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Cloak of Green: The Links between Key Environmental Groups, Government and Big Business Paperback – January 1, 1995

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Most concerned citizens trust environmental groups to fight on behalf of the public for sensible solutions to the world's most pressing problems. But Elaine Dewar discovered that this trust is often misplaced.
In this book the award-winning journalist explores links between key environmental groups, government and big business. Written like a mystery, Cloak of Green follows the author from a Toronto fundraiser for the Kayapo Indians of Brazil to the Amazon rainforest and the global backrooms of Brasilia, Washington and Geneva. Along the way she meets some fascinating peopleAnita Roddick of the Body Shop, businessman-politican Maurice Strong, and activists who run key Canadian and American environmental groups. She discovers some disturbing revelations about these groups and their relations to "green" corporations and government.
Cloak of Green is a penetrating investigative study that challenges many established pieties of the environmental movement.

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498 pages
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English
Publisher

Lorimer
Publication date

January 1, 1995
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6 x 1 x 9 inches
ISBN-10

1550284509
ISBN-13

978-1550284508
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ELAINE DEWAR is a prominent journalist and author with many National Magazine Awards to her credit. She lives in Toronto.

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Publisher : Lorimer; First Edition (January 1, 1995)
Language : English
Paperback : 498 pages
ISBN-10 : 1550284509
ISBN-13 : 978-1550284508
Item Weight : 1.2 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 1 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #3,671,061 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Agenda 21 Fighter

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Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2014

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Dewar is focused, brilliant, and clear as she deconstructs the environmental non-profits in the lead-up to the UN Earth Summit in Rio in 1992 and beyond. She follows every lead tenaciously as her hypothesis finds her rather than vice versa: the Canadian government used/is using environmental non-profits and pseudo organizations of its own creation to influence domestic policy in other nations. Through this analysis she clearly develops her final thesis: the corporate led totalitarian takeover of nation-states is in progress now.

Making a claim like that is journalistic suicide without full solid supporting documentation, and Dewar has it. For those complaining that they don't feel like reading the details: this aint no novel. Get over it and get on it.

Elaine Dewar has done as phenomenal job wading through the lies, the cover-ups, the money trails, the political obfuscating, to get to the very heart of UN Agenda 21 control---and she did it in 1987-1995.

Buy this book. Spend the money. It is worth every cent.
Take a look at Democrats Against UN Agenda 21 for the current info on the fight against regionalization and ultimately, central control over the earth.

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Rebecca

cloak of confusion

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2008

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Deware reveals the hidden agenda of governments and environmental protection, but this book is hard to follow. There are so many names that the information becomes cluttered in my head. In the end, I know global warming isn't about helping the environment, but about people gaining power in the UN, which I think is the point of the book. But getting to the point of the book is rather painful.

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Rodney R. Stubbs

What is happening in America Today

Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2009

This is a story about how environmental organizations with the assistance of the United Nations Environment Program committed a bloodless coupe of Brazil. The enviros turned up the heat slowly and boiled the frog.

The same strategies painfully outlined in this book are at play in the United States today. Their goal: to overthrow the American system of government.

Due to the complexity of understanding the government, Elaine Dewar did an excellent job of staying on target although it did result in a laborious read.

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Bernard Krause

A brain stuffed with moss

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2008

Blessed with a deadly combination of a mediocre imagination and fuzzy mind, the author claims to have had an experience in the field that, while framed as stark fact, is so ludicrous as to be sadly funny. In the early 90s Ruth Happel, a fine, credible and widely published primatologist from Harvard, and I were on assignment for the Cleveland Zoo to travel to several equatorial sites around the world to record base-line ambient sound (biophonies) for an installation in their rainforest exhibit. We met up with Dewar at a research site (KM41) some distance north of Manaus, Brazil. There, under the guise of a jouralist, she questioned us at some length about our work feigning engagement and interest. The first clue of her demented vision was her description of the site being a "leper" colony where she wished she had brought her hammock to set up alongside ours. I'm described as one who "snuck" up behind her to demonstrate a magical biophony (soundscape) occurring in a small pool where larvae and waterboatmen were acoustically active. Actually, I had taken the time from my efforts to engage this hapless idiot only to be characterized on P. 112 of Chapter 13 as not knowing what I was hearing. I'm also described as one endowed with constant chatter - a lecturer - although, to most of the sane world, I'm generally thought of as pretty quiet speaking only when asked. Stillness is germane to my profession. Nevertheless, "zings" went off in Dewar's stomach, and strange "butterflies" hammered against her rib cage communicating with Morse-code precision that Ruth and I were cryptic American intelligence agents affiliated, no less, with perilous agencies like the AFL-CIO and USAID. Around people like us, Dewar suggested - others in Brazil and other Latin countries - "disappeared." No kidding. (What's even more surprising is that to her editor and publisher, these inventions came across as valid. Furthermore, none of these claims were ever vetted. This "journalist" was never challenged.) Voices were popping up in her head and "butterflies were breaking loose in her ribcage all over the place." "Moss..." was growing inside her, crawling up her skin (but lodging mostly in her brain). I, of course, was suspected of having seen mysterious "files" on her. I "pushed" her down on a stool. Spiders will bite, I warned her. Meanwhile, Happel's eyes shifted.

This author needs professional help and more likely, institutionalization for a considerable period. Her "facts" are beyond fabrication, her sense of our world is so warped that one can only feel badly for her suffering and the dark vision that so impedes the wonder and magic of what we, in particular, do and have done. Dewar's writing reflects a deep schizophrenic sickness sans espoir (without hope). I would recommend this book only for the degree of its fantastic invention and as a classic study in mental illness.

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Cloak of Green connects all the dots. If you have been wondering why you have become collateral damage to your government and the "environmental saviours" this book will answer all of your questions.

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