On Friday,
September 8, over 150 heads of state from around the
world took a giant step to eventually create a world
government. They unanimously adopted the "United
Nations Millennium Declaration" at the conclusion
of their United Nations (UN) Millennium Summit.
"Only through broad and sustained efforts to
create a shared future, based upon our common humanity
in all its diversity, can globalization be made fully
inclusive and equitable," world leaders stated as
they unanimously adopted the Declaration.
Declaration
"mandates" UN to create global governance
Economist and
UN watchdog Joan Veon made a very interesting
observation in the September 9 WorldNetDaily.
"This is the first time since 1945 that the heads
of state have convened to set a ‘Program of Action’
to reform the UN," claimed Veon. Because the 152
heads of state signed the Millennium Declaration, Veon
believes that it "automatically incorporates it
into international law."
Although some
might say that Veon is probably stretching it a bit,
it is significant that it was the heads of state
themselves that represented the nations rather than
having the nation-states' normal ambassador represent
them in the Summit deliberations. It was the heads of
state who signed the Millennium Declaration. This, in
fact, does give the UN all the authority it needs to
move ahead and implement all of the changes that are
included in the Declaration that do not require a
change in the UN Charter.
A special
commission will be established to implement the
goals stated in the Millennium Declaration. Many of
these will be instituted by changes in the existing UN
structures or actions, but most will require a change
in the UN Charter. That the UN Charter must be changed
almost seemed to be a given at the Millennium Summit
meeting. One of the key roles of the special
commission will be to recommend the needed changes to
the UN Charter to meet the goals of the Millennium
Declaration.
In an address
delivered at the concluding meeting of the Conference,
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the
Summit that it had sketched out clear directions for
adapting the Organization to its role in the new
century. "It lies in your power, and therefore is
your responsibility, to reach the goals that you have
defined", he declared. "Only you can
determine whether the United Nations rises to the
challenge. For my part, I hereby re-dedicate myself,
as from today, to carrying out your mandate."
Annan lists
six key points that the heads of state agree to. Every
one starts with a statement that "We shall spare
no effort..." implying that these are top
priorities for every nation of the world.
1. Peace,
Security and Disarmament.
By signing
the Declaration, the heads of state agree to uphold
the international rule of law. This is found in 25
interlocking international treaties for which
tremendous pressure will be brought to bear for heads
of state to sign. These treaties, when combined will
effectively control the actions of every human being
on planet earth from the UN. Leading the list is the
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. It
is this star chamber court that can arrest any person
for any alleged "crime against humanity" and
the person is considered guilty until he or she can
prove himself innocent. For more information see the
June 1999 issue of Discerning the Times Digest.
The heads of
state also commit themselves to "enhance the
effectiveness of the United Nations in the maintenance
of peace and security, by giving it the resources and
the tools required,... and by strengthening the
capacity of the Organization to conduct peace keeping
operations." Although not stated, to follow
through with this declaration will require a huge
increase in the UN budget. While some of it can be
implemented immediately, to be fully effective it will
require new authority granted by a change in the UN
Charter.
The focus of
this effort will be in universal disarmament and the
control of small arms and light weapons--i.e. global
gun control.
2.
Development and Poverty Eradication
The heads of
state commit themselves to drastically reducing
poverty in the world so that "by the year 2015,
the proportion of the world's people (currently 22
percent) whose income is less than one dollar a
day" is halved. Likewise, the signatories commit
themselves to halving the "the proportion of
people (currently 20 per cent) who are unable to
access, or to afford, safe drinking water," and
ensuring all children receive a minimum of a primary
education by the same date. This is a huge undertaking
that can only be accomplished with an enormous UN
budget and direct control over the nations or a
mechanism to force nations to do this.
Most poverty
is created by corrupt governments or corrupt
international control of trading. Very little is
caused by lack of resources. Even then, Japan has
shown that small nations can find a niche if the
government encourages free markets. The fact that UN
control will enhance, rather than reduce corruption
will aggravate the current poverty, rather than reduce
or eliminate it. Incredibly, rather than calling
attention to the corrupt governments of the world, the
UN Summit Declaration actually calls for the
"debt problems of low and medium countries"
that was created by corruption in the first place.
3.
Protecting our Common Environment
One of the
priorities of the Declaration is to free us "from
the threat of living on a planet irredeemably spoilt
by human activities, and whose resources can no longer
provide for their needs." One of the first
actions that will be done in the next few weeks is
"to adopt in all our environmental actions a new
ethic of conservation and stewardship" that is in
the form of the Earth Charter, a pantheistic code of
ethics by which every man, woman and child (including
pastors of Christian Churches) must support. Once this
new earth religion is accepted by the UN, a new treaty
called the Covenant on the Environment and Development
will be introduced for ratification by the nations,
enshrining in law the pantheistically-based ideas of
sustainable development.
The heads of
state will also agree to sign and implement the
various treaties that extend UN authority into our
homes and pocket books. These include the 1) Kyoto
Protocol, which will drastically reduce America's
standard of living and give control of the U.S.
economy to the global elite; 2) the Convention on
Biological Diversity which the editor of Discerning
the Times miraculously stopped from ratification in
1994 an hour before the US Senate was scheduled to
vote on it because it calls for the eventual
elimination of two-thirds of the human population, the
enshrinement of a pantheistic, earth-based culture,
and the loss of one-half of America into wilderness
reserves and interconnecting corridors that would be
off-limits to human use.
Perhaps most
dangerous of all, is the commitment of the signatories
of the Declaration to stop the unsustainable
exploitation of water resources by "developing
water management strategies at the regional, national
and local levels including pricing structures
promoting both equitable access and adequate
supplies." Whoever controls the water, will
control the people. Corruption is inevitable when
bureaucrats and politicians can favor one group over
the other with desperately needed water or other
essentials for life. History is full of such examples.
The new world government will be no
different--especially since there are absolutely no
checks and balances to prevent it.
All of this
will be administered by redirecting the mission of the
UN Trusteeship Council from its current mission of
decolonizing the world to protecting the global
commons. See the June, 1999 issue of Discerning the
Times Digest for more information.
4. Good
Governance, Democracy and Human Rights
Again, the
Declaration reaffirms a commitment on the part of the
signatories to uphold the international rule of law,
in this case to uphold the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights. This declaration, however, is not God
given, or inalienable, but is whatever the United
Nations says it is.
The
Declaration also calls on the nation-states "to
rectify the prevailing imbalance in global
decision-making," which is based on the belief
that the U.S. and other developed nations have taken
advantage over other nations that are impoverished.
While there is truth in this, as long as non-developed
nations are ruled by corrupt governments, nothing that
the UN can do will help them.
5.
Protecting the Vulnerable
While the UN
seeks to protect women and children with various
treaties and agreements, the protection is only as
good as the UN makes it. It is tragic to think that
the millions of Tutsis martyred in Rwanda were killed
in the early 1990s by guns provided by former UN
Secretary General Butros Butros Ghali, when Ghali was
minister of affairs for Egypt. However, It was the
current Secretary General, Kofi Annan, who sanctioned
the genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutus. Annan was the
head of UN peacekeeping operations at the time and,
according to an AFP report on January 11, 2000,
"is accused of ignoring warnings that the
massacres were already taking place and ignoring pleas
for troops." According to the article, numerous
documents showed that Annan had extensive warning that
genocide was occurring, yet he ignored it.
These
atrocities were so horrible that on January 12, 2000
the Sydney Morning Herald reported that "The
women say the UN soldiers who were assigned to protect
them either ran away or handed their families over to
murderous Hutu militia.... Mrs. Kavaruganda says the
Ghanaian UN soldiers who were supposed to protect her
and her family were drinking and socialising with the
Hutus while she and her children were being
tortured." The evidence was so damning that the
UN had to invoke diplomatic immunity in the case to
avoid UN officials like Annan from being indicted and
prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
Such is the
human rights record of the UN.
6.
Strengthening the United Nations
The last of
the Summit Declarations called for the centralization
of power into the General Assembly and a "speedy
reform and enlargement of the Security Council, making
it more representative, effective and legitimate in
the eyes of all the world's people." The reform
that is referred to in the declaration is the
elimination of the permanent member status and veto
power of the five members who now have it--including
the US. Suddenly the US would be just one of 170
members of the UN and could not veto any UN military
action, even if the action was directed at the US by
members who hate America. Although the Declaration
would also expand the membership in the Security
Council to over 20, most of the time the US would not
even be on the Security Council because it would not
have permanent member status.
The
Declaration would also "strengthen the Economic
and Social Council," to manage the global
economy. To fully accomplish this would require that
the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other global
institutions be brought under the control of the
Economic and Social Council. A recent UN document
called the Restructuring the Global Financial System,
calls for the IMF to become the global Central Bank
(see the December, 1999 issue of Discerning the Times
Digest) that controls all the money of the world and
the division of the world into regions that would
administer regional economic issues. Hence, the
European Union, NAFTA and others would also come under
the authority of the IMF and the Economic and Social
Council of the UN.
But that is
not all. The Summit Declaration brings all
international agencies together so as to "ensure
greater policy coherence and enhance cooperation
amongst the United Nations, its Agencies, the
Breton-Woods Institutions, as well as other
multilateral bodies, with a view to securing a fully
coordinated approach to the problems of peace and
development." To make sure that it has the
funding to do all of this, the Declaration states the
signatories "ensure that the Organization is
provided with adequate resources, on a timely and
predictable basis, so that it may carry out its
mandates." Proceedings are already underway to
implement the Tobin tax, named after Nobel price
winner, economist James Tobin. The Tobin tax would
represent a one-half of one percent tax on all
international monetary exchanges, yielding the UN in
excess of 1.5 trillion dollars annually, nearly 100
times today's annual budget.
Finally, the
Millennium Summit Declaration states that the
signatories would "give full opportunities to
civil society, parliamentarians, the private sector
and other non-state actors to contribute to the
achievement of the Organization's goals and
programs." This most likely would result in the
creation of the second parliamentary body called the
People's Assembly. But, rather than representing the
people of the world, it appears that the
representatives will be elected from a pool of leftist
socialist, new age, environmental, transnational
corporate "civil society" NGOs. The people's
assembly would totally bypass the people's of the
world, yet is called the new
"democratization" of the UN by the UN and
other globalists. While the people would be under the
iron-rule of these NGOs, they would have absolutely no
say in the actions taken by the new world government.
Declaration
mandate contrived years ago
Not
surprisingly, the Declaration represents all the
requests and demands made in the UN Funded Commission
on Global Governance's report, the NGO Charter for
Global Democracy, the UN NGO Forum, and Secretary
General Kofi Annan's 1977 Phase II report on UN
Reform.
The the
globalists would have us believe that the enormous
push to create global governance is spontaneous across
a vast segment of the peoples of the world. We are
being asked to believe that these thousands of groups
and organizations just "coincidently" happen
to have exactly the same ideas of how global
governance should work. The opposite is true, however.
The agenda is controlled by a very few people who are
using big money to create a huge illusion that will
delude the people of the world.
The process
of implementing all of the recommendations of the
Commission on Global Governance will not occur
overnight. Many of the recommendations will be
implemented administratively, while some will require
modifying the U.N. Charter which requires Senate
ratification. Nothing will seem to have changed
initially. However by signing the Summit Declaration,
the heads of state have given the United Nations and
the U.N. General Assembly authority to begin
implementing the recommendations required to achieve
the objectives expressed in the Millennium
Declaration--including a new UN Charter. V
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