What's UNESCO good for?

There are two kinds of people in the world -- the masses who love Western culture, and the elites who hate it. While the former congregate in multiplexes or in video rental stores, the latter tend to gather in more select venues, such as meetings of the United Nations Economic, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). For the last few years, UNESCO's meetings have brought together ministers of culture from around the world. These supremos obsess over the question of how to cure the masses of their appetite for NFL football and the Backstreet Boys. UNESCO used to be a cesspool of anti-Semitism and anti-Westernism; today it's a supper club for snobs.

UNESCO held one of its periodic conclaves this week, in Istanbul, Turkey. Don Boudria, Canada's Minister of State, attended the meeting (in the place of Sheila Copps, Canada's culture czar.) The talking points issued by Minister Boudria's office for the meeting bulge with UNESCO cant. The points note that "cultural diversity" is "one of the roots of development and as necessary for humankind as biodiversity is for nature." (Is this really true? Just one culture -- Western culture, with all its blemishes and shortcomings-- made possible the entire modern idea of development. But let that pass for now.)

Why does UNESCO promote this concept? Once it entrenches the idea that cultural and biological diversity are the same, then governments can meddle away in the name of "protecting" indigenous culture -- the same way the cause of environmentalism allows bureaucrats to enlarge the state while making a show of protecting wild spaces.

And since the globe's culturatti excoriate Hollywood as the main threat to the survival of indigenous art forms and folk ways, you don't need to guess where culture ministers will concentrate their regulatory fire. Just look at the rules Canada imposes on U.S. cultural imports, and you'll get the essence of the "solutions" likely to be proposed by UNESCO in the future.

It will be interesting to see what, if anything, the United States, which announced last week that it is rejoining UNESCO after a two-decade absence, can do to defend its interests against the self-interested pieties of this unpleasant cultural cabal.

Where is Maurice Strong?

Alive and well in planet earth!

Publicist for International Environmentalism

How has Strong promoted concepts like sustainable development to consume the world's attention? Mainly by using his prodigious skills as a networker. Over a lifetime of mixing private sector career success with stints in government and international groups, Strong has honed his networking abilities to perfection. He can bring presidents, prime ministers and potentates from the world's four corners to big environmental conferences such as the 1992 Rio Summit, an environmental spectacle organized by Strong and attended by more than 100 heads of state.

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...and hard at work.

Hank

Source: Earth-Unholy-Charter

With today's emphasis on "honoring the past and imagining the future,"[5] many see nothing wrong with redesigning the "memories" of the past to reflect their vision of the future. Many environmental visionaries have called for "new stories"[6] that replace the old truths and redirect our values. The message in this new ark serves the purpose well. It puts new meaning into old memories and usurps the honor inherent in the original. But that's part of the UN plan. There is little appreciation for God's law and His treasured covenant (the binding agreement He made with His people long ago)[7] in our pluralistic, postmodern age.
To fill the vacuum, even staunch Communists such as Mikhail Gorbachev call for spiritual revival. They envision a union of religions, all molded and conformed to a global, earth-centered spirituality. The gods, spirits and pantheistic forces of indigenous religions fit right in. Long a promoter of the Earth Charter and its socialist regulations, the former Soviet ruler knows well that strategic visual images inspire the masses and speed transformation. [See The State of the World according to Gorbachev]
So does Maurice Strong, the powerful founder and leader of the Earth Council. Though usually hidden behind the scenes, Strong is no minor player in this global contest for the minds of the masses. He led the UN Environmental Programme, directed the 1972 and 1992 UN Conferences on the Environment and Development,[8] founded Planetary Citizens, directed the World Future Society and founded and co-chaired the World Economic Forum. He is a member of the Club of Rome, trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and Aspen Institute, a member of the UN Commission on Global Governance, and Senior Advisor to the World Bank as well as to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan [See Towards A Rapid Reaction Capability for the UN].
Maurice Strong has been working closely with Steven C. Rockefeller, professor emeritus of religion at Middlebury College.[9] Rockefeller has chaired the Earth Charter Drafting Committee since 1995 and has, apparently, linked a part of the Rockefeller fortune to the promotion of the Earth Charter's Initiative. If the Charter wins the consent of "the people," it would only be a matter of time before its rules would replace the rights granted by the U.S. Constitution. American sovereignty and our treasured liberty would fast fade. It's happening already. [See Trading U.S. Rights for UN Rules]
Few globalists have advanced the Earth Charter and its message more zealously than Robert Muller, former Assistant Secretary-General of the UN. He led the design team for UNESCO's Global Education Project and helped pave the way for "lifelong learning" -- a cradle-to-grave education system that has already been implemented in the United States through Clinton's Goals 2000 and the Bush administration's "Leave No Child Behind."
Muller's World Core Curriculum, used as a pattern for learning in nations around the world, matches the spiritual message of the Ark of Hope. Inspired by occultist Alice Bailey's spirit guide, it calls for schooling in planetary citizenship long before a child learns his or her national or local identity.[10]
I first heard Muller promote the Earth Charter on June, 21, 1995 at a UN celebration at the University of California at Berkeley. In his keynote message he described three stages in the history of the United Nations:
1. "The first period took up human rights. ... The UN Charter was for humans, and no one thought of the earth."
2. "By 1980, suddenly climatologists warned us that climate might go berserk. The atmosphere was getting warmer and warmer because of CO2."
3. "This is the third period. Now Earth is number 1. Humanity is number 2. ... Now, we must deal with rights of the planet.... There will be an Earth Charter - I got a letter a few weeks ago from the International Council on Human Duties. It asked how we could have human rights but not human duties and responsibilities. I suggested we put this need as an item on the floor of the UN Assembly. We need a universal declaration of ethics and a universal declarations of duties and responsibilities."
"We need a world court with an ethic to condemn this kind of action," Muller continued, referring to American lifestyles. "We need ethics for..." -- here he listed what he considered the most glaring planetary evils: large families, over-consumption, garbage, business, religious differences....

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