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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