Behind the U.N.'s global agenda: The driving forces of socialism and control

Previous articles in this series have brought to light the danger behind the United Nations' global agenda for the 21st century, called Agenda 21. Wrapped in the environmentally-friendly terms of "sustainable development" and "social justice", this agenda has roots in new age religion, with nature being the organizing principle for life. Through bipartisan efforts throughout the world, the agenda is being systematically implemented in all levels of society, including politics, education, agriculture, property management, trade, and religion. Every major community in America has developed task forces, under the guidance of ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability), whose goals are to ensure implementation of objectives of sustainable development and Agenda 21. Although a spiritual view of the earth as one with God, or Gaia worship, undergirds this movement, there is an even more fundamental driving force: control, based on the principles of socialism.

Commonism: An agenda for global control

The agenda for sustainable development is ultimately a mechanism for bringing to fruition a tightly controlled world society, based on the principles of socialism. Central to this philosophy, newly named "Commonism", is the belief that individual rights give way to the betterment of the "greater good", and the government is the determiner of just what that "greater good" is. Philip Bom, in his book The Coming Century of Commonism, explains this idea: "In the western Constitutional concept, limited government is established to protect the fundamental natural human rights of the free individuals in a free society. In a radical socialist concept of the state, the citizen has a duty to the state to help the state promote the socialization or communization of the man.” Despite the utter failure of communism throughout history, this agenda shares the values of its philosophical predecessor (according to the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels): the redistribution of wealth from the "haves" to the "have-nots" to create an "equitable" society, central governmental control over agriculture, industry, communication, transportation, credit, and property, and the public, state-controlled education of all children.

U.N. ties to Socialism and global control: UNESCO

The United Nations has been entrenched in socialism since its inception in 1941. Clear evidence of this can be seen in the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), essentially the Board of Education for the world. Julian Huxley, first Director of UNESCO, is described on UNESCO's website as "an eminent biologist, [who] came from a younger generation that was much less antagonistic to secularism and to socialism". In describing its history, UNESCO's website further details, "Under Huxley’s leadership the organization adopted a pioneering approach to both literacy and population control...". Huxley was also President of the British Eugenics Society, which is now called the Galton Institute. Eugenics is, according to its founder, Francis Galton (as cited in the article Eugenics then and now by David Galton in the June 2009 Galton Institute Newsletter,) "the use of science to achieve a ‘good’ birth", (including abortion, sterilization, and selective breeding) in order to "improve...the racial quality of future generations". Often found in socialistic countries, an example of eugenics legislation is China's 1995 Maternal and Infant Health Care bill. Under this law, all couples must have a medical examination before they are allowed to marry, to detect genetic diseases, infectious diseases, and mental disorders. If a "serious" disorder is detected, the couple is not allowed to get married unless they agree to long-term contraception or sterilization. If the couple does become pregnant, prenatal testing is required, and there are measures included in the bill to ‘terminate [the] pregnancy if the foetus is suffering from a genetic disease or any other defect of a serious nature". The eugenics connection is just one of the ties between UNESCO and socialistic control.

As early as 1949, UNESCO made clear its plans to overcome national sovereignty in favor of world government, through one of its first training sessions, called In the Classroom: Toward World Understanding.  One excerpt: "As long as the child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism, education in world-mindedness can produce only precarious results. As we have pointed out, it is frequently the family that infects the child with extreme nationalism. The school should therefore use the means described earlier to combat family attitudes that favor jingoism.... We shall presently recognize in nationalism the major obstacle to development of world-mindedness". UNESCO's goal is to make children into global citizens who eschew nationalism for collective thinking and acting. Further details from these training sessions, in UNESCO publication 356 (session V) express, "The task to which the group applied itself was a study of the role the school can play in developing among children a sense of international understanding. Before the child enters school his mind has already been profoundly marked, and often injuriously, by earlier influences; but the process of schooling may exercise a decisive effect, for it is through the experience of schooling that the child applies and develops the rudimentary sense of community he has first gained, however dimly, in the home...In our time, we need to dedicate education to the service of the human community as a whole. The ideal to be pursued is that, whether in the home, the social environment or the school, our children should be educated to live with others and to prepare themselves for citizenship in a world society. With that kind of education they will be protected against selfish individualism...". UNESCO, the world's board of education, is working to indoctrinate students, against the values they learn in their families, toward global-mindedness and collective thinking.

Previous articles have detailed how the World Core Curriculum, created by Robert Muller (for which he won the UNESCO 1989 Peace Prize), created the blueprint for UNESCO's plan to create global citizens who espouse a collective worldview committed to implementing the objectives of sustainable development. However, the dedication to socialistic principles of collectivity, central control, and correcting inequities through the redistribution of wealth is not only a defining part of UNESCO's history, but a driving force behind its current direction and initiatives. At the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development in 2009, Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO had these words: "This conference cycle aims to encourage a...reflection on the transformative power of education. It also seeks to engage policy-makers, researchers, practitioners and a range of institutions in reorienting education systems – from pre-school to adult learning, in formal and non-formal settings – in ways that promote equity, innovation and sustainable development…. If education systems are characterized by inequality, discrimination and exclusion, they risk perpetuating or even deepening the social and economic disparities that exist. That is why ESD [Education for Sustainable Development] aims to encourage a shift towards more inclusive education systems, grounded in a respect for diversity and a recognition of interdependence – both with each other and the environment in which we live". Similarly, at the same conference, Graca Machel, Former Minister of Education and Culture of Mozambique reinforced UNESCO's focus on collective thinking and action in her keynote address: "In tackling the current global economic crisis, we have an opportunity to build a new world order...and education has a crucial role to play in that restructuring. I want to see education that enables young people to...understand the importance of equality and equity and helps them recognise the importance of collective responsibility and action. I want to see education that produces young people who will...be outraged by inequality and impatient to bring about change". UNESCO has a definitive agenda, both through its history and current initiatives, to use education to bring about a new world order, based on principles of socialism, and defined by world government control.

U.N. ties to socialism and global control: The Club of Rome

The socialistic ties to the U.N. are particularly transparent through a little-known organization called the Club of Rome. Founded in 1968 as a think tank to influence world policy on what the club believes to be, according to its website, the "root causes of the challenges and crises the world faces today: ...growth, development and globalization", the Club of Rome is a "who's who" of influential world leaders. Members of the organization include: Former Vice President Al Gore, former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, former Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations Javier Perez de Cuellar, David Rockefeller, co-founder of The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Former Presidents of the United States Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, The Spiritual leader of Tibet, The Dalai Lama, Former Assistant Secretary General to the United Nations Robert Muller, and Former head of the United Nations Environment Programme and Agenda 21 strategist, Maurice Strong. As one of the preeminent consultant organizations to the U.N., the Club of Rome has tremendously influenced world policy and has been the architect of many of the concepts in the current agenda for globalization.

The agenda of global control via one world government, as well as the strands of socialism are woven throughout every publication from this organization. For example, the Introduction of the Club of Rome report (1993) The First Global Revolution, says "We are convinced that we are in the early stages of the formation of a new type of world society which will be as different from today's as was that ushered in by the Industrial Revolution from the society of the long agrarian period that preceded it". There is no equivocation from this organization on the scope of this global transformation. Page 71 of The First Global Revolution, provides further enlightenment about their political philosophy: "Democracy is not a panacea. It cannot organize everything and it is unaware of its own limits. These facts must be faced squarely. Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no longer well suited for the tasks ahead". It is socialism which this organization believes to be the answer to the world's problems. The club's second report from 1975, Mankind at the Turning Point, states, "The solution of these crises can be developed only in a global context with full and explicit recognition of the emerging world system and on a long-term basis. This would necessitate, among other changes, a new world economic order and a global resources allocation system..."  Translation: The only way to solve the world's problems is through a system of redistribution of wealth.

The Club of Rome's 1976 publication, RIO: Reshaping the International Order, proposed creating an "equitable social order", also known as "humanistic socialism" to attain the goal of "maximum welfare" for the world's population. In his official summary of the report, Jan Tinbergen explains, "In the field of income redistribution and the financing of development, a substantial increase in financial transfers from rich to poor, especially the poorest, countries (with a per capita income less than $200) is considered necessary". The plan also calls for government regulation of unstable markets, the funding and transfer of technology by developed countries to underdeveloped countries, an authority to regulate the "equitable sharing of the benefits derived from the exploitation of international ocean space", and regulated arms reduction of national superpowers. Even a cursory examination of the Club of Rome's philosophies reveal its unabashed socialistic policies toward the attainment of world government. This is the philosophy held, by virtue of the Club of Rome's distinguished membership, by some of the most powerful and influential individuals on the planet. The opening to chapter 1 of Club of Rome's Mankind at the Turning Point provides a frightening enlightenment into the minds of this group: “The world has cancer and the cancer is man.” It is only through socialistic policies of control that the disease of humankind can be managed.  

U.N. ties to socialism and global control: U.N. Commissions

The United Nations Commission on Environment and Development was first responsible for introducing the concept of "sustainable development" in 1987, in a report entitled "Our Common Future". The commission was chaired by Chaired by Gro Harlem Brundtland, Vice President of the World Socialist Party. The report detailed, "Poverty is a major cause and effect of global environmental problems. It is therefore futile to attempt to deal with environmental problems without a broader perspective that encompasses the factors underlying world poverty and international inequality. (p. 3)" Part II. Equity and the Common Interest of Chapter 2 Towards Sustainable Development, Our Common Future laid the foundations for poverty and the environment to be connected to socialistic principles: "How are individuals in the real world to be persuaded or made to act in the common interest? The answer lies partly in education, institutional development, and law enforcement. But many problems of resource depletion and environmental stress arise from disparities in economic and political power". It goes on to expound, "If economic power and the benefits of trade were more equally distributed, common interests would be generally recognized...Consider the case in which 25 per cent of the incremental income of the richest one-fifth of the population is redistributed equally to the others". The Brundtland Commission was where the idea of "social justice", as the redistribution of wealth, became linked with the environment in the agenda of the United Nations. It is important to understand that "social justice", according to the globalist agenda, does not simply mean helping the underprivileged; it means righting the "wrongs" of industrialized nations (particularly America) by taking from the haves and giving to the have-nots. 

Three other U.N.-sponsored commissions were also headed by prominent socialists in the 1980s, and their ideas significantly contributed to the current U.N. agenda. West German socialist Willy Brandt chaired the Commission on International Development in 1980, an effort to centralize financial decision-making; Sean MacBride, a recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize, was in charge of plans for controlling the media through the Commission on International Communications in 1980; and in 1982, Olof Palme, (who was responsible for returning Sweden to socialism), chaired a commission whose plan was to disarm individual nations, while only allowing the U.N. with a military force. Chancellor Willy Brandt wrote, in a Commission on International Development report, "World development is not merely an economic process, [it] involves a profound transformation of the entire economic and social structure...not only the idea of economic betterment, but also of greater human dignity, security, justice and equity...The Commission realizes that mankind has to develop a concept of a 'single community' to develop a global order." Socialistic principles are the foundation for the U.N.'s policies and agenda.

U.N. ties to socialism and global control: Commission on Global Governance

The Commission on Global Governance, an NGO endorsed and funded by the U.N., was created in 1992 to advance the idea and implementation of world government. In its 1995 report, Our Global Neighborhood: The Report of the Commission on Global Governance, the commission heralds its socialistic principles of the redistribution of wealth:  "Although people are born into widely unequal economic and social circumstances, great disparities in their conditions or life chances are an affront to the human sense of justice.... A concern for equity is not tantamount to an insistence on equality, but it does call for deliberate efforts to reduce gross inequalities... and to promote a fairer sharing of resources" (p. 51).  Not surprisingly, the focus for the source of the majority of this "fairer sharing of resources" is the United States, who is seen by the United Nations as the primary cause of social injustice in the world. It is America, with its emphasis on freedom and rights of the individual, that lives farthest outside the parameters created by the new world order, and it is America which most needs to be brought into compliance with the global principles of control.

The Commission on Global Governance proposed, in Our Global Neighborhood, a restructuring of the United Nations to position it for more effective world governance, including expanded authority for the Secretary General, an Economic Security Council, a Court of Criminal Justice, and a new governing body of NGOs (non-governmental organizations closely linked to the U.N.).  The report clarified the role this new global government would have: "Where people are subjected to massive suffering and distress, however, there is a need to weigh a state's right to autonomy against its people's right to security (p. 71). We believe a global consensus exists today for a UN response on humanitarian grounds in cases of gross abuse of the security of people" (p. 89). What are these threats to the security of the people that constitute grounds for the global government to take over?  In addition to human rights violations, included are "...threats to the earth's life-support systems", "extreme economic deprivation", and "the proliferation of conventional small arms..." (p. 79). In the new world order, the world government will decide when to supersede national authority and intervene, in any situation it deems to threaten the security of the global society, including to protect the environment, regulate the economy, or prevent the increase of military power. Individual nations (states) will be subservient to the determinations of the world's governing body, because, according to the Commission's report, "although states are sovereign, they are not free individually to do whatever they want". Stated more clearly: Individual countries are not sovereign; the world government is.

Maurice Strong, former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and key strategist behind the most fundamental sustainable development initiatives (including Agenda 21 and the Biodiversity treaty), wrote in his essay Stockholm to Rio: A Journey Down a Generation, "The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. What is needed is recognition of the reality that in so many fields, and this is particularly true of environmental issues, it is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation-states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security." The new world order is fundamentally about control - controlling nations and people through one world government run by global elite. Using the environment as the galvanizing principle by which it may attain its goal for world dominance, the United Nations, and the NGOs that support it, are effectively implementing global societal change, based on the principles of socialism.

Why does this matter to homeschoolers?

For homeschooling to exist, it relies upon the basis of freedom of the individual. Many homeschoolers educate at home specifically to keep their children from influence of the collective cultural system of education, thought, and practice. The socialistic principles of control under this new world order would effectively wipe away individual freedom in favor of the common good - a common good decided upon by an elite few with a non-Christian, pantheistic and humanistic worldview.  The implications of such a transformation would be devastating to homeschoolers: required education according to an agenda approved by the global governing body; restriction of freedoms to express or write views that differ from the "global view"; global taxes to fund all manners of "social justice" and "inclusive" initiatives (including abortions and promotion of the gay agenda), irrespective of individual values about those initiatives; and regulation of religious expression to ensure that it is inclusive of all beliefs and traditions.

Roanoke homeschooler Eric Matzko chooses to home educate because of his belief that "it is my responsibility, not the state's, to see that my children are educated and have acquired the skills necessary to become productive citizens". In detailing what he values most about American society, Matzko shares, "I treasure freedom and liberty above all other [values]. Without our freedom and liberty, all other values fail to express themselves. I really cherish the fact that my family and I can worship God without any restraints or barriers and pursue the life that He has blessed us with in these United States." These values of freedom are what are at stake with the agenda for sustainable development. Americans must wake up to the reality of what drives the agenda of globalization, or they risk forfeiting the rights to educate their children, worship as they choose, and make individual choices to the collective philosophy and mandates of world government. A world government whose values are the polar opposite from those of most Americans'.

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