Among those at the forefront of the globalization movement is one individual who stands out more than any other. Believed by many to have fallen from the political scene with the collapse of the Soviet Union, he currently wields more power and influence in shaping the future of the world than perhaps any diplomat of our generation. Yet strangely, most of us are not even aware of his influence, let alone that he has risen to the top of the one world movement. His keen sense of timing and political prowess has enabled him to forge alliances where others before him have failed. His friends include many of the world's most adept politicians, financial powerbrokers and religious leaders.
In October 1917 we parted with the old world rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, the world of communism. We shall never turn off that road...Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about glasnost and perestroika and democracy in the coming years. These are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant change within the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes. Our aim is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep. - Mikhail Gorbachev (1987 70th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution speech before the Politburo)Gorbachev writes in his book:
Those who treat Marxism dogmatically and pedantically cannot understand its central point: its revolutionary dialectic. … Does perestroika mean that we are giving up socialism or at least some of its foundation? Some ask this question with hope, others with misgiving … Perestroika is closely connected with socialism as a system. - Perestroika, pg. 36 (1987)Later, when the Berlin wall came down he proclaimed " I am a convinced Communist. For some this may be a fantasy but for me it is my main goal"
Gorbachev's blueprint for the future is manipulating the world's people into accepting a one world government under the pretense of saving the environment. He has created a global Foundation called Green Cross which has as it's magna carta "The Earth Charter" which he hopes will rival the Ten Commandments.
My hope is that this charter will be a kind of Ten Commandments, a Sermon on the Mount, that provides a guide for human behaviour toward the environment in the next century and betond.Catholic Insight writer M. Jeanne Ferrari says she heard Gorbachev say twice, at two different press conferences: "The Ten Commandments are out of date. They will be replaced by the 18 principles of the Earth Charter."
"He said it again, a third time, at another press conference. Speaking through an interpreter, Gorbachev spoke candidly abut his hope for the implementation of the Earth Charter, which had been drafted by Maurice Strong, ably supported by Stephen Rockefeller. Apparently, at the first State of the World Forum, Gorbachev had stated that the new world order would be achieved ‘step by step, stone by stone.’ "
Gorbachev, Maurice Strong and Al Gore are referred to as "The Three Musketeers" of the environmental movement. It appears that the environmental situation is being used along with instilling the fear of biological warfare in order to further the one world agenda. Gorbachev states "The environmental crisis is the cornerstone for the New World Order" Maurice strong ( U.N. environmental leader ) was quoted as saying, "Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?" James Garrison (President of the Gorbachev Foundation) says " we are going to end up with world government. It's inevitable... There's going to be conflict, coercion and consensus. That's all part of what will be required as we give birth to the first global civilization."
Gary Kah states in his book The New World Religion
Another reason why the environment is such an important issue to Gorbachev is that it will enable him to introduce and ratify comprehensive international treaties granting unprecedented power to seize government and private property all in the name of protecting the environment."Until now we had the Ten Commandments; now we have a new set of ‘ecological commandments," the Earth Charter. "It is a powerful document," said Gorbachev, "that will express a consensus toward common goals. Its importance will come from the authority from which it derives." The second draft of the Charter referred to the Earth as "our Mother", in terms that one outspoken delegate called ‘a love letter to our mom’.
The Earth Charter has come a long way. It came to life as a document, on letter-sized paper, brought down by hand, from the 23rd floor of the Sheraton Hotel on Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro, in 1997 by Gorbachev and company. Today it is a document on glossy 14x17 paper, ensconced in a gilt-covered ‘Ark of Hope’, made of cypress, decorated by Vermont artists, and borne into a conference at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, and is now immortalized in the Chairman’s Draft Political Declaration.
In Sept, 1995, a gathering of about 400 of the most influential people in the world met for the purpose of establishing what host Mikhail Gorbachev called a “global brain trust” of elite people that he hoped could lead the world into a new “global civilization.”
Among those attending were: Bill Gates, once considered the world’s wealthiest man; Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner, former President George H. Bush, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Robert Muller, Matthew Fox, Carl Sagan, Shirley MacLaine, Vaclav Havel, David Packard, George Zimmer, Jane Goodall, Zbigniew Brzezinski, John Denver, Dennis Weaver, Jane Fonda, Milton Friedman, Saul Mendlovitz and Alan Cranston.
Also there were Deepak Chopra, Rigoberta Menchu, Maurice Strong, Alvin Toffler, John Naisbitt, Senator George Mitchell, Dwayne Andreas, Tony Robbins, former secretaries of state James Baker and George Shulz, President Askar Akaey of Kyrgystan, former President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica, Prime Minister Tansu Ciller of Turkey, Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel, former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and South African Vice President Thabo Mbeki.
A writer for The Interim, who covered the event, said: “nowhere was the theme more evident than in the discussions around religion.” He wrote that "Christianity was blamed for the population dilemma.”
A summary of the conference noted:
“there was a very strong agreement that religious institutions have to take primary responsibility for the population explosion. We must speak far more clearly about sexuality, about contraception, about abortion . . . because the ecological crisis . . . is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90 percent and there aren’t enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.”In 1996 Gorbachev spoke in Indiana and said "We need a new paradigm of developement in which the environment will be a priority... World Civilization as we know it will soon end...we have very little time and we must act...If we can address the environmental problem we have hope,,, but it will have to be done with a new system,a new paradigm...We have to change our mindset, the way humankind views the world"
UoGA President Michael F. Adams described Gorbachev's speech December 3, 1999 before a standing-room only crowd in UoGA's Stegeman Coliseum as a monumental event in the history of the University. The crowd obviously concurred, using any excuse to give Gorbachev lengthy and thunderous ovations. On each occasion, the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize recipient—and, for many, the driving force behind the Cold War's demise and political freedom for millions—quieted the crowd with modest smiles and the lowering of both hands, palms down, indicating for all to sit.
Gorbachev's speech was three tiered and followed introductions by both Adams and Pat Mitchell (AB '63, MA '65), president of CNN Productions and chair of the Gorbachev Foundation (having since been named president of PBS). Mitchell described Gorbachev as, "The man whose actions have made it possible for you and I to live in a more peaceful and secure world."
From an AP article cited by Rush Limbaugh on his program April 20, 2009:
President Barack Obama has gone abroad and gored an ox - the deeply held belief that the United States does not make mistakes in dealings with either friends or foes. And in the process, he's taking a huge gamble both at home and abroad, for a payoff that could be a long time coming, if ever. By way of explanation, senior adviser David Axelrod describes the president's tactics this way: 'You plant, you cultivate, you harvest. Over time, the seeds that were planted here are going to be very, very valuable,'Limbaugh's commentary included the following:While historic analogies are never perfect, Obama's stark efforts to change the US image abroad are reminiscent of the stunning realignments sought by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. During his short -- by Soviet standards -- tenure, he scrambled incessantly to shed the ideological entanglements that were leading the communist empire toward ruin.
But Obama is outpacing even Gorbachev. After just three months in power, the new American leader has, among many other things:
- Admitted to Europeans that America deserves at least part of the blame for the world's financial crisis because it did not regulate high-flying and greedy Wall Street gamblers.
- Told the Russians he wants to reset relations that fell to Cold War-style levels under his predecessor, George W. Bush.
- Asked NATO for more help in the fight in Afghanistan, and, not getting much, did not castigate alliance partners.
- Lifted some restrictions on Cuban Americans' travel to their communist homeland and eased rules on sending wages back to families there.
- Shook hands with, more than once, and accepted a book from Hugo Chavez, the virulently anti-American leader of oil-rich Venezuela.
So we have here a comparison, our president, Barack Obama, to Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev, it is said here by Steven Hurst, was trying to get rid of the ideological entanglements that destroyed the Soviet Union. What were those? What were the ideological entanglements that were destroying the Soviet Union? It's called communism! What Gorbachev was trying to do -- and you cannot count on the Drive-Bys to tell you this factually -- Gorbachev knew full well that the economic days of the Soviet Union had never met their promise and there was no future, and it was over. What Gorbachev was trying to do was hold onto a communist leadership while parceling out freedoms -- perestroika, glasnost, openness, and all that -- but it was too late, because you can't parcel out freedom.At the 20th celebration of the anniversary of Perestroika, put on by OUR very own United States Chamber of Commerce in 2005, Clinton and Gorbachev, AND Colin Powell, were all there to celebrate. Even Shirley McLaine made an appearence (ostensibly I suppose to channel the spirits of Lenin, Stalin, and Karl Marx).Obama, according to AP, is doing the same thing. Obama is shedding incessantly the ideological entanglements that lead the US to ruin -- what are the ideological entanglements Obama is shedding? Capitalism! Now, would somebody explain to me the connection here? How can you claim that Gorbachev and Obama are the same, when they were trying, ostensibly, to shed different ideological entanglements?
...you have to understand the media template. They love Gorbachev. Gorbachev saved the world. Gorbachev saved the world from Reagan. They are factually uninformed and refuse to see the truth on this. So now our president has been compared favorably, and he's outpacing a Soviet communist dictator, Mikhail Gorbachev. I can't help think of the idiots on our side, the so-called intelligent conservatives who kept saying, "Well, at least he's a centrist. At least Obama is following Bush's foreign policy. At least he's appointing centrists on foreign policy and defense." They've never understood who this guy is. He's either a useful idiot or he's worse. And I, frankly, think he's worse. I think he's stupid, Obama, but he's been trained well, Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, all of his liberal professors, and now he's going to meet with the cabinet today...
...to make a big PR splash about how he's telling them to cut their budgets. How clever, after increasing spending with trillions in deficits. Let me give you the numbers. Barack Obama, big PR thing, and it's working, the Drive-By Media's, "Oh, oh, oh, Obama's cutting spending, Obama's cutting spending," they're just having orgasms here over what Obama's cutting in spending. He's ordered a hundred million dollars in budget cuts. Do you know what the interest per day is on the Porkulus bill? Try $95 million. He's not even eliminating the interest on the Porkulus bill with these budget cuts and yet he's getting all of this, "Oh, he's cutting spending, he's cutting spending." There's no way it's going to happen anyway. A hundred million dollars in budget cuts, compared to $4 trillion in spending and debt. Just amazing. He increases the deficit fourfold. Then he says he's going to cut it in half, even the CBO said baloney to that, you're not cutting anything. The bigger point here is he doesn't want to cut spending, he doesn't care if it's spent well or not, his goal is to crush the private sector, and he just got through palling around with people who have crushed their own private sectors in their own countries, yukking it up and palling around with them.
At this celebration Gorbacheve said “We need New World Politics and New World Leaders. We need New World Order.” Bill Clinton then got up and said, “I support everything that he says.”
Pushed around, eh?
