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hardly out of tune with sentiments of the Rockefeller family, no corners this program was supported. By "privatize", JDR3 indicat- matter how pious its public image, that the population problem was ed that he meant "moving as many government functions and one of economic and political stability. "Unless we close the gap responsibilities toward the private sector as possible", and he envis- between population and food supply," David observed in 1964, they aged achieving this goal through deregulation and the relaxation of risked "unleashing upon this globe a frustration. ..an anguished fury anti-trust provisions. To encourage "philanthropy as a social instru- more explosive than the growth of population itself." It would also ment" he pushed for changes to the tax laws to make it easier to impact upon the "economic well-being" of American businesses, contribute to the foundations."° should rampant population growth fail to "create a climate of stabil- While an examination of the implementation of all these policy ity and order which is necessary to attract private capital". And not- _ prescriptions, though some were quite vague, is beyond the scope ing that America was "rapidly depleting [its] domestic reserves of a _and intent of this article, suffice it to say that with the endorsement vast array of minerals needed by [its] industrial complex", David of JDR3 and his other siblings their evolution into a variety of actu- made the odd suggestion that the "population barrier to develop- al government policies has been assured. As for John D. ment" might prevent those goods reaching the US'—the unstated Rockefeller III, though, he remains a peripheral figure in most New implication being that if there are too many of World Order accounts despite most of his pre- them, then we cannot continue to take what is scriptions playing an integral role in the ero- surely ours by right... sion of national sovereignty: by seeking to The implementation of population control reduce the power of governments while programs, with their curious obsession with The implementation of increasing that of private groups; lending sup- the developing countries, even though the . port to coordinated international efforts to opulation density and resource consumption population control control population growth;"* and endorsing a of those areas is frequently far less than that programs, with their range of measures designed to counter envi- of Western Europe or North America, has . . . ronmental damage, but with obvious implica- given rise to charges of "genocide". This is curious obsession with tions for international regulation. robably not surprising as the transparent the developing countries, Such obscurity was no doubt hastened by objective of population control activists, at even though the his death in a car accident on Mt Pleasant on least those residing within the Establishment, . g . 10 July 1978, even though his demise was in is to maintain a global racial balance that population density and the midst of a particularly virulent dispute avours the rich countries as well as resource consumption of with Nelson over control of the ensures that developing countries . Rockefellers’ philanthropic empire, par- resources can still be exploited with those areas is frequently ticularly the RBF."” But in future New ittle competition from indigenous far less than that of World Order accounts, a more in-depth Western Europe or North peoples. examination of JDR3's agenda, particu- Hand in hand with advocating Y . . larly his views on population control and America, has given rise to charges of "genocide". population control, JDR3 was an the role of philanthropic organisations, is enthusiastic environmentalist—but in a surely warranted. manner that showed he had shifted from being overly concerned with ensuring ongoing profitability to preserving the material gains of his caste; or, to put it another way, his concerns had shifted Laurance S. Rockefeller (1910- ) Pursuing similar themes was the third- eldest of the Rockefeller brothers, Laurance. In most New World Order from owning the estate to maintaining accounts, when he is actually mentioned it. Having secured his own well-being, it is usually assumed by default that JDR3 was determined to deny it to others, warning that "we must Laurance shares the Rockefeller family goal of achieving world cut down on unnecessary and extravagant consumption" or "the government, for the "Rockefellers are 100% Illuminati" (Icke)— future of ‘Spaceship Earth’ will be in serious doubt". He followed though this agreement is by no means complete. Disputing this this prescription with calls for numerous types of environmental apparent consensus is UFO researcher Michael Hesemann who, legislation, regulation and enforcement as well as energy when queried by Israeli investigative journalist Barry Chamish on conservation, and even suggested, in an obvious allusion to the his dealings with the nonagenarian philanthropist, declared: Club of Rome's apocalyptic studies, that the "ethic of perpetual "Laurance is the black sheep of the family. I know all about the economic growth" should probably be discarded." Rockefellers and their world government plot but, I assure you, so This ideology of sacrificing such wants existed within an overall does Laurance and he rejects it."'* More mainstream admirers and framework in which JDR3 extolled the virtues of deeper involve- critics tend to pigeon-hole Laurance as a "venture capitalist" ment of philanthropic organisations in the business of governing. (Lundberg), while a more recent account of his life has venerated One of his pet concerns in The Second American Revolution was the philanthropist as "Mr Conservation" who has "done more than the "imbalance" between government, business and philanthropy. any other living American to place outdoor issues...clearly on the Government, he lamented, had become "very powerful"; business public agenda" (Winks). was strong, but the non-profit sector was "weak". Despite the gov- Part of the problem in discerning the most likely explanation is ernment's strength, problems were "not getting solved"; in fact, Laurance's deliberately chosen obscurity. Taking a public role has there was a "sheer overload" of government resources. As a solu- not been his preferred path; instead, he has operated through a vari- tion, JDR3 proposed an “essentially conservative", "long-term poli- ety of organisations to achieve his desired goals, taking the concept cy to decentralize and privatize many government functions". of delegation to an even higher degree than his siblings. As Reading this now, after the tumultuous economic reforms and pri- Chernow has observed, Laurance possesses "his grandfather's enig- vatisation agenda of the 1980s and 1990s, we can see from which matic detachment", showing little interest in attracting the limelight. 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