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The United Nations’ Global Straitjacket (1999)

EWNZ Comment: Joan Veon’s lectures can be found on Youtube still. There is one on our New World Order page. She has written a book also about Prince Charles’ role in their global plans … titled Prince Charles: The Sustainable Prince.

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In 1994, a businesswoman named Joan Veon walked into a United Nations conference in Cairo expecting to observe international diplomacy at work. What she discovered instead shattered every assumption she held about how the world actually operates. Behind the humanitarian rhetoric and diplomatic pageantry, she witnessed American political leaders—including Al Gore and members of Congress—actively promoting agendas that would horrify their constituents if they knew: population reduction targets with specific fertility rates for every nation, comprehensive surveillance systems already tracking citizens globally, and the systematic transfer of sovereignty from nations to international bodies. But it wasn’t just the radical nature of these plans that shocked her. It was the realization that this architecture of world government wasn’t being built—it was already operational, had been for decades, and was so far advanced that most of the framework was already in place. The mainstream media, including Christian Broadcasting Network who she assumed would expose this, reported sanitized versions that bore no resemblance to what was actually occurring. That moment in Cairo transformed Veon from an ordinary businesswoman into something else entirely: a witness to what may be the most sophisticated coup in human history, executed not through military conquest but through conferences, treaties, and partnerships that most people find too boring to examine.

The transformation was as unexpected as it was complete. Veon had no background in journalism, no training in international relations, no connections in media. She was, by her own account, “just a businesswoman” trying to understand what was happening at the global level. But Cairo changed everything. When she returned home with a suitcase full of UN documents openly discussing population control, fertility management, and the restructuring of society, she expected the Christian organizations she contacted—Focus on the Family, Concerned Women for America, prominent ministries—to sound the alarm. She sent them detailed briefings. She used personal connections to get her information to leadership. The response was virtually silence. More disturbing was her lunch with a CBN reporter who’d been in Cairo. When she pressed him about covering the real story, he looked around nervously and confided: “Pat Robertson isn’t fighting the new world order anymore. He’s joined it.” This wasn’t just media failure or institutional blindness. This was something else—a systematic compromise that ran so deep that even those positioned as watchmen had been neutralized. So Veon did the only thing she could: she became the journalist nobody else would be, eventually attending over twenty-five UN conferences, asking questions of presidents and prime ministers, documenting a transformation that was hiding in plain sight.

What she uncovered reads like a thriller novel, except it’s documented in the UN’s own publications, conference proceedings, and policy papers. The Federal Reserve, which most Americans believe is part of their government, is actually a private corporation owned by banking families who’ve never been audited, pay no taxes, and have more power than Congress and the President combined. Every dollar in circulation is their corporate script—a Federal Reserve Note, not government currency. This same model exists in every nation, all coordinated through the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland, creating a hidden empire of debt slavery where a handful of families own the world through compound interest. Meanwhile, sustainable development—sold as environmental protection—actually inverts the relationship between humanity and nature, reducing humans to economic units whose right to exist depends on their production-consumption ratio. Through Agenda 21, implemented locally by ICLEI without citizens realizing it, property rights are being systematically destroyed while owners still pay taxes on land they can no longer use. Public-private partnerships, which sound benign, are actually creating a new form of government where corporations and NGOs have equal or greater power than elected officials, bypassing legislatures entirely since partnerships aren’t treaties requiring approval.

The genius of this system is how it’s being implemented—not through dramatic conquest but through a mind manipulation technique called the Hegelian dialectic. You start with a thesis (the Constitution, individual rights, national sovereignty), create an antithesis (international law, collective rights, global governance), and through gradual compromise, achieve synthesis (world government). Each crisis—environmental, economic, terrorist—provides opportunity to move the process forward. Communities think they’re participating in democracy through visioning sessions and stakeholder meetings, but these use the Delphi technique, developed by the Rand Corporation, to manipulate groups into accepting predetermined outcomes while believing they made the choice. The education system has been restructured to produce global citizens who accept authority rather than American patriots who understand liberty. History is rewritten, values are clarified away from parents’ beliefs, and children are taught they’re citizens of Earth first, their nation second. Executive orders accumulate, implementing UN treaties the Senate never ratified. International agreements are renamed partnerships to avoid Congressional oversight. Federal agencies enforce global standards that contradict the Constitution. Layer by layer, the cage is built, each bar seemingly reasonable in isolation—who opposes clean air or human rights?—but together forming an inescapable prison.

This isn’t conspiracy theory—it’s conspiracy fact, documented in thousands of pages of official records that anyone can verify if they’re willing to look. The Rhodes Scholars, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission—these aren’t shadowy cabals but registered organizations whose members openly rotate between government, media, and corporations, ensuring policy continuity regardless of elections. Cecil Rhodes’ plan to return America to British control, laid out in his wills and implemented through his scholarship program, continues today with Rhodes Scholars in key positions throughout government. The international criminal court, rejected by America, claims jurisdiction anyway. The European Union model—economic integration leading inevitably to political merger—is being replicated in the Americas through trade agreements that are anything but free. Every crisis accelerates the process: terrorism justifies surveillance, climate change justifies control, pandemics justify tracking, economic crashes justify consolidation. Yet most people can’t see it because it’s happening through the boring machinery of bureaucracy, implemented by people who often don’t understand the larger agenda they’re serving. Veon saw it all, documented it meticulously, and paid the price—marginalized as a conspiracy theorist for simply reporting what she witnessed. Her book, written in 1999, reads like prophecy today, not because she could see the future but because she could see the plan. The question isn’t whether world government is coming—it’s whether enough people will wake up in time to stop it, or whether we’ll sleepwalk into a global straitjacket, surrendering freedoms our ancestors died to preserve for the illusion of safety and sustainability in a world where neither will exist.

With thanks to Joan Veon.

United Nations Global Strait Jacket: Veon, Joan M.

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Discussion No.137:

Insights and reflections from “The United Nations’ Global Straitjacket”

Analogy

Imagine a master chef who owns a renowned family restaurant that has been passed down through generations. The recipes are time-tested, the ingredients locally sourced, and every dish is prepared with love and individual attention. The chef knows each regular customer by name, adjusts seasonings to personal preferences, and takes pride in the unique character of his establishment. The restaurant operates on principles established by his great-grandfather: quality over quantity, individual service, and the freedom to innovate while respecting tradition.

Now envision a massive global corporation approaching this chef with a proposal. They promise to “modernize” his restaurant, make it more “sustainable,” and integrate it into their worldwide chain. At first, the changes seem beneficial—new equipment, standardized procedures for “food safety,” computer systems to track inventory. But gradually, the chef realizes he’s losing control. Corporate headquarters now dictates his menu through “sustainable sourcing requirements.” He must use their approved suppliers, regardless of quality or local relationships. His recipes must be modified to meet “international nutritional standards.” Portion sizes are regulated for “equity.” Prices are set by regional managers considering “global economic factors.”

The transformation continues as his restaurant is required to participate in “public-private partnerships” where corporate executives and government regulators jointly oversee operations. His traditional wood-fired ovens are banned for “environmental reasons,” replaced with electric equipment that can be remotely monitored and controlled. Every transaction is recorded in a global database. Customers are encouraged to use digital payment systems that track their “consumption patterns” and “carbon footprint.” The chef retains his name on the door and technically still “owns” the restaurant, but every significant decision requires approval from the partnership committee.

His children, trained in culinary schools teaching the “new gastronomy,” no longer understand traditional cooking methods. They’ve been taught that grandfather’s ways were unsustainable, that individual restaurants caused inequality, and that the global food system ensures everyone gets their fair share. They genuinely believe the corporate way is progress. Regular customers initially complained but gradually accepted the changes, especially after local media praised the restaurant for “joining the 21st century” and “embracing responsible food service.”

The chef realizes too late that he’s been processed through a gradual dialectic—moving from thesis (independent ownership) through antithesis (corporate criticism of traditional methods) to synthesis (a hybrid where he maintains the illusion of ownership while surrendering all meaningful control). His restaurant still exists, but it’s now just one node in a global network where uniqueness is suppressed, tradition is forgotten, and individual creativity is sacrificed for standardized efficiency. He kept compromising for seemingly good reasons—environmental protection, food safety, economic stability—until nothing remained of what made his restaurant special.

This is precisely what’s happening to our nations. We still have our flags, our names, our buildings, and the appearance of sovereignty. But like the chef’s restaurant, the substance has been hollowed out, replaced with global standardization disguised as progress, partnership, and sustainability.

The One-Minute Elevator Explanation

Picture this: Since 1945, a sophisticated network of ultra-wealthy banking families, multinational corporations, and power-hungry politicians has been quietly constructing a world government above our national governments. They’re using a brilliant strategy—instead of military conquest, they’re achieving total control through manufactured crises, environmental scares, and economic manipulation.

Think of it as a python slowly squeezing its prey. They’ve wrapped coils around us labeled “sustainable development,” “public-private partnerships,” “human rights,” and “free trade.” Each coil seems reasonable alone—who opposes human rights or clean air? But together, they’re suffocating our freedom. Your property rights are being eroded through environmental regulations. Your money is controlled by private banking corporations. Your children are being indoctrinated to be global citizens, not Americans. Even your local town council is implementing UN policies without realizing it.

The scariest part? They’re about three-quarters finished. They control the money through central banks, the politics through organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations, the environment through Agenda 21, and they’re working on the legal system through the International Criminal Court. Every crisis—terrorism, climate change, pandemics, economic crashes—gives them excuse to tighten control. They’re not trying to solve these problems; they’re using them to justify taking away your freedom “for the greater good.” We’re watching the deliberate demolition of the America our founders created, replaced with a high-tech feudalism where you’ll own nothing, have no privacy, and be completely dependent on the state-corporate partnership for survival.

[Elevator dings]

Want to learn more? Research the Federal Reserve’s real ownership, look into your local council’s ties to ICLEI, and read the UN’s own documents about Agenda 21 and sustainable development—they’re not even hiding it anymore.

12-Point Summary

1. The Hidden Architecture of World Government A complete governmental structure operates above national level, coordinated through the United Nations, World Bank, IMF, and Bank for International Settlements. This shadow government has been methodically constructed since 1945, with each crisis used to add new powers and institutions. The system includes its own courts, military forces, economic controls, and environmental regulations that supersede national sovereignty. Most people don’t recognize it because it operates through boring bureaucracy and complex international agreements rather than dramatic conquest. National leaders participate in this system, making commitments that bind their nations without citizen consent or legislative approval.

2. The Federal Reserve Deception The Federal Reserve isn’t federal and has no reserves—it’s a private corporation owned by banking families who control America’s money supply. Every dollar is actually a Federal Reserve Note, meaning we’re using private corporate script, not government currency. This private entity has never been audited, pays no taxes, and operates in secret, with more power than Congress or the President. Through coordinating with other central banks worldwide via the Bank for International Settlements, they can create booms and busts at will, enriching themselves while impoverishing nations. The elimination of gold backing in 1971 gave them unlimited power to create money from nothing, enabling infinite debt that enslaves entire populations.

3. Sustainable Development as Control Mechanism Sustainable development inverts the Biblical relationship between man and nature, making Earth paramount and humans just another species. This philosophy justifies controlling every human activity based on environmental impact. Through Agenda 21, implemented locally through ICLEI, communities adopt UN standards without realizing they’re surrendering sovereignty. The Biodiversity Treaty plans to relocate most humans into compact cities while returning vast areas to wilderness. Property rights become meaningless as regulations prevent owners from using their land while still requiring tax payments. The system treats humans as economic units whose right to exist depends on their production-consumption ratio.

4. The Hegelian Dialectic Process Society is being gradually transformed through a process of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, moving people from absolute positions to compromise. Americans are being processed from constitutional government (thesis) to UN Charter governance (antithesis), creating socialism (synthesis). Each compromise becomes the new starting point for further compromise, gradually eroding all traditional values and freedoms. The process is so smooth that most people don’t realize they’re abandoning fundamental principles. Churches are particularly vulnerable, being manipulated through appeals to peace, unity, and social justice into accepting world government. This mind control technique is used in community meetings through the Delphi technique to achieve predetermined outcomes while creating illusions of public participation.

5. Public-Private Partnerships as Fascism The merger of corporate and government power through public-private partnerships represents classic fascism dressed in democratic rhetoric. These partnerships bypass democratic accountability since they’re not treaties requiring approval. Whoever provides the most money—usually corporations—controls the venture while taxpayers bear the risks. This system is creating a new form of government where unelected corporate executives and NGOs have equal or greater power than elected officials. Prince Charles’s Business Leaders Forum exemplifies this, setting national policies through corporate pressure. The result is privatized profits and socialized losses, with corporations using government power to eliminate competition and guarantee markets.

6. Economic Warfare Through Financial Crises Engineered financial crises are used to justify expanding international financial control and extracting wealth from national economies. The Asian financial crisis demonstrated how coordinated currency attacks can destroy nations that resist global integration. Each crisis results in more IMF control, more debt, and less sovereignty for affected nations. The pattern is predictable: create bubble through easy credit, crash markets through coordinated selling, demand structural adjustments that transfer assets to international corporations, and leave nations permanently indebted. The 2008 crisis enabled unprecedented consolidation of banking power and government intervention in markets. These crises aren’t accidents but weapons of economic warfare against national independence.

7. The Rhodes Scholar Network Cecil Rhodes’s plan to return America to British control continues through the Rhodes Scholar program and related organizations. Rhodes Scholars are selected not for intelligence but for having the “right material” to be indoctrinated with globalist ideology. They occupy key positions throughout government, media, and industry, implementing Rhodes’s vision of Anglo-American world dominance. Bill Clinton was the first Rhodes Scholar president, appointing numerous Rhodes Scholars to his administration. The Council on Foreign Relations, created by Rhodes’s successors, ensures policy continuity regardless of which party holds power. This network coordinates with British institutions to gradually subordinate American sovereignty to international control, achieving through ideology what couldn’t be accomplished militarily.

8. International Law Superseding the Constitution Treaties and international agreements are systematically replacing constitutional law through executive orders and regulatory implementation. Clinton’s Executive Order 13107 requires compliance with UN human rights treaties even if not ratified by the Senate. Federal agencies now enforce international standards that contradict constitutional principles. The International Criminal Court claims jurisdiction over Americans despite non-ratification. Environmental treaties are implemented through regulations that destroy property rights without compensation. Trade agreements create international tribunals that override American courts. The accumulation of these agreements creates a web of obligations that effectively nullifies constitutional protections while maintaining the appearance of national sovereignty.

9. Education for Global Citizenship Schools have been transformed from teaching American citizenship to indoctrinating global consciousness. History is rewritten to denigrate American achievements while promoting guilt and globalist perspectives. Outcome-based education replaces academic knowledge with politically correct attitudes. School-to-work programs track students into careers serving economic needs rather than developing individual potential. Environmental education teaches children that humanity threatens Earth’s survival. Values clarification breaks children’s connections to parents and religious teachings. International Baccalaureate programs directly promote UN values. The goal is producing compliant workers who accept reduced freedom as necessary for planetary survival, lacking knowledge and values to resist tyranny.

10. The Terrorism-Emergency Power Connection Terrorism responses are creating integrated global police and emergency management systems that supersede national sovereignty. The infrastructure built for terrorism becomes permanent, available for any declared emergency. Foreign troops can be deployed domestically under assistance agreements. The definition of terrorism expands to include those opposing global governance. FEMA and international emergency systems are integrated, creating global response protocols that activate during any crisis. Information sharing between all agencies worldwide eliminates privacy protections. Military and police functions merge, creating militarized law enforcement with global reach. This system means a declaration of emergency anywhere triggers coordinated global response, effectively creating world police state infrastructure awaiting activation.

11. Spiritual Warfare Dimensions This conflict represents spiritual warfare between Biblical truth and pagan earth worship, between God-given rights and state-granted privileges. The systematic attack on Christianity, traditional values, and constitutional principles reveals the spiritual nature of this battle. Churches are being infiltrated and neutralized through appeals to social justice and environmental stewardship. Many prominent Christian leaders have been compromised or co-opted. The remnant who understands must recognize these are kairos times—crisis moments requiring decisive spiritual action. Standing in the gap means refusing to compromise truth for unity, protecting children from indoctrination, and warning others regardless of personal cost. This requires understanding that we fight not against flesh and blood but against spiritual wickedness in high places.

12. The Call to Stand in the Gap We are at a critical juncture where the last vestiges of freedom are being eliminated through gradual dialectic processing. Those who understand must act as watchmen, warning others of approaching danger regardless of whether they listen. This requires costly grace—willingness to sacrifice comfort, reputation, and security for truth. Like the heroes of World War II who resisted tyranny, we must recognize that faith demands action when freedom is threatened. The battle requires practical resistance: refusing to compromise principles, educating others about the real agenda, building parallel systems outside the control grid, and spiritual warfare through prayer and fasting. The hour is late, but throughout history, small remnants standing for truth have changed the course of nations. Our generation’s test is whether we’ll stand firm or surrender the freedom our ancestors died to preserve.

The Golden Nugget

The most profound and least known truth in this entire exposé is that every nation’s money system is controlled by a private corporation that masquerades as part of that nation’s government.

Most people, even highly educated ones, believe the Federal Reserve is a government agency that serves American interests. The reality is far more sinister: it’s a private corporation owned by a small group of international banking families who have the legal right to create money from nothing, charge the government interest on it, and manipulate the economy for their profit. This same model exists in every country—private central banks coordinated through the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland, which operates with complete immunity from all laws and can’t even be sued.

This means that a handful of private individuals effectively own the world through debt slavery. They create money as debt, meaning every dollar in existence represents debt that must be repaid with interest. Since only the principal is created, not the interest, it’s mathematically impossible to repay all debts, ensuring perpetual bondage. These same families funded both sides of every major war, created the UN system, and are orchestrating the transformation to world government. They don’t need to conquer nations militarily—they already own them through debt. Every economic crisis enriches them further as they buy real assets with money they created from nothing.

The most diabolical aspect is that this system is so fundamental to modern life that most people can’t conceive of an alternative. We’re born into debt slavery, live our entire lives paying interest to these families through taxes and inflation, and die passing this bondage to our children—all while believing we’re free. This is the golden thread that connects all other aspects of the global agenda: control the money, and you control everything else. Until humanity breaks free from this private money monopoly, all other freedoms are illusory.

30 Q&As

1. What is the fundamental difference between the United States Constitution and the United Nations Charter regarding individual rights?

The Constitution recognizes that rights are natural, God-given, and inalienable—they cannot be taken away or transferred to another because they come from God, not government. These rights are unlimited in nature, with the Constitution serving to limit government power rather than define citizen rights. The Bill of Rights doesn’t grant rights; it prohibits government from infringing on pre-existing natural rights that include life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness.

The UN Charter, conversely, defines and lists specific “human rights” that are granted by government and international bodies. When you define what constitutes a “right,” you’ve automatically limited the number of rights a person has. These rights come with conditions and can be suspended for the “common good” or in states of emergency. The UN Declaration of Human Rights contains numerous clauses that allow governments to restrict rights for various reasons including public order, morals, and the rights of others, making these rights conditional rather than absolute.

2. How does the Federal Reserve system function as a private corporation rather than a government entity, and what implications does this have for national sovereignty?

The Federal Reserve is a private corporation that provides money to the U.S. banking system, not a government agency as many believe. When you examine paper currency, it reads “Federal Reserve Note,” not U.S. Treasury Note. The Fed has never published an annual report, doesn’t report its meetings to the press until six months after monetary decisions, and pays no taxes. The power of this private corporation exceeds that of the president and Congress, to whom it is not accountable.

This arrangement means the monetary system of the United States is controlled by wealthy private individuals who can manipulate the economy through interest rates and money supply. Every country has a similar central bank, all coordinated through the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland. If a country doesn’t comply with international banking directives, these central banks can coordinate to sell that country’s currency simultaneously, bringing it to economic collapse. This was demonstrated in the Asian financial crisis when Malaysia, Thailand, and Korea tried to maintain economic sovereignty. Americans cannot forgive themselves the interest on federal debt because they don’t owe it to themselves—they owe it to this private corporation.

3. What is sustainable development, and how does it represent a philosophical shift from man having dominion over the earth to the earth having precedence over man?

Sustainable development fundamentally inverts the relationship between humanity and nature established in Genesis. Traditional Christian/Cartesian philosophy places man in dominion over earth and nature, with humans as stewards of creation. Sustainable development reverses this, making earth paramount and reducing humans to merely one species among many, with no special rights or position. This philosophy emerged from the 1987 Brundtland Report and was fully implemented at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit.

Under sustainable development, every human activity is measured by its impact on the environment. Maurice Strong confirmed that the system involves calculating total production versus total consumption for each household to determine whether they’re adding to or subtracting from earth’s resources. This creates a framework where a person’s worth is determined by their production-consumption ratio. The philosophy treats Earth as a business (”Earth, Inc.”) with depreciation and maintenance accounts, viewing current human activity as liquidating natural capital toward bankruptcy. It requires “reinventing” all aspects of life to prioritize environmental preservation over human needs, fundamentally changing property rights so the environment takes precedence.

4. How do public-private partnerships work, and why do they represent a shift in governmental power structure?

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are business arrangements between public entities (local, state, federal governments, foreign governments, UN agencies) and private players (NGOs supporting the UN agenda, multinational corporations). These entities create new organizations, often nonprofit corporations, to manage specific ventures. The partner with the most money controls the venture, which typically isn’t government. This structure bypasses legislative oversight since partnerships aren’t treaties requiring Congressional approval.

PPPs fundamentally alter democratic governance by shifting decision-making from elected officials to unelected corporate and NGO partners. They represent the merger of government and business power that characterizes fascism—not traditional government serving citizens, but government serving corporate interests. Prince Charles’s Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum exemplifies this, setting political policies for countries through PPPs. This system creates a new nucleus of government where corporations and special interests have equal or greater say than elected representatives, effectively privatizing government functions while socializing corporate risks and guaranteeing profits through taxpayer support.

5. What was Cecil Rhodes’ vision for world government, and how are the Rhodes Scholarship program and related organizations carrying out his agenda today?

Cecil Rhodes died in 1902, leaving his vast diamond and gold fortune with specific instructions to find a way to bring America back under British control. His vision included “the extension of British rule throughout the world” and “the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of a British Empire.” Rhodes established a secret society to accomplish this, with the Rhodes Scholarships serving as a facade to identify and indoctrinate future leaders from around the world, selecting those made of the right material to carry his vision rather than necessarily the smartest.

Today, Rhodes Scholars occupy key positions throughout government, media, and industry. Bill Clinton was the first Rhodes Scholar to become U.S. President, with numerous Rhodes Scholars in his cabinet. The Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) continues Rhodes’ work, with branches including the Council on Foreign Relations in America. These organizations coordinate to influence policy, education, and media to gradually achieve Rhodes’ goal of Anglo-American world dominance. The League of Nations and later the United Nations represent implementations of Rhodes’ vision for an “Imperial Parliament” where all nations would unite under Anglo-American leadership, achieving through ideology and economics what couldn’t be accomplished through military conquest.

6. What is the Hegelian dialectic, and how is it being used to gradually move society from constitutional government to world government?

The Hegelian dialectic is a process of gradually changing opinions and society through controlled conflict and compromise. It works through thesis (an original position), antithesis (opposition to that position), and synthesis (blending the two into a new position). Named after Frederick Hegel and adopted by communists and Marxists, this step-by-step process is now used at all government levels as the “visioning process” in town meetings and community planning sessions.

The dialectic moves people from absolute positions to compromise for the sake of relationships or situations. Americans have been processed from thesis (Constitution, individual freedoms, property rights, free speech) to antithesis (UN Charter, collective action, limited property rights for environment, politically correct thinking), creating synthesis—socialism incorporated in “reinventing government” programs. Each compromise becomes the new thesis, starting the process again, gradually moving society away from constitutional principles. The Christian church is particularly vulnerable, being unwittingly processed into accepting world government through appeals to unity, peace, and social justice while sacrificing fundamental Biblical and constitutional principles. The process is so smooth that those unaware of it don’t realize they’re abandoning their original positions.

7. How does the International Criminal Court represent the completion of a global legal system, and what types of crimes might it eventually prosecute?

The International Criminal Court, established in 1998, currently has jurisdiction over war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity. The crime of aggression was named but not defined, requiring future definition. The ICC represents the final legal step in creating a system to prosecute individuals accused of being terrorists or opposing the global system. Unlike previous tribunals limited to specific conflicts, the ICC has permanent, worldwide jurisdiction that can supersede national courts and sovereignty.

Dr. Benjamin Ferencz, a Nuremberg prosecutor and ICC advocate, revealed the court’s future expansion: “We will add many crimes… economic, finance, terrorism, narcotics, environment… these can only be dealt with in a global way.” He specifically mentioned “economic privation”—when some people have “too much money” while others live in poverty, calling this “irrationality” that must be addressed. This suggests future prosecution of successful individuals for economic crimes. The court will eventually address environmental crimes, with the precedent that harming the environment could constitute crimes against humanity. The ICC’s evolution follows the pattern of “step by step, stone by stone” implementation of world government, starting with universally condemned crimes before expanding to control all aspects of human behavior.

8. What is “reinventing government” or the “Third Way,” and how does it merge capitalism with socialism?

Reinventing government, championed by Clinton and Gore, represents a fundamental restructuring that merges capitalism with socialism—the “Third Way” between traditional left and right. This system downsizes federal government while shifting power to unelected agencies and community organizations, changes the balance of power from Congress to executive branch agencies, and establishes public-private partnerships as government’s new nucleus. The approach claims to be neither revolutionary communist nor social democrat, but seeks radical transformation through “deep democratic commitments.”

This Third Way maintains private property ownership (unlike communism) but heavily regulates its use (like socialism). It preserves corporate structures but partners them with government in fascistic arrangements. Major corporations work in partnership with big government, as seen in Nazi Germany with Krupp and IG Farben. This creates international socialism through mega-multinational businesses partnered with government. The system uses communitarian philosophy—community rights over individual rights—while maintaining market mechanisms. It’s designed to achieve socialist goals through capitalist means, redistributing wealth through regulations, partnerships, and international agreements rather than outright nationalization, creating what’s effectively corporate fascism dressed in democratic rhetoric.

9. How does the Group of Seven/Eight function as a “global board of directors,” and what areas of international policy do they control?

The G-7 (now G-8 with Russia) began in 1973 when Nixon brought together leaders of the world’s most powerful economies to manage international monetary affairs after severing the dollar from gold. Representing 65% of global GDP and the majority of UN Security Council votes, they essentially drive the UN agenda through economic strength and political power. They review and oversee finance, trade, justice, labor, housing, environment, and transportation worldwide, setting the tone for global policy while other nations have no option but to follow.

The G-7/G-8 coordinates responses to terrorism, establishes international financial architecture, manages currency relationships, and sets environmental standards. They created the Information Superhighway, structure the world police system, determine counter-terrorism measures, and coordinate central bank policies. Their annual communiques become marching orders for international organizations and smaller nations. They’ve systematically built institutions like the Financial Stability Forum, pushed for IMF expansion, and coordinated responses to financial crises. Operating without formal treaty obligations or democratic oversight, they function as an unelected world government, making decisions affecting billions while representing only a handful of nations. Their power exceeds that of the UN General Assembly, as they control the resources needed to implement any global agenda.

10. What was the Report from Iron Mountain, and how do its recommendations align with current United Nations objectives?

The Report from Iron Mountain was commissioned by the Kennedy administration in 1961 to determine what problems would confront the United States if permanent peace arrived. The secret commission concluded that war serves essential non-military functions: economic (waste production maintaining economy), political (maintaining government authority), sociological (controlling dangerous social elements), and ecological (population control). They determined that eliminating war requires eliminating national sovereignty and creating substitutes for war’s functions.

The report’s recommendations eerily match UN objectives: massive spending on health (government-guaranteed healthcare), education (professional degrees for all), housing (comfortable living for all), transportation (mass public systems), environment (protecting resources, eliminating contaminants), and poverty programs. These exactly mirror UN conference goals from Cairo, Copenhagen, Istanbul, and Rio. The report suggested environmental threats could unite humanity against a common enemy, replacing war—precisely the UN’s approach with climate change. It proposed forms of slavery through sophisticated economic controls and mandatory service programs, reflected in school-to-work initiatives and debt bondage. The report even suggested “blood games” for controlling aggressive impulses. The alignment is so precise that either the UN based its agenda on this report, or there’s an amazing coincidence in their identical goals and methods.

11. How has the environmental movement, particularly through Agenda 21 and biodiversity treaties, been used to restrict property rights and human activity?

Agenda 21, adopted at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, fundamentally restructures society around environmental priorities. The Biodiversity Treaty designates where humans can live, stating that 50% of U.S. land should return to wilderness conditions before human habitation. This requires massive relocation of populations into sustainable communities—high-density urban areas surrounded by protected zones where human activity is forbidden or severely restricted. The philosophy of ecosystem management means any human activity impacting nature must be controlled or eliminated.

The implementation occurs through seemingly benign local initiatives: smart growth, sustainable communities, comprehensive planning, and greenways. Conservation easements remove property rights while owners still pay taxes. Wetlands regulations prevent farmers from using their land. Endangered species designations shut down entire industries. Buffer zones around parks and monuments restrict neighboring property use. The Wildlands Project maps show vast areas designated for nature, with humans confined to specific zones. Local implementation uses ICLEI (International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives) to help communities adopt UN standards without realizing they’re surrendering sovereignty. Property owners retain title but lose control over use, effectively eliminating private property rights while maintaining the obligation to pay taxes—feudalism disguised as environmental protection.

12. What role does the Bank for International Settlements play in coordinating the world’s central banks?

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland, serves as the central bank of central banks—the apex of global financial control. According to Dr. Carroll Quigley, the powers of financial capitalism aimed “to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.” The BIS, a private bank owned and controlled by world central banks (themselves private corporations), represents the fulfillment of this goal.

The BIS coordinates policy among all central banks, standardizes banking regulations through the Basel Accords, manages international settlements, and provides a forum for central bankers to meet secretly and coordinate actions. During financial crises, the BIS orchestrates responses that protect the international banking system while extracting maximum wealth from national economies. It operates with complete immunity from all national laws and taxation, its premises and archives are inviolable, and it cannot be sued. The BIS can move assets anywhere without restriction, making it more powerful than any government. Through coordinating interest rates, money supply, and currency interventions, the BIS and its member central banks can create booms and busts, reward compliant nations, and punish those seeking monetary independence, effectively controlling the global economy.

13. How do organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission influence American domestic and foreign policy?

The Council on Foreign Relations, established in 1921 as the American branch of Rhodes’ Round Table groups, has over 3,000 members occupying key positions throughout government, media, academia, and business. CFR members have included multiple presidents, cabinet officials, Supreme Court justices, military leaders, and media executives. The organization operates as a private club where policies are discussed and coordinated before being implemented through members in official positions. Major newspapers and networks have CFR members as editors and executives, ensuring favorable coverage of CFR-promoted policies.

The Trilateral Commission, founded by David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1972, coordinates policy among North America, Europe, and Asia. These organizations don’t officially make policy but create consensus among elites who then implement agreed-upon strategies through their positions. They publish influential reports, provide experts for government positions, and ensure continuity regardless of which party holds power. Foundation funding from Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller ensures academic support for their initiatives. Members rotate between government, think tanks, corporations, and media, creating an interlocking directorate controlling policy discussion. Their influence is so pervasive that no significant foreign policy decision occurs without CFR/Trilateral input, and domestic policies increasingly reflect their globalist agenda rather than American citizens’ interests.

14. What is the Delphi technique, and how is it used in community meetings to achieve predetermined outcomes while creating an illusion of public input?

The Delphi technique, developed by the Rand Corporation in the 1960s, manipulates groups into accepting predetermined outcomes while believing they participated in the decision. The process breaks up knowledgeable people by assigning random seating, uses trained facilitators at each table who steer discussion, and allows only selected spokespersons to address the larger group. Anyone opposing the predetermined outcome is isolated, told there’s no time for discussion, or labeled as obstructionist. The technique creates peer pressure where participants feel uncomfortable disagreeing with the apparent majority.

The method employs loaded questions and surveys with limited options, all pointing toward the desired conclusion. Participants are subjected to rounds of surveys, being told after each that most people agreed with certain positions, pressuring holdouts to conform. The process “educates” participants about why they should support the predetermined outcome through selective information and emotional manipulation. Used extensively in land-use planning, school reforms, and community visioning sessions, it creates the illusion of grassroots democracy while actually implementing top-down agendas. Communities believe they chose smart growth, sustainable development, or school-to-work programs when actually they were manipulated into rubber-stamping decisions made elsewhere. The technique is particularly effective because participants leave believing they participated in democracy, making them defenders of the imposed solution.

15. How has the concept of communitarianism replaced individualism, and what does this mean for personal freedoms?

Communitarianism holds that the collective—society, community, nation, or race—has primacy over the individual. In this system, individuals have reality only as part of the group and value only insofar as they serve it. Individual political rights don’t exist; people must be sacrificed for the group whenever the state deems it desirable. This represents reinvented collectivism or reinvented communism, merging individualistic self-preservation instincts with communist ideology to create a system where community has primacy over individuals.

This transformation means personal freedoms become conditional on serving the collective good. Property rights are subordinated to community needs. Free speech is limited by political correctness and hate speech laws. Religious expression is constrained by tolerance requirements. Economic freedom is restricted by sustainable development. Parental rights yield to village raising children. Individual conscience surrenders to group consensus. The system is implemented through site councils, vision committees, and stakeholder groups that claim to represent community will while actually imposing predetermined agendas. Military training now emphasizes team over individual, teaching soldiers they cannot accomplish missions alone. Schools teach group work over individual achievement. The result is a society where standing for individual principles is seen as selfishness, where compromise is always virtuous, and where the tyranny of the collective replaces individual liberty.

16. What mechanisms were put in place through Y2K that advanced global electronic integration and emergency response coordination?

Y2K served as a catalyst for unprecedented global cooperation and standardization that wouldn’t have occurred otherwise. Every computer system worldwide had to be made compliant, creating universal technical standards and protocols. This required governments, businesses, and international organizations to share previously guarded information about their systems. The process established permanent communication channels and coordination mechanisms between national and international agencies that continue today. Emergency response systems were integrated from local to global levels, creating the infrastructure for worldwide crisis management.

The preparations justified massive surveillance and monitoring capabilities as systems were inventoried and tested. Information sharing agreements were established between governments and private sectors. The global nature of the threat justified international oversight of national infrastructure. Countries that couldn’t afford upgrades received international assistance, making them dependent on global systems. The event demonstrated that worldwide electronic integration was not only possible but necessary, establishing precedents for future global responses. Y2K created acceptance of interdependence—that no nation could protect itself alone. The infrastructure built for Y2K compliance became permanent, providing the electronic backbone for global government. Most significantly, it established the principle that global threats require surrendering national sovereignty to international coordination, setting the stage for climate change and pandemic responses.

17. How do executive orders bypass Congress to implement international law and UN treaties that haven’t been ratified?

Executive orders allow presidents to implement international agreements without Congressional approval or treaty ratification. Clinton’s Executive Order 13107 established federal agencies to enforce compliance with all UN human rights treaties, even those not ratified by the Senate. This makes UN doctrine the legal standard for U.S. policy and legislation, creates powerful federal oversight agencies monitoring state and federal laws for UN compliance, and protects through administrative action treaties the Senate rejected. Executive orders have been issued covering resource seizure, emergency powers, and federal agency restructuring to match UN requirements.

These orders remain in effect until specifically revoked, creating permanent changes regardless of Congressional opposition. Agencies created by executive order develop regulations with the force of law, further bypassing legislative processes. International agreements are renamed as partnerships, accords, or frameworks to avoid treaty designation. Federal agencies then implement these agreements through regulatory changes, grant requirements, and administrative procedures. States and localities must comply to receive federal funding, creating de facto implementation of unratified treaties. The accumulation of executive orders has created a parallel governance structure ready for activation during emergencies, when constitutional constraints can be suspended. This shadow system implements global governance incrementally, avoiding public debate and constitutional requirements while gradually subordinating American law to international standards.

18. What is the relationship between Prince Charles’ environmental initiatives and the broader agenda of returning America to British influence?

Prince Charles operates as a key behind-the-scenes player advancing Cecil Rhodes’ vision of returning America to British control, but through environmental and economic means rather than military conquest. His Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum coordinates multinational corporations to implement sustainable development policies that reshape national economies according to British-designed frameworks. Charles has been instrumental in promoting radical environmental philosophies that subordinate human needs to nature, fundamentally challenging American concepts of property rights and individual liberty rooted in Biblical principles.

The Prince works through public-private partnerships that bypass democratic processes, establishing corporate-government mergers that mirror British feudalism more than American republicanism. His organizations set political policies for countries by controlling economic development through environmental requirements. The sustainable development agenda Charles promotes requires dismantling American constitutional protections in favor of communitarian principles aligned with British social structures. His influence extends through the Commonwealth, UN environmental programs, and corporate governance initiatives that gradually impose British-originated controls on American business. This represents a sophisticated continuation of Rhodes’ strategy—using ideology, economics, and environmental crisis to achieve what the Revolution prevented: American subordination to British authority, now disguised as saving the planet.

19. How has the Glass-Steagall Act’s repeal facilitated the consolidation of financial power under Federal Reserve control?

Glass-Steagall, enacted after the 1929 crash, separated commercial banking, investment banking, and insurance to prevent conflicts of interest and protect depositors. Its repeal allows single institutions to combine all three functions, creating too-big-to-fail megabanks that hold citizens’ deposits, control investment markets, and manage insurance risks simultaneously. This consolidation brings all financial sectors under Federal Reserve supervision, expanding this private corporation’s control over the entire economy. Banks can now use depositor funds for speculative investments, socializing losses through bailouts while privatizing profits.

The repeal enables American banks to compete with European universal banks in preparation for global financial integration. It facilitates the creation of financial conglomerates matching the power of central banks, forming partnership arrangements between government and finance that characterize fascist economics. These megabanks become so systemically important that government must protect them regardless of their behavior, creating moral hazard that encourages reckless risk-taking. The consolidation makes it easier to implement international banking standards from the BIS and creates entities powerful enough to impose global financial policies on national economies. The result is a financial system where a handful of institutions controlled by the Federal Reserve can dictate economic conditions, manipulate markets, and extract wealth from the productive economy while being protected from failure by taxpayer guarantees.

20. What role do tax-exempt foundations play in funding and promoting the world government agenda?

Tax-exempt foundations, particularly Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller, have systematically promoted world government for decades. The 1953 Reese Committee investigation found these foundations were using tax-exempt wealth to promote socialism, alter American education, and rewrite history to condition Americans for world government. They fund UN studies recommending global governance expansion, support NGOs promoting sustainable development, finance academic programs teaching globalist perspectives, and provide grants ensuring intellectual support for their initiatives. The foundations interlock with the CFR, Trilateral Commission, and other globalist organizations, creating a self-reinforcing system.

Foundation money corrupts academic independence, as scholars must conform to foundation agendas to receive grants. They fund environmental groups that attack property rights, education reforms that eliminate American heritage, and social programs that promote collectivism. The foundations coordinate their giving to maximize impact, targeting strategic institutions and individuals who will advance their agenda. They’ve captured major universities, think tanks, and media organizations through strategic funding. International programs create global networks of foundation-dependent organizations all promoting the same agenda. By operating tax-free, they accumulate vast wealth while regular Americans pay taxes that often support programs opposing their interests. The foundations represent concentrated wealth systematically used to transform society against the will of citizens who unknowingly subsidize this transformation through tax exemptions.

21. How does the concept of “legal plunder” explain the systematic theft of rights and property through legislation?

Legal plunder, described by French economist Frederic Bastiat, occurs when law takes from one person and gives to another what it wouldn’t permit individuals to do privately. Instead of protecting persons, liberty, and property, law becomes the instrument for their violation. Government, created to protect rights, becomes the primary violator through legislation that redistributes wealth, restricts liberty, and confiscates property under various pretexts. This perverts law from its proper function of justice to an instrument of injustice, making theft legal when performed by government.

Modern America exemplifies legal plunder through progressive taxation funding wealth redistribution, regulations destroying property values without compensation, civil asset forfeiture taking property without conviction, inflation stealing purchasing power to fund government debt, environmental restrictions confiscating use rights while maintaining tax obligations, and licensing requirements forcing payments for permission to work. Social Security represents intergenerational plunder, sustainable development plunders property rights for environmental goals, and public-private partnerships plunder tax revenues for corporate profits. The system creates three classes: those who plunder, those being plundered, and those administering plunder. Eventually, everyone tries to live at others’ expense through government, destroying productive society. Legal plunder corrupts the entire nation, making theft virtuous when performed collectively, destroying moral distinctions between justice and injustice, and creating a society where law becomes the enemy of rights rather than their protector.

22. What is the significance of the transfer from a gold-backed currency to fiat money in enabling global financial control?

When Nixon severed the dollar’s last connection to gold in 1971, it enabled unlimited money creation by central banks, freeing them from any physical constraint on monetary manipulation. For the first time since Genesis, humanity traded in paper with no intrinsic value except what authorities declared. This allows central banks to create booms through credit expansion and busts through contraction, transferring wealth from producers to financial manipulators. Countries must now hold other countries’ paper currencies as reserves, making everyone vulnerable to others’ monetary policies.

Fiat currency enables hidden taxation through inflation, as governments print money rather than directly tax citizens. It facilitates global financial control since currency values depend entirely on central bank coordination rather than market fundamentals. The system requires ever-increasing debt to maintain money supply, ensuring perpetual bondage to banking interests. Without gold’s discipline, governments can fund wars, welfare, and waste without immediate taxpayer consequences. International speculation in currencies creates instability that justifies more international regulation and control. The BIS and IMF gain power as coordinators of this inherently unstable system. Digital currency represents fiat money’s evolution, enabling complete tracking and control of all transactions. The absence of gold as an independent store of value leaves citizens no escape from the managed monetary system, making everyone dependent on central bank decisions for their economic survival.

23. How are international terrorism responses being used to create an integrated global police and emergency management system?

The G-7’s “Forty Points” counter-terrorism program established unprecedented integration of law enforcement from local to global levels. This creates information sharing between all agencies worldwide, joint terrorism task forces combining federal, state, and local law enforcement with international partners, standardized procedures ensuring all agencies operate identically, and integrated databases accessible across jurisdictions and nations. The system breaks down barriers between military, intelligence, and civilian law enforcement, militarizing police while giving military law enforcement roles.

FEMA coordinates with international emergency management systems, creating global disaster response protocols that supersede national sovereignty during declared emergencies. The infrastructure built for terrorism becomes permanent, available for any declared emergency. International agreements mandate compliance with global security standards, forcing nations to adopt surveillance and control measures. The definition of terrorism expands to include domestic extremism, with criteria encompassing those opposing global governance. The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs links national emergency systems into global networks. Presidential Decision Directive 63 creates infrastructure protection systems monitoring all critical systems. The National Infrastructure Protection Center combines government and corporate surveillance capabilities. Foreign troops can be deployed domestically under emergency assistance agreements. This integrated system means a declaration of emergency anywhere can trigger coordinated global response, effectively creating world police state infrastructure awaiting activation.

24. What changes in education, such as outcome-based education and school-to-work programs, are preparing future generations for global citizenship rather than American citizenship?

Education has been restructured to produce global citizens who accept world government rather than American patriots who understand constitutional liberty. Outcome-based education replaces academic knowledge with politically correct attitudes, measuring compliance with global values rather than mastery of subjects. School-to-work programs, implementing German-style workforce training, slot students into career paths serving economic needs rather than developing individual potential. History is rewritten to denigrate American achievements while promoting multicultural perspectives that deny American exceptionalism.

Civic education eliminates understanding of constitutional principles, replacing them with global citizenship concepts emphasizing responsibilities to world community over national loyalty. Environmental education indoctrinates children with sustainable development philosophy, teaching them humanity threatens Earth. Values clarification breaks children’s connection to parental and religious values, making them malleable to state indoctrination. Group work over individual achievement teaches collectivist thinking. Critical thinking is replaced with consensus building, training students to compromise rather than stand for principles. International Baccalaureate programs directly promote UN values and world government. Common Core standardizes indoctrination nationally, ensuring no escape through local control. Children are taught they’re citizens of the world first, their nation second, reversing traditional loyalties. The goal is producing compliant workers for the global economy who accept diminished freedom as necessary for planetary survival, lacking the knowledge, values, and courage to resist tyranny.

25. How do United Nations conferences systematically advance the four pillars of world government: political, economic, social, and environmental?

UN conferences operate as a coordinated system where each gathering advances specific aspects of world government while appearing to address humanitarian concerns. Environmental conferences establish nature’s precedence over human needs through agreements like Agenda 21 and biodiversity treaties. Social conferences restructure society through education, population control, and habitat requirements. Economic conferences create mechanisms for wealth redistribution and global financial control. Political conferences establish international law superseding national sovereignty. Each conference builds on previous agreements, creating interlocking obligations that trap nations in ever-tightening requirements.

The conferences follow a pattern: create crisis awareness, establish international agreements, require national action plans, create monitoring bodies, demand regular reporting, and pressure non-compliant nations. NGOs are mobilized to create appearance of grassroots support while foundations fund supporting research and media campaigns. Conference declarations become soft law, gradually hardening into binding obligations. National leaders make commitments bypassing their legislatures, which are then implemented through executive actions and agency regulations. The systematic nature ensures progress regardless of opposition in individual nations, as international pressure forces compliance. Each conference adds layers of bureaucracy and control, creating a self-reinforcing system where solving one manufactured crisis requires accepting greater control in other areas. The four pillars interlock so that resistance in one area can be overcome through pressure from others, gradually constructing complete world government architecture.

26. What was Joan Veon’s “wake-up call” at the Cairo conference, and what did she discover about the advancement of world government that mainstream media wasn’t reporting?

At the 1994 UN Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, businesswoman Joan Veon discovered that an international level of governance far above national governments was already operational and highly advanced. She witnessed American political leaders including Al Gore promoting concepts and philosophies—population reduction, abortion rights, sexual education for children, and state control over families—that Americans would rebel against if they knew. She found UN documents openly discussing fertility rates for every country, population reduction targets, and comprehensive statistics about citizens that revealed an Orwellian level of global surveillance and planning already in place.

Most shocking was discovering that mainstream media was conducting a complete blackout on the truth about these conferences. Media reports presented sanitized versions omitting the radical agenda being advanced. Even Christian Broadcasting Network, present at Cairo, failed to expose the world government agenda. When Veon attempted to alert major Christian organizations about the UN’s plans for global taxation and governance, she received virtually no response. She discovered that many supposedly conservative or Christian leaders had been compromised, with Pat Robertson reportedly having “joined the new world order.” This wake-up call transformed her from a businesswoman into a dedicated researcher and journalist, attending over twenty-five UN conferences to document the systematic implementation of world government that media, government, and even religious leaders were hiding from the American people.

27. How does the European Union and the euro serve as a model for regional government that may be replicated in the Americas?

The European Union demonstrates how sovereign nations can be gradually merged into regional government that supersedes national authority. Starting with economic cooperation (Coal and Steel Community), it progressed through trade agreements (Common Market) to monetary union (euro) and now seeks political union. National currencies were eliminated, central banks surrendered to the European Central Bank, and national laws subordinated to EU directives. Countries that initially retained opt-outs find themselves pressured into compliance through economic coercion.

This model is being replicated in the Americas through NAFTA evolving toward the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), covering thirty-four nations. The proposed “dollarization” of Latin America would create a common currency zone like the eurozone. The summit process brings together governments, international organizations, and corporations in public-private partnerships that bypass national legislatures. The Organization of American States, Inter-American Development Bank, and UN Economic Commission for Latin America form a tripartite structure coordinating integration. Plans exist for an American Union with its own parliament, court system, and regulatory apparatus. The process follows the European pattern: economic integration justified by trade benefits, followed by regulatory harmonization requiring legal changes, leading to institutional integration necessitating political merger. Regional government then becomes the building block for world government, as regions are easier to control than numerous individual nations.

28. What is the Family Dependency Ratio concept, and how does it measure human worth based on production versus consumption?

The Family Dependency Ratio represents a fundamental shift to viewing humans as economic units whose value depends on their production-consumption balance. Under this system, the IMF/World Bank seeks to measure total production of household members at work and home, then subtract total consumption (energy, water, food, etc.) to determine if that household adds to or subtracts from Earth’s resources. Producers (working adults) are valued while non-producers (children, elderly, disabled) are seen as drains on resources. This creates a framework for “sustainable development” where human worth is determined by economic output rather than inherent dignity.

Maurice Strong confirmed this system treats Earth as a corporation with depreciation and maintenance accounts, where current human activity is viewed as liquidating natural capital. The philosophy drives policies promoting abortion and euthanasia to reduce “non-productive” populations, workforce participation requirements for benefits, education focused on economic productivity rather than human development, and healthcare rationing based on productive potential. It justifies viewing retirement as parasitic unless offset by volunteerism or continued work. Children become investments requiring return through future production. The disabled and chronically ill become unjustifiable resource drains. This economic reductionism destroys traditional values of family, community care for vulnerable members, and the inherent worth of human life. It creates a world where love, beauty, wisdom, and spiritual values are meaningless unless they produce measurable economic output.

29. How have concepts like human rights, as defined by the UN, actually limited rights compared to the natural, God-given rights recognized by the Constitution?

The Constitution recognizes rights as natural and God-given—unlimited, inalienable, and existing prior to government. Government cannot grant these rights, only recognize and protect them. The Bill of Rights doesn’t define citizen rights but prohibits government infringement on pre-existing rights. This creates a system of unlimited rights with limited government. Rights cannot be suspended, balanced against other considerations, or taken away because they come from God, not government.

UN human rights are government-granted privileges that can be limited, suspended, or revoked. The UN Declaration contains 139 clauses spanning fifty pages, with each right containing exceptions for public order, morals, national security, public health, or the rights of others. By defining specific rights, the UN automatically limits them—if you have a right to housing, food, and healthcare, but no explicit right to own property or choose your profession, those freedoms don’t exist. Rights become conditional on responsible exercise as defined by authorities. They must be balanced against collective needs, environmental concerns, and state interests. International bodies interpret and enforce these rights, superseding national sovereignty. The system creates limited rights with unlimited government—the exact opposite of the American model. Citizens become supplicants petitioning for privileges rather than free people exercising inherent rights. The transformation from natural to defined rights represents the difference between freedom and slavery.

30. What is the spiritual dimension of this conflict, and what does it mean to “stand in the gap” in these times?

This conflict represents spiritual warfare between two incompatible worldviews: the Biblical view of man created in God’s image with dominion over creation versus the pagan view of man as merely one species among many, subservient to Earth. The battle involves truth versus deception, individual worth versus collectivism, God-given rights versus state-granted privileges, and ultimately the Kingdom of God versus the kingdom of man attempting to build a modern Tower of Babel. The systematic attack on Christianity, traditional values, and constitutional principles reveals the spiritual nature of this warfare.

“Standing in the gap” means recognizing these are kairos times—crisis moments requiring decisive action rather than passive observation. It requires eyes to see through deception, ears to hear truth amid propaganda, and minds to understand the real agenda behind surface events. Like Ezekiel’s watchman, those who understand must warn others regardless of whether they listen. It means choosing costly grace over cheap grace—being willing to sacrifice comfort, reputation, and security to stand for truth. This involves practical resistance: refusing to compromise principles for relationships or benefits, educating others about the real agenda, protecting children from indoctrination, and building parallel systems outside the control grid. Spiritually, it requires prayer, fasting, and spiritual warfare against principalities and powers orchestrating this agenda. Like the ten Boom family hiding Jews or Bonhoeffer resisting Nazis, it means recognizing that Christian faith demands action when tyranny threatens. The remnant that understands must stand firm, knowing they fight not against flesh and blood but against spiritual wickedness in high places implementing Satan’s counterfeit kingdom.

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The undemocratic transition to a global, authoritarian political system called Stakeholder Capitalism explained (must see)

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IMO a must see. A not too long doco style presentation of just how Schwab operates & what he has in view for all useless eaters. Not what he calls us openly but we know that’s how we’re classified hence the drive for depop. These characters have infiltrated all govts (corporations in actuality) and they mean for us to own nothing, parading that concept as being inclusive… sharing is caring and all that. Nothing could be further from the truth … it is communism in new garb. Make no mistake, it is tyrannical and evil.. EWNZ

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Stakeholder Capitalism is an investigative documentary series about our undemocratic transition away from free-market capitalism to a global, authoritarian political system called Stakeholder Capitalism. Enacted in 2020, Stakeholder Capitalism replaces both Shareholder Capitalism (free-market) and State Capitalism (communism) with a single, universal system that is governed by the World Economic Forum’s exclusive elite members, including the presidents of Russia and China.

In the first episode ‘Our New Political System’, former TV producer and tech entrepreneur, Richard Jeffs, discovers what Stakeholder Capitalism is and how its Inclusive and Sustainable policies are changing our society. Richard also investigates how the ESG corporate credit score forces us to adopt Stakeholder Capitalism.

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Henry Lamb: The UN’s 1995 ‘Global Neighbourhood’ plan for a One World Government

From expose-news.com via Meryl Nass @ Substack

In 1996, Henry Lamb exposed the UN’s plan to take over the world using a book the UN had published the year before.  The title of the book is ‘Our Global Neighbourhood’.

Written by 28 “experts” the book describes a global taxation scheme to fund the UN’s operations; a standing UN army; an Economic Security Council; UN authority over the global commons, expanded authority for the Secretary-General and much more.  By 1996, some of the plans had already been implemented.  As the years have gone by, more and more of the plan has been and is being rolled out.

Henry Lamb was a renowned expert on global governance and its implications on individual freedom and private property rights. He was the author of ‘The Rise of Global Governance’. He was also the author of the article ‘The UN and Property Rights’, the report ‘Global Governance: Why? How? When?’ and a columnist for Renew America.  And chairman of Sovereignty International, a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting individual sovereignty and limited government, founder of the Environmental Conservation Organisation and Freedom21, Inc.

In 1996, Lamb gave a t talk on the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Wildlands Project at the Granada Forum.

“All of the conspiracy theories that you’ve ever heard about ‘One World Government’, about the UN takeover of the world, all of those conspiracies have now been laid to rest,” he said.  “There’s nothing conspiratorial about it.  It’s all published!”

“The UN-funded Commission on Global Governance began meeting in 1992, in earnest … and last fall released their final report.  It is entitled ‘Our Global Neighbourhood’,” he said.

After briefly describing the 1995 document, he goes on to talk about Agenda 21, the Biodiversity Treaty, The Wildlands Project and the Global Biodiversity Assessment.

If the video above is removed from YouTube, you can watch it on Rumble HERE and BitChute HERE. Hyperlinks to some of the documents referred to above can be found HERE.

In the video above, Lamb also mentioned topics on which we have previously published articles: Agenda 21, the Biodiversity Treaty, The Wildlands Project, Global Biodiversity Assessment and the 30×30 plan. See our articles HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE

Further resources: Agenda 21 Course: Confronting Agenda 21 (Part 3), Henry Lamb, 8 March 2013

For this article, we are focusing on the first document Lamb mentioned: ‘Our Global Neighbourhood’.

Our Global Neighbourhood is the report of the Commission on Global Governance issued in 1995.  The Commission on Global Governance, an international commission of 28 people, was established in 1992 to suggest new ways in which the international community might cooperate to further an agenda of global security.

The report presented the Commission’s conclusions and recommendations for discussion at the General Assembly of the United Nations’ 50th-anniversary session.  Divided into seven chapters, the report served as “a call to action,” encouraging world leaders and non-governmental actors to work together toward achieving the goals expressed by the commission.

Our Global Neighbourhood’ was 410 pages long. A shorter version, 120 pages, can be found HERE and archived HERE.

In 1996, Henry Lamb published ‘A Summary Analysis’ which is 22 pages. The following is a summary of Lamb’s analysis. You can read his full analysis HERE.


A Summary of Henry Lamb’s Analysis of Our Global Neighbourhood

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Background and Formation of the Commission
  3. Members of the Commission
  4. The Reasoning for Global Governance
  5. Core Values and Principles
  6. A Global Ethic and Human Security
  7. Economic Security and Global Governance
  8. Restructuring the UN System and UN Army
  9. Global Governance of Trade, Development and Migration
  10. The Role of NGOs
  11. International Law and Global Governance
  12. Financing Global Governance Through Global Taxation Schemes
  13. Implementation and the Future of Global Governance

Introduction

The Commission on Global Governance released its recommendations in preparation for a World Conference on Global Governance, scheduled for 1998, where official world governance treaties were expected to be adopted for implementation by the year 2000.

The Commission’s proposals included expanding the authority of the United Nations (“UN”) to provide global taxation, a standing UN army, an Economic Security Council, UN authority over the global commons and an end to the veto power of permanent members of the Security Council.

Other proposals include the establishment of a new parliamentary body of “civil society” representatives (“NGOs”), a new “Petitions Council”, a new Court of Criminal Justice, binding verdicts of the International Court of Justice and expanded authority for the UN Secretary-General.

The Commission consisted of 28 people, carefully selected for their prominence, influence, and ability to effect the implementation of the recommendations.  It was endorsed by the UN Secretary-General and funded through various trust funds and foundations.

The Commission on Global Governance has released its recommendations in preparation for a World Conference on Global Governance, scheduled for 1998, where official world governance treaties are expected to be adopted for implementation by the year 2000.

Our Global Neighbourhood’, was published by Oxford University Press in 1995 and reflects the work of dozens of different agencies and commissions over several years.

Background and Formation of the Commission

The Commission on Global Governance was established in 1992 with 28 members and funding from the UNDP, nine national governments and private foundations.

The Commission was formed after a report on global governance opportunities was presented in April 1991, in Stockholm, by Ingvar Carlsson, then Prime Minister of Sweden, and Shirdath Ramphal, Secretary General of the Commonwealth.

The report was initially requested by former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who called a group of international leaders to Konigswinter, Germany in January 1990.

The Commission’s co-chairmen, Ingvar Carlsson and Shirdath Ramphal, met with UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali in April 1992 to secure his endorsement of the effort.

Members of the Commission

1. Ingvar Carlsson, Sweden Prime Minister of Sweden 1986-91, and Leader of the Social Democratic Party in Sweden.

2.Shirdath Ramphal, Guyana Secretary-General of the Commonwealth from 1975 to 1990, President of the IUCN, Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Leadership in Environment and Development Program; Chairman, Advisory Committee, Future Generations Alliance Foundation, Chancellor, University of the West Indies, and the University of Warwick in Britain, member of five international commissions in the 1980s, and author of Our Country, The Planet, written especially for the Earth Summit.

3. Ali Alatas, Indonesia Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia since 1988; permanent representative to the United Nations.

4. Abdlatif Al-Hamad, Kuwait Director-General and Chairman of the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development in Kuwait. Former Minister of Finance and Minister of Planning; member of the Independent Commission on International Development Issues; Board member of the Stockholm Environment Institute.

5. Oscar Arias, Costa Rica President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990; drafted the Arias Peace Plan which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; founded the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress.

6. Anna Balletbo i Puig, Spain Member of the Spanish Parliament since 1979; member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and on Radio and Television; Executive Committee of the Socialist Party in Catalonia; General Secretary of the Olof Palme International Foundation; President of Spain’s United Nations Association; and activist on women’s issues since 1975.

7. Kurt Biedenkopf, Germany Minister-President of Saxony since 1990; member of the Federal Parliament; Secretary General of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.

8. Allan Boesak, South Africa Minister for Economic Affairs for the Western Cape Region; Director of the Foundation for Peace and Justice; Chairman of the African National Congress (ANC); President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and a Patron of the United Democratic Front.

9. Manuel Camacho Solis, Mexico Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mayor of Mexico City; Mexico’s Secretary of Urban Development and Ecology.

10. Bernard Chidzero, Zimbabwe Minister of Finance; Deputy Secretary-General of UNCTAD; Chairman of the Development Committee of the World Bank and the IMF; and member of the World Commission on Environment and Development.

11. Barber Conable, a former United States President of the World Bank, is mentioned alongside his roles as Chairman of the Committee on US-China Relations and Senior Advisor to the Global Environment Facility.

12. Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission since 1985, is noted for his positions as Minister for Economics, Finance and Budget, and Mayor of Clichy.

13. Jiri Dienstbier, Chairman of the Free Democrats Party in the Czech Republic, also served as Deputy Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs.

14. Enrique Iglesias, President of the Inter-American Development Bank since 1988, held various positions including Minister of External Relations and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America.

15. Frank Judd, a member of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom, served as Under-Secretary of State for Defence, Minister for Overseas Development, and Director of Oxfam.

16. Hongkoo Lee, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea, held positions as Minister of National Unification, Ambassador to the United Kingdom, and Professor of Political Science at Seoul National University.

17. Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, also served as Chair of the National Council of Women of Kenya and spokesperson for non-government organizations at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio.

18. Sadako Ogata, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees since 1991, held positions as Director of the International Relations Institute and Chairman of the Executive Board of UNICEF.

19. Olara Otunnu, President of the International Peace Academy in New York, served as Foreign Minister of Uganda and Chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights.

20. I.G. Patel, Chairman of the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, held various positions including Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Chief Economic Adviser to the Indian Government, and Deputy Administrator of the United Nations Development Program.

21. Celina Vargas do Amaral Peixoto, Director of the Getulio Vargas Foundation, also served as Director-General of the Brazilian National Archives and Director of the Centre of Research and Documentation on Brazilian History.

22. Jan Pronk, Minister for Development Co-operation in the Netherlands, held positions as Vice Chairman of the Labor Party, Member of Parliament, and Deputy Secretary-General of UNCTAD.

23. Qian Jiadong, Deputy Director-General of the China Centre for International Studies, served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative in Geneva to the United Nations and Ambassador for Disarmament Affairs.

24. Marie-Angelique Savane, Director of the Africa Division of the UN Population Fund, held positions as Director of the UNFPA in Dakar, Advisor to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and President of the Association of African Women for Research and Development.

25. Adele Simmons, President of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, served as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the UN High Level Advisory Board on Sustainable Development, and President Carter’s Commission on World Hunger.

26. Maurice Strong is a prominent figure from Canada, holding multiple positions including Chairman and CEO of Ontario Hydro, Chairman of the Earth Council, and Secretary-General of Earth Summits I and II.  He is also a member of the World Commission on Environment and Development, and his work is featured in the November/December 1995 issue of Ecologic.

27. Brian Urquhart, from the United Kingdom, is a Scholar-in-Residence at the Ford Foundation’s International Affairs Program and has served as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs from 1972 to 1986.  Urquhart is also a member of the Independent Commission on Disarmament and Security Issues.

28. Yuli Vorontsov, from Russia, has held various diplomatic positions including Ambassador to the United States, Ambassador to the United Nations, and Advisor to President Boris Yeltsin on Foreign Affairs.  Vorontsov has also served as Ambassador to Afghanistan, France and India.

The Reasoning for Global Governance

The Commission believed that world events, advances in technology and global awareness of environmental catastrophe create a climate in which the people of the world would recognise the need for global governance.

According to the report, global governance “does not imply world government or world federalism,” but rather a new system of governance that employs a variety of methods, without giving the governed an opportunity to vote on the outcome.

The foundation for global governance is based on the belief that the world is ready to accept a “global civic ethic” based on core values such as respect for life, liberty, justice and equity, and that governance should be underpinned by democracy and the rule of enforceable law.

However, the report’s definition of “respect for life” is not limited to human life, but rather means equal respect for all life, consistent with the biocentric view that all life has equal intrinsic value.

[We have previously published articles to explain that “equity” is not the same as “equality.”  In fact, the two concepts are fundamentally different.  See HERE and HERE.]

Core Values and Principles

The Commission’s proposals were based on a set of core values that prioritise human security, environmental protection and global governance.  These core values have been emerging in UN documents since the late 1980s and have dominated international conferences, agreements and treaties since 1992, including Agenda 21 adopted in Rio de Janeiro.

The Commission on Global Governance emphasised the importance of extending respect for life to all living beings, not just humans, and noted that the impulse to possess territory is a powerful one that must be overcome.

It also highlighted the need to balance national sovereignty with international responsibility, stating that although states are sovereign, they are not free to do whatever they want and that global rules of custom constrain their freedom.

Maurice Strong, a member of the Commission, suggests that sovereignty cannot be exercised unilaterally by individual nation-states and that it will yield to the imperatives of global environmental cooperation.

[Related: The Man Who Invented Climate Change – Maurice Strong]

The Commission proposed sweeping changes to the UN based on the core value of “justice and equity,” which aims to reduce disparities and bring about a more balanced distribution of opportunities around the world.

It also emphasised the importance of “mutual respect,” defined as “tolerance,” and noted that individual achievement and personal responsibility may be counter to this value.

The UN’s World Core Curriculum, authored by former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations Robert Muller, aims to promote a global approach to education and encourage students to become “true planetary citizens.”

[Related: Education for the New World Order, Prof. Johan Malan and Introducing Universal Core Curriculum, The Encyclopaedia of World Problems and Human Potential]

The Commission’s proposals also institutionalised the value of “caring,” which aims to encourage cooperation to help those in need and defines “integrity” as the adoption and practice of core values and the absence of corruption.  It believed that as the world adopts these core values, a “global ethic” will emerge, which will embody a set of common rights and responsibilities and provide a framework for effective global governance.

A Global Ethic and Human Security

The proposed global ethic would bestow upon all people certain rights, including a secure life, an opportunity to earn a fair living and equal access to the global commons.

The Commission noted that the effectiveness of this global ethic will depend on the ability of people and governments to transcend narrow self-interests and agree on a set of common rights and responsibilities.

The Commission on Global Governance emphasised that the right to a “secure life” encompasses not only freedom from war but also protection from chronic threats such as hunger, disease and repression, as well as sudden disruptions in daily life.

Human security was considered a goal as important as state security, marking a significant expansion of the United Nations’ responsibilities, which would now include the security of individuals within member states.

The Commission also highlighted the importance of environmental security, emphasising the need to control human activities that harm the planet’s life support systems and applying the “precautionary principle” to mitigate these risks.

Economic Security and Global Governance

The right to earn a “fair living” has far-reaching implications, including the need for fair distribution of natural resources, elimination of extreme income disparities, and the creation of job opportunities for all people.

The Commission proposed the establishment of an Economic Security Council to oversee global economic governance and ensure that all people have the opportunity to earn a fair living.

The Trusteeship Council would be given the mandate to exercise trusteeship over the global commons, including the administration of environmental treaties and the levying of user fees, taxes and royalties for permits to use the global commons.

The global commons are defined as the atmosphere, outer space, the oceans and related environment and life-support systems that contribute to the support of human life.

Restructuring the UN System and UN Army

The Commission’s recommendations for achieving global governance involved enforcing core values through a global bureaucracy, which would be established through a revitalised and restructured United Nations system.

The UN Security Council, the supreme organ of the United Nations system, would be reformed to have 23 members, with the permanent members’ veto power phased out and the remaining members serving as “standing members” until a full review of member status can be conducted.

New principles for the Security Council’s actions would be established, including the right to a secure existence for all people, the prevention of conflict and war and the elimination of conditions that generate security threats.

The Security Council would be empowered to intervene in the affairs of sovereign states when the security of individuals is in jeopardy, including military intervention as a last resort, and would be authorised to raise a standing army, known as the United Nations Volunteer Force.

The United Nations Volunteer Force would be a small, highly trained, well-equipped force of 10,000 troops, available for rapid deployment anywhere in the world, under the exclusive authority of the UN Security Council and the day-to-day command of the UN Secretary-General.

The Trusteeship Council, an original principal organ of the United Nations system, would be reconstituted to have authority over the global commons, with a fixed number of members, including qualified members from “civil society,” such as accredited NGOs.

The Commission proposed a significant shift in the UN system, giving unelected, self-appointed environmental activists a position of governmental authority on the governing board of the agency controlling the use of the atmosphere, outer space, the oceans and biodiversity.

The Economic and Social Council (“ECOSOC”) would be retired, and its agencies and programmes would be shifted to the Trusteeship Council, which would ultimately be governed by a special body of environmental activists chosen from accredited NGOs appointed by delegates to the General Assembly.

The United Nations Environment Programme (“UNEP”), along with all environmental treaties under its jurisdiction, would be governed by this special body, and the environmental work programme of the entire UN system would be authorised and coordinated by it.

Enforcement would come from an upgraded Security Council and the new Economic Security Council (“ESC”), described as an “Apex Body,” that would have the standing concerning international economic matters that the Security Council has in peace and security matters.

The ESC would be a deliberative, policy body that works by consensus without veto power by any member, and its responsibilities would include continuously assessing the overall state of the world economy, providing a long-term strategic policy framework to promote sustainable development and securing consistency between the policy goals of international economic institutions.

The ESC would also study proposals for financing public goods by international revenue raising, address long-term threats to security and promote sustainable development, with a focus on issues such as shared ecological crises, economic instability, rising unemployment, mass poverty and environmental sustainability.

The Commission recommended that the ESC have no more than 23 members, be headed by a new Deputy Secretary-General for Economic Co-operation and Development, and use Purchase Power Parity (“PPP”) to measure the gross domestic product (“GDP”) of all member nations.

The ESC would have authority over telecommunications and multimedia, and businesses that use the airwaves and satellites would be subject to its policies, to provide a measure of global public service broadcasting not linked to commercial interests.

The World Trade Organisation (“WTO”) and the International Labour Organisation (“ILO”) would be brought under the authority of the new ESC, which would aim to promote open and stable trade based on multilaterally agreed rules to raise the living standards of the poor and achieve environmental sustainability.

Global Governance of Trade, Development and Migration

The Commission on Global Governance emphasised the need for a system of global governance to oversee the global information society through a common regulatory approach, with the World Trade Organisation (“WTO”) giving preferential treatment to poor countries in license allocations and creating rules to counter national monopolies.

The Economic Security Council (“ESC”) is expected to address various global issues, including tariffs and quotas, technical and product standards, social provision and labour markets, competition policy, environmental control, investment incentives, corporate taxation and intellectual property law.

The ESC aims to centralise and consolidate policymaking for world trade, the international monetary system and world development, with a broad consensus on elements such as environmental sustainability, financial stability and a strong social dimension to policy.

To deal with third-world debt, the Commission recommended establishing a system similar to corporate bankruptcy, where a state’s affairs are managed by the international community, allowing for a fresh start.

The ESC is expected to facilitate technology transfer, crucial for development in developing countries, and establish immigration policies to address the inconsistency in government treatment of migration.

Environmental policies will be under the authority of the Trusteeship Council, with implementation and enforcement coordinated through UN organisations and non-governmental organisations (“NGOs”) such as the World Conservation Union (“IUCN”), the World Resources Institute (“WRI)” and the World Wide Fund for Nature (“WWF”).

The Role of NGOs

The Commission on Sustainable Development (“CSD”), created as a result of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, would serve as the focal point for coherence and coordination of UN programmes, providing political leadership in implementing Agenda 21 and achieving sustainable development.

The Commission recognised the importance of NGOs and institutions as partners with government and businesses in achieving economic progress and sustainable development, citing the contributions of organisations such as the IUCN, WRI, and WWF.

The Commission emphasised the importance of involving civil society in global governance, leading to more people-focused and productive programmes and projects.  To achieve this, the Commission proposed the creation of two new bodies: the Assembly of the People and the Forum of Civil Society, which would provide a platform for representatives of NGOs to participate in global governance.

The Assembly of the People would consist of representatives elected by national legislatures, with the possibility of direct election by the people in the future.

The Forum of Civil Society would comprise 300-600 representatives of accredited NGOs, meeting annually before the UN General Assembly to provide considered views on global governance.

The Commission recognised the essential role of NGOs in global governance, which is a demonstrated fact of life, and sought to institutionalise their participation through legal status.

The idea of NGO participation in global governance dates back to the founding of the UN, with Julius Huxley playing a key role in establishing the International Union for Conservation of Nature (“IUCN”) in 1948.

The IUCN has been instrumental in promoting NGO participation in global governance, with 980 accredited NGOs as of 1994, and has created influential organisations such as the WWF and the WRI.

These NGOs have been involved in shaping major environmental documents and have a significant presence in global and regional conferences, including the UN Conference on Environment and Development (“UNCED”).

The Commission noted that there are 28,900 known international NGOs, many of which are directly involved in advancing the agenda of global governance, and have significant resources and national constituencies.

The participation of NGOs in global governance is not limited to international conferences but is also being applied to domestic policy, with national NGOs playing a key role in shaping the domestic agenda on global issues.

The structure of “civil society” participation in global governance is revealed in various documents from UN organisations, the IUCN, WWF and the WRI, often described as “Public-Private Partnerships.”

These partnerships involve the creation of “boards” or “councils” representing the interests of all “stakeholders,” but are often dominated by well-prepared NGOs.

At the local level in the USA, NGOs are frequently full-time professionals, funded through the Environmental Grantmakers Association or the federal government, and coordinate with regional and national NGOs.

The NGOs that set the US national agenda are often the same ones accredited to the UN or members of the IUCN and ultimately aim to establish a “Bioregional Council” with authority over local land and resource use decisions.

The Commission recommended the creation of a “Right of Petition” available to international civil society, which would allow NGOs to petition the UN directly through a Council for Petitions.

This Council would be a high-level panel of five to seven persons, independent of governments, appointed by the Secretary-General with approval of the General Assembly, and would make recommendations to the Secretary-General, the Security Council and the General Assembly.

Although this mechanism had not been formally incorporated into the UN system in 1996, it was being used, as seen in the example of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition petitioning the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO to intervene in a private company’s plans to mine gold near Yellowstone Park.

International Law and Global Governance

The Commission aimed to remedy the historical limitations of international law by developing and drafting proposed international law through the UN International Law Commission and the IUCN’s Environmental Law Centre.

The Commission recommended that treaties and agreements include binding adjudication by the World Court and that all nations accept compulsory jurisdiction of the World Court, with the WTO being a step in this direction.

Even in 1996, the WTO had a system where members agreed to accept WTO decisions and not seek bilateral resolution of disputes, ensuring compliance with global rules.

Also by 1996, the International Law Commission (“ILC”) had developed statutes for a new International Criminal Court, which would have an independent prosecutor to investigate alleged crimes, acting independently without instructions from governments or other sources.

The Commission recognised that implementing international standards could face opposition from internal political processes within nation-states and populist action, citing the example of the Biodiversity Treaty that was not ratified by the US Senate due to grassroots opposition.

The Commission noted that accredited NGOs and their affiliates are seen as “expanding democracy” through civil society participation, while non-accredited civil society activity is viewed as “political pressure” and “populist action.”

Financing Global Governance Through Global Taxation Schemes

The Commission proposed a fresh look at globally redistributive tax principles to finance global governance, suggesting a more sustainable approach to managing the global commons, particularly environmental issues.

The UN’s annual expenditures in 1996 were around $11 billion, with the cost of implementing Agenda 21 estimated at $600 billion per year, which in a Globalist’s mind highlights the need for a more robust financing system.

The Commission proposed establishing practical, small-scale schemes of global financing to support specific UN operations while avoiding giving the UN direct taxing power and instead relying on member nations’ assessments and voluntary contributions.

The Commission noted that the United States had often withheld payment to influence UN policy and that the UN has no power to enforce payment of assessments or voluntary contributions, constraining the exercise of the General Assembly’s collective authority.

The Commission on Global Governance suggested that user charges, levies and taxes should be agreed upon globally and implemented through a treaty or convention to generate revenue for the United Nations.  The Law of the Seas treaty served as an example, authorising a UN organisation to charge application fees and royalties to companies mining the sea bed, despite the United States not having ratified the treaty.

The Commission proposed various global revenue-raising schemes, including charging for the use of common global resources, corporate taxation of multinational companies and a tax on international monetary exchange, as suggested by Nobel Prize winner James Tobin.

As well as charging for the use of the global commons, and taxation on multinational companies, monetary exchange, oil and carbon, other recommended global revenue sources included a surcharge on airline tickets, charges for ocean maritime transport, user fees for ocean fishing and special fees for activities in Antarctica and geostationary satellites.

The Commission supported the concept of global taxation and urged the evolution of a consensus to realise this concept.

Implementation and the Future of Global Governance

By 1996, many of the Commission’s recommendations had already been incorporated into treaties, agreements and proposals, with some already implemented, and the General Assembly was scheduled to hold a World Conference on Governance in 1998.

The Commission called for preparatory work to develop documents on global governance, which will be adopted at the 1998 Conference and ratified for implementation by the year 2000.

Only accredited NGOs would be allowed to participate in the preparatory work, and only delegates appointed by the President of the United States would be able to cast votes on issues affecting Americans.  The same would apply to all countries.

The NGO machinery of global governance is active in America, promoting the global governance agenda through various means, including agitation, lobbying and discrediting dissenting voices.

By 1996, the US national media was already portraying dissenting voices as right-wing-extremist, militia-supporting fanatics, leaving many American citizens unaware of the progress of the global governance agenda.

The United States is the only remaining power strong enough to influence the UN, and 1996 may be the last opportunity to avoid or influence the shape of global governance, Lamb said.

Lamb added that the Commission on Global Governance’s recommendations, if implemented, would lead to a dramatic transformation of society, creating a global neighbourhood managed by a worldwide bureaucracy under the authority of a small group of appointed individuals.  This bureaucracy would be policed by thousands of individuals paid by accredited NGOs, certified to support a specific belief system that many people find unacceptable.