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Posted on 10/07/2003 11:19:46 AM PDT by quidnunc
The Cold War, against people trying to create an infinitely powerful, infinitely unresponsive world government, was supposed to have ended in 1991.
Except that those people never really went away. So this is a key week to assess progress in the Cold War's updated version.
I am not, by and large, a conspiracy theorist. If a thesis is propounded that requires the freemasons, the international Communist conspiracy and the Trilateral Commission to be working together to destroy the American Way of Life, I tend to dismiss it. The American Way of Life has found plenty of ways to destroy itself, without any outside agencies being involved.
Nevertheless, it is equally naïve to suppose that, because a particular regime at a particular time collapsed in ruin, "the End of History" has arrived, and the world can henceforth become united in support of the 1990s' muddled, social democrat version of the free market.
The Soviet Union, unlike Nazi Germany, was not the product of one madman, it was a regime, established almost by chance, that ruled a large portion of the world for over 70 years. Its economic nostrums were certainly not what enabled it to do this; even at the time, they were fatally flawed to any but the most rose-tinted observer. What enabled it to rule, and to attract so much support from outside its immediate domain, was its political formulation, which proved immensely attractive to millions of people, most of whom never had to live under its sway. Those people, the Soviet "nomenklatura" and their cousins in the Western "New Class" are well educated, idealistic, and utterly convinced that they know better than the rest of us how we should organize our lives. What's more, they have ways of making us conform to their worldview.
The Soviet Union never owed all that much to the teachings of Karl Marx, who believed that once Communism had been established the state would wither away, and the workers live together in a kind of commune. That was unrealistic, and Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin had no intention of allowing it to happen. Instead, the Soviet Union quickly became a government of infinite power, on whom all its citizens depended for their existence, whose whims could therefore totally affect their lives, yet which could never be removed. Needless to say, participation in the upper, middle and even lower reaches of that government was an attractive opportunity for millions of mildly intellectual bureaucrats, who could use Marx's idealism to convince both themselves and their people that they were motivated by pure altruism, and used their power only for the good of society as a whole.
That dream, of participating with like-minded people in an infinitely powerful, infinitely unresponsive government that works ceaselessly to impose your ideals on the populace, was not confined to the Soviet Union, and it certainly didn't die with the Soviet Union. George H.W. Bush, at the end of the Gulf War, forecast a "New World Order" — a term which has been appropriated by many of those willing its arrival.
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Non-governmental organizations are particular havens of NWO strength, since they combine assumed moral superiority with total lack of accountability.
The European Parliament is the ultimate NWO vehicle, being both supranational and elected by proportional representation; with 45 of the current 626 Euro-MPs, the British Conservatives are the second largest grouping in the chamber. Of course, all resolutions of this body are settled by insider bargaining, with the EU's electorate having neither input in nor indeed knowledge of what is being decided.
In terms of policies beyond their own control, NWO proponents' priorities are pretty clear, and more or less united. They are in favor of globalization when it involves new international institutions or treaties such as the Kyoto protocol removing power from national governments, but against it when it involves private sector free trade or the activities of multinational corporations. They favor free immigration, at least of those without special qualifications, since this produces a global underclass of needy deracinated people whose need for government and supranational intervention is especially great. They favor policies that cut back U.S. hegemony, since only if the U.S. is constrained by international agreements and international bodies can their political agenda be advanced. And they favor regional integration pacts, and the creation of new supranational bodies, since these can be used both as anti-American forums and as additional constraints on the freedom of individual countries to pursue non-NWO policies.
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(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
The objective in the world as a whole remains the same as that of the Soviet nomenklatura; a government, controlled by the New Class, that governs all major aspects of human life, and that is impossible to remove. The war is cold today; it may yet become hot — it is in any case Manichean.
I notice there's no mention of international bankers, the Bilderbergers, the Trilateral Commission, the CFR or the Illumanati.
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