nicmarlo, here is another bit of information that may interest you.
From Post 152 at this thread
My eyes were opened last year from what my daughter was learning in her Political Science class. Her texts were Globalism by Manfred Steger, and International Politics on the World Stage by John Rourke. Here's a statement in the epilogue of the latter:"There are few anymore who really try to defend the system of assertive sovereignty as adequate for the future. Clearly, it is not. What is less certain is what to do next and how to do it.
Cooperation, humanitarianism, enlightenment, and other such words provide easy answers, but they are vague goals. Real answers are difficult to come by. They may involve tough choices; we may be asked to give up some things now so that they will not be taken later, to curb our lifestyle, to risk arms control in the hope of avoiding nuclear war, and to think of the world in terms of 'we.'"
Students were also provided with a copy of "The Earth Charter," the brainchild of Mikhail Gorbachev. At the link, click on Read the Earth Charter. It seems fairly benign at the beginning, but becomes alarming by the end. Read it carefully. You will also learn much by Googling the Earth Charter. The plan is for these ideals to be inculcated through the schools AND the churches.
http://www.earthcharterusa.org/earth_charter.htmlHere's another good link that lays everything out. Everything in the essay is consistent with what my daughter was taught in her college class. http://www.newswithviews.com/Spingola/deanna6.htm
Also Google "United Religions Initiative" and "Green Cross," founded by Gorbachev. I also found useful information by googling "universal religion".
bumping your post. I'm just NOT liking what I'm reading on your post #11....can only imagine when I start reading the documents.
THE WAY FORWARDAs never before in history, common destiny beckons us to seek a new beginning. Such renewal is the promise of these Earth Charter principles. To fulfill this promise, we must commit ourselves to adopt and promote the values and objectives of the Charter.
This requires a change of mind and heart. It requires a new sense of global interdependence and universal responsibility. We must imaginatively develop and apply the vision of a sustainable way of life locally, nationally, regionally, and globally. Our cultural diversity is a precious heritage and different cultures will find their own distinctive ways to realize the vision. We must deepen and expand the global dialogue that generated the Earth Charter, for we have much to learn from the ongoing collaborative search for truth and wisdom.
Life often involves tensions between important values. This can mean difficult choices. However, we must find ways to harmonize diversity with unity, the exercise of freedom with the common good, short-term objectives with long-term goals. Every individual, family, organization, and community has a vital role to play. The arts, sciences, religions, educational institutions, media, businesses, nongovernmental organizations, and governments are all called to offer creative leadership. The partnership of government, civil society, and business is essential for effective governance.
In order to build a sustainable global community, the nations of the world must renew their commitment to the United Nations, fulfill their obligations under existing international agreements, and support the implementation of Earth Charter principles with an international legally binding instrument on environment and development.
From speaking to my colleagues in this subject I have determined that most of Miami-Dade County has signed onto the full agenda. OTOH, I'm diverting from the text to teach my students how to SPOT an agenda...ANY agenda when one is run on them. I do this by pointing out that everything is a potential subject. When all sides of a subject are discussed it becomes an issue. But when only ONE SIDE of a subject is discussed, that subject usually becomes an AGENDA.
Typically the fomentor of an agenda only wants to push said agenda because he or she wishes the class to act in a certain way in the future....or not to "act" at all. This can be sharply illuminated when alternative sides or viewpoints are posited only to be met with extreme hostility or derision. This is the common thread in the classrooms of higher learning today. Especially the university underclassmen. However, by that time, the public school curriculum has usually done their job in lockstep except for a few mavericks like myself.