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So, what exactly is the Club of
Rome and who are its members? Founded in 1968 at David Rockefeller’s estate in
Bellagio, Italy, the CoR describes itself as “a
group of world citizens, sharing a common concern for the future of
humanity.” It consists of current and former Heads of State, UN bureaucrats, high-level politicians and government officials, diplomats,
scientists, economists, and business leaders from around the globe.
Many people have heard of the
Tri-Lateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. What do they have
in common with the CoR? They were all founded by Rockefeller. The head hancho’s
at each organization sit on the Board of the CoR. The T-LC and the CFR are
really just the Public Relations unit of the CoR, for the CoR is where the buck
stops.
I have been tirelessly talking about
Agenda
21, so I hope that people are aware of this little nugget of legislation by
now. It was the outcome of the Club of Rome, a think-tank that provides
‘suggestions’ to the United Nations. We are currently seeing all these
‘suggestions’ coming to fruition as current legislation bombards us daily as
America is being radically transformed. This transformation is no accident, and
it is not aimless nor mindless. It has been carefully construed and
orchestrated. It is the work of the Club of Rome.
Their mission can be most readily surmised just by looking at the graphic
they designed for their ‘mission statement’ home page….
…and for those with more time on your hands than you care to have, you can
expand the synposis and follow the links provided and delve right into their
rhetoric:
1.Environment and
Resources: This cluster relates climate change, peak oil,
ecosystems and water. Radical and rapid social and economic transformations will
be needed to avert runaway climate change and ecological breakdown;
2.
Globalisation: This cluster relates interdependence, distribution
of wealth and income, demographic change, employment, trade and finance. Rising
inequalities and imbalances associated with the present path of globalisation
risk the breakdown of the world economic and financial systems;
3. World
Development: This cluster relates sustainable development,
demographic growth, poverty, environmental stress, food production, health and
employment. The scandal of abiding poverty, deprivation, inequity and exclusion
in a wealthy world must be corrected;
4. Social
Transformation: This cluster relates social change, gender equity,
values and ethics, religion and spirituality, culture, identity and behaviour.
The values and behaviour on which the present path of world development is based
must change if peace and progress are to be preserved within the tightening
human and environmental limits;
5. Peace and
Security: This cluster relates justice, democracy, governance,
solidarity, security and peace. The present path of world development risks
alienation, polarization, violence and conflict; the preservation of peace is
vital in itself but is also a precondition for progress and for the resolution
of the issues which threaten the future.
The Club of Rome subsequently
founded two sibling organizations, the Club of
Budapest and the
Club of
Madrid. The
former is focused on social and cultural aspects of their agenda, while the
latter concentrates on the political aspects. All three of these ‘Clubs’ share
many common members and hold joint
meetings and
conferences. As explained in other articles on this
website it is abundantly clear that these are three heads of the same beast. The
CoR has also established a network of 33 National
Associations. Membership of the ‘main Club’ is limited
to 100 individuals at any one time. Some members, like Al Gore and Maurice
Strong, are affiliated through their respective National Associations (e.g.
USACOR, CACOR etc).
I would like to start this analysis of the Club of Rome by listing some
prominent members of the CoR and its two sub-groups, the Clubs of Budapest and
Madrid. Personally it isn’t what the CoR is that I find so astonishing; it
is WHO the CoR is! This isn’t some quirky little group of green
activists or obscure politicians. They are the most senior officials in the
United Nations, current and ex-world leaders, and the founders of some of the
most influential environmental organisations. When you read their reports in the
context of who they are – its gives an entirely new, and frightening, context to
their extreme claims.
Some current members of the Club of Rome
or its two siblings:
Al Gore –
former VP of the USA, leading climate
change campaigner, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Academy Award winner, Emmy winner.
Gore lead the US delegations to the Rio Earth Summit and Kyoto Climate Change
conference. He chaired a meeting of the full Club of Rome held in Washington DC
in 1997.
Javier Solana –
Secretary General of the Council of the
European Union, High Representative for EU Foreign Policy.
Maurice Strong
–
former Head of the UN Environment
Programme, Chief Policy Advisor to Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the Rio
Earth Summit, co-author (with Gorbachev) of the Earth Charter, co-author of the
Kyoto Protocol, founder of the Earth
Council, devout
Baha’i.
Mikhail Gorbachev
–
CoR executive member, former
President of the Soviet Union, founder of Green Cross International and the
Gorbachev Foundation, Nobel Peace Prize winner, co-founder (with Hidalgo) of the
Club of Madrid, co-author (with Strong) of the Earth Charter.
Ervin Laszlo –
founding member of the CoR, founder and
President of the Club of Budapest, founder and Chairman of the World Wisdom
Council.
Sir Crispin Tickell
–
former British Permanent
Representative to the United Nations and Permanent Representative on the
Security Council, Chairman of the ‘Gaia Society’, Chairman of the Board of the
Climate Institute, leading British climate change campaigner.
Kofi Annan –
former Secretary General of the United
Nations. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
The Dalai Lama
–
The ‘Spiritual Leader’ of Tibet.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
David Rockefeller
–
CoR executive member, former
Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, founder of the Trilateral Commission,
executive member of the World Economic Forum, donated land on which the United
Nations stands.
Stephen Schneider
–
Stanford Professor of Biology
and Global Change. Professor Schneider was among the earliest and most
vocal proponents of man-made global warming and a lead author of many IPCC
reports.
Bill Clinton –
former President of the United States,
founder of the Clinton Global Iniative.
Jimmy Carter –
former President of the United States,
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
Bill Gates –
founder of Microsoft,
philanthropist.
Garret Hardin –
Professor of Human Ecology. Originator of
the ‘Global
Commons‘ concept.
Has authored many controversial papers on human overpopulation and
eugenics.
Other current influential
members:
Ted Turner – media mogul, philanthropist, founder of
CNN
George Soros – multibillionare, major donor to the
UN
Tony Blair – former Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom
Deepak Chopra – New Age Guru
Desmond Tutu
– South African Bishop and activist, Nobel Peace
Prize Laureate
Timothy Wirth – President of the
United
Nations Foundation
Henry Kissinger –
former US Secretary of State
George Matthews – Chairman of the Gorbachev
Foundation
Harlan Cleveland – former Assistant US Secretary
of State and NATO Ambassador
Barbara Marx Hubbard –
President of the Foundation
for Conscious Evolution
Betty Williams –
Nobel Peace Prize LaureateMarianne Williamson –
New Age ‘Spiritual Activist’
Robert Thurman – assistant to
the Dalai Lama
Jane Goodall – Primatologist and Evolutionary
Biologist
Juan Carlos I – King of Spain
Prince
Philippe of Belgium
Queen Beatrix of the
Netherlands
Dona Sophia – Queen of Spain
José
Luis Rodríguez Zapatero – current Prime Minister of
Spain
Karan Singh – Former Cabinet Member of India, Chairman
of the Temple of
Understanding, Ambassador to
U.S.
Daisaku Ikeda –
founder of the Soka Gakkai
cult
Martin Lees – CoR
Secretary General, Rector of the UN University of Peace
Ernesto
Zedillo – Director of The Yale
Center for the Study of Globalization
Frithjof Finkbeiner
– Coordinator of the Global
Marshall Plan
Franz Josef
Radermacher – Founder of the Global
Marshall Plan
Eduard Shevardnadze
– former Soviet foreign minister and President of Georgia
Richard von
Weizsacker – former President of Germany
Carl Bildt
– former President of Sweden
Kim Campbell – former
Prime Minister of Canada and Senior
Fellow of the
Gorbachev Foundation
Vincente Fox
– former President of Mexico
Helmut Kohl – former
Chancellor of Germany
Romano Prodi – former Prime Minister
of Italy and President of the European CommissionVaclav Havel – former
President of the Czech Republic
Hans Kung – Founder of the
Global Ethic
Foundation
Ruud Lubbers
– United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Mary
Robinson – United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights
Jerome Binde – Director of Foresight,
UNESCO
Koïchiro Matsuura – Current Director General of
UNESCO
Federico Mayor – Former Director General of
UNESCO
Tapio Kanninen – Director of Policy and Planning,
United Nations
Konrad Osterwalder – Under-Secretary-General
of the United Nations
Peter Johnston – Director General of
European Commission
Jacques Delors – Former President of the
European Commission
Domingo Jimenez-Beltran – Executive
Director of the European Environment Agency
Thomas
Homer-Dixon – Director of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of
Toronto
Hazel Henderson – Futurist and ‘evoluntionary
economist’
Emeka Anyaoku – former Commonwealth Secretary
General, current President of the World
Wildlife Fund
Wangari Maathai –
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, founder of the Green Belt
Movement
and many more….
As
discussed previously the CoR directly spawned two affiliated ‘Clubs’ – the
Club of
Budapest (CoB)
and the Club of
Madrid (CoM). The
purpose of these siblings is to “provide
spiritual, cultural and political context to the Club of Rome’s technical
research.”
The Club of
Budapest is an
offshoot of the CoR designed to promote the Global Green Agenda though ‘Art and
Culture’ – “The idea of the Club of
Budapest stems from discussions between its founder and president Ervin Laszlo,
and The Club of Rome founder Aurelia Peccei in the late seventies. Peccei
suggested that Laszlo, a fellow founding member of the Club of Rome, should
bring together writers, artists and people of high spiritual qualifications to
complement abstract theoretical information about current and coming global
problems with the insight and creativity inherent in art, literature, and
various domains of the human spirit.”
However the Club of Budapest seems to have little to do with the Arts and
much more to do with the usual themes. The
Mission of
its WorldShift Network is to address:
- The Governance of Nations
- Education for Wisdom
- Public Health Policy
- The Ethics of Planetary Freedom
- Reverence for Nature
- Approaching a modern Subsistence
Economy
The Club of
Madrid
consists of 70 former Heads of State handpicked by the CoR to consider
“appropriate forms of governance”
and methods of “democratic transition to a new
global order.” The Club was officially founded by Mikhail
Gorbachev and
Diego
Hidalgo. They are
both given as “executive members of the
Governing Council of the Club of Rome.” The CoM is funded by the Gorbachev Foundation and
Hildalgo’s organization FRIDE (the European Council on Foreign
Relations).
A quick perusal of their
membership
list reveals that
more than half are also members of CoR National Associations and contain the
usual suspects such as Bill Clinton, Mikhail
Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter, Tony Blair, Mary Robinson, Vaclav Havel, Romano Prodi,
Gro Harlem Brundtland, Javier Perez de Cuellar, and Carl Bildt. They
state that their top
priority is
“facilitating a global post-Kyoto climate
treaty.” The Club of Madrid, in a similar fashion to the CoR, is an
official consultant body to the UN and is contracted by them to produce reports
and technical advice.
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Perhaps the most interesting of all these organizations
is the World
Commission on Global Consciousness and
Spirituality. The purpose of this ‘Commission’
appears to be to perpetuate the spiritual aspects of the Global Green Agenda. It
is basically just old-fashioned paganism dressed up as a new eco-theology. I
challenge the reader to make sense of this
page! The
commission is composed mostly of CoR members including Gore and
Gorbachev.
The United
Nations Foundation was created by prominent CoR member Ted
Turner. He donated one billion dollars to support the environmental activites of
the UN. A significant proportion of this money was designated for “programmes specifically addressing climate
change” and funding the IPCC. The Foundation has also recently
created the Global
Security Institute to “propose far-reaching reforms of the international
system.” As would be expected the Foundation’s
Board is full of
the same old names including: Ted Turner, Timothy
Wirth, Kofi Annan, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Emma Rothschild, and Muhammad
Yunus.
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Global
Leadership for Climate Action is a joint initiative of the United
Nations Foundation and the Club of Madrid which “aims to design a framework for a new enforceable
international agreement on climate change.” The GLCA has editorial
input into reports and assessments produced by the IPCC and provides “technical expertise on the implications and communication
of climate change science.” By my count more than two-thirds of the
GLCA
members are also members of the CoR including: George Soros, Ted Turner, Timothy Wirth, Gro Harlem
Brundtland, Mary Robinson, Sir Crispin Tickell, Kim Campbell, Wangari Maathai,
Petre Roman and Richard Lagos. Now I have to
wonder what qualifies George Soros and Ted Turner to provide technical advice on
climate change science!!
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The Gorbachev
Foundation was created by Mikhail Gorbachev
immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He described the Foundation
“as a think-tank whose purpose is to explore
the path that global governance should take as mankind progresses into an
interdependent global society.” The overall motto of the Gorbachev
Foundation is “Toward a New
Civilization”. The Foundation is deeply involved in
many aspects of the modern green movement. They provide advice and funding to
many non-government environmental orgaizations. The Board of the Foundation
includes CoR members: Mikhail Gorbachev, Robert
Muller, Ted Turner, Ruud Lubbers, Wangari Maathai, Sri Chinmoy, Robert Redford,
Vaclav Havel and Javier Peres de Cuellar. Who would have thought Robert Redford was involved in all
of this! In a similar fashion to the CoR, the Gorbachev Foundation now
has several ‘Gorbachev Foundation National Associations’ each with their own
management structure.
The Foundation works very closely with the CoR and the Club of Madrid and
regularly holds
joint
conferences.
These conferences must be fairly easy to organise since they have so many
members in common. In order to carry out their ‘mission’ the Foundation has
created a number of susidiary organizations. Chief among these is Green Cross
International.
“Life is sacred. All forms of life have their own
intrinsic value and share our planetary home in an interdependent community. All
parts of this community are essential to the functioning of the whole. The
beauty of the Earth and its life is food for the human spirit, inspiring human
consciousness with wonder, joy and creativity. Human beings are not outside or
above the community of life. We have not woven the web of life, we are but a
strand in it. We depend on the whole for our very existence. For the first time
in history, human beings have the capacity to damage, knowingly or unknowingly,
the ecological balances on which all life depends. The crisis is urgent.“
The GCI
Board contains the same familiar names: Mikhail Gorbachev, Ted Turner, Basma Bin Talal, Jean
Michel Cousteau, Ruud Lubbers, Wangari Maathai, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Robert
Redford, Karan Singh, David Suzuki
Another Gorbachev Foundation creation is
Global Green
USA which promotes sustainability and ‘climate
action’. Its motto is “fostering a global shift
towards a sustainable future.”
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Another organization that is
closely linked to the CoR is the United
Nations University of Peace. The Chancellor (Robert Muller), Rector (Konrad Osterwalder) and CEO (Martin Lees) are all prominent CoR members. In
fact Martin Lees has just been appointed as the CoR
Secretary-General. Dr Muller founded the UN’s University
of Peace on a mountain in Costa Rica. Why did he choose this location? Because
of this ancient
prophecy:
“Dear
children, the Great Spirit is in every animal, in every bird, butterfly, flower,
insect, leaf and grass you see. The Great
Spirit is also in you, the Creator’s children. Please take care of the wonderful
nature created by God and some day, from this mountain, you will see the birth
of a civilization of peace spread to the entire
world.“
The
‘Board of
Honor’ of the
University includes: Betty Williams, Desmond Tutu,
Elie Wiesel, the Dalai Lama Nelson Mandela, F. W. de Klerk and David
Trimble. The University is also home to Mikhail Gorbachev and Maurice
Strong’s infamous Earth
Charter Initiative.
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An excellent source of
information is the Kosmos
Journal, a
publication dedicated to the ‘Global Awakening’ and fostering a ‘New Human
Civilisation’. Many of the articles are written by CoR members. It actually
makes me feel physically ill after spending a few hours wading through their
nonsense. The founding partners of this journal include many of the
organisations listed above and show how truly interconnected they
are:
Founding Partners:
Club of
Rome
Club of Budapest
World Wisdom Council
Gorbachev
Foundation
World Commission for Global Consciousness and Spirituality
Goi
Peace Foundation
Global Youth Network
The Future 500
Institute of
Noetic Studies
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These are just a few of the
influential ‘environmental’ organizations that were either founded by, or are
dominated by, CoR members. There are many more that I have come across but it
would take forever to describe them all here. The leaders of the Global Green
Agenda are deadly serious about their intention to “transform humanity into an interdependent global
sustainable Earth Community, based on reverence and respect for
Gaia” and they have been spreading their tentacles into every area
of global politics. Some other CoR initiated organizations you may wish to
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