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>>Hi,
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>>sorry this is not good holiday news - the ratchet of tyranny squeezes ever
>>tighter.
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>>Regards,
>>Greg
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>>Civil Society Marches Toward Global Governance
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>>Government Opinion (Published) Keywords:
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>>GLOBAL GOVERNANCE UNITED NATIONS SOVEREIGNITY
>>WORLD CIVIL SOCIETY
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>>Source: Enter Stage Right
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>>Published: December 20, 1999 Author: Henry Lamb
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>>Posted on 12/23/1999 06:43:53 PST by gordgekko
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>>Enter Stage Right - A Journal of Modern Conservatism
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>>Civil Society Marches Toward Global Governance
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>>By Henry Lamb
>>
>>Who even knew that a World Civil Society Conference was underway in Montreal
>>December 8-12? Who cares? The theme of the conference was "Building Global
>>Governance Partnerships."
>>
>>Who is "civil society," and what do they have to do with global governance?
>>
>>Civil society is the group of NGOs (non-government organizations) that are
>>accredited by the United Nations' Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). to
>>be
>>accredited by ECOSOC, NGOs must declare allegiance to the aims of the U.N.
>>and have a two-year track record of activity that demonstrates support of
>>U.N. objectives. Civil society is the instrumentality through which the U.N.
>>is propagandizing the world into acceptance of world government, behind the
>>euphemism of global
>>governance.
>>
>>Civil society consists of literally thousands of NGOs, whose work is
>>carefully coordinated and largely funded by the U.N. and foundations
>>sympathetic to the U.N. agenda. Some function primarily as policy
>>developers. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
>>and the Natural
>>Resources Institute (NRI) fall into this
>>category. Others function primarily as agitators. Many of the rabble-rousers
>>in Seattle fall into this group.
>>
>>According to Ed Miller, a program director for the Charles S. Mott
>>Foundation, as much as $5 million has been given to NGOs by big foundations
>>expressly to focus public attention on the World Trade Organization.
>>Environmental Media Services, a public relations firm, was paid $200,000 to
>>get NGO spokesmen connected with journalists during the Seattle fracas.
>>
>>The National Environmental Trust (NET) is spending $11 million on a
>>propaganda campaign about global warming. Pew Charitable Trusts has
>>announced
>>it would make $20 million available to civil society NGOs for land use
>>control programs. Three primary civil society NGOs, IUCN, NRI, and the World
>>Wildlife Fund (WWF), were listed as "Executing Agency," or "Collaborating
>>Organization," on 45 projects totaling $847 million in the U.N.'s Global
>>Environment Facility report last June.
>>
>>There is no shortage of money for civil society.
>>
>>Ironically, many of the same organizations whose members carried signs in
>>Seattle, promoting national sovereignty as a defense against the WTO, are
>>the
>>same organizations that insist on U.N. enforcement of environmental
>>regulations. The fact is that they are not at all concerned about national
>>sovereignty; they are concerned about controlling the WTO as they control
>>many of the other U.N. agencies and organizations.
>>
>>That's what the World NGO Conference is all about: how to get a more
>>influential role in the activities of the United Nations.
>>
>>Global governance is still a work in progress. The United Nations, as well
>>as
>>civil society have long ago agreed that world government is the only way to
>>assure sustainable development, the equitable distribution of the earth's
>>resources, and global disarmament. The only questions that remain concern
>>precisely how world government should be organized.
>>
>>All of the various scenarios for world government have several points in
>>common. One of these is the creation of a permanently constituted body of
>>NGO
>>representatives that serve as the voice of the people, providing advice to
>>the U.N. General Assembly and to the various U.N. agencies.
>>
>>Our Global Neighborhood, the report of the Commission on Global Governance,
>>calls this group "The Peoples' Assembly." The U.N. has scheduled the first
>>meeting of this body of NGO representatives for May, 2000, and refers to it
>>as the "Millennium Forum." The U.N. selected a group of NGOs to begin
>>organizing this body in 1996. They met initially at the U.N. headquarters in
>>Tokyo. They have been devising the process by which individual
>>representatives are chosen from accredited NGOs to participate in The
>>Peoples' Assembly. The meeting in Montreal continues that process and puts
>>the finishing touches on the recommendations the group will make to the
>>U.N.'s Millennium Assembly in September.
>>
>>This process is called the democratization of the United Nations. By giving
>>civil society a role in the decision process, the United Nations considers
>>itself to be a democratic institution.
>>
>>Nothing could be further from the truth, at least, as democracy is
>>understood
>>in the United States.
>>
>>American democracy requires the presentation of all points of view,
>>especially those views that differ from the proposal under consideration.
>>Through public debate, the differences are melded into a compromise
>>acceptable by the majority in an open, recorded vote.
>>
>>The U.N. brand of democracy begins by allowing only the views from people
>>who
>>have declared allegiance to the objectives of the U.N. Dissenting view are
>>systematically, and vigorously prevented. The debate, then, is diminished
>>into a closed-door discussion about how to achieve a particular objective,
>>rather that about whether or not the objective should be achieved. Moreover,
>>the final decision is not the result of an open, recorded vote, but a
>>declaration of "consensus," when the presiding officers gets tired of
>>listening to the discussion.
>>
>>The decision to create a world government has already been made by the .
>>and its NGO civil society. The discussion that will animate a long series of
>>by-invitation-only meetings between now and May, are about how to structure
>>The Peoples' Assembly, and how to prioritize efforts to institute the
>>various
>>changes necessary to give the U.N. the power it needs to implement and
>>enforce world government.
>>
>>Consensus seems to have been reached on three key issues:
>>
>>(1) global taxing authority for the U.N.;
>>(2) abolition of the veto and permanent member status in the U.N. Security
>>Council; and
>>(3) a standing U.N. army of some kind. How these three objectives are to be
>>implemented is still subject to discussion, but there is no discussion about
>>whether or not they should be achieved.
>>
>>Other high-priority objectives include: bringing all U.N. agencies,
>>especially the WTO, under the direct administrative rule of the U.N.
>>Secretary-General; the creation of a special high-level agency for the
>>enforcement of environmental laws; the integration of environmental, human
>>rights, and labor standards into world trade; and the equalization of access
>>to, and use of natural resources.
>>
>>It is the role of civil society to demand that parliamentarians write these
>>objectives into international law. It is also the role of civil society to
>>agitate and propagandize in communities around the world until these
>>objectives are accepted as social "norms."
>>
>>It is interesting to note that the World NGO Conference also focused
>>attention on "the areas of resistance and failure, and the reasons why
>>dreams
>>and visions were blocked or not accomplished..." Opposition from any quarter
>>to the objectives of the U.N. and its civil society, are seen to be the work
>>of profit-mongering, self-interest - or worse.  NGOs that are not accredited
>>by the U.N. are not considered to be a
>>part of civil society, but are described as "populists" agitators. To civil
>>society, capitalism is the culprit; profit equals greed; and the idea of
>>national sovereignty is little more than an excuse for national governments
>>to commit genocide.
>>
>> >From the U.N.'s point of view, opposition to world government must be
>>quashed
>>by any means necessary. For starters, no opposing views are allowed at the
>>World NGO Conference, or into the inner-circle of U.N. participation. A
>>cadre
>>of NGOs are assigned specifically to discredit opposition wherever it may
>>appear. The Tides Foundation, located in the same prestigious facility that
>>houses Mikhail Gorbechev's
>>foundation, the Presidio, finances the Environmental Working Group which
>>operates a program that identifies and "exposes," often with inaccurate
>>information, what they call "anti-environmental organizations" funded by
>>nasty capitalistic corporations.
>>
>>Civil society has, indeed, an important role to play in the achievement of
>>world government. They are working diligently to bring about what they
>>consider to be a better world. Regardless of how it is described, it will
>>not
>>be a democratic world. It will be a world controlled by a central United
>>Nations authority, implemented through
>>national, state, and even local governmental administrative units, and with
>>strong "partnerships" with the army of NGOs, which constitute what is
>>mislabeled as civil society.
>>
>>Enter Stage Right - A Journal of Modern Conservatism
>>
>>http://www.enterstageright.com
>>
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