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			CHAPTER 10
 
			The New World Money System 
				
				 What I really think is at stake here globally is the future of free 
			institutions.... It really is an open question in my mind of whether 
			we can cope with these chronic problems — problems that you don’t 
			need to solve tomorrow in order to survive — within the context of 
			freedom....1
 • William D. Ruckelshaus,
 
				Business Council for Sustainable 
			Development  
			  
			A Real Mover and Shaker  
			 Early in 1990, journalist Daniel Wood was riding along Highway 17 
			through the arid and sagebrush filled terrain of southern Colorado. 
			He had just spent a week visiting a sprawling ranch where a 
			60-yearold Canadian millionaire, oil tycoon, environmentalist, UN 
			official, and New Age devotee was constructing a controversial 
			global village and ecumenical ashram. Although the tycoon had risen 
			into the rarefied atmosphere of international finance where he dined 
			with 
			Rockefellers and
			
			Rothschilds, his name had not yet become a 
			household word as each of theirs had.
 
			  
			Soon that would change, as 
			orchestrated world events would thrust him into the international 
			limelight. As the highway through the desert slid by, Wood’s driver, 
			the tycoon-environmentalist himself, told him of a novel he had been 
			planning to write. It was about a group of world leaders who decided 
			the only way to save the world was to cause the economies of the 
			industrialized countries to collapse. The journalist sat transfixed 
			as his host explained how his fictional leaders had formed a secret 
			society and engineered a worldwide financial panic and, ultimately, 
			the economic collapse they sought. While the tycoon drove and talked 
			about the proposed novel, the increasingly astonished reporter took 
			copious notes.  
			  
			His account of that conversation appeared in the May 
			1990 issue of West magazine:  
				
				Each year, he [the tycoon] explains as background to the telling of 
			the novel’s plot, the World Economic Forum convenes in Davos, 
			Switzerland. Over a thousand CEO’s, prime ministers, finance 
			ministers, and leading academics gather in February to attend 
			meetings and set economic agendas for the year ahead. With this as a 
			setting, he then says: “What if a small group of these world leaders 
			were to conclude that the principal risk to the earth comes from the 
			actions of the rich countries? And if the world is to survive, those 
			rich countries would have to sign an agreement reducing their impact 
			on the environment. Will they do it?... The group’s conclusion is 
			‘no.’ The rich countries won’t do it. They won’t change. So, in 
			order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn’t the only hope for 
			the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it 
			our responsibility to bring that about?”2 [Emphasis in original]
				 
			“This group of world leaders,” the driver-tycoon continued, “form a 
			secret society to bring about an economic collapse.” It was becoming 
			obvious to Wood that this unfolding “novel” was a thinly-veiled 
			roman ˆ clef starring the tycoon and his power-elite comrades. The 
			millionaire storyteller went on:  
				
				It’s February. They’re all at Davos. These aren’t terrorists. 
			They’re world leaders. They have positioned themselves in the 
			world’s commodity and stock markets. They’ve engineered, using their 
			access to stock exchanges and computers and gold supplies, a panic. 
			Then, they prevent the world’s stock markets from closing. They jam 
			the gears. They hire mercenaries who hold the rest of the world 
			leaders at Davos as hostages. The markets can’t close. The rich 
			countries.... [Emphasis in original]  
			Wood wrote that at that point the tycoon “makes a slight motion with 
			his fingers as if he were flicking a cigarette butt out the window.” 
			Pffffft! The fates of hundreds of millions, even billions, of people 
			callously sealed with the flick of a finger — their livelihoods, 
			life savings, jobs, businesses, homes, dreams — tossed out like a 
			cigarette butt, “to save the planet.”  
				
				“I probably shouldn’t be saying things like this,” the tycoon 
			confessed to the reporter.  
			No, he should not even have been thinking 
			things like that. For some reason, however, the millionaire insider 
			felt compelled to tell the outsider his story, somewhat like Colonel 
			House did when revealing his megalomaniacal nature in 
			
			Philip Dru: 
			Administrator.3    
			Wood wrote:  
				
				“I sit there spellbound. This is not any 
			storyteller talking. This is Maurice Strong. He knows these world 
			leaders. He is, in fact, co-chairman of the Council of the World 
			Economic Forum. He sits at the fulcrum of power. He is in a position 
			to do it.” (Emphasis in original)  
			Most of the world was first 
			introduced to 
			
			Maurice Strong in 1992 while he was serving as 
			secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on Environment 
			and Development (UNCED), the so-called Earth Summit held in Rio de 
			Janeiro. Before, during, and after the summit, the Canadian activist 
			made headlines more than once with environmental tirades against the 
			life-styles of “the rich countries” that sounded uncomfortably 
			similar to the story line of the “novel” he related to Wood. The 
			fact that he was the top executive of the privately owned Dome 
			Petroleum of Canada, president of Power Corporation of Canada, and 
			later head of Petro Canada, the giant government oil company, is 
			fairly well known from the many profiles about him appearing in the 
			major media.  
			  
			Many of these articles mention that he was head of the 
			1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm 
			and the first secretary-general of the United Nations Environmental 
			Program (UNEP). We were unable, however, to uncover any articles 
			even suggesting the range of Strong’s Insider connections.  
			  
			Yet, this 
			man is president of the World Federation of United Nations 
			Associations, cochairman of the World Economic Forum, member of the 
			Club of Rome, trustee of the Aspen Institute, a director of the 
			World Future Society, director of finance of the Lindisfarne 
			Association, a founding endorser of Planetary Citizens, convener of 
			the 4th World Wilderness Congress, organizer of the international 
			Business Council for Sustainable Development, and builder of “The 
			Valley of the Refuge of World Truths,” a spiritual center on his 
			controversial Baca Grande ranch in Colorado. Strong, it turns out, 
			may also be the planet’s richest eco-warrior. His Colorado ranch 
			sits atop one of the largest aquifers in the world.  
			  
			Together with 
			his wife, Hanne, and his former partners in the American Water 
			Development company, Strong may control water worth, by some 
			estimates, as much as $600 billion!4 Whether or not the Davos 
			conspiracy scenario laid out by Strong for journalist Wood is (or 
			was) an actual game plan, it is clear that in the new world order 
			economic system envisioned by Strong and his fellow Insiders, the 
			United Nations and its financial institutions would be able to wield 
			the kind of world-economy-collapsing power he described in his 
			“fictional” story.  
			  
			The 20th century has seen the creation of 
			fractional reserve banking controlled by national central banks in 
			most of the nations of the world. Its effect has been an explosion 
			of spending accompanied by massive deficits, oppressive taxation, 
			and a mushrooming of administrative bureaucracy.  
			  
			With the founding 
			of the United Nations and its affiliated financial institutions, 
			these problems grew worse. In his 1977 book The War on Gold, 
			Dr. 
			Antony C. Sutton surveyed the incredible turnabout of America’s 
			economic fortunes in the short period from 1945 to 1975:  
				
				At the end of World War II the United States was in a unique and 
			seemingly unassailable monetary position. The world’s largest gold 
			stock was secure in the vaults of Fort Knox and the Federal Reserve 
			Banks. The American dollar was everywhere in short supply, facing an 
			apparently insatiable demand. American technology and the standard 
			of living it made possible were the envy of the world.  
			Three decades later the United States is wracked by internal 
			political and moral problems, inflation, and self doubts. The 
			world’s most powerful nation had been defeated by a third-rate 
			country in a wasteful no-win war. Half of its gold stock had been 
			lost, and it had short-term liabilities to foreigners totaling 
			almost ten times the value of what gold it still owned.5  
			 Two years later, surveying the same post-war phenomena as had Dr. 
			Sutton, political analyst Dan Smoot asked, “What earthquake of 
			history has occurred?” To which he answered: “None. All of it was 
			planned.” 6
 
			  
			 Betrayal at Bretton Woods
 
			 The planning had been formulated by the Economic and Finance Group 
			of the Council on Foreign Relations during the early years of the 
			war,7 and the plans were put into effect at the Bretton Woods 
			Conference in July 1944. Sitting as the leader of the conference and 
			the head of the U.S. delegation was Assistant Secretary of the 
			Treasury Harry Dexter White, a secret member of a Soviet espionage 
			ring.8
 
			  
			Serving as the technical secretary for the conference was 
			Virginius Frank Coe, a director of monetary research for the 
			Treasury Department. Coe became the first secretary of the new 
			
			International Monetary Fund (IMF), a post he held until 1952 when it 
			was revealed in congressional testimony that he was a member of the 
			same communist ring White had joined.9 From 1958, until his death in 
			1980, Coe lived in Communist China.  
			 Working hand-in-hand with communists White and Coe were numerous 
			Establishment Insiders among whom was Secretary of the Treasury 
			Henry Morgenthau, Jr. It was he who declared at the time:
 
				
				“It has 
			been proved ... that people in the international banking business 
			cannot run successfully foreign exchange markets. It is up to the 
			Governments to do it. We propose to do this if and when the 
			legislative bodies approve Bretton Woods.”10  
			The incredible deceit 
			now evident here is that Morgenthau personally represented the very 
			“international banking” establishment he was criticizing, and the 
			system he was helping construct would place the world economy more 
			firmly in its grasp than ever before. The two primary institutions 
			to come out of the conference, the International Monetary Fund and 
			
			the World Bank, have been run by certified members of the Insider 
			banking fraternity ever since.  
			 Dan Smoot observed in his 1979 article:
 
				
				White’s Bretton Woods Conference set policies which our government 
			has followed, without deviation, under all Presidents, since the end 
			of World War II. These policies were intended to accomplish four 
			major objectives:    
				(1) Strip the United States of its monetary gold reserve by giving 
			the gold to other nations; (2) Build the industrial capacity of other nations, at our expense, 
			to eliminate American productive superiority;
 (3) Take world markets — and much of the American domestic market — 
			away from American producers to stop American domination of world 
			trade;
 (4) Entwine American affairs with those of other nations until the 
			United States could not have an independent policy, but would become 
			an interdependent link in a worldwide socialist chain.11
 
			The Bretton 
			Woods participants, of course, did not state their resolves as 
			bluntly or succinctly. It makes little sense to dispute the fact, 
			however, that the policies and institutions they established have 
			indeed produced the tragic results enumerated by Smoot. Bretton 
			Woods opened the floodgates of government spending worldwide. As 
			free-market economists warned, it has led to massive growth of 
			government, mountains of debt, and global inflation.  
			 At the time the Bretton Woods agreements were being hammered out, 
			the near-solitary voice in the major American media opposing the 
			one-world economic scheme and warning of its dire consequences was 
			Henry Hazlitt, then the financial editor of the Wall Street Journal. 
			In one article after another, he soundly refuted the sophistry put 
			forward for the new global economic plan. Unfortunately, his 
			arguments were ignored.
 
			 Hazlitt was always a strong opponent of inflation. But, unlike many 
			others, he employed a proper definition of the often mis-defined 
			term. Inflation is an increase in the quantity of currency. Its 
			effect is a lessening of the value of all existing currency. When 
			merchants and others ask for more of it in return for their goods 
			and services, they are responding — even if they are unaware of the 
			process that has been forced on them — to the fact that the currency 
			has lost value.
 
			  
			That value, stolen from all existing currency 
			through the introduction of more currency, was actually stolen from 
			currency holders by the issuer. In virtually all cases, the issuer 
			is either government or a privately-run central bank. The path to 
			inflation begins with the removal of precious metal backing for the 
			currency. Once the requirement for gold or silver in the issuer’s 
			vault (in this nation, the U.S. Treasury formerly served this 
			purpose) is removed, inflation is possible, even inevitable.  
			 In his 1984 book, From Bretton Woods to World Inflation, Henry 
			Hazlitt reviewed the tragic worldwide devastation and upheaval that 
			he insisted are ... the consequences of the decisions made by the 
			representatives of the forty-five nations at Bretton Woods, New 
			Hampshire, forty years ago. These decisions, and the institutions 
			set up to carry them out, have led us to the present world monetary 
			chaos. For the first time in history, every nation is on an 
			inconvertible paper money basis. As a result, every nation is 
			inflating, some at an appalling rate. This has brought economic 
			disruption, chronic unemployment, and anxiety, destitution, and 
			despair to untold millions of families.12
 
			 Of course there had been inflations before Bretton Woods. But it was 
			at that conference, primarily under the leadership of White and 
			Fabian Socialist John Maynard Keynes of England, that, as Hazlitt 
			noted, “inflation was institutionalized.” Many nations are now 
			saddled with impossible debt burdens and oppressive bureaucracies 
			because, claims this dean of free market thinkers, “the IMF, in 
			effect encourages them to continue their socialist and inflationist 
			course.”13
 
 
			Hazlitt, who has called the shots correctly during all of these many 
			years, does not mince words when it comes to solutions.  
				
				“The world 
			cannot get back to economic sanity,” he has warned, “until the IMF 
			is abolished.... We will not stop the growth of world inflation and 
			world socialism until the institutions and policies adopted to 
			promote them have been abolished.”14  
			Unfortunately, our elected 
			leaders have continued along the course set by communists, 
			socialists, and globalist Insiders decades ago.  
			 Again, we turn to Hazlitt:
 
				
				Yet the supreme irony is that the Bretton Woods institutions that 
			have failed so completely in their announced purpose, and led to 
			only monetary chaos instead, are still there, still operating, still 
			draining the countries with lower inflations to subsidize the higher 
			inflation of others.15  
			In fact, the internationalist Insiders have 
			stepped up the pace of these suicidal policies. In his Spring 1988 
			Foreign Affairs article entitled “The Case for Practical 
			Internationalism,” CFR strategist Richard N. Gardner stated bluntly:  
				
				But most of all, the world needs to enlarge the flows of private and 
			official capital to developing countries in order to stimulate an 
			adequate level of global growth. A near doubling of World Bank 
			capital and International Monetary Fund quotas should be a high 
			priority for American leadership.... [Emphasis added]  
			 A World Central Bank
 
			 Even worse, the one-worlders are working to expand their scheme in 
			order eventually to achieve complete global economic control by 
			transforming the International Monetary Fund and World Bank combine 
			into a central Federal Reserve system for the planet. One of the 
			first in-depth presentations of this plan to CFR membership came in 
			1981 with the publication of Collective Management: The Reform of 
			Global Economic Organizations.
 
			  
			Written by Miriam Camps (CFR) in 
			collaboration with Catherine Gwin (CFR), it was the 21st volume in 
			the Council’s 1980s Project series. Collective Management’s 
			proposals for “restructuring” United Nations institutions included 
			designing a new global trade organization to supersede the General 
			Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the United Nations 
			Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), merging several United 
			Nations aid programs in order to create in their places a new 
			“United Nations Basic Support Program,” and taking additional steps 
			that would aid in “the continuing evolution of the IMF in the 
			direction of a world central bank.”16  
			  
			Expanding further on this 
			topic in the Fall 1984 edition of Foreign Affairs, Harvard 
			University Professor Richard N. Cooper (CFR, TC) proposed “A 
			Monetary System for the Future” that would mean the end of America 
			as we know it.  
			  
			He wrote:  
				
				A new Bretton Woods conference is wholly premature. But it is not 
			premature to begin thinking about how we would like international 
			monetary arrangements to evolve in the remainder of this century. 
			With this in mind, I suggest a radical alternative scheme for the 
			next century: the creation of a common currency for all of the 
			industrial democracies, with a common monetary policy and a joint 
			Bank of Issue to determine that monetary policy. [Emphasis in 
			original]    
				“The currency of the Bank of Issue could be practically anything,” 
			the Harvard economist continued. “... The key point is that monetary 
			control — the issuance of currency and of reserve credit — would be 
			in the hands of the new Bank of Issue, not in the hands of any 
			national government....” (Emphasis added)  
			The problem, however, is that  
				
				“a single currency is possible only if 
			there is in effect a single monetary policy, and a single authority 
			issuing the currency and directing the monetary policy. How can 
			independent states accomplish that? They need to turn over the 
			determination of monetary policy to a supranational body.” (Emphasis 
			added)  
			Insider Cooper realized the challenge involved in selling this 
			totalitarian idea to the public. 
				
				“This one currency regime is much 
			too radical to envisage in the near future,” he said. “But it is not 
			too radical to envisage 25 years from now.... [I]t will require many 
			years of consideration before people become accustomed to the idea.” 
				 
			Getting people in the West, and particularly in the United States, 
			warm to the idea of “a pooling of monetary sovereignty” — especially 
			with communist countries — would be difficult. Cooper wrote:  
				
				First, it is highly doubtful whether the American public, to take 
			just one example, could ever accept that countries with oppressive 
			autocratic regimes should vote on the monetary policy that would 
			affect monetary conditions in the United States.... For such a bold 
			step to work at all, it presupposes a certain convergence of 
			political values....  
			 Convergence with Totalitarian Regimes
 
			 That requisite “convergence” is already underway and well-ahead of 
			Professor Cooper’s 25-year estimate, thanks to the high-powered 
			sales job his fellow CFR members have conducted on behalf of the 
			“former” communist states. The Establishment policy line has been 
			repeated again and again in the Insiders’ elite journals (Foreign 
			Affairs, Foreign Policy, World Policy Journal), as well as in the 
			CFR dominated popular media. It holds that the United States must 
			provide Russia and all the nations of her former satellite empire 
			with billions of dollars in credits and aid to help them make the 
			transition to “a market economy.”
 
 
			Writing in the Summer 1990 Foreign Policy, 
			Thomas G. Weiss (CFR) and 
			Meryl A. Kessler set out the globalist line:  
				
				As for the economic realm, there is little hope for cooperation 
			between the superpowers until the United States allows the Soviet 
			Union to become a full-fledged actor in global economic affairs.... 
			The United States should follow up by supporting immediate Soviet 
			observer status in the IMF and the World Bank, leading toward full 
			membership....  
			American interests and the credibility of the United States as a 
			leader in world affairs would be enhanced by joining the Soviet 
			Union in taking the lead at the United Nations.17  
			 Those steps were adopted in toto by the Bush Administration. The 12 
			“republics” of the new Commonwealth of Independent States, the 
			former Warsaw Pact countries of Eastern Europe, and the three Baltic 
			states have either become members of the World Bank and 
			International Monetary Fund or are in the process of joining. The IMF is now in the process of transferring billions of tax dollars 
			from the West to socialist regimes in the East still run by 
			communists and former communists.
 
			  
			Not surprisingly, these regimes 
			have shown little evidence of any serious intent to make the leap 
			from collectivist to free-market economies.18  
			 The Insider line, in fact, is that we must slow down the transition 
			of the communist/socialist countries to free markets. Writing in the 
			Summer 1992 World Policy Journal (published by the World Policy 
			Institute — a CFR-dominated think tank — and the Fabian socialist 
			New School for Social Research), Sherle R. Schwenninger asserted in 
			an article entitled “The United States in the New World Order” that,
 
				
				“the United States should use its weight within the IMF and the 
			World Bank to encourage a slower transition to an open market 
			economy in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.”  
			Moreover, 
			said Schwenninger, a senior fellow at the WPI-NSSR think tank,  
				
				“If 
			the industrialized nations gave up their SDRs [special drawing 
			rights] to the developing countries and the former republics of the 
			Soviet Union, these countries would be able to borrow more money 
			from the IMF.”  
			  
			UN Taxing Authority  
			 What is even more alarming, however, is Schwenninger’s assertion 
			further along in the article that due to “needs ranging from the 
			global environment to U.N. peacekeeping, we can no longer afford to 
			rely on ‘voluntary’ national contributions....” As you might expect, 
			in the next breath, he proposes granting taxing authority to the 
			United Nations:
 
				
				“If international agencies are to have the resources 
			they need to address critical transnational problems, then we will 
			need to move to a system of value-added taxes that would be 
			automatically when goods and services cross national .”  
			Proposals along these lines are cropping up everywhere. Complaining 
			of the UN’s “present mendicancy,” in his June 1992 An Agenda for 
			Peace report to the UN Security Council, Secretary- General 
			Boutros-Ghali called for the following:  
				
					
					“the establishment of a 
			United Nations Peace Fund”;  
					“a levy on international air travel”; 
					 
					“[a]uthorization to the Secretary-General to borrow commercially”; 
					 
					“[s]uspending certain financial regulations of the United Nations”; 
			and  
					“general tax exemption for contributions made to the United 
			Nations.”19  
			Boutros-Ghali’s proposals were given a boost in Changing 
			Our Ways, the 1992 report issued by the Carnegie Endowment’s 
			National Commission on America and the New World. The Carnegie 
			report, which was released amid great media fanfare, declared: “Any 
			plausible vision for America’s future role in the world must include 
			a renewed financial commitment to the United Nations.” It referred 
			to the Boutros-Ghali package as a “bold but pragmatic set of 
			financing proposals,” and urged “policymakers to study them 
			carefully.”20  
			  
			This Carnegie Commission, made up of a panel of 21 
			prominent Americans from the fields of politics, business, finance, 
			and higher education, offered many proposals to collectivize and 
			internationalize the American economy. This is hardly surprising 
			since all but three of the panelists are members of the 
			
			Council on 
			Foreign Relations. Several are also members of the 
			
			Trilateral 
			Commission. The group’s chairman is Winston Lord, a former president 
			of the CFR who is still a proud member.  
			  
			Other Establishment 
			heavyweights on the panel include:  
				
					
					
					C. Fred Bergsten, director of the 
			Institute for International Economics and former Assistant Secretary 
			of the Treasury
					
					Morton Abramowitz, president of the Carnegie 
			Endowment for International Peace and former Assistant Secretary of 
			State
					
					Barber B. Conable, former president of the World Bank
					
					David Gergen, editor-at-large for U.S. News and World Report
					
					Jessica 
			T. Mathews, vice president of the World Resources Institute and 
			columnist for the Washington Post 
			The Carnegie panel believes we must “reduce our defense spending,” 
			but we must also “[s]trengthen the peacekeeping capacities of the 
			United Nations and regional organizations.”21 Its Changing Our Ways 
			report advocates taxing Americans an additional $1.00 per gallon for 
			“gasoline ... and other petroleum products,” calls for a “weight 
			tax” on automobiles, and proposes a “substantial” tax on “carbon 
			content.”22  
			  
			 More and More Power in Government
 
			 Consonant with the plans of the one-worlders at the United Nations 
			and environmental extremists everywhere, these CFR elitists propose 
			“swift ratification of the global warming treaty” and advancement of 
			protocols “for the management of greenhouse gases.” The Carnegie 
			report recommends Agenda 21, the massive program adopted at the UN’s 
			Earth Summit that calls for government regulation and control of 
			virtually every aspect of life in the name of protecting the 
			environment.23
 
			  
			Other Insider-created organizations have come forward 
			with similar proposals. One of the newest groups to enter the chorus 
			is the Business Council for Sustainable Development (BCSD), an 
			international group of globalist business executives. Launched in 
			1990 by Maurice Strong, it is chaired by Stephan Schmidheiny, 
			chairman of UNOTEC, a Swiss investment company. Its U.S. members 
			include William D. Ruckelshaus (CFR), chairman of Browning-Ferris 
			Industries; Frank Popoff (CFR), president and CEO of Dow Chemical; 
			and Paul H. O’Neill, chief executive officer of ALCOA. In a 
			perfectly timed publicity coup, the BCSD released its 1992 book, 
			Changing Course: A Global Perspective on Development and the 
			Environment, just before the opening of the Rio Earth Summit.24 
			 
			  
			While paying lip service to “market incentives,” it quickly became 
			apparent that, like the Carnegie panel’s recommendations, everything 
			offered by the BCSD will increase the size, cost, and power of 
			government.  
			 This Business Council calls for “[n]ew forms of cooperation between 
			government, business and society” to achieve “sustainable 
			development.” According to these business leaders, “the prices of 
			goods and services must increasingly recognize and reflect the 
			environmental costs of their production, use, recycling, and 
			disposal.” This, they say “is best achieved by a synthesis of 
			economic instruments designed to correct [market] distortions” and 
			“regulatory standards” to help the market “give the right 
			signals.”25
 
			  
			The real philosophy behind the BCSD’s statist nostrums 
			was revealed (most likely unintentionally) by BCSD member William 
			Ruckelshaus, the first head of the U.S. Environmental Protection 
			Agency. Just prior to the 1992 Earth Summit, he stated:  
				
				“What I real think is at stake here globally is the future of free 
			institutions.... It really is an open question in my mind of whether 
			we can cope with these chronic problems — problems that you don’t 
			need to solve tomorrow in order to survive — within the context of 
			freedom....”26  
			Still more propaganda for UN intervention in and 
			control of the world economy came from the influential 
			
			Club of Rome. 
			Founded in 1968 by Italy’s Aurelio Peccei, a former top executive 
			with the Olivetti Company and Fiat Motors, the Club of Rome boasts 
			an elite membership of some 200 members worldwide who have 
			backgrounds in business, science, politics, higher education, and 
			religion. In its celebrated 1991 report, The First Global 
			Revolution, the group called for the implementation of “energy 
			accounting,” which it announced,  
				
				“is becoming increasingly necessary 
			in measuring, for example, the carrying capacity of countries for 
			human and animal populations.... It is urgent that a Worldwide 
			Campaign of Energy Conservation and Efficiency be launched.”27 
			(Emphasis in original)  
			Moreover, the Club of Rome document proposed:  
				
				It would be appropriate that the scheme be launched by the United 
			Nations in association with the United Nations Environment Programme, 
			the World Meteorological Organization and UNESCO. A corollary would 
			be the setting up in each country of an Energy Efficiency Council to 
			supervise the operation on the national scale.28  
			Because of the “global nature as well as the seriousness of the 
			environmental threats,” the Club called for “the creation of a UN 
			Environmental Security Council parallel to the existing Security 
			Council on military matters.” Also, the United Nations “should 
			convene an intergovernmental scientific meeting to plan a 
			comprehensive World Alternative Energy Project.”29 Like the Club’s 
			17 previous reports, The First Global Revolution sees more 
			government as the solution to every real or imagined problem.  
			  
			And 
			because its members hold that all of mankind’s problems today are 
			global, it only makes sense to favor global government.  
				
				“The market 
			is ill-adapted to deal with long-term effects,” says the Club’s 
			report. “... The system of the market economy countries based on 
			competition is motivated by self-interest and ultimately on 
			greed.”30  
			Echoing the socialist slogans of the environmental left, 
			these globe-trotting, champagne-and-caviar consuming elitists 
			hypocritically state:  
				
				“Our efforts to create a sustainable world 
			society and economy demands that we diminish the profligate 
			life-styles in the industrialized countries through a slow-down in 
			consumption....”31  
			Appropriately, The First Global Revolution opens 
			with the following excerpt from The Rubayat of Omar Khayyam:  
				
					
						
						Ah love! Could thou and I with fate conspire, 
						to grasp this sorry scheme of things entire,
 would not we shatter it to bits and then,
 remould it nearer to the heart’s desire.
 
			Students of political history will recognize this as the same 
			quatrain adopted by the Britain’s Fabian Socialist Society in their 
			“open conspiracy” to create a socialist world. This verse was 
			represented pictorially in the famous stained glass window at the 
			Beatrice Webb House, a world-renowned socialist shrine in Surrey, 
			England.  
			  
			The window shows socialist leaders Sidney Webb and George 
			Bernard Shaw smashing the world with hammers and, above their heads 
			appears the last line of the quatrain, “remould it nearer to the 
			heart’s desire.”32  
			  
			Is it mere coincidence that the 
			socialist-elitist-internationalist Club of Rome chose this favored 
			Fabian verse? Don’t the proposals they and their fellow globalists 
			offer lead inexorably to the creation of an all-powerful socialist 
			super-state ruled by the United Nations?  
			 With each passing day, the words and actions of the CFR, 
			Trilateralist, Club of Rome, World Federalist one-worlders make 
			plain that they intend to shatter freedom to bits and, then, remold 
			the world to their collectivist heart’s desire.
 
			  
			 Notes
 
				
				1. William D. Ruckelshaus, quoted by Larry B. Stammer, Los Angeles 
			Times, May 26, 1992, p. H11. 2. Daniel Wood, “The Wizard of Baca Grande,” West, May 1990, p. 35.
 3. Colonel Edward Mandell House, Philip Dru: Administrator: A Story 
			of Tomorrow — 1920 – 1935
			(New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1919).
 4. Wood, p. 33.
 5. Dr. Antony C. Sutton, The War on Gold (Seal Beach, CA: ’76 Press, 
			1977), p. 99.
 6. Dan Smoot, “The Dan Smoot Report: Pushed Into Bankruptcy,” The 
			Review of the News, February 
			14, 1979, p. 31.
 7. James Perloff, The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign 
			Relations And The American Decline.
			Appleton, WI: Western Islands, 1988, p. 72.
 8. See: David Rees, Harry Dexter White: A Study in Paradox (New 
			York: Coward, McCann & 
			Geoghegan, 1973); Whittaker Chambers, Witness (New York: Random 
			House, 1952); Allen Weinstein,
			Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case (New York: Vintage Books, 1978); 
			James Burnham, The Web of 
			Subversion: Underground Networks in the U.S. Government (New York: 
			The John Day Co., 1954); 
			Elizabeth Bentley, Out of Bondage (New York: Devin-Adair, 1951); and 
			Christopher Andrew and Oleg 
			Gordievsky, KGB: The Inside Story: Of Its Foreign Operations from 
			Lenin to Gorbachev (New York:
			HarperCollins Publishers, 1991).
 9. See: Louis F. Budenz, The Techniques of Communism (Chicago: Henry 
			Regnery, 1954), p. 235-36;
			Burnham, pp. 37-39; and Activities of United States Citizens 
			Employed by the United Nations, hearings 
			before the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security, December 1, 
			1952, pp. 227-56 and January 2, 
			1953, p. 7.
 10. Henry (Hans) Morgenthau, quoted by Henry Hazlitt, From Bretton 
			Woods to World Inflation
			(Chicago: Regnery Gateway, 1984), p. 88.
 11. Smoot, pp. 32-33.
 12. Hazlitt, p. 7.
 13. Ibid., p. 14.
 14. Ibid., p. 26-7.
 15. Ibid., p. 19.
 16. Miriam Camps and Catherine Gwin, Collective Management: The 
			Reform of Global Economic
			Organizations, 21st volume in the CFR’s 1980s Project series (New 
			York: McGraw Hill, 1981).
 17. Thomas G. Weiss and Meryl A. Kessler, “Moscow’s U.N. Policy,” 
			Foreign Policy, Summer 1990, p. 
			112.
 18. See, for examples, William F. Jasper “From the Atlantic to the 
			Urals (and Beyond),” The New 
			American, January 27, 1992; and the author’s interviews with Yuri N. 
			Maltsev and Llewellyn H.
			Rockwell reported in “Meeting Ground of East and West,” The New 
			American, February 24, 1992, pp. 
			23-24.
 19. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, An Agenda for Peace: Preventive 
			Diplomacy, Peacemaking and Peace- 
			Keeping (New York: United Nations, 1992), pp. 41-43.
 20. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace National Commission 
			on America and the New World, 
			Changing Our Ways: America and the New World (Washington, DC: 
			Brookings Institution, 1992), p. 
			54.
 21. Ibid., p. 5.
 22. Ibid., p. 44.
 23. Ibid., pp. 46, 38-39.
 24. Stephan Schmidheiny with the Business Council for Sustainable 
			Development, Changing Course: A
			Global Business Perspective on Development and the Environment (MA: 
			MIT Press, 1992).
 25. Ibid., p. xi.
 26. William D. Ruckelshaus, quoted by Larry B. Stammer, Los Angeles 
			Times, May 26, 1992, p. H11.
 27. Alexander King & Bertrand Schneider, The First Global 
			Revolution, a report by the Council of the 
			Club of Rome (New York: Pantheon Books, 1991), p. 156.
 28. Ibid., pp. 156-57.
 29. Ibid., pp. 157-59.
 30. Ibid., p. 198.
 31. Ibid., p. 257.
 32. An artist’s drawing of the Fabian Window now displayed in 
			Beatrice Webb House is provided in 
			Zygmund Dobbs (Research Director), The Great Deceit: Social 
			Pseudo-Sciences (West Sayville, NY:
			Veritas Foundation, 1964), p. viii.
 
			
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