Janet Albrechtsen, Christopher Monckton, Copenhagen, and the known unknowns are unknown

(Above: eek, a UN bureaucrat intent on world domination. Approach with caution).

When certain paranoid loons gather in a corner of the pond, the talk always turns to various conspiracy theories, usually involving devious plans to take over the world. Black helicopters are frequently mentioned, and the U.N. is often involved.

If other loons look at them askance, as if they were paranoid, they mutter darkly, and look paranoid. After all, the UN has to date been exceptionally successful as a world government, quashing wars at a moment's notice, bringing China to heel in Tibet and the USA to task in Afghanistan, while its remarkable success in insisting on peace in the middle east and resolving the various disputes between Pakistan, India and the Taliban is noted even today as stellar proof of the incredible power of world government.

Even more notable is the way the UN has introduced a startling new homogeneity into the world with its brand of celebrity atheism so dominant that only a few persecuted Christians are left in isolated gulags such as Tasmania.

What could be left? Well surely to make this world government a fact in law, and where better to do it than at Copenhagen, under the guise of bringing climate change to heel, as explained fully by Janet Albrechtsen in Beware the UN's Copenhagen plot.

Albrechtsen's source? Why none other than that colorful British identity Christopher Monckton, high Tory and fierce fighter against the secular humanist tide that's seeking to sweep away all that's good in the world (and as usual you can start with his wiki here).

Emails started arriving telling me about a speech given by Christopher Monckton, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, at Bethel University in St Paul, Minnesota, on October 14. Monckton talked about something that no one has talked about in the lead-up to Copenhagen: the text of the draft Copenhagen treaty.

Even after Monckton’s speech, most of the media has duly ignored the substance of what he said. You don’t need me to find his St Paul address on YouTube. Interviewed on Monday morning by Alan Jones on Sydney radio station 2GB, Monckton warned that the aim of the Copenhagen draft treaty was to set up a transnational government on a scale the world has never before seen. Listening to the interview, my teenage daughters asked me whether this was true.

Well since Albrechtsen is too slack (or is it News Corp policy not to provide links away from their precious content?) here's one link under the typically alarmist header "Is Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty" wherein you can see Monckton in his full regalia three piece frock. And cherish Albrechtsen's wording: "a transnational government on a scale the world has never seen before".

Pinkie and the Brain have so much to learn about how it's done - taking over the world, I mean, and Monckton reliably veers between Pinkie and the Brain as he conjures up the end of western civilization as we know it. And it seems like Albrechtsen has drunk the snake oil and become a true believer.

So I read the draft treaty. The word government appears on page 18. Monckton says: “This is the first time I’ve ever seen any transnational treaty referring to a new body to be set up under that treaty as a government. But it’s the powers that are going to be given to this entirely unelected government that are so frightening.”

Frightening, I tells ya.

Monckton became aware of the extraordinary powers to be vested in this new world government only when a friend of his found an obscure UN website and hacked his way through several layers of complications before coming across a document that isn’t even called the draft treaty. It’s called a “note by the secretariat”. The moment he saw it, he went public and said: “Look, this is an outrage ... they have kept the sheer scope of this treaty quiet.”

Monckton says the aim of this new government is to have power to directly intervene in the financial, economic, tax and environmental affairs of all the nations that sign the Copenhagen treaty.

Yes, and what's even more cunning is that it will be a new government without any representatives, or any meeting place, except in dark alleyways and the back smoke-filled rooms of UN bureaucrats (well smoking's banned of course, but they feel the need to use dry ice so that the movie-makers will still be able to create a legitimate sense of sinister atmosphere).

In a sense, countries that sign international treaties always cede powers to a UN body responsible for implementing the treaty obligations. But the difference is that we usually understand the details of the obligations and the power ceded.

Now read the 181-page draft treaty. It is impossible to fully understand the convoluted UN verbiage. Yet even those incomprehensible clauses point to some nasty surprises that no politician has told us about. For example, Monckton says the drafters want this new world government to have control over once free markets: the financial and trading markets of nation-states. “The sheer ambition of this new world government is enormous right from the start; that’s even before it starts accreting powers to itself in the way that these entities inevitably always do,” he says.

Note the wording: "For example Monckton says", and "he says". Sense a little continental drift going on?

The reason for that power grab is clear enough from the draft treaty. Clause after complicated clause sets out the requirement that developed countries such as Australia pay their “adaptation debt” to developing countries. Clause 33 on page 39 says that by 2020 the scale of financial flows to support adaptation in developing countries must be at least $US67 billion ($73bn), or in the range of $US70bn to $US140bn a year.

Sounds huge doesn't it. Put up against the current dollar GDP of the United States of $14,151.2 billion, it's truly terrifying, all the more so because Obama is an Afrimerican Muslim born in Kenya still refusing to release his birth certificate even at this alarming point in time.

How developed countries will pay is far from clear. The draft text sets out various alternatives, including Option 7 on page 135, which provides for “a (global) levy of 2 per cent on international financial market (monetary) transactions to Annex I Parties”. This means industrialised countries such as Australia, if we sign.

Monckton’s warning to Americans that “in the next few weeks, unless you stop it, your President will sign your freedom, your democracy and your prosperity away forever” is colourful. But no more colourful than the language used by those who preach about the perils of climate change and the virtues of a hard-hitting Copenhagen treaty.

Ah yes, the continental drift is now well and truly underway. It's 'colourful language' the venerable Monckton is using, but of course no more colourful language than Clive Hamilton. But I thought we all hated Clive Hamilton for his colorful language and his exaggerations and distortion and hysteria when he preached the dangers of climate change. You mean one kind of clownish exaggeration and rhetoric and fear mongering is just colorful, but the other is despicable? Please explain:

Put aside Monckton’s comments.

Oh boy, that's rich. Fear mongering on the basis of Monckton for par after par, and now we have to put the dear boy aside? So that Albrechtsen can develop her own locally related theme of FUD, wherein Chairman Rudd replaces the illegal US Islamic President?

Ask yourself this: why has our government failed to explain the possible text of a treaty it wants Australia to sign? There has been no address from any Rudd minister to explain the draft treaty. No 3000-word essay from the thoughtful PM. No speech in parliament. No interview. No press release. Nothing.

Well how about we read one in The Australian, instead of a column written in the after glow of a half-baked English tosser, with a few questions thrown in at the end to add a sense of fear and loathing.

Presumably the hard-working Climate Change Minister Penny Wong has read the 181-page draft text. Presumably our central control and command PM has been briefed about the draft text. In Germany a few months ago, Kevin Rudd complained about the lack of “detailed programmatic specificity” going into the Copenhagen talks. Yet the draft text provides much detailed specificity about obligations on developed nations to transfer millions of dollars to developing countries under formulas to be set down by an unelected body. So why the silence? Are they hiding the details of this deal from us because most of the polls now suggest that action on climate change is becoming politically unpalatable?

And yet Albrechtsen claims to have read the document. What's preventing her from providing a detailed analysis of an unsigned document still subject to intense negotiations between many governments, and when all's said and done unlikely to be resolved and ratified at Copenhagen?

And what explains the media’s failure to report and analyse the only source document that offers any idea of what may happen in Copenhagen? Ignorance? Laziness? Stubborn adherence to the orthodox government line that a deal in Copenhagen is critical? An obsession with the politics of climate change rather than policy?

Hmm, is it ignorance, laziness or stubborn adherence to the orthodox sceptical argument that climate change isn't happening, or if it is, it's nothing to do with humans, and in either case, it's really just a vast conspiracy devised by compliant scientists so the UN can take over the world.

At least we have heard from Monckton. He told Jones there had already been a million hits on the link to his St Paul address. “So the message in America is now out ... Now you know about it and you need to spread the word.”

Ah the mysterious link that dare not speak it's name, and now with over a million hits, and the message is spreading, as the pods are being trucked to all parts of the country. The pods? Sorry that's another conspiracy:

What things?
I don't know what they are.
I never saw them before.
They looked like, uh,
great big seedpods.
Seedpods?
Where was the truck
coming from?
Santa Mira.
Get on your radio
and sound an all-points alarm.
Block all highways
and stop all traffic...
and call every law enforcement
agency in the state.
Operator, get me the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
Yes, it's an emergency!

But hang on, the pods are the UN bureaucrats, block all the highways, stop all the traffic, get me Mick Keelty (he's retired, well get me the new Mick Keelty), and storm the steps of parliament house in Canberra to demand an answer! Yes operator, it's an emergency:

Perhaps now our PM and our Climate Change Minister can spare a few moments to tell us about the details they know about but have so far chosen not to tell us about.

You see, they're the ones, they know what we don't know, and they're not telling us about what we don't know because they know we don't know, and that's how they want us, as compliant sheep, with Chairman Rudd the likely new leader of the UN world government, seeing as how he's a Mandarin speaker and a Christian, and both China and the USA will see him as the sheep who will inherit the earth.

Oh, and here's how you write a column for The Australian. Take one extremist alarmist fruitloop, refuse to link to his video or to easily accessible sources of documentation (UN here),

raise the spectre of world government in guise of a UN treaty, play it down as 'colorful' language, and then demand answers from the knowing but secretive, furtive, recalcitrant, conspiratorial Chairman Rudd and his lickspittle lackey Penny Wong.

It's a living, but not much more, and the idea that people might pay for this kind of squawking? Well good luck with that ...

Yes poor old Mark Day is still banging on about how the public can't wait to rush to fling squillions at Rupert Murdoch, the cunning old fox, and his wonderful content, and you can read it all here in Newsday bets on internet users paying for local content.

Newsday?

Oh yes I know you're just hankering to fork out twenty bucks a month to keep up with the Long Island community ...

It's a funny old world, but each day loon pond provides fresh inspiration and joy. Relax, you're not the only loon in the world, we're all of us loons, ready to join Starship Troopers and nuke those bugs as they try to take over the world ... (and I'll bet you didn't know that the bugs were UN bureaucrats in disguise? Think about it).

(Below: eek, a UN bureaucrat in charge of the world after a successful Copenhagen, wonderful wonderful Copenhagen, convention).