology is no more than an extension of this continual progress toward the improved life of future generations. ¤ We intend to assert science's responsibility and duties toward society as a whole. ¤ We do, however, forewarn the authorities in charge of our planet's destiny against decisions which are supported by pseudoscientific arguments or false and nonrelevant data. ¤ We draw everybody's attention to the absolute necessity of helping poor countries attain a level of sustainable development which matches that of the rest of the planet, protecting them from troubles and dangers stemming from developed nations, and avoiding their entanglement in a web of unrealistic obligations which would compromise both their independence and their dignity. ¤ The greatest evils which stalk our Earth are ignorance and oppression, and not Science, Technology, and Industry whose instruments, when adequately managed, are indispensable tools of a future shaped by Humanity, by itself and for itself, overcoming major problems like overpopulation, starvation and worldwide diseases. [END OF QUOTE] [So far Info #004en]
	2. From Info #165en, "The big 'greenhouse' hoax (1)", 22.02.2002 (part 1/4) The motives behind the propaganda The "greenhouse" propaganda hoax and the corresponding measures to curtail the use of oil, natural gas and coal are part of a "green" stealth warfare which the main ruling bourgeois forces in the world are engaging in, against the people in all countries, since some three decades back now. Briefly, the reasons for this warfare can be described as in Info #4en in this series (21.03.1996): ... Within US imperialism, it was always the forces of the Al Gore type that were advocating this particular kind of warfare more directly and openly that those of the George W. Bush type. One rather well-known 1992 book by Gore, for instance, "Earth in the Balance - Ecology and the Human Spirit", purportedly about a number of "environmental" questions, precisely is full of this spirit. But it should not be thought that the Bush faction of international exploiters, oppressors, war criminals and mass murderers are not engaging too in this warfare, when now for instance in their recent programme (mid-February 2002) for energy provisioning in the USA itself, they have declared the particularly extreme Kyoto programme for worldwide industry strangulation, under "greenhouse" pretext, dead. The various forces of US imperialism, and of other reaction too, on principle are always using "double trouble" tactics. They will say one thing officially which may sound "not quite so bad" and at the same time, using a number of "unofficial" muppets of theirs which they are always handling, pursue a different and more sinister policy. This last was the tactics, for instance, behind the 11 September 2001 terror attacks against the people in the USA and in the whole world, with which the US imperialists, in the more and more desperate situation for the reactionaries in all countries, started a policy of also open warfare against the people in all countries. The war purportedly "against terrorism", in reality against the people everywhere, waged jointly by the biggest terrorists in the world, of course must be opposed. So must the "green" warfare by those same forces, which continues too and which internationally, continually, is causing even more destruction and death than did for instance the recent bombings of New York City, Afghanistan and Iraq. A programme for making all energy as expensive and scarce as possible Such an agenda may seem "completely mad". And in a way, it is too. But it's an important one of the main reactionaries' in the world, and has been more and more so since some three decades back. This is part of their "green" warfare against practically everybody on earth. Marx pointed out, in a speech way back in 1856: "Steam, electricity, and the self acting mule were revolutionists of a rather more dangerous character than even citizens Barbès, Raspail and Blanqui." Note, Sept. 2007: See Info #005en, #005de or #005se (this last with a translation by me of that speech into Swedish), or http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1856/04/14.htm. That's how mainly some feudalists were seeing things, in the mid-19th century. Today, with that enormous further development of such productive forces which has taken place since then, it's what the main political forces of the entire bourgeoisie are thinking. Don't the bourgeoisie want to make profits? Isn't that what capitalism is all about? Yes, they do, and it is. But an absolutely necessary prerequisite for the capitalists is that they retain political power. Without this, they of course cannot exploit one single worker, or internationally, a single poor country. The "green" warfare of their main forces, of their main political forces, precisely is intended to prolong the rule of the entire bourgeoisie in the world. Since this means curtailment of technological and scientific advances and of the development of industry, indeed even the mass destruction of some industries, of course some capitalists owning certain types of such are complaining that it's costing them a lot of money, and are sometimes protesting against the "green" warfare, or against such parts of it as are hitting "their" industrial branch. They then are being told by their own politicians that they should not be so "greedy" or so "consumerist" but must make some sacrifices for the "common good" of the entire exploiting class, which needs a suitable political "environment", of stagnation and putrefaction today, of absolutely not "too" cheap energy, for instance. The "greenhouse" propaganda and the programmes connected with it, of curtailing the use of oil, natural gas and coal so as to replace this with much more primitive energy sources, or not replacing it at all, are a campaign parallel to the one, by more or less the same forces, against the peaceful use of nuclear energy in the world. In the late 1980s, the US imperialists and others, such as the Soviet social-imperialists at that time, were fairly confident that they, with their various overt and covert actions, had been successful in "containing" nuclear energy in the world. In practically all of the more industrialized countries, no nuclear power plants were being built any more. A number of experiments with the particularly promising breeder technology had all been strangled. Most of the poorer, internationally-oppressed and exploited countries had been prevented from developing nuclear energy. It was at that point in time, from 1988 on approximately, that the "greenhouse" propaganda really got to be a big theme in the international mass media. It had been there before, from the early 1970s or so in some countries, but during a long time at first, the arch-reactionary forces had concentrated above all on combating that superior energy technology by far, the nuclear one. The "greenhouse" propaganda and corresponding curtailment measures are a continuation and an extension of the reactionary warfare against nuclear energy, now going after also the second-best energy sources, the chemical fuels. Among these, coal of course is not a very modern one, but its use still is necessary in many less developed countries. Quite another matter is it when a highly-developed one such as the USA in the last two decades has built practically no further nuclear power plants but has more than doubled its coal use instead. This is a case of retrogression, very typical of that imperialism which already Lenin in his time characterized as parasitic, putrefying capitalism. Of course this coal use of the US imperialists' comes into conflict with the "greenhouse" propaganda. But their main forces are continuing to pursue this anyway. Another, though smaller, campaign parallel to the "greenhouse" one is that of the last decade or so also against the construction of hydropower dams and plants, in particular in some poorer countries, using various "environmental" and other pretexts. This too in reality has the aim of making energy scarce and expensive, in the countries in question, and preventing their industrial development, so that the people there shall remain as extremely low-paid wage slaves for the international big capitalist companies to exploit. The importance, to the entire bourgeoisie in the world, of the "greenhouse" propaganda shows up in the fact that in recent years, some quite big international conferences have been held in which this was a major theme, or even the theme: That in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the biggest international conference of all, so far, which was on so-called "sustainable development" - a bourgeois catchword implying that the development in the world had so far "not" been sustainable - and later that in Kyoto in 1997, purportedly "on world climate", in which a number of governments agreed on principle on far-reaching targets for "reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases", meaning in practice, most massive curtailment of the use of oil, natural gas and coal in the world. Were these conferences called together "in order to address some vital problems confronting this planet and its people", as the bourgeois propaganda said? Of course not. They were called together, by the main reactionaries, in order to subject that people to some sneak attacks. And the "need" for them also shows how much the present rulers fear the people in all countries today. [So far Info #165en]
	3. From Info #245en, "How the industry strangulation began", 29.11.2005 Consequences for the shipyards One branch of industry for which this international shift in policy had immediate and disastrous consequences in several European and other countries was that of shipbuilding. This was the case not least here in Sweden, where it had earlier made up a quite important part of the country's entire industry. In the mid-1970s, Sweden (with less than 9 million inhabitants) actually was building more merchant ships per year than any other country in the world except for Japan, which in this respect far out-distanced all others. The decline of that industry from that time on in some of those countries where it had earlier been an important one is shown in the table below. ... Note, Sept. 2007: As it happens, I from 1975 on worked as a welder at one of the shipyards in Sweden, the Kockums one here in Malmö (population some 250,000), which then employed some 5,000 people and indirectly 15,000 more. I was "in on" the last 6 out of a series of 14 oil tankers built by that shipyard, somewhat larger than the largest US aircraft carriers. Later, it had to build other and smaller ships instead, and in 1987 its civilian ship production ceased altogether. From then on I worked in a factory in the nearby smaller city of Eslöv instead, which produced excavators, employing directly some 1,000 people, until 1999 when it too was closed down. Because of my earlier university education, I on my part could soon find other employment, but some of the consequences of the "green" warfare I have in fact experienced personally twice. For many others in this region and in Sweden as a whole, in particular young people and also not least immigrants, it has had much worse and quite serious consequences. Efforts to make all energy scarce and expensive began already before the 1973-74 "oil crisis". What the shipyards in the world above all were building in the early/mid-1970s was bigger and bigger oil tankers. In late 1973 and early 1974, the OPEC, which was dominated by Arab countries, decided on important increases in its selling price of crude oil, which had earlier been very low, and on a partial boycott of the USA on account of the US government's support of "Israel" in the war of October 1973. These actions, directed against the international oppression and exploitation of several Middle East countries, were completely justified. But they were taken as pretexts, firstly, by the big oil companies for raising the price of that oil which they were selling even much more and thus to increase their profits, and secondly by several governments of the "rich" countries, led by that of the USA, for increasing enormously their taxes on petrol (gasoline) for the consumers and for manipulating forth shortages of that important commodity. This was a part of those efforts of theirs to curtail industry production, for political reasons, which had already started somewhat earlier. The oil crisis of 1973-74 was not caused by the Arab countries, which were then and later blamed for it by the main international mass media but which had only set a quite reasonable price on oil. The actual crisis then, that which caused industry production in many countries to stagnate or even decrease and not least hit the shipyards, was manipulated forth by the imperialist bourgeoisie. Here in Sweden, a country in which the really big-time imperialists since long have had a large influence, those efforts at making all energy scarce and expensive which began in the early 1970s could be seen very clearly even before the 1973-74 oil crisis. In this country, a relatively large programme for nuclear power reactors, envisaging 24 such to be built, had been decided on in 1970. But in the spring of 1973, in the wake of the 1972 so-called "Environment Conference", there were several debates in the parliament here on some invented "recently discovered drawbacks" of nuclear energy. One of the parties represented in that parliament, the Centre Party, already had turned into an opponent of that most modern energy source after its leaders had been "inspired" in this direction by some forces in the USA. And within other parties too, as in the mass media, anti-nuclear-energy and anti-growth programmes and propaganda were emerging. After continued debates on these questions, the Swedish parliament in 1975 decided to cut down its nuclear energy programme to 13 reactors and also made that most extreme anti-growth declaration that in the future, energy use in Sweden "was never to increase". Similar turnabouts took place in several other West European countries at that time or somewhat later. Here in Sweden, the turn towards retrogression was particularly sharp and extreme. And in the following years, the working people in this country, where wages had earlier been relatively high and the unemployment rate low, were hit much harder too by wage cuts and rising unemployment than were those in the other West European countries. [So far Info #245en]
	4. From Info #278en, "Bush and Reinfeldt agree on energy strangling", 19.05.2007 Theme 1 which Bush and Reinfeldt didn't touch on in their meeting: Nuclear energy This is a quite big theme, since many decades back, concerning the country where I'm writing this, Sweden, and not least concerning the relations between the politicians of that country, on the one hand, and those of the USA, on the other. ... On the history of nuclear energy in Sweden, from the 1960s on and up until February 2005, there are some main points at the "Background" page of the website of the (non-party-political) Committee Save Barsebäck, of which I'm a member. [http://www.save-nukeplant-barsebaeck.com/background.html] ... Note, Sept. 2007: This is a small organization, created in 1997 for combating the efforts of the ruling reactionaries to close the excellently-functioning nuclear power plant at Barsebäck, not far from Malmö were I live, which earlier produced 6% of all electricity in Sweden, down. Despite this being opposed by at least some 90% of the people in Sweden, those reactionaries managed to close down one of its two reactors in 1999 and the other in May 2005. Our committee together with some other organizations campaigned as strongly as we could in particular against that latter closure but was not able to prevent that serious crime either. (See also below.) Another interesting thing, and this one an indubitable fact, concerning US influence in Sweden on such matters, is that it was from a longer visit to the USA that the Swedish physicist Hannes Alfvén, whose specialty was nuclear fusion, returned in 1970 with his then new conviction that nuclear fission was "a very bad thing", "what with the wastes and everything", and in his turn convinced the then new leader of the Centre Party - originally a farmers' party - Torbjörn Fälldin, of his new Gospel, which it in the following decades was to become Fälldin's and the Centre Party's "main mission in life" to preach and to practice - in particular under Fälldin's premiership in the period 1976-1982, and this has not been abandoned today either - much to the displeasure of most farmers, since agriculture today of course needs lots of cheap and clean energy too. One early book dedicated to "warning" people against nuclear energy, in this case against breeder reactors quite in particular, appeared in the USA too, in 1969: "The Careless Atom" by Sheldon Novick. Another party in Sweden, the so-called "Leftist Party the Communists" ("VPK", as it was called then), closely connected not only with the Soviet social-imperialists but with the US imperialists too although this was less obviously visible, went openly anti-nuclear-energy too approximately at the same time, the early 1970s. In 1977 this caused a split in that party, one pro-nuclear-energy and also very pro-Soviet-social-imperialism faction breaking away from it. ... In 1973-74 there was the first international "oil crisis", caused not at all in the main by the Arabic-speaking countries' quite justified demands for a small raise in the price of their raw material or their use of oil as a "weapon" against some glaring international injustices, but mainly by the US and some other other ruling reactionaries who took this as an excuse to raise the price of oil enormously much more, so as to curtail its use and hit at the industrial production in many countries. It was no coincidence that at approximately that very same time, actually beginning in the spring of 1973 and thus immediately before the "oil crisis", there was a spate of articles in Swedish newspapers attacking the use of nuclear power plants and there soon began a debate in the parliament here on this issue, in which the then prime minister Olof Palme played a role no smaller than that of Fälldin in advocating "zero growth", and which led to decisions by that parliament in 1975 not only to cut the nuclear-energy programme down radically, from 24 reactors to 13, but also one actually envisaging that in the future, Sweden's energy use was not to increase at all. These quite extreme decisions by the Swedish parliament, very much in accordance with the "Club of Rome" programme, undoubtedly very much had to to with the considerable influence of the US imperialists here in this country, At the same time, the latter were criticized relatively severely by some of the people who made these decisions, notably Palme, for their ongoing aggression against Vietnam, but concerning energy, their "commands" were obeyed by the politicians here, in part because they also represented the common wishes of the bourgeoisie as a whole. The construction respectively non-construction and destruction of nuclear power plants in Sweden - before and after the big turnabout here Because of the Swedish bourgeoisie's earlier pro-nuclear-energy standpoint and because of some other factors already mentioned above, more electricity-producing capacity utilizing nuclear energy was built in this country than in any other in the world, if you count capacity installed per capita. (Sweden had and still has some 9 million inhabitants.) This took place between 1970 and 1985. 12 nuclear power reactors were built here then, in that 15-year period, with a combined electricity production capacity of over 10 GW (10,000+ MW). After the recent scandalous shutdowns of two of them, bitterly opposed by a large majority of people here, namely both of those at the Barsebäck plant, in 1999 respectively in 2005, Sweden with 46% of all its electricity still coming from nuclear power plants, compared to 78% in France today, has lost that internationally leading position which it formerly had, in the respect of functioning nuclear power electricity production capacity per inhabitant, and is rather precisely on a par with that other relatively modern capitalist country in this respect, with some 1 GW (1,000 MW) of such capacity, corresponding to one normal-sized nuclear power reactor, per million inhabitants. But things since long are going downhill, as to nuclear energy in this country. The nuclear power plant construction here in Sweden now rather long ago, in 1970-1985, anyway may be taken as an example of what it's technically possible and not very difficult to do today, as to such construction, in any country which has the necessary technology. This is worth noting today, when the bourgeoisie internationally already has retreated so far from that very most modern of energy sources that any nuclear energy programme in any country, calling for the construction of just a few reactors, is being described by the media as a "big" or even "radical" one. This example shows, for instance, that in the USA, a country of some 300 million inhabitants, which today has some 104 functioning nuclear power reactors, with not a single new one built in the last 25 years and with only some 20% of its electricity coming from nuclear energy, it would be quite easy, technically, to build 300 such reactors, of 1 GW each, in the next 15 years. After Bush was elected president in 2000, he among other things "promised" the people in the USA - where even according to recent "opinion polls" (those are always "slanted" in a reactionary direction), some 70% are in favour of nuclear energy and where the industrial capitalists know quite well too that this already today is the cheapest way to produce electricity - that there would now be "a new stance" on nuclear energy in that country, and in early 2002 a governmental programme on this was decided on which its originators called a "bold" one. So far, five years later, that programme has resulted in the start of construction of - not one single reactor. China and India today, where some 30 respectively some 20 new reactors reportedly are envisaged for the next 20 years, are being said by the media to have "big" nuclear energy construction programmes. And these construction programmes, in those countries to which today, because of their cheap labour power and for political reasons too, much industry is being transferred from some of the "richer", imperialist-type countries, something which also causes unemployment in the latter ones, indeed to some small extent may alleviate that raging energy crisis which there now is in China, in particular, because of the long time revisionist rule there. But, as the earlier example of Sweden shows too: Supposing that China and India, with their 1,300 respectively 1,000 million inhabitants, have one-fifth of the nuclear energy construction capability of the relatively most highly-developed capitalist countries, it would not be difficult, technically, to build some 300 respectively 200 reactors in those countries in the next 15 years. Their present construction programmes thus are really quite small too, as reckoned by ordinary, normal, non-bourgeois people. The "Harrisburg" manipulation in 1979 and the fantastic "referendum on nuclear power" in Sweden in 1980 On 28.03.1979, there occurred a so-called "accident" at reactor No. 2 of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant not far from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the USA. Nobody got hurt by it and there was only moderately large material destruction, but this event was taken as an opportunity for some even much louder anti-nuclear-energy howling by the mass media, in the USA itself and not least here in Europe, than ever before. At that time, I got a phone call from my then comrades in the abovementioned, tiny but actually Marxist-Leninist party in Germany, who said that they strongly suspected, not least because of the point in time in which it occurred - the international political situation which was a particular one in several respects then - that this was not really an accident at all but a manipulation by the US imperialists, in order to create a certain diversion and not least in order to get the anti-nuclear-energy "movement" going again, after the political exposure of its real background and movers had brought it to almost a halt in (West) Germany, for instance. (US president then was Jimmy Carter, known among other things to be rather extremely anti-nuclear-energy; he for instance quite openly had tried to prevent the then West Germany from transferring nuclear-energy technology to Brazil.) My comrades asked me to help collect information internationally on the TMI incident. And I did find, above all, a particularly "juicy" piece of such information. I've earlier written about this in Info #034en, entitled "US trickery on Barsebäck" and posted to newsgroups etc on 27.05.1997, from whose part 2/3 I quote: "After the anti-nuclear-energy campaign had been criticized and the motives behind it disclosed, it was slowed down considerably in Europe in 1978. Therefore and for some other reasons, there for some [people] arose a 'need' for a 'serious nuclear-energy accident'. And one such was arranged, in the Three Mile Island 2 reactor south of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA, on 28.03.1979. The 'Harrisburg accident' is a whole story by itself, one that I so far haven't gotten around to post much about - I'm planning to do so later. The KPD/ML (NEUE EINHEIT) in April '79 published a leaflet on it, disclosing several vital facts, some of which had been discovered by me (who also reproduced that leaflet in Swedish). One detail which we found to be very telling was: One week before the 'accident', on 21.03.79, a certain 'fantasy story' appeared in the York Dispatch, a paper published in York, West Virginia, a city just as close to the TMI plant as is Harrisburg, only across the state border. The story, entitled 'The Total Meltdown', was about how, precisely one week later, on 28.03, precisely the reactor TMI 2 'suffered a pump failure and then [its core] melted down completely'. 'Here the parapsychologists have something in which to sink their teeth', wrote the correspondent [in New York City, the USA] of Sydsvenska Dagbladet, Malmö, the only paper - as far as I know - that brought the information about this in Europe. In fact all who read it must have understood what it clearly pointed to. But nobody else but we Marx adherents ever referred again to the 'strange coincidence' of this story told one week in advance." The background of that story in fact could only have been one of two things: Either it was a "warning shot" in advance against a manipulation of that TMI reactor which some people in the USA had gotten to know was being planned and wanted to prevent. Or else it was a scare story planted in advance by people who intended to manipulate precisely that reactor precisely a week later and wanted to make people in its vicinity believe that its core indeed was to be made to melt down completely - with then perhaps "a serious release of radioactive substances" - and thus "hopefully" create a public panic in that area (which in the actual event did not occur anyway). On the results of the US "Harrisburg" manipulation here in Sweden, where it did "succeed" even more dramatically than in any other country, I wrote in the same Info part: "In several European countries, the 'Harrisburg accident' had considerable repercussions, and in particular here in Sweden. On 4 April, a day later called 'Mad Wednesday', several politicians made a complete turnabout - it's known that in the days before, a person employed by the US government had made statements here about how they 'obviously didn't know what significance this event had in the USA and were unable to draw the correct conclusions from it' - and decided on a so-called 'referendum on nuclear power' in Sweden. This took place a year later, on 23.03.1980, and was not just any 'referendum' either. All three 'proposals' in favour of which you were allowed to 'vote' said squarely 'no' to nuclear energy, which according to these 'proposals' was to be curtailed and eventually banned completely in this country - which was then and which in fact is still the one with the largest amount of all of electricity from nuclear power plants per inhabitant (10 GW of installed effect for somewhat less than 9 million people). And to this day, all politicians in Sweden do 'stand by' the 'result' of this 'referendum', the 'democracy' of which you must admit beats even the one of the so-called 'elections' in, for instance, Brezhnev's Soviet Union." [So far Info #278en]
	5. From Info #258en, "The reigning system's weakness", 02.05.2006 And when Gorbachov became president in the Soviet Union in 1985 and wanted to pursue another, though likewise extremely reactionary, policy, one of "green" strangulation of industry together with the ruling persons in the USA, the then still powerful military leaders in the Soviet Union tried to force the Gorbachov group into accepting their own line of massive threats and perhaps even aggression against West Europe, by having their intelligence service the GRU assassinate Sweden's prime minister Palme on 28 February 1986. A scapegoat first got convicted of that murder but was later acquitted, after some people within the establishment here on 24 August 1989 had reported publicly on a certain result of a bugging of a GRU agent in February 1986. It's likely, in our judgement, that the largescale sabotage later, on 26 April 1986, of a nuclear power reactor at Chernobyl which was part of a certain military complex, among other things was intended as a counterattack by the Gorbachov group and/or its US friends, against those Soviet military who among other things had then recently assassinated Palme. That it was a sabotage and not an "accident" that killed 42 people then and caused large material damage is obvious. No less than 6 different safety systems were shut off deliberately in that reactor, where, incidentally, it was possible to cause an explosion only because its moderator consisted of graphite, not of water as in all nuclear power plants in for instance Sweden. The largest damage in this connection has been caused by a massive lie propaganda, which has maintained that those very small extra amounts of radiation which arose in other countries because of the Chernobyl sabotage were "harmful", and not, as are such small amounts, actually good for people's health. [So far Info #258en] Note, Sept. 2007: I'm repeating here two things which I already wrote in my "News with brief comments" item 311 on 12.09, where the above from Info #258en was quoted too and which was headlined "'The Chernobyl disaster very probably a sabotage'": This the blogger Alain wrote yesterday 11.09.2007 in his important blog in French, mainly dedicated to the origin of oil, at http://petrole-abiotique.blogspot.com/, which also contains articles pointing out that those same powerful reactionaries in the world who are making the oil price be so high are also the propelling forces behind the massive campaign, since many decades back, against nuclear energy. He motivates what he is saying about Chernobyl above all with a close look at the technical details of this disaster in 1986, which cost some 42 people their lives. ... Since the fact mentioned here concerning such small doses of ionizing radiation as those mentioned above no doubt still is unknown to many, and the international mass media since many decades back very much are trying to scare people of all radiation, even such at levels with which people in many regions on earth have always lived, their health in general being better and by no means worse than those with lower levels of natural so-called background radiation, it may be suitable to include here references to two actually scientific websites on this question: On low-dose ionizing radiation, a site managed by S. M. Javad Mortazavi, Ph. D., Iran, and containing articles by scientists in many countries: http://www.angelfire.com/mo/radioadaptive/ T. D. Luckey (USA) on beneficial effects of low-dose ionizing radiation: http://www.giriweb.com/luckey.htm This concludes my summary now concerning "green" warfare, with its main elements and history roughly outlined and with some aspects of it gone into in some detail too.

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UNITE! Info #292en:

From earlier articles on "green" warfare

Intro note:

1. From Info #004en, "A barbaric anti-industry attack", 21.03.1996

2. From Info #165en, "The big 'greenhouse' hoax (1)", 22.02.2002

3. From Info #245en, "How the industry strangulation began", 29.11.2005

4. From Info #278en, "Bush and Reinfeldt agree on energy strangling", 19.05.2007

5. From Info #258en, "The reigning system's weakness", 02.05.2006