THE RISE OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
Part I
"The people could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of
reality, because they
never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and
were not
sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was
happening."
.
George Orwell
author
1984 |
Terrarum Orbis
by Louis Renard
Introduction
This report attempts to consolidate four years of research, hundreds
of documents, and thousands of pages of material into a brief,
concise word picture of how the international community has been
able to move society to the brink of global governance. We hope our
efforts to achieve brevity have not sacrificed clarity. At the very
best, this report is no more than an introduction to a process that
has been underway for many years. We have provided extensive
endnotes to encourage readers to expand their studies and form their
own opinions.
We are convinced that the form of government created
by the U.S. Constitution is in serious danger of being overwhelmed
by the new spirit of globalism that is, in fact, a well conceived,
well executed agenda to achieve global governance. Global
governance, as it is conceived, and as it is being implemented,
cannot tolerate individual freedom or private property rights as
guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
The conflicting philosophies of governance are on a collision
course. On the one side is a small handful of people who have
recognized the erosion of Constitutional principles in recent years.
On the other side is a tidal wave of UN organizations and agencies,
reinforced by a multitude of non-government organizations, sweeping
across the planet, flooding societies with the notion that problems
can be solved only through remedies offered by and imposed through
the massive UN system.
We hope this report will be a starting point that will serve as a
catalyst for a variety of responses that result in a reaffirmation
of the values enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. Ultimately, it is
the values, beliefs, and attitudes that celebrate, protect, and
promote individual freedom that can empower societies to overcome
whatever problems that arise. These are the values that offer
solutions to the world's problems. These are the values that America
can share with the world. These are the values that are being eroded
by the rise of global governance.
We wish to acknowledge with deep appreciation the efforts of those
who reviewed this report, Dr. Margaret Maxey; Dr. Michael Coffman;
Floy Lilley, JD; Tom McDonnell, and Willy Peterson. Their work
helped to improve both the accuracy and readability of this
information. The content, however, along with any errors that may
remain, are the sole responsibility of the author.
We hope this publication will be useful to all who cherish freedom.
The Rise of Global Governance
The desire to rule the world has been a part of the human experience
throughout recorded history. Alexander the Great led Greece to
dominance of the known world, only to become the victim of Rome's
quest for world dominance. The Roman Empire, built on bloody
battlefields across the land, was swallowed up by the Holy Roman
Empire, built on the fear and hopes of helpless people.
History is a
record of the competition for global dominance. In every age, there
has always been a force somewhere, conniving to conquer the world
with ideas clothed in promises imposed by military might. The 20th
century is no different from any other. Marx, Lenin, and
Hitler
reflect some of the ideas which competed for world dominance in the
1900s. The competition is still underway. The key players change
from time to time, as do the words that describe the various
battlefields, but the competing ideas remain the same.
One of the competitors is the idea that people are born free,
"totally free and sovereign," and choose to surrender specified
freedoms to a limited government to achieve mutual benefits. The
other competitor is the idea that government must be sovereign in
order to distribute benefits equitably and to manage the activities
of people to protect them from one another. The first idea, the idea
of free people, is the idea that compelled the pilgrims to migrate
to America. The U.S. Constitution represents humanity's best effort
to organize and codify the idea of free people sovereign over
limited government. It is a relatively new idea in the historic
competition for world dominance.
The other idea, the idea of sovereign government, is not new.
Historically, the conqueror was the government. The Emperor, the
King, the conqueror by whatever name, established his government by
appointment and established laws by decree. Variations of this idea
emerged over time to give the perception that the people had some
say in the development of law. The Soviet Union, for example, held
elections to choose its leaders; but the system assured the outcome
of the elections as well as the ultimate sovereignty of the
government.
During the 1700s, the first idea was ascendant as
evidenced by the creation of America. During the 1900s, the second
idea has again become ascendant as evidenced by the emergence of
global governance. This report identifies and traces some of the
major forces, events, and personalities that are responsible for the
rise of global governance in the 20th century.
The League of Nations (1900-1924)
Competition for world dominance was fierce in the first quarter of
the 20th century. New, dynamic ideas emerged to fill the vacuum
created by the crumbling British Empire and the end of the colonial
era. At the turn of the century, America, though hardly a world
leader, was expanding rapidly. Economic and technological advances
attracted worldwide interest. Halfway around the world, another idea
was taking hold. The oppression of Nicholas II in Russia, combined
with the influence of Karl Marx, gave rise to the Russian Social
Democratic Labor Party (Bolsheviks) which became the Socialist
Revolutionary Party.
Under the leadership of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin,
the party platform called for the "establishment of nurseries for
infants and children in all shops, factories, and other enterprises
that employ women"1 and for the "nationalization and re-distribution
of land."2 What began as a rebellion against the oppression of
government sovereignty as imposed by Czar Nicholas was hijacked by
Lenin who, with his colleagues Stalin and Trotsky, promptly replaced
the Czar's oppression with their own. Within weeks after Nicholas'
assassination, Lenin nationalized all private, ecclesiastical and
czarist land without compensation.
He introduced press censorship,
nationalized big industry, outlawed strikes, nationalized the banks,
built up a police force and ordered the requisition of grain from
the peasants to feed the Red Army.3 By the time Lenin died in 1924,
Stalin had consolidated his power and organized his government to
become the world's most dominant example of the idea of government
sovereignty.
Americans were far too busy earning a living to pay much attention
to the tumult in Russia. While Lenin's party was forging the
Principles of Communism in 1903, Orville Wright made his historic
flight. The first automobile trip across the United States was
completed, and the U.S. government ratified the Panama Canal Treaty.
Congress created
the Federal Reserve System in 1913, and Ford Motor
Company shocked the industrialized world by raising wages from $2.40
for a nine-hour day to $5 for an eight-hour day in 1914. Americans
were divided about entering the First World War, but did in 1917,
and had a million troops in Europe when the war ended in 1918 when
the warring parties accepted Woodrow Wilson"s "Fourteen Points"
which became the basis for the League of Nations.
Edward Mandell House was Wilson's chief advisor. He persuaded Wilson
to sign the Federal Reserve Act and he was the real architect of the
League of Nations.4 House was no ordinary advisor. He was Wilson's
"alter ego," and he was an "unabashed and unapologetic" socialist.5
House published a novel in 1912 entitled
Philip Dru, Administrator.
The story is a recitation of socialist thinking enacted by Dru,
whose purpose was "to pursue Socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx,"
and who, in the story, replaced Constitutional government with "omnicompetent"
government in which "the property and lives of all were now in the
keeping of one man."6 In the story, Dru created a "League of
Nations" much like the League of Nations he fashioned for Woodrow
Wilson.
More importantly, House came to his position with Woodrow Wilson
from an elite circle of friends known as the "Inquiry": Paul
Warburg, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, John W. Davis, among
others, all of whom had direct interest in the Federal Reserve
System and great interest in the League of Nations. House was well
on his way to transforming Woodrow Wilson into his fictional Philip Dru – until the Senate refused to ratify the League of Nations in
1920. Embarrassed and defeated, Wilson died four years later,
ironically, the same year Lenin died.
The dream of world domination, however, did not die. House and his
friends realized that public opinion in America had to be changed
before any form of world government could succeed. While shuttling
to Europe on post-war peace negotiations, House arranged an assembly
of dignitaries from which was created the Institute of International
Affairs which had two branches. In London, it was called the Royal
Institute of International Affairs (RIIA); in New York, it was
called the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), formed officially
July 29, 1921.
The founding President of the CFR was John W. Davis, personal
attorney to J. P. Morgan. Paul Cravath and Russell Leffingwell, both
Morgan associates, were also among the founding officers.7 Money for
the new organizations was provided by J. P. Morgan, Bernard Baruch,
Otto Kahn, Jacob Schiff, Paul Warburg, and John D. Rockefeller, the
same people involved in the forming of the Federal Reserve.8
The
purpose of the CFR was to create a stream of scholarly literature to
promote the benefits of world government, and attract a membership
of rich intellectuals who could influence the direction of foreign
policy in America. The CFR, supported by the world's wealthiest
foundations and individuals, has been extremely successful. Its
flagship publication, Foreign Affairs, is the port-of-entry for many
ideas that become public policy.
The U.S. delegation to the founding
conference of the United Nations included 47 members of the CFR. The
Secretary-General of the conference, Alger Hiss, was a member of the CFR. Hiss was later convicted of perjury for lying about having
provided government documents to a Communist espionage ring.9
The first quarter of the 20th century forced America into a world
war where the strength of its economy and effectiveness of its
technology were displayed to the world. On the other side of the
Atlantic, Russia gave birth to Stalin's version of Communism. At the
time, both nations were primarily concerned about domestic issues
with little thought of dominating the world.
The Soviet Union
exemplified the idea of government sovereignty; America exemplified
the idea of free people sovereign over its government. Sooner or
later, the two ideas had to collide. Other competitors were also at
work. The CFR began to rebuild its plans for a world government, and
a new competitor arose on Russia's eastern border.
The United Nations (1925 -- 1950)
While Stalin reigned over "The Great Terror," in which an estimated
20 million Russians were executed, and instituted the first of a
series of "five-year plans,"10 America struggled through some of its
hardest years. Prohibition brought organized crime, Federal Reserve
policies brought a stock market crash, drought brought a dust bowl
to the bread basket, and a nation-wide depression brought crushing
poverty to most Americans.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to the White House in 1932. The CFR was to Roosevelt what Edward House was to Woodrow Wilson. "The
organization [CFR] essentially ran FDR's State Department."11 Henry
Wallace, a committed Marxist, was FDR's Secretary of Agriculture.12
The "New Deal" delivered by Roosevelt resembled the performance of
Philip Dru in Edward House's novel.
By 1941, Hitler had invaded Russia and Japan had bombed Pearl
Harbor. For the next five years the world tried to commit suicide.
Those not caught up in the war, the CFR, realized that the war
provided an excellent reason for the nations of the world to try
once again to create a global institution that could prevent war.
Two weeks after Pearl Harbor, Secretary of State, Cordell Hull,
recommended the creation of a Presidential Advisory Committee on
Post War Foreign Policy. The committee was the planning commission
for the United Nations. Ten of the committee's 14 members were
members of the CFR.13
The process of creating the United Nations lasted throughout the
war. The first public step was the Atlantic Charter (August 14,
1941), signed by Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, which committed
the two nations to a "permanent system of general security." Because
Stalin was under attack by Germany, Russia was forced to join the
allies in the Moscow Declaration (October 30, 1943) which declared
the necessity of establishing an international organization to
maintain peace and security. The Dumbarton Oaks Conversations
(August, 1944) which produced
the World Bank, also settled political
and legal issues that were drafted into the UN Charter.
The Yalta
Summit (February, 1945) produced a compromise which gave the Soviets
three votes (USSR, Byelorussia, and the Ukraine) in exchange for
voting procedures demanded by the U.S.14 Edward Stettinius made
another extremely significant concession. He agreed that the UN
official in charge of military affairs would be designated by the
Russians. Fourteen individuals have held the position since the UN
was created; all were Russians. 15 The committee designed and FDR
sold the United Nations to the 50 nations that came to the San
Francisco conference in 1945.
Among the 47 CFR members in the
official U.S. delegation were,
To ensure that the new organization would be located
in America, John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., donated the land for the UN
headquarters.16
In his 1962 book, Why Not Victory, former Senator Barry Goldwater
recalls that the UN was approved by the Senate largely because of
the representations of the State Department which assured the Senate
that,
"... it [UN] in no sense constituted a form of World Government
and that neither the Senate nor the American people need be
concerned that the United Nations or any of its agencies would
interfere with the sovereignty of the United States or with the
domestic affairs of the American People."17
Five years later, in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, CFR member James Warburg said
"We shall have world
government whether or not you like it --by conquest or consent."18
The ink on the UN Charter had not yet dried when the Charter for
UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization) was presented in London, November, 1945. UNESCO
swallowed and expanded the Paris-based International Institute for
Intellectual Cooperation which was a holdover from the League of
Nations.
Julian Huxley was the prime mover of UNESCO and served as
its first Director-General. Huxley had served on Britain's
Population Investigation Commission before World War II and was vice
president of the Eugenics Society from 1937 to 1944. In a 1947
document entitled "UNESCO Its Purpose and Its Philosophy", Huxley
wrote
"Thus even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy
will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible,
it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is
examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is
informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable
may at least become thinkable."19
UNESCO's primary function is set forth in its Charter.
"Since wars
begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the
defenses of peace must be constructed."
UNESCO was created to
construct a world-wide education program to prepare the world for
global governance. UNESCO advisor, Bertrand Russell, writing for the
UNESCO Journal,
"The Impact of Science on Society", said "Every
government that has been in control of education for a generation
will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of
armies or policemen..."20
The National Education Association
was a major advocate for UNESCO. In a 1942 article in the NEA
Journal, written by Joy Elmer Morgan, the NEA called for
"...
certain world agencies of administration such as a police force; a
board of education..."
A year later in London, the Conference of Allied Ministers of
Education called for a United Nations Bureau of Education. UNESCO
became the Board of Education for the world.
Huxley believed the world needed a single, global government. He saw
UNESCO as an instrument to "help in the speedy and satisfactory
realization of the process." He described UNESCO's philosophy as
global, scientific humanism. He said "Political unification in some
sort of world government will be required for the definitive
attainment" of the next stage of social development.21 From the
beginning, UNESCO has designed programs to capture children at the
earliest possible age to begin the educational process.
William Benton, Assistant U.S. Secretary of State, told a UNESCO
meeting in 1946
"As long as the child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism,
education in world-mindedness can produce only precarious results.
As we have pointed out, it is frequently the family that infects the
child with extreme nationalism. The school should therefore use the
means described earlier to combat family attitudes that favor
jingoism...
We shall presently recognize in nationalism the
major obstacle to development of world-mindedness. We are at the
beginning of a long process of breaking down the walls of national
sovereignty. UNESCO must be the pioneer."22
The UN and UNESCO were created in the wake of the worst war carnage
the world had ever witnessed. Conditioned by a constant stream of
propaganda produced by the CFR in America, and by the Royal
Institute of International Affairs in Europe, the move toward global
governance was accepted and allowed to go forward.
Julian Huxley
realized, however, that to be successful over the long haul, a
world-wide constituency would have to be developed. In 1948, Huxley
and his long-time friend and colleague, Max Nicholson, both of whom
were involved with the Royal Institute of International Affairs,
created the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The IUCN drew heavily from the 50-year-old British Fauna and Flora
Preservation Society (FFPS) for its leadership, funding and its
members. Sir Peter Scott, FFPS Chairman, drafted the IUCN Charter
and headed one of its important Commissions.
This important
non-governmental organization (NGO) was instrumental in the
formation of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in 1961 and the
World
Resources Institute (WRI) in 1982. These three NGOs are to the
United Nations System what the CFR was to Franklin Roosevelt, or
what Edward House was to Woodrow Wilson.
These three NGOs have
become the driving force behind the rise of global governance.
The Cold War (1950-1970)
The dream of world dominance is not, nor has it ever been, the
pursuit by an exclusive cadre of conspirators. The dream has been
held by many different factions -- often simultaneously -- always in
competition with one another. By 1950, at least three major forces
-- all competing for world dominance -- were clearly identified.
Each of the three major forces worked overtly and covertly to
achieve their objectives.
The Soviet Union had clearly defined its Marx/Lenin/Stalin version
of Communism. Its systematic program of expansionism -- including an
active organization in the United States -- fully intended to bring
all the world under its control. So confident were the Soviets of
their eventual success that, on his 1959 tour of the U.S., Nikita Kruschchev pounded his shoe on a podium before the television
cameras and declared to America "We will bury you!"
America would have no part of a world under Communist rule. Senator
Joseph McCarthy led a crusade against Communists in America. His
campaign tarnished many non-communists but was successful in rooting
out Alger Hiss, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and Morton Sobell, all
convicted of espionage-related crimes. (Because of the statute of
limitations, Hiss could not be tried for espionage but was convicted
of perjury for lying about his espionage activities.)
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More importantly, the televised McCarthy hearings awakened America
to the "Communist threat," and when U.S. troops entered Korea to
fight the communists, support for the Communist Party USA diminished
steadily from a high of more than 100,000 members to its current low
of about 1000 members.24 American leaders did not pound their shoes,
nor proclaim a program of world dominance. American foreign and
economic policy, however, left no doubt that at the very least,
America intended to prevent the Soviets from achieving world
dominance.
The third force competing for world dominance was not the United
Nations, but the people whose dreams of a world government were
frustrated by what the United Nations turned out to be. The
annihilation of the League of Nations by the U.S. Senate left the
advocates of world government with a large dose of reality. They
realized that the UN could exist only by the grace of the U.S. and
the Soviets, and that the UN itself could have no authority or power
over the major powers. But it was a real start toward global
governance which provided an official, if impotent, mechanism for
the incremental implementation of their global aspirations.
During the 1950s and 1960s, the UN was little more than a debating
society that occasionally attempted to referee disputes among the
major world powers. Public attention was riveted on domestic issues
and the deepening cold war. Russia's Sputnik launch was a catalyst
for the launch of the U.S. space program. Fidel Castro's embrace of
Communism in Cuba stiffened America's policy of "containment" --
first articulated in the CFR Journal, Foreign Affairs.25
The 1954 Supreme Court desegregation decision pushed McCarthy,
Communism, and the UN completely off the domestic radar screen. Rosa
Park's refusal to give up her seat on a Birmingham bus to a white
man was the fuse that ignited an explosion of racial riots. Federal
troops confronted Alabama National Guardsmen over Governor Orville
Faubus' refusal to let nine black children enter Little Rock Central
High School. Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his "I have a dream"
speech to a quarter-million people on the Mall in Washington, and
tanks rolled on the streets of Chicago and Detroit.
Domestic events also obscured American awareness of the creation of
the World Wildlife Fund. The same Julian Huxley who founded UNESCO
and the IUCN, along with his friend, Max Nicholson, formed the
organization primarily as a way to fund the work of the IUCN. Prince
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, served as President. An auxiliary
organization called the "1001 Club" charged an initiation fee of
$10,000 which went into a trust fund to provide ongoing revenues to WWF. The WWF and the IUCN share an office building in Gland,
Switzerland. (In 1987, the name was changed to the World Wide Fund
for Nature, but the acronym remained the same).26
Behind the scenes, America developed and launched the Nautilus, the
first of a new generation of atomic powered submarines. Both Russia
and America tested nuclear devices with ever increasing payloads.
Bomb shelters were the mainstay of civil defense, and school
children were taught to "duck-and-cover." The official defense
policy was MAD -- Mutually Assured Destruction.
Much, much further behind the scenes, plans were being developed to
defuse the MAD policy. The UN had no authority or power in its own
right to do anything about the spiraling arms race between the
world's two super-powers. It became the stage, however, on which the
advocates of global governance performed their strategic play, using
the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the starring roles. In 1961, newly
elected President John F. Kennedy presented a disarmament plan
Freedom From War. The United States Program for General and Complete
Disarmament in a Peaceful World, also known as the Department of
State Publication 7277.
The plan called for three phases which would
ultimately result in the gradual transfer of U.S. military power to
the United Nations. The plan called for all nations to follow the
U.S. lead and disarm themselves to "a point where no state would
have the military power to challenge the progressively strengthened
UN Peace Force."27
A new and improved version of the same idea was
presented in May, 1962, called blueprint for the Peace Race Outline
of Basic Provisions of a Treaty on General and Complete Disarmament
in a Peaceful World released by the U.S. Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency (Publication 4, General Series 3, May 3, 1962)
headed by John McCloy.
It is neither fair, nor accurate, to say that these documents were
the product of the CFR. It is accurate, and instructive, to realize
that these documents were developed by men who were members of the
CFR. John McCloy and Robert Lovett were described as "distinguished
individuals" in an article by John F. Kennedy which appeared in
Foreign Affairs in 1957. Lovett was offered his choice of cabinet
positions in the Kennedy administration but declined, choosing
instead to make recommendations all of which were accepted by
Kennedy.
Lovett recommended Dean Rusk as Secretary of State. Rusk
had been a member of the CFR since 1952 and had published an article
in Foreign Affairs in 1960 on how the new President should conduct
foreign policy. The New York Times reported that of the first 82
names submitted to Kennedy for State Department positions, 63 were
members of the CFR.28 Like FDR and every President since, JFK filled
his State Department and surrounded himself with individuals who
were, perhaps coincidentally, members of the Council on Foreign
Relations.
Lovett, John McCloy, Dean Rusk, McGeorge Bundy, and Adlai
Stevenson (JFK's Ambassador to the UN), all members of the CFR,
guided Kennedy through the disastrous "Bay of Pigs" operation and
the Cuban missile crisis.
That members of
the CFR have exercised extraordinary influence on
foreign policy cannot be denied. Whether that influence is the
result of organizational strategies, or the result of individuals
who simply happen to be members of the same organization, is an
endlessly debated question.
Richard Harwood, of the Washington Post,
observes that members of the
Council on Foreign Relations,
". . . are the closest thing we have to a ruling Establishment in
the United States. The President is a member. So is his Secretary of
State, the Deputy Secretary of State, all five of the Under
Secretaries, several of the Assistant Secretaries and the
department's legal adviser. The President's National Security
Adviser and his Deputy are members. The Director of Central
Intelligence (like all previous directors) and the Chairman of the
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board are members.
The Secretary of
Defense, three Under Secretaries and at least four Assistant
Secretaries are members. The Secretaries of the Departments of
Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Health and Human Services
and the Chief White House Public Relations man... along with the
Speaker of the House [are members]...
This is not a retinue of
people who "look like America," as the President once put it, but
they very definitely look like the people who, for more than half a
century, have managed our international affairs and our
military-industrial complex."29
Article 11 of the UN Charter gives the General Assembly authority to
"consider" and "recommend" principles governing disarmament and the
regulation of armaments, but virtually no authority to enforce
disarmament. Kennedy's proposal was a bold first step toward giving
the UN the power which early, necessary compromises had stripped
from the original vision of a world government.
The Kennedy plan has never been revoked. Though modified and delayed
by political necessity, the essential principle of relinquishing
arms, as well as control of the production and distribution of arms,
to the UN has guided the disarmament policy of every American
President since JFK. Prior to the Kennedy Disarmament Plan, the UN
sponsored a Truce Supervision Operation in 1948, and a Military
Observer Group in India and Pakistan in 1949. Since the Kennedy
Disarmament Plan, the number of UN Peace-keeping operations has
steadily increased.30
Still further behind the scenes, the fledgling United Nations was
beginning to take shape. UNICEF (United Nations International
Emergency Children's Fund) was created in 1946 to provide emergency
relief to the child victims of WWII. It was re-authorized in 1950 to
shift its emphasis to programs of long-term benefit to children in
underdeveloped countries. It became a permanent UN entity in 1953.
UNESCO's purpose was to "educate" the world. UNICEF was created to
provide the mechanism through which that education could be
delivered to children.
UN Article 55 provides for the UN to "promote higher standards of
living, full employment, and conditions of economic and social
progress and development." To fulfill this charge, the UN Expanded
Program of Technical Assistance (UNEPTA) was created in 1949, and
expanded with a Special Fund in 1957.
By 1959, the program had been
transformed into the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) (now
headed by James Gustave Speth, former President of the World
Resources Institute) which spends more than $1 trillion annually,
mostly in developing countries.
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The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near
East (UNRWA) was created in 1949.
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The UN High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR) was created in 1951.
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The UN Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) brought together existing international food
programs in 1946 and began its World Food Program in 1963.
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The UN's
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was created in 1953.
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The
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) was created in
1947.
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The International Labor Organization (ILO) created in 1919 as
an instrument of the failed League of Nations was reconstituted and
folded into the United Nations in 1948.
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The International Maritime
Organization (IMO) was authorized in 1947.
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Founded in 1863, the
Universal Postal Union (UPU) became an entity of the UN in 1948.
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The
World Health Organization (WHO) was created in 1948.
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The
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) which had existed since
1865 was folded into the UN system in 1949.
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The United Nations
Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) was created in 1966.
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The
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) was established in
1967.
These are only a few of the 130 UN agencies and organizations
that proliferated during and since the Cold War.
While the UN organization was expanding exponentially, out of the
media spotlight which was focused on race riots and the arms race,
UNESCO plodded forward with its mission to educate the world. Robert
Muller, long-time Secretary-General of the UN's Economic and Social
Council under which the UNESCO operates, delivered a speech at the
University of Denver in 1995. His musings and recollections provide
valuable insights into the kind of education UNESCO was preparing
for the world.
From Muller's comments:
"I had written an essay which was circulated by UNESCO, and which
earned me the title of "Father of Global Education." I was educated
badly in France. I've come to the conclusion that the only correct
education that I have received in my life was from the United
Nations. We should replace the word politics by planetics. We need
planetary management, planetary caretakers. We need global sciences.
We need a science of a global psychology, a global sociology, a
global anthropology. Then I made my proposal for a World Core
Curriculum."31
The first goal of Muller's World Core Curriculum, is
"Assisting the
child in becoming an integrated individual who can deal with
personal experience while seeing himself as a part of "the greater
whole." In other words, promote growth of the group idea, so that
group good, group understanding, group interrelations and group
goodwill replace all limited, self-centered objectives, leading to
group consciousness."3
The World Core Curriculum Manual says:
"The underlying philosophy upon which the
Robert Muller School is
based will be found in the teachings set forth in the books of
Alice
A. Bailey, by the Tibetan teacher, Djwhal Khul (published by Lucis
Publishing Company, 113 University Place, 11th floor, New York, NY
10083) and the teachings of M. Morya as given in the Agni Yoga
Series books (published by Agni Yoga Society, Inc., 319 West 107th
Street, New York, NY 10025)."33
Alice Bailey established the Lucifer Publishing Company, which was
renamed Lucis Press in 1924, expressly to publish and distribute her
own writings and those of Djwhal Khul, which consisted of some 20
books written by Bailey as the "channeling" agent for the
disembodied Tibetan she called Djwhal Khu1.34 Until recently, the
Lucis Trust, parent organization of the Lucis Press, was
headquartered at the United Nations Plaza in New York.35
Bailey
assumed the leadership of the Theosophical Society upon the death of
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. The Society’s 6,000 members include
Robert McNamara, Donald Regan, Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller,
Paul Volker, George Shultz, and the names that also appear on the
membership roster of the CFR.36
Hindsight reveals that -- while the United States was performing on
the UN stage, sparring with the Soviet Union, keeping score with
nuclear warheads -- the forces which heavily influenced the official
policies of both the United States and the United Nations were
actually outside both governments non-governmental organizations
(NGOs).
Three distinct NGO influences were clear by the end of the
1960s:
In 1968, the IUCN led a lobbying effort with the United Nations
Economic and Social Council (headed by Robert Muller) to adopt
Resolution 1296 which grants "consultative" status to certain NGOs.
This resolution paved the highway for global governance. The
Lucis
Trust was one of the first NGOs to be granted "consultative" status
with the UN.
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