to legitimize and perpetuate itself and concludes there is no substitute unless it has 3 qualities: it must be 1) economically wasteful, 2) represent a credible threat of great magnitude, and 3) provide a logical excuse for compulsory service to the government. The most likely candidate to fit the bill is an environmental-pollution model. While partly based on fact and observable conditions, the accuracy of predictions isn't important if the goal is to convince people to "accept a falling standard of living, tax increases and bureaucratic intervention in their lives as simply, "the price we must pay to save Mother Earth."" G. Edward Griffin the author of the above book believes the environmental movement was created by the Council on Foreign Relations as "the substitute of war they hope will become the emotional and pyschological foundation for world government." Why do those on the Right traffic in all of these conspiracy theories? Conservatives in this country no longer are about doing what conservatives in the Burkean sense should be about -- preserving the good in institutions so that the popular whim of the moment doesn't poison political decision-making and degrade the culture. Today, however, the Right is nothing but one conspiracy theory after another. They truly are a slave to the paranoid style Richard Hofstadter warned about in his famous 1960s essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics". Between the unfounded Birther movement and the Palin Death Panels controversy. I'm sick of this stuff. The Council on Foreign Relations is