Some might think – though I don’t – that nine years ago there was some excuse for men not to see the direction in which the world was going. Today, the evidence is so blatant that no excuse can be claimed by anyone any longer. Those who refuse to see it now are neither blind nor innocent.
Ayn Rand, Foreword to Anthem (1946 edition)
Nothing is very straightforward these days.
Dmitry Medvedev
Mention ‘global government’, and you can expect a good drubbing as a ‘conspiracy theorist’. Mockery is a hugely successful technique: even Orwell’s porcine bully Napoleon could silence reasonable views when he had noisy enough sheep to support him. That said, some seasoned journalists can get away with it, for example the Telegraph’s Janet Daley, or more recently MEP Daniel Hannan, who just crossed swords with pro-globalisation Federal Union.
So given EU president Herbert van Rompouy’s declaring 2009 the ‘first year of global governance’, it would have been nice to find some comment in European newspapers about Yaroslavl 2010, the second Global Policy Forum (or about the forthcoming one in Bali). I searched the Telegraph, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine, and WordPress… and all I got was a Russia-bashing Guardianista.
Maybe that’s not so surprising. Though we are constantly bombarded with Global Warming and Global Economy rhetoric, and school children are taught about the challenges of being Global Citizens (rather than those of long division), we hear very little of the organisations behind the globalist agenda.
All the same, there’s quite a nest of them, for example:
| World Federalist Movement | 1947 |
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| Federal Union | 1938 |
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| One World Trust | 1951 |
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| Global Policy Forum | 1993 |
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We may wonder how such organisations ever came to exist. At first glance, they may appear harmless and have UN connections, but their chronology might just as easily point to some unannounced post-war settlement; and the fact that they hold forums to discuss ‘global policy’ suggests they wield real power. I say ‘power’ because I doubt whether mere influence would be sufficient to explain why we seem to get more or less the same policies, no matter which party we elect.
One might even argue that the redistributionist, internationalist views expressed on some of their web-sites have common ground with the aims of the COMINTERN, but to do so would be futile. Not only would it be nigh impossible to prove, it completely misses the point.
The real concern is that a very small group of people seem to have accumulated a great deal of power under cover, and elected politicians of all persuasions seem to continue this process. History shows us what can happen when power lies in the hands of a small ‘elite’: those who have acquired such power look down upon their creation and see that it is not at all good; then, imagining themselves to be the will (or ‘political wing’) of the people, they set about improving it – which tends to involve removing people they don’t want. When ‘sustainability’ is such a fashionable word, it is chilling to imagine how the kind of people who want such power might go about making the global population ‘sustainable’.
In a post-conference address, President Medvedev sounded pleased that Yaroslavl 2010 took place more openly than some other behind-the-scenes international discussions. Perhaps this is welcome, but it would be useful to have a lot more openness about what redefinitions of democracy our politicians plan to discuss at an international level before we elect them.
However, who could dispute Medvedev’s statement: ‘Nothing is very straightforward these days’? All democracies, including Russia’s, have their faults. And sometimes it may be better to live with these and let things take their natural course, than to allow the GPF or their sister organisations to influence how any free country – recent or long-established – is run.
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John Mitchell 