"Al Gore leads to environmentalist Maurice Strong leads to financier Edmund de Rothschild leads to the World Conservation Bank leads to the Euro leads to Climategate, somehow — and thats all in the last 15 minutes or so. To spice things up, the camera will occasionally cut to a righteously angry Ventura, who will glower into the camera and say something like Well, if we cant talk to this Maurice Strong, who the hell can we talk to?
As such, theres much too much to recap in last nights episode, but heres a summary: (emphases added throughout)
The basic premise of the episode, via TruTV: Whether global warming is real or not, some people may be using the issue to earn billions of dollars, start a one-world government and control peoples lives.
Even though he acknowledges that Al Gore could make billions from this conspiracy, Ventura lets him off the hook over accusations that hes trying to control the world. Hes too public, you see. Ventura: I know Al Gore, I dont think hes out to do that. Theres got to be someone else behind this.
Ventura brings his experience in politics to bear: The one thing I learned in government: if you want to find the answer to a question, follow the money.
Eventually, Ventura is led to Maurice Strong, formerly a top UN official and leading environmentalist advocate, now a businessman in China. Venturas correspondent in China says that Strong is a double agent pretending to be an environmentalist. Ventura: Not so green. Or if its green, its the green of money. We never actually see Strong, though we see his house in China, which is scarily surrounded by barbed wire.
Edmund de Rothschild is also brought into this, somehow. Strong was his right-hand man, and he wanted a one-world bank, and then came the Euro. Countries began throwing away their own currencies and adopting the Euro. In each case, the citizens have a little less power. (this is read over scary footage of a sheepdog herding sheep)
Climategate, which happened after the episode was filmed, is shoehorned in: only a theory? Within days of Jesses meeting and his words about Watergate, the global warming conspiracy would explode into a scandal called Climategate [scientists] obscured, massaged, or destroyed inconvenient temperature data. And the evidence showed that they did it for the money. More panic equaled more funding."
