Posted on 10/22/2011 11:51:19 AM PDT by Art in Idaho
Former Communist leader Mikhail Gorbachev told an audience at Lafayette College on Wednesday night that the United States economic problems heralded the need for a new American perestroika, defined by a new world order and a system of global governance.
Speaking to a crowd of 3,600 people during an event that was broadcast live nationwide, Gorbachev made reference to riots and demonstrations that have swept the world over the last two years, including the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States.
The world needs goals that will bring people together, he said. Some people in the United States were pushing the idea of creating a global American empire, and that was a mistake from the start. Other people in America are now giving thought to the future of their country. The big banks, the big corporations, are still paying the same big bonuses to their bosses. Was there ever a crisis for them? . . . I believe America needs its own perestroika.
How will this American perestroika manifest itself? As a new world order characterized by a system of global governance, according to Gorbachev.
Others, including myself, have spoken about a new world order, but we are still facing the problem of building such a world order problems of the environment, of backwardness and poverty, food shortages all because we do not have a system of global governance, he said.
We cannot leave things as they were before, when we are seeing that these protests are moving to even new countries, that almost all countries are now witnessing such protests, that the people want change, he said. As we are addressing these challenges, these problems raised by these protest movements, we will gradually find our way towards a new world order, added Gorbachev.
Of course, Gorbachevs call for global financial instability to be used as a pretext for the further centralization of power into a sovereignty-stripping system of global governance will merely concentrate more influence into the hands of a tiny elite.
Gorbachev attempt to invoke the protest movement sweeping the globe and re-label it as a call for global governance is fundamentally disingenuous. A new world order means less democratic representation. Global government is the ultimate expression of autocratic rule, it is inherently undemocratic. Gorbachevs American perestroika will not equate to more freedom and prosperity, it will result in a lowering of living standards and even less political representation.
The literal translation of perestroika means restructuring, but Gorbachevs past comments overwhelmingly illustrate the fact that the former Communist icon is calling for America to experience a Soviet-style collapse before it can be re-absorbed as a vassal state that is subordinate to a UN-run global government.
The former Soviet leader has long been an advocate of transforming the United Nations and its affiliated offshoots into an architecture of global government, eviscerating American sovereignty in the process.
In September 2000, Gorbachev called for the UN to set up Soviet-style central authority to control the worlds business and environmental concerns. For decades he has consistently called for a new world order to replace existing nation states as the ultimate source of power.
Gorbachev and his fellow globalists like Zbigniew Brzezinski are clearly trying to exploit and hijack the collective disenfranchisement being expressed across the world as a tool to accomplish the long-held pursuit of global governance, handing even more power to the insiders who were responsible for the financial collapse in the first place.
"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both." John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Gorbachev's address as posted at the Lafayette College site is Here.
No the “world” doesn’t need goals. Each country should formulate its own.
Gorby sold out
Erstwhile conservatives deliberately de-industrializing America through the catastrophic practice mis-named “free trade” contributes to this trend.
“Free trade” is not conservative. Nor patriotic.
That's it in a nutshell.
"Gorbachev to Brzezinski to Soros"
And the John Birch Society still gets no respect. He called it right over 60 years ago.
Shove it Gorby...
We still know you are a Communist. And, you back Putin and his Russian expansionism.
We know that Putin and the Kremlin is somewhere in that chain too.
That's it in a nutshell.
Yes indeed. That caught my eye. Actually calling for it. Amazing. Obama right on course. I wonder how often they communicate? Is Gorbachev still living in the old Admiral's mansion at the Presidio?
No, it seems Gorby is and has been Communist. Still working to push the same agenda.
And failing that, they hope that the US and West is so weakened that Russia and China (and their allies) can take us out with minimal retaliation.
Revelation, more prophesy coming to life every day. Wow!
Can we send a few members of our Congressional Politburo with him?
I'm liking the symmetry of this concept.
You know, Obama may actually like that. Maybe a 'Dream from his Father.'
He never stopped being a commie.
We have a good system which people like Obama are trying to destroy from within. Gorbachev was the leader of a bad system which he was trying to make a little less bad--his goal wasn't to free the Soviet people but to put them on a longer leash.
When Gorbachev ran for president of Russia a few years ago, I think he got about 1% of the vote.
“And the John Birch Society still gets no respect. He called it right over 60 years ago.”
He did, and yet if a Communist leader hiding in the United States with the approval of the American government, calls for a New World Order and world government, the media publicizes it all over the world.
The media is the enemy.
Did Communism Fake Its Own Death in 1991?
American Thinker ^ | January 16, 2010 | Jason McNew
In a [] 1984 book [New Lies for Old], ex-KGB Major Anatoliy Golitsyn predicted the liberalization of the Soviet Bloc and claimed that it would be a strategic deception. ..."
"Golitsyn's argument was that beginning in about 1960, the Soviet Union embarked on a strategy of massive long-range strategic deception which would span several decades and result in the destruction of Western capitalism and the erection of a communist world government."
"Golitsyn published his second book, The Perestroika Deception, after the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991. This book contained further analysis of the liberalization, in addition to previously classified memoranda submitted by Golitsyn to the CIA. The two books must be read together to get a complete picture of Golitsyn's thesis."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/did_communism_fake_its_own_dea.html
"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century" -Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the collapse of the Soviet Union...
"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'
http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html
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"'The Black Book of Communism,'; a scholarly accounting of communisms crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone), and some say that number is too low."
Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
By Jonah Goldberg, August 2008:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmY0MjI1MDgyYjg1M2UwNDMzMTk2Mjk5YTk0ZTdlMWE=
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